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A message sent on Twitter by a freelance sports journalist, Fraser Paterson, said Ms Sturgeon should be hanged from a tree in Charlotte Square Gardens in Edinburgh.
The gardens are outside Bute House, the first minister's official residence.
Mr Paterson has since tweeted that he had crossed a line.
He said his comment was unprofessional and he meant no harm to Ms Sturgeon.
His original tweet had said: "..Save Bute House, but hang Sturgeon. A tree in Chltte Sq Gardens will do #SNPout".
He subsequently tweeted: "My 'hang Sturgeon' comment was over the white line and unprofessional of me. I mean no harm to her".
A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said they had received a complaint about the original tweet and were looking into it.
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Police are investigating a comment on social media suggesting that the Scottish first minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon should be hanged.
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The English side were 13 minutes from a place in the quarter-finals after clawing themselves back into a second leg their hosts had dominated, but slack marking from a set-piece allowed Tiemoue Bakayoko to head home the decisive goal.
Having won the competition twice in his time at Barcelona, this is the first time in manager Pep Guardiola's career that he has gone out at this stage.
Monaco lost 5-3 in an extraordinary first leg in Manchester but dominated the first half at the Stade Louis II and opened the scoring through the excellent Kylian Mbappe's poked finish from close range.
The Ligue 1 side, who had scored 123 goals so far this season, deservedly doubled their advantage on the night, punishing City's sluggish start through Fabinho's crisp strike.
City failed to muster any sort of shot in the opening 45 minutes and it took until the 65th minute for Sergio Aguero to call goalkeeper Danijel Subasic into a sharp save.
They forced their way into the game - and back into the aggregate lead - as Leroy Sane swept in when Subasic parried Raheem Sterling's low strike, but their defence could not hold out.
The result leaves Premier League champions Leicester City as the only English team in the last eight.
Monaco join the Foxes, holders Real Madrid, last year's runners-up Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Juventus in Friday's draw.
Having gained a two-goal advantage at home, City boss Pep Guardiola had vowed his side would go on the attack in order to finish the job.
But while the Spanish coach can boast the best record of any manager in Europe after 100 games, he opted to start with only Fernandinho in the middle of the park against the aggressive and youthful French side.
Five attack-minded players were deployed in front of the Brazilian midfielder, while Yaya Toure was left on the bench, and it proved a costly move as City were overrun by sharper opponents.
Although they pulled a goal back on the night through Sane - putting them briefly back in front in the tie - the English side never recovered from their poor first-half showing.
Big-money signing John Stones struggled again and Monaco's winning goal epitomised the fragility of the visitors' defensive backline, as the impressive Bakayoko was allowed a free header eight yards from goal.
Guardiola has said his maiden City season will be a failure if he cannot deliver a trophy, but barring a dramatic Chelsea collapse in the Premier League, the Spaniard's only realistic hope of silverware is now the FA Cup.
The City boss made some unwelcome history in France as his side became the first team to be eliminated in a Champions League knockout tie after scoring five goals in the first leg.
The Ligue 1 leaders were missing star striker Radamel Falcao, who had failed so spectacularly in England with loan spells at Manchester United and Chelsea.
But the home side took the game to City, allowing them little time and space on the ball, forcing errors and taking their chances superbly. Although they began to tire in the second half, the 2004 runners-up managed to edge through.
Eighteen-year-old striker Mbappe - who has earned comparisons to retired France great Thierry Henry - found the net after just eight minutes for his 17th goal of the season, fed by the brilliant Portuguese midfielder Silva.
Benjamin Mendy caused all sorts of problems by bombing on from full-back, but man of the match Bakayoko deservedly took his side through with the winning goal.
The towering France Under-21 international controlled the midfield and gained possession nine times - more than any team-mate.
Former Manchester United defender Phil Neville on BBC Radio 5 live:
They have been two brilliant football matches. City lost it in the first half when they were outplayed, outfought and were bullied.
They got back into the game and they thought they were through. But their Achilles heel was a sloppy goal. Another year has failed to live up to expectations.
I am not so sure the signings over the last five years have been that good, but when Leroy Sane scores, Pep Guardiola is thinking 'this is perfect, we can control the game from here'. Then they concede.
Guardiola doesn't go out there and spend the bulk of his money on defenders. He will be thinking if they had put one of those chances away they would be in the next round.
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola, talking to BT Sport: "We played exceptional second half but we forgot to do that in the first. We wanted to defend aggressively. We were better in the second but it wasn't enough.
"Normally we play to a good level but here we didn't. We will learn. The team does not have a lot of experience.
"The second half we had the chances and we didn't take them and that is why we are out. And set-pieces are so important at this level. Barcelona and Real Madrid scored from them last week. We were not there and we were not there in the first 45 minutes.
"We will improve but this competition is so demanding. Sometimes we have to be special and be lucky. We were not."
Match ends, Monaco 3, Manchester City 1.
Second Half ends, Monaco 3, Manchester City 1.
Thomas Lemar (Monaco) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Thomas Lemar (Monaco).
Substitution, Monaco. Nabil Dirar replaces Valère Germain.
Valère Germain (Monaco) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Valère Germain (Monaco).
Foul by Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City).
Fabinho (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fernandinho (Manchester City).
Valère Germain (Monaco) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Manchester City. Kelechi Iheanacho replaces Gaël Clichy.
Offside, Manchester City. David Silva tries a through ball, but Leroy Sané is caught offside.
Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jemerson (Monaco).
Substitution, Monaco. João Moutinho replaces Kylian Mbappe.
Leroy Sané (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Djibril Sidibe (Monaco).
Goal! Monaco 3, Manchester City 1. Tiemoué Bakayoko (Monaco) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Thomas Lemar with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City).
Fabinho (Monaco) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Raheem Sterling (Manchester City).
Bernardo Silva (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Fabinho.
Goal! Monaco 2, Manchester City 1. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.
Substitution, Monaco. Almamy Touré replaces Andrea Raggi because of an injury.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Danijel Subasic.
Attempt missed. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by David Silva with a through ball.
Foul by Fernandinho (Manchester City).
Andrea Raggi (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Danijel Subasic.
Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by David Silva.
Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range is too high. Assisted by Leroy Sané.
Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Benjamin Mendy.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Jemerson.
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Manchester City are out of the Champions League after Monaco struck late to seal a thrilling away-goals victory, which ended 6-6 on aggregate.
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If no-one matches six numbers on Saturday, the next tier of winners will share the Lotto prize.
The winning numbers for Wednesday, drawn at 20:30 GMT, were 8, 30, 40, 50, 54, 57 and the bonus ball was 13.
Camelot said it had sold about 200 tickets per second in the hour before ticket sales closed at 19:30 GMT.
The previous largest National Lottery jackpot was £42m, which was shared between three separate ticket holders in January 1996.
Its website crashed at about 18:00, making ticket purchases for the draw unavailable for about 10 minutes, although problems with logging on persisted for some time.
Parts of the website - including the results page and sign-in page - were down for much of Wednesday night with an error message saying they were "extremely busy".
Wednesday's jackpot is the result of 13 consecutive rollovers and follows the number of balls in the draw increasing from 49 to 59 in October.
This reduced the odds of a player getting six numbers from about one in 14 million to one in 45 million, mathematicians say.
Camelot argues its rule changes have increased the chances of becoming a millionaire with the introduction of a millionaire's raffle.
Lotto changes - behind the numbers
New Camelot rules mean the jackpot prize is shared out in the first draw after the prize reaches £50m.
This means if no player matches all six numbers on Saturday, the prize will be shared between winners in the next tier where there is at least one winner - almost certainly those people who have five main numbers and the bonus ball.
Camelot said this would make it "some of the best odds players have ever had to win a multi-million pound, life-changing jackpot".
In Wednesday's draw, two tickets matched five numbers and the bonus ball - winning £74,900 each.
Former hairdresser Susan Herdman won £1.2m in 2010 and used her money to focus on her hobby of amateur motor racing, and has become a national champion.
Nikki Otterburn, a former fitness instructor, owns a riding school after her £2.2m win in 2001.
Edd and Michelle Edwards won £1.9m in 2008 - Michelle is now working at her own cake baking and decoration business.
Ted and Marilyn Newton bought a woodland for the use of local children and scouts after winning £7.9m in 2009.
Morris and Carol Worrall bought a beach hut with some of the £15m they won in 2005.
The biggest single-ticket National Lottery win was £22.5m, which was shared by work colleagues Mark Gardiner and Paul Maddison from Hastings in 1995.
The biggest individual winner was Iris Jeffrey from Belfast, who won £20.1m in 2004.
Although no-one has won more than Mrs Jeffrey on the National Lottery, her jackpot has been dwarfed in recent years by British winners of the Euromillions lottery.
Money for that prize comes from tickets sales in a number of European countries and the jackpot often rolls over for many more weeks.
The biggest UK Euromillions winners are Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs in North Ayrshire, in 2011 who collected £161.6m.
The couple gave large donations to several causes, including £1m to the Scottish National Party's campaign for Scottish independence.
The final curtain will fall on the multi award-winning show at the Victoria Palace Theatre on 9 April.
The story about the miner's son who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer is leaving to allow for the theatre's refurbishment, announced last year.
But fans of the production will not be left bereft as it will be embarking on its first tour of the UK and Ireland.
The theatre's makeover comes after it was bought by stage impresario Cameron Mackintosh, which is also part of extensive redevelopment work that is taking place around Victoria station.
The first regional Billy Elliot shows will begin in Plymouth in February before stops around cities including Sunderland, Bradford, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Dublin, with dates currently planned until May 2017.
The Victoria Palace has been the musical's home since it first opened to great fanfare, following the acclaim achieved by the Oscar-nominated film on which it is based and the big names involved in bringing it to the stage.
The film's director, Stephen Daldry, was part of the show's creative team along with Sir Elton John, who wrote its score.
"Billy Elliot has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my entire life. The talented young performers who have become part of our Billy Elliot family have amazed me with their achievements from the very start," Sir Elton said.
"I am so delighted that new audiences around the country will now have the opportunity to experience this extraordinary piece of work."
Daldry and the show's lead producer, Eric Fellner, said they knew it would have to leave the Palace theatre at some point - but had not anticipated it would run as long as it has.
"We knew when we did the original deal that we would leave one day but we had no idea it would be 11 years on," Fellner told the Daily Mail.
He also confirmed plans for a film version of the musical were "chugging along", although he added it was realistically "three or four years away".
The musical has been seen by more than 5.25 million people in London and nearly 11 million people around the globe in worldwide productions.
The next series of The Apprentice is going to look somewhat different.
The 42-year-old comedian has confirmed he will no longer be presenting the BBC Two spin-off show You're Fired.
"After five years hosting You're Fired, I've decided to pass the chair on to someone else," he explained.
His exit comes after PR expert Nick Hewer stepped down as Lord Sugar's right-hand man on the main show.
Dara has revealed he wants to spend more time on his own comedy.
"I'm back on tour again this year and I'd like to enjoy getting laughs off my own incompetence for a while," he said.
"Best of luck to whoever takes over the chair, you'll have lots of fun with them."
More than six million viewers tuned in for the final of the last series of The Apprentice.
Patrick Holland, executive producer of reality show, said: "Dara has been an absolutely fantastic host.
"It has been a great privilege to work with him and we wish him the very best with his next projects."
There is no word on who will replace Dara just yet.
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Mr Modi coaxed the United Nations into declaring 21 June International Yoga Day and announced a grand event to be held in Delhi on that day. His government plans to get tens of thousands of people to perform yoga in the heart of the capital on Sunday.
Mr Modi is an enthusiast himself - he told a biographer he tries to do yoga for an hour after waking up in the morning.
So what does Sunday's mass yoga session tell us about India?
Mr Modi's plan to get 35,000 people to perform yoga for 35 minutes on the stately Rajpath (King's Avenue) is aimed at setting a new Guinness World Record. The Guinness people have been invited to document the largest yoga class at a single venue.
Indians already flaunt a number of yoga-related world records: the largest yoga class, longest yoga chain, longest yoga marathon and longest yoga class at multiple venues.
Inspired by Mr Modi's call, even India's National Cadet Corps want to set another record on Sunday - "the largest ever demonstration of yoga by a uniformed organisation on a single day concurrently at multiple venues all across India". It says a million cadets will simultaneously do yoga at 1,900 locations.
Yes, we are crazy about breaking world records.
A reality check: Indians applied for some 3,000 records with Guinness World Records in 2013, just behind record-seekers from the US and Britain. The number of Indian record holders has risen an astonishing 250% in the past five years.
It helps that we are the world's second-most populous nation, so we have also set records in things like the biggest blood donation drive and most number of people shaking hands. Writer Samanth Subramanian describes this as a "fevered subculture of record-setters".
If a place in the Guinness World Records looks remote, no worries. We have our thriving, home-grown Limca Book of World Records and India Book of Records to take care of our achievements.
But Mr Modi, clearly, has set his sights higher.
More seriously, Sunday's gathering is a timely reminder that urban Indians need to get fitter.
Doctors say India's cities are riding a diabetes and heart disease epidemic. India's diabetes rate jumped an alarming 123% between 1990 and 2013, compared to 45% worldwide, a new study found. One in four Indians die of heart disease. Obesity is on the rise.
As the middle class swells and grows richer, more Indians are leading desk-bound, sedentary work lives and enduring stressful commutes in pedestrian-unfriendly cities, where there is no culture of walking. Gorging on junk food and fat-rich diets doesn't help matters.
If Mr Modi's move encourages more Indians to take to yoga - with or without the spirituality attached to it - it would have served a purpose in making more Indians healthier.
The moment Mr Modi's government unveiled its mega yoga plans, political rivals cried foul.
Mayawati, the feisty leader of India's Dalits (formerly known as untouchables) said Mr Modi's party and its hardline allies were trying to use yoga to "vitiate communal harmony".
The main opposition Congress party has taken pot-shots at the event, and a senior party spokesperson issued a snarky broadside:
Some Muslim clerics are uneasy about the government's motives and equate Mr Modi's government's promotion of yoga with promoting Hinduism. A recent story by Reuters was headlined: PM Modi's yoga offensive gets Muslims stressed.
Firebrand ruling BJP MP Yogi Adityanath fanned the flames by saying that those who opposed the surya namaskar - a series of yoga positions designed to greet Surya, the Hindu Sun God - "should drown in the sea" - a remark that was swiftly put down by Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj.
The government has even taken out the sun salutation exercise from Sunday's performance, and is very keen to showcase it as secular.
Political analyst Neerja Chowdhury says Sunday's event serves the prime minister well. "It's a win-win situation for Mr Modi. It boosts his image and keeps the hardliners happy," she told me.
However, critics say Mr Modi's move comes at a time of rising anxiety among India's minorities, many of whom suspect that his party is trying to make India a pronouncedly Hindu nation.
Analyst Ajaz Ashraf says Mr Modi's yoga celebration is a "mix of cultural nationalism, commercialisation and subtle coercion". Historian Dilip Simeon decries what he calls the "deceitful polemic about yoga" and says Indians will learn yoga not to please Hindu nationalists, "but for our health".
"Yoga is part of ancient India's cultural heritage," says Manmohan Vaidya, a spokesperson of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the hardline ideological godfather of the BJP and the largest Hindu nationalist group in India. "By celebrating yoga on a mass scale we are validating our glorious past."
Others say yoga is India's biggest contribution to society after, perhaps, zero and is a symbol of its cultural richness.
There are concerns that India has lost control of "brand yoga" to the West - yoga is a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide - although Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has said India would "never like an Intellectual Property Rights stamp on yoga".
Is yoga essentially a religious activity? This BBC magazine piece has some answers. But closer to home, the Yoga Day is being seen by many as (Hindu) India "reclaiming" yoga.
Wendy Doniger, leading American academic and author of The Hindus: An Alternative History, says many Hindus, concerned about their image, fear that their religion has been stereotyped in the West as a polytheistic faith of "castes, cows and curry". They look at yoga as the poster-child of Indian spiritual wisdom and the essence of Hinduism.
But this, Doniger believes, ignores yoga's complex and contested history: there are at least five conflicting claims about when yoga began, including a provocative assertion by Mark Singleton that the roots of modern yoga actually do not lie in ancient India.
The transnational, Anglophone yoga, Singleton argues, derives from a curious mix of British body-building and physical culture, American transcendentalism, Christian science, naturopathy, Swedish gymnastics and the YMCA. Yoga's appeal grew far and wide. Even Fritz Lang made a film about trippy yogis.
In the end, as Doniger says, "for some people yoga is a religious meditation, for others an exercise routine, and for others, both".
"It is a rich, multi-cultural, interdisciplinary construction, far from the pure line that its adherents often claim for it."
There's no shortage of humour in India - and Sunday's event is no exception.
I think sociologist Shiv Visvanathan puts it best. "[Mr Modi] is looking for a new kind of cultural revolution. I like the comic part of it - the fat cops, the bureaucrats, doing exercise. Here is India, getting fat on hamburgers and milkshakes. Modi is the Benjamin Franklin of India in many ways," he told the New York Times.
Even India's Home Minister Rajnath Singh has managed to encourage officials in his office to practice yoga after work, as he keeps a watchful eye on their moves:
Shripad Naik, the yoga minister, told the New York Times that yoga practice would help lower violent crime and produce better bureaucrats.
"There will be a definite change in the way the bureaucracy functions," he said. "When they are thin, all their energy will go into producing better work."
And popular yoga guru Baba Ramdev told a yoga rehearsal at a Delhi stadium last week that a yoga position would help "rid the world of gas".
But this man practising on the soggy rain-soaked field did not quite appear to be listening to the guru's exhortations to put on the world's best yoga show on Sunday.
Cyclone Cook caused power shortages, landslides, uprooted trees and forced road closures.
Ahead of the storm's arrival, some residents fled their homes as authorities declared a state of emergency in parts of the North Island.
Although the cyclone bypassed much of the country, thousands of homes are still without power.
There is still heavy rain and some roads on New Zealand's South Island remain underwater, with flooding in roads around Christchurch. Several rivers have burst their banks.
New Zealand's Civil Defence ministry is warning people to remain cautious, especially around fallen power lines.
The weakening weather system is continuing to bring heavy rain to parts of the South Island, and is expected to pass over Dunedin later on Friday.
The cyclone formed around Vanuatu on Sunday before moving towards the Pacific islands of New Caledonia, bringing heavy rain and winds and causing cuts to power and water supplies.
It killed one person when it swept through New Caledonia.
The storm made New Zealand landfall in the Bay of Plenty at about 18:30 local time (06:30 GMT) on Thursday. It moved on to batter Hawkes Bay on the eastern coast, where two people were hospitalised after a tree hit their car, the New Zealand Herald reported.
Forecasts said the storm would be the worst since 1968, but meteorologists told local media that the storm system instead tracked away and because it was moving quickly the rain didn't last so long.
Air New Zealand cancelled several flights as the weather worsened in key areas.
Cyclone Cook comes after severe floods caused by the remnants of Cyclone Debbie hit some parts of the country last week. Cyclone Debbie hit Australia at the end of March, before its remnants moved towards New Zealand.
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Speaking in Tyne and Wear, she said a vote for any other party was "too big a risk to take" as she appealed to Labour voters to put faith in her leadership.
Voters faced a "stark choice" between a prime minister who was "fixed on the future" and a backward-looking Labour.
Jeremy Corbyn has argued his party's plans will be "very popular".
Speaking in Tynemouth, Mrs May said Labour has "deserted" working-class voters and, urging people to put tribal loyalties aside, said what was important was not how people had voted in the past but what mattered in the future as a result of the changed political landscape.
She suggested the UK's future prosperity hinged on making a success of the UK's exit from the EU and electing a Labour government would jeopardise that.
"The success our country depends on getting the next five years right," she said, promising answers in the party manifesto - expected to be published next week - to the major questions facing the UK.
She said Labour's manifesto proposals, a draft of which were leaked on Wednesday, did not add up, and Mr Corbyn was incapable of delivering them.
She highlighted Conservative policies to cap energy bills, protect workplace pensions and improve mental health provision as proof of her desire to "reach out to all those who have been abandoned by Labour and let down by government for too long".
Long-held Labour values die hard. And with sluggish wages, public sector cuts, pressure on housing, inflation, there is a long list of reasons, on top of historic loyalties, why many voters, whether here or in other traditional Labour areas, will simply never switch.
There is a long way to go.
Jeremy Corbyn's allies believe the gap in the polls will narrow.
But privately many senior Tories are hopeful of a bigger prize in this election than a majority.
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"Proud and patriotic working-class people in towns and cities across Britain have not deserted the Labour Party - Jeremy Corbyn has deserted them," she said.
"We respect that parents and grandparents taught their children and grandchildren that Labour was a party that shared their values and stood up for their community. But across the country today, traditional Labour supporters are increasingly looking at what Jeremy Corbyn believes in and are appalled."
She dismissed Labour's call for the rail network to be nationalised, one of the party's flagship policies, saying she was "old enough to remember the days of British Rail" and suggested that privatisation had "enhanced" services and been "good news for customers".
The leaked draft of Labour's manifesto contains policies on nationalising railways, renewing Trident weapons, abolishing university tuition fees and scrapping the public sector pay cap.
Speaking after his party unanimously approved the final version, which will be officially unveiled next week, Mr Corbyn said it would be "an offer that will transform the lives of many people in our society and ensure that we have a government in Britain on 8 June that will work for the many, not the few".
A ComRes survey for the Daily Mirror published on Friday suggests Labour's general election pledges, such as the nationalisation of rail and postal services, are more popular among voters than Mr Corbyn himself.
Theresa May is targeting Labour seats in the north of England which voted Leave in last year's EU referendum. She has accused EU officials of trying to interfere in the election after details of a Downing Street dinner appeared in a German newspaper last month.
Brexit Secretary David Davis told the Daily Telegraph on Friday that he believed European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and his aides - reported to have been behind the leaks - had "learnt their lesson".
"He is not going to be meddling in British politics any more - or at least if he does he will get the same reaction.
"All these stories are briefing against me, trying to get me sacked - which, of course, is a compliment by the way," he said.
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A total of 811,804 passengers used the airport last month, up 5.4% from 2016.
The number of international travellers rose by 13.6% in February, with Edinburgh now officially the UK's fastest-growing airport in terms of international passengers.
The airport said the benefits of its growth would extend outwith the hub.
Edinburgh Airport chief executive Gordon Dewar said: "Once again our passenger numbers have broken a new record.
"This is further proof that the airport is continuing to service the growing demand for what is without doubt one of Europe's leading cities.
"As we grow we deliver greater international connectivity for this city and for Scotland - and the benefits of our growth are felt well beyond this airport."
The footage, from a CCTV camera, shows a man in a yellow shirt leaving a backpack in the Erawan Hindu shrine.
At least 20 people died in Monday's blast, about half of them foreigners, and more than 120 were injured.
In a separate attack on Tuesday, an explosive device was thrown at a pier in Bangkok, but no-one was hurt.
Nationals from China, Hong Kong, the UK, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore are among the foreigners killed in the attack.
CCTV footage of a suspect wanted for questioning
Who were the victims?
The facts - what we know so far
The Erawan shrine - popular with locals and tourists
Thai shares fall sharply
Still images of the suspect had already been released.
In the new footage, he is shown carefully and deliberately removing his backpack inside the shrine, getting up without it and immediately leaving the scene.
The spot where he was sitting is precisely where the bomb went off a few minutes later, says the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok.
"There is a suspect... we are looking for this guy," Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha told reporters.
Authorities were "quite close" to identifying the suspect, Thai government spokesman Maj Gen Weerachon Sukhontapatipak told the BBC, but other leads were also being pursued.
He said no motive was being ruled out, but that the bomber did not appear to be Thai and the character of the bombing was "quite different" from previous bombings by southern Thai insurgents.
He said security at transport hubs and tourist sites was being beefed up.
The bomb was detonated at about 19:00 local time (12:00 GMT) on Monday when the shrine, and the nearby Ratchaprasong junction, were crowded.
Mr Prayuth called it the "worst ever attack" on Thailand.
"There have been minor bombs or just noise, but this time they aim for innocent lives. They want to destroy our economy, our tourism."
In Tuesday's incident, a device was reportedly thrown at the busy Sathorn pier in Bangkok. It landed in water where it exploded harmlessly, but police said it could have caused many injuries.
Maj Gen Weerachon said there were similarities between Monday's deadly blast and the explosion on Tuesday, but the authorities had not established links between the two.
"Both were TNT bombs," he told reporters. "There's a pattern, but we have not yet found links."
Monday's bomb was clearly placed to cause maximum casualties, says our correspondent in Bangkok.
In currency trading, the Thai baht fell to its lowest level in six years over concerns about the impact on tourism.
There are suggestions this could be related to the Muslim separatist conflict in southern Thailand, but the political violence has been limited to the three southern provinces - never the capital.
Others have mentioned the Muslim Uighur minority in China. They are unhappy that Thailand deported Uighur refugees back to China, where the minority complain of persecution, and might have wanted to punish the Thai state, the thinking goes. But we don't know enough at this point to support this theory.
However, international terror networks usually claim responsibility quickly after the incident, which hasn't happened in this instance so far.
One thing is clear - this is a failure of the government's intelligence work.
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National police chief Somyot Poompummuang described the device as a 3kg (6.6lb) pipe bomb - an improvised device where explosive material is put in a sealed cavity to maximise the explosive impact.
"The impact was so strong it sucked us forward and then pushed us back," one witness, Leify Porter, from Australia told the BBC.
She said she had seen "very graphic" scenes at the site of the explosion.
Erawan shrine is dedicated to the Hindu god Brahma, but is also visited by thousands of Buddhists each day.
It sits between a five-star hotel and a popular shopping centre on the Ratchaprasong intersection, which has been the centre of political demonstrations in recent years.
Bangkok has seen a decade of sometimes violent rivalry between political factions.
The military took over the country in May last year, removing an elected government following months of unrest. The capital has been relatively calm since then.
The tide of people seeking to escape northwards across the Mediterranean from the Libyan coast is now not just a humanitarian issue, but one of the EU's major security challenges.
The plight of the Rohingya boat people fleeing persecution in Myanmar, also known as Burma, presents similar dilemmas for the governments of Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
The Malaysian Navy has now despatched four ships to search the Andaman Sea for the Rohingya refugees and the Malaysian and Indonesian governments have belatedly agreed to accept migrants for one year until they can be settled elsewhere.
Major population shifts caused by war and crisis are of course not a new phenomenon.
Look at Europe in the aftermath of World War Two, or the Indian sub-continent in the run-up to independence.
A catalogue of wars since 1945 have each thrown up their own tide of misery.
But the scale of what is going on today is immense.
Consider the extraordinary statistics from Syria where some four million refugees have left the country and more than seven million people have been displaced within its borders.
By these standards the Rohingya crisis is relatively small scale.
But still more than 120,000 have taken to the seas and an unknown number have perished.
The Muslim Rohingya are fleeing persecution and violence in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, including state-sanctioned discrimination.
The crisis exemplifies the combination of state action (or inaction); the role of criminals who run the people smuggling networks; and the diplomatic ramifications of the population flow.
If this is the case in South East Asia then it is doubly so when the population movements are prompted by the collapse of any kind of order.
Libya has essentially become a failed state and its coast has become the jumping-off point for a tide of would-be immigrants to Europe.
Many come from Libya or the wider North African region, but many are refugees from sub-Saharan Africa, smuggled to the Libyan coast by elaborate and sophisticated networks whose tentacles extend into countries within the European Union itself.
Mustering the levers of state power, to tackle a crisis that originates in an area where organised government does not exist, is presenting the European Union with a problem from hell.
Deaths at sea prompt a call for action - the humanitarian response to be followed by offering a welcome to at least some of the refugees in EU countries.
But a number of governments have already baulked at the idea of EU imposed quotas.
With economies under strain and populist right-wing parties on the march in several countries, immigration policy is a particularly delicate area right now.
The EU is also looking at what military steps might be taken to interrupt the flow of hundreds of thousands of refugees towards Europe each year.
Planning is already under way, and there is vague talk of destroying vessels before the refugees board.
Libya's rival would-be governments both oppose any action in Libyan territorial waters.
Military steps there would require a UN Security Council resolution - perhaps unlikely given the current tensions between Russia and the West.
To the humanitarian, criminal, diplomatic and domestic political aspects of the crisis facing the EU, you can also add a significant security dimension with fears that jihadists from groups like Islamic State may be using the refugee flow to infiltrate European countries.
This is the kind of problem that western governments struggle to deal with.
They are torn between harrowing images in the media that call for action, with the understandable but more pragmatic considerations dictated by domestic politics.
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Unanimity, even within the EU, is difficult.
Hindsight is an easy vantage point, but it looks as though the western intervention in Libya to overthrow the Qaddafi regime that was championed by Britain and France has prompted a series of unintended consequences.
After an initial period when there were hopes that Libyan society could be reconstructed, chaos ensued.
In the wake of the setbacks in Iraq and Afghanistan, western nations neither had the appetite nor the means to step up their involvement.
But a failure of policy was compounded by a failure in the broad strategic assessment.
The so-called "Arab Spring" was largely interpreted in the West through a media prism which focused on the middle-class Twitter generation in the Arab world.
It was believed that a democratic society could be constructed from the ruins of brutal authoritarianism in a matter of months rather than decades.
Such hopes proved an illusion.
They took no account of where power really lay.
Nor any account of the myriad divisions in the region, which are fast making the borders - largely inherited from the post-World War One settlement - as irrelevant as the colonial powers that drew them up.
The consequences of this failed strategic assessment are now washing up on Europe's shores, demanding that they not be turned away.
South Bank Square aims to develop land close to the Caw roundabout with frontages to Crescent Link and Clooney Road.
If approved, the scheme would take about 10 years to complete.
House builders in Northern Ireland are beginning major schemes for the first time since the property crash.
Private house building collapsed when a house-price bubble burst in 2007 and 2008.
Official figures show just over 4,500 private housing units were completed in Northern Ireland in 2014-2015.
That compares to more than 16,500 completions in 2005-2006.
South Bank Square is controlled by Maghera businessman Seamus Gillan.
His main firm, BSG Civil Engineering, mainly carries out engineering work for public sector clients like Northern Ireland Water.
Mr Gillan said the proposed development had got "extremely constructive and positive feedback in consultation with local residents".
He said he knows the importance of addressing traffic issues at the Caw roundabout and the planning application "responds to these issues".
Brian Kelly, the director of Turley and the lead planner for South Bank Square, said recent statistics suggest that housing completions in the Derry City and Strabane Council area have been slower than elsewhere in Northern Ireland.
He added that the scheme would represent 18% of the housing needed to accommodate the projected growth of the city's population over the next 20 years.
Robert Gates said no changes would be made at the meeting, but opened the door to a future policy review.
The former US Defence Secretary cited defiant chapters, possible legal challenges and other developments related to gay rights in the US.
Gay rights groups have welcomed Mr Gates' comments.
"The status quo in our movement's membership standards cannot be sustained," Robert Gates said at the group's annual meeting in Atlanta.
However, he raised the possibility that the organisation could revise its policy to allow local chapters to decide for themselves whether to allow gay adults to serve as leaders.
In 2013, the national organisation decided to allow openly gay youth to participate as scouts, but kept its ban on adults in place. The came into effect in January of 2014, and was the result of a bitter internal debate.
Mr Gates, who was in charge of the US military when congress voted to repeal the ban on openly gay service members, became the BSA's president in May 2014. Upon assuming office, Mr Gates said that he personally would have favoured ending the ban on gay adults. However, he did not want any further debate on the issue at that time.
On Thursday, he said recent developments "have confronted us with urgent challenges I did not foresee and which we cannot ignore".
Citing a defiant chapter in New York that recently hired an openly gay summer camp leader and other developments related to gay rights in the US, Mr Gates said: "We must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be."
"I remind you of the recent debates we have seen in places like Indiana and Arkansas over discrimination based on sexual orientation, not to mention the impending US Supreme Court decision this summer on gay marriage," he said.
He said that while the BSA had the power to revoke the charters of local chapters that defied the ban on gay adults, doing so would be harmful to boy scouts in those regions.
Mr Gates also said that laws prohibiting employment discrimination based on sexual orientation that have been passed in many states could open the BSA up to extensive legal battles.
"Between internal challenges and potential legal conflicts, the BSA finds itself in an unsustainable position, a position that makes us vulnerable to the possibility the courts simply will order us at some point to change our membership policy," he said.
Groups that campaign against the ban have welcomed Mr Gates' comments.
"It seems like the Boy Scouts will continue an internal dialogue about the subject and that a change within the next year or two is imminent," said Zach Wahls of Scouts for Equality.
The member of the country's royal family had hired the Egyptian pyramids, and flown in 300 friends and family members to watch while he popped the question in front of the ancient structures.
With a lavish private party then due to be held at the site, which was sealed off from locals and other visitors, the cost was an eye-watering $40m (£31m).
Thankfully for the prince, his girlfriend said "yes".
When it comes to marriage proposals, this example takes largesse to the nth degree. But even if you have the cash, how the heck would you go about organising such an event?
The answer for the Saudi prince was simply to phone his concierge services provider, a UK business called Quintessentially.
"We made it happen," says Quintessentially's chief executive and co-founder Aaron Simpson.
For those of us that aren't millionaires or billionaires, the concierge services industry needs a little explaining.
Taking its name from the man or woman at posh hotels who can book guests theatre tickets and get them into top restaurants, the sector has discreetly grown up over the past 15 or so years.
And far from just securing tickets for the latest sell-out play, or a table at some hotshot chef's new venture, concierge firms are being used to organise many aspects of clients' lives.
At Quintessentially, which has 70 offices around the world, and 2,500 members of staff, it does everything from organising holidays, to advising clients about private schools, helping buy properties, arranging private concerts by pop stars, or booking a dog walker.
And then there is the weird and wonderful stuff, such as making a client a bouquet of "flowers" made from 100 folded 1,000 Hong Kong dollar notes, so he could give it to his partner on Valentine's Day.
Or covering an entire beach with carpets so a member and his girlfriend didn't have to get sand on their feet, and organising a flash mob in New York's Times Square.
The firm is one of the largest in the sector, and while Quintessentially doesn't reveal its client numbers or price details, it is estimated to have about 100,000 customers around the world, including 800 billionaires who pay up to £150,000 a year.
Mr Simpson, 45, says that the firm's 2,500 employees, known as "lifestyle managers", can, generally speaking, make anything happen.
"We can arrange most things - unless of course it is illegal or there is a moral objection to it, and that very rarely happens - perhaps once or twice a year," he says.
"But otherwise everything is pretty solvable."
Born and bred in Essex, after studying geography at Oxford University, Mr Simpson spent his early 20s working as a film producer.
But given the continuing weakness of the UK film industry, by age 27 he was looking for a change of career.
After brainstorming sessions with friends Ben Elliot and Paul Drummond, they came up with the idea for Quintessentially.
Securing investment from a group of private investors, the business was launched in London in 2000 with a party to which they invited more than 200 movers and shakers. Customer numbers then grew strongly thanks to positive word of mouth.
While Quintessentially won't reveal any members' details, it is widely reported that it is used by the likes of singer Madonna, Indian steel giant Lakshmi Mittal, UK entrepreneur Richard Branson, author JK Rowling and rap star P Diddy.
The company also works closely with 400 premium brands including Ferrari, Channel, Gucci and British Airways.
In addition to running "white label" concierge services for such companies, Quintessentially has expanded its operations in recent years to helping firms with their public relations and marketing, and assisting them in studying customer data to best plan new products and services.
Mr Simpson says that the company now enjoys an annual turnover of £150m, and he intends to continue to grow this. He adds that despite numerous suitors, he and his two co-founders have no plans to sell up.
Alyssa Haak, a New York-based luxury lifestyle expert, says that Quintessentially and other concierge firms have grown in popularity among the world elite because the ease of having someone else book or arrange things for you is "too good to pass up".
However, she is sceptical of one forthcoming Quintessentially project; its plans to build a 250m euro ($272m; £211m) "super yacht" for members.
Due to launch in three years time, the floating private club will be 220m (722ft) long and have 100 rooms, as well as a nightclub, bars and numerous restaurants.
Quintessentially's aim is to move it around the world to places where demand for hotel rooms is likely to exceed those locally available, such as Monaco when it is hosting the Formula 1 Grand Prix, or Cannes during the city's film festival.
Ms Haak says: "I'm really very sceptical of it for a few reasons... there have been a number of firms that have attempted to do yacht 'shares' that have slowly disappeared.
"Yachts are personal, even those that are built with chartering in mind block out the dates the owners want to use them.
"Finally, and I think its biggest problem is going to be dockage... a yacht this size will never be able to get 'front row seats'."
While the three co-founders still run Quintessentially together, Mr Simpson has the boss role, although he says the three men simply "play to their strengths", and he "doesn't necessarily see myself as the leader".
He admits, though, to always having been very driven to succeed in life, but says he hopes that he is a good boss "who puts his colleagues first".
Travelling extensively for the company over the years, overseeing the opening of new offices around the world, Mr Simpson says that since having children - he and his wife have two young daughters - he now tries to travel far less.
"I have a three-line whip to stay within shouting range," he says.
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On Sunday, Chelsea play a Manchester United side managed by Hiddink's fellow Dutchman Louis van Gaal.
United have been criticised by shirt sponsors Adidas for their possession-based tactics this season.
Hiddink said: "You must not overrate the amount of possession. Most teams want the ball. What do you do with it?"
Hiddink added: "Say we had 65, 67 and 70% possession, but our opponents said, 'We don't care how much possession you have, we have the score on our side'.
"Do you secure your way of playing? Or do you go as soon as possible into the attack? I prefer the latter option. The first thought must be vertical."
Breich Station, an unmanned stop on the Edinburgh-Glasgow line via Shotts, would be the first Scottish station shut in 31 years.
A 12-week consultation will open on 10 July with views being sought from rail users and the local community.
It is currently served by one train service per day in each direction, six days a week.
The official footfall figure for the station in 2015-16 was 138 passengers, an average of 2.6 passengers per week.
The Shotts route is currently being modernised as part of a programme of electrification,
Network Rail estimates that a saving of £1.4m could be made if the Scottish government opted to close the station rather than modernise it.
Breich is between Addiewell to the east and Fauldhouse to the west, with both towns already served by railway stations.
Addiewell station is two miles from Breich while Fauldhouse station is 2.9 miles away. Breich is also served by two bus services.
David Dickson, infrastructure director for the ScotRail Alliance, which includes Network Rail, said: "We take pride in the role we have played in growing Scotland's railway in recent years.
"Where there is proof of demand, such as the Airdrie-Bathgate route and along the Borders Railway, we have actively supported the opening of new stations and the reopening of old ones.
"As a responsible steward of the railway and a publicly run organisation, it is also Network Rail's responsibility to ensure that we consider value for money in relation to the operation of station and rail services.
"The current and projected demand for rail services to and from Breich is very low. Closure of the station must be considered as an option, however, the views of the local community are vital when making a decision on its future."
People wishing to make their views known can attend an event at Woodmuir primary school in Breich from 15:15 to 19:00 on 28 June and 30 August.
After an initial investigation, further allegations emerged in April, leading British Canoeing to approach UK Sport to help commission a second probe.
That was completed and a disciplinary hearing had begun, but it has now been abandoned.
British Canoeing said the resignation of the performance team coach "brings the disciplinary process to an end".
The British team enjoyed its most successful Olympic Games in Rio last year, with competitors winning two gold medals and two silvers.
ParalympicsGB then claimed three gold and two bronze medals at the Rio Paralympics, where they topped the medal table.
April's revelations came amid mounting concern over the culture of high-performance programmes at British sports, and whether medal success has come at the expense of athlete welfare.
And on Thursday, British Olympic bobsleigh athlete Rebekah Wilson told BBC Sport she would secretly cut and try to concuss herself as the "intense pressure" of training took its toll.
Earlier this year, BBC Sport revealed British Swimming is conducting an investigation after bullying complaints were made by a number of Paralympians about a coach.
And British Cycling apologised for various "failings" after an independent review into allegations of bullying and sexism.
The League One hosts started brightly but the Premiership's bottom side took control after the interval.
Paul Dixon hit the crossbar in the first half, with Billy McKay and Scott Fraser also going close.
And Spittal struck on 79 minutes to end a sequence of nine games without a win for Mixu Paatelainen's men.
A small band of visiting supporters spilled on to the artificial surface at the Excelsior Stadium to join the celebrations, having had little to cheer this season.
With United 11 points adrift in the top flight, Airdrie perhaps sensed an early vulnerability.
The Premiership side found it difficult to cope with the long throw-ins from Jamie Bain and Eiji Kawashima made a point-blank save from Marc Fitzpatrick before tipping a Bryan Prunty header over the bar.
Prunty then sent a back-post header into the side-netting before United began to dominate possession.
The 2010 Scottish Cup winners winners hit the woodwork when Dixon cut in from the left flank to flight a shot towards the far corner. The rebound fell to Spittal but the midfielder's low strike was well saved by Rohan Ferguson.
The teenage keeper, standing in for suspended Neil Parry, would be much busier in the second half as the Diamonds were put under increasing pressure.
Dixon, always prominent, flashed a great delivery across goal, with McKay shooting into the side-netting soon after.
Another good Dixon cross was met by Fraser on the volley but the former Airdrie loanee's effort thumped into the astroturf and spun over the crossbar.
Ferguson then touched away Fraser's low drive and, from the corner, the hosts survived an almighty scramble.
United were rewarded for their dominance when Spittal sent his free-kick into the top corner, with Ferguson barely moving as he watched the ball ripple the net.
The visitors continued to hog the ball and the only chance to come the way of Airdrie in the closing minutes saw Liam Watt shoot tamely at Kawashima.
It is thought the 16-year-old was raped and her 15-year-old female friend was attacked in Mowbray Park at about 19:00 GMT on Monday.
Supt Ged Noble said they were "extremely serious" allegations and the force was doing "everything possible" to piece together what happened.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Northumbria Police.
The show is up for seven prizes including best musical, director (Matthew Warchus) and original score.
Based on the 1993 film starring Bill Murray, the musical also had a successful run in London's West End.
Tim will be hoping he can win a Tony for his score this time around, having missed out in the same category for Matilda the Musical back in 2013.
Groundhog Day won two Oliver awards last month, including best new musical and best actor in a musical for Andy Karl - who is also nominated for a Tony for his Broadway transfer performance.
Other big name stars nominated for this year's awards include Frasier star David Hyde Pierce (Hello Dolly!), who will compete against singer Josh Groban who made his Broadway debut in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812.
Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon are also in the running for their roles in the revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes.
Danny DeVito and Nathan Lane are also up for acting honours, as is Bette Midler.
The Tony Awards will be presented on 11 June at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall in a ceremony hosted by Kevin Spacey.
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The £285m airport is being paid for by the Department for International Development and was due to open in May.
However, the National Audit Office said the delay - due to high winds on the remote island - could add to the cost.
DFID said it was committed to helping St Helena become "self-sufficient".
The development will provide access to St Helena for commercial airlines for the first time.
The remote island - which lies approximated 1,150 miles (1,850km) off the west coast of Africa in the South Atlantic Ocean - has previously only been accessible by ship, in a journey that takes five days from South Africa.
DFID agreed to pay £285.5m to "design, build and operate" the airport, in a bid to improve the island's accessibility and boost its tourism industry.
It hopes the development will allow the self-governing UK overseas territory to become self-sufficient and reduce its reliance on government subsidies.
In April, the St Helena government announced its opening had been postponed amid concerns wind conditions meant it was too dangerous for commercial airliners to land on the runway.
A revised date is yet to be determined. DFID and the St Helena government are currently looking at the options for dealing with the problem caused by the wind conditions but have yet to agree on a solution.
As part of the plan, the Royal Mail Ship St Helena - which provides the only regular cargo and passenger link to the island - will not be replaced once it is taken out of service, which had been due take place next month.
Sir Amyas Morse, head of the NAO, said: "Estimating the likely costs and benefits of a project such as this is an inherently difficult task, particularly with a limited number of precedents for building an airport in a remote location.
"The airport's planned opening date in May 2016 has been postponed as outstanding safety concerns are addressed, potentially adding to the project's cost and delaying its benefits."
A DFID spokesperson said: "As the report points out, the UK supports its overseas territories in line with international law.
"We are helping St Helena overcome the challenge of being one of the most remote island communities in the world so it can develop its tourism industry and become financially self-sufficient, making it less dependent on aid."
The higher education funding councils have announced a review of how universities are monitored.
There will be a public tendering process to run the university inspection system from 2017.
The current watchdog, the Quality Assurance Agency, says that it already offers "internationally recognised expertise" in ensuring quality.
The announcement raises the prospect of a new system for protecting the quality of higher education.
It is the first time that the contract for running the watchdog system will have been put out to competitive tender in this way.
It follows major changes in the university sector - with more consumer pressure from students paying higher tuition fees and an increasing number of private providers needing to be overseen.
It will also become a bigger sector next year with the removal of limits on student numbers.
Universities are autonomous and responsible for their own standards - but since 1997 the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) has had a role in checking that these standards are maintained.
The funding councils say they want assessment arrangements that are "risk-based, proportionate, affordable, and low burden".
There will be a consultation process followed by competitive bids to run the quality assurance monitoring.
There could also be a split in the current UK-wide system - with England, Wales and Northern Ireland carrying out a review separately from a parallel review announced for Scotland.
A spokeswoman for the QAA says it would bid for the contract.
"QAA has internationally recognised expertise in providing quality assurance and enhancement to an exceptional standard," said chairman Sir Rodney Brooke.
"In recent years, we have continued to adapt the quality assurance framework to meet the needs of a growing and dynamic sector, working with higher education, further education and alternative providers.
"We look forward to continuing the development of quality assessment, protecting the public interest and supporting the UK higher education sector's international reputation for excellence."
The QAA carries out a watchdog role, but it is a very different type of organisation from Ofsted which inspects schools. While Ofsted has been debating whether a day's warning allows schools too much time to prepare for inspectors, the QAA can warn universities of a review several years in advance.
Wendy Piatt, director general of the Russell Group of universities, said she wanted a "proportional approach" which would require less "inspection and bureaucracy" for older, well established institutions.
"Our universities will not flourish if they are over-regulated. Resources should be focused where problems of quality are most likely to occur."
Pam Tatlow, chief executive of the Million+ group of universities, said the funding councils need "to be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater".
"While there have been concerns about the QAA's modus operandi, the system is certainly not broken and has the advantage of being UK-wide in scope and internationally recognised.
"Higher education would certainly not benefit from an Ofsted-style inspection regime."
Nick Davy from the Association of Colleges said that the review process needed to recognise that about 10% of all funding-council regulated higher education was delivered in further education colleges.
Mr Davy said any quality assurance system needed to be appropriate to assessing the type of technical and professional education wanted by employers.
The surface has been heavily criticised in recent weeks after it began to cut up badly.
Club owner Ann Budge confirmed in a statement on the club's website that work would begin this week and current surface was dug up on Tuesday.
"We are assured it will be completed well in time for our next home game against Ross County on Wednesday 1 March," she said.
Hearts head coach Ian Cathro has been among those to voice concerns over the playing surface, admitting it was hampering the passing style he is trying to implement at the club.
Hearts drew 1-1 with bottom-of-the-Premiership Inverness Caledonian Thistle at Tynecastle on Saturday.
"As many of you will have seen for yourselves, our pitch has deteriorated badly over the last few weeks," added Budge.
"While we knew that we would have to address the replacement of our now 19-year-old pitch sometime soon, we were hoping that it would see us through to the end of this season.
"However, having carefully monitored the issues and having consulted a number of experts in this field, we have taken the decision to address the problem now."
Cook saw his side beat Luton 3-1 at Kenilworth Road on Tuesday - a performance he labelled as the "strongest of his tenure".
"This is a tough club to play for and manage," he told BBC Radio Solent. "The supporters dictate that, they want success like the rest of us."
Victory lifted Pompey above Luton to fourth - two points off the top three.
"They (the supporters) just want us to get promoted," Cook added. "I'm going to move heaven and earth to do that.
"If we don't get promoted this year, I swear I will have done my best for them.
"But, we're not going to get carried away. Eighteen games in to the season and what have we won? Absolute nothing, so it's straight on to Saturday and Stevenage at home."
Her mother Tanya took a career break to move closer to the training base in Manchester and the pair moved into a caravan.
The 17-year-old from Blackwood claimed a second world junior title and said she owes her success to her parents.
"I don't think I can ever repay my mother," Williams told BBC Wales Sport.
"The only way I can repay her is with an Olympic gold medal. She's been amazing. She left my dad in Wales with my sister. It was tough but we made it work.
"I didn't expect them to sacrifice as much as they have to make sure I could live my dream.
"I completely admire them. There aren't many parents who would sacrifice as much as they have."
Williams, who is now old enough to live with the other athletes, must have a lucky association with caravans.
A kick boxer since the age of three, it was during a family holiday that she first considered taking up taekwondo after watching fellow Welsh fighter Jade Jones winning Olympic gold at London 2012.
"I was with my mum and dad on a caravan holiday when the Olympics came on," Williams told BBC Wales Sport.
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"We only caught the last 30 seconds of Jade Jones' fight. My dad turned to me and said 'is that what you want to do? That could be you.'
"I watched her take gold and my dream changed. There and then."
Soon after, she moved to Manchester with her mother who spent 18 months away from the family home and Williams admits the transition was not easy.
"I regretted it to start with, I thought this is too hard. I was watching Jade in training thinking I'm never going to be like that, I'm not as fast and I'm not as strong
"But six months in I went to the Junior World Championships and I won. I was buzzing. I thought I could actually make something of this."
As well as a European title, Williams also claimed two golds this year at both the Polish and Greece Open but admits her focus is making the team for Tokyo 2020.
"My next big aim is senior World Championships next year," Williams said.
"If I can't get a medal there it will set me up for Tokyo. I do think about being on that podium with a gold medal around my neck but realistically I need to take it step by step."
Only two female fighters and two male fighters can qualify for Team GB for Tokyo but Williams insists having Jade Jones and Bianca Walkden currently in the top six only serves as added motivation.
"When I saw Jade in Rio, I was thinking I'm not far off them, I could do exactly the same, I could get a gold medal myself," she added.
"That's the biggest thing I learnt, it was just like any other competition. Seeing her first hand set me up and made me think I really want to do it myself."
The Barca forward received a booking for blocking a free-kick before going on to receive a second yellow for a foul on Diego Llorente.
His sarcastic applause as he walked off could result in him receiving more than the standard one-match ban.
Barcelona are second in La Liga.
Coach Luis Enrique's side remain on 69 points, three behind Real Madrid, who drew their derby against Atletico Madrid earlier on Saturday and have a game in hand. Barcelona face their fierce rivals after next week's match against Real Sociedad.
Under Spanish league rules, Brazil international Neymar, 25, would receive a longer suspension if his reaction to the sending off is deemed as contempt for the officials.
The Coatbridge club have announced that "terms for a contract for next season could not be agreed".
"Darren will remain in charge to ensure the club's League One position," the club added in a website statement.
The Wee Rovers lie seventh in the table, five points ahead of second-bottom Peterhead.
There are two games remaining and a win away to Brechin City on Saturday would ensure another season in the third tier of Scottish football.
Former Aberdeen, Dunfermline Athletic and Alloa Athletic midfielder Young has been in charge at Cliftonhill since June 2014.
The 38-year-old led his side to the League Two title in his first season as player-manager and they finished sixth last season in League One.
Rovers say they have started the process of finding a successor as manager to Young, who made the last of his own two appearances this season as a player in September.
It came as Tata said seven interested parties have gone forward to the next stage of the sale process.
But of the two we know about, who are they - and what are the differences?
Excalibur is fronted by a combination of former senior managers at Tata, Corus and British Steel - with the team at Wesley Clover, technology tycoon Sir Terry Matthews's investment company.
Three Tata Steel executives have taken a leave of absence to join the bid.
Stuart Wilkie, the bid's co-chief executive, was the first to emerge three weeks ago.
As Tata Steel UK's director at Port Talbot and Llanwern, he played a leading role in drawing up the survival plan in January, which was rejected by Tata bosses in India. He has years of experience in the industry, including with Corus before Tata at Ebbw Vale and at Trostre.
His buy-out team has now been joined by Neil Davies and Martin Driscoll.
Mr Davies, a chartered accountant, is group controller with Tata Steel Europe and had previous experience with Corus. Mr Driscoll is HR director for Tata at Port Talbot, with 25 years experience in the steel industry.
Mr Wilkie called their decision "an endorsement of Excalibur's ability to design and execute plans to transform Tata's United Kingdom operations into a profitable business."
Chairing the bid is Roger Maggs, 70, who has nearly three decades experience in the metals business. He told BBC Wales last month he believed the original rescue plan was viable.
Mr Maggs, who is also the chair of the Port Talbot Enterprise zone, worked for Alcan Aluminium globally and is the founder, along with Sir Terry, of investment firm Celtic House Venture.
They are up against the Liberty team, which brings together the heads of a number of companies that are part of the Liberty House group and others with wide experience in international banking.
Liberty House chairman Sanjeev Gupta was the first to be linked with a bid and the first to outline initial thoughts on saving the Tata Steel UK operations.
His vision is around making steel from recycled scrap and "ultimately powered by renewable energy sources".
Mr Gupta has now revealed his bid team and advisers; and a name - Project Greensteel Pluto.
He leads a three-man steering committee. The others are close associates Jay Hambro and Jon Bolton.
Mr Hambro started his career at Rothschild's before moving into HSBC's investment banking division. He is group chief investment officer of the GFG Alliance and chief executive of the SIMEC Group - both owned by the Gupta family.
Mr Bolton is chief executive of Liberty Steel's UK plates division and with a track record including senior roles at Tata and Corus. He is also chairman of the industry body UK Steel.
Mr Gupta is also calling on previous experience at Tata in VB Garg - his chief executive at Liberty Steel in Newport - and Hridayeshwar Jha and Udai Chaturvedi.
Others on the team include James Busche, who is chief executive of the Gupta family-owned Uskmouth power station.
How do they compare?
Both teams have brought together a wealth of experience in investments and the steel industry to make sure that they are the winners.
What they are offering is very different. Liberty favours an electric arc system of recycling steel scrap and giving it another life. At the moment we export steel scrap around the world and import foreign steel. Instead, Liberty would use much of that steel scrap in the UK to make steel here.
In contrast, Excalibur is adamant that the UK needs to continue what it calls primary steelmaking. In other words, making steel in a blast furnace from coking coal and iron core.
This team say that they would initially work with the rescue plan that Tata UK put forward to its Mumbai headquarters and was rejected. Working with a team of researchers, it would then aim to develop Port Talbot into making "the greenest and most efficient " steel in the world while still making steel from raw materials.
The Liberty Group has been expanding recently. It runs the former Alpha steelworks in Newport and also the nearby Uskmouth power station This is coal-fired at the moment but the plans are to change to biomass and in time supply the steelworks, which in future would use an electric arc furnace to recycle steel. At the moment, the plant processes steel made abroad.
On top of that Liberty, has already bought two small steel processing mills in Lanarkshire in Scotland, at Dalzell and Clydebridge, where 270 people worked. It has also taken on parts of the Caparo steel company, including in Wales.
What happens next?
In April, Tata said that there was no fixed timeline for the sale. Whoever buys Tata UK will have many processes to go through, both financial and legal.
It would be fascinating to be a fly on the wall at Tata HQ.
Ironically if Excalibur wins, Port Talbot will be a direct competitor with what will become Tata Europe's main plant, in Holland.
Liberty House, planning to make steel from scrap in an electric arc furnace, would be less directly in competition.
Scientists hope the clinical study will confirm a new theory about the cause of the condition.
It could also lead to the first ever preventative treatment.
Scotland has been chosen for the launch of the £1m project because it has the third highest number of type 1 diabetics in the world.
It also has a medical record system which allows researchers to identify affected families.
Type 1 diabetes tends to emerge in childhood and cannot be prevented. Type 2 diabetes usually emerges in adulthood as a result of a poor diet and obesity.
While it is well known that the incidence of diet-related type 2 diabetes is rising, it is less well known that type 1 diabetes is also becoming more common.
The number of people with the condition has risen five-fold in the last 40 years.
Until recently it was widely accepted that type 1 diabetes occurred as the result of malfunction in the body's auto immune system.
Medical science explained that the body attacked insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, leaving it unable to process sugar properly.
However, this research will test an alternative explanation which was put forward in 2001 by Professor Terence Wilkin, of the University of Exeter.
At birth, we all have large reserves of beta cells in the pancreas to make insulin which should last a lifetime.
Professor Wilkin's theory is that environmental factors cause these beta cells to be used up more quickly.
For type 2 diabetics, an unhealthy lifestyle is the cause. For type 1 diabetics, Professor Wilkin believes something about the modern environment triggers an immune response.
This "accelerator hypothesis" suggests that the immune system is not the cause of childhood diabetes - it is simply the body's reaction to it, and would explain why the incidence of type 1 diabetes is rising.
If the Scottish study proves this theory is correct, commonly available drugs could be prescribed to prevent type 1 diabetes for the first time.
The 6,400 households who have a family member with type 1 diabetes will be contacted by Dundee and Exeter universities. Any children between the ages of 5 and 16 will be offered a simple blood test to see if they are at risk.
If the test comes back positive, half of them will be offered a diabetes drug and the other half will be given a placebo. The drug, "metformin", protects beta cells from stress and it is hoped will stop them being destroyed.
"It is possible that a modern environment accelerates the loss of beta cells by overworking and stressing them," said Professor Wilkin.
"As a consequence, this could be contributing to the rising incidence of type 1 diabetes, which is appearing in ever younger age groups.
"This study will use a medication to protect the beta cells from the stress, so that they survive longer.
"If successful, the trial will offer a means of preventing type 1 diabetes with a cost-effective medication, and could be made immediately available to children at risk."
The wooden building is at Abersoch on the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd.
Measuring just 13ft by 9ft, it has no electricity or water - and you are banned from sleeping in it overnight.
For the same price just a few miles away you could snap-up a two-bedroom house in the village of Llanbedrog - or even a seven-bedroom terraced house at Tywyn across Cardigan Bay.
"It's certainly the highest price ever achieved for a beach hut in Abersoch," remarked Tony Webber, auction surveyor at Beresford Adams Countrywide Auctions.
"It's quite incredible. We had two very determined bidders, both from the Cheshire area, who were bidding separately. They were very determined to buy it."
The auctioneers said the hut is "in need of some TLC" - but does include part of the beach in front of the hut into the sea.
The previous record for the beach huts on the Abersoch sands was £70,000 in 2008.
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Their centre in the town of Umea was targeted with swastikas and daubed with messages like "we know where you live", and a car was vandalised.
Local members said the authorities had been unable to provide enough security.
Community spokeswoman Carinne Sjoberg said some people no longer dared to come to the centre.
Neo-Nazi group Nordfront were behind the hate campaign, she said, initially targeting her but then other members of the community too. The last straw came at the weekend when the windows of a member's car were broken.
"Our kids go to ordinary school, so members started to feel they didn't want to bring the children," she told the BBC.
"My mother and father are (Holocaust) survivors, so this is not OK. Enough is enough. It was like stepping into their shoes in the 1930s."
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Umea also hit the headlines two years ago when a march was held to mark the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the outbreak of mass violence against Jews in Nazi Germany in 1938. The town's Jewish community was not invited.
Ms Sjoberg said that despite the closure of the centre, the community would fight to have a meeting place in the future that was more central in Umea and easier to protect.
Community leaders say the situation for Jews in some Swedish towns is difficult.
"We've had problems with neo-Nazis in Gothenburg and Umea, but in other cities like Stockholm we feel safer," said Isak Reichel, secretary general of Sweden's central council of Jewish communities.
For Jews in the southern city of Malmo the threat was mostly from Islamist groups, he told the BBC.
Once upon a time, the Aussies would come to New Road in early May for the first game of an Ashes summer - and Don Bradman would help himself to yet another double century.
Much has changed in the game of cricket, of course.
Overseas tours no longer last a whole summer and Worcestershire count themselves fortunate to have been given the second of only two warm-up matches for the Australians prior to the Ashes series, which commences at Trent Bridge on Wednesday week.
But their return this week to New Road cannot help but stir the memories.
Putting figures on it is quite difficult, but we're well into six figures as far as ticket sales, hospitality and other things that go with it
Former Worcestershire all-rounder David Leatherdale, for example, will never forget the day 16 years ago when he took 5-10 in just five overs to bowl out a touring Australian team - captained by Mark Taylor and containing the likes of Steve Waugh, Adam Gilchrist, Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath - for just 121 as the county won by five wickets.
Waugh was so impressed that he made a special mention of Leatherdale's feat in his end-of-tour diary.
But he also labelled the Yorkshireman - a renowned stand-breaker, as well as a useful middle order batsman and brilliant fielder - as being the sort who "would not get a bowl in a Chinese restaurant".
Leatherdale told BBC Sport: "Gavin Haynes got four, then I got Justin Langer leg before and then cleaned up the tail, getting Brendon Julian, Michael Kasprowicz, Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath.
"I then hit Greg Blewett for successive fours to win the game and walked off feeling pretty happy with life. To give the Aussies a good stuffing at home is as good as it gets."
He continued: "I did not know Steve kept a diary until months later, but it came back to haunt him.
"He came back four or five years later with Kent, when he was their pro for a few weeks.
"I got him out again and he got 'the rusty gate', as they say.
"Jamie Pipe was keeping wicket and he delivered a few appropriate words to send him on his way, telling him 'I'll have a number 57 please, with fried rice'."
As the county's chief executive, 45-year-old Leatherdale is now less concerned with takeaways and more with home takings, especially over the next three days, when Worcestershire could pull in their biggest gate receipts of the summer.
"Putting figures on it is quite difficult," he told BBC Hereford and Worcester, "although we're well into six figures as far as ticket sales, hospitality and other things that go with it.
"It's a reasonable windfall, but we've tried to budget sensibly because you never sure where you're going to be with the weather.
"With the current economic climate, the fact we've reached budget on ticket sales shows there's a fairly big appetite for Australia coming to Worcester.
"I know that Cricket Australia were quite keen to play here. They made a request about what they might want to do leading up to the Ashes series, then it was up to the England and Wales Cricket Board to try to accommodate it.
"We're lucky to get the Aussies, but there's no doubt all touring teams still love coming to play at Worcester because of the history and tradition, playing in the shadow of Worcester Cathedral, and our facilities are now 100 per cent better than they were.
"There's always a special buzz when the Aussies are in town."
Having had Tom Moody, McGrath, Andy Bichel, Matt Mason (now the county's bowling coach), Steve Smith and Phil Jaques on the staff, Worcestershire are not short on Australian connections.
Even Doug Bollinger, who did not enjoy too many champagne moments in his time at New Road, must have learned something as, within 18 months of his summer with Worcestershire coming to an end, he had been called up to play for Australia.
The current touring squad includes Phil Hughes, who successfully spent last season at New Road and would have done so again this year had he not been recalled by his country.
Watching from the sidelines will be Michael Johnson, their Australian wicketkeeper, not to mention special guest star Nick Compton, grandson of the legendary Denis.
And, had Worcestershire been successful with a bold bid to sign him, they might even have had Ricky Ponting in their team.
But, if it's Worcestershire v Australia on the agenda, then the talk this week will, sooner or later, inevitably turn to Bradman, McGrath, Waugh . . . and Leatherdale!
The report issued by the Civil Aviation Authority on Thursday announced a series of measures.
These included changes to aircraft seating and windows, the weather they can fly in, and physical size limits for passengers.
The inquiry was set up in the wake of a fatal Super Puma crash last year.
It was the fifth serious incident involving an offshore helicopter in the UK sector since 2009.
Four people died last August when the CHC-operated Super Puma AS332 L2 helicopter crashed.
James Nugent, who survived, told the BBC he believes the helicopter fleet needs to be replaced.
He said: "Something needs to happen as quickly as possible.
"When looking at people's lives it should not be about money, it's as simple as that."
From April 2015, anyone flying offshore will have to meet with size requirements, although these have not yet been specified.
The CAA also announced that passengers will have to be seated next to emergency exits.
And flights will be prohibited in the most severe sea conditions so that the chance of a ditched helicopter capsizing is reduced and a rescue can be safely undertaken.
There will also be changes to the way pilots are trained and checked.
The United Airlines flight from Heathrow was forced to land in Edinburgh on 12 July.
It landed safely and repairs were carried out.
However, when it took off the next day there was another leak on the same wing and a second emergency was declared.
The fuel filler cap was replaced after the first emergency but after the second emergency it was found a damaged O-ring in the over-wing fuelling port was causing the fuel leak.
The Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB) has described it as as a "serious incident".
The first flight had 130 people onboard and the plane was forced to dump fuel before landing.
However, the second flight the following day only had staff onboard so it was light enough to land without dumping fuel.
An investigation report said: "The aircraft maintenance records showed that the last heavy maintenance check was accomplished in June 2015, but there was no reference to maintenance having been performed on the over-wing fuelling port at that time, nor since."
In the wake of the Operation Bullfinch grooming case council bosses have raised concerns about the pressure on children's social care in the county.
Over the past five years the number of full-time county council social workers increased from 179 to 200.
But the number of children requiring protection plans rose from 263 to 572.
The figures were released after a Freedom of Information Request from BBC News Online.
Oxfordshire County Council said the situation was creating "huge pressures in teams", with some social workers dealing with up to 20 cases at a time.
Karen Goodman, from the British Association of Social Workers, said experienced staff were leaving the profession "in droves" because of job pressures.
Marilyn Hawes, who founded the charity Enough Abuse UK, said a lack of staff was creating a huge backlog of cases.
She said: "Some councils have an eight-month queue, and if you are deemed low risk you just sit there waiting."
Children who have a protection plan are considered to be at risk from neglect, physical, sexual or emotional abuse.
In its annual report, Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children's Board said one reason for the increase in cases was "better recognition" of child protection issues following recent high-profile grooming cases.
County director of children's services Jim Leivers said the pressures on his department were caused primarily by the "overwhelming need to reduce expenditure" because of government cuts.
He said if demand continued to rise the ability of the council and the agencies it worked with to keep vulnerable children safe could be "adversely affected".
A council spokesman added this could result in social workers spending less time with vulnerable children and families.
The council is currently consulting on proposals to create a new Family Support Service which would deal with child protection plans.
Well, not if you are Tom Meechan.
As a fresh-faced teen new to the University of Birmingham, the striker turned up to mass football try-outs where, no matter how terrible you are, if you pay a fiver you can take a punt at joining one of the university's official teams.
But, drowned out in a sea of mediocrity and hangovers, he failed to make the cut and was not asked back.
Wind the clock forward a few years and the 25-year-old has just joined League Two side Newport County.
"I should think some of them will probably be quite surprised," Meechan said of those that missed him at that trial.
Eventually, at another trial at Christmas, the sports and exercise science student smashed in a volley to make his seniors sit up and take notice - but only so much for the third team.
His goals helped them win the title, but he never made the step up any higher than the second team.
"We always said 'how is Tom Meechan not playing for the first team?'," said former team-mate Sam Brown.
"No matter what level you play at, if you have the ability to score, that counts. Tom always scored, he never missed one-on-ones, he anticipated the ball well, he's so quick and he's just got a natural eye for goal."
At most universities, there will always be a handful of people that have dropped out of professional teams' academies.
One of Meechan's contemporaries was former Arsenal schoolboy Christian Burgess, who was picked up by Middlesbrough while studying for a history degree and now plays for Portsmouth, in the same division as Newport.
Names like the Gunners on your CV will certainly help your reputation when it comes to choosing which team you will play for, but Brown added the team's success may have also held him back.
"We just got in such a natural rhythm of scoring that it probably was that we didn't really want to let him go to the first team," he said.
And how does Meechan think he would have done if given a chance in the first team?
"I scored quite a few goals for the second and third team, but never really had a chance to play in the first team," he said. "I think if I had, I'd have done alright."
After finishing his degree, he did a PGCE conversion course to become a high school maths teacher in Cambridgeshire, where he combined his work with a fledgling non-league football career for Godmanchester Rovers, St Ives Town and St Neots.
"To start a teaching career is quite hectic," he said. "Training during my PGCE year and being first year as a teacher, it was quite difficult to juggle playing football at the same time, with all the travelling and everything involved in that.
"I think I will miss teaching, I did really enjoy it, but it's too good an opportunity to turn down to become a footballer."
After Meechan scored a staggering 53 goals in a season for Thurlow Nunn League Premier Division side Godmanchester, he moved to seventh-tier club St Neots.
Despite the step up, again his goalscoring record - a division-leading 21 - caught the attention of Football League clubs and, amid interest from other teams, he joined Warren Feeney's Newport.
Meechan's move has a few shades of Conor Washington in it, to say the least.
Washington joined the Exiles from one of Meechan's former clubs, St Ives, albeit at a younger age, before moving to Peterborough and then being sold to Championship side QPR for a reported £2.5m.
"It's obviously a similar story, particularly with Conor being from the same area," said Meechan.
"One of the pulls of joining Newport was their ability to develop players and some have gone on to bigger clubs from there.
"It's a bit surreal at the moment going into training every day and just living the life of a footballer. It's very different to what I was used to.
"It's a huge step going three leagues up halfway through the season. So for the rest of the season, I'm just going to go into training, work hard and see what happens from there.
"Hopefully I can repay the faith Newport have shown in me when they purchased me."
That is faith that the University of Birmingham first team probably wish they had had.
Six of the top 10 heroes/heroines voted for were female, including Harry Potter's Hermione Granger and Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games series.
Seven out of 10 villains were female, including Matilda's Miss Trunchbull.
However, the top hero and villain were both male - Harry Potter and his nemesis Lord Voldemort.
More than 7,000 book lovers took part in the poll, organised by National Book Tokens ahead of World Book Day on 3 March.
Literary villain Bill Sikes was the oldest fictional character to appear on either list, first appearing in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist 180 years ago.
Kirsten Grant, director of World Book Day said: "These polls show that classic characters and stories stay with us, no matter how long ago we read them.
"They also show that readers are refreshingly open to reading about characters of the opposite sex - though is it worrying so many of the greatest fictional villains are female?"
Top 10 favourite heroes/heroines
Top 10 most evil villains
Those polled were also asked to name the 21st Century children's book most likely to be considered a classic by future readers.
While three of JK Rowling's Harry Potter series shared just over 19% of the top 10 vote, it was John Boyne's acclaimed 2006 novel of the Holocaust, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, that topped the poll.
Others that made it on to the list include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, The Gruffalo's Child by Julia Donaldson and How to Train your Dragon by Cressida Cowell.
World Book Day is a global celebration of books and reading, and is marked in more than 100 countries worldwide.
To mark the day, school children are entitled to receive a World Book Day £1 Book Token supplied by National Book Tokens Ltd.
The 26-year-old man fell at the Hawkcraig area of Silver Sands Beach in Aberdour at about 18:45 on Tuesday.
Kinghorn RNLI recovered the man from the shoreline and ambulance personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. His family have been informed by police.
Police Scotland said they inquiries were ongoing and a report would be submitted to the procurator fiscal.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "His family have now been informed and our thoughts are with his loved ones at this difficult time."
The Team Sky rider led by one minute and 26 seconds going into the 117.5km final stage and retained that advantage over Australia's Cadel Evans.
Spain's Joaquim Rodriguez, who won Saturday's stage, made it back-to-back wins by taking Sunday's finale.
Wiggins finished in 10th place, 11 seconds behind the Spaniard.
The win is a massive boost to the Londoner ahead of the Tour de France, which begins on 2 July.
He is the third Briton to win the traditional Tour de France warm-up race after Brian Robinson in 1961 and Robert Millar in 1990.
Wiggins took the overall lead in the race after a storming display in stage three's time trial on Wednesday.
He then produced a considerable effort on the mountain stages to control the race and maintain his lead.
"We have a plan for the Tour de France and the Dauphine was part of the plan. I'm not 100% yet," said Wiggins, whose best Tour de France finish was fourth place in 2009, but he struggled in the mountains last year.
"I am just going to have to ride my race, not put myself in the red in trying to follow [Alberto] Contador and [Andy] Schleck.
"It's clear that the podium is certainly a real possibility, but others like [Belgian] Juergen van den Broeck can also get there."
Rodriguez broke clear in the last kilometre of the stage from Pontcharra to the mountain resort of La Toussuire.
Thibault Pinot of France was second and Dutch rider Robert Gesink was third on the stage - both eight seconds behind the Spaniard.
Stage results:
1. Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa/Katusha) 3 hrs 24 mins 30 secs
2. Thibaut Pinot (Fra/FDJ) +8 secs
3. Robert Gesink (Ned/Rabobank)
4. Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel/OmegaPharma-Lotto)
5. Alexandre Vinokourov (KZH/ Astana)
6. Chris Sorensen (Den/Saxo Bank) +11"
7. Cadel Evans (Aus/BMC Racing)
8. Kanstantsin Sivtsov (BLR/HTC - Highroad)
9. Janez Brajkovic (Slo/RadioShack)
10. Bradley Wiggins (GBR/Team Sky)
Overall standings:
1. Bradley Wiggins (GBR/Team Sky) 23 hrs 33 mins 24secs
2. Cadel Evans (Aus/BMC Racing) +1:26"
3. Alexandre Vinokourov (KZH/Astana) +1:49"
4. Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel/OmegaPharma-Lotto) +2:10"
5. Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa/Katusha) +2:50"
6. Christophe Kern (Fra/Europcar) +3:05"
7. Jean Christophe Peraud (Fra/AG2R) +3:30"
8. Kanstantsin Sivtsov (BLR/HTC - Highroad) +4:14"
9. Janez Brajkovic (Slo/RadioShack) +4:22"
10. Thomas Voeckler (Fra/Europcar) +4:30"
Dyma i chi 'chydig o help gan Cymru Fyw a'r swyddfa Ystadegau (ONS).
Hon yw'r rhestr ddiweddara' o'r enwau mwyaf poblogaidd, o darddiad Cymreig, gafodd eu cofrestru y llynedd (2015) yng Nghymru.
1) Dylan 163 (1)
2) Osian 127 (3)
3) Harri 120 (2)
4) Jac 97 (6)
5) Rhys 95 (4)
6) Evan 92 (5)
7) Tomos 76 (8)
8) Cai 70 (9)
9) Ioan 68 (10)
10) Morgan 67 (7)
Does yna ddim newid i'r rhestr o ran enwau newydd, ond mae'r drefn wedi newid rhywfaint. Mae Osian yn cynyddu mewn poblogrwydd eto eleni, tra bod Morgan wedi disgyn lawr i'r degfed safle.
1) Seren 119 (1)
2) Ffion 105 (4)
3) Erin 101 (3)
4) Megan 91 (2)
5) Mali 64 (5)
6) Nia 48 (-)
7) Alys 47 (7)
8) Carys 44 (-)
9) Efa 43 (-)
10) Cadi 37 (6)
Mae Seren yn serennu eto ar ôl dod i'r brig y llynedd. Mae Nia, Carys ac Efa yn codi i'r 10 uchaf. Yn 2014, Elin, Lois a Lili oedd yr enwau poblogaidd eraill yn y 10 uchaf.
The 10-1 chance, ridden by Olivier Peslier for trainer Sir Michael Stoute, was her first winner at the meeting for three years.
An inquiry was held after Dartmouth and Highland Reel came close together but the placings were unaltered.
It was a record-equalling 75th triumph at the meeting for Stoute, and a 23rd win for the Queen.
All the results from Royal Ascot
Nearly £130,000 in prize money goes to the winner, with the majority of this for the victorious owner.
The Queen's racing advisor John Warren said: "It's been a long week and there have been a few ups and downs.
"This is the Olympics (of racing) and even to have a runner here is huge. To end up with a winner is so fantastic."
Meanwhile, jockey Ryan Moore sealed a Saturday treble when Twilight Son won the Diamond Jubilee Stakes after earlier victories on Churchill and Sir Isaac Newton.
Dartmouth won by a head from Highland Reel, with Almodovar third.
Victory brought a high for the Queen, a week after her official 90th birthday, following the low of losing her runner Guy Fawkes, who suffered a fatal injury at Ascot on Thursday.
Her last triumph at the fixture came when Estimate, also trained by Stoute, won the Gold Cup in 2013.
The Newmarket trainer, who equalled the mark of 75 Royal Ascot wins set by the late Sir Henry Cecil, said: "That's a great mark to reach. I hope it doesn't stop there.
"He's a lovely, quality horse. Everybody in the yard is very fond of him."
The Queen got such a thrill out of him sticking his neck out
"This may prove to have been a significant moment for British racing because of who was alongside the Queen in the winners' enclosure.
"The Prince of Wales has often been characterised as being ambivalent towards the sport about which his mother is passionate. But there he was, clearly taking an interest and joking with the Queen about her trophies. And the heir to the throne has been here much more than usual this week, even owning two runners.
"The Royal support for the 'Sport of Kings' is a massive thing, and, with the future in mind, it's clear that he's taking an active part in being moulded to perhaps one day take over a baton that Her Majesty has held for so long."
Moore's treble meant he was the meeting's leading jockey for the sixth time in seven years.
He racked up the hat-trick after a difficult few days when he found trouble in running on more than one occasion.
Asked by Channel Four racing what the three winners in one day meant to him, the taciturn jockey replied: "It would mean more if I won four."
Twilight Son was ending a long wait for trainer Henry Candy - his first Royal Ascot winner since 1979.
Robert Cowell took the Wokingham Handicap with Outback Traveller, ridden by Martin Harley.
New father Adam Kirby celebrated a third victory of the week when guiding home Commissioned in the concluding Queen Alexandra Stakes.
The triumph at flat racing's showpiece meeting marked quite a double for Irish trainer Gordon Elliott, who won the Cheltenham Gold Cup over the jumps with Don Cossack in March.
Saturday results
14.30 The Chesham Stakes (Listed) 7f - Churchill 8/11 fav
15.05 The Wolferton Rated Stakes (Listed) 1 ¼m - Sir Isaac Newton 7-1
15.40 The Hardwicke Stakes (Group 2) 1 ½m - Dartmouth 10-1
16.20 The Diamond Jubilee Stakes (Group 1) 6f - Twilight Son 7-2
17.00 The Wokingham Stakes (Heritage Handicap) 6f - Outback Traveller 10-1
17.35 The Queen Alexandra Stakes (Conditions) 2m 6f - Commissioned 12-1
13 February 2016 Last updated at 08:21 GMT
It's a part of a surfing competition where contestants have to be invited to take part.
The waves are huge, some of the swells they create are more than nine metres high.
Resuming on 33-1, Machan (81) and Wells put on 134 for the second-wicket before Machan was bowled by Ravi Patel (4-42).
Wells fell to Patel shortly after for 61, but Yardy's innings of 70 at Lord's helped the visitors up to 300 all out - a first innings lead of 66.
At stumps, Middlesex were 47-0, with Sam Robson racing to 41 not out, trailing by 19 runs.
A worn-looking pitch made Machan's fine knock all the more impressive, with Yardy and Wells taking a more workmanlike approach to their innings.
Patel was not introduced to the Middlesex bowling attacking until 150 runs were on the board but in just his second over he removed Machan, going on to add Wells, Chris Nash and Ben Brown.
Just as the home side were threatening to take control at 216-6, a Sussex fight back began, with Ashar Zaidi putting on 38 with Yardy, followed by a useful 40 from Yardy and Ollie Robinson.
James Harris finished off the Sussex tail with the wickets of Yardy and Chris Liddle in three balls, leaving the match finely balanced, and allowing Middlesex's batsmen to make vital ground before stumps.
Manager Chris Coleman and his players have always favoured playing at the home of Cardiff City rather than switching to the Principality Stadium.
Coleman's side are four points behind Serbia and the Republic of Ireland in Group D with four matches remaining.
The final qualifier against the Republic is on Monday, 9 October.
Before then they host Austria at Cardiff City Stadium on Saturday, 2 September before away games in Moldova and Georgia.
The incredibly lifelike sculpture was commissioned as part of an Australian road safety campaign.
He has a head shaped like a boulder, feet snarled like tree roots and a chest like a wrinkled battering ram.
Renowned artist Patricia Piccinini created the artwork, in collaboration with a leading trauma surgeon and a road crash investigation expert.
The Transport Accident Commission (TAC) said he was designed to highlight human vulnerability on the road.
Graham has a thick strong skull, a neck that melts into his torso and an inflatable chest that acts like airbags.
He was made using silicone, glass fibre, resin and human hair.
"I really listened and internalised the science of it and then I approached it in a creative way, on an emotional level," Ms Piccinini told the ABC.
"The eyes are where the work is, it's where the viewer can really connect with him and empathise."
Joe Calafiore, the chief executive of TAC said that people "can survive running at full pace into a wall but when you're talking about collision involving vehicles, the speeds are faster, the forces are greater and the chances of survival are much slimmer".
"Cars have evolved a lot faster than humans and Graham helps us understand why we need to improve every aspect of our roads system to protect ourselves from our own mistakes."
There's no secret behind Graham's name. It was a working title that stuck, according to the TAC, because he's just a normal Australian bloke.
He can be viewed at the State Library of Victoria and viewed online.
But the often fantastical narratives of Giambattista Basile, a 17th Century solider to the Doge of Venice, were not to have the fame and longevity of Shakespeare's, and his Tales would fade into obscurity.
That's something Italian film director Matteo Garrone hopes to correct with his own work of gothic imagination - a film version of Tale of Tales, starring Salma Hayek, Toby Jones, Shirley Henderson and Vincent Cassel.
Based on Basile's narratives of more than 50 different stories featuring kings, princesses, dragons, giants and magical beasts, Garrone has picked three and interwoven them: A pair of ageing sisters who long for their youthful beauty; a queen obsessed with the idea of having her own child and a king who marries off his only daughter to an ogre.
Garrone's previous works - the award-winning mafia film Gomorra and Italian TV satire Reality - have both been modern day Neapolitan stories grounded in the everyday, and he says he was delighted "to work on a fantasy film that lurches into horror".
"And it's not that we had to increase the horror for the sophisticated modern audience, it was all there in Basile's work," he says. "In terms of the fantastical, he was ahead of the brothers Grimm, Tolkein, or Harry Potter.
"What surprised me is that once we had chosen the Tales, we realised it involved three stories about women at different stages of life. And these tales are about contemporary obsessions: The desire for youth and beauty ends up with a horrific version of cosmetic surgery, centuries ahead of it becoming available."
Mexican actress Hayek, who plays a queen who will do anything in order to have a child, agrees: "All the conflict they go through is still relevant today, even if we are dressed in Baroque costume.
"In my case it's the desperation of a woman to experience motherhood, and the film takes that desperation and makes it grotesque. So a very recognisable human desire becomes something of horror, not only psychologically but visually."
For example, the film shows Oscar-nominated Hayek, solemnly eating what appears to be the beating heart of a sea monster - after a sorcerer tells her character it will make her pregnant.
It is, the actress agrees, a horrible sight; but as a mother and stepmother herself, she says she understands the desire for children.
"The real conflict of this woman, and the cleverness of the film, lies in the fact that she puts all her desire for happiness into one thing that lies outside herself. She is impossible to satisfy and that's why she suffers such tragic consequences," she says.
"Everyone in here suffers very harsh penalties for their obsessions," explains Toby Jones, who plays a king fixated by his new pet - a giant flea - and has to give his daughter's hand in marriage to a giant after losing a bet.
"Folk tales tend to be very dark and all fairy tales have darkness at their root, but these are particularly strange. Terrible deals are made in order to have wishes granted, and hard lessons are learned."
Jones, who recently appeared in the BBC TV series Sherlock, says he took the part in Tale of Tales "because I wanted to work with Matteo - and I like the idea of exploring a reversal between the parent and the child".
"The parent suffers terrible consequences and loses what he loves - his daughter - through an act of folly. It's very funny but there's something so awful and pathetic about it."
The actor's scenes involved embracing a gigantic flea, which he says "was not special effects - just this awful rubbery thing".
"I suppose for me, as the father of two daughters, playing this man has only reinforced the usual pitfalls that being a parent involves. The lesson is that it's easy to be distracted and there's a price to pay if you are," he says.
Although Tale of Tales was filmed in Italy, Garrone chose to make it his first English-language film with an international cast - a move he thinks now might have been a mistake.
"I didn't want to betray my country and my culture but at the same time, it has a larger audience in English," he explains. "And also, in my defence, they call Basile 'the Neapolitan Shakespeare' so I thought there was that connection. It was a very hard choice and I am still not sure if it was the right decision."
Despite the language issue, Tale of Tales has had widespread praise from international critics, with the Telegraph calling it "a fabulously sexy, defiantly unfashionable readymade cult item".
Hayek believes the film is "unfathomable in the sense it's more than a morality tale for human pride and indulgence - it's a lot more fascinating than that".
"Fairy tales are designed to change every time you re-tell it to a new generation. What makes me very pleased is that I think the spirit of the original Tales have been kept. I think Basile would be very happy."
Tale of Tales is released in the UK on 17 June.
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The 37-year-old joined last summer and had an impressive season despite the Magpies being relegated from League One on the final day of the season.
The former Manchester United and Derby County keeper Carroll only missed one league game all season
Meanwhile, Notts are expected to reveal their retained list on Wednesday.
It had planned to scrap monitoring footage to save £200,000 a year.
But now the council, North Wales Police and Rhyl, Prestatyn and Rhuddlan town councils will pay for it to continue.
There are 81 cameras located across the three towns, together with a small number on council land and buildings.
They are all linked to a control room in Rhyl police station.
Graham Boase, Denbighshire's head of planning and public protection, said: "We recognised the need to potentially have some kind of alternative provision.
"I'm confident we can work together over the next 12 months to look at developing the partnership so that the arrangements can become permanent."
An iron cross, marking the dog's grave, was erected by a soldier from the Army Service Corps in Warminster in 1917.
The soldier, according to local historian Danny Howell, was so upset about what he had done he had wanted to give the animal a "fitting memorial".
The grave is no longer visible but to mark the war's centenary Mr Howell wants to find and reinstate it.
During WW1, two camps were set up in Warminster for newly enrolled troops training on nearby Salisbury Plain.
The Army Ordnance Corp (AOC) was one of the units posted there and it was an AOC soldier, according to Mr Howell, who accidentally shot the dog.
"He was on patrol on Copheap in 1917 and probably heard a rustle and fired without thinking," said Mr Howell.
"But he was so upset, he decided to give the dog a proper memorial."
Buried where it had been shot on Copheap, the animal's grave was marked with a small area of concrete and an iron cross.
But in the mid 1980s the cross was vandalised by youths and over the next decade the memorial was lost under dense undergrowth.
"The last time I saw the grave in something of its original glory was in the early 1980s," said Mr Howell.
"Since then soil has slipped down the slope of the hill and covered the concrete slab.
"But I can remember roughly where the grave is, so we won't need to scour the whole hill looking for the exact spot."
With the use of a metal detector, to locate what is left of the iron cross, Mr Howell is hoping to resurrect the landmark in time for next year's 100th anniversary of the start of WW1.
"The loss of a dog's life during the war may seem irrelevant to some and compared with the loss of millions of people's lives in the war it is," he said.
"But we are a nation and town of dog lovers and I think that this project remembers the 'little people' whose lives were cut short."
Copheap is the responsibility of Warminster Town Council. It was bought for the town in 1947 and the whole area was dedicated as a war memorial three years later.
Heather Abernethie, from the town council, said members had been "intrigued by the request" to reinstate the dog's grave.
"I'd never, ever heard of it [the memorial] before so we need to find some provenance," she said.
"But I am intrigued to find out more and in principal everybody is up for it and I am sure it will get supported."
Eight months in the making, the concert will not just cover Thriller and Off The Wall, but Jones's big-band work, jazz compositions and film scores.
And the 27-time Grammy-winner is coming to London to watch the concert.
"Can you write that we're bricking it?" laughs conductor Jules Buckley. "Just absolutely bricking it."
As a child of the 1980s, Buckley first encountered Jones through his work with the King of Pop.
"We had Thriller on in the car when I was three," he says. "And then it was like, 'wow, he's an incredible big-band writer, too? What the hell?'
"He's a guru. He doesn't have an equal. There's no-one that comes close in the jazz and pop world, in terms of being a conductor, composer, arranger, producer, mentor, philanthropist. It's crazy."
The 36-year-old might be under pressure ahead of Monday's Prom, but he has a habit of pulling these things off. In previous years, he conducted the Ibiza Prom and the Urban Prom, dragging dance and grime into the classical realm.
Born in Buckinghamshire, Buckley has enjoyed a rapid rise since he co-founded the Heritage Orchestra in 2004, specialising in non-classical repertoire.
He has worked with Arctic Monkeys, Tori Amos, Massive Attack and Dizzee Rascal, and won his first Grammy earlier this year for a collaboration with Brooklyn jazz-funksters Snarky Puppy.
As well the Heritage, he is now chief conductor of the Netherlands-based Metropole Orkest, and has become the go-to guy when the Proms want a slice of street cred.
He talked to BBC News about meeting Quincy Jones, the controversy around the Ibiza Prom, and the importance of magic markers.
When you were asked to conduct the Quincy Jones Prom, was it an instant yes?
...Or was it more like, "can I just go change my trousers and then come back to you?!"
Actually, the truth is we wanted to find an amazing programme for the Proms and I said, "what about Quincy?". I knew it was a long shot but I approached Quincy myself.
Was he aware of the Proms?
I think so. He'd always been looking to have a show in this amazing hall. So the timing was right.
And you've been collaborating with him for the last six months.
That's been major. Just listening to this music and thinking, "oh my God, how do I put a programme together?"
I had to kill a lot of darlings along the way. No matter what we do, there will be a lot of people going, "I can't believe you didn't play that tune, man."
What's the one you already regret cutting?
I think the one that's going to come back and haunt me is Ai No Corrida.
How much of the concert will be devoted to Michael Jackson?
There's three Michael Jackson songs in the programme. One of them, we're really doing it differently, like totally different.
But I wanted to avoid the Michael Jackson tribute thing. I wanted to show off the film score stuff, the big band stuff and the other work he's done. For example, he's just produced an album for this Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez, so I also wanted to include something right from this year.
Did you talk to Quincy about how those classic songs were recorded? There's so much sonic innovation, for instance, in the drum sound on Billie Jean.
I tell you one thing. For Wanna Be Starting Something, Q's office sent me some manuscripts and the "ch-cha-ch-cha" sound that you think is a shaker is actually two bits of sandpaper.
When you read these amazing little details, it's so much fun to put together. But the Jacko stuff is the biggest challenge of the show. Everyone wants to hear those lines.
You just called him "Q". Does that mean you've been inducted to the inner circle?
Well, I haven't ever called him Q to his face yet! I think it's a bit like "sie" and "du" in Germany. So, at first you stick to the formal "sie" and when they offer you the "du", you can say it.
When we hook up in London, I'm going to start with Quincy. Just because I think it's right.
I've noticed that when orchestras play pop and rock, they often strip out the beat. Isn't that missing the point?
It's almost like they're afraid of it, right? They're afraid of moshing out. But the beat and the bass line is the gospel of the music, and you want to try to get that into the bloodstream of your musicians as quickly as possible.
You're also conducting a Prom with jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington, who's an incredible improvisational talent. How do you prepare an orchestra for the moment they have to abandon the score and follow him?
With Kamasi, his band can go anywhere, so I do one of two things: I have a huge bit of paper and a massive magic marker, and I start writing riffs out on the spot for the strings to play. And the other thing is, I'll write down a bar number and, when we're about to hit that bar, I hold it up and bring them in.
If you're working with an orchestra and, at the beginning of a tune, the soloist wants to vamp a bit longer, then you need to explain in rehearsals a sequence of signs which might mean, "okay, hold this pattern, we're going to loop."
You're doing some of those signs as you speak - clenching a fist, or making a pyramid with your fingers…
Right. You create conductorial safety buttons. For example, some of my friends are jazz composers and they'll number each section in a sequence of music. Number one is what we call the panic button - and if the conductor holds up the "one" it means it's all gone to hell. So he cues the "one" and they play this massive, whopper chord and then they go back to the start!
There was a lot of negativity in the run-up to last year's Ibiza Prom. What was your experience?
My main memory is that when it was proposed to us, I went to Chris Wheeler, who I run the Heritage Orchestra with, and we had a sit down and a chat and, for a while, we were considering not taking it on. We honestly thought it might bomb.
The response was better than anyone expected. People actually applauded in between the songs, which is almost unheard of at the Proms.
They were roaring. It was like a cathartic thing for many members of the audience. As soon as I started I thought, "ah, we're going to be fine". But before then I was sat backstage like, "flipping hell."
The funny thing is that, when I was a teenager, I wasn't really into that music. I was much more into grunge and heavy metal.
Maybe you could do a grunge Prom next year.
Actually, Eddie Vedder [from Pearl Jam] is top of my list. I know that Eddie Vedder, acoustic with an orchestra could be incredible. But it might take a lot of money.
Is it more important to have these collaborations in a classical music setting, or to take orchestras out to a new audience that doesn't normally experience classical?
I think both are equally important. There's something cool about sticking an orchestra in a club, but it has to be done with care. The sound has to be right.
Generally, I think as many people as possible should see large ensemble music performed at a really high level. And it doesn't really matter what the music is.
The Quincy Jones Prom takes place at the Royal Albert Hall on Monday 22 August. Jules Buckley also conducts the Kamasi Washington Prom on Tuesday 30 August.
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More than 130,000 people have signed a petition calling for the boxer to be removed over comments he made about women and gay people.
Lord Hall told the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee the list was decided by an independent panel.
"He's been put on that list because of his sporting prowess," he said.
"It's now up to the people to judge whether he should become Sports Personality of the Year."
He said newspaper reports claiming the boxer's name had been "imposed by the BBC" were "wrong".
"The decision was made by the entire panel - I'm assured that's the case," he said, adding he had faith in the programme.
"I believe in the process of Sports Personality of the Year. The panel have made their judgement, it is now up for the people to judge and vote as to whether he should be Sports Personality of the Year.
Fury, 27, won the WBA, IBF and WBO titles on 28 November from Wladimir Klitschko, who had reigned as world champion for 11 years.
He came under fire when he was quoted as saying a woman's "best place is on her back" and criticised homosexuality and abortion.
The BBC said Fury's inclusion did not mean Sports Personality of the Year endorsed his personal views.
But a petition was started calling for him to be removed claiming that by including Fury, the BBC "are putting him up as a role model to young people all over the UK and the world".
Lord Hall denied Fury's inclusion in the shortlist gave the boxer power over the BBC.
"He has no power over us whatsoever - we are independent," he said.
"I trust our viewers, listeners and voters to make sense of what is going on and in the end I'm certain their views will hold out."
Lord Hall added he felt the debate over Fury's comments was useful: "The fact that we are having a debate about what is proper or improper behaviour is good actually, there's a lot to learn from that.
"I trust the British public to make their views on this known."
Greece is trying to slow the flow to its northern border, to prevent a build-up of people there.
Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia have each announced that just 580 a day will be allowed through their borders.
So far this year, 100,000 migrants have entered the EU illegally - nearly all of them arriving in Greece.
More than 400 have died on the sea crossing from Turkey.
The restrictions in the Balkans follow Austria's decision last week to introduce a daily cap.
Macedonia's Interior Minister, Oliver Spasovski, on a visit to the migrant camp in Gevgelija on the border with Greece, said his country could only accept as many refugees as the other countries on the Western Balkan route - Serbia and Croatia - would take.
Migrants held peaceful protests in Athens and at Piraeus port on Friday, angry that they are unable to leave Greece.
Hundreds have set off on foot from a transit camp near the capital, hoping to make their own way to the border.
Some carried signs reading "help us" and "we are human".
In other developments:
The Greek government has asked ferry operators to reduce services bringing migrants from islands to the capital Athens in a bid to ease pressure.
The camp on the Macedonian border at Idomeni is well above capacity, and more people are waiting nearby.
Desperation on the Greek border
Fortress Central Europe
EU migration: Crisis in graphics
Meanwhile, a row between Greece and Austria, one of the countries that has tightened its border security, has deepened, with Athens snubbing a request to visit by the Austrian interior minister.
Johanna Mikl-Leitner had warned that if Greece could not secure the external borders of the EU, then other countries would have to take action.
In northern Greece, protesters briefly blocked the entrance to a new proposed camp for migrants near Polykastro.
Some local people said they were concerned that the camp would become permanent.
The government had asked that three ships serve as temporary hotels for the refugees and migrants for two or three days, before taking them to Piraeus.
The plan particularly affects Lesbos, Chios and Samos, islands which are close to Turkey.
The Catholic humanitarian organisation Caritas tweeted that Thursday night's ferry from Lesbos had not departed, "leaving refugees and migrants stranded".
The island risked becoming "one big camp if refugees and migrants continue to arrive without any option to leave," it said.
The Athens government has been criticised by other EU countries for failing to manage the new arrivals - but no progress has been made on a European plan to relocate refugees from Greece.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has threatened to block all decisions at EU migration summits next month if member states do not agree to take in quotas of migrants.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.
The draft guidance bans sexual relationships and says officers must submit to regular psychological tests.
The College of Policing said it had taken the unprecedented step in an effort to win back public support after a string of controversies.
The move comes ahead of a major public inquiry into undercover malpractice.
It will investigate how officers had sexual relationships with women, deployments leading to miscarriages of justice and whether two secretive disbanded units were out of control.
Undercover policing inquiry: Why it matters
The new rules - which are subject to a public consultation until 10 August - have been brought together for the first time to explain the legal, ethical and safety issues around operations.
The College of Policing, a national standards-setting body, says it is now assessing undercover units and has the power to withdraw their approval to operate.
The 80 pages of guidance state:
The college's head, Chief Constable Alex Marshall, said undercover policing was "essential" for catching some criminals - and the police had to be as transparent as possible about how this risky work was carried out in the public interest.
He said: "By publishing the vast majority of the guidance, withholding only operational tactics which would no longer be viable if shared, we want the public to see the measures we have in place to ensure undercover policing is used in a way that is proportionate, lawful and ethical."
The new rule book states: "It is never acceptable for an Undercover Officer to form an intimate sexual relationship with those they are employed to infiltrate and target or may encounter during their deployment.
"This conduct will never be authorised, nor must it ever be used as a tactic of a deployment."
"It can't be authorised. It's wrong, it shouldn't happen," said Chief Constable Marshall. "If in some extreme circumstance something happens where the operative has gone outside this guidance, then you have to report it and it will be investigated."
The public inquiry will examine whether officers are properly looked after by their forces - and under the new rules, they must be psychologically assessed at least every six months.
Peter Francis, a former undercover officer who suffered long-term damage to his mental health while deployed with a disbanded Scotland Yard unit, warned that more still had to be done to protect those in the field today.
"These new guidelines on psychological support aren't necessarily new. Promises were made in the past within my unit, the Special Demonstration Squad, but officers still suffered numerous psychological problems," he said.
And solicitor Jules Carey, who is involved in ongoing legal action over alleged undercover abuses, cautiously welcomed the guidance banning sexual relations.
But he added: "It is disappointing that the guidance fails to spell out that in a democracy the first consideration should whether it is necessary to use an undercover officer at all, or whether the intelligence could be obtained through some other means.
"The guidance should also make it clear that the degree of intrusion should be proportionate to the seriousness of the crime being investigated."
The firms have all notified their users of the incidents, which varied in approach and do not appear to be connected.
In addition, several Uber users have complained of their accounts being hacked.
However, the car pick-up service said it had "found no evidence of a breach".
The firms have dealt with the attacks in different ways, and BA has been criticised for how it responded.
Complaints about points being stolen from the BA's Executive Club scheme date back at least a fortnight.
One user said their account had been used by someone else to book a hotel room in Spain, while others reported that their list of transactions showed "ex-gratia" deductions that had wiped out their entire credit.
"I checked my account yesterday and found that the mobile number had been changed to a Russian one. I changed it back and my miles are still there. Passwords now changed," reported another member, who appeared to have had a narrow escape.
A spokesman for BA said that it believed only "a small number" of its frequent flyers were affected.
"This appears to have been the result of a third party using information obtained elsewhere on the internet, via an automated process, to try to gain access to some accounts," he said.
"We would like to reassure customers that, at this stage, we are not aware of any access to any subsequent information pages within accounts, including travel histories or payment card details."
Security experts have, however, raised concern that BA initially sent out emails asking users to click on a link to reset their passwords.
"That's a classic trick used by criminals phishing for login credentials," noted security consultant Graham Cluley.
BA said it had removed the link from subsequent emails and suggested concerned members contact its service centre.
The attack on San Francisco-based GitHub - which is used by more than 8 million software developers - has involved an attempt to knock its site offline by flooding it with traffic.
"We are currently experiencing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in GitHub's history," systems engineer Jesse Newland wrote on its blog.
"These include... some sophisticated new techniques that use the web browsers of unsuspecting, uninvolved people to flood GitHub with high levels of traffic.
"Based on reports we've received, we believe the intent of this attack is to convince us to remove a specific class of content."
The reports suggest the data barrage was specifically directed at web pages providing China-based users with a way to circumvent local censorship controls.
"It does look like someone in China is fighting back, as we predicted they would, against those who are trying to circumvent the 'great firewall of China'," commented security consultant Alan Woodward.
"Ask most developers and they are likely to be using GitHub in some way, so assuming it is China this looks like their censorship attempts are now having global impact."
When asked about the allegation, a spokeswoman for the Chinese government responded: "It is quite odd that every time a website in the US or any other country is under attack, there will be speculation that Chinese hackers are behind it. I'd like to remind you that China is one of the major victims of cyber-attacks."
Slack reported it was attacked in February.
The US firm provides a way for team members to communicate with each other as an alternative to email.
The service is less than two years old, but was recently valued at being worth $2.8bn (£1.9bn). Were businesses to believe the data it held was insecure then its future would be threatened.
Slack said it believed the hackers had accessed a database that would have allowed them to see user names, email addresses and Skype IDs.
However, it added that passwords - which give users access to posted information - were encrypted in a form that made it "computationally infeasible" for the hackers to unscramble them.
"As part of our investigation we detected suspicious activity affecting a very small number of Slack accounts," it added.
"We have notified the individual users and team owners who we believe were impacted and are sharing details with their security teams."
The company said that it had introduced two-factor authentication as an additional security step, which requires users to type in a code sent to their mobile phone or tablet to access the app.
News site Motherboard has also reported that login details for Uber are being offered for sale for as little as $1.
The BBC was contacted by one London-based user on Sunday who reported that someone else was booking rides in New York using his account without his permission, and had clocked up a $556 bill.
Others have posted similar stories on Twitter.
"We take any issue of this nature very seriously and after investigating have found no evidence of a breach at Uber," a spokesman responded.
"Attempting to fraudulently access and use Uber accounts is illegal and we notify the authorities about such activity.
"We would like to remind people to use strong and unique usernames and passwords and to avoid reusing the same credentials across multiple sites and services."
The Premier League said it supported local authorities in investigations that led to arrests on 11 May.
The men were named as William Lloyd, 39 and William Robinson, 35.
They are accused of causing damages worth more than 100 million baht (£2.2m) to the broadcast rights holders.
A third man, who is Thai, was also arrested and named as Supatra Raksasat, 33.
Agents for the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) also seized nine computer servers, nine computers, 49 set-top boxes and three mobile phones.
The three men allegedly sold illegal broadcasts of football matches on the 365sport.tv website, which is currently offline.
Customers of 365sport.tv have discussed problems accessing the site in recent days via online forums.
In a statement, the Premier League said that it had supported Thai police in efforts to crack down on the illegal use of Kodi and IPTV boxes.
"This included a series of raids in Bangkok that targeted several website operators engaged in selling the devices that are pre-loaded with apps that facilitate pirate broadcasts of Premier League football, across South East Asia," the organisation said.
"The Premier League is currently engaged in its largest ever programme to protect its copyright and the legitimate investment made by its broadcasting partners.
"Their contribution allows our clubs to develop and acquire players, invest in facilities and support the wider football pyramid and communities - all things that fans enjoy and society benefits from."
Deputy chief of the DSI, Suriya Singhakamol, said the suspects may also have been involved in transmissions broadcast via Thaiexpat.tv, Hkexpat.tv, Indoexpat.tv, Vietexpat.tx and Euroexpat.tv.
The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office is aware of the situation.
In March, the Premier League secured a court order in the UK that gave it the means to block computer servers used to host illegal streams.
At the time, a spokesman said the organisation was prepared to target pirates in a "precise manner".
Pre-tax profits increased by 158% to £4.24bn, a level last seen in 2006 before the financial crisis.
Provisions for PPI declined from £4bn to £1bn, bringing the total to £17bn.
The UK government's stake in Lloyds has now fallen below 5% and it has said it wants to return the bank to full private ownership this year.
The government spent £20.3bn to acquire a 43% stake in Lloyds at the height of the financial crisis.
It has returned more than £18.5bn to the taxpayer since 2009.
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However, underlying profits for 2016 fell to £7.9bn, down from £8.1bn.
Total income for the group also edged down to £17.5bn compared with £17.6bn the previous year.
In addition to the £1bn set aside in the third quarter to cover PPI claims, Lloyds also made a provision of a further £1.1bn for other "conduct" issues.
The company has increased its dividend by 13% and will also pay a special dividend.
Lloyds, which is the UK's biggest retail banking group, also owns the Halifax and HBOS brands.
"Given our UK focus, our performance is inextricably linked to the health of the UK economy which has been more resilient than the market expected post referendum, with GDP growth of 2% in 2016," said group chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio.
"The UK's decision to leave the European Union means the exact nature of our relationship with Europe going forward remains unclear and the economic outlook is uncertain.
"However, the recovery in recent years with low unemployment, reduced levels of household and corporate indebtedness and increased house prices means the UK is well positioned," he added.
In a separate report, it was revealed that Mr Horta-Osorio's total pay package fell sharply last year, from £8.7m to £5.5m. The decline was driven mainly by a steep fall in his long-term shares award following the Brexit vote, which hit Lloyds stock.
However, his short-term bonus increased and his base salary went up for the first time since he joined the company in 2011.
Richard Hunter, head of research at Wilson King Investment Management, said Mr Horta-Osorio had "transformed" Lloyds into "something of a modern day success story in the aftermath of the financial crisis" with its recovery seemingly nearing completion.
However, he added: "Naturally, challenges will follow as the UK consumer is showing some early signs of retrenchment, which makes the rise in the impairment number a little more troubling.
"Historically low interest rates will also continue to provide a difficult backdrop for banks in general, whilst the cost or regulation - let alone any further fines darkening the picture - will be a necessary cost of doing business.
"Even so, the overall picture is one of robust recovery for Lloyds, where the share price has enjoyed a strong run of late, having added 21% over the last six months alone."
Lloyds shares rose by 3.6% following the results, making the bank the biggest riser on the FTSE 100.
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Jorge Mendes said the 29-year-old forward was the "best player ever" and the "best sportsman ever".
Mendes added: "You can't compare him with anybody else."
Ronaldo was voted the world's best player for a third time last month, beating Barcelona rival Lionel Messi to the prestigious award.
Asked how much he was worth, Mendes said: "Cristano Ronaldo? One billion. His buyout clause one billion, so it is one billion.
"If, for any reason, the club decide to sell him tomorrow for 300 million, someone will pay."
However, Mendes insisted his countryman, who cost Real Madrid a world record fee of £80m in 2009, would stay at the Bernabeu, despite his "love" for supporters of former club Manchester United.
"He will not leave Real Madrid," Mendes told BBC sports editor Dan Roan.
Mendes, who is reported to have brokered more than £1bn worth of transfers, has been described as the most powerful figure in the game.
"People have the wrong idea about agents," said Mendes.
"Being an agent means many different things. I'm someone normal, I'm working hard every single day. I have ambitions, determination and being honest, doing the right things... this is most important."
He described football as the "most important sport in the world" and defended the wages players now command, saying they "deserve the maximum possible".
Mendes compared working with his players on contracts as "like a family".
"It is like when you talk with your son, with your family... always to try to find the best way to support them," he said.
Mendes also described the ban on third-party ownership of players as "illegal" and "catastrophic" for clubs.
"Fifa and Uefa are not the police," he said. "I think that's it's very important to establish rules, the right rules, but not to stop it."
Mendes, a former DJ and nightclub owner, also represents Jose Mourinho, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Radamel Falcao, Angel Di Maria, James Rodriguez, David De Gea, Victor Valdes and Diego Costa.
At its steepest, Baldwin Street has a gradient of 35%.
But people in a north Wales street claim theirs is a clear rival in the steepness stakes.
Ffordd Pen Llech, in Harlech, in the Snowdonia National Park, is so steep that vehicles have been banned from driving up some parts in a bid to avoid them getting stuck.
It is said to be the steepest, signed, public, Tarmacked road in the UK.
The road sign boasts a gradient of 40%, but this is said to have been rounded up from 36.63% to avoid confusing road users.
Mark Jones, who has a holiday home in Harlech, said most of the people living there had become very good at parking their cars.
"We get lots of bottles of wine, lots of beer, off people when they get stuck on the corners and we have to go and back them up and reverse so they can get their cars down," he said.
Jennifer Hudley, who has lived in Harlech for five years, said: "The only problem is when there's snow. You hibernate, you don't try and go up or down.
"When I first moved here it was pretty daunting, but now I just go down on my brakes and pray nothing is coming up - which it shouldn't be.
"The views are incredible."
Gavin Brick and Chris Wilderspin moved to Harlech from London three years ago to "get away from the craziness" and enjoy a "slower pace of life".
Mr Brick said: "I walk from the railway station up this hill several times a week with my rucksack and carrier bags of shopping and you just get used to it.
"It's just a little harder in the winter when there are leaves or ice."
He said he believed it was the steepest residential street in the world.
"I have researched it. It is certainly a bit more dynamic and has more twists and turns than the road in Dunedin."
Mr Wilderspin added: "I think people around here, particularly cyclists, look to prove how tough they are and how they can do all the hills. That's why they come to Snowdonia really.
"This one's a particularly tough one."
But it is far from being the only Welsh street to test the heart and lungs of visitors.
One road in Prestatyn, Denbighshire claims a 33% gradient.
Hillside runs from Prestatyn to the nearby village of Gwaenysgor and is a challenge for any cyclist.
Meanwhile Cefn Llan, in Aberystwyth, the road that leads up to the university from Llanbadarn has a gradient of 25%.
This makes it a suitable setting for the Aberystwyth Cycle Festival hill climb challenge.
And it also keeps pupils at Penglais School fit, as many of them have to climb up it to get to lessons.
In Swansea, Constitution Hill, which features in the 1990s film Twin Town, has a gradient of 20%.
Postman Mike Neil said: "I come down every day, bar Sunday, but I rarely go up.
"I've seen a lot of people jogging up the hill, roller skaters skating down the hill. It's a well-used hill for keeping fit, but I don't fancy going up - not every day."
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He signed a deal to represent West Ham United, playing Fifa in video game tournaments.
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It was 1987. Wales versus England in the Five Nations. It had been a stormy night, the rain poured for 12 hours before the game but there were other reasons why the English side particularly were in thunderous mood.
"We knew it had been an extremely tough start to the campaign for the English side," recalls David Pickering, who was Wales captain on that day which became known as the "Battle of Cardiff".
They had lost 17-0 in Ireland, then they lost again against France. So we were very aware, England having not won in Wales for 24 years, that it was going to be a very tough encounter.
Graham Dawe played hooker for England that day. It was his first trip to the Arms Park.
"The talk was all about how the Welsh boys bullied us up front," he said. "You get it all the time in rugby or at least you did in those days - you get a lot of off the ball shirt pulling and stepping across the lineout and we just said, right we are not going to accept it, we are going to stand up to them."
Before the second line-out, Steve Bainbridge and Steve Sutton tussled, exchanging angry words. It was only the second minute of the game. The tone had been set.
"I tell you this has got to be sorted out, what a start to an international. Phil Davies on the ground, punches thrown, two men completely on the deck," McLaren said in commentary.
Blood streamed down the face of the Wales' number eight, Davies. The man who punched him, Wade Dooley, would later say he was acting in retaliation against an attack on one of his teammates.
"He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," said Dawe. "Somebody obviously upset Wade - Wade Dooley would sometimes hit his own teammates in training. I think Wade Dooley just thought, 'just crack on'."
The irony was plain to see. The two men involved, Dooley and Davies, shared the same day job - they were policemen.
"Undoubtedly England were the major aggressors on the day but it would be wrong to assume that we were entirely innocent," Pickering admitted.
Davies was not the only casualty that day. Steve Sutton would end up having his nose broken by one of his own teammates.
The statistics lay bare a match dominated by ill-discipline. The total number of penalties conceded by England was 20 while Wales conceded 12. The referee had a busy day.
"I tell you in the line-out there are so many infringements at the one time, the referee must be going cross eyed down there," was McLaren's observation.
"Nobody covered themselves in great glory that day," Pickering said.
"It was a very difficult match for Ray Megson in his first international. Ultimately, at the end of the game, we felt pretty sorry for the referee as well who had a really tough encounter to cope with."
Wales won the match 19-12 and their unbeaten record in Cardiff against England grew to 25 years.
The RFU came down hard on its players that day. Four were suspended - Dawe, Gareth Chilcot, Richard Hill and Dooley.
In more recent years, Dooley became a citing officer for the union, overseeing discipline but the fall-out would have big consequences for Dawe's international career.
"I was disappointed because although I was a relatively young man, I wanted to play for England and it got taken away from me for what I don't think was any particular reason because I never threw a punch in the game," he said.
"I am not saying I am an innocent person but I fell out of favour really because of that. It took me eight years to get my next cap so it was quite an expensive incident for which I still feel a little bit aggrieved about."
More than 1,900 people responded to a survey on the proposed Tees Valley Combined Authority, with 65% in support.
Councils in Darlington, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Stockton and Redcar say the authority would allow Tees Valley to gain greater power and national influence.
It could be set up by the autumn.
The combined authority would see the councils unite to work on major projects such as infrastructure or transport as well as being in place to accept any powers devolved from central government.
They would still operate their own local services, however.
Each council will now have to approve going ahead with the project before it is submitted for government approval.
Middlesbrough Mayor Ray Mallon said: "A strong single voice is essential if we are to advance the Tees area agenda on key strategic issues such as transport, employment and in the skills agenda, which are crucial to economic growth."
Seven councils in Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and County Durham formed the North East Combined Authority last year.
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He took charge of the Welsh National League Division One West match between Gowerton and Crymych.
In Twickenham the All Blacks were 34-17 winners over Australia.
At the Athletic Ground in Gowerton today, the home team emerged 28-18 victors over their west Wales opponents.
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The 40-year-old won gold in London with Anna Watkins after three consecutive silvers and was expected to be selected in the double scull again this summer.
But the Scot and Wales' Thornley, 28, have struggled since winning European bronze last year.
"It has put my Olympic place in the balance," Grainger said.
Speaking to The Sunday Times, she added: "I've never been in this position before, not having a seat in a boat so close to an Olympics. But I don't want to walk away from it now."
Grainger - Britain's most decorated female Olympian alongside swimmer Rebecca Adlington - returned in September 2014 following a two-year sabbatical in the aftermath of the London Games.
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In the absence of the retired Watkins, Grainger was paired with Thornley and the duo finished sixth at the World Championships last September to qualify the boat for Rio.
However, their failure to make the podium at this year's European Championship earlier in May precipitated the end of their partnership, with the news broken to the pair on Friday.
British Rowing confirmed that both Grainger and Thornley will "be given the opportunity to be considered" for a place in the eight, but face a tough task after the current crew earned European gold in Brandenburg.
"The double has been very close to my heart so I'm very sad about the decision," Grainger added. "Defending the title was a driving factor in me coming back.
"If we can help to make the eight faster, it's a very exciting opportunity. But it has been made clear to us that we will have to earn our places."
The contest in this electorally critical heartland state pitted Mr Modi's National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition against the "Mahagatbandhan", or the "grand alliance" of anti-BJP parties.
This included a number of regional heavyweights, as well as the Indian National Congress.
According to data released by the Election Commission of India, the anti-BJP front won nearly three-quarters of the seats (178 out of 243) in the Bihar state assembly. Although Mr Modi's BJP emerged as the single largest vote getter, its alliance picked up a paltry 58 seats.
In the coming days, India's opinion pages and news channels will dissect the reasons for the BJP's electoral defeat and scrutinise the way in which two longtime rivals -incumbent chief minister Nitish Kumar of the JD(U) and former chief minister Laloo Prasad Yadav of the RJD - so skillfully buried the hatchet in pursuit of political survival.
Beyond political theatre however, the Bihar outcome has implications for Mr Modi and his reform agenda.
In the short run, Bihar is a significant setback for Mr Modi in three ways: it damages his prestige, complicates politics both inside and outside the ruling alliance, and makes parliament more of an obstacle. Over the longer term, however, one should not overstate the broader impact on Mr Modi's economic reform plans.
The Bihar loss damages the prime minister's standing because the BJP, hoping to exploit the prime minister's unparalleled popularity across India, made him the explicit face of the campaign.
This formula had delivered results for the BJP in a string of recent state polls. In Bihar, though, Mr Modi was pitted against a popular chief minister, Nitish Kumar, who also preaches the gospel of development and suffered no clear anti-incumbency sentiment.
As a result, the strategy of relying on the "Modi magic" - in the absence of a credible local face - fell flat.
Decisive defeats in successive state elections in Delhi and Bihar have resoundingly punctured the halo of invincibility that has surrounded Mr Modi and his trusted lieutenant, BJP president Amit Shah.
This loss of prestige, in turn, creates space for disgruntled voices within the party who are either underwhelmed by Mr Modi's governance or demoralised by Mr Modi and Mr Shah's iron grip on the party apparatus. The humbling rout in Bihar will give fresh oxygen to BJP dissenters. Beyond the ruling alliance, the election has two further political implications.
First, it elevates the profile of Nitish Kumar - set to begin his fourth stint as chief minister - making him an opposition leader to reckon with on a national level.
Even though Mr Yadav's RJD will end up as the single largest party in terms of seats, it is Mr Kumar who will be crowned victor and lead the state government.
Second, the election validates a much-debated hypothesis: that parties opposed to the BJP can counteract the Modi wave if they opportunistically band together.
In the 2014 general election, many regional parties - including those in Bihar - fought elections on their own, fracturing the anti-BJP vote. Parties in states like Assam, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal will sit up and take note in anticipation of upcoming state elections.
Third, the BJP loss ensures that parliament will become an even greater obstacle to Mr Modi's legislative agenda on at least two counts.
The Bihar drubbing increases the likelihood that the national opposition will use its newfound mandate to block important bills in parliament's winter session. Expect the opposition to point to the BJP's use of Hindu-majority rhetoric on the campaign trail - Amit Shah famously warned Bihari voters that Pakistanis would set off firecrackers if the BJP loses - as evidence of its eroding legitimacy.
More importantly, the BJP's failure to win Bihar also makes its quest for a majority in parliament's upper house (Rajya Sabha), whose composition is determined by the various state assemblies, an ever-distant dream. Without majorities in both houses, Mr Modi's legislative agenda will continue to face headwinds.
Damage to the Modi brand, growing dissent within the party, and dimming hopes for a co-operative parliament will surely sting in the near term.
Over the long haul, however, it is not obvious that this election by itself will change Mr Modi's plans for economic reform.
The prime minister's priorities to date make it abundantly clear that he is plotting no dramatic rupture with the past; he is committed to an incremental programme of economic change. India's democratic system and important divides within his own alliance, provide enough checks and balances to mean that he is is unlikely to deviate from this course.
Wherever possible, the Modi regime will circumvent a divided parliament, deploying executive action and pushing reforms that can be adopted by India's states, where a divided national parliament poses no obstacle. In short, don't expect Mr Modi to dwell on Bihar for too long.
In India, another state election is always around the corner.
Milan Vaishnav is an associate with the South Asia programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. You can follow him on Twitter @MilanV.
The demonstrations in the city of Burlingame temporarily delayed a speech by the billionaire businessman.
Because of the protest, Mr Trump had to enter the hotel via a rear entrance.
Mr Trump's rallies have been dogged by violence.
On Thursday, a police car had its windows smashed as Mr Trump spoke inside a hall in the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa. Some 20 arrests were made.
The Trump campaign had to cancel several rallies in March after hundreds of protesters threatened to disrupt events in Chicago and St Louis.
Before his speech on Friday, news helicopters showed Mr Trump and his security detail crossing a motorway before entering the hotel via a side door.
On stage, Mr Trump joked about the protesters, saying "that was not the easiest entrance I ever made."
"I felt like I was crossing the border," he said, and that he walked through "dirt and mud" to get to the building outside of San Francisco.
Many of the protesters outside his speech were arguing against his positions on immigration. He has advocated building a border wall with Mexico which he says Mexico would pay for.
He has also referred to Mexicans as "rapists" and criminals responsible for bringing illegal drugs into the US.
Mr Trump is extremely unpopular among Latino voters and California has a large Mexican-American population.
Protests are expected to continue until the California primary is held on 7 June.
Mr Trump has called himself the Republican "presumptive nominee" after a string of primary wins.
In terms of delegate support, the property tycoon is far ahead of his nearest rivals, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and John Kasich, the governor of Ohio.
The 43-year-old world number 20 beat Rhys Clark 6-1 to set up a second-round meeting with Ken Doherty on Saturday.
Davis, who turned professional in 1991, said: "I would love to win a ranking tournament before I retire.
"But if I don't it will be because I haven't been good enough. I don't feel under pressure."
Sussex cueman Davis has six career titles to his name, but his best ranking tournament performance has been reaching the semi-finals on four occasions - including the 2013 UK Championship.
Davis was relieved to get through his first-round meeting at this year's event and progress to the televised stages of the sport's second biggest tournament.
"I was obviously a strong favourite to win but it doesn't mean anything," he said.
"I was in a tournament in Hong Kong last week and didn't get back until Sunday morning so I was a bit shattered. I knew it probably wouldn't be pretty, it was just a case of winning.
"These guys can all play and if you are off your game it can go against you. You have to be professional, get the job done and I did that. I missed too many balls but I don't really care; it was just a case of winning."
And he is relishing the chance to face Doherty, the 1997 world champion and current world number 47.
"It should be a good game," added Davis. "Ken has done so much in the game. I will have to play well. He is still getting results now.
"His peak years were a few years back but on any given day he can still play some really good snooker. I don't take anyone for granted, and certainly not Ken."
MPs for English seats would have a veto on tax, and issues like schools and health, which only affect England.
The plan falls short of the English Parliament demanded by some Tory MPs.
But Commons leader William Hague said it was a "fair solution". Labour is calling for a cross-party investigation into the matter.
Scotland is on course to be given the power to set its own income tax rates and bands - and Air Passenger Duty rates - under proposals drawn up by the The Smith Commission in the wake of September's independence referendum.
Prime Minister David Cameron promised a new settlement for England at the same time.
Critics say it is unfair that Scottish MPs should help decide how things such as schools and the health service are run in England, when English MPs have no such say over how they are run in Scotland.
But attempts at cross-party talks to resolve the so-called "West Lothian Question" were boycotted by Labour - which could struggle to get key legislation through the Commons if it won the election without its Scottish MPs - as a "stitch up".
Mr Hague's plan would give an effective veto to MPs for English seats - and Wales on some policies - for matters decided in the Scottish Parliament, but would still require a majority of all UK MPs to pass legislation.
He said it was the least radical of three options to resolve demands for "English votes for English laws" but would bring "fairness and accountability to England without breaking up the unity and integrity of the UK Parliament".
He told BBC Breakfast: "MPs from all parts of the UK would continue to debate, as they do now, anything they want. It is just that they would only be able to pass measures relating only to England with the agreement of the English MPs."
English MPs were never going to be given total control over English law. That would have created a de facto English Parliament that many MPs believe would have left the United Kingdom unworkable.
David Cameron never had this in mind when he stood outside Downing Street last September and promised to listen to the voices of England.
While some constitutional purists on the Tory benches are feeling sore, others are content. They now have something to say on the doorstep about the so-called English issue.
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Mr Hague said the Commons Speaker would probably have the job of deciding which measures should be treated as England only.
He said the proposals were unlikely to become law before May's general election but they would be in the Conservative manifesto and he was keen for MPs to debate them before the election.
But some Conservative MPs say the plan will still give MPs for Scottish constituencies too much influence.
Former Cabinet Minister John Redwood told The Daily Telegraph: "It gives them leverage. If you had a lot of Nationalist MPs, for example, who wanted something for Scotland then presumably they would all gang up and try to block an English proposal until we cave in on what they wanted. It would be perfectly legitimate political tactics."
He said Tory MPs would not back Mr Hague's proposals.
In December Labour said an English, or English and Welsh, committee stage would give those MPs "a key role" in considering the legislation in question, while MPs as a whole would have the final say.
Labour said this and other ideas should be considered by a constitutional convention after May's general election.
The Liberal Democrats favour a grand committee of English MPs, with the right to veto legislation applying only to England, with its members based on the share of the vote.
But Lib Dem Deputy Commons Leader Tom Brake said it would be a "major mistake" to "rush through" changes without a constitutional convention.
UKIP Deputy Leader Paul Nuttall said: "Cameron has spoken of English votes for English laws but these proposals will fail to deliver anything but chaos."
Stewart Hosie, deputy leader of the SNP, said Hague's plan was "confused and a bit shambolic" and the UK government could not exclude Scottish MPs from debate unless full tax and spending powers were devolved to Holyrood.
Elfyn Llwyd, Plaid Cymru's leader at Westminster, said English votes must "go hand in hand with home rule all round and the Barnett formula must be replaced in order to address the chronic underfunding of Wales".
The new show will be called Pitch Battle and will feature lots of different types of musical styles.
It will see groups of singers face off against each other in "riff-offs", which were made famous by the popular Pitch Perfect films.
There will be a capella challenges where groups of singers make music using only their voices, as well as solo challenges.
The BBC also announced another singing talent series called Let It Shine which will air in January next year.
These new shows come after the BBC said it had lost The Voice in 2015 to ITV.
In the past the BBC has been criticised for creating talent shows that are too similar to its rivals, like the X Factor on ITV.
Kate Phillips, the BBC's controller of entertainment commissioning, said that 'Pitch Battle' would have: "shed loads of sass and spirit".
Darren Clarke's men led 9-3 heading into the third day of competition, and a dominant performance in the singles saw them wrap up an 18½-5½ victory.
Danny Willett clinched the win with eight matches still out on course.
His fellow Englishmen Ian Poulter, Andy Sullivan, Lee Westwood, Matt Fitzpatrick and Chris Wood also won.
Swede Kristoffer Broberg, Denmark's Soren Kjeldsen and Frenchman Victor Dubuisson were also victorious in the singles, while England's Ross Fisher tied with Jeung Hun Wang.
Austria's Bernd Wiesberger and Irishman Shane Lowry were the only Europeans to lose on the final day, to KT Kim and Anirban Lahiri respectively.
This was the second staging of the EurAsia Cup, which replaced the Royal Trophy.
Victory delighted Clarke, who will captain Europe's Ryder Cup team when they take on the USA in Hazeltine, Minnesota in September.
"If your players don't play and don't perform then you can be the best captain in the whole world and you're not going to win, so the credit doesn't belong to me, it belongs to the players," he said.
"The quality of the golf they have played this week has been brilliant."
Lord Mervyn King predicted the long-term effect of a Brexit on GDP would turn out to be "a bit of a fuss about nothing".
In a BBC interview, he also accused the Remain campaign of treating people considering voting Leave like "idiots".
He said voters had not been impressed by "scaremongering tactics".
"If you say to someone 'you're an idiot if you don't agree with me' you're not likely to bring them in your direction," he added.
UK shares remain volatile in the wake of Thursday's vote, with some stocks temporarily suspended.
It came as sterling hit a 31-year low, and yields on 10-year government bonds sank below 1% for the first time.
Lord King, who was Bank of England governor for 10 years until 2013, said: "I don't think people should be particularly worried, markets move up, markets move down.
"We don't yet know where they will find their level and the whole aspect of volatility is that there is a trial and error process going on before markets discover what the right level of stock markets and exchange rates actually are.
"What we need is a bit of calm now, there's no reason for any of us to panic."
He said uncertainty would affect investment in the short term, but predicted the long-term impact to be "much smaller than either side pretend", predicting that "in 25 years' time we'll look back and say a little bit, that at least in economic terms, maybe that was a bit of a fuss about nothing".
Lord King's successor, Mark Carney, has said "extensive contingency planning" makes the UK "well-prepared" for the consequences of the vote to leave.
In a statement aimed a calming markets, Chancellor George Osborne said the UK was ready to face the future "from a position of strength".
But his predecessor, Labour's Alistair Darling, warned that a "vacuum" before a new prime minister is appointed could affect investment in the UK and said he was more worried now than during the financial crisis in 2008.
CCTV cameras caught Pardeep Kaur walking towards a bridge over the M4 in Hayes and being followed by a "stooped man" on 17 October last year.
Ms Kaur's body was found in undergrowth near Harlington Bridge nearly a week after she was reported missing.
Vadims Ruskuls, 25, who was sleeping rough under the bridge, denies murder.
Ms Kaur was snatched while on her way to work at the Sheraton Skyline Hotel in Harlington, Middlesex.
On the footage, presented to the Old Bailey, Ms Kaur and the figure, who is seen staggering in the street, disappear from view behind a bush at 06:33 BST.
Twenty-five minutes later, an indistinct figure is seen dragging her body back down the path and behind a pillar under the bridge.
PC Victoria Wellsted told the court no-one else was seen in the area in the 25-minute gap between Ms Kaur and the suspect walking out of view.
She told the jury the poor quality of the film meant it was impossible to tell from the footage if the person seen dragging the body was a man or woman.
However, she said there were "certain similarities" between the man seen following Ms Kaur in the images and Mr Ruskuls.
The trial continues.
Pubs will be able to stay open an extra two hours on both days until 01:00.
The Queen celebrates two birthdays each year - her actual birthday on 21 April and her official birthday on a Saturday in June - this year on 11 June.
The longer opening hours also coincide with England's and Wales's first games in the European football championships.
On Saturday 11 June, Wales play Slovakia at 17:00 BST and England play Russia at 20:00 BST.
There will be a series of events over the June weekend to mark the Queen's 90th birthday.
These will include a street party in The Mall, a service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral and the traditional Trooping the Colour ceremony, also known as the Queen's Birthday Parade, at Horse Guards Parade.
Announcing the extension during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Cameron said: "I'm sure that will be welcomed right across the House."
Late opening hours have taken place on other occasions in recent years including the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011, the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and the 2014 World Cup.
Pubs wishing to extend their opening hours for a one-off occasion normally need to apply to their local council for a temporary event notice. Scotland and Northern Ireland have separate licensing regulations.
The report makes it clear that it believes the world is on the cusp of a "new industrial" robot revolution.
It looks at whether to give robots legal status as "electronic persons".
Designers should make sure any robots have a kill switch, which would allow functions to be shut down if necessary, the report recommends.
Meanwhile users should be able to use robots "without risk or fear of physical or psychological harm", it states.
Lorna Brazell, a partner at law firm Osborne Clarke, was surprised by how far-reaching the rules were.
But questioned the need to give future robots legal status.
"Blue whales and gorillas don't have personhood but I would suggest that they have as many aspects of humanity as robots, so I don't see why we should jump into giving robots this status."
The report suggests that robots, bots, androids and other manifestations of artificial intelligence are poised to "unleash a new industrial revolution, which is likely to leave no stratum of society untouched".
The new age of robots has the potential for "virtually unbounded prosperity" but also raises questions about the future of work and whether member states need to introduce a basic income in the light of robots taking jobs.
Robot/human relationships raise issues around privacy, human dignity (particularly in relation to care robots) and the physical safety of humans if systems fail or are hacked.
The report acknowledges that there is a possibility that within the space of a few decades AI could surpass human intellectual capacity.
This could, if not properly prepared for, "pose a challenge to humanity's capacity to control its own creation and, consequently, perhaps also to its capacity to be in charge of its own destiny and to ensure the survival of the species".
It turns to science fiction, drawing on rules dreamed up by writer Isaac Asimov, for how robots should act if and when they become self-aware. The laws will be directed at the designers, producers and operators of robots as they cannot be converted into machine code.
These rules state:
Meanwhile robotic research should respect fundamental rights and be conducted in the interests of the wellbeing of humans, the report recommends.
Designers may be required to register their robots as well as providing access to the source code to investigate accidents and damage caused by bots. Designers may also be required to obtain the go-ahead for new robotic designs from a research ethics committee.
The report calls for the creation of a European agency for robotics and artificial intelligence that can provide technical, ethical and regulatory expertise.
It also suggests that in the light of numerous reports on how many jobs could be taken by AI or robots, member countries consider introducing a universal basic income for citizens provided by the state.
The report also considers the legal liabilities of robots and suggests that liability should be proportionate to the actual level of instructions given to the robot and its autonomy.
"The greater a robot's learning capability or autonomy is, the lower other parties' responsibilities should be and the longer a robot's 'education' has lasted, the greater the responsibility of its 'teacher' should be," it says.
Producers or owners may, in future, be required to take out insurance cover for the damage potentially caused by their robot.
If MEPs vote in favour of the legislation, it will then go to individual governments for further debate and amendments before it becomes EU law.
The number of households made homeless due to private rented sector evictions has increased 600% since 2010.
Councils have increased spending on putting up the homeless in temporary accommodation by as much as 2,000%.
The private rented sector has been called "the major issue" causing homelessness in London.
Anne Baxendale, head of policy at Shelter said: "Cuts to welfare and a lack of genuinely affordable homes has sadly forced a growing number of Londoners into homelessness."
In London, the number of families being made statutorily homeless is at a 10-year high.
The council owes a duty to accommodate households classed as statutory homeless - local households with children or with individuals with special needs who are made "unintentionally homeless" .
Being evicted from the private rented sector is now the most common cause of statutory homelessness in London.
"It's the private sector which is the major issue," Lewisham housing councillor Damien Egan said.
London remains the priciest city to rent in the UK. A two-bedroom flat in London costs an average of £1,555 a month, according to figures obtained by the BBC.
While rents are increasing the overall benefit cap has been reduced from £26,000 to £23,000 (£442 a week) in London.
The dual impact of these changes has led to families being "priced out" of London's housing market, according to Councillor Egan.
Natalie Monsoor and her three sons have been living in a single room in a Redbridge hostel for over nine months, since she was evicted from her privately-rented flat.
"When I pulled up to the hostel I just burst into tears," she told the BBC.
"I was hoping maybe three months maximum and we would be out of there. I mean there are 47 rooms in the hostel and only two kitchens.
"Some of the families there are seven kids to one family. And we all have to share bathrooms."
"It's not easy at all, and I think any mother would understand that when you see your child suffering, that's got to be the most difficult part."
The amount of money being spent by councils placing homeless households in temporary accommodation has also grown by an average of 60% since 2010.
Responses to Freedom of Information requests found the increase had been driven by a sharp rise in the amount spent on housing families in bed and breakfasts across London.
1197% Bromley
840% Wandsworth
248% Hackney
233% Merton
213% Sutton
53% LONDON AVERAGE
Temporary Accommodation is partly financed through central government subsidy.
The amount councils receive from government to cover rent is capped at 90% of the 2011 Local Housing Allowance rate - the rate paid by government to cover housing benefit.
A study by London Councils estimated London boroughs are meeting one quarter of the cost of Temporary Accommodation services from their General Fund, leading to cuts in other services.
Hackney 1805%
Tower Hamlets 1095%
Bromley 995%
Lewisham 821%
Greenwich 604%
LONDON AVERAGE 313%
A Department for Communities and Local Government spokesman admitted "there's more we can do" to tackle homelessness.
"That's why we're spending £550 million to tackle homelessness over the course of this Parliament, as well as investing £7 billion to build the affordable homes this country needs."
Watch the full report on Inside Out London on BBC One in London at 19:30 GMT on Friday 31 March.
This division is reflected in sharply polarised attitudes towards the media.
Venezuelan journalists' unions and opposition politicians accuse the authorities of clamping down on press freedom, while the government and its supporters say that they are the victims of a "media war".
Seventy percent of television and radio stations are privately-owned, but an array of defamation laws has led them to be wary about what they broadcast.
In the past 10 years, one major television channel, RCTV, and 34 radio stations have lost their broadcasting licences.
Miguel Henrique Otero, the editor of El Nacional, the only national daily newspaper that is overtly critical of the government, left the country in May 2015 after a top government official launched a lawsuit against him.
The Venezuelan press workers' union (SNTP) says the government's hostile rhetoric against the media has led to a rise in attacks on journalists.
The media landscape has changed markedly since Mr Maduro's predecessor and mentor, Hugo Chavez, was first elected 17 years ago.
Back then, the main privately-owned TV stations were very critical of his left-wing government.
To counter what government supporters perceived as right-wing propaganda against the socialist president. they founded hundreds of community radio and television stations.
Most are partially funded through government advertising, and those working there continue to believe that the mainstream media give an unfairly negative picture of President Chavez's Bolivarian revolution.
Here, four Venezuelans on different sides of the political divide give their views on the media.
"We don't have a free press. A free press means being able to say what you want without fear of the consequences.
"The biggest independent TV station was closed by the government just because it opposed them.
"Media owners have been harassed and forced to flee the country or forced to sell shares in their companies to businessmen close to the government.
"The government has a monopoly of the paper needed to print newspapers and gives more paper to newspapers that support it.
"Meanwhile the state-owned media is subjugated to the interests of the political party in power, the Socialist Party of Venezuela. This is not a fair or balanced situation."
"The big private media companies don't show reality of the country. They only follow the lines set by the owners.
"These big media companies and media trans-nationals have been instruments of suppression by imperialism against the people.
"Our aim has been to open our microphones, our cameras, our notebooks, so the people can express themselves. This doesn't happen in the rest of the media.
"We believe in the Bolivarian revolution and we are activists in the revolution, but we try to communicate with everyone.
"When we see the government do bad things, we criticise it, of course."
"The ability to exercise freely rights such as freedom of expression and access to information has become more and more difficult in this country.
"The former president Hugo Chavez used rhetoric to criminalise the work of the media. That was echoed by governors, mayors and the current president Nicolas Maduro.
"This discourse was interpreted by the government's followers to mean that journalists were the enemy of the nation.
"The mainstream media are very manipulative, on a national and international level - especially the international media.
"We are the ones who live here, who know what's happening here. They use television, radio and newspapers to entertain while trying to find a way to destroy our politics, destroy the revolution, destroy us.
"I am a builder. Who would have thought that at the age of 50-something I would be sitting behind a microphone.
"I've become a communicator, even though I don't have any qualifications from a university.
"As revolutionaries we do criticise the government. Comandante Chavez always told us that the best way to be a revolutionary was to criticise the revolution.
"But the criticism has to be healthy."
The Premier League side outplayed their hosts in the first half, but James Ward-Prowse fired over and Cuco Martina shot wide.
Substitute Charlie Austin powered a low strike just wide after the break as Saints lacked the cutting edge to score the goal their play deserved.
Inter, who had lost their past three games, rarely threatened before Antonio Candreva lashed a shot into the top corner.
Marcelo Brozovic's late dismissal for two bookings gave Southampton renewed hope, with both Virgil van Dijk and Austin denied from point-blank range.
But the visitors could not find an equaliser as they slipped to their first defeat in the Europa League this season.
Relive Inter Milan v Southampton
Southampton, who had around 7,000 vociferous fans at the San Siro for their first match against an Italian team, will be left wondering how they lost this match.
Even though manager Claude Puel had made six changes from Sunday's win over Burnley, the visitors played the more eye-catching football only for their finishing to let them down.
There was plenty to enjoy in Saints' build-up play, including marauding 21-year-old left-back Sam McQueen, who looked like a seasoned campaigner despite making his first start for the club.
However, Jay Rodriguez, Ward-Prowse, Martina, Austin - who came on for the injured Shane Long - and Van Dijk were all guilty of not being clinical enough in front of goal.
Rodriguez thought he had scored when he headed in but the referee had blown for a foul as players jostled in the area to meet a cross.
Van Dijk and Austin had the best chances but, in the closing stages, the former sidefooted a shot too close to keeper Samir Handanovic and had a header cleared off the line, while Austin's close range effort was brilliantly blocked by the Inter stopper.
Inter Milan might be one of Italian football's biggest clubs but they have fallen on hard times and, even though this was not pretty, they badly needed these three points.
They were weakened by not being able to include summer signings Gabriel Barbosa, Joao Mario, Geoffrey Kondogbia and Stevan Jovetic in their Europa League squad this season because of Financial Fair Play regulations.
And the home side, who are struggling in 11th in Serie A, played more like the away team as they soaked up the pressure and tried to catch Southampton on the break.
They rarely threatened but, when they did, Candreva showed the ruthlessness Southampton lacked when he found the top corner with a left-foot strike from Davide Santon's low cross.
It was Inter's first win of this season's Europa League following defeats to Sparta Prague and Hapoel Beer Sheva but they remain bottom of Group K, with Southampton second.
Southampton manager Claude Puel speaking to BT Sport: "It is very hard to lose this game because we had control of the game every time.
"I think we are unlucky because we played a very good game with quality and had many, many, chances and it is a big disappointment tonight.
Southampton captain Virgil van Dijk: "It is very tough. We were the team that deserved it most. You can see the goal was their only chance and it is frustrating, we should have buried the game in the first half.
"There was only one team who deserved to win but in the end that is football."
Southampton will try to extend Manchester City's run of games without a win to five when they visit Etihad Stadium on Sunday for a 13:30 BST kick-off. Inter Milan are at Atalanta on the same day at 14:00 BST. Inter visit St Mary's in both sides' next Europa League outing on 3 November.
Match ends, Inter Milan 1, Southampton 0.
Second Half ends, Inter Milan 1, Southampton 0.
Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Offside, Southampton. Steven Davis tries a through ball, but Virgil van Dijk is caught offside.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Gary Medel.
Substitution, Inter Milan. Danilo D'Ambrosio replaces Yuto Nagatomo.
Offside, Southampton. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg tries a through ball, but Charlie Austin is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Charlie Austin (Southampton) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Yuto Nagatomo.
Attempt blocked. Virgil van Dijk (Southampton) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by James Ward-Prowse with a cross.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Ivan Perisic.
Attempt blocked. Oriol Romeu (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Virgil van Dijk.
Substitution, Inter Milan. Ivan Perisic replaces Éder.
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton).
Éder (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Gary Medel (Inter Milan) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton).
Éder (Inter Milan) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Mauro Icardi.
Attempt blocked. Maya Yoshida (Southampton) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Virgil van Dijk (Southampton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Ward-Prowse.
Substitution, Inter Milan. Cristian Ansaldi replaces Antonio Candreva.
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Éder (Inter Milan).
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Jeison Murillo.
Substitution, Southampton. Steven Davis replaces Jay Rodriguez.
Second yellow card to Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan) for a bad foul.
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan).
Charlie Austin (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yuto Nagatomo (Inter Milan).
Substitution, Southampton. Sofiane Boufal replaces Dusan Tadic.
Attempt missed. Jeison Murillo (Inter Milan) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Marcelo Brozovic with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Maya Yoshida.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Sam McQueen.
Goal! Inter Milan 1, Southampton 0. Antonio Candreva (Inter Milan) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Davide Santon with a cross.
Foul by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton).
Éder (Inter Milan) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Fourteen people - including Shia opposition party members - were given sentences of up to 10 years for their role in the pro-democracy protests.
A further 13 people were imprisoned for between five and 15 years for the kidnapping of two policemen, the Bahrain News Agency (BNA) said.
Meanwhile, the authorities have banned a planned opposition protest.
Bahrain's security chief Tarak Mubarak bin Daina said plans by the main Shia opposition al-Wefaq party to stage a human-chain protest on a key road in Manama on Wednesday would "derail public security and block the smooth flow of the traffic".
Al-Wefaq - which wants to protest over the jailing of doctors and nurses who treated anti-government demonstrators - described the ban as "illegal".
It is "an indication of constraints on the freedom of expression", the party said on its Facebook page.
A special security court on Tuesday issued 15-year sentences to nine people for the kidnap of policeman Mohammad Nayef Al Falah, and 10-year prison sentences for four people convicted of abducting policeman Saif-Allah Mohommad Ibrahim, BNA reports.
Six people received 10 years in prison and eight were given five years for offences which included organising illegal protests, broadcasting false news and rumours, and transmitting pictures abroad that would harm Bahrain's reputation.
Some of those convicted were reported to be members of the opposition Islamic Action Society (Amal), which the government planned to disband - along with al-Wefaq - until the move was criticised by the United States.
On Monday, 36 people were jailed in three separate cases of murder and attempted murder during the unrest.
Also on Monday, prison terms of between five and 15 years were imposed on 20 doctors and nurses convicted of aiding anti-government demonstrators.
The move has prompted protests from international human rights groups, the UN and medical associations in the West. Bahrain's prosecutor-general has said appeals by some of the convicted medics against their sentences will be heard on 23 October.
Pro-democracy protesters, largely drawn from Bahrain's Shia Muslim community, took to the streets earlier this year to call for the 200-year-old ruling Sunni Muslim dynasty to give up its hold on power and allow a freely elected government.
Shia Muslims make up about 70% of Bahrain's 525,000 people but say they face widespread discrimination.
Military rule was declared in March, a day before protesters were driven from Pearl Square in Manama. It was lifted in June, following hundreds of arrests and workplace purges.
More than 30 people have died since the protests began in February.
Arlene Foster is leading the Northern Ireland Assembly after Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson stepped aside over a political crisis.
She is now the only DUP minister left in Stormont's Executive after a crisis sparked by an ex-IRA man's murder.
But Sinn Féin criticised her comments as a "bigoted" throwback to the past.
The crisis has escalated following the murder of ex-IRA man Kevin McGuigan in Belfast last month and a police assessment that former IRA members may have been involved in the killing.
Mrs Foster said Mr Robinson's move and the resignations of three other DUP ministers was aimed at creating "time and space" for new political talks on the way forward for Northern Ireland's devolved political institutions.
Speaking on the BBC's The View programme, Mrs Foster said she has stayed on the executive in order to act as a "gatekeeper".
"I have been placed there as a gatekeeper to make sure that Sinn Féin and the SDLP ministers don't take actions that will damage Northern Ireland and principally, let's be honest, that damage the unionist community."
She added: "If anybody knows me and indeed knows the Democratic Unionist Party they know that I'm not going to put at risk to the people of Northern Ireland the possibility that rogue Sinn Féin or renegade SDLP ministers are going to take decisions that will harm the community in Northern Ireland."
However, speaking on the same programme, Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly said her comments were a "throwback" to the past and displayed a "very bigoted view of what the institutions are about".
"To make this attack on nationalism - because it wasn't just republicanism but on nationalism - and call ministers 'rogue ministers' is a complete nonsense," Mr Kelly said.
"She actually said that her job was - which by the way it isn't - her job was to protect unionism. Her job as a minister is actually to serve all the people."
Earlier on Thursday, the British and Irish governments expressed concern over the latest developments and called for further talks between Stormont's five main parties.
The DUP had asked Westminster to pass emergency legislation to suspend the assembly but both Prime Minister David Cameron and Secretary of State Theresa Villiers said they did not think suspension was the right action to take.
The DUP then tried to secure an adjournment of the assembly, but the motion was defeated when Sinn Féin, the Ulster Unionists and the Social Democratic and Labour Party voted against it.
The US government also called for more talks to resolve the crisis, in a statement released through former senator Gary Hart.
Mr Hart acted as a US envoy during last December's Stormont House Agreement negotiations.
He said: "Northern Ireland's achievements are the result of dialogue and responsible leadership; now is the time to re-energise the parties' commitment to implementing the Stormont House Agreement and addressing remnant paramilitary activity."
"The United States remains actively engaged and will continue to support political progress."
The Briton will compete in the 5,000m and hopes to sign off with victory in what will be his indoor finale.
"I haven't thought about it before but it will be," said Farah, 33, who plans to focus on road racing after the outdoor World Championships in August.
"If I want to hang my spikes up after this summer then that will be it, and I'll move on to the roads."
Farah is looking to improve on a seventh-place finish at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country last month.
Jamaica's 100m and 200m Olympic gold medallist Elaine Thompson and 110m hurdles world record holder Aries Merritt of the USA are among the leading names in action.
Britain's Laura Muir (1,000m), Andrew Butchart (5,000m), Jazmin Sawyers (long jump), Richard Kilty (60m) and James Dasaolu (60m) will also line up in Birmingham, but sprinter Dina Asher-Smith has been ruled out with an ankle injury and heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson has a hamstring strain.
The British athletes are preparing for next month's European Indoor Championships in Belgrade.
You can watch all the action from the Barclaycard Arena on BBC One from 13:15 GMT on Saturday, 18 February.
Chris Turner died in April aged 64, after being diagnosed with a form of dementia in 2006.
He spent nine years as a player with Posh before winning back-to-back promotions as manager in the early 1990s.
Sculptor Sean Hedges-Quinn has been commissioned and fans have so far raised £15,000 of the £75,000 cost.
One fan, Adi Moles who is involved in the fundraising campaign, said: "We want to have a large plinth, all lit up and covered in granite and very tall, because Chris Turner was a very tall man, standing at London Road.
"He'll have his arms up and we're transfixing the face he had when we won at Wembley, absolutely laughing his head off and having the time of his life."
Phil Adlam, Peterborough United press officer, said the club was "very much behind" the plan and it was a "perfect, fitting tribute" to Turner.
They will donate the 5p plastic bag charge from all sales at their shop towards the costs of the statue.
The fans are launching the fundraising campaign at two events later and on Friday.
Mr Moles does not yet have a date for the statue's provisional completion and unveiling saying he expected fundraising to be "a marathon not a sprint".
Organisers said they hope the prime minister will "lead an appropriate humanitarian response" to the crisis at a UN refugee summit next week.
The demonstration follows news that the UK is on track to resettle 20,000 refugees by 2020.
The UN says 4.5m Syrians have fled their homes during the country's war.
Groups such as Oxfam, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Amnesty International, the Refugee Council and Stop the War Coalition collaborated for the demonstration, organised by charity coalition Solidarity with Refugees.
During the march, protestors carried flags and placards, and chanted: "Theresa May, you will say, refugees are welcome here", and refugees, celebrities and religious leaders spoke at a rally in Parliament Square.
Actor and campaigner Vanessa Redgrave said at the rally: "The present government and previous governments, both Labour, coalition and Conservative, have been breaking international human rights law. We must hold them to account."
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said earlier this month that the government had received enough pledges of available accommodation from local authority housing departments for the government to meet its target to resettle 20,000 refugees under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme.
Under the scheme, the government will pay £8,500 towards housing, healthcare and other costs for each refugee in the first year, but this figure is reduced to £1,000 by the fifth year.
But Solidarity with Refugees director Ros Ereira said the current response had been slow.
"The situation is growing, it is not decreasing - it is not going away and there are people dying and we need to stop that happening," she said.
She hopes Prime Minister Theresa May will "set the tone" for her leadership and play "an important role on the global stage" at next week's UN Summit for refugees and migrants in New York, hosted by US President Barack Obama.
Refugee Kais Aldahou, 24, who came to the UK from Damascus in Syria in 2009 to study at university, said: "It is about more support, not necessarily bringing in more refugees, but to help the camps around Europe - the situations in them are pretty horrendous."
This year's UN annual report for World Refugee Day revealed the number of refugees worldwide had passed 60 million for the first time, with more than half coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia.
A former chaplain and ex-principal were jailed in January for abusing boys at the former St William's home in East Yorkshire between 1970 and 1991.
Campaigners want to know why the abuse there went unchecked for decades.
MP Hilary Benn has asked for the case to be included in the national inquiry into child sex abuse led by Alexis Jay.
Campaigner Darren Furness, who was a pupil at the care home near Market Weighton, started the petition in June. He said: "I've been fighting this for 30 years and I'll carry on fighting till the day I get answers.
"It's not about money. It's about getting justice and making sure this can never happen again.
"We want a public inquiry."
The Labour MP for Leeds said the number of signatures on the petition showed "strength of feeling" and that "lessons need to be learned".
Mr Benn wrote to the previous chairwoman of the national inquiry before her resignation, judge Dame Lowell Goddard.
In a response, the inquiry panel invited Mr Furness to submit evidence but the case would not be investigated the MP said.
Former chaplain Anthony McCallen, formerly of Whernside Crescent, Ingleby Barwick, Stockton-on-Tees, was convicted in December of 11 charges including a serious sexual offence, but was acquitted of eight others after a trial at Leeds Crown Court.
Ex-principal James Carragher, of Cearns Road, Merseyside, was jailed for nine years after he was found guilty of 21 indecent assaults and three serious sex offences. He was cleared of a further 30 charges.
The inquiry into child sex abuse in England and Wales was set up in July 2014 to investigate allegations made against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces and public and private institutions, as well as people in the public eye.
The trio from Blackwood, in Caerphilly county, will play the final day of the annual festival on Sunday, 9 July.
"It's always really special to play in Wales," said a Manics statement.
"Particularly when we are playing an event for the first time. And to play on the festival's 70th anniversary will make it even better."
The band, whose hits include A Design For Life, Motorcycle Emptiness and If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next, have just finished the 20th anniversary tour of their platinum album Everything Must Go.
Tickets for the show at the Royal International Pavilion, which is expected sell out the 5,200 capacity, go on sale on Thursday.
"This is set to be Llanfest's biggest ever show and to say we are excited about the prospect would be an understatement," said festival's musical director Eilir Owen Griffiths.
"The Manics are one of the most important bands to ever emerge from Wales.
"They have an extensive back catalogue of politically charged songs, which resonate as much now as when first released, as well as their powerful newer works."
The company behind the phone operators announced last year that it was ending the promotion because its customers' "viewing habits had evolved".
It promises to have another package to offer soon.
But there was speculation that the company couldn't reach a commercial deal with a cinema chain.
In a statement issued in December, EE said: "Orange Wednesday launched over a decade ago and at its peak was a massive success and an iconic promotion.
"After 10 great years our brand has changed and our customers' viewing habits have also evolved so it's time to move on.
"That's why the final credits will roll for Orange Wednesdays at the end of February 2015. We're working on new customer entertainment rewards and we'll provide more detail soon."
2013's box office attendance was the lowest in 20 years, according to Rentrak.
Cinemas in the UK and Ireland saw box office takings drop 2.9%, or around £34 million, from 2013 - the most significant change since 1991.
Blame, in part, was being directed at a lack of Hollywood blockbusters on screens that year.
But it was also put down to the increasing cost of a ticket and people downloading films and box sets at home on a tablet, TV or phone.
Sam Claflin, who has appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean and stars in the Hunger Games movie franchise, said the end of the deal could "potentially" have an impact on box office figures.
"As much as I've never been with Orange mobiles, it's never really affected me personally," he says.
"But as a film buff, I don't feel that I have kind of stopped going to the cinema personally.
"I think you only have to look at the outstanding British film nominations [at the Baftas] to realise that there's such a vast range of different genres that are being made now. From Under the Skin to Paddington, it's such an incredible feat.
"And I think, people are being more creative and there are really, really interesting projects out there.
"It is a shame that people aren't going to see them I suppose as much in the cinema because that's the real experience of film."
But Stephen Fry says it's not as simple as people being turned off film and brands the decline as "sad".
"I don't know whether one can factor in the figures for those who wait in order to watch Netflix, iTunes and other such downloads.
"Because I think that's really on the up enormously and the passion for cinema and for movies is the greatest I think that it's ever been.
"So the fact that it's not reflected in box office returns is sad, because I think filmmakers and everyone like to see their movies watched in proper, big, big cinemas.
"Indeed Imax and funnily enough, you get things like Game of Thrones being shown in Imax cinemas.
"It's disappointing but actually that's bound to happen but over a longer period I think. I think you'll find that cinema attendance is still pretty good."
And he's not wrong. 2014 did mark the fifth consecutive year that the film industry exceeded the £1.1 billion mark.
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Large-scale farming from before the Roman invasion suggests a high level of civilisation, archaeologists said.
The survey also revealed the route of a long-suspected Roman road between Chichester and Brighton.
It covered an area between the Arun river valley in West Sussex and Queen Elizabeth Country Park in Hampshire.
The "Lidar" survey technique uses an aircraft-mounted laser beam to scan the ground and produce a 3D model of features that survive as earthworks or structures in open land or woodland.
Images of land between Lamb Lea Woods and Charlton Forest showed that a field system already protected as a scheduled monument was just a small part of a vast swathe of later pre-historic cultivation extending under a now wooded area.
James Kenny, archaeological officer at Chichester District Council, said it suggested a civilisation closer to ancient Greece, Egypt or Rome than what is known of prehistoric Britain.
"One of our biggest findings is the discovery of a vast area farmed by pre-historic people on an astonishing scale," said Trevor Beattie, chief executive of the South Downs National Park Authority,
Mr Kenny added that the evidence raised questions about who was growing the crops, who was eating the food and where they were living.
"The scale is so large that it must have been managed, suggesting that this part of the country was being organised as a farming collective," he said.
The route of the road suggests the Romans would have headed out from their settlement at Chichester on Stane Street, the road to London, before branching east towards Arundel.
"The recognition of the 'missing link' in the Roman road west of Arundel was a highlight in a project full of exciting results," said Helen Winton, aerial investigation manager at Historic England.
The bill was defeated in a first vote on Tuesday, after a coalition party and the main opposition abstained.
A second vote is expected by the end of this week after Prime Minister Iveta Radicova's coalition struck the deal with the opposition Social Democrats.
Slovakia is the last eurozone state to vote on ratifying the fund's expansion.
It is proposed to expand the effective lending capacity of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) to 440bn euros ($600bn; £383bn).
The fund would also be empowered to buy eurozone government debt and offer credit lines to member states and to banks.
Top EU officials urged the country on Wednesday to ratify the bill swiftly.
"We call upon all parties in the Slovak parliament to rise above the positioning of short-term politics and seize the next occasion to ensure a swift adoption of the new agreement," European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said in a joint statement.
Ms Radicova failed to pass the bill on Tuesday when a junior partner in her coalition, Richard Sulik's free-market Freedom and Solidarity party, refused to back it.
By Gavin HewittBBC Europe editor
Sovereignty and the European project
Freedom and Solidarity asked why Slovakia's taxpayers should be asked to help cover the debts of richer countries.
Many Slovaks feel their country - the second poorest in the eurozone - should not have to bail out countries like Greece, correspondents say.
However, the EFSF looks almost certain to pass in the second vote after four parties reached agreement on Wednesday.
"We have reached an agreement on securing the adoption of the most important document of this period - the EU bailout fund," said Robert Fico, head of the Social Democrats.
Earlier, explaining his abstention in the first vote, which helped bring down the government, he said: "We're saying 'no' to a rightist government, but we're saying 'yes' to the rescue fund."
In return for his support, Ms Radicova's coalition agreed to hold snap elections on 10 March, one of her ministers, Mikulas Dzurinda, confirmed.
"We decided that as the first point of [Thursday's] parliamentary session, we will work on a proposal to shorten the voting period, with the goal of organising an election on 10 March," he said.
"Immediately after, tomorrow or Friday, we will debate proposals related to the EFSF."
Correspondents say Mr Fico, a former prime minister, is positioned to do well at the elections because of the unpopularity of the outgoing government's austerity measures.
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Jim Greatorex and grandson Emerson Fairclough, both from Warwickshire, got into difficulty on Saturday before Mr Cracknell's 11-year-old son raised the alarm.
Mr Cracknell's wife Beverley Turner reported that Emerson said "I'm seven. I'm too young to die" as her husband approached him in the water, .
Both grandfather and grandson left the scene uninjured.
Mr Greatorex, 67, from Stratford-upon-Avon, had gone into the water fully clothed to help Emerson when the Cracknells spotted them.
Croyde said: "I was on my body board kneeling up, I saw a man struggling and saw him saying 'my grandson's in trouble'.
"My dad was in the water next to me so he dived into the water David Hasselhoff-style and swam under the water, picked the boy up and dragged him to shore."
The 11-year-old described in an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live how he then spotted Emerson's grandfather also struggling.
He said he paddled up to him, gave him the surfboard, then swam back and told his father, who then helped Mr Greatorex back to the beach.
Ms Turner tweeted that the granddad said "that lad on that board saved my life".
She also tweeted: "You never know how your kids will respond in a crisis ... @croydecracknell was cool, quick thinking, kind and brave."
The drama unfolded on a beach in Croyde, North Devon, near the former Olympic champion's holiday home.
Mr Cracknell tweeted: "Eventful day with my little man on beach. Thankfully everyone safe, Good to be able to help & so proud of my lad."
Croyde admitted he had felt proud of himself: "It's not every day you rescue someone from drowning is it?" he said.
Reverend Barry Trayhorn told an employment tribunal he had read the verses at HMP Littlehey in Cambridgeshire in 2014.
He was told complaints were made by gay prisoners and alleges he was unfairly dismissed.
His case against the secretary of state for justice continues.
Mr Trayhorn, 51, an ordained Pentecostal Christian minister from Sandy in Bedfordshire, had been working as a gardening supervisor at the prison at Perry near St Neots.
He had been invited to lead the worship at services once a week from 2012.
He told the tribunal in Bedford, he "often focused on Christian teachings about sin and repentance".
He confirmed the Bible passage in question was 1 Corinthians Chapter 6 Verses 9-11 which includes the lines "neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor coveters, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the Kingdom of God" and he read it on 31 May 2014.
Mr Trayhorn said he heard later that a gay prisoner had complained or was upset and there was "some sort of campaign" to remove him from chapel services.
"But I fear and do not believe it is right to alter the Christian faith so as to tailor it to any modern view of sexual ethics," he told the hearing.
He said he was told he could no longer volunteer at chapel services, complaints were then also made about his gardening work and he was told to attend a disciplinary hearing in a letter which said he had made a "homophobic statement".
He was signed off work in August 2014 with stress and resigned in November saying he had been harassed because of his Christian faith and it was impossible for him to return to work.
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The Football Association has gone in-house with the choice of England's Under-21 manager in the search for stability and success following the Euro 2016 debacle, the immediate resignation of Roy Hodgson after the last-16 defeat by Iceland and Allardyce's ill-fated 67 days in charge.
Southgate's managerial experience is limited - so is he the right man to finally bring England out of the years of darkness?
Southgate is a first-timer at this elite level and his time in management is short on high points. The 46-year-old is, however, well aware of its brutal realities.
He succeeded Steve McClaren as Middlesbrough manager in 2006 and his three full seasons in control were undistinguished, finishing 12th and 13th before relegation to the Championship at the end of the 2008-09 season.
Southgate was sacked after 13 games in the Championship with the Teessiders sitting fourth and he left having won won only 36 out of 127 league games in charge.
Southgate has rebuilt his managerial career since taking over as England Under-21 coach in August 2013.
He endured a miserable Euros in 2015 when England's youngsters went out at the group stage but he was hampered by the FA's decision to omit players such as Raheem Sterling, Jack Wilshere and Ross Barkley.
He saw the other side as England won the prestigious Toulon tournament in France in May - but is this enough to warrant the top job?
Southgate is steeped in FA tradition, having had an 18-month spell as its head of elite development between January 2011 and July 2012.
He knows what the England job entails after close contact with Hodgson and Allardyce and has developed a taste for the pressures after his interim time in charge.
Sir Trevor Brooking, instrumental in bringing Southgate into the FA fold during his time as director of development, has fervently championed his cause, while ex-England captain Terry Butcher told the BBC: "Gareth is the right man for the job. He is a personable guy and he has shown he wants to learn and adapt.
"He will learn in the job and I am absolutely certain he will learn well. He will develop his own coaching prowess at international level."
And as someone who won 57 England caps between December 1995 and March 2004 and had a distinguished playing career as captain of Crystal Palace, Aston Villa and Middlesbrough, Southgate is a relatively recent former international player who has shown an ability to relate to his players, especially the younger generation England will rely on in the future.
Southgate, however, represents a low-key appointment and while qualification for the 2018 World Cup looks likely, he faces a stern examination if England reach Russia.
The media verdict:
Daniel Taylor, chief football writer for the Guardian and the Observer: "I certainly find it perplexing that a manager who was sacked by Middlesbrough, having been relegated the previous season, is considered the mandatory choice on the back of a plodding win against Malta, a pretty wretched 0-0 draw in Slovenia and then a flattering victory against one of the worst Scotland teams in years. Southgate has done reasonably well, overall, but it is difficult to feel too enthused."
John Cross, chief football writer for the Daily Mirror: "I think he's experienced, fits the mould and if you look at Joachim Low with Germany or even Spain these days, they've gone through the system without being big names. Southgate is worth a shot."
Henry Winter, chief football writer at the Times: "He is good enough. England are an average team and Southgate's record with club and Under-21s indicates an average manager but he can develop with a young squad. He has handled it well so far and is tougher than perceived."
Southgate kept a safe distance from the England job when he was mentioned as a possible caretaker after Hodgson's departure in June and it was only in September that he said he was not ready for it.
"I think with England there are one or two other things that I would want to have had experience of before I took that role," he said at that time.
It is obvious what has changed since then.
When Southgate outlined his reluctance, he was speaking from a position where Allardyce looked a safe bet for two years at least, leaving him free to gather further experience before taking over.
All that changed in the moment Allardyce was caught in a newspaper sting. What Southgate called "the ultimate" job was suddenly available with no guarantee of when it might become vacant again.
So, with Allardyce gone, is this simply a case of Southgate being last man standing and an easy, safe choice for the FA?
"We've tried the big names like Sven-Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello, the guys with amazing CVs," former England defender Danny Mills said.
"We haven't tried this one - someone who has come through with the Under-21s, who knows the players, knows their strengths.
"Tell us why he is the wrong man? Who is out there who is the right man with better qualifications to take this job on? I don't think there is anyone."
The media verdict:
Cross: "He has most definitely stumbled into this job because if the FA had appointed him in the summer after Roy and before Sam, he wouldn't have been accepted by fans or media in my opinion."
Taylor, who suggests ex-Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini would have been a credible option: "Let's be clear, he is in this position almost by default because of a lack of alternatives. If there was a great deal of choice Allardyce would never have been given the job in the first place."
Simple and difficult at the same time - win matches at major tournaments.
England have no trouble racking up victories in qualifiers. They have won 24 and drawn eight of their past 32 but in world terms they have gone backwards because they do not win when it matters.
Hodgson won all 10 Euro 2016 qualifiers yet lost in the last 16 to Iceland in Nice.
He strode a similarly comfortable path to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and yet England did not make it out of the group stage.
Capello's England were humiliated 4-1 by Germany in the last 16 in South Africa in 2010, while the side that qualified comfortably for Euro 2012 lost in their first knockout match, to Italy on penalties, under the recently appointed Hodgson.
It is a pattern Southgate is charged with changing - and he must do it by summer 2018.
He must find the answer to making the England shirt weigh less when measured by pressure and break down the psychological barrier that grips talented players when the heat is on. It has eluded more experienced managers than him.
The media verdict:
Winter: "It is simple - rid England of fear."
Cross: "Southgate is expected to qualify and then do better. I'd love to see him encourage a new generation of 19- to 25-year-olds and get them playing good football."
Taylor: "Twisting an old quote from Tommy Docherty about Scotland - he must make sure England are not back before the postcards at the next World Cup."
This is the era of the blue-chip manager, with many operating in the Premier League, including Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp, Pep Guardiola at Manchester City and ex-Italy boss Antonio Conte at Chelsea.
So is it a sign of the diminishing status of the England job that it has been handed to a man whose only experience of top-flight management ended in relegation?
Sven-Goran Eriksson quit Italian giants Lazio to take the England job in January 2001, the season after winning the Serie A title. Fabio Capello had also enjoyed coaching success, claiming four Serie A titles and the Champions League with AC Milan, winning La Liga twice in two spells at Real Madrid and the Scudetto with Roma and Juventus.
This pedigree did not prove a guarantee of success.
Southgate has no such background but he has carefully gone about developing as a manager after the Middlesbrough experience and has won praise for his work and man-management of England Under-21s.
And the FA has no recent track record of going with proven success.
Steve McClaren succeeded Eriksson after taking Middlesbrough to 14th position in the Premier League and a Uefa Cup final where they were thrashed 4-0 by Sevilla.
Hodgson took over from Capello in 2012 after guiding West Bromwich Albion to a respectable 10th league placing, while Allardyce was celebrated as England's bright future when he was appointed as a 61-year-old having pulled Sunderland away from relegation with one game left last season.
The FA is not alone in this approach.
Spain appointed Julen Lopetegui to replace the successful Vicente del Bosque in July. He had coached Spain's junior teams but was sacked by Porto in January and had been linked with Wolves.
Italy went for the veteran journeyman Giampiero Ventura to succeed Conte. The 68-year-old is highly respected but his only trophy was a third division title with Lecce in 1996 and he took Torino to 12th in Serie A last season.
So the FA may simply be following the new reality of international football by going with what it knows rather than Southgate's appointment being judged as a signal of safety and a lack of wider ambition.
The media verdict:
Cross: "It's still a big job. It pays well. It's high profile. I think Mancini and Jurgen Klinsmann would want it and, if the time was right, even maybe Arsene Wenger. The FA has wanted an Englishman. Eddie Howe will be the next England manager, in my view, but for now Southgate is the only man out there."
Winter agrees and adds: "Club jobs command more money but anybody who turns England around will get unbelievable headlines."
This is the one Nigerian president who will assume office on Friday with unprecedented goodwill across the country - even from people who did not vote for him in the presidential election held two months ago.
His pre-election albatross of being a stern disciplinarian during his first time as as military head of state in 1983 has suddenly transformed to a quality which Nigerians are yearning for in the face of the excruciating pains of mass poverty and social insecurity pervading the land.
With his inauguration, he will have achieved his long-cherished dream of becoming a democratically elected leader - having made history as the first opposition candidate to win a presidential election in Nigeria.
But he will need prayers to have the courage and wisdom to confront the huge tasks he will inherit immediately after he is sworn in.
Muhammadu Buhari profile
President Buhari's to-do list is indeed a long one.
Earlier this month, his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo, said that 110 million out of Nigeria's population of 170 million were living in "extreme poverty" while the largest chunk of the nation's wealth was going into the pockets of a small percentage of the population.
This situation has been brought about by the mindless corruption of the past six years, mainly fuelled by a cabal in the oil and gas industry.
When I walk through the streets of the commercial capital, Lagos, in the morning I pass endless groups of young men and women idling in front of houses and shops, most of them without any idea of when or if breakfast will come and what to do with themselves for the day.
They easily snap and lurch at one another in senseless fights.
You dare not try to make peace if you are not of their neighbourhood. Otherwise, they transfer the aggression to you.
Teenage prostitution and pregnancy are commonplace because the young have nothing else to do and also because the girls easily fall prey to the lure of a decent meal and gifts by men old enough to be their grandfathers.
Sola Odunfa:
"Was he not the same man who 32 years ago corralled scores of corrupt politicians into prison and forced Nigerians to imbibe the queue culture in public places, Nigerians ask?"
Naturally, the crime rate is very high.
All these are the first born of, again, corruption in high places.
Of the 110 million Nigerians suffering extreme poverty, many are young college graduates of the past seven years but who have no hope of gaining employment.
Several thousands more will join them when new sets graduate in a few months' time.
In the mainly Muslim north, many of the unemployed end up in the ranks of militant Islamist group Boko Haram which has been behind the six-year insurgency in the north-east.
Factories and other businesses are closing down at a rate which the government Office of Statistics cannot publish.
Social services hardly exist anymore in my country.
Public hospitals are short of everything - beds, drugs, nurses and doctors.
I have not had electric power in my residence in the past 10 days, like everyone else in my lucky economic situation I rely on a power generator - and I pay through the nose to fuel it.
Talking of fuel, transportation has been crippled in this Opec-member country this month because of a recent row between the government and petroleum importers over fuel subsidies.
The fuel business in Nigeria is a huge scam in which importers demand payment for cargoes which the government is convinced are never delivered - and the amount they are talking about is millions of US dollars.
Where does Mr Buhari begin to tackle Nigeria's problems?
Unfortunately my country people believe that he has the magic wand to command instant solutions and give us a better life within a few months.
He has had to come out to appeal for patience and confess that he does not have such magical powers.
Was he not the same man who 32 years ago corralled scores of corrupt politicians into prison and forced Nigerians to imbibe the queue culture in public places, Nigerians ask?
They want him to do it again - but without the horse whip.
Last season's runners-up have won only two of their six games so far ahead of Sunday's meeting with the French side.
"At the moment that's the kind of challenge we need.
"We need to look some big boys in the eye and roll over them, and we've got it in us because we've done it before," Baxter told BBC Radio Devon.
Exeter salvaged a draw with Gloucester on Saturday thanks to a late try, but leading players Jack Nowell, Don Armand, Dave Ewers and Phil Dollman are all injured.
The Chiefs have been beaten by Wasps, Saracens and Northampton this season, only winning against bottom side Bristol and Harlequins.
"At the minute Clermont will probably be rubbing their hands together, they'll be going 'Exeter look OK, but if we turn up with our a game we'll just be able to roll then over'," he added.
"I'm kind of looking forward to it, because it's all very well me telling the players to walk around with their heads up and their chests out and take responsibility and get on, but the first person that has to do that is me, and then the rest of the coaches have to follow suit, and we all have to get through it together.
"If this season ends up being a tough season for us so what, but we're going to face it like men, we're not going to run away from it."
One of the five men said they were kept shackled in a cave with little food for much of the time and their drinking water was contaminated by worms.
The men were working for a South Korean construction company and were building a road north of Mazar-e-Sharif when they were seized in December.
They arrived in Dhaka on Sunday.
One worker was shot dead and two others were released almost immediately.
The terms of their release have not been disclosed.
Correspondents say that insurgents often target government projects such as roads because they are seen to be symbols of the central government which they reject.
"When they first took us, it was winter. And they kept us in small rooms in a house. We were only allowed out once a day, at night. All we had to eat was bread," Mohammad Aminul Islam told the BBC's Bengali service on arrival in Dhaka on Sunday.
"When spring came, they took us to a mountain and they dug a cave and kept us there. We were always shackled. They gave us two litres of water each a day. There were worms in the water which we filtered before drinking."
Mr Islam said the Taliban would not say exactly why they were targeted.
"The militants used to say that, as fellow Muslims, the Bangladeshis should not be working for the Americans," he said.
The Taliban also complained that the work the team was doing in building roads was making it more difficult for the insurgents to plant roadside bombs.
Bangladesh's foreign minister said the Afghan government and the South Korean company were involved in the release.
It is not clear whether a ransom was paid.
In April, Taliban insurgents released 12 Iranian and Afghan engineers kidnapped while working in a remote area of western Afghanistan.
The men were employed on a road-building project in Farah province when they were taken by gunmen.
Local tribal elders acted as mediators with Taliban to secure their release.
A second glance reveals a bunch of solar panels stacked against the wall and a man, busy breaking them up and reassembling them in a very home-made fashion.
The end result is DIY solar kits that can recharge phones and batteries. They look makeshift but they have the potential to make a huge difference to people thousands of miles away in Kenya.
As the director of KnowYourPlanet, Mark Kragh's day job is to resell solar panels to small businesses and hobbyists.
But in February he will travel to Kenya to distribute specially-made kits he is giving away as charity, and to show local people how to make more.
For many in Africa there is little access to electricity due to mains power shortages. Infrastructure has not kept pace with the explosion in mobile phone ownership so it is not unusual for people to walk for several hours just to charge their phones.
"Often, charge points are driven by petrol or diesel generators, which are dangerous to operate and of course emit carbon dioxide and other pollutants. A daily phone charge can cost a considerable amount relative to people's wages," said Mr Kragh.
He was inspired by a chance conversation with a friend to experiment with using solar power as an alternative method to charging phones and batteries.
"The project started a few years back when my friend in Senegal asked me if I had any cheap options for solar power for Africa. I told him that PV [photovoltaics] was way too expensive and not a viable option, it required batteries and many other components and he should just forget about it.
"I kept thinking about this, could this really be true? Why could we not use a renewable energy? So I did some research and realised there was an entire community of people who already make solar panels from scrap," he said.
He was also inspired by his grandmother Dr Elisabeth Svendsen, a lifelong charity worker who founded the UK's Donkey Sanctuary.
"She passed away this year but my granny travelled in Africa for 40 years, hands-on with all the good and bad that brought with it. She made a huge impact on the local people's lives and I hope that I will be able to carry on this work in my own way," he said.
The kits he creates are made from solar panels that manufacturers have rejected.
"There are very strict rules," said Mr Kragh.
Slight chips in the corner render the panels useless for traditional solar energy use but perfect for the DIY kits Mr Kragh has designed.
He aims to make them deliberately makeshift, creating a fairly crude circuit of solar panels on plywood.
The panels also require some more sophisticated kit.
"Initially we will bring specialised materials with us such as voltage regulators, UV stable encapsulants, solar cells and PV ribbon," said Mr Kragh.
But over time he hopes to be able to source components locally.
"To start with that would be glass, LEDs, batteries, wood and metal, wires and connectors. A great part of the pilot is simply testing and trying lots of non-solar materials to see what works," he said.
"Our main concern is the intense sun which causes degradation due to the high levels of heat and UV rays," he added.
Armed with a £5,000 grant from charity World in Need, Mr Kragh aims to build at least 1,000 kits when he arrives, training local people along the way so that they can build new ones and service old ones.
The ultimate goal is to create a $1 (64p) solar charger which has at least a five year lifespan.
"We aim to train local people in these techniques to create cottage industries, giving people locally the opportunity to generate income and keep currency in the community, rather than pay European and Chinese manufacturers and distribution chains and retail networks," said Mr Kragh.
And, in case you were wondering about the drum kit in the corner of his garage - it is for letting off steam and celebrating good deals. Come March Mr Kragh will be hoping to sound out a distinctly African beat.
Queens' Lyndon Dykes was ruled offside when netting after 10 minutes.
But fellow striker Dobbie made the visitors' dominance count by netting in the 71st and 76th minutes.
The former Swansea striker volleyed home from the edge of the box and then waltzed though the defence to score his second shortly afterwards.
Queens have four games remaining this season and are six points behind fourth-placed Dundee United, who have a game in hand.
Match ends, Ayr United 0, Queen of the South 2.
Second Half ends, Ayr United 0, Queen of the South 2.
Foul by Nicky Devlin (Ayr United).
Dale Hilson (Queen of the South) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Kyle Jacobs (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Kyle Jacobs (Queen of the South).
Declan McDaid (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Daryll Meggatt.
Attempt saved. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Gary Harkins (Ayr United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Connor McManus replaces Lyndon Dykes.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Greg Fleming.
Attempt saved. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Craig Moore (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kyle Jacobs (Queen of the South).
Attempt blocked. Kyle Jacobs (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Daryll Meggatt.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Dale Hilson replaces Daniel Carmichael.
Attempt missed. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) right footed shot from long range on the left misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Daryll Meggatt (Ayr United) left footed shot from more than 35 yards is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Goal! Ayr United 0, Queen of the South 2. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Joseph Thomson.
Substitution, Ayr United. Declan McDaid replaces Alan Forrest.
Goal! Ayr United 0, Queen of the South 1. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lyndon Dykes.
Attempt saved. Lyndon Dykes (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Substitution, Ayr United. Craig McGuffie replaces Paul Cairney.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Connor Murray replaces Dom Thomas.
Attempt missed. Darren Brownlie (Queen of the South) header from very close range is just a bit too high.
Paul Cairney (Ayr United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Paul Cairney (Ayr United).
Kyle Jacobs (Queen of the South) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Attempt missed. Gary Harkins (Ayr United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Robbie Crawford (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joseph Thomson (Queen of the South).
Attempt missed. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Dom Thomas (Queen of the South) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by John Rankin.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Daniel Carmichael.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Darren Brownlie.
Children who enjoyed school PE "a lot" were more likely to feel positive than those who didn't like it.
Nearly 13,000 children were surveyed as part of a study by NatCen Social Research.
Researchers said a healthy lifestyle had a longer-term effect on well-being.
The study, funded by the Department of Health, looked at many different factors which have an impact on children's happiness or how much they worry.
It found that seven-year-old children were happiest when they got on well with siblings, had fun with family members at weekends and had parents who did not shout or smack them.
Children were more likely to feel unhappy and worried if they lived in a deprived area. There was no difference in how worried or happy they felt whether they had one parent or two.
However, when researchers looked at how healthy eating and healthy behaviour affected happiness in children, they found an inconsistent picture.
On the one hand, enjoyment of PE lessons was positively associated with child well-being, but a healthy diet was not.
For example, children who regularly ate snacks such as biscuits and cakes were just as likely to report being happy as children who did not report eating such snacks.
Well-being was lower among children who never watched television and among those who watched it the most, while well-being was higher among those who watched television, but for less than an hour a day.
The study said: "Being happier and lacking worry does not mean never having sweets, snacks and television. In fact, there was some indication in the results that higher well-being was more likely when these were enjoyed in moderation."
The influence of a healthy diet and plenty of exercise on well-being was "likely to be more complex and longer term", it added.
It said establishing positive health behaviours at an early age could lead to healthier outcomes in later life, such as a normal BMI - body mass index - and fewer chronic health conditions, which could contribute to higher well-being at that stage of life.
The data for the study was gathered from the Millennium Cohort Study of 12,877 children, and their parents, born in 2000 and surveyed in 2008.
In a separate survey of 11- to 15-year-olds' well-being, which forms party of the same study, researchers found a similar relationship between some aspects of healthy eating and happiness.
Young people who reported eating fast food or takeaways at least once a week reported feeling happier on average, compared with those who ate fast food only occasionally or never.
But it is possible that eating this type of food as a family or social activity can have a positive impact on children and young people's well-being.
Jenny Chanfreau, senior researcher at NatCen Social Research, said there were still many strong arguments for promoting healthy behaviour among children.
"Not least that behaviours learnt early in life may continue into adulthood and, unlike among children, adults who eat more fruit and vegetables do have higher levels of well-being."
The study's finding that children who said that they liked PE "a lot" had much higher odds of happiness than children who said that they like it "a little" or "not at all" could be important for primary schools, it said.
"Making PE lessons playful and fun is both good for child well-being and may contribute to establishing positive health behaviours for later in life," the study said.
The motion on Jim Logue's position was rejected by 40 votes to 33.
A call for the council to publish internal audit investigation reports was defeated by the same margin.
Mr Logue, a Labour councillor, has faced criticism over the management of subsidiary companies of North Lanarkshire Leisure.
Police Scotland has started an investigation.
North Lanarkshire Council deputy leader Paul Kelly said: "The council decided today that the leader should do what he has been doing since this smear campaign started: focus on what's important to the people of North Lanarkshire.
"Councillor Logue has spent his political career fighting against precisely the kind of practices he is now falsely accused of being involved in."
But SNP leader David Stocks said: "We have put our case to the council on behalf of the public and the council has made its decision.
"The police must now be allowed to carry out their investigation without hindrance and we will not be making further comment on this issue until the police release their findings."
It will allow their customers to pay for goods or services in shops or online without the need for cash or a credit card.
The firm behind the tech - Vocalink - suggests it is more secure than alternatives since a user's bank details are not shared.
But other mobile wallet products have had mixed fortunes in the UK.
By Simon GompertzPersonal finance correspondent, BBC News
The fact that leading banks have committed themselves to Zapp means that it is likely to be a serious contender in the race to manage our cyber-wallets.
Those same banks could transfer their favours to rival systems, though, depending on which ones shoppers decide are most convenient and safe.
The banks themselves are working on a service customers can use to pay friends or small traders using just their mobile phone numbers.
Zapp looks like it might be most useful for online shopping, as a competitor for PayPal.
And it will try to make inroads into the "tap or wave" market, where people can pay by holding a card or device close to the terminal in the shop.
The terminals are a potential limiting factor in this revolution.
Shops and banks have to be persuaded that it is worth changing them, to be able to handle the new methods of paying.
Telefonica announced last week that it was shutting down its O2 Wallet service just 18 months after it launched. The firm had required members to transfer funds into its app before using it.
The firm said it now wanted to find "better ways" to make mobile payments.
Barclays Bank continues to offer Pingit - an app that allows users to link their bank accounts to their mobile numbers in order to transfer funds to each other and a selection of retailers.
PayPal also offers an app that allows consumers to make and receive digital payments, but requires them to provide it with their bank or credit card details. Orange's Quick Tap and Moneto are other examples of phone-based payment systems.
One analyst suggested that the fact Zapp would be integrated into existing banking apps - meaning users would only need to accept the relevant terms and conditions to start using it - should give the service an advantage.
"We carried out a survey of 15,000 consumers across 15 markets including the UK and one of the questions we asked was, 'Who would you trust most to handle mobile payments?'" said Eden Zoller from the telecoms consultancy Ovum.
"Most said banks and financial companies. So, it's pretty smart for a payment service provider to align itself very closely to these organisation and integrate itself into their existing apps."
HSBC, First Direct, Nationwide, Santander and Metro Bank are the first lenders to announce they will adopt Zapp ahead of its launch, which is planned for the autumn.
Consumers will be able to use it in a variety of ways:
In each case, to complete the payment the smart device owner will need only to tap a button in the banking app.
"We will be the only payment method where at the point of sale the customer can see the real-time balance of their accounts," Zapp's chief executive Peter Keenan told the BBC.
"This allows them to say, 'I've got this much money in my account, shall I go ahead and buy this product or not?'
"And because they are using a smartphone, it allows them to keep a record of all their spending and purchases in one device."
He added that the firm's range of partners should reassure retailers weighing up the cost of installing the necessary equipment.
In addition to the banks, Vocalink has also struck deals with several leading payment processors used by British stores. These firms will pay Vocalink a fee each time Zapp is used.
But Ms Zoller said the company needed to convince other banks and the wider public of the service's merits if it was to fulfil its potential.
"Digital wallets can be quite a difficult proposition for consumers to get their head around," she said.
"What we've seen in other cases is that consumers may look at and even try them, but they have not been convinced they provide real additional value or convenience beyond contactless cards or even cash."
Both attacks happened at the Midlands Prison in County Laois on Sunday, in a wing that houses sex offenders.
One officer sustained a knife wound to his back as he tried to protect a prisoner who was being attacked.
An assistant chief prison officer was later kicked a number of times by another inmate when senior officers began to investigate the first attack.
Both injured officers were taken to hospital for treatment. The assistant chief prison officer is thought to have sustained a broken ankle in the attack.
Midlands Prison is one of two jails within the Portlaoise Prison campus.
It is a closed, medium-security prison for men that can house almost 300 inmates.
The Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ, said police and the Irish Prison Service have begun investigations into the attacks.
The glorious weather was one reason for the high 80% turnout. Another was that Dutch voters realised the importance of this election.
The result means everything can stay the same, but the reality is far more fragmented and the mainstream parties would be foolish to ignore it.
The diplomatic stand-off with Turkey presented centre-right leader Mark Rutte with an electoral dream and provided a platform to project his prime ministerial calm across the country.
His victory was decisive and yet he lost a quarter of his seats in parliament. The leader of the EU's sixth largest economy defeated Geert Wilders' Freedom party with "Wilders-lite" policies to woo back those flirting with the idea of voting for the populists.
The result appears to contradict suggestions that the EU is falling apart, with significant successes for the pro-EU Green-Left and D66. Eyes will turn next to voters in France and Germany to see if that is true.
A photo of the BBC interviewing the earnest young leader of the Green-Left party was widely shared on social media.
Jesse Klaver's optimistic grassroots campaign has done what Mr Wilders had wanted - inspired a movement beyond Dutch borders.
The man nicknamed "Jessiah" preaches a different brand of populism: "We are the opposite of Wilders, he is hate and we are love," he told me while being swamped by a sea of selfie-snapping schoolgirls.
Labour, traditionally the biggest party on the left, had been the junior party in Mr Rutte's budget-cutting coalition and became the biggest loser on the night.
Supporters said they had sold out on their principles and they paid the ultimate price at the polls. Jesse Klaver is aware of the risks involved in joining a coalition dominated by right-of-centre parties.
Geert Wilders didn't perform as well as the polls predicted. But he came second and is claiming a win.
Numerous people from Alfred, trundling a suitcase over the cobbles outside parliament, to the tipsy, bright-eyed students twirling inside Amsterdam's "Milky Way" music venue, referred a jibe by Mark Rutte during a head-to-head debate with his populist rival on Monday. "There is a difference between tweeting from your sofa and running a country," he said. The effect was to characterise his main rival as a Twitter troll.
Yet more than a million voters chose Mr Wilders' anti-Islam, anti-EU party, which wants to implement policies that would undermine the Dutch constitution.
Mr Rutte must look at the state of the country and wonder what has made people so disillusioned, or so inspired, that they are prepared to place their faith in a man who runs a Twitter account rather than a traditional political party.
In a campaign dominated by concepts of culture, identity and integration, Geert Wilders succeeded in shaping the debate.
The result suggests a seed has been planned on both sides of the political spectrum.
The next challenge for Mr Rutte is to form a coalition.
In 2006, she was 15 when a man splashed acid on her face because she spurned his advances.
She suffered terrible disfigurements but refused to give up, and filed a case in the Supreme Court seeking tougher regulation of acid sales and harsher punishment for attackers.
"Tomorrow is going to be beautiful," she said on Thursday after the court ordered the government to make acid attacks a "non-bailable offence" and also regulate its sales.
"It has been a seven-year-long struggle for her. At an age when most teenagers juggled school and co-curricular activities, Ms Laxmi was forced to stay indoors, with doctors and hospitals taking up all her time," says The Times of India.
"It is because of the efforts of Laxmi that the plight and struggle of acid victim has come to the fore," says the Daily Bhaskar website.
Meanwhile, newspapers have urged the government to think "out of the box" to ensure better delivery of free Mid-Day meals at state-run schools after 23 students died from eating a contaminated lunch in the eastern state of Bihar.
The Mid-Day meal scheme was started to provide free food for millions of students to combat hunger and boost school attendance, but it often suffers poor hygiene.
The Times of India says the government needs to "follow up the inquiry it has announced into the tragedy with stringent punishment for all those responsible, sending the signal that there are consequences for apathy and neglect".
"There are ways and ways of fixing the system... The government should do some out-of-the-box thinking and show that it really means business when it comes to nutrition for children," says the Hindustan Times.
In another ruling, the Supreme Court has asked India's medicine watchdog to abandon the idea of conducting a single nationwide test for those seeking admission in medical colleges.
The court said that state governments and private colleges should conduct their own entrance examinations because the "one-nation, one-test" proposal "interfered with the rights of private, minority and linguistic institutions to admit students", The Indian Express reports.
Meanwhile, the traffic police in Delhi say they ignore "minor traffic violations" such as "playing loud music in the car or smoking while driving", because they do not have the resources to "prosecute motorists for every wrong", the Hindustan Times reports.
"Our prime focus is to prosecute motorists for violations that make them vulnerable to road accidents," the Hindustan Times quotes senior police official Anil Shukla as saying.
Two Air India pilots have been suspended for allowing a movie actress to enter the cockpit during a domestic flight in violation of safety norms, the Deccan Herald reports.
In sports, cricketer Harbhajan Singh is proving to be a man of many talents after recording a music album with Punjabi singer Lakhwinder Lucky, the Hindustan Times reports.
The cricketer, who has 100 Tests and 413 wickets to his name, is seen on the album cover posing as Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan standing in lush green fields with arms outstretched.
Staying with cricket, promising bowler Pradeep Sangwan has failed a random dope test conducted during the Indian Premier League tournament in April, the DNA newspaper reports.
And finally, in a story of grit and hope, 18-year-old boxer Manish Solanki has defied all odds to make an impressive comeback after a motorbike accident in 2011 nearly ended his career.
Solanki recently won a gold medal at the Golden Glove of Vojvodina - an international youth boxing tournament in Serbia - after being on bed rest for almost six months, The Indian Express reports.
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It was also hit by a fall in revenue from trading and investment banking.
Net profit fell to $5.52bn (£3.87bn) in the three months to the end of March from $5.91bn a year earlier.
The bank's provisions for loan losses nearly doubled to $1.8bn in the first quarter, from $959m in the same quarter last year.
US shale oil companies have come under increasing pressure in the past year as the price of oil has plummeted.
That has forced banks to raise the money they set aside to cover the possible failure of energy firms.
In February, JP Morgan said it would set aside an additional $500m (£357m) to cover potential losses from its exposure to the oil and gas sector.
The bank has now set aside a further $713m to cover potential losses from oil and gas and commodities firms.
Of that total, $529m covers loans to oil and gas firms and $162m is allocated for loans to metals and mining firms.
The bank said total revenue fell 3% to $24.08bn.
Other factors are also hurting the banking industry including the low interest rate environment, and a slowdown in global growth, particularly in emerging markets.
Banks also say that the rising cost of regulation and requirements to hold more funds in reserve are hampering profit growth.
Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan's chairman and chief executive, admitted "challenging markets" had "impacted the industry".
"We maintained our leadership positions and market share in the corporate and investment bank and asset management, reflecting the strength of our platform. Even in a challenging environment, clients continue to turn to us in the global markets and we saw positive net long-term asset flows in asset management, " he added.
JP Morgan is the first US bank to report quarterly results.
Bank of America and Wells Fargo, the second and third-largest US banks after JP Morgan, report on Thursday.
The Pilgrims staged a late rally in vain after Carlisle had dominated for the first hour, with a man of the match display from Lambe as the home side held out well in injury time against the side that did the league double against them last season.
Carlisle's brisk opening had Plymouth on the back foot and Danny Grainger, finding space to come forward on the left, fizzed one 30-yard shot narrowly wide of Luke McCormick's left-hand post.
The defender was in action again when crossing accurately for Michael Raynes to direct a header just over from six yards.
Carlisle went ahead in the 37th minute when Plymouth's defence failed to clear another dangerous Grainger centre and Lambe drilled home a low right-footed shot from 15 yards for his second league goal of the season.
A pacey run and cross by Lambe almost set up Shaun Miller as Carlisle attempted to consolidate their superiority after the break.
Plymouth came more into the game in the later stages and ex-Carlisle loanee Jake Jervis, on as a substitute, might have done better with a 75th-minute header which flashed over the bar.
Grainger then came to the home side's rescue with a goalline clearance when Gary Miller looked sure to equalise for Pilgrims.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Carlisle United 1, Plymouth Argyle 0.
Second Half ends, Carlisle United 1, Plymouth Argyle 0.
Michael Jones (Carlisle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle).
Corner, Carlisle United. Conceded by Yann Songo'o.
Corner, Carlisle United. Conceded by Luke McCormick.
Connor Smith (Plymouth Argyle) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jamie Devitt (Carlisle United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Connor Smith (Plymouth Argyle).
Foul by Luke Joyce (Carlisle United).
Ryan Donaldson (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Tom Miller (Carlisle United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Connor Smith (Plymouth Argyle).
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Nicky Adams.
Attempt blocked. Gary Miller (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Carlisle United. Jason Kennedy replaces Reggie Lambe.
Danny Grainger (Carlisle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle).
Attempt blocked. Jabo Ibehre (Carlisle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Carlisle United. Conceded by Yann Songo'o.
Attempt missed. Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Reggie Lambe.
Substitution, Carlisle United. Jamie Devitt replaces Charlie Wyke.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Ryan Donaldson replaces Oscar Threlkeld.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Jake Jervis replaces David Goodwillie.
Substitution, Carlisle United. Jabo Ibehre replaces Shaun Miller.
Foul by Shaun Miller (Carlisle United).
Yann Songo'o (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Danny Grainger (Carlisle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Grainger (Carlisle United).
Foul by Shaun Miller (Carlisle United).
Gary Miller (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Danny Grainger (Carlisle United).
James Spencer (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Reggie Lambe (Carlisle United).
Nauris Bulvitis (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Danny Grainger (Carlisle United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Spencer (Plymouth Argyle).
The overloaded boat had been intercepted by police and was being escorted to shore when it sank abruptly just 150m (500ft) off the coast of Providenciales.
Thirty-two people were rescued.
While officials did not reveal their nationality, local media reported the victims were from Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
Those rescued are being held on suspicion of trying to enter the British Overseas Territory illegally.
Accidents involving overloaded boats carrying migrants from Haiti are not uncommon in the Caribbean.
In November, about 30 people died when their vessel sank off the Bahamas.
And in 2009, US Coast Guard officials called off their search for about 70 migrants from Haiti whose boat also capsized off the Turks and Caicos.
The attack is said to have taken place as the child was cycling towards a metro station with her mother.
The girl was grabbed from behind and killed with a cleaver. The attacker was wrestled to the ground by passers-by.
Police told the Taiwanese Central News Agency (CNA) that he had a history of mental illness.
The mother told CNA that her daughter had been unable to ride her bike on to a pavement and she thought the man was coming to help her. Instead he began attacking her.
"I saw the suspect slashing my daughter with a cleaver. I immediately grabbed him but I could not pull him away."
She said she screamed for help and people rushed to pin the man down until police arrived.
An angry crowd later gathered outside the police station where the man - named only as Wang, 33 - had been taken, CNA reported.
He had a record of drug abuse and had been treated for mental illness, the agency added.
Johnston, which owns The Scotsman and more than 200 other titles, said the deal would create the UK's fourth largest print publisher with more than 600,000 paid copies a day.
The i newspaper is part of the group that publishes The Independent.
It is controlled by Russian tycoon Alexander Lebedev and his son Evgeny.
The i became Britain's first new daily national newspaper in nearly 25 years when it launched in 2010 with a cover price of 20p.
The talks come at a time when the printed media is struggling in the face of falling advertising revenues as customers move to digital platforms.
The sale of the i newspaper could raise questions about the future of The Independent, according to analyst Douglas McCabe from media research firm Enders.
He said: "One's instinct is that the Independent could close after 30 years of existence.
"It is very difficult to disentangle the i and The Independent because there is a lot of crossover between them both journalistically and commercially. If you hive off one of them, it poses risks for the future of the other."
In announcing the talks, Edinburgh-based Johnston said: "The board of Johnston Press plc notes the recent media speculation and confirms that it is in late stage discussions with Independent Print Limited (IPL) for the potential acquisition of the business and certain assets of the i.
"There can be no certainty that the discussions between the company and IPL will lead to any definitive agreement concerning the possible acquisition or as to the final terms of any such agreement.
"Completion of the acquisition would be subject to the approval of shareholders of the company.
"The consideration for the proposed acquisition is likely to be £24m, to be provided from the group's existing cash resources."
"In the year ended 30 September 2015, the i had unaudited operating profit of £5.2m."
IPL's parent company, ESI Media, confirmed that talks with Johnston were taking place but added that no decision had yet been made.
Group chief executive Steve Auckland said in a statement: "ESI Media remains committed to our brands, building on our fast growing global footprint, whilst cementing our place as the most important destination for audiences in the capital."
Johnston Press recently revealed plans to cut editorial jobs across its operations in the UK as part of a bid to reduce costs following a decline in revenue.
Shares in the publisher rose earlier this month after it said it expected a major reduction in its pension scheme deficit.
Jasmine Botting said Darren Turk - found hanged at his Etchingham home in June - was an innocent "gentle giant".
He was convicted of historical abuse after his death in what is thought to be the first time a dead man has been convicted of a crime in England.
East Sussex senior coroner Alan Craze concluded Turk took his own life.
After the hearing, Mrs Botting said her son wrote in his last letter: "I cannot go to prison for something I haven't done."
Adding that the family were waiting to hear whether they could appeal against Turk's convictions, she said: "It was definitely a witch hunt. He couldn't believe someone could say those awful things about him."
Turk, 54, was accused of offences against boys aged 11 to 15 between 1996 and 2002 at Frewen College, Northiam, where he was a member of care staff and later head of care at the school, but not a teacher.
The charges did not involve any staff or pupils currently at the school.
After Turk died, a Lewes Crown Court jury convicted him of 10 counts and cleared him of six counts.
The inquest heard he had been prescribed anti-depressants before his body was found at his home in Fontridge Lane by his stepfather Eric Botting.
Post-mortem tests gave the cause of death as hanging and toxicology tests found he had 74mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood, described by the coroner as "not a huge amount".
A plastic box labelled "Mum and Dad" contained letters of a suicidal nature, the inquest heard.
Mr Craze said: "The letters make it abundantly clear what he was doing and why he was doing it."
In a statement, the family said: "An innocent man has been hounded to his death by a malicious campaign with no justification whatsoever.
"Darren was one of the gentlest, loveable and caring people you could ever meet."
He was flown to Manchester from Spain on Saturday after his condition improved enough to allow him to travel.
The Mirror reported that Healy was taken ill almost a month ago and had been fighting for his life.
An ITV spokesman said the 64-year-old was "feeling much better" and that filming of the show had been "adjusted to accommodate Tim's absence".
It is understood his former wife Denise Welch flew to Spain at one point to visit him in hospital, where his wife Joan has been by his side.
Healy, who was born in Newcastle and found fame in the 1980s' show Auf Wiedersehen Pet, has played the cross-dressing character Les/Lesley in Benidorm since 2010.
The ITV spokesman, who did not confirm the nature of Healy's illness, said the show's team were "currently mid-way through filming the new series", which will air in 2017.
He added that "all the Benidorm cast and crew wish [Tim] a healthy recovery in his own time".
In an essay published on its website quoting "careful estimates", the church said the wives included a 14-year-old and others who were already married.
The Mormon church banned polygamy in 1890 and now excommunicates anyone who practises it.
The church has previously sought to portray Smith as loyal to his first wife Emma.
However, this is not the first time that the church has admitted his polygamy, as previously reported here.
The essay, entitled Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo, said: "Joseph married many additional wives and authorised other Latter-day Saints to practise plural marriage."
It said "plural marriage was difficult for all involved"; for Emma it was an "excruciating ordeal".
Multiple marriage and the Mormons
Most of the women were aged between 20 and 40 when Smith married them, the essay added.
The youngest was Helen Mar Kimball, a daughter of two close friends, who he married "several months before her 15th birthday".
It is likely Joseph Smith - who is considered a prophet - did not have sexual relations with all of his wives, as some were "sealed" to him only for the next life, according to the essay.
The Utah-based Mormon religion, officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, boasts more than 15 million members worldwide.
Polygamy was widely practised by men in the church from the mid-to-late 19th Century, but the revelations about Joseph Smith have shocked followers.
Emily Jensen, a blogger and editor in Farmington, Utah, told the New York Times that members had been saying on social media: "This is not the church I grew up with, this is not the Joseph Smith I love."
What do Mormons believe?
While the practice of polygamy was dropped in 1890, the concept remains in the afterlife. A man can be married or "sealed" to more than one woman after death, but not the other way around.
Church leaders reportedly said the essay was part of an attempt to be truthful and transparent with followers.
It is among a series of essays posted on the Mormon church's website in the past year.
They address topics such as the ban on black men from the priesthood, which was lifted in 1978, and accounts of how Smith translated the Book of Mormon, the church's sacred scripture.
The object, measured to be almost a kilometre wide, came within five times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Known as 2014 JO25, the asteroid is the biggest such space rock to skim our world since 2004.
Astronomers say the best opportunity to view the rock will come in the dark hours of Wednesday night.
Radar imagery using Nasa's 70m (230 ft) antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California reveal a peanut-shaped asteroid that rotates about once every five hours.
The asteroid passed Earth at a distance of 1.8 million km (1.1 million miles) at 13:24 BST on Wednesday, 19 April.
The next known encounter of an asteroid of about this size will occur in 2027 when the 800m-wide (half-mile-wide) asteroid 1999 AN10 will fly by at one lunar distance, about 380,000 km (236,000 miles).
On Friday, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) voted to back the other leading contender, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain.
However, the 54 African federations will vote separately in the election to decide Sepp Blatter's successor in Zurich on 26 February.
"We are supporting Gianni Infantino for the Fifa presidency," said South Sudan football chief Chabur Goc Alei.
Chabur said Infantino, the preferred candidate of Fifa vice-president and former Manchester United chief executive David Gill, had a better project "for our federation, for Africa and the world".
He said he expects more African nations to support Infantino, general secretary of Uefa, who became the confederations' candidate when president Michel Platini was prevented from taking part over the payment scandal that saw him banned from football for eight years.
In addition to Sheikh Salman, Infantino is standing against South African businessman Tokyo Sexwale, former Fifa assistant secretary general Jerome Champagne and Jordan's Fifa executive committee member Prince Ali bin al-Hussein.
Africa is the continent with most votes. Europe has 53, Asia, 46, Concacaf (North, Central American and Caribbean), 35, Oceania, 11, and the Infantino-supporting Conmebol (South America), 10.
The 60-year-old was found with multiple stab wounds at a property in Sunny Bank Road, Helmshore at 22:40 GMT on Friday after concerns were raised for her welfare.
She is believed to be Sadie Hartley, Lancashire Police said. A formal identification is yet to take place.
No arrests have been made.
Ms Hartley was last seen at a conference in Manchester on Thursday and is believed to have returned home, police said.
Det Supt Andy Murphy said: "We have a large team of detectives dedicated to following all lines of enquiry.
"Specialist officers are supporting Sadie's family at this difficult time."
A post-mortem examination is due to take place and a police cordon remains at the scene.
Anyone with information is urged to call Lancashire Police on 101 or Crimestoppers.
Gold for cyclist Katie Archibald as part of Great Britain's women's team pursuit quartet and silver for swimmer Duncan Scott in the men's 4x100m medley relay on Saturday brought the Scots' medal tally to 10.
That surpassed the previous best of eight from the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, and justified the pre-Games prediction of Mike Whittingham, performance director for national agency Sportscotland, that "we can get 10".
Two more medals followed on Sunday when Andy Murray beat Juan Martin del Potro to retain his men's singles tennis title from 2012, and cyclist Callum Skinner took silver behind GB team-mate Jason Kenny in the men's sprint final.
That brought the Scottish tally to 12, including four golds.
One more medal in the final week of the Games would equal Scotland's best ever tally of 13 (including seven gold) that they contributed to Team GB's haul of 65 at London 2012.
There are 50 Scots - the largest ever contingent in a Great Britain team for an overseas Olympics, surpassing the previous record of 31 in Beijing in 2008 - competing in 15 of the 42 sports in Rio.
Heather Stanning (Rowing, women's pair).
Gordonstoun-educated Stanning, who lives in Lossiemouth, and partner Helen Glover were unbeaten in the women's pair since 2011, and led the final from start to finish to successfully defend their Olympic title.
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Callum Skinner (Cycling, team sprint)
Glasgow-born Skinner, 23, who started cycling at Meadowbank velodrome when his family moved to Edinburgh, was under pressure to justify his place in the men's sprint team but claimed a superb gold alongside Philip Hindes and Jason Kenny.
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Katie Archibald (Cycling, team pursuit)
Archibald, 22, from Milngavie, near Glasgow, joined Laura Trott, Joanna Rowsell-Shand and Elinor Barker to set a new world record as they beat the United States in the final.
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Andy Murray (Tennis, men's singles)
The two-time Wimbledon champion, 29, completed another memorable double when he became the first tennis player to win two Olympic singles titles with a thrilling four-set victory over Argentine Juan Martin del Potro.
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Stephen Milne, Duncan Scott, Dan Wallace, Robbie Renwick (Swimming, 4 x 200m freestyle relay)
Milne, 22, from the Perth City Swim Club, Edinburgh-born Wallace, 23, a member of the Warrender Baths Club, 19-year-old Scott and University of Stirling team-mate Renwick, 28 - who swam in the heat before James Guy took over for the final - finished strongly to claim silver behind the United States.
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David Florence (Canoeing - C2 double)
Aberdonian Florence, 34, and partner Richard Hounslow had to settle for silver for the second successive Games in the canoe double, a third for Florence after a C1 silver in Beijing in 2008.
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Mark Bennett & Mark Robertson (Rugby sevens)
Glasgow centre Bennett, 23, and Scotland sevens specialist Robertson, 31, both played key roles in a GB squad that squeezed past Japan and New Zealand in tense pool games before even tighter knock-out matches against Argentina and South Africa, only to be beaten 43-7 by favourites Fiji in the final.
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Katherine Grainger (Rowing, double sculls)
Glasgow-born Grainger, 40, became Britain's most decorated female Olympian by winning a fourth Olympics silver medal with Victoria Thornley in the double sculls, four years after striking gold in London.
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Polly Swann & Karen Bennett (Rowing, women's eight)
Edinburgh-born Bennett, 27, and 28-year-old Swann, raised and educated in the Scottish capital, helped Britain win a first Olympic medal in the women's eight, alongside Katie Greves, Melanie Wilson, Frances Houghton, Jessica Eddie, Olivia Carnegie-Brown and Zoe Lee.
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Duncan Scott (Swimming, 4x100m medley relay)
The Glasgow-born 19-year-old won his second silver of the Games, joining Adam Peaty, James Guy and Chris Walker-Hebborn in helping Britain to a sixth medal in the pool.
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Callum Skinner (Cycling, men's sprint)
The 23-year-old, already dubbed 'the new Chris Hoy' in some quarters, cemented his burgeoning reputation by reaching the final of the individual sprint, having already won gold in the team event, but had to play second fiddle to more experienced GB team-mate Jason Kenny.
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Sally Conway (Judo, women's -70kg)
Conway, 29, who won bronze for Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and trains at Judo Scotland's Edinburgh headquarters in Ratho, scored a single yuko to beat Austria's Bernadette Graf in the bronze medal match, after earlier beating world champion Gevrise Emane.
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The 28-year-old had been scheduled to join up with Yorkshire at the end of May but suffered the injury playing for Mumbai Indians against Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League.
Finch scored 291 runs in five County Championship games for Yorkshire last summer.
Meanwhile, seamer Ryan Sidebottom is likely to be out for six weeks.
The 37-year-old injured his calf in the opening victory over Worcestershire last week.
"It is disappointing news for Aaron and for us. We were hoping he would be with us in May, but that is not going to happen," said director of cricket Martyn Moxon.
"Plans are in place to fill the void that Aaron will leave. We hope we can get this sorted sooner rather than later, and remain confident we'll find a replacement for the County Championship and the T20 Blast."
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has served BP with an improvement notice following the incident on the Etap on 1 October last year.
BP said the leak was spotted and quickly stopped after a re-start following maintenance.
The HSE says BP failed to take appropriate measures to control maintenance activities.
Wednesday's demonstration was the first public glimpse of Hyperloop, a system that could send people and cargo through tubes at the speed of sound.
Executives hope in five years' time people will be able to travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes.
"It's real. It's happening now," Hyperloop CEO Rob Lloyd said.
Tesla co-founder Elon Musk first pitched the idea in 2013, urging others to take up the proposals as he and his company developed electric cars and solar energy technology.
The technology uses levitating pods that move through a low-friction environment with electricity and magnets. The pods are designed to travel at more than 700 mph (1,120km/h).
Hyperloop hopes to start moving cargo by 2019 and people by 2021. However, huge logistical and technological hurdles remain.
The plan has detractors including James Moore, director of the University of Southern California's Transportation Engineering Program.
"I would certainly not say nothing will come of Hyperloop technology," Mr Moore told the Associated Press. "But I doubt this specific piece of technology will have a dramatic effect on how we move people and goods in the near term."
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McGrath Brothers Engineering Group specialised in metalwork.
BBC News NI's economics and business editor, John Campbell, gave more details on the redundancies to BBC Newsline's Donna Traynor.
Glasgow Caledonian University has spent £9.6m on an American offshoot that has struggled to generate revenue.
Three years after opening, GCU New York is still unable to enrol any degree students because it does not yet have a licence.
A union convener said the campus should be closed. But university management insisted it will eventually pay off.
At the moment, Glasgow Caledonian University has financial problems.
BBC Scotland has learned that it has recorded a deficit of almost £2.7m for the 2015/16 financial year - the first time it has gone into the red for at least nine years.
This figure is expected to be confirmed when the university publishes its annual financial statement.
It is understood that it will blame a drop in the number of international students because of "toughened changes to the student visa regime".
In the document, GCU's principal and vice-chancellor, Prof Pamela Gillies, is expected to describe "a downturn in the attractiveness of the UK as a destination for international students".
But union officials at GCU argued this explanation ignored the millions of pounds spent on the loss-making New York campus.
Without that burden, they believed the university would still have an overall surplus.
Union convener at GCU, Dr Nick McKerrell said: "I'd like university management to hold their hands up and say 'look we made a mistake, this was not a venture that was going to succeed.'"
GCU New York is funded by a loan from the main university of which £5.6m had been drawn down by the end of the 2014-15 financial year.
That figure rose by almost £4m to £9.6m over 2015-16.
The university has always said the project is entirely funded from its own resources and not from public money.
Professor James Miller, deputy vice-chancellor of GCU, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that the university had enjoyed a healthy balance sheet since 2007.
He said: "Over the past nine years Glasgow Caledonian University has made surpluses and that has allowed us to make the investments that we make, not just in our transnational and international ventures but also in relation to the investments that we make here in Glasgow.
"And the £9.6m that was identified for New York is dwarfed entirely by the £32m that we have recently spent in the heart of Glasgow campus, that we've undertaken and completed, so it is a little simplistic to suggest that because we are investing money in New York that we wouldn't have run this deficit this year."
Prof Miller insisted that the New York campus would turn out to be a productive investment but acknowledged delays in admitting students had been frustrating.
He added: "Of course we are slightly frustrated at the fact that we don't have our licence yet. That sits with the New York State Education Department.
"We are the first university to have gone through this process so that's why it's probably taking longer than we were initially led to believe was the case. But we continue to work with the NYSED."
In the meantime, the campus in lower Manhattan is being hired out as a venue to generate some income.
Last weekend it was used by the model Julia Restoin-Roitfeld for what was publicised as a Le Marche Bleu holiday pop-up shop.
It appears to have been designed to promote a French vodka brand.
University flags and logos were removed for the occasion.
Union convener Dr McKerrell said: "We are not a pop-up shop, we are a university of higher education. We shouldn't be selling foie gras, caviar and Champagne to the wealthy of Manhattan.
"We are a higher education institution. To do such a thing demeans us academically, and I think we need to look at why we have not got the licence and how we can get out of this without losing more money for staff at Glasgow."
The venue's website suggests it has previously been used by Nike and Banana Republic and for an art exhibition.
GCU New York has also generated some money by offering short non-degree courses to businesses.
The university sees internationalisation as a key to its future success.
The New York State Education Department said "no decision has been made" on Glasgow Caledonian's application for degree-awarding authority.
If such a licence is granted, the university is expected to offer specialist courses in fashion and risk management.
Officials at a housing registration office in suburban Shanghai were so preoccupied that they didn't bat an eyelid when we walked around with a small camera to film the queues.
In communist China, where the state has a deep-seated suspicion of the foreign media, that's very unusual. That's how busy they are.
The announcement of new measures - meant to cool the housing market in China's mega-cities - caused a surge in sales. People wanted to move in before the minimum deposit rose.
The police were on hand to keep order at Baoshan property trading centre when we visited. There were crowd barriers outside.
Shanghai is home to 25 million people. The development in the city has been vast and it's been quick.
The apartment I am sitting in as I write this was a field 20 years ago. Shanghai is still building - where it can find the space.
Howard Huo is one of the many trying to find a house amidst that space, and he's in a hurry.
In the six months he's been waiting for the right paperwork to come through his friend has seen the value of his apartment go up, by 60%.
He told me he's "very sad" about that. His mate said he was "proud of it".
At 28, Howard is stuck in the middle. The government measures mean buyers like him will need more money to put down.
But at the same time credit is cheap in China.
That's one of the counter-measures meant to help as growth in the world's second biggest economy is slowing. So how far will he stretch himself to get into that new home?
"I'm going to borrow 70% of the housing price," he told the BBC, as any more would be "crazy" he reckons.
"I will borrow from the bank, it's much more safe," Howard said.
The deposit is coming from his parents, a common arrangement in China. But the government has been spooked recently by reports some buyers are using riskier online providers to part finance their house buying.
Peer-to-peer lending is a big growth business in China. Companies like Lufax or Dangtian Wealth are challengers to the big state backed banks, which prefer to lend to companies not people.
But it's risky. About a third of firms have got into trouble.
Property analyst Joe Zhou says there is "definitely concern about the credit environment" in China.
So money is cheap and there is some growing concern about bad loans. The government's promised new restrictions on "grey market" lenders, but it hasn't said what that will be, yet.
"The problem is whether the money should go in to real estate or into other sectors," he said, adding "currently given the risks in the real economy lots of investors are getting loans and investing in real estate".
China's Housing Minister Chen Zhenggao recently said he thinks the housing market is in "good health".
But it's not just too much money swilling around that the country's leaders worry about. There's a lingering concern about too many empty houses.
The polarisation is staggering. Outside of the major cities, particularly in the north, there are numerous empty tower blocks, even empty towns.
An hour out of Shanghai, in Huaqiao, I found myself standing in a shell of a room at the bottom of a nearly completed tower, the tenth to be completed on that particular plot after five years of building.
Every time I took a step there was an echo.
Looking out of the empty window frame I saw the first phase which was completed in 2011. It's only 40% full.
Property may be a good store of value for investors who are fearful of another stock market dip in China, but a huge inventory of unsold homes remains.
Filling those with more new city folk remains a key aim for China's leaders. But they're keeping an eye on that loose credit too.
World number three McIlroy, 26, carded a two-over-par 72 to miss out by one stroke at the PGA National in Florida.
The Northern Irishman had a triple bogey on the fifth and a double bogey on the 15th to go with four birdies.
Fowler's four-under round took him to eight under, one shot ahead of fellow American Jimmy Walker.
World number five Fowler, 27, shot four birdies and no bogeys for the second day in succession, although he was fortunate to escape with a wild drive on the first, his 10th hole of the day.
"I got a nice break on one but kept myself in it with some good up and downs, made some good putts and it was a little bit of a bonus with a birdie on the last," Fowler told PGA Tour Radio.
"I'm definitely pleased with the way I've played the last two days."
Overnight joint leader Sergio Garcia had three birdies and two bogeys in a 69 to lie six under, a shot ahead of Australian Adam Scott, who carded an impressive 65.
Defending champion Padraig Harrington recovered from playing his first two holes in three over par to card a 68 and finish one over par, with fellow Irishman Shane Lowry a shot behind after adding a 75 to his opening 67.
They failed to comply with regulation 14(d) which relates to them being unable to ensure their 'club whereabouts' information was accurate.
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The actor told DJ Howard Stern that Winfrey had rebuked his "gallivanting" and had told him he was "blowing it".
Winfrey, Foxx went on, also arranged a meeting with Sidney Poitier "to make me understand the significance" of being nominated for an Academy Award.
The meeting took place one week before the 2005 Oscars, where Foxx won best actor for playing Ray Charles in Ray.
Foxx, who was also nominated that year for the best supporting actor Oscar, went on to star in Quentin Tarantino's western Django Unchained.
"You know me, I was going hard," the 49-year-old told Stern this week during an appearance on the latter's radio show.
"I'm having such a good time, and I'm not knowing I'm [expletive] up. I'm drinking, I'm doing every [expletive] thing you can possibly imagine."
"That's not what you want to do," Foxx recalled Winfrey telling him in an unexpected phone call. "I want to take you somewhere."
This led to a visit to Quincy Jones's house, where he was told by the legendary producer: "You're doing good, man, we just don't want you to blow it, baby."
"We go in the house and there's all these old actors, black actors from the '60s and '70s, who look like they just want to say 'Good luck, don't blow it," he recalled.
One of those present was Sidney Poitier, who told Foxx his portrayal of Charles in Taylor Hackford's film "had made him grow two inches."
Foxx said the meeting had taken place on Poitier's birthday - 20 February - and had made him realise his nomination was "way bigger" than he had originally thought.
"To this day, it's the most significant time in my life where it was, like, a chance to grow up," he added.
The actor and musician recently appeared in crime thriller Sleepless and will shortly be seen as a volatile bank robber in action comedy Baby Driver.
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Other shows being revived include Steptoe and Son, Porridge, Are You Being Served? and Up Pompeii!
The BBC's "landmark sitcom season" will mark 60 years since Galton and Simpson's Hancock's Half Hour started on BBC Television.
It will also feature a special prequel to Keeping Up Appearances.
Created by Johnny Speight, Till Death Us Do Part ran over seven series on BBC One from 1966 to 1975.
It starred the late Warren Mitchell as curmudgeonly bigot Alf Garnett alongside Dandy Nichols as his wife Else and daughter Rita played by Una Stubbs.
Till Death Us Do Part is one of a trio of "lost sitcoms" - along with Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe And Son - that will be remade for BBC Four using the original scripts.
Each will have a brand new cast and be filmed in front of a studio audience.
The lost Till Death Us Do Part episode, A Woman's Place is in the Home, dates from January 1967. It features Garnett ranting against his wife when he returns to an empty house and finds his dinner burnt.
The sitcom season will begin this summer on BBC One with a special live episode of Brendan O'Carroll's comedy Mrs Brown's Boys.
Prison sitcom Porridge - which starred Ronnie Barker as inmate Fletch - returns as a one-off special, written by its creators Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
The episode features Fletch's grandson, also known as Fletch, imprisoned for a series of cyber-crimes.
Up Pompeii!, the ancient Roman-themed comedy, which ran from 1969 to 1970 starring Frankie Howerd, will also return with a new script by Paul Minett and Brian Leveson, the writers of the show's 1991 revival on ITV.
A special prequel of 1990s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, called Young Hyacinth, will be written by Roy Clarke, the creator of Keeping Up Appearances.
Set in the late 1950s, it will feature the young Hyacinth "Bouquet" taking charge of the family as her sisters and her father are left by their mother.
As announced last month, Are You Being Served? is being revived with a cast that includes Mathew Horne (Young Mr Grace), Jason Watkins (Mr Humphries), Sherrie Hewson (Mrs Slocombe), John Challis (Captain Peacock), Roy Barraclough (Mr Grainger), Arthur Smith (Mr Harmon), Justin Edwards (Mr Rumbold) and Niky Wardley (Miss Brahms).
Charlotte Moore, controller of BBC Channels and iPlayer, said: "Comedy has such a wonderful, rich tradition on the BBC, and I'm committed to continuing that across all the channels.
"The landmark sitcom season will celebrate our very British sense of humour, by reimagining hits of the past and giving a platform for new talent."
Tobias Ellwood gave emergency first aid to PC Keith Palmer who was stabbed outside the Palace of Westminster.
In a Daily Telegraph interview, he said the hardest part of his experience was trying to explain to his eight-year-old son what had happened.
Five people died in the attack by Khalid Masood on 22 March.
Mr Ellwood attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation of the injured PC Palmer after he was stabbed by Masood, who had driven his car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge.
The Conservative MP for Bournemouth East said: "I think the hardest thing, as well as stepping through with others to try and save PC Keith Palmer's life, was coming home and finding my eight-year-old boy on top of the stairs having refused to go to bed.
"It was 10 o'clock at night and he was really confused. He couldn't understand why a bad person would do what he did and he also couldn't quite understand why I had then stepped forward in the way that I did.
"I had to explain to him that there are some bad people in this world.
"There are bad people doing bad things, but there are more good people doing good things, and that's why we stand up to events such as this."
Mr Ellwood is now a defence minister and spoke to the Telegraph as the government launched a strategy which aims to improve the mental health of the Armed Forces, veterans and their families.
He said members of the Armed Forces worked in a "very macho environment" but urged war veterans dealing with traumatic experiences not to "bottle it up".
He told the paper: "What I went through is something... but we shouldn't forget that there are many people who have seen much worse and continue to be affected by it.
"That's why it is so important for us to have the mental health strategy that we need - a veterans' support package that is understood and a covenant that obliges councils, businesses and communities to recognise the sacrifice that individuals have given."
Mr Ellwood, who has rarely spoken about his actions, was praised by MPs in the week after the attack.
"I was one of many that stepped forward on that dark day," he told the Commons at the time.
At least 40 people were injured, including three other officers. Masood was shot dead by police.
Kole Lulgjuraj was arrested in Darlington in 2012 on suspicion of fleecing people out of their savings, but fled the country while on bail.
Durham Police said many of his alleged victims had since died.
He has now been tracked to Indianapolis, in the USA, and is to be charged with six counts of theft.
Durham Police officers will travel to the USA and bring the 50-year-old from Montenegro back to the North East where he will face another charge of fraud.
Det Con Dave Wearmouth, of the force's major crime team, said: "This has been a long investigation and sadly several of the victims in this case have died.
"However, we have never given up."
An investigation began when the family of one of the alleged victims queried her bank account when working out the funding of care home bills.
That led to other alleged victims in the County Durham area, many of whom were elderly and had lost their savings and assets, Durham Police said.
In January this year the suspect was arrested by the FBI in Indianapolis, Indiana, after he started work at a bank.
A colleague had carried out an internet search of his surname leading to a newspaper article which said he was wanted by police.
Mr Wearmouth said: "It goes to show that, there is truly no hiding place for suspected criminals in today's digital world."
Fly-half Sexton trained in Kildare after having a head injury assessment (HIA) following Leinster's Pro12 semi-final defeat by Scarlets.
Flanker O'Brien missed that match because of a "tightness in his calf".
O'Brien has done some running but has yet to return to full training.
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The Leinster pair are training in Ireland along with the rest of Warren Gatland's squad before Monday's departure for the 10-game tour of New Zealand.
"Johnny has trained all week, he's absolutely fine," said Lions coach Andy Farrell.
"Sean is nearly there, he's progressed really well. He's back to a bit of straight-line running. They're just managing him making sure that we don't break him down too early."
The budget carrier said the improvement was largely due to selling its 40% stake in Tigerair Australia. The stake in the loss-making subsidiary was sold for $1 to Virgin Australia in 2014.
Group revenue for the quarter was up 12.8% to S$167m.
Tiger Airways is majority owned by flagship carrier Singapore Airlines.
Chief executive Lee Lik Hsin said: "We are encouraged by the narrowing of losses in a seasonally weak second quarter."
Tiger Airways reported a loss of S$182.4m in the July to September quarter last year.
The improved earnings came as airlines around the globe benefit from the current low fuel prices helping profit margins.
The results showed that traffic and passenger numbers also saw a slight increase.
Tigerair recorded additional income from leasing aircrafts to its former Australian subsidiary and to Tigerair Taiwan, an affiliate majority-owned by China Airlines.
For its outlook, the airline pointed to the next months as a peak quarter which traditionally sees increased travel during the holiday season.
The club has gone into a state of mourning following his death on Monday at the age of 88.
As current club president Florentino Perez noted in his emotional tribute, in a symbolic way, Di Stefano simply is Real Madrid. His presence looms so large that he came as close as anybody ever will to the status of being "bigger than the club".
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But football history could have been different - very different indeed. Because when the magical Argentine forward first opted for a move to Spain, he appeared to be destined not for Real but their eternal rivals Barcelona.
The story of Di Stefano's transfer to Los Blancos is a fascinating and complex web of claims, denials, counter-denials and conspiracy theories involving five clubs in three countries. There are allegations of treachery, a mysteriously ripped-up contract and - possibly - the personal intervention of a dictator.
In the spring of 1952, Di Stefano was already a player of quite some renown. A 25-year-old Argentina international boasting an almost goal-per-game scoring record, he travelled to Spain for a friendly tournament in Madrid with his Colombian club side, Millonarios.
His performances were breathtaking, immediately prompting both Barcelona and Real Madrid to push hard for his signature.
Barca appeared to take an early lead in a race that was complicated immensely by the fact that Di Stefano's registration rights were also claimed by Argentine giants River Plate, who were still less than delighted about their star player's controversial (and perhaps illegal) move to Colombia three years earlier.
Nevertheless, with hard-nosed nationalist Catalan lawyer Ramon Trias Fargas leading the negotiations, Barca embarked upon slow but steady progress with both South American clubs. However they made what appears to have been a fatal error by underestimating Millonarios when they enlisted the help of another Catalan who was living in Colombia, Joan Busquets.
Busquets just happened to be a director of Millonarios' biggest local rivals, Santa Fe, and his presence at the bargaining table made the Colombian club suddenly reluctant to agree to the move - especially when Barca strangely submitted an almost derisory initial offer, which was promptly rejected.
Apparently believing that Millonarios were irrelevant and that River Plate were the only club they needed to do business with, Barca reacted to having their bid refused by essentially ignoring such an unwanted development.
Instead of taking the rebuffal seriously, they arranged for Di Stefano and his family to leave Colombia and flew them to the north-east of Spain, where he started to settle into life with his 'new' club and even played at least one pre-season friendly for Barca in the summer of 1953.
At that point, however, the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) intervened by refusing to sanction the transfer on the grounds that Millonarios had not agreed to it. The RFEF dismissed Barca's complaints that the deal had nothing to do with the Colombian club, who the Catalans claimed had signed Di Stefano illicitly in the first place.
Barca refused to budge from their position that they had an agreement with River Plate, who they believed were the legal owners of Di Stefano's registration.
In the meantime, Real president Santiago Bernabeu had taken advantage of the uncertainty to reach a similar deal with Millonarios. An impasse ensued.
When the RFEF eventually reached its verdict in September 1953, it came to the startling compromise that Di Stefano could play for alternate clubs over the course of four years, starting with a season at Real.
Humiliated Barca president Marti Carreto was forced to resign and the interim board ripped up the contract, freeing Di Stefano to join Real for good on the agreement that Los Blancos paid back to Barca the 4.5 million pesetas fee they had already handed over to River Plate.
The rest, as they say, is history, but plenty of questions remain unanswered. Why did Barca fail to reach a deal with Millonarios? Why did the RFEF refuse to sanction Di Stefano's transfer when Fifa had already waved it through? And why then did Barca, if they believed in their case, tear up the contract rather than sticking to their guns?
The big underlying question is the extent to which Spain's ruler, General Franco, was involved.
Throughout the 1950s, Real were regarded by their (many) enemies as Franco's team or the 'Regime Team'. Although the extent of the dictator's meddling in sporting matters has probably been exaggerated, it certainly was true that he had dealings over the years with Real president Bernabeu and occasionally exerted significant influence upon the RFEF.
Any conspiracy theory carries unusual weight from such a politically explosive era. Strange as it sounds, there have even been unproven claims that one or more of Barca's negotiators were acting as double-agents for Real, deliberately sabotaging the deal to ensure Di Stefano eventually moved to the capital.
Even now, the circumstances of Di Stefano's arrival in Spain is an almost uniquely emotive topic.
Barca fans angrily believe their team was robbed by dark governmental forces. The club's official website bitterly bemoans "a strange federative manoeuvre with Francoist backing".
Real supporters bristle with indignation at the suggestion of underhand dealings and maintain they simply took advantage of Barca's sloppiness rather than enlisting the assistance of General Franco.
Whatever the exact truth of the matter, the end result was that Di Stefano did move to Madrid, making his debut in a friendly against French club Nancy on 23 September 1953.
A month later, the first Clasico of the season took place at the Bernabeu. Real won 5-0… and Di Stefano scored four. A legend was born.
The Pentagon said Siful Haque Sujan, originally from Bangladesh, was killed near the city of Raqqah on 10 December.
Sujan supported IS hacking efforts, anti-surveillance technology and weapons development for the jihadist group.
He was one of 10 IS leaders killed in air strikes.
Pentagon spokesman Army Colonel Steve Warren said: "Now that he's dead, ISIL has lost a key link between networks."
Members of the Cardiff Bangladeshi community said they were shocked and stunned and had no indication he had been radicalised.
It is understood Sujan left the UK in July 2014 and travelled to Syria.
South Wales Police Det Supt Lee Porter said: "We are unable to confirm or deny the accuracy of these reports at this time but are currently working with our partners to ascertain what has happened.
"While we understand Mr Sujan had lived and worked in south Wales, he had left the UK in 2014 thus was not a resident of Wales at the time of his reported death."
Sujan bought a house at Rhydyfelin near Pontypridd 10 years ago while he was a student and rented it out.
Former neighbours Donna and Nigel Davies were surprised at the news.
"He was a nice enough outgoing guy, always polite to us," Mrs Davies said.
"It was a hell of a shock - living next door to someone like that for four years and not knowing anything about it."
The first minister has promised an expansion in free childcare if the SNP is voted back into power next year.
It would see the number of hours eligible youngsters receive being nearly doubled to 1,140 a year over the course of the next parliament.
But Fair Funding For Our Kids claimed about 26,000 extra nursery places would be needed for that to be fulfilled.
The group said it had met Education Secretary Angela Constance on Tuesday to discuss the issue.
But it claimed Ms Constance had been "unable to answer basic questions" about how she planned to ensure the childcare pledge was met.
The Scottish government said the figures estimated by Fair Funding for Our Kids assumed that "nothing will change between now and 2020 to deliver this increase in funded hours and fail to take account of Scotland's 5,500 childminders."
A spokeswoman said: "They also assume that doubling the hours of free childcare available will mean that we will need to double the number of childcare places.
"This is not true. We can reassure parents that preparations are well underway to deliver this massive expansion of 1,140 hours and ensure a place for every eligible child."
She said delivery of the pledge would cost about £800m and result in a significant increase in the early years workforce, and said the government was working with councils to plan for a "significant infrastructure expansion" to meet the increased demand.
Council nurseries, private nurseries and childminders currently provide the government-funded childcare that all three and four-year-olds and some vulnerable two-year-olds already receive.
Jenny Gorevan, of Fair Funding For Our Kids (Glasgow), said an estimated one in five youngsters was missing out on the current entitlement and added: "How will the first minister deliver this new, bigger promise if she cannot even give children what they are entitled to now?"
She added: "We added up all the nursery places in Scotland. If every single place was used to meet the first minister's 2020 promise there would still be a shortfall of around 26,000.
"The most basic sum tells you the 2020 promise needs a minimum of 650 new nurseries and 3,250 new nursery staff from nowhere within four years.
"That is before you factor in variations in demand, staff retirement, geographical spread, parents wanting to pay for two-year-olds not eligible for a free place and so on. The real numbers are likely to be much, much higher."
Ms Gorevan was speaking as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new best practice standard for childminders to ensure children are left "in the best possible hands".
While all childminders have to be registered and inspected, they do not have to have any qualifications to gain registration.
But in future it is expected the new training and induction course, which will be developed with the Care Inspectorate, will be completed by childminders before they register.
Ms Sturgeon said: "Childminders play a vital role in children's development, which helps to reduce social inequality and close the attainment gap.
"They will be central to our ambitions for a massive expansion of early learning and childcare in the years to come."
The first minister, who visited a childminder in Edinburgh, added: "As recently highlighted, well-trained, supported and suitably qualified staff are fundamental to improving quality and have a key role in addressing our most entrenched problems of poverty, poor health and poor attainment.
"These new standards will help drive up quality and ensure parents can rest assured that their children are in the best possible hands."
The S&P 500 added 1.5 points to close at 2,041. The Dow Jones, which reached a record high last Thursday, rose 13 points to close at 17,647.
The technology focused Nasdaq index fell 18 points to close at 4,671, hurt by a 1.5% loss for shares in Amazon.
Shares in Baker Hughes jumped 8% after it agreed to a takeover deal from rival oil services firm Halliburton.
And another big winner was Allergan, whose shares rose almost 5% after it agreed to a takeover from rival Actavis.
Dreamworks Animation saw the most spectacular fall on the Nasdaq, plunging 14% on reports that a takeover by toy maker Hasbro might have run into problems.
All of that deal making news helped boost investor confidence, which had been dented by news earlier on Monday that Japan had fallen into recession.
There was also a warning from UK prime minister David Cameron about the health of the global economy.
In an article in the Guardian, Mr Cameron said "red warning lights are once again flashing on the dashboard of the global economy".
"It shows the strength of the overall market that you could have this recession news out of Japan, and yet have the market inch upwards," said Eric Kuby, chief investment officer at North Star Investment Management Corp in Chicago.
In July the minister said there would be no change to funding in 2016/17.
Guarantees were being sought by students after the UK voted to leave the European Union.
Mr Swinney also urged the UK government to "guarantee their [students] right to stay here during their studies and work here after their studies".
He announced the funding pledge during his keynote address to the Glasgow conference, attended by 3,000 delegates.
The MSP said: "We have already confirmed tuition fee funding to support EU students studying here, or preparing to start this year.
"Now, we will extend that guarantee to those starting next year in 2017/18.
"And, unlike Labour and the Tories, that's tuition-free education we are guaranteeing - not the massive fees they impose on students wherever they come from."
He added: "We will guarantee their funding. But what I demand is that the Tory-Brexit government guarantee their right to stay here during the studies and work here after their studies.
"They are not cards to be played. They are human beings."
Education was a strong theme in Mr Swinney's speech.
He said his task to "close the attainment gap for our poorest pupils" was simple.
Mr Swinney added: "And our ambition is equally straightforward: we will make significant progress in closing the gap within the next parliament and substantially eliminate it within a decade.
"It may be a simple objective. It may be a straightforward aim. But it will not be easy. We do not underestimate the scale of our ambition."
He also spoke about the desire to "re-invigorate local government" by "reconnecting it with communities".
A review is already under way on the role of councils in the delivery of education.
Mr Swinney will now review the relationships between local authorities and health boards.
He said: "We aim to achieve nothing less than to transform our democratic landscape, protect and renew public services and refresh the relationship between citizens, communities and councils."
"We do this not because it is radical - and it is - but because we believe it is right.
"We do it not because it is easy - it's not - but because it is in the national interest.
"We believe that national interest lies in placing power in the people of this country's hands. It is why I believe in independence."
A mix of light rail, trams, improved trains and faster buses is expected by 2020 in Cardiff and the valleys.
Opposition politicians welcomed the announcement by the Welsh government.
But they said it needed to be well planned and affordable, and said more details were needed about the route.
The metro is in addition to planned rail electrification and will run as a "not-for-dividend" part of the next all-Wales rail franchise from 2018.
Economy Minister Edwina Hart has tasked rail and business experts to finalise plans before work starts in 2017.
She said she wanted it to be a blueprint for transport in other parts of Wales.
Conservative Shadow Minister for Business, Enterprise and Transport William Graham AM welcomed the announcement, but stressed the importance of its delivery.
"It is vital the project is delivered on budget and on time where schemes like the one in Edinburgh have notably failed," he said.
"I do have some concerns that we are seemingly no closer to learning what type of rolling stock the scheme will employ, or any significant detail surrounding the route.
"It is also important that the network is attractive to a range of public transport users."
He said the metro's route must be well planned and affordable if it was to become a "viable alternative" to cars for Cardiff's commuters.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies AM tweeted: "Ability of the metro to drive the economy of South Wales forward with a dynamic and integrated transport system should not be underestimated".
Plaid Cymru's economy and transport spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth AM said it was an exciting project that had to be "usable and affordable".
But he also called for transport spending to be spread around Wales as a whole, with a cheaper alternative to the £1bn M4 relief road freeing up more money.
"Whilst the metro is the right project for that region, the government must remember that other parts of Wales also need solutions," he said.
Welsh Liberal Democrats economy spokeswoman Eluned Parrott AM said people still wanted a "clear idea" of what the metro map would look like and she was frustrated by a lack of definitive detail despite three years of reports.
"I want to see it transform our communities and bring prosperity, that we're desperate to see especially at the top end of the Valleys where people feel they're so badly disconnected, and the east of Cardiff where a bus can take an hour to get from the suburbs to the city centre."
Mrs Hart said the wider map would be looked at by the autumn and the Welsh government was going out to the market to see what it could offer for the money available.
Angela Merkel was criticised for appearing to be unsympathetic when Reem Sahwil described what her life was like under threat of deportation.
She had told the teenager that not all migrants can stay in Germany.
Reem told the BBC: "[Mrs Merkel] reacted like a politician. At least she gave an honest opinion."
"In a way she was right. Migration is a difficult topic. She is not the person who can make that decision in front of all the cameras and the people," she added.
The conversation took place during a government-organised forum for young people, which was filmed and then broadcast.
In the video, Reem tells Mrs Merkel that her family had been waiting four years to gain permanent residency in Germany.
They were told they would have to return to a camp in Lebanon imminently - only to receive a last-minute temporary German residency permit, she said.
"I would like to go to university," said Reem, in fluent German.
"It's really very hard to watch how other people can enjoy life and you yourself can't. I don't know what my future will bring."
Mrs Merkel replied that "politics can be tough", adding: "You are an extremely nice person but you also know that there are thousands and thousands of people in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon."
Germany could not manage if all of them wanted to move there, she said.
When Reem began to cry, Mrs Merkel went over to her and began stroking her on the back and telling her she had done well to highlight the difficulties facing refugees in Germany.
In an interview with BBC Newshour, Reem said she felt genuine "empathy" from the chancellor.
"I just sensed even though she is politician she has feelings and she showed them," she added.
The teenager said she spoke with Mrs Merkel because she thought she might help her.
Within hours of the video being broadcast, the term #Merkelstreichelt (Merkel strokes) trended on Twitter.
Some social media users complained that Mrs Merkel had "petted" the girl and failed to show enough sensitivity, although others defended the leader's reaction.
Germany says it expects 400,000 asylum applications by the end of 2015 - more than double the amount it received in 2014.
The right-wing Pegida group has marched against what it calls the Islamisation of Germany, and the country's newest political party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), has called for tighter immigration control.
"The mistakes in the government's refugee policies can't be patted away," Katrin Goering-Eckardt, a Green Party MP, said after the broadcast went out.
Documents and computer equipment were seized from the Mossack Fonseca office, officials said on Twitter.
The attorney general's office said the Mossack Fonseca sign had been removed a day earlier and quoted an employee as saying the firm was moving.
The leak showed how some wealthy people use offshore companies to evade tax.
The raid was overseen by El Salvador's Attorney General Douglas Melendez.
Mossack Fonseca's El Salvador branch was able to provide "back office" functions for the firm's clients all over the world, according to a document posted on Twitter by the attorney general's office.
Local news website El Faro reported (in Spanish) that Salvadoreans had used Mossack Fonseca to buy property in the country without declaring the purchases to the Salvadorean authorities.
The firm has denied it has done anything wrong and says the information is being presented out of context.
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According to TMZ, which claims it's seen the pictures, the images have been uploaded to several porn sites.
The entertainment website alleges they were originally sent by the DJ to a number of women.
Newsbeat hasn't seen any naked photos of the 31-year-old and Calvin's people told us they aren't commenting.
The DJ, who's the new face of Armani underwear, recently posed for a photo shoot wearing nothing except a pair of tight pants.
Newsbeat has seen black and white pixelated pictures posted online, in which it is claimed the star is naked.
But it's not clear if these are genuine or if they are professional pictures edited to suggest he's not wearing underwear.
Last year, Forbes magazine estimated the DJ, who is the richest in the world, earned around £40m.
In January he signed a three-year deal to hold residencies at three of their Las Vegas venues and become their music consultant.
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Shops selling alcohol are closed until Friday, while some 350 bars will shut early on Wednesday and Thursday.
The FA has expressed "serious concerns" about security after clashes between England and Russia supporters last week.
Supt Steve Furnham, the Welsh Police Forces' lead for Euro 2016, told BBC Wales the alcohol ban was "very difficult to police".
Emergency services were called to the scene at Powrie at about 15:30 on Monday.
It is understood the collision involved a car and a lorry.
Traffic Scotland described the incident as "serious" and said local diversions were in place for small vehicles, with lorries currently being stacked at Tealing.
A referendum asks you to vote yes or no to a question or proposal.
The people of Scotland will be asked the simple question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?"
Scotland has been part of the UK for more than 300 years, so the vote is a huge moment for the country.
For the first time, people aged 16 and 17 will be allowed to vote in the referendum. Usually in the UK the voting age is 18.
On Thursday 10 September, thousands of them gathered at a big debate in Glasgow, to ask some of the leaders some important questions.
All will become clear on 19 September, when it's expected that the result of the historic vote will be announced.
Campaigners who want to restore the pier to its former glory said it is a "day we never thought would happen" following the short ceremony in Ramsey.
The government handed over the keys to the Queen's Pier Restoration Trust (QPRT) who want to save the landmark.
It is estimated the overall restoration of the pier could cost around £1.5m.
The pier was closed in 1990 due to concerns about its safety.
Despite being unlocked for the day, the pier will remain out of bounds to the public.
The 0.7 km (0.43 mi)-long structure was built for the Isle of Man Harbour Board for around £45,000 and opened in 1886.
A QPRT spokesman said the next stage of their campaign will see a survey undertaken before a £60,000 project gets underway to restore the first of 55 bays.
Tom Durrant from the Trust said: "Each of the subsequent bays could cost £25,000 each."
In 2011, Tynwald approved £1.7m to stabilise and protect the Queen's Pier on the north coast of the island.
Thousands of tonnes of steel reinforcement were used to secure the structure and stop potentially hazardous debris falling into the sea.
Mr Durrant from the Trust said campaigners said the pier is "as important to the Isle of Man as the Laxey Wheel".
Ms Dorries, who grew up in Liverpool, says she was abused for two years from age eight by her local vicar Reverend James Cameron, who died in 2011.
She said she had decided to reveal the truth after writing three novels that included stories of child sexual abuse.
The Church of England said a full investigation would be carried out and it would work with the authorities.
Ms Dorries said she had never confronted her abuser and "couldn't tell anybody".
She had previously denied that her novels were based on her own experiences.
But she told Stephen Nolan on BBC Radio 5 live that she had taken the decision to reveal the truth after giving one of her characters the name of her abuser.
"They [the books] are not about child sex abuse but I did thread that vein through the three books because I wanted to get my revenge and I wanted him to see it," she said.
"I wrote his name in the third book and then a journalist told me on the day it was published that he died in 2011. So I've been writing all that, but he's already dead."
She said she had buried the events which made it gradually harder to tell anyone. She admitted she had never told the police.
"It was just my secret that I've carried around for a very long time," she said. "I've had to speak to my mum, I've had to tell my daughters. That was hard enough."
Ms Dorries said the abuse had started when her mother worked at the local church.
"That's when I'd wake up in the middle of the night and he was by my bed," she said.
"From that moment on, you just become totally different from everyone else in society. You are unlike all of your friends. You have this dirty, shameful, disgusting knowledge that no-one else has, and it's just awful."
She said finding out that Rev Cameron had died "was like someone had taken a heavy cloak off my shoulders".
"I know he'll have got his justice and I can't begin to explain what a relief it was," she said.
The Church of England confirmed that Rev Cameron served in parishes in Liverpool diocese and Norwich diocese.
The Bishop of Durham, the Right Reverend Paul Butler, who is lead Bishop for safeguarding in the Church of England, said: "I want to express my deep sorrow to Nadine Dorries.
"This allegation is a reminder that any abuse which happens within the Church is a matter of deep regret and shame. There are no excuses for this.
"We will be working with statutory authorities and others in Liverpool to carry out a full investigation."
He said over the past 50 years "wide-reaching changes" had been made to safeguarding policies and procedures, but there was "no room for complacency".
A spokeswoman for the Church of England said this was the first claim the church was aware of regarding Rev Cameron, and it was also the first time Nadine Dorries has alerted the church to the allegations.
The Church of England participating in the forthcoming public enquiry chaired by Lord Justice Goddard.
The 31-year-old goalkeeper, who has been linked with Monaco, has cited the pressure of playing for the club as his main reason for leaving.
"Being the goalkeeper at the club is a big weight to carry and I have felt it since I was very young," Valdes said.
"There is a lot of pressure, and the demands I put on myself to make sure Barca win is a heavy weight to carry."
Valdes has been in the Barcelona first team for 12 years and made his 500th appearance for the club earlier this month.
But he rejected the offer of a new deal in January and is now committed to leaving to pursue "different sources of motivation".
"I consider that my cycle as a Barcelona player will come to an end when my current contract expires in 2014," he said.
"I understand that with 18 months' warning there should be sufficient time to find the best solution for the club and for the player, so that Barca keep on winning and so do I.
"In January, I said I could see myself playing in other leagues, getting to know something different and looking for different sources of motivation."
Liverpool's Pepe Reina - who graduated through Barcelona's youth system and played 30 times for the first team - has been linked with a return to the Nou Camp to replace Valdes.
A group of bikers intended to ride from Moscow to Berlin, but Poland barred entry at the border with Belarus.
Germany's federal police then also refused entry over security fears.
The pro-Kremlin group is subject to US sanctions for alleged active involvement in Crimea.
It is accused of helping to recruit separatist fighters for Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine.
Night Wolves leader Aleksandr Zaldostanov had told Russian media Germany's decision to refuse entry was a "political decision".
Before the bikers arrived at the Polish border, more than 10,000 Poles had taken to Facebook to protest against the Night Wolves entering the country.
The group backs Russian President Vladimir Putin's policy of support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine in their armed conflict with the Ukrainian government - something strongly opposed by Poland.
The Polish government described their plans as "provocative".
On Wednesday, a Berlin court ruled there was not enough evidence they were a threat to public order, domestic security or international relations.
Of the dozens of bikers that left Moscow on 25 April, mainly on Harley-Davidsons, it is unclear how many have found their way to Germany and what route they have taken.
They had planned to cross Belarus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria, before reaching Berlin on a 6,000km (3,720 mile) trip following the path taken by the Red Army in World War Two.
The group's aim had been to arrive in the German capital in time to coincide with Victory Day celebrations in Moscow on Saturday.
Dimitrov, seeded 15th, won 6-3 6-2 6-4 to reach his second major semi-final - the 25-year-old made it to the same stage at Wimbledon in 2014.
He next plays the winner of the match between Rafael Nadal and Milos Raonic, which gets under way at 08:30 GMT.
Roger Federer will play Stan Wawrinka in the first semi-final on Thursday.
Dimitrov, who works with Dani Vallverdu, former coach of Andy Murray and Tomas Berdych, began the year with a title in Brisbane and has won 10 matches in a row.
"The last two years have been a rollercoaster for me, but I'm happy with the way it happened," he said.
"I'm appreciating things much better now. To be back in the semi-finals of a Slam means too much for me right now."
The bill was drafted last year after the punk band Pussy Riot performed a protest song against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow's main cathedral.
Two Pussy Riot members are now serving prison terms in remote penal colonies.
The bill says blasphemy could incur up to three years in jail or a fine of up to 300,000 roubles ($9,700;£6,300).
Russian commentators say the bill appears to have strong backing from Mr Putin. It was passed by the Duma - Russia's lower house - in a first reading on Tuesday.
To become law it has to pass two more readings in the Duma, then a vote in the upper house - the Federation Council - and get a final sign-off by Mr Putin. The entire parliament is dominated by Mr Putin's supporters.
The text refers to offences against religions that are "an integral part of Russia's historical inheritance" - implying that it covers Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism.
Last August two Pussy Riot performers - Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova - were sentenced to two years each in jail for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" over their obscenity-laced "punk prayer" against Mr Putin.
The sentences provoked widespread international condemnation.
Human rights activists and some critics of the new anti-blasphemy bill in the Duma say its wording is too vague and could lead to unjustified prosecutions.
Yuri Sinelshchikov, a Communist MP and former prosecutor, warned that it could provoke "an outburst of combative atheism, in its most aggressive form, and enmity between believers and non-believers".
Some human rights activists warned that "insults to believers" might include the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution or the Big Bang theory about the universe.
A co-author of the bill, Yaroslav Nilov of the nationalist Liberal Democrats (LDPR), insisted that the text would be amended before the next Duma votes.
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A recent report said the Great Clock needed urgent repairs costing £40m which, if not carried out, will cause "international reputational damage".
Now, Nottingham City Council has offered 10-tonne bell Little John as a bongs replacement on BBC Radio 4.
It is one part of "the best set of clock bells" in the country, says David Lyon who maintains them.
The famous chimes of the Great Clock, on the Houses of Parliament, signal the end of PM and the start of the news on Radio 4, at 18:00.
News that Big Ben may be silenced, prompted an offer from Nottingham council that the BBC could broadcast the live chimes from its Council House while London's set is repaired.
Deputy leader Graham Chapman admitted it was a tongue-in-cheek "gimmick" but it was "the only possible alternative for Big Ben".
"This is an opportunity to have a bit of devolution, devolve the sound. The BBC moved out to Salford, now we can devolve the sound to Nottingham," he said.
Horologist Mr Lyon was bursting with pride at the sound of the bell.
"It is considered to be the best set of clock bells in the country. The main bell here is Little John. It is 10.5 tonnes and on a clear day you can hear it seven-and-a-half miles away down the Trent valley," he said.
"It's got a beautiful tone - far better than Big Ben because Big Ben was cracked when it was put in and has never been altered. It has rather a tinny sound unlike Little John which is mellow."
The BBC and parliament remain firmly tight-lipped on any decision on what could replace the bongs, although it did prompt a discussion on PM on Monday.
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The company said it had emailed 794,000 people who may have been affected by the incident.
It said the data had been taken from a version of its website set up for testing purposes.
Security researchers have warned that the details could be used by criminals to try to scam those affected.
The firm said it had reported itself to the UK's Information Commissioner.
UK-based Kiddicare is a baby and child specialist that trades online and from its flagship store in Peterborough.
The company said it became aware of the data breach after customers reported suspicious text messages that had not been sent by Kiddicare.
It was then contacted by a security company with further information and was able to link the breach to a "test" website it had been using in November 2015.
"Kiddicare used real customer data on its test site," said security researcher Graham Cluley in a blogpost.
"It shouldn't be forgotten that this was a test site and things are expected to go wrong."
The company stressed that payment details such as credit card information, which can easily be changed, had not been stolen.
However, customers' names, postal addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers had been exposed and that information could be used by scammers.
Mr Cluley criticised the company for neglecting to post details of the breach prominently on its website, although they have answered some questions on the subject.
"There is currently no mention of the data breach on the Kiddicare website's homepage or on its Twitter account," he wrote.
"I'm not sure that's offering the best service for customers who, through no fault of their own, might now be at risk.
"One clear risk is that Kiddicare customers might be contacted by fraudsters pretending to be the baby specialist retailer, in an attempt to trick unsuspecting consumers into handing over payment information."
The company apologised to customers in a statement sent to the BBC.
"We are very sorry for the potential stress and anxiety this incident may have caused our customers," it said.
"We want to reassure everyone that the problem has been fixed, increased security measures have been implemented and we have a dedicated team to here to help with any further concerns."
The 46-year-old suffered abdominal wounds in the attack at the Britannia Hotel on Dialstone Lane in Offerton.
Greater Manchester Police said they were called to the hotel at about 02:20 GMT. The woman was taken to hospital.
Supt Wayne Miller said the investigation was in the "very early stages" and officers were "following a number of lines of inquiry".
He added the woman was in a "serious" condition and had suffered "potentially life-changing injuries".
The tribute to Laura Plane came after Grohl was contacted by her widower Jon, who said he "cried, danced and sang" during the performance of Everlong.
The song, Laura's favourite, was played at the couple's first dance at their wedding - and her funeral on 9 June.
The pair had hoped to enjoy their 10th wedding anniversary at the festival.
Before performing Everlong, the final song of the band's barnstorming Pyramid Stage set on Saturday, Grohl said: "I'd like to dedicate this song to someone named Laura, who couldn't be here tonight.
"But we should all dance this one for her."
Laura, a teacher from Plymouth, raised more than £30,000 for charity after being diagnosed with breast cancer eight years ago.
She dedicated her spare time to raising money and awareness about the disease, as her own diagnosis had been late.
"She put all her time in to getting that message across [of checking yourself] so nobody else was ever in that situation," Jon Plane said.
He added: "For the last eight years when Laura's been ill I've always tried to do little things to cheer her up.
"This was my one last final swansong as it were, and it worked. It's everything I ever wanted for her."
David Cameron says he hopes to govern for all of the UK after the Conservatives took 331 seats - enough to form a slender majority in the Commons.
Labour has been all but wiped out by the SNP in Scotland and suffered a disappointing set of results elsewhere, while the Lib Dems are left with just eight MPs after many party heavyweights such as Vince Cable and Danny Alexander lost their seats.
So with battles won and lost and the fall-out and celebrations beginning, BBC correspondents examine the implications and challenges that lie ahead for the new government - and for those whose political careers have been ended by voters.
No pollster, no pundit, no political leader saw it coming - not even David Cameron himself.
Governing parties don't gain seats. Parties that have implemented painful cuts and are promising more certainly don't. Until that is the Conservative Party did - achieving what had seemed to be Mission Impossible - a Tory majority.
Until that is David Cameron's personal triumph which triggered the near simultaneous resignation of his three principle opponents - Messrs Miliband, Clegg and Farage.
They did so in part because they helped to crush their partners in coalition these last five years - reducing the Liberal Democrat parliamentary party to a size when it can fit into two London taxis and still have two seats to spare.
In part because the extraordinary tidal wave of support for the SNP swept dozens of once safe Labour seats away.
In part because Nigel Farage persuaded millions to vote for him but secured just one seat - not, though, the one he was standing in.
Read more from Nick Robinson here
The question uppermost in the prime minister's mind as he assembles his new government is how to keep the kingdom united.
"Above all I want to bring our country together," he revealed after the result, "to reclaim a mantle we should never have lost - the mantle of one nation, one United Kingdom".
Looking at the political landscape from Land's End today is very different to the view from John O'Groats.
A sea of Conservative and Unionist blue dominates the scene across much of England, while a field of SNP nationalist yellow stretches to the horizon and beyond from the north.
David Cameron's greatest challenge is to prevent the union he supports being torn apart by mutual resentment - resentment from Scotland at a Westminster government dominated by English Tories, and resentment from England at the preferential treatment people think is being given to the Scots.
Those who assumed the future of the Union had been safeguarded by the Scottish referendum must think again.
Read more from Mark Easton here
One thing is rock-solid true: the Conservatives who worked on this campaign are as surprised by the result as the pollsters, pundits, politicians and general population.
Maybe they shouldn't be - the economy is in good shape and the Conservatives had incumbency advantage.
But when I travelled back from the prime minister's last rally with a group of exhausted Conservative campaign officials it was clear that 290 seats was a hoped-for target.
No-one talked about anything over 300 seats, and no-one even mentioned an overall majority.
So what special sauce pushed David Cameron into No 10 with a Commons majority?
Mr Cameron had two simple messages in the campaign and he rarely veered away from them; the first - the economy is in good shape and the recovery is threatened by Labour. And the second - the SNP would hold a Labour-led government to ransom.
Read more from Jonny Dymond here
Brian Taylor, BBC political editor, Scotland
Of all the comments on the overnight apocalypse, undoubtedly the most straightforward came from a defeated Scottish Labour MP.
Since there were quite a few of them, let me narrow the focus a little. Come on down, Tom Harris.
Mr Harris had plainly anticipated defeat. Nonetheless, he looked suitably lugubrious as his fate was confirmed.
Why, he was asked eagerly, had Labour lost? "Because we did not win enough votes."
Psephologically, it is perfect. Complete in itself. Psychologically, it sums up Labour's gloom without descending into subsidiary matters such as leadership, strategy and the rest. As a forward-thinking strategy, it is ideal. Win more votes. Simple.
Read more from Brian Taylor here
This has been an election which may have more profound consequences than almost any in living memory.
We now face a generational decision about our future in Europe, with an EU referendum in two years' time almost certain.
There will also be serious questions about the future of the Union, following an SNP landslide that has turned Scotland into a virtual one-party state.
David Cameron's victory also represents a colossal achievement.
Only once before in recent history has an incumbent government increased its majority - and that was Mrs Thatcher in her prime in the 1980s.
It is also a significant personal victory for Mr Cameron and a rebuff for those in his party who had become increasingly sceptical about his ability to win.
But while it may represent a defeat for those Tories who saw this election as a potential opportunity to rid themselves of David Cameron, he must now govern with a wafer-thin majority.
For the SNP, their stunning victory can only increase the pressure on Nicola Sturgeon to include a commitment to a second independence referendum in her party's manifesto for next year's Scottish elections.
It is an election which has not just defied all the predictions of the pollsters and pundits - but which may yet prompt the most fundamental re-casting of British politics for a generation.
Read more from Norman Smith here
After an extraordinary night, some brief conclusions:
Read more from James Landale here
Is this the end of the union?
That is the question many people will be asking this morning after the party which has fought for Scottish independence for 80 years swept to victory.
The answer from the jubilant Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon is a firm "No".
She insists that her MPs will speak for all of Scotland, not just for the 45% who voted for the country to leave the United Kingdom last September.
In the closing hours of the most extraordinary election campaign which anyone in Scotland can remember, Ms Sturgeon turned to talk of "legitimacy."
That will be her watchword in the coming days as she argues that the prime minister cannot ignore the democratic will of the Scottish people.
Politically, Scotland and England this morning look and feel like very different countries.
Read more from James Cook here
After weeks of chatter about an election too close to call, it wasn't that close at all.
David Cameron will be continuing as our prime minister.
So, what is all this likely to mean?
A referendum on whether the UK stays in, or leaves, the European Union, within the next two-and-a-half years.
A race to be the next leader of the Labour Party.
A race to be the next leader of the Liberal Democrats.
And a huge new presence of Scottish National Party MPs at Westminster.
And so here's another thing we know for certain this morning: Politics ain't going to be boring any time soon.
Read more from Chris Mason here
For Labour the story of their terrible night is rapidly turning into the search for a new leader. So who will that be?
Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, is almost certain to run.
Even before this election, both he and another almost inevitable candidate, Chuka Umunna, had raised eyebrows inside the party at the work they had put in, preparing the ground with members and the unions for potential bids.
Yvette Cooper, before the election, was still thought not to have made up her mind over whether to run. That decision has been made perhaps a little easier as her husband, Ed Balls, has lost his seat.
She is certainly potentially in the frame, along with two lesser known names - Liz Kendall and Dan Jarvis - two MPs who were only elected in 2010 for the first time.
This could be their moment. But whoever is in the job, they face a monumental task.
Read Laura Kuenssberg's Twitter here
Sterling is up (the most for seven years against the euro), share prices are up (especially bank shares like Lloyds and RBS, and energy shares such as Centrica), government bond prices are up.
To state the obvious, investors love the Tories' general election victory.
There are a few reasons.
One (no surprise here) is that Labour's threat of breaking up banks and imposing energy price caps has been lifted.
Second is that investors have been discounting days and weeks of wrangling after polling day over who would form the government - and so they are semi-euphoric that we already know who's in charge.
Third, many investors tend to be economically conservative and instinctively Conservative.
But although the City may be a bit drunk on the result, its pleasure in Ed Miliband's and Ed Balls' humiliation may be making it a bit blind - perhaps dangerously so - to some bumps in the economic road ahead.
Read more from Robert Peston here
Nigel Farage dreamed of holding the balance of power, but in the end his UKIP party is now worse off than when it came into the election.
At the seventh time of asking he was rejected - this time by the people of Thanet South. It was a similar story in Rochester and Strood where Mark Reckless, who sensationally defected from the Tories last year, was also sent packing.
In seats on UKIP's target list, like Thurrock in Essex, the party failed to make gains. In Grimsby - where Mr Farage went twice in the last six weeks - they came third.
UKIP got around four million votes - with especially strong showings in north-east and south-east England - but it's ended up with just one MP, and a vacancy at the top. This has led to UKIP attacking the current system of choosing MPs, which it's described as "busted" and "dysfunctional".
In one sense, this campaign was a complete failure and it's left an aftermath of angry voters, and others wondering if the UKIP bubble has burst.
Read Robin Brant's Twitter here
I monitored 91 GB-wide voting intention polls during the 2015 election campaign and found nothing in them to prepare me for the final outcome.
The good news for the pollsters was that their share for the Lib Dems was pretty close, as were the shares for UKIP, the Greens and the catch-all category of Others.
The bad news for the polling industry was that the crucial shares for Conservative and Labour were the ones where they came most adrift.
When all the qualifications of margins of error are allowed, there did appear to be a systematic overstatement of the Labour share and an equally systematic understatement of the Conservative one.
It is for the pollsters to decide whether to conduct a review of their performance but I trust they will avoid the initial knee-jerk reaction of the immediate aftermath of the 1992 polls debacle.
This general election performance follows the performance of the polls in the 2014 Scottish referendum where the choice was simply binary and yet all the polls were out by between 4-6%.
Something is wrong. A lot of us would like to know what it is.
Read more from David Cowling here
The words "political earthquake" have been translated into numerous European languages, making front page news across the continent.
While Britons now examine the domestic minutiae of the election result, here in mainland Europe the vote means one thing: a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU. And that has the potential to create an earthquake of its own.
The guardian of the EU treaties Mr Cameron wants to change - Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker - has said again he'd listen to what Britain's new government proposed.
Read more from Katya Adler here
The 23-year-old centre-back joins the U's after leading Argyle to the League Two play-off final last season.
Nelson turned down a deal to stay at the Devon club after his previous contract had expired and had been the subject of a bid from Barnsley.
"It's a step up in league from last season and Oxford is a huge club," he told BBC Radio Oxford.
Nelson spent seven years at Stoke's academy, finishing his scholarship at Argyle before going on to make more than 200 senior appearances for Plymouth.
"I can't wait to get started at Oxford and I'm looking forward to it," he added. "You've got to pay credit to the manager for what he did last season as they did the job going up automatically.
"They played some really good football and were a difficult team to play against and hopefully it will be the same again next season."
Argyle will be entitled to compensation from the deal, which will be set at a tribunal as Nelson is under 24 and came through the club's academy.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The defending champions led 40-31 going into the final quarter of their semi-final in Koblenz, Germany, and extended their advantage to win 54-41.
They will play Sweden, who won possession and scored a winner in the closing seconds to beat Denmark 57-56.
Saturday's match (15:00 BST) is a repeat of the 2015 final, which Britain won 49-48.
The two nations are the most decorated in European Championship history, with four wins apiece.
Along with the beaten semi-finalists, the teams have secured places in next year's World Championships in Sydney, Australia.
The pair are competing for the wing spot vacated by Elliot Daly, who has been banned for three weeks.
Yarde is thought to be the favourite to replace Daly, while Nathan Hughes is the likely option at number eight with Billy Vunipola injured.
Head coach Eddie Jones will name his matchday squad of 23 on Thursday.
Daly was banned after being sent off in last weekend's victory over Argentina.
Hughes spent much of Tuesday's training session in England's first-choice back row, alongside Chris Robshaw and Tom Wood.
The Fiji-born Wasps forward has won two caps this autumn as a replacement, but has yet to make a first international start.
Elsewhere in the back row, Teimana Harrison has also been retained, but Jack Clifford has returned to Harlequins.
Yarde started on the wing against South Africa, but has not featured since, while Rokoduguni made a try-scoring return to Test rugby against Fiji, before being dropped from the squad to face the Pumas.
Regular full-back Mike Brown and prop Joe Marler both missed training on Tuesday, but neither have a serious injury.
Forwards: Dave Attwood (Bath Rugby), Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers), Charlie Ewels (Bath Rugby), Jamie George (Saracens), Teimana Harrison (Northampton Saints), Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints), Nathan Hughes (Wasps), George Kruis (Saracens), Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints), Joe Marler (Harlequins), Chris Robshaw (Harlequins), Kyle Sinckler (Harlequins), Mako Vunipola (Saracens), Tom Wood (Northampton Saints).
Backs: Mike Brown (Harlequins), Danny Care (Harlequins), Owen Farrell (Saracens), George Ford (Bath Rugby), Jonathan Joseph (Bath Rugby), Jonny May (Gloucester Rugby), Semesa Rokoduguni (Bath Rugby), Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs), Ben Te'o (Worcester Warriors), Marland Yarde (Harlequins), Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers).
Officers are investigating the "suspicious" death of Ethel Joyce Baldwin, at Abbey House Care Home, in Netley Abbey, Hampshire.
The 36-year-old arrested woman has been bailed until 2 December.
Hampshire police said they were working to ensure vulnerable residents and families were being supported.
A post-mortem examination was held earlier this week.
A spokesman for the care home said staff notified police and the safeguarding authority when they became aware Ms Baldwin "may have been assaulted" on 29 August.
The home said she died in hospital on 13 September.
Staff described Ms Baldwin, who was known by her middle name of Joyce, and admitted to the home about two years ago for palliative care, as "much loved" and "a pleasure to look after".
Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey and West Ham defender James Collins are also absent from Chris Coleman's squad.
Coleman said Bale's absence was a joint decision between the Football Association of Wales and Real Madrid.
Wales host Northern Ireland in Cardiff on 24 March before travelling to Ukraine four days later.
Bale was also absent from the Wales squad that lost to the Netherlands in November, following correspondence with Madrid.
His availability for March was thought to depend on the impending birth of his second child.
Midfielder Andy King is also absent after missing Leicester City's win over Newcastle on Monday because of illness.
But Tottenham Hotspur defender Ben Davies is included despite suffering a head injury in Thursday's Europa League loss to Borussia Dortmund.
Fulham defender Jazz Richards comes into the squad in place of Newcastle's Paul Dummett, who picked up a hamstring problem in January.
Richards' Fulham team-mate George Williams also comes into midfield in the absence of King and Wolves' David Edwards - who required surgery on a foot injury.
The other changes from Coleman's 24-man squad in November see Southampton's Lloyd Isgrove, Brighton's Andrew Crofts, Reading's Hal Robson-Kanu and Birmingham City's David Cotterill all recalled to a now-26-man squad.
Coleman on Bale: "It was a joint decision. Real Madrid have been absolutely first class all the way along.
"They have never ever put an obstacles in our way, so equally we have to recognise that, if you look at the last couple of months, they have been tough for Gareth fitness-wise.
"And looking at the bigger picture it is all about the summer, making sure we have our strongest squad going into the tournament and, of course, he is part of that.
"So at this moment in time it suits both parties that he does not come. It is not just the games, it will be the travelling as well."
"Both parties feel it is right he stays where he is, works there, gets treatment, does everything he needs to do there. I think he will benefit from that between now and the end of the season."
Coleman on the relationship with Real Madrid: "We have worked as hard with Real Madrid as with any other club. Internationals do not belong to us. I have said that before.
"We have to make sure we look after them when we get them and we treat them properly because if you do not, you gamble with their fitness and down the line you are going to be punished for that.
"You cannot blame clubs for reacting if their player has been pushed too much and you have gambled with him if he is carrying an injury, he goes back to his club and he can't play for three or four weeks.
"We have never ever done that. We have never gambled.
"But to be fair to Madrid, myself and Osian Roberts, we went out there spent a few days there. I think they appreciated that. We certainly did."
Goalkeepers: Hennessey, Ward, Fon Williams.
Defenders: A Williams (c), Chester, Davies, Gunter, Matthews, Taylor, Henley, Richards.
Midfielders: Ledley, Allen, Vaughan, Huws, J Williams, MacDonald, G Williams, Isgrove, Crofts.
Forwards: Cotterill, Robson-Kanu, Lawrence, Church, Vokes, Bradshaw.
Camila Batmanghelidjh said she gave "robust" arguments for her charity, which she expected to be scrutinised.
Speaking two weeks after MPs found the charity had shut due to a "catalogue of failures", she said she had been a victim of racism and media attacks.
The PM has said it was right to give the charity "every chance" to survive.
Kids Company, which supported deprived and vulnerable inner-city children and young people in London, Liverpool and Bristol, closed last August.
The report by the Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) laid heavy criticism on Ms Batmanghelidjh and the charity's trustees for "negligent financial mismanagement", "lavish spending", and failing to give robust evidence of its outcomes.
It also rebuked successive ministers for appearing to release public money to Kids Company "on the basis of little more than their relationship with a charismatic leader, small-scale studies and anecdotes".
Ms Batmanghelidjh "appeared to captivate some of the most senior political figures in the land, by the force of the chief executive's personality", the report added.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme, Ms Batmanghelidjh said: "I think that it's sad that people think in this day and age that you can mesmerise people.
"I present arguments that I hope are robust, and people that I deal with I hope have the intelligence to scrutinise my arguments and make their own decisions.
"I would put the question to you another way - if I was capable of mesmerising the prime minister of this country, who have you voted for? Because that would be very dangerous."
In a wide-ranging interview, she also:
Among the government grants called into question by the Commons report was a £3m payment to Kids Company just days before it collapsed.
Conservative minister Oliver Letwin, who overruled civil service objections to the grant, has said he believed it was "the right thing to do to give this charity one last chance to restructure".
At the time, Mr Cameron also said he believed it was right to give the charity a final chance to restructure and to "continue its excellent work".
June 2015: Concerns raised by the Cabinet Office about Kids Company's request for a £3m government grant, but ministers approve the funding
July 2015: Ms Batmanghelidjh steps down, denying the charity has been mismanaged. The Met Police launches an investigation into allegations of failings and abuse linked to the charity.
August 2015: Ministers say they want to recover the government grant. The charity closes. Ms Batmanghelidjh tells the BBC that Kids Company was subjected to a "trial by media"
October 2015: Ms Batmanghelidjh and Kids Company chairman Alan Yentob (at the time also a BBC executive) appear before the Commons Public Administration Committee and again deny the charity was badly run. The National Audit Office says the charity received at least £46m of public money despite repeated concerns over its management
January 2016: The Met Police says it has concluded its investigation into allegations against the charity, and concluded there is no evidence of criminality
What went wrong?
The government has said it will review its grant-giving process in light of the committee's findings.
Last month, the Metropolitan Police announced that it had found no evidence of criminality after investigating allegations of physical and sexual abuse at the charity. Kids Company had always denied the claims.
Ms Batmanghelidjh defended the safeguarding procedures at the charity, saying they were far more rigorous than other organisations.
The full interview will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme on Friday, 12 February at 10:00 GMT.
MSP Graeme Pearson said the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) Forensic Services currently have 2,500 unsolved drugs cases.
Mr Pearson, the former director general of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency, said it could take a year to clear the backlog.
A Scottish government spokeswoman said the claims were "misleading".
Mr Pearson, Scottish Labour's justice spokesman, said: "People need to know the police will be there when they call and that cases will be dealt with swiftly."
He said the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) police support staff working in forensic services had fallen by nearly 50 (almost 10%) since 2011, while the budget had been cut by more than £350,000 since 2007.
"Scottish Labour want to reform the system so that the needs of the victims are put first. An investigation dragging on can only add to a victim's anxiety" he said.
"The SNP say we should judge them on their record. Their record on forensics is one of staffing cuts and stalled cases."
But the Scottish government said drugs cases were being dealt with efficiently, making maximum use of Scotland's world-class forensic services.
A government spokeswoman said: "The SPA works closely with Police Scotland, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service to manage the testing of drugs and prioritise cases appropriately.
"We have invested £73m to create the Scottish Crime Campus at Gartcosh and Scotland now has one of the leading DNA facilities in Europe as a direct result of that investment."
The SPA said the demand for forensic science drugs services was increasing with a growing complexity on analysis with the rise of psychoactive substances otherwise known as "legal highs".
A spokesman for the SPA said legal highs accounted for 10% of drugs submitted for testing compared with only 1% just a few years ago.
"The Scottish Police Authority has to work within the public spending challenges all public bodies face but the revenue budget for forensics in 2015-16 has seen a slight increase this year" he said.
The woman's body was found in a house in Mill Green, Wolverhampton, in the early hours of Thursday.
Her husband was found dead a short time later after "a single car collision" in Dover, West Midlands Police said.
Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths of the couple, who were both in their 60s.
Det Insp Warren Hines said post-mortem examinations will take place in due course.
Ryan Inniss, 21, who is on a season-long loan at Southend United from Crystal Palace, was jailed for 14 weeks after he admitted assault.
It meant he was in HMP Belmarsh when his League One club faced Scunthorpe away on Saturday.
A judge has now suspended the sentence for 18 months.
Inniss, of Albemarle Road, Beckenham, south-east London, was jailed at Bexley Magistrates' Court on Wednesday following the assault at Time nightclub in Beckenham on 1 May.
Judge Adam Hiddleston, who heard the appeal at Croydon Crown Court, ordered Inniss complete 240 hours community service and banned him from entering licensed premises - except for work or buying food - for a year.
He must also complete an alcohol treatment requirement and comply with the magistrates' order to pay ??300 to his victim.
Defender Inniss has never made a first-team appearance for Crystal Palace and has had loan spells at Cheltenham Town, Luton Town, Gillingham, Yeovil Town and Port Vale.
He signed with Southend United last month.
Applause rang out at the hearing when the decision was made to keep 76-year-old Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr in jail.
Blanton was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001.
He was part of a group that blew up a Baptist church in Birmingham, killing an 11 year old and three 14 year-olds.
His former prosecutor said he had never expressed remorse.
Eyewitnesses talk about the Birmingham church bombing
Two other men convicted of the bombing have since died in prison.
The group bombed the 16th Avenue Baptist church, which was being used as a meeting place by black civil rights leaders, in an attempt to maintain racial separation in the southern states of the US.
Public schools in the city were facing an order to desegregate - to educate black and white children together - at the time.
The deaths of Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Morris (also known as Cynthia Wesley) were a defining moment in the civil rights era.
Blanton can be considered for parole again in five years' time.
Black leaders in the US have opposed his release, and members of the victims' families spoke at the hearing to argue that he should stay behind bars.
Tunisia's prime minister, diplomats, Tunisians and tourists gathered on the beach to pay their respects.
A one-minute silence was held simultaneously in Sousse and across the UK, home to 30 of those killed.
Authorities say they have uncovered the network behind the attack and are holding eight suspects.
Security has been stepped up at the beach and many people are still devastated by what happened a week ago, says the BBC's Ben Brown in Sousse.
Hotels and beaches are empty as thousands of tourists have already left the country following the attack, he says.
The Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid and the British ambassador Hamish Cowell laid wreaths on the beach.
The Tunis government fears the attack, which jihadist group Islamic State (IS) has claimed, will destroy its tourism industry, the country's biggest foreign currency earner.
Authorities have identified 28-year-old student Seifeddine Rezgui as the gunman who carried out the attack.
They have also deployed 1,377 armed security agents at hotels and on beaches to guarantee the safety of people, AFP reports.
In March, IS killed 22 people at the famous Bardo museum in Tunisia's capital, Tunis.
At the scene: Thomas Fessy, BBC News, Sousse
The Tunisian prime minister and several government ministers came, along with ambassadors from the UK, the US, France, Portugal, Ireland and the Netherlands.
Representatives from Belgium, Canada and Libya also attended the brief commemorative gathering.
They all arrived in silence, lay wreaths of flowers in front of the plaque erected at the scene of the attack, before two trumpets gave a solemn salute.
Dozens of tourists had come to pay their respects too. Most of them attended in their swimsuits and beach towels wrapped around their waist.
The smell of sun cream floating around was a strange reminder of the 38 people who were killed here, most of them lying on sun beds, enjoying some relaxing holiday time.
Dignitaries left without a word while tourists and Tunisians - some of whom were hotel staff - formed a human chain holding hands around the flowers that were laid in the sand throughout the morning.
Former world champion Amy Marren, 17, achieved the time in the SM9 200m medley.
Matt Wylie, 19, and Ryan Crouch, 22, met the S9 50m freestyle standard.
Sascha Kindred, aiming to reach his sixth Paralympic Games, missed out in the SM6 200m heats by 0.23 seconds. He races again in Wednesday's finals.
It takes the number of GB swimmers to have achieved the qualification times for Rio to 24.
While they are not guaranteed a place in the GB team for the Paralympics, which run from 7-18 September, they are highly likely to feature when it is named next month.
Joy Milne's husband, Les, died in June, aged 65.
He worked as a consultant anaesthetist before being diagnosed with Parkinson's at the age of 45.
One in 500 people in the UK has Parkinson's - that is 127,000 across Britain.
It can leave people struggling to walk, speak and sleep. There is no cure and no definitive diagnostic test.
Joy noticed something had changed with her husband long before he was diagnosed - six years before.
She says: "His smell changed and it seemed difficult to describe. It wasn't all of a sudden. It was very subtle - a musky smell.
"I got an occasional smell."
Joy only linked this odour to Parkinson's after joining the charity Parkinson's UK and meeting people with the same distinct odour.
By complete chance she mentioned this to scientists at a talk. They were intrigued.
Edinburgh University decided to test her - and she was very accurate.
Dr Tilo Kunath, a Parkinson's UK fellow at the school of biological sciences at Edinburgh University, was one of the first scientists Joy spoke to.
He says: "The first time we tested Joy we recruited six people with Parkinson's and six without.
"We had them wear a t-shirt for a day then retrieved the t-shirts, bagged them and coded them.
"Her job was to tell us who had Parkinson's and who didn't.
"Her accuracy was 11 out of 12. We were quite impressed."
Dr Kunath adds: "She got the six Parkinson's but then she was adamant one of the 'control' subjects had Parkinson's.
"But he was in our control group so he didn't have Parkinson's.
"According to him and according to us as well he didn't have Parkinson's.
"But eight months later he informed me that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's.
"So Joy wasn't correct for 11 out of 12, she was actually 12 out of 12 correct at that time.
"That really impressed us and we had to dig further into this phenomenon."
And that is exactly what they are doing.
Scientists believe that changes in the skin of people with early Parkinson's produces a particular odour linked to the condition.
They hope to find the molecular signature responsible for the odour and then develop a simple test such as wiping a person's forehead with a swab.
The charity Parkinson's UK is now funding researchers at Manchester, Edinburgh and London to study about 200 people with and without Parkinson's.
A simple test for Parkinson's could be life-changing, according to Katherine Crawford, the Scotland director of Parkinson's UK.
"This study is potentially transformational for the lives of people living with Parkinson's," she says.
"Parkinson's is an incredibly difficult disease to diagnose.
"We still effectively diagnose it today the way that Dr James Parkinson diagnosed it in 1817, which is by observing people and their symptoms.
"A diagnostic test like this could cut through so much of that, enable people to go in and see a consultant, have a simple swab test and come out with a clear diagnosis of Parkinson's.
"It would be absolutely incredible and life-changing for them immediately."
Ms Crawford adds: "They and their professional colleagues would be able to discuss and arrange a treatment programme, be able to monitor the progression of the disease and treat it appropriately as it went on and it would potentially offer more opportunities for people living with Parkinson's to get involved in research."
It might have been an accidental discovery but Joy hopes it will make a real difference to people starting out on their own journey with Parkinson's.
Kyles completed their 2-0 defeat of Oban Camanachd in the first quarter of the game while it was well into extra-time before Newtonmore first found the net in their 3-0 victory over Lovat.
Kinlochshiel went top of the Marine Harvest Premiership with a 3-0 win at Kilmallie and Kingussie also leapfrogged previous leaders Kyles with victory by the same score at home to Glasgow Mid Argyll.
Lochaber cashed in on the defeats of Mid Argyll and Kilmallie to overtake them both from the bottom with a 3-1 home success over Glenurquhart.
In the MacAulay Cup South semi-final in Oban, Colin MacDonald opened the scoring after just three minutes and on 23 added a second to effectively seal the tie.
It was totally different in the North tie at Beauly where 90 minutes came and went goalless and it was midway through the first period of extra-time before Jamie Robinson eventually got the breakthrough for Newtonmore. Robinson then broke Lovat's hearts with a second just before the turnaround and Michael Russell put the tie to bed with 10 minutes of play remaining.
Newtonmore now go into the final at Oban's Mossfield Park on 19 August having recorded comfortable back-to-back league and Camanachd Cup wins over their opponents from Tighnabruaich.
In the Premiership, Scott MacLean opened for Kinlochshiel late in the first half and Duncan MacRae made it 2-0 early in the second. A Keith MacRae penalty then confirmed the victory that put Shiel top of the table with 19 points from 11 games, with Kyles on 17 from 10.
Splitting these two on 18 points but from 14 outings are Kingussie. Ruaridh Anderson sent them well on their way to victory at the Dell over Glasgow Mid Argyll with a quick-fire double early in the second half and Lee Bain netted late on.
Meanwhile, Shaun Nicholson sent Lochaber on their way to victory. James MacPherson equalised for Glenurquhart just after the hour but Stuart Callison responded instantly before Ryan Johnstone confirmed Lochaber's winning cushion.
These results leave Kilmallie, who have a slightly inferior goal difference, and Mid Argyll still on five points at the bottom, now two behind Lochaber but with two and three games in hand respectively. The bottom side is relegated while second bottom play off against the National Division runners-up.
In the second tier, Caberfeidh and Skye put themselves in pole position for those promotion places. Cabers gained revenge for the previous Saturday's Balliemore Cup final defeat by Fort William with a 1-0 home win over the same opponents. Meanwhile, Skye are also undefeated - a point adrift but with a game in hand - after their 4-0 win at Inveraray.
Oban Celtic beat Strathglass 2-1 at Cannich in the other National Division game.
The Oxford University research stresses the importance of a man's attitude to fatherhood soon after birth.
This can influence later behaviour more than undertaking childcare and chores.
The study assessed if fathers were confident with their child, formed a strong bond and felt closer to their partner as a result of parenthood.
Writing in the journal BMJ Open, the researchers concluded: "The findings of this research study suggest that it is psychological and emotional aspects of paternal involvement in a child's infancy that are most powerful in influencing later child behaviour and not the amount of time that fathers are engaged in childcare or domestic tasks in the household.
"How new fathers see themselves as parents, how they value their role as a parent and how they adjust to this new role, rather than the amount of direct involvement in childcare in this period, appears to be associated with positive behavioural outcomes in children."
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The data for the research was taken from a long-running programme in the south-west of England - the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.
The parents of 10,440 children, who were living with both their mother and father at the age of eight months, were asked to complete a questionnaire about their and their child's mental health.
They were also asked about issues such as attitudes to parenting, time spent on childcare, child behaviour and development.
Information was also available on more than 6,000 children when they were aged nine and 11.
The results showed that fathers who scored well on having an emotional response to their child and feeling secure in their role as a parent had children who were up to 28% less likely to suffer behavioural problems in their pre-teen years than fathers who scored lower.
The researchers said: "Positive parenting by fathers may contribute to good outcomes in children in a number of ways.
"Involved fathers may influence children indirectly by being a source of instrumental and emotional support to mothers who provide more of the direct care for children.
"The potential positive effect of this on mothers' wellbeing and parenting strategies may then lead to better outcomes in children.
"There is evidence that fathers' involvement can also alleviate the impact of factors such as maternal depression, which are known to increase children's risk of behavioural problems.
"Greater paternal involvement may also lead to, or be a manifestation of, a happy and cohesive family, and this may bring about better outcomes in children."
We all know anything can happen in Celeb Big Brother, but we've made some predictions for each of this year's contestants.
Here's what we think:
Camila "Cami Li" Figueras
Our money is firmly on Cami Li for this one and it's a no-brainer really.
The model and ex-fiance of Towie's Kirk Norcross (himself an ex-CBB contestant) admits: "I'll be like, 'I've arrived, look at me, look at these titties and this ass.'
"People are so conservative and when they look at me I'm like, 'I work out to look good naked.'
"I don't care what they say. You were born naked so why not?"
With that attitude, she's likely to fill the tabloids over the next few days or weeks, but we don't reckon we've got a winner on our hands.
Chloe Goodman
She may be a glamour model, but sorry to disappoint, Chloe Goodman is promising not to be "that girl".
The "Ex on the Beach" contestant, who was once linked to Towie's Mario Falcone, says getting naked on the show is "so obvious".
She says: "Shove a young girl in a bikini and just prance around. I'd like to think I've got a little bit more to myself than that.
"Obviously I will have to get in a bikini at least once because there is a hot tub, but I won't just do it for attention."
She's being dubbed the hottest contestant this year but reckons: "People will realise that I'm not the sexy one when I get comfortable.
"I'll have my hair up, no make-up on, sweats on. Probably burping."
Lovely.
Katie Hopkins
The ex-Apprentice candidate has been described as "the most hated woman in Britain". And she says she's not out to show viewers another side to her personality.
"I haven't got a thing to prove, I'm not trying to show people that I'm nice," she says. "I'm just going in to do 'Katie'."
The best she's hoping for?
"People might think that actually Katie isn't a bitch 100% of the time. I think there is a funnier side to me, but equally I may come out as the biggest bitch in Britain again and that is also totally acceptable."
She's sure to be the centre of many an argument inside the CBB house. And let's just hope she doesn't consider any of her housemates overweight as she warns: "I have no empathy for a fat person."
Alicia Douvall
The plastic surgery-loving model is hoping not to get into any "major arguments" but admit's she probably will, saying, "I love a good argument, I'm the first one there".
And with Katie Hopkins in the mix, the chances of Alicia getting into a barney are even bigger.
"I definitely do not want to be in a house with her," she says of her fellow contestant.
Uh oh, we see how this could end.
And there could be friction with her ex Calum Best who she'll be forced to spend time with in the house this year.
Alicia also claims "I don't cook and I don't clean". We all know where that attitude gets you in the Big Brother house.
Calum Best
Let's face it. He's a bit of a stud.
He's had a string of famous girlfriends and won Celebrity Love Island in 2006 (if you don't remember it, imagine CBB on an island where celebs are encouraged to hook up - a winning formula).
He's admitted he's open to the idea of hitting it off with someone in the CBB house, saying, "If there is a girl and something evolves organically then I like the idea of going in there and getting on with somebody, but it isn't a focus of mine.
"My focus is going in there and making some cool friends, having some banter and if something organically came about then let it be".
He could always rekindle the romance with ex Alicia Douvall, but our money is on Chloe Goodman.
Jeremy Jackson
The American actor played the part of David Hasslehoff's son in Baywatch in the 1990s, so look out for the red swimming trunks in the hot tub which he says he's got with him.
We reckon this guy's going to enjoy being in the Big Brother House.
He says: "I'm eager to go and live it. I like to have fun with everything I do. I was thinking maybe we should all write a song in there."
And why the devil not?
"I'm just going to go in, roll the dice and see what happens," he says.
Sounds like perfect housemate material.
Perez Hilton
Celebrity blogger, turned Celebrity Big Brother contestant Perez Hilton, is promising to bring not one, but two personalities into the house.
He says: "People will discover the difference between the persona and the character and the person."
He's even brought fun outfits "that Perez would wear but I wouldn't".
What's more, he could give Big Brother a run for his money, saying, "I see right through people who play games. I invented the game. I know how to bend the rules. I've already bent the rules".
We have no idea how, but we're eager to find out.
Anthony Kavanagh AKA Kavana
If you don't remember singing heart-throb Kavana from the 90s, you might remember him from reality show The Big Reunion last year.
These days though, he enjoys a more laid back lifestyle saying for him, "getting a good night's sleep is very important".
But that could be a bit of a challenge in the Big Brother bedroom.
"I'm quite a light sleeper and it worries me that with all those other people in one room there will be snoring, if I'm not asleep and someone starts then I'll be awake counting every snore," he says.
If he does get to sleep though, he admits he's likely to snore himself. Slightly hypocritical.
And when he's not snoring, he reckons he'll be embarrassing himself by singing in the shower.
Keith Chegwin
He has a reputation for being a nice guy, although he admits he does get angry sometimes (if you don't know who he is, ask your mum).
But Cheggers reckons the rage would only last a minute, saying, "I can't be bothered".
He's planning on well and truly keeping out of any rows.
"Let them fight," he says. "Mediation is fantastic but it's not my job to do it."
He's the favourite to win but isn't counting his chickens just yet.
"We all have preconceptions about who will win. Who would have thought Jim Davidson would win, or Gary Busey? You just don't know," he says. "The public will decide."
True that.
Patsy Kensit
She's been an actress, singer and model, but Patsy Kensit is probably best known as an It-girl and Liam Gallagher's ex.
But she's promising not to spill the beans about her celeb friends or the Oasis singer.
"It's like a doctor discussing their patient," she says.
"Maybe there is a time and a place to talk about things, but this is not really the right environment."
All she will say on Liam is: "We have got an amazing child and everything is cool. Our lives are all very separate. I've never said a bad word about either of my boys' dads because there is no reason to."
Very noble. But let's hope she gives us something interesting.
Alexander O'Neal
The American R&B star from the 80s and 90s describes himself as "a very private person" (has he ever seen Big Brother?).
He also claims he doesn't "hang out with people".
"I'm never around people. Not like this. When I'm on my own time it's just my wife and me. So this is going to be very different," he says.
He also says he's not a fan of "smelling people" (like the rest of us are?), so living this close to 13 other celebs may prove problematic.
"I don't want to smell their breath, I don't want to smell their feet, I don't want to smell their farts," he says.
Hmmm, meet Ken Morely....
Ken Morley
The actor and comedian is best known for playing Reg Holdsworth in Corrie in the 90s.
More recently, you might have spotted him trying to flog windows and doors during the TV ad break.
But we're a little worried about how he'll get on with the "smellophobic" Alexander O'Neal, because Ken admits his bad habit is "flatulence".
"It does annoy the wife," he says.
All we can say is... Alexander, keep your distance.
Nadia Sawalha
The ex-EastEnders actress and Loose Woman has form for winning reality TV as 2007's Celebrity Masterchef champ and she could be a contender to win CBB too.
She's surely one of the nicest people in the house.
"If somebody just really isn't a very nice person then I will have a rub up with them," she says.
On Katie Hopkins, she says: "I suspect she acts a lot of what she says because I don't think anyone could be that nasty."
Aw, what a sweet thought.
Michelle Visage
In preparation for the show, singer Michelle has spent a lot of time shopping.
She promises to "deliver fashion every day" saying "everybody is packing for a month hoping that they will stay to the end, but I've packed for four months".
"If I can dress in theme for whatever the day is then I will. If not, then I'll go for beauty," she says.
The actress, radio presenter and judge on cult show RuPaul's Drag Race adds: "I'm in there for the gay community. And not just the gays but for any kid who feels like they've never belonged to a group.
"All the freaks, all the weirdos, all the misfits who never felt like their life was worth it."
Our money is on Michelle to win.
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The unbeaten champion faces compatriot Berto (30-3) in Las Vegas on 12 September, and would extend his winning run to 49 fights with victory.
Berto, a 31-year-old former world champion, was a surprise choice having lost three of his past six fights.
But Mayweather, 38, told a news conference: "I chose Berto because he's very exciting."
The final match-up of a six-fight deal with broadcaster Showtime, this could be WBC and WBA welterweight champion Mayweather's final time in the ring.
Many critics accused Mayweather of picking an easy fight on which to cement his unbeaten legacy.
"Berto is a tough competitor, a former world champion. Every time he goes out he gives it 100%," said Mayweather.
"He's been given backlash. I've been given backlash. But Andre Berto is going to push Floyd Mayweather to the limit."
Berto's trainer, Virgil Hunter, also defended Mayweather's choice of opponent.
He said: "When you look at that weight division, only one stands out, the rest is opinions. Andre Berto is deserving of this opportunity."
Berto, who said he was not surprised to be chosen to fight Mayweather, was more philosophical.
He said: "We should probably have had this fight a few years back but everything happens for a reason and the time is now."
Meanwhile, Britain's George Groves will fight Sweden's Badou Jack on the undercard for the WBC super-middleweight title.
It will be the English fighter's third world title challenge, following two losses to Carl Froch.
"It will be third time lucky this time," the 27-year-old said.
The equine bronze, by German artist Hans Haacke, is the tenth artwork to occupy the Square's Fourth Plinth.
London mayor Boris Johnson described the work as "a startlingly original comment on the relationship between art and commerce".
It replaces a giant blue cockerel which was on display for 18 months.
The riderless horse - with an electronic ticker of share prices, displayed on a bow around one of its front legs - is a wry reference to an equestrian statue of William IV originally planned for the plinth, but which never came to fruition due to a lack of funds.
Haacke, 78, who is based in New York, was inspired by an engraving in The Anatomy of the Horse (1766) by English painter George Stubbs, whose works are on display in the National Gallery, on Trafalgar Square.
At Thursday's unveiling, Haacke was reluctant to explain what his sculpture was trying to say.
"It is an invitation to make connections," he told the BBC, "but I would not like to give directions. I'm sure there will be a diversity of responses. That is not only true for this but any kind of art."
Boris Johnson said: "There will be those that say this undeniably unfed, emaciated quadruped is a warning, a memento mori, a symbol of the pursuit of austerity and the [Chancellor of the Exchequer] George Osborne diet approach to life.
"But I say no, my friends. This wonderful sculpture stands for the horse in all its incarnations... in these fabulous tubular structures we see symbolised the vital infrastructure - the tube - that must run beneath the surface of any great and beautiful city."
Gift Horse drew positive, if slightly bemused, comments from tourists.
One of the first people to see it was Tim Wright from Lancashire, who told the BBC: "I find it pleasing to look at but I've not a clue what it's trying to say."
"It's wonderful to see something unusual," said Georgia Bartlett, on a day trip from Poole in Dorset. "What's it saying? I just don't know. But it's a beautiful sculpture against the skyline."
Booker Prize-winning author Howard Jacobson, who was walking through Trafalgar Square as it was unveiled, said: "I'm very pleased the blue cockerel is gone - I enjoyed that joke for a weekend.
"I really like this. This is what the Stock Exchange has done to the body of the horse. It's a good conceit - I'm for it. But I might have changed my mind by the end of the weekend."
Mark Wallinger's figure Ecce Homo was the first piece to stand on the empty plinth - in the northwest corner of the square - in 1999.
Other works include Alison Lapper Pregnant by Marc Quinn (2005), Nelson's Ship in a Bottle by Yinka Shonibare (2010) and Elmgreen and Dragset's Powerless Structures, Fig 101 - a sculpture of a boy astride his rocking horse.
The next sculpture on the plinth - to be unveiled in 2016 - is British artist David Shrigley's bronze artwork Really Good. It consists of a hand with a disproportionately long thumb.
More than 60 organisations and people involved in art in the region have published a 10-year strategy to enhance the area's reputation in the art world.
The new festival will combine work by local and international artists and is expected to get off the ground in 2019.
That is the year after Tyneside hosts the Great Exhibition of the North.
On Tuesday, the government announced that Newcastle and Gateshead had won the contest to host the £5m event in summer 2018.
The new festival is separate and aims to build on the history of the Tyne International art festival, which was held in Newcastle and Gateshead in 1990 and '92.
The 10-year strategy that was published on Friday also lays out plans to draw on the area's industrial past by setting up major sculpture production facilities by 2025.
The North East Contemporary Visual Arts Network hopes to encourage more artists to live and work in the region with more studio facilities.
And the strategy says its members will work together to get more people involved in the arts in the area and raise the profile of work created in the region.
Sarah Munro, director of the Baltic art gallery in Gateshead, said: "We believe now more than ever before that the visual arts have a vital role to play in the future international profile, economic growth, social capital and political issues of the north-east."
Ady Pennock's men had the first opportunity of the game after just five minutes when Cody McDonald was fed nicely by Lee Martin but could only hit the side-netting.
Charlton's first chance came through Nathan Byrne who saw his shot deflect wide.
The subsequent corner in the 20th minute by Ricky Holmes found the head of Jason Pearce to score his first of the season to give the Addicks the lead.
Karl Robinson's side then doubled their advantage after 31 minutes when Holmes fired home a lovely free-kick to secure his 11th goal of the season.
Gillingham could have pulled a goal back before half-time but Joe Quigley headed wide.
After the break, Charlton extended their lead when Jordan Botaka teed up Josh Magennis, who kept calm to convert from inside the penalty area.
The result leaves the Gills four points above the drop although they have played a game more than 21st-placed Port Vale.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Charlton Athletic 3, Gillingham 0.
Second Half ends, Charlton Athletic 3, Gillingham 0.
Joe Aribo (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jake Hessenthaler (Gillingham).
Attempt missed. Bradley Dack (Gillingham) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Nathan Byrne (Charlton Athletic).
Josh Parker (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Joe Aribo replaces Jake Forster-Caskey.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Jake Forster-Caskey.
Attempt blocked. Jake Hessenthaler (Gillingham) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Rory Donnelly (Gillingham) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Nathan Byrne (Charlton Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nathan Byrne (Charlton Athletic).
Bradley Dack (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Johnnie Jackson (Charlton Athletic) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Tomas Holy.
Attempt saved. Ricky Holmes (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Gillingham. Emmanuel Osadebe replaces Lee Martin.
Foul by Nathan Byrne (Charlton Athletic).
Adedeji Oshilaja (Gillingham) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Johnnie Jackson replaces Ezri Konsa Ngoyo.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Adedeji Oshilaja.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Adedeji Oshilaja.
Jake Forster-Caskey (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jake Hessenthaler (Gillingham).
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Karlan Ahearne-Grant replaces Jordan Botaka.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Ryan Jackson.
Attempt blocked. Rory Donnelly (Gillingham) right footed shot from long range on the left is blocked.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Jordan Botaka.
Attempt missed. Bradley Dack (Gillingham) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Andrew Crofts (Charlton Athletic).
Josh Wright (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Josh Parker (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nathan Byrne (Charlton Athletic).
Attempt missed. Rory Donnelly (Gillingham) header from the left side of the six yard box is too high.
Attempt blocked. Bradley Dack (Gillingham) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Lee Martin (Gillingham) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Ricky Holmes (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jake Hessenthaler (Gillingham).
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Zoologists placed the horned frog, a predator known to swallow whole mice, in front of a glass slide and tempted it with a tasty cricket.
Stronger pulling forces were measured when contact with the glass was briefer and less mucus was left behind.
The study, from the journal Scientific Reports, suggests the action of the tongue is similar to sticky tape.
"It's the first time we've ever measured how well frog tongues stick," said Dr Thomas Kleinteich, who performed the experiments at the University of Kiel in Germany.
Dr Kleinteich works in a group that studies biological adhesives, including gecko and beetle feet, with a view to finding new designs for sticky applications like boot soles, tapes and parcel closures.
"The thing that's interesting about frog tongues is that they're really fast," he told BBC News. "It only takes milliseconds."
The South American horned frog in particular, a popular pet, is known for its ability to snatch morsels up to half its own size - from locusts and fish to other amphibians and small rodents.
In the wild, they lurk half-buried in wait for their prey, and then "they swallow pretty much everything that fits into their mouths," Dr Kleinteich said.
To study this combination of strength and speed, he bought four horned frogs from local pet shops. During their regular feeding routine, he presented each frog with an adult cricket behind a glass slide, attached to a transducer that recorded the forces exerted by the frog's tongue.
On average, these forces were larger than the weight of the frog itself, and in the case of one young amphibian more than three times larger.
After each trial, the equipment was removed and the frog got its treat. Dr Kleinteich ultimately needed twenty measurements from each frog, so the predators had to be kept happy.
Looking at the slides afterwards, the "tongue print" left behind on the glass slide offered more insights, including massive variation in the proportion of the contact area that was covered by mucus.
"The common belief is... that the mucus acts as some sort of superglue," Dr Kleinteich explained. "But what we found was actually that we got higher adhesive forces in trials where we found less mucus. That was quite interesting."
The mucus appeared to build up over time, so that cases where the tongue touched the glass for longer left more mess behind. "But during the initial contact, the mucus coverage was rather low," said Dr Kleinteich. "So to actually establish the contact, there might be very little mucus involved."
"It plays a role. It's definitely a wet adhesive system, it's not just structure and friction, because there is some fluid involved. But the key is the structure plus the mucus.
"It's not like having a liquid glue, it's rather like a sticky tape."
That comparison applies particularly to the way the tongue peels away from the glass. The researchers saw stringy "fibrils" of mucus stretching between the two surfaces, just like the ones you can see if you look closely at sticky tape peeling off a surface.
The team is now using microscopes to examine the fine details of the tongue's surface and see more of its sticky secrets.
Dr Kleinteich said he enjoyed doing the feeding experiments. "It's fun," he said. "I used to do a lot of morphological, descriptive work with amphibians - I used to study dead, museum specimens. For me it was quite exciting to work with the living frogs and see how they behave."
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Childcare is among the costs considered by mortgage providers when deciding whether an applicant should be given a home loan.
Some families are temporarily cutting this cost, while others find they are offered a smaller loan, Uswitch claims.
The price comparison site said one in six had been rejected or given less.
It asked 1,000 parents with children aged 12 and under who had applied for a mortgage in the last 10 years in a survey.
Of those asked, 17% said that they had been turned down for a mortgage or offered a smaller loan than they expected owing to the cost of childcare.
Tashema Jackson, from Uswitch, said: "It is worrying that many feel under pressure to conceal these costs during the mortgage application process, as this may have a severe impact on their ability to meet repayments in future."
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), which represents banks, building societies and other lenders, said: "Lenders must take into account all the key financial commitments of borrowers. That could mean that those who have to pay for childcare may not be able to borrow as much as others with a similar income who do not have these commitments.
"The aim is to try to ensure that every mortgage is affordable, taking into account the circumstances of the borrower."
Latest figures from the CML show that the appetite among mortgage applicants is undimmed and stronger than a year ago.
First-time buyers borrowed £5.1bn in August, up 13% on July and a 24% increase on August last year. This equated to 31,800 loans.
The average first-time buyer was aged 30, they typically borrowed £136,300 and, on average, gave a deposit of 15%.
Home movers were advanced 34,200 loans, borrowing £7.1bn, which was up 15% on July and a 3% increase compared to a year ago.
A cut in interest rates by the Bank of England to a new historic low of 0.25% will keep demand high, according to Paul Smee, director general of the CML.
"Mortgage rates remain at or close to historic lows, and the re-pricing of mortgages following August's base rate cut should help to underpin a continuing, strong appetite for home-ownership over the coming months," he said.
However, figures from financial information service Moneyfacts suggest that not all lenders have been reflecting the entire cut in the base rate in their mortgage costs.
The average drop in standard variable rate (SVR) mortgages was only 0.17%, Moneyfacts said. The base rate was cut from 0.5% to 0.25%.
Charlotte Nelson, from Moneyfacts, said: "Many borrowers on their SVR hoping to benefit from the Bank of England reduction could be sorely disappointed as two months on, a quarter of lenders have still yet to cut their rates to reflect the new circumstances."
Paula Vasco-Knight, 53, was the national lead for equalities for NHS England, with a budget of £200,000.
Exeter Crown Court heard she commissioned her husband's firm to produce a £9,000 newsletter as part of her equalities work.
She denies three counts of fraud from 2012 to 2013 when she was in charge of South Devon NHS Foundation Trust.
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Gareth Evans, prosecuting, said Mrs Vasco-Knight's failure to declare interest in her husband's company Thinking Caps was a criminal offence.
The newsletter was commissioned in April 2013 and produced that July, the court heard.
Mrs Vasco-Knight simply described the contractor as 'Steve' to Habib Naqvi, a senior manager in the NHS, and did not mention he was her husband, the court was told.
She later attempted to distance herself from involvement by blaming Mr Naqvi for commissioning the newsletter.
The court heard Mrs Vasco-Knight of Runcorn, Cheshire, also used NHS funds to buy a MacBook Pro computer, which she later admitted she never used.
She is also said to have paid her husband £11,072 of taxpayers' money to design a 200-page document entitled Transform.
The court heard the document was never submitted to the NHS, with the couple showing investigators a "complete sham" as evidence of it in 2014.
"That is fraud and it is dishonest in the extreme," said Mr Evans.
Stephen Vasco Knight, 45, denies one count of fraud.
Mr Naqvi, 28, of Wells Road, Bristol, denies two counts of encouraging the commission of the offences.
The jury heard Mrs Vasco-Knight was the CEO of the trust, based in Torbay until her resignation in May 2014.
The trial continues.
He suffered a heart attack in Daytona Beach in Florida where he was due to play a concert on Wednesday evening.
He followed his father in the music business as a teenager, and later became his father's musical director and conductor.
He was famously kidnapped and held for ransom when he was 19.
A gang seized him at gunpoint at a casino in Lake Tahoe. His father paid a $240,000 (£168,000) ransom, which was later recovered after the kidnappers were arrested.
When he died on Wednesday, Frank Junior was due to perform at the Peabody Auditorium as part of his Sinatra Sings Sinatra tour, which included some of his father's greatest hits interwoven with family reminiscences.
The venue announced on its Facebook page: "Frank Sinatra Jr has passed away. Our love to his family and friends."
His sister Nancy, who also followed their father into the music business, said on her Facebook page: "Sleep warm, Frankie."
Tony Bennett wrote on Twitter: "I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Frank Sinatra Jr and send my sympathy to Tina and Nancy and the Sinatra family."
TV and radio host Larry King tweeted: "I always admired Frank Sinatra Jr. He was born with a hard name to live up to, but I loved his talent and his ability to be forthright."
Frank Sinatra Jr released six full-length albums and often made television appearances, recently starring as himself in two episodes of Family Guy.
Seth MacFarlane, who created the animated comedy, wrote: "Frank Sinatra, Jr. was a friend to Family Guy, and a friend to me. I'm saddened at his passing, but grateful to have known him."
Mia Farrow said: "RIP Frank Sinatra Jr. Thoughts with his mother Nancy, sisters Nancy and Tina and his son Michael."
Frank Sinatra Jr began singing with the Tommy Dorsey band, a version of the ensemble the elder Sinatra had sung with more than two decades before, at the age of 19.
The New York Times wrote in 1963: "Young Mr Sinatra has taken careful note of every aspect of his father's singing.
"He knows - and projects - the inflections, the shading, the phrasing that his father used."
Last year, he performed the national anthem at Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees games in celebration of the centennial of his father's birth.
Frank Senior died of a heart attack in 1998.
Last weekend's loss to Portsmouth means even victory over Crawley on Saturday would bring only a very slim chance of reaching the play-offs this term.
Evans told BBC Radio Nottingham he was "not a League Two manager".
"I need to be sure I get supported to build a promotion squad," he added.
"The first meeting I have to have is to sit down with the chairman and chief executive and make sure their ambition levels are where mine are.
"They have never ever flinched with anything I have asked, but I need to understand their ambitions. If they are at my level then we go forward together, if they aren't then it's a separate conversation."
Mansfield, in 12th, must beat Crawley and would need results to go their way in four other matches to make the top six. But if two of the following results do not happen then the Stags will be playing League Two again next season.
Evans is already resigned to missing out on the play-offs this season.
"We will try to win the game and hope squeaky bum time makes it difficult for the other teams, but you would think it has gone for us now," he said.
But the former Leeds boss, who joined on a two-and-half year contract in November, said plans were already in place for next season and he is a "million per cent" committed to staying if the the club are able to challenge for promotion to the third tier.
"You can't suddenly wake up in the second week of May and think about recruitment," he added.
"The football club stayed in League Two this season because the recruitment last summer was pretty horrendous.
"We have the opportunity to keep everyone, so I will sit down with the staff and chairman but I will make the final decisions on who stays and who goes.
"I am not a League Two manager and I am not here to be in League Two."
Pte Cheryl James, 18, died at Deepcut barracks, Surrey, in November 1995 from a single bullet wound to the head.
Her father, Des, said his legal team had struggled to obtain documents relating to the case from Surrey Police.
The force said it supported a "thorough inquest" into Pte James's death.
Mr James said police had only released details after being threatened with litigation.
At the High Court in February, Surrey Police requested a new inquest, ordered in July, be delayed.
"We are now told by Surrey Police that we only have 75% of that disclosure. It's becoming a bit of a joke for Surrey Police," Mr James said.
In December, the force said it would release the remaining 25% of documents by Easter.
It said it was continuing to provide voluntary disclosure of documents, and had a dedicated team working to complete the family's request "as quickly and effectively as possible".
But Mr James said documents had only been disclosed after pressure from his solicitors.
"I wanted them to give the documents to our legal representation and they were refusing," he said.
"They shouldn't be using the word 'voluntarily' - they're not being absolutely honest about it."
The force said it supported a "thorough inquest" into 18-year-old Pte James's death.
Pte James, from Denbighshire, was one of four soldiers found dead at Deepcut between 1995 and 2002.
A Surrey Police investigation was launched into their deaths in 2002, following pressure from families, who rejected suggestions the soldiers had committed suicide.
Pte James's parents believe their daughter suffered sexual harassment and bullying and said her death was treated as suicide, despite evidence to the contrary.
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The charity Drink Wise, Age Well will attempt to engage with the "hidden population" of drinkers in Cwm Taf via their GPs and roadshows.
Doctors can refer patients, who they think consume too much alcohol, to the group.
Women should not drink more than three small glasses of wine a day and men no more than four, the NHS says.
The charity provides group therapy, group activities and a counselling service.
Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taff were chosen by the project, financed by the Big Lottery Fund, because of its high rate of alcohol-related deaths and hospital admissions.
The project's Richard Broadway said: "People over 50 find themselves drinking more than the recommended guidelines for a number of reasons.
"They might be drinking at home alone or with one other person."
The scheme's roadshow will be in Maerdy community centre on Monday, Nazareth House day centre, Williamstown, Tonypandy on Tuesday, Soar in Merthyr Tydfil on Wednesday and Abercwmboi rugby club in Aberdare on Thursday.
Katrina Williams, 53, from Merthyr Tydfil, began drinking heavily at 18 when her baby died from cot death and worsened when her husband died of a heart attack 14 years ago.
At her lowest point she was drinking 10 pints of cider a day.
She said: "I never considered myself to be an alcoholic because I still went to work every day."
Since getting help from Treatment and Education Drug Services (TEDS) she tries to have four nights off drinking a week.
She said: "I don't want to stop drinking altogether. I'd just like to be able to go and out get merry and enjoy myself."
Retired deputy head Alun Parry, 65, from Merthyr Tydfil, referred himself to Drugaid Wales five years ago when he ended up drinking on a park bench and getting arrested.
"I would pick up a glass of wine instead of a cup of tea," he said.
Mr Parry is now involved in the running of the project.
Mother-of-three Beth Evans, 55, from Aberdare, started drinking daily when she divorced in 2006.
The former nurse said it spiralled from a few drinks at home after work to four bottles of wine a day.
"Eventually my children reported me to social services because they were worried I'd end up dead," she said.
Ms Evans has not had a drink since May and is receiving counselling.
Declan McDaid gave the visitors the lead after only two minutes and Michael Moffat made it 2-0.
Moore tapped home before the break and scored his second form the penalty spot after Graham Bowman fouled Moffat.
Striker Moore completed his hat-trick before Connor Shields scored a consolation for Rovers.
Alloa Athletic and Raith Rovers drew 1-1 at Recreation Park, with Kevin Cawley firing the hosts ahead with a low drive into the corner before Lewis Vaughan earned the visitors a point with a 90th-minute strike.
A Danny Denholm tap-in and Blair Yule's drive handed Arbroath a 2-0 home win over Queen's Park.
Mark Millar scored a sensational winner as Forfar Athletic picked up a 2-1 home win over Airdrieonians.
David Cox gave the Loons the lead, but Murray Loudon levelled after the break, only for Millar to win it with a long-range shot into the top corner.
At Stair Park, Jamie Hammil scored the only goal as Stranraer beat East Fife.
Rosales Mendoza's body was found along with three other bodies by a motorway in western Mexico.
All four victims had been shot dead, forensic experts said.
Rosales Mendoza, 52, was one of the founders of La Familia Michoacana, a drug cartel with a reputation for extreme violence which claims to defend family and religious values.
He was on the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)'s most wanted list.
The four bodies were found in the car park of a tollbooth on a motorway in the western state of Michoacan.
Forensic experts said the four had been tortured and killed somewhere else before their bodies were dumped in the car park.
It is not clear who may be behind the killing.
Rosales Mendoza is believed to have got involved in drug trafficking in the 1980s in Michoacan.
He rose through the ranks of local drug gangs and forged key alliances with members of the Gulf and Zetas cartels.
In 2000, he founded his own organisation, which he named La Familia Michoacana (The Michoacan Family) after the state that was his power base.
La Familia became a powerful criminal force in Michoacan. Cartel members trafficked in drugs, but were urged not to use them themselves.
The cartel claimed to protect the poor and said it defended traditional family values.
Its hit-men said they had the "divine right" to kill and dismember their enemies, which included members of rival gangs.
Rosales Mendoza is believed to have trained some of the men who later became powerful drug lords in their own right, including Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, Enrique "El Kike" Plancarte, Nazario Moreno and Dionicio "El Tio" Loya Plancarte.
In 2004, he organised an armed assault on a maximum security prison to spring a jailed ally from the Gulf cartel.
His men managed to free 25 inmates, but Rosales Mendoza was arrested on suspicion of masterminding the jailbreak and spent the next decade in prison.
While Rosales Mendoza was in prison, the men he had trained founded their own cartel, which they called the Knights Templar.
The Knights Templar, which claimed to follow in the footsteps of the Christian military order of the Middle Ages of the same name, soon became one of the main targets for the Mexican government.
Police say the cartel has been dismantled after all four of its main leaders were arrested or killed in the past two tears.
The security forces feared that Rosales Mendoza was trying to re-organise his drug-trafficking empire after his release from prison in 2014.
With the club unlikely to close the 12-point gap to the play-off places over the final nine matches, Batth insists the campaign is not going to peter out.
"Definitely not - that's not how we see it in the dressing room," Batth, 25, told BBC WM 95.6.
"It's very much business as usual, we're all working very hard."
A slow start to the campaign, winning just six of their opening 22 Championship matches, affected Wolves' early prospects of challenging for promotion.
The club have also been hit by a spate of injuries to key players, including Wales international Dave Edwards, and the sale of star striker Benilk Afobe to Bournemouth in January.
Four successive wins in December and January closed the gap to the top six to six points, but two victories in the past 11 games leaves Wolves 12th in the table after 37 matches.
But Batth insists they will put the last few fixtures to good use.
"We need to improve our system and keep progressing," he added.
"We have to win games at home - we've not done that enough this season, we've got to give the fans something to be happy about watching."
Heavy rain in the morning saw the match reduced to 34 overs per side.
Shiv Thakor took 4-49 for the hosts but a 104-run second-wicket partnership between Daryl Mitchell and Tom Fell (73) helped the visitors post 202-9.
In response, Greg Smith (34 not out) saw Leicestershire reach 93-2 off 15.4 overs before rain ended the match.
After Leicestershire won the toss and chose to bowl, both sets of players were forced to leave the field before the first ball was bowled as an unexpected burst of heavy rain interrupted proceedings.
When the players finally made it back out on to the field an impressive knock of 73 off 61 balls from Fell, which included 12 fours, held Worcestershire's innings together as Thakor, Charlie Shreck (2-26) and Ollie Freckingham (2-38) stifled the rest of the batsmen.
Although Charles Morris (1-19) and Joe Leach (1-25) reduced the home side to 45-2 early on in their reply, five fours from Smith ensured Leicestershire were well ahead of the D/L par score before rain intervened again.
Victory for the hosts means they can still qualify for the quarter-finals with just one spot in Group A remaining to be decided.
Leicestershire moved into fourth place on seven points and are away to Lancashire in their final match on Thursday, while Derbyshire sit in fifth place with six points and entertain third-placed Gloucestershire at the same time.
The Metropolitan Police said officers were called by bailiffs to the Grade II-listed property Cavell House on Charing Cross Road at 08:00 BST.
Fellow activists left the building but the pair stayed for about 14 hours.
A group calling themselves Love Activists said the building was not in current use and they planned to host a Christmas lunch for homeless people.
Scotland Yard said police attended the scene at the request of the bailiffs to prevent a breach of the peace.
The pair - a man, aged 22, and a woman, aged 21 - were arrested after leaving the balcony and taken to a central London police station on suspicion of breaching a court order.
Arthur Whitfield, 83, from Colwyn Bay, died after falling from a bed or chair at Llandudno Hospital in October 2015.
A post-mortem examination found he died from a number of falls.
Recording a narrative conclusion at the inquest in Ruthin, Denbighshire, the deputy coroner said "many opportunities had been missed" to stop him falling.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board carried out a serious incident review that revealed failings.
It is now looking at how it identifies patients at risk of falls.
The inquest heard Mr Whitfield was admitted to Glan Clwyd Hospital, Bodelwyddan, at least three times in October 2015 after falling.
On 21 October, he was transferred to Llandudno Hospital and while a fall eight days later was not witnessed, he was twice seen trying to climb out of bed.
He died on 30 October, with a post-mortem examination revealing bleeding on the brain.
Pathologist Dr Andrew Dalton told the inquest he did not die from a single fall, but "falls".
Following his death, the health board carried out a serious incident review and admitted a risk assessment was not carried out as promptly as it should have been.
"It beggars belief that after all the earlier incidents it could happen again," said North Wales East and Central deputy coroner Nicola Jones.
Recording a narrative conclusion, she said because there were so many falls, it was not possible to reach a conclusion of accidental death.
Ms Jones issued a regulation 28 report stating that until new methods are introduced, the risk to others still exist.
"If these matters are not introduced there will be future deaths," she added.
After the hearing, Mr Whitfield's daughter Elizabeth said the family faced difficulty in raising concerns with hospital staff.
A health board spokesman said: "We fully accept the coroner's findings and are reviewing the way we identify patients at risk of falls."
Many people will know Chvrches not for their tempestuous synth-pop, but for the vicious abuse targeted at singer Lauren Mayberry.
The frontwoman has repeatedly spoken out about the sickening, sexually aggressive messages she receives on a daily basis. But things reached a new peak in August, when the band released their new single, Leave A Trace.
Apparently, Mayberry's appearance in the video - she wore a dress - was proof that her views on the objectification of women were "hypocritical". The 27-year-old was subsequently sent messages calling her a "slut", a "whore" and a "bitch".
She made a robust response - calling the anonymous writers "cavemen" and describing their threats as "sadly predictable" - but when we speak, the singer is still feeling "tender" from the attacks, and the media frenzy that followed.
Would she rather not discuss the topic, I wonder? Does acknowledging the trolls simply encourage them?
Mayberry bristles at the suggestion.
"We probably get more trolls now because people think we painted a target on our backs," she says. "But I can hand-on-heart tell you that people said as much misogynist crap when I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt and 95 denier tights as they do when I am in a video wearing a dress.
"You could be standing there wearing a boiler suit and people are still going to do it because they don't think there should be a woman in that position.
"They don't send those messages to you for a giggle. They send them to scare and intimidate you. If I was like, 'It's ok, I'll just walk away,' it doesn't change anything. You're condoning it by being silent.
"If you don't like the record, cool. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But there is a difference between criticising the work and discussing someone's tit size or whether they give oral sex.
"There is a line, I think."
Success has come with major downsides, but Chvrches haven't let it affect them. When we meet to discuss their second album, Every Open Eye, in London, the trio display a camaraderie and mutual respect that simply isn't present in other bands.
"That's because it's early in the promo," says Mayberry, laughing. But the reality is that the support of her bandmates, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty, has been crucial to her sanity (and vice versa) since they were thrust, blinking, into the limelight two years ago.
There's even a song about it on the new record. "We are made of our longest days / We are falling but not alone," sings Mayberry on Make Them Gold.
"There have been great things, and a lot of things that aren't so great," she says, "but it's always nice to know that we are coming at it from a united standpoint.
"Totes emosh, right?"
Doherty jokes that the band's Scottish roots keep them level-headed.
"Nothing will ground you like a weekend at home in Glasgow," he grins. "If you've just been swanning about in California, you can go home and shout, 'I'm back!' but everyone else is like, 'Yeah? So what? I have to go to work.'"
"Nobody has got £12 to spend on a juice there, have they?" says Mayberry, adopting a thick Glaswegian brogue: "'What d'ye mean this juice was crushed by air? Just squeeze the fruit intae a cup for us.'"
Chvrches began almost by accident. Doherty and Cook had known each other for years, playing in guitar bands the Twilight Sad and Aereogramme respectively. When the latter split up, they began writing together, swapping guitars for sawtooth synths and walloping drum patterns.
Cook then asked Mayberry - whose band, Blue Sky Archives, he was producing - to sing on the demos. The sessions went so well, they formed their own group, calling it Chvrches (the Roman "v" making it easier to Google.)
Their first two singles, Lies and The Mother We Share, blew up online and earned the trio a place on the BBC's Sound of 2013. They were signed to Virgin shortly afterwards, selling half-a-million copies of their debut album, The Bones Of What You Believe.
The success was head-spinning - but it made the group determined to improve.
"Whether we expected to be here or not, we are a professional band now," says Mayberry. "Every time I go through customs, I write down professional singer as my employment. So I said, 'I need to change the way I look at this. I don't want to be constantly feeling like I'm chasing my tail."
Preparing for album number two, the group resisted the temptation to employ big-name pop producers and co-writers.
"People don't make albums any more," Cook theorises. "They make 11, 12 songs, and they put them out as an album but they feel like a greatest hits, or a playlist."
"It's a regurgitation of whatever cool counter-culture is going on," Doherty adds. "It's like, 'We've got the rap one, we've got the house one, we've got the R&B banger.'"
"And maybe out of those 10 or 11 songs, those co-writes that you do, there's a global number one. But it's not yours.
"So we took some steps to try and recapture where we were at before any of [the success] happened. We went back to Glasgow, we made the record in the same studio, we wrote every note ourselves."
Going in, the band were anxious their song-writing muscles might have wasted away after two years on the road. But "it was like turning a tap on," says Doherty.
"I don't remember the first two months of recording, because every day was like bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. After two months we had gone from nothing to 20-ish tunes."
Only one song, Afterglow, eluded them. It was vetoed time and time again, a victim of the band's democratic approach. But Doherty couldn't let it go.
"We all have a great relationship but we fell out over that song for about six weeks," he says, grimly.
"We really butted heads" Mayberry agrees."I was like, 'get away from me with that trance beat.'"
But on the last day of recording, the band pulled it off the shelf and "ripped it apart" - slowing it down, deleting the drum track and re-recording the vocals.
"It's the one song on the album that's a once-through vocal," Mayberry says. "And it's weird how much noise you make... All these swallowing, breathing sounds. There's a bit where you can hear the radiator clinking!
"But I like that - all those things give it personality. There's a lot of vocals you hear on the radio that don't have any character. I'll think, 'You're singing in a way that makes it seem you are super-emotional, but you've auto-tuned all the character out of it and I don't believe what you're saying."
Witnessing Lauren's performance on Afterglow "actually made me quite emotional," says Doherty. "And we were like 'right, that's closing the record.'
"It went from the bin to one of the most important pieces of music on the album."
"It sounds like our band - but in a way that people might not expect," Mayberry agrees. "The record wouldn't be the same without it."
Across the new album, Mayberry's vocals are at the forefront - conveying anger, compromise, triumph, fragility, melancholy and strength. Her lyrics, too, are more assertive (Leave A Trace, in particular, is as scathing as pop songs come).
Back in 2012, Mayberry told the BBC she was "still finding her feet" as a singer. Now, it seems, she has emerged as a fully-fledged frontwoman.
"I wrestled with it in different ways in different times," she says. "I spent a certain amount of time being so uncomfortable with it, and wanting to make myself smaller and smaller and just be left alone.
"So I think it was helpful to have some time off to think, 'Well, this is my life. Do I want to constantly dress in a baggy t-shirt so that people leave me alone?'
"And I was like, 'No - because you're making those decisions out of fear' and I don't feel that that, psychologically, is a good way to live your life.'
"So, I'm all zen now."
Chvrches' second album, Every Open Eye, is out now.
Some Republicans had attempted to delay a final vote by introducing amendments to the bill, which was introduced after nine black churchgoers were killed in Charleston by a gunman who had posed with the flag.
That opposition provoked fierce argument on both sides of the house and culminated in an emotional speech by one of the Republicans backing the motion.
Despite Jenny Horne's ancestry - she happens to be a descendant of Jefferson Davis, the man who led the Confederacy during the Civil War - she was furious that her colleagues couldn't come to an agreement.
With no notes, she began by saying: "The people of Charleston deserve immediate and swift removal of that flag from these grounds."
Then, struggling to hold back tears, she raised her voice: "I can not believe that we do not have the heart in this body to do something meaningful such as take a symbol of hate off these grounds on Friday."
Scuppering the bill would "be adding insult to injury" for the widow and children of her colleague Senator Clementa Pinckney, one of the nine killed in the attack, she added.
In the four-minute interjection by Ms Horne, a 42-year-old lawyer, she sought to cut through arguments about heritage made by opponents of the bill.
"I'm sorry. I have heard enough about heritage. I have a heritage. I am a life-long South Carolinian. I am a descendant of Jefferson Davis, OK?" she said.
"But that does not matter. It's not about Jenny Horne. It's about the people of South Carolina who have demanded that this symbol of hate come off the statehouse grounds."
Speaking to the Washington Post on Thursday, Ms Horne said the bill's backers had been losing the vote before she got up to speak.
"It was going south. If what I did changed the course of the debate, and I do believe it did, then it needed to be done. Because that flag needed to come down a long time ago," she told the newspaper.
"It wasn't easy. It wasn't without emotion. But I'm so proud of my colleagues for doing the right thing. The Confederate flag is coming down," she later tweeted.
In response, one Twitter user replied: "Visceral, moving, great speech. Courage in action. Thank you thank you thank you."
On the civil side, aircraft manufacturers are buoyant, with new products to display and a record backlog of orders.
In contrast, the military sector is less confident. Defence budget cuts, particularly in Washington, have meant arms programmes being scaled back or abandoned.
Optimism among commercial aircraft makers was underlined last week when Boeing published its closely-watched annual forecast for aircraft demand over the next 20 years.
The US planemaker estimates that airlines, leasing companies and freight firms will need 35,280 new planes, a rise of 3.8% on the US manufacturer's previous forecast.
The bulk of the demand will come from the Asia-Pacific region as it becomes the biggest travel and tourism market, said Randy Tinseth, vice-president for marketing at Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
"There is no doubt the industry's centre of gravity is moving from the US to Asia. Right now, 37% of all traffic touches Asia," he said. In 20 years, he estimates, that number will be 50%.
The Paris Air Show headlines will be dominated by Boeing, and that other big beast of the industry, Airbus, shouting about how many orders they have won.
It's a fair bet that most of those orders will be placed by Asian and Middle East airlines, with many buying aircraft in the key medium range segment dominated by Boeing's 737 and the Airbus A320.
But what could be fascinating about the Paris trade fair is that this market segment is the one where the two manufacturers face the biggest challenge to their duopoly.
China's Commercial Aircraft Corporation, Irkut from Russia, and Canada's Bombardier - with its C-Series close to making its first test flight - are developing aircraft that they hope will take market share.
And all three have a big presence at the show.
Given the ambitions of these companies, and the demand for new aircraft over the next two decades, analysts believe there is space for new entrants.
Says aviation consultant Howard Wheeldon: "The expansion of China, Russia and Japan, along with existing players who may yet have other long-term intentions such as Embraer and Bombardier, may bring closer the day when the current duopoly between Boeing and Airbus is brought into question."
The order books at Boeing and Airbus are bulging with a backlog of some 6,000 aircraft. High fuel costs, requirements for reduced noise, and the need to replace ageing aircraft means there is certainly a market for these challenger planemakers to aim at.
But Wheeldon wonders if this could be as good as it gets. "With analysts now suggesting that the price of oil may have peaked, particularly given the increase in US shale gas production, will some of the urgency to replace older aircraft now disappear?"
This is the 50th aerospace trade fair in Paris since the city hosted its first in 1909. As it is on Airbus's home turf, the company will want to make a big splash. Boeing, therefore, will not want to be upstaged.
One, possibly two, Boeing Dreamliners, will be on display - one making aerial displays and the other on the ground. Boeing wants to ram home the message that the aircraft's troubles of earlier this year are well behind it.
Meanwhile, Airbus, which on Friday made a much-anticipated maiden flight of its A350, may yet get clearance for the new-generation aircraft to make a flypast.
In the battle for the hearts and minds of the world's aviation money-men, such symbolism matters.
New aircraft are prone to delays and technical problems. So proving that your latest product can actually fly is a major milestone, says Nick Cunningham, aviation analyst at Agency Partners.
"It's good news because it means that you've missed an opportunity to have another big delay," he says.
But the pace of growth worries some experts. Problems with large industrial projects like building aircraft are not new.
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But analysts such as Wheeldon wonder if last year's Airbus A380 wing problems, followed by this year's temporary grounding of the Dreamliner are indicative of pressures to use new technologies to reduce weight and improve efficiency.
He says: "Are the technological boundaries that we understand being pushed too far too fast? Indeed, how much room is really left for airline operators to make even more all-important performance gains?" They are questions that need more discussion, he says.
The bragging rights at air shows go to the company that announces the most orders.
At a media briefing on Thursday, EADS chief executive Tom Enders said he hoped the airlines would sign contracts for firm orders and options for "hundreds" of aircraft.
At the Paris show two years ago, Airbus notched up more than 700 orders. Analysts do not expect a repeat of that number.
Boeing, meanwhile, has actually played down expectations that it would notch up a large batch of orders, suggesting that, these days, trade shows carry less importance as occasions to negotiate and network with potential buyers.
A deliberate lowering of expectations? Or part of the marketing psychology designed to outflank Airbus? We'll know by the end of the week.
One product we may hear a lot about, however, is a "stretched" version of the Dreamliner, so that it can carry more passengers and compete more directly with Airbus's new A350.
Boeing has yet to give the go-ahead for the project, but Singapore Airlines and United Airlines have said they might consider buying a larger Dreamliner.
If Boeing can get a couple of launch customers to commit, Paris would be an ideal time to make the announcement.
The company may also use Paris to officially push the button on a more modern version of its existing 777, using a greater amount of composite materials.
However, Richard Aboulafia, analyst with the Teal Group, is not expecting too much from Boeing at the show.
"Boeing has the broader product line but they are still struggling under the shadows of the 787 (battery) nightmare and they seem unenthusiastic about launching new products."
On the defence side, Paris may be a lot quieter than normal (except for the fighter jets that scream across the skies during the daily displays).
Lockheed Martin, the world's largest defence company, has a much-reduced presence and will not fly its F-35, a jet regarded as a technological masterpiece.
And Northrop Grumman - whose companies include the builder of the Spirit of St Louis, which made the first solo non-stop New York to Paris flight - is not attending.
US government officials and military top brass will also be in short supply. Money is tight following deep budget cuts. But the lack of the usual strong US presence has surprised some experts, as its defence firms now need exports more than ever.
This may open the door for other countries to better showcase their wares to the 50-plus official government and military delegations due to attend.
Russia will be out in force, displaying attack helicopters and fighter jets, including the Sukhoi Su-35. Embraer will show its Super Tucano combat aircraft, and from Europe the Saab Gripen, Eurofighter Typhoon, and Airbus A400M will make appearances.
But Europe, too, has scaled down its turnout. "Defence is in the doldrums and cuts to the budgets of all European nations will impact on what equipment is shown."
By the end of the week, some lucky companies will have done deals and covered their costs of going to Paris a thousand-fold. Others will wonder why they bothered.
But, says Wheeldon: "For everyone who engages in the world of aviation and whose professional lives are bound up in various forms of aerospace technology, Paris can for one week be the greatest place in the world."
The 29-year-old midfielder came on as a first-half substitute and fired the equaliser in a 2-1 Premier League win at home to Southampton.
Hull manager Mike Phelan told BBC Sport: "Under the circumstances, he showed great character.
"And he's thinking ahead to the England game."
Snodgrass suffered an ankle injury on 22 October against Stoke City and had been expected to be sidelined for four weeks.
That would have ruled him out of Friday's World Cup qualifier, but he was included in Gordon Strachan's national squad and was a surprise addition on Hull's bench on Sunday.
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And he inspired his side to victory not only with a goal but by delivering the free-kick that led to Michael Dawson's winner.
Snodgrass and striker Dieumerci Mbokani had come on after early injuries to Abel Hernandez and Will Keane and the substitutes earned praise from manager Mike Phelan.
"It was always a risky decision really to start with Snodgrass and Mbokani because the two of them have only trained a couple of days this week," he told BBC Sport.
"Snoddy had the most unbelievable swollen ankle at one point which disappeared overnight, but it was a case of 'has he done enough to start the game?'. We felt not."
It was the first time in six games that Scotland goalkeeper David Marshall had avoided defeat for Hull since making his debut in a 2-1 win over Stoke in the EFL Cup following his transfer from Cardiff City.
Marshall made a string of saves before tasting victory for the first time in eight games for club and country.
Scotland are definitely minus Hull's Andrew Robertson and fellow left-back Kieran Tierney, of Celtic, through injury for the trip to London.
Stephen Kingsley, who will vie with Rangers' Lee Wallace for that role at Wembley, was back in Swansea City's starting line-up on Sunday in a 3-1 home defeat by Manchester United after missing out against Stoke on Monday.
Wallace captained Rangers to a 1-1 draw away to Ross County in the Scottish Premiership on Sunday.
James Morrison scored in his first league start of the season for West Bromwich Albion in a 2-1 win away to Leicester City.
The cross for his headed opener came from fellow Scotland cap Matt Phillips.
Winger Phillips, who is not in Strachan's squad for the Group F game at Wembley, went on to score West Brom's winning goal.
Northern Ireland's Historical Abuse Inquiry has begun an examination on the activities of Fr Brendan Smyth.
Smyth was at the centre of one of the first paedophile priest scandals to rock the Catholic church in Ireland.
The inquiry heard he told a doctor in 1994: "Over the years of religious life, it could be that I've sexually abused between 50 and 100 children.
"That number could have been doubled, or perhaps even more."
Smyth was convicted of over 100 indecent assaults against children across Ireland, offences which took place over a 40-year period.
He died in prison in 1997 after a heart attack.
The wide-ranging inquiry is conducting a week-long focus on how Smyth got away with his crimes for so long.
It was told on Monday that Smyth abused children in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and also faced allegations of similar abuse in Scotland, Wales and the United States.
The inquiry heard that the first suspicions of abuse by Smyth arose while he was in Rome studying for the priesthood.
One church figure subsequently opposed his ordination but was overruled.
In a statement provided to the inquiry, Fr William Fitzgerald of the Norbertine Order, of which Fr Brendan Smyth was a member, said "warning signs had surfaced" prior to Smyth's ordination.
"I am unable to say how clear those warning signs were, but in light of what we now know the pattern of behaviour by which Brendan Smyth maintained his freedom to do as he chose was already apparent while he was in formation," Fr Fitzgerald's statement read.
"He ought never to have been ordained to the priesthood."
Fr Fitzgerald added in his statement that Smyth had been able to "silence and ridicule those who would oppose him".
"It is clear he used his intelligence and naked cunning not only to engineer circumstances where he could conduct abuse of children, but also to intimidate and effectively oppose the efforts of those who sought to confront him or restrict his activities.
"Brendan Smyth should not have been permitted to exercise ministry after it had become know that he was perpetrating acts of child sexual abuse."
A witness statement provided to the inquiry on behalf of the archdiocese of Armagh said "the church today can only look back on all this with shame and in disgrace".
The retired Cardinal Se??n Brady will give evidence later this week on his involvement in a church examination of Fr Smyth in 1975.
Junior counsel Joseph Aiken said the inquiry will examine if there were "missed opportunities" to stop Smyth's abuse of children by individuals in prominent and important positions.
Retired judge Sir Anthony Hart is leading the inquiry, set up by the Northern Ireland Executive to investigate child abuse in residential institutions over a 73-year period, up to 1995.
Malakai Bakaniceva's try was converted by Nicolas Bezy, who also added two penalties, as the hosts started well.
The Falcons' only first-half points came from a Tom Catterick penalty as they trailed 13-3 at half-time.
But the visitors improved after the break and two Catterick penalties closed the gap to only four points, but Brive held firm to start with a win.
The Falcons, who are bottom of the Premiership with four defeats from four matches, retained 11 players from their defeat at Worcester last weekend, while Mark Wilson was captain on his return to action after knee surgery.
Newcastle and Brive have been drawn in the same group on six occasions since 2005-06 and the hosts' better start to the match through Bakaniceva's score ultimately proved decisive in a game of few try-scoring chances.
Brive: Sola; Radikedike, Septar, Tuatara, Masilevu; Bezy, Duhalde; Lavergne, Acquier, Jgenti, Lebas, Steenkamp, Hireche (capt), Luafutu, Whetton.
Replacements: Ribes, Shvelidze, Tuncer, Marais, Briatte, Pejoine, Petre, Neisen.
Newcastle Falcons: Willis; Watson, Penny, C. Harris, Agulla; Catterick, Young; Rogers, McGuigan, Vea, Robinson, Thompson, Mayhew, Temm, Wilson (capt).
Replacements: Hawkins, B .Harris, Foster, Botha, Green, Tipuna, Marshall, Chick.
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Leighton Hodges (Wales).
The London Fire Brigade said the number of people who had to be released from handcuffs almost doubled in two years, from 15 in 2014-15 to 27 in 2015-16.
There were nine callouts involving "men with rings stuck on their penises" since April, it said.
The brigade urged adventurous couples to be careful in order to to avoid an "embarrassing" visit.
In the last five years the capital's fire crews have been called out to:
Each incident costs taxpayers at least £326 - a total of £830,000 over the past three years.
London Fire Brigade director of operations Dave Brown said: "We're pleased that fewer people are getting themselves stuck in difficult situations and reducing callouts; however, it seems the Fifty Shades of Grey effect is still leading to some call embarrassing callouts."
The warning was issued upon the cinematic release of the second Fifty Shades of Grey film.
Based on EL James's trio of hit erotic novels, it follows an affair between student Anastasia Steele and billionaire Christian Grey.
According to BBC Entertainment, the film adaptation has received a "critical spanking" from reviewers.
The test, in May, looked at how well computers recognise images.
But it has now emerged that Baidu submitted far more tests than the rules allowed, meaning its results were not comparable with others in the competition.
The firm has apologised for "this mistake".
Its win has now been cancelled and it has been banned from similar challenges for a year.
Baidu claimed to have scored an impressive 4.58% error rate on a test which asked contestants to accurately recognise a series of images from a large picture database.
Although Google and Microsoft were not far behind - with 4.94% and 4.8% error rates respectively - it was still regarded as a significant victory especially as Baidu is a relative newcomer to AI.
But its victory turned out to be short-lived when, earlier this week, organisers of the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) - run at Stanford University's vision lab - revealed that Baidu had broken its rules.
"During the period of 28 November 2014 to 13 May 2015, there were at least 30 accounts used by a team from Baidu to the test server at least 200 times, far exceeding the specified limit of two submissions per week," it wrote.
It included some periods of very high usage - 40 submissions in five days during March.
In a statement Baidu said that it had been informed that "we exceeded the allowable number of weekly submissions to the ImageNet servers".
"We apologise for this mistake and are continuing to review the results," it added.
ImageNet was set up as a resource for AI researchers and contains millions of pictures.
Getting computers to accurately recognise the content and context of pictures is one of the key goals in the field of artificial intelligence and has obvious benefits for the search industry.
The competition required competitors to arrange pictures into predefined categories and recognise small differences in images, such as different breeds of dog.
For the test, Baidu used its deep learning supercomputer dubbed Minwa. In January, it said its computer vision system - Deep Image - was the world's "most accurate".
At the time of the competition victory, Baidu scientist Ren Wu claimed the firm was now "leading the race in computer intelligence".
Since the issue emerged, the AI world has been buzzing, with many leading experts asking for details about what happened.
Baidu has offered no explanation beyond calling the incident a "mistake".
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Couch, fifth in the synchronised 10m platform final with partner Lois Toulson, scored 332.80 to finish fifth.
But Barrow, 27, could not emulate her former partner in the 10m synchro and finished 23rd with a score of 277.40, with only the top 18 progressing.
The semi-final starts at the Maria Lenk Centre at 14:00 BST on Thursday.
"It was hard to stay focused for such a long time in a 28-diver preliminary round but it was pretty steady," said 27-year-old Couch from Plymouth.
"Three of my dives were really good so hopefully I can do those again tomorrow and the two that I dropped a little bit hopefully I can step them up.
"I had a shaky start but I had a talking to myself when I got to the handstand and shook things up a little as I was a little bit flat to start off with."
Barrow said: "I wanted to finish with a better score than that. The journey has been really tough but I got here on a good score and I wanted to do that again. There are no excuses for why I didn't.
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The FTSE 100 index closed down 96.05 points, or 1.37%, at 6933.80.
The lack of progress in the talks over Greece's debt crisis rattled investors.
Greece's finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has said his country's financial situation is "terribly urgent" and the crisis could come to a head in a couple of weeks.
David Madden, market analyst at IG, said: "European equity markets are sustaining heavy losses as Athens gives with one hand and takes with another.
"No sooner had Greece got back into traders' good books after making a repayment to the IMF, a comment from Yanis Varoufakis about the country's solvency sparked a new sell-off."
It emerged on Tuesday that Greece had used its emergency reserves at the IMF to make the €750m (£538m) payment.
In Germany, the benchmark Dax share index was down 1.72%, while France's Cac 40 fell 1.06%.
A resumption in the sell-off in global bonds also contributed to the fall on equity markets.
Bonds saw hefty selling last week, a trend partly blamed on rising inflation expectations, sending yields - which move inversely to bond prices - sharply higher.
The yield on German 10-year government bonds rose by 13 basis points to 0.72% on Tuesday. In mid-April the yield had fallen to 0.05%.
Among UK companies, shares in Easyjet fell by more than 9% after the airline warned that the disruption caused by April's air traffic control strike in France would cut profits by £25m.
The news overshadowed the carrier's £7m half-year profit.
On the currency markets, the pound hit a five-month high against the dollar on the back of strong industrial production figures. It rose by 0.6% before easing slightly to stand 0.52% ahead, at $1.5667. The pound dropped 0.2% against the euro to €1.3944.
It had been on a list of banned flags, along with ISIS, despite the UK entry featuring a Welsh singer.
Previously only flags of contest members and UN states were allowed due to the event's non-political nature.
Organisers have now agreed to allow the national, regional and local flags of the participants.
The Eurovision Song Contest announced that it had held "constructive talks" and that its proposal had been approved by its governing body, the Reference Group.
This means the Welsh flag can fly at the Stockholm final on 14 May in support of the UK entry, which features Joe Woolford from Ruthin, Denbighshire.
He will performing You're Not Alone with Jake Shakeshaft from Stoke-on-Trent.
Both singers were former contestants on The Voice UK.
The Brighton protest, organised by a coalition of groups, ended with a rally outside the railway station.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said the city, which has a hospital in special measures, was at the forefront of a crisis caused by underfunding.
A Department of Health spokesperson said: "We know the NHS is very busy, which is why we have invested £10bn."
Protester Katrina Miller, of Sussex Defend the NHS, said the problems had been caused by "a political decision not to fund our health and social care properly."
The local NHS clinical commissioning group (CCG) said it was "looking at how services are delivered".
On Friday it emerged Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has been on the highest possible state of alert every day since Christmas and expects to continue like that all winter.
Mr McDonnell, who joined the march, said: "[The government is] not investing enough and the money is there.
"It is mismanagement by the government, not by the NHS."
A Department of Health spokesperson said the £10bn was to "fund the NHS's own plan to transform services".
"Supported by an extra £400m of funding, hospitals are also putting in place steps to cope with the extra demands winter brings," said the spokesperson.
NHS High Weald Lewes Havens CCG said in a statement the NHS and social care system was facing "significant" challenges.
It said: "It is clear that the services are coping with unprecedented levels of demand and the current situation is not sustainable.
"We are currently looking at how services are delivered... to ensure that we identify the best options for safeguarding our NHS and social care system."
The scheduled six-rounder was part of the undercard to Jeff Horn's unanimous points victory over Manny Pacquaio to secure the WBO welterweight title.
Conlan, 25, proved much too good for Owen in their super-bantamweight contest at the Suncorp Stadium.
The former world amateur champion has won all his three fights by knockout.
Conlan hurt Owen with a left hand to the body soon after the midway point of the third round and although the Brisbane native tried to move away, the 2012 Olympic bronze medallist pounced on him to land a few more power shots to the head and body.
Owen's trainer threw in the towel soon after as referee Tony Kettlewell halted the fight after one minute 56 seconds of the third round.
"It was my best performance as a professional. I feel great about that," said Conlan after his victory.
"I was disciplined and focused on executing the gameplan.
"It took me two rounds to find my range and then I was able to settle in and break him down. The body shots were hurting him."
The Top Rank USA managed boxer indicated that his next fight could be in September, with a Belfast homecoming in December also on the cards.
Conlan stopped Alfredo Chanez in Chicago in his second professional outing in late May, the referee calling a halt in the third round of the scheduled six.
He also stopped Tim Ibarra inside three rounds on his debut in the paid ranks at Madison Square Garden on St Patrick's Day.
Buchanan has played every Cobblers game since signing on a free transfer from Preston North End in May 2015.
The 30-year-old, who helped his side to the League Two title last season, is yet to score for the club.
"If I could get myself a goal that would top off everything," he said.
Buchanan, who began his career at Bury, had not played for previous club Preston for four months before he joined Northampton.
He has missed just 90 minutes of football since, when he was substituted at half-time in games against Leyton Orient in League Two and West Ham United in the Checkatrade Trophy.
"It will be a very proud moment," he told BBC Radio Northampton. "This is a short career and I want to get as many appearances as I can.
"As long as I'm fit I want to be selected."
Northampton Town manager Justin Edinburgh added: "The way he conducts himself, the way he trains and looks after himself is a great example to any young player."
The charges were filed on Sunday in the northern city of Sylhet.
Samiul Alam Rajon was attacked last month after the men allegedly accused him of stealing a bicycle rickshaw van.
One of the attackers allegedly filmed the assault on his mobile phone. The footage showed the boy being tied to a pole and hit repeatedly with a rod.
The video, which was posted on the internet, showed the boy pleading for his life and crying for water, and screaming: "Please don't beat me like this, I will die."
An autopsy found that the 13-year-old had 64 separate injuries.
While suspected thieves are often attacked by mobs in Bangladesh, the brutality of this particular attack caused widespread outrage and led to police forming a special squad to investigate the killing.
Ten men have been arrested in Bangladesh since the 8 July attack and have confessed their roles in the crime, Detective Suronjit Talukder told the AFP news agency.
Another three who fled Sylhet have also been charged in absentia with murder.
They include Kamrul Islam, described by the Daily Star newspaper as the prime suspect in the case.
He was arrested in Saudi Arabia after officials there were reported to have been tipped off by members of the country's large expatriate Bangladeshi community.
A foreign ministry official said he hoped the charges would now lead to Saudi Arabia speeding up his repatriation, although so far it has yet to specify when exactly this will happen.
Thousands of people demonstrated in Sylhet and other parts of the Bangladesh over the killing. A Twitter page in Samiul Alam Rajon's honour has been set up.
The dead boy's father, Sheikh Azizur Rahman has said that he will not rest "until the culprits get proper punishment".
Samiul Alam Rajon's family say he was falsely accused to theft, and police say they found no evidence he stole the bicycle, AFP reported.
David John Poole, from Hereford, poses online as a 14-year-old girl and says he has been sent hundreds of explicit messages.
He says his work has led to two arrests in four weeks.
West Mercia Police said the police do not encourage members of the public to pursue their own investigations.
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Mr Poole said he set up the organisation he calls "H Division" about four weeks ago after his teenage son was targeted by online paedophiles.
He uses an online profile of a teenage girl to target alleged paedophiles and arranges to meet them in person - in so-called "sting" operations - before calling the police with his evidence.
He says his work has led to two arrests so far, with one suspect remanded and one on bail.
"I am not trying to do the police's work," he said. "The evidence I find is tip-top.
"I think the police need people like me, otherwise these cases would go under the radar because the police are so stretched."
Det Ch Insp Jon Roberts, from the force, said: "While we understand that this is a very emotive subject, the police do not encourage members of the public to pursue their own investigations.
"This can compromise ongoing police investigations.
"Identifying alleged paedophiles is best left to the police who can ensure vulnerable victims are protected."
Three women and one man, all in their twenties, were killed and 17 others were wounded, police said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacker, who was shot dead by soldiers, was a suspected supporter of so-called Islamic State.
But the prime minister gave no evidence to support the claim.
The victims were taking part in an educational trip, the Israeli military said.
The Israel Defense Forces tweeted that their names were Lt Yael Yekutiel, 20; Lt Shir Hajaj, 22; 2nd Lt Erez Orbach, 20 and 2nd Lt Shira Tzur, 20.
The attacker, identified as 28-year-old Fadi Qunbar, came from the Palestinian district of Jabel Mukaber in east Jerusalem, near to the attack site.
CCTV footage showed the truck ploughing at high speed into the soldiers, before reversing over the victims.
"He drove backward to crush more people," eyewitness Leah Schreiber told reporters. "That was really clear."
The attack took place on the popular Armon Hanatziv promenade overlooking the walled Old City of Jerusalem.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said security had been heightened throughout the city in response.
An emergency meeting of the Israeli security cabinet approved administrative detention for IS sympathisers and authorised the destruction of the driver's home.
Mr Netanyahu visited the site of the attack on Sunday afternoon and said: "We know that there has been a series of terror attacks.
"There definitely could be a connection between them - from France to Berlin, and now Jerusalem."
Attackers in Nice and Berlin last year used the same method of driving a lorry through a crowd.
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat called on residents not to "let terror win" and said militants would "pay a heavy price".
"There is no limit to the cruelty of the terrorists who are willing to use any means possible to murder Jews and to damage the life routine of Israel's capital," he said.
The US state department condemned the attack "in the strongest possible terms" and the European Union also issued a condemnation.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas praised the attacker. Hamas spokesman Abdul-Latif Qanou called it a "heroic" act and encouraged other Palestinians to "escalate the resistance".
Before this latest incident, 35 Israelis had been killed in a wave of knife, gun and car-ramming attacks by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs since October 2015.
More than 200 Palestinians - mostly attackers, Israel says - have also been killed in that period.
Israel says Palestinian incitement has fuelled the attacks. The Palestinian leadership has blamed frustration rooted in decades of Israeli occupation.
The BBC's Yolande Knell in Jerusalem says the number of attacks had begun to subside in recent months, but Sunday's incident is one of the most serious there has been.
Shares in companies exposed to emerging markets suffered, with Standard Chartered closing down 6.3% and packaging firm Mondi falling 4.7%.
Donald Trump's US election victory has raised worries he could introduce protectionist trade policies.
In the FTSE 250, SIG dived 21.8% as it warned on profits and said its chief executive had left the company.
The building materials firm said it had been affected by softer trading conditions in the UK since the Brexit vote and increased competition.
As a result it has lowered its forecast for full-year profits to between £75m and £80m.
SIG also announced that group chief executive Stuart Mitchell was leaving the company by "mutual agreement" with immediate effect.
On the currency markets, the pound continued its recovery of the past few days, hitting its highest level against the pound since October's flash crash.
Sterling rose 0.3% against the dollar to $1.2593 and was 0.88% higher against the euro at €1.1621.
The pound's recovery has been put down to the news of Donald Trump's election victory, but slightly better-than-expected construction figures also helped sterling.
While official figures showed construction output fell 1.1% in the third quarter, the sector's weakest performance for four years, output managed to rise 0.3% in September.
The musical, about a jaded weatherman forced to live the same day over and over again, will open in the spring at New York's August Wilson Theatre.
The show, based on the 1993 film starring Bill Murray, has been adapted for the stage by the movie's co-writer Danny Rubin, with songs by Tim Minchin.
The musical got glowing reviews when it opened last month at London's Old Vic.
The London run, in which Andy Karl plays Murray's Phil Connors character, comes to an end on 19 September.
It is not yet known whether any of the London cast will make the transfer to New York's Great White Way.
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Villa midfielder Grealish, 20, has chosen to represent England rather than Republic of Ireland but must wait for international clearance to play.
"We wanted to induct him into the England way," Hodgson told BBC Sport.
"Tim made it clear it wasn't a good idea as far as he was concerned because he is behind after missing pre-season."
Hodgson said he had "no problem" with Sherwood's view.
Grealish represented the Republic at under-21 level but turned down a call-up to their senior squad for a friendly against England in June.
The Birmingham-born player qualifies for the Republic through his grandparents.
Hodgson added on BBC Radio 5 live: "The Football Association wanted him to come up to show that they were pleased that he had chosen England.
"We often have young players training with us when we are up there. It wouldn't have been a problem.
"But the thing he has to do now of course is to make certain through his performances for Aston Villa that he merits selection. Hopefully when November comes around he will be available."
England have already qualified for Euro 2016 before their final two group games - against Estonia at Wembley on 9 October and in Lithuania three days later.
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Stokes, in his 21st Test, resumed on 74 and raced to 200 in 163 balls to beat Ian Botham's 220-ball record.
Jonny Bairstow (150) struck his maiden Test century and shared in a stand of 399, a sixth-wicket world record.
Stokes made 258 as England added 312 within 39 overs and declared on 629-6, South Africa reaching 141-2 in reply.
Only New Zealand's Nathan Astle has reached a Test double hundred more quickly than Stokes, off 153 balls against England in 2002.
Listen - Jonathan Agnew descibes the moment Stokes reaches his double century
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England, 1-0 up in the four-match series and resuming on 317-5, added 196 in 25 overs in a thrilling morning session.
Driving the ball fluently when given width outside the off stump and ruthlessly pulling anything short, 24-year-old Stokes hit five fours in the opening two overs of the day and smashed spinner Dane Piedt for 16 in three balls.
He plundered 130 in the morning, the most by any batsman in a pre-lunch session, moving from 150 to his double century in just 28 deliveries, before beating Virender Sehwag's landmark for the fastest Test 250.
Attempting a third successive six to equal Wasim Akram's record of 12 for the highest number of maximums in a Test innings, Stokes lofted to AB de Villiers at mid-on, who fumbled the catch but ran out the left-hander with a direct hit.
Bairstow would have dominated the headlines on any other day, displaying impressively powerful hitting of his own.
The 26-year-old Yorkshire wicketkeeper hit five fours and a six in the space of nine balls and now averages 104 in three matches against South Africa.
Having made six half-centuries, the wicketkeeper recorded his maiden Test hundred in his 37th innings.
Standing tall at the crease and dispatching the ball to all quarters with a high backlift, he reached 150 from 191 balls and with that the declaration came.
As so often happens after a team replies to a mammoth total, South Africa lost an early wicket, Stiaan van Zyl run out by Nick Compton after being sent back by Dean Elgar as he went in search of a single.
The current number one Test side, who have lost four of their past five matches, rallied before Stokes returned to the action and had Durban centurion Elgar superbly caught for 44 by a diving Compton at point.
De Villiers (25 not out) was dropped on five by Joe Root at second slip off James Anderson and began to look more assured in favourable batting conditions at a cloudless Newlands, sharing an unbroken 56 with Hashim Amla, who ended a run of 11 innings without a fifty in reaching 64 not out.
Two of the three wickets to fall on a day when 453 runs were scored - a record in South Africa - were run-outs, so a straightforward second successive victory for England is by no means guaranteed.
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: "What an astonishing innings. This man has played an innings that no-one here will ever forget.
"They are all standing and applauding something that has been absolutely magnificent."
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott on Test Match Special: "That was phenomenal. You've seen something special. You don't get 200s like that very often - very rare. It's been a memorable day."
Former South Africa captain Graeme Smith: "Even as a South African you have to enjoy this. It's been both gut-wrenching and electric to watch.
"You've got a appreciate this. Everyone is witnessing something special."
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The baby is believed to have suffocated at a holiday house in Saint-Pee-sur-Nivelle near the Spanish border, the BBC's Hugh Schofield said.
The family involved were believed to be a British couple and their two sons, aged five months and three, he said.
The father got up early on Saturday and returned to the bedroom later to find the baby dead, prosecutors told AFP.
According to French media reports, an autopsy is due to be carried out in the next few days at Bordeaux.
A spokeswoman for the UK Foreign Office said: "We are in contact with local authorities following the arrest of a British national in the south of France."
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Sarah Cooke was principal of Foxhole Academy in Cornwall, where Peter Cooke worked as a handyman.
He was arrested after being caught by neighbours watching porn and masturbating in his garden.
Mrs Cooke resigned at the time of his arrest and said a "misapprehension" was to blame for any oversight.
As well as failing to tell her bosses about the police investigation, it is also alleged she failed to carry out proper background checks on both her and her husband.
The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) professional misconduct panel heard that she did not inform her superiors of possible safeguarding issues.
If proper checks were carried out, they would have flagged a caution Mr Cooke received in 2012 for stealing a bag of women's clothes from a leisure centre and later trying them on.
It was alleged there were "very serious failings" over "a significant period of time" by the head.
Concerns came to light when the school was taken over by The Learning Academy Trust (TLAT) and record-keeping scrutinised.
Mrs Cooke is facing six allegations of wrongdoing including allowing her husband to continue working at the school.
The panel was told that Mr Cooke was seen by neighbours, a teenage boy and the boy's mother, watching pornography on a tablet and masturbating in the garden.
He was given a three-month suspended sentence for outraging public decency.
Mrs Cooke told an earlier internal investigation she was "too ashamed" to tell anyone.
Opening the case, Tom Day said: "It's not clear if she knew the precise details, but one may think that in itself would raise safeguarding concerns."
Claire Ridehalgh, TLAT's chief operating officer, said Mrs Cooke "struggled with some procedural aspects of her role", describing her office as "very messy".
Mrs Cooke was not present for the hearing and faces a teaching ban if the allegations are proven.
The EU Commission sounded the alarm after the US House of Representatives voted in favour of the measures, despite opposition from Donald Trump.
The bill is likely to complicate the US president's hopes of improving relations with Russia.
It aims to punish Russia for alleged interference in the 2016 US election.
In a statement, the Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said: "The EU is fully committed to the Russia sanctions regime."
But he warned of "unintended unilateral effects that impact the EU's energy security interests".
Several European nations, including Germany, are angry because the new law could penalise companies working on pipelines from Russia, for example by limiting their access to US banks.
The legislation, which also includes sanctions against Iran and North Korea over ballistic missile tests, still needs to be passed through the US Senate before it can be sent on to the president to be signed.
It is unclear whether the president will veto it.
What concerns the White House is a measure that limits the president's traditional right to waive the sanctions, instead forcing him to consult Congress first, says the BBC's state department correspondent Barbara Plett-Usher.
The broad bipartisan support the legislation attracted in the House shows just how wary lawmakers are about Mr Trump's pro-Moscow approach, she adds.
Russia's relationship with the president has dogged his first six months in office, amid allegations Moscow interfered to help Mr Trump get elected.
The legislation, which passed by 419 to three, was described by House Speaker Paul Ryan as a sanctions package that "tightens the screws on our most dangerous adversaries in order to keep Americans safe".
The sanctions on Russia were drawn up in part to further punish its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. If passed, they would:
The US already has a range of sanctions in place against Russian individuals and companies over Crimea. In December, following claims of election hacking, then-President Barack Obama expelled 35 diplomats and closed two Russian compounds in the US.
The EU says it is raising its concerns via diplomatic channels. But the Commission president says that if these are not taken into account sufficiently, "we stand ready to act appropriately within a matter of days".
"America first cannot mean that Europe's interests come last," Mr Juncker added. It is unclear what sort of action he is proposing.
A spokesman for the Germany foreign ministry also criticised the bill on Wednesday, saying US politicians were conducting industrial policy under the guise of sanctions, according to Reuters.
This version of the legislation still needs to be approved by the US Senate, but it is not yet clear when it will consider the bill.
If it passes through the Senate mostly intact, the bill would provide a headache for President Trump, who has signalled a more conciliatory approach towards Moscow.
If the two chambers pass similar but slightly different bills, a committee will draw up a compromise version for approval.
Once both House and Senate have approved a bill, it goes to the president to be signed into law.
The president could veto the bill, but in doing so would fuel suspicion that he is too supportive of the Kremlin, correspondents say.
The bill has widespread support from both major parties in both Houses - making a veto a potentially unpopular political move.
Additionally, a presidential veto can be ignored if two thirds of both the House and Senate vote to override the president.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said President Trump is "going to study that legislation and see what the final product looks like."
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov regretted the US move.
"The news is very sad, in terms of US-Russia relations, and the perspective for their development. And also for international law, and international trade relations - according to what information we have on this bill.
"Our attitude will be formed after careful analysis, and the president will make his decision."
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov reacted more robustly, describing the vote as "a very serious step towards destroying the possibilities for normalising relations with Russia".
"What has happened goes beyond the realms of common sense," he said.
Russia had hoped that Donald Trump's election would produce a reset in relations, and that the economic sanctions imposed over its actions in Ukraine might even be lifted, reports the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow.
But Russian politicians argue that President Trump has been blocked in that - by a wave of "Russophobia" sweeping the US, our correspondent says.
The Kremlin continues to insist it did not interfere in the US elections.
The weapon was not detected during security screening and Noell Grant only realised she was carrying it as she changed planes in Taipei.
She informed the local authorities and she has been barred from leaving Taiwan until the matter is resolved.
US federal officials have admitted security procedures were not properly followed at LAX.
The authorities have "determined standard procedures were not followed and a police officer did in fact pass through the (airport) checkpoint with a firearm," said Nico Melendez of the US Transportation Security Administration.
"We'll hold those responsible appropriately accountable."
Officer Grant, 42, of the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) was carrying a personal firearm, not a service weapon, when she took the flight to Taiwan last week.
She was changing planes at Taoyuan international airport in Taipei, intending to travel on to Thailand for a family holiday, when she discovered the gun and six bullets in her hand luggage.
She is not under arrest in Taiwan, but she has been told to remain in the country.
It is unclear whether Officer Grant will face disciplinary charges on her return to the US, SMPD Lieutenant Saul Rodriguez told the AFP news agency.
Hamid Mir, a popular and sometimes controversial anchor for the country's leading news channel Geo TV, was shot and wounded on Saturday in Karachi.
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) dismissed the accusation as baseless and misleading.
The defence department has urged the media regulator to suspend Geo TV.
Hamid Mir's statement was read out late on Thursday by his brother, Amir Mir, who previously went on Geo TV and directly accused the ISI of ordering the attack.
Although the news channel later appeared to distance itself from the accusations, this latest statement was given primetime prominence and will intensify the stand-off between the news channel and the military, the BBC's Kim Ghattas in Islamabad reports.
"I had been facing threats from both state and non-state actors, but some developments in the recent past convinced me to inform my colleagues about the elements who could most likely try to kill me," Hamid Mir's statement reads.
He goes on to describe an occasion where intelligence officials apparently visited his home to say his name was on a hit list.
"I told them [colleagues] that in the current situation I felt the most immediate threat from the ISI."
The statement claims the ISI was angry because of his coverage of the issue of Balochistan and his criticism of the spy agency.
"State agencies often use the name of non-state actors to threaten journalists so as to prevent them from speaking or writing the truth," the statement said.
The ISI angrily denounced the accusations when they were originally put forward by Mr Mir's brother, and the defence ministry says Geo brought the agency into disrepute.
Pakistan's media regulator is considering its request that Geo TV be suspended.
The defence department complaint accuses Geo of conducting "a vicious campaign, libellous and scandalous in nature... against a state institution tasked to work for the defence, sovereignty and integrity of Pakistan".
Geo was also criticised by rival TV channels and ex-military analysts for its coverage in the immediate aftermath of the attack.
Geo has not responded formally to the complaint, saying it only reported the Mir family's version of events and that rival channels have "wrongly attributed the allegations against ISI to Geo".
While the shooting was a violent reminder of the dangers Pakistani journalists face on a daily basis, the aftermath also highlighted problems with the standards of the country's media, correspondents say.
Hamid Mir, the first journalist to interview Osama bin Laden after 9/11, is one of Pakistan's best-known presenters and survived an attack by the Taliban in 2012.
In this latest incident he was hit six times in the abdomen and legs after his car was fired on by men on motorbikes as he was leaving Karachi airport.
It remains unclear who fired the shots and no group has said it carried out the attack.
Pakistan is one of the word's most dangerous countries for journalists.
The 42-year-old had turned down the opportunity to stay on at the club, after guiding the Dees to Premiership safety in his five-game interim spell.
Former Dundee player McCann had indicated he would revert to his previous role as a television pundit.
"I don't see it as a gamble, I see it as a wonderful opportunity," he told BBC Scotland of his decision.
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"I was asked the same question when I took the job for five games as rookie. I didn't see it as a gamble then for myself, I came in and I did the job.
"This is different now and I love hard work, it's going to be hard work and I'm prepared to meet it head-on."
McCann was appointed interim manager at Dens Park in April, winning two, drawing one, and losing two of his five post-split fixtures at the helm.
After ruling himself out of the running to take charge on a permanent basis, the club turned its attention to St Mirren manager Jack Ross, but McCann says he maintained dialogue with Dundee.
"I was fully aware of the media coverage of who was getting spoken about," he said. "I don't think Jack Ross was any surprise to me because he did a fantastic job to get St Mirren out of real trouble and he's very highly-regarded.
"But I'm pretty sure there would have been a rake of names and high-quality names looking for this job, because it's an attractive one.
"But I didn't get involved. I didn't speak to the chairman about the other candidates; I knew there would be strong possibilities there for the club to go down but they always made me feel that I was number one target and I was their choice - that sort of remained constant.
"So when I thought long and hard about it and had another conversation about taking this forward, I was met with an absolute vote of yes."
The former Dundee, Hearts and Rangers winger succeeded Paul Hartley at Dens Park, with the club languishing in second-bottom position in the Premiership after a run of seven straight defeats.
McCann, who has yet to decide who to appoint as his assistant, insists there is a vital summer of preparation and recruitment required to avoid similar troubles next season.
"I'm quite pleased with what I have at my disposal," he said. "Recruitment will be crucial.
"It's up to me to make lots of phone calls and the players I go for and target, I need to make them believe this is the place to play their football.
"I want to mould a side that is competitive and capable of winning games."
Almost 80 tech start-up companies have received £60m from Finance Wales in the past 10 years.
But Cardiff Start, a network with 2,500 members, said support was "often not fit for purpose".
The Welsh Government said it offered a range of "tailored initiatives".
A report by Tech Nation earlier this year said Wales had the fastest growing digital economy outside London.
Finance Wales, the Welsh Government's venture capital body, has awarded £20m entry investments to 78 companies, with a further £40m given as follow-on investment.
Individual funding can range from £1,000 to £5m, via avenues including its Technology Seed Fund and Wales Business Fund.
But Neil Cocker, Cardiff Start co-founder, has called for a greater awareness of how the digital industry operates.
He said tech start-ups usually operate by different economic models than more traditional businesses, and the usual approaches "simply aren't relevant or helpful".
"Most of our start-ups never fulfil their potential because of the lack of relevant funding and advice," he said.
"We sometimes even hear how the start-up founder feels they're actually further behind than if they'd spent the time without the support.
"It's important to note that this is not the fault of Wales or of Welsh Government - we don't have the right pool of experience on which to draw.
"But it does point to the fact that Welsh Government should listen more closely to those who are at the coalface, and help them gain access to the people who can really help them."
App developer Stephen Milburn, who helps head Cardiff Start, said tech start-ups were struggling to make their first million once they get off the ground.
He said the Welsh Government needed to take a long-term view when backing companies, because "the value and return ratio is different" compared to "bricks and mortar" businesses.
Both believe Wales could promote itself better to venture capitalists if it "brands" its success stories.
Mr Cocker added: "Scotland are very good at promoting their successes, and everyone in tech knows that Skyscanner and Rockstar Games, for example, are from Scotland. But outside of Wales it is little known that GoCompare was a Welsh start-up."
Steve Smith, Finance Wales' director for technology venture investments, said it had "a dedicated technology investment team who work with technology ventures at a range of growth stages".
"Our portfolio has a number of examples of companies that have progressed from a seed-funded start-up to multi-million pound investment round involving a syndicate of venture capitalists," he said.
He added that the range of funding and infrastructure "has helped tech starts in Wales flourish but also attracted companies and founders to relocate here from across the border".
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said the tech sector in Wales was growing 32% faster than the economy as a whole, and was worth more than £8.5bn to the Welsh economy, with about 3,500 businesses employing more than 40,000 people.
Mr Skates said the Welsh Government was "proactively supporting innovative businesses through tailored initiatives", such as its Digital Development Fund, and has "actively supported emerging workspaces" including Welsh ICE, TechHub Swansea and Tramshed Tech.
"We recognise that tech companies operate differently and can have different requirements for government support," he said.
"We remain committed to a programme of support that is focused on driving further growth in the sector and ensuring Welsh tech businesses are given every opportunity to thrive."
Low, 24, has five Scotland caps, but has only played three games for Glasgow since joining them in the summer.
The former England Under-20 international spent six years with London Irish before moving to the Scotstoun Stadium.
"He's an international quality lock who has plenty of Premiership experience," said Sarries boss Mark McCall.
"With a few injuries and the expectancy that we will lose a few second-row forwards during the Six Nations, we are very happy to be able to bring Kieran into the group."
The fishermen claimed treated discharge from a water treatment works had degraded the quality of Llyn Padarn at Llanberis.
They said the annual catch of Arctic charr there had dropped and the regulator had not protected them.
But Mr Justice Hickinbottom said there was no evidence of this.
He said since 2011, to overcome the problem of a lack of spawning grounds, the lake had been restocked with young fish.
"There is no evidence of a decline in the charr population in Llyn Padarn since 2007 and there is evidence the population of adult charr are now at a level higher than 2005 and increasing, which is at least suggestive that the water is not hostile to charr," the judge added.
The judicial review proceedings in Caernarfon had been brought by the Seiont, Gwyrfai, and Llyfni Anglers Society, represented by a body called Fish Legal - an umbrella organisation for fishing groups.
Lawyers challenged Natural Resources Wales's claim that no environmental damage, except an algal bloom six years ago, was caused from raw sewage and treated effluent discharged by Welsh Water.
Speaking after the case, Welsh Water said it had invested £3.6m at the works since 2010 to meet tighter standards set by NRW which helped make it Wales' first designated freshwater bathing lake.
Sian Williams, head of operations for NRW, added: "We have always tried hard to work in partnership with the angling club to address their concerns and will continue to do so."
Huw Hughes, secretary of the Seiont Gwyrfai and Llyfni Angling Society, said they were disappointed by the decision.
Devon and Cornwall Police received calls from Nigel McGuire's girlfriend that she was concerned about him.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found that an inspector and a call handler had "cases to answer".
An inquest found that Mr McGuire's death was an accident, the IPCC said.
Mr McGuire's girlfriend first called police at 00:50 BST on 14 May 2013 and officers visited at 01:10 and spoke to him through his closed front door, after he refused to open it.
Officers then visited him at 09:00, 10:53 and 15:11 and on each occasion knocked on Mr McGuire's front door but they did not get a response. They also spoke to a neighbour, rang Mr McGuire and left messages on his mobile.
The IPCC said at 21:15 his girlfriend called police and told them he had said "he could not go on like this", which led to officers forcing entry into the property in Plymouth at 23:20 where Mr McGuire was found unconscious and later died in hospital.
Tom Milsom, IPCC associate commissioner, said: "The force held misconduct meetings for an inspector and member of control room staff and we recommended awareness should be raised within Devon and Cornwall Police about methadone poisoning and levels of dosages that give cause for concern."
Following misconduct meetings held by Devon & Cornwall Police a police inspector has received management advice and a police staff radio operator a written warning.
The force said that since his death, "significant changes" in the way it managed incidents involving vulnerable people had been introduced.
"We would like to offer our deepest sympathies to the friends and family of Nigel McGuire who have handled themselves with dignity throughout this difficult process."
At least 100 people were injured and an unknown number are trapped in rubble at the base of the 54-storey tower. The search for survivors continues.
The cause of the blast is under investigation, Pemex says.
Last September, 30 people died in an explosion at a Pemex gas plant in northern Mexico.
Thursday's explosion in the lower floors of the building happened as shifts were changing in the afternoon, making the area particularly crowded.
Television pictures showed debris from the blast spread out on to the street in front of the building, and Red Cross ambulances on the scene attending to the injured.
Hundreds of rescuers helped by dogs are searching the building for around 30 people thought to be trapped inside.
Police have cordoned off the streets around the building, which is located in a busy commercial area of Mexico City.
Pemex says its operations will continue to run normally - and commercial and financial obligations will continue to be met - despite the blast.
The company's chief executive, Emilio Lozoya Austin, cut short a business trip to Asia and was on his way back to Mexico, a Pemex statement said.
Relatives of employees have gathered outside the building in search of information about their loved ones, local media report. Some are said to have tried to reach employees on their mobile phones but have had no reply.
"The place shook, we lost power and suddenly there was debris everywhere. Colleagues were helping us out of the building," eyewitness Cristian Obele said.
"We were talking and all of sudden we heard an explosion with white smoke and glass falling from the windows," another witness said.
"People started running from the building covered in dust. A lot of pieces were flying."
By Will GrantBBC News, Mexico City
The Pemex building in the north of Mexico City is surrounded by large numbers of federal police and paramedics. Sniffer dogs are being used to look for people trapped under the rubble.
Mexico City is used to earthquakes, and the emergency services seem well prepared for this type of disaster.
The skyscraper withstood the blast too, with most of the damage confined to the ground and first floors. But night has set in now in the Mexican capital, further complicating the search.
Some family members of missing workers are gathered outside the Pemex building for news of their loved ones, while others have travelled directly to the hospitals.
The authorities and paramedic teams are releasing information at regular intervals but the exact cause of the blast may still take some time to be confirmed. This is now by far the worst explosion in Mexico City for almost 30 years.
Images of the blast posted on Twitter revealed large clouds of smoke billowing from the building. TV footage showed people being transported from the scene by helicopters.
President Enrique Pena Nieto and Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera headed to the scene of the blast.
Mr Pena said Pemex rescue and security teams were working alongside city authorities to help the injured.
"I am deeply sorry for the deaths of our fellow workers at Pemex. My condolences to their relatives," Mr Pena said on Twitter.
"At the moment, the priority is to help the injured and protect the physical safety of those who work there."
The president said he has ordered an investigation into the causes of the blast.
Earlier on Thursday, Pemex had reported problems with the electricity in the building in a message on Twitter.
It later confirmed that an explosion had taken place "in the B2 building of the administrative centre".
Plaster had fallen from the ceiling of the basement and the situation was "delicate", a spokesman for local emergency services was quoted by the Reuters news agency as saying.
Pemex has experienced a number of fatal accidents in recent years.
Last September's deadly blast at a gas plant near the northern town of Reynosa is thought to have been caused by a build-up of gas.
Eastwood stopped an Aleksandar Mitrovic spot-kick in Oxford's impressive 3-0 fourth round win with the game at 1-0.
"He (the analyst) told me after the game that Mitrovic had gone the other way with his two previous penalties," Eastwood told BBC Radio Oxford.
"If he'd told me that before, I'd have definitely dived the wrong way."
Former Blackburn goalkeeper Eastwood put in a man of the match performance as League One club Oxford outfought their Championship opponents.
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He denied striker Mitrovic with two smart one-on-one saves in the first half before diving low to his right to thwart the Serbia international from the spot.
"Sometimes it's just about trusting your instincts with a penalty," Eastwood added, after Oxford progressed to the last 16 for the first time since 1994.
But manager Michael Appleton, who has signed Eastwood three times in his career, chose to take some of the credit for the penalty save himself.
"I keep telling him in training to stand still and just wait for the player to actually kick it and place it," he said.
"I'm a believer that if you go once it's been hit and it's not within a couple of inches of the post, you can get there."
A vote of the executive committee, meeting in the Ethiopian capital, awarded Cameroon the 2019 finals and Ivory Coast will stage the 2021 edition.
In an unscheduled announcement Caf also decided to hand Guinea the right to host the 2023 finals.
Algeria and Zambia lost out in the bidding process.
The Democratic Republic of Congo had withdrawn from the race two months ago.
Cameroon, who will stage the tournament in 2019 previously staged the Nations Cup in 1972. Cameroon's bid was centred around four venues in Bafoussam, Douala, Garoua and Yaounde.
Ivory Coast, awarded the 2021 edition, are also former hosts, having staged the Cup of Nations in 1984. The Ivorians plan to use five cities - Abidjan, Bouake, Korhogo, San Pedro and the capital Yamoussoukro.
The 2023 hosts were not expected to be named at the executive committee meeting.
A Caf spokesperson later told the BBC that, on the basis of Guinea's presentation "and commitment", the committee "decided to exercise its power to make an immediate decision."
Guinea have never hosted the competition which was first staged 57 years ago in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. Guinea's bid promised to use Conakry, Kankan, Labe and Nzerekore as venues. Ironically the country is currently banned from hosting any international football by Caf because of the Ebola virus outbreak.
The two nations who miss out are Zambia and Algeria.
Zambia's bid-package for the tournament in five years' time included matches played against a backdrop of the spectacular Victoria Falls.
They were awarded the 1988 tournament only to be replaced by Morocco because they lacked the required funds.
The Algerian bid had seemed among the strongest, but their cause would not have been helped by the death of Cameroonian striker Albert Ebosse after a match in the north African state.
Ebosse died last month having being struck by a piece of slate allegedly thrown by a supporter of the club he played for, former African champions JS Kabylie.
Each country made a 30-minute, eve-of-vote presentation and the executive committee also had a report on each candidate to help them decide.
A five-man inspection team led by senior executive committee member Amadou Diakite from Mali spent several days in each of the five countries this year.
Among the facilities under the Caf microscope were stadiums, training grounds, hotels, hospitals and media centres, plus road, rail and air links.
The Nations Cup has been spread around the continent recently with southern, central, western and northern countries among the previous five hosts.
Ethiopia were the last east African hosts in 1976 with cash-strapped Kenya withdrawing as 1996 hosts and South Africa taking over.
Kenya, Algeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali and Zimbabwe are reportedly interested in replacing strife-torn Libya as the 2017 hosts ahead of a September 30 deadline for bids.
The 2017 Cup of Nations hosts will be named next year.
It follows an effort to get people not covered by existing commercial networks access to internet speeds greater than 24mbps (megabits per second).
The UK-wide scheme has passed three million homes and businesses at a rate of 40,000 per week.
Wales Office Minister Alun Cairns said: "The UK government will continue to do all it can to support the rollout."
Lynette White was stabbed more than 50 times in 1988 in the Cardiff docklands flat where she worked.
The quashed convictions later led to the £30m corruption case in 2011.
The Home Office said it would make an announcement shortly.
Lynette, 20, was murdered on St Valentine's Day 1988 at the flat in Butetown, where she took clients.
Tony Paris, Yusef Abdullahi and Stephen Miller - who became known as the Cardiff Three - were wrongly jailed for life in 1990 for the murder and freed in 1992 after their convictions were quashed.
In 2003 new DNA technology led South Wales Police to Ms White's real killer - Jeffrey Gafoor. He confessed to stabbing her in a row over £30.
Twelve former South Wales Police officers were charged with perverting the course of justice - but the trial of eight of them collapsed in 2011.
Matthew Gold, who acts for Stephen Miller, said the investigation would examine how the process of ensuring the defence had all the relevant evidence failed.
The system - known as disclosure - is supposed to mean both sides in a case share all their relevant documents.
"This investigation is not a reopening of the case against the (police) officers," insisted Mr Gold.
"It will address the systems employed by the prosecution to make sure disclosure worked, which in this case it did not, and also the role of individual disclosure officers."
Mr Gold said he had been informed that the investigation will start on 2 March, led by Richard Horwell QC.
Edinburgh Castle drew most visitors, with 1,568,508 people passing through.
The National Museum of Scotland in the capital was the top free attraction, with 1,567,310 visitors.
The others were Glasgow's Riverside Museum and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the Scottish National Gallery and St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, and Loch Lomond Shores in Balloch.
The study by Glasgow Caledonian University's Moffat Centre found visits to the top 10 attractions increased by 5% in 2015, despite a strong year in 2014 when Scotland hosted events such as the Commonwealth Games and the Ryder Cup.
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, the Famous Blacksmiths Shop in Gretna Green, the Helix park in Falkirk and the Falkirk Wheel were also in the top 10 free attractions. They all welcomed more than 600,000 people.
Top paid-for sites included Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh Zoo, Edinburgh Bus Tours, Stirling Castle, Glasgow Science Centre and Urquhart Castle in Drumnadrochit.
The Royal Yacht Britannia and the Scotch Whisky Experience, both in Edinburgh, the Scottish Seabird Centre in North Berwick and Culzean Castle and Country Park in Ayrshire completed the top 10 paid-for list.
Prof John Lennon, director of the Moffat Centre, said: "Scotland is clearly punching above its weight in visitor attraction performance.
"It is a testament to the range and appeal of Scotland's paid and unpaid offer that we continue to attract international and domestic tourists as well as local visitors to our visitor attractions."
The announcement comes during a four-day stoppage by BA staff that is due to finish on Saturday.
The airline said it had flown all customers to their destinations during all the strikes and would do so again.
BA said once contingency plans had been finalised it would publish more details next week.
Unite said the next planned stoppage will start at 00:01 on Friday 3 March and end at 23:59 on Thursday 9 March.
Unite said it was clear BA could "afford" to settle the dispute after its parent company, IAG, announced annual pre-tax profit of £2bn earlier on Friday.
Unite national officer Oliver Richardson said: "Striking mixed fleet cabin crew continue to demonstrate their determination to achieve a fair deal on pay in the face of British Airways' bully boy tactics."
The strike, by 2,900 members of Unite, seeks higher pay for members of the so-called "mixed fleet".
BA said: "Our pay offer for mixed fleet crew is consistent with the deal accepted by 92% of colleagues across the airline, most of whom are represented by Unite.
"It also reflects pay awards given by other companies in the UK and will ensure that rewards for mixed fleet remain in line with those for cabin crew at our airline competitors."
The airline said its offer was worth 7% over three years.
Unite said that since 2010, all new BA cabin crew joined what is called "'mixed fleet", where salaries started at just £12,192 with £3 an hour flying pay.
The union estimated that, on average, mixed fleet cabin crew earned £16,000 a year including allowances.
BA said that annual pay was above £21,000 a year.
A pay rise of 2% in the first year, and 2.5% in years two and three was rejected by Unite members shortly before Christmas.
The union said that the increase would have left staff only £20 a month better off after tax.
Unite has called for further talks at Acas.
A BA spokesperson said: "We have always made it clear that we are willing to talk provided there is no strike threat hanging over us."
On Point Grey Road in the west of the city - known as Vancouver's "Billionaires' Row" - he shows me around a two-bedroom house on the market for just short of 11m Canadian dollars ($8.4m; £5.7m).
The interior is all wood panelling and polished concrete. A terrace opens out onto the bay where boats bob in the water and seaplanes take off and land. From the Jacuzzi there are views of the snow-capped mountains in the distance.
In the past five years Bryan estimates that prices on this street have risen by about 120%, driven by demand from the international jet-set looking to add Vancouver to their list of homes around the world.
"It's great for business," he tells me, but admits: "It's irrational. If you look at the prices and the graphs, it's off the charts."
Vancouver property is red hot, and not just at the luxury end of the market.
Average house prices in the city are rising at record rates of 20-30% a year, and a typical detached house now costs about C$1.3m.
That's way beyond the means of most Vancouverites in a city with one of the lowest median household incomes in the country.
The Royal Bank of Canada warned recently that Vancouver is becoming "dangerously unaffordable". A recent study ranked Vancouver as the least affordable city in North America.
"We're an international freak show," says David Eby, a member of British Columbia's legislative assembly for Vancouver-Point Grey and housing spokesman for the opposition New Democrat Party.
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On the walls of his community office in west Vancouver are testimonials of residents who have been forced to move out of the city by the rising cost of housing.
He says the local economy simply isn't big enough to justify the sky-high property prices.
The result is an exodus of young people from the city. The local economy is being damaged and quality of life is being harmed.
Mr Eby says it is clear that a huge influx of foreign money is to blame.
"Black Rock, the world's largest investment firm, tells investors from around the world: 'Don't invest in gold anymore, invest in condos in Manhattan, in London, and in Vancouver,' and to people who live here that seems so crazy - why would Vancouver be on that list?"
One of the reasons of course is that Vancouver's natural setting makes it an attractive place to live. But another is its strong ties across the ocean to the Asia-Pacific region.
Researchers say much of the money now flowing into the Vancouver market is coming from China.
Wealthy Chinese looking for a safe place to park their money have gained access to the market through an immigrant investor programme started by Canada in the 1980s.
But hard data on how much money is actually coming in and where it's coming from is scarce.
Cameron Muir, the chief economist at the British Columbia Real Estate Association, says the influence of foreign money is being vastly overstated.
"Yes absolutely, we've had a larger share than other areas of Canada of investor-class immigrants who have come to Vancouver with a lot of wealth and they have for the most part bought homes here.
"But to say that somehow foreign investment is making it unaffordable for first-time buyers to get into the housing market in Vancouver is a bit of a stretch."
That is rejected by David Eby. "It's a lot like the tobacco executive saying there's no proof that smoking causes cancer," he says. "It's so obvious what's happening in our market here."
Andy Yan is acting director of Simon Fraser University's city programme and an urban planner at Bing Thom Architects. He is among those frustrated by the lack of information on who owns what in Vancouver.
I meet him in the shadow of huge condominium towers that dominate the skyline of downtown Vancouver. He conducted his own research using census data and electricity usage and found that nearly a quarter of these condominiums were empty - suggesting they are being used as parking spaces for cash rather than places to live.
"The issue is who is [the city] supposed to serve?" he says. "The notion that this is a city where you can have a life cycle of being single in your twenties, having a professional life and then going and raising a family is being increasingly challenged."
Campaigners are calling for curbs on foreign investment in the shape of higher taxes on property ownership, fearing that Vancouver will soon become little more than a parking space for wealth.
Last year Vancouverite Eveline Xia started a Twitter campaign under the hash tag #donthaveamillion, highlighting the affordability crisis.
"Personally more than half my friends from university have left and that's been quite tragic for me," she tells me. "I'm probably going to leave too, I'm planning an exit strategy."
For David Eby, its the loss of Vancouver's youth that is most worrying.
"We desperately need people to come and live here who have skills of certain types," he says. "We need to fulfil our international refugee obligations.
"What we don't need is a lot of millionaires to move here to support the local Ferrari dealership - which we now have."
James Frickleton, 36, of no fixed abode, had originally denied the charge but subsequently admitted the offence in court.
Frickleton also pleaded guilty to another sexual offence.
He committed the rape in St Columb's Park on 19 October 2014.
Frickleton, who is originally from the Limavady area, is to be sentenced on 17 June following the preparation of pre-sentence and victim impact reports.
A prosecution lawyer told the court that Frickelton had a relevant conviction in the Republic of Ireland with significant similarities to the St Columb's Park offence.
Frickelton was returned to custody until he is sentenced.
Physical things which could be passed on in a will.
But now, in our online lives our memories - our thoughts, feelings and images - are scattered to the four winds of the internet, and stored on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
But who actually owns them?
And how do we ensure that the people we want to inherit them, our loved ones, actually do?
Louise Palmer knows only too well how difficult it can be.
Her 19-year-old daughter Becky loved sharing her life on Facebook.
When she fell terminally ill with a brain tumour, and lost speech and movement, Louise would log in with Becky to help her stay in touch with her friends.
Becky died in 2010 but Louise continued to access her account to feel close to her daughter.
"It was really important," she told me.
"When you've lost a child, and losing a child is the worst loss there is.
"You become very, very fearful that other people are going to forget them.
"So to be able to go on there and read not only what people have put on her wall, but private messages that people had sent as well.
"It was reassuring me that she wasn't going to be forgotten."
But then Facebook locked or 'memorialised' Becky's account.
Louise wrote to them explaining the tragic circumstances of Becky's death and expressing her desire to read the private messages on her daughter's page and to keep it tidy.
She received this reply: "Hi Louise, We are very sorry to hear about your loss. Per our policy for deceased users, we have memorialized this account.
"This sets the account's privacy so that only already confirmed friends can see the profile or locate it in Search.
"The Wall will remain, so friends and family can leave posts in remembrance.
"Unfortunately, for privacy reasons, we cannot make changes to the profile or provide login information for the account.
"We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Please let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks for contacting Facebook."
Louise then wrote to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, but did not receive a reply.
New YouGov research commissioned by the law firm Mishcon de Reya reveals an alarming lack of knowledge of who owns our online material.
Around one in four simply have no idea, while one in three believe it belongs to Facebook after death.
YouGov asked 2,185 adults: In the event that a Facebook user passes away, who do you think, by default, owns their Facebook content?
36% said Facebook
20% said next-of-kin
17% said no-one
27% said they didn't know
So who does own our online content?
Mark Keenan, a partner at Mishcon de Reya says: 'It's a legal minefield, it's the new frontier.
"People are just not reading the terms and conditions, and what we are seeing is a real increase in disputes between competing family members and the service providers."
There are no norms or standard practice among online providers for how digital assets are passed on to heirs.
Last year the Law Society warned people to leave clear instructions about what should happen to their social media, computer games and other online accounts after their death.
It stressed that having a list of online accounts, such as email, banking, investments and social networking sites will make it easier for family members to piece together a loved one's digital legacy, and provide the best chance for the wishes of the deceased to be fulfilled.
It is not only sentimental material that can be lost.
Digital assets can also include things with a real monetary value such as music, films, email accounts, computer game characters, domain names, air miles, reward points, PayPal and Bitcoin accounts.
And it is not just small change.
A virtual space station has been sold for $330,000 on a game called Project Entropia - though whether that kind of asset could be passed on would depend on the game's terms and conditions.
Gary Rycroft, a member of the Law Society Wills and Equity Committee, said people should not assume family members know where to look online and to make details of their digital life absolutely clear.
"If you have a Twitter account, your family may want it deactivated and - if you have left clear instructions - it will be easier for your executors to have it closed.
"If you have an online bank account, your executors will be able to close it down and claim the money on behalf of your estate.
"This is preferable to leaving a list of passwords or PINs as an executor accessing your account with these details could be committing a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
"It is enough to leave a list of online accounts and ensure this is kept current."
Not that many of us tell anyone what our passwords are.
The YouGov research found that 52% of us said that no-one, including friends and family, would be able to access our online accounts should anything happen to us.
In February Facebook offered customers in the US the option of deleting an account when they die, or appointing a friend or relative to take control of some parts of it.
But that doesn't apply here.
In a statement they told me: "When a person passes away, their account can become a memorial to their life.
"The Profile no longer appears in public spaces, so that grieving friends and family can continue to view the comments, photos and posts of their loved ones."
But that wouldn't include private messages on Becky Palmer's site, or allow Louise to manage it.
With many cherished memories of her daughter locked up online, Louise Palmer relies increasingly on a few home videos for comfort.
She understands that there are reasons for Facebook's privacy policy following a death - some people may not want anyone picking over details of their private life online.
But she says that there were no secrets between her and her daughter.
They shared everything in life.
She told me: "I'm her mum and this was her Facebook page, and its contents I felt were my legacy.
"Her online stuff should now be mine to be able to access."
At their inception social networking sites were largely the province of the computer savvy young.
A deluge of personal material flowed online, and no one was thinking about what might happen to it after death.
Now that social networking and the internet are well past their infancy, it is surely prudent for us all to consider how to pass on our digital, as well as our earthly, legacy.
It is very rarely true.
It is only in an extremely close-run race that the personality of the leader and the gulf between that leader's standing and the popularity of his or her principal opponent can make the difference between victory and defeat.
It is not even particularly uncommon for the political party of the less popular leader of the two main parties to be the one that wins the election.
Thus, for example, although journalists still write of "Margaret Thatcher's rout of James Callaghan", the Labour leader was some 20 points ahead of Mrs Thatcher on the eve of the Conservative victory in the 1979 election.
It was not Thatcher who defeated Callaghan but the Conservative Party that defeated Labour.
A serious study of post-World War Two UK elections found that the only leader who could have made the difference between his party forming a government or being in opposition was Harold Wilson, and on two occasions - in October 1964 and February 1974.
That was because those elections were extremely close and Wilson was vastly more popular than the Conservative leader in each case - Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1964 and Edward Heath in 1974.
In between, the Conservatives had won the 1970 election, notwithstanding the fact that then, too, Wilson was more popular than Heath.
Since all the available evidence suggests that the May 2015 election is likely to be a cliff-hanger, with a distinct possibility that once again no one party will have an overall majority, does this mean that journalists' excessive focus on the top leader might for once be justified? Probably not.
The two main political parties would be well advised to give ample interview time to other front-benchers rather than over-expose David Cameron and Ed Miliband in what, thanks to the fixed election date, is going to be a very long campaign by British standards - four whole months.
Nick Clegg might also cut his losses by sharing (with Vince Cable in the first instance) whatever diminished limelight the Liberal Democrats will secure.
Mr Clegg is highly unlikely to emulate his 2010 campaign, when he was deemed the outstanding performer, especially in the televised debates, of the three party leaders.
Even then, with unprecedented mass media exposure and "Cleggmania" rampant, the party's national vote rose by only 1%, and the Lib Dems ended up with five fewer MPs than in 2005.
Nigel Farage will doubtless continue to dominate the UKIP coverage, although the defection, and subsequent election under the UKIP banner, of two Conservative MPs makes him appear less of a one-man band than hitherto.
The rise of UKIP, however, is not because it has a leader of exceptional ability - he has the gift of the gab but we don't know, and may never know, if he would make a good minister.
Their by-election and opinion poll success is principally because the party is the respectable face of anti-immigration sentiment.
At a time when the major parties fought shy of the issue, UKIP articulated widespread popular concern about high levels of immigration.
Their challenge to British membership of the European Union is a less salient preoccupation for most voters, except insofar as it is linked to immigration levels.
The EU per se, and the issue of sovereignty, does, of course, matter greatly to many Conservative as well as UKIP activists.
It would be a surprise if UKIP were to win more than a handful of seats in the general election, but they could still have an influence on the outcome, taking more votes from the Conservatives than from Labour.
The big question is just how great the difference between Conservative and Labour defections to them will be - perhaps very great, and to Labour's electoral advantage, if it can convince its core voters that the party has not lost touch with them and its roots.
The Green Party may or may not improve on the single House of Commons seat it holds at present, but it has the potential to affect the outcome in a number of constituencies.
It may be the mass media's leader-fixation that prevents the Greens getting the attention their level of support, especially among young voters, merits.
How many people stopped on the street could name the present leader of the Green party? No, not Caroline Lucas - Natalie Bennett.
The Greens' more collective leadership may have hindered them from getting their fair share of media coverage, but it has not prevented their overtaking the Liberal Democrats in popular support - 7% nationally as against the Lib Dems' 6% in the last You Gov poll before Christmas.
The Greens are sure to eat into the Lib Dem vote in the May election, and they pose a danger to Labour in some marginal seats.
Of all the parties other than Conservative and Labour, including the far from inconsequential Northern Ireland parties, it is, however, the Scottish National Party which - uniquely for a UK general election - may hold the key to the result.
They are, by any objective measure, a more serious party than UKIP and are likely to win far more seats.
Unlike UKIP, to which they are sometimes, misleadingly, compared, they have demonstrated that they can govern and can do so effectively.
Having held office as a minority government in Scotland from 2007 to 2011, they won an outright majority in 2011, notwithstanding a highly proportional electoral system designed to ensure that no party (especially not the SNP) would ever have a monopoly of government posts.
Until now Scots have voted differently for the Westminster Parliament than for that in Edinburgh.
Not only did Labour win 41 out of 59 Scottish seats in the 2010 general election, it also increased its share of the vote in Scotland by 2.5% while dropping by 6.5% in the UK as a whole.
Labour's chances of an overall majority in the House of Commons after 7 May must depend on them holding on to most of those seats. At the moment this looks unlikely.
A December 2014 ICM poll of voting intentions for the general election put the SNP 17 points ahead of Labour, with the other parties trailing far behind.
Unless Labour can regain its former credibility north of the border, a majority of Scottish members of the House of Commons are going to be nationalists.
The rise of the SNP over the past two decades has often been attributed to the exceptional ability of its leader, Alex Salmond.
There is no denying his political talent, but yet again this is a case of a particular leader being used to explain too much.
Following the seamless transition to the leadership of Nicola Sturgeon - also, indeed, a formidable politician - support for the party has simply continued to grow.
The SNP have said that in no circumstances will they prop up a Conservative government, but - at a price - they might uphold a Labour administration.
That has very far-reaching implications.
If it led to the predictable English backlash, this would be grist for the mill of the separatist party, but bad news in the longer term for Labour - and for the continuing existence of the British state within its present boundaries.
England face India in the third one-day international at Trent Bridge on Saturday bidding to recover from a 133-run loss in the second ODI at Cardiff.
Hales hit 40 on his ODI debut and is set to bat with Cook for only the second time on his home ground.
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"I hope our games can feed off each other, and we can get that partnership going," Hales said.
As England seek to level the five-match series, Hales, 25, is bidding to consolidate on his encouraging start.
His half-century stand with Cook offset an otherwise miserable performance from the home batsmen.
Cook's ODI record has come under criticism from former England team-mate Graeme Swann but Hales has backed his skipper.
"I really enjoyed the start we had, and hope there are more of those partnerships to come," he said.
"He's a very technically sound guy and he's the right guy at the top of the order.
"I hope he'll show everyone in this series what he can do."
Hales believes India deserve credit for their skilled and clever bowling last time out but expects them to find it more difficult on a different pitch.
"They were just very cunning," he said. "Once I got past 30, they were one step ahead of me.
"So it's up to me to put that right, and have that game smartness.
"We feel a lot more prepared now, and this pitch will be a lot easier to score on and take the game back to their bowlers."
India have suffered a setback ahead of the the third ODI with the news batsman Rohit Sharma has been ruled out for the rest of the tour of England with a broken finger.
Sharma, 27, was injured during India's win on Wednesday.
Test opener Murali Vijay has been called up as a replacement, but is unlikely to arrive in time for the ODI at Trent Bridge.
Sharma was promoted to the top of the India batting order in January 2013, and made 52 against England in Cardiff.
In a statement, the Board of Control for Cricket in India said: "Rohit Sharma has sustained a fracture on the middle finger of his right hand, and has been ruled out of the ongoing ODI and T20 International Series against England as a result."
The middle-order batsman featured just once in the five-match Test series over the summer, scoring 28 and six in the third Test at Southampton in England's 266-run victory.
A criminal probe was launched after a pipe going over the canal at Gayton Marina, Northamptonshire, was drilled into at the weekend.
A charity spokeswoman said the fuel had mostly sat on the surface of the water and had since been sucked out.
The Environment Agency said four fish died but the full impact was not known.
The canal has since reopened to boaters.
The leak happened in the early hours of Saturday in what is believed to be a botched theft. Ten people sleeping on houseboats had to be checked over by paramedics for breathing in fumes.
A Canal and River Trust spokeswoman said when the pipe was pierced the fuel, believed to be used for aviation, spewed out like a "jet washer" due to the high pressure, making it hard for anyone to steal.
She said little wildlife impact had been reported as the fuel mostly sat in pools of a few centimetres in depth on the water's surface, and it appeared it had not seeped significantly down into the river bed.
An Environment Agency spokeswoman said the clean-up was complete and only four fish had washed up dead.
A statement added: "Initial findings suggest that there has been some impact on the invertebrate and further information is limited due to the ongoing investigation on the effect of the pollution."
Northamptonshire Police said its investigation was ongoing.
Dolly Shivani Cherukuri from Vijaywada in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh - who turns three next week - became the youngest Indian to score more than 200 points at a trial event on Tuesday, reports the Press Trust of India.
She fired 36 arrows at a target 5m away, then again at a target 7m away, making a total of 388 points.
Her achievement was witnessed by senior sports personalities and India Book of Records officials.
"We are all very proud of her. We are very impressed," Archery Association of India official Gunjan Abrol told the BBC.
Dolly was conceived through surrogacy after the death of her brother, international archer and coach Cherukuri Lenin, in a road accident in 2010 reports said.
Her father, Cherukuri Satyanarayana, said she had been trained since birth to be a champion.
"When we came to know that the baby was on her way we decided to mould her as an archer," news agency AFP quoted Mr Satyanarayana, who runs an archery academy in Vijaywada, as saying.
"The preparations started when she was in the womb itself," he added.
Mr Satyanarayana said they had arrows specially made for the toddler out of carbon when she was first learning the sport to ensure they were light enough for her to carry.
Archery experts say children are trained on lighter bows and Mr Abrol says Dolly's bow would also have been very light.
"You can't put too much pressure on children, they can be trained for a maximum of two or three hours a day," he said. "But Dolly comes from a family of archers so she's capable of a lot."
Photographs released by India Book of Records showed the toddler posing with her gold medal and certificate.
"My daughter achieved the feat we have been dreaming... I can't express in words how happy my family is," Mr Satyanarayana told PTI.
He said they would now try to get Dolly's name entered into the Guinness Book of World Records.
The 26-year-old spent six years with the Gunners before joining Seattle Reign in the United States in 2013.
Little, the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2016, has also had a spell on loan in Australia with Melbourne City.
"Kim is one of the outstanding talents in the women's game," Arsenal Ladies boss Pedro Martinez Losa said.
"She will be a fantastic asset to our team as we prepare to challenge for the top honours in 2017."
Little will join Arsenal in January ahead of the 2017 campaign. The Gunners have not disclosed the length of her contract.
Accountant Peter Wardle, 68, of Witton-le-Wear, was given an 18 month suspended prison sentence after admitting furnishing false information.
His sentencing at Teesside Crown Court comes after four others connected to North East Property Buyers and Newcastle Home Loans were jailed.
Lenders lost £112m after the firms lied on mortgage applications.
The companies bought thousands of homes at knockdown prices from people who were struggling with mortgages and then offered to rent them back, the court heard.
But they defrauded banks by making false claims when borrowing money to build their property empire.
Wardle was also given a three month curfew and disqualified from being a company director for three years.
David Purdie, 57, of Dunston, Gateshead, Michael Foster, 43, of Houghton, Linda Patterson, 57, of Newcastle and Steven Keay, 54, of Ryhope were previously jailed.
More than 960 asylum-seeker children are being cared for by the authority, up from 629 at the end of July. The year before there were just 238.
It said children's services were currently facing "enormous pressure".
Peter Oakford, cabinet member for specialist children's services, said the council had run out of foster beds.
The government has pledged to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees by 2020 and to extend funding for councils to "assist" with the costs of helping Syrian refugees.
Kent's response to the Syrian refugee crisis was discussed at a council meeting, where councillors heard the county was facing "a unique situation" because of the spiralling number of lone asylum-seeker children.
Speaking after the meeting, Mr Oakford said he hoped that help to "alleviate the problem" in Kent would be forthcoming.
It would be "unfair" for the authority to take any more lone children through the Syrian refugee scheme "because we would have great problems trying to find them accommodation, schooling etc", he said.
"We can't find any foster beds at this moment within Kent.
"We're having to place young people outside of Kent, whilst still retaining responsibility and having to support these young people," he added.
Council leader Paul Carter earlier told council members that he expected a government announcement within the next 10 days on "a dispersal system and a funding package that will stimulate and encourage that dispersal system around the country".
It is also considering a more general ban on state employees wearing the headscarf and other religious symbols.
The measures are seen as an attempt to counter the rise of the far-right Freedom Party, whose candidate narrowly lost last month's presidential vote.
The centrist coalition nearly collapsed last week amid crisis negotiations over the government's future direction.
Detailing the package of reforms, the coalition devoted just two lines to the planned ban on the Islamic niqab and burqa.
"We are committed to an open society, which also presupposes open communication. A full-face veil in public places stands in its way and will therefore be banned," it said.
An estimated 150 women wear the full niqab in Austria but tourism officials have expressed fears that the measures will also deter visitors from the Gulf.
One government spokesman told an Austrian newspaper that the ban would apply for ski resorts such as Zell am See as much as the centre of Vienna.
Several European countries have imposed similar bans but the Austrian move is, according to the vice chancellor a "symbolic" step.
Integration Minister Sebastian Kurz said it was important to be seen to be neutral, especially for anyone dealing with the public in the police or schools.
France and Belgium introduced a burqa ban in 2011 and a similar measure is currently going through the Dutch parliament.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said last month that the full-face veil should be prohibited in Germany "wherever it is legally possible". The UK does not ban the niqab or burqa.
Further measures agreed by Austria's Social Democrats and their conservative People's party partners include electronic tagging of former jihadists and a proposed curb on foreign workers.
Many of the plans must be hammered out in detail and receive parliamentary approval before they can come into force, BBC Vienna correspondent Bethany Bell reports.
The niqab is a veil for the face that leaves the area around the eyes clear. However, it may be worn with a separate eye veil. It is worn with an accompanying headscarf.
The burka is the most concealing of all Islamic veils. It is a one-piece veil that covers the face and body, often leaving just a mesh screen to see through.
Sven Lau - a 35-year-old Muslim convert - is accused of supporting the Jamwa group of Islamist foreign fighters in Syria.
Prosecutors are also considering bringing terrorism charges against Mr Lau himself, say reports.
The defendant strongly denies all the charges, his lawyer says.
More than 40 witnesses have been called to give evidence at the trial, which is expected to run until about January.
Mr Lau's alleged crimes date back to 2013, when he is accused of transporting two Islamists from Germany to join Jamwa - Jaysh al-Muhajirin wal-Ansar (Army of the Emigrants and Helpers).
He is also accused of providing the group with money and night-vision goggles.
In 2014, Mr Lau is said to have led a group of men wearing high-visibility vests emblazoned with "Sharia police" on patrols in Wuppertal, western Germany in a bid to enforce their ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam.
The group ordered people outside nightclubs to stop drinking and listening to music, and also announced a prohibition on gambling.
The initiative resulted in nine arrests, but a court controversially decided no laws had been broken.
Mr Lau has been held in custody since December last year.
Eamonn Burns' side conceded two extra-time to slip to an 11th defeat out of 11 inter-county matches in 2016.
Donal O'Hare kicked 2-9, including an injury-time free, to force extra as it was 3-12 to 0-21 after 70 minutes.
But Longford subs Seamus Hannon and Mark Hughes hit extra time goals to put their side through to Monday's draw.
Longford dominated the first half and bar a breakaway goal from Conor Maginn, Down were well off the pace and lucky to only trail 0-11 to 1-4 at the break with Longford hitting eight first-half wides.
Inspirational captain Mickey Quinn drove them forward and set up numerous scores with Robbie Smyth, James McGivney, Barry McKeon and Diarmuid Masterson all taking stylish points from distance.
Down looked short on confidence, but Maginn's goal brought them back into it after good work from Kevin McKernan, O'Hare and Barry O'Hagan.
The long ball and direct approach was something Down didn't exploit often enough and frequently coughed up possession too easily.
Down came out a different team and O'Hare rattled the net 35 seconds after the restart to set the tone for a much-improved second half.
There was far greater urgency to Down's play and O'Hare slotted home his second goal after 44 minutes to put the home side in front for the first time in over half an hour.
Ryan Mallon and the on-fire O'Hare put Down three points up, but having been outplayed in the second half, Longford somehow found another gear.
Three points from play in two minutes from the inspirational Quinn, Masterson and McGivney saw them draw level, at 3-9 to 0-18 with seven minutes to go.
They made it five in a row through Brian Kavanagh and Masterson to move two ahead but Mallon and sub Sean Dornan levelled it in the 69th minute with extra-time looming.
Quinn's fourth point in the second minute of injury time put Longford in front but after Michael Brady was sent-off for a second yellow, O'Hare equalised for Down taking it to extra-time.
Longford sub Seamus Hannon bagged a goal nine minutes into extra-time to help the visitors lead 1-23 to 3-16 at half-time and Hughes clinched it with an 86th-minute goal.
Down: M Reid; C McGovern, G McGovern, D O'Hagan; D McKibbin, A Carr, D O'Hanlon; P Turley, K McKernan; R Mallon (0-4), M Poland (0-1), J Murphy; C Maginn (1-1), D O'Hare (2-9, 8f), B O'Hagan (0-1). Subs: G Collins for McKibbin (43), M McKay for McKernan (53), D Turley for Murphy (55), S Dornan (0-1) for B O'Hagan (63), H Brown for McKay (BC, 79), K McKernan for Maginn (84), B McArdle for Carr (89)
Longford: P Collum; C Farrelly, B Gilleran, D Brady; D McElligot, M Quinn (0-4), D Masterson (0-3); M Brady, D Gallagher; D Reynolds (0-1), J McGivney (0-3), B McKeon (0-2); R Smyth (0-4, 1f), B Kavanagh (0-6, 5f), B O'Farrell Subs: P McGee for Gilleran (47), L Connerton for Gallagher (55), S Hannon (1-1) for McKeon (60), B Farrell for Reynolds (67), M Hughes (1-0) for J McGivney (BC, 80), R Connor for Smyth (86), D McGivney for Quinn (89)
Referee: Barry Cassidy (Derry)
The full-back's previous contract was due to expire in June 2017.
The Spaniard has made over 340 appearances for Swansea since joining from Terrassa in his homeland in the summer of 2007.
"I am delighted to have extended my contract for another year and I am looking forward hopefully to having more years at the club," Rangel told Swansea's official website.
"This is my home now. This contract will take me to 11 years here and I am so pleased with that.
"I am 33 now, but I still feel fresh. That's one of the main reasons why I am still signing contracts."
Midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson and winger Nathan Dyer have also signed contract extensions with Swansea.
Last November, High Court judge Mr Justice Jay ruled an Ofsted ruling that segregating boys and girls was unlawful discrimination was "erroneous".
He ruled the Ofsted report could be published but the school, Birmingham's Al-Hijrah, should not be named in it.
Lawyers applied for the school's anonymity to be lifted.
In November, the High Court ruled that Al-Hijrah school had not breached equality legislation by teaching boys and girls separately.
But Mr Justice Jay, sitting in London, rejected claims that the Ofsted inspectors had been biased.
He allowed Ofsted to publish the rest of its inspection report placing anonymised "School X" into special measures, after inspectors found books in the school library that gave tacit approval to domestic violence.
The judge gave both Ofsted and the school leave to appeal.
The school sought to block publication of the Ofsted report, with the backing of its local education authority.
The issues raised by the case will be analysed by the Court of Appeal on Tuesday.
On the eve of the two-day hearing, Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Daily Mail, applied for the school's anonymity to be lifted so it could be fully identified during the appeal.
Sir Terence Etherton, Master of the Rolls, sitting with Lady Justice Gloster and Lord Justice Beatson, said: "We have reached the clear decision on this application that we consider anonymity should be raised so that [the press and media] will be able to name the school."
Full reasons would be given later, said the court.
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The 37-year-old Scot was brought to the Sky Blues by Steven Pressley when he took over as manager in March 2013.
He briefly took over as joint caretaker boss, along with professional development manager Dave Hockaday, when Pressley was sacked in February.
MacFarlane and Hockaday stayed on when Tony Mowbray took charge on 3 March.
When Hockaday left at the end of the season, after the Sky Blues' final-day brush with relegation to League Two, MacFarlane remained, having signed a new deal in August 2014, following Coventry's return to the Ricoh Arena.
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It took three hours to put out the blaze, which broke out late on Tuesday inside the maternity unit at the Yarmouk Hospital, in the city's west.
Seven other children and 29 women had to be moved to nearby hospitals. Nineteen are believed to have been treated for burns or smoke inhalation.
The health ministry said the fire was probably caused by an electrical fault.
Electrical fires are common in Iraq because of shoddy maintenance and poor wiring, and a lack of fire escapes often adds to the danger.
Angry relatives gathered outside the hospital on Wednesday morning. Many held the government responsible for the fire.
Hussein Omar, a 30-year-old builder, told the Associated Press feared that he had lost twins born last week.
Hospital officials had told him to look for them at the other hospitals in Baghdad, he said. But he could not find them and was then told to go to the hospital mortuary.
"I only found charred pieces of flesh," Mr Omar said. "I want my baby boy and girl back. The government must give them back to me."
Eshrak Ahmed Jaasar, 41, was unable to find her four-day-old nephew.
"I came early this morning to see my nephew and his mother, but they told me about the fire," she told AP. "My nephew is still missing and his mother was moved to another hospital ward."
Ms Jaasar added: "We pay the hospital employees thousands of Iraqi dinars to allow us in to get our loved ones basic food and milk, which they cannot provide."
"It's a corrupt government that doesn't care about its citizens and lets this happen."
Photos purportedly taken inside the Yarmouk Hospital showed cockroaches crawling out from between broken tiles, bins overflowing with rubbish, dirty toilets, and patients lying on stretchers in a courtyard, the Reuters news agency reports.
In January, the force said it would cut the number of front counters from 16 to four as part of a property review.
On 12 June, seven offices will shut, with Bakewell and Derby's Assembly Rooms closing the day after. Three more will go by 18 September.
Senior officers said few people used the desks and the move would allow them to invest in other services.
The closures are part of the force's plans to make savings of up to £26m during the next five years.
The offices to close on 12 June are Glossop, Matlock, Clay Cross, Bolsover, Long Eaton, Cotton Lane in Derby and Swadlincote.
Ashbourne, Ripley and Ilkeston will close by 18 September, with exact dates to be announced nearer the time.
Only the counters at Buxton, Chesterfield and Derby's St Mary's Wharf and Pear Tree will remain open.
Assistant Chief Constable, Gary Knighton, said: "This will save us a significant amount of money which will go towards keeping people safe.
"The way people contact us has really changed, via the internet, phones and even scheduled appointments."
He emphasised only the front counters were closing and not the entire stations.
Cardiff and Merthyr crown courts were two of the first in Wales and England to "go digital" as part of a £700m Ministry of Justice initiative.
Recorder of Cardiff, Judge Eleri Rees, said the move is saving court time.
It also means defence barristers are in a better position to advise their clients much sooner.
"We can all look at the screens and we can all talk about the same information," the judge told BBC Radio Wales.
"For example, in a trial if you wanted to refer the judge to an exhibit or a witness statement, we could all go immediately to that document instead of having to dig about and have something copied and handed up to the judge."
She added the move would also prevent victims of crime waiting weeks or months to find out if they have to go to court.
"My understanding is that even in these first few months, there has been a significant increase in the rate of guilty pleas coming in at an earlier stage."
Merthyr has been trialling the system since October 2015 and Cardiff started three months ago.
The judge's claim is backed up by the Crown Prosecution Service in Wales but it added more data is needed to confirm a trend.
And barrister Lucy Crowther, from Apex Chambers in Cardiff, has welcomed the new system.
"We're going to be able to get rid of the bad backs, the bad shoulders and the wheelie trolleys," she said.
"It's certainly far more efficient, we're certainly saving time and resources but I think we've still got quite a long way to go in terms of finishing the project off properly and implementing the teething problems we've had so far."
Buttler, uncapped at Test level, was brought in after Prior reported some mild tightness in his right thigh.
The 23-year-old Buttler has played 33 one-day internationals and 36 Twenty20 matches for England.
He struck a superb 121 from 74 balls in an ODI defeat by Sri Lanka in May.
Both players performed fielding drills with gloves on at Trent Bridge on Tuesday morning. Prior wore strapping on on his right leg, but appeared able to crouch in the wicketkeeper's stance without obvious discomfort.
The Sussex keeper was dropped for the final two Tests of the 5-0 Ashes defeat by Australia last winter, and struggled with an Achilles injury earlier this season.
But the 32-year-old returned to the Test side for the recent series at home to Sri Lanka, scoring 139 runs and taking 14 catches.
Buttler's innings against Sri Lanka at Lord's was the fastest ever one-day international century by an England player.
That led to calls in some quarters for him to be picked for the Tests against the Sri Lankans at the start of June, but captain Alastair Cook suggested at the time that Buttler was "not quite ready" to play Test cricket.
Andrea Kuiper was 26 years old when she left Virginia and went missing in California, authorities said.
The Orange County Sheriff's Department identified her as the woman who was hit after the FBI matched her fingerprints in a national missing persons database.
Ms Kuiper's family said they were "thankful" for the closure.
"We are thankful to know what happened to our daughter after all these years," said her father, Richard Kuiper, according to the sheriff's department.
An unidentified 26-year-old woman was hit while crossing the Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, California, on 1 April, 1990.
The Orange County Sheriff's Department's Coroner Division said it worked to solve the case for years.
"We never forgot her and would regularly pull out her file to see if we could think of anything new to try," Supervising Deputy Coroner Kelly Keyes said in a statement.
"The investigators at the Coroner's Office never stopped trying to figure out who she was."
Ms Kuiper, who left her home in Fairfax, Virginia, was last heard from by her family a few months before her death, the sheriff's department said.
She had suffered from manic depressive disorder, her parents said.
In 2010, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUS) was created, providing a searchable database to help solves cases involving unidentified victims.
The sheriff's department put her details in the database shortly after it was created.
In 2017, NamUS partnered with the FBI to examine fingerprints from the database against those from unsolved cases, which led to Ms Kuiper's match.
It is to improve access and traffic-free routes for walkers and cyclists on a three-mile stretch between Skipton and Bradley.
It is to also link Skipton town centre with the Snaygill Industrial Estate, said the Canal and River Trust.
Nick Smith, for the trust, said the work would be a "real boost" for all who use it.
There have been complaints about the condition of the towpath along this stretch. It is currently in a poor condition, muddy with little stone or hard surfacing, said the trust.
This makes access difficult for many users and the towpath is little used in winter.
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is Britain's longest man-made waterway. It was used to carry coal, limestone, wool, cotton, grain and other farm produce.
It is now primarily used for leisure boating, walking, angling and cycling.
Building the waterway started in 1770 and was only finally completed in 1816, some 46 years later. It is 127 mile (204 km) long.
There are to be some diversions on the towpath during the work, that is to last about 14 weeks, said the trust.
Sir Peter said the civil service was in "good heart" following a "challenging" time which saw his impartiality questioned by the SNP's opponents.
He will step down as permanent secretary to the Scottish government at the end of June, after five years.
The search for his replacement will begin shortly.
Sir Peter, who hopes to continue in public service, said: "It has been a joy and a privilege to serve these five years.
"However, a person cannot do these jobs forever and I want to enable my successor to come into post in good time for the run-up to the Scottish Parliament elections in May 2016."
'Challenging period'
He added: "I am confident that my successor will find the civil service in Scotland in good heart.
"This has been a vibrant and challenging period. We have come through with our values intact, with strong capability and in a spirit of partnership across Scotland, and with the UK government and its agencies."
Sir Peter was cleared of a breach of the civil service code over an internal briefing advising that the Scottish independence referendum debate had left "the status quo . . . lost in the mists of time".
In 2011, Scotland's opposition parties complained to the head of the UK civil service about Sir Peter, with Liberal Democrat Tavish Scott at the time accusing him of "rapidly becoming the chief cheerleader" for independence.
But the then head of the UK Civil Service, Sir Gus O'Donnell, said it was "right and proper" that civil servants should act to support their elected ministers, in this case the devolved Scottish government.
Constitutional debate
Sir Peter himself has maintained he expressed no view on Scottish independence.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, said: "Sir Peter Housden has been an outstanding permanent secretary, leading the Scottish government's civil service team with distinction over the last five years."
Sir Jeremy Heywood, head of the UK civil service, added: "I would like to thank Peter for his tremendous work as the permanent secretary for the Scottish government, in particular in leading the Scottish civil service through a challenging programme of constitutional debate and change."
Salford led at the break after Gareth O'Brien and Kris Welham tries cancelled out Ryan Hall's finish.
Jimmy Keinhorst's second Super League try of the season put Leeds in front, but Logan Tomkins crossed to level with 10 minutes remaining at Headingley.
Sutcliffe's score, which had a dubious looking forward pass in the build up, ended the visitors' hopes late on.
The Rhinos took five games to pick up their first win in 2016, so to have two on the board after three matches is a boost for Brian McDermott's side.
Danny McGuire, making his first start of the season linked up well for the hosts, particularly with a fine kick for the Hall try, while Salford's O'Brien underlined his importance with a strong display that yielded a try.
Leeds shaded the match in terms of chances, enjoying large stints of possession in the Salford half - particularly in the opening 40 - and were clinical after the break.
The visitors were unfortunate to have George Griffin's first-half score chalked off for a forward pass - particularly given the drama surrounding Sutcliffe's effort at the end - and the Red Devils showed defensive mettle throughout.
Their promise lies in the quality of halves Robert Lui and Michael Dobson, who impressed as they staked their claims to compete with import half-back Todd Carney for a spot in the side.
Leeds head coach Brian McDermott:
"I'm going to be very diplomatic, I actually didn't see the pass. But enough people shouted for it. If it was, it was.
"I can understand his frustration. But you've got to ask the question, 'Is that why the try was scored?'.
"From my point of view, I won't be rolling my eyes on Monday and saying to the fellas, 'We were lucky'."
Salford head coach Ian Watson:
"The ref and the officials weren't great all game. There was a dead-set penalty we should have had 30 metres out in front of the posts. Gaz O'Brien doesn't miss that one, he kicks that and that's our win at Leeds.
"What's happened on the back of it has just compounded that - it was a massive forward pass. The fact there are only three people in the ground who don't see it is unreal.
"We were adamant as a group we were going to come here and get something. It was a win we wanted and I thought the boys deserved it.
"I feel we've been let down by an outside factor. It's a cruel way to lose a game."
Leeds Rhinos: Golding; Briscoe, Watkins, Keinhorst, Hall; McGuire, Burrow; Garbutt, Parcell, Singleton, Ward, Ablett, Jones-Buchanan.
Replacements: Cuthbertson, Sutcliffe, Ormondroyd, Moon.
Salford Red Devils: O'Brien; Bibby, Sa'u, Welham, Johnson; Lui, Dobson; Kopczak, Tomkins, Mossop, Griffin, Jones, Flanagan.
Replacements: Wood, Tasi, Krasniqi, A Walne.
Referee: Chris Campbell.
Carvers from Scotland, England, Ireland as well as Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Holland, Canada and the US have entered this year's championships.
They use chainsaws to carve logs into the shapes of animals and people.
The competition is now in its 13th year and is held in Carrbridge in the Cairngorms National Park.
Gydol y dydd mae pobl wedi bod yn cofio am y "baswr â'r llais dwfn godidog".
Un a oedd yn ffrind agos iddo ac yn canu gydag ef yn Hogia'r Wyddfa oedd Arwel Jones. Wrth rannu ei atgofion gyda Cymru Fyw dywedodd: "Newyddion hynod o drist - ro'n i gydag e neithiwr ac yn gweld e rywfaint gwell a sioc fawr oedd clywed bore 'ma ei fod wedi'n gadael ni."
"Doedd neb wrth gwrs yn ei adnabod e fel Elwyn Wilson Jones - Elwyn Llanbêr oedd e i bawb. Ro'n i ag o yn gymdogion bore oes yn Llanbêr ac ry'n ni wedi bod yn ffrindiau ers dyddiau mebyd.
"Doedd Elwyn erioed wedi symud o'r ardal. Arferai weithio yn amgueddfa chwarel Dinorwig. Rownd y cornel i ni roedd Myrddin a Viv yn byw - aelodau eraill Hogia'r Wyddfa.
"Digwydd dod at ein gilydd 'nathon ni a chanfod bod ein lleisiau ni yn asio," ychwanegodd Arwel.
"Triawd yr Wyddfa o'n ni i ddechrau - Elwyn, Myrddin a fi ac yna mi ddaeth Richard a Viv atom i gyfeilio.
"Roedd llais bendigedig gan Elwyn - llais unigryw a byddai pawb trwy Gymru yn gofyn o hyd lle mae'r baswr. Fe allai Elwyn fod wedi dilyn gyrfa yn y byd canu ond na'th o ddim.
"Fe oedd canolbwynt y criw. Fo fuaswn i'n dweud oedd y cymdeithaswr gorau ohonom - mi allai e siarad ag unrhyw griw neu gynulleidfa.
"Mae'n drist meddwl ei fod wedi mynd - diwedd cyfnod. Roedd e'n rhan o'n steil unigryw ni o ganu - sef canu barddoniaeth beirdd enwog a phoblogaidd megis Williams Parry, Parry-Williams a Cynan - mi roddon ni stamp ein hunain ar bethau.
"Mae'n chwith meddwl ei fod wedi mynd."
Wrth siarad ar raglen Dewi Llwyd ar Radio Cymru fore Sul fe roddodd Dafydd Roberts, Ceidwad Amgueddfa Lechi Cymru yn Llanberis deyrnged i'r baswr o bentref bach Llanbêr.
"Fe fyddai yn cofio yn annwyl iawn am Elwyn, mae'n ddrwg gen i glywed am ei farwolaeth o.
"Mi oedd Elwyn wrth gwrs yn llinach y teulu, yn dod i'r amgueddfa lechi, ei dad o, y diweddar Huw Richard Jones yn brif beiriannydd olaf yn Chwarel Dinorwig, a fo achubodd gasgliad yr adeilad, sydd bellach yn yr amgueddfa wrth gwrs.
"Mi oedd Elwyn yn falch iawn i ddilyn oel ei draed yn ôl i'r adeilad ac yn falch iawn i ddangos crefft y peirianwyr, crefft y moldiwr i'r ymwelwyr.
"Mi oedd yn gyfathrebwr serchog, yn ddyn cefnogol, yn ddyn oedd yn ymdeimlo hanes Dinorwig i'w fôn, ac mi wela'i golli fo yn fawr iawn."ychwanegodd Mr Roberts.
He came to office as the first leftist leader in Brazil in nearly half a century. And he left eight years later, after serving two terms as president, enjoying exceptionally high popularity ratings for a retiring Latin American leader.
His 2002 election victory marked the end of an unprecedented journey from abject poverty to the presidency of Brazil.
Lula came to power promising major reforms to the country's political and economic system.
He vowed to eradicate hunger and create a self-confident, caring, outward-looking nation.
Analysts say it was because of some of his government's social programmes, which benefited tens of millions of Brazilians, that Lula retained his popularity.
He raised Brazil's profile on the international scene and presided over Brazil's longest period of economic growth in three decades, they say.
Unable to stand for a third consecutive term, he was succeeded by close ally Dilma Rousseff, who was later impeached.
The economic boom also gave way to recession, and the country's political scene was rocked by a huge investigation into alleged top-level corruption, known as Operation Car Wash.
Lula was among those to get caught up in the scandal and in July 2017 he was convicted of corruption and sentenced to more than nine years in prison. He is currently free pending an appeal.
He also faces other charges of money laundering, influence peddling and obstruction of justice. Lula has repeatedly denied the accusations, and his supporters say he has been unfairly targeted.
Lula's life began in humble circumstances.
The son of a poor, illiterate peasant family, Lula worked as a peanut seller and shoe-shine boy as a child, only learning to read when he was 10 years old.
He went on to train as a metal worker and found work in an industrial city near Sao Paulo, where he lost the little finger of his left hand in an accident in the 1960s.
Lula was not initially interested in politics but threw himself into trade union activism after his first wife died of hepatitis in 1969.
Elected leader of the 100,000-strong Metalworkers' Union in 1975, he transformed trade union activism in Brazil by turning what had mostly been government-friendly organisations into a powerful independent movement.
In 1980, Lula brought together a combination of trade unionists, intellectuals, Trotskyites and church activists to found the Workers' Party (PT), the first major socialist party in the country's history.
The PT went on to gradually replace its revolutionary commitment to changing the power structure in Brazil with a more pragmatic, social democratic platform.
Before his 2002 election victory, Lula had previously lost three times and he began to believe his party would never win power nationally without forming alliances and keeping powerful economic players onside.
His coalition in that election included a small right-wing party and he carefully courted business leaders both in Brazil and abroad.
The Workers' Party manifesto reflected these sometimes conflicting visions but overall remained committed to prioritising the poor, encouraging grassroots participation and defending ethical government.
In his time in office, Lula pumped billions of dollars into social programmes and can reasonably claim to have helped reverse Brazil's historic inequalities.
By increasing the minimum wage well above the rate of inflation and broadening state help to the most impoverished with a family grant programme, the Bolsa Familia, he helped some 44 million people and cemented his support among the poor.
However, many commentators argue that the programme failed to address the structural problems that underpin poverty, such as education.
There was also some criticism of the country's economic performance under Lula. Although Brazil saw steady annual growth, some business leaders argued it lost its competitive edge against international rivals.
Nonetheless, his government quelled fears in financial markets by keeping the economy stable and achieving a budget surplus.
Shortly after leaving office, Lula was diagnosed with throat cancer. He even shaved his trademark beard during treatment. Doctors declared him cured of the disease in 2012.
His wife, Marisa Leticia da Silva, died in February 2017, after suffering a brain haemorrhage.
Prior to his conviction, many of his supporters had called for his return to politics. They saw him as a viable candidate to run for the presidency in 2018, and polls had placed him as the forerunner for the job.
Brazil, though, is not the same. After the commodities boom came to an end, the country descended into its worst recession in 25 years.
And the Car Wash corruption scandal has also been a blow to the Workers' Party image, analysts say.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Ukraine needed "a Marshall Plan, not martial law", referring to the post-World War Two US aid programme for Europe.
Mr Yatsenyuk has been talking to foreign leaders on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Germany.
US Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to meet him on Saturday.
Ukraine has been in turmoil since November, when President Viktor Yanukovych pulled out of an agreement with the EU in favour of a Russian bailout.
Protesters have since occupied some government buildings in the capital Kiev and other cities.
After talks with German President Joachim Gauck and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday, Mr Yatsenyuk told the Agence France-Presse news agency: "Our German partners expressed their words of support to the Ukrainian people in their fight for freedoms and liberties."
He added: "Ukraine desperately needs a Marshall Plan and not martial law in order to stabilise the political and economic situation in the country."
Mr Yatsenyuk, who heads the Batkivshchyna party, recently refused an offer from President Yanukovych to become prime minister.
He has been joined in Munich by fellow opposition leader and former boxing champion Vitali Klitschko.
Correspondents say the crisis in Ukraine is a major talking point at the security conference, an annual event held to discuss military and political affairs.
Before arriving in Munich, Mr Kerry said that offers from President Yanukovych had "not yet reached an adequate level of reform".
Mr Kerry said he would also try to persuade Moscow that an agreement in Ukraine was in its interest. He held talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday night.
Russia has warned the EU and other Western powers not to meddle in the Ukrainian crisis.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara is also at the Munich conference but it is unclear if he will meet Mr Kerry.
Mr Kozhara did however meet the German foreign minister who raised the case of Dmytro Bulatov, the protester who says he was kidnapped and tortured.
Mr Steinmeier "strongly urged" Mr Kozhara to do nothing to prevent Mr Bulatov from leaving Ukraine and receiving medical treatment in Germany if that is what he wants, German government sources said.
On Friday, medical workers blocked police from questioning Mr Bulatov at the Kiev hospital where he is recovering from his injuries.
The 35-year-old, who went missing for eight days, said he had been "crucified" by his captors. He did not know who had abducted him but said they had spoken with Russian accents.
Police said they had opened an inquiry into Mr Bulatov's abduction and were trying to question him about it. Opposition activists, however, said officers went to the hospital to arrest him.
TV reports later said officers had left without questioning Mr Bulatov, but police guards had been posted at the hospital.
Amnesty International has described Mr Bulatov's ordeal as a "barbaric act which must be investigated immediately".
Also on Friday, Ukraine's defence minister said the army had urged President Yanukovych to take "urgent steps within the limits of existing legislation" to ease the crisis.
A statement said the military had labelled as "unacceptable" the occupation of government buildings by protesters.
Soldiers have not yet been deployed against protesters during the crisis.
President Yanukovych, who is on sick leave, has tried to ease the crisis by repealing anti-protest laws, signing an amnesty for protesters and accepting the resignation of his cabinet.
However, opposition leaders are calling for his resignation and early elections.
The city has one railway station serving almost 350,000 people.
Campaign for Better Transport Leicestershire said public transport "could be better".
It has been campaigning for the Ivanhoe line, from Leicester to Burton-upon-Trent, to reopen to passenger trains.
The group's chairman, Terry Kirby, said: "We've struggled for 20 to 30 years. Leicester station is busy and there are only four platforms.
"Cardiff is a similar sized city but it has more than a dozen stations."
The capital of Wales has 20 stations, which works out as one per 17,858 people.
The research, carried out by the Press Association, listed 10 places with the fewest number of railway stations.
Areas served by a mixture of mainline and light rail services, such as Sunderland and Wolverhampton, were not included in the ranking.
The City of London was found to top a list of the highest concentration of stations per population, with one for just 1,460 residents.
Public Health England said it was discussing a range of options on extending use of the branding to help people eat more healthily.
Products would have to meet agreed standards on fat, sugar and salt.
Currently the five-a-day logo can be used only on food or drink that is 100% fruit or vegetable.
Fewer than one in three adults and one in 10 children in the UK eat the recommended five portions a day.
The figures come from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey, which does take into account "composite" foods - homemade recipe dishes, ready meals and other manufactured products that contain fruit and vegetables alongside other ingredients.
Now government nutritionists are meeting with academics and food industry experts to decide if rules on the five-a-day logo scheme can be relaxed to include healthy foods that are currently excluded.
This could for example include a salad with some seeds or nuts as a garnish, which would help people meet their five-a-day target.
No decision has yet been made on what foods would make the grade - but about 350 categories of foods are being looked at, including pizza, vegetable lasagne, soup, and low fat baked beans.
A briefing paper states that products would have to meet agreed standards on saturated fat, added sugars and salt.
It also suggests that the foods should contain at least half a portion, but that could contain a combination of different fruit and vegetables.
One option under consideration is using the existing "traffic light" warning system for sugar, fat and salt content as a guide to which healthy foods could receive the official five-a-day branding.
This in itself is problematic as research by Public Health England found that just 2% of foods would qualify if only those with green labelling were included.
Extending this to amber foods could see a quarter of all composite foods meeting the criteria for the five-a-day logo, including some Indian and Chinese ready meals.
An official said that no decision had been made, but that they had been looking at a cross-section of common food products in order to decide what would be appropriate.
Any extension to the scheme could not be implemented until next summer at the earliest as officials await recommendations from Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition on healthy levels of daily sugar intake.
Dr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said: "The possible extension of the five-a-day logo to include composite foods [which is a product with more than one ingredient, one of which is a fruit or a vegetable] is one of a range of options that we are considering.
"However we have not decided on the criteria to use to extend the scheme to include composite foods and we also want to help people to reduce their intake of added sugar, saturated fat and salt overall."
The mayor of Rotterdam said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu could not campaign in the Dutch port because of security concerns.
Meetings in Austria and Switzerland have also been banned.
Recent cancellations in Germany led Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to accuse Berlin of "Nazi practices".
The comments drew a sharp response from German leaders, with Chancellor Angela Merkel describing the comparison as "unacceptable".
Mr Erdogan is seeking new powers in the 16 April vote.
He is targeting millions of expatriate voters eligible to cast a ballot in the referendum - including 1.4 million in Germany.
Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb said the owner of the hall that had been scheduled to hold Mr Cavusoglu's event in the city on Saturday had withdrawn authorisation, but the foreign minister could still visit.
"He has diplomatic immunity and everything so we will treat him with respect, but we have other instruments to prohibit things happening in public spaces," he said, quoted by Reuters news agency.
There was also uncertainty about whether an event he was due to attend in Zurich, Switzerland, on Sunday would go ahead after one venue refused to hold it.
Another event in Zurich scheduled for Friday and featuring a senior official was cancelled, as well as rallies in the Austrian towns of Hoerbranz, Linz and Herzogenburg.
The Dutch and Austrian governments have also criticised the Turkish government's drive to take its referendum campaign to Turks based in EU countries.
Relations between Turkey and European countries have deteriorated since last July's attempted coup in Turkey. Germany has been critical of the mass arrests and purges that followed - with nearly 100,000 civil servants removed from their posts and academics among the latest.
Many European nations have expressed deep disquiet about Turkey's response to the coup attempt and its perceived slide towards authoritarianism under President Erdogan.
Turkey is a key partner in an arrangement attempting to limit the movement of migrants into the EU, but has threatened to "open the gates" if the EU reneges on commitments to provide aid, visa-free travel for its nationals and accelerated membership talks.
The 10-tonne machine is in fact a seabed drilling system, and a very sophisticated one at that.
Deployed over the side of any large ship but driven remotely from onboard, it's opening up new opportunities to take sediment samples from the ocean floor.
MeBo was developed at the MARUM research facility in Bremen, Germany, and has not long returned from a pathfinding expedition to the West Antarctic.
In the iceberg-infested waters of the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE), it obtained the very first cores to be drilled from just in front of some of the mightiest glaciers on Earth.
Chief among these are Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites Glacier, colossal streams of ice that drain the White Continent and which are now spilling mass into the ocean at an alarming rate.
There's concern that deep, warm water is undercutting the glaciers, possibly tipping them into an unstoppable retreat. And that has global implications for significant sea-level rise.
It was MeBo's job to help investigate whether this really could be happening.
MeBo Drilling System
The goal was to retrieve seafloor sediments that would reveal the behaviour of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) in previous warm phases. To read the future in the past.
"Has the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed before? Is that the scenario we should expect in the next couple of hundred years?" pondered project leader Karsten Gohl from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI).
"Perhaps in some of these warm periods it has only partially collapsed, just a few portions of it. Or maybe the WAIS was hardly affected in those times. We hope we can understand this better by collecting samples because basically the sediments are a climate archive."
As glaciers grind their way off the continent they crush and bulldoze rock and drop it offshore. This material - the range of particles and their shapes, the way they are sorted, etc - codes the activity of the glaciers in the region.
Layers deposited during periods when the WAIS was extensive will contrast with those from times when glaciers were absent or significantly withdrawn.
"If you find ice-rafted debris (stones dropped by icebergs), for example, you can be sure there was ice on land and that the ice had advanced to the coast," explained Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
"But also new developments - especially what's known as geochemical provenance - have emerged in the last 10 years that mean it's even possible now to compare this material with rocks on land to pin down the actual sources in the hinterland."
Helpfully, nature also date-stamps the sediments by incorporating the remains of single-celled organisms (foraminifera and diatoms) from the ocean. The distinct species that lived through different epochs act as a fossil chronometer.
MeBo's drill cores are now back in Bremen. A week ago, the cylindrical liners containing some 60m of ocean-floor material were being X-rayed at a local hospital to precisely determine their internal structure. And in the past few days, the task began of splitting the cores to allow their contents to be fully analysed.
The scientists who travelled to the Amundsen Sea with MeBo, on Germany's Polarstern research ship, already have some clues to what the cores will contain. They got a sneak preview in the rock and mud that was visible at the ends of the drill pipe segments when they were brought back up from below.
From the 11 locations MeBo sampled, it's very likely there are sediments that record the very deep past - from the Late Cretaceous, some 70 million years ago when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth and the landmass that is now Antarctica was green.
Coming forward in time, it's probable also there are records from the Oligocene (34-23 million years ago) and the Miocene (23-5 million years ago) which should document some key events in Antarctica's history when a burgeoning ice sheet in the East of the continent was supplemented by one in the West.
"We haven't got a continuous sequence; we have spot samples from these different times," explained Dr Gohl. "But with these sediments we hope we can establish the onset of glaciation in Antarctica, and then get records from the time in the Miocene where in other areas of the Antarctic it's known there was the main glacial advance that has persisted to today."
With luck there are additional sediments distributed in the last few hundred thousand years, when WAIS glaciers would have advanced and retreated through the recent cycle of "ice ages".
What many scientists would dearly love to see is a rich record from the Pliocene, from a time three million years ago when carbon dioxide levels in Earth's atmosphere were very similar to what they are today (400 molecules of CO2 in every million molecules of dry air). WAIS behaviour at this time could represent the best analogue for what is about to happen to the ice sheet in the near future.
But this desire may have to wait to be satisfied by a second expedition with a dedicated drill ship, the Joides Resolution. The JR can bore hundreds of metres into the seabed, increasing the chances of capturing an unabridged view of the past. A firm booking has been made for 2019.
For now, researchers must work with the initial snapshot provided by MeBo. BAS team-member Bob Larter: "This is the first time we've had any real constraint on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, because although there's been a number of drilling exercises in the Ross Sea, it's hard from that location to know for sure whether the glacial signal is coming from the East or the West.
"Whereas if you drill in the Amundsen Sea, you know it's a record of the WAIS."
The results of the various lab analyses now under way are eagerly awaited and will be reported in a slew of scientific papers. For MeBo, the expedition has demonstrated once again what an agile system it is.
"This type of drilling will become more common, not just in science but also in industry," predicted Marum's Tim Freudenthal.
"There are several applications in the oil and mining industries, and offshore wind farms - they need geotechnical investigation of the seabed. For all these types of investigation, the big drilling vessels can often be too powerful. The seabed drilling systems like MeBo offer a very good alternative."
An update on the Amundsen Sea Embayment expedition was presented to the recent General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).
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The 30-year-old was injured in a four-horse pile-up at Kempton on 31 October and suffered a T7 paralysis.
He spent time in intensive care and will soon begin rehabilitation at the London Spinal Cord Unit.
"I have good days and I have bad days - at the moment I have more bad days than good ones," he told the Sun newspaper.
"From very early I knew there was a big problem. I put two and two together very quickly. I'm dealing with it day in, day out."
Tylicki says he is grateful for the support he has received from family, friends and the whole racing community - which raised £330,000 to help him - and he hopes that the rehabilitation will allow him to progress with his life.
"Who knows what will happen as far as possibly allowing me to walk again." he added.
"It's hard to talk about the future. Even harder for me as I've never experienced anything like this. The doctors have been very realistic, though.
"I could be feeling something in one month or three months down the road. There's a lot of bruising in my body that needs to heal."
The committee will meet on Monday amid calls for Mr Fillon to step down over an inquiry into political payments made to his wife.
The former prime minister denies wrongdoing and plans a major rally near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sunday.
Mr Fillon has seen his popularity slip in opinion polls.
Speaking to supporters in Paris on Saturday as he marked his 63rd birthday, he said that those attacking him over his presidential bid were "trying to kill a desire for change".
The latest opinion polls suggest that he would be eliminated in the first round of presidential election voting on 23 April, with far-right leader Marine Le Pen and liberal Emmanuel Macron likely to progress to contest the election run-off on 7 May.
A survey published on Saturday in the French newspaper Journal du Dimanche (in French) suggests that 71% of those polled want Mr Fillon to step down.
In another blow to Mr Fillon's campaign, his spokesman announced on Friday that he was quitting.
Thierry Solere's resignation is one of a slew of notable departures, including the campaign treasurer on Thursday.
Mr Fillon's woes have raised speculation that Alain Juppe, also a former prime minister, could return to the race if he were to pull out.
Mr Juppe was overwhelmingly defeated by Mr Fillon in the Republicans' primary in November, securing only 33% of the vote to Mr Fillon's 66%.
Sources close to Mr Juppe said he would be prepared to step in, but only with the unanimous support of the party and only if Mr Fillon were to go voluntarily.
Mr Fillon has so far said he has no intention of stepping down despite the continuing haemorrhage of allies.
For weeks he has fought allegations that his wife was paid for a number of years for work she did not do as his parliamentary assistant.
More than 60 politicians have said they can no longer support him.
The app, called Summly, was designed by 17-year-old Londoner Nick D'Aloisio, and has received more than $1m in funding from investors.
High-profile supporters include Stephen Fry, Tech City CEO Joanna Shields and Newscorp owner Rupert Murdoch.
However some early reviewers have described the app as "confusing".
"Navigation unclear," wrote Oliver Devereux on the app store's review page, while another described it as "quite unintuitive".
But the app is still rating an average score of four out of five possible stars from users overall.
Mr D'Aloisio took time off school to develop his idea for a smartphone application that offers summaries of existing news stories published on the net.
The free-to-download app uses algorithms to process news stories into summaries which users can then swipe to see in full if they wish.
"We worked hard on an interface that looks like nothing else on iPhone," he told the BBC.
"We merged algorithm with beautiful design. It's summarising thousands of articles every minute."
Mr D'Aloisio, who celebrated his 17th birthday on Thursday, has appointed Bart Swanson, who oversaw the roll-out of retailer Amazon in Europe, to chair the company behind Summly.
"I see big visions for the company longer term," the teenager said.
"We can really become the de-facto format for news on mobile. People are not scrolling through 1,000-word articles - they want snack-sized information."
In the longer term Mr D'Aloisio would like to see users make micro-payments to read some stories in full should they choose to view the entire article.
"Traditionally publishers have been confined to a paywall system," he said. "You can either give away the headline or the full article. But we can really sell the summary level."
Mr D'Aloisio now intends to finish his education and go to university - but he also wants to remain involved in the company.
"I'm going to do my best to stay, I'm the founder and it's my vision and I want to see that through," he said.
Ms Sturgeon told BBC Scotland she had spoken to the prime minister after his Conservative Party secured an overall majority at Westminster.
She said Scotland had "voted for change" and her party's 56 MPs would ensure its voice was heard.
Mr Cameron has reiterated his pledge to devolve further powers to Scotland.
The SNP won all but three of Scotland's 59 general election seats, and is now the third largest party in the House of Commons.
Its landslide victory - which saw SNP candidates overturn huge majorities across the country - left Labour, the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives with just a single MP each in Scotland.
Among the big names to lose their seats to the SNP were Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy, his Labour colleague Douglas Alexander, former Lib Dem chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander and former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy.
Mr Murphy has vowed to "fight on" as Scottish Labour leader, but is facing calls to follow his UK counterpart Ed Miliband in resigning in the wake of his party's disastrous performance, which has left Ian Murray in Edinburgh South as the party's sole MP in Scotland.
Ms Sturgeon travelled to London on Friday to attend VE Day commemorations alongside Mr Cameron and other political leaders.
She will return to Scotland ahead of meeting all 56 SNP MPs at an event in South Queensferry near Edinburgh on Saturday.
Speaking to the BBC's Reporting Scotland programme from outside the Palace of Westminster, Ms Sturgeon said she had spoken to the prime minister during a "short courtesy call".
Ms Sturgeon added: "I congratulated him. It's no secret I didn't want him to continue to be prime minister - but he won the election and I congratulated him and he congratulated the SNP on our success.
"I made it clear that his government cannot act as if it's business as usual in Scotland.
"Scotland voted for change, it voted to have its voice heard. Now I hope to meet with the prime minister in the not too distant future when we can discuss how we're going to take some of these issues forward.
"But there's no doubt the 56 MPs elected for the SNP will come here to Westminster to make Scotland's voice heard. But also to try to work with others to get some more progressive politics into this place".
In the aftermath of the referendum, folk in Scotland have been in a mindset which was focused upon the need for a clear Scottish voice.
That demand is inchoate and imprecise - in that it is not pegged directly or solely to a demand for particular devolved powers or a particular economic strategy.
It is, nevertheless, powerful and all-consuming. Perhaps all the more potent in that it is wide-ranging, rather than narrowly driven.
It is an aggregate feeling of remoteness from the concerns of a metropolitan elite, a feeling of physical and cultural distance from the Westminster centre of UK political life. A shout of anger, a yell of anguish, a demand to be heard.
And that feeling found expression through the SNP. Nicola Sturgeon is right. It tells us nothing about independence - other than the fact that the people of Scotland were not seemingly scared to endorse a party whose reason for being is to end the Union.
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Ms Sturgeon stressed that the election had not been about a second referendum on independence, but that people in Scotland had "voted to end austerity and have their voice heard and I look forward to having discussions with him (Mr Cameron) in the weeks ahead".
Mr Cameron has insisted that his plan is to "create the strongest devolved government anywhere in the world" in Scotland.
He said this would include "important powers over taxation and no constitutional settlement will be complete if it did not offer also fairness to England."
Speaking in Downing Street, Mr Cameron said the Conservatives would "govern as a party of one nation".
The prime minister has so far not indicated he would be willing to go beyond the cross-party Smith Commission agreement on further devolution that was reached in the wake of Scottish voters rejecting independence in last September's referendum.
But London mayor Boris Johnson - who is returning to the Commons as a Conservative MP after winning the Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat - is among those to have called for a fresh constitutional settlement.
Mr Johnson said: "There has to be some kind of federal offer. Everybody needs to take a deep breath and think about how we want the UK to progress.
"I think even most people in the SNP, probably in their heart of hearts, most people who voted SNP tonight, do not want to throw away absolutely everything."
Ed Miliband, who has resigned as UK Labour leader in the wake of the election defeat, said his party had been "overwhelmed" by a "surge of nationalism" in Scotland.
He added: "I also want to say that the next government has a huge responsibility in facing the difficult task in keeping our country together.
"Whatever party we come from, if we believe in the UK we should stand up for people in every part of our United Kingdom. Because I believe what unites us is much, much more than what divides us."
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg also stood down after his party's disastrous showing across the UK. The Lib Dems lost 10 seats to the SNP in Scotland, with only Alistair Carmichael holding on in Orkney and Shetland.
Among the SNP's new MPs is former party leader Alex Salmond, who will be returning to the House of Commons after winning the Gordon constituency from the Liberal Democrats.
Mr Salmond told the BBC that the SNP could have a "profound influence" at Westminster despite the Conservatives forming a majority government.
He added: "A narrow majority with David Cameron is not a secure basis at all.
"I think his government will run into trouble, and then a determined, articulate group of members of parliament - like the 56 talented SNP MPs - can have a profound influence in parliament for the benefit of parliament certainly, but also for those who believe in progressive politics right across these islands."
The headlines of election night in Scotland were:
The SNP won by 10,000 votes in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, which had previously been held by former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
In East Renfrewshire, the SNP's Kirsten Oswald defeated Mr Murphy - who had been defending a majority of 10,400 - by 3,718 votes.
And Mhairi Black, who becomes the UK's youngest MP at the age of 20, overturned former shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander's majority of 16,600 in Paisley and Renfrewshire South to win by 5,684 votes - a swing of 27% from Labour to the SNP.
The SNP also gained Edinburgh South West, which had previously been held by Labour's former Chancellor Alistair Darling.
And Labour's former Shadow Scottish Secretary Margaret Curran was defeated by more than 10,000 votes by the SNP's Natalie McGarry in Glasgow East.
David Cameron is back in Downing Street but at what price?
Has the Conservative prime minister sacrificed the union for another five years of power?
These are the questions many people are asking today after a party which fought for independence for 80 years swept to victory in Scotland.
The answer from the jubilant leader of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon, is "no", this does not advance her cause.
She insisted that her MPs would speak for all of Scotland — not just for the 45% who voted for the country to leave the United Kingdom last September.
"This changes nothing," Ms Sturgeon told me when I asked her about independence at the count in Glasgow, in a brief moment of calm during the nationalist avalanche.
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Former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy lost his Ross, Skye and Lochaber seat to the SNP's Ian Black ford. Mr Kennedy had held the seat for 32 years.
And former Lib Dem Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander lost by more than 10,000 votes to Drew Hendry of the SNP in Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey.
The SNP's John Nicolson also defeated Lib Dem incumbent Jo Swinson in Dunbartonshire East
The results mean that the SNP has recorded its most successful general election ever. Its previous best was in October 1974, when it won 11 seats. The party won six seats in 2010.
The rare mammal, who has been named Marvel by staff at the animal welfare charity, is believed to be about a month old.
Marvel is being rehabilitated at the Scottish SPCA's national wildlife rescue centre in Fishcross, Clackmannanshire.
Pine martens are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
Rescue centre manager Colin Seddon said Marvel was currently being hand-reared and fed milk from a bottle.
He said: "We will hopefully be able to wean him onto solid food in the next couple of weeks when his eyes open.
"Orphaned pine martens are quite often reared as a group but he's the only one in our care at the moment.
"Pine martens are very rare and protected by law.
"They are currently being introduced back into parts of the UK where they were once persecuted to extinction.
"Once Marvel is fully independent and behaving naturally he will be released at a specially chosen release site with the land owner's permission."
Earlier in the morning the index touched its highest level for more than 13 months, at 6,828, before falling back.
Mining stocks were boosted by rising iron ore prices, with shares in BHP Billiton up 34p to 1,048p, while Antofagasta 17p higher at 531p.
Among the leading UK banks, RBS shares rose 7p to 185p while Barclays rose 5p to 158p.
On the currency markets, the pound was down very slightly against the dollar at $1.304, and was also down against the euro by just 0.1% at €1.177.
Ronnie Berlack, 20, and Bryce Astle, 19, were junior members of the US team.
They were part of a group of six who were descending from a mountain near the Rettenbach glacier, the venue for the races that will open the 2015 Alpine Skiing World Cup.
Officials in Tyrol say avalanche alerts had been declared following days of heavy snowfall and mild temperatures.
The four other skiers with Mr Berlack and Mr Astle managed to escape the avalanche unhurt.
It is believed that they triggered the avalanche on the 3,000m (10,000 feet) Gaislachkogel mountain near Solden, and were buried under the snow.
The president of the US Ski and Snowboard Association Tiger Shaw said, the two victims were "outstanding ski racers who were passionate about their sport".
Malachy Goodman, 58, of Rockmore Road in Belfast, faces charges of murder, possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life
Mr Gibson, 28, was shot in his stomach and thigh in an alley near Divis Tower on 24 October. He died in hospital.
The killing is allegedly connected to a fight earlier the same day.
Opposing Mr Goodman's bid to be released, prosecution counsel claimed there could be a risk of interference with the main witness in the case, identified only as Witness E.
Defence lawyers have challenged the reliability of the description to police of the alleged killer.
Three different versions were given, including significant differences between the gunman and Goodman, they said.
The judge said he would not grant bail for the accused to live at his current home. The application was not dismissed.
Adjourning the hearing until an alternative location is provided, he said: "I'm satisfied this is a man who could be admitted to bail.
"I do not propose to make a final decision until an arrangement can be made at an address outside west Belfast."
Goodman is to remain in custody until an acceptable proposal is offered.
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One hundred and fifty firefighters tackled the blaze at its height, with smoke being seen 20 miles away.
Twenty years on, the Millennium Library in the city's Forum building is the most visited in the UK.
BBC Look East's Mike Liggins speaks to workers at the former library about what they saw on that tragic day.
He followed John Higgins, Mark Selby, Ronnie O'Sullivan and Neil Robertson into the triple-ton record books with breaks of 124, 101 and 107.
"To be in that bracket is amazing," the 26-year-old Grimsby potter said.
But the world number 48 described the 10-7 loss as a missed opportunity.
Carrington trailed 2-0 before a magnificent response on his second appearance at snooker's showpiece event saw him score two 50s and three centuries to take control at 5-2.
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China's Liang hit back to go in 5-4 down at the end of the first session and his matchplay began to grind down his less experienced opponent in an increasingly scratchy second session.
"It was pretty good up until the last few frames, when I went so flat," Carrington added."I wasn't nervous but I played so many careless shots.
"He didn't play exceptional to win it. At the end I sort of gifted it to him and I don't know why.
"I came into tonight full of confidence from the first session, but the match didn't really flow; we both missed a few and ran out of position. I hit so many safety shots all wrong and I was just leaving him free shots.
"But it's all good experience. There are a lot of positives.
"Overall, it's been a great season."
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Pyrgos believes the Warriors will have to play even better in Friday's return Champions Cup pool fixture to overcome the French giants for a second time.
But victory at Scotstoun would give Glasgow a shot at a last-eight spot.
"We've been competing at the top end of the [Pro12] league for a while but we have not cracked Europe," Pyrgos said.
"When you look at the Racing team sheet you can probably see why. Every team you come up against is a real quality side.
"In the past we have had good wins but we are going to have to back it up week after week and play really well consistently. That is the challenge for us this weekend.
"It is an exciting one and the boys are raring to go. They want to go out and show we can do it again against quality opposition."
Doing the double over Racing would give Glasgow a third victory from four matches in Pool One, ahead of their final fixtures in January against current leaders Munster (at home) and Leicester (away).
But with only the best three runners-up progressing alongside the five pool winners, qualifying for the quarter-finals for the first time remains a stiff target.
Despite their euphoria at what Pyrgos describes as "one of the best wins we have had as a club", the 27-year-old insists the Warriors are taking nothing for granted about their European prospects.
"Winning away in France is huge for the group," acknowledged the scrum-half, who has signed a new two-year contract until 2019.
"It was obviously a great win and it doesn't happen all the time, especially against world-class opposition at club level.
"But even if we win again this weekend, there are still two huge games to go. You saw the result Munster had [38-0 against Leicester] at the weekend and obviously the performance they put in against us recently [a 16-15 win at Scotstoun].
"Leicester are still a quality side even if they are not playing as well as they would like to.
"So we take nothing for granted. The win on the weekend was amazing but we are going to have to back it up and then do it again and again."
Pyrgos, the Warriors' co-captain this season alongside Jonny Gray, has seen Ali Price emerge as a serious rival for club and country in the past month while he was sidelined with a knee injury.
Citing the squad's potential to add more trophies to their 2015 Pro12 title as a key factor in his decision to sign a new deal, Pyrgos is confident he will remain a central figure in the club's development.
"The whole time I have been here there has been competition to play scrum-half - it has never been an easy thing," he added. "But I am confident in my own ability to compete for that shirt.
"It is a good challenge. Ali is going really well but if you want to be part of a good team, there is going to be competition.
"When you are out injured that gives someone else an opportunity. But it is great to be back fit and training again, and great to be involved last weekend. I am just working really hard to get back to the level I can play at and go from there."
The first-round tie looked to be heading for penalties until the 22-year-old, on loan from Nottingham Forest, curled a delightful effort beyond goalkeeper Sam Russell in the 110th minute.
There had been little to choose between the sides in normal time with substitute Shamir Mullings forcing Dons keeper Lee Nicholls into a decent save in the 75th minute before having a header blocked on the line moments later.
For the visitors, Ed Upson fizzed an effort just wide and Aaron Tshibola forced a decent save from Russell.
Extra-time saw Rovers go close to breaking the deadlock in the 105th minute when substitute Scott Laird crashed a header against the crossbar from just eight yards.
And even after the visitors had taken the lead, Mark Cooper's men had enough chances to win the game with Liam Noble and Lee Collins both being denied by the keeper before Mullings pushed an effort inches wide in the final seconds.
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Match ends, Forest Green Rovers 0, MK Dons 1.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Forest Green Rovers 0, MK Dons 1.
Attempt missed. Shamir Mullings (Forest Green Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Scott Laird (Forest Green Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Nombe (MK Dons).
Charlie Cooper (Forest Green Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sam Nombe (MK Dons).
Attempt missed. Shamir Mullings (Forest Green Rovers) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Forest Green Rovers. Conceded by Lee Nicholls.
Attempt saved. Lee Collins (Forest Green Rovers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Corner, Forest Green Rovers. Conceded by Lee Nicholls.
Attempt saved. Keanu Marsh-Brown (Forest Green Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Lee Collins (Forest Green Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sam Nombe (MK Dons).
Foul by Drissa Traoré (Forest Green Rovers).
Gboly Ariyibi (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Drissa Traoré (Forest Green Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ed Upson (MK Dons).
Attempt saved. Liam Noble (Forest Green Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Paul Downing (MK Dons) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Shamir Mullings (Forest Green Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Downing (MK Dons).
Attempt saved. Shamir Mullings (Forest Green Rovers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Goal! Forest Green Rovers 0, MK Dons 1. Gboly Ariyibi (MK Dons) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the top left corner.
Second Half Extra Time begins Forest Green Rovers 0, MK Dons 0.
First Half Extra Time ends, Forest Green Rovers 0, MK Dons 0.
Substitution, MK Dons. Dean Lewington replaces Callum Brittain.
Scott Laird (Forest Green Rovers) hits the bar with a right footed shot from very close range.
Corner, Forest Green Rovers. Conceded by Ousseynou Cissé.
Jack Fitzwater (Forest Green Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Tshibola (MK Dons).
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Scott Laird replaces Emmanuel Monthe because of an injury.
Foul by Jack Fitzwater (Forest Green Rovers).
Sam Nombe (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Shamir Mullings (Forest Green Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
First Half Extra Time begins Forest Green Rovers 0, MK Dons 0.
Second Half ends, Forest Green Rovers 0, MK Dons 0.
Attempt missed. Gboly Ariyibi (MK Dons) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Luke James (Forest Green Rovers) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Lee Collins (Forest Green Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
The film UnIndian was shot in Sydney and will open across 300 screens on the cricket-mad sub-continent after a red-carpet premiere on 19 August.
Australian cricket legend Brett Lee plays an English teacher who falls in love with a single mother played by Bollywood star Tanishtha Chatterjee.
Lee - who is hugely popular in India - told the BBC that he has always seen himself as something of an actor.
"On the cricket field I'm totally different on the field to what I am off the field," Lee said.
"It came naturally to be in front of the camera."
Since his playing days, Lee has built a presence in India - appearing in a string of TV commercials and even releasing a music single.
He also established some Bollywood connections playing in the Indian Premier League - playing under Shah Rukh Khan for the Kolkata Knight Riders and Preity Zinta for the Kings XI Punjabs.
The cricket star was offered the leading role in the £2.6 million (US$3.4m) film after meeting with the director over a cup of coffee.
"He showed me the script, which I loved - an Australian film with a bit of Bollywood flavour, a bit of Bollywood culture and beautiful message through the film - that love has no boundaries."
In the film, Chatterjee plays a divorced single mother with a career whose family want her to find "a nice Indian man".
Instead she meets Lee's character, who may be nice but is definitely not Indian.
"She's an absolute sweetheart to work with, a consummate professional," Lee said.
"Very, very funny when the camera's not rolling. Very, very funny when the camera is rolling."
The Bollywood star even coached the former Test cricketer through the film's bedroom scenes.
"It's embarrassing but she made me feel very comfortable and it was done in a very tasteful way," Lee said.
Although tame by western standards, the sequence was re-edited at the request of India's censorship board.
A letter from the board requests for the: "Sex scene to be shortened and toned down, especially removing the sideways visual and end climatic shot."
It was a restriction that frustrated the director, who points out that India was the country that gave the world the Kama Sutra.
"In India, censorship is just ornamental," Anupam Sharma said.
It's a topic that makes Lee appear to choose his words carefully.
He said: "I think the best way to answer that is we did shoot it as an Australian film and it was shot by an Indian producer and director Mr Anupam Sharma who does live in Australia. The lead actress is Indian. So, I guess I'll leave it at that."
The cricket player acquired an appreciation for the Indian way of life, having travelled there several times a year for more than a decade.
"I think the common goal and common thing that we do have is a passion for music and a passion for film and a passion for life," he said.
The film opens on hundreds of screens across India next week, followed by a release in the Middle East and the US.
As for Lee, his cricket career is over. Will a second innings in show business follow?
"If people enjoy watching me and Tanishtha in UnIndian and they like what they see, well then, who knows what might happen?"
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The robotic vehicle rolled down a ramp lowered by the lander and on to the volcanic plain known as Sinus Iridum.
Earlier on Saturday, the landing module containing the rover fired its thrusters to perform the first soft landing on the Moon since 1976.
The touchdown in the Moon's northern hemisphere marks the latest step in China's ambitious space programme.
The lander will operate there for a year, while the rover is expected to work for some three months.
The Chang'e-3 mission landed some 12 days after being launched atop a Chinese-developed Long March 3B rocket from Xichang in the country's south.
The official Xinhua news service reported that the craft began its descent just after 1300 GMT (2100 Beijing time), touching down in Sinus Iridum (the Bay of Rainbows) 11 minutes later.
"I was lucky enough to see a prototype rover in Shanghai a few years ago - it's a wonderful technological achievement to have landed," Prof Andrew Coates, from UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory, told BBC News.
Chang'e-3 is the third unmanned rover mission to touch down on the lunar surface, and the first to go there in more than 40 years. The last was an 840kg (1,900lb) Soviet vehicle known as Lunokhod-2, which was kept warm by polonium-210.
But the six-wheeled Chinese vehicle carries a more sophisticated payload, including ground-penetrating radar which will gather measurements of the lunar soil and crust.
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True value of Jade Rabbit
The 120kg (260lb) Jade Rabbit rover can reportedly climb slopes of up to 30 degrees and travel at 200m (660ft) per hour.
Its name - chosen in an online poll of 3.4 million voters - derives from an ancient Chinese myth about a rabbit living on the moon as the pet of the lunar goddess Chang'e.
The rover and lander are powered by solar panels but some sources suggest they also carry radioisotope heating units (RHUs), containing plutonium-238 to keep them warm during the cold lunar night.
Reports suggest the lander and rover will photograph each other at some point on Sunday.
According to Chinese space scientists, the mission is designed to test new technologies, gather scientific data and build intellectual expertise. It will also scout valuable mineral resources that could one day be mined.
"China's lunar programme is an important component of mankind's activities to explore [the] peaceful use of space," Sun Huixian, a space engineer with the Chinese lunar programme, told Xinhua.
After this, a mission to bring samples of lunar soil back to Earth is planned for 2017. And this may set the stage for further robotic missions, and - perhaps - a crewed lunar mission in the 2020s.
Dean Cheng, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank in Washington DC, said China's space programme was a good fit with China's concept of "comprehensive national power". This might be described as a measure of a state's all-round capabilities.
But he said that China did not see itself as being in a "space race" with anyone else. "I'm comparing it specifically to how the US and the Soviets were behaving in the late 1950s and 1960s when you had space launches almost every month.
"Look at how often the Chinese do manned missions - it's almost every other year."
Instead, the country is methodically and patiently building up the key elements needed for an advanced space programme - from launchers to manned missions in Earth orbit to unmanned planetary craft - and it is investing heavily.
Mr Cheng added: "China is saying: 'We are doing something that only two other countries have done before - the US and the Soviet Union."
The landing site of Sinus Iridum (Latin for Bay of Rainbows) is a flat volcanic plain, part of a larger feature known as Mare Imbrium that forms the right eye of the "Man in the Moon".
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The organisation (EH) is appealing for people to nominate more notable women for the plaques, of which there are currently 902 around the capital.
The appeal comes as Women's History Month gets under way, and in the blue plaque scheme's 150th year.
According to a survey by EH, 40% of people think women had less impact on history than men.
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Film star Ava Gardner, ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn and the cookery writer Elizabeth David are among the latest people to be awarded plaques.
"Our scheme relies entirely on public nominations so we're calling on people to get in touch and tell us who they think deserves a plaque," said Anna Eavis, curatorial director for EH.
"Is the person a significant figure who made a positive and lasting public impact? Does the London building where the person lived or worked still stand? And has the person been dead for more than 20 years?"
A spokeswoman said EH did not want to "sway nominations towards particular women, so we haven't put together a list of women who don't have plaques.
"This will mean that we can assemble a full list of really diverse nominations.
"We need to have people helping us dig for them."
EH took over the blue plaque scheme in 1986, following the abolition of the Greater London Council. The first plaque was erected in 1867, for Lord Byron.
He suffered the cut on his knee when he tried to prevent Alvaro Negredo from scoring City's second goal.
"He has a cut and he'll be out for a while, but for how long I don't know," said Wenger.
Thomas Vermaelen and Per Mertesacker are Arsenal's only other centre-backs.
Wenger has also used full-back Bacary Sagna in central defence this campaign.
France international Koscielny, 28, and fellow central defender Mertesacker have been part of one of the tightest defences in the Premier League this season.
Rosemary Flanagan quit this week shortly after chairing a meeting at which a dispute among party members in West Tyrone was discussed.
Beyond confirming her resignation, she refused to comment further when contacted by the BBC.
Dr McDonnell said he hoped to meet her to discuss the situation.
"I've been talking to Rosemary on a couple of occasions and I've agreed to meet her later in the week," he told the BBC One NI programme The View.
"Rosemary has concerns about discipline at times in the party.
"Rosemary has concerns over her husband's health. She travels from Enniskillen to chair the party.
"She's under a lot of pressure and she has told me that in the past."
It has been reported that many SDLP activists in West Tyrone are refusing to recognise Daniel McCrossan, the candidate chosen to fight the next Assembly election.
But Dr McDonnell said those unhappy with the outcome did not have a case.
"There was a selection convention held and the people voted for Daniel McCrossan," he said.
"That's what you do in a democratic party. Some people are discontented yet they didn't have the numbers.
"I do not interfere. I would basically prefer there was no unrest.
"Quite simply I do not interfere in selection conventions."
Asked why that was, given that the party chair had concerns over discipline, he said: "That is an issue for the party whip.
"We have a party whip and we have a disciplinary committee in the party and they deal with all those things."
Colum Eastwood, the 32-year-old Foyle MLA who is challenging Dr McDonnell, said he would have handled things differently.
So far it has been a low key contest, but Mr Eastwood said he hopes that is about to change.
"I've asked that we can have some party hustings, some debates so the membership can hear what we've got to say," he said.
"But I'll be going round anyway, speaking to party members and offering them my vision for the future of the party and the country.
"We're having a democratic debate. They can happen internally, they can happen externally.
"I'm up for that discussion and debate and they can happen in a very positive way."
Mr Eastwood said that while he and his rival had differing opinions on how to take the SDLP forward, the contest was positive for the party.
"Most importantly, it's about the SDLP reasserting its place within this community and becoming leaders again.
"I think its time for a change in the SDLP.
"The election results in the last couple of elections have been very, very poor for the SDLP and I think its time that we stood up and took notice."
But Dr McDonnell, while saying Mr Eastwood had "a very bright future", claimed the contest was "just a bit too soon for him".
Asked about Mr Eastwood's criticism of recent election results, he said: "Colum, quite frankly, was campaign manager in one of those election results and I wouldn't accuse him or hold him accountable for the fact that there was a few votes lost."
"This is the normal cut a thrust, the ebb and flow of politics and of life.
"I'm very privileged to be leader of the SDLP.
"I believe I will continue to be leader beyond the 14th of November."
Easyjet fell 6% in the wake of the announcement, making it the biggest loser on the FTSE 100 share index.
The pound has recently been under pressure as worries over the Brexit process persist.
Overall, the FTSE 100 was down 8.89 points or 0.13% at 7,024.36.
This week, sterling has hit a 31-year low against the dollar and a five-year low against the euro.
The currency has fallen on worries that the UK will be prepared to leave the EU single market as part of the Brexit process so that it can impose controls on immigration.
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They are drilling into the heart of a volcano in the south-west of Iceland.
They have told the BBC that they should reach 5km down, where temperatures are expected to exceed 500C (932F), in the next couple of weeks.
The researchers want to bring steam from the deep well back up to the surface to provide an important source of energy.
"We hope that this will open new doors for the geothermal industry globally to step into an era of more production," said Asgeir Margeirsson, CEO of the Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP), a collaboration between scientists, industry and the Icelandic government.
"That’s the aim - that’s the hope. We have never been this deep before, we have never been into rock this hot before, but we are optimistic."
The project is located on the Reykjanes peninsula, where a volcano last erupted 700 years ago.
A huge rig stands out against the black lava fields; inside a drill has been operating for 24 hours a day since August.
It has now descended nearly 4,500m, and the team expects it to hit its target depth of 5km by the end of the year.
Gudmundur Omar Fridleifsson, from Icelandic energy company HS Orka, is the project's chief geologist.
He shows me thin cores of black basalt rock that have been collected from deep beneath the ground.
"It’s getting hotter - and that's what we want," he said.
"We don’t expect to drill into magma, but we are drilling into hot rock. And by hot rock, we mean 400 to 500C."
Close to the rig, sulphurous steam is blasting from the ground, blending into the grey sky above.
Iceland, sitting on the boundary between two major tectonic plates, is one of the most volcanically active places in the world.
Harnessing this energy through geothermal technology is already well established here.
"In this area at Reykjanes, we typically drill to 2km or 3km depth to harness the steam, to run power plants and produce clean, renewable electricity," explained Asgeir Margeirsson.
"We want to see if the resources go deeper than that."
When the drill gets to 5km, the team expects to find molten rock mixed with water. But with the extreme heat and immense pressure found at this depth, the water becomes what is known as "supercritical steam".
It is neither a liquid nor a gas, but it holds far more energy than either. And it is this supercritical steam that the team wants to bring back up to the surface to convert into electricity.
They believe its special properties mean it could produce up to 10 times as much energy as the steam from conventional geothermal wells.
Mr Margeirsson said: "If this works, in the future we would need to drill fewer wells to produce the same amount of energy, meaning we would touch less surface, which means less environmental impact and hopefully lower costs.
"But that is if this works. This is full-scale research and development - we don’t know what the outcome will be."
And there is a good reason to be cautious. With volcanoes, expect the unexpected.
In 2009, the IDDP team attempted to drill deep down into another volcanic site. But at 2,100m, they accidentally hit a shallow reservoir of magma.
Footage on the internet shows black smoke billowing from the well - and the drill was destroyed. So is it really a good idea to tamper with these complex and destructive forces of nature?
Simon Redfern, professor of mineral physics at the University of Cambridge, told the BBC: "I think the risks are rather minor. The likelihood is that there will be natural eruptions before any that are generated by human activity."
If the drill does hit magma, because it is under pressure, it would be likely to come to the surface rapidly, he explained.
"It would come out rather like lancing a boil or popping a spot. It would cause huge problems for the drilling operation itself, but it is unlikely to cause anything more significant than that."
Despite Iceland having more than 300 volcanoes, Prof Freysteinn Sigmundsson, a volcanologist at the University of Iceland, says there is still much to learn about them.
"We have many models of what the interior of a volcano looks like, but actually most of these models of active volcanoes are based on indirect observations," he explained.
"We can see seismic waves pass through them, or we can do some geophysical exploration, or we can study ground deformation.
"But actually, we have very few in situ measurements of what the interior of a volcano looks like."
This drilling project, however, would give geologists a unique vantage point, he said.
"There is always some risk... but there is also a risk if we don't do projects like this.
"By this project I think we can really make fundamental discoveries about how volcanoes work, and learn about their properties and conditions - and when magma could erupt to the surface."
The IDDP team says it is currently "drilling blind", which means no rocky debris is coming back up to the surface. Instead, it is somehow being absorbed into the surrounding rocks.
And without being able to examine the rock, it means the geologists really are heading into the unknown.
However, with only a few hundred metres to go, they are optimistic that the world's hottest borehole is now within their sights.
The IDDP project is funded by energy companies (HS Orka, Statoil, Landsvirkjun and Orkuveita Reykjavíkur), Orkustofnun (the National Energy Authority of Iceland), the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), the National Science Foundation in the US and EU Horizon 2020.
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The party's leader and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been laying out her key demands in the event of the SNP being asked to do a deal.
She ruled out any electoral pact with the Tories, but hinted she could reach agreement with Labour.
She also repeated calls for the SNP to be included in pre-election TV debates.
Ms Sturgeon was speaking after attending a meeting of the Joint Ministerial Council, which brings together UK ministers and the leaders of the devolved administrations.
She also held separate face-to-face talks with Prime Minister David Cameron where he agreed to give the Scottish Parliament the power to lower the voting age in time for the 2016 election.
Laying out her terms for any post-election deal with other parties, Ms Sturgeon said she could not lend her support to any party that wanted to go ahead with replacing the Trident nuclear missile system.
She did not use the phrase ''a red line'' but made it plain that a refusal to invest in a Trident replacement would be necessary before her party could reach any agreement, according to BBC Scotland's Westminster correspondent David Porter.
Ms Sturgeon called for the SNP, the Welsh nationalists and the Green Party to be included in any TV debates in the run-up to May's Westminster General Election.
She said a refusal to do so would be ''indefensible'' because the SNP was now the third largest UK party in terms of membership .
She joined with Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood and leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, Natalie Bennett, to state that all three parties will unite whenever possible to "battle the Westminster parties' obsession with austerity".
The three party leaders said next May's election was an opportunity to change UK politics for the better.
Campaigners want to stop traffic from passing under St Laurence's Gate, a Norman fortification.
The County Louth town at the mouth of the River Boyne is steeped in history.
The 5,000-year-old Newgrange tomb is nearby, as is the Battle of the Boyne site.
The town also hosts King William's mace. Oliver Cromwell laid siege to Drogheda and is reputed to have slaughtered many, but that is now disputed by some.
The town was once a walled fortress and some of those fortifications remain, including St Laurence's Gate which was built in the 13th century.
At the moment traffic can pass under the gate, but independent councillor Kevin Callan hopes that will soon change.
"When you look at the structure and its history, it was there to protect Drogheda from sea invasion," Mr Callan said.
"It withstood Cromwell and many invasions and really and truly to have it damaged by a truck that could close it down after 800 years, it would be an absolute sin if we were to allow that to happen."
Sin or not, a truck recently got stuck trying to pass through the arch of the stoned fortress known as a barbican.
The image was published in several newspapers.
St Laurence's Gate consists of two lofty circular towers joined together by a wall with strategically placed opening to allow the defenders to see out.
Historian Audrey Smith is the secretary of the Close the Gate Campaign.
"Our idea is to protect the gate and all the medieval structures in Drogheda and make the gate the gateway to the north east and for Drogheda to be the jewel of that," she said.
It's a laudable goal and one that seems to have the support of many townspeople.
Hillary Kelly, who works in a local art gallery, said: "From a practical point of view it's really dangerous for traffic. And as a tourist attraction we can't really use it.
"People can't get near it or up on it because it's dangerous. We closed it to traffic at the beginning of May for a festival and for four hours people were able to get up on the monument and there are fantastic views of the sea and all around the countryside from it.
"It got booked out in no time. So, there is a market and for tourists to come and see it."
Andrew Spearman, a photo-journalist, said: "It should have been closed to traffic years ago. It's a no-brainer. If the will was there on the council, it would have been. But they've been arguing for so long they've forgotten what they're arguing about."
So, who, you might wonder is opposed to stopping traffic - estimated at more than 1,000 vehicles a day - from passing through the gate?
"Taxi drivers" I was told, because they believe it would add to the already bad congestion.
But, among them there was divided opinion and no one wanted to be interviewed on camera.
If the campaigners get their way St Laurence's Gate might see the last vehicle pass under it later this year.
The 27-year-old victim and another man, both from Redhill in Surrey, had been watching Straight Outta Compton at Cineworld, at Crawley Leisure Park.
Two men in their 20s, both from London, been charged with possessing an offensive weapon, assault and GBH with intent.
Both are due to appear at Lewes Crown Court on 9 October.
The assault happened between 01:00 BST and 1.30 BST on 30 August in the leisure complex car park.
Two thirds of the building is in urgent need of repair including the Christchurch Gate, which is the main entrance for tourists.
Andrew Edwards, from the Canterbury Cathedral Trust, said if a piece of stone fell from the gate the cathedral would be "closed for business".
The cathedral plans to resubmit its bid in 2014.
Mr Edwards said the money would go towards a five-year conservation project.
He said: "The funding is absolutely critical - 68% of the entire project cost was going on major restoration work that was identified by our architects as being urgent and essential.
"We're in a position here where Christchurch Gate, if a piece of stone falls we're closed for business."
The cathedral is looking to international sources to raise money.
In seven seasons as coach of Barcelona and Bayern Munich, the 45-year-old won the Champions League twice and never failed to reach the semi-finals.
City have reached this season's knockout stage with a game to spare.
"It looks like it is always easy but everything is so complicated," said Guardiola.
The Spaniard's side will finish second in Group C, meaning they will avoid Bayern when the draw for the last 16 is made on 12 December.
Juventus and Borussia Dortmund are potential opponents, along with Monaco, who will finish top of the group from which Tottenham were eliminated.
City reached the semi-finals last season, having never previously gone past the last-16 stage.
"We are talking about Manchester City having to reach the semi-finals but there are so many good teams in Europe," said Guardiola.
"To get to the quarter-finals is not normal. When you arrive at the semis or the final, it is exceptional.
"Our level now is that we need to get to the knockout rounds as a minimum, yet six years ago it had never happened."
City will go top of the Premier League, albeit possibly briefly, if they win at Burnley on Saturday (12:30 GMT).
The Blues have won only three of their past 11 games in all competitions but have won five of their past six league matches.
Guardiola said: "Including qualifiers, we have played seven games in the Champions League and we are there with the top teams like Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham and Manchester United, who are getting better so are now a real contender to win the Premier League."
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Spurs finished in the top three of the Premier League in both of the past two seasons but it is more than nine years since they won a major trophy.
England right-back Walker, 27, has joined City for an initial £45m.
"I am hoping with the world-class players we have here that we will go and lift a trophy, which is what I want to do in my career," he told BBC Sport.
Spurs reached the FA Cup semi-finals last season but lost to Chelsea, who also beat their London rivals in the 2015 League Cup final.
Tottenham's last major trophy is the League Cup they won in 2008.
Walker, who moved to White Hart Lane in 2009, said: "Sometimes we were unlucky. Sometimes we just didn't have that little bit of edge."
Walker has moved north in a deal which could earn Spurs £50m, which would match the world record fee for a defender - Paris St-Germain's signing of David Luiz from Chelsea in 2014.
Walker accepts it is a large sum of money.
He said: "It is a big fee but it is nothing to do with me.
"I needed a new challenge. This would have been my ninth season at Tottenham. Sometimes you need to come out of your comfort zone a little bit."
Walker praised Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino for the impact he has had on his career, but is excited about working for former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola.
He said: "His name says it all. He worked with Dani Alves and all the top players at Barcelona, plus Philipp Lahm at Bayern Munich.
"It was an opportunity I could not turn down."
Prosecutors say Reinhold Hanning met Jewish prisoners as they arrived at the camp in occupied Poland and may have escorted some to the gas chambers.
Mr Hanning has admitted being a guard but denies involvement in mass murder.
He is being tried in the city of Detmold, in what is likely to be one of the last cases of its kind.
Mr Hanning is one of four elderly former Nazi guards - three men and a woman - who are due to go on trial in the coming months.
The Nazis killed about 1.1m people at Auschwitz, most of them Jews.
Mr Hanning was an SS guard at Auschwitz from 1943-44, at a time when hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were murdered there.
His trial is being held in the west German city's chamber of commerce, in order to accommodate more people.
Each trial session will last just two hours, due to the defendant's age.
There was a rush of excitement as the thin old man in a brown jacket stepped into the courtroom.
Reinhold Hanning stared at the floor as, flanked by his lawyers, he limped to his chair. Cameras circled, the light from their flashbulbs reflecting on his spectacles.
I saw his jaw tense. But he did not look up.
Only once did that change. Leon Schwarzbaum - an Auschwitz survivor who is 10 months older than the man in the dock - was giving evidence, telling the court about his memories, which he said still torment him to this day.
He looked straight across the courtroom and addressed Mr Hanning, who looked up, briefly startled, at the sound of his name.
The courtroom was absolutely still as the two men looked at each other for just a moment.
"Mr Hanning," Mr Schwarzbaum continued. "We're about the same age. And we will soon face our final judge. I want you to tell the truth about what you and your comrades did."
Survivors of the World War II death camp are due to testify against Mr Hanning.
"The chimneys were spewing fire... the smell of burning human flesh was so unbelievable that one could hardly bear it," 94-year-old Leon Schwarzbaum was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying.
Until recently, prosecutors were required to provide evidence that defendants were directly involved in the killings.
But that changed with the 2011 conviction of John Demjanjuk, when a judge concluded that his activities as a camp worker in Nazi-occupied Poland amounted to complicity in mass murder.
Last year a German court sentenced Oskar Groening, 94, to four years in jail as an accessory to the murder of at least 300,000 people at Auschwitz.
Known as the SS "book-keeper of Auschwitz", he was allegedly responsible for counting banknotes confiscated from prisoners.
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An Ulster statement said the agreement would "result in significant investment for the game of rugby at all levels".
The global company has been a sponsor of Ulster Rugby since 1999.
The agreement is understood to be a multi-million pound deal although the precise figures have not been released.
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Ulster's announcement of the stadium naming rights deal for the redeveloped south Belfast ground mirrors the Irish Rugby Football Union's 2009 decision which saw the old Lansdowne Road venue in Dublin becoming the new Aviva Stadium.
Many other major sports stadiums throughout the world have gone through similar naming rights processes in recent years and Ulster argue that financial imperatives leave them with no option but to follow the same path.
"It's critical we get good quality investment into the stadium that we can reinvest in all of the game," said Ulster Rugby's chief executive Shane Logan.
When pressed on the sum of money involved, the Ulster chief said it was "substantial" and that the deal was "right up there at the top end" when compared with naming rights deals agreed by other top European rugby clubs in recent years.
Logan acknowledged that Ulster's decision may not go down well with traditionalists but indicated his confidence that the vast majority of supporters will be won over.
"I don't think we expect everybody to immediately get used to the name but as the with Aviva, the Etihad and other leading stadia, it does happen through time.
"We look upon it a bit like a marriage. When my daughter gets married, her name will change. It's perhaps a little bit similar. It's progress," added the Ulster chief executive.
The devolution (further powers) committee is to hear evidence about the bill's potential impact on industrial relations and services in Scotland.
The Scottish government and Scottish Labour have both made efforts to win permission for Holyrood to block the Westminster bill north of the border.
A chamber debate could be held on the committee's findings within the month.
The Trade Union Bill, which would make it more difficult to call strikes, has drawn criticism from across the Holyrood chamber.
SNP minister Roseanna Cunningham wrote to the presiding officer requesting a legislative consent memorandum, a special motion which could allow Holyrood to block the bill from applying in Scotland, although this was turned down by Tricia Marwick.
Scottish Labour has also weighed in, with leader Kezia Dugdale writing to the presiding officer to protest and MSP James Kelly was ejected from the chamber while challenging Ms Marwick.
The Scottish Conservatives do not oppose the bill, with MSP Murdo Fraser saying it is "clearly" a reserved matter and noting that Holyrood "should not be duplicating the work of the House of Commons".
Devolution committee convener Bruce Crawford said the bill raised "serious concerns for many members".
He said: "Given the bill is already progressing through Westminster, we urgently want to hear, on the record, what impact this legislation will have in Scotland, if it is enacted in its current form.
"We particularly want to examine its potential impact on Scottish public sector workers and their employers."
Witnesses will include representatives of the Scottish Trades Unions Congress, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and NHS Scotland.
Following the session, the committee will produce a report which could be debated by the full parliament by the end of the month.
Four of the attackers were killed in shootouts with police, but some managed to escape in the city of Aktobe.
Residents have been advised to stay indoors as a manhunt is continuing.
Interior ministry spokesman Almas Sadubayev said the attackers were "followers of radical, non-traditional religious movements".
The phrase is usually used to describe Islamist militants.
Islamist attacks are rare in Kazakhstan. However Aktobe - near the Russian border - was the site of Kazakhstan's first suicide bombing in 2011.
The attackers on Sunday first targeted the shops, killing a vendor, a security guard and a visitor.
They then reportedly seized a bus to break through the gates of the army unit, killing three servicemen.
At least nine soldiers were injured during the attacks.
Video on social media showed a group of armed men walking on the streets of Aktobe and apparently preparing to shoot.
The authorities shut down the entire public transport network, shopping centres and entertainment venues in the city.
Elsewhere on the campaign trail, the Welsh Tories have unveiled a five-point plan to boost the tourism industry.
Plaid Cymru has proposed a smartcard to help people to claim entitlements such as free prescriptions, bus travel and museum entry.
And the Liberal Democrats have promised a £20m scheme to support hill farmers.
Details of the bug were made public earlier this month by Google security researchers.
Microsoft criticised the disclosure, saying Google had put people at risk by sharing information about the flaw.
One hacker group has kicked off several new campaigns that seek to use the flaw before it is widely patched.
The patch for the flaw was included in Microsoft's regular software update, which this month contained 14 separate updates that addressed 68 vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft's Office suite and its Edge browser.
Microsoft's patch comes a week after Google released information about the flaw and almost two weeks after Adobe patched an associated bug in its widely used Flash software.
The release of the patch fulfils a promise made in a blog by Terry Myerson, Microsoft's head of Windows, to close the loophole as soon as possible.
The blog also detailed the activities of what Microsoft calls the Strontium hacker group, which has exploited the flaw to target governments, federal agencies, embassies, military organisations and defence contractors.
The Strontium group is also known as Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, Sofacy and APT28.
It is believed to be based in Russia and has been linked to the cyber-attack on the Democratic National Committee, the governing body of the United States Democratic Party.
The prospect of the patch had already prompted this hacker group to accelerate its attempts to exploit it, research by security company Trend Micro suggests.
Trend Micro said the group had "ramped up" its targeted phishing campaigns that used the flaw in late October and early November.
Booby-trapped attachments posing as invites to a conference about cyber-threats were used as the attack vector for the campaigns.
The group still has time to exploit the flaw because many companies do not apply patches as soon as they appear.
They can take time to test the patch to ensure they do not inadvertently shut down important systems that keep a business running.
The unofficial event was organised by rebel cheese rollers, after plans for an official event were shelved in 2010.
An estimated 5,000 people turned out to watch thrill-seekers chase a 3.5kg (8lb) wheel of double Gloucester cheese down the 1:2 gradient hill.
The winner of the first race, Josh Shepherd, said he was "really happy" but "doesn't really like cheese".
In total, four 3.5kg (8lb) and three smaller 1.5kg (3lb) cheeses are used - made by Diana Smart, 87, who has been producing them for the event for more than 25 years.
Last year, in a bid to make the race safer, revellers had to chase a foam imitation of a double Gloucester 200m (656ft) down the hill at Brockworth.
But this year, the fake fromage was binned in favour of a real wheel of cheese.
The winner of the first race, unemployed Josh Shepherd, 19 - from Brockworth, Gloucester - said he was "really proud" of himself.
"I've run quite a few times before but it is the first time I've won," he said.
"My tactic was to stay on my feet and go as fast as I can and roll with the flow.
"But I don't know what I'm going to do with the cheese. I don't really like cheese unless it's melted, cheese on toast maybe."
The second race was won by another local man, Ryan Fairley, 24, from Brockworth, who said his tactic was "just to go".
"I didn't do the first race this year but it's absolutely brilliant to have won," he said.
"I also won a cheese last year."
The women's race was won for the third year running by Lucy Townsend, 17, from Brockworth.
The tradition dates back to at least the early 19th Century.
In 2009, the official event was axed after more than 15,000 people turned up, sparking safety fears over numbers at the site.
Every year since then unofficial races have been organised during the late spring bank holiday by local enthusiasts.
This year, Gloucestershire County Council closed roads up to 2.5 miles ( 4km) around the slope to keep disruption for residents to a minimum.
The charges are in connection with a two-vehicle crash on the Caw roundabout in Londonderry on Friday, 5 February.
Police said two police officers were injured in their attempts to get out of the way of a stolen car involved in the crash.
Another officer was injured when making an arrest.
The man who has been charged is due to appear before the Magistrates' Court in Derry on Saturday.
Police made arrests outside the State Duma in Moscow after gay rights supporters planning a "kiss-in" were assaulted by opponents.
The bill echoes laws passed by Russian cities such as St Petersburg.
Human rights campaigner Lyudmila Alexeyeva said its real aim was to "curb the rights of sexual minorities".
By Yuri MaloveryanBBC Russian, Moscow
This time, the stand-off between gay rights activists and their opponents near the Duma was not as violent as it had been many previous times - no flying fists, no bloody noses.
There were no more than 30 people on each side. The gay rights activists chanted "No to fascism!" and "Moscow is not Iran!".
Their opponents, who call themselves "the Christian Orthodox activists", shouted gay insults in response. "We'll arrange for Iran here in Moscow!" one of them promised loudly.
Some of the "Orthodox activists", mostly young men, but also some older women, threw eggs and snowballs at the gay rights activists.
The bill faces two more readings in the State Duma, after which it must be approved by the upper house (Federation Council) and President Vladimir Putin before it can become law.
If passed, it would mean that across Russia events promoting gay rights would be banned and the organisers fined, the BBC's Steve Rosenberg reports from Moscow.
Last year, Moscow's top court upheld a ban on gay pride marches in the Russian capital, effectively prohibiting them for the next 100 years.
The European Court of Human Rights has fined Russia for banning such parades in Moscow.
Homosexuality was decriminalised in Russia in 1993.
On Friday, police were seen making arrests after at least one man assaulted gay rights supporters outside the Duma.
Images from the scene suggest that both supporters and opponents, believed to be militant Russian Orthodox Christians, were detained.
Under the new bill, private individuals promoting "homosexual behaviour among minors" in Russia face fines of up to 5,000 roubles (£105; 124 euros; $166) while officials risk paying 10 times that amount. Businesses and schools could be fined up to 500,000 roubles.
Yelena Kostyuchenko, a gay rights campaigner and journalist with the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, told AP news agency: "The law absolutely does not define what gay propaganda is and the reasons are understandable because gay propaganda does not exist.
"In that respect, any information on, as the law puts it, 'equal values of traditional and unorthodox marital relations' is considered 'gay propaganda'."
Ms Collina sits on the floor of the front room of her house.
The lights are off and the shutters are lowered. In the corridor, there is a shelf of hardback books including works by Hemingway and George Bernard Shaw. A certificate on a sitting room wall honours a relative's service in World War Two against Nazi Germany. There are no family photos on display.
Valeria Collina is a convert to Islam. She wears a veil, and speaks quietly to a group of journalists sitting around her.
"From 2016 there were problems with my son - the fact that he was stopped at Bologna airport [whilst trying to get to Istanbul and then to Syria].
"He would say to me 'Come on Mum let's go live in Syria. Over there, they have a pure Islam.'
"I told him 'Are you crazy? I have no intention of going to Syria with you or with anyone. I'm fine in my country.'"
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After he was stopped at Bologna airport in March 2016, Italian police began to monitor her son, a move that Valeria Collina supported. The Italians shared information with other countries' intelligence agencies, including the UK's.
But Youssef Zaghba, a 22-year-old Italian of Moroccan origin, was still allowed to travel abroad.
"After the whole incident at Bologna airport, I told him 'You have to be perfect now. You can't look at strange things on the internet or meet strange people.' But then when he went back to London…"
Her voice trails off.
In London she says that her son found work at an Islamic news channel. But she was worried that he sounded very sombre.
"He looked serious in his pictures. So I joked 'Can you send me a picture where you're smiling more?'"
They spoke for the last time two days before he carried out his attack.
"It was a very sweet phone call. We spoke normally."
After she heard of the London Bridge attack, Ms Collina tried to get in touch with her son. But she could not get through.
"We sent a friend of his to look for him at the house [in London]. At that point I thought that my son was afraid that the police would try to connect him to the attack. I thought he was in hiding."
But on Tuesday the police came to her house to inform her that her son was one of the attackers. She thinks now of the families of her son's victims.
"I can understand from my own personal tragedy. But I don't even have the courage to compare my pain to theirs. It's as if I were ashamed to say 'I'm also a mother, I'm also suffering.'"
She supports the decision of imams in the UK not bury her son.
"I understand that it is right and dutiful in this moment to give this strong signal. We need this kind of gesture. Because the press accuses Muslims of not taking a stand. But we do."
She distances herself from her son's actions.
"It's a horrible thing. It shouldn't have happened and it should never happen again. And I'm going to do everything I can to prevent this. We need more education for young people."
We left her alone, contemplating in the dark.
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The hosts proved too good for Ulster who were attempting to become the first away team to win a semi-final.
Isa Nacewa's early try and Johnny Sexton's boot had the hosts 13-0 up but Ulster hit back with two Paddy Jackson penalties and a Craig Gilroy try.
Jamie Heaslip and Sean Cronin tries put Leinster 30-11 up before Gilroy snapped up his second try.
It was Ulster's sixth defeat in seven league semi-finals, while Leinster kept up their enviable 100% per cent record in Pro12 play-offs.
The victory sent Leinster through to a 28 May decider in Edinburgh where they will play either Connacht or defending champions Glasgow.
Leo Cullen's men had all the early pressure in Dublin, ominously building a 13-0 advantage inside 16 minutes with captain Nacewa touching down and Sexton kicking the other points.
But resilient Ulster turned things around in the second quarter, Paddy Jackson firing over two penalties and supplying the final pass for Gilroy's try just before half-time.
Trailing 13-11, the Ulstermen's momentum was broken by number eight Heaslip's 47th-minute try, though.
Replacement Sean Cronin's effort past the hour mark, coupled with Sexton's unerring boot, had Leinster seemingly out of reach at 30-11.
Gilroy completed his brace with 11 minutes left, taking his tally for the campaign to 10 tries, but Leinster had done enough to avenge last month's alarming 30-6 defeat in Belfast.
Leinster: I Nacewa (c); D Kearney, G Ringrose, B Te'o, L Fitzgerald; J Sexton, E Reddan J McGrath, R Strauss, M Ross, D Toner, M Kearney, R Ruddock, J Murphy, J Heaslip.
Replacements: S Cronin, P Dooley, T Furlong, R Molony, J Conan, L McGrath, I Madigan, Z Kirchner.
Ulster: J Payne; A Trimble, L Marshall, S McCloskey, C Gilroy; P Jackson, R Pienaar; C Black, R Best (c), R Lutton, P Browne, F van der Merwe, I Henderson, C Henry, S Reidy.
Replacements: R Herring, K McCall, A Warwick, R Diack, R Wilson, P Marshall, S Olding, D Cave.
People come here to chase dreams. Some come to sing in the hope of emulating those whose faces adorn the enormous billboards.
Some come to build business, to add to the brash and brightly lit skyline which already boasts a replica pyramid and Eiffel Tower.
Some simply come to gamble, to sit in the city's myriad casinos, hoping to stumble upon the win which might just set them up for life.
Others come to fight. One of those is Lee Selby.
The Welshman is here to defend his IBF featherweight world title against Jonathan Victor Barros, on the undercard of WBA champion Carl Frampton's much-vaunted rematch with Leo Santa Cruz.
Selby is also here to triumph in style - hoping to secure a fight with the winner of Frampton-Santa Cruz - and to impress in a city boxing calls one of its spiritual homes.
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"The dream for every fighter is to one day box for a world title in Las Vegas, and for most it's not a realistic dream," Selby says.
"For myself it wasn't, but I go to show with hard work, with that dream, focus and dedication, you can make it possible.
"That's not just in boxing or sport, that's in anything you do in life."
Selby finds himself in a quintessentially Las Vegan setting, sat by the sparsely populated, palm tree-laden swimming pools at the MGM Grand hotel, where he fights Barros on Saturday.
It is a crisp January afternoon, sunshine reflecting on Selby's personalised baseball cap as the softly spoken 29-year-old from Barry coolly considers the task ahead.
This is a city of decadence, where every room seems to be a casino and the absence of windows and clocks often renders the concept of time redundant.
One can feel lost in this alternate reality, but Selby, teetotal and a devoted trainer regardless of his fight schedule, is oblivious to Las Vegas' many distractions.
"I'm here on a strictly business trip. I haven't been sightseeing. I've been to Las Vegas many times training so I've seen everything it's got to offer," he adds.
"I've been out here, been in all the gyms, been in the arena, so it's not too new.
"I'm here just to get on with the job. We had nine nights in Los Angeles [for a training camp] before we came here, so we're acclimatised and ready to put on a show."
American boxing crowds can be difficult to please and, having fought on this side of the Atlantic before, Selby knows he will have to be at his fluent best to entertain those inside the MGM Grand.
He is particularly eager to do so because of his desire to fight the winner of the headline bout between Frampton and Santa Cruz, the next step in his ultimate goal of unifying a fiercely competitive featherweight division.
Yet it might be difficult to cut loose against Barros, a seasoned Argentine who has won 41 of his 46 fights in a professional career spanning almost 13 years.
"He's knocked out more opponents than I've had fights," Selby says.
"To be honest, I'm not sure what his approach is going to be.
"In some fights of his I've watched, he's boxed on the back foot behind the jab and in other fights he's tucked up and taken the fight to his opponents.
"It will be more entertaining if he forces the fight but usually pressure fighters, you'll see what I've done to them in the past - they suit me down to a tee and I can box on the back foot and out-box them.
"So I'm not sure what to expect but, whatever he comes out with, I've got the ability to adapt in the ring and get the win by any means possible.
"The main thing is to win. The American fans like to see a tear-up.
"I've seen two quality, classy boxers here and the whole crowd has booed them, so I might have to do some fighting."
If Selby needs to scrap with Barros, he will do so. He will have to be versatile if his dream fight with Frampton is to materialise.
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If Selby needs to fight Barros tactically and pragmatically, he will do so too. The Welshman will take whatever action he deems necessary to win.
He would like to do so with a flourish, to defend his title for a third time in a manner convincing enough to enhance his burgeoning reputation in America.
What he cannot consider is defeat.
"I treat every fight the same. Even my first fight was like a world title fight," he says.
"I've got to win. The fear of losing is too much. I don't want to have regrets."
But not quite yet - with their lordships, in particular, cranking up for a considerable clash over the Higher Education Bill. And watch out for a Commons-Lords clash on peers' call for an independent inquiry into the way the police complaints system dealt with allegations of corrupt relationships between the police and newspapers... a modest appetiser, with a government decision looming on press regulation.
The one imponderable is the eagerly-awaited Supreme Court decision on whether there has to be a Parliamentary vote on the triggering of Article 50 - if that arrives (and the timing is unclear), there will be huge pressure for a rapid Commons statement setting out the next moves.
If the ruling goes against the government, it will be a highly-charged event - and if the Supremes require a full scale bill to be passed, a frantic re-jigging of the legislative timetable will follow.
Here's my run-down of the week ahead:
The Commons re-opens (2.30pm) with Work and Pensions questions - doubtless to be followed by the usual crop of post-recess ministerial statements and urgent questions.
Then MPs are on a running three-line whip for the report stage, Legislative Grand Committee and third reading of the Technical and Further Education Bill - where the only amendments down are from Labour's Gordon Marsden, who is proposing a series of changes, mostly aiming to give learners a voice on the panels regulating their teaching, and to create a new duty for the government to publish strategy on careers education.
The select committee of the day is the Communities and Local Government hearing (at 4pm) on the Casey Review into Integration, with its author, Dame Louise Casey.
Her review was commissioned by David Cameron and recommended a new strategy to help bridge divides in the UK, including an "integration oath" to encourage immigrants to embrace British values, and greater focus on promoting the English language and securing "women's emancipation in communities where they are being held back by regressive cultural practices". It has been criticised for focusing on Muslim communities.
In the Lords (2.30pm) peers celebrate their return with an interesting crop of questions to ministers. There is (but of course) a Brexit question, this time from the Lib Dem, Lord Maclennan, on the government's intentions for publishing a green paper on Brexit negotiations; the Green Party peer, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb has a question about the Pitchford inquiry into undercover policing, and infiltration of various environmentalists and radical groups; and Labour's Lord Grocott wants to highlight the fact that the vast majority of hereditary peerages exclude women from inheriting, with a question about the Register of Hereditary Peers' compatibility with equalities legislation.
But that is just a preliminary skirmish before what may become full-on trench warfare over the Higher Education and Research Bill.
A cross-party alliance of peers fears that this could open the way for the full "marketisation" of higher education - and that could, unusually, lead to a series of votes being forced at committee stage (this is the first of two committee stage days timetabled for this week).
First up is a 'before Clause 1' amendment from Labour's Lord Stevenson. The tell-tale sign here is that it is co-signed by heavy hitters from other groups including Crossbenchers Baroness Brown of Cambridge, who was Vice-Chancellor of Aston University from 2006 to 2016 and Baroness Wolf of Dulwich, a professor at King's College, London; plus the Lib Dem Baroness Garden, which sets out core principles of academic freedom and independence as a preface to the bill.
That's closely followed by a second amendment from Lord Stevenson and Baroness Garden, specifying that UK universities should operate "on a not-for-profit basis". Labour sources are already warning that if the government does not amend the bill to meet their concerns, it can expect a long drawn out battle of a kind not seen since the Health and Social Care Bill, during the Coalition years.
Also on the agenda is a short debate on the role of the Armed Forces Covenant in ensuring those who serve and their families are treated with fairness and respect - led by the Bishop of Portsmouth.
The Commons meets at 11.30am for Foreign Office questions - after which the post-holiday backlog of statements and UQs may continue. Then comes a Ten Minute Rule Bill on Mutual Guarantee Societies from Labour and Co-Operative Party MP Christina Rees . The bill encourages small and medium size enterprises to join collectively to create a Mutual Guarantee Society to negotiate a better deal from banks.
MPs then polish off their consideration of the Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill, which will raise the limit on the financial support that can be provided to the CDC, the UK's development finance institution.
Amendments include a proposal from the Labour front bench to prohibit any new investment from going to an investment vehicle or company which uses or seems likely to use tax havens.
More detailed legislating follows and the Commons considers Lords' amendments to the Policing and Crime Bill. The government suffered four defeats on this measure in the Upper House - on issues including the maximum sentence for stalking, a "Hillsborough" provision on financial support for bereaved families at inquests involving the police, and on an independent inquiry into the way the police complaints handled allegations of corrupt relationships between the police and newspapers. Will the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, seek to reverse those changes, and if she does, will peers bat the bill back to MPs again?
In Westminster Hall, the Lib Dem Norman Lamb, a health minister under the Coalition, has a debate on supporting children's wellbeing and mental health in a school environment (9.30am-11am). Conservative MP Justin Tomlinson raises the issue of allocation of funding from the soft drinks industry levy for sport in schools (2.30pm-4pm) and the DUP's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has a debate on the implementation of the Stormont House Agreement (4pm -5.30pm)
Committee of the day is the Home Affairs hearing (2.15pm) on hate crime and its violent consequences. The witnesses include Joanna Mludzinska of the Polish Social and Cultural Association, and Taduesz K Stenzel of the Federation of Poles in Great Britain, plus Professor Matthew Feldman of the Centre for Fascist, Anti-Fascist and Post-Fascist Studies, Teeside University, and Professor Matthew Goodwin, of the University of Kent.
In the Lords (2.30pm), the main legislating is on the detail of the Wales Bill.
MPs gather at 11.30am for International Development questions, followed, at noon by the first Prime Minister's question time of 2017. Next comes an interesting Ten Minute Rule Bill on Guardianship (Missing Persons) from the Conservative, Kevin Hollinrake.
Families with a missing loved one have been campaigning for guardianship powers for the past five years, to enable them to manage a missing relative's finances and property until they return, and ensure any dependents are looked after. Up to 1,500 adults are missing for longer than a year and, he says, the lack of guardianship powers means that families are powerless to deal with the practical challenges like ensuring bills are paid, homes are protected and dependents are looked after.
The result, he says, is that families are forced to stand by and watch as the life they hope their missing loved one will return to falls apart.
The main debate will be on a Labour Opposition Day motion, to be announced.
In Westminster Hall (9.30am-11am), the Conservative Anne Main leads a debate on pharmacies and integrated healthcare in England - she will talk about what pharmacies are doing at the moment, how they are funded, and make the case that pharmacies should be treating more minor ailments and chronic conditions to take pressure off GPs - and she will argue that pharmacies want to do more, and this should be reflected in their funding.
Labour's Rob Marris leads a debate on access to justice (2.30pm-4pm) and Karl Turner, who had a brief spell as Labour's shadow attorney general, raises the funding of Crown Prosecution Service (4.30pm -5.30pm).
Committee of the day is the Work and Pensions hearing (9.30am) on victims of modern slavery - with former senior judge, Baroness Butler-Sloss and Kevin Hyland, the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner. And keep an eye out for the Treasury Committee (2.15pm) which has one of its regular hearings with the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, and a supporting cast of BoE officials - always worth watching.
In the Lords (3pm) the main event is the week's second committee stage day on the Higher Education and Research Bill (see above). And there will be a short debate on equine welfare standards led by the Conservative, Lord Higgins.
It's Transport questions in the Commons (from 9.30am), followed by the weekly Business Statement from the Leader of the House - which may, among other things, confirm a date for the long-awaited vote on plans to move MPs out of the Victorian Palace of Westminster for five years, or more, to allow for a multi-billion pound renovation programme.
Or are ministers getting cold feet about the cost and gathering backbench opposition?
The main debates are on subjects chosen by the Backbench Business Committee - first, on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, and then on security and the political situation in the African Great Lakes region.
In Westminster Hall (1.30pm) there's a debate on the Justice Select Committee's report on Restorative Justice, led by Committee Chair Bob Neill - and that's followed (3pm) by a debate on the future of the UK maritime industry led by the Lib Dem former Scottish Secretary, Alistair Carmichael.
In the Lords (11am) the main events are debates led by backbench Labour peers; Baroness Massey of Darwen, on the Institute for Public Policy Research's annual State of the North report; the former International Development minister Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead on the treatment of the Muslim Rohingya minority in Burma, and the former defence secretary and Nato Secretary General, George Robertson on the future capability of the UK's armed forces in the current international situation.
The House will also wave through the Savings (Government Contributions) Bill - which, as a money bill is considered untouchable by the Lords and will go through all its stages of consideration at a single gulp.
It's private members' bill time again in the Commons, from 9.30am. First up is the second reading for the Conservative Kevin Foster's Broadcasting (Radio Multiplex Services) Bill. He argues that at present, the costs and licensing system don't help small-scale radio stations and radio services to access to the DAB digital radio network and his bill aims to make digital access available to all small-scale operators.
Next comes the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill - the Conservative Tim Loughton aims to make the option of civil partnership available to straight couples (he was accused of trying to wreck the Gay Marriage Bill when he introduced an amendment on this issue, in 2013).
Third in the running order is the Workers' Rights (Maintenance of EU Standards) Bill, from Labour's Melanie Onn, which will be launched at an event on Wednesday, with Labour Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer and Liz Snape (President of the TUC and Assistant General Secretary of Unison) speaking.
The bill targets a key Brexit issue for Labour, so I can't help wondering if some of the usual suspects will be padding out the previous debates, to minimise, or even eliminate the time available to it.
And at 2.30pm, when the names of undebated bills are read out for their ritual parliamentary pole-axing, watch out for a shout of "Object" against Peter Bone's Withdrawal from the European Union (Article 50) Bill.
If no-one objected, it would be deemed to have had an unopposed second reading and could go forward for consideration in committee. But someone will....a little end of day theatre, with points of order and show indignation.
Ministers agreed to the change in the law after carrying out a consultation, but it will be 2014 before it is fully rolled out.
When physios and podiatrists do start prescribing they will become the first in the world to be given such powers.
And it will mean patients do not have to go back to GPs to get drugs such as anti-inflammatories and painkillers.
The changes have still to be approved by Parliament.
But the decision by ministers to press ahead marks a significant milestone in the long-running campaign to extend prescribing powers.
Over the past 10 years senior nurses have been given more responsibility for prescribing and it has long been argued that other health professionals should also get the powers too.
Health minister Lord Howe said: "By introducing these changes, we aim to make the best use of their skills and allow patients to benefit from a faster and more effective service."
Dr Helena Johnson, of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, said the move would "hugely improve" the care physios could provide.
"Patients will now receive a more streamlined and efficient service, meaning they get the medicines they need more immediately," she added.
Walsh stepped down after a contract dispute with the IABA, saying it had "not made it possible for me to continue on in the role".
"I want a rethink within the next 24 hours by the IABA of their total approach to this," Irish Sports Council chairman Kieran Mulvey told RTE.
"We'll have to review our relationship with the IABA."
Walsh stepped down on Monday after 12 years in the post to take up a new position in the United States.
Ireland won Olympic, World and European gold medals at amateur level during Walsh's successful period as coach.
Mulvey added that a 22 August agreement with the Irish Amateur Boxing Association, relating to Walsh, was never put to its board.
"My view now is that deal should be offered to Billy even at this late date and give up the nonsense that's going on now in the IABA about this," he said.
"What was so unacceptable about the agreement of the 22nd August that it was never put to the board and never put to Billy Walsh even though it was agreed by him - what's the problem? I don't know what the problem is.
"Billy Walsh gave up in frustration - all you have to hear is his statement of a man who does not want to go America but is being forced by the petty indignities he was facing in this country."
The IABA said it had "done its utmost to retain Billy Walsh as Head Coach".
In a tight contest, the Giants took the lead in the second period with a goal from Mike Wilson but it was soon cancelled out by Zack Fitzgerald.
The game's winning goal came with 54 seconds remaining in overtime when Jonathan Phillips beat Giants goalie Stephen Murphy.
The sides will meet again in the Elite League on Saturday night in Sheffield.
The Giants then travel to take on Cardiff on Sunday in the first leg of the Challenge Cup semi-final.
There were few chances in a scoreless first period in Tuesday's match as both sides, coming off two losses each at the weekend, were content to try an force the other into mistakes.
The deadlock was eventually broken with 8:43 remaining in the second period.
A solid fore checking shift by the Giants forced a Steelers turnover and a Colin Shields bullet pass through the slot picked out defenceman Wilson who had a open net to shoot at.
The home side weren't ahead for long, however.
Murphy had already made three big saves to deny the Steelers before Fitzgerald pinched in from the blue line and was picked out by Jason Hewitt's pass to tie the game at 1-1.
The game opened up in the final 20 minutes and both sides had periods of pressure and chances to edge ahead, but the game would head to five-minutes of sudden death overtime.
It was a mistake by the Giants defence behind their own net that resulted in a turnover by Levi Nelson and his pass found Phillips who scored from close-range.
Beaches, golf courses, colonial buildings and the subtropical climate also attract some half a million tourists a year but the self-governing territory has not escaped the global economic recession.
The 16th century Spanish sea captain, Juan de Bermudez, is believed to have discovered the archipelago of seven main islands and more than 170 islets. England took control of Bermuda in the late 17th century and slaves, mostly brought from Africa, came to outnumber the colonists. Today, three-fifths of the population are of African descent with the remainder of mostly-European extraction.
The 1968 constitution guaranteed internal self-government but tension in the 1970s saw the assassination of the colony's governor and rioting. British troops went in to restore order and recent polls show a large majority opposed to independence.
In May 2013, Bermuda along with several other territories in the Caribbean, signed agreements on sharing tax information with Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Head of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by a governor
Premier: Michael Dunkley
Formerly deputy premier, Michael Dunkley became premier in May 2014 after his predecessor, Craig Cannonier, resigned over the so-called Jetgate controversy involving political donations from an American businessman.
Mr Dunkley took over as leader of the One Bermuda Alliance and brought Mr Cannonier back into the cabinet in 2015. Mr Dunkley was previously a minister of public safety for his party after it won the 2012 general election.
The territory is believed to have one of the oldest parliaments in the world; a representative assembly was established in 1620.
The islands' broadcasting scene is dominated by two commercial players, the Bermuda Broadcasting Company and VSB.
Circa 1503 - Spanish sea captain Juan de Bermudez sights the islands.
Early 1600s - African and American Indian slaves are brought to the islands. By 1617 they outnumber white settlers.
1684 - Bermuda becomes an English crown colony.
1968 - New constitution introduced. British monarch is head of state, represented by a governor and internal self-government is granted.
1973 - Tensions rise, culminating in the assassination of Governor Richard Sharples.
1977 - Riots and demonstrations for civil rights follow execution of Sharples' murderer. State of emergency is declared and British forces are sent to restore order.
1995 - Independence referendum: pro-independence Progressive Labour Party (PLP) encourages voters to boycott poll. Majority votes against independence.
2003 - Hurricane Fabian, worst storm in 50 years, sweeps across Bermuda with winds of up to 125 mph. Royal Navy task force heads out to offer assistance.
2009 - Bermuda added to OECD's "white list" of countries complying with internationally agreed tax standards, after signing information exchange agreements with several countries.
2012 - One Bermuda Alliance (OBA) wins general election, ending PLP's three straight terms in office.
He is number one on the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center's wanted list and is accused of assisting in the murder of 15,700 Jews.
Mr Csatary was taken in for questioning on Wednesday.
He has denied the accusations against him. State prosecutor Tibor Ibolya said: "One of his arguments in his defence is that he was obeying orders."
Mr Ibolya said Mr Csatary was accused of a "war crime committed by unlawful torture of human beings", which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
He said placing him under house arrest would enable authorities to confiscate his passport.
They said he was co-operating with investigators and that, considering his age, he was in good physical and mental health.
Earlier this week, reporters from the British newspaper the Sun found the former art dealer living in Budapest.
He was questioned on Wednesday by an investigative judge at the military prosecution's office in Budapest, before being put under house arrest for 30 days and released.
An AFP correspondent said he appeared and acted considerably younger than his 97 years when he emerged, wearing a grey jacket and carrying a plastic bag, to be picked up by two friends or relatives in a car.
According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Mr Csatary served as a senior Hungarian police officer in the eastern Slovak city of Kosice, then under Hungarian rule and called Kassa.
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The city was the site of the first Jewish ghetto established on Hungarian territory, following the German occupation of the country, in 1944.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center accuses Mr Csatary of involvement in the deportation of 15,700 Jews from Kosice to the Auschwitz death camp.
Earlier, he allegedly played a key role in the deportation of about 300 Jews from Kosice to Kamenetz-Podolsk in Ukraine, where almost all were murdered, in the summer of 1941.
Efraim Zuroff, the Wiesenthal Center's chief Nazi-hunter, urged the Hungarian authorities to prosecute Mr Csatary, saying: "The passage of time in no way diminishes his guilt and old age should not afford protection for Holocaust perpetrators."
However, others questioned the value of hounding a 97-year-old when proving his guilt would not be straightforward.
Laszlo Karsai, Hungary's pre-eminent Holocaust historian, and the son of a Holocaust survivor, told the BBC: "The money spent hunting down people like him would be better spent fighting the propaganda of those who so energetically deny the Holocaust today."
In 1948, a Czechoslovakian court condemned Mr Csatary to death in absentia.
After the war, Mr Csatary escaped to Canada where he worked as an art dealer in Montreal and Toronto. He disappeared in 1997 after he was stripped of his Canadian citizenship.
The Sun says it tracked him down with help from the Center, whose Operation Last Chance is aimed at bringing surviving Nazi war criminals to justice.
Last year, the Center alerted Hungarian authorities to his presence, giving them evidence it said implicated him in war crimes.
Finance Wales invested more than £56m in businesses in 2015-16, up by £10m on the previous year, and £79m was raised from private sector funding.
Of those jobs, 1,163 were created and 2,555 were safeguarded.
Companies that benefited included Tomlinson's Dairies in Wrexham, Peerless Gas in Flintshire and Siltbusters in Monmouthshire.
Finance Wales, which uses money from the Welsh Government and other investors, makes investments in Welsh-based businesses, from £1,000 to £3m.
Chairman Gareth Bullock said: "We fill a gap left by mainstream lenders, offering flexible finance solutions to companies who may struggle to get the package they need from the traditional sources of finance.
"Where there is decreased risk appetite in the wider investment market, we're able to step in and take that risk burden to help support ambitious Welsh businesses.
"I'm proud of that, I'm proud of our flexibility and the approach our staff take to tailor deals for micro to medium companies."
Wood Green Animal Charity took 219 rats to its Cambridgeshire base. Some were passed to other shelters, but it made a plea for new homes to be found for 140.
A number of the females were on "pregnancy watch" and in the end they had an additional 50 babies.
Before the pack arrived, the shelter had just one rat looking for a home.
The family had started out with just a few rats, but "they were both boys and girls - and stuff happens", a spokeswoman said.
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The charity put out a plea for new owners saying: "We have a higher than normal number of rats currently living at the Godmanchester centre. We have males and females of varying ages, all very friendly and lots of different colours."
Dozens of people came forward offering homes.
To prevent owners ending up in the same situation as the Oxfordshire family, the charity usually homes rats with others of the same sex.
"Most people take either boys or girls and we always home at least two together as they're very social animals," the spokeswoman said.
"There was such a lot of interest so it was nice that we could be selective and make sure we got only the very best homes for our rats."
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At the same time, however, one of the persistent features of voting in any contest is that younger people are less likely to go to the polls.
Consequently, one of the key challenges facing the Remain campaign was whether it could persuade young people to turn out to vote.
There have been divergent claims about how successful they were.
Much attention was attracted by a tweet from Sky Data that seemingly implied that only 36% of 18-24 year olds had turned out to vote.
In practice, it seems the figure referred to people's likelihood of voting rather than whether they had actually voted.
In contrast, Prof Michael Bruter and Dr. Sara Harrison of the London School of Economics have suggested that as many as 70% of 18-24 year olds might have voted, only slightly below the official figure of 72% for all voters.
In truth, reliable information on the level of turnout among particular groups of voters is currently not available.
True, five polls that asked people whether they voted on 23 June have been conducted.
However, opinion polls struggle to secure the participation of people who do not vote. Unsurprisingly, the reaction of many non-voters to a request to answer a poll about politics is to say: "Thanks, but I am not interested."
In four of the five polls, on average only 11% of respondents said that they had not voted, well below the official figure of 28% (though even that figure is not 100% reliable, as some people were not registered to vote, while others may have died or be registered at more than one address).
In the fifth case the polling company in question, BMG Research, weighted their data to match the official figure.
In practice, much like the other polls, only 12% of their original sample had not made it to the polling station either.
If the polls are underestimating the overall level of abstention among voters as a whole, they will also be at risk of underestimating the differences in the level of abstention between those in different age groups.
That certainly seemed to be one of the lessons of the difficulty that the polls had in anticipating accurately the outcome of last year's general election.
However, one point does seem to be clear about turnout in the referendum. Younger voters were, once again, less likely than older voters to cast a vote.
All of the post-referendum polls find the same pattern. The older a respondent, the less likely they were to say that they did not vote.
The four polls that did not weight their data to the actual level of turnout report on average that 16% of 18-34 year olds abstained, well above the 11% figure for respondents as a whole.
Meanwhile, after weighting their data to the official result, BMG estimate that those aged 18-34 were twice as likely to abstain (40%) as those aged over 65 (20%).
A more difficult question to answer is whether young voters were more likely or less likely to have abstained in the referendum than they were in last year's general election?
To address that issue we need to compare the reported levels of abstention in polls conducted since the referendum with those in polls undertaken in the same way by the same company immediately after the general election.
Whatever the limitations of a particular poll in estimating turnout, those limitations are likely to be similar on the two occasions.
That comparison is possible for just one poll. Survation's post-referendum poll, conducted online for the Mail on Sunday, can be compared with a poll that the company undertook (also online) immediately after last year's general election.
Sources: Survation 8-9/5/15 & 24-25/6/16
As the table shows, the differences in the pattern of abstention this year look very similar to those of last year; statistically, they are certainly too small for us to rule out the proposition that the difference between younger and older voters in their level of turnout was much the same in the referendum as in last year's general election.
When might we get more reliable information on who voted?
The best (though by no means perfect) evidence comes from academic surveys that are conducted face-to-face over a long-period of time with respondents who have been chosen for interview at random.
Such surveys are more successful in making contact with those who have little interest in politics, especially if the survey is not all about politics.
One such survey is the annual British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey conducted by NatCen Social Research.
When it asked its respondents after last year's general election whether or not they voted, the proportion saying they did so (70%) was not far adrift from the official turnout figure (66%).
However, it will be several months before the interviewing for this year's BSA is completed and the results made available.
In the meantime, the best advice is to examine critically any claims that young people were particularly likely or unlikely to have voted this time around.
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John Wainwright, of Arnold, Nottingham, admitted regularly calling the emergency line at Nottingham Magistrates' Court earlier.
On one day in August, he called the emergency number every 10 minutes, the East Midlands Ambulance Service said.
The 43-year-old will be sentenced on 19 December following psychiatric reports.
The court heard Wainwright, of Oxengate, Arnold, called the emergency number 875 times over five months but that was "just the tip of a very significant iceberg".
A spokeswoman for EMAS said he would sometimes call just to say "I love you" while on other occasions he became abusive.
But he often used 999 as a free sex-line or would say he was possessed by the devil, she added.
Magistrates were told he had alcohol problems and bipolar disorder and sentencing was adjourned for psychiatric reports to be prepared.
Wainwright admitted two counts of improper use of public electronic communications.
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A nuisance caller who rang 999 hundreds of times over a five-month period was using it as a "free sex-line", ambulance bosses have said.
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New alleged victims of Jim Torbett have come forward claiming he sexually abused them during the 1980s and 90s.
Torbett "vehemently denies" the allegations against him.
The investigation also reveals new claims about former Hibernian and Rangers coach Gordon Neely, who died in 2014.
An alleged victim claims he was repeatedly raped by Neely from the age of 11. It has also been claimed that when allegations of abuse surfaced, Neely was sacked from Hibs but the police were not informed.
He then joined Rangers where it is claimed he began abusing boys there. Rangers also sacked him over alleged abuse. The club claims it informed the police.
The allegations about Torbett and Neely are made in a BBC programme Football Abuse: The Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game, to be screened on Monday.
They include:
Celtic Boys' Club was founded by Jim Torbett in 1966 with the permission of the then Celtic FC manager, the late Jock Stein and former chairman Sir Robert Kelly.
It was created as a separate entity from the football club, but it has been closely linked throughout its history and acted as a feeder club, producing a string of Celtic greats including Roy Aitken, Paul McStay and Tommy Burns.
Torbett had two stints at the Boys' Club, the first from 1966-1974. He returned to the Boy's Club around 1980 and stayed until a series of Daily Record stories revealed abuse claims against him in 1996.
He was jailed for two years in 1998 on conviction of abusing three former Celtic Boys' Club players, including former Scotland international Alan Brazil, between 1967-74.
At the trial, former Celtic photographer and Boys' Club chairman Hugh Birt claimed Torbett was fired in 1974 after child abuse allegations arose.
Birt, who died four years ago, told the court Stein, then honorary president of the Boys' Club, sacked Torbett as a result of the abuse claims.
The BBC has spoken to three additional sources close to the events in the 1970s who support Birt's evidence to court that Torbett was ejected from the Boys' Club by Stein, following complaints of child abuse.
Stein was then the Celtic manager as well as honorary president of the Boys' Club.
Torbett returned to the Boys' Club in around 1980 after Stein had left Parkhead. But no allegations against Torbett in his second period at the Boys' Club have surfaced - until now.
Kenny Campbell, now 44, joined Celtic Boy's Club in 1985 as a 13-year-old. A year later, he joined the U-14s, which was managed by Torbett.
He said Torbett took a special interest in him and won the trust of his parents.
Kenny told BBC Scotland: "Pretty quickly he became a hero of mine. In my mind he was doing good things [for me].
"I'd have jumped in front of a bus for him if he had asked me, guaranteed. So it was as if he had a hold over us."
He said Torbett began the abuse while he was sitting on the couch with him one night.
Kenny said this was the beginning of up to four years of sexual abuse at the hands of Torbett, which carried on even after he was signed by the senior Celtic team.
The young player didn't tell anyone: "I just thought it was natural. I just thought that was what happened," he said.
Kenny made about 20 appearances for the reserves at Celtic but illness effectively ended his Celtic career. His life spiralled into drink and drugs, but he is now clean and sober.
He said he was angry that Torbett was allowed to return to Celtic Boys' Club despite previous abuse claims.
"I feel aggrieved at that, eh, if they had never let him back in it would … never happened in the first place, I could have had a normal life, normal people round about me. If Celtic had done their due diligence … it wouldn't have happened to me."
The BBC has spoken to a second former Celtic Boys' Club player who alleges he was abused by Torbett for three years from 1990.
Torbett's lawyer told the BBC he "vehemently denies these completely false allegations".
He added: "Clearly allegations of this kind must remain in the hands of the police and due process of the law must be followed here."
In a statement, Celtic FC said the club was "fully committed to safeguarding children".
The statement went on: "Celtic Boys' Club was separate and distinct organisation from Celtic Football Club. It was vital that justice was served at that time, due to the extremely serious nature of this issue."
The statement added that anyone with any concerns should contact the club.
The BBC has discovered what appears to be the "official" account of why Torbett left the Boys' Club in the archives of The Celtic View, which was the sanctioned, in-house magazine for Celtic FC.
Dated November 1974, the report is headlined: "Jim bows out…after another season of glory." It states that Torbett was leaving for his own personal and business reasons and is a glowing tribute to his time at the Boys' Club. There is no mention of abuse allegations.
The BBC understands the police were never called.
The Celtic View archives also reveal that in 1977, three years after he allegedly threw Torbett out of the Boys' Club, Jock Stein was pictured presenting Torbett with an award recognising his services to Celtic Boys' Club.
On the same evening, according to the archives, Stein made way for Celtic board member Kevin Kelly as honorary president of the Boys' Club.
Birt would tell the court in 1998 that he attempted to prevent Torbett returning to the Boys' Club and raised the issue with Celtic board members, including Kevin Kelly.
Two other sources have told the BBC that when Torbett was allowed to return to the Boys' Club in around 1980, Mr Kelly would have been aware of the previous claims of abuse against Torbett.
Mr Torbett's company The Trophy Centre had a lucrative contract with Celtic to provide branded merchandising.
Mr Kelly and Jack McGinn, a Celtic FC director from 1981, worked with Mr Torbett at his Trophy Centre business from 1986 and 1998 respectively. Their associations with the company continued long after Torbett was jailed for abuse.
Mr Kelly strongly denies being aware of allegations concerning Torbett when he returned to the Boys' Club, and told the BBC that he was not aware of any previous allegations against Torbett until his court case in the 1990s.
Jack McGinn, a Celtic FC director from 1981, also denies any previous knowledge of Mr Torbett's offending prior to his second spell at the Boys' club.
Both Mr Kelly and Mr McGinn said that if they had been aware of Mr Torbett's prior offending, they would have done all they could to prevent him returning to Celtic Boys' Club.
Jon Cleland, an alleged victim of Gordon Neely, was a prodigious talent. In around 1981, at the age of 10, he joined Hutchison Vale FC, the Edinburgh football talent factory known for producing players like John Collins, Allan Preston and Leigh Griffiths.
Neely was one of the coaches at the club. He was known for an ability to spot and develop youth talent, and was well thought of in Edinburgh football circles.
Jon says he was soon targeted by Neely, and subjected to 18 months of serious sexual abuse.
Describing his first assault at Neely's hands, he said: "He took me into a room at the back of our hall and told me to take my shorts down and he put me over his knee and he proceeded to spank me… I had done something wrong and it was my punishment. [I] didn't tell anyone."
Jon's silence seemed to be Neely's cue to escalate the abuse. Jon was 11 at the time.
He told BBC Scotland: "He said I looked like I had had an injury… then he asked me to lean over a desk, and that's when I was raped.
"At that age, hadn't a clue what was going on."
Jon said he was raped around 10 times over the next 18 months. Asked if he had been able to tell anyone, he said: "No. I couldn't have possibly at that age. I thought it was my fault. I thought I had done something wrong."
Jon began training with Hibs, but Neely was driving him to training, and abusing him in the car beforehand.
He said: "It was at that point that I couldn't do it, couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't face going to football training."
Jon said he gave up football to escape the abuse.
Neely took up a youth development position with Hibs in around 1983. In about 1986, abuse allegations concerning him were put to the late Hibs chairman Kenny Waugh.
Sports reporter Ray Hepburn told the BBC Waugh had confided in him.
Mr Hepburn said: "He said 'we've had complaints by two sets of parents about Gordon Neely. And his behaviour with some of the boys'.
"And of course it was quite devastating news. He went on to explain that he had sacked him that day, had reassured the parents by dealing with it in a very speedy and decisive way. And that was kind of the way people did things then."
The BBC has also spoken to the then Hibs manager John Blackley who confirmed Hepburn's story that Waugh had been made aware of complaints.
The police were never involved. Nor did anyone at Hibs warn Rangers about Neely's behaviour.
In a statement, Hibs said it was "saddened to be told that personnel at the club at the time were allegedly made aware of concerns about Neely and, again allegedly, did not contact the police.
"[This] is something which current policies and practices would prevent from happening today," the statement said.
Neely then moved to Rangers in 1986, where BBC Scotland learned the abuse continued.
One former player told the programme: "He had his own office inside Ibrox and he'd call you in and he'd make you close the door.
"He'd pull your shorts and pants down and then he'd spank you with like this rubber shoe. I mean I wasn't the only one. He'd give you 10 or twenty whacks for anything. I was only about 13."
Rangers told us it was aware of an alleged incident more than 25 years ago involving Neely, sacked him and informed the police.
Police Scotland told the BBC they were unable to confirm whether Rangers made a complaint or not, despite Freedom of Information requests.
The BBC also asked surviving senior executives and football personnel who were at Rangers at that time, for more details - but received none. The Crown was unable to find details of a report being sent to the fiscal in relation to a complaint about Neely in 1990.
In a statement Rangers said: "It is understood the individual was dismissed immediately and that the police were informed.
"All employees adhered to the strictest codes of conduct."
The club added that it would "always co-operate fully" with the authorities."
Several opportunities to put an end to Neely's abuse were wasted, according to BBC Scotland's investigation, and Neely simply changed tactics, by reinventing himself as coach doing one-to-one training and activity weekends in Dunkeld, and nearby Dalguise, in Perthshire for young footballers.
A decade after Hibs sacked him, and more than five years after Rangers got rid of him it is alleged Neely was still abusing.
"Paul," (not his real name), told BBC Scotland: "I was playing with one of the Edinburgh clubs [around 1995] and a man came up to me after a match. It was Gordon Neely. And he said he could make me a better player, and I needed some one-to-one coaching. Said he knew all the big players and managers. He was impressive.
"So every other weekend I'd go up to Dunkeld. He told me I had a condition that was hampering me. And that he could help me with it."
Paul was then abused by Neely.
"I knew it was wrong," he said. "It went on for about 10 minutes each time but I couldn't do anything. I just froze.
"I didn't want to complain because I thought it would ruin the chances of me getting the trial he'd promised me. So I just put up with it.… for almost three years."
Gordon Neely died in 2014.
The programme also features claims from former Clydebank and Rangers player Levi Stephen about a third alleged perpetrator.
Stewart Regan, the chief executive of the Scottish FA said an independent review into allegations of historic child sexual abuse in Scottish football was under way.
"We await its findings," he added.
"The latest allegations are a matter for the investigatory authority, Police Scotland.
"We would urge anyone who has suffered abuse to come forward using the dedicated, confidential NSPCC 24-hour helpline 0800 023 2642, directly to the police on 101 or via email to the Scottish FA at [email protected]."
Football Abuse: The Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game is being shown at 22:40 on BBC1 Scotland and will be available on the BBC iPlayer shortly afterwards.
Additional reporting by Liam McDougall, Calum McKay and Martin Conaghan.
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Fresh allegations of child sex abuse have been made against the founder of Celtic Boys' Club, a BBC Scotland investigation has revealed.
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William McClintock blasted 69 from 45 balls while Lorcan Tucker added 59 as Ireland posted 235-7 in the 13th/14th place play-off at Cox's Bazar.
Scotland struggled in reply and wickets fell regularly with Harry Tector taking 4-28 with his off-spin.
Fiachra Tucker finished off the Scotland innings on 140 with two wickets in two balls in the 44th over.
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Ireland beat Scotland by 95 runs in Bangladesh on Wednesday to end the U19 World Cup in 13th place.
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The Rams had not scored in four matches but led when Bryson bundled a shot in after a scramble.
He doubled the lead when he finished from Chris Martin's lay-off before Jeff Hendrick finished a counter-attack to make it three.
Derby legend Steve Bloomer scored a hat-trick in his team's 5-0 win over Forest in 1898. There is a statue of the England striker, who died at the age of 64 in 1938, by the dug-outs at the iPro Stadium.
Johnny Russell drove in a fourth before Bryson scored a penalty.
Bryson's hat-trick was a first for a Derby player in this fixture since Steve Bloomer's treble in a victory by the same scoreline in 1898.
While the Rams have not given up hope of catching second-placed Burnley, the play-off hopes of Billy Davies' Nottingham Forest have been hit by a miserable run that has now seen them fail to win in seven league matches.
Steve McClaren's Derby had fallen away from the top two by failing to score in a winless run of four games but they took the lead after five minutes when Bryson's shot flew in off Danny Collins.
Radoslaw Majewski had a curling shot held by Derby goalkeeper Lee Grant as the visitors began to control possession but they found themselves two behind when Bryson finished from Martin's pass.
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Eight minutes before the break, the Rams made it three when they broke quickly from a Forest corner and Patrick Bamford played through for Hendrick to shoot under goalkeeper Karl Darlow.
Substitute Russell thumped in the fourth from just outside the area after a heavy spell of pressure.
Darlow pushed away a flick from Martin but then gave away a penalty for a clip on Bamford to allow midfielder Bryson to convert from the spot for his 15th league goal of the season.
Derby head coach Steve McClaren:
"We knew if we kept doing the right things the end product would come and there's no better day to do it than today in front of 33,000 fans.
"I think this win is for the Derby fans.
"We got Nottingham Forest at a good time with all the injuries but I think this is the best win and probably the most satisfying purely because we kind of controlled the whole game."
Nottingham Forest assistant manager David Kelly:
"Huge credit to Steve and his group, they thoroughly deserved the victory but we were disappointed in how we defended.
"It was a disappointing catalogue of goals we gave away and what we were working on during the week was disappointing in how it was executed on the day.
"It's a huge, huge game in the season and we're disappointed we've let the fans down. We only had a fit group of 18 we brought today but that's not an excuse, it's just the facts of what's going on."
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Craig Bryson scored three as Derby secured a record-equalling biggest win over rivals Nottingham Forest to revive his team's automatic promotion hopes.
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A man has been arrested after the top floor of Dunlop House, on Woodstock Link, east Belfast, was destroyed by flames during the early hours.
The fire was spotted by Imelda Fairfield who was working a night-shift in Amber Taxis, opposite the flats.
Along with a co-worker, she entered the building, shouting to raise the alarm.
Ms Fairfield noticed the flames while looking out of the window of the taxi office at about 03:00 BST, and after calling the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS), she ran towards the flats.
"I could see flickering light, realised that it was a fire starting, phoned the fire brigade and radioed over to our driver, saying 'there's a fire across the road'.
"I ran over, started ringing buzzers, got the main door open - me and another guy," Ms Fairfield said.
"We ran in, started shouting and calling, just trying to make as much noise as possible to get people out."
The fire spread from flat to flat causing extensive damage to the roof, but all the residents got out of the building safely.
About 30 firefighters were involved in the operation to extinguish the fire.
"When we arrived it was pandemonium, because people were already evacuating the building," Michael Roberts of NIFRS said.
"There was a large plume of smoke issuing from the roof of the building.
"Our job was to ascertain what the extent of the fire was, extinguish it and at the same time make sure everyone in the building was evacuated."
The detained man, who is 32, was arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life.
The Woodstock Link was closed to traffic for a period while the fire was brought under control.
Dunlop House is run by Helm Housing, one of the largest housing associations in Northern Ireland.
In a statement, it said it had "worked to provide alternative accommodation for all tenants who have been affected".
"We commend emergency services and Helm Housing colleagues for their quick response and urge anyone with information to contact the PSNI immediately," a spokesperson said.
Police have also appealed for information.
Rocco Zito, 87, had been a senior member of the notorious 'Ndrangheta, or Calabrian mafia, based in southern Italy, according to Canadian media.
He was once one of Toronto's most powerful mafia leaders, the Toronto Sun reported.
Zito's son-in-law, Domenico Scopelliti, has been charged with murder after turning himself in to police.
Police said officers arrived at Zito's home on Friday to find a man with gunshot wounds. Attempts were made to resuscitate him but he died of his injuries.
Officials did not immediately release the victim's name.
Mr Scopelliti, 51, was named as a suspect and he surrendered to authorities on Saturday, a police statement said.
He later appeared in court where he was charged with first-degree murder.
Zito was born in Fiumara, Calabria, Italy, in 1928 and moved to Canada in the mid-1950s.
He was reported to have had ties with branches of the 'Ndrangheta in New York, Montreal and Italy.
Italian police say the 'Ndrangheta operates the biggest cocaine smuggling network in Europe.
The 19-year-old shot a four-under 69 to move to 12 under, alongside Sweden's Anna Nordqvist, who carded a 68.
Hull, who has shared the lead after each of the first three days, looked set to lose ground until a late rally that included a birdie at the last.
Scotland's Catriona Matthew is tied in eighth on nine-under after firing a 71.
Lindsay Newell, of Burton-upon-Trent, failed to check the welfare of several animals after they became emaciated.
At Stafford Magistrates' Court she was handed a two-year conditional discharge, banned from keeping certain animals and made to pay £2,000 costs.
The judge said the neglect was not deliberate and she was cleared of 25 charges of failing to feed animals.
The court found Newell did not monitor the weight loss of six animals at Burton Wildlife Rescue and Animal Centre in Etwall, Derbyshire.
One of the animals she failed to check was a pig, nicknamed Babe, who was rescued from a Derby council house and made national headlines.
It died in front of RSPCA officers' eyes during a raid with police in November 2012.
District judge David Taylor said the 27-year-old, of Lincoln Road, Stapenhill, put herself under pressure and financial strain because of her desire to help animals.
"They were not deliberate, intentional acts. They were a consequence of you trying to take on too many animals of a wide range," he said.
The court heard Newell spent £300 a week on food and straw out of her own earnings as a veterinary nurse. She has since lost her job.
Defence lawyer Nigel Weller said his client now wanted to dedicate her life to running the sanctuary.
Newell was disqualified for five years from keeping sheep, goats, pigs and equine animals.
But the rescue centre remains open with hundreds of animals including cats, pigeons, chickens, rabbits and crows.
The RSPCA said it cost £20,000 to investigate the case and bring Newell to court. She will have to pay £2,000 in costs.
The Championship match - the first second-tier meeting between the rivals since 1987 - is a 12:00 GMT kick-off.
The full capacity at St Andrew's is 30,016 but will be reduced by a sixth.
A statement on Blues' website said: "The decision has been agreed after consultation between West Midlands Police and the club's safety team."
The two sides have not faced each other at Birmingham's home ground since 2011, when both teams were in the Premier League.
When they met at St Andrew's in a League Cup quarter-final in December 2010 in front of 27,679, the violence that erupted after full-time was described as "like a warzone" and then-Birmingham boss Alex McLeish said the trouble threatened to take English football "back to the dark ages".
Blues are currently sixth in the table with 20 points from their first 11 games, while managerless Villa are 19th with 10 points fewer.
The six are accused of helping Tom Hayes and others fix Libor rates.
Hayes was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud earlier this year and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Southwark Crown Court heard he asked the brokers repeatedly for help via instant messages and emails.
The jury was shown the messages and emails, and played recorded phone calls in which the prosecution claim the men explicitly discuss illegally helping him.
They included messages sent using Bloomberg Chat (BC) service between some of the men and Hayes in 2006, when he was working for UBS in Tokyo, in which he offered to pay for curries if they helped him with multi-million pound yen currency trades by manipulating the Libor rate.
Libor is the term for the benchmark interest rate which underpins hundreds of trillions of pounds of contracts, from mortgages to corporate lending.
The six men - Noel Cryan, 49, of Chislehurst, Kent, Darrell Read, 50, of Wellington, New Zealand, Danny Wilkinson, 48, of Hornchurch, Essex, Colin Goodman, 53, of Epsom, Surrey, James Gilmour, 50 of Benfleet, Essex and Terry Farr, 44, of Southend-on-Sea in Essex - are accused of conspiracy to defraud.
The men worked at different firms: Mr Cryan worked for Tullett Prebon. Mr Read, Mr Wilkinson and Mr Goodman worked for ICAP while Mr Gilmour and Mr Farr worked for RP Martin.
In one BC message in October 2006, Mr Read told Hayes he could help him with a Libor rate, adding: "Got to buy the cash boys a curry this week."
Hayes replied: "I should pay it for them."
Mr Read then said he would put it on his expenses. In another message series discussing a trade a few days later, Mr Read said to Hayes: "A £50 curry was cheap then?"
Hayes replied: "Yes mate. Whatever it takes, bill me."
In an email around the same time, during his first weeks working in Tokyo, the court heard Hayes wrote: "Should be good news today, Libor went up half a base point. Well done Darrell and Terry (Farr). I owe them a beer."
The jury has previously been told Goodman's nickname was Lord Libor.
In an October 2006 email exchange with Mr Read over setting Libor rates, Mr Goodman told him: "K10 (a Japanese restaurant) for lunch or cash would be preferable. Out for curry tonight."
He signed the email "MLord", the court heard. Mr Read replied: "K10 it is."
Prosecutor Mukul Chawla QC told the jury: "It is small things like beers or a curry. The process is not so trivial."
The six defendants all deny the charges against them and the trial continues.
PFA Scotland forms have been distributed to players to vote for their Player of the Year - an award Celtic have won three years in a row.
"I've got the best players," the Celtic manager said.
"You could go through the whole squad, players who have performed at a high level, consistently, in big games."
Rodgers has been impressed with several opposition players this season, particularly from Derek McInnes' Aberdeen.
He insists, though, that individually and collectively, his players have been the most effective as Celtic won their sixth consecutive league title.
"There are some very good players I've come across in the league, the likes of Johnny Hayes at Aberdeen," said Rodgers.
"I know him well. I took him across to England at Reading. Niall McGinn, Kenny McLean, these boys have been very good.
"But I look at my own and I wouldn't swap any of them for anyone."
Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths won the PFA Scotland award last season, with team-mates Stefan Johansen and Kris Commons topping the poll in the years previous.
Rodgers himself will be able to cast a vote in the manager of the year awards, won last year by Rangers' Mark Warburton, and he highlighted the work of several of his peers in the Premiership, including McInnes, Alan Archibald and Tommy Wright.
"There are guys up here I've been very impressed with and it's been great for me to meet people I hadn't known," the Celtic manager said.
"I only really knew Derek when I came up here and he's done an outstanding job with Aberdeen - how he's consistently got the players performing.
"Other managers in there, Alan at Partick Thistle - I said from early on, when they were bottom, that I was really impressed with their work and it's nice to see how they've grown and developed over the course of the season.
"I'm an admirer of Tommy at St Johnstone. He always does a great job."
Rodgers takes his unbeaten side to Dingwall on Sunday and he says there are likely to be changes to the starting line-up now that the title has been secured.
He insists that he will pick a strong team and not rest any players because there is the Scottish Cup semi-final against city rivals Rangers on the horizon.
"Between now and the end of the campaign, some of the players who have been on the outside will get some games and it's a chance to give one or two with knocks the right preparation," Rodgers said.
"There will be some changes through the course of the season, but I don't give up places just for the sake of it.
"If there's a young player who comes in, he has to earn his place in the team over a senior professional.
"The young players have to fight to stand out and then there's always possibilities they can play."
The Scottish government is to change the law to make sure children spend a minimum of 25 hours a week in class.
This follows rows over attempts by some councils to reduce the length of the school week to help balance their books.
The EIS teachers union has welcomed the move but local government organisation Cosla is angry.
The government says primary school children will be guaranteed at least 950 hours a year of teaching time, equivalent to 25 hours a week.
Ministers have decided to amend the Education Bill, which is currently before parliament, to do this.
As the law stands, councils have to open schools for 190 days a year but the length and structure of the school day is not specified in legislation.
However, the Curriculum for Excellence operates on an assumption of 25 hours of teacher contact each week in primary schools.
In a few parts of the country, councils have closed schools on Friday afternoons for some time. This could continue as long as the total number of hours over the year met the legal requirement.
However the change in the law puts the brakes on moves to actually reduce the overall length of the school week. A few councils had considered this as they weighed up budget cuts.
Nobody in the mainstream has seriously argued that a cut in the school week would actually help improve children's attainment.
Councils which have looked at the idea would argue they have done so out of financial necessity. Their argument has, essentially, been that a cut in the school week for some is a "least worst option".
Councils are under a legal obligation to balance their books. If one potential option for savings is closed, inevitably, it could lead to greater pressure on another service.
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One of the biggest rows was in West Dunbartonshire where the council agreed in February to cut two-and-a-half hours from the primary school week in a bid to save about £1m. Within days, the council made a humiliating U-turn after it came up against huge local opposition.
Highland Council recently revisited the idea of a four-and-a-half day school week. Last year, it delayed a proposal to reduce the time pupils in primaries four, five, six and seven spend in class.
On Wednesday, the council's budget leader responded with disappointment to the government's announcement.
Cllr Bill Fernie said: "There is not any evidence which links better education attainment to a 25-hour school week and this would put further pressure on local authority budgets and our ability to make the necessary savings required to manage the anticipated cut in grant funding."
The planned change in the law would also allow ministers to put in place a minimum number of hours in secondary schools.
Education secretary Angela Constance said: "The Scottish Government is working with local authorities, parents and others to ensure our education system delivers both excellence and equity for every child. We are driving a relentless effort to boost educational achievement and, critically, to make quicker progress in closing the attainment gap, for example through the £100m Scotland Attainment Challenge.
"Scotland's teachers are absolutely critical to these efforts. That's why we have committed investment of up to £51m this year specifically to help local authorities to maintain teacher numbers.
"And it's why we will legislate to provide certainty for pupils, parents and teachers about the length of the school week - a teacher time guarantee that every one of our children and young people should expect, and which they deserve.
"Decisions on the amount of time with teachers, in class and at school should always be made based on the potential educational benefit for children, rather than on how much money can be saved."
But Cosla, the organisation that represents most councils, is unhappy the government made an announcement of such importance "after zero consultation with local government".
Cllr Stephanie Primrose, Cosla education, children and young person spokesperson, said: "The government seems to be suggesting that they have no choice to legislate for the length of the school day despite not once raising it with Cosla.
"They have, after all, had plenty of opportunity to discuss this with us. We met with the Cabinet Secretary to discuss the Education Bill only a few weeks ago and have been in almost daily contact with Government as part of the spending review without even a hint to suggest this was on their radar.
"Yet we hear about it only a matter of hours before amendments are submitted. This is either bad planning on their part, or a knee-jerk response to an issue that was far from the top of the pile a matter of weeks ago."
But the largest teachers union, the EIS, gave a warm welcome to the announcement.
General Secretary Larry Flanagan said: "The EIS has always been vehemently opposed to any attempts to reduce the length of the pupil week which would serve only to dilute the quality of education in Scotland's primary schools.
"This important piece of legislation is good news for pupils and parents as it will guarantee equity of provision across the country and will also ensure that teachers' jobs and pupils' learning time are protected."
The government is also to stipulate a minimum level for school clothing grants for children from low income families.
BBC Scotland research earlier this year highlighted wide variations between the clothing grants in different council areas while one council - Angus - intended to phase them out.
The minimum level will be announced later.
The unmanned aerial vehicles captured a rare white southern whale calf on film as well as recording scenes little known about by scientists.
Record numbers of the whale species have been recorded in their Great Australian Bight breeding grounds.
Australia's southern right whale population is estimated to be 3,000 - 20% of its pre-whaling population.
Murdoch University and Curtin University have been researching southern right whales for almost two decades.
The whales are found only in the oceans of the southern hemisphere. They inhabit waters close to Antarctica during the summer and migrate north in winter.
Curtin University researcher Claire Charlton said it will take many years for the animals to come off the endangered list.
"To assess their health and recovery, long-term population monitoring in the order of decades is required," she said.
The Great Australian Bight is famed for its vast stretches of sheer cliffs. With water access restrained, the whales can be sighted only from the air.
Drones are equipped with rangefinders which allow the vehicles to assess the size and health of mothers and their calves over the three-month breeding season.
Murdoch University researcher Fredrik Christiansen said the research team have assessed more than 170 whales since the season began in late June.
"This project will benefit the conservation of southern right whales by teaching us more about their health and reproduction," he said.
Andrei Karlov was shot dead as he gave a speech on Monday in Ankara.
The gunman, Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22, an Ankara policeman, was apparently protesting at Russia's involvement in Syria's Aleppo. He was later shot dead.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the attack was aimed at hurting ties with Russia.
It was not clear whether the gunman, a riot police member, had links to any group.
Mr Karlov was attending an embassy-sponsored photo exhibition called "Russia as seen by Turks" on Monday evening in Ankara.
He was several minutes into a speech when the gunman - who had been standing behind him as he spoke - fired about eight shots, according to eye witnesses.
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The ambassador fell to the ground instantly, while the smartly dressed gunman, wearing a suit and tie, waved a pistol and shouted in Arabic and Turkish.
He yelled "don't forget about Aleppo, don't forget about Syria" and used the Arabic phrase "Allahu Akbar" (God is great).
Karlov was rushed to hospital but his death was later confirmed.
The gunman was killed at the gallery after a 15 minute shoot-out with police.
Altintas was born in the town of Soke in Aydin province, western Turkey, in 1994 and attended a special school for training future policemen.
But he was on leave from his job as a member of Ankara's riot police squad on medical grounds, Turkish newspaper Huriyet claimed.
According to the pro-government Daily Sabah, Altintas had set off the metal detector on entering the exhibition, but was waved through after showing his official police ID.
He was not known to have any political or extremist links. However, some Turkish media are pointing to a possible connection with the movement of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
However, the movement has condemned the attack and rejected any links to the attacker, according to an adviser quoted by Reuters news agency.
Turkish officials blame the movement for July's failed coup aimed at removing Mr Erdogan.
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Russia's ambassador to Turkey was a veteran diplomat who had served as Soviet ambassador to North Korea for much of the 1980s, and took up the Ankara posting in July 2013.
Karlov, 62, had to grapple with a major diplomatic crisis last year when a Turkish plane shot down a Russian jet close to the Syrian border.
Demanding a Turkish apology, Moscow imposed damaging sanctions - notably a freeze on charter flights by Russian tourists - and the two countries only recently mended ties.
Russia and Turkey agreed quickly the assassination was an act of "provocation"
In televised remarks, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the act was "undoubtedly... aimed at disrupting the normalisation" of bilateral ties and the "peace process in Syria".
The shooting took place a day after protests in Turkey over Russian support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and the day before Turkey, Russia and Iran were due to meet over the Syria crisis.
Russian investigators have been sent to help their Turkish counterparts, who have given assurances of a comprehensive investigation, and that those responsible would be punished.
Mr Putin has ordered extra security measures for Russian embassies around the world, a Kremlin spokesman told news agency Tass.
Other countries have also condemned the murder, including the UK, US and Germany, as has the UN Security Council.
Outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was appalled by "this senseless act of terror".
HMP Grampian in Peterhead opened in March 2014, as a replacement for HMP Peterhead and Craiginches in Aberdeen.
The inspector's report is the first since 40 inmates rioted two years ago, causing damage put at £150,000.
It said some healthcare staff were worried about their safety when treating prisoners.
The prison inspection was carried out between November and December last year.
The new jail was said to be good at preparing prisoners for returning to the community, but overall health and wellbeing was rated as poor.
It said that some NHS nurses had been verbally abused by prisoners and were understandably sometimes nervous.
A total of 506 prisoners can be held at the new prison. At the time of the inspection there were 431, with no male young offenders, and three female young offenders.
The report found the prison was well-maintained and clean, with inmates feeling safe within the prison.
It also noted "considerable efforts" being made to help prisoners maintain good contact with relatives.
However, concern was raised that some prisoners held separately for their own protection could spend 23 hours a day in their cells.
Health and wellbeing was rated as poor, due to issues including infection control.
HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland, David Strang, said: "I look forward to seeing these improvements introduced through the prison's future plans."
Prison officers wearing protective body armour were needed to break up trouble several weeks after it opened.
And considerable damage was caused two weeks later in a disturbance involving more than 40 inmates.
The date of the change is likely to bring renewed criticism that prices are cut only towards the end of the coldest months.
The move will mean a £32 average annual cut to customers on a standard domestic gas tariff.
Npower said the fall would benefit about 1.2 million customers.
Paul Coffey, chief executive of Npower, said: "We have balanced the wholesale price fall against increases in the other costs we are charged."
The move follows announcements by E.On, which cut its gas prices by 5.1% on 1 February, Scottish Power, which will cut its gas tariff by 5.4% on 15 March, and SSE which will introduce a 5.3% cut from 29 March.
Some commentators point out that these types of "standard" tariff are among the most expensive, so there is still benefit in shopping around.
"E.On, SSE, Scottish Power and Npower customers with typical usage on standard tariffs will still be paying at least £1,050 a year, after the cuts, and those from other firms even more. Yet the market's cheapest tariffs for switchers are under £770 a year on the same usage," said Martin Lewis, founder of Money Saving Expert.
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Sharing the overnight lead on 17 under with Daniel Im, Spain's Rahm eagled the fourth as he holed from 150 yards.
Rahm was four clear on the 13th fairway when a query over his ball marking on the sixth green caused a concern.
But no penalty was imposed and a dominant Rahm, 22, finished six ahead of Richie Ramsay and Matthew Southgate.
Despite having two bogeys in his final three holes, Rahm's winning total of 24 under par was three shots inside the previous tournament record set by Bernhard Langer at Royal Dublin in 1984.
Scotland's Ramsay clinched one of the three spots for Open Championship qualification available at Portstewart with a closing 64 on another day of low scoring despite frequent rain.
Ramsay's compatriot David Drysdale, who finished with seven straight birdies to card a 63, also booked a Royal Birkdale berth along with New Zealander Ryan Fox as they shared fourth with Justin Rose and American Im.
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Drysdale had joined world number 11 Rahm and Im on 17 under before they had even teed off after the remarkable conclusion to his round.
Rahm looked certain to fall out of the lead after a wild tee shot with an iron on the second but saved par by holing from 25 feet as Im took three putts to drop one behind.
After Im leaked another shot at the next, Rahm's sensational eagle three at the long fourth moved him two ahead and four successive birdies from the seventh increased his lead to six at he stood on the 11th tee.
Tournament referee Andy McFee approached Rahm on the 13th to get the player's view on his ball-marking incident on the sixth green after the European Tour had been made aware of the issue.
After moving his marker out of Im's putting line, Rahm had appeared to replace his ball in a slightly different spot as he prepared to tap in from 14 inches but following a long conversation with the Spaniard, McFee elected to impose no penalty.
Rahm acknowledged that the episode had affected his concentration in the closing stages.
"It really makes me feel bad that my first win on the European Tour is always going to have that little mark on it," said the Spaniard.
"I thought I put it back exactly where it was but they came to me and told me it was such a slight difference."
McFee's decision was in contrast to the ruling imposed on American Lexi Thompson in April, when she was handed a two-shot penalty for incorrectly marking her ball plus another two shots for an incorrect scorecard.
After receiving the four-shot penalty, Thompson was eventually beaten in a play-off at the ANA Inspiration event, which was this season's first LPGA major.
However, since that controversial episode a new rule now gives players the benefit of the doubt in such instances.
Rahm responded to the rules controversy by rolling in a 25-foot eagle putt at the 14th and avoided any further major mishaps as he followed compatriots Seve Ballesteros, Jose-Maria Olazabal and Sergio Garcia in winning the championship.
The tournament formed part of the prestigious new Rolex Series of events, boasting a prize fund of £5.4m, and Rahm picked up £585,000 for his victory.
Challenge Tour player Gavin Moynihan finished as the leading home player in a share of 20th place on 13 under after a closing 64.
Jake Bibby, Evalds and Junior Sa'u twice crossed in a dominant first half for the Red Devils, with Brad Dwyer's dart from dummy-half the sole reply.
Evalds completed his treble with two more second-half scores, before Tom Lineham grabbed a second for Wire.
Kriss Brining dotted down late on to delight the travelling Salford support.
Wire coach Tony Smith was subject of a apparent social media hoax after the game, with a post on the club's official Facebook page suggesting the Australian had resigned following the defeat.
However, he attended the press conference as usual and the club confirmed there is an investigation underway as to how the post was published.
Despite racking up 12 wins from 16 games, Salford have somewhat gone 'under the radar' but their success will be increasingly difficult to ignore as the season edges closer to the Super 8s.
Guided around the field by Robert Lui and former Dally M winner Todd Carney on the back of a dominant pack, Ian Watson's side completely dictated the rhythm of the game and scored some spectacular tries in the process.
Last year's runners-up Warrington were among the early season favourites for a return to Old Trafford but find themselves desperately clinging onto a top-eight spot after their ninth loss of the season.
They had led a revival with only two losses in 10, but have now conceded 78 points in two games after defeats by Leeds and now Salford.
Warrington head coach Tony Smith:
"As unpleasant as it is, I don't give in easily. I'm just disappointed with the way we're playing. It's not about how I feel. We're hurting. It's been a tough couple of days for us.
"We as a group are not playing well enough. We started with some promise but we didn't convert that into points and our heads dropped
"We had different half-backs again. We haven't got that continuity. We were also playing against a team playing with confidence and executing well. We've got to tough it out and work hard."
Salford head coach Ian Watson:
"That was a big one for us. It's a great result. It's about six years since we last won here and we've done the double as well. It will be a long time since that happened in Salford's history.
"We're doing great at the moment but we won't get carried away. We know where we want to be and what we want to achieve but we'll take every week as it comes.
"Todd Carney was outstanding, Jake Bibby and Josh Wood were good. We made some changes and that gave us real energy and enthusiasm."
Warrington: Ratchford; Russell, Hughes, Atkins, Lineham; Brown, Patton; Hill, Clark, Cooper, Jullien, Philbin, Westerman.
Replacements: Sims, Dwyer, G. King, Savelio.
Salford: O'Brien; Evalds, Sa'u, Bibby, Johnson; Lui, T Carney; Tasi, Brinning, Hasson, Hauraki, Murdoch-Masila, Flanagan.
Replacements: Kopczak, Wood, Krasniqi, Murray.
Referee: Phil Bentham (RFL).
Tools based on the way the birds co-operatively hunt for fish are being developed to test different ways of organising in-car software.
The tools look for safe ways to organise code in the same way that penguins seek food sources in the open ocean.
Experts said such testing systems would be vital as cars get more connected.
Engineers have often turned to nature for good solutions to tricky problems, said Prof Yiannis Papadopoulos, a computer scientist at the University of Hull who, together with Dr Youcef Gheraibia from Algeria, developed the penguin-inspired testing system.
The way ants pass messages among nest-mates has helped telecoms firms keep telephone networks running, and many robots get around using methods of locomotion based on the ways animals move.
Penguins were another candidate, said Prof Papadopoulos, because millions of years of evolution has helped them develop very efficient hunting strategies.
This was useful behaviour to copy, he said, because it showed that penguins had solved a tricky optimisation problem - how to ensure as many penguins as possible get enough to eat.
"Penguins are social birds and we know they live in colonies that are often very large and can include hundreds of thousands of birds. This raises the question of how can they sustain this kind of big society given that together they need a vast amount of food.
"There must be something special about their hunting strategy," he said, adding that an inefficient strategy would mean many birds starved.
Prof Papadopoulos said many problems in software engineering could be framed as a search among all hypothetical solutions for the one that produces the best results. Evolution, through penguins and many other creatures, has already searched through and discarded a lot of bad solutions.
Studies of hunting penguins have hinted at how they organised themselves.
"They forage in groups and have been observed to synchronise their dives to get fish," said Prof Papadopoulos. "They also have the ability to communicate using vocalisations and possibly convey information about food resources."
The communal, co-ordinated action helps the penguins get the most out of a hunting expedition. Groups of birds are regularly reconfigured to match the shoals of fish and squid they find. It helps the colony as a whole optimise the amount of energy they have to expend to catch food.
"This solution has generic elements which can be abstracted and be used to solve other problems," he said, "such as determining the integrity of software components needed to reach the high safety requirements of a modern car."
Integrity in this sense means ensuring the software does what is intended, handles data well, and does not introduce errors or crash.
By mimicking penguin behaviour in a testing system which seeks the safest ways to arrange code instead of shoals of fish, it becomes possible to slowly zero in on the best way for that software to be structured.
The Hull researchers working with Dr Gheraibia turned to search tools based on the collaborative foraging behaviour of penguins.
The foraging-based system helped to quickly search through the many possible ways software can be specified to home in on the most optimal solutions in terms of safety and cost.
Currently, complex software was put together and tested manually, with only experience and engineering judgement to guide it, said Prof Papadopoulos. While this could produce decent results it could consider only a small fraction of all possible good solutions.
The penguin-based system could crank through more solutions and do a better job of assessing which was best, he said.
Mike Ahmadi, global director of critical systems security at Synopsys, which helps vehicle-makers secure code, said modern car manufacturing methods made optimisation necessary.
"When you look at a car today, it's essentially something that's put together from a vast and extended supply chain," he said.
Building a car was about getting sub-systems made by different manufacturers to work together well, rather than being something made wholly in one place.
That was a tricky task given how much code was present in modern cars, he added.
"There's about a million lines of code in the average car today and there's far more in connected cars."
Carmakers were under pressure, said Mr Ahmadi, to adapt cars quickly so they could interface with smartphones and act as mobile entertainment hubs, as well as make them more autonomous.
"From a performance point of view carmakers have gone as far as they can," he said. "What they have discovered is that the way to offer features now is through software."
Security would become a priority as cars got smarter and started taking in and using data from other cars, traffic lights and online sources, said Nick Cook from software firm Intercede, which is working with carmakers on safe in-car software.
"If somebody wants to interfere with a car today then generally they have to go to the car itself," he said. "But as soon as it's connected they can be anywhere in the world.
"Your threat landscape is quite significantly different and the opportunity for a hack is much higher."
The bodies of Patrick and Gillian Kettyle, both in their 50s, were found in the village of Fetcham, in the early hours of Thursday.
Police were called to the house on The Copse following a report of assault against two people at the location.
Lithuanian Viktoras Bruzas, 38, who was arrested in Oxshott on suspicion of murder, remains in police custody.
Police had been seeking Mr Bruzas, who lives in Walton-on-Thames, and he was detained as he drove a car through the village.
Another man in his 30s, who was arrested in Walton-on-Thames on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder, has been released with no further action taken against him.
Mr and Mrs Kettyle were found dead in their home by a member of their family.
The incident happened at about 20:45 on Saturday on the B7015 Stoneyburn to Livingston road in West Calder, near its junction with Happy Valley Road.
The 24-year-old woman was walking home with her boyfriend when she was hit by the small white car.
The woman was taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for treatment to a number of injuries.
The road was closed for about two and a half hours for a police investigation.
Insp Richard Latto, of Police Scotland, said: "Fortunately, the woman was not left with any life-threatening injuries and we are now eager to trace the driver, who may not even be aware they were involved in a collision.
"If you are the driver of a small white car which was on the B7015 at about 20:45 on Saturday evening then please contact police immediately.
"In addition, anyone with any further information relevant to this inquiry should also get in touch."
Radrizzani has purchased his stake through his company Aser Group Holding.
The 42-year-old has been in talks to invest in the Championship club since August 2016, when BBC Sport broke news of his interest.
"I am excited by the challenge ahead and I will work alongside Massimo and everybody at the club to make Leeds as successful as possible," he said.
Cellino took over at Elland Road in April 2014 but the 60-year-old has received three Football Association bans in that time.
In December 2016 he was banned from all football activities for 18 months and fined £250,000 for breaching the FA's football agent rules over the sale of Ross McCormack to Fulham in 2014. He is appealing against the punishment.
Radrizzani, who co-founded sports media agency MP & Silva in 2004, added: "I am fully aware of the great heritage and traditions of Leeds United and I will endeavour to be a fitting custodian on behalf of the many thousands of Leeds supporters, who are the lifeblood of the club.
"I am making a long-term commitment to Leeds United and will work to bring stability through ongoing investment. I aim to bring sustainable growth. I won't do anything that will put the club's future at risk.
"Through working in the sports industry for many years, I have developed a great passion for the English game and I am honoured to have become joint owner of one of the country's biggest clubs.
"I am very impressed with the job [head coach] Garry Monk has done this season and I will do all I can to support him and the team moving forward."
Cellino, who had sacked six managers and head coaches before appointing Monk in June, said he felt "that the only way we can get better is for me to bring in a new partner".
The former Cagliari owner added: "Andrea is young and brings a new energy with him, as well as having a good experience in the football media business, which is the future for all clubs.
"I feel that bringing Andrea in as a 50% shareholder to work with me is the best choice we could have made. We will continue building a strong and healthy football club for the future."
Leeds are fifth in the Championship after winning four of their last five matches and seven points off the automatic promotion places.
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The Britons beat Filip Krajinovic and Nenad Zimonjic 6-1 6-7 (2-7) 6-3 6-4.
Earlier, James Ward lost 6-1 6-3 6-2 against Dusan Lajovic in their singles match, which was delayed from Friday.
Kyle Edmund, who won his singles match on Friday, can seal victory for Great Britain when he faces Lajovic on Sunday at 14:00 BST.
Britain are aiming to become the sixth team to defend the Davis Cup title, after they won it in Belgium last year.
Murray was partnering Inglot after his brother Andy, with whom he has won all five of his previous Davis Cup doubles matches, decided to sit out the tie.
The British pair started strongly and raced into an early lead against their Serb opponents, who were playing together for the first time.
Despite the Britons having chances to break in the second set, the Serbs improved to level, but Inglot and Murray recovered to put their team within one rubber of the semi-finals.
Inglot, who sealed his first Davis Cup win with the victory after serving out the third and fourth sets, said: "It is great to feel like I have finally put a rubber in for the team.
"Serving out was a little nerve-wracking but with Jamie at the net you know he will help you out. He deserves a lot of credit."
Murray added: "It was unfortunate we lost the second set but we kept getting the ball back on return and then the breaks of serve helped us.
"We're really happy to have that win going into Sunday."
Team captain Leon Smith picked out the Inglot serve as a key in the match.
"It's great for Dom to have his first Davis Cup victory," Smith added. "Jamie is really experienced now and it's great that we can rely on him to come out and do what he does."
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Ward was a late inclusion in the British squad after replacing Andy Murray but he lost in one hour and 52 minutes against a player ranked 159 places above him, at 81st in the world.
The 29-year-old, whose ranking has dropped after he was inside the world's top 100 this time last year, was broken in the first game of the match and struggled throughout against the highest-ranked player in Serbia's squad.
In a match postponed on Friday - and again delayed on Saturday because of rain - Ward made 73 errors and hit just 12 winners compared to Lajovic's 23.
Ward said: "It's one of the heaviest clay courts I've ever played on.
"It definitely doesn't suit my game. But he was very good today. The tactics we had set up were pretty much completely opposite to everything he did in the first set, which is credit to him."
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Former Great Britain Davis Cup captain John Lloyd:
Murray and Inglot just started to combine well. Inglot wasn't returning that well but they came together when it mattered. They didn't play great, it wasn't spectacular, but they got the job done.
It looked like a regulation doubles win (during the second set). They should have been up 2-0 and then it was getting a bit dodgy and I was getting a bit nervous. The class came through at the end and that is what good pairs do.
Even if James Ward had played at his best, he would have struggled in his match - but you could see he just didn't have confidence.
He made so many unforced errors. You could see he wasn't sure what to do on the court. He was outclassed.
Victory for Great Britain would see them face Argentina or Italy in the semi-final.
Argentina lead 2-1 after the second day in Pesaro, Italy, thanks to a five-set victory for Juan Martin Del Potro and Guido Pella over Fabio Fognini and Paolo Lorenzi.
Elsewhere, France - featuring Wimbledon doubles champions Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, as well as singles quarter-finalists Lucas Pouille and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga - lead the Czech Republic 2-1.
The United States lead Croatia 2-0 after Jack Sock came from two sets behind to beat Marin Cilic in their singles match, with the doubles to be played later on Saturday.
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1918 October - Arab troops led by Emir Feisal, and supported by British forces, capture Damascus, ending 400 years of Ottoman rule.
1919 - Emir Feisal backs Arab self-rule at the Versailles peace conference, following the defeat of Germany and the Ottoman Empire in World War I.
1920 March - National Congress elected the previous year proclaims Emir Feisal King of Syria from the Taurus mountains of Turkey to the Sinai desert in Egypt.
1920 June - San Remo conference puts Syria-Lebanon under a French mandate and Palestine under British control. King Feisal flees abroad ahead of French occupation forces the following month.
1920-21 - Syria is divided into three autonomous regions by the French, with separate areas for the Alawis on the coast and the Druze in the south. Lebanon is separated off entirely.
1925-6 - Nationalist agitation against French rule develops into uprising. French forces bombard Damascus.
1928 - Elections held for a constituent assembly, which drafts a constitution for Syria. French High Commissioner rejects the proposals, sparking nationalist protests.
1936 - France agrees to work towards Syrian independence and dissolves the autonomous regions, but maintains military and economic dominance and keeps Lebanon as a separate state.
1941 - British and Free French troops occupy Syria. General De Gaulle promises to end the French mandate.
1943 - Veteran nationalist Shukri al-Kuwatli is elected first president of Syria, leads the country to full independence three years later.
1947 - Michel Aflaq and Salah-al-Din al-Bitar found the Arab Socialist Baath Party.
1949-1954 - Civilian government disrupted by repeated coups.
1955 - Shukri al-Kuwatli returns to power, seeks closer ties with Egypt.
1958 February - Syria and Egypt form the United Arab Republic. Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser heads the new state. He orders the dissolution of Syrian political parties, to the dismay of the Baath party, which had campaigned for union.
Israel occupied the Golan Heights in 1967 during the Six Day War
Golan Heights profile
1961 September - Discontent with Egyptian domination prompts a group of Syrian army officers to seize power in Damascus and dissolve the union.
1963 March - Baathist army officers seize power. 1966 February - Salah Jadid leads an internal coup against the civilian Baath leadership. Hafez al-Assad becomes defence minister.
1967 June - Israeli forces seize the Golan Heights from Syria and destroy much of Syria's air force in the Six Day War with Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
1970 November - Hafez al-Assad overthrows president Nur al-Din al-Atasi and imprisons Salah Jadid.
1973 - Rioting breaks out after President Assad drops the constitutional requirement that the president must be a Muslim. Suppressed by the army.
1973 October - Syria and Egypt go to war with Israel, but fail to retake the Golan Heights seized in 1967.
1975 February - President Assad says he's prepared to make peace with Israel in return for an Israeli withdrawal from "all occupied Arab land".
1976 June - Syrian army intervenes in the Lebanese civil war to ensure that the status quo is maintained, keeping its Maronite Christian allies in a position of strength.
1980 - After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Muslim groups instigate uprisings and riots in Aleppo, Homs and Hama. Syria profile
Hafez al-Assad brought stability, but did so through repression
Obituary: Syria's shrewd master
Syria profile
1980 September - Start of Iran-Iraq war. Syria backs Iran, in keeping with the traditional rivalry between Baathist leaderships in Iraq and Syria.
1981 December - Israel formally annexes the Golan Heights.
1982 February - Muslim Brotherhood uprising in the city of Hama suppressed by army, tens of thousands of civilians killed.
1982 June - Israel invades Lebanon and attacks the Syrian army, forcing it to withdraw from several areas. Israel attacks the PLO base in Beirut.
1983 May - Lebanon and Israel announce the end of hostilities. Syrian forces remain in Lebanon.
1984 - President's brother Rifaat promoted to vice-president.
Return to Lebanon
1987 February - President Assad sends troops into Lebanon for a second time to enforce a ceasefire in Beirut.
1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait; Syria joins the US-led coalition against Iraq. This leads to improved relations with Egypt and the US.
1991 October - Syria participates in the Middle East peace conference in Madrid and holds talks with Israel that founder over the Golan Heights issue.
1994 - President Assad's son Basil, who was likely to succeed his father, is killed in a car accident.
1998 - President Assad's brother Rifaat is dismissed as vice-president.
1999 December - Further talks with Israel over the Golan Heights begin in the US, but are indefinitely postponed the following month.
2000 June - President Assad dies and is succeeded by his second son, Bashar.
2000 November - The new president orders the release of 600 political prisoners.
2001 April - Outlawed Muslim Brotherhood says it will resume political activity, 20 years after its leaders were forced to flee.
2001 June - Syrian troops evacuate Beirut, redeploy in other parts of Lebanon, following pressure from Lebanese critics of Syria's presence.
2001 September - Detention of MPs and other pro-reform activists, crushing hopes of a break with the authoritarian past of Hafez al-Assad. Arrest continue, punctuated by occasional amnesties, over the following decade.
2002 May - Senior US official includes Syria in a list of states that make-up an "axis of evil", first listed by President Bush in January. Undersecretary for State John Bolton says Damascus is acquiring weapons of mass destruction.
2004 January - President Assad visits Turkey, the first Syrian leader to do so. The trip marks the end of decades of frosty relations, although ties sour again after the popular uprising in 2011.
2004 May - US imposes economic sanctions on Syria over what it calls its support for terrorism and failure to stop militants entering Iraq.
The killing of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri sparked anti-Syrian protets in Beirut
Syria withdrawal: Lebanese speak
2005 February-April- Tensions with the US escalate after the killing of former Lebanese PM Hariri in Beirut. Washington cites Syrian influence in Lebanon. Damascus is urged to withdraw its forces from Lebanon, which it does by April.
2006 November - Iraq and Syria restore diplomatic relations after nearly a quarter century.
2007 March - European Union relaunches dialogue with Syria.
2007 April - US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi meets President Assad in Damascus. She is the highest-placed US politician to visit Syria in recent years. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets Foreign Minister Walid Muallem the following month in the first contact at this level for two years.
Israeli forces destroyed what they said was a nuclear facility under construction. Syria says it was an unused military facility
2007 September - Israel carries out an aerial strike against a nuclear facility under construction in northern Syria. 2008 July - President Assad meets French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris. The visit signals the end of the diplomatic isolation by the West that followed the assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri in 2005. 2008 October - Syria establishes diplomatic relations with Lebanon for first time since both countries established independence in 1940s.
2009 March - Jeffrey Feltman, acting assistant US secretary of state for the Near East, visits Damascus with White House national security aide Daniel Shapiro in first high-level US diplomatic mission for nearly four years. Meets Foreign Minister Walid Muallem.
Trading launches on Syria's stock exchange in a gesture towards liberalising the state-controlled economy.
2010 May - US renews sanctions against Syria, saying that it supports terrorist groups, seeks weapons of mass destruction and has provided Lebanon's Hezbollah with Scud missiles in violation of UN resolutions.
2011 March - Security forces shoot dead protestors in southern city of Deraa demanding release of political prisoners, triggering violent unrest that steadily spread nationwide over the following months.
Pro-democracy protests erupted in 2011; the government responded with violence
President Assad announces conciliatory measures, releasing dozens of political prisoners, dismissing government, lifting 48-year-old state of emergency.
2011 May - Army tanks enter Deraa, Banyas, Homs and suburbs of Damascus in an effort to crush anti-regime protests. US and European Union tighten sanctions.
2011 June - The IAEA nuclear watchdog decides to report Syria to the UN Security Council over its alleged covert nuclear programme reactor programme. The structure housing the alleged reactor was destroyed in an Israeli air raid in 2007.
2011 July - President Assad sacks the governor of the northern province of Hama after mass demonstration there, eventually sending in troops to restore order at the cost of scores of lives.
2011 October - New Syrian National Council says it has forged a common front of internal and exiled opposition activists.
2011 November - Arab League votes to suspend Syria, accusing it of failing to implement an Arab peace plan, and imposes sanctions.
The uprising against President Assad gradually turned into a full-scale civil war
2012 February - Government steps up the bombardment of Homs and other cities.
2012 March - UN Security Council endorses non-binding peace plan drafted by UN envoy Kofi Annan. China and Russia agree to support the plan after an earlier, tougher draft is modified.
Divisions and concern about the role of Islamists have bedevilled the opposition
Guide to the Syrian opposition
2012 June - Turkey changes rules of engagement after Syria shoots down a Turkish plane, declaring that if Syrian troops approach Turkey's borders they will be seen as a military threat.
2012 July - Free Syria Army blows up three security chiefs in Damascus and seizes Aleppo in the north.
2012 August - Prime Minister Riad Hijab defects, US President Obama warns that use of chemical weapons would tilt the US towards intervention.
2012 October - Fire in Aleppo destroys much of the historic market as fighting and bomb attacks continue in various cities.
2012 November - National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces formed in Qatar, excludes Islamist militias. Arab League stops short of full recognition.
2012 December - US, Britain, France, Turkey and Gulf states formally recognise opposition National Coalition as "legitimate representative" of Syrian people.
2013 January - Syria accuses Israel of bombing military base near Damascus, where Hezbollah was suspected of assembling a convoy of anti-aircraft missiles bound for Lebanon.
Government forces have faced - and denied - repeated allegations of chemical weapons use
Rise of Islamists
2013 September - UN weapons inspectors conclude that chemical weapons were used in an attack on the Ghouta area of Damascus in August that killed about 300 people, but do not allocate responsibility. Government allows UN to destroy chemical weapons stocks, process complete by June 2014.
2013 December - US and Britain suspend "non-lethal" support for rebels in northern Syria after reports that Islamist rebels seized bases of Western-backed Free Syrian Army.
2014 January-February - UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva fail, largely because Syrian authorities refuse to discuss a transitional government.
2014 March - Syrian Army and Hezbollah forces recapture Yabroud, the last rebel stronghold near the Lebanese border.
2014 June - Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants declare "caliphate" in territory from Aleppo to eastern Iraqi province of Diyala.
2014 September - US and five Arab countries launch air strikes against Islamic State around Aleppo and Raqqa.
2015 January - Kurdish forces push Islamic State out of Kobane on Turkish border after four months of fighting.
2015 May - Islamic State fighters seize the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria and proceed to destroy many monuments at pre-Islamic World Heritage site.
Jaish al-Fatah (Army of Conquest) Islamist rebel alliance takes control of Idlib Province, putting pressure on government's coastal stronghold of Latakia.
Russian intervention
2015 September - Russia carries out its first air strikes in Syria, saying they target the Islamic State group, but the West and Syrian opposition say it overwhelmingly targets anti-Assad rebels.
2015 December - Syrian Army allows rebels to evacuate remaining area of Homs, returning Syria's third-largest city to government control after four years.
2016 March - Syrian government forces retake Palmyra from Islamic State with Russian air assistance, only to be driven out again in December.
2016 August - Turkish troops cross into Syria to help rebel groups push back so-called Islamic State militants and Kurdish-led rebels from a section of the two countries' border.
2016 December - Government troops, backed by Russian air power and Iranian-sponsored militias, recaptures Aleppo, the country's largest city, depriving the rebels of their last major urban stronghold.
2017 January - Russia, Iran and Turkey agree to enforce a ceasefire between the government and non-Islamist rebels, after talks between the two sides in Kazakhstan.
The Rochdale-based comic has tweeted that the Pope has made him a papal knight for services to charity.
The 69-year-old said he was "thrilled" to receive the honour that he will officially receive at a later date.
Born in Cookstown in County Tyrone, the comedian, whose real name is James Joseph Mulgrew, became a household name in the 1970s.
The former Butlin's red coat entertainer told BBC Radio Ulster the honour had come "right out of the blue".
The father-of-four only became aware of the award when his parish priest arrived at his home to deliver what he thought was a 70th birthday card.
"The parish priest arrived and took out this certificate - it was a papal knighthood and it was in Latin," Mr Cricket said.
"I thought: 'He's got the wrong fella here, is he sure it's not the neighbour?'
He said he was "humbled and honoured" by the recognition.
"I do what I love. If I can raise money by entertaining people, sure it's not hard work.
"To get an honour for doing something that you love is quite a blessing."
The keys to a lighthouse will be handed to the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales later on Wednesday, which will complete the sale of Skokholm.
The trust bought the majority of the island in 2007 after raising £650,000.
It launched a £250,000 appeal for the lighthouse last August, raising £150,000 in four months.
There are plans to turn the 1916 lighthouse into accommodation to enable visitors to see up close the colonies of Manx shearwater, storm petrels and puffins.
The lighthouse will continue operating despite the sale.
Mile-long Skokholm, with its nearby sister island, Skomer, is thought to the breeding home of roughly 50% of the world population of Manx shearwater.
A survey found it was home to 2,870 of the birds' burrows.
Trust chief executive Sarah Kessell said: "The rest of the island was bought in 2007, and this not only completes the last piece of the jigsaw, but it allows us to protect the population of the Manx shearwater that are on there.
"Over Skomer and Skokholm islands we've got about 50% of the world's population, and around the lighthouse itself is the densest colony of the Manx shearwater, so it allows us to protect it for future generations."
The lighthouse needs renovating and this is expected to cost up to £100,000, which would increase the number of people able to stay on the island to 24.
"The lighthouse will give us eight extra bed spaces," added Ms Kessell.
"You can't see the Manx shearwater unless you're on the island at night and we don't really have many day visits to Skokholm island, so it just allows a few more people to come over and experience this unique wildlife."
The trust has said it hopes to reinstate the island's status as a bird observatory, which was lost in the 1970s.
That would lead to more extensive bird counts and the netting of birds for tagging.
The decision was taken by the Caf executive committee at their meeting in Cairo.
The 32-year-old Moroccan joined the continental body in March 2009 as deputy secretary general.
Amrani has been acting secretary general since October last year after the departure of Egypt's Mustapha Fahmy to Fifa as Director of Competitions.
He was in charge of marketing at the Asian Football Confederation before joining Caf.
The 14 divers from Fleet Diving Squadron, at Horsea Island, completed the 26 mile (42km) walk in the lake at their base in 25 hours.
The divers took turns to walk the 1km (3,280ft) length of the lake in pairs, wearing air cylinders and lead-lined boots.
They completed the challenge five hours under their target time of 30 hours.
They expect to raise £5,000 for the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity (RNRMC) which helps sailors, marines and their families from the event.
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A new development in Bristol has bucked the trend, favouring local shops and cafes instead.
And if you take a close look at it, you soon find out why the UK's property market keeps producing what some call "cloned High Streets".
At first sight, Wapping Wharf looks like another identikit development.
Shiny apartment balconies look over the shimmering harbourside. Beneath them, soy lattes and craft beer are available from dawn till dusk.
On the corner, a small supermarket offers convenience meals and takeaway sandwiches.
And like the rest of Bristol's post-industrial city centre docks, it has been decades since Wapping Wharf saw any serious cargo unload.
Two cranes standing on the quayside are now heritage sights for tourists, instead of a mainstay of the city's trade.
But on closer inspection, Wapping Wharf bucks the trend.
There is coffee, but no Starbucks, Costa or Caffe Nero. Instead, a Bath coffee firm called Mokoko has set up shop.
Beer comes not from a national chain, but a small Somerset craft brewer called Wild Beer. And the anchor tenant on the corner is not a multiple supermarket, but a Bristol outfit called Better Food.
The owner has decided to let every shop and cafe to local independent retailers. This is both rare and revealing.
Stuart Hatton is not a campaigner, but a developer.
As he shows me around the new Bristol development, he is clearly proud of the quirky brewers and committed coffee makers.
But he can afford to back independents because his family property firm is set up differently.
He explains how his industry normally works: "A traditional developer would build it, let it and then sell.
"And obviously they want to get the best sales price that they can."
Developers with shareholders and financial institutions behind them need to sell fast. And what they are selling is certainty: the assurance that tenants will pay the rent for 10 years or more.
The normal economics favour the multiples, Mr Hatton explains: "It is less risky for an investor to buy a shop with M&S in, for instance, than a shop with a small independent retailer."
July 2011 – July 2016
15.9% up Hairdressers
5.9% up Cafes
5.4% up Convenience
5.3% down Fashion
12.6% down Homewares and household
20.3% down Auto accessories
You don't have to go far to see the normal system at work. Across the water, the first phase of Bristol's harbourside regeneration features Costa, Tesco Metro and Pizza Express.
Mr Hatton's firm makes its money from renting the shops, so he is not worried about the sale price, or what the property market calls the "covenant value" of a retail unit.
But his approach is unusual, according to Bristol retail agent Will Duckworth, from the property firm JLL.
"This is very rare," he tells me. "Most developers go the same way, to keep the investors happy.
"They want a quick return on their investment and it's easier to do that with a national brand that's got a good history of trading."
The new shopkeepers and brewers are happy, as you would expect.
But apart from offering a bit of a change to the normal High Street chains, some say independent retailers actually make a city richer.
Rachel Lawrence, an economist who studies how cities work for the New Economics Foundation, came to look at the new development and find out where the retailers are buying from.
Her research has uncovered a persistent problem in regeneration schemes, designed to bring wealth to deprived areas.
"Often they end up importing new, wealthy residents, and then bringing in expensive shops owned by multinational companies for them to spend their money in.
"There is new economic activity, but very little of it is benefiting the local economy."
At Wapping Wharf, the Bristol-owned supermarket Better Food takes a different approach.
Mike Bailey shows Ms Lawrence around his organic food store, pointing out fresh produce from a community-owned farm just seven miles away in the Chew Valley.
Bread comes from a family bakery in the Cotswolds; pulses, rice, beans and flour from a worker-owned co-op just a mile up the road.
For Rachel Lawrence, this is what makes the difference.
"Locally owned stores like this are much more likely to buy from local supply chains," she explains.
"If the money is going into local suppliers, much more of the benefit of this development is enriching the local economy, and that is really the holy grail of regeneration schemes like this."
All this is lovely if the shops stay afloat. But Britain's retailers have rarely had to fight so hard for a living, competing with online stores, multiple discount chains and customers who spend more frugally.
Now, though, new research reveals that some independent stores are growing, and quite fast.
For Matthew Hopkinson, it comes down to a single simple question: "Can you get a coffee or a haircut on the internet?"
Mr Hopkinson runs the Local Data Company, analysing data as shops open and close. And there have been plenty of closures: not just the big names like BHS, but thousands of small independents too.
Since 2011, shops selling homewares have shrunk by 12.6%, while the number of car accessory stores has gone down by 20.3%.
Yet cafes, restaurants and above all hairdressers are on the up. There are 5.9% more cafes across the UK than there were five years ago, and a huge 15.9% increase in hair salons.
Walk around Wapping Wharf, and the data comes to life. Craft beer, two coffee shops already and a third fitting out. There will be pulled pork, barbecued chicken, sourdough pizza, and yes, a barber's shop.
The final twist in Bristol's alternative economy comes when you look at the finances behind the independents.
Fitting out a new store in a top-end development is not cheap, and Better Food needed to find £350,000.
The firm turned to its customers, offering a "community bond" through Triodos, an ethical bank based in Bristol.
Zoe Sear, head of marketing at Triodos, has rarely seen such a popular offer: "We raised £350,000 in 11 days, from 64 individual investors. People in Bristol don't just believe in local independents, they are prepared to back them."
It is impressive and unusual. But behind the organic carrots on sale on this new harbourside avenue, there is a unique financial architecture.
Left to the normal rules of property investment and commercial banking, Bristolians would almost certainly be drinking coffee from the same chain cafes you would find in Birmingham or Bradford.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is due to publish his tax returns, and Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon has published hers.
Meanwhile, UKIP's Nigel Farage has rejected calls for greater openness over personal tax matters.
Unsurprisingly, there are mixed opinions on whether to declare and how much.
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Paul Brazier emails the BBC: "Transparency of tax for all in elected office."
When it comes to Mr Cameron's wealth, Raymond Harris writes: "Five hundred thousand pounds is a figure most working people won't see in their lifetime, so I think he should not be hiding it off shore. He should be paying tax on it."
Valtid Caushi says: "Pay your tax. It is our unborn children who they are robbing, not the current generation."
Wendy Wright emails: "As in Sweden, everyone's tax returns should be public property. This would help to prevent a wide range of financial wrongdoing and help to ensure that everyone paid the proper amount of tax. All current loopholes to avoid tax should be closed immediately."
Jim Muir (not the BBC correspondent) tweets:
Private and personal
David Snelson, in Petersfield, says: "This trend towards all senior politicians publishing tax returns is worrying. We don't pay them that much money, and we now want to delve into all aspects of their personal affairs. Who can we expect to want to lead us in the future. Would Churchill have wanted to be prime minister in such circumstances? Be careful what you wish for!"
Stephen Nichols calls this political point-scoring, with Mr Cameron doing nothing illegal, "nothing anybody with a good financial adviser wouldn't be doing". "If there are loopholes, then change the laws," he adds.
Philip, in Glasgow, says tax returns should be kept private for everyone, adding: "The urgent need is not sorting out offshore tax jurisdictions, but sorting out the tax credits mess."
DSPG is not interested in leaders publishing tax returns, adding: "These should be a private matter, although possibly routinely examined by some central body such as the Register of Interests. I wouldn't want my neighbour to know how much bank interest I get every year (and thus an indication of my assets) especially as I don't flaunt a Bentley on the drive and a Rolex on my wrist."
Kath Stevens says she doesn't know what all the fuss is about, adding: "Just about every university vice-chancellor in the UK has a salary of over £200,000 a year, some are getting over £400,000, let alone barristers, chief executives of large councils, probably health authorities, probably senior civil servants, some of you BBC people and senior management in large companies, and don't get me started about the ludicrous amounts bankers are still pocketing. Time everyone got a grip on current reality."
Gary Aiken takes it further: "This is just a witch-hunt," he says. "Salary has always been a private matter."
And finally, how clear is all of this?
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Sussex is rated the world's best for development studies and Loughborough for sport.
But the most top places are taken by two US universities - Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Among UK universities, Oxford is rated top in the most subjects - English, geography, anatomy and archaeology.
The annual QS World University Rankings by Subject compare institutions across 46 subjects.
They show the strengths of in-depth specialisms, rather than basing comparisons on an overall university ranking.
It means a much wider range of universities - including smaller institutions - can rub shoulders with the usual big names at the top of global league tables.
But Harvard remains the university with the most top places - first in 15 subjects, including history, medicine and biology.
In second place, Massachusetts Institute of Technology accounts for another 12 subjects, including maths, chemistry and physics.
There are a number of UK universities claiming first places, in rankings based on 43 million research papers and 305,000 responses to an academic survey.
Loughborough, which has produced a number of elite athletes, is rated as best in sports-related subjects, while Sussex is this year identified as the best for development studies, replacing Harvard.
The Royal College of Art is top for art and design and the Institute of Education, part of University College London, is in first place for education.
The University of Cambridge is rated as the most consistent - with more subjects in the top 10 than any other institution, followed by the University of California, Berkeley.
A number of other UK universities are among the top 10s in subject rankings - including Reading, London School of Economics, Goldsmiths, Durham, Manchester and Imperial.
A quarter of all top 10 rankings are taken by UK universities - with the US and UK having the biggest share of the highest places.
Among continental European universities, ETH Zurich was top in earth and marine sciences, while Hong Kong University was top at dentistry.
Ben Sowter, head of research for the ranking firm, says that the UK does particularly well in these rankings which "drill down" to subject level.
He said comparisons by subject were becoming more important for students considering courses.
"Subject rankings are becoming more and more influential," he said.
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The 68-year-old has been in hospital since late September, sparking worries about her health.
However, a veil of secrecy over the extent of Ms Jayalalitha's illness has triggered a wave of panic. Police have arrested two people for "spreading rumours" about her health amid fears that her supporters will resort to self harm in the event of any bad news.
A former actress, Ms Jayalalitha's career has been marked by a series of highs and lows.
Head of the regional AIADMK party, she has been elected chief minister four times.
She has alternated in power over most of this time with her great rival, 93-year-old M Karunanidhi, leader of the DMK party.
In most cases Jayalalitha's lows have been followed by dramatic political comebacks in which she has been reinstated as Tamil Nadu chief minister.
A Karnataka high court order in 2015, which cleared her of involvement in a corruption scandal, paved the way for her return to power after a setback in September 2014 when a trial court found her guilty for corruption and gave her a four-year jail sentence.
She had to resign as chief minister and spent three weeks in prison, in one of the toughest challenges of her political career.
But it was not the first time she had been sent to prison for corruption - she spent a brief time in jail over corruption charges in 1996 too.
Jayalalitha's admirers say she has played a key role in the development of Tamil Nadu as one of India's most economically influential states.
She has championed the cause of the rural and urban poor by introducing subsidised food canteens, providing free laptops to thousands of school pupils and students and launching other populist schemes like giving away food mixers and grinders to families.
But critics say she has established a personality cult in Tamil Nadu over the years and indulged in an overtly over-extravagant lifestyle.
Many publicly funded projects are named after her, such as the canteens scheme.
The canteens are known as Amma Canteens - Amma in Tamil is Mother, an honorific euphemism by which Jayalalitha is addressed by her followers in the state.
These were followed by other equally populist schemes like Amma Bottled Water, Amma Salt, Amma Pharmacies and more recently, Amma Cement.
Her critics say that she has used the Tamil Nadu Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) - which has a monopoly on the sale of alcohol in the state - to pay for many of her pet projects.
The liquor policy of the state government has been criticised for impoverishing households and ruining people's health.
The allegations made against her over the years have been extensive - from arranging for her opponents to be beaten up to spending large amounts of taxpayers' money on lavish wedding ceremonies.
Some of these allegations have veered towards the outlandish - on one occasion she was accused of losing her temper with her auditor and assaulting him.
Jayalalitha first came to political prominence in the late 1980s, although she was well known as an actress before then, starring in more than 100 films.
Naturally charismatic, she was brought into politics by the then actor-turned-chief minister, MG Ramachandran, with whom she starred in many of her films.
Three years after his death in 1987, she took over his All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Khazagham (AIADMK) party as well as the state, and proved equally adept at retaining the political base of the party.
Stories about her extravagance are legendary, and many of her worshipping followers are known to profess their loyalty through bizarre acts such as walking on hot coals or drawing her portrait with their blood.
Incidents of her followers setting fire to themselves whenever she faces political setbacks are not unknown.
During the various times she has served as Tamil Nadu chief minister, huge cut-outs of her figure have dominated the Tamil Nadu skyline.
Her ministers have on occasions been reported to prostrate themselves at her feet.
During one raid on her premises following a corruption allegation in 1996, police said they had found large quantities of diamond-studded gold jewellery, more than 10,000 saris and 750 pairs of shoes.
Her emergence as an increasingly important regional politician was clearly seen in the run-up to the 2009 elections, when she threw her support behind a grouping of regional parties and communists seeking to establish a "third front" to challenge India's two main coalitions.
But throughout her career, Jayalalitha's critics have painted her as a deeply corrupt figure who has manipulated the system and sees herself as above the law.
She has been in and out of the courts, defending herself against allegations.
She also reportedly nursed ambitions of a greater national political role and in the run-up to the 2014 Indian parliamentary elections, her followers projected her as a prime ministerial candidate, though she did not openly endorse it.
31 October 2016 Last updated at 17:27 GMT
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The pile is small and the carnations have wilted in the sun, but the gesture reflects a dramatically different mood to last November when hundreds of Russians came here to hurl stones, eggs and insults.
The breakdown in relations came after Turkish fighter jets shot down a Russian military plane on the border with Syria. The pilot was killed as he attempted to parachute to safety.
Vladimir Putin lashed out, calling it a stab in the back and state media here echoed his furious tone. The airwaves filled with talk of treachery.
Then came the sanctions: a ban on charter flights to hugely popular Turkish resorts, restrictions on Turkish imports and for firms operating here and the introduction of visas.
In a matter of months, one opinion poll showed Turkey leaping from nowhere to third place among the countries Russians view as their enemy, behind the US and Ukraine.
But that anger is now dissipating as suddenly as it was whipped-up.
This week, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally apologised for downing the plane - or that is how Russia is reading his carefully chosen words.
President Putin, who had insisted on that apology, immediately ordered talks on restoring ties.
In what many saw as a battle of wills, it looks like Mr Erdogan blinked first. The political about-turn that followed has been dizzyingly swift.
By Friday, the Russian and Turkish foreign ministers were shaking hands in Sochi. And after months accusing Turkey of collaborating with extremist groups in Syria, Russia now says military and anti-terrorist contacts have been renewed.
Next up, are package holidays. Turkey has long been a key destination for Russians and their sudden disappearance hit the local economy hard. Ankara now says charter flights will resume by 7 July.
Russia's official reason for cancelling flights was security concerns, after Moscow accused Ankara of supporting extremists.
Turkey argues that this week's devastating bomb attack on Istanbul airport was further grim proof that it is not an ally of so-called Islamic State, but a target.
Still, the increased terror threat has made some Russians wary of visiting.
"I think it's frightening, I wouldn't recommend it," Tatyana told me, as she waited for a bus in central Moscow.
She has enjoyed holidays in Turkey before, but says she will not go back for now.
"I'd prefer to visit my grandparents in the country instead," she said.
Others displayed a typically Russian insouciance.
"People visited Egypt during the Arab Spring and I think tourist areas are well protected," Evgeny said, adding that his family had to holiday in Russia this year, and it had been lower quality and more expensive.
Tour agencies have already reported a surge in enquiries about Turkey.
"I would say the reaction was quite restrained despite efforts to stir it up, so will be quick and easy to switch back.
"It's not like the anti Western mood which has deeper roots and is based on resentment," argues Lev Gudkov, director of the Levada research centre.
While people were genuinely upset when the plane was downed, he says, their anger was directed at the Turkish authorities not its people.
"I think there will be some aftertaste, but if the campaign is not escalated again then it will all be forgotten quite quickly," Mr Gudkov believes.
Those heading to work close to the Turkish Embassy, generally agreed.
"They wound us up for so long, then all of a sudden it's over! It's all so fast, my brain hasn't switched yet!" Sergei said. He has been to Turkey five times on holiday and plans to return.
"It did feel like a betrayal, but those feelings pass," Alexander argued.
"Politicians play their games and people suffer. I think it's wrong to punish the whole country for that."
An observer in the back of the plane, Des, as he is known, was the last of the crew to crawl out through the cracked fuselage and was doused in petrol.
The grass outside was alight and he went up in flames, burned all over but for the areas covered by his US-issue flying jacket and boots.
But Des was lucky enough to find his way to Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, under the care of the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe.
There, he underwent more than two years of painful experimental surgery.
"I had new chins - three times they operated because they didn't go quite right. I had new eyelids, new ear tips, and my legs were grafted too," he told the BBC at his home this week.
Sir Archibald, realising how the badly burnt and disfigured men on his wards were struggling to adapt to everyday life, decided to give their morale a boost.
"He said, 'Right, you are all now members of the Guinea Pig Club,'" said Des, who is now 96.
Formed in June 1941 with just 39 members, by the end of the war they numbered 649. Primarily a drinking club, with social events and trips into the town, the group formed close bonds for life, while Sir Archibald developed plastic surgery techniques some of which are still in use today.
"I'm sure that the operations I had - four, five or six months later, would have been done differently. Because each time, it was an experiment," said Des.
Today, only 17 members of the Guinea Pig Club survive in the UK, their numbers dwindling as the men enter their mid-90s.
A commemorative monument is being unveiled by the Duke of Edinburgh at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, recognising the work of Sir Archibald, who died in 1960, and the bravery of his Guinea Pigs.
Sir Archibald was instrumental in developing the walking-stalk skin graft, a procedure in which a flap of skin was fashioned into a tube and attached at both ends to the patient, being slowly removed and reattached - "walked" along the body until it reached the area needing the graft.
Photographs of men being treated during World War Two feature these tubes, often connecting their noses with skin on their torso or arms.
Modern developments including microsurgery, in which the blood vessels of a skin graft can be reattached at the new site, eliminated the need for this type of procedure.
Sir Archibald's legacy has endured, not least at the Queen Victoria Hospital, now the leading burns and reconstructive surgery centre in the south-east of England.
Mr Baljit Dheansa, consultant plastic surgeon at the hospital, told the BBC: "Some of the approaches we still take in surgery hark back to what McIndoe did for his Guinea Pigs way back then.
"A philosophy of early burns surgery, and taking quite an aggressive approach, to get patients healed, but at the same time addressing the big deficiency that burn care and any surgical care had in the past, which was supporting them psychologically.
"He realised that providing that level of support helped their healing just as much as the skin grafts that he was applying on a daily basis."
The EU is expected to publish proposals for the new digital single market later this year.
Vittorio Colao told the BBC it would be a missed opportunity if Britain "tried to sit outside".
He said Britain could participate, but not help write the rules.
"The next big opportunity is in digital. Britain is particularly strong in digital, and it would be a missed opportunity if it tried to sit outside," he told the BBC's Today programme.
Mr Colao said Britain would not be able to influence important decisions on copyright, e-commerce and and cyber security.
How trade and the UK's economy are affected by membership of the EU.
"There is a difference between being a neighbour and being a co-owner," he added.
He said Germany had gained huge benefits from the current single market through the export of its goods and that Britain could do the same with its digital expertise.
Vodafone is the seventh largest company listed on the London market, with operations in 26 countries and about 100,000 staff.
Britain accounts for about 10% of its profits and sales.
Mr Colao also hinted that FTSE 100 companies such as Vodafone could move their headquarters out of Britain if it left the EU.
He said Vodafone was very happy here, but it would have to reconsider its position if the free movement of people and capital was restricted.
Felling operations are taking place at Mabie Forest near Dumfries from December until February.
The action will remove trees infected with Phytophthora ramorum as well as some unaffected by the disease.
The main entrance to the forest will be shut on weekdays in December but should be reopened by Christmas.
Visitors have been asked to follow diversion signs.
Public information notices, details of works and trail closures will also be regularly updated and posted on site and online.
Sallie Bailey, Forest Enterprise Scotland's district manager for Dumfries and the Borders, said: "Mabie is one of our most popular recreation sites in the region - with 7stanes mountain bike trails as well as walking trails.
"Regrettably, felling is unavoidable because it is one of the crucial steps we can take to try and minimise the progress of this disease, which has badly affected larch, particularly in parts of south-west Scotland.
"These works will change the look of the forest for a short time, but also present opportunities for future replanting."
Similar operations planned for Heathhall Forest are likely to begin in the New Year and be completed by the beginning of March.
The hostages were freed on Tuesday, days after it was reported 50 civilians, including women and children, had been massacred in the Mirzawalang area of Sar-e Pul province.
But a provincial spokesman told the BBC many more were still trapped.
Taliban and Islamic State (IS) militants attacked the area last week.
The battle began on Thursday when a checkpoint manned by local police was attacked. Two days later, the militants entered the village and killed people - mainly Shia Muslims - in "a brutal, inhumane way", according to a provincial spokesman.
Seven members of the Afghan security forces had also been killed, as well as a number of insurgents, the spokesman said.
The Taliban denied killing civilians, saying that their fighters had killed 28 members of a government-supported militia in the area, and denied working with IS. There has been no comment from IS. Both are Sunni Muslim militant groups.
On Tuesday, following negotiations led by the provincial governor and local tribal elders, a large number of hostages were released.
But Governor Mohammad Zaher Wahdat told Afghan channel Tolo News they had not been able to recover the bodies.
He said the hostages, who have been taken to the provincial capital, "are so shocked they can't even speak to tell us about any more other hostages".
One security source told news agency AFP there were as many as 100 people still being held.
Fighting has intensified across Afghanistan in recent months. More than 1,662 civilians were killed in the half of the year, according to UN figures.
The 6in (15cm) drawing shows "the Old Handball Court, Nelson, Glamorgan", now a listed building in Caerphilly county.
Peter Wilson fine art auctioneers said Lowry was introduced to the south Wales Valleys by Ebbw Vale businessman Monty Bloom.
Signed and dated 6 November 1961, it is thought to have been sketched by Lowry as he sat in a nearby cafe.
"Bloom recognised the appeal the grim contrast of spoil hills side by side with real mountains would have on the artist," Peter Wilson auctioneers said.
"Aged 77, Lowry embarked on a new era of painting inspired by the Welsh scenery and began working in a new, intuitive and experimental way.
"Together, Lowry and Bloom made visits to the area every six months or so and it is thought that this sketch may have been made upon his return from such a trip."
Lowry gave the napkin sketch to artist Percy Warburton, who would later pass it on to the family who put it up for auction on Thursday.
It was bought by a private collector from the Midlands.
The picture, showing Ieshia Evans calmly standing in front of two heavily body-armoured police officers during a #Blacklivesmatter protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, went viral at the weekend.
Black Lives Matter protest photo hailed as 'legendary'
Among the most prominent people to share the image on Facebook was Shaun King, a senior justice reporter with the New York Daily News newspaper with more than 560,000 followers.
Ms Evans has responded to the furore via Facebook, where she said: "I appreciate the well wishes and love, but this is the work of God. I am a vessel!"
The photo garnered messages of respect and admiration from friends and supporters on her Facebook wall.
And strangers on Twitter offered words of praise using the terms #BlackLivesMatter and #LeshiaEvans.
Many on social media felt that this was a remarkable moment captured on film and compared it to another iconic image from almost 30 years ago.
Others, however, were less convinced of the image's importance.
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Cuthbert Malajila opened the scoring after 23 minutes but the hosts hit straight back and Davi Banda restored parity a minute later.
Zimbabwe's winner came seven minutes before the end when Khama Billiat (pictured) converted.
Victory is a huge boost for Zimbabwe following their problems over players' match fees that had put the fixture in doubt.
Zimbabwe coach Kalisto Pasuwa told BBC Sport after the match: "We put our problems aside and we got a win. We need to bring Zimbabwean people together to help improve our football.
"We wanted to put our country on the map. We are having problems but let's consider our country in terms of football."
The squad had initially refused to travel, citing concerns that they would not receive their money from the cash-strapped Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa).
Walter Magaya, the Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries leader, stepped in to cover the $42,000 needed to cover the trip to Malawi.
In Group D, Uganda also got off to a perfect start by beating visitors Botswana 2-0.
Both goals came after the break, with Geoffrey Massa opening the scoring on 55 minutes and Brian Umony making sure of the points by doubling the advantage 11 minutes later.
Angola made a strong start to their qualification campaign, beating Central African Republic 4-0 in their Group B opener.
Gelson struck the first goal on 36 minutes and the lead was doubled 11 minutes after the interval when Dolly Menaga slotted home from the penalty spot.
On 63 minutes Gelson grabbed his second goal and the win was completed in added time when Gilberto scored his side's second penalty of the game.
Nigeria made hard work of beating Chad, overcoming the visitors 2-0 but also losing Ogenyi Onazi to a 79th-minute red card.
Fuad Gbolahan Salami struck the opener for the 2013 champions on 63 minutes and the Super Eagles added a second goal only moments after Onazi was sent off, Odion Ighalo winning a penalty and dispatching the kick himself.
It is a winning start in Group G for Nigeria but coach Stephen Keshi will be looking for his side to improve quickly - particularly given their failure to qualify to defend their title in Equatorial Guinea this year.
There was a worse result for another former champion, 2012 winners Zambia were held to a goalless draw at home to Guinea-Bissau.
The Chipolopolo were expected to ease past the visitors but have now given themselves plenty to do in Group E to make a recovery.
South Africa were also held to a surprising goalless draw at home by The Gambia in their Group M fixture in Durban.
This was The Gambia's first competitive match for two years, after their return to international football following a two year ban.
The match in Durban was delayed by four hours following the non-arrival of two match officials.
Cape Verde were emphatic 7-1 winners over Sao Tome and Principe in Group F.
The big-name stars were in form for Senegal, who eased past Burundi 3-1 in Group K. Swiss-based striker Moussa Konate, Stoke's Mame Biram Diouf and Southampton's Sadio Mane scored the goals for the Teranga Lions.
Algeria, the top-ranked African team, scored twice in each half for a 4-0 win over visitors Seychelles in Group J, with El-Arbi Hillel Soudani claiming two goals.
And there were also home wins for Burkina Faso - 2-0 victors over Comoros Islands - and Mali, who saw off South Sudan by the same scoreline.
The incident, which was not seen by the match officials, is alleged to have occurred in the 28th minute of Saturday's 0-0 draw with Barnsley.
The 29-year-old has until has until 18:00 GMT on Tuesday to respond to the charge.
McFadzean joined Burton in the summer from MK Dons and has since made 15 appearances, scoring one goal.
Scientists said early work on a small number of samples proved very accurate.
Sticky clumps of the molecule are found in the brain cells of people with Parkinson's - and in those of some dementia sufferers.
A Parkinson's disease charity said the results were "hugely promising" but larger studies were now needed.
The study is published in the journal Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology.
Using samples of spinal fluid from 38 patients, researchers looked for a protein molecule called alpha-synuclein using a highly-sensitive technique.
The molecule is found in healthy brains but it is only when the protein sticks together in lumps that it causes problems, making brain cells die or stopping them performing properly.
These sticky clumps are called Lewy bodies and are found in the brains of those with Parkinson's and those of some dementia patients.
In their tests, the Edinburgh researchers correctly identified 19 out of 20 samples from patients with Parkinson's and three samples from people who were thought to be at risk of the condition.
Healthy samples from 15 people were also correctly identified.
Dr Alison Green, from the University of Edinburgh, said the technique had already been used successfully to test for Creutzfeld Jacob Disease (CJD), another degenerative brain condition.
"We hope that with further refinement, our approach will help to improve diagnosis for Parkinson's patients," she said.
She said scientists were interested in whether it could be used to identify people with Parkinson's, or those with a type of dementia caused by Lewy bodies, in the early stages of their illness.
"These people could then be given the opportunity to take part in trials of new medicines that may slow, or stop, the progression of the disease," she said.
She said the technique was not able to pick up other types of dementia such as Alzheimer's disease.
Dr Beckie Port, senior research communications officer at Parkinson's UK, said there was an urgent need for a simple and accurate test, and she called the research "hugely promising".
"Further research is needed to test more samples to see if the results continue to hold true, but this could be a significant development towards a future early diagnostic test for Parkinson's," she said.
The Supreme Court ruling reverses a landmark 2009 Delhi High Court order which had decriminalised homosexual acts.
The court said it was up to parliament to legislate on the issue.
According to Section 377, a 153-year-old colonial-era law, a same-sex relationship is an "unnatural offence" and punishable by a 10-year jail term.
Several political, social and religious groups had petitioned the Supreme Court to have the law reinstated in the wake of the 2009 court ruling.
By Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent
Correspondents say although the law has rarely - if ever - been used to prosecute anyone for consensual sex, it has often been used by the police to harass homosexuals.
Also, in deeply conservative India, homosexuality is a taboo and many people still regard same-sex relationships as illegitimate.
The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi says some politicians have spoken out against the court decision - but many believe it is going to be difficult for them to take on the anti-gay lobby.
"It is up to parliament to legislate on this issue," Justice GS Singhvi, the head of the two-judge Supreme Court bench, said in Wednesday's ruling, which came on his last day before retiring.
By Geeta PandeyBBC News, Delhi
The Supreme Court ruling has come as a huge surprise for activists who have described it as "retrograde" and say this is "a black day" for gay rights in India.
They have campaigned for years for acceptance in India's deeply conservative society and many have vowed to carry on the fight for "their constitutional right".
Nobody expected the Supreme Court, often seen as a last recourse for citizens faced with an unresponsive government, to reverse an order many had hailed as a landmark.
As Justice GS Singhvi announced the order, activists and members of the gay and lesbian community present outside the court began crying and hugging each other.
Some asked if after the court ruling, they had become criminals.
Ruling is 'a huge setback'
"The legislature must consider deleting this provision (Section 377) from law as per the recommendations of the attorney general," he added.
India's Law Minister Kapil Sibal told reporters the government would respect the ruling but did not say whether there were plans to amend the law. Correspondents say any new legislation is unlikely soon - general elections are due next year.
Gay rights activists have described Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling as "disappointing" and said they would approach the court to review its decision.
"Such a decision was totally unexpected from the top court. It is a black day," Arvind Narrain, a lawyer for the Alternative Law Forum gay rights group, told reporters.
"We are very angry about this regressive decision of the court," he said.
"This decision is a body-blow to people's rights to equality, privacy and dignity," G Ananthapadmanabhan of Amnesty International India said in a statement.
"It is hard not to feel let down by this judgement, which has taken India back several years in its commitment to protect basic rights," he added.
However, the ruling has been welcomed by religious groups, particularly leaders of India's Muslim and Christian communities, who had challenged the Delhi High Court order.
"The Supreme Court has upheld the century-old traditions of India, the court is not suppressing any citizen, instead it is understanding the beliefs and values of the large majority of the country," Zafaryab Jilani, member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, told BBC Hindi.
In its 2009 ruling, the Delhi High Court had described Section 377 as discriminatory and said gay sex between consenting adults should not be treated as a crime.
The ruling was widely and visibly welcomed by India's gay community, which said the judgement would help protect them from harassment and persecution.
Tom Field headed the Bees into an early lead, but McGeady levelled with a 20-yard strike, and Callum Robinson tapped in to put the Lilywhites ahead.
McGeady curled in a fine shot for his second before Daryl Horgan slotted in his first Preston goal.
Maxime Colin scored a late consolation for Brentford when his deflected late effort went in off the bar.
The victory ended a run of six successive defeats for Preston against the Bees and maintained their strong run of form at Deepdale, where they have lost just twice in the last 13 Championship matches.
In-form Lasse Vibe was denied a fourth league goal in five matches for the visitors when he hit the post after the break, but Brentford could not recover the deficit and slipped two places to 15th.
Simon Grayson's Preston side remained 11th, but within touching distance of the play-off places, seven points behind sixth-placed Sheffield Wednesday.
Preston manager Simon Grayson:
"Sometimes it doesn't go your way and sometimes you get a day like today where everything you hit is a sweet connection and give the goalkeeper no chances.
"People talked leading up to the game about the record that we've got against Brentford but records are there to be broken. I thought we knew what we had to do.
"We did things better off the ball, with the ball, and ultimately we're delighted to have won the game 4-2 but if you look at the chances, we could have had a few more."
Brentford manager Dean Smith:
"I feel it's one missed because I felt we were well on top for an hour of the game really until they scored the third goal.
"We knew this would be tough but now we've got Reading away and then Sheffield Wednesday the following Tuesday so we'll be on the road a bit.
"We have to make sure that we're better defensively. I was disappointed with our defensive organisation after the third goal. That's what's disappointing and annoying."
Match ends, Preston North End 4, Brentford 2.
Second Half ends, Preston North End 4, Brentford 2.
Foul by Andreas Bjelland (Brentford).
Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Brentford. Sergi Canos tries a through ball, but Jota is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Stevie May (Preston North End) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ben Pearson.
Goal! Preston North End 4, Brentford 2. Maxime Colin (Brentford) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Romaine Sawyers.
Attempt blocked. Sergi Canos (Brentford) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Konstantin Kerschbaumer.
Offside, Preston North End. Paul Huntington tries a through ball, but Jordan Hugill is caught offside.
Substitution, Preston North End. Stevie May replaces Aiden McGeady.
Attempt missed. Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Aiden McGeady with a cross.
Substitution, Preston North End. Daniel Johnson replaces Daryl Horgan.
Offside, Preston North End. Tom Barkhuizen tries a through ball, but Jordan Hugill is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Lasse Vibe (Brentford) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ryan Woods with a cross.
Goal! Preston North End 4, Brentford 1. Daryl Horgan (Preston North End) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ben Pearson following a fast break.
Attempt saved. Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Aiden McGeady with a through ball.
Substitution, Brentford. Konstantin Kerschbaumer replaces Nico Yennaris.
Substitution, Brentford. Romaine Sawyers replaces Josh McEachran.
Goal! Preston North End 3, Brentford 1. Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Ben Pearson with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Sergi Canos (Brentford) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Andreas Bjelland.
Offside, Preston North End. Aiden McGeady tries a through ball, but Greg Cunningham is caught offside.
Lasse Vibe (Brentford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Clarke (Preston North End).
Substitution, Preston North End. Tom Barkhuizen replaces Callum Robinson.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Paul Huntington (Preston North End) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Tom Clarke (Preston North End) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Callum Robinson with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Preston North End. Conceded by Nico Yennaris.
Attempt blocked. Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Alan Browne.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Paul Huntington.
Attempt blocked. Lasse Vibe (Brentford) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nico Yennaris.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Greg Cunningham.
Attempt saved. Jota (Brentford) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ryan Woods.
Hand ball by Jordan Hugill (Preston North End).
Josh McEachran (Brentford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Josh McEachran (Brentford).
Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Greg Cunningham.
Attempt blocked. Sergi Canos (Brentford) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jota.
Substitution, Brentford. Sergi Canos replaces Florian Jozefzoon.
The International Football Association Board, which makes the game's laws, wants experiments to take place and will make a final decision in March.
Football Association chief Martin Glenn said: "I'm happy to be part of that. We are supporters and control the FA Cup."
Scottish FA chief Stewart Regan said: "It's something I'd like to see."
Regan added that his organisation "would certainly discuss" the trials and said any move to involve the Scottish Professional Football League would have to be discussed with league organisers.
The trials would be limited to decisions on goals, red cards, penalties and cases of mistaken identity.
Video would only be used when the referee asked for assistance or when the video assistant was allowed to flag up errors.
Video decisions would be time limited and, unlike rugby, would not be replayed on big screens inside stadiums.
If the trials are successful, video assistants could come in for the 2018-19 season but not in time for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
"This is a great move. The fact people are willing to give it a go," former referee Dermot Gallagher told BBC Radio 5 live.
"We want it to supplement the referees and not replace them. We want it on key decisions - goals, penalties and mistaken identity."
Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink:
"I think it's a big help already in the Premier League [goalline technology]. Any kind of help is welcome. It must not be over done. It should be used only for key situations."
West Brom manager Tony Pulis:
"If they are going to bring it in, I am all for it. I said it from the beginning, managers or clubs should have two calls a game, where they can call things back and look at it.
"I don't think you want it time after time. But if we are talking about bringing video technology closer to the bench and pitch, then we can get two calls in. One in one half and the other in the other half and hopefully that would help."
Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe:
"I don't think it is going to be clear cut. It depends on what areas of the pitch it is look at in. I would be open to it, but it does need to be thought about long and hard."
Everton manager Roberto Martinez:
"We should allow the referees to make their own decisions and manage the game. Clearly if they cannot see an incident that is something they need help with. Mistaken identity for example.
"Those sorts of decisions I always felt video technology could be helpful, but I wouldn't like to take the human error away from the game. Human error is part of football. It is a game of errors and how you react to these errors as a player and a referee should be exactly the same."
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino:
"More technology? I doubt whether it is good for football. The good thing in football is that we can speak after the game a lot about whether it was a red card or yellow card or was it offside or not offside.
I think football needs to keep things important such as the human decision. I think football needs to keep its sense of the past."
William John Brynley Powell, 90, of Abergwesyn, died following a two-vehicle crash on the A483 near Llandovery, Powys, at 15:55 BST on Saturday.
A woman driver was also killed in a crash on the A477 Broadmoor to Redberth road, Pembrokeshire, at 13:40 BST.
Later, a driver died in a collision on the M4 between Bridgend and Pyle.
Mr Powell's family said he was returning home from Llandovery, which he visited twice a week to have lunch and buy freshly baked bread, when the collision happened.
Three other people also injured in the incident were taken to hospital.
Dyfed-Powys Police is appealing for witnesses to the Pembrokeshire crash. Two people in the second vehicle were taken to hospital.
South Wales Police is also appealing for witnesses after the fatal crash on the M4, which happened at about 20:15 BST and involved a silver Toyota Avensis.
A car driver was also taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a collision with a heavy goods vehicle on the A4113 at Knighton, Powys, Dyfed-Powys Police said.
They voted for keeping the UK in the EU single market after Brexit, despite being told to abstain by their party.
Chris Bryant, Ann Clwyd, Stephen Doughty, Susan Elan Jones, Madeleine Moon, Albert Owen and Jo Stevens were amongst 51 Labour MPs who rebelled.
The amendment, put forward by Labour MP Chuka Umunna and also backed by the four Plaid Cymru MPs, was defeated.
Three Labour frontbenchers were sacked for defying the party whip in the vote.
An official Labour amendment to the Queen's Speech, calling for a Brexit deal that would deliver "the exact same benefits" as the single market and customs union, was defeated by 323 to 297.
The minority Conservative government's package of legislation for the next two years later cleared the House of Commons by 323 votes to 309.
The 27-year-old Senegal international was shown a straight red card for a tackle on M'Baye Niang during Hull's 2-0 win over the Hornets on Saturday.
However, Hull, who are two points above the relegation zone with four games to play, made a successful appeal to the Football Association.
It means Niasse will be available for Hull's trip to Southampton on Saturday.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr, regarded - before his retirement - as the world's best pound-for-pound boxer, will fight UFC star Conor McGregor in a light-middleweight boxing contest in Las Vegas on 26 August.
But how and why did the fight come about? Does McGregor have a chance? What impact will it have on the sports? And is it all just a money-making circus?
BBC Sport takes a look at the history and the reaction to the contest.
Why is it happening? Quite simply... money, with both fighters expected to earn up to $100m (£78.5m).
After Mayweather gained a convincing points win over Andre Berto in September 2015, the American, who has won world titles at five weights, said: "My career is over, that's official.
"You've got to know when to hang them up. There's nothing left to prove in the sport of boxing, I just want to spend time with my family."
However, there was growing interest in a fight between Mayweather and McGregor, after the Irish UFC star went on American chat show Conan and said he would "most certainly dismantle" Mayweather.
Talks between the two camps began in May 2016 and McGregor, who has never boxed professionally or as an amateur, was granted a boxing licence in California last November.
After social media insults flew from both sides, including Mayweather calling McGregor a "little punk", the Irishman claimed he had signed a contract for the fight and applied for a Nevada boxing licence, so it could be held in Las Vegas.
However, it was still a shock to both the boxing and UFC worlds when Mayweather, whose nickname is Money, posted a video on social media confirming the fight will happen at the T-Mobile Arena on 26 August.
Leonard Ellerbe, chief executive of Mayweather Promotions, said: "There is not one place I go to with Floyd where he doesn't get asked the question: 'Floyd, are you going to fight Conor McGregor?' All Floyd thinks about is fighting Conor McGregor."
Mayweather, 40, never entertained the idea of the pair meeting in a UFC event, saying "a real man fights standing up". Therefore, a boxing bout was the only outcome.
Bookmakers expect a one-sided contest, with the American as short as 1-12 to win his 50th professional fight, a landmark that would see him overtake legendary boxer Rocky Marciano, who retired after 49 victories.
However, the fight has not been well received by a large number of boxers.
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Mexican Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez, a two-weight world champion whose only loss in 51 fights came against Mayweather in 2013, called it a "circus and a joke", echoing comments from former five-weight world champion Oscar de la Hoya.
"It's hurting the sport of boxing," added Alvarez. "It's a big circus and a joke because when a fighter from boxing gets into MMA (mixed martial arts) or a fighter from MMA gets into boxing it's just a big joke. People don't take it seriously."
Ricky Hatton, the only British boxer to fight Mayweather - losing in the 10th round of their Las Vegas bout in December 2007 - feels the fight should not count on the American's boxing record.
"Conor's the biggest star in UFC and, if he gets whitewashed by Mayweather, which he would, it wouldn't look good on the UFC," Hatton told Boxing News.
BBC Radio 5 live boxing pundit Steve Bunce added: "No disrespect to Conor McGregor, he is a brilliant self-publicist.
"The mixed martial arts people tell me he is fantastic because he is fearless, reckless and that makes him entertaining, but he is a hopeless boxer.
"He is a raw novice. Peter McDonagh, who has lost more times than he has won, is the Irish champion at Conor McGregor's weight, and he would beat McGregor in a 10 or 12-round fight. This will be an absolute mismatch."
McGregor, who at 28 is 12 years younger than Mayweather, has won 21 of his 24 MMA fights, including 18 knockouts, and has received some support from the UFC world.
"He has incredible power, a power that nobody else has - I've never seen anyone hit that hard," said Russia's Artem Lobov, who has sparred with McGregor.
"MMA is so much more demanding on the body - the wrestling, the changing levels, all that takes a lot out of you. Boxing is a breeze for us after MMA.
"If you look at Mayweather's fights, he often likes to get into the clinch, but what is a boxer in a clinch against a wrestler, an MMA fighter? Boxers are absolute novices in the clinch.
"Get a boxer and get him wrestling for a minute or two - the arms get so heavy, filled with blood, they can't even hold them up any more, they can't box."
UFC president Dana White also believes McGregor's style will cause problems for the American.
"Mayweather is 40 years old and he's always had problems with southpaws," said White. "Conor McGregor is 28 and a southpaw. Whenever he hits people, they fall."
American MMA fighter Holly Holm, who ended Ronda Rousey's unbeaten run with a brutal knockout in 2015, thinks McGregor will be able to adapt.
"I'm one of those who believes in being able to cross over," said Holm. "Boxing is a whole different world, but Conor really believes in himself, and he's going to put up a good fight."
White, for one, is in no doubt.
He said: "It's definitely going to be the biggest fight ever in combat sports history and probably going to be the biggest pay day ever. All sides involved are pretty happy with their deals."
The T-Mobile Arena holds 20,000 people, so the fighters will be performing live in front of less than a quarter of the 90,000 people who watched Anthony Joshua's thrilling win over Wladimir Klitschko in their world heavyweight title clash at Wembley Stadium in April.
However, the money will come not only from the live gate, but also through international television distribution, sponsorships, closed circuit and merchandise sales.
When Mayweather fought Filipino Manny Pacquiao in May 2015, the fight attracted a record of 4.4 million American pay-per-view sales, with the event generating more than $500m (£392.7m) in gross worldwide receipts.
Tickets will be in extremely short supply. Only 1,000 of 16,500 tickets were put on general sale for the Mayweather v Pacquiao fight at the MGM Grand - and some were then sold online for as much as £94,000. The rest of the tickets went to fighters, sponsors and promoters.
Such was the demand, hotels and bars charged people to watch the action on big-screen televisions.
Stephen Espinoza, executive vice-president of American television station Showtime Sports, said fans will pay to watch the McGregor-Mayweather fight because of the novelty.
"The sky is the limit," he said. "There is nothing to compare it against. No-one has seen this type of competition in the ring.
"We're not only drawing fans from the universe of boxing fans and the universe of MMA fans. We've actually tapped into the audience that really doesn't follow either sport."
Sort of. On two high-profile occasions, boxers have tried their luck in the UFC octagon, with one winning and one losing.
Most recently, in August 2010, James Toney - a three-weight boxing champion who had no MMA experience - took on Randy Couture. It did not last long.
Within a minute, Couture had produced a single-leg takedown. He then fired a series of unanswered lefts and rights to Toney's head before the fight was stopped.
The other time the worlds of MMA and boxing collided was in June 2009, when boxer Ray Mercer took on former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia.
Again, it did not last long - nine seconds in fact.
Mercer, who had fought Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko, caught Sylvia with a crushing right hook with the first punch of the contest, knocking out his opponent.
In 1976, Muhammad Ali took part in a 15-round exhibition contest with Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki. The bout - a mix of boxing and wrestling that had little to do with serious sport - ended in a draw.
Mike Costello, BBC Radio 5 live boxing correspondent
One of boxing's all-time greats will take on a man who hasn't had a single professional boxing contest and it'll become one of the most talked-about sporting events of 2017.
Mayweather is coming out of retirement at the age of 40 for a fight some have dismissed as a farce and a mismatch. McGregor is 12 years younger and the biggest draw in UFC, the most successful and popular brand in mixed martial arts. Insults have been traded for two years - when they first started, nobody believed for a moment this fight would happen.
They both draw huge audiences on pay-per-view TV and the showdown is likely to generate tens of millions of dollars for each man.
It's likely to be televised in the United States by Showtime, a cable network and one of the biggest investors in boxing in recent years. Executives there are saying their digital traffic in the past few weeks is leading them to believe this will be nothing short of a monster event and it's been built by the hype generated by these two masters of the art of hype.
Simon Head, MMA reporter
To the uninitiated, Conor McGregor may come across as a brash, overconfident braggart, but a glance at his record tells a completely different story. Underneath the larger-than-life exterior lies a fierce, dedicated competitor who has more often than not backed up his pre-fight talk with big-time performances in the UFC octagon.
He successfully predicted his stoppage wins over Chad Mendes, Jose Aldo and Eddie Alvarez in successive UFC title fights. Now he's predicting he'll topple the most skilled boxer in this - or perhaps any - generation. Even by Mystic Mac's own standards, this one is a big ask.
The contest itself pitches a combat sport specialist (Mayweather) against a man blessed with one of the most comprehensive skillsets in combat sports (McGregor). The equivalent of a 100m sprinter against a decathlete, if you like. But in those terms, this fight is the 100m. Only a fraction of McGregor's formidable fighting arsenal will be in play here, and that tips the scales significantly in Mayweather's favour.
As well as the skills gap in pure boxing terms, there's also the issue of prep time. Conor has the dedication, the intelligence and the belief to walk into the T-Mobile Arena on August 26 as prepared as he possibly can be. But this is the equivalent of writing a PhD thesis without taking the course first. A passing grade is surely just making it to the scorecards, or even just looking competitive.
But that won't be enough for McGregor, whose ability to deliver on the big stage is right up there with the best you'll find anywhere in sport. The archetypal man for the big occasion, McGregor performs best when the lights shine brightest.
Mayweather is rightly the unbackable favourite, but McGregor certainly isn't a toothless opponent. Make no mistake, he has the power to trouble Floyd, especially with his left hand. But to hurt Floyd, Conor will have to land clean. In theory, he has 36 minutes to find Mayweather's chin. If he does, we'll see one of the biggest shocks in sporting history.
But it wouldn't be a shock to him. He's already predicted it. And he means it, too.
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The Scot won gold in the omnium in Hong Kong earlier this year, after landing the individual spot because defending champion Laura Kenny was pregnant.
However, the 23-year-old admits she is not guaranteed further chances to compete on her own.
"It was pretty huge and I'm hoping to build on that," she told BBC Scotland.
"I've had a good season in terms of national titles.
"But it's an incredibly strong team that we have in Great Britain and that's what makes us so fantastic really, because it's not just a case of we're good together, we're all rivals with each other as well."
The rivalry between members of the Great Britain cycling squad spurs each individual on, but there is also a strong sense of unity.
Although Kenny's absence at the World Championships presented Archibald with an opportunity that she took full advantage of, the Scot is keen to see Kenny return to the squad.
The pair won Olympic gold together last year in the team pursuit in Rio, alongside Joanna Rowsell-Shand and Elinor Barker.
"There are some exciting discussions as to how quickly she'll come back and be competing at world level," Archibald said of Kenny.
"I know she's been training all the way through (her pregnancy), and I look forward to having her back on her A game."
Whether Archibald gets to defend her omnium title at next year's World Championships will become clearer in time because right now she admits she is not sure how the British squad will shape up.
This is largely due to a new team event being added to the Olympics cycling programme. The madison is a discipline Archibald enjoys competing in, having won gold with Manon Lloyd of Wales when the event made its debut for women at the World Cup in Glasgow in 2016.
"It's seen as a new medal chance for GB," Archibald said. "So for us that's now three medal targets that we're looking at.
"That means we're still not totally certain of what the squad formation will look like. Do you have team pursuit riders targeting madison as well? Do you have an exclusive omnium rider? So it's added a new dynamic to the team."
Away from her GB commitments, Archibald is relishing the prospect of competing for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast in April, which she describes as "big a priority as competing for Britain".
And after collecting a bronze at Glasgow 2014, she's targeting winning more medals for Scotland.
"The Glasgow Commonwealth games were the first major international event that I had," she recalls.
"I said years in advance I wanted to be there and it was every bit as special as I expected it to be.
"It always feels cool to pull on a Scotland jersey and represent your country. The best way to do is to get on the podium and that what I want to do."
The 21-year-old Dublin-born full-back joined Reading from Irish side Cherry Orchard in 2012 and made his Royals debut two years later.
The Republic of Ireland Under-21 international has loan experience at Luton Town, Braintree and Cambridge.
Reading have granted Long permission to play for Lincoln in Saturday's FA Cup third-round tie at Ipswich Town.
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The latest images are both the most highly resolved and the best colour views that we have seen so far.
The US space agency mission is in the process of downlinking all the data it gathered during its historic flyby of Pluto on 14 July.
It is expected to take well into 2016 to get every bit of information back.
The slow drip feed is a consequence of the vast distance to New Horizons, which continues to push ever deeper into the outer Solar System.
The probe has already gone 100 million km beyond the dwarf planet since the flyby, putting it some five billion km from Earth.
But as slow as the data is in coming back, the scientists could not be more thrilled with its quality.
The latest example - of Charon - is no exception.
Researchers feared this object, which is half the diameter of Pluto at 1,214km wide, might be quite dull compared with Pluto.
Instead, they see some fascinating and diverse surface features: craters, mountains, battered and crumpled northern highlands, and smooth, rolling southern lowlands.
What particularly catches the eye is the vast system of fractures and canyons stretching around Charon's middle.
It is evidence, the New Horizons team says, of a colossal geological upheaval in the moon's past.
"It looks like the entire crust of Charon has been split open," said John Spencer, a senior scientist on the mission from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
"With respect to its size relative to Charon, this feature is much like the vast Valles Marineris canyon system on Mars."
Researchers have done a count of craters and find the smooth southern plains, which have been dubbed Vulcan Planum, to have fewer large impact sites, indicating their relative youthfulness. The smoothness of Vulcan Planum is itself a clear sign of wide-scale resurfacing, they say.
The team is toying with the idea that a kind of cold volcanic activity, called cryovolcanism, may have been responsible
"The team is discussing the possibility that an internal water ocean could have frozen long ago, and the resulting volume change could have led to Charon cracking open, allowing water-based lavas to reach the surface at that time," Paul Schenk, from the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, said in a Nasa statement.
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Germany attacking midfielder Gotze had not played since being ruled out earlier this year for an indefinite time period because of "metabolic disturbances", but impressed as he played for just over an hour.
The 25-year-old made an early impact, teeing up American teenager Christian Pulisic who fired in from the edge of the box.
"I'm feeling well again, but I am a long way off being 100 percent again," said Gotze. "I have to train hard. There is still a lot of work to do."
Dortmund, without France winger Ousmane Dembele amid interest from Barcelona, doubled their lead when centre-back Marc Bartra popped up on the left edge of Wolfsburg's penalty area, beautifully bending into the far top corner.
Eighteen-year-old Pulisic, who has been linked with a move to Liverpool, turned provider after the break when he drilled across the home goal for striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to convert at the far post.
It was the perfect start for new manager Peter Bosz, who left Ajax to replace Thomas Tuchel earlier this summer.
"It was obvious that Mario Gotze is an extraordinary player and will be very important for us," said Bosz.
"However, we must also be patient and I was glad he had collected a few minutes and did not hurt himself."
Elsewhere, Hamburg striker Nicolai Muller scored the winner in a 1-0 victory over Augsburg - but was then substituted after injuring himself when he tripped over the corner flag while celebrating.
Australia winger Mathew Leckie scored both goals on his Hertha Berlin debut as they won 2-0 against newly-promoted Stuttgart, while former Leicester striker Andrej Kramaric netted the decisive goal in Hoffenheim's 1-0 home win over Werder Bremen.
Hannover, who were promoted alongside Stuttgart last season, marked their top-flight return with a 1-0 win at Mainz.
Match ends, VfL Wolfsburg 0, Borussia Dortmund 3.
Second Half ends, VfL Wolfsburg 0, Borussia Dortmund 3.
Offside, VfL Wolfsburg. Robin Knoche tries a through ball, but Maximilian Arnold is caught offside.
Hand ball by Shinji Kagawa (Borussia Dortmund).
Nuri Sahin (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Maximilian Arnold (VfL Wolfsburg).
Sokratis (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Maximilian Arnold (VfL Wolfsburg).
Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. Shinji Kagawa replaces Christian Pulisic.
Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by Paul Verhaegh.
Corner, VfL Wolfsburg. Conceded by Lukasz Piszczek.
Attempt missed. Josuha Guilavogui (VfL Wolfsburg) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, VfL Wolfsburg. Conceded by Marc Bartra.
Attempt blocked. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Gonzalo Castro.
Offside, VfL Wolfsburg. Yannick Gerhardt tries a through ball, but Maximilian Arnold is caught offside.
Gonzalo Castro (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ignacio Camacho (VfL Wolfsburg).
Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. Felix Passlack replaces Dan-Axel Zagadou because of an injury.
Foul by Lukasz Piszczek (Borussia Dortmund).
Landry Dimata (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund).
Felix Uduokhai (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by Felix Uduokhai.
Substitution, VfL Wolfsburg. Maximilian Arnold replaces Daniel Didavi.
Offside, VfL Wolfsburg. Daniel Didavi tries a through ball, but Josuha Guilavogui is caught offside.
Foul by Nuri Sahin (Borussia Dortmund).
Daniel Didavi (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Offside, VfL Wolfsburg. Daniel Didavi tries a through ball, but Mario Gomez is caught offside.
Foul by Nuri Sahin (Borussia Dortmund).
Felix Uduokhai (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Marc Bartra (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mario Gomez (VfL Wolfsburg).
Attempt blocked. Maximilian Philipp (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from long range on the left is blocked. Assisted by Dan-Axel Zagadou.
Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. Mahmoud Dahoud replaces Mario Götze.
Goal! VfL Wolfsburg 0, Borussia Dortmund 3. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Christian Pulisic.
Substitution, VfL Wolfsburg. Josuha Guilavogui replaces Riechedly Bazoer.
Offside, VfL Wolfsburg. Yannick Gerhardt tries a through ball, but Robin Knoche is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Riechedly Bazoer (VfL Wolfsburg) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Lukasz Piszczek (Borussia Dortmund).
Landry Dimata (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick on the left wing.
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It calculated that this represented an increase of 22% from the previous year.
The research indicated that more than half of work in this area resulted from overseas activity.
The study covered companies which do not extract oil and gas but support those which do.
Scottish Enterprise found steady growth in the importance of international contracts. These had risen from 31% of sales in 2002 to 50.2% in 2013.
The figures were revealed at the Offshore Technology Conference at Houston, Texas.
Scottish Enterprise Head of Oil and Gas David Rennie said: "Scotland has built up a global reputation in oil and gas expertise over the past 40 years, and these latest results clearly indicate that our skills and expertise remain in growing demand across the globe.
"Helping our supply chain to develop opportunities in new markets is a key focus of Scotland's industry-led oil and gas strategy, and our attendance at OTC this week is a further opportunity for us to showcase our strengths in this sector to the global marketplace."
Detailed findings in the research included:
Energy minister Fergus Ewing said: "Scotland is leading the way in the world of oil and gas and has a clear competitive advantage in this truly global industry.
"There are huge opportunities open to us internationally and we are determined to make the most of them."
Jamie Mines was injured at the Kendrick Industrial Estate in Swindon just before Christmas.
The 33-year-old was treated at Southmead Hospital in Bristol following the accident and returned home in June.
However, a surgical wound on his left foot became severely infected and doctors called him back to amputate it.
Mr Mines said: "It feels so much better now I won't be carrying around an aching, dead piece of meat which was my left foot anymore."
He is recovering at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford.
Following the accident, Mr Mines was placed in an induced coma and missed his first Christmas with his five-month-old twins Isabella and Savannah.
A fund to help the semi-professional football player, who hails from Frome but now lives in Swindon, raised £144,000.
Mr Mines said: "It's been so nice to hear of all the amazing support."
The Health and Safety Executive is investigating the accident.
Currently one in 4 children in Wales are overweight or obese when they start school.
The 10 Steps to a Healthy Weight outlines positive actions to help prevent the problem.
Public Health Wales said it wants every child who is born in Wales to get to their fifth birthday at a healthy weight.
The advice focuses on three age ranges - pre conception and pregnancy, 0-2 years and 2-5 years.
It is designed to support professionals and help families across Wales to prevent the growing problem of childhood obesity.
Those who start school with weight problems are more likely to be overweight as a teenager and as an adult, which brings with it a raft of further health complications like asthma, low self esteem and diabetes.
Julie Bishop, director of health improvement at Public Health Wales, said: "Obesity is an important health issue for Wales and tackling this at an early age can have a significant impact.
"We know that obesity is an issue that requires action from across Welsh life.
"There is a role for all agencies, organisations, communities, businesses and of course families to taking action."
The 10 Steps include recommendations like prospective parents getting to a healthy weight before starting a family, giving under fives the chance to play outside every day and limiting their screen time.
Emergency services were called to an address in Westhill in the early hours of Monday after receiving a 999 call.
The men, all in their 20s, were thought to have taken an "unknown substance".
They were taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary as a precaution but were later released.
In a letter, David Shattock, Steve Pilkington and Colin Port said leaders should be "inspiring not an embarrassment" and change was needed.
Mr Gargan, who was appointed in January 2013, was found guilty of eight misconduct charges last month.
The 48-year-old is back at work but has temporarily been moved from the force.
He was suspended in May 2014 amid allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards female staff and breaches of data protection legislation.
Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens has said details cannot yet be made public about the misconduct charges. He was cleared of gross misconduct.
Mr Gargan is due to face a sanction hearing with the commissioner, who has the power to sack chief constables, on 19 August.
She said the independent panel that found Mr Gargan guilty on eight counts had recommended "a sanction of eight final written warnings". He is officially still chief constable but is temporarily doing work for the National Police Chief's Council.
But in a letter to Ms Mountstevens, Mr Shattock, Mr Pilkington and Mr Port said there had been "incredulity" that Mr Gargan "can continue to hold his position" and those they had heard from within the force "do not welcome the return of the chief constable with any degree of confidence or enthusiasm".
"It is incomprehensible to us that a chief constable with such a large number of substantiated misconduct findings on his record could be respected as a leader and maintain the morale of the force," they said.
"It is our professional view that confidence cannot be restored without a change of chief constable."
In a statement, Ms Mountstevens said she had read the letter and was taking their "concerns - very seriously" but there was a "process to follow".
"The report is 90 pages long and I am considering the panel's views and recommendations thoroughly ahead of the sanction hearing," she said.
"It could be potentially highly prejudicial to the outcome, if I comment further before the misconduct process is finalised."
Last month, the local branch of the Police Federation expressed a lack of confidence in Mr Gargan and urged the commissioner to "show leadership" on the issue.
Mr Gargan said at the time he understood people had questions and said he would address these.
He added he was "very much looking forward to returning to work" and "beginning the process of rebuilding confidence in the force".
Jamie King offered to walk the girl home before the attack in Aberdeen in October 2013.
King, who was aged 17 at the time, then grabbed hold of the girl and took her bag and mobile phone before raping her.
He had denied the charges but was found guilty by a jury at the High Court in Edinburgh.
The court head the incident happened at Queen Street and the rear of a shop at Great Northern Road.
After King was found guilty, a judge told him he had been convicted of "an extremely serious sexual offence".
Paul Arthurson QC said that given the nature of the offending King, now 20, should prepare himself for "a very substantial custodial sentence" on his return to court.
King was also convicted of stealing the mobile phone, bag and its contents during the incident.
He was acquitted of assaulting and raping a second 14-year-old girl, who was also intoxicated with alcohol, on 4 January 2013 in Aberdeen on a not proven verdict.
King, from Aberdeen, was placed on the sex offenders register. He will be sentenced at a later date.
Seven-month-old lurcher Logan fell 25ft (7.6m) into the brick-lined pit when he was out for a walk with his owners at lunchtime.
Nearby residents tried to get him out of the pit, in Lime Kiln Woods, Wellington, Shropshire, with a ladder but with no luck.
Eventually firefighter Chris Lockett was winched in to rescued the pup, who was fortunately unhurt.
Owner Mike Braddock, 54, said he thought Logan must have been distracted by a squirrel or a bird when he fell into the kiln.
"He knows the paths so he must have been distracted.
"There's a lot of leaves at the bottom and because he is so young he is quite supple, which is why we think he wasn't hurt. But we were worried he would become distressed at not being able to get out."
The family have only owned Logan, a rescue dog, for two months.
"He's fine now, he's had a big bowl of food and is fast asleep. But, seeing the depth of which he fell, we were quite worried at the time," Mr Braddock said.
"The fire service was fantastic and the chap who rescued him was a big dog lover himself."
On Friday, investor demand led the stock to make its debut at $92.70, more than 38% above its $68 initial price.
Alibaba's bankers then chose to buy additional shares, reports say.
That means the firm has surpassed the record $22.1bn China's Agricultural Bank raised in 2010.
At the end of trading on Friday, Alibaba had smashed several records - with trading volume in the first minutes beating that of Twitter's stock sale - but there was still some speculation about the overall size of the share sale.
Alibaba is now worth more $223bn - more than Facebook, Amazon and eBay.
As part of the terms of its stock offering, Alibaba's bankers were entitled to buy an additional 48 million shares, in addition to what had been offered to outside investors.
Most analysts indicated that if Alibaba's shares had fallen below the initial price, the bankers would probably choose not to purchase additional shares.
However, after Alibaba's shares debuted at $92.70 on Friday - significantly above their initial offering price of $68 - that turned out not to be the case.
In early US trading on Monday Alibaba's shares were down 4% at $90.04.
The former England opener's Storm side beat Lancashire Thunder by four wickets in their debut in the league on Sunday.
"The girls are involved in something that has been a landmark tournament," she told BBC Radio Bristol.
"The league have done a really good job of spreading out the talent, and have ensured it is an open competition."
Western Storm's next Women's Super League match is away at Loughborough Lightning on Friday.
"Everyone is really excited. Every team will go into this wanting to win," Foster added.
Each team in the T20-format event boasts three senior England internationals and three players from overseas.
The remaining squad members are made up of players from the respective counties and England's youth set up.
Foster explained: "While we are training we have got younger and older players mixing and sharing knowledge."
Western Storm's Georgia Hennessy, 19, is one of the youth players drafted into the league.
"When the teams were released, to see some of the players that were in the squad, it's crazy," Hennessy told BBC Sport.
"Every side is really strong, so we have got to take each day as it comes, train hard, and then hopefully we will show what we have got."
Gold medallists Callum Skinner, Katie Archibald, Heather Stanning and Andy Murray were perhaps the headline-grabbers. But across the 48 Scottish competitors - the largest in a British team at an overseas Olympics - there were many distinguished performers.
The British team return home with a total of 67 medals, their best result since the First World War, and bettered only by the London Games of 1908 when there were far fewer nations competing and sport was not as fiercely competitive.
In the history of the modern Games, stretching back to 1896, Scottish athletes have never enjoyed more medal success. Four years ago in London, 13 medals were won. That tally was matched here in Rio.
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In the midst of the heroics there were some disappointing moments for the Scots.
On the very first day in the pool, Inverurie's Hannah Miley was just an inch or two shy of her first Olympic medal but had to settle for 4th in the 400m individual medley.
That hated fourth spot - from where you can see and touch the Olympic podium but just aren't allowed on - was also reserved for fencer Richard Kruse, despite some excellent wins in the individual foil on the way to the bronze medal contest.
Alongside those two fourth places, there were some bigger disappointments. Commonwealth 200m breaststroke champion Ross Murdoch failed to make the final of the shorter 100m event.
The Rio Olympics were over in less than half a day for Linlithgow's Colin Fleming as he and English doubles partner Dom Inglot lost in the first round of the tennis on the very first morning. Jamie Murray's Games were over after round one after he and brother Andy lost in the doubles. Andy would have a chance to redeem himself in the singles. Jamie would not.
One medal. Four Scottish silver medallists. The 4x200m freestyle relay was entirely made up of Scots in the heats. World relay champion Robbie Renwick was the unlucky one asked to drop out to accommodate world individual champion James Guy - a decision fully vindicated by his world-class swim in the final. A sensational silver was secured with Duncan Scott, Dan Wallace and Stephen Milne building Guy a Scottish platform from which to claim the prize.
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Judoka Sally Conway, part of the national set-up at Ratho for a decade, kept the Scottish momentum going for Team GB. There wasn't a broader, more infectious smile in the whole of Brazil than when she claimed bronze in the under-70kg category.
Katherine Grainger's smile was pretty big too. Written off by some in the build-up to these Games, she and partner Vicky Thornley produced their best performance together at just the right time to land a silver in the double sculls, and promote Grainger, 40, to the mantle of Britain's most decorated female Olympian.
Also on the water, canoeist David Florence. Disappointed with his individual efforts in the C1 final, made up for it with another silver in the canoe double with Richard Hounslow, matching their achievement in London four years ago.
Callum Skinner has a lot to live up to. He learned track cycling in the same Meadowbank velodrome as Sir Chris Hoy, and was even helped and mentored by the great man. Now Skinner occupies the 'Hoy seat' as the anchor-man for the British sprint relay team, and quite happily did a 'Hoy' by bringing them home for gold in a thrilling final against New Zealand.
Mark Bennett and Mark Robertson both played in the inaugural rugby sevens competition, helping Team GB to a wonderful silver medal behind the irrepressible Fijians.
Rower Heather Stanning, with English partner Helen Glover, kept intact an incredible five-year unbeaten run to successfully defend the women's pair gold they won so memorably in London four years ago.
How appropriate then that medal number eight came from rowing's women's eight, ably assisted by Edinburgh's Polly Swann and Karen Bennett.
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Who would get the record-breaking medal, making this the most successful overseas Olympics for Scottish athletes? And what colour would it be?
Fittingly, it was gold.
Unsurprisingly, it came in the velodrome, where Scots and Brits are next to unbeatable.
Katie Archibald helped Laura Trott and the rest of the women's pursuit team to the top of the Olympic podium, and thereby created a little piece of sporting history.
Nine medals for Scottish athletes at an overseas Games.
When Duncan Scott anchored the men's 4x100m medley relay team home to a silver medal that night, we were in completely uncharted territory. Double figures - 10 medals for Scottish athletes in Team GB at an Olympics on foreign soil.
Skinner's GB teammate Jason Kenny went head to head for gold in the individual sprint, with the Edinburgh man coming up just short. A gold and a silver in his first Olympics though - not too shabby.
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Which left centre stage, and centre court, clear for Andy Murray. The Team GB flagbearer was desperately keen to lead by example.
He didn't disappoint.
A more dramatic, pulsating, mesmeric match you will struggle to see as Murray and Juan Martin del Potro slugged it out long into the Rio night. A four-hour, four-set epic.
Gold retained, history made. Andy Murray is the only player to have won two Olympic singles titles.
Despite the best efforts of Luke Patience and Charlotte Dobson at the sailing, and various athletes in track and field, no more medals were added to the Scottish tally until the very last night of athletics.
Laura Muir and Lynsey Sharp reached Olympic finals, as did, even more commendably, Dunblane's Andy Butchart, a fabulous sixth in the 5,000m behind winner Mo Farah. For Liz McColgan's daughter Eilish, an Olympic 5,000m final too, an achievement given sharp focus by the fact that, as recently as Christmas, she could barely even walk after having seven screws and a plate inserted in her foot to help her injured ankle heal.
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There was disappointment for Eilidh Doyle with an eighth place finish in the 400m hurdles; but she made up for it in the 4x400m relay, running the lead leg before Christine Ohuruogu anchored Britain to a famous bronze.
Doyle is the first Scottish athlete in 28 years to bring home an Olympic track and field medal.
Not a bad way to finish.
Mr Ó Muilleoir confirmed the news in a statement on Thursday.
He said he had received legal advice over the issue and would make a full statement to the Assembly next week.
DUP leader Arlene Foster welcomed, what she said was, Sinn Féin's "change of heart" over the inquiry issue.
Máirtín Ó Muilleoir said: "It is clear that, with time short until the Assembly dissolves, the only way to serve the public interest is for me as Finance Minister to move to institute a public inquiry immediately,"
"No other type of investigation is now feasible given time pressures.
"I have now instructed officials to take the necessary steps to establish a public enquiry under the Enquiries Act 2005 into the RHI scheme.
"I have received legal advice in regard to these matters."
Mr Ó Muilleoir added: "This inquiry will be impartial and objective. I will not interfere in its work. It will be tasked to get to the truth of this issue.
"I call on all parties to sign up to unrestricted, unedited publication.
"I am aware that the RHI issue goes beyond financial matters to questions of governance and probity.
"By getting to the truth of the RHI scandal, this enquiry report will, I believe, address those wider issues, and, therefore, put the public first."
Mrs Foster said a public inquiry had been something she had been wanting for some time and was pleased it was finally going ahead.
"Finally we will get some due process in and around these matters and we will get to the truth of what happened in relation to RHI scheme," she said.
"I have always said, and it was confirmed yesterday in the committee, that I have absolutely nothing to hide and so I look forward to the inquiry reporting.
"It would have been better if the inquiry had completed before any election, however we are where we are."
Sinn Féin has been accused of flip-flopping on whether RHI should be subject to a full public inquiry or an independent investigation.
Ulster Unionist Finance spokesperson Philip Smith MLA said: "What on earth is Sinn Fein's game here?
"One minute they are producing their own terms of reference for an independent inquiry. Then they are lambasting others for suggesting the Inquiries Act be used.
"Earlier today Declan Kearney was insisting they would not trigger an inquiry. Yet this afternoon they have totally turned on their heels."
SDLP MLA Nichola Mallon welcomed the move to hold a public inquiry.
"Over the last 30 days of dithering alone, £2.5m of public money has been lost to the RHI black hole by Executive parties resisting the highest standard of accountability on this issue," she said.
"The finance minister must now take the advice of the Lord Chief Justice to appoint a respected judicial figure to oversee this inquiry and give the inquiry full authority to publish their report independently from his office or department. There must be no suspicion of interference."
TUV leader Jim Allister said Sinn Féin had "tied themselves in knots several times" about whether or not there should be a public inquiry into RHI scandal.
"The finance minister's move onto the ground occupied by other parties weeks ago reeks of political opportunism on the mouth of the election," he said.
"Like the DUP, Sinn Féin are clearly slow learners when it comes to this issue. The right terms of reference for this inquiry are crucial."
The Ivorian, 36, won 10 trophies at Chelsea from 2004 to 2012 and was a free agent after leaving Galatasaray.
Manager Jose Mourinho had earlier said the forward "belongs" at Stamford Bridge - but that any deal would be made "in a non-emotional way".
Drogba told Chelsea's official site: "It was an easy decision - I couldn't turn down the opportunity to work with Jose again."
He said: "Everyone knows the special relationship I have with this club and it has always felt like home to me.
"My desire to win is still the same and I look forward to the opportunity to help this team. I am excited for this next chapter of my career."
Mourinho said: "He's coming because he's one of the best strikers in Europe.
"I know his personality very well and I know if he comes back he's not protected by history or what he's done for this club previously. He is coming with the mentality to make more history."
Drogba, who joined Chelsea from Marseille for £24m in July 2004, won three Premier League titles, four FA Cups, two League Cups and a Champions League during his spell at Stamford Bridge.
He left the club in 2012 after scoring the winning penalty in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich.
After a brief spell at Chinese Super League side Shanghai Shenhua, Drogba joined Galatasaray in January 2013 and scored five goals in 13 league games as the Turkish club won the title.
The following season, the striker netted 10 times in 32 games as Galatasaray reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League - where they lost to Chelsea - and finished as runners-up to Fenerbahce in the Turkish league.
The Ivory Coast international was voted Chelsea's greatest ever player in a poll of fans in 2012 and has spoken of his close ties to the Blues.
His 34 goals for Chelsea in European competition remains a club record, as do his nine strikes in nine cup finals.
Mourinho had previously said: "If you bring him back it is not because he is Didier or scored the most important goal in the history of Chelsea, or because I read I need an assistant, no.
"We want to win matches and win titles and Didier is one of the best strikers in Europe. He is still very adapted to the needs of the Premier League and we are thinking about it in a non-emotional way."
Mourinho also intimated that Drogba, who made one start and two substitute appearances during the Ivory Coast's three games at the 2014 World Cup, would be a squad player.
He joins Fernando Torres, new signing Diego Costa, as well as Romelu Lukaku and Victor Moses, who both spent last season out on loan, as striking options at Stamford Bridge.
The service will take place at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle on 12 June, two days after his birthday.
Prince Philip, who is the longest-serving royal consort in British history, was born on 10 June 1921.
A special page has also been set up on the British Monarchy website.
On 12 June, the service will be followed by a reception for the guests in the state rooms at Windsor Castle.
On the duke's birthday itself, it will be business as usual for the royal, with two engagements planned.
In the afternoon, in his role as patron of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People, he will hold a reception to mark its centenary.
In the evening, in his capacity as Senior Colonel, Household Division, he will chair the Senior Colonels' Conference and hold a dinner.
Last November, Buckingham Palace announced the duke would step down as president or patron of more than a dozen organisations when he turns 90 to reduce his commitments because of his age.
They include his chancellorships of the University of Edinburgh, held since 1952, and the University of Cambridge, held since 1976. He will also relinquish his patronage of UK Athletics, held since 1952.
He will remain involved with more than 800 organisations.
The special page dedicated to Prince Philip's birthday lists other charities and organisations - including the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme which he launched in 1956 - which the duke is involved with.
It also includes a collection of photographs chronicling his life as the Queen's consort.
One black-and-white image shows the duke and the monarch as parents with their first two children, the Prince of Wales and Princess Royal.
As a young Anne sits on a swing and her older brother Charles stands above her, the duke pushes both of them as the Queen looks on during a holiday at Balmoral in September 1955.
Others pictures include Prince Philip in a group photograph, dated 1944-46, with fellow officers on the warship HMS Whelp, and as a young man at his school Gordonstoun.
There are also 90 facts about Prince Philip - as well as an opportunity for members of the public to send their birthday greetings to the duke.
A report, in the British Medical Journal, highlights an "extremely rapid" rise in pre-diabetes since 2003.
The authors predict a surge in type-2 diabetes in the coming years, with consequences for life expectancy and disability.
The charity Diabetes UK said the NHS was already spending one-tenth of its budget on the condition.
People with pre-diabetes have no symptoms of ill health, but their blood sugar levels are at the very high end of the normal range - on the cusp of diabetes.
Between 5% and 10% of people with pre-diabetes go on to develop type-2 diabetes each year, the researchers said.
Their study looked at Health Survey for England data between 2003 and 2011.
In 2003, 11.6% of adults surveyed had pre-diabetes, but the figures trebled to 35.3% by 2011.
Three years ago, 39-year-old Helen Barker from Snaith in East Yorkshire was told she was following her brother and her dad on the path to type-2 diabetes.
"It was through a routine check-up at the doctors, I was told my glucose tolerance was not at the right levels."
She was advised to change her lifestyle and went on to improve her diet, exercise more and initially dropped five stone.
"It worked, to be completely honest I put some weight back on, but I'm in a lot different place now, I was retested and I'm back to normal.
"I don't want to be back in that category, my dad's got so many health problems because of diabetes."
He cannot drive due to damage to his eyes and is about to start kidney dialysis.
Helen said: "There are simple steps to turn things around, if only he'd known 10 years sooner that he could have prevented some of these things."
Prof Richard Baker, one of the report's authors from the University of Leicester, told the BBC: "The level of increased diabetes risk has gone up quite steeply, it has been rising in other countries, but it has leapt up faster in England than in the US - it's a big jump really.
"A lot of people with type-2 diabetes manage their condition very well, but some are unlucky and get severe consequences quickly, it's not a nice disease to have."
Fellow researcher Dr Arch Mainous, from the University of Florida, added: "I think the huge rise was surprising, it was substantial.
"People are going to transition from these high-risk states to diabetes and there will be a lot of implications for people being sick and healthcare costs."
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Prof Baker said the health service had some good things in place, such as health checks for people over the age of 40.
But he argued a broader approach "either more regulation or getting the food industry to compete more on the healthiness of their products" was needed.
Around 3.2 million people in the UK have type-2 diabetes and the charity Diabetes UK estimates that figure will rise to 5 million by 2025.
The condition is linked to risk factors which include being overweight.
Type 2 diabetes develops when the insulin-producing cells in the body are unable to produce enough insulin, or when the insulin that is produced does not work properly.
The charity's chief executive Barbara Young said: "Unless we make people aware of their risk of type-2 diabetes and support them in changing their lifestyles, we could see an even greater increase in the number of people with the condition than we are already expecting.
"A tenth of the NHS budget is already being spent on diabetes and unless we get much better at preventing type-2 diabetes this spending will soon rise to unsustainable levels."
"Up to 80% of cases of type-2 diabetes could be avoided or delayed.
"Programmes such as the NHS Health Check are already doing an important job in assessing people's risk, by measuring weight and waist, as well as looking at family history and ethnicity.
"But at the moment not everyone who is eligible for this check is getting one and we need this to change."
The overcrowded vessel was carrying some 45 people. Police say the boat became unbalanced when too many passengers moved to one side.
Nine bodies have been recovered, and 15 people have been rescued, reports say.
Boat accidents are fairly common on Lake Albert and in other parts of Africa.
Vessels are often packed with too many people and goods, and in a poor state.
Police commander John Rutagira told AFP news agency that most passengers were drunk by the time they embarked on the boat.
The group, from Buliisa District, was on its way to a Christmas day football match in Hoima District, singing songs and blowing trumpets and whistles.
Fishermen have helped authorities on the rescue operation.
In November, 10 people drowned in Lake Albert on the country's western shore.
The bodies of the men, aged 24 and 38 years old, were found at a house in Hillview Park, Newtownabbey, on Friday.
Police said post mortem examinations would be carried out. It's understood the men were related to each other.
Their deaths are not being treated as suspicious.
According to her representative, the Kill Bill star "was training on a young thoroughbred who got spooked. She was thrown and broke a few bones".
Thurman's publicist confirmed the 46-year-old star had been hurt after she was reportedly seen "walking gingerly" into a restaurant on the island.
It is not known exactly when or where the accident occurred.
Boston-born Thurman is known for films including Pulp Fiction, Dangerous Liaisons and My Super Ex-Girlfriend.
The actress has two children with her ex-husband, Ethan Hawke, and a third with financier Arpad Busson, to whom she was once engaged.
Officials linked 19-year-old Hunter Park to some of the threatening posts but did not say how.
The university increased security but said there is no "immediate threat".
Mr Park's arrest comes days after University President Tim Wolfe was forced out, accused of not doing enough to address racism on campus.
Threats mostly came from users of the anonymous messaging app Yik-Yak.
Yik Yak condemned the threatening messages and said in a news release that the company works alongside authorities to help in investigations and it may share information with law enforcement.
Mr Park was not on campus or nearby when posting the message, police said.
He lives in Rolla, Missouri, about 100 miles (161km) south of the Columbia campus and is a student at the Missouri University of Science & Technology, the school confirmed.
"I'm going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see," one anonymous post read on Yik Yak.
Another warned black students simply not to come to campus the next day and another said "we're waiting for you at the parking lots... we will kill you."
Before the suspect was apprehended, protest leaders said the university administrators were not doing enough to address the threats against minority students.
One black student tweeted an email conversation with his professor in which he told the professor he was scared to come to class because of the threats.
"The only way bullies are defeated is by standing up to them ... If we cancel the exam, they win; if we go through with it, they lose," the professor wrote.
In recent weeks, students staged a sit-in on a university plaza and one graduate student participated in a hunger strike, calling for Mr Wolfe's resignation.
Among the offences black students have complained about are that a swastika drawn in faeces was found in a dormitory bathroom and that they are subjected to racial slurs by passerby in cars and on campus.
Mr Wolfe stepped down after the university's American football team joined the cause, threatening not to play until action was taken to address racial issues on the mostly white campus.
Kelly was unseated at the second fence on the horse in March's Cheltenham Gold Cup, leaving her distraught.
But this time they got the better of last year's winner Cue Card for a second Grade One success.
They pulled alongside Cue Card with three to go and showed good strength to win by a neck after an epic battle.
"I just wanted him to run well and confidently and give me what I feel he is capable of," Kelly told BBC Radio 5 live afterwards.
"I thought the others would come back at me in the final stages so I just wanted to keep my momentum.
"I don't think I'm the nation's favourite person having beaten the nation's favourite horse [Cue Card]."
The 23-year-old also admitted that her truncated Gold Cup experience, where she became the first woman since Linda Sheedy in 1984 to ride in the race, had been "character-building".
"I was just so disappointed because there is such a build-up and then, bam, you are out of it," she added.
"But that's racing. Sometimes you have good days and sometimes you have bad days.
"It's difficult to pick yourself up from being that low but I had to get back into the weighing room and things are forgotten quickly and you are on to the next race. You don't get a chance to dwell on it.
"I'm the only jockey to have ridden Tea for Two in a race so to see him running around Cheltenham without me was unnerving.
"When we got home, he was very subdued and I think it has done him the world of good because he has learned if he doesn't listen to me, things will go wrong."
Kelly shot to fame when she became the first female jockey to win a Grade One jumps race in Britain when she guided Tea for Two - part-owned by her mother Jane and trained by her stepfather Nick Williams - to victory in the Kauto Star Novice Chase at Kempton in December 2015.
"This [the Betway Bowl] means more than winning the Grade One at Kempton on him," she added. "I didn't really appreciate that at the time, but this is special."
Kelly's mother Jane, who does much of the work with the horse, told BBC Radio 5 live that Thursday's race had been an anxious experience.
"I spent three-quarters of the race in the car park trying to hide," she said.
"We had such disappointment at Cheltenham. It's hard when you expect a big run, to come crashing down at the second.
"We scraped ourselves off the floor that day. The horse has been doing a lot of dressage and has been very well."
Of the beaten horses, Cue Card's assistant trainer Joe Tizzard said the horse, who is now 11, will continue in training next year but Paul Nicholls's veteran campaigner Silviniaco Conti who finished sixth, has been retired.
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This is notable result anyway, with Tea For Two establishing himself amongst jump racing's elite by defeating Cue Card, no less.
But this thrilling finish - they went head to head from the third last of the 19 fences - was also a really good sporting story.
Twenty days after the tide of hype around his jockey being the first female to ride in the Gold Cup in decades came to a grinding halt on the turf at Cheltenham, the popular pair spectacularly re-discovered their mojo. And they also won on a left-handed track for the first time.
Only eight, Tea For Two is a top-flight contender for the future.
Champion Hurdle winner Buveur D'Air looked impressive as he claimed a third Grade One success with victory in the Betway Aintree Hurdle.
Running for the first time over two-and-a-half miles, the 4-9 shot, ridden by Barry Geraghty and trained by Nicky Henderson, beat stable-mate My Tent Or Yours by five lengths.
It was a third Grade One win for the six-year-old who took the lead from The New One at the second-last and powered on to victory.
"He did that really well, he was obviously back in his Cheltenham form and Nicky has done a great job to get him back so soon," said Geraghty, who missed the Cheltenham Festival because of injury.
"He's a very good horse. He's sharp, he's buzzy - he's a proper two-miler really."
After finishing second in their respective races at the Cheltenham Festival, both Fox Norton and Sub Lieutenant will hope to go one better in the Melling Chase (15:25 BST).
The Colin Tizzard-trained Fox Norton was beaten narrowly by Special Tiara in the Queen Mother Champion Chase but steps up in trip for the 2m 4f race while Sub Lieutenant, from the Henry de Bromhead yard, was edged out by Un De Sceaux in the Ryanair Chase.
The pair are part of a field of nine for the race and last year's winner God's Own, who saw his Champion Chase hopes disappear with two bad mistakes, will aim for back-to-back wins for trainer Tom George.
Jockeys will get a final chance to experience the Grand National before Saturday's big race in the Topham Chase (16:05).
Lou Harvey-Smith took son Reuben to Ipswich Hospital in July 2015 after he burned himself. Two days later she took him again, with a fever, and was told he had tonsillitis.
He was later diagnosed with toxic shock syndrome and underwent the amputations.
The trust admitted "full liability" and settlement negotiations are under way.
After he was treated at the hospital for the accidental burn, Reuben developed a fever and sore throat.
Ms Harvey-Smith took him back and was given antibiotics for tonsillitis.
The following day the child was critically ill.
His mother called the burns unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for a second opinion.
Doctors suspected toxic shock, a life-threatening infection which would have been caused by bacteria entering the wound and releasing poisonous toxins into Reuben's blood.
The boy was rushed back to Ipswich Hospital then transferred to St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, where staff carried out the amputations.
Ms Harvey-Smith, 41, from Chelmondiston, near Ipswich, said: "[Reuben] looked at his amputated legs and said 'poorly feet gone, get new ones.'
"He just accepts it and gets on with things."
However, she took legal action against Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust which admitted toxic shock was a "significant possibility" based on the child's symptoms at the time, and amputation could have been avoided with earlier diagnosis and treatment.
Ms Harvey-Smith's solicitor, Tim Deeling, said: "It is extremely concerning they were aware of the link between burns and toxic shock, yet didn't consider this for Reuben's case."
The trust has made an interim payment of £50,000.
A spokesman said: "In an ongoing legal case the trust has admitted full liability for shortcomings in the A&E care provided to Reuben in July 2015 and have offered an unreserved apology."
Further training has been provided to staff in recognising the warning signs of septic shock syndrome, he said.
The trust was "committed to ensuring that Reuben is appropriately compensated so that he has the care, prostheses and equipment that he needs throughout his life", he added.
Harrad and 20-year-old Evans have signed deals until January having spent pre-season training with the National League side.
Ex-Notts County player Harrad was a free agent after finishing the 2015-16 season at Torquay, who were keen to re-sign the 31-year-old.
Evans had been on trial following his release from Championship club Fulham.
The Dragons are also finalising a deal to sign Nottingham Forest striker Gerry McDonagh on a month's loan.
McDonagh, 18, has appeared once for Forest's first team, coming on as a substitute against Cardiff City in August 2015.
Cleveland Police and North Yorkshire Police will launch the Major Investigation Team in November.
Both forces have denied the merger is a cost-cutting measure.
North Yorkshire Assistant Chief Constable Ken McIntosh said it was "about putting in an investment into the teams."
As well as dealing with new crimes the unit will also investigate cold cases and take over ongoing inquiries, such as the hunt for missing York woman Claudia Lawrence.
Mike Stubbs from North Yorkshire's Police Federation, which represents junior police officers, said the merger could help in the initial stages of an investigation by allowing "resources to be put into place more quickly".
However, he added that the federation had concerns over the different crime rates in the two counties.
"We are one of the safest and we have a low crime rate," he said.
"Cleveland can't make that same claim.
"So our concern is that because of the higher demand in Cleveland the resources that North Yorkshire Police are committing to this collaboration may be drawn into investigating crimes in Cleveland not in North Yorkshire."
The forces are also planning to combined their dog units with Durham Constabulary, in an effort to save by £3m over five years.
The city council gave its support to the plan after squatters from the Iffley Open House campaign group repeatedly occupied disused properties.
They included a vacant car showroom, an Oxford University building and a former Italian restaurant.
Campaigner and former councillor Elise Benjamin said the squatters had raised awareness of homelessness in the city.
The council motion said the decision was taken because of the growing number of rough sleepers, and the "significant number of long and short-term vacant buildings in Oxford".
It will now commission a report by September into how empty properties could be made available for use as temporary homeless shelters.
The group, which included about 20 homeless people, had to leave the buildings they occupied after several court orders were granted against them.
Ms Benjamin said: "There was an astonishing public response, so positive, so many many people contributing their time and donations.
"We believe that can continue and with the council supporting us we have an even better chance that there will be that same response again."
On New Year's Eve, the group moved into a car showroom on Iffley Road owned by Wadham College.
They were evicted in February and they occupied Osney Mill, which is owned by Oxford University.
A court order was granted to repossess the property in March, and the group moved to a former Italian restaurant in Summertown, then empty flats above a Sainsbury's in Cowley Road.
The have since left for health and safety reasons and are believed to be staying with friends.
The Met Office said the heaviest of the rain for south Wales will fall on Saturday daytime, with another bout overnight into Sunday.
The rain will push into north Wales later in the day and into Sunday.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has two flood warnings in place.
The warnings covered Pontargothi and Pontynyswen, and Abergwili, in Carmarthenshire. The agency said it expected to issue alerts in north Wales too.
It said the public should anticipate some road closures "as drains struggle to cope".
"NRW is advising people to allow extra time for journeys as driving conditions may be difficult, particularly on roads already busy with Christmas shoppers," they added.
The Met Office forecasters said higher ground in the Brecon Beacons in Powys could see up to 3in of rain, while parts of Snowdonia and north Wales up to 2.4in (60mm).
Areas covered by the yellow alert are: Ceredigion, Gwynedd, Powys, Denbighshire, Carmarthenshire, Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Conwy, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath Port Talbot, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Swansea, Pembrokeshire and Vale of Glamorgan.
The fresh warning follows a sustained period of wet weather across Wales, which has already led to flooding, especially in parts of Snowdonia, the Conwy Valley and Anglesey.
In one incident, farmer Paul Williams was forced to swim in flood water on land near Llanrwst, Conwy, for four hours after 170 sheep were swept away.
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"Inseparable" Chloe Rutherford, 17, and Liam Curry, 19, from South Shields were among 22 victims killed in Monday's suicide bomb attack.
The pair were described as "perfect in every way for each other" by their relatives in a joint family tribute released through police.
"They wanted to be together forever and now they are", it added.
The statement, posted on Facebook, said the couple "lived to go to new places together and explore different cities".
Chloe described herself as "ditzy", her family said, while Liam "would do anything for [her], including dealing with Chloe's demands for chocolate".
Mr Curry's father Andrew died suddenly in March.
The Union flag above the town hall in South Shields is flying at half mast as a mark of respect for the pair and the other 20 victims of Monday's attack.
The leader of South Tyneside Council, Iain Malcolm, said the whole area was "feeling the loss and sharing the pain" with the families of the couple.
He said: "Liam not so long ago undertook a 260 mile cycle ride to Paris for the Bobby Robson Foundation. Chloe was a talented actress who appeared on the stage at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle.
"This was a young couple who were doing nothing but enjoying their life and enjoying each other's company and it's just desperately, desperately sad for South Tyneside and particularly for their families.
"Chloe and Liam had so much to look forward to and were simply enjoying life at a pop concert.
"We are absolutely devastated by the tragic injuries and loss of innocent young lives in such a callous and cowardly attack."
Mr Curry, a former pupil of Gateshead College, was studying for a degree in sport and exercise science at Northumbria University.
The university, college and Mr Curry's former school, St Wilfred's RC college in South Shields, separately paid tribute to him as a conscientious student and a "fine young man".
He was very well liked and would be missed, they said.
Marsden Cricket Club, where Mr Curry was a member, said: "Liam has been part of the club from the age of just six and we have all seen him develop into an incredibly strong and mature young man, supporting his family through the loss of his father Andy earlier this year.
"He was developing into a fine cricketer and coach and was undoubtedly going to be part of our first team for many years to come.
"Chloe, like Liam, was an incredibly strong person. Quiet but not shy, she was a pleasure to be with around the club."
Miss Rutherford's employer, Westoe Travel in South Shields, described her as "part of the family"
A spokesman said: "This is something we will never be able to understand. When you watch these events on television you never expect them to impact on those around you.
"As a small family business, Chloe was part of our family, working part-time as she completed her college studies before starting full-time with us on 26 June to begin her travel apprenticeship.
"We loved her friendly happy personality and she was a great asset and had a great future ahead in the travel industry, which she was really looking forward to.
"Liam would meet her from work and they were a perfect loving couple.
"The families have lost two beautiful young people who were a credit to them and our thoughts and prayers go to both families at this terrible time."
Staff at cancer charity the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, for whom Liam Curry had fundraised, said they were "devastated".
"Liam was an outstanding young man and a great credit to his family," a statement said.
"At 14, he began fundraising for us after his granddad, Jack Allen, was diagnosed with cancer and he proudly completed a Coast to Coast cycle ride.
"Cruelly, his dad, Andrew Curry, was also diagnosed with cancer and died in March this year."
The foundation's statement said Liam had continued to fundraise during his father's illness, doing a 260 mile sponsored cycle ride from Calais to Paris and a Great North Run.
"No words can adequately convey feelings at a time like this," it said.
Northumberland County Council has opened a book of condolence for all victims of the attack.
Much of this work sits in storage in the Tate, in legal limbo, owing to one simple omission.
William's son, John, was found dead at his home in 1995. In the house was a letter from his lawyer encouraging him to make a will. He never did.
With no known blood relatives, John's estate - including hundreds of works by his father - is one of thousands which have landed on the desks of the Bona Vacantia division, part of the Government Legal Department.
It seems likely that no heirs will be found. Under the rules, the art should eventually be sold for the best price and the proceeds handed to the Treasury. The chancellor, George Osborne, might recognise the work - his parents once had a Roberts painting hanging over their fireplace.
Yet, the benefit for taxpayers is likely to be cultural, rather than financial, as the art is on loan to the Tate.
As for more than 15,000 other estates on the Bona Vacantia division's unclaimed estate list, their fate depends on whether anyone can prove they have a genuine inheritance claim.
Step into the 1910 room at Tate Britain in London, and the eighth work of art on the right is The Cinema by William Roberts.
It is the only work by Roberts that is on display in the free galleries of the Tate, but others are on show in galleries around the UK.
The story of his life's work is more accurately told in the unseen Tate collection.
A founder of the Vorticist art movement, he died in 1980 and his wife Sarah died in 1992. Her death led to an inheritance tax bill which was settled when 117 works were eventually allocated to the Tate collection in lieu of the tax.
When their only child John died, friends organised for about 550 of William's works, which had been in John's possession, to be stored at the Tate.
"John and his mother had hoped to set up a house museum [including these works], but they never managed to get the funding," said Michael Mitzman, a consultant at legal firm Mishcon de Reya.
"I nagged him [John] to write a will."
But he did not and 430 of these works form part of the estate which is being overseen by Bona Vacantia.
It will be held for another 10 years - some 30 years after John's death - to give any surviving members of the family the chance to make an inheritance claim.
In this case it is highly unlikely. Mr Mitzman could find no eligible relatives. The BBC's Heir Hunters programme drew a blank when searching for direct descendants.
Enter the William Roberts Society which foresaw the threat of these works being sold and the money ending up in the Treasury coffers.
It argued that the artwork that the Roberts family owned should be kept together for the benefit of the public and students. The government eventually agreed. One minister said the intention was to give this work to the Tate should no relatives come forward.
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Artwork by an English cubist is not the only unusual asset on the books of estates being dealt with by the Bona Vacantia division.
One actor's estate includes royalties still being paid for re-runs of The Benny Hill Show and Hancock's Half Hour. The office was also asked, but declined, to get involved in one case from 1896, with an estate including shillings and a horse.
About 2,000 new unclaimed estates are referred to the division each year.
"The average estate is worth less than £4,000. These are not life-changing sums of money. But they are almost like a little lottery win [for eligible relatives]," says Melanie Hooper, head of the estates group in the Bona Vacantia division.
"Whether the size of the estate is £500 or £500,000 does not matter to us. It is the entitlement, not the amount, that matters."
The little-known Bona Vacantia division has a staff of 50, of whom 18 deal with estates.
Bona Vacantia means vacant goods and is the name given to ownerless property, which by law passes to the Crown.
The Treasury Solicitor acts for the Crown to administer the estates of people who die intestate (without a will) and without known kin (entitled blood relatives) and collect the assets of dissolved companies and other various ownerless goods in England and Wales.
Unclaimed estates are dealt with separately in two areas of England - the Duchy of Cornwall and the Duchy of Lancaster - by lawyers for Prince Charles and the Queen respectively.
In Scotland, unclaimed estates are dealt with by the Office of Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer.
In Northern Ireland, the responsibility for dealing with them is that of the Crown Solicitor for Northern Ireland.
The division handled 4,332 estates in England and Wales in the year to the end of March 2015, accounts show. It collected income of £18.4m, and paid out £6.1m - most of which would have gone to relatives with claims on estates.
In an intriguing twist of law in England, cases in Cornwall and around the North West of England are administered by solicitors for Prince Charles and the Queen. Any funds that remain after an allowance for future claims and costs go to charity.
In the Duchy of Cornwall in 2014-15, some £215,000 was given to the Duke of Cornwall's Benevolent Fund which primarily supports environmental, conservation, wildlife and community projects.
Some £2.47m was given to the Duchy of Lancaster Jubilee Trust to fund charitable causes, particularly the maintenance of historic buildings on Duchy estates. This covers Lancashire, Merseyside, parts of Greater Manchester, parts of Cheshire and parts of Cumbria.
In the vast majority of cases, eligible descendants come forward to claim an estate, so how do they know they have an entitlement?
It used to be the case that estates were advertised in The Times and the local newspaper where the individual was born.
Now unclaimed estates in England and Wales are being added to an online list. This process is expected to be completed in September when it will include all unclaimed estates which have been recently referred, but not yet administered, and historic cases which have not yet been claimed by entitled relatives.
The list in Scotland includes the value of the unclaimed estates.
Relatives ranging from a husband, wife and civil partner to half uncles, aunts and cousins may have an entitlement claim when somebody dies without having made a will.
A touch of detective work by these individuals or solicitors can unearth their eligibility.
Others may receive a call out of the blue from a private genealogist, or heir hunter. This industry has grown from a dozen or so private firms to more than 100 now.
They tend to alert people that they might have a claim, and organise the paperwork involved before taking a cut of any successful payout.
The advantage for customers is that genealogists might have found a link to an estate of somebody whose name they do not recognise. It is their choice whether or not they want to use the private firm's services. They can look at the Bona Vacantia website for information before making a decision.
Various rules are involved in making a claim including:
In England and Wales, the value of an estate is only revealed to a successful claimant. It might only be £500. It might be much more.
Very occasionally, it might it include art worthy of hanging on the walls of the Tate.
Dubbed Splendid, the project aims to persuade youngsters to adopt healthier lifestyles and be more aware of their eating and exercise habits.
It is part of a push to use technology to create preventative healthcare.
Obesity causes an estimated 2.8 million deaths among adults around the world every year.
"The idea is that we try to investigate ways to prevent obesity and eating disorders," said Prof Anastasios Delopoulos, the project co-ordinator who works for the department of electrical and computer engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.
The system will be tested on around 200 secondary school students in Sweden and another set of children in the Netherlands.
Sensors will be used to measure the speed at which food is eaten as well as how food is chewed.
The time taken to consume food is one of the risk factors in obesity, according to Prof Delopoulos.
It will be measured using a mandometer, from Swedish firm AB Mando, which is currently used in a handful of clinics set up to treat eating disorders.
The sensor comprises a scale connected to a portable computer or a smartphone. A plate of food is put on the scale and the rate at which it leaves the plate is recorded, with an audible warning if it is being eaten too quickly for the person to realise they are full.
Swiss firm CSEM is developing the other two sensors that will be used in the project. ActiSmile is a wearable sensor, which rewards the wearer with a smiley face when enough exercise has been done.
The firm is also designing an acoustic sensor, which will take the form of a wearable microphone, and record how the user chews food.
Users will also input their own data, including how full they feel after a meal as well as daily intake and activity logs.
All the data will be processed and run through algorithms which will assess the risks for obesity and eating disorders.
In the later stages of the trial, the system will be used to help change the way at-risk youngsters eat and exercise.
"The goal is to modify eating and activity behaviour of individuals in a personalised way," said Prof Delopoulos.
"A medical expert will assign goals, such as to eat more slowly or adopt more activity and the sensors will monitor whether the individual succeeds," he added.
Daniel Kraft is a doctor and executive director of FutureMed, a healthcare education programme aimed at teaching medical professionals about new technologies.
He thinks that sensors will increasingly be integrated into healthcare.
"From connected scales to sensors that can track heart rate and activity levels... the patient can be empowered to understand their healthcare data," he said.
"It brings you to an era of healthcare rather than sick care," he added.
It will be a criminal offence to have an air weapon without a licence or permit from 31 December 2016.
Under the new legislation approved by Holyrood last June, anyone found guilty of the new offence could be fined or face up to two years in prison.
Owners will have six months to licence their weapons before the law changes.
They will be able to apply to Police Scotland for an air weapon certificate from 1 July.
However critics have raised concerns that it may prove an administrative challenge for the force.
It is estimated that there are about 500,000 unlicensed air weapons in Scotland.
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) opposed the introduction of the new laws, claiming they were 'disproportionate' and that airgun offences were declining.
A spokesman said: "However, with the legislation now in place, and licences to be made available from July, we will do all that we can to help the many legitimate air weapon users in Scotland adapt to the new licensing regime.
"The six months 'lead in' period (before a certificate becomes a legal requirement) is shorter than we had anticipated and may present a challenge to Police Scotland staff, who will administer the new regime."
Police Scotland will also operate a "surrender" campaign, during which people can hand in unwanted weapons before the new legislation comes into force.
The Scottish government pledged to introduce the licensing scheme following the death of Glasgow toddler Andrew Morton, who was killed by an airgun in 2005.
The two-year-old died after being hit on the head with an airgun pellet near his home in the Easterhouse area of the city on 2 March.
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said: "This government has a long-standing commitment to eradicating gun crime in Scotland and this new legislation will better protect our communities by taking these potentially lethal weapons out of the hands of those who would misuse them."
He added that police, animal welfare groups and members of the public had to face the results of air weapon misuse ever day. He said air weapons caused anti-social behaviour, as well as injuries to wildlife, pets and occasionally people.
"We are not banning air weapons outright, but ensuring that their use is properly regulated and users have a legitimate reason for them," he said.
Police Scotland's assistant chief constable Mark Williams said the force "fully supports" the legislation changes.
People who already hold existing firearms or shotgun licences will not require a new certificate until their existing one is due for renewal.
It's after the guitarist lost his passport boarding a plane to the UK from New York.
The other members Ashton Irwin, Luke Hemmings and Calum Hood flew without him and played a gig at the O2 Arena in London on Sunday night.
The band told BBC Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw Michael is "relaxing in America" while he sorts out a passport.
Luke says it's incredible that he managed to lose it in the first place: "Because our tour manager holds our passports and will give it to us before the flight. Then we'll have it for maybe an hour and then he'll take it back off us. In that time he's lost it."
Although he adds that Michael has previous: "I've seen Michael lose a ticket before he gets on the plane, I mean he's given it in the line and he's lost it."
The band lined up for photos after performing at The Jingle Bell Ball on Sunday with drummer Ashton saying it was weird playing a big gig as a three-piece.
"I hated him not being there it was the worst. It's just so wrong when you're in a band and a guy's not there.
"It's almost like you're betraying him. We were on stage as a three piece and it just wasn't awesome at all."
It's not known when the band, who are from Sydney, will have their red-headed guitarist back.
They're currently applying to the embassy in the US for a new emergency passport.
"He's just relaxing having a bit of Michael time," said Aston.
Calum joked with Nick Grimshaw that the group is planning dates without Michael as they don't know where he is.
"We normally have a group text but he's not in it. We're making plans so you don't want to have him it (laughs). Where is he? New York?"
On Twitter Michael said: "Really, really sorry for anyone who I've let down for not being able to come. You get a free pass to call me stupid."
The boys are due to perform another gig in Liverpool on Wednesday night but it looks like Michael will miss that too.
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The tour dates are follows:
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Newcastle, Metro Radio Arena - 2
Leeds, First Direct Arena - 3
Birmingham, The NIA - 5
Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena - 7
Manchester, Phones4U Arena - 9
London, Wembley Arena - 12 & 13
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Figures from Dyfed-Powys Police show that 65,543 drivers were caught speeding by mobile cameras between April 2010 and March 2014.
The A483 at Llanwrtyd Wells was the worst road for the offence, with 890 motorists caught driving too fast.
A GoSafe spokeswoman said: "There is a simple message - cameras are in place to save lives."
Over the four-year period, the highest number of drivers - 18,958 - were caught between April 2010 and March 2011.
In 2013/14, 17,246 drivers were caught.
The 64-year-old woman has been named locally as Teresa McDonagh.
It is believed she died after being attacked by two Bullmastiff dogs at a family member's home on Sunday afternoon.
Emergency services were called to the scene but the woman was pronounced dead after efforts to resuscitate her failed.
Irish national broadcaster RTÉ reports that nobody was home when the victim arrived at the property at lunchtime.
Emergency services were only alerted after the occupants returned to the home at 15:00 local time and discovered Mrs McDonagh.
Her body has been taken to University Hospital Galway, where a post-mortem examination will take place.
Bullmastiffs are listed in Ireland's 1998 Control of Dogs Act, which means they must be securely muzzled in public, but there are no restrictions on them on private property.
The dogs involved in the attack were later put down.
General Dynamics in Oakdale will create a next-generation communications system for the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
It will improve visual information and allow it to be shared more widely by the military.
General Dynamics UK's chief operating officer, Steve Rowbotham, said it was "fantastic for the site here in Oakdale".
It will be used in General Dynamics' new fleet of AJAX armoured vehicles which are being assembled and tested in Merthyr Tydfil.
This new system will link up vehicles on the ground with headquarters and pass information to RAF pilots.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the contract "underlines the importance of Wales to our armed forces".
He said the commitment followed the MoD spending £870m with Welsh businesses last year.
The defence industry already employs about 5,000 people in Wales, mostly in highly-skilled, highly-paid jobs.
The contract for EvO is the first phase in the MoD's new Morpheus programme and marks a change in approach to awarding major contracts by the UK government.
Some previous deals have been criticised for being late and going over budget.
This new approach allows different companies to bid for different stages of the programme, building on what has been developed by other businesses.
This could mean the military is less heavily dependent on one company delivering a large project on time and on budget.
It is a significant shift in how businesses in the defence industry operate though, having to work collaboratively and giving control over some of their intellectual property to the UK government.
The test for this new approach will be whether it provides the taxpayer with better value for money while ensuring the armed forces have the equipment they need at the time they need it.
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The rates advisory firm CVS asked every local authority how many companies had been issued with a summons for the last financial year.
It found that nearly 200,000 businesses had been summoned to court.
That amounted to one in every eight businesses on average, with an even higher proportion in London.
The research also found that nearly half of firms issued with a summons went on to be referred to bailiffs for enforcement proceedings.
Middlesbrough borough council topped the list of authorities which issued the most summonses, with 25% of its businesses receiving a request to appear before the courts.
It was followed by the London borough of Waltham Forest with 22%.
Dartford borough council, Manchester city council, along with Ealing and Haringey councils in London, sued 21% of the their local businesses for non-payment.
The survey suggests that in London a total of 39,098 businesses were told to appear before the courts for non-payment of rates, a figure which represents 16% of all businesses in the capital.
CVS advises companies on their rent and rate valuations.
Its chief executive, Mark Rigby, said the figures he had collected highlighted how the system was criminalising struggling businesses.
"With budget constraints and deficits, we need to be more creative at the way we look at taxation so I am left in no doubt that business rates need to be looked at more holistically within the overall context of the economy, and other taxes, but not simply as a guaranteed revenue stream," he said.
The next business rates revaluation comes into effect in England on 1 April - the first for seven years - along with similar changes in Scotland and Wales.
On average, all areas are seeing their rates fall, except London, where bills will rise an average 11% this year.
The government says that within the overall change, 510,000 ratepayers will see their bills increase, 920,000 will see their bills fall and 420,000 experience no change.
Mr Rigby said this meant that in London businesses would end up paying an extra £9.4bn over the next five years.
The government has come under increasing pressure to soften the blow for the businesses which will receive higher bills.
Although more firms will benefit than lose, the changes are causing controversy because some firms will see huge bill increases over the five years in which the increases will be phased in.
Business rates are based on property values which are revalued every five years.
However the government delayed the last revaluation by two years, which means April will see the burden shifting for the first time in seven years, and which has produced some dramatic swings.
This latest research from CVS will add to the pressure for a fundamental rethink of the tax, which campaigners say is outdated for the digital age.
The Freedom of Information (FOI) request was sent by the firm to all the 347 billing authorities in England and Wales.
A total of 280 councils responded, covering 1.6 million properties, or 83% of all those liable for business rates.
A government spokesman said: "The vast majority of businesses pay their bills on time and more than 98% of business rates are collected."
"It's only fair on hard-working taxpayers that councils chase up all outstanding debts."
The Fes Watch has a minimalist, monochrome design but falls short of the features offered by smartwatches.
However, the battery of the e-paper watch could last far longer with an estimated 60 days of use.
The device has been described as "retro and cool" by gadget expert Stuart Miles from Pocket-lint.
"One of my predictions for next year is that fashion is going to play a huge part in shaping the tech industry.
"Having a phone that's big and square is one thing, but if we're actually wearing things, it has to look good."
The watch face and straps have an e-paper display - comparable to the technology used in e-book readers such as Amazon's Kindle.
It means the watch can alternate between several different styles of watch face and strap design.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Sony had deliberately kept the development of the watch low-key, opting to use a spin-off division called Fashion Entertainments to work on the device.
Fashion Entertainments ran a crowdfunding campaign to fund the watch's creation, the WSJ reported, in an attempt to gauge the public's interest in the concept.
It raised 3.5 million yen ($30,000; £19,000).
"We hid Sony's name because we wanted to test the real value of the product, whether there will be demand for our concept," a person involved in the project told the newspaper. A spokeswoman for Sony confirmed to the BBC that Fashion Entertainments is a division of company's New Business Creation Department, and was working on a number of e-paper prototypes.
Other e-paper experiments being worked on by Fashion Entertainments include shoes, bow-ties and glasses.
One drawback of using e-paper rather than, for example, liquid-crystal displays (LCD) is a limitation on possible features due to the limitations of what e-paper can display.
However, Mr Miles said he did not envision that being too significant a drawback for e-paper wearable technology.
"Look at traditional watches now, they just tell the time and we're happy with that," he said, noting that one of the most popular smartwatches on the market, the Pebble, uses e-paper.
Sony has not provided a date for the Fes Watch's release.
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In a letter to parents, Barclay Primary School in Leyton said it has previously had a "number of children who became ill and fainted", or been unable to learn while fasting.
The school said it had "sought guidance" and that children were not required to fast during the period.
Critics said the move was an overreaction and unnecessary.
Ajmal Masroor, Imam and spokesman for the Islamic Society of Britain, said children were not expected to fast, especially not primary school children.
He said: "It could have been easily resolved by just speaking to parents. Now we have another negative story against the Muslim community - as if we don't have enough already."
The action was "stupidly foolish", he said.
Barclay School said the month fell during a hot spell and a busy time of the year with sports days and field trips.
It suggested older children who wanted to take part in fasting "do so at weekends".
The former HMS Daedalus site in Lee-on-Solent is being transformed into a government "enterprise zone", including business space and new homes.
People living near the site have complained of sore throats and eyes.
The Homes and Communities Agency said a "dust management plan" was in place.
Resident Kay Newsom said: "Very fine powder is just being blown at us.
"I've had it all over my house, in my car - I've been constantly cleaning, and of course we are breathing all this in.
"Ever since the demolition started I've had a sore throat and itchy eyes."
Nigel Craine, whose home backs on to the site, admitted the dust had been worse during demolition, which finished in April.
However, he said the rubble was still problematic depending on wind direction.
"What's concerning is we don't know what's in the piles or how long they are likely to remain on site," he added.
Gosport borough and Hampshire county councillor Graham Burgess is calling for the piles to be analysed.
"Residents are suffering and we want to know if there is anything like asbestos among the dust," he said.
A Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) spokesman said the demolished material would be used as hardcore for the new development in a bid to "cut down on the number of lorry movements".
The HCA and contractors Natta have worked with the council to develop a plan "to cut down dust as much as possible", he said.
He added the site was regularly inspected by environmental health and planning officers.
In 2011, HMS Daedalus, which operated until 1996, was named as one of 24 "enterprise zones", designed to boost economic growth.
About 3,500 jobs are expected to be created at the Solent Enterprise Zone by 2026.
The "relentless and indiscriminate" rocket attacks had killed scores of civilians in western Aleppo in the past 48 hours, Mr de Mistura said.
Such attacks could amount to war crimes, he said.
On Friday, rebels began an offensive aimed at breaking the government siege of east Aleppo.
About 275,000 people have been besieged in the east of the city for months.
Russian and Syrian government planes began bombarding Aleppo in September. More than 2,700 people are said to have been killed and injured since then.
Russia suspended its air campaign on 18 October to allow evacuations of sick and wounded people but few have heeded the call to leave.
On Sunday, state media in Syria said rebels had used chemical weapons against government-controlled districts of Aleppo.
A spokesman for one rebel group denied the claim, saying rebel groups did not possess such weapons, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Sana news agency said 35 people in the districts of Dahiyet al-Assad and Hamdaniya had suffered shortness of breath and numbness.
More than 40 civilians are reported to have been killed in western Aleppo since the rebel attacks began, activists say.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 16 were children. It added that 55 soldiers had also died - as well as 64 rebels.
There is no confirmation of these casualties.
Rebels from outside Aleppo are said to be at the forefront of the new offensive, targeting Hamdaniya, which is currently held by troops of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The rebel groups include Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, as well as fellow Islamists Ahrar al-Sham.
It is the rebels' second attempt to break the Aleppo siege. In August they temporarily opened a corridor between the east and west after the government entirely encircled them for the first time in July.
The city, previously Syria's economic hub, has been divided between the two sides since 2012.
Conor Chaplin headed the visitors into the lead after 24 minutes, meeting Christian Burgess' long diagonal ball with an effort that looped beyond Will Norris and into the far corner.
Cambridge saw strong appeals for a penalty turned down moments later as Burgess tangled with Uche Ikpeazu, before Kyle Bennett forced Norris into a sprawling save from the edge of the box.
Just before the hour Cambridge substitute Ben Williamson missed a great chance to equalise, firing wide from close range after Portsmouth had failed to clear their lines, before the visitors were reduced to 10 men in the 61st minute.
Amine Linganzi was shown a straight red card for going in dangerously on U's sub Conor Newton in the centre circle.
Cambridge looked to capitalise on their numerical advantage and saw a shot deflected over from James Dunne, who also blazed well over 15 minutes from the end as Portsmouth held on.
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Match ends, Cambridge United 0, Portsmouth 1.
Second Half ends, Cambridge United 0, Portsmouth 1.
Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Tom Davies replaces Gary Roberts.
Noel Hunt (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
(Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Noel Hunt (Portsmouth).
Greg Taylor (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Enda Stevens (Portsmouth).
Foul by Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United).
Enda Stevens (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United).
Christian Burgess (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Carl Baker (Portsmouth).
Substitution, Cambridge United. Joe Pigott replaces Brad Halliday.
Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Brad Halliday (Cambridge United).
Enda Stevens (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Michael Doyle (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United).
Enda Stevens (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. James Dunne (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Matthew Clarke (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United).
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Matthew Clarke.
Attempt blocked. James Dunne (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Leon Legge (Cambridge United).
Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Gareth Evans.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Carl Baker.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Noel Hunt replaces Conor Chaplin.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Danny Rose replaces Kyle Bennett.
Conor Newton (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Amine Linganzi (Portsmouth) is shown the red card.
Foul by Amine Linganzi (Portsmouth).
Substitution, Cambridge United. Conor Newton replaces Max Clark.
Attempt missed. Ben Williamson (Cambridge United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Ben Williamson (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
The 25-year-old Serbia international scored 16 goals in 33 league games last season as Twente finished third behind Ajax and Feyenoord in the Dutch league.
Tadic is the Saints' first signing since Ronald Koeman replaced Mauricio Pochettino as manager in June.
"It was very important to get this signing done - not only for me, but for the squad and our fans," Koeman said.
Koeman wants to bolster his squad following the sales of defender Luke Shaw, midfielder Adam Lallana and striker Rickie Lambert.
Tadic, who Twente signed for £6.1m from FC Groningen in 2012, can play on either side of midfield and is viewed as the ideal replacement for Lallana, who joined Liverpool in a £25m deal at the start of the month.
"This is a really nice club of which I have heard a lot of good things about," said Tadic.
"I have already seen the beautiful training centre and there are lots of nice people that work here including the coaches, so I am really happy to be here."
Koeman feels Tadic's arrival will act as a "great signal" of Southampton's intent to move forward following last season's top-10 finish and the departure of three key players.
"We have lost some good players, but we want to continue the ambition and philosophy of the club," he said.
"We now look forward to bringing in more players because we want to continue and maybe even better what Southampton did last season."
Saints centre-back Dejan Lovren remains a target for Liverpool, who had a £20m bid for the player rejected last week.
After six years of waiting for the president's promise to overhaul the country's immigration system, Latinos listened carefully as he announced sweeping measures to protect up to five million undocumented migrants from being deported.
Defying the wintry weather, many supporters met in front of the White House waving American flags and carrying signs that read "Gracias, Presidente Obama," while others gathered around the country to watch and discuss the announcement.
Hispanic advocacy organisations quickly reacted to the news. It was "a positive first step in putting our nation on a path that will benefit all Americans," according to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO).
The unilateral actions are definitely important, not only for the Hispanic community but for the many families around the country who will be shielded from deportation.
A detailed look at President Obama's speech reveals that this is about much more than just immigration. It touches on highly sensitive issues for the United States, such as national security, border protection and economic development.
It also has the potential to influence not only Mr Obama's domestic agenda in his remaining two years in office, but more importantly the 2016 presidential campaign, where Democratic and Republican hopefuls will be vying for the increasingly influential Hispanic vote.
At the same time, though, Thursday's announcement is not a permanent change to what President Obama has called the country's "broken" immigration system, nor does it offer a path to citizenship.
Moreover, the move covers only a portion of the country's undocumented population (five million out of an estimated 11 million), and also falls short of the eight million that was mentioned as part of the 2013 bill that passed in the Senate but stalled in the House of Representatives.
Even though they can bring about important policy change, executive actions are by definition limited in scope and in time, and the White House knows that the only way that the system can be changed in a permanent way is through Congress.
Hispanic groups are aware of that too, and many have been pressing for broader action from both the White House and Congress.
Voto Latino, an organisation focussed on Latino youth, described President Obama's measures as "legally and morally right, but not enough," and added they were "deficient in its scope."
Meanwhile, Hector Sanchez, chair of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, said he will "obviously continue to fight so that there can be a legislative solution."
"This move can spark Congress to finally act," he told the BBC shortly before President Obama's announcement.
But it is precisely in Congress where Thursday's measures will face their biggest challenge.
Republicans have gained control of both houses of Congress and have promised to fight this executive action vehemently.
On Friday, John Boehner, the speaker of the House of Representatives, told reporters that Mr Obama had acted unilaterally "like a king or emperor" and vowed that his party would "rise to this challenge."
"With this action, the president has chosen to deliberately sabotage any chance of enacting bipartisan reforms that he claims to seek," Mr Boehner added.
The big question now is whether and to what extent Republicans will be able to block or delay President Obama from delivering his promise to millions of undocumented immigrants in the US.
Immigrants who have waited for six years for action may find themselves waiting longer.
The man involved had been a high-profile target for the police and other law enforcement agencies on both sides of the border for decades.
Thomas "Slab" Murphy claims he is just a farmer.
But he is also alleged to have been one of the most powerful figures within the Provisional IRA.
It has been claimed the south Armagh man was, at one time, the organisation's overall commander, its chief of staff.
Sinn Féin leaders have said he was a farmer who helped sow the seeds for the peace process.
Speaking after properties belonging to Murphy were raided by police 10 years ago, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said: "Tom Murphy is not a criminal. He's a good republican.
"He's also, and very importantly, a key supporter of the Sinn Féin peace strategy and has been for a very long time."
In December last year, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness praised him for "his invaluable support" for the peace process.
"What we have achieved in the north of Ireland over the last 20 years has been nothing short of amazing, that's what the world tells us, what you've done here has been amazing," he said.
"Well, the amazing wouldn't have happened without the support of people like Tom Murphy."
Thomas "Slab" Murphy has denied being an IRA leader, but for years police - on both sides of the border - regarded him as one of the organisation's most senior and influential figures.
In 1990, he sued the Sunday Times which had alleged he was an IRA commander, and had directed an IRA bombing campaign in Britain as well as helped to import tonnes of weapons from Libya. He lost the case.
He appealed the ruling, but in 1998 he lost again.
Retired British Army officer Colonel Richard Kemp recently told a BBC Northern Ireland Spotlight programme that he had no doubt Murphy was a senior member of the IRA.
He served several tours of duty in Northern Ireland, and went on to work in intelligence at the Cabinet office.
Col Kemp told the programme that his role gave him access to intelligence information about IRA activities, including lists detailing the identities of the main IRA figures operating in south Armagh.
When asked if Thomas "Slab" Murphy was on the list, he replied: "Thomas Murphy was one of the main people on that list. In fact he was, as we understood it, the head of the Provisional IRA in south Armagh."
Police on both sides of the border also regarded Murphy as the head of a huge multi-million pounds smuggling empire.
His farm in Ballybinaby straddles the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, which police said allowed him to exploit, and defraud, the tax authorities on both sides.
In 2004, the BBC's Underworld Rich List named him as the wealthiest smuggler in the UK, claiming he had amassed up to £40m through smuggling oil, cigarettes, grain and pigs.
Murphy's conviction for agricultural tax offences marked the culmination of years of work by authorities north and south.
He had been under investigation by the police in Northern Ireland and the Republic for years, and came to be viewed as untouchable. Until now.
Like the "untouchable" American gangster Al Capone, tax evasion proved to be his Achilles heel.
Some republicans have also used the Al Capone analogy, but pointed out that he was found guilty by a jury, whereas Murphy was convicted in the Republic's non-jury Special Criminal Court.
Critics have said that would simply not have been possible, because jury members could face intimidation.
That view was endorsed by Northern Ireland's former First Minister Peter Robinson, who said it would have been "sheer madness" for Murphy to be tried in front of a jury.
"I will resist any temptation to make reference to Al Capone and the style of his conviction," he said after Murphy was convicted.
"It is essential to say nobody is above the law and everyone is answerable to the courts."
An estate worker had to be rescued after he was trapped underwater when the ride-on mower fell into a lake at the Norfolk estate on 8 July.
A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) report said the man may have escaped had the machine's roll bar been in use.
Sandringham Estate said it was considering the report's findings.
A spokesman said: "Sandringham Estate is aware of the HSE report.
"Any actions relating to their recommendations and observations will be assessed directly with that body."
The worker, who has not been named, was rescued by police officers Keith Hunt and Darren Wynne and head gardener Martin Woods, whose actions have been recognised by the Royal Humane Society.
He was airlifted to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. He was in a critical condition but has made a full recovery.
The HSE report, released to the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act, said the worker was cutting grass near the estate's Lower Lake when the accident happened.
It concluded that the mower slid backwards down a slope into the lake, turning over and trapping the man, who was still wearing his seatbelt.
It said it was unclear why the roll bar was not deployed, adding: "If it had been in use, he may have been able to release himself from the seat and escaped."
The mower appeared to be in serviceable condition, but the grass bank may have been slightly damp, the report said.
Alternative machines should be used for mowing sloped areas around the lakes, but they should be used with roll bars up and seatbelts worn, the report added.
In a letter to the estate manager, the HSE said it found no health and safety management issues relating to the accident or the machinery.
But it identified "a number of issues that require action".
Some out-of-date risk assessments were still in circulation, and the HSE also recommended further training for staff and a review of lone-working across the estate.
However, Adlene Guedioura is close to a first-team return after recovering from a groin strain.
Southampton boss Claude Puel may include striker Charlie Austin, who has been out since December with a dislocated shoulder.
Defender Matt Targett could also make his return after a long-term absence.
John Roder: "Back in August, I was at the Riverside for Match of the Day for Middlesbrough's return to the Premier League. Following the 1-1 draw with Stoke there was an optimistic view that Boro could avoid an immediate return to the Championship, where they had spent the previous seven seasons.
"Nine months later relegation was confirmed at Chelsea on Monday, with Middlesbrough having won only five times in 36 league matches.
"Sofiane Boufal scored a wonderful goal for Saints when these teams met at St Mary's in December.
"However, goals have been at a premium for Boro all season and just recently for Southampton, who have to regain their scoring touch to ensure a top-10 finish. "
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Middlesbrough head coach Steve Agnew: "After the disappointment of the other night, it has been an emotional time and understandably so, and I am no different. I feel responsibility for what has happened.
"But it's not about my future, it's not about my situation, it's about Middlesbrough Football Club.
"It's about us understanding where we are, it's about how we finish strongly in these last couple of games and then we regroup, have a good summer and make sure that we're in the fight to bounce back to the Premier League as quickly as we possibly can."
Southampton manager Claude Puel: "There's the possibility to finish in the first part of the table and that is very important to us.
"If we can have a good result against Middlesbrough, we can prepare for our last two games at home with good possibilities, good intensity."
Let's give Claude Puel some credit for what he has done in his first season at Southampton, because he has been without some key players for long periods, on top of the talent that left the club in the summer and then in January too.
Saints have still always been comfortable in mid-table, and reached the final of the League Cup.
Middlesbrough, meanwhile, went down with a whimper.
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Naturally, some say that life may flourish under other conditions, and perhaps even in the absence of water.
While that may be true, take a look around - life seems to do quite well here on Earth and we've yet to find it elsewhere in our Solar System.
Based on this, let's look at the classical definition for the habitable zone as the region around a star, such as our own Sun, where the temperature of any orbiting planet permits water in liquid form.
Astrophysicists are extremely good at calculating the temperature of a star and then, taking into account the distance of a planet from its host star, it is easy to work out the planet's "equilibrium temperature".
The starlight (in our case, sunlight) that falls onto the planet is reradiated as heat and, hey presto, we have our actual planet temperature - simple. Except it isn't.
What if the planet sports a blanket of white clouds? Clouds are reflective and therefore will cool the planet, acting to push the habitable zone closer to the star.
Amusingly, if we calculate this "equilibrium temperature" for the Earth, taking into account its beautifully reflective clouds, then it turns out that we live outside the classical habitable zone!
The same calculation for Venus gives an expected equilibrium temperature of about -10°C, but in reality it is more like 450°C.
What happened?
Both these planets have greenhouse gases present in their atmospheres, warming the planet up and driving the outer-boundary of the habitable zone further away from the star (while clouds drive the inner-boundary closer to the star).
The very latest habitable zone definitions use simulations of these cloud and greenhouse effects - widening and blurring the crude classical definition.
Throw into the mix that we currently can't study the atmospheres of rocky terrestrial exoplanets (and therefore have no idea whether they have clouds, greenhouse gases, or even an atmosphere at all!) - then to say "that planet is habitable" is impossible, for the time-being at least.
Just to complicate matters, the habitable zone also depends on the type of star the planet orbits. The more massive and hotter the star, the further out the habitable zone will lie.
Conversely, small cool stars will have a habitable zone that is much closer in.
Indeed, "red dwarf" stars are so cool and dim that a planet in the habitable zone might have a "year" that lasts only a few days, so feeble is the red dwarf's light.
This would raise other problems for life on such a planet. Red dwarfs like to chuck out large flares, stellar eruptions that release charged particles and X-rays.
Given the close proximity of the planet, this might cause substantial atmospheric losses.
High doses of radiation also tend to be harmful to biological material, and X-rays are capable of dissociating water - thereby depleting any water supply. Not ideal.
Maybe things are better around hotter stars, where a habitable planet would lie further way from any nasty stellar blasts?
Well, now we run into another problem, that of the lifetime of the star.
Massive, hot stars are real gas-guzzlers. Yes, they may have far larger "fuel tanks" (they have a lot more mass to "burn"), but they gobble that fuel much, much faster, and die much younger than small, frugal cool stars.
For example, some of the most massive stars may live for only a few million years, while our Sun will hang around for about eight billion years.
Based on our knowledge of how life evolved on Earth, it is unlikely that even simple life would have time to evolve around stars that are all that much hotter than our Sun.
Returning to the diminutive red dwarf stars at the other end of the scale, these can hang around for about 100 billion years.
Perhaps if a planet DID hang on to its atmosphere, then over such a long time life might evolve to cope with being frequently doused in radiation?
Well, we hit another issue - the fact that the variance in the amount of energy red dwarfs emit over their lifetime, known as their luminosity evolution, is quite drastic.
Over its lifespan, our Sun will change its luminosity by about 30% (before then evolving into a giant star).
However, a red dwarf may change its luminosity 10-fold!
So, a planet in the habitable zone of a red dwarf now was probably once scorching hot, and in the future will be freezing cold.
I haven't even begun discussing some of the "rare-Earth" arguments that point out a range of factors that affect the Earth that may be necessary for life, but that may be rare for other planets.
These are things like the presence of Jupiter (which may or may not deflect asteroids and comets from striking the Earth) or the presence of the moon (which may stabilise Earth's spin).
This may seem all doom and gloom, but I only mean to highlight the difficulties in defining what might be a "habitable" planet; not that I don't think there are any out there, or that we can't find them.
Exciting projects, such as the European Space Agency's Plato mission (due to launch in 2024) aim to find Earth-sized planets, in Earth-like orbits, around nearby Sun-like stars.
These are the type of rocky planets that would be ripe for follow-up, ultimately opening the possibility for probing directly for biomarkers in their atmospheres.
Just over 20 years ago we didn't know of ANY planets beyond our Solar System (we now know of thousands of candidates!) and only in the last few years have we been able to find small, rocky alien worlds.
The pace of discovery is astonishing and in 20 years' time I suspect I will look back at this article and find I was totally wrong about everything.
This is what progress is.
Dr Christopher Watson is senior lecturer in extrasolar planets and low-mass stars at the Astrophysics Research Centre, Queen's University, Belfast
Rankin, 33, has signed a contact until the end of next season.
"He has taken a cut in wages to join us, so that says a lot about the player and his willingness to join us," said Queens manager Gary Naysmith.
"He is a fitness fanatic who takes care of himself, so age isn't a concern to me as he is probably one of the fittest players in the division."
A former Manchester United youth player, Rankin played for Ross County, Inverness, Hibernian and Dundee United before joining Falkirk in July.
He has made more than 500 senior club appearances, scoring 48 goals, and was capped by Scotland B in 2006.
Rankin follows Dom Thomas and Joe Thomson in moving to Dumfries, with the Motherwell and Celtic players joining on loan.
"Once I spoke to John I could tell he is going to be a big help to me when it comes to bringing the young players on," Naysmith added.
"He wasn't a player that I thought I would get, but when I was speaking to [Falkirk manager] Peter Houston about the availability of other players he mentioned that John might be available and allowed us to speak to him, which is great.
"I haven't worked with him before but after doing some homework it's clear that he is highly thought of, the feedback has been good and anyone who has worked with him all say the same, that he is one of the best professionals they've worked with."
Up to now Turkey's government has been pressing hard for the overthrow of the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad.
But Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim insisted good ties with Syria were needed "for the fight against terrorism" and stability in the region.
There has so far been no public response from the Syrian government.
Turkey has recently moved to end rifts with both Russia and Israel.
Diplomatic ties between Turkey and Syria were severed after the uprising against Mr Assad began in 2011.
Turkey is a key backer of both the political and armed Syrian opposition and has faced the burden of hosting more than 2.7 million refugees.
In December, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan alleged that Mr Assad had "mercilessly killed 400,000 innocent people".
But in comments broadcast live on television on Wednesday, Mr Yildirim said: "It is our greatest and irrevocable goal: developing good relations with Syria and Iraq, and all our neighbours that surround the Mediterranean and the Black Sea."
"We normalised relations with Russia and Israel. I'm sure we will normalise relations with Syria as well. For the fight against terrorism to succeed, stability needs to return to Syria and Iraq."
There have also been reports in the local media of Turkish and Syrian diplomats holding talks.
But in an interview with BBC HARDtalk, Mr Yildirim stressed that any shift in Turkey's policy towards Syria was dependent on Mr Assad.
"Things need to change in Syria, but first of all Assad should change. Unless Assad changes, nothing changes in Turkey," he said.
Mr Yildirim accused the Syrian leader of creating the conditions that gave rise to the jihadist group, Islamic State (IS), which controls large parts of Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
"As long as Assad is there, the problem won't be solved," he said. "We'll have some other terrorist organisation coming up because it's the attitude of the Syrian regime which created [IS]."
Last month, Turkey normalised relations with Israel, ending a six-year rift over the killing by Israeli troops of 10 Turkish activists on a ship carrying aid for the Gaza Strip.
On the same day, Mr Erdogan apologised to Russia for shooting down a Russian warplane on the Turkish-Syrian border in November 2015.
Turkey's new initiative comes at a time of great political instability in the country, says the BBC's Katy Watson in Istanbul.
In the past year, it has been hit by a wave of deadly bombings blamed on Kurdish rebels and IS.
In a separate development, French diplomatic missions in Turkey cancelled their Bastille Day celebrations on Thursday for "security reasons", the consulate general in Istanbul said.
Once every four or five years, the beast stamps its foot and lets out a bellow. Governments tend to notice.
The mammoth - le mammouth - is an unflattering nickname for the French education system. Size and inertia are its hallmarks.
On Tuesday, many of le mammouth's million teachers will once again be on the street, chanting - if not quite bellowing - against the latest attempt to change the way they work.
School change plans come round regularly in France.
They tend to answer to the same perceived imperative: how to restore the "republican" school system to a lost golden age and stop the inexorable decline in international rankings.
This time, Socialist President Francois Hollande and Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem have targeted the "college" - the middle-school for 11 to 15-year-olds that comes between "ecole" (primary school) and "lycee".
But with awful predictability, their designs have again provoked a chorus of outrage - and not just from the teaching unions.
Traditionalists are up in arms about the disappearance of Latin and Greek. Berlin is concerned about the downgrading of German.
Left-wingers say plans to give more autonomy to school principals will create education a la carte and a multi-tier system where the nicer neighbourhoods have the nicer schools.
Right-wingers say Islam is being promoted over Christianity.
Underlying much of the criticism is a more general complaint that the basics of education are being replaced by a gobbledygook of "modules" and "interdisciplinary functions" that confuse children far more than they enlighten.
Separately, a controversial reform of the history programme is also due in 2016.
This has drawn fulminations from many - especially on the right - who say it encourages shame rather than pride in France's past.
The unions who have called for the strikes on Tuesday make clear that their opposition to the changes is quite distinct from the critiques of the political right.
Teachers of Latin dispute the government's argument that the classics are elitist.
Today about 20% of French college students study Latin, though most drop it after two years.
"The way things are looking, Latin is just going to disappear from the curriculum," Cathy Rezler, a teacher of French and Latin, near Marseille, told Liberation newspaper.
"But these are our roots. And the children like it!"
The ending of the intensive language option is strongly resented by teachers of German, who believe it will accelerate the long-standing decline of the language in French schools.
As with Latin, the government is removing what it sees as the preserve of a privileged minority.
Only 16% of students take the intensive language option, and in left-wing eyes it creates discrimination within schools.
But teachers of Latin and German fear the changes will encourage middle-class families to send children into the semi-private Catholic system - thus entrenching rather than fighting class separation.
With the profession voting overwhelmingly on the left, many teachers are reluctant opponents of the Socialist changes.
But they say the requirement, for example, to devise course-work across different subjects is badly thought out and imposes hours of extra labour.
And for the more doctrinaire, new powers giving head teachers control over parts of the curriculum breach the republican goal of equality, because schools in richer catchment areas will inevitably end up offering wider options.
But if the anger over the language changes is real enough, it is as nothing to the passions set off by the new college history programme.
In an increasingly bitter series of exchanges, Ms Vallaud-Belkacem recently described opponents of the programme as "pseudo-intellectuals" after they said it would deprive children of vast chunks of France's cultural heritage.
Among the most outspoken critics is philosopher and former centre-right Education Minister Luc Ferry, who described the changes as "scandalous, empty-headed, noxious and partisan".
Citing the chapter on Europe from the 17th to the 19th Centuries, he said Europe "is presented solely from the perspective of colonialism and the slave trade" while the section on ideas of the Enlightenment was optional.
"It means that Voltaire is optional! That the scientific revolution is optional! Of course we must teach the slave trade, just as we must speak of the Holocaust.
"But you cannot just see European civilisation from that point of view."
Others have complained that in the history course for 14-year-olds, a section on Islam and its expansion is compulsory while the Church in the Middle Ages is just an option.
At the heart of the argument, lie competing views of what France's vaunted but failing model of education should be about.
That it is indeed failing is the one point on which both sides agree.
Ranking of the performance of 15-year-olds in 65 countries
The number of children leaving college unable to master basic French and maths rises every year.
"Progressives" view equality as a noble and realisable ideal.
They believe the curriculum needs to be changed to reflect today's realities and to end an in-built discrimination against children for whom Latin and medieval Christianity (for example) have no automatic resonance.
But opposing these government voices are those who say that education in France is steadily being gutted of any genuine content.
For the critics, what Mr Hollande and Ms Vallaud-Belkacem are doing - far from being revolutionary - is a mere continuation of school changes (from left and right) that go back decades.
And these, say the critics, have all tended to undermine the central purpose of education - which is the transmission of knowledge through the generations.
As for the unions in le mammouth, they are somewhere else entirely.
Instinctively most of them side with the "progressives" in government.
But by instinct they also resist all changes to their natural habitat.
That is when they start to bellow.
Its hands turn left and the numbers have been inverted to go from one to 12 anti-clockwise.
Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca dubbed it the "clock of the south".
He said the change had been made to get Bolivians to treasure their heritage and show them that they could question established norms and think creatively.
"Who says that the clock always has to turn one way? Why do we always have to obey? Why can't we be creative?", he asked at a news conference on Tuesday.
"We don't have to complicate matters, we just have to be conscious that we live in the south, not in the north," Mr Choquehuanca added.
He also told reporters that Bolivia had presented foreign delegations attending the recent G77 summit in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz with left-turning desk clocks.
The clock given to the delegations is shaped like the map of Bolivia and includes a disputed territory which is currently located in Chile but which Bolivia claims as its own.
Asked if Bolivia's left-wing government would try to extend the use of the reversed clocks, Mr Choquehuanca said that they should not be imposed on anyone.
"If you want to buy a clock of the south, do so, but if you want to continue using a clock of the north, you can continue doing so," he said.
The new clock received a mixed reaction from La Paz's residents.
Shoe shiner Franz Galarza, who works in Murillo Square where the legislative building stands, told Efe news agency that the new clock was "a bad idea".
"If they want to send out the message that the country is heading in another direction, then they'll have to make that clear, because all the people who are walking past Murillo Square say they thought it was an error, a mistake."
Under President Evo Morales, an indigenous Aymara, Bolivia has passed a number of measures aimed at boosting its indigenous heritage.
The country has, for example, adopted the whipala, a rainbow-coloured indigenous flag, which is now flown alongside the traditional red, yellow and green banner used since the 19th Century.
The news came as Labour MP Keith Vaz revealed he was the latest victim, when a laptop and iPad were stolen from his Westminster office on Thursday.
Mr Vaz called for a "more robust approach" to security inside parliamentary buildings.
Among the other items reported stolen in recent years are an orchid, a £1,000 candlestick and 10 chairs.
Official documents show the chairs, reportedly taken from Portcullis House - where many MPs have their offices - in 2008, were recovered.
As well as laptops, the list of items taken also includes mobile phones, a camera, cash, knives and a bicycle.
Mr Vaz's office is within the Norman Shaw North building on Victoria Embankment, close to the Palace of Westminster.
The MP for Leicester East told BBC Radio 5 live the equipment taken contained information relating "to the work I do as the chairman of the home affairs committee, which includes policing issues".
"I gather that whoever did this also took a laptop from another member of Parliament on the same floor, and since reporting it to the police I am informed this happens quite regularly on the Parliamentary estate."
Mr Vaz said his office building was "supposed to be secure" and the thief "must" have full security clearance to move around.
"If this happened to a constituent, I would call a residents' meeting - which I am happy to do - and get more CCTV cameras in the corridors.
"Oddly enough, I could only find one, in the car park... pretty astonishing for an iconic building like Parliament."
Mr Vaz said he was particularly concerned about the thefts given the visit by US President Barack Obama to Parliament next week.
"A great deal of effort is taken to protect the outside of building but we need a more robust approach to security inside the building," he said.
"We need to ensure the security of the building is not compromised."
A spokesman for Parliament said police were investigating "a number of reports of the theft of laptops across the Parliamentary estate".
According to details released in response to a Freedom of Information request, harassment, criminal damage, common assault and trespass have all been reported on the estate between 2008 and 2010.
Locals have been trying to save the "Spy Booth" mural after it was claimed it had been sold and would be removed.
On Tuesday, it looked "increasingly likely" the work would be removed after efforts by local businesses to save it stalled.
But Cheltenham Borough Council has served a notice to stop work on the house on Fairview Road for 28 days.
The artwork, depicting men "snooping" on a telephone box, appeared in April.
Banksy later admitted painting the work on a house three miles from the government communications headquarters, GCHQ.
Last week, businesswoman Angela DeSouza failed in an attempt to raise £1m within a self-imposed six-hour deadline to make an offer.
She was also unable to raise an initial £100,000 needed to prevent the sale by the end of Monday, which was the actual deadline.
On Tuesday, Robin Barton from the Bankrobber gallery in London, said "pressure is growing on the owners" to accept a seven-figure deal from an American.
Now the borough council has stepped in to stop work on the Grade II listed building to allow "discussions to take place about the next steps".
Mark Nelson, the council's built environment enforcement manager, said: "The temporary stop notice has been served because the council considers that works have taken place, without obtaining consent.
"It is worth clarifying that whilst the council is supportive of the public's desire to keep the artwork on this property, the temporary stop notice has been issued to protect the integrity of this listed building."
Hunter died from cancer at the age of 27 in 2006 and Hearn said on Wednesday that the sport "messed up" by not paying tribute to Hunter sooner.
"It's the highest honour we can give," Hearn told a media conference.
"There is an argument to say we should have done it before and I take responsibility for that."
The Masters, one of snooker's Triple Crown events along with the World Championship and the UK Championship, will be rebranded from next January.
"The 10-year anniversary probably triggered a feeling," Hearn added. "We messed up.
"Rather than hold your hands up and say 'we should have done it', let's do something about it."
Hunter turned professional at the age of 16 in 1995 and won his first major title, the 1998 Welsh Open, at the age of 19.
The Leeds player won the Welsh title again in 2002 and picked up the British Open trophy in the same year, but he will be best remembered for his exploits at Wembley, where we won the Masters in 2001, 2002 and 2004.
Hearn said Hunter's "mercurial talent" was a "sad loss" to the game.
"When people talk about personalities, Paul was there in spades," Hearn added.
"The Masters will always be played for the Paul Hunter Trophy. Who knows what stamp he would have made on the game? This is a gesture to appreciate that."
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The animal was spotted by a member of the public on Sunday in Shotts, North Lanarkshire.
Vets believe the hedgehog was clipped by a car, puncturing a lung and causing air to be trapped under the skin.
The Scottish SPCA said the hedgehog, nicknamed "Zeppelin" by staff, had now "deflated" and was being cared for at one of the charity's rescue centres.
The swollen hedgehog was discovered near Minard Road in Shotts and was suffering from "balloon syndrome".
Colin Seddon, manager of the Scottish SPCA's National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Fishcross said: "Our animal rescue officer Louise Hume got a bit of a shock when she went to pick him up.
"He's certainly one of the largest hedgehogs we've taken into our care.
"He's been seen by our vet Romain, who is hopeful that Zeppelin - now deflated- will make a full recovery.
"He'll be closely monitored at our centre to make sure infection doesn't set in before being released back into the wild once he's fully recovered."
The wheelchair was stationary on a platform and parallel to the tracks before it came into "multiple glancing contacts" with a passing freight train at Twyford station on 7 April, 2016.
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) said the wheelchair brakes were released by an "aerodynamic force".
The girl suffered a minor foot injury.
RAIB said the girl's mother was unaware the freight train, which was travelling at around 45mph, posed a hazard to the wheelchair, and therefore did not take any additional precautions beyond applying the brakes.
As a result of the investigation, the RAIB recommends the Rail Delivery Group, an organisation which looks how to improve services on the railway, should inform the public of the potential hazards from train slipstreams.
Farriss, 57, caught his left hand while operating a winch on his boat in Sydney last month, severing his ring finger.
He has undergone surgery twice to try to reattach the finger but has been left with permanent hand damage.
In an email to his brothers and bandmates he reportedly said the situation was "horrific".
"I don't know if I will be able to play properly again," local media quoted him as saying.
The band's manager, Chris Murphy, said Farriss was now home and undergoing physiotherapy to help him regain some movement
"He is getting the best possible care and we hope with time he will regain movement in his finger. This was a terrible accident, we are all here to support him."
Farriss has since thanked fans for their messages, posting on Facebook that he was "overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and well wishes".
"Thank you all, I'm feeling the love and it's really helping me get through this nightmare."
Farriss is a founding member of INXS, which was one of the world's biggest bands in the 1980s and 1990s.
The Australian band stayed together after the suicide of frontman Michael Hutchence in 1997, taking on a series of guest singers.
They officially retired in 2012 but their "Very Best" album, released in 2014, became Australia's top-selling album that year.
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The hosts earned the spot-kick when Alex Schalk went down under Erik Sviatchenko's challenge, but it seemed a clear dive from the County man.
Kieran Tierney had fired Celtic ahead before Michael Gardyne nodded the home side level after the break and Patrick Roberts made it 2-1 to the champions.
Celtic skipper Scott Brown was sent off after the penalty for a lunge on Boyce.
But Celtic are set to appeal against the red card, with the hearing not taking place until 28 April, meaning Brown is likely to be available for next Sunday's Scottish Cup semi-final against Rangers.
The result takes Ross County on to 33 points, two behind seventh-placed Kilmarnock and three clear of the relegation play-off spot.
Taking a point against the champions is a significant outcome for County, although the circumstances in which it was earned were far from ideal.
Whatever reason Schalk may offer for going down, Sviatchenko was not even close to making a tackle and it looked like obvious simulation.
Schalk simply threw himself to the ground and it is difficult to fathom how the officials managed to miss that and award a penalty.
Boyce showed tremendous nerve to drill home the spot kick to boost County's quest to avoid relegation.
Things got worse for Celtic when captain Brown earned a straight red card for a reckless late challenge on Boyce.
There had been some earlier niggle between the pair but Brown's anger over the penalty call may have been behind this rash moment.
Before Schalk's intervention, Celtic had reasserted their authority thanks to a piece of fine play from Patrick Roberts, who brilliantly nutmegged Kenny van der Weg before firing the ball through keeper Scott Fox.
The goalkeeper had to do better as he got down slowly and he also might have been at fault at Tierney's first-half opener which fizzed into the corner from 25 yards.
Celtic had regained the initiative in the latter stages and Stuart Armstrong was very unlucky with a free-kick that cracked off the crossbar.
The visitors were well in control before the late drama.
Jim McIntyre's County side were solid until Tierney's opener but once they conceded they faced something of a conundrum.
Goal difference is important so should they sit in and hope for a chance, or go for broke and risk further concession?
They came out after the break on the front foot and it paid off. Ryan Dow swung a deep cross in from the left and Gardyne powered a superb header in off the bar for his first goal of the season.
County kept going forward with Andrew Davies and Boyce going close.
The hosts' improvement prompted Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers into three substitutions, with one of those, Roberts, delivering what looked like the winner.
The conclusion was very unfortunate but it could be the difference between County staying in the Premiership or not.
Match ends, Ross County 2, Celtic 2.
Second Half ends, Ross County 2, Celtic 2.
Andrew Davies (Ross County) is shown the yellow card.
Liam Boyce (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Scott Brown (Celtic) is shown the red card.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Liam Boyce (Ross County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Liam Boyce (Ross County).
Scott Brown (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Ross County. Jonathan Franks replaces Michael Gardyne.
Goal! Ross County 2, Celtic 2. Liam Boyce (Ross County) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty Ross County. Alex Schalk draws a foul in the penalty area.
Jozo Simunovic (Celtic) is shown the yellow card.
Penalty conceded by Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic) after a foul in the penalty area.
Tim Chow (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Leigh Griffiths (Celtic).
Jason Naismith (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Leigh Griffiths (Celtic).
Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.
Substitution, Ross County. Christopher Routis replaces Jim O'Brien.
Foul by Jason Naismith (Ross County).
Scott Sinclair (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) left footed shot from long range on the left is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Ross County. Alex Schalk replaces Reghan Tumility.
Jim O'Brien (Ross County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jim O'Brien (Ross County).
Kieran Tierney (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Ross County. Conceded by Erik Sviatchenko.
Michael Gardyne (Ross County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Stuart Armstrong (Celtic).
Goal! Ross County 1, Celtic 2. Patrick Roberts (Celtic) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Cristian Gamboa.
Attempt saved. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Delay in match Liam Boyce (Ross County) because of an injury.
Substitution, Celtic. Patrick Roberts replaces James Forrest.
Substitution, Celtic. Leigh Griffiths replaces Moussa Dembele.
Substitution, Celtic. Cristian Gamboa replaces Tomas Rogic.
Foul by Ryan Dow (Ross County).
Jozo Simunovic (Celtic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Tim Chow (Ross County).
Scott Brown (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
It looked like the Gills had won it through Max Ehmer's 67th-minute opener, but Anderson earned the Spireites a vital point, just their sixth on the road all season, after firing home four minutes into stoppage time.
Gillingham started strongly at Priestfield as Jay Emmanuel-Thomas had a shot cleared off the line, while Rory Donnelly hit the post and then headed wide as the hosts largely bossed the first period.
They continued to create chances, as defender Ryan Jackson fired inches wide from 20 yards, before Scott Wagstaff missed with the goal at his mercy from Emmanuel-Thomas's superb cross.
Gills keeper Stuart Nelson, largely a spectator, saved brilliantly from Rai Simons midway through the second period, and it proved to be vital as the Gills took the lead when Ehmer headed home seconds later from a long throw.
But Anderson popped up to score from close range after Ian Evatt's shot had been blocked to secure a priceless draw.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Gillingham 1, Chesterfield 1.
Second Half ends, Gillingham 1, Chesterfield 1.
Stuart Nelson (Gillingham) is shown the yellow card.
Tom Anderson (Chesterfield) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Gillingham 1, Chesterfield 1. Tom Anderson (Chesterfield) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Gillingham. Lee Martin replaces Bradley Dack.
Foul by Ryan Jackson (Gillingham).
Reece Mitchell (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Gillingham. Mark Byrne replaces Jay Emmanuel-Thomas.
Rory Donnelly (Gillingham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Rory Donnelly (Gillingham).
Osman Kakay (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Gillingham. Josh Parker replaces Cody McDonald.
Hand ball by David Faupala (Chesterfield).
Foul by Rory Donnelly (Gillingham).
Osman Kakay (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Max Ehmer.
Attempt blocked. Osman Kakay (Chesterfield) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Osman Kakay (Chesterfield) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Scott Wagstaff (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Chesterfield).
Foul by Max Ehmer (Gillingham).
David Faupala (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Adedeji Oshilaja (Gillingham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Ryan Jackson (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by David Faupala (Chesterfield).
Max Ehmer (Gillingham) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Rory Donnelly (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Anderson (Chesterfield).
Substitution, Chesterfield. Sylvan Ebanks-Blake replaces Dan Gardner.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Ian Evatt.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Reece Mitchell.
Goal! Gillingham 1, Chesterfield 0. Max Ehmer (Gillingham) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ryan Jackson following a corner.
Attempt saved. David Faupala (Chesterfield) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Rai Simons replaces Kristian Dennis.
Rory Donnelly (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Anderson (Chesterfield).
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Josh Wright.
Attempt blocked. Reece Mitchell (Chesterfield) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
The French president, Francois Hollande, stood in a crowd of students in Paris at Sorbonne university.
Across the French capital people paid their respects.
In Berlin, in Germany, people gathered outside the French Embassy building.
Throughout the weekend, people around the world have been gathering in towns and cities lighting candles and leaving messages.
France was shocked when it's capital city was attacked on Friday night.
More than 120 people lost their lives and the French police and army were called in to help keep people safe.
The radical Islamist group that calls itself Islamic State has said that it carried out the attacks.
IS are an extremist group based mainly in Syria and Iraq.
There are lots of problems and fighting in Syria and Iraq.
One cause is the difference between two groups - Sunnis and Shias - who both follow the religion of Islam.
World leaders have been offering their support to France.
The British Prime Minister David Cameron said, "Our thoughts and prayers are with the French people. We will do whatever we can to help."
Over the weekend sports fans and players also stopped to show their respect to Paris.
A minute's silence was held at the World ATP tennis finals in London on Sunday.
England players also stood in silence during their training session on Monday morning.
England are due to play France in a friendly match on Tuesday November 17th.
Mahmoud Ablehamid Soliman opened the scoring for the Egyptians, before Oussama Chita equalised for Algeria.
The tournament, which features eight African countries, also serves as a qualifying tournament for next year's Olympic Games with the top three finishers booking a place in Rio.
Nigeria survived a second-half onslaught to beat Mali 3-2 in the other Group B match to complete a joyful weekend for coach Samson Siasia .
The mother of former national team star Siasia was released Saturday 12 days after being kidnapped from a southern Nigerian village by gunmen.
Siasia, who was in the Gambia preparing the Olympic hopefuls when the abduction occurred, said he had spoken to his "happy" 72-year-old mother before the Mali match.
Mali hit the woodwork after just 35 seconds before Junior Ajayi Oluwafemi scored twice and Muhammed Usman once to build a 3-0 half-time lead for Nigeria.
A resurgent Mali scored twice within 11 minutes to trail by only one goal with a quarter of the game left, and missed several chances to equalise against the constantly back-pedalling Nigerians.
Adama Niane converted a penalty to offer the Malians a glimmer of hope and Soulyemane Sissoko claimed a second goal on 65 minutes from close range.
Meanwhile, hosts Senegal opened the tournament on Saturday with a 3-1 victory over South Africa in the first match of Group A in Dakar.
Two goals from Ibrahima Keita and a late Sidy Sarr strike helped the hosts secure their win on Saturday, with South Africa's goal coming from Phumlani Ntshangase.
After a bright opening spell from South Africa, it was Senegal who took the lead after 16 minutes, with Ibrahima Keita scoring from the penalty spot.
Just four minutes later, Senegal made it 2-0 with Keita grabbing his second, this time from open play.
In an eventful first half, South Africa hauled themselves back into the game just before the half-hour mark.
Phumlani Ntshangase made it 2-1 with another penalty in the 28th minute to give South Africa hope going into the second half.
But Senegal increased their lead three minutes from time as substitute Sidy Sarr struck to make it 3-1 to the hosts.
Later on Saturday, Tunisia defeated Zambia 2-1 in the second Group A fixture.
Haithem Jouini put Tunisia ahead after just four minutes.
Zambia equalised in the 15th minute through Ronaldo Kampamba.
It was 1-1 at the break, and the match looked to be heading for a draw until Jouini struck for a second time six minutes from time to hand the Tunisians the victory.
It means that Senegal lead the Group A standings.
Police, fire and ambulance crews were called to the river near The Myrke at 19:00 BST on Friday.
South Central Ambulance Service said another man was taken to Wexham Park Hospital suffering the effects of cold.
Police warned anyone looking for the missing man not to enter the water as they could also be in danger.
Supt Kate Ford of Thames Valley Police said: "They should search from the bank only and, if they see anything they think is significant, they should speak to a police officer at the scene."
An ambulance service spokeswoman said: "We were called at 19:02 to reports of people in the water at Jubilee River.
"We sent two ambulance crews, an ambulance officer and Thames Valley Air Ambulance."
The band reclaimed the title after a Scottish band, Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia, triumphed last year.
Before that the Northern Irish band had won the title four times in a row between 2011 and 2014.
More than 800 pipers and drummers from 235 bands took part in the competition in Glasgow which came at the end of the week-long Piping Live! festival.
This year, competition came from bands from as far away as the US, Australia and South Africa.
Organisers said 200 events took place as part of the festival with performances around the city.
Inverary and District finished second in the grade one event, followed by St Laurence O'Toole from the Republic of Ireland in third.
This year was the 30th in a row that Glasgow has hosted the World Pipe Band Championships, or The Worlds as they are known.
Ian Embelton, chief executive of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association, said: "We have enjoyed an incredible two days of thrilling competition from pipe bands who have committed so much time, energy and talent in pursuit of the ultimate prize.
"The planning for next year is already under way and I am looking forward to seeing what we can do to build further on this fantastic occasion."
The Lord Provost of Glasgow and chieftain of the world pipe band championships, Sadie Docherty, said: "There is nothing like the sights and sounds of Glasgow Green during the world pipe band championships and the city remains proud to welcome the event and so many pipers and drummers to the city every summer.
"It has been a wonderful championships full of outstanding performances and more than a little drama. Congratulations to everyone who took part."
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He said it was remarkable that no information from those responsible for the shooting, or on its periphery, had ever come forward.
The coroner said the inquest at Belfast Coroners' Court may be the last opportunity to do so.
No-one has ever been convicted in connection with the killings.
The men were shot dead on 5 January 1976 after IRA gunmen stopped their van and asked which among them was a Catholic, and instructed that man to leave the scene
The main witness at Monday's hearing, retired police officer Charles Hamilton, told the inquest that the IRA attack was not expected.
He said if anyone had suggested it as a possibility he would have said they were wrong, because they were all innocent men and had no connection to the security forces.
The former detective identified a number of men suspected of being involved in the killings. Rather than naming the suspects they were given code numbers instead.
The inquest into the killings resumed last week after being adjourned in 2016 due to a police investigation.
The court heard last Wednesday that a key suspect had been linked to almost 50 murders.
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He said Indonesia respected human rights but there would be "no compromise" when it came to punishing such sexual crimes.
Indonesia passed controversial laws earlier this month authorising chemical castration for paedophiles.
The laws were subject to fierce debate in parliament.
The Indonesian Doctors Association says its members should not be involved as the procedure would violate medical ethics.
Chemical castration is the use of drugs to reduce sex drive and libido, without sterilisation or removing organs.
The paedophiles who want treatment
President Widodo said "our constitution respects human rights, but when it comes to sexual crimes there is no compromise".
"We are strong and we will be very firm. We will hand out the maximum penalty for sexual crimes."
He added: "In my opinion… chemical castration, if we enforce it consistently, will reduce sex crimes and wipe them out over time."
In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC's Yalda Hakim, President Widodo - also known as Jokowi - discussed topics including the South China Sea, corruption, a recent tax amnesty and the government's stance on homosexuality.
Earlier this month, an advert for a new youth ambassador position stipulated that members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community need not apply.
The government advert said the post was only open to applicants not involved in "sexually deviant behaviour".
President Widodo said there was no discrimination against minorities, but he added: "We are the world's largest Muslim nation and we have religious norms. You have to remember that and know that. We have social norms."
You cannot cure paedophilia by chemical castration.
How long can it last? Let's say the patient has it for three years while in jail. But after his release he can go to a doctor and reverse it with hormone therapy. Chemical castration is not completely irreversible, so it is not effective.
Furthermore, the punishment cannot be done as long as the executor is a medical doctor, because we have to uphold medical ethics. When you become a doctor, you have to swear that you won't do anything harmful to any human being.
My message to all doctors across Indonesia is that as long as you're a doctor, you cannot do it, even if the government says it is to punish a rapist.
It is harmful and it's against human rights.
Dr Prijo Sidipratomo is chairman of the medical ethics committee at the Indonesian Doctors Association.
On the subject of the ongoing maritime rights dispute in the South China Sea, Mr Widodo defended Indonesia's stepped-up military presence around the Natuna Islands.
He said the Indonesian military was acting to stop illegal fishing in the area.
"This is our natural resources, this is Indonesian wealth. So from now on illegal fishing vessels cannot play around with us," he said.
"The second thing is Natuna is our territory. Natuna is in Indonesia. So if we want to do military operations, war games, then it's our right. In terms of sovereignty I will never compromise."
He also said the government was cracking down on corruption.
"Nine ministers, 19 governors, 300 more local leaders [and] 100 parliamentarians are in jail because of corruption," he said.
"We are harsh and strict on corruption. We will be consistent in our harshness to improve the situation."
In September, thousands of Indonesian workers protested in Jakarta against a government tax amnesty scheme.
It was meant to plug a budget deficit but unions say it unfairly pardoned wealthy tax dodgers.
"It's not really about how much money we earn from it, how much money is repatriated," President Widoko said.
"The most important thing is this is the start of reforming the tax system in Indonesia.
"We want to expand the tax system, we want to improve the tax system and we want to build trust and faith among people in our tax system so that industry and businesses that pay tax they believe that their money will go to the good of the country and be used to build things."
The Canaries went 3-1 ahead before Liverpool fought back and Adam Lallana scored a 95th-minute winner.
"I think if we'd have had a bit more communication within the team we maybe hold that 3-1 lead longer which makes Liverpool a bit more nervous," debutant Naismith told BBC Radio Norfolk.
"That's probably the biggest thing we will be disappointed with."
He continued: "A lot of people will look at the defence, but it's the whole way through the team. They passed the ball through us far too easily at times and that's something we need to improve on as a team if we want to pick up results."
Naismith marked his first Canaries appearance since his move from Everton with a goal, but Liverpool overcame the two-goal deficit and went 4-3 ahead after James Milner capitalised on a poor Russell Martin backpass, only for Sebastien Bassong to make it 4-4 in injury time. Lallana's dramatic late intervention then gave the visitors all three points.
The defeat left Norwich just one place above the relegation zone.
"When you lose that many goals in a game, [communication] is going to play its part in why it's happening," said Naismith.
"I've only been here a few days, but what I've seen in that short time is there's a lot of quality that can go forward and I think we showed that with the goals scored."
Depending on whether you are in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales or England, you will find different bandings being used.
But what does each mean and how many calls fall into each category?
This was how ambulance services across the UK described emergency calls for decades. It is still used in Northern Ireland and, until last week, was in place in Scotland.
It encompasses a wide range of calls, which could be said to be potentially life-threatening.
It includes conditions such as cardiac arrest and when a person has no pulse or is not breathing, all the way through to strokes, seizures and road traffic accidents.
About a third of calls in Northern Ireland fall into this category, which is subject to the eight-minute target.
The rest of the calls in this system are designated category B (serious but not life-threatening) which includes conditions such as fractures or category C (not serious) that are more likely to lead to a referral to another service or telephone advice being given rather than a face-to-face response.
The Welsh ambulance service changed the way it started categorising calls in October 2015. Up to that point it was also using category A.
But it changed to a red, amber, green system. Red is the smallest group and includes conditions that are the most immediately life-threatening, such as cardiac arrest. These account for only one in 20 calls in Wales. This band is subject to the eight-minute target.
Amber includes life-threatening and serious calls, such as strokes and chest pains. These would have traditionally fallen into the old category A band. It also includes some of the conditions that would have been in the top end of category B, such as fractures. It is not subject to the eight-minute target.
Green are non-serious calls that are unlikely to need an ambulance response and instead can be dealt with by other health service or by the individual themselves.
Scotland has just introduced a similar system to this one.
England was the first UK nation to move away from the category A model. It split the group into red 1 and red 2 in 2012.
Red 1 was a small band, incorporating cardiac arrests and other life-or-death conditions. It accounts for only 2% of calls and is subject to the eight-minute target.
Red 2 encompasses other serious and life-threatening cases, such as strokes and seizures. It accounts for 30% of calls and is subject to the eight-minute target. But unlike Red 1 calls, control rooms are allowed some time to assess these cases before the clock starts. It was one minute, but has just been increased to four.
The rest of the calls that require a response by the ambulance service are classed as green. There are no national targets to reach these, instead standards are set locally. A goal of 60 minutes is commonly used.
Plunkett, who took 4-73 in Somerset's first innings, was unable to bowl because of a suspected groin injury, while Sidebottom has a back problem.
Tim Rouse (69) and James Hildreth (85 not out) shared 144 as the visitors closed on 234-3, a lead of 289.
Yorkshire had earlier been dismissed for 213 after resuming on 159-7.
Adil Rashid was the last man out for 49 - the home side's biggest contributor - while Sidebottom did at least manage to bat at number 11.
But he was unable to feature at all with the ball, while England fast bowler Plunkett's workload was limited to only six overs at the start of Somerset's innings.
Despite already holding a 55-run lead, the loss of opener Edward Byrom (40) at 80-2 had left the game still marginally in the balance.
But Hildreth's 111-ball 85, his first 50 of the summer, and Rouse's maiden half-century for Somerset put the visitors in control heading into day four.
Lord Turnbull ruled that the IndyCamp group should be evicted from their Holyrood camp after a lengthy case.
Four different groups have lodged appeals against the ruling, making a range of arguments against eviction.
The inner house will consider the case on 19 and 20 October after Lord Malcolm accepted calls to fast-track it.
The court ruled against the campers in July after a seven-month legal battle, when Lord Turnbull concluded that evicting the IndyCamp would not breach their human rights.
He criticised the campaigners, who want to remain outside Holyrood until Scotland is independent, as "rather selfish or even arrogant" for seeking long-term occupation of the site, saying they had shown "open disregard" for others.
The campers maintain they have a right to protest and freedom of assembly at Holyrood, and appealed against Lord Turnbull's judgement.
Parliament chief executive Sir Paul Grice pushed for an accelerated appeal process, but warned MSPs that the "intransigence" of those occupying the camp could see the stand-off continue for some time.
The campers, who originally styled themselves as the "sovereign and indigenous peoples of Scotland", have split into a number of different groups for the appeal.
Four different arguments will be heard at the October sitting.
Arthur Gemmell, who was a second respondent in the original case, said that his arguments had "affected Lord Turnbull's decision on the vigil" negatively, and said he wanted his case heard separately.
Some of the campers earlier issued a written letter distancing themselves from the views of another respondent, Richard McFarlane, who had claimed in court that Christ had returned to earth and had given permission to the camp to use the parliamentary estate. He will also make a separate case on behalf of himself and another respondent.
Two of the campers continue to style themselves as the "sovereign and indigenous peoples". One of them, who asked to be referred to in court only as "David", demanded that a jury sit on the case, as he claimed that "a trial by the state is illegal" and that the court "might be inept or corrupt".
The remaining four respondents will make a fourth case, and have stated their intention to appoint a Mr Keatings as a lay representative.
Lord Malcolm, who declined a call from David to recuse himself from the case as well as rejecting bringing in a jury, said the court would consider all four arguments at a two-day hearing in October.
The John Gosden-trained filly was ridden by Frankie Dettori to Oaks success at Epsom and in Ireland.
Enable is favourite ahead of last year's winner Highland Reel.
The three-year-old will face a host of older horses in one of the principal clashes of the season between the Classic generation and its elders.
As well as Highland Reel and Gosden's Jack Hobbs, both aged five, the four-year-olds Idaho and Ulysses, the recent Eclipse Stakes winner, are all due to take part.
Teddy Grimthorpe, racing manager for Enable's owner Prince Khalid Abdullah, told BBC Sport: "Enable had a little blow [on the gallops] yesterday, and everyone was happy.
"She's fine this morning so she'll be declared for the race tomorrow."
Dettori, writing in his column for bookmaker Ladbrokes, said he was "really excited" to be back with Enable.
The jockey - who missed Royal Ascot in June following a shoulder injury, added: "She was the reason I came back from injury so early. She really is special. I pushed myself so I could ride her in Ireland and it was worth it."
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Australian Fisher left the Premiership club on Monday after saying he needed to "make room for someone else" after Saturday's loss to Harlequins.
Defence coach Jonny Bell has been named interim head coach until the summer.
"I'd be surprised if we don't take an external appointment as head coach," Vaughan told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.
"We are probably looking for somebody who has already had head-coach experience, to keep us moving in the right direction. We have had interest from very talented people.
"We are already moving down the track on an appointment and hopefully we'll be able to make an announcement fairly shortly."
Vaughan was also keen to stress that the potential takeover of the Cherry and Whites by Montpellier owner Mohed Altrad would have no influence on the recruitment process.
"There is zero impact, interest or involvement from anybody outside the club with regards to this appointment," Vaughan added. "Myself and David Humphreys are leading that and will be the total decision-makers on any appointment.
"If there is a swift appointment then hopefully it will just serve to show people that the autonomy is there anyway."
Gloucester have had "discussions" with the France-based billionaire but any takeover deal needs approval from the Rugby Football Union, French Rugby Federation, European Professional Club Rugby and World Rugby bodies, as Montpellier compete in the European Champions Cup as well as the French Top 14.
The Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) was "not a safe, effective or responsive service", said the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
The report said there were also concerns about a lack of beds and "urgent action" was needed.
The trust said it would improve services and put patients first.
The CQC report found:
The report recommends leadership "must be more visible and accessible to staff".
But the report also said: "Staff were kind, caring and responsive to people and were skilled in the delivery of care."
Dr Paul Lelliott, CQC's deputy chief Inspector of hospitals, said: "We found a number of serious problems when we inspected the services run by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.
"We were concerned about the safety and quality of care provided by some of the trust's services," he added.
"We were also struck by the low morale of many of the staff that we interviewed who told us that their voices were not heard by those managing the trust."
Trust chief executive Michael Scott said: "Our priority is to make sure we work with staff to improve the services we provide across Norfolk and Suffolk.
"We are under new management, the new team is bedding in, and there is no complacency on our part about the need to continue to deliver improvements.
"I would like to assure our patients, staff and our partners that this is a turning point for the trust and we will continue to do everything possible to address all of the recommendations the CQC has made."
A spokesman for the Campaign to Save Mental Health in Norfolk and Suffolk said: "The regulator confirms what our campaign has consistently said for more than a year."
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Along with key defender Ben Davies, Ramsey is suspended for the historic semi-final after being booked for handball in the 3-1 win over Belgium.
"It was a sort of natural reaction and I knew straight away it was a yellow," said the 25-year-old midfielder.
"I'm really gutted. I'm confident in the players we have to step in and get us to the final."
Ramsey made two of Wales' goals as part of a sparkling individual display that helped them reach the last four of a major tournament for the first time.
The influential Arsenal player now has four assists in five games in France, the joint-highest in the finals along with Belgium forward Eden Hazard.
Ramsey, whose other booking came in stoppage-time during the last-16 win over Northern Ireland, added: "It was up there with the best performances of my career, especially on the stage that it was.
"I wanted to stand up and be counted, so I am delighted I was able to help my team and grab a couple of assists that meant we won quite comfortably in the end.
"Now we have to beat Portugal. I am sure it will sink in before then that I will not be playing - but I will be right behind my team, cheering them on and kicking every ball. I will be right in the mix of it, so hopefully they can do it."
Davies, who plays on the left-hand side of three centre-backs, will also miss the biggest night in Welsh football history after his caution for a first-half foul on Kevin de Bruyne.
Like Ramsey, the Tottenham defender has played in every Wales game in France, but is suspended after picking up two bookings - his other came for a foul on Adam Lallana during the 2-1 defeat by England in the group stage.
West Ham's James Collins is likely to replace Davies against Portugal, while Jonny Williams could come into midfield for Ramsey.
"Obviously it is a blow because Ben and Aaron have started every game for us," said fellow defender James Chester.
"Aaron has undoubtedly got amazing ability, but the amount of work he puts in sometimes gets overlooked, while I think Ben has been our stand-out defender in the tournament.
"The biggest thing we have in our squad now is strength in depth and players who are playing at the top level - so hopefully it will not hamper us too much."
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Other Wales players talked about how emotional the dressing room was after the Belgium game, and manager Chris Coleman spoke of his sympathy for the suspended duo.
When he stopped to face the media in the early hours of Saturday, Ramsey was clearly torn between immense pride at his part in a memorable victory and the knowledge he will only feature again at Euro 2016 if Wales reach the final at Paris' Stade de France on 10 July.
"It was a very special night for us," Ramsey added. "We have a great team, great staff and great fans - and when you have the right balance then special nights like this can happen.
"Of course everyone is ready to step in for myself and Ben. Everyone wants to achieve something special for each other. We are a team and we showed it against Belgium.
"The fact it is Gareth Bale versus [Real Madrid team-mate] Cristiano Ronaldo on Wednesday is going to be mentioned - but Gareth will tell you himself that it is not about that.
"It is about this team showing what we are capable of doing and getting to the final."
The region has asked the Treasury for control of more budgets in areas including transport and housing.
Tameside Council leader Kieran Quinn said the money would prove the government was "serious" about its plan to boost the North of England economy.
The government said it was "determined" to build a more balanced economy.
Mr Quinn said: "We know [Chancellor] George Osborne's view and we know that there are people within the cabinet who don't like the speed of change.
"This is a very wide-ranging and significant submission to government which absolutely shows Greater Manchester's ambitions.
"If we don't get close to what our ambitions are then I think it will show that in reality this was a pre-election matter to get them over a line."
The Northern Powerhouse is Mr Osborne's plan for boosting the economies of the North of England through devolved powers and greater investment in infrastructure.
In a statement the government said; "We are absolutely determined to end the decades-old gap between the North and South by building a more balanced and resilient economy for working people.
"Greater Manchester broke new ground by being the first area to secure a landmark deal devolving far-reaching powers over transport, housing, planning and policing, and we welcome its new proposals to have an even greater say.
"This will now be considered as part of the spending review process."
The results of the review will be announced on 25 November.
Gloucestershire looked in trouble at 157-5 before the pair came together.
But Marshall made 123 and fellow New Zealander Noema-Barnett struck 84 as the hosts finished on 336-5.
England's Moeen Ali (0-32), playing his first game for Worcestershire in 2016, failed to pick up a wicket.
Phytophthora ramorum was first found in Dumfries and Galloway in 2010 but is now widespread in the region.
Forestry Commission Scotland said the impact at the Galloway Forest Park was particularly stark.
It said the only way to tackle the disease was to fell infected trees and those nearby over the next few years.
Keith Muir, head of tourism for the FCS team in Galloway, said: "The impact on Galloway forests will be huge.
"Within Galloway Forest Park, much of the larch can be found in highly visible areas, often close to our visitor centres, walking and mountain biking routes.
"There is a lot of forestry activity going on at the moment and this will continue for the foreseeable future so this is really a call to make all visitors - and locals - aware of the need for additional caution."
He said efforts were now being made to remove as many larch trees as possible from the most heavily-visited areas before the busier 2014 tourist season.
"This will mean that there will be a lot of heavy machinery on site and more timber lorries than usual working in the forests and some of the minor roads," he said.
"Unfortunately this means that there will be ongoing disruptions for visitors and trail users and there will be times when certain routes and car parks will be closed.
"There will be diversions in place, which might change from day to day, so people need to take extra care, especially local residents who visit the forest on a daily basis."
He apologised for any inconvenience and said every effort would be made to limit disruption.
"The forest park very much remains open and visitors are extremely welcome but we would ask that everyone make themselves aware of and observe the biosecurity guidance notices on site and online," he added.
Researchers scoured the clothes and boots of tourists and scientists visiting the continent and found that most were carrying plant seeds.
Alien plants already grow on the fast-warming Antarctic Peninsula.
Writing inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the team says the plants are likely to spread as the climate warms.
"People in the past have been sceptical, saying, 'It's largely ice-covered so it's unlikely that plants will establish themselves'," said lead researcher Steven Chown from Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
"[They're] forgetting that probably less than 1%, but still a significant area, is ice-free - some of that's in the peninsula region, and it's been warming very quickly."
The Antarctic Peninsula, which runs up towards the southern tip of South America, has warmed by about 3C over half a century, much faster than the global average.
As a result, ice cover is dwindling.
Many islands in the sub-Antarctic region have seen significant ecological changes due to invasive species that have either arrived accidentally or deliberately.
The research team believes that the Antarctic Peninsula and some other areas around the continent's coast could see similar changes in decades to come.
"Antarctica has a native ecology - a very well-established microbial ecology, and on the peninsula it has two species of indigenous plants," Prof Chown told BBC News.
"And it will be changed by species coming in."
The marine environment is changing too, with giant crabs establishing themselves in waters that were previously too cold.
During International Polar Year in 2007-08, the research team took samples from tourists and tourism operators, and scientists and their support staff.
On average, each visitor carried 9.5 seeds into the White Continent, though scientists carried far more each than tourists.
"What we found was that people's boots and bags were the things that had most material attached," said Kevin Hughes from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
"I guess the tongue of the boot is an ideal place for seeds to be caught when you're tying up your laces. But we did find them in various bits of clothing as well."
Extrapolating from their figures, this means that about 70,000 seeds arrive on Antarctica each year.
The places that tourists visit tend to be the warmest bits of the continent - which are also the places where seeds are most likely to survive.
The researchers found that although many of the seeds originated in South America, a large number came from the Northern Hemisphere.
About half of them came from cold regions and would probably be viable in the warmer bits of Antarctica.
The researchers also collated evidence from other scientists on organisms that have already established themselves.
Deception Island, 100km north-west of the peninsula, has already been colonised by two grass species and two springtails - tiny animals that live in topsoil and leaf litter.
On the western slopes of the peninsula itself, the grass speciesPoa annuahas established itself close to four research stations - implying that it has probably been brought, inadvertently, by visiting scientists.
Poa annuahas already taken over several sub-Antarctic islands where it dominates vegetation.
The researchers suggest that measures be taken as soon as possible to tackle invasive species that are already there, and to prevent the arrival of new ones, as far as possible.
Dr Hughes has already "eradicated" a South American member of the aster family from Deception Island, where tourists regularly stop to visit an old whaling base, by the simple measure of pulling up the single specimen he found.
But with some of the more widespread species, they fear it could already be too late.
The International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators (IAATO), which covers most companies in the area, already takes pains to make sure tourists arrive seed-free; and some countries' science organisations have similar requirements.
"We can use guidelines for vehicles, make sure cargo hasn't got seeds and invertebrates on it, make sure clothing is clean and that we bring fresh boots," said Dr Hughes.
"[However,] I think it's safe to say that wherever people go, it's inevitable that they bring other species with them; and no matter what we do, our best efforts will only reduce the rate at which species are introduced, we'll never prevent it altogether."
There is no legal obligation to clean up accidentally introduced alien species under the Antarctic Treaty.
But this team of scientists believes there is a moral obligation to do so, and to block new arrivals as far as possible.
One complicating factor for the Antarctic Peninsula and its islands is that some seeds are known to arrive carried on the wind from South America.
But, argues Prof Chown, there is still an element of human agency about these wind-blown cases in that the plants can only establish themselves under climatic conditions created largely through humanity's production of greenhouse gases.
If nothing is done, he says, small pockets of the unsullied continent may, in 100 years, look very like sub-Antarctic islands such as South Georgia where alien plants and animals, particularly rats, have dramatically changed the local ecology.
"South Georgia is a great sentinel of what could happen in the area in the next few hundred years," he said.
"My suspicion is that if you didn't take any biosecurity measures you'd end up with a system that would look like a weedy environment with rats, sparrows andPoa annua."
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In a statement released at their annual conference, they said violence was getting more ferocious than ever.
The government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner responded by saying this was a "deliberate attempt" to blame it for the insecurity.
Her administration has had clashes with the Catholic church before.
On Friday's statement, the bishops focused mainly on the rising violence.
"We notice with pain and concern that Argentina is sick with violence. Some symptoms are clear, others more subtle," they wrote.
"Criminal acts have not only risen in number but in aggressiveness - a violence ever more ferocious and merciless."
It says that the Church wishes to see judges and prosecutors acting swiftly, independently and calmly.
They also criticised "public and private" corruption, calling it a real "social cancer", which causes "injustice and death".
However the bishops warned people against acts of vengeance or taking justice into their own hands.
Argentina's chief of cabinet, Jorge Capitanich, reacted to the statement saying there was a "deliberate attempt" by the opposition to blame Mrs Fernandez de Kirchner's government for the violence.
"Many of those who want to be presidential candidates [in October 2015] have had serious trouble on this issue in their districts," Mr Capitanich said.
The bishops' statement also points a finger at the media for not always reporting "objectively and respecting privacy" and for promoting "divisions and aggressiveness".
Mrs Fernandez de Kirchner's relationship with the church has never been as tense as that of her predecessor and late husband, Nestor Kirchner.
In 2010, when Argentina became the first South American country to legalise gay marriage, then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio attacked the government.
There have also been clashes over the issue of abortion.
However, since the appointment of Pope Francis, in 2013, relations have thawed to some extent, with the president meeting the leader of the church three times since then, correspondents say.
Ko hit a final round seven-under 65 as she eased to victory by nine shots to overtake South Korean Inbee Park, who was not playing in the tournament.
It was the 18-year-old's fourth round of under 70 as she became the youngest to earn 10 wins on the LPGA Tour.
England's Charley Hull (70) was fourth on 10 under, while Scotland's Catriona Matthew (75) finished on three under.
The Nigerians beat Algeria 2-1 on Saturday to win the trophy having already sealed a place at the Olympics.
Despite the success Siasia does not feel his side were at their best.
"We are happy we've won a very difficult tournament but there's a lot of work to be done between now and August," he told BBC Sport.
"I wasn't even sure we could make it to the final but through hard work and intense discussions after every game ensured the boys corrected their mistakes - we came out victorious.
"There can be no substitute for hard work, concentration, serious focus and that's what we're going to do.
"If you don't get it right, you're in trouble at a major tournament like the Olympics. We still have a lot of tidying up to do over all.
"I have to thank the players for what they have done but they should not let it get to their heads because we need to correct our mistakes and improve our game before the Olympics."
Even though Nigeria failed to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, after crashing out in the group stages of the maiden African Under-23 Championship in Morocco in 2011, they boast a proud record at The Games.
They made Olympic football history in 1996 by becoming the first African team to win the gold medal and were also runners-up at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when Siasia also coached the side.
Meanwhile, Nigeria and runners-up Algeria alongside South Africa will represent Africa at Rio 2016 Olympics, all of the qualifiers will be allowed to include three players over 23 in their final squad for the Gamesa.
It is the first time that both the South Africa men's and women's football teams have qualified for an Olympics.
Branches in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Llangefni on Anglesey, Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, Abergele, Conwy county and Monmouth are all affected.
The move is part of a UK-wide overhaul of the UK's second largest mutual, which is putting 440 jobs at risk.
Yorkshire will shut 20 branches this year and it will close down the Norwich and Peterborough building society brand, which it now owns.
It follows an announcement by HSBC on Tuesday that nine of its branches would close in Wales.
The ability of relatives of the 11-month-old girl to protect her from harm was being assessed by Cheshire East Council's social workers.
Mr Justice MacDonald, sitting in Liverpool, said the assessments contained "patent defects".
The council said it had not met the "high professional standards" expected.
The private family court hearing was considering where the girl should live after she suffered serious head injuries while living with her parents.
A previous court judgement found she had sustained head injuries on two separate occasions that were "on the balance of probabilities" caused by her mother.
The court also found the girl's father had caused her emotional harm.
The council had chosen some relatives to care for the baby but other family members had objected.
None of the family members involved can be named for legal reasons.
The judge said assessments contained "patent defects" caused by social work which was "at best lackadaisical and at worst in contravention of statutory guidance".
He named two social workers who he said had carried out "inadequate and fundamentally flawed" assessments, adding that "the serious mistakes made by Cheshire East Borough Council in this case are of very real concern and must not be repeated".
Kath O'Dwyer, responsible for children's services at the local authority, said: "Cheshire East Council apologises unreservedly for the failings highlighted in the court judgement.
"Lessons will be learned and staff training and procedures will be reviewed and reinforced to ensure such failings are not repeated".
Further assessments of the relatives' ability to care for the child have been ordered by the judge, with the costs to be met by Cheshire East Council.
Republican Matt Rinaldi accused a Hispanic Democrat of "threatening his life" and said another Democrat had assaulted him.
It happened after he told a group of Democrats he had called Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
The protest targeted a bill to make local police enforce immigration laws.
The bill is aimed at so-called "sanctuary cities", where many undocumented migrants live and officials including police are not allowed to ask about an individual's immigration status in the course of their duties.
President Trump has pledged to end the practice.
Protesters opposing the so-called SB4 bill began cheering and chanting from the public gallery of the capital building in Austin, bringing proceedings to a halt on the final day of the legislative session before they were removed by state troopers.
Mr Rinaldi then called ICE before reportedly walking over to a group of Hispanic legislators and telling them what he had done.
"This is BS. That's why I called ICE," ABC news agency quoted him as saying.
He later told the Texas Tribune that the protesters, some of whom he said had T-shirts saying "We are illegal and here to stay" were "disrupting and breaking the law".
Mr Rinaldi and several Democrats have traded lurid accusations about what happened next.
The Republican released a statement in which he accused Representative Poncho Nevarez of saying he would "get me on the way to my car" and said Ramon Romero had assaulted him while other Democrats had had to be held back by colleagues.
Mr Rinaldi said he had told Mr Nevarez that he would "shoot him in self-defence" and said he was currently under police protection.
Democrats meanwhile said Mr Rinaldi had shouted expletives at them and said his call to ICE showed how the new law could be abused.
"Matt Rinaldi looked into the gallery and saw Hispanic people and automatically assumed they were undocumented. He racial profiled every single person that was in the gallery today. He created the scenario that so many of us fear," the Texas Tribune quoted Mr Romero as saying.
Mr Nevarez branded Mr Rinaldi a "liar and a hateful man".
Mr Trump has called for a federal funding cut for those municipalities that refuse to hand over their undocumented residents and said he will focus on deporting criminals first.
Even before the Westgate shoot-out, al-Shabab had been trying to use English-language Twitter accounts to broadcast its message to the wider world. However, accounts thought to be used by the group had already been shut down by Twitter twice in the past nine months.
Each time, however, the account has re-appeared under a slightly different name.
During the attack on Westgate, an al-Shabab linked account began putting out messages saying the attack was in retaliation for Kenyan forces' "crimes" in Somalia and referring to "fighting the Kenyan kuffar [infidels] inside their own turf".
That account in turn was suspended and others have appeared over the course of the siege, all of them using similar language, causing confusion over which one, if any, was genuine.
On Tuesday yet another account was created, and an al-Shabab spokesman confirmed to the BBC that it was their account. As of Tuesday afternoon, it was still active.
Like the previous accounts, it has also taken to gloating over the attack and urging Kenyans to put pressure on their government to withdraw forces from Somalia.
One message reads: "You could have avoided all this and lived your lives with relative safety. Remove your forces from our country and peace will come #Westgate."
The account also tweeted a photo originally posted by another, mainly Arabic-language, account affiliated to al-Shabab claiming to show two of the attackers inside the shopping complex.
This feed has managed to stay on Twitter since being set up on 1 May. It has also been giving updates during the current crisis, some of them in English.
Clearly aware of how the crisis is being covered in the international media, it refers to rumours that Samantha Lewthwaite, the British widow of one of the bombers that carried out the 7/7 attack in London in 2005, is involved in the Westgate attack, even using the "white widow" nickname given to her in the press.
Kenyan security officials have also been tweeting prolifically throughout the crisis, with police providing many announcements in the form of tweets.
The inspector general of Kenya's national police service, David Kimaiyo, announced after the crisis began on Saturday that the area was surrounded by police and appealed for the public and media organisations to stay away from the scene.
He has been giving a regular stream of updates ever since, as has the account for the Kenyan police.
However, verifiable facts about the situation inside the mall have at times been difficult to come by, with an apparent lack of co-ordination in the messages being given by different branches of government.
For example, on Monday the Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed said in a US television interview that "two or three" Americans and one British woman were among the attackers.
On the same evening her cabinet colleague Joseph Ole Lenku sent a tweet stating: "All terrorists are male".
Also on Monday evening several official accounts began to suggest the crisis was drawing to a close. "We're in control of #Westgate", read one message from the interior ministry, while other accounts linked to Kenyan security forces retweeted congratulatory messages about the operation.
However, it soon became clear that the operation was in fact continuing and that not all of the attackers had been apprehended.
But arguably the most important use of social media by the authorities is to rally Kenyans behind the security forces as they respond to the attack using the hashtags #WeAreOne and #WithOneAccord, a reference to the Kenyan national anthem.
The prevailing mood among Kenyans on Twitter appears to be one of support for the operation against the militants and a feeling of solidarity in a time of crisis.
Kenyans are among the most active users of Twitter in Africa and have also been using social media in order to come together and organise initiatives to help the victims of the attack.
Many shared information about where to give blood - blogger Robert Alai shared a picture of children on roller-skates holding placards urging Kenyans to donate blood.
Others shared stories of Kenyans bringing food to journalists covering the siege and the security forces posted near the centre.
The double Olympic champion wants "to go back to the US and seek answers" after a "stressful week" that saw a BBC investigation allege his coach Alberto Salazar had been involved in doping.
There is no suggestion Farah has done anything wrong but he is "angry" at his name being "dragged through the mud".
Salazar strenuously denies the claims made by the BBC's Panorama programme.
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Farah spoke publicly about the allegations made in 'Catch me if you can' - broadcast on BBC One on Wednesday - for the first time on Saturday.
And on Sunday Farah, who had been scheduled to run in the 1500m in Birmingham, added: "This week has been very stressful and taken a lot out of me.
"I have not been able to focus properly on today's race and after the events of the last few days I feel emotionally and physically drained.
"I want to run well in the World Championships in Beijing (22-30 August) and have decided it is better for me to go back to the US, seek answers to my questions and get back into training.
"I apologise to the people who bought tickets to come and watch me race and ask for your understanding at this time."
On Saturday, Farah, who is the reigning Olympic and world champion over 5,000m and 10,000m, said he had spoken the day before with Salazar about the claims, and that the American had told him "it's just allegations".
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However, Farah insisted he wanted further assurances "as soon as possible".
The BBC investigation alleged that Salazar, who became Farah's coach in 2011, violated anti-doping rules and doped United States 10,000m record holder Galen Rupp in 2002 when the athlete was 16 years old.
Rupp, who would later become Farah's training partner, won Olympic 10,000m silver behind the Briton at London 2012. Rupp also denies the doping claims.
Salazar, Rupp and Farah's agent, Ricky Simms, were made aware of the BBC's allegations one month ago. Farah and his agent were together last weekend when he won the 10,000m in Eugene, Oregon.
After losing the first Test in Ahmedabad, they battled back to win in Mumbai and Kolkata, and draw the finale in Nagpur.
Here are some statistics from an enthralling series.
4: Number of Test series England have won in India. Alastair Cook joins David Gower (2-1 in 1984-85), Tony Greig (3-1 in 1976-77) and Douglas Jardine (2-0 in 1933-34) in leading England to victory there.
11: Wickets taken by Monty Panesar on his comeback Test at Mumbai. His 11-210 was the third best match figures at the Wankhede Stadium, behind Ian Botham (13-106), Laxman Sivaramakrishnan (12-181).
1984-85: India 1-2 England (5 Tests)
1992-93: India 3-0 England (3 Tests)
2001-02: India 1-0 England (3 Tests)
2005-06: India 1-1 England (3 Tests)
2008-09: India 1-0 England (2 Tests)
2012: India 1-2 England (4 Tests)
The series in numbers
12: Wickets taken by James Anderson in the series - and the combined haul of India's seamers from 190.3 overs.
16: Ian Bell's century in Nagpur was his first in India, in his 16th innings. Though he struggled with the bat and missed a Test after the birth of his first child, a couple of not-outs lifted his series average to 43.
18.66: Series batting average for India legend Sachin Tendulkar, who averages 23.80 for the year 2012 compared to a career average of 54.32.
19: Number of players in England's touring squad at one time. Fifteen played, while Eoin Morgan, Graham Onions, James Tredwell and Stuart Meaker did not feature in the Tests.
20: Wickets taken by Graeme Swann and Pragyan Ojha, the joint leading wicket-takers in the series.
34.66: Batting average of opener Nick Compton after his first four Tests.
44: Number of maiden overs bowled by both Panesar and Swann apiece in the series. They combined for 25 in the final Test.
44: The number of innings Swann had batted since his last Test fifty in 2009, before his glorious 56 in Nagpur.
60.75: Batting average of Ravichandran Ashwin, who is in the India side for his bowling. He took 14 wickets at 52.64 in four Tests.
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91: Wicketless overs bowled by England seamers Stuart Broad and Tim Bresnan in four combined appearances, at a cost of 299 runs.
93: Test batting average of 21-year-old Joe Root after scoring 73 and 20 not out on his debut.
99: Nmber of Tests played by off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who was dropped after the Mumbai Test and may struggle to play his 100th.
135: Samit Patel's bowling average for the series indicates he may have to earn future Test selection purely for his batting.
288: James Anderson, who ploughed a lone seam furrow for England for much of the series, is nine Test wickets away from equalling fourth-placed Derek Underwood in England's all-time bowlers' list, with Fred Trueman (307), Bob Willis (325) and eventually Ian Botham (383) in his sights.
438: Runs in the series by India's top scorer Cheteshwar Pujara, 185 higher than nearest rival Virender Sehwag.
528: Combined international wicket totals by Anderson (288 in Tests, 222 in ODIs and 18 in T20 internationals) and Botham (383 in Tests, 145 in ODIs), who now share the England record.
5: Set a new world record with centuries in his first five Tests as captain.
23: Cook became the first England batsman to score 23 Test centuries when he reached three figures in Kolkata. Walter Hammond, Colin Cowdrey, Geoff Boycott and Kevin Pietersen have scored 22.
27: Became the youngest batsman to pass 7,000 Test runs at 27 years 347 days
49.42: Cook's Test average has been pushed close to 50 by this series.
61.85: His Test average in India is only surpassed by his averages in Bangladesh (114) and Australia (65.12).
190: Top score for the series by Cook at Kolkata, his third highest in Tests.
866: Cook is now England's highest Test run-scorer in India, surpassing Mike Gatting's 863.
*Statistics correct as of 17 December 2012
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The inquest into the death of Conor O'Neill from north Belfast was held on Wednesday.
His mother, Ciara, described to the inquest how she felt on the day: "I saw Conor, and then the car and I knew my boy had no chance".
It's politics, politics politics on the front page of The Belfast Telegraph. The paper marks election day with a full page given to the news that Northern Ireland heads to the polls today.
It reports that turnout is expected to be high despite it being the second time voters have trudged to the polls in 10 months.
From marking your choice on the ballot paper to charging £10 for a signature, the Belfast Telegraph reports "GPs defend £10 fee for signing Irish passport".
The paper reports that a Belfast City Post Office employee said there had been a hike in complaints about the "surprise fees" charged for signing a patient's application form.
However, the British Medical Association tells the paper GPs are under "tremendous pressure".
"Signing a passport is not an essential service and that is why regrettably we have had to introduce a fee," it added.
You may have heard about the parish in County Galway which held a drive-thru service for those unable to attend the Ash Wednesday Mass at St Patrick's Church in Glenamaddy.
All the papers report on this story - The Irish News says "hundreds" of busy parishioners got their ashes to go, while the Daily Mirror, unable to resist a pun (who can?) heads its story with "Flash Wednesday".
If you thought being a bus driver was a cushy number, think again.
In The Belfast Telegraph we hear from two veteran bus drivers from Londonderry with 80 years behind the wheel between them.
Johnny McLaughlin and Noel Christy describe how hi-jacking was commonplace during the Troubles but told the paper they weren't nearly as bad as "being attacked" by drunk people.
Mr Christy describes having a gun held to his head as a "terrifying experience".
But, despite his dramatic career he says bus driving is a "great job" and little kindnesses, such as an unexpected bar of chocolate or word of praise from passengers make his job worth while.
Claustrophobics can look away now. The News Letter has an unusual sight on its front page. An (alive) man lying in coffin.
The man in question, is John Edwards, who is beginning a three-day stint in a speciality built underground coffin, in Willowfield church in Belfast, to "reach out to those with mental health issues".
The Irish News and Belfast Telegraph also report on his mission. He told the papers his Christian faith has helped him over come addiction.
"I know this is a radical move but people are contacting me who are suicidal or know friends and family who are. My plan is to speak to them from the grave before they get there and show them hope," he said.
It is worth noting that Mr Edwards looks in remarkably good spirits for a man about to spend the next three days underground.
Wales' two volunteer gliding squadrons (VGS) at MOD St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, and Swansea Airport are among 14 across the UK to be disbanded following a restructure.
Air cadets from Wales will now travel to England for glider activities.
Julian Brazier said the RAF remained committed to air cadet flying.
He said a reduced glider fleet would be operated by "significantly fewer but larger volunteer gliding squadrons".
In April 2014, all air cadet gliding was suspended following concerns over the airworthiness of the fleet.
Mr Brazier announced the restructure, adding negotiations had "failed to find a value for money approach to successfully repair and recover all 146 gliders."
St Athan's 634 Volunteer Gliding Squadron, which was founded in 1955, posted on Facebook: "It is with our deepest regret that we have been made aware that as of today 634 VGS will be disbanded along with several other VGS nation wide.
"After a long association within Wales for many decades air cadet gliding will be no more."
There were 473 recorded anti-Semitic incidents between January and June this year, a 53% rise from 2014, according to the Community Security Trust.
Trust chief executive David Delew welcomed increases in crime reporting, but said the figures caused "anxiety".
Home Secretary Theresa May said anti-Semitism had "no place in Britain".
The CST - a charity that monitors anti-Semitism - said the 473 recorded incidents included 44 violent assaults and two involving "extreme violence".
There were 35 instances of damage and desecration of Jewish property, and 88 cases of abuse or threats on social media, according to the charity.
One third were said to be random, spontaneous acts of verbal abuse directed at Jewish people in public.
The CST said the main explanation for the rise was a greater willingness to report incidents.
Separate figures - released by individual UK police forces - showed 459 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded by the Metropolitan Police in London in 2014/15, up from 193 in 2013/14.
In Greater Manchester, anti-Semitic reports increased from 82 to 172.
The figures come after a number of terror attacks in Europe.
A Kosher supermarket was targeted in the Paris attacks in January, while the following month a Jewish man was killed near the main synagogue in Copenhagen.
Mr Delew said: "The terrorist attacks on European Jews earlier this year, following the high levels of anti-Semitism in 2014, were a difficult and unsettling experience for our Jewish community.
"We welcome the apparent increase in reporting of anti-Semitic incidents, but regret the concern and anxiety about anti-Semitism that this reflects."
Mrs May said the government would act against "all those who seek to divide our country and sow discord".
Communities minister Baroness Williams said anti-Semitism and hate crimes were "vile, wrong and totally unacceptable in our society" and were "an affront to the British values that we hold dear".
"Whilst one anti-Semitic incident is one too many, it is positive that members of the Jewish community now feel more able to speak out against these pernicious crimes knowing that their government will hear their voice and act decisively to protect them," she said.
National Police Chiefs' Council spokesman Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan, said: "Both CST and police data show that reports of anti-semitism have risen since the terror attacks in Europe.
"Rather than a significant increase in the number of incidents taking place, this is likely to reflect the fact that Jewish communities are now more concerned about their safety and more vigilant."
He said patrols had been increased in "key areas" and chief officers regularly talked to community leaders of all faiths.
Police were committed to supporting victims, bringing offenders to justice and tackling the root causes, he added.
The merged National Union of Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers will become the biggest union of teachers and educators in Europe.
ATL general secretary Mary Bousted said with nearly half a million members, the profession would have a stronger voice.
NUT head Kevin Courtney said the union would be a game-changer.
The NEU will be formed on 1 September and will represent some 450,000 teachers, as well as other education workers such as teaching assistants and support staff.
Members of the NUT and ATL were balloted between 27 February and 21 March.
ATL members' response rate was 25% (29,841 votes), while the NUT's was 23% (67,865 votes).
Of the ATL members who voted, 73% (21,722) said Yes to the merger, while 97% (65,908) of NUT members said Yes.
Ms Bousted said the merger was a "historic moment".
"With nearly half a million members, we will speak with a stronger voice on behalf of education professionals and the children, young people and adults they support," she said.
"The government will need to listen when we speak on the key issues facing education - funding cuts, excessive workloads, the recruitment and retention crisis, the chaotic exam reform and accountability."
Mr Courtney said: "For too long, governments have played divide and rule amongst education unions. Today marks the beginning of the end of that.
"The NEU will be a game-changer in the education landscape and I am delighted to be jointly leading it forward over the coming months and years."
Ms Bousted and Mr Courtney plan on sharing the post of general secretary, saying they have a good working relationship and jointly can "get our union in many more places".
Prof Howard Stevenson, director of research at Nottingham University's School of Education, said the union amalgamation was a "development of international significance".
"Experience of amalgamations and mergers is quite limited and often small scale. When the two huge teacher unions in the USA sought to merge, this development was rejected in a ballot," said Prof Stevenson.
"The amalgamation of NUT and ATL is on a scale that has not been seen previously, and may be the beginning of a trend, as teachers everywhere face common pressures.
"There is no easy evidence that fewer, bigger unions necessarily generate better outcomes for teachers. There is however considerable evidence that employers and governments deliberately seek to exploit divisions.
"Making this more difficult will make it harder for government to impose change without wider support and may presage the need for a new relationship between government and teacher unions."
The former foreign secretary, who stepped down as an MP at May's election, succeeds former Labour minister Lord Hutton in the role.
Announcing his appointment, RUSI's director general Prof Michael Clarke said having someone of Mr Hague's experience and calibre was "gold dust".
Mr Hague said RUSI's input was vital in an "increasingly unstable world".
Mr Hague served as foreign secretary between 2010 and 2014, during which he also played a key role in global efforts to tackle sexual violence in conflicts.
The role at RUSI is the first that Mr Hague has taken on since leaving Parliament.
"At a time when we face an increasingly complex and unstable world, we need ever greater insight and scrutiny into the challenges confronting our global security and defence," he said.
Prof Clarke said Mr Hague would help the think tank, which was founded in 1831, to better understand the security and foreign policy challenges facing the UK, in the context of the government's current strategic defence review.
"In global political terms, this is a difficult time to be a political leader, but a wonderful time to be an analyst. Mr Hague has been both and his experience is gold dust to an institute such as this," he said.
In his last conference speech as shadow home secretary, Mr Burnham accused the government of planning a "hard-line, right-wing" exit from the EU.
He said Labour must fight for a "fair Brexit" that addressed immigration concerns and protected the UK economy.
The government said it would make a success of leaving the EU.
Mr Burnham, who is running for the Greater Manchester mayoralty, told Labour conference he was stepping down from the shadow cabinet to concentrate on his campaign.
In his speech, the outgoing shadow home secretary urged the party to unite and take the fight to the Conservatives, warning of what he sees as the risks of continued Conservative government.
"While we've been turning inwards, they've been taking liberties. Bringing back selection in our schools. Abandoning promises to the north. Plotting a hard-line, right-wing Brexit that burns Britain's bridges," he said.
"We are the only hope for people who don't want that. Yes, Labour must listen to our voters who voted to Leave. But let's be the champions of a fair Brexit, not a hard Brexit."
He warned that a "hard Brexit" would hurt the UK economy, hitting the poorest hardest and "turn Britain into a place it has never been: divided, hostile, narrow-minded".
"That is how the world is starting to see us. They think we've changed."
There had been a "frightening spike" in hate crimes since the referendum vote on 23 June, Mr Burnham said.
He repeated his call for the government to grant EU nationals living in the UK the right to stay in the country after Brexit - a commitment the government says it wants to make as long as it can secure a reciprocal deal for Britons living abroad.
And he criticised Mrs May over the UK's response to the migrant crisis affecting Europe: "At every stage of the biggest refugee crisis since the end of the Second World War, she has dragged her feet.
"As Europe has struggled with the enormity of it, Britain has looked wrapped up in its own selfish little world."
Mr Burnham praised the "courage" of his predecessor, Yvette Cooper and Labour peer Alf Dubs for their campaigning on refugees, saying it had been left to them to "stand up for basic British decency".
Mr Burnham also warned that Labour could not afford to ignore voters' concerns about immigration, saying it must "fully face up" to the fact that "millions" of its supporters backed Brexit because they wanted "change".
"We haven't yet even begun to show to them that we understand why," he said.
He stressed that Brexit supporters were not "narrow-minded" or "xenophobic" and warned the party that its supporters would think the party has "abandoned" them if it argued in favour of the status quo on immigration.
Commenting on Mr Burnham's speech, Brexit minister Robin Walker said "many" Labour MPs "still don't even accept that we should leave the EU.
"Labour cannot make a success of Brexit because they don't think Britain can thrive outside the European Union - setting their face against millions of their own lifelong supporters."
Leader Jeremy Corbyn said in his end of conference speech that Labour under his leadership would not offer "false promises" on immigration numbers.
He said a new migrant impact fund would address "the real issues of immigration" and pledged his party would not "fan the flames of fear".
Instead, Walgreens has agreed to buy 2,186 Rite Aid stores and some distribution centres for $5.2bn (£4bn).
Walgreens' planned takeover of Rite Aid was first announced in October 2015.
However, it faced resistance from competition regulators as it would have seen a tie-up of the first and third largest US pharmacy chains.
"We believe this new transaction addresses competitive concerns previously raised with respect to the prior transaction," said Walgreens chief executive Stefano Pessina in a statement.
"This new transaction extends our growth strategy and offers additional operational and financial benefits."
Under the new plan, Walgreens will buy about half of the roughly 4,540 stores operated by Rite Aid. Most of the stores involved in the deal are located in the northeast, mid-Atlantic and southeast, Rite Aid said.
Walgreens will also pay Rite Aid a $325m termination fee for scrapping the prior agreement. The company also said it had dropped a related deal to sell 865 Rite Aid stores to pharmacy chain Fred's.
Walgreens Boots Alliance was created in 2014 when Alliance Boots merged with Walgreens. The business has a presence in more than 25 countries and employs more than 400,000 people.
The company earned about $1.2bn (£920m) in profit for the three months ended in May.
It has more than 8,000 stores in the US. The company said it expects the Rite Aid acquisition to bring more than $400m in savings as it makes the network more efficient.
The new Rite Aid plan is more attractive than the original $9.4bn, given the compromises that regulators were looking for, Mr Stefano told analysts. He said he continues to look at other possible partners for the firm, as well as ways to better use its customer data to reorganise stores.
Walgreens shares climbed about 2.5% on Thursday. But Rite Aid stock plunged more than 23% in morning trade. Shares of Fred's fell about 16%.
Rite Aid on Thursday reported a loss of about $75m (£57.7m) in the March-to-June period, due to interest payments.
The company said the sale will allow it to reduce its debt and give its pharmacy arm the ability to purchase lower cost drugs, through an alliance with Walgreens.
The US Federal Trade Commission, which had examined the prior deal, said officials would review the new proposal.
Neil Saunders, an analyst for GlobalData Retail, wrote in a note that the drug purchasing agreement means Rite Aid will "effectively" become part of the Walgreens network. That part of the deal is critical to Rite Aid's ability to survive on a smaller scale, he wrote.
"All eyes now turn to the FTC for its decision on this latest move," he wrote.
But for a small Scottish children's autism charity she was "the lady that played the piano", their kind-hearted first patron, and their friend.
"The children all loved her and they're a great judge of character," said Dr Ruth Glynne-Owen, Blue Sky Autism Project's founder and chief executive.
It was the charity's fourth birthday party and a special guest had arrived at their base in Bridge of Allan, near Stirling.
Perched among a throng of excited youngsters, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson started to play for the children on a small keyboard.
"There was no stand and it was held together by tape and she still played it - and she's a concert pianist," Dr Glynne-Owen said.
"Our children can be a little bit tricky to get to know given the nature of autism, but she was totally not phased.
"It was very cool, it was a great day."
The star was immediately keen to offer her support when the charity, which provides early childhood intervention for pre-school children with autism spectrum disorders and related conditions, approached her in 2013.
Dr Glynne-Owen said: "She got back in touch straight away and she phoned me and was really keen to help.
"When I first met her, we had a cup of tea at Blakes Hotel in Kensington and I was very nervous.
"I brought her a little teddy bear and she was very incredibly touched by that.
"I think she just wanted to help a small charity, it was the right time in her life.
"She was our first patron and she was in the role for a year.
"She was very kind, very down to earth and very funny."
Dr Glynne-Owen said it was a "privilege" to see Palmer-Tomkinson's private side.
She said: "Tara was personally very supportive to me, she became a very good friend.
"She got us in Hello! Magazine twice, which for us was a pretty massive achievement.
"She came to visit us for our fourth birthday and she came for dinner with all of our clients and parents in Bridge of Allan."
Palmer-Tomkinson was found dead at her flat in London on Wednesday.
She had received treatment in 2016 for a non-malignant brain tumour.
Dr Glynne-Owen said she last heard from her charity's former patron about a year-and-a-half ago.
"It's just tragic, it's really, really sad," she said. "She was just too young."
"I think it's important for people to realise that, there were stories around about her but she was actually a very kind-hearted person, a very genuine person.
"We had really wonderful experiences with her.
"Some of the children are older now and they remember the lady who played the piano."
Her warning comes as a report based on an analysis of 57,226 research studies into child sexual abuse is published.
The Office of the Children's Commissioner has launched an inquiry into how best to tackle the problem.
The two-year inquiry will look at sexual abuse within the family.
The report, entitled It's a Lonely Journey, was carried out for the Office of the Children's Commissioner by researchers at Middlesex University.
It showed there were "glaring omissions" in what was known about abuse in family environments, said Ms Berelowitz.
These include an "almost complete lack" of research directly looking into children and young people's experiences of what would help to prevent the abuse or to support those who have been abused.
The report highlights a particular lack of knowledge about the experiences of disabled children and those from minority ethnic groups.
It also finds that most services to support people who have experienced child sexual abuse within a family context are targeted at adult survivors rather than at children.
Moreover, little is known about the prevalence of long-term psychological and physical harm caused by sexual abuse in family environments and almost nothing about the economic cost this places on society.
Ms Berelowitz said: "Some studies suggest as many as one in 20 children and young people experience sexual abuse, the majority of it perpetrated by people within the family or family circle.
"We know that at any one time, around 43,000 children have child protection plans, only around 5% of whom are on a plan for sexual abuse. These figures do not add up."
Report author Dr Miranda Horvath said: "Child victim-survivors' voices and first-hand experiences were absent from the vast majority of the research we reviewed for this rapid evidence assessment.
"It is imperative that future research and the work of the inquiry brings these to the fore using ethical but innovative methods, with the well-being of the child at the centre.
"At the same time, we need to know more about programmes that are focused on preventing family-based child sexual abuse before it occurs, in order to take a preventative rather than reactive approach."
Announcing an inquiry into the problem, Maggie Atkinson, the Children's Commissioner for England, said: "Society is rightly horrified by child sexual abuse.
"Most of our children are raised in secure, loving homes but I am sure very many of us will be disturbed by how much abuse within the family environment goes unreported and how little is done to support the children who suffer.
"As adults we are morally and socially obliged to protect children from harm. As children's commissioner, I also have a legal responsibility to promote their right to protection."
Ms Atkinson's office has vowed that "the experiences and voices of children and young people will be at the heart of this inquiry, and driving all that we do".
Javed Khan, chief executive of children's charity Barnardo's, welcomed the inquiry, saying: "There are few crimes more abhorrent than the sexual abuse of children but when those perpetrating this vile act are relatives, people who are supposed to love and protect, it can be all the more harrowing."
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It is understood that 20 of the 50 holding cells in Musgrave PSNI station in Belfast city centre are not currently operational.
Sources said a deep clean of the facility was to begin early on Tuesday morning.
Solicitors have been told clients may have to be taken to other police stations later.
The Law Society for Northern Ireland, which regulates and represents solicitors, says it expects Musgrave station to be fully operational by 07:00 BST on Wednesday.
It issued a statement about the situation to solicitors on Monday afternoon.
The society said contingency plans have been put in place to take people to holding cells in Antrim, Armagh and Bangor if needed.
Mr Kerry said Russia's move, along with the opening of UN-mediated Syria talks in Geneva, may be "the best opportunity" to end the conflict.
The UN special envoy to Syria said the talks now had a new momentum.
The first Russian planes started leaving on Tuesday, a day after Russia's announcement.
However, Russia would continue its air strikes in Syria despite the partial pullout, Deputy Defence Minister Nikolay Pankov said.
"Today, as we mark the fifth anniversary of the start of this horrific war, we may face the best opportunity that we have had in years to end it," Mr Kerry said on Tuesday.
He spoke of an "important phase" in the Geneva talks.
Mr Kerry is expected to go to Moscow some time after Tuesday when he returns from a trip to Cuba.
Meanwhile, the UN Special Envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, who is mediating in the Geneva talks, welcomed the Russian decision.
"The announcement by President [Vladimir] Putin on the very day of the beginning of this round of Intra-Syrian Talks in Geneva is a significant development, which we hope will have a positive impact on the progress of the negotiations," he said.
As the pullout got under way, Russian air strikes were reported against so-called Islamic State (IS) militants near the IS-held city of Palmyra.
Lebanon's al-Manar TV and the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian forces, supported by Russian air cover, had advanced towards the city.
IS captured Palmyra last May, deliberately destroying parts of the Unesco World Heritage site in scenes which caused outrage around the world.
Russian TV showed planes on Tuesday arriving from Syria in the southern Russian city of Voronezh, where they were greeted on the tarmac by priests and crowds waving balloons.
Su-24 tactical bombers, Su-25 attack fighters, Su-34 strike fighters and helicopters were returning home, the TV said.
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Russia is a key ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and his office sought to reject speculation there was a rift between the two countries, saying the move was mutually agreed.
The Russian air campaign started last September, tipping the balance in favour of the Syrian government and allowing it to recapture territory from rebels.
It is not clear how many military personnel Russia has deployed, but US estimates suggest the number ranges from 3,000 to 6,000, AP reports.
Russia had long insisted its bombing campaign only targeted terrorist groups - but Western powers had complained the raids hit political opponents of President Assad.
A cessation of hostilities involving most participants has been largely holding despite reports of some violations.
Meanwhile, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria has presented its report on war crimes committed by all sides in Syria's war to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Inquiry chairman Paulo Pinheiro said the task of pursuing war criminals should not wait for a final peace agreement as there was now "hope of an end in sight".
Russia is one of President Bashar al-Assad's most important international backers and the survival of his government is critical to maintaining Russian interests in Syria. Russia has a key naval facility which it leases at the port of Tartous and has forces at the Hmeimim airbase in Latakia.
In September 2015, with rebel forces advancing on Latakia, Russian forces launched an air campaign which President Vladimir Putin said was aimed at "stabilising" the Syrian government and creating conditions for "a political compromise" that would end the five-year conflict.
In March 2016, Mr Putin ordered the "main part" of Russia's forces to withdraw from Syria, saying their mission had "on the whole" been accomplished.
Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Russian aircraft had flown more than 9,000 sorties over almost six months, killing more than 2,000 "bandits" and helping Syrian government forces regain control of 10,000 sq km (3,860 sq miles) of territory, including 400 population centres.
The claims have not yet been independently verified, but it is clear the air campaign turned the tide of the war in favour of Mr Assad, allowing Syrian government ground forces to regain territory around Latakia, in the southern province of Deraa and around the divided northern city of Aleppo.
Moscow stressed that its air strikes only targeted "terrorists", but activists said Russian aircraft had mainly bombed Western-backed rebel groups and civilian areas.
In December, Amnesty International said Russian aircraft appeared to have directly attacked civilians by striking residential areas with no evident military target, which it warned might amount to war crimes. Russia's defence ministry dismissed the report as containing "fake information".
However, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported in early March that 1,733 civilians, including 429 children, had been killed in Russian air strikes, along with some 1,492 rebels and members of the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, and 1,183 Islamic State (IS) militants.
The Dow Jones closed at 16,510.19, up 0.77%, while the S&P 500 closed up almost 0.5% at 1,967.22.
The Nasdaq closed up 0.04% at 4,828.95, dented by losses in biotech firms.
Biotech shares fell sharply after Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton pledged to take action against firms hiking prices for specialty drugs.
Shares in Immunogen ended the day down 15.9%, while Advaxis ended down 14.86%.
Oil prices were up after data showed a slowdown in drilling in the US.
West Texas Intermediate crude closed up 1.44% after a report showed that US firms have cut the number of oil rigs in operation for the third week in a row.
"The fall in rig counts (is) supporting an otherwise bearish market," said Tamas Varga, an oil analyst at London brokerage PVM Oil Associates.
Shares in GoPro tumbled 8.19% after a gloomy report on the outlook for the video camera maker appeared in the business magazine Barron's on Sunday.
The report said GoPro shares could fall sharply as new products have been underwhelming and competition in its market is growing.
On Friday US shares fell sharply after US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said there were worries about "a risk of a more abrupt slowdown than most analysts expect".
The central bank next meets to decide interest rate policy on 27-28 October, but many economists now think it will delay raising the cost of borrowing until next year.
The London-based hub will include a team of five officers who will support victims and identify online abuse.
The two-year pilot will cost £1.7m and has received £452,000 from the Home Office, the London Mayor's office said.
A spokesman said there was "no place for hate" in London and there would be a "zero tolerance" of online abuse.
The team, which will be set up in the coming months, will identify the location of crimes and allocate them to the appropriate force. They will work with a team of volunteers.
The Mayor's Office for Policing And Crime (Mopac) said social media "provides hate crime perpetrators with a veil of anonymity, making it harder to bring them to justice and potentially impacting on a larger number of people".
Victims can become "isolated, living in fear of the online behaviour materialising in the real world", it said, adding that the general police response to online hate crime was "inconsistent".
The team will also assist in training police officers and community groups in how to identify, report and challenge abuse.
A Mopac spokesperson said it was the first time a "dedicated police team" had been set up to detect and respond to hate crimes.
"Community groups in London have told us that online hate crime is an issue of increasing concern to them, and one for which the police response has in the past been inconsistent," the spokesman added.
In March, the government announced Mopac had been successful in its bid for £452,000 of Home Office funding.
The 14-page document, to be sent to 27 million homes, is designed to respond to public demand for more details about the EU referendum by setting out the facts behind the government's position.
Leave campaigners reacted with fury.
Boris Johnson said it was wrong to try to "stampede" voters while Nigel Farage said the document was "full of lies".
UKIP leader Mr Farage said the exercise was a "scam" and reinforced his view that the EU referendum on 23 June would be "defined by the battle of the people against the political elite".
But David Cameron tweeted that "key facts" outlined in the document explained why the government believed "we are stronger, safer and better off in the EU".
Royal Mail will start delivering the leaflets - entitled Why the government believes that voting to remain in the EU is the best decision for the UK - to households in England next week and in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland after the 5 May devolved elections.
A digital version will be advertised on social media and available on a new website.
The government says the mail drop will cost £9.3m, or about 34p per household.
The designated Leave campaign, and its Remain opponent, will be able to spend up to £7m each on advertising and promotion once the official campaign period starts next week. This includes £600,000 of public grants set aside for free mailshots and TV broadcasts.
A similar leaflet to that being issued was sent out by the government during the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence and in the 1975 referendum on Britain's membership of the European Community.
But in 1975 the leaflet contained a picture and a signed introduction by the then prime minister, Harold Wilson. The latest leaflet does not include any images of David Cameron.
Instead, the leaflet is plain and official-looking, containing pictures of workers, shoppers and families, and concentrating overwhelmingly on what the government sees as the economic case for staying in the EU.
It claims that "over three million UK jobs are linked to exports to the EU" and that "if the UK voted to leave the EU, the resulting economic shock would risk higher prices of some household goods".
Officials described the document as "a straightforward, sober representation of the government case", designed both to change voters' minds and encourage others to register to vote.
They said internal opinion polls suggested that 85% of people wanted the government to provide more information so they could make an informed decision on 23 June.
Environment Secretary Liz Truss said the leaflets would help voters do so. She also emphasised the government's view that EU membership "brings economic security, peace and stability".
The government said the leaflets had cost £458,500 to produce and £5.94m to print and deliver across the UK. An additional £2.89m had been spent on the accompanying website and "digital promotion".
But the move was met with thinly disguised anger by groups campaigning for EU exit.
"I think it is deeply disappointing that the government is going to spend taxpayers' money in a bid to distract the media headlines away from the allegations of offshore banks that have dogged the prime minister," Robert Oxley, a Vote Leave spokesman, said.
"Our money should not be used on propaganda, trying to buy votes. We already send £350m to Brussels each week. We should spend our money on our priorities like the NHS."
London Mayor Mr Johnson, one of the most senior Conservative politicians to back leaving the EU, said the move was a "crazy waste of money".
Both sides needed to be able to put across their arguments fairly to guarantee an "informed" debate, he said.
Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin, a prominent supporter of Vote Leave, said it was "an outrageous abuse of taxpayers' money" which "flies in the face of the government's claim that they want a fair referendum".
"In this one act, the government will spend more on their Remain campaign than the official Leave group will be able to spend between now and polling day," he said.
Conservative MP Peter Bone, from Grassroots Out, said the move was a "major error of judgement" by Mr Cameron.
"The prime minister promised Parliament that no taxpayers' money would be spent promoting Remain or Leave," he said.
"What is being done is immoral, undemocratic and against what the government has promised. If this is not reversed it will seriously damage the prime minister's reputation."
Officials said it was entirely legitimate for the government to make its case and said there was no legal reason why it could not do so.
The decision to send the leaflet was agreed by the Cabinet sub-committee on the EU and was signed off by Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood.
Speaking in Parliament last June, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond ruled out sending mailshots during the so-called "purdah period" - the last 28 days before the vote when any official government role in the campaign will be banned.
The government faced a backlash from Conservative MPs last autumn when they sought to relax the rules limiting ministerial activity in the immediate run-up to the poll, only backing down after losing a parliamentary vote.
State media say two soldiers and six attackers died in clashes after an ambush on troops, which led to air support being called in.
There are reports of villages burning in the northern region of Rakhine.
Photos released by Human Rights Watch seem to show charred villages, with the group reporting 430 burnt buildings.
The satellite photos were taken between 22 October and 10 November, following reports of fighting and civilians fleeing last month.
Rohingya activists say the government is trying systematically to drive the Muslim minority from their villages.
Attacking the Rohingya is a popular move for the military, the BBC's Jonah Fisher reports from Myanmar's largest city, Yangon.
They are disliked by many, if not most, Burmese who consider them illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, our correspondent says.
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The latest outbreak in fighting was triggered by an attack on three police checkpoints just over a month ago.
The Burmese government is not allowing independent journalists into Rakhine, so it is impossible to verify claims about the scale of the fighting.
According to the latest official statement on Saturday, troops were ambushed and then clashed several times with armed men, presumably Rohingya Muslims, equipped with guns, knives and spears.
At one point, when faced by about 500 men, the soldiers called in air support and two helicopter gunships fired on the Rohingya village.
Casualty figures vary widely, our correspondent says.
Brad Adams, the Asia director for Human Rights Watch, said the new photos showed "widespread destruction" that was "greater than we first thought".
"Burmese authorities should promptly establish a UN-assisted investigation as a first step toward ensuring justice and security for the victims," he said.
The government - led by Aung San Suu Kyi - talks of "clearance operations" as part of the search for the attackers.
It dropped to as much as 35,000 to the dollar, according to agencies citing currency exchange sites in the country.
The currency has reportedly lost 80% of its value since the end of 2011.
The fall suggests economic sanctions imposed over its disputed nuclear programme are hitting economic activity ever harder.
The US state department called them the "most punishing sanctions" ever amassed against Iran.
"From our perspective this speaks to the unrelenting and increasingly successful international pressure that we are all bringing to bear on the Iranian economy," spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.
"It's under incredible strain."
The rates were not available on the exchanges' websites later in the day. The BBC's Middle East analyst Sebastian Usher suggested the figures had been blanked out because of the extent of the fall.
The latest slide appears to have been triggered by a government move to supply dollars to importers of certain basic goods at a special rate in an attempt to rein in the currency slide, but the move has had the opposite effect.
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The Iranian rial is in freefall. The collapse was so precipitous that Iranian currency websites blanked out the rate.
International attention may be focused on the country's alleged ambitions for a nuclear bomb, but for ordinary Iranians it is the economy that is the real issue.
Inflation is raging, making some basic foodstuffs prohibitively expensive. Economic sanctions, led by the US and European Union, have played a key role. Iran has been all but frozen out of the global banking system, with its oil exports slashed.
But government mismanagement has also played its part. A government exchange centre undercutting the black market rate, launched just last week, has only made things worse. Opposition websites are castigating the authorities, with one website accusing the central bank of being incapable of getting the situation under control.
Iran is all but frozen out of the global banking system as a result of largely US-led sanctions designed to discourage what it says is Iran's attempts to build a nuclear weapon.
Tehran says its nuclear programme is for purely peaceful purposes, such as energy and producing medical isotopes.
The sanctions, which are backed by the European Union, include a ban on the trade of Iranian oil.
The US has threatened to take action against foreign firms and institutions dealing with the Iranian central bank.
It means it is unable to sell its valuable oil assets to most other countries. Analysts suggest it may also have to accept lower prices from countries still willing to trade with it.
Opposition MP Elyas Naderan said last week that the government "was not doing anything to control the market", according to anti-government Iranian news service Rahesabz, quoted by BBC Monitoring.
The Fars news agency also carried an open letter from "Iranian technological analysts" calling on the president to tackle the "dangerous economic situation".
According to the report, also translated by BBC Monitoring, the analysts said that most of the country's economic problems had been caused by the weakness of the currency - as imported raw materials used by manufacturers need to be paid for in hard currency.
A weaker domestic currency makes imports more expensive and is expected to raise prices for people inside Iran.
Latest figures indicate that inflation is running at an annual rate of 24% in Iran.
Dramatic currency falls can also lead to uncertain markets as dealers hoard the harder currency in the hope that it will gain even more in value.
National Express, which runs the Midland Metro, has lost about £34m on the route since 1999.
The news comes days before an extension to New Street is set to open.
The company said it had expected people to make fewer long journeys and more short journeys, which would have brought in more money in fares.
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Originally it was expected eight million passengers would be using the trams each year, but only about five million do so. About 85 million passengers have used the service since 1999.
Further lines to Edgbaston and Centenary Square are planned once the latest scheme, costing £128m, has opened.
The transport operator hopes to have more than nine million passengers using the expanded network by 2026.
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Director Martin Hancock said the loss had helped the company gain experience bidding for work in other countries.
"The existing line between Birmingham and Wolverhampton is an important part of the public transport network," he said.
Jonathan Cheetham, chairman of Retail Birmingham, said the "extremely complicated" building work "has not been easy for anyone", but he hoped the work would help businesses in Birmingham.
"In a city of this size, it's imperative that we've got a great transport network," he said.
"Investors from abroad, which we've seen a lot of recently, know and understand how important transport is."
Dr Pat Hanlon, senior transport economics lecturer at the University of Birmingham, said it was "not surprising" the line had been losing money and added developing a network was "the crucial factor" in making it profitable.
He said: "There's a bigger role for things like trams in this city, because an underground railway doesn't look as if it's ever going to be a feasible proposition - it's going to be far too expensive.
"If you've only got one isolated line, people don't get in the habit of using trams, they hardly know that they are there."
McConville is under investigation after banned substances were allegedly found in the stable of Anseanachai Cliste, reported the Times.
A BHA spokesman said: "We cannot comment on an ongoing investigation."
McConville has not responded to requests to comment on the case.
Cheltenham stewards ordered the horse, trained in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, to be withdrawn from the Foxhunter Chase on 17 March.
"They could not be satisfied that the horse had been administered only normal feed and water on race day," said a stewards' report.
"They interviewed the owner, the trainer, the veterinary officer and the equine welfare integrity officer. Having heard their evidence, the stewards ordered the horse to be tested and referred the matter to the head office of the British Horseracing Authority."
Anseanachai Cliste won the Ulster Grand National at Downpatrick nine days later, after which the Irish Turf Club says a drugs test came back negative.
Asked about the case, McConville said after the Downpatrick win: "I wouldn't like to talk about Cheltenham. We'll see after the inquiry."
Sunday's first leg was tied at 2-2 after two periods with Trevor Hendrikx and Ryan Russell on target for the hosts and James Desmarais and David Rutherford getting Belfast's replies.
Kris Beech scored the third Belfast Giants goal in Sunday's first leg.
But Guillaume Doucet, Leigh Salters and Joey Haddad netted to put the Devils in pole position for the return leg.
The second leg will be staged at the SSE Arena in Belfast on Tuesday, 23 February, with the final in Sheffield on 6 March.
Cardiff are the holders, having beaten the Sheffield Steelers in last year's final, while Belfast last won the Challenge Cup in 2009.
Mayweather retired unbeaten in 2015 but told ESPN a bout with Irishman McGregor - who has a boxing licence - was the only thing that could tempt him back.
"I'm a businessman and it makes business sense," the 39-year-old American said.
McGregor, 28, has previously said he wants $100m (£80m) to fight Mayweather.
Mayweather, who retired from boxing with a perfect 49-0 record after defeating Andre Berto in September 2015, said initial talks with McGregor's representatives had taken place.
"We tried to make the Conor McGregor fight," Mayweather said. "They know what my number is. My number is a guaranteed $100m. That was my number.
"We are willing to give him $15m and then we can talk about splitting the percentage - the back end - on the pay-per-view."
McGregor became the UFC's first dual-division champion in November and has previously challenged Mayweather to a fight under mixed martial arts rules.
His boxing licence has been granted by the California State Athletic Commission, allowing him to box in the US state.
However, he is under contract with the UFC and any potential fight against Mayweather would have to involve a co-promotion or the UFC's blessing.
The find was made on Wednesday afternoon at an estate office in the village.
Police and archaeologists were called in to examine the remains. Police Scotland said it was believed the bones had been there for "number of years".
Local residents said the building where the discovery was made could be 200 years old.
A police spokesperson said: "A member of the public has contacted police after finding what they believed to be a human skull within a building at the Applecross Estate.
"The find is believed to be historic.
"It is likely to have been there for a number of years and there do not appear to be any suspicious circumstances."
What do government ministers do when they leave office? And what happens to top civil servants when they retire?
Some of the answers can be found on the website of a little-known government-funded body: The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba).
A stand-alone committee, currently comprising four peers, two knights and a dame, Acoba's brief is to give advice to Whitehall's high-fliers about possible conflicts of interest when considering a change of job.
"We are there to prevent an unfair advantage being derived by the individual who uses the background of his employment in government either as a minister or a civil servant for the benefit of his career subsequently in industry," explains committee chairman, Lord Lang, former Trade and Industry Secretary in John Major's government.
Senior civil servants and ministers are asked to submit an application form to Acoba when they are thinking about accepting a private sector post.
The form is reviewed by the committee, who then advise the prime minister whether the appointment should be allowed or not.
The latest jobs update on Acoba's website notes ex-Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon's appointment as senior vice-president of AgustaWestland International, the Anglo-Italian helicopter manufacturer, almost two years after leaving government and six years after leaving the Ministry of Defence.
Meanwhile, former First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Jonathan Band moves from leading the Royal Navy to advising US arms giant, Lockheed Martin.
Sir Jonathan was advised to wait six months before taking up the new job.
Both moves were approved by Acoba subject to the now standard warning that they must not lobby ministers or civil servants on behalf of their new employers for a period of two years after leaving office.
Since Acoba's launch in 1975 there has been a marked increase in the number of ministers and mandarins passing through the so-called 'revolving door' between government and the private sector.
Companies keen to win NHS contracts now head-hunt top civil servants from the Department of Health.
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Ex-ministers of education find new jobs running universities, and Treasury staff are in high demand throughout banking and industry.
There is a growing body of opinion that a gentlemanly system of review and advice conceived 35 years ago may not fit modern needs.
"There has been a lot of change in the last 20 years and the regulation hasn't really kept up," says Dr Liz David-Barrett, an Oxford University research fellow and author of a recent Transparency International (UK) report on the revolving door.
Although the coalition government increased the maximum lobbying ban from 12 to 24 months, Dr David-Barrett believes tougher safeguards are needed to ensure that private sector companies cannot benefit unfairly from insider knowledge when they take on a former top civil servant or minister.
"There should be a differentiation according to the type of responsibility a civil servant or minister has," she says.
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"For those involved in procurement decisions then the ban on lobbying should be extended to three years from the current two.
"If people have worked in very high risk departments like defence then maybe there should even be a lifelong ban in the associated industry."
The report's concerns are shared by MPs on both sides of the House of Commons, including some members of the influential Public Administration Select Committee.
The most common criticism of the advisory committee is that it can only issue advice.
It cannot monitor whether former ministers and officials actually follow their advice, let alone punish them if they do not.
Lord Lang warns that tougher restrictions on people taking up new jobs in the private sector could open his committee's advice to legal challenges under 'restraint of trade' or even Human Rights law.
And he insists critics mistake the committee's role.
"We don't have enforcement powers, we are an advisory committee," he says.
"If they [critics] want an enforcement agency, a policing body, a regulatory body, a statutorily based body, let them lobby government for it."
He said governments on both sides of the political spectrum had taken the view that an independent advisory committee was what was needed.
"If people want to change it they would have to recognise that it would be quite different from the body we have at the moment" he said.
"It would involve a statutory base, it would involve all kinds of policing and investigative powers and I don't think that is what most people would like."
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The Iron, under new manager Graham Alexander, dominated a scrappy first half as goalkeeper Adam Davies saved George Williams' low effort and Jim O'Brien twice shot wide.
Conor Hourihane came close for Barnsley after the break but goalkeeper Luke Daniels tipped his effort over the bar.
Josh Brownhill's strike in the final minutes then went wide for the Tykes.
The draw keeps Barnsley in the final League One play-off position, just one point ahead of Bradford City.
Scunthorpe United manager Graham Alexander told BBC Radio Humberside:
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"We were the better team in the first half. We caused some problems and mixed the play up really well when we had possession.
"I don't think some of the decisions helped. There were too many nothing 50/50 goings against us. But I want to have a good relationship with referees and he was good enough to have a proper chat with me.
"For the team and the players the effort was fantastic. You could see the determination to get a result."
Banton, 23, was recently released by fellow fourth-tier club Wycombe.
"I worked at Crystal Palace with Jason. He brings something different to what we already have which is why I knew he was someone I wanted at this football club," Fullarton told the club website.
"He has trained with us the past two weeks which enabled him to see how welcome he would be here."
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Its report, published three days from the general election, said Wales faces a "turn-out time-bomb", although young voters' belief in democracy is high.
ERS Cymru calls for a lower voting age, "radical overhaul" of politics teaching in schools and a "louder voice" for young people in Welsh public life.
Around 52% of under-24s voted in 2010, compared to 65% of all eligible.
This was an improvement on the record low of 38% in 2005, but ERS Cymru warns the long-term trend is one of decline.
In 1964 young voters turned out in roughly the same proportion as voters of all ages - 77% - but since 1997 they have been notably less likely to vote than older people.
Director Steve Brooks called on the new Parliament to "immediately devolve power over the voting age to Wales, so AMs can get on and make changes in time for next year's assembly elections".
"The Welsh government needs to radically overhaul how politics is taught in schools," he said.
Mr Brooks also called on the Welsh government to set up an independent national youth assembly for Wales and reverse its decision to withdraw funding from Funky Dragon.
Nick Freeman said he wanted Sophie to learn her lesson from the punishment.
The 19-year-old was driving the Mini cabriolet back from the family's apartment in Abersoch, Gwynedd, at 63mph in a temporary 50mph zone.
"I think it's always important that as a parent you always teach your children the right way," he said.
"I don't think it is particularly harsh, I think it's what parents should do.
"Without any doubt at all I could have avoided a conviction on her behalf, but that's the dilemma isn't it, what does one do as a father and as a lawyer?"
Mr Freeman, who has defended Sir Alex Ferguson, Jeremy Clarkson and David Beckham, admitted his point of view was slightly hypocritical.
"There is a degree of hypocrisy on my part, because of course if Sophie was a client - and I always take the view that all clients are entitled to put the Crown to proof and they are entitled to the benefit of legal representation - I am depriving Sophie, not of legal representation, but of me defending her.
Miss Freeman, who has been driving for 18 months, was driving the Mini which is registered to her father's law firm.
A letter arrived at the company's offices days later stating that its driver faced a £60 fine and three licence points.
She said she would pay the fine out of her own savings.
She said: "I was driving back from Abersoch, in Wales, just after the summer and I got caught for speeding, I think it is a 60 or a 70 usually but it is temporarily a 50 because of roadworks.
"I don't usually speed at all, it was just because I was used to going at 60mph on that road."
She added: "Obviously I'm going to be a lot more careful now and just be more aware of what's going on around me and make sure I'm going at the speed limit, because if I get another three points I'm in a bit of trouble."
Ashley Godber, 27, from Plymouth, was more than twice the legal alcohol and speed limits when he crashed his BMW into 18-year-old Ruby-Tuesday Hobbs.
Godber, who admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving, was jailed for two years and four months at Plymouth Crown Court.
He was also banned from driving for five years.
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Godber mounted a central reservation on Charles Street outside Plymouth's Drakes Circus shopping centre at about 06:30 GMT.
Ms Hobbs was on her way to get breakfast at McDonalds at the time.
Godber was doing more than twice the 30mph limit when he ploughed through two railings and hit the teen.
He had 77 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35 micrograms.
In a separate incident following the crash, Ms Hobbs's iPhone was stolen as she lay injured in the street.
A 35-year-old man was arrested in connection with that but Devon and Cornwall Police said it ceased investigations due to a "lack of evidence and no witnesses".
The 33-year-old has scored 15 goals in 28 games since rejoining the Seagulls on a season-long loan last summer.
He has now agreed a two-and-a-half-year deal at the Amex Stadium.
Murray joined the Cherries for £4m in September 2015, but was restricted to just seven starts for the Premier League club last season.
He previously scored 56 goals for Brighton between January 2008 and May 2011 before moving to Crystal Palace on a free transfer.
Meanwhile, goalkeeper Christian Walton has been recalled from a loan spell at Luton to cover for David Stockdale while Niki Maenpaa recovers from a shoulder injury.
The 21-year-old made 33 appearances during his six-month stay with the Hatters.
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Stephen Farry said a "structural underinvestment" in the higher education system had become "unsustainable".
As a result, he has suggested three basic ways of funding universities.
The options propose are an increase in student fees, an increase in public funding, or a joint rise in both.
But a major students' union has said it "will not tolerate any suggestion of raising tuition fees".
The funding suggestions have been put forward after a public consultation called the Big Conversation was carried out last year.
Universities were hit by cuts of more than £16m in funding from the Department of Employment and Learning in 2015-16.
Both Ulster University and Queen's University have announced job losses and reductions in the number of student places they will offer as a result.
DEL has said the changes to university funding are needed to plug a £39m gap between Northern Ireland universities and their English counterparts.
Mr Farry said that gap was "placing in jeopardy the Northern Ireland offer relative to others parts of the UK".
He added that he did not advocate any particular model, but was putting forward the suggestions for the Northern Ireland Executive to decide on a solution.
Whichever one of the options is chosen, student fees are set to break the £4,000 barrier for the first time in 2018-19.
Students currently pay £3,805 a year for a university education in Northern Ireland.
In the first proposed option, public funding would increase by at least £55m, with tuition fees being raised to £4,200.
The second model suggests a fees increase of between £6,500 and £9,000, with no additional government funding.
An increase in public spending of between £27.5m and £34.1m along with a fees rise of between £5,500 and £6,000 is put forward as the final option.
Mr Farry said "public spending constraints" would mean the funding of universities would present a "huge challenge" to the executive.
Fergal McFerran, the president of the National Union of Students - Union of Students in Ireland (NUS-USI), said higher education should be free.
"Across the world there are countries which fund tertiary education entirely through public funding," he said.
"We're very clear, we see this as a question of political priorities."
The DEL paper calculates that an extra £116m in public money would be needed to provide students with a free university education.
The 24-year-old, from Cardiff, became the first Welsh boxer to win a silver medal by reaching the welterweight final at London 2012.
Evans also won gold at the 2011 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Ankara.
"I reached the top as an amateur and I'm looking forward to doing the same as a pro," he said.
Evans' move into the professional ranks comes three months after Wales' most decorated amateur boxer, Andrew Selby, also gave up his unpaid status.
Both have signed with Bristol-based manager Chris Sanigar, who also represents IBF featherweight world champion Lee Selby, and will be trained by Tony Borg.
"Signing Fred Evans was something I have wanted to do for a long time," said Sanigar.
"I've followed Fred throughout his amateur career and he always stood out. He has a style that suits the pro game and I believe that he can go a long way."
Evans is currently serving a two-year suspended prison sentence for unlawfully wounding friend Michael Wilson after they had been drinking at a Gloucestershire pub for "several hours".
He was refused accreditation to compete for Wales at the 2014 Commonwealth Games following checks by the Home Office and Games officials.
Evans added: "Signing with Chris and training with Tony [Borg] was always my first choice seeing the success of Lee Selby and other Welsh boxers."
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He said his version was underpinned by references to high-suspense films like Ridley Scott's Alien and Steven Spielberg's Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, fuelled by a "sense of anticipation".
"Because [Scott and Spielberg] couldn't show the creature constantly, the first half of the movie would be these brief glimpses... you got so many chills and goosebumps - I miss that style of storytelling," he said.
"I felt that in modern cinema it's so easy to just throw everything at the screen constantly."
Godzilla, which had a reported budget of $160m (£95m) and stars Bryan Cranston, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Sally Hawkins and Juliette Binoche, has had mixed reviews.
Variety said the focus on the human characters left "scarcely enough screen time for the monster itself" while The Independent added Godzilla "still looks as if he has just escaped from a low budget Ray Harryhausen movie, shooting in somebody's garden nearby".
The Telegraph described it as a "summer blockbuster that's not just thrilling, but orchestrates its thrills with such rare diligence, you want to yelp with glee".
The original Godzilla film, made in Japan in 1954, was a metaphor for the devastation which followed the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by US forces at the end of World War Two, and then 1954's H-bomb testing in the Pacific.
Then, Godzilla was played by a man in a reptile suit who caused chaos by trampling on a miniaturised version of Tokyo.
The 2014 film, which coincides with Godzilla's 60th birthday, follows the critically panned 1998 version directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Matthew Broderick. There is a degree of pressure on Edwards to get it right this time.
Visual effects specialist Edwards, 38, was chosen for Godzilla after he blew critics away with his 2010 debut movie Monsters, made on a micro-budget of about £500,000 and edited at his London home.
Having directed, written and orchestrated the special effects, Edwards won best director at the 2011 British Independent Film Awards.
Three years later and armed with a budget of millions, Edwards said despite hankering to make "just one" Godzilla special effect shot, he "didn't even get a spare five minutes".
"But the beauty of it is that I was surrounded with the best of the best," he said. "The visual effects supervisor was Jim Rygiel who did The Lord of the Rings and we also had John Dykstra, who did the original Star Wars movie.
"Working with genuine heroes of mine, handing your baby over to people who can look after it way better than you can, is an easy thing," he added, although he admitted "this film is the hardest thing I've ever had to do".
Edwards employed the skills of actor Andy Serkis - who has previously used performance capture to create characters such as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films and King Kong - to help create Godzilla's movements on screen.
The director said Serkis "helped shape the title character's emotional arc" and was key for Godzilla's facial expressions. The director and his team also studied the faces of dogs and bears while developing the monster's head, which incorporated "the nobility of an eagle".
Among the human characters battling the monsters and the elements is Breaking Bad TV star Cranston, who plays a nuclear scientist and whistleblower.
After his Emmy and Golden Globe-winning performance in the TV drama, he said he knew his next role would be "compared" and wanted it to be "of extremely high quality as far as the writing is concerned".
Godzilla ticked all the boxes for him and he said he liked the film's emotional content and focus on relationships and family.
"When the offer came in to do Godzilla, at first I thought 'Oh, I probably shouldn't do it, no', and my agent said: 'You might want to take a look at this because it's very different'.
"I was like 'Wow, this is fantastic', and then you have this monster movie and I loved Godzilla - he was my favourite monster. I like to keep surprising people."
Taylor-Johnson, who plays his army lieutenant son who battles to return to his family, also liked the focus on relationships.
"I liked the fact that he was a father and a husband and [the film] had a real strong family element to it, and that it became a fight for survival he had to try and get through in order to reach his family," he said.
Olsen, who plays Taylor-Johnson's on-screen wife, said she enjoyed the challenge of playing a mother who has to "figure out how to go through things that are scary but not let on" because her son is witnessing the devastation around him.
Cranston said ultimately it would be the fans who determine if the film is a success. Some have already criticised Godzilla for being "too fat" but the actor said he had to "hope for the best".
"It's the public - the fans - that create a classic film or TV show," he added.
"So it's up to them to decide if it weathers the test of time. And so too will it be for this version of our film."
Godzilla opens in UK cinemas on 15 May.
It was one of seven prizes for the network at Wednesday evening's Broadcast Awards.
Catastrophe picked up best comedy programme while The Paedophile Hunter was named best documentary.
The Broadcast judges said Channel 4's output was "at its strongest since [chief creative officer] Jay Hunt took over in 2011".
The channel performed particularly well in factual categories - winning in the news and current affairs category for Dispatches: Escape from Isis.
It also picked up best popular factual programme for The Secret Life Of 4 Year Olds and best documentary series for The Romanians Are Coming.
The wins come at an uncertain time for Channel 4. Last year, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport said it was looking at a range of options for the channel's future after rumours that proposals to privatise the network had been put forward.
It was not a clean sweep for Channel 4, however, as the station lost out in the drama category to BBC One's Doctor Foster.
The list of winners included a special recognition award for the BBC's long-running satirical news quiz Have I Got News For You.
The programme was commended by the judges for "remaining reassuringly familiar, while somehow striking the right tone on many of the complex and upsetting news stories that have come its way".
Britain's Got Talent won best entertainment programme, after a difficult year for its creator Simon Cowell as viewing figures for his other major ITV show, The X Factor, decreased significantly.
Other winners at the ceremony, which was presented by Jonathan Ross, included Emmerdale for best soap and Peter Kay's Car Share for best original programme.
The Perseid shower occurs every August but this year scientists say a gravitational nudge by Jupiter made it more intense.
Some researchers were predicting up to 200 meteors per hour in the night sky at the shower's peak.
While Friday was the peak, meteors can be seen for several nights to come.
The Perseid meteor shower is caused by a trail of debris from a comet called Swift-Tuttle which orbits the Sun.
Every year between July and August, the Earth drifts into the belt of material left by Swift-Tuttle and is peppered with meteors, which burn up as they hit the atmosphere creating streaks of light.
These meteors are called the Perseids, because they appear to be coming from the constellation Perseus.
But this year is unusual according to astronomers, as the Earth moved through a particularly distinct bit of debris a day earlier than normal. This clump of material has been nudged into the Earth's path by Jupiter's gravity.
Those who were out early on Friday morning enjoyed a wonderful display.
"It's hard to tell with the naked eye, but I did certainly notice quite a lot of spectacular bright fireballs," said Dr Sam Lindsay from the Royal Astronomical Society.
"I'm not sure I would have seen so many of in previous years."
Normally people viewing from a dark area, away from lights, can see between 60 to 100 meteors an hour at the shower's peak.
The US space agency Nasa suggested that could double this year.
"Forecasters are predicting a Perseid outburst this year with double normal rates on the night of August 11-12," said Bill Cooke from Nasa's meteoroid environments office.
"Under perfect conditions, rates could soar to 200 meteors per hour."
Several of the pictures sent in from across the UK and Ireland seemed to feature multi-coloured streaks as the fireballs burnt up in the atmosphere.
"The interesting thing is seeing the colour change from green at first, then to red, as the outer material of the dust particles is apparently a different composition to the centre, creating a different coloured flame," said Dr Lindsay.
While Friday morning was the peak of the event, the meteor shower is likely to continue for several days with good viewing opportunities likely over the weekend.
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The Gunners manager brought on his top scorer at half-time, with his side 2-0 down, and he provided the pass for Danny Welbeck's goal.
"Everyone will come to the same conclusion," said Wenger.
"But I am strong enough and lucid enough to analyse the impact."
It was only the fifth time in his Arsenal career that Sanchez had started a Premier League game on the bench, with the Chile international so often a vital player for the Gunners.
He has been directly involved in a league-high 26 goals in his 26 league games this season, scoring 17 and assisting nine.
However, Wenger said he had decided to start Welbeck and Oliver Giroud instead to provide a more direct attacking threat.
"I wanted to play two players who were strong in the air and then bring Sanchez on in the second half," Wenger added.
"I don't deny Alexis Sanchez is a great player. A decision like that is not easy to make, you have to stand up for it."
The defeat was the Gunners' third in four league games and leaves them fifth, two points behind fourth-placed Manchester City, who have a game in hand.
Asked whether Arsenal can still make the top four, Wenger said: "It is a possibility that we can still make it, so let's focus on that."
BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty: "Wenger's future may yet be defined - even decided - by his fatally flawed decision to drop leading scorer Alexis Sanchez for the meeting with Liverpool at Anfield.
"This was a match Wenger knew might go a long way towards shaping the Champions League places so surely it was an occasion to call on your biggest player, not adopt the sort of high-risk strategy that went horribly wrong in this damaging 3-1 defeat?
"Once Wenger left Sanchez out, defeat was not an option. He had to leave Anfield with a positive result, instead he was reduced to throwing the Chilean on in desperation at the start of the second half with Liverpool two up and in control.
"It was a baffling, inexplicable move that was was either going to prove gloriously courageous or calamitous. It proved to be the latter.
"Would Antonio Conte leave Diego Costa out of such a game? Would Spurs exclude Harry Kane? Would Jose Mourinho drop Zlatan Ibrahimovic? Not a chance.
"Wenger took the chance and he must now live with the consequences which may stretch beyond this one loss if Arsenal fail to qualify for the Champions League.
"Sanchez's own contract situation and uncertain future provides an intriguing backdrop. And what of Wenger's recent use of the player? Strange to say the least.
"He was brought on when Arsenal were leading 3-0 at Southampton in the FA Cup fourth round at St Mary's and brought on for the last 16 minutes when the Gunners were 2-0 up at non-league Sutton United in the fifth round.
"Was Sanchez really required on those occasions then left out of the starting line-up for this vital fixture?
"He was certainly needed at Anfield - and Wenger's decision not to use him may come back to haunt him and Arsenal."
Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown, speaking on Match of the Day, said: "Dropping Sanchez was stunning.
"I really can't understand the thinking behind that. He's their best player. They didn't actually play direct in the match.
"I'm struggling to remember a more tepid performance in the last 20 years under Wenger. There was a lack of spirit and fire in their bellies."
Europe will have at least five rookies at Hazeltine after the nine qualifiers were decided with a week to spare.
Belgian Thomas Pieters needed to defend his Czech Masters title and Irishman Shane Lowry required a top-four finish in the Wyndham Championship in America to stay in contention.
Both men missed out, handing places to Fitzpatrick and Sullivan.
Pieters only lost out by a single shot to American Paul Peterson on Sunday, while Lowry's closing 67 was not enough to put him among the leaders in North Carolina.
That means Rory McIlroy, Danny Willett, Henrik Stenson, Chris Wood, Sergio Garcia, Justin Rose, Rafael Cabrera-Bello, Sullivan and Fitzpatrick are guaranteed to go to Minnesota in September in search of a fourth straight win over the USA.
Willett, Wood, Cabrera-Bello, Sullivan and Fitzpatrick will be making their debuts in the event.
Fitzpatrick, 21, finished fifth in Prague to book his Ryder Cup place and said afterwards: "It's a great opportunity, I've got my first one coming up and hopefully I can just keep pushing on my game and getting better."
Peterson finished 15 under par in Prague with Britons David Howell and Ryan Evans joint third on the final leaderboard.
European captain Darren Clarke will name his three Ryder Cup wild cards on 30 August.
Nicola Boardman, a former heroin addict, also spent some of the money on drugs, Truro Crown Court heard.
Her parents said the ordeal had "devastated" their lives.
Boardman, 34, who pleaded guilty to one count of fraud, was jailed for three years and four months.
The court heard Boardman, of Trelander East, Truro, had been addicted to heroin as a teenager but took part in rehabilitation.
She went on to earn a first class degree in social sciences at Camborne College in Cornwall but later fell into the wrong crowd and relapsed, the court heard.
She told her parents she wanted to do a PhD and claimed she had interviews at both Cambridge and Oxford universities, and was later accepted at Oxford.
However, Philip Lee, prosecuting, said "this was all made up".
As well as funding her supposed studies over a period of four years, Boardman's parents also paid for "fake university trips" to Mongolia and Greece, the court heard.
Frank and Marilyn Boardman gave up their jobs and sold their home, believing their daughter's claims that she would make £3m on the strength of her academic work and pay back the money.
Boardman spent £10,000 on a marriage to a man from Redruth whom she knew her family "hated", with no family members invited, the court heard.
She then became pregnant and told her parents that she had a stillbirth and invited them to a "sham" ceremony where the ashes were scattered, in an attempt to gain further sympathy.
Mr Lee said: "The defendant later admitted to the police that she had lied about that and her pregnancy had been terminated in May."
It was only after Boardman went missing that her mother found a note confessing to her relapse and secret marriage.
The court heard she had spent a total of £250,000 of her parents' money, and they had no funds for their retirement or to spend on their other two children.
Judge James Dingemans said it was a "prolonged" and "sophisticated" operation.
He added that it was another example of the "destruction caused to society because of the use of drugs".
After resuming on 292-2, with Duckett on 178, the hosts progressed to 481-7 before bad light intervened.
Teenager George Garton has taken three wickets on his Championship debut.
But the Sussex bowlers have otherwise struggled, not helped by dropping Duckett twice.
After 82 overs on the first day, only 53 overs were managed on day two, during which 21-year-old Duckett reached eighth position in the all-time annals of best individual innings for the county, going past Wayne Larkins, Allan Lamb and Dennis Brookes on that list.
But, for all Duckett's dominance, Northants ended four runs short of a fifth batting point, having only reached 396-5 at the 110-over mark.
The princess's christening will take place at St Mary Magdalene Church in Norfolk on 5 July.
The new coin will be available in silver and gold to mark the occasion.
Director of commemorative coin Shane Bissett said: "It is only appropriate that we commemorate this significant occasion with the release of a special coin."
The coins' design will be approved by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Queen and the Chancellor George Osborne.
It will then be revealed in the next couple of weeks.
A limited edition £5 coin was also issued by the Mint, based in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taff, to mark the princess's birth on 2 May.
The Fear Group was planning to build 600 student flats at the old Sainsbury's site on Shaftesbury Street.
Following a large fire at the location on Wednesday evening, the firm told BBC Wales it would now sell the land.
Fire investigators have confirmed the blaze was started deliberately.
Speaking to BBC Radio Wales, the company's director Stephen Fear said they were pulling out of the project because of threats and attacks "from yobs".
He also cited delays over the demolition of the former Sainsbury's supermarket as a reason for the sale.
He told the Good Evening Wales programme that there had been numerous problems in the last few months.
Mr Fear said vandals and thieves had already caused nearly a million pounds worth of damage to the site before the arson attack overnight.
"I was threatened on site by seven young people. My son was threatened by a drug addict who was in a canopy under the building- this guy threatened him with a needle.
"We're sick and tired of it. With the threats and with the apparent lawlessness in this part of Newport, we've just come to the decision that this is a job for someone else and not us."
He said they would move investment to where it was "perhaps more welcome".
Council leaders in the city said they hoped to discuss the matter with Mr Fear "to enable this much anticipated and important regeneration scheme to proceed".
"I am disappointed to hear that the Fear Group has reached this decision," said the council leader, Debbie Wilcox.
"We have worked with, and are continuing to work with, developers on extremely successful projects.
"There is a lot of potential in the city and we know there are people who want to invest in Newport."
The Cyberspace Administration of China accused Mr Ren of publishing "illegal messages that had a bad impact".
Mr Ren had written that state media were funded by taxpayers and should serve them, not the Communist Party.
President Xi urged state media early this month to follow party lines in their reporting.
China has been criticised for its strict internet regulations, including blocking major sites and censoring posts.
But Mr Xi has argued that countries had the right to choose how to develop and regulate the internet.
Almost 40 journalists are currently in prison in China for work posted online, the advocacy group Reporters Without Borders says.
Ren Zhiqiang is a retired top property developer with more than 30 million online followers.
His Weibo blog last week attacking Mr Xi had been criticised by state media - one referring to him as referring "anti-Communist Party" thoughts.
Internet users had to stick to the law and the fundamentals of socialism, said Jiang Jun, a spokesman for the Cyberspace Administration of China.
China has also unveiled new rules - coming into effect on 10 March - banning foreign media companies and foreign joint ventures from distributing content online without prior approval by Beijing officials.
Beijing keeps the world's largest online population under tight controls
Access to the BBC's English-language website was temporarily blocked last year
Virtual Private Network (VPN) systems are among the latest online targets
This year web users were banned from posting under famous people's names
On election day, traditionally a Thursday, voters go to their local polling station and cast their ballots by marking crosses in boxes with a pen or pencil and paper.
The ballots are then counted by hand after the polls close.
The digital revolution, which has swept through so many areas of modern life, has barely touched the system by which we elect our democratic representatives.
Moves to modernise it with automated systems have so far met with high levels of resistance amid concerns over security and fraud.
But campaigners for electronic or e-voting say "digital democracy" is on the way in the UK. Although next year's general election will be run using the traditional system, they predict a different landscape by 2020.
The term "e-voting" is used to cover a range of different technologies, from button or touchscreen machines in polling stations which connect to a central database, to remote systems which allow people to vote online using a secure ID. Supporters say the systems are generally more efficient and less expensive than manual ones.
Another argument in favour stems from voter disengagement and low turnout in many democracies around the world, including the UK, where nearly 16 million people did not vote at the last election. E-voting encourages participation, say campaigners, especially among young people.
"There's a fantastic head of steam now behind this issue," says Graham Allen, the Labour MP who chairs the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee.
In a report on voter engagement published last month, the committee recommended that the government should run online voting pilots in the next parliament "with a view to all electors having the choice of voting online at the 2020 general election".
"I couldn't have got my committee to agree to recommend online voting a year ago but people realise our democracy is broken and we have to find radical ways to fix it," Mr Allen said.
"My 17-year-old daughter lives off the web and email. Her generation will jump at the chance to get involved," he said, adding that he believed that just having the option to vote online would increase interest in elections among young people.
A fellow campaigner is the Labour peer, Lord Malloch Brown, a former minister in the last Labour government and an ex-deputy director of the UN, who is now chairing an e-voting technology company.
During his international career, he observed many elections in emerging democracies and became convinced that the best new technologies offered the best protection against fraud and manipulation while encouraging greater participation.
"The UK's system of voting has been ossified. It's based on centuries of social trust, but that trust is being gnawed away" he said.
Allegations of irregularities during this year's local elections in the London borough of Tower Hamlet, and concerns about the general security of postal votes had contributed to the erosion of trust, he said.
"What's extraordinary is we have a system in the UK that has a very high fraud risk but because there's a general trust we've not reconciled that contradiction. When we do things will start to change."
Lord Malloch-Brown believes the increasing fragmentation and plurality in British politics is putting more strain on the voting system.
"The breakdown of the two-party monopoly is going to lead to more competition and more contested elections. This will focus attention on the reliability and security of the systems we use."
But critics of e-voting worry about security and fraud, particularly the risk of hackers breaking into automated systems.
They point to examples such as the Netherlands, where e-voting was used extensively from the late nineties until 2007 but then banned because of security concerns.
Lord Malloch Brown says it is important to make the distinction between supervised and unsupervised systems. There is no reason why supervised e-voting systems, such as those his company manufactures, should not be adopted more widely, he argues,
"They are much more secure than postal votes. The technology we use is very advanced, with high levels of encryption," he says.
His company has provided e-voting technology to countries including Brazil, Bulgaria and the Philippines. He described how, in the Philippines, different software was used in each of the 80,000 polling stations.
And because most elections are held in a single day, he argues, the results can be registered and collated before hackers have time to break into the systems.
But he admits the technology for unsupervised voting needs to be developed further.
"In truth, online voting is not as secure as going to the polling station. The issue of biometric ID is not sufficiently tied down," he says.
Concern over security is the main reason the UK government has so far resisted any significant moves towards e-voting. Cabinet Office Minister Sam Gyimah told the political and constitutional affairs committee there were "more downsides than upsides" to the technology.
Graham Allen acknowledges the concerns are legitimate, particularly with regard to online voting from PCs or mobile devices.
His committee heard evidence from an electoral law expert, Professor RA Watt from Buckingham University,
"It is quite clear that voting outside the controlled environment of the polling place is susceptible to individual... and organised or strategic fraud," Professor Watt said.
"There does not seem to be a technology which guarantees that a device is being used exclusively by a bona fide registered voter acting freely in accordance with his or her own wishes; in the way that seclusion in a supervised polling booth enables a voter to act freely."
But Mr Allen said: "Where there's a will there's a way. We need to put the best brains on it. Remember that millions of people trust internet banking systems."
The UK's Electoral Commission is reviewing the voting system, examining different options including internet voting.
"This is not an issue that can stay on the slow-track any longer," says the commission's head, Jenny Watson.
"Whether it is the ability to register to vote on the day of the election or voters being able to use any polling station in their constituency, or the introduction of advance voting, or even more radical options... we plan to look at a variety of options, assessing how they will help citizens engage more effectively."
Ms Watson hopes the government's preliminary step of allowing people to join the electoral register online will help boost turnout in next year's general election.
The country leading the way in e-voting technology is Estonia, under the leadership of its tech-savvy Prime Minister, Taavi Roivas.
Estonia has a national database of all its citizens and its voters can cast their ballots from any computer anywhere in the world, using an identity card with a computer-readable microchip.
But even in Estonia, two thirds of people choose to visit polling stations to cast their e-ballots even though they don't have to.
"Voting is an act of ritual citizenship and that is not something we want to or need to change," explains Lord Malloch-Brown.
"There will never be a technology which is a substitute for culture. But that does not mean we should resist technology which could transform participation."
One of his favoured systems involves voters casting their ballot digitally in a polling station and then printing out a hard copy which they can post in a ballot box as a back-up.
There is something psychologically reassuring about having that piece of paper," he says.
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Frome Town, who play in England's seventh tier, say that Nick Bunyard's three-year ban was "excessive" in comparison to more high-profile cases.
The 36-year-old was also fined £3,000 - he has since announced his retirement.
An FA spokesperson said: "It is of the utmost importance that the integrity of football is upheld at all levels."
An independent commission found that Bunyard placed 45 bets against Frome and his former club Paulton Rovers from September 2014 to April 2016.
FA rules prohibit "all those involved in the game" from betting on football "that takes place anywhere in the world".
However, a Frome Town club statement claimed the organisation was "driving people out" of the sport at grassroots level to set an example, while Bunyard described betting as "an epidemic amongst footballers" and said he has been "hung out to dry".
"I'm not a lone person putting bets on," he told BBC Somerset. "It is part of the culture of football.
"I don't know whether [the FA] are really accepting of that fact.
"I don't know whether they genuinely want to do anything about it or whether they just want to have a high-profile case to say, 'he got caught and he got banned' - but if they think that will deter players, I know for a fact it hasn't."
Tottenham's Andros Townsend, Cameron Jerome - on loan at Crystal Palace from Stoke last season - and Dan Gosling, who has joined Bournemouth this summer, are among those who have breached current betting regulations.
Winger Townsend was fined £18,000 in June 2013, striker Jerome £50,000 last August and midfielder Gosling £30,000 in March.
The FA spokesperson added: "Individuals who threaten the image of the game and place bets on their own team to lose - as is the case here - are committing serious breaches of the FA's betting rules, and will be sanctioned accordingly.
"The FA issues education to participants of the game in respect of its rules in relation to betting and other forms of misconduct.
"This education had been sent to Mr Bunyard's club prior to the start of last season."
Frome Town said the manager "deserved to be reprimanded in some way", but criticised the way the case was handled, citing a number of delays to proceedings.
They also claimed they were given "no opportunity as a club, or Nick as an individual to challenge the statement released".
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Since taking charge following Steve Davis's sacking in January, Artell's side have won just twice in nine games.
And he labelled Tuesday's 4-0 loss at Hartlepool, which left the Alex just seven points clear of safety, as "the worst performance" since he took over.
"Relegation means oblivion for everyone," he told BBC Radio Stoke.
"I've told the players they have a choice: either work hard and improve, or it's oblivion. That's for their careers, this football club and every one of us.
"They'll end up in the Conference North on £200 a week with a job as a milkman."
The game at Victoria Park turned when Dave Jones' Hartlepool scored just before half-time, before going on to add three more in the final 30 minutes.
"We saw again the fragility after going 1-0 down," said Artell. "I'd have rather watched paint dry than the first 45 minutes. You have to dig in.
"Once the second goal went in, we relaxed and just lost all structure. It was the worst performance since I've taken charge."
Crewe were not helped at Hartlepool by the absence of defender Jon Guthrie, who has now been ruled out for three weeks to undergo a hernia operation.
"Jon has been playing with a hernia over the last few weeks," said Artell. "He has played for as long as he could but he cannot go on any longer and will now have an operation on Friday."
Crewe, relegated in May 2016 after four seasons in League One, are 20th in the fourth tier.
They are a point above Accrington Stanley and Hartlepool, seven clear of 23rd-placed Orient and 10 clear of bottom club Newport County.
Should they be relegated, Crewe face the prospect of losing their place in the Football League for the first time since 1921.
But Crewe's fate remains in their own hands, as three of their final six home games are against Notts County, the team just one place above them (14 April), Newport (11 March) and Leyton Orient (22 April).
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Crewe Alexandra manager David Artell has warned his players that they could end up "with a job as a milkman" if the club are relegated from League Two.
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Oisin Tymon was working on the programme when the incident happened, after Clarkson was told there was no hot food available at the end of a day's filming.
It led to Jeremy Clarkson being dropped by the BBC following the assault.
"I would like to say sorry, once again, to Oisin Tymon for the incident and its regrettable aftermath," Clarkson said.
"I want to reiterate that none of this was in any way his fault.
"I would also like to make it clear that the abuse he has suffered since the incident is unwarranted and I am sorry too that he has had to go through that.
"I am pleased that this matter is now resolved. Oisin was always a creatively exciting part of Top Gear and I wish him every success with his future projects."
Following Clarkson being dropped from the show, his co-presenters James May and Richard Hammond also left the programme.
Top Gear now has a new presenting line-up including Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc.
Clarkson, May and Hammond have since signed up to launch a rival motoring show on Amazon's streaming TV service.
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Jeremy Clarkson has apologised to a Top Gear producer who he hit in an incident last year.
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The hosts took an early lead when Leandro Bacuna headed home a deep Albert Adomah cross.
Jamie Ward then levelled for the visitors with an acrobatic volley from 12 yards out.
Lloyd Dyer hit the post as Burton dominated the second half, but they were made to pay for their wastefulness when McCormack tapped home after Jordan Ayew's cross.
Defeat was harsh on the Brewers, who had the better of the game after former Villa trainee Ward levelled before the break.
They nearly salvaged a point in the last second when Mark Bunn produced a superb save from Tom Naylor's header.
Villa, who improved once Ayew had replaced Mile Jedinak, remain unbeaten at home and are now 10th in the table.
Nigel Clough's men have lost their last four league games and are two points above the relegation zone.
Aston Villa boss Steve Bruce:
"We were probably fortunate to win. We had the better chances but we found it a bit of a struggle.
"I do not think anyone who watched the match will think differently. If we are going to go forward our football has got to be better.
"We have tried to breathe a bit of life into the players. It has not been easy after the club had an awful start to the season.
Burton Albion boss Nigel Clough:
"We have produced some outstanding performances in our last four games which we have lost by the odd goal.
"It is especially galling and we do not deserve it. But that is the ruthless nature of the Championship and we have to get on with it.
"We forced their goalkeeper into a few saves, two very good ones late in the game. To come in at half-time at Villa Park having had more possession and more shots was very pleasing."
Match ends, Aston Villa 2, Burton Albion 1.
Second Half ends, Aston Villa 2, Burton Albion 1.
Corner, Burton Albion. Conceded by Mark Bunn.
Attempt saved. John Brayford (Burton Albion) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Matthew Palmer with a cross.
John Mousinho (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jordan Ayew (Aston Villa).
Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Ayew (Aston Villa).
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Tom Naylor.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Stuart Beavon replaces Damien McCrory.
Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Albert Adomah (Aston Villa).
Attempt blocked. Lloyd Dyer (Burton Albion) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Chris O'Grady.
Offside, Aston Villa. Gabriel Agbonlahor tries a through ball, but Albert Adomah is caught offside.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Gabriel Agbonlahor replaces Jonathan Kodjia.
Attempt blocked. John Brayford (Burton Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas Akins.
John Mousinho (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Kodjia (Aston Villa).
Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Kodjia (Aston Villa).
Offside, Burton Albion. Lloyd Dyer tries a through ball, but Chris O'Grady is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Jonathan Kodjia (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jordan Ayew.
Goal! Aston Villa 2, Burton Albion 1. Ross McCormack (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the high centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Chris O'Grady (Burton Albion) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Matthew Palmer.
Lucas Akins (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Chester (Aston Villa).
Substitution, Aston Villa. Jordan Ayew replaces Mile Jedinak.
Offside, Aston Villa. Ross McCormack tries a through ball, but Jonathan Kodjia is caught offside.
Foul by Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion).
Jack Grealish (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Lloyd Dyer (Burton Albion) hits the left post with a left footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Lucas Akins.
Foul by Chris O'Grady (Burton Albion).
Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Burton Albion. Conceded by Alan Hutton.
Attempt blocked. Lloyd Dyer (Burton Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by John Brayford with a cross.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Lee Williamson replaces Jamie Ward because of an injury.
Delay in match Jamie Ward (Burton Albion) because of an injury.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by John Mousinho.
Jamie Ward (Burton Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
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Ross McCormack scored the winner for an under-par Aston Villa against Burton.
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The birds are mistaking poles in East Anglia and south-east England for trees, UK Power Networks said.
Woodpeckers often return to the same spot so the escalating damage can result in power cuts or the need to replace the posts.
The utility company is now using a wood filler containing a scent that repels the birds.
Woodpecker damage generally occurs 6ft above ground level and continues all the way to the top of the pole, Ipswich-based UK Power Networks said.
About 25% of the pole can be lost to the damage, but if the holes are not filled rot can set in leading to further problems.
"There is... some thought that the woodpeckers are attracted to certain poles because they vibrate at a frequency similar to where mites nest," the company said.
Ian Cameron, head of innovation at UK Power Networks, said in an attempt to deter the birds from coming back to their old holes to search for insects or worms, they had been trialling a "new product developed in the US that fills the holes and emits a harmless scent to persuade woodpeckers to pick a more suitable home".
The new resin, which is a blend of natural oils, was trialled successfully in the Brighton area for several years and is now being rolled out across the network, Mr Cameron added.
The company found the filler deterred the reoccurrence of damage on the same pole and was a safe and environmentally friendly way of encouraging the woodpeckers to go elsewhere.
Although woodpeckers are thriving in the UK, with their population increasing in the last 20 years according to the British Trust for Ornithology, the species is protected and the company's engineers are not allowed to disturb a nest if eggs or young are present.
A spokesman for the RSPB said: "If woodpeckers are damaging poles in certain areas, the proposed measures seem a sensible and cost-effective way to prevent further damage without harming this popular bird."
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Woodpeckers drilling holes in electricity poles have been blamed for damaging 6,000 posts in the past year.
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State television showed images of Mr Castro at a meeting with cheese experts near the capital, Havana.
Fidel Castro, 88, handed power to his younger brother Raul in 2006 after struggling to recover from illness.
His appearance comes days after Cuba and the United States announced they were reopening embassies in each other's capitals on 20 July.
Mr Castro is rarely seen in public, and secrecy about his health means his public appearances are scrutinised by the media.
The historic thaw between the old Cold War enemies was announced on 17 December, in joint media conferences by Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro.
There was no immediate comment from Fidel Castro, and analysts said the rapprochement would not have happened if he was still in power.
Just over a month later, he broke his silence in a letter published on the Cuban Communist Party newspaper, Granma.
"I don't trust the policy of the United States… but this does not mean I reject a pacific solution to the conflicts," he wrote.
Relations had been frozen since the early 1960s when the US broke links and imposed a trade embargo on Cuba.
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A final medal target - and targets for each sport - will come in July, but it is likely to be in a range of 47 to 79.
Team GB won a record 65 medals at London 2012 and 120 at the Paralympics.
"If all stars align and things go perfectly, it could be as good as 79 medals," said Simon Timson, UK Sport director of performance.
"We can be confident it will be our best ever away Games."
However, he admitted that there is "no absolute method" of forecasting a nation's likely medal haul.
Team GB won 29 golds, 17 silvers and 19 bronzes at 2012.
Timson said it would be "absolutely unprecedented" for a host country to increase its medal tally at the next summer Games.
Since the modern Olympic era began in 1896, it has never been done.
But Timpson said it was "a challenge that has kindled the fire in the bellies of our elite programmes, coaches and athletes".
He added that it was important to set an aspirational goal "to focus people's effort and to drive the intensity of that effort".
UK Sport has statistically modelled 250,000 different scenarios in Rio based on British performances in major events in 2015.
This analysis suggests GB will win 53 medals.
But a more up-to-date 'tracker', based on projections from each sport, says 71 medals might be possible.
Diving, gymnastics and swimming all posted great results in 2015, while cycling showed signs of a return to the form of 2008 and 2012.
The most recent prediction from sport statistics company Infostrada had GB in fifth place on 48 medals.
Russia was third with 70 medals, a figure that may need revising if the country's athletics team remains banned.
UK Sport's predictions for Paralympics GB were even more bullish, with a London-beating total of 124 being suggested.
Rod Carr, the chair of UK Sport, said he was confident that Rio organisers would have plans in place to combat the threat of the Zika virus at the Games.
The virus has been linked to thousands of babies being born with underdeveloped brains and has been spreading on a massive scale in the Americas, including Brazil.
Carr told BBC Sport: "Sport is important, but not that important. No-one wants to risk the lives of unborn children, mothers or families.
"At least it has happened now and not two weeks before the Games.
"There will be a massive effort to sort it out. I will be surprised if it is still a threat to the athletes in Rio.
"We will follow what is best for the athletes and their supporters."
ScotRail said services would restart on Sunday 7 August after the completion of a 20-week £60m works programme.
During the closure, trains to Stirling, Edinburgh and Aberdeen were diverted to low-level platforms or Glasgow Central.
The project is part of wider plans to revamp Queen Street and allow longer, faster trains to run from the station.
Phil Verster, managing director of the ScotRail Alliance, described the tunnel works as "an extraordinarily complex job".
"Our people have been working round-the-clock, often in really challenging circumstances, to get this job done," he said.
"I'm incredibly grateful to our customers for the patience and understanding that they have shown over the course of the last five months."
ScotRail said the tunnel closure was necessary to enable the renewal of 1,800m of existing concrete slab track formation, which carries the rails through the 918m tunnel.
The project involved the removal of 10,000 tonnes of existing concrete slab and the installation of 4,000m of new rails.
Transport Minister, Humza Yousaf, said he was pleased the tunnel works were to be completed on schedule.
He said: "Like all rail passengers, I am looking forward to the resumption of normal services. I would like to thank the public for their patience during the closure."
Work to redevelop Glasgow Queen Street station is due to begin later this year with completion expected in 2019.
Teesside Airport station has just two trains a week, both on a Sunday - the 11:05 Darlington to Hartlepool service, and the 12:05 return.
Independent travel company Chester-le-Track station master Alex Nelson said the service was "crazy".
The line's current operator Northern Rail said it was obliged under its franchise to serve the station.
It is one of the least used in the UK, behind Shippea Hill in Cambridgeshire.
Last year there were 16 arrivals and 16 departures from the station, which was built in 1971 to serve Durham Tees Valley Airport.
But it "was never very close by", Mr Nelson said.
Members of Stockton and Darlington Railway youth team and the Royal Society of St George were among 28 passengers who took part in the "protest"
"I'm not sure why it was located exactly where it was.
"If you were travelling out on a flight from Teesside Airport you wouldn't want to carry your luggage all the way from the station to the terminal - it's a long way."
The station is situated more than half a mile (1km) away from the airport.
Members of Stockton and Darlington Railway youth team and the Royal Society of St George were among 28 passengers who took part in the "protest".
"We're just drawing attention to how weird this is. It's a bit of fun," Mr Nelson said.
Passenger service requirements were introduced as part of the privatisation of British Rail to ensure operators maintained certain levels of provision.
Instead of a dedicated service the station could be served by other trains that pass through but do not currently stop, Mr Nelson said.
"It would be a substantially less expensive way of doing it and I'm frankly amazed they don't do that," he said.
Northern Rail's franchise ends on 31 March, after which the route will be taken over by Arriva.
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The 29-year-old returned to her club in Edinburgh after her success in the -70kg judo class.
"Tokyo is definitely on my mind," she told BBC Scotland.
"But I am just going to take every year as it comes, be the best I can be and just enjoy the moment."
Bristol-born Conway is looking forward to taking a rare break from competitive judo.
"I am just giving myself time to relax and soak up the atmosphere and just enjoy it," she said.
"We compete so often and don't get to enjoy our wins too often because we are always looking towards the next competition.
"But this was the biggest one for me - it is my dream come true - so I am going to enjoy it and concentrate on next year when it comes."
Conway was delighted with her reception at Edinburgh Judo Club.
"I didn't expect to be that emotional," she said. "I am so happy with the support and messages I have had and this just tops it off.
"When I walked in with all the bagpipes playing and saw everybody, I just welled up. That support is unbelievable."
Conway said her medal was a team effort and praised the role of her coach, Billy Cusack.
"He and I have gone through a lot together and I am so happy I could bring home this bronze medal, not just for myself but him and everyone else who has supported me," she added.
"It is like a family here. Everyone is so friendly and so happy when you do well.
"It is such a fantastic club to come into. The atmosphere is so good and I am just happy to come back."
The England football coach was speaking to Newsround ahead of the 2013 Women's Euros competition in Sweden.
Asked whether the women's team could beat the men, she answered: "Absolutely, why not?
"I think physically the guys are obviously a lot stronger than the women, but if we took it on technical ability we're as good as the men."
She continued: "We'd give it a good go."
The former international player added: "Women's football is sometimes considered secondary.
"But the growth of the game means more people are interested in the game, and it's flourishing."
Check out MOTD Kickabout's Women's Euro special every Saturday during the tournament at 7:40am, exclusively on the CBBC Channel.
John Cooper QC said stalking, threats to kill, sending obscene material and harassment were "age old" offences.
The fact that they were being committed on Twitter did not make any difference, he told the Lords communication committee.
It comes as ministers consider new laws to combat so-called "revenge porn".
Mr Cooper hit the headlines in 2010 when he represented a man put on trial for posting a joke bomb threat on Twitter.
His client, Paul Chambers, was found guilty in May 2010, but his conviction was quashed on appeal.
The QC told the committee he had been surprised at the poor understanding of the law among some Crown Prosecution Service lawyers, who had decided to press ahead with the case even though the police and others involved could see the offending tweet had been nothing more than a "crass joke".
He said social media was a "positive, inspiring arena" which was self-policing to a "high degree", but like society in general there were those who spoiled it for the rest.
But that did not mean new laws were needed to deal with it, he argued.
"The issue for me is not not so much the faulty nature of the existing law but the fact it's coming at us from all angles," he said, adding that it all needed to brought together in one "basket".
He also called for a campaign to educate the police and public on what constitutes "anti-social behaviour" on social media.
Police were being inundated with complaints from members of the public about comments posted on Twitter and other social media sites, which clearly were not in breach of the law, he told the peers.
On the subject of "revenge porn," where people upload sexually explicit content of ex-partners without their permission, he said it was already against the law to "send any form of obscene picture".
Gabrielle Guillemin, legal officer of international free speech campaign Article 19, also cautioned against "revenge porn" legislation.
She told peers: "We have seen a lot of legislation, for example in the United States, to address this particular issue, but you would question whether it is for the criminal law to get involved in what is very often, ultimately the fallout of failed relationships.
"And if civil remedies are not more appropriate to deal with these kinds of issues."
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has said the government is "very open" to changing the law to deal with "revenge porn".
He told MPs uploading sexually explicit material to the internet without the subject's consent is becoming a bigger issue in the UK.
Police and council officials raided the house in Fallowfield, south Manchester on Friday afternoon.
Neighbours complained the students would hold gaming sessions at full volume at 04:00 after returning from a night out.
The council said the students had "disregarded" a noise abatement order.
"Residents should not have to put up with noise until the early hours of the morning," said a council spokesman.
Police and council officials took a PS3, five Philips surround speakers, two laptop speakers, a Philips DVD player and Samsung television from the house in Brailsford Road, Fallowfield.
It is also believed they were using the console to play music as well.
A Manchester City Council spokesman said: "This seizure demonstrates that we take these concerns from residents very seriously and we work closely with the police and universities to take action against any households that cause problems for their neighbours.
"We started receiving complaints from people living near this house several weeks ago, and after issuing a noise abatement notice, they continued to disregard the impact their behaviour was having on their neighbours and we have now visited them to take their speakers and noise making equipment."
Cerberus bought the entire NI loan book of Nama, the Irish government's 'bad bank', in 2014 for more than £1bn.
Among them were those advanced to Gareth Graham's property firms.
It has already put two of his companies into administration and is attempting to do the same with another two.
Mr Graham is challenging Cerberus on a number of grounds, including the validity of loan guarantees.
It is understood to be the first legal challenge Cerberus has faced since it began operating in Northern Ireland.
Earlier this month, it appointed administrators to Fernhill Properties NI Ltd and AD Enterprises (NI) Ltd.
Fernhill Properties developed the College Court Central apartment complex in Belfast city centre.
AD Enterprises owned the Lyndon Court complex on Queen Street also in Belfast city centre.
It is now attempting to appoint administrators to STH 500 and Lehill Properties which own a variety of commercial properties in Belfast.
A barrister for Cerberus, David Dunlop, told the High Court that his client would need three weeks to reply to Mr Graham's affidavit.
The judge adjourned the case to allow the reply to be prepared.
Cerberus' business model involves borrowers rapidly repaying the former Nama loans by selling properties or finding new financial backers.
A number of borrowers have been able to reach a deal with Cerberus but it has also enforced some loans by appointing administrators or receivers.
Cerberus has previously said it has "a long and demonstrated history of treating our borrowers consistently and fairly".
It added that: "Not every borrower will like the outcome."
Vostok is a sub-glacial lake in Antarctica, hidden some 4,000m (13,000ft) beneath the ice sheet.
With the Antarctic summer almost over, temperatures will soon begin to plummet; they can go as low as -80C.
Scientists will leave the remote base on 6 February, when conditions are still mild enough for a plane to land.
The team has been drilling non-stop for weeks.
"It's like working on an alien planet where no one has been before," Valery Lukin, the deputy head of Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) in St Petersburg, which oversees the project, told BBC News.
"We don't know what awaits us down there," he said, adding that personnel at the station have been working shifts, drilling 24 hours a day.
But some experts remain concerned that probing the lake's water - thought by some to be isolated from everything else on Earth - could contaminate the pristine ecosystem and cause irreversible damage.
The sub-glacial lake is located underneath the remote Vostok station in Antarctica.
Overlaid by nearly 4km of ice, it has been isolated from the rest of the world for millions of years. Some scientists think the ice cap above and at the edges has created a hydrostatic seal with the surface, preventing lake water from escaping or anything else from getting inside.
And if the Russian team gets through to the pristine waters, they hope to encounter life forms that have never been seen.
It was at the Vostok station that the coldest temperature ever found on Earth (-89°C) was recorded on 21 July 1983.
Normally, water in such extreme conditions exists only in one state: ice. And when, in the 1970s British scientists in Antarctica received strange radar readings at the site, the presence of a liquid, freshwater lake below the ice did not instantly spring to mind.
It was not until 1996 that the discovery was formally acknowledged, after satellites sent in the images outlining the lake's contours.
Space radar revealed that the sub-glacial body of fresh water was one of the largest lakes in the world - and one of some 150 subglacial lakes in Antarctica.
At 10,000 square km and with depths reaching 800m, it is similar to Lake Baikal in Siberia or Lake Ontario in North America.
Since the lake has remained sealed off from the rest of the world, scientists estimate that conditions in it have probably remained unchanged for some 15 million years.
For liquid water to exist in Antarctica, glaciologists suggest that the ice cap serves as a giant insulating blanket, able to capture the Earth's geothermal heat to melt the bottom of the ice sheet.
Eager to explore the ancient lake, scientists started drilling and managed to go as deep as about 3,600m - but when the untouched waters were only some 130m away, in 1998, the project ground to a halt.
"We had to stop because of the concerns of possible contamination of the lake," explained Alexey Ekaikin, a member of the current expedition, who spoke to the BBC Russian Service from Vostok station.
He said that drilling was resumed in 2004, when the team came up with new, ecologically safe methods of probing the lake.
In November 2010, the scientists submitted a final environmental evaluation of the project to the Antarctic Treaty's environmental protection committee and were given the go-ahead to sample the ancient waters.
They said that instead of drilling into the lake, they would go down until a sensor on the drill detects free water.
Then they would take the drill out without going any further and adjust the pressure so that instead of any liquid in the borehole falling down into the lake, water in the lake would be sucked up.
Then the drill would be taken away and left for quite some time to freeze, creating a plug of frozen ice in the bottom of the hole.
Finally, next season, the team would drill down again to take a sample of that ice and analyse it.
But the work has not been going very smoothly, being repeatedly delayed because of technical difficulties.
"Up until three km down, drilling is usually relatively easy - it has been done in Greenland and here in Antarctica. But after three km and as we near the bottom [of the ice sheet], the ice temperature gets very close to the ice melting point, and all sorts of problems begin," said Dr Ekaikin.
Dr Lukin added that additional difficulties arise from the changing structure of the ice - after about 3,600m, it is pure frozen lake water, composed of huge round monocrystals of a metre or more in diameter and as hard as glass.
That is why for the past few weeks, the team had been advancing at a snail's pace - about 1.6m a day.
They have already reached the 3,700m mark and have just some 50m more to go.
Dr Ekaikin said that having analysed the ice cores obtained so far, the scientists have already discovered some bacteria that are likely to be living at the bottom of the lake, where the water is warmer because of the heat coming from the Earth.
Besides possibly discovering new microorganisms, sampling the waters could also move us a step closer to the understanding of similar glacial conditions at one of Jupiter's moons, Europa.
Its surface, researchers suspect, is covered by a huge ocean, hidden within a thick shell of ice.
Despite all the precautions, some international observers still dub the project a threat to the ancient sub-glacial lake.
"It's probably almost impossible to make something absolutely, utterly and totally clean," said Dr Andy Smith, a glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey.
"It's worth [sampling the waters], as even though originally it seemed a really wild thing to expect, there will be life there - anywhere we go on the planet where there's an extreme environment, we always find life.
"But we have to make a huge effort not to spoil the environment by being interested in it," he added.
But the Russians working in Antarctica believe that the risks are virtually non existent and that the possibility of a great discovery makes it entirely worthwhile.
In 2006, researchers reported evidence for a network of rivers under the ice which connect Antarctica's sub-glacial lakes. Some scientists think this could spell trouble for the prospects of finding microbial life that has evolved "independently".
Nevertheless, some of those on the team working at Lake Vostok have been waiting for a eureka moment for decades, and have been coming to the base to drill since the discovery of the lake in the 1970s.
Now they are hoping the technology will not fail them and they will be able to reach the waters before the season ends on 6 February.
Because if not, they will have to stay patient for yet another long year.
Team principal Christian Horner admitted Renault's failure to close the gap in engine performance with Mercedes and Ferrari "tests our patience".
Horner believes it would take "two or three months" to incorporate the progress onto the engine.
"It needs to happen this year - but also what you learn this year will help you next season," he said.
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The Renault engine is at least 50bhp down on the best engines.
"Like any competitive team we want performance yesterday, and unfortunately with engines the lead time is a lot longer than with the chassis," Horner told the official Formula 1 website.
"Patience is something that we are not really good at. We want to have performance as soon as possible."
Red Bull and Renault won four consecutive world title doubles together from 2010-13.
But the relationship has been tense since the start of last season, when it became clear the French manufacturer had been left behind in developing the new turbo hybrid engines that were introduced in 2014.
Red Bull has consistently criticised Renault's lack of performance in public, with owner Dietrich Mateschitz saying last month that it was draining the company's "will and motivation" to stay in F1.
The two are contracted to remain together until the end of 2016, but many F1 insiders believe that a split is inevitable after that.
Horner acknowledged Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne's offer of an engine supply in the future should Red Bull need it.
"It would be an exaggeration saying that Red Bull is 'flirting' with Ferrari," Horner said.
"Obviously Red Bull Group had a relationship with Ferrari for many years as engine supplier for Toro Rosso.
"Sergio made a generous offer without any details when he attended the Austrian Grand Prix - but right now our focus is on what we have at this point in time."
Renault's future in F1 is in some doubt as it weighs up three options beyond 2016 - continuing as a partner for Red Bull, buying its own team - with Lotus the favourite - or pulling out altogether.
Renault previously owned what is now Lotus, until selling it to the Genii Capital investment group at the end of 2009.
Horner said: "Those are decisions that they have to make. It would hold a certain irony if they buy back the team they sold.
"But as far as our position is concerned, we have a very clear agreement with Renault, which guarantees us priority status. Any of those scenarios requires having a competitive engine - and doesn't really matter based on the agreement that we have."
Renault was not immediately available for comment, but Renault Sport boss Cyril Abiteboul said last month that the company would only stay in F1 if it could make its engine competitive.
"What we have to do is bring the engine to a competitive level because there won't be any future for Renault in F1 if we do not have a competitive engine. That is the first step," he said.
They were buoyed by news from firms such as retail giant Walmart, which jumped 3% after bucking gloomy retail trends with higher than expected sales.
The S&P 500 rose 0.37% to 2,365.72, while the Dow Jones gained 56.09 points, climbing 0.27% to 20,663.02
The Nasdaq closed at 6,055.13, up 0.73%
The row over the firing of FBI director James Comey, who was leading an investigation into the Trump campaign, has led to growing scepticism about Mr Trump's ability to deliver tax and regulatory reform.
On Wednesday, the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones both recorded their biggest one-day falls since September.
But analysts said stocks were likely over-sold on Wednesday and would rebound.
Optimism was in evidence over at least one of the Trump administration's agenda items: loosening regulations for internet providers.
Those firms currently fall in the same category as public utilities, akin to electricity providers, but the chair of the Federal Communications Commission said he believes that oversight is unnecessarily stringent.
On Thursday, the commission voted to advance a proposal to reverse the Obama administration's 2015 "net neutrality" order.
Verizon shares climbed more than 1%, while Comcast gained 1.5%
Facebook, which slumped 2% on Wednesday, had recovered much of that ground by Thursday morning and bounced further after it announced a deal to livestream 20 baseball games, starting Friday.
The social media giant had previously said it was looking at deals to broadcast sports as it works to beef up its video tab, with the goal of creating a "revenue share" model.
The firm closed the day up 1.94%.
Other firms weighed on the markets.
Shares in Cisco fell more than 7% after it forecast weaker-than-expected quarterly revenues and said it would cut an additional 1,100 jobs.
Councillor Joe Cooney, leader of the Conservatives on Pendle Council, said Councillor Rosemary Carroll was suspended pending an investigation.
The joke, which has been deleted, compared an Asian person to a dog.
Speaking before the suspension was confirmed, Ms Carroll said she had meant to delete the post but ended up publishing it by mistake.
Philip Mousdale, Pendle Council's corporate director, said he received two formal complaints about the post.
He said the complaints against the councillor who represents Earby Ward allege she had breached the council's code of conduct.
"As monitoring officer for the council I'm looking into the complaints," Mr Mousdale added.
Mr Cooney said: "We will not tolerate racism of any form. Rosemary Carroll has been suspended from the Conservative Group on Pendle Borough Council and the Conservative Party with immediate effect, pending a full investigation in due course."
Ms Carroll said she planned to post an apology.
It says broadcast earnings of £1.9bn accounted for more than half of the top flight clubs' total revenues.
A new domestic TV deal which kicked in last year means overall revenues continue to grow strongly, it added.
For a third straight season, clubs' combined operating profits exceeded £500m, but wages rose 12% to £2.3bn.
"Even in the final year of its old broadcast contracts, Premier League revenues continued to set new records," said Dan Jones, partner in Deloitte's sports business group, which has unveiled its latest Annual Review of Football Finance.
He said the broadcasting boost to revenues in 2015-16 was mainly down to European federation Uefa increasing its payments to Premier League clubs by £100m.
Source: Deloitte Annual Review of Football Finance 2017
Mr Jones said Premier League clubs were now reaping the benefit of a new broadcast rights cycle which started in 2016-17, plus new commercial agreements, and match day revenue growth from new and expanded stadia.
Deloitte says it now expects total Premier League clubs' revenues to be more than £4.5bn in 2017-18.
Meanwhile, Premier League net debt fell for the third consecutive season, by £125m (5%) to £2.2bn at the end of the 2015-16 season.
However, while Premier League clubs returned to a collective pre-tax loss in 2015-16. Deloitte said this was the result of exceptional, or one-off, accounting adjustments, without which clubs collectively would have broken even.
One example of these one-off adjustments was Chelsea making a big financial provision to cover the cost of the early cancellation of their kit deal with Adidas.
"We fully expect that Premier League clubs will collectively achieve record levels of profitability in the seasons to come," said Mr Jones.
In the Championship, overall revenues increased to a new record level of £556m in 2015-16, and have risen by 74% in the past decade.
But for the third time in four years, clubs spent more on wages (£561m) than they generated in revenue, resulting in a record operating loss of £261m. This follows two seasons where losses have been reduced.
Clubs in the Championship stand to see their revenues jump by at least £170m from promotion to the Premier League, rising to over £290m if they survive one season.
But Deloitte says there there is a danger that Championship clubs may continue to be tempted "to spend excessively relative to their revenues, particularly on wages".
Former Chelsea captain John Terry has signed for Aston Villa on a reported £60,000 a week, plus further cash incentives should they win promotion
Yet Deloitte points out that Huddersfield Town's promotion at the end of the 2016-17 season shows any Championship club can reach the Premier League, regardless of their budget. And they point out that in 2015-16 Huddersfield had the Championship's fourth-lowest wage costs.
Including Football League clubs, the top 92 professional teams in England generated a record £4.4bn in revenue in 2015-16, Deloitte said.
The 92 clubs contributed £1.6bn to UK government in taxes in 2015-16, up from £1.5bn the year before.
In Scotland, despite Celtic's failure to qualify for the Uefa Champions League group stages for the second consecutive season, Scottish Premiership clubs' aggregate revenues grew 10% to 149m euros.
Celtic continued to generate more than 50% of total revenues as they won the league for a fifth consecutive season, and Deloitte says "their participation in the 2016-17 Uefa Champions League group stages will result in a substantial uplift in revenue".
China's investment and influence in football has been growing in both domestic clubs' playing squads and infrastructure, and foreign club purchases and sponsorship.
In their 2016-17 winter transfer window, Chinese Super League clubs spent more than £300m on players, including Oscar's transfer from Chelsea to Shanghai SIPG and Odion Ighalo's move from Watford to Changchun Yatai.
But Deloitte says some recent political moves could curtail this player spending boom.
In January, the government body responsible for regulation of sport in China said that a cap on player salaries and transfer fees would be established to control "irrational investment".
That month, the Chinese Football Association also implemented a stricter rule allowing only three foreign players to participate for a club in a super league fixture. This replaced the previous "4 plus 1" rule which allowed four foreigners plus one (non-Chinese) Asian player in a matchday squad.
And in June 2017, the Chinese Football Association said clubs that were loss making and spent in excess of 45m yuan (c.£5m) on a foreign player must pay an amount equivalent to the excess into a national fund to develop young Chinese players.
Hamilton, trailing Vettel by 25 points in the championship, was 0.198seconds clear of the German with their team-mates Valtteri Bottas and Kimi Raikkonen next.
Fernando Alonso's return to Formula 1 after missing the Monaco Grand Prix ended with the Spaniard stopping on track.
The two-time champion suffered a lack of hydraulic pressure, McLaren said.
The team were unable to say what had caused the problem.
Alonso was told by his engineer to stop on track. He pointed out that was he already at the hairpin, the last corner before the pit entry and it was easier to come back to the pits, but was ordered to stop.
He flung the impact-protection foam out of his cockpit as he climbed out and was given a standing ovation and cheers by the crowd in the grandstands.
"We are used to it," he told reporters on the way back to the pits.
The failure came as McLaren executive director Zak Brown again said that Honda had to up their game if the partnership was to have a future.
Two days after saying he had "serious concerns" about Honda, and a day after Alonso indicated he could leave McLaren at the end of the year if they were not winning by September, Brown told BBC Sport: "The plan right now is to have the Honda in the back of the car (in 2018) but some things need to happen between now and then for us to have the confidence we can be at the front of the field next year.
"We need to get competitive and show regular signs that we are getting competitive.
"Right now, we're not racing well, not finishing races and that can't happen any more.
"We are starting to work on the 2018 car so we need to make any decisions that impact 2018 by the summer break. Something needs to change. If you keep doing the same thing, you are going to get the same result. Maybe take some risks, do things they wouldn't normally do. You can't keep doing the same thing and expect things to change."
Asked if they had been discussing a customer engine supply with Mercedes, Brown said: "We have a plan B, a Plan C. We have some plans."
Back at the front, it was for Mercedes an encouraging start to a weekend when ideally they need to start clawing back some ground in the championship.
A poor weekend for Hamilton in Monaco allowed Vettel to extend a lead of nearly a a clear win by winning the race.
The silver and red cars appeared closely matched throughout the session on a tricky, slippery Circuit Gilles Villeneuve that provoked a number of spins through the first session.
The combination of a low-grip, low-abrasion track surface and asphalt that is in a park and rarely used for the rest of the year and therefore dusty and dirty makes for a treacherous experience for the drivers, with unyielding walls waiting for those who make mistakes in the wrong places.
Behind Mercedes and Ferrari, Force India impressed, with Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon fifth and sixth quickest ahead of the Red Bull of Max Verstappen, who was separated from team-mate Daniel Ricciardo by Felipe Massa's Williams.
Massa's team-mate Lance Stroll was five places and 1.2secs behind on his first experience at his home race.
Alonso's team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne was 11th quickest, with the Spaniard's single lap putting him 16th.
DM Jayaratne acknowledged his mistake by telling Sri Lanka's Daily Mirror newspaper that his allegation was based on incorrect information.
Mr Jayaratne's speech to parliament on Wednesday drew a sharp response from the Indian government.
He said rebel fighters were being trained to launch terror attacks.
Mr Jayaratne, a veteran politician who became prime minister last year, said an unknown number of fighters were based at three clandestine training centres operated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) itself in Tamil Nadu - the Indian state closest to Sri Lanka.
He said his government had intelligence reports that one of the camps was giving specialist training in how to assassinate VIPs.
"Their next target is to create small-scale attacks," he said. "The entire nation must be ready to face this threat."
But on Thursday the spokesman for India's Ministry of External Affairs rebuffed Mr Jayaratne's remarks, saying Delhi "categorically" denied the existence of such camps and adding that the Colombo government had not raised such an issue diplomatically.
"Such a reference is indeed unfortunate and we urge the government of Sri Lanka to desist from reacting to speculative and uncorroborated reports," he said.
On Friday Mr Jayaratne told the Daily Mirror that accounts of the supposed camps were "mentioned in two newspaper reports".
"There appears to be false information in these reports," he said.
Most of the LTTE's top leaders were killed as the Sri Lankan military crushed their decades-long insurgency in 2009. There has not been a rebel attack on the island since then.
A section of the Tamil Nadu population and several of its prominent politicians support the LTTE or at least Sri Lankan Tamil separatism.
In the LTTE's early days in the 1970s and 1980s the then Indian government gave it and other separatist groups training and support.
But today's Indian central government and the president of the Congress Party Sonia Gandhi, whose husband Rajiv was assassinated by the LTTE 20 years ago, are firmly opposed to the group.
It is banned as a terrorist organisation in India.
The Sri Lankan prime minister made his controversial remarks during the monthly debate on extending the state of emergency, which has existed in Sri Lanka on and off since 1971 and which was renewed by MPs on Wednesday.
The emergency, along with the Prevention of Terrorism Act, gives the security forces far-reaching powers to arrest and hold people for long periods without trial.
The government says these laws are needed to combat a possible revival of the LTTE. It has given no indication of when the country might be able to reduce its state of alert.
Sri Lanka and India are diplomatic allies but recently there have been tensions between the two neighbours, small and large, over fishing rights in the narrow strait between the two countries.
Sri Lankan fishermen complain that Indians are intruding on their waters and using big trawler nets, depleting reserves and ruining their livelihood.
But Indian villagers accuse the Sri Lankan navy of regularly using excessive force against Indian fishermen, even killing some of them - something Colombo denies
Mr Gao - who was released from prison last week - was emotionless, "basically unintelligible" and had lost teeth through malnutrition, Mr Gensher said.
As a prominent human rights lawyer, Mr Gao had defended China's Christians and followers of the Falun Gong movement.
He is alleged to have suffered physical and psychological abuse in jail.
As well as losing many teeth, Mr Gao's daily ration of cabbage and a single slice of bread had caused him to lose 20 kg in weight, according to a statement by US-based advocacy group, Freedom Now.
The group said he had been confined to a cramped cell, with very little light, and had been largely deprived of human contact until his release.
Freedom Now said Mr Gao's wife, Geng He, had spoken to her husband and was "completely devastated" by what the Chinese government had done to him.
"The only thing I feared more than him being killed was his suffering relentless and horrific torture and being kept alive," she is quoted as saying.
Ms He has urged the Chinese government to allow Mr Gao to seek treatment in the United States, where she and their two children have been living since 2009.
2005: Authorities close down Gao Zhisheng's law practice
Dec 2006: Convicted of subversion and sentenced to house arrest
Sept 2007: Says he was tortured during a period of detention
Jan 2009: Disappears; last seen accompanied by security officials
Mar 2010: Reappears for a month before disappearing again
Dec 2011: State media says he has been jailed for three years
Jan 2012: Gao revealed to be in Xinjiang prison
Aug 2014: Gao freed from jail
Mr Gensher said Mr Gao had been "in an incredibly bad way".
"He is able to say a few words here and there and answering questions in a few words, describing what he went through," he said.
"But he's not capable of holding any conversation and there are many occasions where he's just literally just muttering to himself."
Mr Gao, 50, has been an outspoken critic of the Chinese government, and has defended activists and religious minorities in the past. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 for his work.
He is known for campaigning for religious freedom, particularly for members of the banned group Falun Gong.
He was arrested in early 2009 and accused of inciting subversion.
Mr Gao was released briefly in 2010, and claimed he had been tortured in detention. Shortly after that he disappeared again.
State media subsequently said in 2011 that he would be jailed for three years for violating probation rules. He was released from a prison in the western province of Xinjiang last week.
The US, European Union and United Nations had repeatedly called on the Chinese authorities to release him.
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So it is hardly surprising he would find himself in the US in the 1990s, looking for work and trying to find a way to watch Everton games.
"When I first moved here I would go to a bar on Saturday mornings and there would be about a dozen Brits there," said Bennett, who got his dad to hold the radio up to the phone so he could listen to Everton's 1995 FA Cup semi-final win over Spurs (he was presumably too broke to repeat the trick for the final).
"We got one game a week then and it would often be something awful like Sheffield Wednesday versus Leicester.
"Every now and then an American would wander in and ask 'is Full-ham on?' To which the chilling answer from the scariest-looking Brit would be 'walk on, mate, walk on.'
"The impression was that global football was a lecture room and Americans were lucky to be allowed in and they had to keep their hands down.
"Now they have full-throatedly fallen in love with football and it is a joyous thing."
The evidence of that was clear at the Brooklyn Expo Center, where Bennett and fellow ex-pat Michael Davies were about to hold their most ambitious lecture yet: a two-day celebration of what most of the attendees who I spoke to called "soccer…sorry, football".
There was a queue of 1,300 customers around the building, most of them wearing English football club shirts or scarves, bartenders lining up pints of IPA and stout in the beer tent, and staff at the food stall filling the heated shelves with chicken and mushroom pies.
But more startling than this giddy outbreak of Anglophilia in what is meant to be New York's coolest neighbourhood was the crowd gathered in the VIP room.
Because there - in the borough that is home to the NBA's Brooklyn Nets and NHL's New York Islanders and which gave birth to American sporting icons like the Dodgers, Michael Jordan and Vince Lombardi - were the boss of the Premier League and the chairmen or chief executives of four of his member clubs.
Oh, and the bosses of the USA's Major League Soccer and Germany's Bundesliga were on their way.
"This is about how much America loves world football, but also how much world football loves America," said Bennett, the best teacher a new student of the game could ever hope for, as he announced the start of Blazercon, the football convention spawned by his and Davies' phenomenally successful Men in Blazers podcast and TV show.
Equal parts Saint and Greavsie, Wayne's World and Alistair Cooke's Letter from America, Men in Blazers has gone from a conversation at a wedding about how much they miss football banter to becoming a weekly television show on NBC Sports and what Bennett describes as "a beachhead" for the wave of invaders from across the Atlantic.
"America getting football is what clubs in Europe have been dreaming about for decades," Bennett said.
"This is the final frontier and it is a fight for bandwidth."
Much like marriages, partners in double acts know when to jump in with a helpful explanation.
"There have been fans here for years," said Davies, a south Londoner who came to the States 25 years ago to play tennis but became a smash hit at producing TV shows and is now the Ernie Wise of US sports broadcasting's funniest duo.
"But many fans here are just falling in love with it now. That means they don't necessarily think Man Utd and Liverpool are that good.
"They might prefer Southampton or Crystal Palace or Bournemouth. It's a free-for-all!"
That sense of the American football market being a Wild West must be what brought the chairmen of those three clubs to Blazercon, and they were all in the front row when Premier League executive chairman Richard Scudamore opened the convention with a very relaxed question-and-answer session.
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Scudamore has run England's top flight since 1999 but he knows the US well having visited often as a child and then later working for a newspaper group in New York, which explains how he flummoxed the Blazercon staff by arriving at the venue via the subway. They had been looking out for "the commissioner's motorcade".
But there was nothing understated about the numbers he delivered: the Premier League's live TV audiences in the US are up 150% since 2013 and there are now 60 million American adults who have seen at least one game of professional club soccer from somewhere in the world on TV.
"Football has had its ups and downs here but it really does seem to be on the rise and it's very encouraging, very pleasing and very exciting," Scudamore told me before his Q&A.
"Already the audiences here are averaging what you'd get in UK for a Sky or BT game.
"Of course, it's a bigger country. But in terms of unique adults, we had about 32 million Americans watch a game last season, compared with 14-15 million in the UK.
"So our audiences are big and growing. The day more people will be watching live here than in the UK will happen."
Even with the disparity in populations, that will be significant milestone for football fans still regularly lampooned in the UK as Ted Lasso-types who want Boston United to win the "Soccerbowl" and cannot pronounce Leicester City.
But Scudamore is right: it will happen, and soon.
If you include the large numbers of fans who watched the games together, most experts think more than 30 million Americans watched the national team's games against Portugal and Belgium at the 2014 World Cup.
When the US hosted the World Cup in 1994, Bennett watched the games on obscure cable-TV channels with the Latino busboys in bars and restaurants. Nobody else cared.
So what has changed?
"Globalisation is the starting point," said Scudamore.
"People have got less and less parochial in their tastes - they like the best of everything. Sport, generally, has got more global."
He added that it was always a matter of time before the large number of boys and girls who play football in the US translated into an interest in the professional game, a trend that has been greatly helped by the internet.
"[US rights-holder] NBC says about 65% of their output is traditional TV, there is another segment watching on their PCs and there's another segment watching on tablets or mobile," he explained.
"But I think it's more than that. This conference is a testament to what can go on around the main show.
"It's about interaction and social media: it's about people wanting to consume a whole dialogue around the main event. Maybe football is the digital sport."
Scudamore was the warm-up act on Blazercon's first night to former Leyton Orient owner Barry Hearn. The US loves the former Leyton Orient owner and pub-sport impresario.
"I think there are a few reasons why this has happened now," said Hearn.
"There is a problem with head injuries in American football. Maybe parents are looking at that.
"Then there's the Hispanic interest - they have a lot of knowledge about football.
"But most important of all is that football is a soap opera. There are characters, huge money, lifestyle, aspirations, people from nothing who have become millions… there's a story."
As he said this, two Americans in Orient tops introduced themselves. They had decided to become Orient fans after hearing Hearn on a Men in Blazers podcast and had taken advantage of his offer to leave tickets at the Brisbane Road box office for visiting "Great Friends Of the Pod", or GFOPs as they are known on the Blazercon beachhead.
"But the great thing is that these guys support clubs," Hearn continued.
"They decide they want to be Orient fans or Aston Villa fans or Arsenal and so on. They are buying into football in the community.
"I think the new TV deal has helped by levelling the playing field out. So the advantages that Manchester United and Liverpool had, even Newcastle with their huge support, are lessened because of TV revenues.
"Clubs like Southampton and Leicester, with good management, can become major teams. That's quite attractive to the American market, because they love an underdog."
Southampton chairman Ralph Krueger, a Canadian who played ice hockey in Germany and coached in the NHL, agreed with Hearn about the opportunities North America offered clubs like his.
Krueger was almost evangelical when he told me about the plans he is hatching for Southampton FC soccer schools in the US and Canada.
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But then his counterpart at Bournemouth, Jeff Mostyn, was equally excited about the prospect of opening American branches of the Cherries supporters club, and Crystal Palace co-chairman Steve Parish was positively purring at the imminent arrival of American investment at Selhurst Park.
I could not help wondering whether this newfound enthusiasm for the US was a reaction to ignoring it for so long.
"If you go back over the last seven or eight years, I don't think anybody in the Premier League would have predicted that this would become a key market," admitted Liverpool chief executive Ian Ayre, who works for the club's American owners.
"Everybody always knew the opportunity in the US was huge but I think everybody is trying to catch up with the pick-up it's had in the last five or six years."
Was this a result of focusing too much on the exponential but harder-to-pin-down riches on offer in Asia?
"I think it is true about Asia but that's because it's the biggest game there and it was a natural fit. We've got millions of fans across Asia and have been touring there for years," said Ayre.
"But in recent times we've seen the growth here. We came here a couple of years ago and filled Yankee Stadium. We played at Fenway Park and the crowds just get bigger and bigger, the appetite gets bigger and bigger."
Hearn, who has sold snooker to China and darts to Singapore, distilled it even further.
"I have a rule in life: never ignore any market, any customer," he said.
"The North American market is good now but could be great. The Asian market is great but could be even better.
"The secret is to take it all, everywhere - don't leave a penny on the table."
Hearn is very unlikely now to ever own a Premier League team (although he still owns Orient's ground) but it is obvious that his rules in life have some currency around top-flight boardrooms.
For whatever reason - the all-pervasive popularity influence of EA Sport's Fifa games, the fact that Premier League games only have to compete with cartoons on Saturday mornings, not America's traditional big leagues, or what Brad Friedel described to me as the "fast and frenetic" product that appeals to American tastes - football has arrived in the States and it has a surprisingly familiar accent.
"I find it ridiculous," admitted Davies. "But I sort of understand it."
It has issued a yellow "be aware" warning which is in place from 15:00 GMT on Tuesday until 10:00 on Wednesday.
Much of the snow is expected to fall on higher ground but heavier bursts could reach lower levels and driving conditions may become difficult.
The warning covers Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Powys, and Wrexham.
The 27-year-old, who won in 2008 and 2013, also secured her fourth World Cup downhill title in the USA last month.
Her latest win came in five minutes 8.488 seconds, with defending champion Manon Carpenter, the 22-year-old from Wales, 3.238 seconds behind in second.
Australia's Tracey Hannah was third, with Britain's Tahnee Seagrave fifth.
A jubilant Atherton said: "I knew it was going to be hard today and the track is crazy, so dry now compared to earlier in the week.
"It's fast and you have to hang on. That's what I wanted this year, both titles back, and I'm pretty stoked."
There was further success for Britain when Laurie Greenland won the junior men's downhill title.
The 18-year-old won over the 2.5km course in four minutes 32.839 seconds.
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction detected 73 new synthetic drugs last year, compared to just 49 in 2011.
The drugs agency said the threats emerging from Europe's drug problem challenged both policy and practice.
Its annual report described the EU's drugs problem as "in a state of flux".
European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmstroem expressed concern that a quarter of European adults - some 85 million people - had used an illicit drug.
"We are faced with an ever more complex stimulant market and a relentless supply of new drugs which are increasingly diverse," she said.
"The fact that over 70 new drugs have been detected in the last year is proof in itself that drug policies need to adapt to changing drug markets."
Among the 73 new psychoactive substances officially notified for the first time via the EU early warning system last year, 30 were synthetic cannabinoids, which mimic the effects of cannabis, said the European Drug Report 2013, launched at the agency's Lisbon headquarters on Tuesday.
"These products, which can be extremely potent, have now been reported in virtually all European countries," it said.
In a separate study conducted with the European police agency, Europol, the EMCDDA found synthetic drugs were now often imported in bulk from China and India for processing and packaging as legal highs - rather than being made in secret European labs.
But the annual drug report noted more positive developments where established drugs were concerned, reporting fewer new users of heroin, less injecting, and the declining use of cannabis and cocaine in some countries.
While the report noted an increase in the number of treatment centres for drug users, however, it highlighted the need for national authorities to put long-term support in place for addicts and former addicts, in the face of public spending cuts.
Given the long-term nature of heroin problems in particular, governments will have to invest more on continuity of care and social reintegration, it adds.
The agency's unique work analysing data from all EU states and several neighbouring countries is keenly followed by policymakers worldwide, says the BBC's Alison Roberts in Lisbon, not least because of the eminently global nature of the markets for many illicit drugs.
In 2015, former Conservative Party candidate Mark Clarke (since dogged by allegations of bullying and sexually inappropriate behaviour, which he has always denied) organised a set of election campaign buses that toured marginal seats with activists on board.
But the running costs of those buses and associated hotel bills, which the Electoral Commission thinks should have appeared on the expenses returns of the individual Conservative candidates, were entered instead into the party's national expenses return.
This has allowed the legitimacy of more than 20 Conservative MPs to be questioned.
Opponents have pointed out that if the costs of the activists' "battle buses" had been entered on the local expenses returns, then the Conservative candidates would have breached the strict local spending limits.
The affair has become so serious that 14 police forces have sent files to the Crown Prosecution Service, the CPS, to decide whether or not charges should be brought against the MPs or their agents for knowingly filing false election expenses.
The files with the CPS - from the Avon & Somerset, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon & Cornwall, Gloucestershire, Greater Manchester, Lincolnshire, Metropolitan, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, West Mercia, West Midlands and West Yorkshire forces - cover more than 14 seats.
Probably around 20 MPs and their agents are being considered for charges. A total of 40 people. Certainly at least 30. The agents may be slightly more at risk than the MPs themselves.
The CPS has until the end of May or early June, depending on the seat, to make a final decision about whether or not charges should be brought.
The MPs affected insist they have done nothing wrong and point to an email they all received from Mark Clarke when he was organising the buses in which he said: "Our costs are met by donations contributed and declared via CCHQ [Conservative Campaign Headquarters].
"We fund all the hotel and transport. This is an election expense and is accounted for out of central campaign spend."
They say this shows that their agents cannot have knowingly filed false expenses.
If the CPS eventually decides against bringing charges for the seats in these 14 police force areas, there is one seat in Kent - South Thanet - that is very different.
This was the seat in which the Conservative candidate Craig Mackinlay narrowly beat UKIP's then leader Nigel Farage.
Here the Conservative Party spent thousands of pounds on hotels - £15,000 on one hotel alone - and the Electoral Commission says at least some of that should have been on Mr Mackinlay's individual expenses return.
Mr Mackinlay has been interviewed by detectives under caution.
But although Kent Police has been in discussion with the CPS, no file has yet been sent for consideration of charges.
The force has confirmed that its investigation is still continuing after the election announcement
Mr Mackinlay insists he is innocent of any offence and says he will stand again at the upcoming election.
"I have not been charged with anything and I maintain that I have not done anything wrong," he said in the hours after Mrs May's announcement.
Even if the CPS decides not to bring charges in any of the cases, the 2015 election results in the seats affected would have always had a shadow hanging over them, as would the government's narrow majority.
Now the candidates can stand again in their seats and - if re-elected - they can claim to have won fair and square this time.
If any of their agents are charged in the meantime, while it may be embarrassing, it will not necessarily be terminal for the MPs' chances of being re-elected.
It will be for the voters in each of constituencies involved to decide how their MPs have handled their 2015 election expenses.
Gross disposable household income (GDHI) looks at income after taxes, benefits and pensions have been taken into account.
The average per head in Wales increased to £16,341 for 2015, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
But the country also saw the largest growth in household income of the UK nations with a rise of 3.3%.
For the first time, the figures are also broken down for local authorities.
It shows Newport has the highest GDHI in Wales at £18,410 per head. Blaenau Gwent has the lowest with £12,878 which is also the fourth lowest of local council areas in the UK.
Flintshire ranks second highest in Wales with £18,280 per head, above Cardiff on £18,137.
We should be careful when trying to speculate as to exactly why both Newport and Flintshire are ahead of the Welsh capital on these provisional figures.
But they are close to the Bristol commuting area and northern powerhouse respectively.
Both have also attracted their fair share of new industries.
At the county level, Ceredigion saw the highest growth - 6.3% - while the lowest with 1.6% was in Merthyr Tydfil, where the GDHI is £15,821 per head.
The local area with the lowest in the UK is Nottingham with £12,779 and the highest is again in the London area of Kensington, Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham with £52,298 per head.
Wales' GDHI per head figure is 85.5% of the UK figure - a slight narrowing of the gap of 0.3% - although it has not been this low since the late 1990s.
When nations and English regions are looked at, the income per head figure is still lower than Wales in Northern Ireland, Yorkshire and Humberside and the north east of England.
But the figures show Wales punching below its weight in the UK as a whole. With 5% of the UK population, household income in Wales only accounts for 4.1% of the UK total.
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Leanne Davies, who works as a teacher four days a week, said her salary has not kept up with price rises.
"Definitely my food shop has gone up quite a lot," she said.
"I try to budget, if I can't afford something, I don't buy it.
"My husband and I are both working, so we're quite lucky but we save less than we used to.
"You worry about the job climate and the uncertainty. My husband was made redundant a few years ago and that was a difficult time. We try to be careful and put away as much as we can.
"I could work five days but I prefer to manage and work four days and have a bit more time."
Blaenau Gwent has been one of the traditionally poorest areas of Wales and these latest economic figures are no comfort.
The GDHI gap with Wales as a whole has widened in recent years.
There is a working age population of nearly 44,000 with the unemployment rate above the Welsh average, with 2,000 unemployed (in 2016).
Sylvia Rogers retired to look after her baby granddaughter, Sienna, so her daughter could go back to work before the end of her maternity leave.
She said council tax rises and increases in food costs and gym memberships were things she had noticed.
"You cut your cloth. If you have less money you have less activities and trips you can go on," she said.
Looking at what people have left to spend after tax, benefits or pensions are accounted for gives us a more accurate picture than just looking at earnings.
But some researchers say we should also look at other indicators which suggest people are struggling.
Judy Stockford, a lecturer in finance at the Cardiff School of Management, said: "There are lots of different pieces of research showing us that ordinary working people are struggling just to get by and are borrowing - sometimes expensively - just to pay for essential living costs.
"We've had weak growth in earnings but we've seen higher rises in prices and we're living in a culture of consumerism.
"We are used to 'having now pay later' and are seriously over-indebted as a nation. This dates back to the 1970s and 80s when the markets were de-regulated. Personal borrowing has grown and grown."
According to the Money Charity, the average credit card debt per household in March was £2,504.
"Credit card borrowing is at an all-time high, possibly fuelled by all these zero percent deals which last for a while and then become expensive," said Ms Stockford.
She said young people in particular could get caught up in credit difficulties and debt crisis when they were inexperienced in dealing with money.
The Scottish Avalanche Information Service (SAIS) has wound up its latest forecasting season with its lowest number of recorded avalanches in almost 10 years.
There were 83 avalanches between December last year and this month, according to the service's initial figures. It will provide an official tally in an annual report later this year.
Last season, there were 207 avalanches and 305 in 2014-15, 350 in 2013-14, 129 in 2012-13, 154 in 2011-12, 178 in 2010-11 and 220 in 2009-10.
The snow slides that are recorded occur naturally - often after a cornice, snow overhanging a slope or cliff, collapses - or have been triggered by walkers and climbers accidentally or deliberately by ski patrols to make an area used for snowsports safe.
SAIS assesses for the risk of avalanches in six areas: Lochaber, Glen Coe, Northern Cairngorms, Southern Cairngorms, Creag Meagaidh and Torridon.
This winter and spring, conditions have included periods of freezing temperatures and heavy snowfalls but also mild weather and high winds, which strip snow from hillsides.
SAIS has just announced the winding up of its latest season.
However, it said: "We will continue to monitor weather and snow conditions leading up to and during the Easter holidays.
"Mountain information will continue to be provided on the SAIS blogs for the next period and for the Easter weekends.
"We recommend that mountain-goers venturing into the hills continue to observe weather forecasts prior to their excursions, and visual observations of conditions during their trip.
"This information is important in making good plans and allowing for flexible decision-making when in the mountains and hills."
It warned that late spring snow falls could still occur and cause a hazard high up in the Cairngorms, Ben Nevis and Aonach Mor.
Asked by a newspaper what he would most like to happen in 2017, Mr Paladino said he hoped President Obama would die from mad cow disease and the first lady would "return to being a male".
He later said his remarks were meant to be humorous.
But New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the comments were "racist" and "ugly".
Many Twitter users also condemned Mr Paladino, with one saying there was "something deeply, horribly wrong" with him.
Meanwhile, the Parent Teacher Organisation in the city of Buffalo called on Mr Paladino to resign from its school board.
The White House has made no public comment.
Mr Paladino, the unsuccessful Republican candidate for the post of New York governor in 2010, was asked by Buffalo's Artvoice newspaper for his hopes for the next year.
This is Artvoice's traditional end-of-the-year feature, where prominent local figures give their predictions.
Referring to Mr Obama, Mr Paladino said he hoped the president "catches mad cow disease after being caught having relations" with a cow and would die and be buried "in a cow pasture".
On Mrs Obama, Mr Paladino said: "I'd like her to return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla."
The 70-year-old businessman later said his remarks were "about a little deprecating humour which America lost for a long time".
And he added: "Merry Christmas and tough luck if you don't like my answer."
Karin Cheshire was found hanged after the troubled Southern Health NHS Trust failed to identify her as at risk.
Winchester Coroner's Court heard she "could no longer cope" after her son Jay died in Riverside Park, Southampton following a rape allegation last year.
Coroner Grahame Short said the trust "failed to understand the significance" of the anniversary.
Southern Health NHS Trust was criticised for failing Ms Cheshire, 55, after she was hospitalised on five separate occasions over a six-month period.
The inquest heard how, after being discharged from hospital, Ms Cheshire was not seen by the Southern Health team for two months and she had become "disengaged." She was found dead at the family home in Bitterne Park, Southampton, on 18 July.
The trust has been under intense scrutiny since an NHS England-commissioned report in December found it failed to investigate the unexpected deaths of hundreds of patients.
A representative from Southern Health apologised for failing Ms Cheshire after the court heard she had described herself as "helpless, struggling and raw".
Ms Cheshire's daughter Camellia, 22, said the rape allegation was the "catalyst" for losing her mum and brother in the space of a year.
A police statement said the alleged victim "would not support a prosecution" and the investigation was discontinued due to the evidence available.
In September 2015, the inquest into Jay's death heard the police investigation had a "profound affect" on his mental wellbeing.
Mr Short said: "It's clear Karin believed she couldn't continue with her life and cope with the pressures she found herself having to live with after the devastating loss of her son."
Ms Cheshire used the same piece of rope her son had used to take his life to hang herself after it was returned to her by police, according to her daughter, Camellia.
She said: "That's something that's going to stick with me for the rest of my life that they both took their lives in such an extreme manner."
The part-time off-spinner was cited after his side's first-Test defeat by Sri Lanka in Galle on Saturday.
The 34-year-old Jamaican will now need to have testing within 14 days.
Samuels was suspended from bowling in 2008 as a result of his action and has been banned from bowling quicker deliveries since 2013.
The latter ban came as a result of him being reported to the International Cricket Council (ICC) during a Test in India, but this did not preclude him from bowling his standard off-break deliveries.
After his original ban in February 2008, he continued to play as a specialist batsman but did not resume bowling in internationals until September 2011, having served an unrelated two-year suspension from cricket between May 2008 and May 2010 for passing information to a bookmaker.
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The ovens had been kept alight until the weekend to allow for negotiations with prospective buyers.
But official receiver Ken Beasley said there was no "realistic prospect" of a sale and he could no longer spend taxpayer money to keep the plant going.
Local MPs have said the loss of 2,200 jobs is devastating.
The works has been hands in the hands of receivers since the site's owner Sahaviriya Steel Industries UK (SSI) was wound up on 2 October.
The closure of the coke ovens and blast furnace means the end of steel production at the 98-year-old Redcar works.
Once the furnace and ovens are closed it would take months and millions of pounds to get them going again, as happened when SSI re-opened the works in 2012.
Mr Beasley, said: "I cannot continue to draw on taxpayers' funds to keep the ovens operational when there is no realistic prospect that a buyer will be found.
"I am continuing my liquidation of the company, including talking with interested parties about purchasing the company's other assets."
Anna Turley, Labour MP for Redcar, said she was angered by the decision to close the works.
She told BBC Tees: "I can't believe all this has been allowed to go, all the history and heritage and potential for the site.
"I feel the government has thrown the towel in. I feel the official receiver was never interested in talking to anyone or listening to any deals, or any other options to keep it going."
She said she would call for an inquiry: "I cannot believe the government has allowed 170 years of steelmaking to fade away with no fight, no determination and no understanding of what this means to our area, to people's livelihoods and to the British economy."
Tom Blenkinsop, Labour MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, said it was a dark day for the area and accused the government of "abandoning Teesside".
He said: "This is devastating news for the 2,200 workers who have lost their jobs."
Middlesbrough MP Andy Macdonald, also Labour, said the closure was "industrial vandalism".
Business Secretary Sajid Javid said the closure was "disappointing" but the government was unable to intervene in the liquidation process.
He said the government would provide up to £80m to "support people who have lost their jobs as a result of SSI's liquidation, and mitigate the impacts on the local economy".
Mr Javid also said the government would host a steel summit on 16 October to "explore" the challenges the UK steel industry is facing.
Business Minister Anna Soubry said: "I had hoped that a commercial buyer for the coke ovens could be found, but unfortunately this has not happened.
"This news is very, very disappointing and my thoughts are with the workers and their families."
SSI blamed a global slump in the value of steel for its original decision to mothball the Redcar works last month.
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It comes three months after ministers rejected banning them after a report said it could not be justified, but use would be discouraged.
Natural Resources Minister Alun Davies has written to councils encouraging them to introduce the restrictions.
There are worries the lanterns pose a fire risk and endanger livestock.
Two environmental groups and the Farmers' Union of Wales (FUW) have called for an outright ban.
Conwy council has already stopped people releasing sky lanterns and helium balloons on its land.
Mr Davies warned of the danger and stress that sky lanterns could pose to animals and highlighted the fire risks.
"Sky lanterns and helium balloons pose a real danger to livestock, other animals and buildings," Mr Davies said.
"A recent independent report has found that the fire risk associated with the use of sky lanterns is significant, while we also know that the ingestion of debris from lanterns can kill or seriously harm an animal.
"We want to make people aware of the risks and that is why I have written to local authorities across Wales to encourage them to introduce a voluntary ban on the release of sky lanterns and helium balloons.
"We are also supporting the UK government's efforts to work with retailers and manufacturers to ensure that clear warnings about the risk of helium balloons and sky lanterns are placed on packaging."
Farming unions have previously highlighted the risk the lanterns pose to animals and farm buildings, while fire service bosses have also warned of the dangers.
FUW parliamentary committee chairman Gavin Williams welcomed Mr Davies's intervention, saying the UK government had "failed to act" on the issue.
He said: "The risk of livestock ingesting parts of sky lanterns and the fire risk they represent are a huge concern, and we have asked members to continue to report incidents to their county branches so that evidence of their effects can continue to be collected."
The Marine Conservation Society and Keep Wales Tidy have called for an outright ban.
He said he doesn't like the idea that Apple does not pay tax at the same rate he does personally.
Apple, Google and Amazon have been criticised for not paying enough in tax and the firm is currently the subject of a European Commission tax inquiry.
Mr Wozniak, who left Apple in 1985, was also ambivalent at the prospect of the UK leaving the European Union.
Mr Wozniak - widely known as Woz - founded Apple along with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne 40 years ago. It has grown to become one of the most valuable businesses in the world, worth around $600bn.
He told BBC Radio 5 live: "I don't like the idea that Apple might be unfair - not paying taxes the way I do as a person.
"I do a lot of work, I do a lot of travel and I pay over 50% of anything I make in taxes and I believe that's part of life and you should do it."
When asked if Apple should pay that amount, he replied: "Every company in the world should."
He said he was never interested in money, unlike his former partner Steve Jobs. "Steve Jobs started Apple Computers for money, that was his big thing and that was extremely important and critical and good."
Apple channels much of its business in Europe through a subsidiary in the Republic of Ireland, which has a corporation tax rate of 12.5% compared to the UK's 20%.
In the US it's 35%, but three years ago the company admitted two of its Irish subsidiaries pay a rate of 2%. It has built up offshore cash reserves of around $200bn - beyond the reach of US tax officials.
Tax avoidance has been brought back into focus by the recent Panama Papers revelations.
Mr Wozniak said: "We didn't think we'd be figuring out how to go off to the Bahamas and have special accounts like people do to try to hide their money.
"But you know, on the other hand I look back any company that is a public company, its shareholders are going to force it to be as profitable as possible and that means financial people studying all the laws of the world and figuring out all the schemes that work that are technically legal. They're technically legal and it bothers me and I would not live my life that way."
The UK should be free to exit the European Union, Mr Wozniak added.
"I don't care. I think that all the states of Europe - it's better if you have very easy transportation - like movement from one to another to another", he said.
"Like we drive in the US from 50 individual states that all have their own laws and customs and typical types of people - you just drive through, and there are no customs hang-ups or anything...
"I'm not against secession. If a state wants to leave the union let them leave. I don't think we should have even fought our civil war, we should have let the states leave."
Mr Wozniak, who was speaking at the Business Rocks technology summit in Manchester, backed Apple over its recent tangle with US authorities over access to data: "Apple has been the good guy.
"There are politicians who do not have a clue as to what cyber security is all about trying to pass laws saying that Apple has to make a product less secure.
"Why? That's a crime. That is just so horrible. I just cry! Why would Apple do it for such a weak case where the government were not going to get any valuable information at all - it's impossible."
It is an eclectic offering, which includes the likes of Hello Kitty, Jesus Christ and Che Guevara.
But according to Mr Giraldo, stickers boasting the image of Colombia's infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar are by far the most popular.
"The best seller is Pablito," Mr Giraldo says of the crime boss, who was shot dead in Medellin while trying to escape from police 20 years ago.
Mr Giraldo is by no means the only one cashing in on the image of the man many consider the greatest outlaw of the 20th Century.
At the height of his power, Pablo Escobar was said to be the seventh richest man in the world, with his Medellin drugs cartel thought to be behind up to 80% of all the cocaine shipped to the United States.
His cartel not only trafficked drugs, it terrorised Colombia in the 1980s and early 1990s, bribing, kidnapping or killing all those who stood in its way.
Such was his ruthlessness he is widely held responsible for some 4,000 deaths. Others say the real number is closer to 5,000.
And yet, here in Medellin, some people still affectionately refer to Escobar as Pablito, and in the commercial district of Junin T-shirts and wristwatches emblazoned with his face as well as books and DVDs telling his story are on display.
Last year, Colombian TV network Caracol released a 63-episode series called Escobar: The Boss of Evil.
The series has already been sold to 66 countries, including North Korea.
Pirated copies of the series are immensely popular in Medellin's markets even as Caracol airs the series for a second time.
David Bustamante is one of those selling the DVDs. He says he has no qualms about making money out of the drug lord's story.
"I don't mind selling it. Maybe because his was a war that didn't affect me," says Mr Bustamante, who was just a baby when Escobar was killed.
Caracol has not released figures of the profits it has made on the series, but it seems to be on its way to becoming one of the biggest commercial successes in the history of Colombian television.
But not everybody in Colombia is happy about the commercial success of all things Escobar.
"In a way it is an example of the triumph of culture embodied by Pablo Escobar, in which profit, making three bucks, is more important than anything else," says Rodrigo Lara Restrepo, whose father, Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, was shot dead on Escobar's orders in 1984.
Federica Arellano agrees with Mr Lara. He lost his father in the 1989 bombing of a commercial plane ordered by Escobar in an attempt to kill presidential candidate Cesar Gaviria.
Mr Gaviria was not on board the plane - having cancelled his plans for security reasons - but all 107 passengers and crew, and three people on the ground, died in the attack.
"Personally, coming back home and seeing his [Escobar's] face on the TV screen is an insult, a slap in the face," Mr Arellano says.
"It is also sending quite a damaging message. It is saying: 'Go and become a criminal, because that way you can make money fast and lift your family out of poverty,'" Mr Arellano, who chairs a foundation for Escobar's victims, argues.
"Thankfully there are still some sensible people who rejected the idea of having the Pablo Escobar trademark registered," he adds, referring to a recent move by the drug baron's family to cash in on his continued popularity.
Escobar's son, Santiago Marroquin, recently launched a clothing range with images of his father.
Mr Marroquin, who lives in Argentina, says he does not sell the garments in Colombia out of respect for his father's victims.
But, at least in Medellin, it is not difficult to find T-shirts bearing Escobar's face, or Colombians who still see the founder of the Medellin cartel as a sort of hero willing to buy them.
"People really like them because it's like wearing a [picture] of a Saint you have faith in," explains Jenny Zapata, who sells Escobar-themed T-shirts at Pasaje Junin in Medellin.
"The thing is, some people see Pablo Escobar as a bad guy and others see him as a hero, as someone who was able to do the things that no-one else was able to do here in Medellin. And a good example is the barrio [neighbourhood] he built," she adds.
The neighbourhood, nicknamed by its inhabitants Pablo Escobar, sits atop one of the many hills that surround Medellin's city centre.
It is one of the many "gifts" Escobar gave to the city's poorest inhabitants in an attempt to secure their loyalty.
It is this sort of generosity which explains why, two decades after his death, he remains a cult figure among some.
A big flag with the drug baron's face clearly marks the neighbourhood's entrance.
"We respect the pain of his victims, but we ask people to understand our joy and gratitude, what it means to move out from a garbage dump to a decent house," Ubernez Zavala, a local community leader, tells the BBC.
According to Mr Zavala, Barrio Pablo Escobar has become a popular stop for tourists, with several companies in town offering Escobar-themed tours.
He says residents do not mind the commercialisation of Escobar's image, but he acknowledges that there is unlikely to be any agreement between those who see Escobar as a monster and those who still worship him as a saint.
"The only consensus is that Pablo Escobar is part of our history," he concludes.
The hosts were 28-6 up at half-time as forward Oliver Roberts twice went over.
Ryan Brierley, Ukuma Ta'ia and Kyle Wood all crossed twice and Gene Ormsby, Michael Lawrence and Ryan Hinchcliffe once each to complete the rout.
John Davies, Luke Briscoe and Ian Hardman touched down for the visitors, who have now lost both their matches.
The last four years have been dedicated to winning gold - and over the course of the next four days, each of them will find out whether it was worth all the hard work.
Britain have an impressive Olympic record when it comes to rowing, winning 24 gold, 20 silver and 10 bronze medals since the Games began.
It is also the only sport in which Britain have won gold at every Olympics since 1984 - a run of seven Games - with a certain Sir Steve Redgrave chipping in with five.
BBC Sport asks four British Olympic champions to rate GB's medal chances at London 2012:
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Who are they? Reserves two years ago, Heather Stanning and Helen Glover have transformed themselves into a world-beating crew. They are unbeaten in 2012, having won gold in all three World Cups before setting an Olympic best in the first heat to qualify for Wednesday's final.
Four-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Matthew Pinsent: "You'd have to say they're favourites for the event. They have been solid all season and they've got one race left. Their improvement in the last couple of years has been staggering and I think that's made them more fearless. They haven't been fazed by anything."
Olympic gold and bronze medallist Martin Cross: "These two are a nailed on gold medal. World champions New Zealand haven't got it together and it's hard to see the Australians getting close either. It might be the first British female rowing gold medal and maybe even the first British gold of these Games."
Watch them in the final on Wednesday 1 August at 11.50 BST.
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Who are they? Three-time Olympic silver medallist Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins are unbeaten since they paired up in 2010 - a run of 22 victories. They smashed the Olympic record by nearly five seconds in the heats to confirm their tag as favourites.
Five-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Steve Redgrave: "They seemed so relaxed last week when I saw them and the heats were probably the best I've seen them scull. Everyone talks about three silvers with Katherine but the reality is the first was a surprise, the second was where they should have finished and the third was disappointing as they were joint favourites. Now they're big favourites and a class about everyone else."
Cross: "The heats were a dream start to their Olympic campaign. With Australian rival Kim Crow taking on the single as well, it's hard to see how that extra burden will do anything other than help the British. It looks like the gold Katherine has been waiting for is really on the cards."
Watch them in the final on Friday 3 August at 10:30 BST.
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Who are they? Richard and Peter Chambers are bidding to become the first British brothers to win gold since the Searles triumphed in 1992. Together with Rob Williams and Chris Bartley, they won gold at the last World Cup in Munich and looked impressive on their way to the final in London.
Redgrave: "This is one of the boats which I would put down as favourites for gold. They put the Australian to bed in the heats in impressive fashion. They've still got work to do, but they've shown they have the potential to win big here."
Pinsent: "They are there or thereabouts. If I could sell them a second, that would be invaluable to them because this event is an absolute battle from start to finish. They have looked impressive so far in the regatta and that will give them confidence going forward."
Watch them in the final on Thursday 2 August at 10:00 BST.
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Who are they? Constantine Louloudis returned to the boat which includes James Foad, Ric Egington, Matt Langridge, Alex Partridge, Tom Ransley, Mo Sbihi, Greg Searle and cox Phelan Hill - just before the Olympic regatta having recovered from a back injury. They have improved race by race but Germany remain favourites.
Redgrave: "The eight will have great confidence after winning the repechage. Louloudis raced twice this season and that's been in this regatta. The Germans have won every race in last four years, but won't have it all their own way. I think our guys can spring a surprise."
Cross: "They have made a real step on and are in the silver medal zone. The need to do something that I haven't seen from them at all this season to win gold. It's a big ask, but it's not impossible. It would be one of the most sensational performances if they do beat the Germans for gold."
Watch them in the final on Wednesday 1 August at 12:30 BST.
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Who are they? The boat made famous by Redgrave, Pinsent, James Cracknell and Tim Foster won gold in the last three Olympics. Pete Reed, Andy Triggs Hodge, Tom James and Alex Gregory have only raced in this formation since June but they are neck-and-neck with Australia in the battle for gold.
Pinsent: "Watching them in the heats, it was the best I've seen them row. The Australians look good so it sets it up nicely for a clash between those two crews in the final. Coming into the regatta, I would have put the Australians as favourites, but after the heats I'd put us marginally ahead."
Two-time Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell: "We all knew both Britain and Australia would win their respective heats, but it was about who got out of the blocks best and I think that was us. I thought we had a grumbling V8 engine beneath our boat compared to an over-revving Japanese one which the Aussies had."
Watch them in the semi-finals on Thursday 2 August at 10:10 BST.
Liam McMeechan and David Allan assaulted Tahir Ahmed at his A&A newsagents in South Trinity Road on 12 August 2016 and tried to steal cash.
McMeechan, 23, pleaded guilty to assault to severe injury, permanent disfigurement and attempted robbery.
Allan, 50, pleaded guilty to assault and attempted robbery at the High Court in Edinburgh.
The court heard Mr Ahmed, 54, fought off machete-wielding McMeechan before the pair fled.
The shopkeeper was treated in hospital for a fractured skull and various lacerations to his head.
Mr Ahmed had 14 staples put into wounds to his forehead and temple and was kept in hospital for 48 hours.
He was left with permanent scarring following the attack.
Police who arrived at the shop found items on the floor along with spatters of blood. The abandoned weapon was also recovered along with a scarf.
The scarf was found to have DNA from the mother of McMeechan, who was the former partner of Allan.
Mr McGuire said CCTV footage placed the two accused together in Edinburgh that day and analysis of McMeechan's phone showed it had been in the vicinity of the crime scene at the time of the offence.
Lord Boyd of Duncansby called for background reports ahead of sentencing next month and remanded the men in custody.
Guernsey's Watson, 23, came within two points of beating Serena Williams in the third round of Wimbledon last year.
Caroline Wozniacki, Victoria Azarenka and Madison Keys have also committed to playing the event, which ends a fortnight before Wimbledon.
"I had some incredible moments on grass last year and want to do even better in 2016," Watson said.
"I was sorry to have to miss the event last year and I'm looking forward to starting my grass-court season there," added the world number 56, who was unable to play last year's tournament through injury.
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Police were called to Cwmcarn High school, Caerphilly county, on Thursday after concerns were raised about the behaviour of two children.
A 15-year-old girl from Newbridge and a 14-year-old girl from Risca were arrested and bailed.
The teacher, Alison Cray, 46, said she had been working as normal since.
"It was all handled before it got to me," said the maths teacher.
"I know very little about it. It all happened elsewhere and I wasn't directly involved at all.
"I've very lucky that I'm at Cwmcarn and that they have handled it so well. I've been working as normal and I'm fine."
Ms Cray has been at the school for more than 10 years.
Gwent Police officers were called just before lunchtime on Thursday but there was no physical confrontation when officers arrived.
Nobody was harmed as a result of the incident and the matter was resolved peacefully.
Police said the 15-year-old pupil was arrested on suspicion of threats to kill, possession of a bladed article on school premises and conspiracy to commit murder.
The second girl was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.
Both have been released on bail while the police continue their investigation.
A statement on the school's website from head teacher Jacqui Peplinski following the arrests said: "Please be assured that the concerns were dealt with swiftly.
"There was no risk to any staff or learner and the relevant support services were contacted as a precautionary measure.
"Cwmcarn High is a caring and safe environment and we are committed to everyone's safety. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any concerns."
A spokesman for Caerphilly council and the school said support had been put in place for pupils and staff.
"We would like to assure parents that all appropriate steps were taken to respond effectively to the situation. We are now helping the police with their inquiries," the statement added.
The prime minister will attempt to persuade the Dutch, French, Polish and German premiers to back his changes to the UK's EU membership.
The EU Referendum Bill will confirm the question to be put to voters: "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?"
The vote will take place by 2017.
The referendum bill was announced as part of a packed legislative programme in the Queen's Speech, which also included an increase in free childcare, an income tax freeze and the right-to-buy for housing association tenants.
BBC political editor Nick Robinson said the EU debate was "where the prime minister's focus is", adding that the answer to the referendum question "will decide whether this Queen's Speech is still being talked about in 100 years' time".
Downing Street said the draft law's first reading in the Commons was a "concrete step towards settling the debate about the UK's membership of the EU".
Mr Cameron has pledged to renegotiate the UK's relationship with the EU before holding the referendum, and has vowed to visit all 27 other member states ahead of a summit in June.
First up are Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and French President Francois Hollande, followed by Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopa and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Mr Cameron has called for changes to EU migrants' welfare entitlement, while some Conservatives also want the primacy of British law to be reaffirmed.
The PM has hinted he could vote to leave the EU if his requests are not granted, saying he "rules nothing out".
Downing Street said the choice put to voters "should not be on the basis of the status quo but on a reformed relationship with the EU that the PM is determined to deliver".
But some member states have questioned the need for any change to EU treaties, and ruled out any watering down of the key principle of freedom of movement.
David Cameron is starting renegotiation of the terms of Britain's EU membership ahead of a referendum. Here is some further reading on what it all means:
The UK and the EU: Better off in or out?
What Britain wants from Europe
Q&A: The UK's planned EU referendum
Timeline: EU referendum debate
Why Germany is David Cameron's new best friend
Responding to the Queen's Speech, Labour's acting leader Harriet Harman said her party would back the referendum bill.
Outgoing Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg warned against complacency and called for Mr Cameron to lead the bid for Britain to stay in the EU with conviction.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the wording of the referendum question was "simple, straightforward" and "unambiguous".
He added: "However, that Cameron is opting to give the pro-EU side the positive 'Yes' suggests strongly that his negotiations are so much fudge.
"He has already decided which way he wants the answer to be given, without a single power repatriated."
Pictures of violent protests near South Africa's capital, Pretoria, prompted by anger at the ANC's choice of a mayoral candidate.
Colm Cavanagh and Peter Harte grabbed a goal in either half for Tyrone, with Niall Loughlin finding the net late on for the Oak Leafers at Pairc Esler.
Tyrone led 1-7 to 0-2 at half-time, then Harte netted a penalty in the 58th minute after Ronan O'Neill was fouled.
The Red Hands hit 1-6 without reply in the second half, including Cavanagh's goal after 17 minutes.
Struggling Derry failed to score from play for 41 minutes but Loughlin hit an injury-time consolation goal.
Derry pushed Tyrone all the way in last year's decider before losing after extra-time but this was a totally different contest.
Damian Barton's side did lead by 0-2 to 0-1 after six minutes following points from Emmett McGuckin and a Mark Lynch free, but failed to score again in the opening half.
They were competitive early on but hit five wides and Tyrone grew in authority, Cavanagh's goal putting them 1-2 to 0-2 in front.
It was a rare collector's item for Cavanagh, getting on the end of Padraig McNulty's unselfish pass to bury the ball from close range left-footed past Thomas Mallon.
Within seconds, Derry went down the pitch and almost equalised but had no luck as Ryan Bell's thunderous shot crashed off the cross bar.
Man-of-the-match Mattie Donnelly made a rare foray forward from his defensive role to score, with Mark Bradley and Ronan O'Neill each scoring a brace from play as Mickey Harte's side coasted to an eight-point interval lead.
Tyrone introduced Sean Cavanagh for the start of the second half for his goalscoring brother.
Conor Meyler pointed after 20 seconds, but Derry rallied with three of the next four points, two frees from James Kielt and a long-range point from Bell.
That reduced the deficit to 1-9 to 0-5, but that was as good as it got.
Donnelly re-established Tyrone's momentum with another confident point and Cahir McCullagh and Niall Sludden picked off easy scores as the intensity fizzled out of the contest.
A late Tyrone penalty from Harte put even further distance between the sides as he buried inside Derry's left-hand post to make it 2-12 to 0-6 with a long 12 minutes for the Oak Leafers still to play.
Loughlin's injury-time strike put some respectability on the scoreboard.
Tyrone: N Morgan; A McCrory, J McMahon, P Hampsey; C McCarron, M Donnelly (0-2), P Harte (1-2, pen, 2f); C Cavanagh (1-0), P McNulty; D McClure (0-1), N Sludden (0-1), C Meyler (0-1); M Bradley (0-2), C McCullagh (0-1), R O'Neill (0-2)
Subs: S Cavanagh for C Cavanagh (HT), D McCurry for Bradley (HT), C McCann (0-1) for McCullagh (44), R McHugh for Harte (59), C McShane for Sludden (59)
Derry: T Mallon; N Keenan, C Nevin, R Murphy; N Forrester, O Duffin, P Hagan; C McAtamney, M McEvoy; E Lynn, J Kielt (0-3, 3f), N Loughlin (1-0); M Lynch (0-2, 2f), R Bell (0-1), E McGuckin (0-1)
Subs: M Warnock for Hagan (HT), P Coney for McEvoy (44), M Craig for Duffin (51), G O'Neill for McAtamney (51), B Grant for Kielt (58), C McGroogan for Murphy (61)
Referee: Sean Laverty (Antrim)
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The state-owned telecoms firm said it had concerns about the content Netflix was offering and accused it of failing to have a necessary business permit.
The US company announced earlier this month that it had added 130 countries, including Indonesia, to its service - taking it almost worldwide.
One expert said the setback had been "inevitable".
Telekom Indonesia said Netflix needed to work with it to ensure objectionable content was removed.
"The issue is about the permit. They don't follow the rules. They also display violence and adult content," the firm's consumer director Dian Rachmawan told the Jakarta Post newspaper.
"We must [block it] before things get more complicated and create a serious issue."
The country's government said that it was not behind the move.
"Other internet service providers are still allowing Netflix access. So, it is a pure corporate decision," said communications minister Rudiantara.
"[But] it will be difficult for Netflix. You can see for yourself on how much content there is [in Netflix] that must be censored."
Indonesia is one of Asia's most highly populated nations with about 250 million people living amongst its islands. Many of those people, however, would not have fast enough internet access to stream video.
Netflix has not disclosed how it intends to address the issue.
"We've seen these reports too and are looking into it. No further comment," a spokesman told the BBC.
The ban is not the first problem Netflix has faced since making its surprise announcement at the CES tech trade show.
The Kenya Film Classification Board is considering a block of its own saying the platform posed a "threat to our moral values and national security" because it had not submitted it shows for local ratings.
Vietnam's government has also told the service it must obtain an official licence and have its content edited by local censors or it would be in breach of the law.
The disputes will be closely watched in China, where Netflix is still seeking permission to launch.
Private DVDs of all the latest films and television series are openly for sale in shopping malls and markets across Indonesia. They cost less than $1 (70p). There are occasional raids by the police but mostly authorities turn a blind eye.
So, the idea that the government was concerned about Netfix breaking copyright had been met with cynicism.
However, there is widespread concern in Indonesia about pornography. In 2008, the country passed a controversial anti-pornography bill and websites that the government deems not "healthy" for society are blocked and that includes the popular video clip platform Vimeo.
Indonesia has one of South East Asia's most free presses, but major television stations are controlled by powerful politicians and they are increasingly being used to further their agenda.
The country's censorship board also regularly bans politically sensitive films.
One of those films, the Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing, is on Netfix. It focuses on the perpetrators of the mass killings of suspected communists between 1965 and 1966.
Among Indonesia's growing class in the capital Jakarta - the Twitter capital of the world - there was great excitement about Netflix entering the market.
There is now dismay at efforts to control what they can watch on it.
"This was absolutely inevitable," commented Guy Bisson from the media research firm Ampere Analysis.
"When you are considering a global launch or even a local launch you have to take into account local regulations and politics as well as local morals and customs.
"There have been many incidents in the past where what seems to be an innocuous programme in the West caused problems when shown elsewhere.
"One example was the British quiz show The Weakest Link - it went down very badly in Asia because it was considered incredibly rude how the host spoke to the contestants."
However, Mr Bisson added that this did not necessarily mean Netflix should have rolled out its service more slowly.
"You could argue it should have taken this into consideration," he said.
"But there will always be differences of opinion on local content and other teething problems."
Australians were consuming junk food every day rather than as an indulgence, said the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) report.
The study of 40,000 Australians found, on average, people consumed the equivalent of 32kg of chocolate a year.
Australia scored 61 out of 100 in the CSIRO's Healthy Diet Score Survey.
"The scores were fairly unflattering across all respondents," said CSIRO research director Prof Manny Noakes.
"If we were handing out report cards for diet quality Australia would only get a C," said Prof Noakes.
Prof Noakes defined junk food as those foods that should be an occasional treat, such as chocolate, cake and fast food.
Obesity rates are continuing to rise in Australia.
Almost two in three Australian adults and one in four children are overweight or obese, according to the government's Institute of Health and Welfare.
Australians needed to eat less junk food and eat smaller portions of food, said Prof Noakes.
"[Junk] food is no longer just an indulgence - it's become mainstream and Australians are eating it each and every day," she said.
"They also need to be more mindful of every bite they take by eating more slowly and consciously."
The survey evaluated a person's diet based on variety, frequency and quantity of the essential food groups as well as individual attributes such as age and gender.
The jury deliberated for over four hours before returning a majority not guilty verdict in favour of William George McVeigh.
Mr McVeigh, from Forthriver Green in the Ballygomartin area of Belfast, was also acquitted of two alternative charges - sexual activity with a child and sexual assault.
The trial spanned three weeks.
Mr McVeigh had been accused of raping the teenager in Woodvale Park in the early hours of Saturday, 31 October 2015.
The court heard evidence from both the teenager, her mother and Mr McVeigh.
The court was also shown CCTV footage taken from various locations on the Shankill Road, which captured the girl and Mr McVeigh together.
During the trial, Belfast Crown Court heard that after attending a birthday party at a local pub, the teenager and her friend walked towards a Chinese takeaway on Lanark Way, where they became separated.
After encountering Mr McVeigh - who had been drinking at a friend's house - at the takeaway, they started walking up the Shankill Road.
The girl, who is now 16, admitted she was so drunk on the night in question that she could barely recall meeting Mr McVeigh outside the takeaway, that she could not recall what happened and that she had only a vague recollection of being in Woodvale Park with him.
Prosecutors argued that Mr McVeigh took the girl into Woodvale Park, where he raped her.
However, this claim was rejected by the jury.
Mr McVeigh had admitted meeting the girl at the takeaway, but he said it was her who instigated any sexual activity between them.
He also said he believed she was older, that she told him she was 19 and that anything that occurred was consensual.
Before the verdicts were delivered, the judge addressed the public gallery and said any outbursts would not be tolerated.
Inverness's Central ward, which includes Merkinch, Dalneigh and parts of Crown, will lose one of its representatives if the changes come into effect next May.
The boundary changes would mean six fewer councillors across the Highlands.
Central councillors said their busy and deprived ward would suffer.
Changes to council ward boundaries are to be made in most of Scotland's local authority areas.
The Scottish government has accepted proposals for changes in 25 council areas which will take effect next year.
There will be some changes in all mainland council areas apart from Argyll and Bute, Dundee and the Borders.
Rylance, who won a best supporting actor Oscar for Spielberg's Bridge of Spies, will star as Pope Pius IX.
The film will tell the true story of a Jewish boy in Italy in 1858 who is taken from his parents, raised as a Catholic and later becomes a priest.
Filming will start when Spielberg finishes work on Ready Player One.
That sci-fi movie starts filming this summer so The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara is expected to go into production at the start of 2017.
Rylance also has to complete work in the Christopher Nolan World War Two film Dunkirk, which goes into production next month.
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara will be written by screenwriter Tony Kushner, known for his work on the Oscar-winning Lincoln.
The true story of the six-year-old Mortara became an international scandal which was ultimately thought to lead to the crumbling of the structure of the Papacy, as it was at the time, and then to the unification of Italy.
The boy was taken from his family home in Bologna because a servant in his household said she had baptised him as an emergency measure when he was very ill.
Mortara grew up as a Catholic under the protection of Pope Pius IX, who refused to return him to his parents despite their pleas.
Mortara subsequently became a priest in the Augustinian order.
Rylance was formerly best known for his work in the London theatre, including in his role as artistic director of the Globe theatre.
He is still active on the West End stage, notably being nominated for an Olivier award for starring as King Philippe V of Spain in Farinelli and the King. He was nominated just hours after winning his first Oscar.
But Rylance has become more open to film roles in recent years and The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara will mark his third movie with Spielberg.
As well as the Cold War thriller Bridge of Spies, Rylance is also playing the title character in Spielberg's The BFG, based on the best-selling children's book by Roald Dahl.
The BFG is set for release this July.
The High Court ruled in May that Jon Platt did not have to pay a £120 fine to Isle of Wight Council after he took his daughter to Florida.
The court ruled Mr Platt had no case to answer because, overall, his daughter had attended school regularly.
The council can now apply to the Supreme Court for permission to appeal.
Senior judge Lord Justice Lloyd Jones said the case "raised a point of law of general public importance".
He said the High Court had refused permission to appeal, but the council could make its own application to the Supreme Court.
The formal refusal by the High Court is a procedural device to allow the Supreme Court to select which cases it wishes to hear.
After Mr Platt refused to pay the £120 fine, magistrates ruled he had no case to answer.
The local authority took the case to the High Court for clarification and Mr Platt won the backing of senior judges.
Following the ruling, the government said it would consider changing the law over unauthorised absences.
The minister of state for schools, Nick Gibb, asked the council to appeal against the decision with the guarantee the Department for Education would fund the bid if it went to the Supreme Court.
Since 2013, tougher government regulations have meant head teachers can only grant leave of absence to pupils in schools in England during term time in "exceptional circumstances".
According to local authority data, almost 64,000 fines were imposed for unauthorised absences between September 2013 and August 2014.
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Mr Paisley appeared on the programme the morning after he launched the Ulster Resistance movement at a rally in Belfast.
Kathryn Blair, 25, was targeted as she walked down a street in Marylebone with her boyfriend and a group of friends.
The Metropolitan Police said an incident involving two male suspects with a gun happened in Ivor Place at 20:30 BST on Monday.
A firearm was "seen" but "not used" and "none of the victims were injured and nothing was stolen", police said.
No arrests have yet been made, but police have said they will increase patrols in the area.
A spokesman for the Blairs said: "Kathryn was with a group of friends.
"No-one was hurt and nothing was stolen."
A Met spokesman said: "The victims were a man and a woman; the suspects were two males."
Police said one of the suspects was wearing dark clothing and a balaclava, while the other had a scarf wrapped round his face.
Officers believe the incident is linked to another attempted robbery which happened in Boston Place about 30 minutes earlier.
The earlier episode involved a female victim and a male suspect.
"On both occasions a firearm was seen but not used - no shots were fired.
"None of the victims were injured and nothing was stolen during the incidents," the spokesman added.
The Met Police said they are tracking down CCTV covering the area.
As well as daughter Kathryn, Tony and Cherie Blair have three sons, Euan, Nicholas and Leo. Kathryn, a barrister like her parents, is their third child.
The couple's oldest child, 29-year-old Euan, got married to long-term girlfriend Suzanne Ashman at All Saints parish church in Wotton Underwood, Bucks, last Saturday.
The technology, made by Lord Sugar's digital signage company Amscreen, will use a camera to identify a customer's gender and approximate age.
It will then show an advertisement tailored to that demographic.
Tesco says the screens will be rolled out across all 450 of its forecourts in the UK.
"It's like something out of Minority Report," said Amscreen's chief executive Simon Sugar, Lord Sugar's eldest son.
"But this could change the face of British retail, and our plans are to expand the screens into as many supermarkets as possible."
A Tesco spokeswoman said: "This is not new technology."
"No data or images are collected or stored and the system does not use eyeball scanners or facial-recognition technology", she added.
The length of someone's hair could be used to work out their gender, she said.
Privacy campaigners said companies had to tell their customers they were using the technology.
Nick Pickles, of Big Brother Watch, said: "If people were told that every time they walked into a supermarket, or a doctor's surgery or a law firm, that the CCTV camera in the corner is trying to find out who they are, I think that will have a huge impact on what buildings people go into."
Systems could only be "ethically deployed" if customers agreed to opt in to having their behaviour tracked, he added.
Philip James, joint head of technology at Pitmans law firm, argues that this technology is similar to the way social media sites tailor adverts to users based on the content of their profiles.
"The capture of facial signatures represents a potentially much greater infringement of customers' privacy in the absence of prior consent," he said.
The screens are expected to reach five million customers.
Akpom, 19, scored a hat-trick for the Gunners in pre-season and manager Arsene Wenger said he would not be sent out on loan.
Earlier on Friday, 20-year-old Hayden, who can play in defence or midfield, made the season-long move to Hull.
Both players are England Under-20 internationals.
"It's exactly what I need at this stage of my career," Hayden told the club website.
"This club is an ambitious one, so to be part of this is a great opportunity. It's a chance for me to prove myself."
He has played twice for the Gunners - both in the League Cup.
Akpom has had previous spells at Brentford, Coventry and Nottingham Forest, making a total of 26 career appearances without finding the net.
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Debbie Bestwick was recognised for her services to the computer games industry after a career which started in Nottingham almost 30 years ago.
She is the founder and owner of label Team17, based in Mansfield and Wakefield, responsible for more than 70 games over the past 25 years.
Its titles have included Worms, The Escapists and the soon to be released Yooka-Laylee.
Ms Bestwick, who lives in Nottinghamshire, said: "I played my first game when I was 12-years-old. It's such an engaging form of entertainment. Cinema and reading books are passive whereas playing a game is interactive.
"It's a fantastic honour to be made an MBE. I keep thinking 'I'm just doing my job!'
"Also being a woman in this industry - I'm one of the only female owners of a business in the games industry."
As well as making its own games, like 90s classic Worms, Team17 works with independent developers.
Hits have included The Escapists - designed by an ex-roofer from Derby - and Beyond Eyes, a game about a blind girl.
Its latest title, Yooka-Laylee is being officially unveiled at the E3 conference in Las Vegas and is described as a successor to Banjo-Kazooie.
The Scottish government advisors also said efforts to raise attainment should not result in the broader development of a child being overlooked.
Education Secretary John Swinney has made it clear he expects the group to challenge him on policy and delivery.
The panel was set up after last year's Holyrood elections.
It includes members from Australia, the US, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Malaysia and the UK.
The recommendations are contained in a report produced by the government's international council of education advisers following its most recent meeting in Edinburgh in February.
Its role is to come up with ideas for improvements and challenge the government.
The short report warned that there was a risk that one of the main aims of Curriculum for Excellence could be lost as a result of the way plans to drive up performance are implemented.
Curriculum for Excellence is about more than a child's academic performance and is designed to help ensure attention is paid to the development of the "whole child" - for example helping children grow into confident individuals and citizens.
The government has also set up the National Improvement Framework to drive up academic performance.
Its key aims include improving literacy and numeracy and closing the attainment gap between the most and least disadvantaged children.
The report said that the Curriculum for Excellence and the National Improvement Framework shared a clear and positive narrative.
However, it expressed concern that there was a risk of moving away from the "whole child" approach towards concentrating on one that was easier to measure.
It highlighted three priority areas:
The report stressed that there was evidence of collaborative intent within the system, but said that this was uneven and not sufficiently ingrained.
The report also warned that the government should not become too focused on changing the structure of the education system - it said the more important aspects were arguably culture and capacity.
The government recently announced plans to give head teachers more official powers.
Some members of the panel had previously told BBC Scotland that changing the structure of the system would not in itself improve performance.
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "We value the council's expertise, robust challenge and input into our policy thinking, and our decision to further empower schools and teachers took their advice into account alongside other evidence."
A formal report on the actions required by the Scottish government to deliver its vision for education is expected to be produced by the advisors next year.
Firefighters were called to the scene on the A1 between Wallyford and Tranent in East Lothian at about 18:00 on Thursday.
They found a well developed fire on board the vehicle, and extinguished the blaze.
The 10 people, including the driver, who had been on board had left by the bus by the time fire crews arrived.
The road was closed for a time due to the large amount of smoke crossing the carriageway.
An investigation is under way to establish the cause of the fire.
UKA made 14 suggestions, including longer bans for drug cheats, to usher in a "new era" of clean competition.
Radcliffe set the women's marathon world record in London in 2003.
"I'll never agree with the records being wiped because I know 100% that at least one of those records was achieved clean and that means more were too," Briton Radcliffe told the Guardian.
"Without doubt you are going to punish innocent athletes, so why do it again when they have already had to compete against cheats during their career?"
Athletics has been hit by a number of doping and cover-up allegations, with Russia barred from international competition after a World Anti-Doping Agency independent commission report accused it of "state-sponsored doping".
The second part of that report, expected to focus on allegations that the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the body that governs world athletics, was complicit in covering up systematic doping and extortion in Russian athletics, is due to be published on Thursday.
Responding to Radcliffe's comments, UKA chairman Ed Warner said: "I am delighted she disagrees strongly, because we are trying to provoke debate and a cattle prod to the IAAF to find ways to create a better sport."
Warner told BBC Radio 5 live his organisation had "set out to think the unthinkable" by suggesting "radical" changes, including extending the 26.2-mile (42km) marathon distance to 50km.
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"Some are more achievable than others but we really want to stimulate a debate about what's needed to reset athletics to start a new era," he added.
Four-time European javelin champion Steve Backley, who set the world record on three occasions, told BBC Sport he "backed Paula's reaction".
"It strikes me a little bit as the baby out with the bathwater," he said.
"I think the sport does need to freshen up, as Ed put it, but I don't necessarily see that as a way of freshening up."
Harding, who quit Shamrock Park along with manager Ronnie McFall in March, takes over from Gary Haveron following his resignation on Monday.
"I've a lot of respect and time for him and he wanted an opportunity in management," Rangers owner Michael Hughes told the Carrick Times.
"He's prepared to come and help develop the football club and our brand."
"Kieran is a guy who has been around Irish League football as a coach and he delivers the coaching licences for the IFA," added Hughes.
"For me it's a really positive appointment and I'm really looking forward to working with him and to the challenges ahead."
Harding and McFall stepped down at Portadown following a shock defeat by Lurgan Celtic in the Irish Cup.
Meanwhile, Carrick said Haveron departed as they were "unable to establish a mutual agreement on the best way forward for the club".
Rangers avoided relegation by finishing 10th but the club was later charged for failing to implement Haveron's touchline ban against Dungannnon.
It could have resulted in Carrick losing three points and being relegated but the Irish FA decided not to apply any sanction following a hearing.
Warrenpoint Town, who finished bottom but just a point behind Carrick, have appealed the IFA ruling.
But getting them to talk on camera was another matter as in general residents of the city are reticent and keep their views to themselves.
We were filming in Addis Ababa for a programme charting the changes in the country, yet it was only on the flight back to South Africa that I met an Ethiopian willing to be candid.
I found myself seated next to an inquisitive elderly Ethiopian woman, who was chatty despite the early morning departure.
However, she was not so open as to be willing for me to mention her name here.
She wore a green twin-set, leggings and woollen socks with her loafers. After the rigorous security checks, she took the socks off, saying she only wears them to keep her feet clean at the end of the security protocols.
She reminded me a bit of my mother, both caring and bossy all in one person.
During the flight, she cut me a portion of her fruit and insisted that I eat every morsel; her stern gaze suggested that I had no choice.
We talked about a lot of things, including my impressions of Nigeria, especially following the ground-breaking presidential election there when the incumbent lost.
She was proud of the manner in which Nigerians had used their vote to make a strong statement about their government.
I replied that perhaps if Ethiopians have strong views about the ruling party - the EPRDF, in power since 1991 - then they could also do the same when elections are held in May.
My neighbour dispelled that notion very quickly and whispered that she believes the result is a foregone conclusion.
I argued that surely Ethiopia's democracy is deeper than that, and that many support the government as they are grateful for the development in recent years.
She smirked and told me to open my eyes wider during my next visit.
I was urged to investigate the economic statistics.
They show an economy growing in near double-digits, but about 40% live below the poverty line.
She reminded me of the beggars who are on the streets of Addis Ababa.
Then I recalled our filming around the city.
There is a clear image of frantic construction taking place, with a monorail, new roads and apartment blocks all being built.
But I also noticed that many of the buildings are empty.
I asked my new friend why she thought this was.
She reckons the Ethiopian middle-class cannot afford the rents, and that professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, have resorted to using parts of their home as consulting rooms, because they cannot pay for office space.
I wondered why the government was intent on driving capital into these construction projects.
She answers simply that it is about the prestige.
She thinks that as a political and diplomatic leader on the continent, Ethiopia needs to show the economic signs of that position.
And Ethiopia needs to bear the hallmarks of this new-found economic prowess.
These are the thoughts of one individual, but someone who has seen a lot. She lived through the aftermath of the country's Italian occupation, the Marxist Derg regime and now the move towards a free market system and the introduction of democracy.
Her hope is that eventually Ethiopians will speak up and challenge their leaders to ensure that their economic dreams will lead to tangible change.
Africa Business Report is broadcast on BBC World News on Fridays at 16:40 and 1840 GMT, on Saturdays at 1010 GMT and 1830 GMT and on Sundays at 0010 GMT.
This week, Lerato Mbele presents the programme from Addis Ababa.
The Sex and the City star will take the title role in Linda, written by Penelope Skinner, at the Royal Court from 25 November.
She'll play a top marketing executive with a beauty company who realises her career has hit a brick wall.
Royal Court artistic director Vicky Featherstone described Linda as a "bold, beautifully written play".
She said it was about "a 55-year-old woman and her fight to remain visible in her world".
She also told the Daily Mail that Cattrall and Skinner wanted a play that featured a female character as "flawed and mythic" as Johnny "Rooster" Byron, played by Mark Rylance in Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem - which also started life at the Court.
Featherstone said Greek tragedies - such as Medea and Antigone - had epic roles for a leading actress, but few contemporary dramas did.
Cattrall was last on the London stage two years ago playing a faded Hollywood star in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic.
Linda will be directed by Michael Longhurst, whose credits for the Royal Court include hit drama Constellations, now back in London after a UK tour.
Other casting announced for the Royal Court's autumn season includes David Morrissey, Graeme Hawley, Ralph Ineson, Sally Rogers, Simon Rouse and Reece Shearsmith in Hangmen by Martin McDonagh.
Gregory Paul Sales, 17, of Bidston, used the name Ransom to make 11 hoax bomb threats between September 2014 and April 2015, Wirral Youth Court heard.
He also threatened to "slaughter" the family of an FBI agent in a series of phone calls.
Admitting 12 charges, he was given a year in a young offenders institution.
John Weate, defending, said Sales, who was 15 when the offences started, "got into this" through playing video game Call of Duty.
Judge Michael Abelson said: "It is almost as if fantasy and reality blended into each other."
Sales pleaded guilty to one charge of making a threat to kill and 11 of communicating false information.
He was told he was "very lucky" to be young enough to avoid extradition to America.
The court heard on 4 September 2014 he rang the Ottowa County Sheriff and said he was on the way to Coopersville High School with a bomb and an Uzi submachine gun.
Hannah Griffiths, prosecuting, said 19 police patrols were sent to the school and the 2,500 students were locked down for an hour.
On 22 December he rang the home of FBI agent Christian Zajac who was "alerted to the call by the sound of his wife and children screaming" after hearing the voicemail message, Judge Abelson said.
In the calls, which were listened to by people Sales had met online, he demanded $20,000 (£15,800) from the agent and said if the demands were not met he would "slaughter" his family.
Sales also made threats in Michigan against Hudsonville and Caledonia Community high schools, Michigan State and Western Michigan universities, WZZM 13 and Wood TV studios and Gerald R Ford International and Kalamazoo International airports.
He also threatened Shuttlesworth International Airport in Birmingham, Alabama, and made a further unspecified threat to the FBI.
Sales was arrested following an investigation by officers from the North West regional crime unit Titan and the FBI.
He was given a two-year Criminal Behaviour Order stating he must notify police of any current and future social media usernames and email addresses.
Sentencing the teenager, Judge Abelson said: "This was coordinated criminal activity orchestrated on a large scale. This is no game."
The former Labour prime minister said the centre ground needed to work out how to recover and get "its mojo back".
He also said he had "real humility" about the decisions he took on Iraq.
Mr Blair said the dislike many felt for him was less to do with the Iraq War and more to do with him winning three general elections for Labour.
"There are people who disagree with me for reasons that they say are to do with, say, Iraq, but actually are to do with the fact I won three elections for the Labour Party and they didn't like it," he said.
Mr Blair has been a vocal critic of Mr Corbyn in the past, warning before the left-wing MP's leadership election victory that the party risked "annihilation" if he won.
In an interview with the BBC's This Week's World, Mr Blair - Labour leader from 1994 to 2007, and PM for 10 of those years - dismissed the idea that Mr Corbyn's election as party leader was a direct rejection of him and his policies.
"No," he said, "I think it's a result of the way the world works these days. But it's a big challenge for the centre... It would be a very dangerous experiment for a major western country to get gripped by this type of populist policy-making, left or right."
He added: "I do think the centre ground needs to work out how it recovers... gets its mojo back and gets the initiative back in the political debate, because... these guys aren't providing answers, not on the economy, not on foreign policy."
Sir John Chilcot's long-awaited report into how UK forces came to participate in the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its aftermath, is to be published on 6 July.
Ahead of its publication, Mr Blair told This Week's World: "I have a real humility about the decisions that I took and the issues around them.
"I was trying to deal with this in the aftermath of 9/11 and it was very tough - it was very difficult."
The former PM, who set up a foundation which works to promote greater understanding between the world's religions and to challenge extremism and prejudice, said the West was not to blame for the situation in the Middle East.
And he warned of bigger terrorist attacks on Europe in future.
"You've got to open your eyes to the problem. If we don't do that we're going to store up an even bigger problem for ourselves, and we face the problem in Europe, I'm afraid, of even bigger terror attacks.
"I think we need to be in no doubt at all about the people we're dealing with here. If they could kill larger numbers of people that's what they would do," he said.
The threat, he said, was "different... from anything we have faced before" and he said it required a "different type of policy response and... a different rhythm of thinking", as it would be a "generation fight, it's not a fight that's going to be resolved in one year, two years, or even 10".
Mr Blair also called for action to redress the widespread problem of indoctrination of Muslim children in extremist ideologies across the Middle East.
He said there needed to be a global commitment, where countries promoted cultural tolerance and rooted out cultural prejudice within their education systems.
"If you end up polluting the mind of your people as they're growing up within your country, in today's world where the boundaries come down where there is much more migration and integration, then that is not just for your country - it's a problem for all of us."
The Nobel laureate nun, who died in 1997, aged 87, founded in 1950 the Missionaries of Charity, a sisterhood which has more than 3,000 nuns worldwide. She set up hospices, soup kitchens, schools, leper colonies and homes for abandoned children and was called the Saint of the Gutters, for her work in the city's heaving slums.
She has also her fair share of critics.
Maverick British-born author Christopher Hitchens described her as a "religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermoniser, and an accomplice of worldly secular powers".
In the much-talked about pamphlet The Missionary Position, Hitchens criticised the nun's "cult of suffering" and said she had painted her adopted city as a "hell hole" and hobnobbed with dictators. Hitchens also presented Hell's Angel, a sceptical documentary on the nun.
Much later, in 2003, London-based physician Aroup Chatterjee published a blistering critique of the nun, after conducting some 100 interviews with people associated with the nun's sisterhood. He flayed what he called the appalling lack of hygiene - reuse of hypodermic needles, for example - and shambolic care facilities at their homes, among other things.
There are others like Miami-based Hemley Gonzalez, who worked as a volunteer in one of Teresa's homes for the poor in Kolkata for two months in 2008, and was "shocked to discover the horrifically negligent manner in which this charity operates and the direct contradiction of the public's general understanding of their work".
"Standing firm against planned parenthood, modernisation of equipment, and a myriad of other solution-based initiatives, Mother Teresa was not a friend of the poor but rather a promoter of poverty," Mr Gonzalez told me. Today, he runs a Facebook page criticising the nun and to educate "unsuspecting donors" to the sisterhood.
In recent years, Indian rationalists like Sanal Edamaruku have questioned the miracles that have led to the nun's sainthood.
To become a saint in the eyes of the Vatican, a miracle needs to be attributed to prayers made to the individual after their death. Incidents need to be "verified" by evidence before they are accepted as miracles. Often they are cures and recoveries from illnesses which have no logical medical explanation.
Five years after the nun's death, Pope John Paul II accepted a first miracle - the curing of Bengali tribal woman Monica Besra from an abdominal tumour - and judged it was the result of her supernatural intervention. This cleared the way for her beatification in 2003. Pope Francis recognised a second miracle in 2015, which involved the healing of a Brazilian man with brain tumours in 2008.
Mr Edamaruku has debunked the first finding, wondering how a woman could be cured by a photo of the nun placed on her stomach, when there was evidence to suggest that medicines treated her. Today, he says, "most people don't want to challenge the nun any more because of her image as somebody who worked for the poor".
"If you question Mother Teresa you are seen as anti-poor. I have nothing against her, but miracle-mongering is not scientific."
And an evidently exasperated Chatterjee told me that the "so-called miracles are too tawdry and puerile to challenge even".
The latest challenge has come from a group of academicians and social workers who have petitioned Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj to reconsider her decision to visit the Vatican to attend Sunday's sainthood ceremony.
"It boggles the mind that the foreign minister of a country whose constitution exhorts its citizens to have scientific temper would approve of a canonisation based on 'miracles'," the petition said.
But, in the end, as sociologist Shiv Visvanathan says, proof and faith are different things. "Lots of questions are still open. Many of us have a poor sense of the history and philosophy of science. Christianity also has a long history of battles with science. Rationalists also can sometimes end up overdoing things by demanding evidence all the time," he says. Clearly, the jury is still out on the Saint of the Gutters.
The girl, 17, had suffered critical injuries when she was pulled to shore by her father about 16:00 on Monday (09:00 GMT), police said. She later died in hospital.
The teenager's mother and two siblings were also at the scene, a popular surfing spot near Esperance.
It is the third fatal shark attack in Western Australia within 12 months.
The latest incident happened in the same area where a surfer lost his arms in a shark attack in 2014.
Neville Mansted, a professional fisherman, said he would not surf there again.
"That's twice now in the same spot. It could have been my son," he told The West Australian newspaper.
The beach will be closed for at least 48 hours while authorities investigate, but the fisheries department said a great white shark was likely to have attacked the girl.
"Since 2000 all fatal attacks in WA [Western Australia] have been caused by great whites, so you could assume safely it was a great white but we can't say for sure," AFP news agency quoted spokesman Russell Adams as saying.
In 2014 Western Australia trialled a shark cull on seven beaches using baited traps, but it proved controversial and was halted by the state's environmental regulator. More than 170 sharks were caught but none of them were great whites.
New shark nets have recently been installed at some beaches in the state, however.
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Nearly 500,000 illegal cigarettes were also confiscated during Operation Fetch.
The goods were found by tobacco detection dogs working with trading standards officers from across Wales.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said the clampdown on illegal trading would help safeguard public health.
The Welsh Government said smoking was the biggest single case of early death in Wales, with almost 6,000 deaths annually, and the sale of illegal tobacco undermined work to reduce smoking rates.
It added it also compromised current tobacco control measures such as age-of-sale legislation, labelling and the ban on having tobacco on display in shops.
Mr Drakeford said: "I am very concerned about illegal tobacco because its affordability and availability threatens the health of children, making it so much easier for them to access tobacco. It also eliminates the price incentive for smokers to quit the habit.
"This is not a Robin Hood crime. It is criminality which deprives the public of vital revenue which is used to fund essential public and health services, including tackling the damaging impacts of tobacco itself but its effects extend far beyond that."
Matthew Cridland, chairman of the Wales heads of trading standards, said figures showed 15% of tobacco used in Wales was illegal - the equivalent of one million cigarettes being smoked a day.
"We want to work with all tobacco control partners to address not only supply but also demand for illegal tobacco and trading standards will continue to vigorously pursue all those who distribute and supply this product," he added.
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Authorities said the statues were looted from the Koh Ker temple in Siem Reap province, which also houses Angkor Wat, during the civil war.
The statues which were returned from the United States, depict mythological figures Duryodhana, Balarama and Bhima.
Experts said the statues were hacked off their bases and smuggled out, eventually ending up with collectors.
A ceremony was held in the capital city Phnom Penh to welcome the statues back.
"In a long 40-year journey, surviving civil wars, looting, smuggling and travelling the world, these three statues have now regained their freedom and returned home," Deputy Prime Minister Sok An said.
He said the government was asking other museums to return similar objects.
"The facts are now established. These precious symbols of our heritage have returned to their rightful owners," he said.
The 158cm (5ft) statue of Duryodhana was stolen in 1972 and was sold at a London auction in 1975.
It was nearly auctioned again at Sotheby's in New York, but the sale was stopped after Cambodian authorities launched an appeal.
The statue was transferred back to Cambodia in early May after a long legal struggle.
The second warrior statue, Bhima, was bought in 1976 by the Norton Simon Museum in California.
After months of discussions, the museum agreed to return its statue as a "gift" to Cambodia last month.
The third statue of Balarama was returned as part of an agreement between the Cambodian government and Christie's auction house in the US.
Their return follows two statues from the same temple which were repatriated in June last year, after being displayed at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for two decades.
Supermarket produce was allowed in some competition categories in the show in Quedgeley, near Gloucester.
A Quedgeley Community Trust spokesman said the bought items were not judged directly against home-grown ones.
Trust chairman Kevin Tudor described the reaction in national newspapers to the decision as "a storm in a teacup".
He said supermarket fruit and vegetables were allowed, but only in a small number of categories in which the award was for a display, rather than the produce itself.
"It's quite clear in the schedule that we're not judging shop-bought against home-grown produce," he said.
"It's like in flower arranging, you don't need to have grown the flowers to enter a display.
"It's a storm in a teacup. We've been doing it [like this] since 2012."
He added that it was "only because a parish councillor, who said it was disgusting, brought it up that we're talking about it, and she didn't know the full facts".
As well as for vegetables, there were awards in categories including flower arranging, art, photography and cake-making at the show, which took place on 11 July.
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Butt, 41, came through the junior ranks at Old Trafford and played 387 games between 1992 and 2004.
He worked as a reserve team coach and coach of the under-19s since returning to the club in 2012.
Executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward said: "Nicky has the club's heritage and traditions in his blood. He is the natural choice."
Butt said: "As someone who learned his trade in the United youth set-up, it's a huge honour to be given the chance to lead the academy and instil its values and attitudes to create future generations of Manchester United players."
The move follows the "root and branch" review of United's youth teams outlined by Woodward after the departure of director of youth academy Brian McClair in June 2015.
Paul McGuinness left his role as under-18s coach last week.
United say Butt's role cannot be compared to McClair's former job because United's academy has been restructured.
Woodward said Butt will bring "passion, energy and experience" to the position.
He added: "In the last four years, some 15 academy graduates have played for the first team, playing a total of 173 appearances - a record of which the club is very proud."
Butt won six Premier League titles and the Champions League during his time at Old Trafford, and won 39 caps for England.
He was appointed assistant to caretaker manager Ryan Giggs for the final four games of the 2013-14 season following David Moyes' sacking.
Fred McClenaghan, 54, now faces a retrial over the killing.
Marion Millican, a 51-year-old mother of four, was shot in the chest at her workplace in Portstewart, County Londonderry in March 2011.
No further details of the decision reached by the Court of Appeal in Belfast can be reported for legal reasons.
The victim had been in a relationship with McClenaghan, formerly of Broad Street in Magherafelt, Co Derry, which ended months before the killing.
He was found guilty of the murder following a previous retrial in 2014 and ordered to serve 16 years in prison.
But on Wednesday the Court of Appeal ruled the conviction should be quashed.
Judges also decided it was in the public interest to order a second retrial on the murder charge.
A reporting ban has been imposed on the reasons for their decision until the fresh trial is complete.
The timing of his rib stress fracture could have been worse, but it has thrown into jeopardy a carefully drawn-up plan aimed at having his game in peak condition for April's Masters.
Lengthy periods on the range testing new equipment during the Christmas break are being cited as the cause of his injury.
These, perhaps along with his strenuous gym routine, caused the problem which left him unable to compete in this week's Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
McIlroy's participation in the Dubai Desert Classic at the start of February must also be in considerable doubt. He has the reputation of being a quick healer, but rib problems can be hard to shift and he is no position to take any chances with his recovery.
The Masters is the 27-year-old's biggest priority. It is the one major to have eluded him and he would become only the sixth golfer to accomplish the career grand slam were he to claim a first green jacket.
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This year he will be attempting to complete the full set for the third time and he has acknowledged that the longer he wait goes on, the harder it will be to complete this rare feat.
Players are always looking for the formula that helps them play their best golf in the biggest weeks. For 2017 McIlroy had decided upon a busy build up to Augusta and was planning to compete in eight tournaments before April's opening major.
Despite his injury, the Northern Irishman completed last week's BMW South African Open, losing a playoff to England's Graeme Storm. Then came the MRI scan which showed a stress fractured rib and a frustrating prescription for rest.
American orthopedic surgeon, Sandy Kunkel, who has extensive experience of sporting injuries, told the Golf Channel that the nature of McIlroy's setback is extremely rare in golf.
"They are typical in rowing or upper body weight bearing athletes," Dr Kunkel said. "Stress fractures are caused by an accumulation of micro-trauma.
"They are tiny fractures or cracks in the bone. Usually the body just heals them. If you do not give it time to heal, it can result in a full fracture.
"Typically, an injury of this sort will take a minimum of six weeks to heal."
That time frame would eliminate McIlroy's planned appearances in Dubai, Los Angeles and Florida. Suddenly the clock would be ticking rather quicker ahead of the Masters.
Realistically he might be able to return for the World Golf Championships gathering in Mexico at the start of March. Thereafter he plans to play the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill and then the WGC Matchplay in Austin, Texas.
If he plays them well it would probably provide enough pre-Masters golf but if there are kinks in his game that need ironing out, he will be under unwanted pressure in the weeks leading up to the tournament.
All he can do now is follow doctors' orders, knowing that the immediate chance of returning to the top of the world rankings has, for the moment, gone.
McIlroy is desperate for a speedy recovery, but knows it is one that he cannot rush.
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From Rio
If there is one stadium in this sport that is the natural home to great goals by number 10s in yellow, it is the Maracana, arguably more soulless now but still the scene of glorious memories provided by Pele, Zico and now Brazil's great hope of this World Cup, Neymar.
And 28 minutes into the last-16 game between Colombia and Uruguay, the new poster boy of South American football - and this tournament - put himself alongside Neymar and Argentina's Lionel Messi with a goal to treasure, and one fit for the Maracana.
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The 22-year-old showed great awareness to glance over his shoulder to check the positioning of both himself and Uruguay keeper Fernando Muslera even before Abel Aguilar's header came in his direction.
Then came the technique, cushioning the header on his chest while twisting to set up a glorious 25-yard left-foot volley that lost nothing aesthetically by crashing down into the net off the bar.
If Rodriguez had hinted at his potential greatness with goals against Greece,Ivory Coast and Japan in the group stage, this was the moment he joined those other perfect 10s in the World Cup - Messi and Neymar.
He had a Colombian legend to live up to when he took on the mantle of the number 10 - the flamboyant Carlos 'El Pibe' Valderrama, he of the wild hair and glorious talent.
No matter. 'El Nuevo Pibe' - 'The New Kid' - had arrived.
And his arrival made the Maracana forget the man who was not here - Uruguay's Luis Suarez - and his lamentable explanation of how he came to bite Giorgio Chiellini, with both him and his teeth apparently stumbling accidentally into the Italian's shoulder after a loss of balance.
Suarez was present in spirit as Uruguay's fans rose to the siege mentality created by coach Oscar Tabarez with masks, flags and a noisy show of support. The bottom line, however, is after their questionable defence of Suarez in recent days, Uruguay's departure may not be mourned by too many in Brazil outside their own camp.
In some ways, the evidence presented here showed why they were prepared to erect such a dubious apologist shield around Suarez. Without him, they are a shadow of the side they are with him.
Instead, and of a far more savoury nature, the Maracana was the playground of a new world star - and someone who presents a real danger to Brazil when they meet Colombia in their quarter-final in Fortaleza on Friday.
Rodriguez is now the World Cup's top scorer with five goals. While Suarez is back in Uruguay in shame, the smiling Colombian is the fresh and acceptable face of this tournament - and with power to add to his reputation.
Rodriguez could pass for Cristiano Ronaldo's younger brother. He is clean-cut, respectful and was quietly spoken as he dealt with Colombia's adulation after the game.
In the absence of the great goalscorer Radamel Falcao, cruelly deprived of this World Cup by injury, Monaco team-mate Rodriguez was left with a burden he has so far carried with ease.
Jose Luis Alarcon Rojas, of Colombia's RCNR Radio, said: "Once Falcao was injured, James Rodriguez was the first name in coach Jose Pekerman's selection. He is a young boy who is loved in Colombia, a star.
"No Falcao meant he was more important to Colombia and he has responded to the responsibility. He was always popular but this will make him more popular."
And what of his meeting with Neymar in Fortaleza?
"Neymar is the young champion of Brazil while James is the young champion of Colombia, but he is our star and he is playing like our star."
The boy from Cucuta started his career with Envigado in Colombia before, at the tender age of 17, his talent took him to Argentina and Banfield.
After winning the Primera Division, he moved to Porto, helping them secure three titles and the Europa League.
Last summer he joined Monaco for £38.5m, but goals like those against Uruguay, and his second was also a thing of beauty in a team context, will be attracting the attention of others who may wish to prise him away from the Principality.
When he was told Tabarez had mentioned his name in a list that included Argentina great Diego Maradona, Messi and Suarez, he said: "It is always a matter of great pride that someone like him has said these things. All I want to do is help the team."
A player of balance, nurtured by the wise Pekerman, who has placed great trust in him, he has the ability to contribute to the team ethic, as proved by his second goal, while demonstrating great individual virtuosity.
As his goal was replayed on the Maracana's big screens, gasps of appreciation swirled around the stadium. It was his shirt and his name that could be seen and heard as elated Colombians celebrated in the streets snaking away from the Copacabana on Saturday night.
Colombia may have lived in the shadow of the South American superpowers such as Brazil and Argentina in the past. In Rodriguez they have a player who can help them step into the light - starting in Fortaleza on Friday.
The versatile player says he has spoken to new boss Brendan Rodgers but admits there is, as yet, nothing to sign as his current contract draws to an end.
"I'm happy," he said. "I want to stay, but the longer it goes on, you start to wonder if it's going to happen.
"I've spoken to the manager and he wants me to stay, which is important for me. You want to feel wanted."
The 30-year-old, who can play in defence and midfield, started his second spell with Celtic after leaving Aberdeen in 2010
"Hopefully we can come to some kind of agreement soon," said Mulgrew, who only made 20 appearances last season in an injury-disrupted season.
"There's no offer on the table yet, but I think it's moving towards that this week."
Mulgrew says he wants to be part of what he believes will be a time of progress at the club under Rodgers.
"The new manager's plans for the club are great," he said after coming on as a substitute in Scotland's 3-0 defeat by France on Saturday.
"It's exciting times ahead for Celtic. I hope I can be involved in that because I think there's a few big years coming up.
"It's not as quick as just signing it. These things are never quick.
"There's bits and pieces that need tied up, things need done, but hopefully we can get it done as quickly as possible."
Hamilton insisted it was "the right way to do things" but admitted that by the time he made the final call on the last lap it was "a kind of grey area" and rued: "I don't think I'll ever get back those three points."
Hamilton's internal wrangle will have been exacerbated by the knowledge that ahead of him title rival Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari team were playing things in the opposite fashion.
The German was struggling with steering that was tilted to the left at varying degrees during the race, a problem that compromised his pace.
Vettel's team-mate Kimi Raikkonen was right behind him and telling the team he could go faster, but in terms that made it clear he knew he was not going to be allowed to pass.
So at the front Ferrari were focusing everything on maximising their team leader's points haul, using Raikkonen as a buffer against the attacking Mercedes later in the race. Mercedes were giving Hamilton the chance to do the same - but in the end giving away three points from him to Bottas.
The decision to let his team-mate back past on the last lap, Hamilton said, was "more from the heart".
"The mind is more cut-throat and 'every point counts and this is do or die'. But my heart tells me the right thing to do is let him by," he added.
The situation evolved in the second half of the race, as Mercedes found they had the pace to close on the Ferraris, who had dominated until the pit stops.
With Vettel struggling - forced to stay off the kerbs to protect the car, never quite sure how much steering he would need to make left-handers - Bottas began to close on the Ferraris and Hamilton began to do the same to his team-mate.
Mercedes' difficulties were exacerbated by a total communications shutdown on their pit wall - where for a time they had no radio between themselves or to the drivers, no data and no television feed.
So Hamilton spent a few laps behind Bottas, eating up his tyres, before the radio came back on stream and he was able to say: "I've got a lot of pace. You've got to let me use it."
Later, he explained: "My thought process is: 'I am faster than the guy, I think I can have a chance of winning this race for you guys. Let me go. Give me that chance or we are just wasting potential points for the team.' In my mind, I am: 'If he lets me past and I can't pull away then I will reverse it.'"
But pull away he did. Bottas let Hamilton by on lap 46, with 24 to go, having been told Hamilton would give him the place back if his attack failed. Hamilton caught the Ferraris within three laps. Initially he was told he had five laps to get it done on a more powerful engine mode. Then the team gave him five more, and then more again.
Raikkonen was telling Ferrari he was "not comfortable" in his bridging position. It was all getting very tense.
As the laps ticked by, it became clear Hamilton was not going to be able to pass Raikkonen and attack Vettel - as was always likely to be the case on a track where overtaking is notoriously difficult.
But as the three cars circulated at the front, they were pulling away from Bottas, partly because he was measuring his pace to ensure he had enough tyres left to defend from Red Bull's Max Verstappen at the end of the race.
With 10 laps to go, Hamilton led his team-mate by more than five seconds. With four to go, it was eight seconds, and still seven as they started the last lap.
And this is where the grey area comes in.
"If he let me by and I pulled him along and we were two seconds apart, it is a much easier thing to let him back," Hamilton said. "But I was seven seconds up ahead and with the Ferraris, and the team were in a difficult position.
"But it showed I am a man of my word and also that I am a team player. I am just as much a part of the team as anyone in it. It shows unity.
"In life, if you do good things, good things come back to you so hopefully globally as a team in our good doing it will pay dividends."
But still the conflict. Was three points a price worth paying for team harmony?
"I can't answer that," Hamilton said. "I lose the world championship; I don't know what I would say then if it is by three points or in that vicinity. But as I said I want to win it the right way."
On the pit wall, Mercedes bosses debated allowing Hamilton to keep third place, but ultimately decided that letting him honour his pledge was the right approach.
Mercedes' team philosophy is based on a spirit of competition between the drivers - they are allowed to race until such point that it becomes apparent only one of them is realistically in a position to win the title. Team boss Toto Wolff believes this guarantees better performance by ensuring each driver is fully motivated.
Ferrari take a different approach - and have done for a long time. And in explaining his position, Wolff made a thinly veiled criticism of it.
Within his remarks, there was a reference to the controversial Austrian Grand Prix of 2002, when Rubens Barrichello was forced to give up the win on the final lap to team-mate Michael Schumacher, who was already leading the championship by a massive margin in a season Ferrari were dominating.
"We don't drive in circles because we enjoy it so much," Wolff said. "We drive in circles because we hope it promotes our brand and makes us sell cars and it is a very long-term project.
Of more of a concern for Hamilton is the inconsistency of his performances this season
"If you come here [to the race] and you think this is what counts only, you are wrong. We have seen the backlash of decisions that were ruthless and cold-blooded. And the effect it had on a brand.
"You could say: 'Screw it. Who cares, you are in the history books.' But I don't think this is the right spin. The purpose of us being here is winning in the right way and sometimes doing it the right way and standing by your values is really tough and it was today. I feel terrible."
Whether one believes the Mercedes or the Ferrari approach is the right one is a matter of opinion, of course. And the answer may depend on how the championship turns out.
"In my mind I want to win the championship the right way," Hamilton said. "I don't know whether that will come back to bite me in the backside or not but I said at the beginning of the year I want to win it the right way and I do think today was the right way to do things."
Wolff added: "Saying I wouldn't regret it would be very naive. If you miss the championship by those three points everyone would say it is because of Budapest and I would be the first one to shoot myself in the knee.
"Nevertheless, standing by what you say and standing by your values is going to make us win more championships. It was a tough call to make, a very difficult one. Believe me probably the most difficult call we had to make in the last five years. I am not in a happy place at the moment but if you are not fast enough at least you are sportsmanlike."
Whether karma will come to have an effect on the championship remains to be seen - and even if it did, who is to say it would come down on the side of Mercedes in this one?
Of more of a concern for Hamilton is the inconsistency of his performances this season - especially in qualifying at races where the team are not quite on the pace.
Wolff admitted that Mercedes would probably not have been able to challenge Ferrari for the victory had it not been for Vettel's problems - the red cars were just too fast around the Hungaroring.
Mercedes were struggling to find the right balance, not for the first time this season. And Hamilton was making more of a meal of it than Bottas - not for the first time this season.
A pattern is beginning to emerge and it is one of some concern for Hamilton's title hopes. When the car is not right, Hamilton is tending to over-drive it. Pushing for more performance, he tries too hard, goes over the limit of the tyres, and makes mistakes. Bottas just accepts the limit for what it is, doesn't fight it, and ends up going faster.
In Hungary, this was costly indeed. Having set the fastest time in second qualifying, Hamilton ran wide on his first lap in the top-10 shootout. That meant he had only one lap to secure his grid position and because of that he had to leave some margin.
The result was fourth on the grid - but there was a feeling in certain quarters that the pace was there for a place on the front row.
Had Hamilton started second - or even first - the issue of giving back third place or not would not have come up. He would have been able to attack Vettel from the start, and he may well have won. And then he would have an six-point lead heading into the summer break, rather than a 14-point deficit.
These errors by Hamilton were reminiscent of his driving at Russia, Monaco and Austria this year - all races on low-grip tracks with slow corners where Mercedes were struggling. And at all four races, Hamilton was out-qualified by Bottas.
This should not be happening to a driver who, even despite this, is on average qualifying time nearly 0.2secs quicker than his team-mate.
"He's always been up and down," someone who knows Hamilton well told me on Sunday, and this is true. But four poor qualifying sessions in 11 races risks being too high an average in a season in which he is facing Vettel in a fast Ferrari with a team fully focused on him alone.
"We have given up a lot of points up to today," Hamilton said. "Ferrari have given up a lot less as a team. We just hope we don't give up any more points."
He is right about that - but the onus in ensuring it stops happening is as much on him as on his team.
Officers went to a house in Tenbury Crescent in Aspley, Nottingham, at about 22:00 BST on Thursday after being told a 14-year-old boy had suffered a cardiac arrest.
He was taken to hospital but died later.
Nottinghamshire Police said the 17-year-old remains in custody and have appealed for witnesses.
The petition, which has been signed by over 1,000 people, was delivered to Chief Minister Howard Quayle this week.
The MHK said it showed a "clear desire... to help", but it was "not simply a case of opening our doors".
The government had previously stated the island could not provide the "level of support" needed to help refugees.
Campaigners want the Manx government to reconsider taking in refugees through the UK's Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme.
The scheme has helped around 4,500 of those in the "greatest need" resettle in the UK.
The petition calls for the new government, which has taken up power since the last decision on refugees was made, to reconsider and take in 25 Syrians by 2020.
Mr Quayle said the Council of Ministers would revisit the "complex and highly emotive" issue, but said "nothing has changed" in terms of the island's "constitutional position".
"There is a clear desire within our community to help Syrian people and this is reflected in the number of people who have signed the petition," he said.
"However, it is not simply a case of opening our doors to accept a relatively small number of refugees - there are many factors to consider."
A government spokesman added that as a Crown Dependency, the Isle of Man "cannot act on its own and must adhere to UK policy on refugees".
Since the outbreak of the conflict in Syria, the Manx government has donated more than £500,000 through the International Development Committee.
Brad Carver told the Washington Post voters "tired of left-wing extremism" will pick Republican Karen Handel.
Democrat Jon Ossoff and Ms Handel are running for a House seat vacated by US health secretary Tom Price.
Five people were injured last week when a gunman opened fire at a Republican baseball practice.
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was among those hurt and remains in a critical condition.
The suspect, identified as James T Hodgkinson, allegedly opened fire on Republican lawmakers as they practised for an annual congressional charity baseball game.
It emerged that Mr Hodgkinson, who died of his injuries following a gunfight with police, was a volunteer for Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign and promoted anti-Republican rhetoric on social media.
Mr Carver, the Republican Party chairman in Georgia's 11th Congressional District, told the Post "the shooting is going to win this election for us".
He went on: "Moderates and independents in this district are tired of left-wing extremism. I get that there's extremists on both sides, but we are not seeing them."
The much-anticipated election in the Atlanta suburban district between Ms Handel and Mr Ossoff is seen as a test of President Donald Trump popularity.
The showdown is also considered the most expensive US House of Representatives race in the nation's history.
Mr Carver praised Mr Ossoff for running a "brilliant campaign", but contended the baseball shooting would tip the outcome in Republican favour.
"We're seeing absolute resistance to everything this president does," he added.
"Moderates and independents out there want to give him a chance. Democrats have never given this president a chance."
His comments came as a Republican group released an advertisement attempting to link the congressional shooting to Mr Ossoff's Democratic campaign.
The television spot, produced by the Principled PAC, showed an image of Mr Scalise on a stretcher after the attack.
"The unhinged left is endorsing and applauding shooting Republicans," a narrator is heard saying in the ad.
"When will it stop? It won't if Jon Ossoff wins on Tuesday."
The ad, which includes an image of US comedian Kathy Griffin holding a fake severed head that looks like Mr Trump, claims "these same leftists are all for Ossoff, and he wins, they win".
Both Mr Ossoff and a spokeswoman for Ms Handel condemned the spot, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
In a public letter, 11 firms, including Tesco and Asda, said they shared shoppers' "anger and outrage".
Many retailers say results so far show no sign of horsemeat, but pubs owner Whitbread and school supplier Compass Group found horse DNA in some products.
Number 10 said it was pleased retailers had finally spoken out in public.
A Downing Street source said: "Consumer confidence is one of the things that has been missing and that needs the retailers to explain themselves, and what they have been doing."
Earlier, Downing Street said big retailers selling affected products had a responsibility to answer key questions on the scandal.
Sources said it was not "acceptable for retailers to remain silent while customers have been misled about the content of the food they have been buying".
Which products have been withdrawn?
Meanwhile, the results of up to one third of tests on the presence of horsemeat in processed meals ordered by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) are being released.
Iceland said that all of its own brand beef products have been found to be free from horsemeat.
The Co-Operative Group said 59 of its 102 own-brand minced beef products have been tested so far, with all found to be clear of horsemeat. And Morrisons says 68 test results on its products have not found horsemeat, with more results still to come.
Tesco says tests on 149 of its products are clear, and Sainsbury's say their tests show no horse adulteration.
But Whitbread, which supplies thousands of pubs and owns Premier Inn, Beefeater Grill and Brewers Fayre, has confirmed two of its products have been found to contain horsemeat.
And Compass Group, one of the biggest school food providers in the UK, says its tests have found between 5% and 30% horse DNA in burgers it sold in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
It says the burgers were supplied by Rangeland Foods in County Monaghan, which previously withdrew more than 9,000 burgers made for the UK market after some were found to contain horsemeat.
A spokesman for Compass said the affected burgers had been supplied to a small number of sites on both sides of the Irish border, including two colleges which the firm would not name.
In other developments:
In the letter issued on Friday, the group of food suppliers said: "We can't accept a situation where the trust customers place in us is being compromised by fraudulent activity or even as alleged, an international criminal conspiracy.
"We will do whatever it takes to restore public confidence in the food they buy and eat."
They also said they were "working around the clock" to resolve the matter.
The letter was signed by chief executive of Tesco, Philip Clarke, Asda Stores boss, Andy Clarke, the chief executive of J Sainsbury, Justin King, and Dalton Philips, chief executive of Wm Morrison Supermarkets, among others.
Supermarket chain Morrisons also responded on Twitter, saying: "Contrary to what No10 is saying, we haven't all been silent."
A spokesman told BBC News the company had carried multiple interviews and had communicated with customers. "We couldn't have been more transparent," he said.
Last month, Irish food inspectors said they had found horsemeat in beefburgers made by firms in the Irish Republic and the UK, and sold by a number of UK supermarket chains, including Tesco, Iceland, Aldi and Lidl.
Since then, a growing number of UK retailers have recalled processed beef products found to contain horse DNA.
The British Retail Consortium's Helen Dickinson told BBC Radio 4 retailers had been focusing on the swift testing of products.
Ms Dickinson added lessons must be learned by "all parts of the food industry" in the UK and Europe.
Some shops have already recalled products found to be adulterated, including Asda, which withdrew a beef Bolognese sauce on Thursday - the first fresh beef product to be involved.
Aldi, Tesco and Findus have also withdrawn some beef-based ready meals.
The depressingly toxic nature of internet conversations is of increasing concern to many publishers. But now Google thinks it may have an answer - using computers to moderate comments.
The search giant has developed something called Perspective, which it describes as a technology that uses machine learning to identify problematic comments. The software has been developed by Jigsaw, a division of Google with a mission to tackle online security dangers such as extremism and cyberbullying.
The system learns by seeing how thousands of online conversations have been moderated and then scores new comments by assessing how "toxic" they are and whether similar language had led other people to leave conversations. What it's doing is trying to improve the quality of debate and make sure people aren't put off from joining in.
Jared Cohen of Jigsaw explains three ways Perspective could be used: by websites to help moderate comments, by users wanting to choose the level of rudeness they see in the online conversations they take part in, and by people wanting to restrain their own behaviour.
I was intrigued by this last example. He explained that the research had uncovered the fact that many aggressive comments came from people who were usually reasonable but were having a bad day. "If you start yelling in real life you get feedback - online it's just putting something into a white box," he said.
"You could get feedback as you type. 'Hey this is 70% toxic'," he suggested.
A demo on the Jigsaw website shows how the tool might allow users to determine the level of "toxicity" in comments about global warming. Set the slider up high and you get people describing each other as "stupid" or "uneducated bumpkins". Bring it lower and you get "they are ill-informed".
Perspective has already been tried out by the New York Times, which used it to help moderate comments. The newspaper currently finds this process so labour-intensive that only 2% of articles are opened up for comment. The new tool helped the moderators work at twice the speed, so the paper may now be able to host conversations on more stories.
Wikipedia, where the tool has been used to look at disagreements over editing, the Guardian and the Economist have also experimented with the software. Perspective, which is still in development, will now be made available for free to any publisher who wants it.
It sounds as though rival platforms like Facebook and Twitter could find this very useful, and the Perspective team did not rule out working with them.
Strangely, it doesn't appear that it is going to be used by Google itself, despite the fact that YouTube is home to some of the nastiest comments you will find anywhere on the internet. Google says similar automatic moderation tools are already available to owners of YouTube channels.
And what Google is also keen to stress is that it sees no role for itself in determining what is acceptable in online conversation - that is for its customers to decide.
Like other social media platforms, it is determined to be seen as a technology business not a media giant. As its influence on the way we see the world grows, that position is getting harder to maintain.
So far six Malaysian families and one Chinese family have received the money, and insurers are assessing the claims of 40 more Chinese families.
Relatives of all 239 missing passengers can claim up to $175,000 each.
Flight MH370 went missing on 8 March as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. No trace of the plane has been found.
Malaysian deputy foreign minister Hamzah Zainudin stressed that the government has not yet declared the plane lost.
"When we talk about the full payment, we have to wait until we announce the issue on the tragedy MH370 is over," he said.
Malaysia Airlines' insurer, a consortium led by Germany's Allianz, is making the payments.
Many of the relatives also refuse to accept that their relatives may be dead.
A group of families has joined together to raise $5m (£2.9m) to investigate the plane's disappearance and encourage anyone who might have information to come forward.
A massive search operation conducted in seas hundreds of miles from any land has failed to find any debris from the plane.
Experts are continuing to survey the sea floor and are bringing in specialist equipment.
They believe the jet ended its journey in the Indian Ocean, hundreds of miles north-west of the Australian city of Perth.
Certainly, the prime minister did not want to find herself in the position of having to ask MPs for permission to start our divorce from the European Union.
Today's verdict from the justices doesn't take away from the reality that having to go to Parliament before triggering Article 50 is a political inconvenience Theresa May very much wanted to avoid.
Nor does it change the sentiment among opposition MPs, some of whom are determined to try to amend whatever legislation the government puts forward to include guarantees of this or that, to try to force a vote on staying in the single market, or to push for final binding votes on the process when negotiations are complete.
However, the sighs of relief are real in Whitehall this morning for two reasons.
The justices held back from insisting that the devolved administrations would have a vote or a say on the process. That was, as described by a member of Team May, the "nightmare scenario".
The Scottish National Party has said it would not try to veto Brexit, but there is no question that having a vote on Article 50 in the Holyrood Parliament could have been politically troublesome for the government. After the judgement it seems like an unexploded bomb.
And second, the Supreme Court also held back from telling the government explicitly what it has to do next. The judgement is clear that it was not for the courts but for politicians to decide how to proceed next.
That means, possibly as early as tomorrow, ministers will put forward what is expected to be an extremely short piece of legislation in the hope of getting MPs to approve it, perhaps within a fortnight.
Nightmare number two for the government would have been explicit instructions from the court about the kind of legislation they had to introduce.
That wouldn't just have made ministers' lives very difficult when they want, above all else, to produce something that gives their opponents minimal room for manoeuvre.
But it would have raised spiky questions about the power of the courts versus our politicians and parliaments - a fight few had the appetite to have.
Conservative Craig Whittaker's tweet linked to an article by Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn entitled "Trust Labour? I'd rather trust Jimmy Savile to babysit".
Mr Whittaker, who is standing in Calder Valley, West Yorkshire, is currently chairman of the Parliamentary Group for Children in Care.
He declined to comment when approached.
Mr Whittaker, who also served as Calderdale Council's cabinet member for children and young people from 2007 to 2010, sparked an angry response to the tweet.
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A tank shell hit the vehicle carrying the troops, an official said.
Three civilians were reportedly killed in other incidents.
Ukrainian activists earlier toppled a statue of Lenin in the eastern city of Kharkiv - a move likely to be seen as a provocation by pro-Russians.
Nationalist protesters had gathered around the statue on Sunday night for a "Kharkiv is Ukraine" rally. The governor of Kharkiv region, Ihor Baluta, then signed an order to dismantle the statue.
The mayor of Kharkiv, Gennady Kernes, said on a local government website that the monument would be restored, calling its destruction unlawful.
Pro-Russian demonstrators defended the statue in February, as similar monuments were being taken down in other parts of the country in a wave of protests that accompanied the removal of President Viktor Yanukovych.
Kharkiv has largely escaped the violence which subsequently swept through east Ukraine's other regions, Donetsk and Luhansk.
The latest deaths cast fresh doubt on a ceasefire agreed between the Ukrainian government and the rebels on 5 September.
The seven soldiers were killed in a vehicle near Donetsk airport, which the rebels have been trying to capture from the Ukrainian military.
"During the evening attack, the Ukrainian armoured transporter, with its crew and a paratroop unit, took a direct hit from a tank," Ukrainian military spokesman Col Andriy Lysenko told reporters.
"Intensive fighting broke out. Our paratroopers sustained losses," Col Lysenko said.
He said a total of nine soldiers had been killed and 27 wounded in the past 24 hours.
Separately, authorities in Donetsk told AFP news agency that three civilians had been killed over the same period. The city is a base for the pro-Russian rebels.
The OSCE security organisation, which is monitoring the ceasefire, confirmed there had been heavy shelling around Donetsk airport.
There was also heavy shelling of the eastern outskirts of Mariupol on Friday and Saturday, OSCE spokesman Michael Bociurkiw told the BBC.
Just before the ceasefire took effect heavily armed rebels moved close to Mariupol, a strategic port city on the main route to Crimea.
Russia denies Western allegations that it has armed the rebels and sent troops into the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. About 3,200 people have died in fighting since April.
Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in March - a move condemned by Ukraine and the West.
The European Union and the US later imposed sanctions against Russia over its role in the Ukraine conflict.
Last week, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said the "most dangerous" part of the crisis in the east had passed, predicting that his peace deal with the pro-Russian rebels would hold.
For several days Russian state television has reported on "mass graves" allegedly unearthed by rebels near Nizhnya Krynka, a village near Donetsk. At least four bodies have been found there, according to the Russian reports.
The television reports said Ukrainian army and national guard units had occupied the area and were suspected of shooting captives at close range.
Last week Anton Herashchenko, a Ukrainian interior ministry adviser, dismissed the mass grave allegation as "outright lies".
OSCE spokesman Bociurkiw confirmed that "about half a dozen" bodies, some of them decomposed, had been seen by OSCE monitors at the site.
"We observed unmarked graves, it was not possible to establish gender, and there were shell casings nearby," he said.
"We were not able to do a proper investigation because the OSCE doesn't have the ability to do a forensic assessment," he told the BBC.
"We had no way of establishing if they were shot or who put the weapons there."
He also said the OSCE had been unable to check whether Russia was bringing more military equipment into Ukraine or taking it out. No inspection was carried out on Russian humanitarian aid lorries that entered the conflict zone, he said.
"We don't have an inventory of what existed, so it's very difficult to establish what if anything has moved. Equipment was also unmarked," he said.
The average shower lasted eight minutes - much longer than previous studies suggested, using almost as much water and energy as the average bath.
The information was compiled from "data loggers" that recorded 2,600 showers by 100 families over a 10-day period.
The survey was carried out by producer Unilever, which wanted to find out how people were using their products.
According to the data, an eight-minute shower used 62 litres of hot water, compared with an average bath's 80 litres.
And, it suggested, that if people were using a power shower - an appliance that adds extra pressure to the water flow - then an eight-minute shower would require twice as much water and energy as a bath.
Hilde Hendrickx, a behavioural scientist in Unilever's R&D department, said that the company decided to carry out the survey because "quite a large proportion of our (products') environmental impact occurred when people used them".
Referring to shower and bath products, she added: "We know that 95% of the associated greenhouse gas emissions are related to people [using] our products because they have to use hot water."
Previously, data on showering behaviour had been collated by asking households to complete questionnaires. But this approach had a number of drawbacks, Dr Hendrickx explained.
"The problem with that is that people do not often have a very good insight into their behaviour because it is a habit and they may not be very aware of what they are actually doing," she told BBC News.
"When it comes to time perception, most people are not very good at estimating at how long it took them to do a particular activity."
Hence the need to find a different way to record it, she said, but the challenge was getting reliable data on a private activity.
"People would not take too kindly to someone standing next to them with a clipboard."
In order to overcome this, the company's R&D department developed a data logger that they called a "shower sensor".
"It is based on acoustics and temperature, so it basically picks up the noise of the water as it runs through the pipe," Dr Hendrickx explained. "It also picks up the change in temperature."
She added that by using algorithms, researchers were able to extract the necessary information about people's showering behaviour from the raw data.
The findings, she said, challenged some long-standing assumptions, such as people showered, on average, for five minutes.
Paula Owen, an independent environmental consultant, said the survey gave a "fascinating peek into the bathroom-related habits of the British public".
"Most people have now got the message that, generally, taking a shower is more environmentally friendly than a bath, but what this research shows is this is not necessarily the case," she told BBC News.
Dr Owen, who produced "eco action trump" cards to help people understand the environmental and economic impact of everyday activities, said that she recommended that people took four-minute showers.
"Unfortunately it seems that message is not getting through," she said.
"The results here show that the average time spent in a shower is double that. This wastes not only water, but also the energy needed for heating the water too.
"People always consider the running costs of cars and phones, but no-one considers the running costs of everyday appliances such as showers, washing machines and TVs."
The survey suggested that taking eight-minutes showers would cost an average UK family £416 a year; using a power shower would see the annual bill soar to £918.
But Dr Owen said there were a number of options available to people who wanted to cut their water and energy bills.
"Water companies often give away timers that help you limit your time in the shower and attachments are available to fix to your shower head that will reduce the flow but not the bathing experience," she explained.
"If you are partial to singing in the shower, pick a short pop classic to shower to; and when lathering up think about turning the flow off until you are ready to rinse."
Dr Hendrickx acknowledged that the survey was not representative of the entire nation, but added that there were plans to conduct more surveys in the future.
One hundred new GP training places are being advertised, with a £20,000 incentive for some who choose to take up hard to fill posts.
Some medical bodies are concerned Scotland is facing a GP crisis, with certain areas restricting patient lists because they are reaching capacity.
The Scottish government said it was refocusing the role of GPs.
The new scheme will offer a one-off bursary of £20,000 to trainees who commit to being trained in posts that have not been filled recently. Many of these are in isolated rural communities.
The posts qualifying for the incentive include placements based in Arran, Inverness, Fort William and Oban. Others are in Dumfries and Galloway, Angus, Aberdeenshire, Glasgow and Lanarkshire.
NHS Dumfries and Galloway's Medical Director, Angus Cameron, told BBC Scotland: "This is excellent news. We believe we have superb training available in Dumfries and Galloway.
"We really welcome the extra incentive to help encourage doctors to choose a career in rural general practice starting here."
Health Secretary Shona Robison said general practice was at the "heart" of the NHS.
"We are also investing in the future of the profession - developing new ways of working with multi-disciplinary teams and refocusing the role of the GP as the expert medical generalist within our community health service," she said.
"We've also abolished the bureaucratic system of GP payments, QOF, and are working on a new Scottish GP contract to support our wider efforts to make primary care services fit for the future."
The Scottish government said the 100 new places brought the total number of GP specialist training posts advertised this year to 439.
Scotland's Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr Gregor Smith, who previously practised as a GP, said: "Working in general practice can give you a wide and varied career - one in which every day is different and you never know what will come through the door next.
"There are some fantastic opportunities for training available in Scotland - whether that is working in inner city communities or with remote and rural populations, all within a flexible and supportive training environment."
He added: "It is a fantastic career and one which I would highly recommend to junior doctors."
The application window opens on 9 August, and closes on 25 August.
Automated Technology Group (ATG) is based in Bedfordshire and currently employs 250 staff.
It provides automated control and power products for the UK car, food and beverage and airport sectors.
It will become part of the Wood Group Mustang business. The value of the deal was undisclosed.
ATG generated sales of about £36m in the year to March 2015.
Andy Robinson, chief executive of ATG, will continue to lead the existing management team.
Michele McNichol, Wood Group Mustang chief executive, said: "ATG provides many opportunities for Wood Group Mustang, including growing our automation business to include manufacturing and expanding into the food and beverage and airport markets.
"With a culture focused on people and innovation, ATG is the right fit for Wood Group Mustang.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) received a complaint earlier this week after statements made on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.
But the force has recorded the comments as a "hate incident" as opposed to a hate crime.
Fury, 27, beat Wladimir Klitschko last month to claim the world titles.
In the aftermath of his win in Dusseldorf, which saw Fury claim the WBA, IBF and WBO titles, he said: "I'm not sexist. I believe a woman's best place is in the kitchen and on her back. That's my personal belief. Making me a good cup of tea, that's what I believe."
The new world champion has also previously said it would only take the legalisation of paedophilia in addition to the decriminalisation of homosexuality and abortion to see "the devil come home".
A complaint was made to GMP, sparking an investigation, but the force has concluded Fury will not face any charges.
In a statement, GMP said: "Officers spoke with the man that made the report and he provided a statement to police.
"This matter has been investigated in line with national hate crime policy and has been recorded as a hate incident.
"The circumstances in which these comments were made suggest that no criminal offence has taken place and this matter will not be investigated any further."
But the fighter, who lives in Morecambe, faces a further investigation after the British Boxing Board of Control summoned him to attend a meeting next year to explain his comments. No date has been fixed.
A petition was raised to get Fury removed from the shortlist for BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
Fellow nominee and long jump champion Greg Rutherford had planned to withdraw from this year's event over Fury's comments, before reversing his decision.
No-one was seriously injured in the crash on Bumblebee Lane in Sharnford, but the lorry driver had to be rescued from his vehicle.
The owner of the house was not injured, but has been moved out of the property.
His son Steve Rowley said: "This is the second time this happened in a year as a car went thought the other end of the building."
"It is a terrible part of the road - I don't know why so many cars seem to come off here - it really does need looking at," Mr Rowley said.
He said the house would probably need to be completely rebuilt.
The game was held up several times through flares being thrown on to the pitch and some Coventry supporters coming on to the playing area in protest at the club's owners.
But, on the Sky Blues' return to the ground where they played as tenants in 2013-14, it was the Cobblers who bagged the three vital points against the bottom club.
City received an early setback when they were reduced to 10 men after Jordan Willis was given a straight red card for a reckless challenge in the 19th minute.
The Cobblers had the better chances of a poor first half, but they began brightly after the restart, breaking the deadlock in the 53rd minute when a quick break ended with Richards finding Anderson in the box and he fired into the top corner.
John-Joe O'Toole was also denied by the excellent Burge as Cobblers got on top. And, after another delay, Cobblers doubled their advantage in the 64th minute.
Burge tipped over a shot from Anderson and, from Matt Taylor's ensuing corner, Zander Diamond set up Anderson, who fired home from six yards.
Burge produce more heroics to thwart Richards while O'Toole should have done better when he fired over from a good position, but Anderson completed his hat-trick in the 76th minute when he swept home a cross from Boateng into the bottom corner.
That led to more fans and flares coming onto the pitch but the delays failed to prevent Cobblers from picking up three crucial points to leave City in deep trouble - now eight points adrift of safety.
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Match ends, Northampton Town 3, Coventry City 0.
Second Half ends, Northampton Town 3, Coventry City 0.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Charles Vernam.
Attempt saved. Ryan Haynes (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Neal Eardley.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Harry Beautyman replaces Luke Williams.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Nathan Clarke.
Foul by Paul Anderson (Northampton Town).
Jodi Jones (Coventry City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Paul Anderson replaces Hiram Boateng because of an injury.
John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Charles Vernam (Coventry City).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Gregg Wylde replaces Keshi Anderson.
Goal! Northampton Town 3, Coventry City 0. Keshi Anderson (Northampton Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Hiram Boateng.
Attempt missed. John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Substitution, Coventry City. Jodi Jones replaces Ben Stevenson.
Substitution, Coventry City. Andy Rose replaces Marcus Tudgay.
Attempt saved. Marc Richards (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Goal! Northampton Town 2, Coventry City 0. Keshi Anderson (Northampton Town) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Zander Diamond.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Lee Burge.
Attempt saved. Keshi Anderson (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Delay in match (Coventry City).
Keshi Anderson (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ben Stevenson (Coventry City).
Attempt saved. John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Northampton Town 1, Coventry City 0. Keshi Anderson (Northampton Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Marc Richards.
Attempt saved. Neal Eardley (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Keshi Anderson (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Second Half begins Northampton Town 0, Coventry City 0.
First Half ends, Northampton Town 0, Coventry City 0.
Attempt missed. Marc Richards (Northampton Town) header from the left side of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Callum Reilly.
Foul by Keshi Anderson (Northampton Town).
Dion Kelly-Evans (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Luke Williams (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Callum Reilly (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Foul by Marc Richards (Northampton Town).
Ryan Haynes (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Members of the Unison union are already boycotting some duties and have staged shorter strikes in March and April.
The escalated action aims to win extra cash for tasks that are dirty or involve outside work and heavy lifting.
The janitors work for Cordia, a body of Glasgow City Council, which said it was working to ensure schools ran as normal but could not rule out some disruption.
Unison has said that janitors are entitled to a Working Context and Demands Payment which ranges from about £500 to more than £1,000 annually.
The union said that since members began boycotting certain duties in January, schools and playgrounds were not being cleaned as quickly and thoroughly as previously.
A council spokeswoman said the dispute did not involve all janitors - just those primary school ones who are members of Unison.
"The council will continue to work with Cordia to ensure that our schools and nurseries will be open for business as usual," she said.
"Our expectation is that all Breakfast Clubs will operate as normal during the five-day industrial action.
"However, parents and carers need to be aware that this is subject to change at short notice depending of local arrangements and circumstances."
A spokesperson for Cordia Services LLP said: "Cordia has exhausted each of the stages of its formal grievance process with the janitorial staff who are participating in industrial action.
"The organisation is working closely with Glasgow City Council Education Services to ensure there is minimal disruption at affected schools."
Tylicki has had spinal surgery and has movement in the upper half of his body but not lower as the result of a T7 paralysis.
He suffered a heavy fall while riding Nellie Dean in Monday's 15:20 GMT race.
"Freddy remains in intensive care and is not receiving any visitors for the foreseeable future," said Lisa Hancock of the Injured Jockeys' Fund.
Tylicki is being treated at St George's Hospital in Tooting, south London.
Hancock added: "His family would like to thank the St George's staff for the care he has received. As this is a very difficult time for Freddy and his family, they would like to thank everyone for their good wishes, and for continuing to respect their privacy."
Champion flat jockey Jim Crowley suffered a broken nose in the incident, and jockeys Steve Drowne and Ted Durcan were also unseated.
Nellie Dean appeared to clip heels with leader and eventual winner Madame Butterfly as the field rounded the home turn.
Crowley and Electrify were racing immediately behind and were brought down, as was Drowne's mount Skara Mae. Durcan was also caught up in the melee and was unseated from Sovrano Dolce.
The horses involved were not reported to be seriously injured.
Retired 20-time champion jump jockey AP McCoy was among those who gave their support to Tylicki on social media.
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He becomes only the third player to win both awards in the same season.
"It's a massive honour," said the 23-year-old. "To be voted by your peers is one of the biggest things in the game."
Bale fought off competition from Liverpool's Luis Suarez and Robin van Persie of Manchester United to win the prestigious main award.
2012-13: Gareth Bale (Tottenham)
2011-12: Robin van Persie (Arsenal)
2010-11: Gareth Bale (Tottenham)
2009-10: Wayne Rooney (Man Utd)
2008-09: Ryan Giggs (Man Utd)
2007-08: Cristiano Ronaldo (Man Utd)
Suarez, currently serving a 10-match suspension for biting, and Van Persie were named in the Premier League team of the year.
Suarez's name was twice booed by an audience largely consisting of footballers during the ceremony in London.
Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick and Chelsea forwards Eden Hazard and Juan Mata, all three of whom were on the shortlist for the main award, were also included in the side.
Bale, who was named Player of the Year in 2010-11, was honoured again by his fellow professionals for a season in which he has scored 19 Premier League goals - and 24 in all competitions.
"It's great to win it and I am delighted," he added.
"When you look at the list there are some massive names on it and the other nominees have been unbelievable this year, but I couldn't have done it without the team.
"They have been fantastic this year and so has the manager (Andre Villas-Boas).
"I couldn't have won it without them so I would like to give them all a big thank you as well."
Wales international Bale came through the ranks at Southampton before joining Tottenham in 2007 in a deal that could rise to £10m.
In addition to his goal-scoring, Bale has been responsible for four assists and 243 crosses. His seven goals from outside the box is the most in the top flight.
In the young player category, Bale beat Hazard, Aston Villa's Christian Benteke, on-loan West Brom striker Romelu Lukaku, Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere and Manchester United striker Danny Welbeck.
Andy Gray (1976-77) and Cristiano Ronaldo (2006-07) are the only other players to have won both awards in the same season.
PFA chairman Gordon Taylor said: "Gareth has had a tremendous season. He has had the same impact on Welsh football as Ryan Giggs did. He is part of the Southampton success story."
Coach Eric Harrison was awarded the Merit award for his role in developing players from Manchester United's academy in the early 1990s.
Premier League Team of the Year: David de Gea (Manchester United), Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City), Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur), Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United), Leighton Baines (Everton), Michael Carrick (Manchester United), Juan Mata (Chelsea), Gareth Bale (Tottenham Hotspur), Luis Suarez (Liverpool), Eden Hazard (Chelsea), Robin van Persie (Manchester United).
Championship Team of the Year: Kasper Schmeichel (Leicester City), Kieran Trippier (Burnley), Wes Morgan (Leicester City), Mark Hudson (Cardiff City), Wayne Bridge (Brighton and Hove Albion), Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace), Thomas Ince (Blackpool), Peter Whittingham (Cardiff City), Yannick Bolasie (Crystal Palace), Glenn Murray (Crystal Palace), Matej Vydra (Watford).
League One Team of the Year: Wesley Foderingham (Swindon), Simon Francis (Bournemouth), Robert Jones (Doncaster), Harry Maguire (Sheffield United), Charlie Daniels (Bournemouth), Matthew Ritchie (Bournemouth), Luke Murphy (Crewe), Alan Judge (Notts County), David Cotterill (Doncaster), Patrick Madden (Yeovil), Leon Clarke (Coventry).
League Two Team of the Year: Stuart Nelson (Gillingham), Sean Clohessy (Southend), Adam Barrett (Gillingham), Ryan Cresswell (Southend), Joseph Martin (Gillingham), Jacques Maghoma (Burton), Marlon Pack (Cheltenham), Gary Jones (Bradford), Jennison Myrie-Williams (Port Vale), Tom Pope (Port Vale), Jamie Cureton (Exeter).
A sign celebrating an engagement that appeared on the slopes of the Mourne Mountains, County Down, will be removed.
It reads: "Jay + Lisa, she said yes here on 4.3.17."
The Mourne Heritage Trust has said it was agreed to remove the sign following discussions with the landowner.
The Irish News reported that the heart-shaped metal sign appeared on an area known as the Brandy Pad on Slieve Commedagh.
Martin Carey, chief executive of the Mourne Heritage Trust, said the group would make an appeal on social media to return the sign to its owners.
He said the sign was reported by walkers in the area and that it was believed to have been "visible from quite a wide area".
"It really got quite a wide consensus from people who consider the Mournes a place apart.
"A sign or such can urbanise the area or jar with the experience for those who go to the Mournes to get away from it all."
He added that the decision to remove it was a "pragmatic response in agreement with the landowner" and that any installation of that kind required planning permission.
"People feel a soft ownership over the Mournes, a guardianship.
"I don't think there's an ill will or malice, there's just concern there would be a proliferation of signs if this came to be accepted."
George Acheson, a regular visitor and walker of the Mournes, said he agreed with the trust's actions.
"Once other people see a sign like that it could encourage them to add to it. It's not in keeping with the mountainside. I think the principle of leave no trace is the right one.
"People like myself like to go to the Mournes for the wilderness aspect and signs such as these can detract from that."
Mr Carey described the leaving of signs on the Mournes as a "growing issue", although he added that mostly these were memorials left paying tribute to people who had died.
"This actually became an issue with Ben Nevis in 2005 and the solution was to put a memorial garden near the bottom of the slopes."
He added: "We ask people to be mindful of the type of place it is and not to leave a permanent mark on the landscape."
Australia added 39 for four wickets to their overnight total as they made 276 to the home side's first innings 189.
The hosts lost two wickets in erasing their 87-run deficit and were 120-4 before Pujara and Rahane put on an unbroken 93 on day three in Bangalore.
The duo batted the whole last session as India reached 213-4 by the close.
The partnership between Rahane and Pujara, who was was dropped on four by Steve Smith off spinner Nathan Lyon, was India's highest of the series so far, after a comprehensive defeat in the opening Test.
Opener KL Rahul also played a part in an improved batting display with 51.
"It was a little bit easier than the first innings," said Rahul. "The wicket was the best to bat on today. I wanted to cash in and get a good start for the team.
"We went in with a clear intent to use our feet and rotate the strike.
"It was a fantastic partnership between Pujara and Rahane and the team really needed it."
Australia lead the series 1-0 after winning the opening Test of the four-match series.
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Mr Bhattarai got 340 votes to the Nepali Congress party candidate's 235, thanks to the support of smaller parties based in the country's south.
He vowed to complete the peace process after 10 years of civil war and reach agreement on a new constitution.
His predecessor, Jhalanath Khanal, was in post less than seven months.
Mr Khanal, who represented the Unified Marxist Leninist party, resigned earlier this month, unable to forge a consensus.
One of the key sticking points in the peace plan has been the proposed integration of 19,000 former Maoist rebel fighters into the army, with military leaders and the Nepali Congress resisting the move.
The rebels, represented by Mr Bhattarai's party, fought a decade-long guerrilla campaign against the former monarchy until joining the United Nations-supervised peace process in 2006.
The monarchy was eventually removed from power in 2008 but more than 16,000 people had died in the civil war.
Confusions surrounding the new government are over but challenges remain, says the BBC's Surendra Phuyal, in Kathmandu.
In order to get the peace and constitution-making processes on track, Mr Bhattarai will need support from the opposition parties and his party hard-liners, our correspondent says. Otherwise, the peace process could drag on and on.
Mr Bhattarai, 57, faces the immediate challenge of agreeing the first draft of the new constitution before August 31, the expiry date of the constituent assembly.
There has been political deadlock on the issue since the parliament's election, with the Maoists as the largest party, in 2008.
However, Mr Bhattarai vowed to "prove nay-sayers wrong", reported AFP news agency.
"The country's future is very bright and we can accomplish the task of constitution-drafting and complete the peace process," the agency quoted him as saying.
The victim was found lying in parking bays at Rowan Street, Blackburn, at about 04:45 on new Year's Day.
He was taken by the Scottish Ambulance Service to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for treatment.
Police Scotland have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
Police named the bomber as 19-year-old Abdul Hamid Abu Srour, from near Bethlehem, who died on Wednesday of the injuries he sustained in the attack.
Hamas has said Abu Srour was a member but has not claimed responsibility.
A number of suspects from the Bethlehem area have been arrested in connection with the bombing, Israel says.
Correspondents say it was reminiscent of the suicide attacks by Palestinian militants in Jerusalem during the second intifada, or uprising, over a decade ago.
An Israeli hospital that treated casualties from the bombing said one of the two people who were admitted in a serious condition had died on Wednesday night.
Shaare Zedek Medical Center spokeswoman Shoham Ruvio said the man lost both legs in the explosion, and underwent multiple operations.
Soon afterwards, the Palestinian health ministry and Hamas identified him as Abu Srour, a resident of the Aida refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinians subsequently paid their condolences to members of his family in the camp, where posters put up by Hamas hailed him as a "martyr".
Hamas, which dominates the Gaza Strip and carried out a wave of deadly bus bombings in Jerusalem in the early 2000s, had earlier called Monday's blast "a natural reaction to Israeli crimes".
On Thursday, Israel's Shin Bet security agency said security forces had arrested several suspected accomplices of Abu Srour in the Bethlehem area and that they were being questioned.
Hours after the bombing, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu linked it to the wave of stabbing, shooting and car-ramming attacks by Palestinians and Israeli Arabs over the past six months that have left 29 Israelis dead.
About 200 Palestinians - mostly attackers, Israel says - have also been killed in that period.
The assailants who have been killed have been shot dead either by their victims or by security forces as they carried out attacks. Some attackers have been arrested.
Other Palestinians have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops.
Former Bournemouth, Crawley and AFC Wimbledon striker Tubbs, 32, featured on loan from Portsmouth for the Spitfires last season.
Tubbs scored three goals in eight games for Sutton after joining them from Forest Green Rovers in December.
Defender Reid, 35, left Eastleigh for Whitehawk in August 2016, but was released by the Sussex side.
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The frog has a dark camouflage pattern which allows it to blend in with the rocky soil on which it dwells.
Researchers with the Humboldt Institute found the frog, which they named Pristimantis macrummendozai, in the Iguaquen Merchan moorlands, in central Boyaca province.
Colombia is one of the world's most biologically diverse countries.
Researchers said that the species was well adapted to its moorland surroundings.
They said that female Pristimantis took advantage of the moist soil to lay their eggs in the ground.
According to their studies, the Pristimanti's preferred breeding environment was at high altitude, above 3,500m (11,500ft).
Environmentalists in Colombia have been fighting for the country's moorlands to be protected.
Last month, they celebrated when Colombia's constitutional court banned mining in the moorlands, arguing that it could cause irreversible damage to their fragile ecosystem.
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British record holder Muir, 23, looked to be in medal contention at the start of the final lap but dropped off the pace with about 200 metres remaining.
Kipyegon's time of four minutes 08.92 seconds meant she finished ahead of Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba (4:10.27) and American Jennifer Simpson (4:10.53).
GB's Laura Weightman finished in 11th.
"I went for the win," said Muir. "It's not every day you find yourself in an Olympic final. I was in great shape but the last 150 metres was not quite in me.
"I gave everything and I'm proud of how I ran."
The early stages proved to be a highly tactical affair, with many of the favourites sitting back, and Muir led after two laps.
"I expected it to be a slow start and then for Kipyegon and Dibaba to come round," added Muir. "I expected to have to react. I followed them round but I couldn't hold on."
Paula Radcliffe, women's marathon world record holder:
"These races can be difficult to navigate. Sometimes you can react sometimes you can't.
"Laura Muir just didn't quite have what she thought she had in that final lap."
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Steve Cram, BBC athletics commentator:
"Poor Laura Muir. She went with it but Kipyegon and Dibaba are so good. They make you go so hard.
"Muir's chance of a medal went with those two. She went for gold but gave up her chance of hanging around and picking up a medal.
"Sometimes if you go for gold you come away with nothing at all."
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Researchers found 75% of men would opt for the big screen version of a story, while 30% admitted they had not picked up a book since they were at school.
Being too busy, not enjoying reading or spending time online were all blamed for reading less.
Men also tended to be slower readers and less likely to finish books.
Of those questioned about their reading habits, 63% of men said they did not read as much as they thought they should, with 46% saying they now read fewer books now than they did in the past.
However, one in five men also confessed to pretending they had read a specific title, in order to appear more intelligent.
Researchers from OnePoll spoke to 2,000 British men and women ahead of World Book Night on 23 April, when volunteers gift hundreds of thousands of free books to "reluctant readers" in their communities.
"We know reading is really important, so we've got to get more people in general, particularly men, to pick up a book," said Sue Wilkinson, CEO of the Reading Agency, which commissioned the survey.
"It seems that men recognise the value of reading books but admit that they don't do it as much as they might for several reasons.
"TV shows and films, and the internet, are competing for people's time these days, especially that of young men, and our focus is to remind them of the pleasure that can be derived from reading a book as well," she said.
A third of men in the study said they preferred to spend their spare time using the internet, while 30% engaged more with film and TV.
Organisers said this year's World Book Night was focusing on targeting men to "show them what they are missing".
Wilkinson encouraged people to think of a man in their community who may benefit from being given a book, adding "reading really can change your life".
The 20 titles being distributed on World Book Night are as follows;
Exeter had the better chances in a poor first half, with Lee Holmes twice having curling shots saved by Morecambe goalkeeper Barry Roche.
Morecambe led late on when Kevin Ellison fired in past Bobby Olejnik from 10 yards.
With full-time approaching, Adam Dugdale handled in the box and Jayden Stockley sent Roche the wrong way from the spot to equalise for Exeter.
The robbers stopped the Glasgow to London mail train at Sears Crossing in Buckinghamshire on 8 August, 1963, and stole £2.6m in used banknotes.
The sign was given to Leslie Bowler, the Inspector of Signals for the then British Railways, and kept by his family, auctioneers Mullock's said.
They estimate the sign will fetch up to £10,000 when it is sold next Tuesday.
Mr Bowler was given the sign "shortly after the robbery" when the Sears Crossing signal box was decommissioned or refurbished, according to the auctioneers.
The gang of robbers stopped the train at Sears Crossing by tampering with the signals.
A glove was placed over the green light to hide it from the driver while the red light was connected to a small battery.
Blue Islands will remain Channel Islands-owned but operate Flybe-branded planes and sell seats through the Flybe website from June.
Rob Veron, Blue Islands' managing director, said the move "increased exposure to potential new visitors" to the islands.
He said it would also allow islanders to benefit from through connections.
From 16 March the two airlines will be the only ones offering flights between Guernsey and Jersey after the end of a code-share agreement between Blue Islands and Aurigny.
Saad Hammad, Flybe CEO, said: "This new partnership strengthens the proud and long-standing relationship Flybe has with the Channel Islands by providing local residents, and those wishing to visit, a broader range of flights and airport connections."
This is Flybe's third franchise agreement alongside deals with Loganair and Stobart Air.
Mr Veron said: "Blue Islands will still remain an independent locally-owned air operator, totally committed to the Channel Islands."
He said the advantages of the deal were increased marketing of services as well as the sharing of back office resources and off-island engineering support.
Blue Islands provides flights between the UK and the Channel Islands and has been operating since 2006.
The person they choose will make decisions about how the US is run and how it works with other countries.
The process to pick a new president is a long one starting in February before building up to election day in November 2016.
Here is Newsround's guide to who may be the next president of the United States.
Political Party
Democrat
Who is she?
Former US Secretary of State, who is the president's top adviser on how the US works with other countries.
She was the First Lady of the United States for eight years, while her husband, Bill Clinton, was the president from 1993 to 2001.
She's 68 and was born in Chicago, Illinois.
Family
Married to former US president Bill Clinton. They have one daughter, Chelsea, and one granddaughter, Charlotte.
Career highlights?
During her four years as Secretary of State, Mrs Clinton visited 112 countries - more than anyone else before her.
She used her position to highlight women's rights and human rights.
Low points?
She ran for president in 2008 but lost in her party's nomination race to Barack Obama.
While serving as Secretary of State, Clinton used a personal e-mail address to carry out work, which reportedly left sensitive information open to cyber attack.
What you might not know about her
Clinton was a Brownie and a Girl Scout during her childhood.
She also packs a small bottle of Tabasco hot sauce whenever she is travelling on the road.
Find out more about Hillary Clinton.
Political Party
Republican
Who is he?
One of America's most famous businessmen, who is worth more than £3 billion, according to Forbes magazine.
Trump also starred on the American reality shows 'The Apprentice' and 'Celebrity Apprentice'. He's 69 and was born in Queens, New York.
Family
He's married to Melania, his third wife, and they have a son called Barron. Trump also has four children from previous marriages called Donald Junior, Ivanka, Eric, and Tiffany.
Career highlight?
He leads a successful company that builds hotels, casinos and other property around the world.
Even though he has no previous political experience, Trump was the favourite to become the Republican party's pick for president after winning lots of support from voters.
Biggest blooper?
Trump has upset many people with his controversial ideas and views. He wants to ban Muslims from coming into the US.
He's also keen to build a wall between America and Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants.
What you might not know about him
Trump was a star baseball player at New York Military Academy when he was a teenager.
He has written 16 books to help people learn how to think like a billionaire.
Find out more about Donald Trump here.
Polish prosecutors are not appealing against a 30 October court ruling in Krakow, which rejected a US extradition request. In 1977 he was convicted in the US over sex with a girl aged 13.
Polanski can now start making a planned film in Poland, his legal team said.
The Oscar-winner now lives in France.
The 82-year-old won an Oscar in 2003 for his film The Pianist.
Polanski has French and Polish citizenship. He lives in France - which does not extradite its own citizens.
Polanski, who admitted unlawful sex with a minor - statutory rape - fled the US ahead of sentencing in 1978.
His Polish lawyers had argued against his extradition, citing claimed legal flaws in the US process and the 42 days Polanski served in prison at the time, according to the Associated Press news agency.
Polanski grew up in Poland and is regarded as one of the country's greatest living artists.
He wants to make a film about the 19th-Century Dreyfus Affair, a French scandal in which an army officer was wrongly convicted of treason. The affair exposed anti-Semitism in French society.
The crime victim, Samantha Geimer, has said she would prefer it if the US case against Polanski were dropped.
Louise Hunt said it related to an allegation that security services had some notice of the attack on 21 November 1974, which killed 21 people.
The senior coroner said she was not aware of the material appearing in the public domain before.
She concluded today's hearing saying a final decision will be made on 1 June.
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Ms Hunt said: "It's significant and does raise concerns in relation to potential advanced notice, that's as much as I can say."
The Birmingham and Solihull coroner has been hearing an application to resume inquests into the 21 deaths.
The bombings in Birmingham city centre also injured 182 people.
It is widely acknowledged the IRA orchestrated the attack.
Six men were jailed but released in 1991 after their convictions were overturned by the Court of Appeal.
A fast global response could ensure that it did not become "the next Aids," the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.
The presidents of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea appealed for more aid to help fight the disease.
The outbreak has killed more than 3,860 people, mainly in West Africa.
More than 200 health workers are among the victims.
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At the meeting in Washington, Dr Frieden described Ebola as one of the biggest crises he had seen in his career.
"I would say that in the 30 years I've been working in public health, the only thing like this has been Aids," he said.
The presidents of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea - the three countries worst affected by Ebola - appealed for more aid.
"Our people are dying," Sierra Leone's leader Ernest Bai Koroma said, adding that the world was not responding fast enough as children were being orphaned.
On Thursday, a Liberian doctor died of the disease at a treatment centre in Monrovia, health officials said.
Ugandan-born John Taban Dada had been working at the country's largest hospital, the John F Kennedy Memorial Center, his former colleagues said.
His death brings to four the number of doctors who have died in Liberia since the outbreak.
Meanwhile, Ms Romero is now being helped with her breathing in hospital in Spain, according to her brother. Two doctors who treated her have also been admitted for observation.
The EU has announced plans for a system to evacuate international staff from Ebola-infected countries if they show signs of the disease.
The evacuation system will allow patients to be flown within 48 hours to European hospitals "that are equipped to deal with the disease," a statement from the European commission said.
The move is expected to make it easier to deploy European medical workers to combat the crisis in West Africa.
Nigeria's government says 200 healthcare workers have volunteered to be sent to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea as part of a global response team on Ebola.
Nigeria, which has had seven confirmed deaths from the virus, seems to have successfully contained the spread of the haemorrhagic fever, the BBC's Chris Ewokor in Abuja says.
Surgical cap
Goggles
Medical mask
Scrubs
Overalls
Apron
Double gloves
Boots
Respirator
The cap forms part of a protective hood covering the head and neck. It offers medical workers an added layer of protection, ensuring that they cannot touch any part of their face whilst in the treatment centre.
Goggles, or eye visors, are used to provide cover to the eyes, protecting them from splashes. The goggles are sprayed with an anti-fogging solution before being worn. On October 21, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced stringent new guidelines for healthcare personnel who may be dealing with Ebola patients. In the new guidelines, health workers are advised to use a single use disposable full face shield as goggles may not provide complete skin coverage.
Covers the mouth to protect from sprays of blood or body fluids from patients. When wearing a respirator, the medical worker must tear this outer mask to allow the respirator through.
A respirator is worn to protect the wearer from a patient's coughs. According to guidelines from the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the respirator should be put on second, right after donning the overalls.
A surgical scrub suit, durable hospital clothing that absorbs liquid and is easily cleaned, is worn as a baselayer underneath the overalls. It is normally tucked into rubber boots to ensure no skin is exposed.
The overalls are placed on top of the scrubs. These suits are similar to hazardous material (hazmat) suits worn in toxic environments. The team member supervising the process should check that the equipment is not damaged.
A minimum two sets of gloves are required, covering the suit cuff. When putting on the gloves, care must be taken to ensure that no skin is exposed and that they are worn in such a way that any fluid on the sleeve will run off the suit and glove. Medical workers must change gloves between patients, performing thorough hand hygiene before donning a new pair. Heavy duty gloves are used whenever workers need to handle infectious waste.
A waterproof apron is placed on top of the overalls as a final layer of protective clothing.
Ebola health workers typically wear rubber boots, with the scrubs tucked into the footwear. If boots are unavailable, workers must wear closed, puncture and fluid-resistant shoes.
The Welshman has been replaced in the squad by 22-year-old Olympic debutant Jack Beaumont, who has flown to Rio.
Thomas, 27, has been suffering with a flu-like virus, which he is understood to have caught before his arrival in Brazil last weekend.
He has been withdrawn on medical advice with his event, the men's quadruple scull, due to start on Saturday.
It means the Welsh contingent at the Games is now down to 23 athletes across 11 sports.
Thomas said: "Seven years of dedication and it's all over before getting to take a stroke in anger.
"I don't agree with the decision, but I don't think anyone in my shoes would. As an athlete, you always back yourself.
"I wish my friends and crew all the best in their Olympic regatta. I still believe they can do it without me."
Thomas was a 2014 World and European Championships runner-up, while he was also a 2013 World Championships bronze medallist.
Englishman Beaumont will now follow in the footsteps of his father, Peter, who raced at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.
Sir David Tanner, team leader for rowing for Team GB, said: "Whilst we welcome Jack into the team and we know that he is a quality substitute with a proven medal record, it is nonetheless a decision that we have taken with a heavy heart because Graeme has worked so hard to be here and has been such a strong part of the crew."
A third consultation over the £10bn Wylfa Newydd project is taking place.
Up to 8,000 workers will build it, with 4,000 housed in a campus and the rest taking up 3% of local provision, developer Horizon Nuclear Power said.
Ahead of an event on Thursday, North Wales Tourism's Jim Jones warned against using holiday accommodation.
He said: "The Wylfa Newydd development is a huge investment into the economy of Anglesey and it has the potential to be a great catalyst project.
"But there is also a risk that, if thousands of workers are housed in holiday accommodation across the island, this could be a backward step for our tourism industry."
Horizon Nuclear Power hopes to submit a planning application, known as a development consent order, later this year.
When operational, Wylfa Newydd is expected to create 850 permanent jobs and should start generating power by 2025.
It is estimated the facility could be worth more than £20m a year in wages alone to the local economy throughout the 60-year life of the station.
It will have a capacity of at least 2,700 megawatts of electricity, enough power for about five million homes.
Spokesman Richard Foxhall said: "We are very aware of concerns in the accommodation sector and welcome further feedback on these during this period of consultation.
"However, we firmly believe that our refined proposals, which will see construction workers accommodated at one site rather than five, will be easier to manage and reduces possible impacts more widely across the island."
The company announced an accommodation strategy that involved housing up to 4,000 construction workers in a specially-built campus.
It hopes 2,000, a quarter of the total number, will be local residents commuting from home, while up to 3,000 will live in rental or tourist accommodation.
North Wales Tourism figures show the sector employs 4,000 people, generating £260m from the 1.5 million visitors each year.
Director Mr Jones wants Thursday's event to give businesses a chance to express concerns and agree a mandate about the project to express to the Welsh Government.
Victoria and Jonathan O'Brien got together after Victoria took a shine to the person behind the tweets for a Waterstones bookshop account and got in touch.
Mr O'Brien, the man behind the posts, had built up a following with his humorous tweets for the store.
His new bride says she was dared by a friend to get a date.
"It took a couple of months - Jonathan ignored my first tweet but the second had a typo and he picked up on that," she said.
Online interest built when, on Sunday evening, Victoria tweeted a photograph of her original 2012 message declaring her love for the @WstonesOxfordSt account manager, alongside a "just married" photo, and the famous line from Jane Eyre: "Dear reader, I married him".
The couple, from London, have since been contacted by people from all over the world. The new Ms O'Brien says the whole thing is "crazy" and "overwhelming".
And what does her husband have to say?
"The response to this has been astounding. Thanks, the internet.
"And Twitter, we guess".
Richard Dickenson, 45, of The Crescent, Tingley, started a fire which led to the blast at the bungalow on 28 May.
Dickenson escaped, but was taken to hospital suffering from burns and smoke inhalation. Six properties were evacuated but no-one else was injured.
He appeared at Leeds Crown Court by video link and will be sentenced on 30 July.
Defender Beevers slid in to convert Lee Martin's cross as Ian Holloway's side took an early lead.
The hosts added a second through Williams' second-half penalty after Lee Gregory was felled by Lewis Cook.
It meant a debut defeat for Hockaday, who was owner Massimo Cellino's surprise choice to take over at Leeds.
Hockaday arrived at Elland Road during a turbulent summer in which the Italian owner made sweeping changes in an effort to reduce the club's debts.
Last season's top scorer Ross McCormack, who scored 29 goals, was sold to Fulham for £11m, while 14 other first-team squad members were sold or released.
Hockaday was appointed as successor to Brian McDermott despite having no managerial experience in league football. Hockaday, 56, was in charge of Forest Green Rovers in the Football Conference from 2009 to 2013.
Leeds, who finished 15th last season, have recruited largely from clubs in Cellino's native Italy.
Marco Silvestri and Souleymane Doukara, signed from Chievo and Catinia, made their debuts along with striker Nicky Ajose, 22, who joined from Peterborough on August 5.
Leeds had won 11 of their previous 14 opening-day fixtures but they made a poor start to the 2014-15 campaign as Millwall, who finished 19th last season, took the lead in the eighth minute.
A short corner was worked back to Lee Martin and he crossed from the right to find Beevers sliding in to apply the finish.
Millwall looked more settled than their opponents in the early exchanges and Beevers twice went close to doubling the hosts' advantage with headers wide from Martyn Woolford corners.
Leeds lacked fluidity but came close to levelling within seconds of the restart when goalkeeper David Forde's fumble gave the ball to Ajose. He played a square pass to Noel Hunt but Alan Dunne cleared the ball away from the empty net.
At the other end, Woolford forced a good save from Silvestri before Nadjim Abdou sliced the rebound over.
Fuller headed wide after Martin's free-kick from the right and Millwall had appeals for a penalty turned down when Woolford went down in the penalty area under pressure from Murphy.
The hosts were awarded a spot-kick with two minutes remaining when Cook, 17, conceded possession before bringing down Gregory, allowing Williams to fire an accurate shot beyond Silvestri from 12 yards.
Millwall manager Ian Holloway:
"We had double their shots on target and we have done that to Leeds United and I am really pleased for my team.
"People win 6-0 and 8-0 on the opening day and go on to have bad seasons so I just want to be consistent for my lads, if I was allowed a bet I would, because our odds to get relegated are a disgrace.
"I just want people to show me and my team some respect. Van Gogh is a decent painter now isn't he? But when he was alive he was just a bloke with half an ear."
The charges have been brought by courts in New York and Miami, which accuse the gang of exporting more than 73 tonnes of cocaine into the US since 2002.
Most of the 17 people charged are still at large, including gang leader Dairo Antonio Usuga David, known as Otoniel.
The United States says it will try to secure the extradition of the alleged Clan Usuga members.
The announcement of the indictments was made by President Juan Manuel Santos in Bogota, at a joint media conference with American officials.
"We will continue to act strongly against these criminals who poison our youth, who sow violence, who promote corruption not only in Colombia but across the world," said Mr Santos.
The US has previously offered up to $5m (£3.4m) for information leading to Otoniel's arrest.
Otoniel has been in charge since his brother, Juan de Dios, was killed on 1 January 2012 when police raided his New Year's Eve party.
The gang is mainly engaged in drug trafficking, but it has also been accused of extortion, illegal mining, forced disappearances and murder, says the BBC's Natalio Cosoy in Bogota.
Colombian police estimate the gang has some 2,000 active members.
Over the past five years, the security forces have captured 6,700 members of the group.
"Your operatives will continue to be dismantled; they will be captured and your government, our ally in Colombia, will work with us to secure your extradition," said Wifredo Ferrer, US attorney for the Southern District of Florida at the presidential palace in Bogota.
Clan Usuga operates in several countries in the region. Members have been arrested as far away as Argentina, Brazil, Honduras, Peru and Spain.
Michael Coyle, whose address was given as care of The Simon Community in Ballymena, was sentenced on Tuesday.
He admitted pulling a knife from his pocket on Christmas day and shouting at a driver in Nippy Taxis office: "I will slash you" and "I will behead you".
The judge said Coyle had left the taxi driver and his family terrified.
Three weeks after Coyle threatened the driver, he asked the man to retract his statement to police.
He also threatened to wait for the taxi driver outside his place of work.
The judge said the courts had to protect taxi drivers who provided an important public service, particularly on Christmas Day.
The defendant pleaded guilty to three charges: threats to kill, possessing a knife with intent and intimidating a witness.
In a statement to parliament, she told MPs that media regulator Ofcom and competition regulator, the CMA, would be asked to investigate the deal.
21st Century Fox is offering £11.7bn for the 61% stake in Sky it does not already own.
The company said it was "confident" the takeover would be approved.
Critics of the merger, which gives 21st Century Fox access to Sky's 22 million customers in Europe, fear it will mean Rupert Murdoch has too much control of the UK media.
Ms Bradley had previously said that she was "minded" to call for an investigation.
Since then, she said she had listened to the cases from interested parties, but that they had not sufficiently dismissed her concerns. The two main questions surround whether the deal leaves sufficient "plurality of persons with control of the media enterprises serving audiences in the UK" and whether they had a "genuine commitment to attaining broadcasting standards objectives".
"While the representations from 21st Century Fox highlighted areas where it contested the position taken in my minded-to letter, none of the representations have led me to dismiss the concerns I have regarding the two public interest grounds I previously specified," she said.
"I am of the view that it remains both important, given the issues raised, and wholly appropriate for me to seek comprehensive advice from Ofcom on these public interest considerations and from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on jurisdiction issues."
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Labour MP David Winnick was among those to object to the deal. He said there was no "vendetta" against Mr Murdoch but that "it would be simply unacceptable that the amount of media ownership he already controls should be increased."
Part of Ofcom's investigation will include whether Sky's potential new owners are "fit and proper". Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch are both joint chairmen of 21st Century Fox and News Corp while James Murdoch is chief executive of Fox.
The CMA will provide advice on whether European regulators need to examine the deal.
The two bodies have until 16 May to prepare their reports.
Rupert Murdoch has tried before to take full control of Sky. In 2011 News Corp, which owns The Times and The Sun, made an offer but it was abandoned in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.
In 2013, Rupert Murdoch split the company into two. 21st Century Fox contained the TV and entertainment operations, while News Corp kept the newspaper and publishing businesses.
The latest bid is from 21st Century Fox, which said it was looking forward to working with the UK authorities on its review and that it was "confident" the deal would be approved.
"The media market has changed dramatically in recent years, as has our business. We believe our proposed £11.7bn investment will benefit the UK's creative industries," it said.
Most analysts believe the deal will go through - and the lack of movement in the share price suggests that investors agree.
One analyst told the BBC that the go-ahead would probably depend on how much "noise" there was surrounding the "fit and proper" test, adding that the left-wing press could well play a part in scuppering the deal.
The case for Rupert Murdoch's previous takeover bid for Sky was undermined by the revelation that the voicemail of the 13 year-old murdered Milly Dowler's had been hacked, by the News of the World, a Murdoch newspaper.
Questions may also be raised about the governance of Fox. Last year it apologised for a sexual harassment case brought by one of its former presenters, Gretchen Carlson.
St Mary Magdalene church is part of the Croome Court estate, near Pershore.
Jo Cross, from the Churches Conservation Trust said: "The six bells, originally cast in 1651 and 1652, form one of the oldest rings in the country."
Restoration work has been paid for by the Worcestershire and Districts Change Ringers Association.
In 2010 six second hand bells were donated to the church to replace the original ones.
The wheels that hold the bells were also due to be replaced, but the new wheels were too big to fit up the spiral staircase to the belfry.
Instead the old decaying wheels were mended in situ using parts of the newer, sounder wheels.
The bells will be rung to celebrate a raffle that has raised £85,000 towards the restoration of the stately home, which is now run by the National Trust.
The house, grounds and church were designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown.
The church has an interior designed by Robert Adam, and is now owned by the Churches Conservation Trust.
He is fighting extradition from the UK to Sweden over allegations, which he denies, of sexual offences against two women.
His lawyer said there was a "real risk" the US would then seek extradition over the leaking of the diplomatic cables.
The claim was made ahead of a full extradition hearing next month.
Mr Assange founded the whistle-blowing website which published thousands of US embassy cables and other confidential documents online, prompting the US to examine possible charges against him.
He appeared before District Judge Nicholas Evans for a 10-minute hearing on Tuesday at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court, sitting at Woolwich Crown Court.
The 39-year-old Australian spoke only to confirm his name, age and address, and his case was adjourned until 7 and 8 February for a full hearing.
The defence document, posted on the Finers Stephens Innocent website at the request of Mr Assange, suggested that extraditing him to Sweden could breach Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which bans torture.
"It is submitted that there is a real risk that, if extradited to Sweden, the US will seek his extradition and/or illegal rendition to the USA, where there will be a risk of him being detained at Guantanamo Bay or elsewhere, in conditions which would breach Article 3 of the ECHR," the document said.
By Anna AdamsBBC News
Hundreds of international journalists, barristers, Assange supporters and the plain nosy queued for over an hour get inside.
A makeshift media annexe housed the reporters who weren't lucky enough to get a court seat.
Hundreds more waited outside in the damp drizzle. Live tweeting and texting from mobile phones was allowed inside the court but we were warned that cameras were watching us and we'd be asked to leave if we did any more than that.
They needn't have worried because there was no mobile signal anyway.
Julian Assange barely spoke in court and the hearing lasted no more than 15 minutes.
The foreign press, disappointed at the speed of the British legal process, were desperate for something and cameo appearances from celebrity Assange backers Bianca Jagger and Jemima Khan were not enough.
In the end they had to make do with Mr Assange's promise outside court that Wikileaks' work will continue unabated.
The circus continues next month back in Woolwich Crown Court, south London.
"Indeed, if Mr Assange were rendered to the USA without assurances that the death penalty would not be carried out, there is a real risk that he could be made subject to the death penalty."
Outside court Mr Assange said: "We are happy with today's outcome."
He told a throng of journalists: "Our work with Wikileaks continues unabated. We are stepping up publishing for Cablegate and other materials. They will be shortly appearing with the help of our newspaper partners."
The bail conditions were varied to enable Mr Assange to stay at the Frontline Club, in Paddington, on 6 and 7 February.
Mr Assange has been staying at a manor home on the Norfolk-Suffolk border owned by the Frontline Club's owner, Vaughan Smith, but the court heard that it was difficult to reach court in time from that address.
Mr Assange was released on bail by a High Court judge just before Christmas after spending nine days in Wandsworth prison.
He denies sexually assaulting two female supporters during a visit to Stockholm in August.
His defence argument questioned whether the public prosecutor in Gothenburg was authorised to issue the European arrest warrant, as it says only the Swedish National Police Board can do so.
It described Mr Assange as a co-operative witness, saying he had already been questioned at length in Sweden. It also pointed out that he could have been questioned again in Britain, by phone or video link, without being extradited to Sweden.
The defence will also criticise the conduct of the investigation in Sweden, saying that "contrary to Swedish law" an acting prosecutor released Mr Assange's name to the press as the suspect in a rape inquiry.
After the Swedish authorities announced that Mr Assange had been cleared of rape by the Stockholm prosecutor, "a secret process" took place resulting in the rape allegation being revived by a new prosecutor.
This secret process was a "blatant breach" of Mr Assange's human rights, his lawyers will say.
They also accuse the Swedish authorities of leaking legal documents to the media.
The defence argument also says there had not been full disclosure about text messages sent from one of the women, in which she said she was "half asleep" at the time of sexual intercourse.
"In passing it should be noted that if the complainant's own evidence that she was 'half asleep' has been bolstered in the EAW [arrest warrant] into an allegation that she was fully asleep, in order to support the making of a rape allegation, then this would in itself constitute prosecutorial abuse," the defence argued.
Mr Assange and his supporters claim the inquiry is politically motivated.
In the past, newspaper editors acted as a check on printed criticism. Now it's down to opaque search engine rank calculations.
In the online age, do bloggers wield too much power? Or does the internet's promise of freedom of speech trump businesses' need for a way to prevent their profits being hit?
One Northern Irish shoe shop certainly feels that the former is the case.
The ordeal for the shop - Robinson's Shoes - started when Jesper Ingevaldsson wrote up his account of what he called the "worst online shopping experience" he had ever had two years ago.
In his post on a forum, Mr Ingevaldsson complained that the shoes he had bought had started to break apart. He said the store was slow to deal with his complaint and even tried to charge him the cost of returning them.
Both parties agree that the issue was eventually resolved, but the negative review, entitled Warning for Robinson's Shoes, remains second in Google's results for searches of the shop's name.
"It is detrimental to our business, about 85% of which is done online," claims Martin McKeown, the shop's digital marketing executive.
He admits that he has little proof of actual lost sales.
But, he adds, the store's data indicates that "people have clicked on our site, opened a new tab, read something else, then closed our site down", which he says suggests the review is putting potential customers off.
One online search expert acknowledges this is not an uncommon issue.
"There is the debate about whether someone might be able to punch above their weight and the argument is that one bad review shouldn't have to define your business," says Danny Sullivan, founder of the news site Search Engine Land.
The same, he points out, is true of social media, where a single customer with a large following can harm a business's reputation.
"But people expect there to be negative things about businesses online. They would almost be more suspicious if there was not," he adds.
The Northern Irish case bears similarities to that of the French blogger who was ordered to pay damages to a restaurant after she wrote a scathing review about it.
The problem in that case, the judge in Bordeaux found, was not that Caroline Doudet's blogpost was defamatory.
It was that its title - The Place to Avoid in Cap-Ferret: Il Giardino - appeared too prominently in Google's search results.
That effectively acted as a warning to potential customers without providing an explanation to those who did not click through to the full post, it was decided. Ms Doudet was ordered to pay damages and to amend the title.
But there is one major difference between the two cases: British judges do not have the power to order bloggers to amend their writing simply because their criticism is too effective.
In Germany and France, "you can get an injunction, which can be overturned later - we are very different", says Niri Shan, head of media law at Taylor Wessing.
So, what alternatives are there in the UK?
A defamation action is one option to tackle recent blogs - legal action must be pursued within one year of the post's publication in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and three years in Scotland.
Judges can order a guilty blogger's webpage to be deleted.
But a change to the law last year has made such a ruling harder to obtain in England and Wales.
To win, companies in those nations must now prove they suffered "serious" financial harm.
In addition, bloggers can resort to a new defence of "honest opinion", which allows them to use supporting facts they learned only after writing their article - something that wasn't possible before.
"We have a scenario in which it is questionable whether you would be found liable for giving an unfavourable review," comments Paul Tweed, a media lawyer.
Another option is to resort to the recently established "right to be forgotten" - the ability to force Google and other search engines to remove a link from their results in Europe.
But this can only be obtained if the blog names a specific individual who complains - not a company - and then only under certain conditions.
In fact, it might be more effective to bypass the courts and appeal instead to the blogger's good nature.
But even this tactic can throw up complications.
In the case of Robinson's Shoes, the store did eventually convince Mr Ingevaldsson of its case.
"I felt bad for them and didn't think that they needed to suffer for that bad treatment of one customer," he explains.
"But you can't remove old threads yourself on that forum, and I've tried to contact the forum crew a couple of times to have them remove it without any luck."
The store's Martin McKeown suggests such situations could be avoided if search engines were obliged to demote such links after six months.
But the problem with that, says Search Engine Land's Mr Sullivan, is that Google does not necessarily differentiate between each type of result.
What would happen, he asks, if the search engine failed to distinguish between a single negative review and a major journalistic expose?
Neither Google nor Microsoft's Bing were willing to discuss the technical or ethical implications of the matter with the BBC.
What can be in little doubt is that the immediate and global availability of a single scathing review, perhaps written in haste, can seriously harm a business in the age of search engines.
"The question is - do you apply a remedy that could potentially do harm?" asks Mr Sullivan.
The 51-year-old suffered fatal injuries when he fell in the area of the Chasms in Port St Mary in the south of the island on Saturday.
Police said they are carrying out inquiries with family members and will not be releasing any further details at this time.
His body was found after a joint search involving the Isle of Man's Police, Coastguard and RNLI.
Michael Foster wrote that Mr Corbyn and his team had "no respect for others and worse, no respect for the rule of law".
Labour said the suspension was for allegedly breaching election rules which ban "abuse of any kind".
Mr Foster said he had been highlighting Mr Corbyn's "leadership cadre" and did not use the word Nazi himself.
The article for the Mail on Sunday was headlined: "'Why I despise Jeremy Corbyn and his Nazi stormtroopers', by Jewish Labour donor".
It was published after the High Court ruled against Mr Foster's attempt to stop Labour from allowing Mr Corbyn to automatically stand for re-election as leader.
In the article he wrote: "To me, respect for the rule of law is fundamental to a democracy. Once political parties believe they are above the law it ends with all opposition silenced, whether it is my grandparents in Dachau, or the Left in Erdogan's Turkey rounded up and held uncharged in prison.
"The courts decided that the rules as they stand allowed it. This decision advantaged Corbyn and his Sturm Abteilung (stormtroopers)..."
But Mr Foster said the word "Nazi" was not included in his article and had been added to its headline by the Mail on Sunday.
He maintained his remarks clearly referred to Mr Corbyn's "leadership cadre", which could also be likened to the "Pretorian Guard or Revolutionary Guard or Red Guard - a group there to secure the leader and his political plans".
Labour said he was suspended on 7 September because he was alleged to have breached a rule governing the leadership election which bans "abuse of any kind by members or supporters".
In a letter signed by general secretary Iain McNicol, the party said the claim related to an article written by Mr Foster for the Mail on Sunday last month. It did not set out a timescale for its investigation but he cannot take part in the leadership vote until the issue is resolved.
Mr Foster, who has donated more than £400,000 to the party in the past two-and-a-half years, is a former showbusiness agent whose clients have included actor Sacha Baron Cohen and radio host Chris Evans.
He unsuccessfully stood in the 2015 general election for the seat of Camborne and Redruth.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has previously claimed Labour's HQ was undertaking a "rigged purge" of Mr Corbyn's supporters after the leader of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers' Union, Ronnie Draper, was suspended, reportedly over a "unidentified tweet" but "no action has been taken against Michael Foster".
They came to Londonderry to mark the sixth anniversary of the publication of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry report.
Thirteen people were shot dead on 30 January 1972 when British paratroopers opened fire at a civil rights march.
Hillsborough campaigner Margaret Aspinall said the families "must carry on" the pursuit for truth and justice.
The Bloody Sunday inquiry, led by Lord Saville, took 12 years to complete and exonerated those who died.
Following the findings of the report Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "deeply sorry".
In April, a jury found that the 96 football fans who died in the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster were unlawfully killed.
Margaret Aspinall's 18-year-old son James died at the FA Cup semi-final.
She said families of victims of the Troubles should never give up the pursuit of justice.
"They must carry on, I'm a great believer that everybody, no matter who they are, deserves the truth.
"Stay strong and keep the hope going like the families of Hillsborough had to, that's what kept us going, the hope that one day we would get it.
"With other people, the Bloody Sunday families, we are united in truth and justice. It is very, very important to stick together and show your support to each other."
Margaret Aspinall, Sue Roberts and Jenni Hicks have campaigned for 27 years to uncover the truth of the 1989 stadium disaster.
In conversation with Paul O'Connor, director of the Pat Finucane Centre, they also met with some family members of the Loughinisland massacre and Michael Gallagher of the Omagh Bomb Families.
Last week, a report by Northern Ireland's Police Ombudsman showed there was collusion between some police officers and loyalist gunmen who killed six Catholics 22 years ago.
Reflecting on the Hillsborough inquest verdict, Mrs Aspinall said it left a legacy for others to follow.
"We hope what we've got from this, by fighting the system for all these years, is that it gives other people hope.
"What comes after truth? Justice. The only way you can get justice is accountability.
"So somebody has got to be held to account for 96 innocent deaths and for all the fans and survivors still suffering to this day," she said.
Joe McCloskey died in a blaze at the Gorteen Hotel in Limavady on Halloween night 2003.
The 50-year-old died in a storeroom at the hotel, after the roof he was working on collapsed, dropping him into the flames below.
He suffered burns to 95% of his body.
Mr McCloskey's son Sean said his father and other firefighters should never have been put on the roof.
The Northern Ireland Fire Service did conduct an investigation after the death of the father of five.
However, it failed to establish who gave the order to Mr McCloskey to go onto the roof and nobody was ever disciplined.
"There were other methods of ventilating that fire which should have been seen by senior officers in charge," Sean McCloskey said.
"All the people had been evacuated out of the hotel and there was no immediate risk to life, therefore the men should not have been committed to the situation."
The damages were awarded after the family took a civil action against the Fire Service.
Cairney joins the League One side after leaving Kilmarnock while Keenan, 21, made six appearances for Partick Thistle last season.
"They are two great additions to the club," manager Brian Reid told Stranraer's official website.
"Getting someone like Paul with his wealth of experience is quite a coup."
Former Partick Thistle and Hibernian player Cairney, 27, played 16 times for Killie last season despite some injury problems.
Stranraer missed out on promotion to the Championship at the end of the 2014-15 campaign after losing to Forfar in the play-offs.
They say a court in the US state of Georgia ordered a medical examiner to seal the results.
Bobbi Kristina, 22, died at a hospice on 26 July, six months after she was found unresponsive in a bath in her Atlanta flat.
Houston drowned in a bath in 2012.
She died at a Los Angeles hotel on the eve of the Grammy Awards ceremony.
In a statement, the Fulton county medical examiner said Bobbi Kristina's post-mortem results would not be publicly released on the order of the Fulton county superior court.
"The Fulton County medical examiner has classified the cause and manner of Bobbi Kristina Brown's death," it said.
Bobbi Kristina was the only child of singer Whitney Houston and her father was R&B singer Bobby Brown.
She was buried in August at the Fairview cemetery in Westfield, New Jersey, next to her mother.
Bobbi Kristina Brown began performing with her mother in 1999, singing duets of My Love is Your Love and recording Little Drummer Boy for a holiday album in 2003.
The Ryedale Grand Prix will see riders battle it out later across 93 miles (150km) of tough terrain around Ampleforth Abbey.
The circuit is in its 10th year and is the sixth round of eight races taking place all over the UK.
Spectators are invited to watch from the grounds of the Grade II-listed Benedictine monastery.
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Dr Santi Vathenen was a consultant chest physician for more than 20 years at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch until he resigned in 2015.
He said he would rather see the hospital close than see specialist and emergency services stripped away.
The clinical groups behind the plans said they would "listen to concerns".
Dr Vathenen wrote his letter in response to an invitation for feedback on the proposals - part of a consultation called The Future of Acute Hospital Services in Worcestershire.
The consultation document proposes a shake-up of health services across Worcestershire, with areas like obstetrics, gynaecology, paediatrics and acute surgery transferring from Redditch to Worcester as part of plans to save £5m. The Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust currently has a financial deficit.
"The main concern I have is that moving the specialities proposed from Redditch to Worcester will leave the remaining substantial part of acute medicine and the emergency department less safe for patients," Dr Vathenen said.
He said that stroke services had already been centralised in Worcester, and claimed that had led to a "deteriorating" service.
"The transfer of a vital acute service from Redditch to Worcester has not produce the benefits that were promised and in fact has ended up destroying existing good services on both sites," he said.
"There is no evidence that moving services from Redditch to Worcester will save any money; in fact the experience with stroke services suggest this will actually cost more."
A spokesperson for the three Worcestershire clinical commissioning groups behind the plan said the consultation is due to close on March 30.
"We will consider all the responses before any final decision is made," he said.
Andrew Brown, 23, and Dean Melnyk, 20, deny murdering Kevin MacKay by punching, kicking and knifing him at Peacock Place in Ecclefechan.
It is also alleged that they tried to set fire to items of furniture in an attempt to burn Mr MacKay's body.
Co-accused Jennifer Melnyk, 60, also denied a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
She is alleged to have burned bloodstained clothing and instructed two people to provide false information to the police.
Advocate depute Shanti Maguire, prosecuting, showed the jury at the High Court in Glasgow photographs taken by scenes of crime examiner Nicola Brunt.
Ms Maguire warned the jury beforehand that the photographs might be disturbing.
One of the images showed the bloodstained living room of 3 Peacock Place, Ecclefechan, with Mr MacKay's body lying on the floor.
He was covered in blood and there was blood on the sofa and doors and walls.
Mr MacKay's ex-wife Melissa, 36, who had two children with him, told the court that he was a drug dealer and revealed that their marriage ended for that reason.
She said they broke up in 2008 and at the time of his death he was staying at a friend's home in Peacock Place.
Ms MacKay told defence QC Ronnie Watson, representing Mr Brown, that her ex-husband was involved with drugs.
She added that he was selling cannabis, cocaine and sometimes ecstasy to friends.
When questioned she also confirmed that she had known Mr MacKay was a drug dealer during their marriage.
Ms MacKay was then asked if she knew of 19-year-old Jamie Abba who died after taking fake ecstasy tablets in the summer of 2013 and she said she did.
She denied ever telling the police that Mr MacKay had sold Mr Abba - nicknamed Jabba - the drug.
However, she said she knew of rumours that had swept through the south of Scotland village alleging that he had.
The trial before Lord Armstrong continues.
The comment, made by Sheikh Saleh al-Lohaidan, came as activists step up their campaign for women in Saudi Arabia to be allowed to drive.
Women are being called upon to defy the ban and drive on 26 October.
The campaign, started on Twitter, has attracted more than 11,000 signatures.
It is the latest in a series of campaigns over the past two decades for women to be allowed to sit behind the wheel.
By Sebastian UsherBBC News
Saudi women seek right to drive
The ban on women drivers, while informal, is enforced by Saudi police through fines and arrests. Only men are permitted to acquire driving licences.
"If a woman drives a car, not out of pure necessity, that could have negative physiological impacts as functional and physiological medical studies show that it automatically affects the ovaries and pushes the pelvis upwards," Sheikh Lohaidan told the news website Sabq.org.
"That is why we find those who regularly drive have children with clinical problems of varying degrees."
Sheikh Lohaidan is reported to be opposed to reform more generally and granting women more rights in the kingdom.
Opponents of giving women the right to drive in Saudi Arabia say it offends the country's traditional code.
But those behind the campaign for the ban to be lifted point to inconsistencies, such as the need for women to employ a male driver who is not a family member.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said policymakers plan to continue to raise interest rates to reach a neutral policy stance.
But she said there was not much further to go before reaching that point.
The testimony boosted the Dow Jones by 0.6% to 21,532.14 - a record.
The S&P 500 climbed 0.7% to 2,443.25, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq jumped 1.1% to 6,261.2.
The gains came across all sectors, led by technology.
Online payment company Paypal was among the winners, rising more than 3%, after it announced customers would be able to use PayPal on Apple products.
Banks, which benefit from higher interest rates and are scheduled to report quarterly earnings on Friday, fared less well.
Bank of America shares fell about 1%, while Citigroup edged up 0.2%
In a letter obtained by the BBC, Houthi representatives pledge to adhere to a seven-point peace plan brokered by the UN during talks in Muscat, Oman.
The letter follows a verbal commitment to the resolutions issued last month.
The UN estimates nearly 4,900 people, including 2,355 civilians, have been killed in the conflict in Yemen.
Addressed to Ban Ki Moon, the letter commits to the seven Muscat principles, which include a ceasefire, the removal of armed militias from the cities and the return of the government to the capital, Sanaa.
Yemen's President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has insisted Houthi fighters pull back from territory seized over the past year before an agreement can be reached.
In the letter, the Houthi representatives, known officially as Ansar Allah, call the peace plan an "important and fundamental ... step towards the resumption of the political process".
"We, from our side along with other parties, commit to these seven points as one unified bundle," it says, adding: "We welcome the UN call for all sides to return to the table of dialogue."
The letter criticises the government, alleging it has "not shown any positive reciprocity" with the UN peace process.
There are many reasons to be sceptical of any moves, by any side, in Yemen's tortuous conflict. But this written commitment by the Houthis could be a significant step.
Yemen's embattled negotiating process, which draws in the UN, EU, as well as Western and regional players, is a new challenge for what was a movement rooted in the tribes of northern Yemen.
One source told me this letter addressed to the UN secretary general was "a signal to the rest of the world". Even the decision to send a copy to the BBC represents rare outreach to a Western audience.
The real test now is to implement the Muscat plan: which armed groups will withdraw from the cities, which government members will return? But if, at the very least, a ceasefire is reached that will be a major step for Yemenis enduring what the UN calls "terrifying violence and extreme hunger".
The conflict, and peace process, is complicated by the involvement of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which are fighting alongside government forces.
Separately on Tuesday, attacks in Aden on a hotel used by Yemen's prime minister and two military installations killed 15 Saudi-led coalition troops and pro-government fighters, Emirati state media say.
80% of the population need aid
13m people face food shortages
1.4m forced from their homes
2,000 civilians killed
Explosions rocked the Qasr hotel, the headquarters of the UAE's forces in the city and a camp early on Tuesday. Prime Minister Khaled Bahah and members of his government escaped unharmed.
The UAE blamed rocket-fire from Houthi rebels, but Islamic State (IS) said suicide bombers were responsible.
Jihadist militants have reportedly been seen on the streets of Aden since southern militiamen backed by coalition forces drove the Houthis out of the city in July.
As well as those killed, nearly 1.5 million people have been displaced by the conflict, according to UN estimates, with about 13 million people facing food shortages and 80% of the population need some form of aid.
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The 26-year-old's loan spell at Adams Park from Millwall expired on Tuesday, but after his contract was cancelled by the League One club, he has returned to the Chairboys on a full-time deal.
He initially joined Wycombe in 2013 and was sold to Millwall in 2015, before returning for two separate loan spells.
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The incident took place at about 08:10 close to the Tod Head Lighthouse, near Catterline.
Lifeboats and coastguard rescue teams from Montrose and Stonehaven were called to the scene of the incident.
The fishing boat was towed away from the rocks and later taken to Stonehaven harbour.
Researchers in Austria say dogs can mirror the anxiety and negativity of owners.
And dogs that are relaxed and friendly can pass this on to humans, perhaps helping their owners cope with stress.
More than 100 dogs and their owners underwent various tests, including measurement of heart rate and their response to threat.
Saliva samples were also taken to measure cortisol levels, a marker for stress.
The owners were then assessed for the big five hallmarks of personality: neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness.
The personality of dogs was also assessed with a questionnaire.
Dr Iris Schoberl, of the University of Vienna, said both owners and dogs influenced each other's coping mechanisms, with the human partner being more influential than the dog.
"Our results nicely fit to experience from practice: owners and dogs are social dyads [a group of two], and they influence each other's stress coping," she told BBC News.
She said dogs are sensitive to their owners' emotional states and may mirror their emotions.
Dogs have lived alongside humans for more than 30,000 years.
Evidence shows they can pick up emotional information from people and adjust their behaviour accordingly.
The research is published in the journal, PLOS ONE.
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Yemen is back to square one.
The collapse of the government of Yemeni President Abdo Rabbu Mansour Hadi is bad news on several levels.
The headlines in western media have focused on what this means for the threat posed by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) or for Iran's ambitions in the Middle East.
These are important questions.
Certainly given the identification of the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, there is a justifiable concern that AQAP will take advantage of potential chaos.
While the Houthis have been battling the government for several months, they have also been fighting al-Qaeda. It is perhaps its only overlapping interest with the West.
The Houthis are not enamoured with the US policy in Yemen, nor drones. But even the Houthis seem to recognise the potential value of Monday's drone strike that allegedly killed three al-Qaeda operatives.
But being the enemy of an enemy only goes so far.
The relative ease with which the Houthis gained strength in recent months, took over de facto control of the capital and became the country's new kingmaker is remarkable and undoubtedly disconcerting to Yemen's primary backers, the United States and Saudi Arabia.
The United States has been training Yemeni forces under a counterterrorism effort US President Barack Obama termed a "model" several months ago. While that may be true, the model is clearly a work in progress.
The Saudis have poured billions into Yemen to try to ensure the political primacy of the Sunni majority over the Shia minority. The Houthis are a Shia Zaidi sect.
The Houthis apparently received support from Iran. Their dramatic rise does suggest that no strategy in Yemen is likely to succeed without taking Iran into account.
The Obama administration has been careful to avoid mixing other pressing issues with the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran, but it needs to find out what the Houthis and the Iranians want in Yemen and what they can live with.
A more fundamental question is: Can Yemen, arguably the region's weakest country, even survive this latest crisis intact?
This is not a given.
Not so long ago Yemen was two countries - North and South. It only unified in 1990 after a process that took two decades. Like everything else in Yemen, the bond is fragile.
The proximate cause of the Houthi confrontation with the Hadi government was a failure to implement an acceptable power-sharing agreement based on a shared future vision for Yemen.
The government was considering constitutional changes that would have established a new federal system in Yemen. Hadi favoured the creation of six federal regions and the Houthis just two. At stake is the question of how to divvy up income from Yemen's energy sector.
The Houthis participated in both the 2011 revolution that upended the government of Ali Abdullah Saleh - who is nonetheless now backing them - and the National Dialogue Conference that followed. Intriguingly, the Houthis appear to want to be part of the solution, but don't necessarily see themselves as the solution.
Since none of the key players in Yemen want to see the country divide and open the door for another mini-caliphate, the potential exists for an inclusive political process that leads to an interim government, constitutional changes and new elections.
Parliamentary elections last occurred in 2003 and presidential elections are overdue.
Even these basic steps will be a heavy lift. Yemen will need help pulling it off.
Mr Obama's brief stopover in Saudi Arabia en route home from India, leading a high-powered bipartisan delegation to pay respects to the Saudi royal family following the death of King Abdullah, was an important gesture and provided a valuable opportunity to discuss Yemen with the new monarch, King Salman.
In turn, the United States needs to broaden its counterterrorism approach in Yemen.
The Obama administration has become far too tactical. Drones have a role to play, but the secret to success in Yemen is ultimately better governance and economic growth.
Just as the crisis in Syria was less about democracy but the price of grain, so too cuts in fuel subsidies in Yemen contributed to the current unrest.
Most American aid to Yemen is military. Whacking bad guys is important, but what Yemen desperately needs is more economic assistance.
Its economy is stagnant; it imports 90% of its food, and is running out of water.
What Yemen needs is a long-term commitment from the United States and the international community.
If there is one thing we now understand about the transformation under way in the Middle East, helping a country like Yemen save it from itself will take not years, but decades.
P.J. Crowley is a former Assistant Secretary of State and now a professor of practice and fellow at The George Washington University Institute for Public Diplomacy & Global Communication.
President Barack Obama's decision came after the White House said it had clear evidence of government forces carrying out small-scale chemical attacks.
Rebel commander Gen Salim Idris told the BBC it was a "very important step".
But Syria's foreign ministry said the US had used "fabricated information" on chemical weapons to justify the move.
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Washington was resorting to "cheap tactics" to justify Mr Obama's decision to arm the rebels, a statement from the ministry added.
On the ground, there were reports of the fiercest fighting in months in Aleppo. Earlier this week, Syrian media said President Bashar al-Assad's government was planning a major military offensive on the northern city.
Two years of conflict had killed at least 93,000 people, the UN said on Thursday, at a current rate of 5,000 people a month. More than 1,700 children under the age of 10 were among the dead.
Mr Obama's Deputy National Security Adviser, Ben Rhodes, said the president had made the decision to increase assistance, including "military support", to the rebels' Supreme Military Council (SMC), which includes the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces.
The US was "comfortable" working with Gen Idris, the head of the SMC, and aimed to isolate some of the more extremist elements of the opposition, such as Sunni militant group al-Nusra, he added.
Mr Rhodes did not give details about the military aid, other than to say it would be "different in scope and scale to what we have provided before".
By Jonathan MarcusBBC diplomatic correspondent
Initially US support looks likely to involve the supply of light arms and ammunition. Mr Rhodes says that the President has not made any decision to pursue a military option, like a no-fly zone, and he has ruled out the deployment of US ground troops. Requests from the opposition for anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons are, we understand, still a matter of discussion.
Thus the US response to President Assad's apparent crossing of a "red line" seems tentative at best. As ever it raises more questions than answers.
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Until now, the US has limited its help to rebel forces by providing rations and medical supplies.
Administration officials have been quoted by US media as saying it is most likely to include sending small arms and ammunition. The New York Times quoted officials as saying Washington could provide anti-tank weapons.
The CIA is expected to co-ordinate delivery of the military equipment and train the rebel soldiers in how to use it. It is already believed to have co-ordinated covert shipments of weapons to the rebels by US allies in the region, and helped decide which groups would receive the arms.
Republican Senator John McCain, who has been outspoken in calls for arming the rebels, said he did not know to which type of arms the term "military aid" referred, but that he hoped for anti-tank weapons.
He said his greatest concern was the conflict "spiralling out of control because of a failure of American leadership".
Republican Congressman Tom Rooney, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told the BBC that he feared Washington was succumbing to dangerous "mission creep" over Syria.
"Are we going to war with Assad in a more affirmative way, or are we just helping who we believe the rebels are to the extent that we have no control whatsoever on the outcome?" he asked.
In a BBC interview on Friday, Gen Idris said new weapons would help the rebels defeat the Assad regime and defend civilians.
State-controlled Channel One:
"One cannot but notice the unusual, not to say strange, format of the statement. First, it was a telephone conference. Second, Mr [Ben] Rhodes is a deputy national security adviser for strategic communications for the US president; he is of course across the subject, but his rank is rather low for such strong statements."
Rossiya 1 TV:
"One is instantly reminded of the well-known story with the vial with crushed chalk that Colin Powell presented as evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq. It is also interesting that the White House's statement came after Syrian rebels began suffering one defeat after another."
Steve Rosenberg: Moscow's suspicions
"We are in most need for anti-tank missiles and anti-aircraft missiles and in addition to all of that we need a huge amount of weapons and ammunition to stop the offensive of the regime," he added.
Prime Minister David Cameron said he shared the US view that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons, but that the UK had not yet decided whether to arm the rebels.
He told the BBC that engaging with "moderate" rebel groups - by working with them and providing training as well as technical assistance - helped limit the influence of more extremist fighters.
Mr Cameron later discussed the situation in Syria in an hour-long video conference with Mr Obama, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta.
The US intelligence community believed Syrian government forces had used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale against the opposition on several occasions in the past year, said Mr Rhodes, adding that he estimated as many as 150 people had died in the attacks.
Washington's "clear" statement was welcomed by Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who urged Syria to let the UN "investigate all reports of chemical weapons use".
The US announcement is one the Syrian opposition has been pushing and praying for for months, says the BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut.
By Mark MardellNorth America editor
It seems clear Mr Obama has finally been persuaded, as Britain and France have argued, that the battlefield cannot be allowed to tilt strongly in the regime's favour, as is currently happening, our correspondent adds.
Moscow said Washington's supposed evidence of chemical weapons use in Syria did "not look convincing".
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's spokesman told the BBC he remained against "any further militarisation" of the conflict in Syria, saying the people there needed peace, not more weapons.
The support of the West's regional allies, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, had helped the rebels in the days after the uprising became militarised.
But the tide turned after the Syrian government turned to Moscow and Tehran for help. Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon have also been involved in a recent government's counter-offensive that resulted in the recapture of the strategically important town of Qusair.
On Friday evening, Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah promised the group would keep fighting in Syria "wherever needed".
Meanwhile, Turkey's state-run news agency reported that 73 Syrian military officers, including seven generals, had crossed into the country with their families "seeking refuge".
The USNS Invincible changed direction when the other vessels came within 600 yards (550m) before stopping.
Three British Royal Navy vessels, accompanying the American ship at the time, were also forced to move.
A US official told reporters the Iranian vessel had tried to position itself between them.
The Iranian ships are believed to belong to the Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a navy official told the Associated Press news agency that such incidents had been happening on a regular basis.
The navy considers them "unprofessional and dangerous", and had fired warning shots in previous incidents, he added.
The Invincible, a tracking ship, is fitted with considerable radar equipment and other scientific instruments.
Such ships are usually deployed to monitor missile launches and provide important data back to the command centre. For friendly launches, such data helps with accuracy and future weapon design.
But the system can also be used to track foreign missile launches and tests.
In February, Iran once again tested a medium-range ballistic missile, in apparent violation of a United Nations Security Council resolution.
That test led to sanctions from the United States and a strongly-worded warning from President Donald Trump.
"Iran is playing with fire - they don't appreciate how 'kind' President Obama was to them. Not me!" he tweeted.
The swift sanctions were widely seen as a warning to Iran that the new administration would not accept any further missile tests.
Letitia Fitzpatrick said she was a victim of the TV star's abusive behaviour in 1991, in west Belfast.
Ms Fitzpatrick was not one of the victims connected to 84-year-old Harris' criminal trial.
However, she gave the court a statement about an incident involving Harris.
Harris was found guilty of 12 attacks on four girls between 1968 and 1986.
Ms Fitzpatrick said she interviewed Harris in June 1991. He had been taking part in an art class with local children in a leisure centre.
She was there in her role as a reporter for BBC NI.
The alleged assault happened as she was chatting off-camera to the veteran entertainer.
She said: "As I said goodbye, he grabbed my face in his hands and he pulled my face towards him and he forced his tongue into my mouth.
"I was really shocked. He pulled away, walked away, and it all happened in a matter of seconds. I was too shocked to speak.
"There was no flirtatious talk from him. I had talked about my children and asked him if he had a family.
"We had just been talking pleasantly and as soon as he had done that, he just walked away and turned his back on me.
"I didn't mention it to the cameraman, and I didn't mention it to anybody in the BBC at the time."
Ms Fitzpatrick said she unaware, at that time, that she had been the victim of a crime.
"I thought he was perverted, that it was disgusting. But I didn't think of it in terms of a criminal, sexual assault.
"That might seem naive but I just thought it was something horrible, like the sort of thing that does happen to women occasionally but not something you would bring to court," she added.
"I did tell my husband and I told my sister but I didn't tell anyone in the BBC because I didn't feel it was anything to do with them.
"It was such an unpleasant experience that I just wanted to forget about it and move on and not really think about it again."
After Harris was charged, Ms Fitzpatrick decided to make a statement about the incident following the trial of broadcaster Stuart Hall, who pleaded guilty to 13 counts of indecent assault in 2013.
She said: "When he pleaded guilty, the police said, at the time, that there were so many strikingly similar accounts of predatory, opportunistic behaviour by witnesses all over the country, who couldn't possibly have met each other, that they had built up a case against him (Hall).
"I went on the web to see if what happened to me was an actual assault and it is.
"So in order to help anybody who might be bringing charges against Rolf Harris, I felt I should make a statement."
Harris is due to be sentenced on Friday. The judge at Southwark Crown Court, in London, said a custodial term was "uppermost in the court's mind".
The Gunners' hopes of reaching the knockout phase were in serious jeopardy after they lost their opening two games away to Dinamo Zagreb and at home to Olympiakos.
Arsene Wenger's side responded by beating Pep Guardiola's Bayern - clear favourites to win Group F - and make a nonsense of those dismal earlier performances.
Bayern dominated possession but Arsenal dug out the win that keeps their hopes alive when substitute Olivier Giroud bundled home from close range in the 77th minute after goalkeeper Manuel Neuer made a rare error as he missed Santi Cazorla's free-kick.
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The win was secured in the dying seconds when Mesut Ozil turned in Hector Bellerin's cross, Neuer clawing the ball out only for the officials to adjudge it had crossed the line.
Arsenal were indebted to keeper Petr Cech, restored after replacement David Ospina's mistake in the defeat by Olympiakos, saving superbly from Thiago Alcantara and Arturo Vidal.
Neuer also excelled before his mistake, particularly with a sensational save from Theo Walcott's first-half header.
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Neuer is widely regarded as the world's best - but it was a mixed night for Germany's World Cup winner.
He produced a save only the greats can contemplate when clawing out Walcott's close-range header when a goal seemed certain.
Could Walcott's header have been directed better? Did he give Neuer just that slight chance of making a save that the best will always take advantage of?
Yes, but it was still a monument to reflexes, agility and technique as Neuer left Walcott dumbfounded, as well as Aaron Ramsey, who had already turned to celebrate.
Neuer, however, proved he was fallible as Arsenal took the lead, making an ungainly dash from goal and flapping hopelessly at Cazorla's free-kick to allow Giroud to scramble home with a hint of handball.
It happens to the best - and it may just have saved Arsenal's Champions League campaign.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was uncharacteristically touchy when it was suggested he made a mistake in preferring David Ospina to first choice Petr Cech in their previous Champions League game at home to Olympiakos.
It backfired as Ospina dropped a simple catch from a corner into his own net in the damaging 3-2 defeat.
Wenger was defiant in the face of claims he had made a serious error but the case against him only got stronger with 33-year-old Cech's return and performance against Bayern Munich.
Cech was in the action quickly with a superb reflex save from Thiago and also showed his enduring athleticism to save from Vidal.
This is not to suggest Ospina is a poor keeper - the Colombian is not - but when you have a keeper of Cech's quality at your disposal it is folly to leave him out of a game you cannot afford to lose.
Wenger did make a mistake when he dropped Cech. This game proved it.
Arsenal's Champions League aspirations were wrecked last season by a performance of naivety and defensive incompetence in equal measure against Monaco in February when they lost 3-1 at home as they went out in the last 16.
The performance in defeat against Olympiakos was not far behind and left Arsenal fans infuriated.
Before that fixture, Wenger had said Arsenal "must win" all their home games but, after twice falling behind, they threw away the chance of a point when they conceded what proved the winner almost immediately after Alexis Sanchez's equaliser.
How can a team that play so poorly against those opponents acquit themselves so well against Bayern Munich, accepted as a member of European football's royalty under the guidance of one of the game's great coaches in Pep Guardiola?
Guardiola is used to enjoying possession without victory at Emirates. When Barcelona lost a two-goal lead to draw here in April 2010, Arsenal only had 38% of possession - in the first half here Bayern enjoyed a 74.5% share.
And yet, once more, Arsenal dug in. They were defensively resilient, dogged in midfield and, even though the two goals were scrambled, they may well prove to be priceless.
The Gunners remain bottom of the table, but are level on three points with Dinamo Zagreb and three behind both Olympiakos and Bayern Munich.
Wenger's side face Bayern at the Allianz Arena on 4 November, before hosting Dinamo later that month.
They finish their group stage campaign at Olympiakos on 9 December.
The top two in each group progress to the knockout stage, with the team finishing third going into the Europa League.
John Hartson on BBC Radio 5 live: "This was a massive result. Arsenal needed a result and three points.
"They are firmly back in the group and it keeps the momentum going.
"They had to defend for their lives but what a win for Arsenal."
Match ends, Arsenal 2, FC Bayern München 0.
Second Half ends, Arsenal 2, FC Bayern München 0.
Goal! Arsenal 2, FC Bayern München 0. Mesut Özil (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Héctor Bellerín.
Foul by Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München).
Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Thiago Alcántara (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by David Alaba.
Offside, Arsenal. Mesut Özil tries a through ball, but Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. David Alaba (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Petr Cech.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Nacho Monreal.
Douglas Costa (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Nacho Monreal (Arsenal).
Attempt blocked. Douglas Costa (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Juan Bernat with a cross.
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Manuel Neuer (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Olivier Giroud (Arsenal).
Attempt saved. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Mesut Özil with a cross.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by David Alaba.
Substitution, Arsenal. Kieran Gibbs replaces Alexis Sánchez.
Hand ball by Olivier Giroud (Arsenal).
Goal! Arsenal 1, FC Bayern München 0. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Santiago Cazorla with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München).
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Rafinha.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Petr Cech.
Attempt saved. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Douglas Costa.
Substitution, Arsenal. Olivier Giroud replaces Theo Walcott.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Thiago Alcántara.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Rafinha replaces Arturo Vidal.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Joshua Kimmich replaces Xabi Alonso.
Attempt saved. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mesut Özil with a cross.
Foul by Xabi Alonso (FC Bayern München).
Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Xabi Alonso (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Thiago Alcántara.
Attempt missed. Francis Coquelin (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Mesut Özil.
Foul by Xabi Alonso (FC Bayern München).
Santiago Cazorla (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Arsenal. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain replaces Aaron Ramsey because of an injury.
At the heart of the case is whether the EU's laws on claiming asylum, known as the Dublin regulation, applied during those exceptional circumstances.
Refugees typically have to seek asylum in the first EU state they reach.
The EU's top court will decide whether Austria and Slovenia were wrong to send asylum seekers back to Croatia.
The case could have wider repercussions for the EU.
The crisis unfolded during the summer of 2015, as one million migrants and refugees travelled through the Western Balkans. Germany suspended the Dublin regulation for Syrian refugees, halting deportations to the countries they arrived in.
From August 2015, hundreds - and sometimes thousands - arrived in Austria every day, initially via Hungary and later through Slovenia.
Many wanted to travel on to Germany, but around 90,000 applied for asylum in Austria, about 1% of its population.
Among them were two sisters from Afghanistan, Khadija and Zainab Jafari and their children, who arrived at the Austrian border in February 2016.
According to Stephan Klammer, a lawyer from the Diakonie charity, "they came through the organised transports from the Austrian and other governments".
"They came from Macedonia in a few days directly to Austria. At the Austrian border the Jafari sisters were allowed in because they said they wanted to go to Austria and ask for asylum," he said.
But unlike many other Afghans, they were not granted asylum.
The Austrian authorities eventually decided that they should be deported back to Croatia, their point of entry to the EU, under the Dublin regulation.
Mr Klammer said no official figures had been released but he estimated that several hundred other asylum seekers were also pushed back to Croatia.
First there was a real welcome feeling in Austria, but the situation changed. Pressure grew, so the authorities thought about how they could handle the number of asylum procedures"
"In some cases, the authorities said 'We are not responsible because of the Dublin procedure, Croatia is responsible'. So the Jafaris got this decision."
So was Austria right to send them back in a situation when the borders had been opened?
The interior ministry in Vienna declined BBC requests for comment.
The Jafari sisters' case was taken to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), along with a similar incident in Slovenia.
Stephan Klammer said the ruling was likely to affect several hundred other asylum seekers deported to Croatia.
One of them is Farzad Mohammadi from Afghanistan, who came to Austria in February 2016 when he was 17 years old. He described how he started learning German, but he was deported back to Croatia last November.
"It was very difficult. I had tried so hard. I was in a choir, I played football, I was doing a German course, I did everything I could, but they said that is the law - you have to go," he told the BBC.
"Croatia was very bad, worse than Austria. We only had a thin blanket, there were problems with the heating. The toilets were dirty. Very very difficult."
Like the Jafari sisters, he is waiting for the result of the European Court to see if he will be allowed to stay in Austria.
Lawyers say that is looking more likely.
In an opinion published last month, an adviser to the court, Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston said the Dublin regulation "was simply not designed to cover such exceptional circumstances" as the migrant crisis.
"If border member states, such as Croatia, are deemed to be responsible for accepting and processing exceptionally high numbers of asylum seekers, there is a real risk that they will simply be unable to cope with the situation," she said.
Stephan Klammer believes that if the court agrees with that opinion, the ruling could have implications for other countries facing mass arrivals in future, like Italy.
But others like Amanda Taylor from the European Council on Refugees and Exiles are not so sure.
"[The Advocate General's] opinion is very much restricted to a specific period of time, so in terms of this judgement having a bigger impact, I'm not so sure we can say that.
"I think in terms of the current political situation, we are seeing quite the opposite. It's very much a case of member states now putting up their borders and restricting any movement to other EU member states."
Farzad Mohammadi, who is now back in Austria pending the court decision, said he hoped he would be able to stay.
"I thought I would never get back. When I did I was so happy. I can't describe the feeling. Austria is better for me. Thank God I am in Austria."
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.
It is the latest prison recording by Tanveer Ahmed, 32, who stabbed Asad Shah to death at his shop in the south of the city in March last year.
He claimed Mr Shah was a "false prophet" who had "disrespected Islam."
In the message, he urges listeners to attend a conference in Karachi.
The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) said it could not comment on individuals.
Ahmed, a taxi driver from Bradford, says in the recording: "I have great restrictions imposed on me in prison but I am not failing to extend this invitation to you."
He also suggests that he has been asked to end his religious connections with Pakistan and talks of being warned by what he calls "agents of infidels".
He adds: "They threatened me and asked me to sever all contacts with these people", before alleging that he has been asked to persuade preachers in Pakistan to stop making provocative speeches about his crime.
His previous prison recordings have contained statements of defiance at his life sentence for the murder and derogatory and sectarian references to the minority Ahmadi Muslim community, of which Mr Shah was a member.
In one he suggested he had no remorse over his killing of the 40-year-old, saying: "I stood guard on the honour of Prophet Muhammad and I shall do it again if I shall get a chance."
In another he says: "The penalty for those who insult the prophet: cut their heads from their bodies."
Youtube removed one recording after it violated the video sharing site's policy on hate speech.
Ahmed killed Mr Shah after seeing videos the shopkeeper posted online discussing his faith, believing he was falsely claiming to be a prophet.
He pleaded guilty to the murder last year and is currently appealing to reduce his minimum 27-year jail term.
His messages from prison have been posted on social media platforms and websites based in Pakistan, where many people have expressed support for his killing of Mr Shah, whom they believed to be a blasphemer.
The new audio emerged after an unnamed prison source told the Daily Record that the religious murderer had "turned over a new leaf" and converted to a more peaceful brand of Islam.
The same source said that any new messages from Ahmed were likely to be old.
But the latest recording is an invitation to a rally attended by thousands of people at the weekend, where large crowds were addressed by the hardline preacher Khadim Hussain Rizvi.
Rizvi paid glowing tribute to Tanveer Ahmed, saying he "has surprised the whole of Europe."
He went on to say: "They are still at loss to understand why he did it. They were worried to see him totally unmoved about life imprisonment."
Ahmed's new audio message - posted on 27 January 2017 as a video on a Facebook page for Khadim Hussain Rizvi, whom he describes as his "mentor" - has been viewed 53,000 times and shared more than 4,000.
Video of the weekend's rally in Karachi shows large crowds chanting "Labaik Ya Rasool Ullah" or "Here I am present, O Prophet".
The same words were shouted by Ahmed and his supporters at the High Court in Glasgow as he was sentenced to life for the murder of Mr Shah.
And they have become a slogan for the extremist anti-blasphemy movement in Pakistan, where being judged to have insulted the majority religion of Islam or the Prophet Muhammad can receive the death penalty.
Also addressing the rally in Karachi were family members of Mumtaz Qadri, an Islamist extremist who was hanged last year for the 2011 murder of Punjab governor Salman Taseer.
Qadri shot Taseer dead after judging his support for Christians and other minority religious groups in Pakistan to be blasphemous and against Islam.
Thousands attended Qadri's funeral, and many in Pakistan seek to draw parallels between his actions and Ahmed's killing of Mr Shah.
The SPS said it could not comment on individuals but the BBC understands it is collaborating with other agencies to establish exactly what Tanveer Ahmed has been saying from prison and to whom.
Ahmed Owusu Konadu, external affairs secretary of the Ahmadi Muslim Community, questioned why Ahmed was able to get his messages out of the prison.
"We wouldn't expect such a thing to be happening in the United Kingdom," he said.
"If it's been done a few times it's quite bizarre that the authorities haven't taken steps in stopping the messages from coming from the prison.
"Any hate preachers or provocations should be stopped. If it's definitely Tanveer Ahmed and it's definitely from the prison, the prison needs to do more."
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Russia's athletics federation was banned by the International Association of Athletics Federations for alleged involvement in widespread doping.
An IAAF inspection committee is due to visit Russia in January.
"For the moment they have to fulfil the conditions, but I cannot really see them competing in Rio," Hansen said.
The committee is likely to report back to the IAAF Council at the earliest at its meeting in Cardiff, Wales, on 27 March, less than five months before the Olympics.
"They must have a cultural change," Hansen told Athletics Weekly magazine. "They must get rid of all those people from before.
"We know some good people in Russian athletics and I'm sure they will be elected. We hope that some new people will come in who really understand that this must be changed."
The IAAF voted to suspend Russia's federation (Araf) on 13 November after the publication of an independent World Anti-Doping Agency report that alleged "state-sponsored doping".
The socialist party, which is headed by Tommy Sheridan, is fielding 40 candidates across the eight regional lists.
Solidarity said its MSPs would organise "coordinated resistance to further Tory austerity cuts".
It also wants to ban fracking and nuclear weapons from Scotland.
And its manifesto calls for the Council Tax to be replaced with a Scottish Service Tax, which would be based on earnings and see the wealthiest people pay a higher rate than those on lower incomes.
Mr Sheridan was a Scottish Socialist Party MSP between 1999 and 2007, but was jailed for perjury in 2011 after being convicted of telling lies during his defamation case against the News of the World newspaper.
He launched the manifesto at an event in Glasgow alongside his wife Gail, who is also standing as a Solidarity candidate in the election on 5 May.
The document commits Solidarity to tabling a bill at Holyrood within three months of the election that would lead to a second independence referendum in 2018.
Solidarity believes the people of Scotland were "subjected to a tsunami of lies, bullying, distortions and dangerously biased media reporting" during the 2014 referendum campaign.
Mr Sheridan said: "We are supremely confident that the people of Scotland realise they were lied to, bullied and conned.
"People realise the British establishment used everything in its power to lie and bully the ordinary people of Scotland and it had an effect, particularly on the pensioner community, who had people phoning them telling them 'if you vote Yes you're going to lose your pension'.
"Despicable lies from the unionist parties. Those unionist parties deserve to be punished at the election for the lies they told. We will win in 2018."
Among Solidarity's other policies are the creation of a publicly-owned pharmaceutical company, which the party says would be based on the Cuban model.
The manifesto states that Scotland "possesses the brains, research facilities and manufacturing capacity to build our own public pharmaceutical company to supply our public NHS at a fraction of the costs imposed by the multi-million big pharma corporations."
It also sets out plans for MSPs to face a Right of Recall if they "fundamentally renege on a promise given to the electorate prior to election".
The by-election would be triggered if 5% of the registered electorate signed an online petition.
Solidarity also wants people to vote to leave the EU in June's referendum, and for cannabis to be legalised, licensed and taxed.
And it wants the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act and the Named Person scheme to be scrapped.
After nearly 20 years of cycling professionally around the world, Sir Bradley Wiggins was the first Brit to win the Tour de France and has become Britain's most decorated Olympian.
His cool, laid-back attitude made him hugely popular in the summer of 2012, when just 10 days after winning the Tour de France, he won Olympic time trial gold in London.
Later that year, the public voted him the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
Bradley Wiggins became Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2013 and was knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace, for services to cycling.
Speaking at the time he said the title was an "incredible honour".
"It's quite humbling," he added. "I was talking to some of the other people getting stuff, and asking them what they've been honoured for, and they're historic things, ground-breaking sciences or whatever.
"I've won a bike race, you know, and I feel a little bit inferior to everyone, really."
2000 - wins first Olympic medal, bronze in Sydney
2004 - first Briton to win three Olympic medals at same games since 1964
2008 - wins two gold medals at Beijing Olympics
2012 - first British winner of Tour de France
2012 - BBC Sports Personality of the Year winner
2012 - Velo d'Or winner (best cyclist of the year award)
2013 - knighted for services to cycling
2014 - world road time trial winner
2015 - sets world hour record on the track at 54.526km
2016 - wins team pursuit gold at Rio Olympics
Won eight world titles on the track and road
Britain's most decorated Olympian with five gold medals in his haul of eight
In September 2016, hackers leaked confidential medical information about Sir Bradley Wiggins and the medicine he was allowed to take because of a rule called Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUEs).
This rule allows some drugs - which would otherwise be banned - to be used if an athlete needs them for medical reasons that have been checked out by the authorities.
Wiggins said he sought a Therapeutic Use Exemption because of suffering from asthma.
The TUEs were approved by British authorities and cycling's world governing body, the UCI.
There is no suggestion that either he, British Cycling or Team Sky, his former team, have broken any rules.
Corporation tax will be cut from 28% to 27% next year, and by 1% annually for the following three years.
The rate for small companies will also be cut from 21% to 20%.
Businesses welcomed the lowering of these tax rates but expressed concern over other measures, including the rise in the main rate of VAT to 20%.
The rise in VAT is due to start from 4 January 2011.
Reform of the corporate tax regime "will help rebalance the economy away from household debt and government consumption", Mr Osborne said.
He also revealed plans to reduce the Annual Investment Allowance from £100,000 to £25,000 from April 2012.
This would still allow more than 95% of businesses to have all their annual investment covered by the allowance, the government believes.
The threshold at which employers start to pay National Insurance will rise by £21 a week above indexation from April, the chancellor said.
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Richard Lambert, director general of the CBI, said: "There was clear recognition in the Budget of the role that business needs to play in getting the economy back into shape, and generating the jobs and wealth needed to sustain economic recovery."
David Frost, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: "We believe that the government's decisive moves to cut the deficit will have positive effects on business and investor confidence.
"Even more importantly, the chancellor's message that Britain is 'open for business' will be welcomed by companies the length and breadth of the country - and across the globe."
But the manufacturers' organisation, the EEF, said the chancellor had only done "part of the job" of rebalancing the economy.
"While businesses will welcome long-term reform and predictability of corporation tax... predictability has come at the cost of competitiveness," said EEF chief executive Terry Scuoler.
"[Manufacturers] will now be left wondering where the necessary growth and investment will come from, given the cuts to investment allowances and capital budgets."
The Federation of Small Businesses welcomed the reduction in the small business rate but said the rise in VAT would hurt small businesses in the High Street.
However, it added that "common sense has prevailed with the increase coming into play on 4 January 2011 and not on New Year's Day".
The chancellor also announced that the capital gains tax "entrepreneurs' relief" rate of 10% on the first £2m of gains will be extended to the first £5m.
There is also to be relief for new businesses in targeted regions.
For new businesses setting up outside London, the south-east and the east of England over the next three years, employers will be exempt from up to £5,000 in National Insurance payments for each of the first 10 employees hired.
This scheme is intended to start by September.
In addition, a Regional Growth Fund will be set up to provide finance for regional capital projects over the next two years.
Mr Osborne also said that the government would reverse Labour's plan to increase the duty on cider by 10% above inflation.
Louisa Sheppy, who co-owns and runs Sheppy's Cider in Somerset, said she was "amazed" and "stunned" at the decision.
"I know they'd said before the election they'd do it but I really didn't think they would," she said.
However, Ms Sheppy also raised concerns about the rise in VAT, saying it was bad news for customers as the tax would simply be passed on to them.
Meanwhile Leo White, owner of Cumbria-based design company Hydrant Design, said he was "cautiously optimistic" following the Budget.
The measures were "kind of tough but had to be done", he said.
This is a symbol to remember those who have given their lives in war.
This year, over 45 million poppies will be given out by 150,000 volunteers.
But why do we wear these red flowers to remember people in this way?
The reason poppies are used to remember those who have given their lives in battle is because they are the flowers which grew on the battlefields after World War One ended.
This is described in the famous World War One poem In Flanders Fields, which you can read below.
Ever since then, they have come to be a symbol of remembering not just those who gave their lives in World War One, but all those who have died on behalf of their country.
Every year, volunteers make poppies available throughout the country and people make a donation in order to get their poppy.
The money raised from these donations is used to help servicemen and women who are still alive, whose lives have been changed by wars that they fought in.
It might help them to get jobs and somewhere to live, and will also help older war veterans with any support they may need.
It is also used to help those who have lost loved ones because of wars.
The charity that runs this Poppy Appeal is called The Royal British Legion.
Wearing poppies like this to raise money to help people who had fought in wars started in 1921.
This was year that the Royal British Legion was founded on 15 May.
However, back then the poppies weren't made out of paper like they are today. They were made out of silk.
They sold out straight away and raised more than £106,000 for those whose lives had been affected by the war, by helping to find them jobs and somewhere to live once they were no longer serving in the army.
In 1922, a factory was set up where disabled former soldiers were employed to make the poppies.
This factory is still running - and producing many millions of poppies each year - to this very day.
While the majority of people wear their poppy on their chest, there is in fact no right or wrong way to wear a poppy.
As the Royal British Legion says: "We only ask you to wear it with pride."
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
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We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
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Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
The actor has returned to the role of the amnesiac CIA agent for the first time since 2007's The Bourne Ultimatum.
In an interview to mark the release of the full Jason Bourne trailer, Damon told the BBC:
"For the first Bourne movie I was 29 and I thought that was hard work getting into shape.
"Now I'm 45 and it's just brutal. We shot this bare-knuckle fighting scene on my 45th birthday and it was a lot of work to get there.
"I was on a very strict diet and spent a lot of time in the gym just making myself miserable."
The star joked: "So maybe for the next one Jason Bourne will be fat and happy and old!"
The film reunites Damon with Paul Greengrass, the British director behind The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum.
Neither were involved in 2012's The Bourne Legacy, which centred around a new character Aaron Cross, played by Jeremy Renner.
The new film was shot in a number of locations including Berlin, Las Vegas, London and Washington.
In keeping with the first three films' references to contemporary events, Damon's fourth outing opens with motorcycle chase that takes place during an austerity riot in Athens (actually shot in Tenerife).
The Jason Bourne cast includes Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander and Vincent Cassel.
Damon, Oscar-nominated this year for his role in The Martian, said that neither he nor Greengrass had wanted to "rush" back to the franchise before they were ready.
"It's been one of those things that we wanted to do for a long time because we love the character.
"For both Paul and me it's been a huge part of our careers and the success of those movies has allowed us to do a lot of other stuff.
"Just walking down the street people will come up to both of us independently and constantly ask if there is going to be another another one, and that's really the reason we did it - that people wanted to see it.
Damon added: "We both made movies that people didn't want to go and see and it's not something to be taken for granted.
"It's a tough thing to earn an audience's trust and so we didn't just rush into it, we waited for 10 years or so and got a good story, and hopefully we've done something that people will want to see."
Jason Bourne is out on 27 July.
The Met Office said a large band of rain will move slowly over the country during Monday and will be heavy in some areas.
It said there is the possibility of up to 80mm of rain falling in some places with localised flooding and difficult driving conditions.
It has issued a yellow "be aware" warning which runs from 06:00 BST on Monday to the same time on Tuesday.
Conservative Sir Henry Bellingham said there was "clear evidence" of students saying they voted at their home and university addresses.
"Surely this is straightforward electoral fraud," he said.
Cabinet Office Minister Chris Skidmore promised to raise the "completely unacceptable" allegation with the Electoral Commission.
Similar allegations about the 8 June election have been made by another Conservative MP, Sir Peter Bone, last week, as well as by ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage.
Speaking during Cabinet Office Questions in the Commons, Sir Henry, the MP for North West Norfolk, said: "Is the minister aware that there is now clear evidence that many students boasted on social media of voting twice - once at university, and once by post at home? Surely this is straightforward electoral fraud."
Mr Skidmore said this would be "nothing less than an abuse of our democracy" and promised to raise it with the Electoral Commission "as a priority".
"Let all of us in this House be clear: this is a crime. If anyone has any evidence of people voting twice, they should report it to their local returning officer and the police, who must take this issue seriously," he added.
According to the Electoral Commission, it is possible to be legally registered to vote in more than one place, if someone is properly resident in each.
Where this is the case, they are allowed to vote twice in local government elections - provided they live in two different council areas - but it is illegal to do this in a general election or referendum.
Investigating such an offence would be a matter for the police, it said.
The current operator Manx2.com has secured the Cardiff-Anglesey contract along with its partner FLM Aviation.
But Liberal Democrats say it is an "environmental and financial outrage".
Anglesey AM and Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones said the decision reflected the assembly government's determination to maintain the link.
"This air link joining north and south Wales has proved itself to be an efficient, reliable and popular service," said Mr Jones.
"This service is well used, it is well utilised, and it's a wide range of people - there are business people, people visiting friends and families, people going for tourism opportunities, as well as of course as people from the public sector.
"I think it is justified, simply because we need to maintain good communications between north and south of our country."
Clive McGregor, leader of Anglesey council, welcomed the subsidy, saying it was "good news and brings us certainty for another four years".
He added that Manx2's record has been "excellent so far".
"The hope is that together we can develop the service from Maes Awyr Môn and that destinations such as Dublin and the Isle of Man will be offered in the future," Mr McGregor said.
Isle of Man-based Manx2.com took over running of the route in May after the airline Highland Airways went into administration in March.
It was awarded the new contract after the assembly government out the service out to tender in July.
Manx2.com chairman Noel Hayes said: "As a Celtic neighbour, Manx2.com is delighted to have been chosen to continue the connection between Cardiff and Anglesey.
"With our home base just 50 miles away across the Irish Sea, we're excited about continuing our award-winning Manx service into the future."
The decision was criticised by Welsh Liberal Democrats, who have long opposed the service, which has been dubbed "Ieuan Air" by some after the Anglesey AM and Plaid Cymru leader.
The party's transport spokesperson, Jenny Randerson said: "At a time when families and business are cutting back, it beggars belief that the Labour-Plaid government can waste another £4.8m of taxpayers' money subsidising the Ieuan Air airlink.
"It is an environmental and financial outrage."
The party said it was "simply scandalous" that the new deal also tied in any future assembly government to the service for the next four years.
"The Welsh Liberal Democrats will now look to see what can be done to ensure a future government is free to scrap this wasteful and polluting subsidy," added Ms Randerson.
However, the assembly government has defended the increase in subsidy for the service, which jumps by 50% to £1.2m a year.
A spokesperson said it reflected changes since the first north-south airlink agreement in 2007.
"Since then the costs of operating the service has increased, for example increases in fuel, salary costs, landing charges, etc, the current budget limit reflects these increased costs," added the spokesperson.
The government is to hold a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU by the end of 2017.
The prime minister is attempting to renegotiate the terms of Britain's membership and the committee said it would examine the potential impact.
Other topics include the effect on the free movement of people and goods.
MPs will also look at the terms under which the UK could leave the EU, and "the likelihood of it securing continued access to EU goods, services and capital markets," it said.
Another area of interest will be the impact of a "Brexit" on the UK's trade in the service industry, and financial services "in particular".
No date has yet been set for the referendum but David Cameron has promised to hold the vote by the end of 2017.
The prime minister has said he will campaign for Britain to remain in the EU if he secures the reforms he wants.
The committee's chairman, Conservative MP Andrew Tyrie, said: "This inquiry will be wide-ranging, dealing with all the economic and financial consequences of the UK's EU membership, and the impact of departure.
"The committee's job will be to attempt to marshal the evidence on this important question into a coherent form, enabling the electorate to make a more informed decision. It welcomes evidence from all those with views and expertise."
It has been announced that Lord Stuart Rose will lead the In Campaign, which wants the UK to remain in the EU.
And Vote.Leave, made up of Conservative, Labour and UKIP MPs and donors, has launched a cross-party campaign to take the UK out of the EU.
Pettway, 51, was arrested last year after the victim, Carlina White, discovered she had been kidnapped.
She pleaded guilty in February to kidnapping the three-week-old Ms White from hospital.
Prosecutors increased their recommended sentence to 20 years, saying they had uncovered new facts about the case.
They specifically challenged the defence's contention that Pettway had provided a "stable, loving and happy home", for Ms White for 23 years. She was raised as Nejdra Nance in Connecticut and later in Georgia.
Pettway was convicted of five crimes while Ms White was in her custody, according to a probation department, and had used cocaine from 1983 to 2005.
Ms White's biological mother, Joy White, also told probation officers that her daughter told her that Pettway had once hit her with a shoe, leaving an imprint on her face.
In a letter ahead of the sentencing hearing, Pettway apologised and said the kidnapping would have never occurred if she had sought professional help after her failed pregnancies.
"Because of my actions so many lives were hurt," she said, adding that she had raised "a wonderful bright young woman".
In her plea agreement, Pettway told the court how she had caught a train from her home in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to New York, where she snatched the 19-day-old from Harlem Hospital, after the baby was brought there with a fever by her parents.
"I went to the hospital," said Pettway. "I took a child. It was wrong.''
As part of her plea bargain, prosecutors originally recommended a sentence of 10 to 12 years in prison.
Joy White told reporters afterwards that Pettway should serve 23 years in jail, one for every year she had been separated from her daughter.
Joy White said she remembered Pettway, posing as a nurse, consoling her before picking up the baby and waking away.
After being unable to shake off a sense that she did not belong to the family that raised her, Carlina White began her own inquiries.
Pettway then admitted that she was someone else's daughter, but claimed she had been abandoned by a drug addict.
Ms White traced her true mother after finding a photo of herself on the website of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
DNA tests last year confirmed her as the daughter of Joy White and Carl Tyson.
The case made headlines internationally and solved a mystery that had baffled police for more than two decades.
Amir was suspended for five years and served three months in prison after being found guilty of spot-fixing during the 2010 Lord's Test.
The 24-year-old will return to the same ground next month as part of the Pakistan team for the first of a four-Test summer tour of England.
"I fully back that fixers should be banned for life," he said.
"If fixing is still happening, then it's really alarming."
Left-arm fast bowler Amir said he felt "seriously lucky" to be able to resume his Test career.
"I was all excited for Test cricket because that is where my career was held back and I still can't believe that this is happening," he said.
Amir and new-ball partner Mohammad Asif were found to have bowled deliberate no-balls for money.
The duo, and then Test captain Salman Butt, were found guilty of corruption by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in February 2011, and sent to prison in November of the same year following a criminal trial at Southwark Crown Court.
Cook said he had "no problem" facing Amir as he has "served his time".
He added: "In my opinion - because it's become a bit more prevalent - the ICC should come out and say that if you are caught match-fixing you are banned for life."
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The doctor's extraterrestrial arch-enemy has been constructed by cutting more than 6 miles (10 km) of pathways in a field of maize plants in Elvington.
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The Cookstown BE Racing rider won the feature by over 10 seconds on a Suzuki, from Derek McGee and Michael Sweeney.
The three riders came home in the same order in the Open race so Sheils remains unbeaten in the big bike class at the 2017 Irish National road races.
McGee edged out Sheils in a thrilling Supersport race, with Skerries rider Sweeney again completing the rostrum.
Mullingar rider McGee led going onto the last lap of the 600cc outing, then Sheils took over at the front, before McGee snatched it back again.
McGee also won the 125cc/Moto3 race, with Gary Dunlop second and Nigel Moore third, while Neil Kernohan was the 250cc victor.
McGee made it a hat-trick for the day by taking the flag in a keenly contested Supertwins race, ahead of Sweeney and Magherafelt's aul Jordan.
Sheils completed a treble by winning the Non Championship Open race by more than 22 seconds from Sweeney and Jordan.
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Natasha Capell, 26, was found guilty of the murder of Kyle Byfield, 23 who was wounded at the flat in Banbury, Oxfordshire, on 15 April.
He died later in hospital. Capell had admitted manslaughter, but had denied intending to kill Mr Byfield
Passing sentence at Oxford Crown Court, Judge Patrick Eccles QC ordered she spend at least 18 years in jail.
The jury at Oxford Crown Court took two hours to unanimously find her guilty on Wednesday.
The trial had heard Mr Byfield went to Capell's home in Jubilee Court, Banbury, with a friend after a party in the town. His friend knew Capell.
An argument broke out when Capell tried to get them to leave as they had all been drinking.
A post-mortem examination established Mr Byfield died from a stab wound to the chest.
While giving evidence, the mother-of-one apologised to Mr Byfield's family saying: "I wish I could swap places with him. I wish I could change it, but there's nothing I can do."
Speaking after the verdict, Det Supt Chris Ward of Thames Valley Police described it as a "tragic case" that showed "the dangers of excessive drinking and taking drugs".
Alan Byfield, Kyle's father, said: "Kyle had his whole life ahead of him. He had a good job and worked hard and was looking forward to his life together with his girlfriend.
"It devastates me to know I won't get a telephone call from him and won't hear his voice again."
His mother Roni Byfield added: "My life has fallen apart since I lost my son and nothing can bring him back."
The game has been called off after both sides were drawn against each other in the EFL Cup.
Neil Warnock's Cardiff host Pompey of League One in the first round on Tuesday, 8 August.
"Supporters will be informed in due course regarding the potential arrangement of a final pre-season fixture," Cardiff said in a statement.
The airport at Staverton, between Gloucester and Cheltenham, is part-owned by Gloucester City Council and Cheltenham Borough Council.
Emergency meetings to discuss the loan are due to take place at both local authorities next week.
A council source told BBC Radio Gloucestershire the loan could be as much as £750,000.
The airport first opened in the 1930s and now handles about 80,000 flights a year.
It is home to more than 180 aircraft and 50 staff, and supports more than 40 on-site businesses which provide 1,000 jobs.
In a statement, Gloucestershire Airport said it is "considering a number of options to help deliver its business plan".
It continued: "One of these has been a request to its shareholders for a loan facility that will be used to help grow the business even further."
Gloucester City Council confirmed an emergency meeting has been arranged to deal with an "urgent treasury management issue".
HMS Drake was torpedoed by a German U boat off the island in 1917 with the loss of 19 lives and went down a short time later in Church Bay.
It has been a popular dive site for many years.
The listing will mean that divers can still access the wreck but will not be able to remove anything from it.
The remains of the ship are considerable with anchors, guns and steering gear still intact and clearly visible.
Senior archaeologist with the Department for Communities Liam McQuillan said the designation gave the wreck its proper recognition "as a site of national importance".
There will be no exclusion zone and the listing will not mean a licensing system for dives.
Marine Archaeologist Rory McNeary from the Department of Agriculture Environment and Rural Affairs said he would "actively encourage divers to visit the site but to take photos rather than souvenirs".
Three lighthouses on Rathlin are also being protected, including the oldest one on the island, the East Lighthouse.
It has stood on Rathlin for the last 150 years.
The West Lighthouse at the RSPB sea bird centre has been given a Grade A listing.
About 300 kgs of cannabis resin, eight kgs of cannabis herb and 1 kg of cocaine were found at Donaghmede Park, north Dublin, on Saturday at 19:30 local time.
The men, aged 25 and 52, were arrested at the scene.
They are being held at Coolock and Clontarf garda stations.
Dame Lowell Goddard said for her to be summoned would compromise the inquiry's "independence and integrity".
She also hit out at "malicious, defamatory attacks" by the British media and said she was disappointed the government had not defended her.
Dame Lowell resigned in August, becoming the third chairwoman to quit.
The inquiry was set up in 2014 to look at the way public bodies investigated and handled child sex abuse claims.
But it has been beset by controversy and is now on its fourth chairwoman, Professor Alexis Jay.
The Home Affairs Select Committee wanted to question Dame Lowell over claims by senior members of her staff that she was "challenging" to work with and that a mediator had to be called in to communicate with her.
But in a letter to the committee, she said there were no "unanswered" questions about her 18 months at the helm.
She said lawyers had advised her not to appear as it could mean allegations against her were repeated under the protection of Parliamentary privilege.
Labour MP and Home Affairs Committee chairwoman Yvette Cooper said her refusal to appear was "disgraceful".
She added: "Dame Goddard has been paid significant amounts of public money to do an extremely important job which she suddenly resigned from, leaving a series of questions about what has been happening over the last 18 months and why the inquiry got into difficulties."
Downing Street said the inquiry was independent and said it was a matter for the committee.
"Who appears at the committee is a matter for them," said the prime minister's spokesman.
Klopp joined Liverpool in October, initially agreeing a £15m deal to 2018 that has now been extended until 2022.
"His leadership will be critical to everything we hope to achieve," said Liverpool's owners.
Klopp took Liverpool to the League Cup and the Europa League finals last term.
The 49-year-old German had previously guided Borussia Dortmund to two Bundesliga titles and the 2013 Champions League final.
"The ideas and plans he has for the football infrastructure excite us," added Liverpool's principal owner John Henry, chairman Tom Werner and Fenway Sports Group president Mike Gordon.
"We believe it benefits the organisation to have Jurgen committed to Liverpool for a sustained period, to make sure he is here to oversee this development.
"When you have an individual of Jurgen's quality in the building it makes perfect sense to secure that person for the long term.
"To not do so would be irresponsible."
Klopp replaced Brendan Rodgers with Liverpool 10th in the Premier League table.
They finished eighth and were beaten on penalties by Manchester City in the League Cup final before losing 3-1 to Sevilla in the Europa League final in Basel.
"We are very much at the beginning of our journey," said Klopp.
"I am the first to recognise that with this great commitment comes a great responsibility.
"There is much to do and much to achieve and we look to do this by being the most completely together group anywhere in the world."
Osmon Koroma and Max N'Gasa met 12 girls, aged between 13 and 15, at Wick Parade in Littlehampton, where Koroma lived in a flat, Sussex Police said.
The pair requested sex acts from the girls in exchange for cigarettes and alcohol they bought for them.
At Lewes Crown Court Koroma was jailed for 14 years and N'Gasa for 11 years.
The court heard the offences were committed between 2010 and 2014 and some of the 12 victims knew each other.
Det Insp Miles Ockwell said the girls were sometimes sexually abused by both defendants.
"We are glad to know that justice has now been done for the girls," he said.
"It was clear that Koroma's flat acted as a magnet for the girls, whose physical maturity outstripped their emotional maturity."
In a victim impact statement, one victim described how she felt "worthless" while another said "I don't want it to happen to anyone else."
Koroma, 31, was found guilty of eight offences, including one rape and N'Gasa, 25, also of Littlehampton, was convicted of 10 offences, including two rapes.
Both will be registered sex offenders for life.
After Koroma and N'Gasa were convicted, Peter Kyle, Labour MP for Hove and Portslade, said he was "absolutely determined" to get to the bottom of what happened.
"If these young girls have been exhibiting behaviour that was picked up by any of our services or any other individuals and wasn't acted upon we need to know that," he said.
"We need to make sure other young people are given protection they deserve from predators like these two."
N'Gasa was cleared of one sex assault and a charge of attempting to carry out sexual activity with a child.
This follows the recent comment by the chief executive of the Money Advice Trust charity that some companies were "not in a fit shape to be trusted" following the recent OFT investigation.
All of this means that, more than ever, the UK's indebted families need to know who they should go to for advice, if a debt management plan can help and whether there is a way out of a desperate financial situation.
A debt management plan (DMP) is an agreement between a debtor and creditors when usual contractual payments cannot be made due to financial difficulties.
Originally an American idea, the DMP was introduced into the UK by the Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS) in the early 1990s when the charity was set up. It was a debt solution that dealt with the fallout of unsecured lending in an era when the personal credit market was expanding dramatically.
A DMP provides a structured arrangement to pay off all unsecured debts, rather than writing off some of the money as happens with formal debt solutions like an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA).
This arrangement runs over a longer time period than originally agreed, with one payment per month that the debtor can afford given their circumstances. The payment is distributed to creditors on a pro-rata basis.
Importantly, a well-managed plan provides breathing space. It ensures the debtor has money to afford everyday essentials, rather than feeling pressured to pay creditors their money first.
However there are disadvantages. A DMP is an informal solution, so creditors do not have to accept the plan - although the vast majority do - and a few do not freeze interest or fees, meaning that the debtor continues to be charged.
One creditor disagreeing with the implementation of a DMP will not bring down the plan, but will make it harder for the debtor to pay off all of their debts successfully. In these extreme cases the debt is still paid at the lower pro-rata rate while we - credit counsellors - petition the non-participating creditor to accept the plan.
A DMP not a catch-all either. Depending on the person's situation and the amount of debt, a legally-binding agreement may be a better solution.
For example, we advise our clients that a DMP is not worthwhile when the debt cannot be paid off in a reasonable timeframe.
A more formal agreement may be more restrictive and harmful to their credit score and also goes against our ethic to encourage repayment whenever possible. However it could see them debt free in less time.
Martin (not his real name) lives in London and his story is typical of those who need a DMP.
He struggled to make ends meet and eventually turned to credit to pay for his basic living costs after losing his job. When he contacted the CCCS in 2008 he had £30,000 of debt.
After a counselling session he was recommended a four-year DMP, which he is now more than halfway through. In that time Martin has gone from having four creditors to one, having paid some of his smaller debts in full.
"When I lost my job, I turned to credit cards to pay for essentials. Eventually, I could not get more credit because I was too big a risk," he says.
"I have now paid most of my creditors, and will settle my debts in the next few years. My DMP has allowed me to take control of things."
For those considering a DMP, you can arrange it yourself and there are internet forums that advise on the best way to go about this. It involves producing a budget - listing income, expenditure and debts - to show what money is available after essentials, utilities and priority bills are accounted for.
You then speak with each creditor in turn and ask them to accept lower monthly payments from any surplus amount.
However it can be a complex procedure to set up a DMP on an individual basis and it can be fraught with difficulties, not least negotiating with the very same lenders that are hounding you for money. For those in a fragile state of mind this is just too much to contemplate.
Instead we recommend that a third party arranges a plan on your behalf, so there is an intermediary between you and your creditors.
Having this buffer means that during this stressful period, when lenders and debt collection agencies are ringing you repeatedly with demands, you have someone else acting in your best interest.
The benefit of using an intermediary also comes from their relationships with the creditors. As they arrange thousands of DMPs each year, they are often in a better position to negotiate with the lender.
The downside is that many debt management companies will charge a fee for their work, on top of the debt owed. As such, to save money over the lifetime of the plan, and pay off the debt sooner, it is much better to talk with a charity or a not-for-profit organisation that set up and run DMPs for free.
DMPs provide a clear framework to paying off your debts and should your creditors agree to the plan they are incredibly practicable.
But if you cannot stick to the DMP payments, then other options might have to be considered, including formal solutions like bankruptcy or an IVA.
As such, DMPs are not the perfect solution in all cases. Your financial situation is the most important indicator of the whether one is right for you.
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The 14-time major winner last played at the Farmers in 2015, but withdrew in the first round because of an injury.
Woods will then play at the Genesis Open, which begins on 16 February, followed by the Honda Classic.
The 40-year-old finished 15th at the Hero World Challenge in December after 15 months out through injury.
On competing at the Genesis Open, Woods said: "I'm very excited to come back to Riviera.
"This is where it all started for me. It was my first PGA Tour vent. I was 16 years old, I weighed about 105 pounds. It was a life-changing moment for me."
On Monday its shares dived 30% after a note from analysts at Investec said its equity value could be "eliminated".
Investec's Laura Lambie told the BBC Glencore faced "severe problems" if it did not cut its debt and commodity prices do not recover.
But a Glencore spokesperson said the firm had no solvency issues.
"Glencore has taken proactive steps to position our company to withstand current commodity market conditions, " the spokesperson added.
"Our business remains operationally and financially robust.
"We have positive cash flow, good liquidity and absolutely no solvency issues."
Glencore has been hit by a slowdown in the wider commodities markets, with copper, aluminium and nickel all down more than 25% compared with a year ago.
In recent weeks chief executive Ivan Glasenberg has tried to reduce the company's debt by selling shares and assets, as well as scrapping a series of dividends.
Glencore hopes to generate up to $12bn (£7.9bn) from the sale of its grains business to reduce its debt burden.
But it has done little to allay fears over Glencore's £20bn debt pile which have seen its shares dive in the past month and the cost of insuring that debt soar.
Speaking to the BBC, Investec's Laura Lambie said: "Miners grew hugely to meet the demand from China and they borrowed heavily to find it and the cost of servicing that debt and the schedule of repayments are really putting companies such as Glencore under the spotlight.
"The risk is if commodities don't recover then companies like Glencore will be in trouble trying to repay its debt."
Investec has also questioned how much Glencore could raise from selling its agriculture division, as "valuing such a volatile business is likely to be tough".
Glencore's stock has fallen by more than 85% since the company went public in 2011 at a price of £5.30 a share.
On Tuesday its shares rallied after the firm's statement, closing up nearly 17% at 80.24p, but it is still a long way off its flotation price.
Nigel Wilson, the chief executive for Legal and General, which is a shareholder in Glencore, said the mining company was facing a "quasi-Lehman moment", referring to the collapse of the US investment bank during the 2008 financial crisis.
Mr Wilson called on Glencore's management to clarify information about the company's viability to stem further falls in its stock.
"There's a lot of noise and there's not enough signalling. That lack of information causes a huge amount of uncertainty at Glencore which is having a massive contagion effect across the world," Mr Wilson said.
However, analysts at Citigroup said the sell-off in Glencore shares had been overdone.
Citigroup said that there was still value in the business, and that Glencore should even consider going private via a management buyout if the market rout continued.
"In the event the equity market continues to express its unwillingness to value the business fairly, the company management should take the company private, whereby restructuring measures can be taken easily and quickly," it said.
The Shia-led governments that have held power since then have struggled to maintain order, and the country has enjoyed only brief periods of respite from high levels of sectarian violence.
Violence and sabotage hinder the revival of an economy shattered by decades of conflict and sanctions. Iraq has the world's third largest reserves of crude oil.
Population 33.7 million
Area 438,317 sq km (169,235 sq miles)
Major languages Arabic, Kurdish
Major religion Islam
Life expectancy 68 years (men), 73 years (women)
Currency Iraqi dinar
President: Fuad Masum
Veteran Iraqi politician Fuad Masum was overwhelmingly elected by parliament in July 2014.
He is the second ethnic Kurdish president of Iraq, succeeding Jalal Talabani.
Prime Minister: Haider al-Abadi
A veteran politician from the Shia State of Law party, Mr al-Abadi was deputy speaker of parliament when President Masum asked him to form a government in the summer of 2014.
Mr al-Abadi heads a cabinet with Sunni and Kurdish support, something which the previous government lacked.
Improved relations between the central government and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government made possible the signing of a deal in December 2014 on sharing Iraq's oil wealth and military resources.
It was hoped this would help build the consensus needed to enable the country to face the common threat represented by the armed Islamic State group, which by the end of 2014 had advanced into northern and central Iraq.
However, his administration has been dogged by accusations of corruption and the charge that the allocation of posts according to sectarian quotas takes precedence over competence.
There are hundreds of publications and scores of radio and TV stations. But political and security crises have resulted in an increasingly fractured media scene.
Television is the main medium for news. Many media outlets have political or religious affiliations.
Some key dates in Iraq's history:
1534-1918 - Ottoman rule.
1917 - Britain seizes control, creates state of Iraq.
1932 - Independence, followed by coups.
1979 - Saddam Hussein becomes president.
1980-1988 - Iran-Iraq war.
1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, putting it on a collision course with the international community.
1991 - Iraq subjected to sanctions, weapons inspections and no-fly zones.
2003 - US-led coalition invades, starting years of guerrilla warfare and instability.
2014 - The armed Islamic State group emerges as a major force in the region and seizes large parts of Iraq.
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Asher-Smith ran 22.72 seconds, with 30-year-old Jamaican Simone Facey second in 22.81secs, and Henry, 20, close behind in 22.88secs.
Margaret Adeoye, 31, ran 23.57secs to finish sixth in her first race of 2016.
In the men's 100m, Briton Richard Kilty was fifth in a race won by Turkey's Jamaica-born sprinter Jak Ali Harvey.
The 27-year-old ran in 10.18secs to finish ahead of Ivorian Ben Youssef Meite in second, with Antigua and Barbuda's Daniel Bailey in third.
Kilty's countryman Andrew Robertson was disqualified after a false start in the Swedish capital.
Eloise Aimee Parry, 21, from Shrewsbury, died on April 12 after taking more than the recommended dose.
Police said the tablets were believed to contain dinitrophenol, known as DNP, which is an industrial chemical.
Before she died, she spoke to Glyndwr university student guild vice president Marc Caldecott about starting an awareness campaign.
They agreed to run a campaign on weight loss pills in general, as Eloise did not want to tempt students by naming specific drugs.
Mr Caldecott described her as "very lively" and "bubbly" and said he was not aware the popular student took the pills before her death.
Ms Parry's mother Fiona also warned others about the dangers of the pills.
She said her daughter walked into the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital herself after taking more than the recommended dose, but said there was "no great panic" until a toxicology report had revealed "how dire her situation was".
She said Eloise had taken eight tablets, when two is considered a potentially lethal dosage.
The pills made her metabolism soar, which made cooling her down difficult.
Ms Parry said: "She was literally burning up from within. When her heart stopped, they couldn't revive her. She had crashed."
She described it as "an awful way to die", and said Eloise's "little fix" that allowed her to achieve her super-slim appearance had cost her her life.
Like Mr Caldecott, Ms Parry had no idea her daughter was taking the pills until after she died, describing them as "bad news".
An inquest was opened and adjourned until 2 July by Shropshire coroner John Ellery after a hearing in Shrewsbury.
The story of the Penmaenmawr Quarry Boys is typical of the north Wales towns and villages who sent their men to fight in WWI.
Inspired by quarry chairman Lt Col Charles Henry Darbishire, the men of the Penmaenmawr & Welsh Granite Company had already been volunteering for their own territorial unit, long before war broke out.
Despite his protests and being in his 70s, Lt Col Darbishire was deemed too old to fight alongside his men.
But with his encouragement, in August 1914 at least 113 of the Quarry Boys rushed to sign up for the Penmaenmawr Company of the 6th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Almost exactly a year later, many of them would die in action when they landed on the beaches of Turkey's Suvla Bay.
Swansea University's Word War One expert Dr Gerry Oram explains that by the time they arrived, the Gallipoli Campaign had already been raging for over three months.
"The Gallipoli Peninsula was key, as whoever controlled it controlled the Dardanelles straights, and the route to supply Russia via the Black Sea," Dr Oram said.
"But the Allies had vastly underestimated the will of the Ottomans, who were generally regarded as the 'Sick Men of Europe'.
"When old fashioned gunboat diplomacy failed, on 25 April 1915 the Allies adopted another traditional British tactic, an amphibious landing - which did manage to gain a toe-hold on the beaches.
"However, these small gains came at an astronomical cost - even by the standards of the first world war - as Turkish and German machine-guns and artillery controlled the high ground overlooking the landing sites."
It was into the teeth of this bombardment that the Penmaenmawr Quarry Boys landed on 9 August 1915.
After just one night sheltered near "C" beach, and after a breakfast of tea and hard tack biscuits, the Quarry Boys received orders to advance across a dried-up salt lake to attack Scimitar Hill.
Historian Anne Pedley says that not even in their worst nightmares could they have known what they were about to march into.
"They'd had three weeks at sea, seeing places and things they could only have dreamt about," she said.
"It must have seemed like an adventure, until they were called into battle and found themselves marching with a full pack across the great salt lake, sinking up to their calves in ooze and being torn apart by machinegun fire from above.
"By that night - in the space of one day - the Penmaenmawr Company simply didn't exist anymore."
By the autumn the campaign had faltered into stalemate.
Dr Oram stresses, however, that the terrible hardship did not end there.
"The Ottomans fought tenaciously to prevent the Allies breaking out of the beachhead. Eventually the Allies were also worn down by dysentery and thirst," he said.
"Then, in November, came a terrible storm. Trenches dug into the sand flooded and collapsed, and the battalion diary records 'the flood is up to two to four foot deep in front of trenches… with the enemy apparently in a worse position as men's dead bodies floated down on the flood'.
"After that came a freeze. One newspaper report described how 'Sentries who had been watching at the loopholes of the trench parapets were found dead at their posts. The bodies were frozen, and their rigid fingers were still clutching their rifles'.
"By December it was obvious that Gallipoli had been a spectacular disaster, and attention turned to what was, ironically, a textbook evacuation."
The remnants of the Penmaenmawr Quarry boys went on to fight in Palestine, and finished the war in Jerusalem.
But Ms Pedley says the memory of that day in August 1915 continued to cast a long shadow for many years to come.
"Families were dependent on the quarry for not only their living, but also their housing and their sense of identity," she said.
"The shared trauma for the men who did come home left a divide between those who had experienced Gallipoli and others who couldn't even imagine what the survivors had been through."
But things were pretty bad for the party in Blaenau Gwent.
The party lost 107 seats across Wales - some 20 of those were in this south Wales valleys Labour heartland, with control of the authority falling to independents amid an ongoing row over recycling.
A year earlier, Plaid Cymru almost pulled off a shock assembly election result, coming within 650 votes of taking the Blaenau Gwent seat from Labour's Alun Davies.
The result was a surprise to many, not least Plaid Cymru officials - the party had little organisational presence in the borough where it had only around 20 members at the time.
Blaenau Gwent has been in non-Labour hands in the recent past at the assembly, council and Westminster levels, most notably when assembly member Peter Law quit Labour in protest at all-women shortlists and won election as an independent MP in 2005,
The question now is whether this general election provides the context for the Westminster seat to slip out of Labour hands again - especially during a campaign where the competition between the Conservatives and Labour has dominated.
Privately at least one Labour source has told the BBC of concerns that there is a real contest here, but that view is not held by all, with others feeling the seat is more comfortable for the party.
Plaid Cymru for its part has earmarked Blaenau Gwent as one of the party's target seats - and activists have been encouraged to help out in the borough.
On paper, Labour is in a good place on the basis of the last general election result.
In 2015, the incumbent Nick Smith won the seat with a majority of 12,703, ahead of UKIP. Plaid Cymru camed fourth.
Nigel Copner, the man who stood for Plaid in 2016 at the assembly elections, is doing so again at the general election this year.
A university professor who lives in Ebbw Vale and chairs a research centre, Mr Copner claimed to BBC Wales that the election is "going to be very close".
He said that with the decline of industry in the area, the "work ethic has slowly been evaporated" with generations of families on benefits.
"I feel that Blaenau Gwent has been severely let down," he said. "We've grafted in these valleys."
"I'm hearing from businesses now who tell me if you want to take on youngsters or residents, they don't want to take the job, because they're worse off when they're off benefits."
"That needs to be resolved," he said.
"A lot of companies are saying we have to take on some of the Polish because there just isn't enough people locally to take the jobs."
Mr Copner said he did not have a problem with immigration if it was skilled.
The Plaid Cymru candidate said the proposed Circuit of Wales motor-racing track "does come up" when he speaks to voters.
He said he felt people "could be let down" over the scheme, with a Welsh Government decision on guaranteeing half of the £425m project being delayed.
Defending the seat is Labour's Nick Smith, who, like Mr Copner, was out canvassing in Ebbw Vale on market day.
First elected to the Commons in 2010, he said: "As Labour support has increased nationally, so it has locally."
Mr Smith claimed that after the publication of the Conservative manifesto "people realised it's 'game on', it's a national election, it's Labour vs Conservative", adding that he was not complacent.
He defended his leaflets which did not mention Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, saying: " I am the candidate here.
"He's my leader, I support him," he said he told voters, but added: "Round here it's Nick Smith on the ballot paper. Nick Smith is a local man. Nick Smith will work hard for you."
The Labour hopeful says he has supported the Circuit of Wales "100% over the years", saying it could be a "game-changer" for the region. He says he thinks the Welsh Government should be investing in the scheme.
Mr Smith added that Brexit, cold weather payments, and pensions were also important to voters.
"Round here they don't want a Tory government," he insisted.
There are four other candidates taking part in the election in Blaenau Gwent.
Vicki Browning, who runs a online business from her home in Tredegar, is standing as an independent.
"We don't seem to have gotten far with the politicians we've had before," she said.
"I don't actually have a politics background. I just wanted to give Blaenau Gwent a go and speak for the people."
Cameron Sullivan, from Merthyr Tydfil, is standing for the Liberal Democrats.
"It's giving people a choice," he said.
"Putting your name on the ballot paper, especially for a party like the Lib Dems, does offer people an alternative."
His party is campaigning for another EU referendum.
"We can still vote on the terms of Brexit. We can still decide how we want this to play out."
UKIP came second in the general election in 2015, when Susan Boucher polled 5,677 votes.
The candidate this time, Dennis May, says: "Blaenau Gwent has been let down by the domination of Labour who blame anyone but themselves for the demise of the Western Valley."
UKIP has other goals than Brexit in its sights, Mr May said.
"We will fill the void left by a London-centric Labour Party and champion the hardworking people of Blaenau Gwent."
Tracey West is standing for the Welsh Conservatives in Blaenau Gwent. She did not return a request for comment.
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Southampton-based Mike Smith was renowned for his work training up and coming athletics stars in a career spanning five decades.
His most famous athletes include Iwan Thomas MBE, Kriss Akabusi, Todd Bennett, Roger Black and Donna Hartley.
Thomas said he would be "doing a lap of Southampton track" in his honour.
Many of them have paid tribute to Mr Smith, who died aged 88.
In a statement his family said the coach, who looked after more than 30 international athletes, "crossed the finishing line" on Sunday 5 March.
Mr Smith, who was also a commentator for BBC Radio Solent and South Today, is survived by his wife Jo, daughter Janet and son Bob.
Paying tribute on Twitter, Iwan Thomas said: "Most of my adult life was based around him and everything I achieved was because of him, I'm devastated.
"The man I owe so much to who was so much more than just a coach. I'm having a beer in his honour and doing a lap of Southampton track."
Others have remembered the coach as a "calm, gentle and knowledgeable man".
He is also opposed to a third runway at Heathrow, an infrastructure project supported by many businesses.
John McDonnell's Who's Who entry talks of "generally fermenting the overthrow of capitalism". He may have meant fomenting. Or maybe he was making a home brew joke.
To put it mildly, Mr McDonnell is certainly a different character from Ed Balls, his predecessor.
Many business leaders are sure to feel very uncomfortable with Mr McDonnell's "radical agenda".
And will fear that a general "anti-business" sentiment will now radiate from the opposition benches.
Mr McDonnell has spoken about Britain being a "corporate kleptocracy".
Those on Mr McDonnell's side argue that, given the mess of the financial crisis, it is high time there was a radical reappraisal of the way markets work and a new look at ways of tackling inequality.
At this stage, many business leaders will hold their counsel.
One I spoke to last week on the prospect of a Jeremy Corbyn victory in the Labour leadership contest said simply that many of his colleagues did not believe he could win a general election.
And at a business dinner I attended with chief financial officers in the retail sector, most expressed a similar view.
So, although the impact of a Labour victory would undoubtedly be significant on many businesses across the UK, the probability of that happening - according to those same businesses - is low.
It was different when it came to Ed Miliband. Before the 2015 general election, many businesses believed that he could be the next prime minister.
That was why the share price of the energy companies fell sharply when Mr Miliband announced in 2013 that a future Labour government would freeze the price of retail energy bills.
Share price volatility is less likely this time as many investors also do not believe that Mr Corbyn will be prime minister. And that means that Mr McDonnell will not be chancellor.
Another well-connected business figure I spoke to this morning said that it was time for caution.
He pointed out that the new Labour leadership had not published any policies and that businesses should refrain from knee jerk reactions to statements made in the past by members of the new shadow cabinet.
"Politicians say lots of things," he pointed out with half a smile.
He also said that a focus on apprenticeships and young people in employment - favoured by Jeremy Corbyn - would be something high up the agenda, particularly for smaller businesses.
As is higher levels of state investment in infrastructure.
There is then the issue of Europe.
Mr Corbyn appears less committed to the European Union than his predecessors, raising the prospect that both the Conservatives and Labour could split for and against during the referendum campaign.
Chuka Ummuna, the former shadow business secretary, said that a lack of commitment from Mr Corbyn to the EU was his reason for quitting his position yesterday.
And as David Cumming, head of equities at Standard Life Investments, argued on the Today programme this morning, if both parties are split on the issue that could increase the chances of the UK leaving.
Which wouldn't be much welcomed by the many in the City.
Of course, many other businesses believe that Britain could flourish outside the EU.
Peter Hargreaves, of the retail investment firm Hargreaves Lansdown, said in The Sunday Times at weekend that he would be at the forefront of the campaign for a UK exit.
For the moment, many businesses will decide that silence is the best policy when considering how to respond to the election of Mr Corbyn and Mr McDonnell.
At least until the new Labour leadership starts announcing what its policies actually are.
The blaze broke out at Coed Eva Primary School, in Cwmbran, at about 02:25 GMT on New Year's Day.
Six people, including four teenage boys, were previously arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life and released on bail.
Gwent Police said an 18-year-old from Cwmbran had also been arrested and bailed.
Tracey Ullman played Dame Judi last year as a nefarious national treasure - stealing, smashing china in a boutique and hurling bags of dog poo into trees.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Front Row about Ullman's portrayal, she said: "I love it. I dote on it.
"But I get into trouble now if I go into a shop with a bag over my arm."
Ullman is "brilliant", the actress said - but joked that the sketches in the BBC One comedy show have caused problems.
"It's tricky, people look at me in a funny way," she said, adding: "A man came up to me in M&S the other day and said to me, 'I've got my eye on you'."
Dame Judi was speaking as she unveiled a blue plaque for her friend, the late actor Sir John Gielgud, at his former London home.
She told Front Row that Sir John was one of the greatest Shakespearean actors and that young actors would do well to learn from his performances.
She said: "He used to present the whole of a sentence, the whole arc of a sentence, or the meaning of a passage of Shakespeare.
"We're in an unfortunate century where people think, 'oh Shakespeare, it needs to be changed because we don't understand what things mean'. That's not so. One can understand it and John was sublime at being able to tell you exactly what it meant."
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The first session for the event, which includes the Classic TT and Manx Grand Prix, also saw newcomers getting their first untimed laps of the TT course.
Dunlop, from Northern Ireland, set the fastest lap of the session on his Classic TT Superbike at 121.133mph lap.
The second practice session will be held on Tuesday.
Steve Mercer (118.203mph) and Ivan Lintin (117.995mph) were the next quickest in the session - also on their Superbikes.
Welshman Ian Lougher (113.363mph) leads Lightweight practice with John McGuinness fastest in the Classic TT class and Michael Rutter leading the Junior Classic TT class.
Clerk of the Course Gary Thompson warned riders of damp patches around the course ahead of the session.
Alan Thomas from Wales was reported off at the Water Works but organisers said he was "uninjured".
The first races get under way on Saturday.
Michael Dunlop - 121.133mph
Ian Lougher - 113.363mph
John McGuinness - 107.089
Michael Rutter - 99.501mph
Unused substitute Callum Murray was in the Buckie squad that drew 0-0 with Formartine United on Saturday but the club deny any wrongdoing.
The Moray club could secure the title with a win at home to bottom club Strathspey Thistle this weekend.
The league's eventual winner will have the chance to join the SPFL next term.
Victors of the Highland and Lowland Leagues will meet in a play-off to decide who should face the Scottish League Two bottom club in the League Two play-off final.
A meeting of the Highland League's management committee will be held on Thursday.
Murray had been on loan to rivals Deveronvale but was recalled by Buckie as cover for injured players and sat on the bench throughout Saturday's goalless draw.
Whether he was eligible to be involved or not will come down to the interpretation of the Highland League's rule 8.9.6, which governs the registration of players.
Any breach is subject to a fine of up to £500 and a mandatory three-point deduction for each game affected.
SHFL secretary Rod Houston told the BBC that Thursday's meeting had become necessary "after a storm on social media".
Buckie and Cove Rangers are two points behind leaders Brora Rangers but Brora have played all of their games.
Cove face Lossiemouth on Saturday in the final game of the season and Buckie have a superior goal difference going into their meeting with Strathspey.
In season 1992-1993, Elgin City won the Highland League but were later stripped of the title after having been found to have fielded ineligible players.
The Daily Mail says provisions were made to split ownership after his father's death, which could be used to cut inheritance tax liabilities.
A Labour spokesman said the claims were a "straightforward lie" and that "no tax was avoided".
Tory MP Andrew Bridgen said Mr Miliband should be open about his tax affairs.
Mr Miliband has confirmed his mother Marion set up a deed of variation after the death of his father Ralph.
It is believed this altered provisions relating to the house in his will.
The Daily Mail reported the deed allowed ownership of the house to be split between Mrs Miliband and her sons. The paper quoted experts suggesting such arrangements could be used to reduce eventual inheritance tax liabilities.
Mr Miliband later sold his share to brother David who also bought the rest of the property from his mother.
Mr Bridgen said: "It is absolutely beyond doubt - and not for a moment denied by Ed Miliband - that he and his family used a deed of variation in 1994 and that this arrangement was in place for 10 years.
"As the former head of tax at PwC has said 'the reason people use deeds of variation is to save on inheritance tax'.
"Ed Miliband should now publish this deed of variation that he is currently hiding away and be as open about his own tax affairs as he demands others to be. The public can then judge for themselves."
But a Labour spokesman said: "Ed paid 40% capital gains tax when the house was sold in 2004/05. It can't be tax avoidance if no tax was avoided."
Mr Miliband attacked tax evasion and avoidance earlier this week and became embroiled in a row with Lord Fink over his tax affairs.
The Labour leader said of the deed variation on Thursday: "It's something that my mother did 20 years ago, that was a decision she made.
"Let me just say this: I paid tax as a result of that transaction, I've avoided no tax in that.
"No doubt the Conservative Party wants to smear mud today but, frankly, it's not going to work. The story has been written before and I have paid tax on that money."
Meanwhile, Labour has also denied Mr Miliband's aides referred to Milly Dowler when talking about the row over tax avoidance.
BBC political editor Nick Robinson wrote earlier this week that Mr Miliband saw the allegations over tax avoidance related to HSBC as an opportunity to stand up to the powerful, as he had done during the phone hacking scandal.
But he explains in a subsequent blog that a reference to Milly Dowler, who was murdered in 2002, was not a direct quote.
The 28-year-old New Zealand-born back switched codes in 2014 after a successful rugby league career, including a National Rugby League (NRL) title with South Sydney Rabbitohs.
"Everything's in place for Worcester to become a successful club, competing in the top tier," said Te'o.
"The investment in facilities and infrastructure is impressive and it's clearly a club which is on the up."
Te'o scored 43 tries in 151 appearances and also played for Samoa at the 2008 World Cup before switching codes.
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He has five tries from 23 games for Leinster in the Pro12 and European Champions Cup.
Warriors director of rugby Dean Ryan has no doubt Te'o can make an impact at Sixways.
"We've tracked Ben for a long time - probably over a year now - and we're delighted," Ryan told BBC Hereford and Worcester.
"He gets what we're trying to do here and to get a player of his potential is something we've found difficult.
"He's been playing at the highest level and there's so much more to come from him, I'm over the moon to convince him that coming here is the right choice."
Warriors, promoted from the Championship last season, are currently 10th in the Premiership table, with two wins and four defeats from their six games so far.
Katie was found with serious injuries on a playing field in Woodthorpe, in the city, on 9 January and died later in hospital.
A 15-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with her murder.
Paul and Alison Rough said Dr Sentamu had been "their rock".
Speaking to the BBC about the death of their daughter, the couple said they were living "day-by-day, sometimes minute-by-minute".
However, they said they had met the archbishop several times, and he had helped them come to terms with what happened.
"He's been great - he has kept in touch to make sure we are OK, and even invited us for a cup of tea and a cooked breakfast," Mrs Rough said.
Her husband said he had experienced some very dark times, but the archbishop had "made things a little bit better".
"It didn't feel awkward meeting the archbishop, he knew exactly what to say," he added.
The couple also praised the community for their support, and said they were holding a family fun day to say thank you to all the people in York.
They said people they had never met had come up to them and introduced themselves.
"Some had sad stories themselves - and some just gave us a cuddle," Mr Rough said.
In February, more than 300 people attended a public funeral for Katie held at York Minster, led by Dr Sentamu.
Katie's coffin rested overnight at the Archbishop of York's official residence, Bishopthorpe Palace, on the outskirts of the city.
Speaking at the time, Dr Sentamu said he sat with her overnight in his chapel so she would not be alone.
The family fun day will be held at York Acorn Rugby Club on 9 June.
Farasat - who does not wish to be identified - was a manager at the English Language Adventure School in Luton where Masood taught English between 2010 and 2012.
He said: "He was the last man I thought would do a heinous crime."
Masood fatally drove into three pedestrians and stabbed PC Keith Palmer to death in last Wednesday's attack.
Farasat added: "I thought it must have been a different Khalid Masood.
"I was completely horrified and bewildered when I heard his name."
Masood, who lived in Dunraven Avenue and The Meads in Luton, taught at the language school for Middle Eastern students for over two years.
Prior to that, he had a criminal career dating back to 1983 which led to time in Lewes Prison in East Sussex, Wayland Prison in Norfolk and Ford open prison in West Sussex.
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Farasat, who prayed with Masood at work, said: "He was jolly. Very serious about his job.
"He told me that in prison he made a firm resolve to leave the life of crime and clean himself up."
Masood, 52, is reported to have had at least three children and one previous wife.
He killed teacher Aysha Frade, 44, US tourist Kurt Cochran, 54, and retired window cleaner Leslie Rhodes, 75, when he drove a hire car into people on Westminster Bridge.
He then stabbed PC Palmer, 48, outside Parliament before being shot dead.
Inquests into the deaths of his four victims will be opened on Wednesday.
Farasat added: "Many people are asking which mosque he was from. It is completely irrelevant. None of the mosques in Luton are radicalised.
"If he was radicalised, I definitely would have identified the signs. He was not radicalised in Luton.
"The only time I saw him get angry was when he heard the English Defence League was coming to Luton. He was very upset."
He added: "He was a practising Muslim, he would pray in the office, but he was apolitical."
The charity behind the Joyce Grove hospice, in Nettlebed, previously announced plans to move to the Townlands Community Hospital in Henley, but negotiations fell through.
The application to South Oxfordshire District Council is for 20 apartments.
But CEO Heidi Travis said the charity had "no immediate plans to move".
She added: "We have taken this step to help inform us about all of the options that are available to us to enable the continued provision of the service for the long term.
"We will continue to deliver the same well regarded and respected services from this building.
"As always, we remain incredibly grateful for the community's continued support, which enables us to be there for people at the most difficult time of their lives."
The Edwardian property has 18 beds and stands in 11 hectares (27 acres) of land.
The Grade II-listed house was built by Robert Fleming, the grandfather of the James Bond author Ian Fleming.
People have been cared for at the house for more than 30 years but the charity cannot offer patients single rooms, and access via public transport is difficult.
British Medical Association negotiators will then, in all likelihood, ask the union's members what they think - and that could set in train a process that could make or break not just the junior doctors' dispute but also Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt's approach to the NHS.
While the dispute with junior doctors has dominated everyone's attention, the government has also been meeting with the BMA about the consultant contract.
It is all part of the desire for a "seven-day NHS". The current contract has an optout that allows doctors to refuse to do non-emergency weekend work.
That results in hospitals having to pay large sums in overtime payments - sometimes three to four times the normal rate - to get consultants in on Saturdays to do routine work.
While they don't like it, there is an acknowledgement among consultants' leaders that the optout will have to go. The BMA effectively acknowledged as much by entering talks with ministers in October, after Jeremy Hunt told them if they didn't he would impose the changes on them as he is doing with junior doctors.
There is also an acceptance among many that if they resist they would struggle to garner the same public support junior doctors have, given that the average salary for a consultant is more than £80,000 (and that is before overtime payments and any private work are taken into account).
It is one of the reasons why the talks have gone amicably compared to the juniors and why in normal circumstances there would be reason to believe that a reasonable offer by the government would have a good chance of getting voted through by the membership.
But, of course, we are not in a normal situation. While these talks have been staged separately from the junior doctor negotiations, they're not taking place in a vacuum.
Consultants know if they agree to any offer, it will leave their junior colleagues horribly exposed as ministers push ahead with the imposition of their contract. How much will this influence any decision they are asked to make?
The issue is further complicated by the fact that the BMA is giving consideration to allowing some junior doctors at the end of their training - senior juniors if you like - the opportunity to vote on any deal.
Depending on the numbers, that clearly has the potential to influence the outcome. Of course, all this is hypothetical - an offer hasn't even been made yet.
But if it is (and I am told it could come in the next week or two) it will pose a real dilemma for the medical profession.
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Ming Jiang spent £178,000 at 235 Casino in Manchester in the two weeks after he allegedly killed Yang Liu, Minshull Street Crown Court was told.
It is claimed Mr Jiang murdered the 36-year-old and dumped his body near a remote Derbyshire lay-by so he could use Mr Liu's funds to repay gambling debts of £273,115.
Mr Jiang, 43, denies murder.
The court was told the Chinese men were friends, but while Mr Liu was "comfortably off" in a Salford Quays apartment, Mr Jiang was living in a one-bedroom flat in Beswick and being chased by creditors.
The jury heard that after dismembering Mr Liu and leaving his torso in a suitcase near the A628 Woodhead Pass at Tintwistle, Mr Jiang returned to Manchester, withdrew £800 from his friend's account and went gambling.
Mr Liu's remains were found by walkers on 10 October, some days after it is believed he was killed.
A subsequent police search of Mr Jiang's home found an "extensive clean-up", prosecutor Peter Wright QC said.
The court heard officers found a bloody palm print on a box in the flat and Mr Liu's blood in the bathroom.
Mr Wright said following his arrest, the 43-year-old used an "elaborate smokescreen" of "slurs", including suggesting Mr Liu was a paid escort for older Chinese men, to conceal his guilt.
He told the court Mr Jiang used Mr Liu's bank and credit cards, reclaimed watches worth £16,000 from pawnbrokers, and took his friend's passport to try and achieve a "quick sale" of the quayside apartment.
He also said Mr Jiang had shipped seven boxes of Mr Liu's possessions to an address in Shanghai.
The trial continues.
The bodies of Ms Alvarado and her sister Sofia Trinidad, 23, were found buried beside a river near the northern city of Santa Barbara.
Ms Trinidad's boyfriend confessed in custody to shooting and burying them, police say.
Police believe he shot her first in a fit of jealousy.
Ms Alvarado, who was crowned Miss Honduras in April, was preparing to leave for London for the Miss World contest in December at the time of their disappearance last Thursday.
The organisers of the contest joined in tributes to the dead women as the impoverished Central American state's record of violent crime again came under scrutiny.
The bodies were found buried at Cablotales, near the River Aguagua.
Plutarco Ruiz, the boyfriend of Ms Trinidad, was detained along with another man, Aris Maldonado.
Mr Ruiz confessed to shooting the two women and then burying their bodies with the help of Mr Maldonado, Honduras National Police director Gen Ramon Sabillon told media.
Chief detective Leandro Osorio said Mr Ruiz had shot and killed the elder sister in a fit of jealousy after seeing her dancing with "another person or something similar", then shot Ms Alvarado and buried the bodies.
"This is the main hypothesis we have for this crime, based on the witnesses and investigations we've done," he said.
The two women were last seen alive in a car without a licence plate as they left a birthday party on 13 November.
The murder weapon and vehicle used to transport the women's bodies to where they were buried have been found, the detective added.
Gen Sabillon said Mr Ruiz had led the authorities to the burial spot. No comment from Mr Maldonado was immediately available.
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Reacting to their killings, the sister's mother, Teresa Munoz, said: "They were not very astute about assessing the people around them."
"They were just friendly. They were taken out by people they hadn't known very long."
Organisers of the Miss World pageant issued a statement expressing their condolences, and announcing a tribute this weekend in honour of the dead women.
"We are devastated by this terrible loss of two young women, who were so full of life," they said.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Maria Jose Alvarado and Sofia Trinidad at this time of grief."
According to a UN report, Honduras has the world's highest homicide rate, with 90.4 people murdered per 100,000 of the population.
The story has dominated the front pages of the main Honduran newspapers since the disappearance of the women was announced on Saturday.
All the major papers feature pictures of the beauty queen on their front pages - in which she is seen in formal gowns or bathing suits wearing the Miss Honduras sash or her crown.
In a story headlined "The shattered dream of Maria Jose to represent Honduras at Miss World", La Prensa reports that the 19-year-old had already packed her bags to travel to London this week to represent Honduras at the Miss World pageant in December.
The paper says Honduras has decided not to send another contestant in her place as a sign of respect.
Ms Alvarado had worked as a model on the game show El Show X O da Dinero, hosted by television personality and former presidential candidate Salvador Nasrallah.
"A lot of girls die this way, but because they're not famous, it doesn't get the attention and the crimes go unpunished," Mr Nasrallah said.
"She was a girl of good principles who fell into a trap, a game with guns, and ended up a victim of a violent system.''
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Most of the city's Somalis welcome the ban but are worried the community has not had time to "prepare and adapt".
Community activist Khalil Abdi said the issues were both economic and social, with traders losing income and users who will have "nowhere to go".
The council said it was working together with the Somali community.
Khat is a leafy plant, grown in Kenya and exported to the UK, and acts as a stimulant when chewed. From 24 June it will become a banned class C drug.
Mohamoud Mohamed who makes £200 a day selling khat from his corner shop on Stapleton Road in Easton said he would lose half his income.
"My immediate action is to stop selling, there's no choice - it's compulsory. I'm law abiding. I don't want to be locked up for one piece of khat."
He has recently let his cleaner and shop assistant go because of the ban.
Bristol has 22 "marfishes" - special cafes where khat is chewed - and five shops also sell it.
The marfishes are dominated by men but some women chew khat. One of Mr Mohamed's female customers said, although she supported the ban, she bought it "occasionally at weekends to socialise at home" and described it as a "stress relief".
The 19-year-old did not want to give her name because it is "not socially acceptable" for women to chew.
Bristol's main khat trader, Abdirahim Ahmed, drives to Heathrow four days a week bringing back 160 boxes every day - each box contains 40 bundles of khat at a price of £3 each.
He said: "I will have to find another job and the marfishes will need to be replaced by cafes with snooker or table tennis."
Community activist Khalil Abdi said: "People welcome the ban, including those selling it, but the problem is that it's very short notice.
"A lot of the people who are chewing now have no skills and that's what concerns the community. Up to now they've been contained in the marfish - but now they've got nowhere to go and will come on to the street.
"The marfish is a community in itself - the people who are struggling will lose that support when it's no longer available."
"People will need training in basic skills such as learning English in order to be able to find a job," he added.
Peter Anderson, of Bristol City Council's Safer Bristol team, said the council was working with the community to "seek solutions which were best for the community".
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Almost 30 businesses in Bristol selling khat - a legal herbal drug used by the Somali community - may have to close when it is banned in the UK on Tuesday.
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The Chinese businessman, 39, outlined his ambitions at a Villa Park press conference on Wednesday.
"I hope in five years, or after five years, we will talk of this club as Madrid or Barcelona," he told BBC WM.
"Or someone else as well known and accepted by people in the world to say 'oh, that's the greatest club'".
Former Everton chief executive Keith Wyness is to become the club's new chief executive, subject to Football League approval when he appears before a panel on Thursday.
"This is a new challenge," added Dr Xia. "I am looking forward to working with Roberto, Keith and everyone else. I want to take this club back to the right place. We will do whatever we can to support Robbie."
Dr Xia was seated alongside new Villa manager Roberto Di Matteo, who revealed that he hopes his first summer signing will be Bournemouth defender Tommy Elphick.
The 29-year-old centre-half has discussed personal terms on a £3m deal.
Villa have also confirmed the appointment of former Chelsea and Liverpool assistant manager Steve Clarke to the backroom team.
Former West Bromwich Albion and Reading boss Clarke, 52, will become Di Matteo's number two, with Kevin Bond, Harry Redknapp's long-time assistant, the other key part of his dressing room as first-team coach.
Di Matteo admits he has a big rebuilding job on following Villa's return to the second tier of English football for the first time since 1988.
Dr Xia has already stated that Di Matteo will have between "£30 to 40m" to spend on new players.
But Di Matteo has inherited a team who won just three games last season to be relegated from the Premier League.
And he faces a tough task if he is to emulate the achievement of Graham Taylor, who led Villa to promotion in his first season in charge, when he took over as Villa boss in 1987.
"I know it will be difficult," said Di Matteo. "It's a rebuilding job and I have to turn things around.
"The objective is to get promotion this year. But we need to turn a team that has struggled into a strong competitive team. All aspects need to be looked at.
"We need a united group, people who are willing to fight for the club in the Championship. But, with the right personnel we can do well.
"The last three or four years it has been a club in decline and relegation last season topped that off. It will take time to sort the team out. We want results yesterday instead of today."
"Well, there's no denying the extent of the new Aston Villa owners' ambition. Dr Tony Xia says he'd like to see Villa up there with Real Madrid and Barcelona within 5 years. Ambitious stuff!
"Such words can be easy to say but, while many may think he should be more realistic in his statements, I'd ask 'what's wrong with a bit of dreaming'?
"He's a man full of enthusiasm that has just taken over a club that has known nothing but suffering for years, culminating in relegation last season. So I, at least for one, will forgive him a bit of exuberance, while knowing those words could come back to haunt him if things go wrong.
"Villa fans now have some hope, something that's been sadly lacking in recent times. A new owner, a new manager and a new era await.
"I know in football it's the hope that can hurt the most at times. However, to be around a club without it is a soulless existence. Under Xia, it feels like we are all in for an exciting ride whatever happens, so why not reach for the stars?"
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Slovenia's Prime Minister Miro Cerar did not rule out building a fence along the 670km (415-mile) border with Croatia. Hungary has fenced off its borders with Croatia and Serbia.
Nearly 50,000 migrants have entered Slovenia since last Saturday.
The EU Commission says it is prepared to send support staff to Slovenia.
Slovenia has requested tents, blankets and other supplies under the EU's disaster relief programme, Reuters news agency reports.
Most of the migrants - including many refugees from the conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan - want to reach Germany to claim asylum.
Slovenia has protested to Croatia for continuing to let migrants cross the border by train. The crisis has also caused tension between Croatia, Hungary and Serbia.
The Commission will chair an emergency summit in Brussels on Sunday, where Balkan and Central European leaders will try to co-ordinate action to control the migrant influx.
In France, police moved more than 1,300 migrants out of a disused Paris school on Friday, where they had been staying for months in squalid conditions. They were transferred to several special migrant centres.
Earlier, hundreds more migrants arrived in Spielfeld on Austria's border with Slovenia, the Austrian state broadcaster ORF reports.
Some 1,500 are already waiting there, hoping to get permission to travel north.
Several hundred had to spend the night outdoors in the cold because of a lack of beds, ORF reported, citing Red Cross sources.
Austrian authorities are concerned that many migrants reached Spielfeld by walking along a railway line - a risky route, as rail traffic has resumed.
Dobova, on Slovenia's border with Croatia, has also become a migrant bottleneck, where many have had to sleep rough in the cold, a reporter for Germany's ARD news said.
But a delivery of camp beds and field toilets arrived there during the night and the migrants also got hot tea, the reporter said.
On Thursday Slovenia reported that 12,000 migrants had arrived in one day - a record in the current crisis in Central Europe.
Germany is expecting at least 800,000 asylum seekers this year - about four times the number it handled last year.
A package of measures to speed up deportations of failed asylum seekers from Germany will take effect this weekend - a week earlier than planned.
The influx includes many asylum seekers from Albania, Kosovo and other Balkan countries, which Germany now considers safe. Citizens of those countries generally have their claims rejected.
The EU is deploying specialist teams to Italy and Greece, where new "hotspots" are being set up to register the many migrants arriving by sea.
The Commission says that EU member states have so far pledged 854 places for asylum seekers to be relocated within the EU, after agreeing to relocate 160,000 currently in Italy and Greece.
Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas said the numbers were "not what the Commission would have been looking for" at this stage, but expressed hope that the process would gain traction in the coming weeks.
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It is the only world the two-year-old has known for the last 17 months after being diagnosed with leukaemia.
Now her mum, Mel, is hoping to take her little girl on a trip around the world - in the form of postcards.
She has launched a social media appeal asking for people to send in postcards to decorate Jessie's room.
They will also be used to teach her sister Macy, seven, about the different countries of the world.
The appeal was picked up on the Facebook page of Sheffield Online on Monday and has been shared more than 5,500 times.
Postcards have already come flooding into the children's hospital from Liverpool and York and as far away as the US, New Zealand and Australia.
Mel, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, said: "It's already had a massive impact on Jessie.
"Just seeing her with Macy, the two of them sat on the bed next to each other passing out an envelope each and saying 'go', and both trying to get into them.
"They were sat there and Macy was reading them to Jessie. It was amazing seeing the smiles on their faces.
"We've had a couple of animal ones and Jessie loves animals and as soon as she sees them that's it.
"One of them was of a kangaroo and she was over the moon, 'hop hop hop'. She loves them."
Jessie had a bone marrow transplant last year but suffered complications which has meant she has been unable to leave hospital and has to stay in isolation.
Mel says she had the idea for the postcards to decorate Jessie's room which the family have "had to make into our home".
"I thought it would be really nice to brighten the girls' room up and in the process teach Macy about different countries and where they are and teach Jessie there is more than four walls and a view out of the window.
"There's a big world out there we would like to take her to see."
Mel says her daughters have received around 500 postcards and letters in the post since the appeal was launched.
One woman also donated a rucksack containing around 2,000 postcards which she had collected throughout her life.
"I'm so overwhelmed by the response by people out there, that don't know us or what we've been through, taking the time to read and share it and send stuff in," said Mel.
"It's amazing. I didn't think we'd get anywhere near the amount of shares, let alone the amount of post cards.
"I'm just asking people to send a card if they go on holiday or if they have a favourite place they go to - we call our happy place - take a picture and let us see."
Postcards can be sent to Jessie and Macy Stocks at Sheffield Children's Hospital.
English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish representatives held discussions on the topic while attending the Uefa Congress in Helsinki, Finland.
Men's and women's sides competed under the GB banner during the 2012 Olympics.
Plans for the teams to compete at the 2016 Games were scrapped after protests from the Irish, Scottish and Welsh FAs.
Though there is no prospect of a return for a men's side, it is believed there could be a possibility of a women's team competing in 2020.
The associations of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have traditionally been against teams playing under a GB flag for fear of losing their status as independent football nations.
Wales boss Chris Coleman has previously said he is not in favour of the idea.
"I cannot accept we should be a Great Britain team. I think that is wrong. Our independence would possibly go away," former Football Association of Wales (FAW) president Trefor Lloyd Hughes told BBC Wales Sport.
British Olympic chiefs have already said they are in favour of fielding GB soccer teams in Tokyo.
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Adnan Akmal scored 74 not out as the hosts made 192, losing 12 wickets on day one of a two-day match as both teams agreed to spend a day batting.
Finn took 4-16 but will battle with Mark Wood for the third seamer's place.
Meanwhile, leg-spinner Adil Rashid, pushing for a Test debut, took 3-53.
Finn, who took eight Australian wickets to win the third Ashes Test in July, and Wood played alongside Stuart Broad in the last two Tests against Australia after James Anderson was injured.
But Finn expects Wood, Broad and the fit-again Anderson to be selected for the first Test, which begins on 13 October in Abu Dhabi, after the other three all played in the opening warm-up game earlier this week.
"I'd say I've staked a claim but I'd still be surprised if I played the first Test," said the Middlesex bowler, who took the new ball with fellow paceman Liam Plunkett.
"I think the guys bowled really well the other day, and it wouldn't surprise me if the team that was picked then is the team for the first Test.
"At the moment, I'm back-up to those guys but nothing is set in stone."
Finn's match-winning Ashes performance at Edgbaston came after he doubted if he would play Test cricket again during his two-year absence from the longest format.
On that occasion, Wood was rested and Finn believes it will be a straight pick between him and the Durham seamer.
"There will be disappointed people, regardless of who gets picked," added Finn. "I don't think the same attack is going to play all the way through the series.
"So if you don't play the first Test, it's not the end of the world - there are two others in very quick succession."
Attention will turn to England's batting on Friday, with Moeen Ali and Alex Hales both auditioning for the role as captain Alastair Cook's opening partner.
He won 61.8% of the vote, a larger margin of victory than last year.
He vowed to bring Labour back together, saying "we have much more in common than divides us", insisting the party could win the next election as the "engine of progress" in the country.
More than half a million party members, trade unionists and registered supporters voted in the contest.
In a result announced on the eve of Labour's party conference in Liverpool, Mr Corbyn won 313,209 votes, compared with Mr Smith's 193,229.
Speaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg after his victory, Mr Corbyn said the debate about who led the party was "now over" and Labour needed to take its message on the economy, education and the NHS to the country.
Asked what steps he would take to reconcile critical MPs, he said some form of elections to the shadow cabinet were "absolutely in the mix" although he declined to rule out the possible deselection of sitting MPs in the run-up to the next election.
"I think you will see a lot of changes over the next few weeks," he said.
"They (MPs) have no need to worry at all because it is all about democracy. We are all democratically accountable to our party and to our constituents. They have no need to worry at all. I am reaching out."
by Laura Kuenssberg, BBC political editor
Victory will be sweet - not just because it is a confirmation of his remarkable support among thousands upon thousands of members around the country.
It is Mr Corbyn's second defeat of the Labour establishment, who many of his supporters believe have tried to undermine the leader consistently over the last 12 months.
They talk of a "surge in the purge" as the leadership contest progressed - party officials vetting and checking new supporters who had registered to vote.
There are claims that Labour HQ deliberately threw Corbyn supporters off the voting lists to reduce the size of his victory. Corbyn supporters believe many MPs have done nothing in the past year other than try to damage his leadership and today they will be shown to have failed badly in their attempt to oust him.
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In his acceptance speech, Mr Corbyn said he was "honoured" to have been elected in a contest that followed months of tension with many Labour MPs and urged people to "respect the democratic choice that has been made".
Addressing supporters, Mr Corbyn said he and his opponents were part of the "same Labour family" and everyone needed to focus their energy "on exposing and defeating the Tories".
"We have much more in common than divides us," he said. "Let us wipe that slate clean from today and get on with the work that we have to do as a party," he said.
Recognising that the election had been "partisan", he condemned online abuse of Labour MPs and supporters which he said "demeaned and corroded" the party.
Mr Smith, who had previously ruled out returning to the front bench, said he respected the result and the onus was on Mr Corbyn to "heal divisions and unite our movement".
"Jeremy has won the contest," he said. "He now has to win the country and he will have my support in trying to do so."
Mr Corbyn was first elected Labour leader in September 2015, when he beat three other candidates and got 59.5% of the vote.
Turnout was higher this time around, with 77.6% of the 654,006 eligible party members, trade union members and registered supporters - 506,438 in total - confirmed as taking part.
Mr Corbyn won comfortably in each of the three categories - winning the support of 59% of party members, 70% of registered supporters and 60% of affiliated supporters.
Despite winning the leadership in a vote of the wider membership and registered supporters last year Mr Corbyn, who spent three decades as part of a marginalised leftwing group of Labour MPs in Parliament, has never had the support of more than about 20% of Labour's MPs.
And the contest came about after more than 170 MPs supported a motion of no confidence in their leader - that confidence vote came after dozens quit his shadow cabinet and other frontbench roles.
There has been speculation that a number of critical Labour MPs could return in an attempt to heal the divisions over the party's future direction although a number are only prepared to do so if elections to the shadow cabinet - which were scrapped in 2011 in favour of the leader picking his own team - are reinstated.
Sources have told the BBC that there was a brief discussion of the issue at a meeting of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee on Saturday evening but no conclusions were reached and none are likely this week.
Saturday's result was welcomed by leading trade unions while Momentum - the campaign group spawned by Mr Corbyn's victory last year - hailed it as a "fantastic win".
Shadow health secretary Diane Abbott, a key ally of the leader, said opponents of Mr Corbyn had "thrown everything but the kitchen sink" at him.
"It was a hard campaign but the membership came out for Jeremy because they realised he had not been given a chance and had been treated unfairly," she said.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said it was up to Mr Corbyn's critics to decide whether they wanted to serve under him, insisting he wanted "unity and stability" and there was a "way we can accommodate everybody".
Labour MP Chuku Umunna said the "leadership issue was settled" and Mr Corbyn, through his re-election, was the party's "candidate to be prime minister".
Former leader Ed Miliband said it was "time to unite and focus on the country".
But Labour MP Louise Ellman said Mr Corbyn must appeal to more than his "cheering fans" and the public at large weren't "impressed with him and that needs to change".
"It's no good being surrounded by people who already agree with you. That is not enough."
The Conservatives said Mr Corbyn's re-election would not end the "bitter power struggle" within the opposition.
"172 Labour MPs don't think Jeremy Corbyn can lead the Labour Party - so how can he lead the country?" said party chairman Patrick McLoughlin.
The Lib Dems said Mr Corbyn was an "ineffectual leader" who had failed to stand up for the national interest during the EU referendum.
The Green Party was more conciliatory, offering the leader their congratulations.
"We look forward to working with Jeremy to oppose the Conservatives and to bring about a progressive government at the next election," said co-leader Caroline Lucas.
But UKIP leader Diane James tweeted: "The millions of Labour voters who want to see immigration cut and Brexit delivered are welcome in UKIP."
Viviane Reding wrote that she was concerned America's efforts "could have grave adverse consequences for the fundamental rights of EU citizens".
A series of leaks suggest major tech firms have passed information to the National Security Agency, the US government's snooping organisation.
Experts say they could now be sued.
"European data protection laws put restrictions on how data gathered about people, including social networking data, can be used," said Dr Ian Brown, associate director of Oxford University's Cyber Security Centre.
"The firms will now face serious questions from national data commissioners and even potentially from individual users in Europe over whether they followed all the European data protection laws that are supposed to stop things like this happening."
According to leaked documents published by the Guardian and Washington Post newspapers, the NSA can order internet firms to give it access to private emails, online chats, pictures, files, videos and other data uploaded by foreign users.
Google has said that its compliance with the requests did not give the US government "unfettered access to our users' data", but notes that nondisclosure obligations prevented it providing detailed information to the public.
Along with Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter, it has asked to be able to be allowed to publish information about the number and scope of the requests received.
Media reports suggested Yahoo, PalTalk, AOL and Apple have also been involved in Prism.
US intelligence chiefs have said that the data-sweeps save lives by helping thwart terror plots.
In her letter to Eric Holder, Ms Reding asks questions on seven areas of concern about Prism and other US data surveillance programmes:
Ms Reding added that American law enforcers should only be given access to EU citizens' data being held on US companies' servers in "clearly defined, exceptional and judicially reviewable situations".
A spokeswoman for the commissioner confirmed the letter had been sent on Monday evening, and that Ms Reding expected detailed replies to her questions when she meets Mr Holder at a previously scheduled event in Dublin on Friday.
It follows outrage over several recent violent crimes, including the gang-rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl.
President Joko Widodo said the regulation was "intended to overcome the crisis caused by sexual violence against children".
Previously, the maximum sentence for rape, of either an adult or a child, was 14 years in jail.
People jailed for sexual offences against children may also now be made to wear electronic monitoring devices after their release.
The gang rape of 14-year-old Yuyun on her way home from school and the rape and brutal murder of a 18-year-old factory worker this month have sparked national outrage.
In polls and on social media there is widespread support for tougher punishments including castration and the death penalty for perpetrators, particularly when children are the victims.
But a number of leading rights activists have voiced their dissent.
Mariana Aminudi from the National Commission on Violence Against Women said on Twitter: "The castration law is evidence that the government does not view sexual assaults as act of violence but merely as a matter of controlling sexual urges."
While Sandra Moniaga from the National Commission on Human Rights wrote: "Violence will not be stopped by violent punishments."
Introduced by emergency presidential decree, the new rules are in effect immediately but could be overturned by parliament at a later date.
"An extraordinary crime deserves an exceptional response", Mr Widodo said.
The Steelmen face Premiership rivals Rangers at Ibrox on Saturday with a place in the fifth round at stake.
"I think they seem to have improved. They lost the Old Firm match, but even within that match they played well in large spells," said the Well captain.
"We know we are up against it. But we are capable of competing against anybody in this division on our day."
The Scottish Cup tie at Ibrox is the first of 14 on Saturday, and Lasley is under no illusions as to the challenge they face.
"They [Rangers] have brought in a couple of new faces," Lasley said of his opponents who sit second in the Premiership.
"I think they are starting to gel better than they had done in the early part of the season, and at home they will be a tough proposition.
Lasley feels Rangers are on their way to showing they are the second best side in Scotland this year.
"They are at the moment according to the league, and I believe at the moment they probably are," he said.
"I think recent results have proved that. I expect them to finish there [second] at the end of the season to be honest."
"Of course it is going to be tough. It is probably one of the toughest draws you can get at this stage of the cup - take away Celtic, it's probably the next toughest assignment at the moment."
However, Lasley is confident the Steelmen can hold their own at Ibrox.
"We feel capable on our day in a cup competition especially. Our recent performances against Rangers and against Celtic, against the better teams in this league, give us the belief and confidence that we can compete against anybody."
This will be Motherwell's second visit to Ibrox this season. Back in August they took the lead through Scott McDonald, before goals from Harry Forrester and a 90th-minute winner from Kenny Miller saw Rangers take all three points.
"I think anybody that saw the last meeting at Ibrox would concede that we were very unfortunate to take nothing from that game," said Lasley.
"In fact, at one point in the game well into the second-half we're thinking we would be disappointed not to win this match - never mind take nothing from it.
"We can't control Rangers tomorrow. What we can control is turning up and giving our best and being at our best. If we do then I think we have a good chance of progression."
Sir Bruce began his career in showbusiness when he was aged just 14, becoming a household name for presenting shows such as the Generation Game and The Price is Right.
Most recently, he presented Strictly Come Dancing with Tess Daly from 2004 to 2014.
He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2011, becoming Sir Bruce Forsyth.
Sir Bruce had been unwell for some time and was in hospital earlier this year.
Strictly Come Dancing presenter, Claudia Winkleman tweeted: "He was the King of TV, the Prince of performers and the most generous of people... all toe-tapping twinkle, all kindness, all love...."
Bruce's Strictly co-presenter Tess Daly said: "There are no words to describe how heartbroken I am to be told the saddest news, that my dear friend Sir Bruce Forsyth has passed away. From the moment we met, Bruce and I did nothing but laugh our way through a decade of working together on Strictly Come Dancing and I will never forget his generosity, his brilliant sense of humour and his drive to entertain the audiences he so loved."
Joe Sugg tweeted: "An Inspirational entertainer. You will be sadly missed Sir Bruce Forsyth RIP."
Former Strictly contestant Georgia May Foote tweeted this tribute: "Oh so sad to hear Sir Bruce Forsyth has passed away. An absolute legend. My thoughts are with his family."
CBBC Top Class presenter, Susan Calman, who will be on this year's Strictly wrote: "RIP Sir Bruce Forsyth. I always wanted to be be his favourite. He was mine."
Former Newsround Presenter and Strictly winner Ore Oduba said: "My hero, Sir Bruce Forsyth. Nobody did it better. RIP Brucie."
Shirley Ballas, who is joining the new series of Strictly as a judge, tweeted this tribute: "I was a huge fan of Sir Bruce Forsyth. As a little girl I would watch all his shows. I found him so loveable and funny. It's a sad day."
Strictly judge Bruno Tonioli tweeted: "So sad A new⭐️in heaven goodbye dear friend and national treasure #sirbruceforsyth I will forever treasure the fun time we had together ❤️"
Len Goodman, Strictly's former head judge, has remembered Sir Bruce: "He was so kind and encouraging to me, the other judges and all those involved in the show. I used to pop round to his dressing room and chat about stars he met. The truth is there was no one I mentioned he hadn't met. His work ethic, professionalism and charm will be with me forever. One of his catchphrases was 'you're my favourite'. Well, you were one of mine and the nation's favourites. Bruce, it was nice to see you, to see you, nice."
The warning came as figures showed a rise in children, worried about online abuse and grooming, contacting the charity's Childline service.
Counselling sessions for young people worried about online sexual abuse rose 24% to 3,716 in 2015-16.
The Home Office described it as "a global problem" adding that "the UK is at the forefront of efforts to combat this dreadful crime".
Childline's figures also showed that:
"Most of us talk to people online and it's a great way to stay connected and make new friends," said NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless.
"But it can be a playground for paedophiles, exposing young people to groomers who trawl social networks and online game forums exploiting any vulnerabilities they may find."
Mr Wanless he said that he hoped that by putting the issue into the spotlight, more people would feel able to speak up if they were worried or scared by a situation or relationship.
Childline founder Esther Rantzen said the internet had brought many positive changes but added: "It has also brought dangers and online grooming is a real risk."
The charity's new Listen To Your Selfie campaign aims to help young people recognise the signs of grooming and unhealthy relationships.
It includes two films where selfies come to life and question a situation.
The Game focuses on a same-sex online grooming scenario and The Party highlights peer-to-peer sexual pressure and grooming.
One 16-year-old girl said her boyfriend was older and made her share images with his friends online.
"He gives me money and food when I go online and do things via webcam.
"I have not told anyone else what is happening, I am so scared and drink to forget.
"I just know I am not normal, I am weird and nobody understands. I am disgusting, so rather me than another young girl."
A 15-year-old boy feared he was being groomed by a man he had met online.
"He has asked for pictures and one time I made the mistake of sending a nude selfie.
"He won't show me any pictures of him, which makes me think he is fake. I have not agreed to meet him because I am scared. He has threatened to show my nude selfie to the world.
"I am gay, but nobody knows, so it would ruin me if people found out. I cry myself to sleep every night with worry."
A Home Office spokeswoman said the National Crime Agency was working closely with social media companies and police in the UK and overseas to identify offenders and their victims, with GCHQ helping target the most technologically advanced offenders and specialist funding almost doubled.
"The sexual exploitation of children is a heinous crime and this government will do whatever it takes to tackle offenders and prevent abuse wherever it takes place," said the spokeswoman.
1523-24 - Spanish adventurer Pedro de Alvarado defeats the indigenous Maya and turns Guatemala into a Spanish colony.
1821 - Guatemala becomes independent and joins the Mexican empire the following year.
1823 - Guatemala becomes part of the United Provinces of Central America, which also include Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.
1839 - Guatemala becomes fully independent.
1844-65 - Guatemala ruled by conservative dictator Rafael Carrera.
1873-85 - Guatemala ruled by liberal President Justo Rufino Barrios, who modernises the country, develops the army and introduces coffee growing.
1931 - Jorge Ubico becomes president; his tenure is marked by repressive rule and then by an improvement in the country's finances.
1941 - Guatemala declares war on the Axis powers.
1944 - Juan Jose Arevalo becomes president following the overthrow of Ubico and introduces social-democratic reforms, including setting up a social security system and redistributing land to landless peasants.
His era saw some of the civil war's worst episodes
Rios Montt faces massacre trial
1951 - Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzman becomes president, continuing Arevalo's reforms.
1954 - Land reform stops with the accession to power of Colonel Carlos Castillo in a coup backed by the US and prompted by Arbenz's nationalisation of plantations of the United Fruit Company.
1960-1996 - Civil war pitting government against leftist rebels supported mainly by indigenous people.
1963 - Colonel Enrique Peralta becomes president following the assassination of Castillo.
1966 - Civilian rule restored; Cesar Mendez elected president.
1970 - Military-backed Carlos Arena elected president.
1970s - Military rulers embark on a programme to eliminate left-wingers, resulting in at least 50,000 deaths.
1976 - 27,000 people are killed and more than a million rendered homeless by earthquake.
Rigoberta Menchu, a campaigner for Mayan rights, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992
Profile: Activist who publicised plight of indigenous people
1980 January - Spanish embassy fire, a defining event in the civil war, in which 36 people die after police raid the embassy occupied by peasants.
1981 - Around 11,000 people are killed by death squads and soldiers in response to growing anti-government guerrilla activity.
1982 - General Efrain Rios Montt takes power in a military coup. He conducts a campaign of mass murder against indigenous Mayans, accusing them of harbouring insurgents. He faces trial over these crimes in 2013.
1983 - Montt ousted in coup led by General Mejia Victores, who declares an amnesty for guerrillas.
1985 - Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo elected president and the Guatemalan Christian Democratic Party wins legislative elections under a new constitution.
A mourner remembers the fatal raid on the mission occupied by protesters
Guatemala comes to terms with its past
1989 - Attempt to overthrow Cerezo fails; civil war toll since 1980 reaches 100,000 dead and 40,000 missing.
1991 - Jorge Serrano Elias elected president. Diplomatic relations restored with Belize, from whom Guatemala had long-standing territorial claims.
1993 - Serrano forced to resign after his attempt to impose an authoritarian regime ignites a wave of protests; Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected president by the legislature.
1994 - Peace talks between the government and rebels of the Guatemalan Revolutionary National Unity begin; right-wing parties win a majority in legislative elections.
1995 - Rebels declare a ceasefire; UN and US criticise Guatemala for widespread human rights abuses.
1996 - Alvaro Arzu is elected president, conducts a purge of senior military officers and signs a peace agreement with rebels, ending 36 years of civil war.
Maya civilisation prospered in Central America until around 900 AD
BBC History: Fall of the Mayan Civilisation
1998 - Bishop Juan Gerardi, a human rights campaigner, murdered.
1999 - UN-backed commission says security forces were behind 93% of all human rights atrocities committed during the civil war, which claimed 200,000 lives, and that senior officials had overseen 626 massacres in Maya villages.
2000 - Alfonso Portillo sworn in as president after winning elections in 1999.
2001 December - President Portillo pays $1.8m in compensation to the families of 226 men, women and children killed by soldiers and paramilitaries in the northern village of Las Dos Erres in 1982.
2002 September - Guatemala and Belize agree on draft settlement to their long-standing border dispute at talks brokered by Organization of American States (OAS). Both nations will hold referendums on draft settlement.
2003 November - Presidential elections go to second round. Former military leader Efrain Rios Montt, trailing in third place, accepts defeat.
2003 December - Conservative businessman Oscar Berger - a former mayor of Guatemala City - wins the presidential election in the second round.
Guatemala - along with Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras - agrees on a free-trade agreement with the US.
2004 May - Former military leader Efrain Rios Montt is placed under house arrest.
2004 May/June - Major cuts to the army; bases are closed and 10,000 soldiers are retired.
2004 July - $3.5 million in damages paid to victims of civil war. Move follows state's formal admissions of guilt in several well-known human rights crimes.
2004 December - UN mission, set up to monitor post-civil war peace process, winds up, but the UN says Guatemala still suffers from crime, social injustice, human rights violations.
2005 March - Government ratifies Central American free trade deal with US amid street protests in capital.
2005 November - Guatemala's leading anti-drugs investigator is arrested in the US on charges of drug trafficking.
2006 July - A Spanish judge issues a warrant for the arrest of former military leader Efrain Rios Montt and other former officials over atrocities committed during the civil war.
2006 December - The government and the UN agree to create a commission - to be known as the CICIG - to identify and dismantle powerful clandestine armed groups.
2007 May - Guatemala ratifies an international adoption treaty, committing it to ensure that babies are not bought or stolen.
2007 July - Amnesty International urges the government to ratify the CICIG as a first step towards tackling the culture of impunity it says has contributed to Guatemala's soaring murder rate.
2007 August - International election monitors say they are worried about the high murder rate among political candidates and activists in the run-up to the 9 September polls.
2007 November - Alvaro Colom of centre-left National Unity of Hope Party wins presidential elections with nearly 53 percent of the vote.
2008 October - Ex-President Alfonso Portillo is extradited from Mexico to face corruption charges. A court later clears him.
2009 May - President Colom denies involvement in murder of a prominent lawyer who in a video made before to his death claimed Colom and others were out to kill him. A UN probe clears Mr Colom.
2009 September - An ex-paramilitary officer, Felipe Cusanero, becomes the first person to be jailed for the forced disappearance of civilians in Guatemala's civil war.
2009 December - Retired colonel becomes first army officer to be convicted of crimes committed during civil war.
2010 March - Country's police chief and anti-drugs tsar are sacked over the theft of cocaine.
2010 October - US apologises for deliberately infecting hundreds of Guatemalans with gonorrhoea and syphilis as part of medical tests in the 1940s.
2011 August - Four former soldiers found guilty of a village massacre become the first to be convicted of rights abuses during the civil war.
2011 November - Former army general Otto Perez Molina of the right-wing Patriotic Party wins presidential elections, takes office in January.
2011 December - President Colom apologises to the relatives of the more than 200 victims of the 1982 massacre in the village of Dos Erres during the civil war.
Guatemala is seen as an important area for the transhipment, production and consumption of drugs
President urges debate on drug legalisation
2012 March - President Perez Molina proposes decriminalising drugs as a way of combating the illegal narcotics trade.
2013 May - Ex-military leader Efrain Rios Montt is convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity, only to have the ruling overturned by the constitutional court on a technicality, forcing a retrial, although no date is set.
2014 March - Ex-President Alfonso Portillo pleads guilty in a US court to charges that he accepted $2.5m (£1.5m) in bribes from Taiwan in return for a promise of continued recognition by Guatemala.
2014 June - The US to give millions of dollars of aid to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras to combat gang violence and help citizens repatriated from the US, as part of efforts to cope with growing migration.
2014 August - Armed forces chief Rudy Ortiz dies in a helicopter crash of unknown cause in bad weather near the border with Mexico.
2015 January - The retrial on genocide charges of Guatemala's ex-military ruler General Efrain Rios Montt is suspended, after his lawyers question the impartiality of the lead judge.
2015 August - A court rules that ex-military ruler General Efrain Rios Montt must face a retrial for genocide in January despite suffering from dementia, but he will not be tried in person or be sentenced if found guilty.
President Perez Molina resigns after Congress lifts his immunity in response to allegations by prosecutors of his involvement in a customs bribery ring.
2015 October - Jimmy Morales wins presidential election.
How? By incubating 10 eggs with his own body heat.
He will live inside a glass vivarium until his charges hatch, watched by visitors to the Palais de Tokyo museum in Paris.
Poincheval expects the process to last between 21 and 26 days.
"I will, broadly speaking, become a chicken," he said.
The artist, 44, began the performance - titled "Oeuf" (Egg) - on Wednesday.
Rather than sitting on the eggs directly, he is deploying a chair with a container under its seat.
Poincheval will be wrapped in an insulating blanket designed by Korean artist Seglui Lee, to keep his body temperature high.
He also plans to eat "heating" foods like ginger to generate more body warmth - and will have provisions in easy reach.
Lavatorial matters are not so simple. Poincheval will use a box beneath him when nature calls, and will not be able to get up to relieve himself.
To hatch the eggs successfully, he will only be able to stand and leave them for 30 minutes a day. That time will be used for meals.
The egg enterprise comes less than a month after Poincheval's last effort "Pierre" (Stone), where he lived inside a hollowed-out limestone rock shaped to fit his body.
The Palais de Tokyo said the artist was "trying to escape from human time and experience mineral speed".
Prior to that, he spent a fortnight in April 2014 living inside a hollowed-out bear in Paris's Museum of Hunting and Nature, eating worms and beetles to mirror the animal's diet.
According to Poincheval, the best way to understand objects is not from a distance, but by entering them.
The fate of the unborn chickens should - appropriately - be clear after Easter.
She took first place on the podium after winning the women's SM14 200m individual medley on Saturday night.
Firth, from Seaforde in County Down, broke her own Paralympic record with a time of 2:19.55 to win the race.
Her golden hat trick came after she successfully defended her 100m backstroke title and won the 200m freestyle gold in Rio last week.
She also won a silver medal in the 100m breaststroke final, considered the weakest of her four events.
Firth said that, as the medley was her last event in Rio she wanted to make a splash.
"I wanted to do something special and I'm so happy with my performance."
Her record-breaking win saw her clinch victory ahead of her British teammate Jessica-Jane Applegate.
The British one-two topped off a very successful night in the pool for the ParalympicsGB team.
Oliver Hynd smashed the world record in the 200m individual medley SM8 to retain his Paralympic title.
Firth's teammate Hannah Russell won her second gold medal in the 50m freestyle S12.
"We're such a good team, Great Britain were really pushing each other on," Firth said.
"When we saw Ollie win his gold and Hannah win the gold, it just sort of pushes each other on," she added.
Firth, who is 20, competes in the S14 class for swimmers with an intellectual disability.
Director Zack Snyder said the three-time Oscar nominee has "the talent to capture all of the qualities we love about Lois: smart, tough, funny, warm, ambitious and, of course, beautiful".
Adams will star alongside Britain's Henry Cavill in the as yet untitled film, set for release in December 2012.
The 36-year-old actress was recently seen in boxing drama The Fighter.
She was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for her role but the award went to her co-star Melissa Leo.
In the four Superman films starring Christopher Reeve, Daily Planet reporter Lois was played by Margot Kidder.
Kate Bosworth took over the part when the Man of Steel was revived in 2006 in Superman Returns.
Diane Lane and Kevin Costner have also landed roles in Snyder's film, in which they will play Superman's adoptive father and mother.
Snyder's latest movie Sucker Punch is released in the UK on Friday.
Team Sky's Froome clawed back breaks from Vincenzo Nibali, Alberto Contador and Nairo Quintana on the gruelling 15.8km climb up Plateau de Beille.
The Briton is still two minutes 52 seconds ahead of Tejay van Garderen.
Spaniard Rodriguez overhauled Michal Kwiatkowski in driving rain late on to win the 195km route from Lannemezan.
It was the second stage win of the Tour for the 36-year-old Spaniard after he triumphed up the sharp climb of the Mur de Huy in Belgium on stage three.
Rodriguez understandably punched the air as he crossed the line in torrential conditions at the end of the third and final stage in the Pyrenees.
But further down the road a desperate battle was playing out as Froome's rivals tried to take time out of the Team Sky rider.
It was as though the other teams were working in concert to try to isolate and expose Froome, with Alejandro Valverde as well as Contador, Nibali and, finally, Quintana all sprinting off the front of the ever-diminishing yellow jersey group.
But Team Sky did not panic and Froome was superbly aided by Richie Porte and, after the Australian fell back, the excellent Geraint Thomas.
Froome at one point tried to attack himself but he was quickly caught and briefly isolated while Thomas hauled his way up the road to rejoin his team leader.
"I was hoping maybe one or two guys might switch off mentally with that acceleration," explained Froome.
"But everybody seemed pretty fresh so at that point I just said 'OK, I'm just going to try to get to the line today in the best condition possible and hopefully not lose any time'."
In the end Valverde did sprint clear close to the line but he only managed to take one second off Froome and remains almost four minutes behind.
After a relatively quiet Wednesday, when the leaders appeared content to catch their breath and let Rafal Majka claim a breakaway victory, it was widely expected that Froome's form would be tested on Thursday.
There were attacks from the start of the day and early disappointment for Movistar's British rider Alex Dowsett, who abandoned shortly after slipping off the back of the main group.
Dowsett had sustained a painful elbow injury after crashing on the cobbles earlier in the race and later said: "Was beaten by the Tour this year. Sad to be heading home, stomach problems in the night was the final nail in the coffin. Will be back."
A group of 22 riders eventually got clear and built a steady lead that grew to more than 10 minutes.
That lead remained fairly steady for some time, although the size of the group varied as the breakaway made its way along a stage that comprised two category one climbs and one category two before the brutal finish.
World road race champion Kwiatkowski and Sep Vanmarcke eventually broke clear, with the former going out on his own.
But on the slopes of Plateau de Beille Rodriguez showed superb form and determination to catch Kwiatkowski and finish more than a minute clear of Jakob Fuglsang with Frenchman Romain Bardet third.
The Tour moves on from the Pyrenees on Friday, with a 198.5km transitional stage from Muret to Rodez that could end with a sprint finish.
BBC Sport's Matt Slater: "In much the same way that rain can freshen up the dullest of F1 races, the worst weather at this year's Tour helped produce the best action.
"We had great riders in different groups all along the road to the final fearsome climb up to Plateau de Beille and each of those groups provided their own storylines.
"In the end, the stage victory went to Joaquim Rodriguez, his second of a Tour that has seen him give up his long-held ambitions on general classification in favour of a spectacular triumphs of a more one-off nature.
"Most of those who still harbour hopes of taking the yellow jersey from Team Sky's Chris Froome had a more frustrating day as the British star and his wonderful wingmen Richie Porte and Geraint Thomas deflected everything thrown at them.
"Afterwards, by the team cars, there was a distinct sense that the other big names are now fighting each other for podium places."
Full results and standings.
1. Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha 5hrs 40mins 14secs
2. Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana +1min 12secs
3. Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale +1min 49secs
4. Gorka Insausti (Spa) Movistar +4mins 34secs
5. Louis Meintjes (SA) MTN-Qhubeka +4mins 38secs
6. Jan Barta (Cze) Bora-Argon +5mins 47secs
7. Romain Sicard (Fra) Team Europcar +6mins 3secs
8. Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale +6mins 28secs
9. Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar +6mins 46secs
10. Chris Froome (GB) Team Sky +6mins 47secs
1. Chris Froome (GB) Team Sky 46hrs 50mins 32secs
2. Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing +2mins 52secs
3. Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar +3mins 9secs
4. Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar +3mins 58secs
5. Geraint Thomas (GB) Team Sky +4mins 3secs
6. Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo +4mins 4secs
7. Robert Gesink (Ned) LottoNL +5mins 32secs
8. Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto +7mins 32secs
9. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana +7mins 47secs
10. Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek +8mins 2secs
The 18-year-old is in the Great Britain squad for the UCI BMX World Championships later this month.
Compatriot Bethany Shriever also made the final but finished sixth.
Reade, who went on to become a multiple BMX and track world champion, retired from competitive cycling this year.
Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto was also fined some $260,000 (£165,000).
Rabbi Pinto had offered cash in return for classified information on a police probe into one of his charities.
The rabbi, believed to be one of Israel's wealthiest, has a large following among celebrities and business people in the US.
He is a great-grandson of a famous Moroccan mystical rabbi, Israel Abuchatzera, also known as the Baba Sali.
Rabbi Pinto had entered a plea bargain at the Tel Aviv court, agreeing to testify that he had bribed another senior police chief, the former head of Israel's national crimes squad.
Mr Clark has tweeted that he's "thrilled" to be appointed and that he will build on the work of the "brilliant" David Willetts.
He will combine the role with his existing portfolio as cities minister.
One of his first tasks will be to convince the research community that the importance of science has not been downgraded as a result of the merger.
By Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent, BBC News
As the youngest member of the Cabinet, Liz Truss will be welcomed by many as marking a distinct change from the divisive Owen Paterson.
Mr Paterson's views on climate change, genetically modified foods and especially the badger cull earned the deep distrust of environmental campaigners while generating support among farmers.
Greens were quick to put the boot into the departing Mr Paterson dubbing him the "worst environment secretary in decades".
"Mr Paterson has wilfully ignored scientific evidence on climate change, championed pesticide firms instead of bees and massively underinvested in flood defences, leaving thousands of households at risk of future flooding," said Andy Atkins from Friends of the Earth.
But Mr Paterson's adoption of new measures to tackle bovine TB including the controversial badger cull won him hearts and minds in the countryside.
His sacking has been described as "disappointing" by National Farmers Union President, Meurig Raymond.
With her background as a strong advocate of the free market and as a former employee of Shell, many greens will be cautious about the new Secretary.
Ms Truss is reported to have concerns about the use of agricultural land for solar plants and the subsidies these operations accumulate.
According to the vote tracking website, the Public Whip, Ms Truss has voted in favour of measures to stop global warming around 48% of the time. Her predecessor, Mr Paterson, has a slightly stronger record of support at 53%.
She has twice voted in favour of the badger cull in 2013.
As an MP from South West Norfolk, she has been active in supporting farmers on issues including reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and in ensuring that farmland stays in production for food.
She is a strong advocate of improvements to rural infrastructure - according to her website she is "determined to find new ways and funding to bring good roads, faster broadband and reliable energy supplies" to country areas.
One issue that she has been associated with is the way that the Environment Agency values agricultural land when assessing flood schemes. She has lobbied Defra on this issue. Now as Environment Secretary she will have the chance to do something about it.
Owen Paterson was removed from his post as Environment Secretary in the reshuffle. The 38-year-old Liz Truss will take over the brief from him.
Mr Clark is an economist and a former treasury minister. He has a reputation for being a deep thinker and in the same analytical mould as his predecessor David "two brains" Willetts.
Many in the scientific community hope that Mr Clark's links with the Chancellor, George Osborne, will stand them in good stead.
He will however have to answer questions about his decision to support a Parliamentary motion supporting the availability of homeopathic medicines on the NHS in 2007.
It is thought he did so because he has a homeopathic hospital in his Tunbridge Wells constituency. Mr Clark will no doubt be asked whether he believes homeopathic remedies are effective and if he would advocate their use to treat serious illnesses.
The science minister's primary role is to oversee research spending and the running of universities. In science, his chief aim will be to hold together the research base which has been creaking under the weight of having to shoulder year on year real terms cuts.
It has been reported that the science brief will be split with the appointment of George Freeman as life sciences minister. But the role has existed before and is likely to have been recreated because of the strategic importance placed on the sector.
Mr Willetts will be a tough act to follow - he has received warm tributes from the scientific community following his departure.
His critics say he oversaw a real terms cut in science spending. His fans, who are in the vast majority, argue that he saved science from the axe and used his considerable guile to win over the support of Mr Osborne.
Mr Willetts' achievements include nurturing the vibrant UK space sector and he was due to take a salute from the community for announcing plans to have a UK launch site for space planes at the Farnborough Air show today. He is also said to have played a big part in the selection of British astronaut Tim Peake for a mission to the International Space Station next year.
Prof Sir Paul Nurse, president of the Royal Society, said Mr Willetts had been an "outstanding" science minister and Dr Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, said Mr Willetts would be "sadly missed".
The former Astronomer Royal, Prof Lord Rees, described him as a really "really admirable politician".
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They were among five girls who began to struggle in the water, close to Ross Rowing Club on Rope Walk, Ross-on-Wye at about 19:30 BST on Tuesday, West Midlands Ambulance Service said.
Members of the rowing club helped rescue the girls, aged 15 and 17, who were checked by crews.
The 17-year-old girl was was taken to hospital as a precaution.
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Ambulance service spokesman Murray MacGregor said: "Two members of Ross Rowing Club went into the water, while others used a rowing boat to get to the youngsters.
"In the meantime, one of the club's rescue launches was also launched.
"Three of the girls were able to get out of the water themselves. A 17-year-old girl was rescued from the side by the launch and a 15-year-old was rescued from the water by the rowing boat."
Phelan had been in temporary charge since Steve Bruce's departure in the summer, with the club currently 15th in the Premier League table.
A good start saw the 54-year-old named manager of the month for August.
In September, Phelan revealed he was offered the job on a full-time basis but there had since been no contact amid the club's search for a new owner.
"I'm very relieved," Phelan said on the club website. "It's been a while in coming."
Phelan added he was "looking forward" to the first full-time management role of his career, saying: "It's exciting to step over that threshold."
The newly-promoted Tigers surprised many by winning their first two games of the season despite a summer of turmoil and stretched playing resources.
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Since then, however, they have gone five games in the league without a further win, picking up just one point. They have reached the fourth round of the EFL Cup, and travel to Bristol City next.
Former Manchester United assistant manager Phelan first arrived at Hull City in February 2015 when named assistant to Bruce, who this week was appointed manager at Championship side Aston Villa.
Hull, who have beaten champions Leicester and Swansea this season, visit Bournemouth on Saturday.
The club also confirmed on Thursday that Stephen Clemence had left the club to join Aston Villa as first-team coach under Bruce.
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Jess Ratty is a woman with a mission. She wants us all to get better at promoting ourselves professionally online - and creating our own career opportunities along the way.
Given that changing jobs can be one of the hardest things we do, many of us might welcome anything that makes switching jobs easier.
According to a survey by Hired, eight in 10 of us say we find changing jobs stressful - and more stressful than moving house, planning a wedding or even having root canal work.
When it comes to job-hunting, Jess says the key is not to let your stress stop you from taking action: "Don't fret about things so much, or worry about how you might come across."
It's something she has put into practice in her own career.
Now a senior executive at Crowdfunder, the UK's biggest crowd-funding platform which raises funds from small investors, Jess says she's come a long way since dropping out of school.
She started work at the Eden Project in Cornwall as a waitress, and says it was her colleagues who helped her realise she "could maybe start achieving great things myself."
So she set about creating an online professional profile as a shop window for herself - and says having an active online presence has been crucial for her career.
"Crowdfunder found me through LinkedIn and went on to offer me a job."
Crowdfunder's Dawn Bebe, who recruited Jess, says what's important for her when recruiting someone "is getting a sense of what they are like and what they are passionate about".
Jess's experience is increasingly common, says Darain Faraz of LinkedIn.
"A lot of the time, most people aren't looking for work, they are what we call passive candidates. But LinkedIn can help jobs look for you."
Yet this only works if you have a complete profile, and sadly us Brits are not very good at self-promotion.
We're more likely to share food pictures on our social media channels than our work successes or announcements of a new job.
"People do make judgements based on our online profiles," says Darain.
And be assured, recruiters will also check your Twitter activity and Facebook profile as well: "Make sure that how you position yourself online is how you want to be seen," he adds.
"You don't want your Saturday night becoming your Monday morning."
The mistake many of us make is to only use professional networking sites when we're looking for a new role, says Darain.
But what recruiters want to see is a track record, so that they can judge whether or not we are right for a job.
"One of the first things we do is check [online] for potential candidates in the right geographical area who have the skills and interests that we think would work for us," says Crowdfunder's Dawn Bebe.
The jobs recruitment sector has changed markedly in the past few years, with a vast amount of job searching and head-hunting now done online with sites such as Monster, Reed, Viadeo and Xing.
LinkedIn has about 400 million members worldwide (in the UK it has 20 million members - some 60% of Britain's working population and students) and last year Microsoft paid over $26bn (£18bn) for LinkedIn.
Now Facebook, with more than a billion monthly active users, has launched Workplace; it's a platform designed to help workers talk to each other, in-house.
While it is currently for use within firms, given Facebook's size it has the potential to be a serious rival to LinkedIn.
Jess has her own tip for young professionals.
"You need to be creative and inventive with your online profile if you want to stand out," she says.
"You need to be consistent if you are using it to develop your career."
Jess says she always wanted to make her career in her home county - Cornwall.
Besides working for Crowdfunder, she and her partner have now set up the Cornwall Camper Company, hiring out restored VW campervans to holidaymakers.
She points out that thanks to online networking sites, "you can make a big impact wherever you are".
But she also has this important piece of advice. Merely being online is no substitute for professional knowledge and commitment, she cautions: "You've got to know your stuff."
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Edmund, 22, claimed his first Wimbledon win on Tuesday and meets Monfils on Centre Court at 13:00 BST.
Edmund will hope to become the fifth British player to reach the last 32 following wins for Andy Murray, Johanna Konta, Heather Watson and Aljaz Bedene.
Former champions Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic plus women's top seed Angelique Kerber also play on Thursday.
Seven-time winner Federer plays Serbia's Dusan Lajovic third on Centre Court at about 17:00, while two-time champion Djokovic will open play on Court One against Czech Adam Pavlasek.
They will be followed by Austrian eighth seed Dominic Thiem and France's Gilles Simon, before women's top seed Kerber of Germany takes on Belgian Kirsten Flipkens.
Czech third seed Karolina Pliskova faces a tough test against in-form Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia, who has a 14-1 record on grass this year, in the second match on Centre Court.
Former semi-finalist Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina, the 29th seed, plays Latvia's Ernests Gulbis on court three, with the winner potentially facing Djokovic in round three.
Edmund, ranked 50th, will hope his fortunes are on the up after arriving at Wimbledon without a coach or a grass-court win in 2017, and having lost all four previous matches at the All England Club.
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His first-round win over British qualifier Alex Ward set up the chance to take on Monfils, the extrovert Frenchman widely regard as the best athlete in the sport.
The 30-year-old won junior Wimbledon in 2004 but his professional record on grass has been modest, with the third round his best effort in eight previous trips to Wimbledon.
"He's obviously a very good athlete, moves well, makes a lot of balls," said Edmund.
"He has very, very easy power when he wants to hit it. Sometimes I think he likes to put more balls in play, maybe use his movement to win points.
"But it will be tough. He's obviously made the final last week [at Eastbourne], playing well. He's got good confidence."
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"Monfils is a bit nuts, he's super-talented, and he's got all the shots. He's an unbelievable athlete. All the players in the locker room are just glued to the TV when he plays, wondering what's going to happen next - sliding, splits, diving all over the court.
"Kyle has got to use his forehand well. They play quite similarly in that they both take big swings, and Kyle's got some real power on his forehand. He's got to play a great game and get in and be aggressive, take it to Gael.
"It's a tough match but I don't see it as an impossible task for Kyle."
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"On grass, Gael stays too far behind the baseline and has a really big loopy swing on his forehand, so just not enough time to hit the forehand and recover. He covers the court so well but he just runs out of space and time here. But I'd say he's got much more focused - he seems to be more serious about his game."
Investigators targeted more than 280 nail bars in Edinburgh, London and Cardiff as part of the government's Operation Magnify on "risk" industries.
Immigration minister Robert Goodwill vowed to tackle the "barbaric crime" of modern slavery by targeting businesses.
The government said it would identify and help potential trafficking victims.
Most of the 97 people held were Vietnamese nationals, but they also included immigrants from Mongolia, Ghana, China, Nigeria, Pakistan and India.
Immigration officers visited the nail bars across the UK between 27 November and 3 December.
They sent warnings to 68 businesses that they will pay £20,000 per illegal worker if they cannot prove that they carried out appropriate right-to-work document checks.
Operation Magnify has also targeted the construction, care, cleaning, catering, taxi and car wash industries in 2016.
Mr Goodwill said the operation sent a "strong message" to employers who abuse immigration laws.
"Modern slavery is a barbaric crime which destroys the lives of some of the most vulnerable in our society," he said.
In all, 14 of those arrested were passed to the National Referral Mechanism hub, a service supporting those identified as possible victims of slavery and human trafficking.
Many people working in plain sight in UK nail bars, on construction sites, in brothels, on cannabis farms and in agriculture are in fact suspected to be modern slaves.
Traffickers typically use the internet to lure their victims to the UK with hollow promises of jobs, education and even love - but offer a life of labour exploitation.
Prime minister Theresa May pledged in July to end the "great human rights issue of our time" of modern slavery.
Mrs May said a review to mark the first anniversary of the Modern Slavery Act, which she drew up as home secretary, found there had been 289 modern slavery offences prosecuted in 2015 - and a 40% rise in the number of victims identified.
The legislation, introduced in 2015, states it is an offence if someone holds another person in slavery or servitude or requires them to perform forced or compulsory labour.
Cadarnhaodd prif gorff arholi Cymru (CBAC) y llynedd na fyddai'n cynnig y cwrs drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg na'r Saesneg o'r flwyddyn nesaf ymlaen, o ganlyniad i niferoedd isel o ddisgyblion oedd am astudio'r pwnc.
Mae'r corff safoni arholiadau, Cymwysterau Cymru wedi gwahodd darparwyr o Loegr i gynnig cwrs TGAU Seicoleg, ond does dim rheidrwydd arnyn nhw i gynnig y cwrs yn y Gymraeg.
Mae corff arholi Pearson o Loegr wedi cadarnhau y bydden nhw'n barod i gynnig Seicoleg fel pwnc TGAU yng Nghymru'r flwyddyn nesaf, ond nid drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg oherwydd nad oes ganddynt "fynediad digonol at arbenigedd yn y maes."
Mae hyn yn golygu bod Seicoleg yn ymuno gydag Economeg fel pwnc fydd yn cael ei gynnig drwy gyfrwng Saesneg yn unig yng Nghymru'r flwyddyn nesaf.
Mae Chris Evans yn bennaeth Seicoleg yn Ysgol Morgan Llwyd, Wrecsam. Dywedodd wrth raglen Newyddion 9 ei fod yn siomedig nad ydy Cymwysterau Cymru wedi gwneud mwy i bwyso ar gyrff arholi.
"Dwi'n siomedig iawn gan fy mod wedi datblygu'r adran Seicoleg yma ers saith i wyth mlynedd. Mae'r cwrs TGAU yn hynod boblogaidd yn yr ysgol yma gyda hyd at 100 o ddisgyblion ar un adeg yn astudio'r pwnc.
"Dwi'n hynod siomedig gyda Cymwysterau Cymru nad ydyn nhw wedi dilyn polisi drwy fynnu bod cyrff arholi o Loegr yn darparu cyrsiau drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg," meddai Mr Evans.
Mewn datganiad mae Cymwysterau Cymru wedi dweud eu bod nhw wedi egluro wrth gyrff arholi "y dylai cyrsiau gael eu cynnig yn y ddwy iaith".
Ond maen nhw wedi cadarnhau hefyd nad ydynt yn gorfodi hyn gan ei bod hi'n "glir na fyddai byrddau arholi'n cynnig cymwysterau yng Nghymru".
Mae'r datganiad yn ychwanegu: "Rydym yn gweithio gyda'r byrddau arholi i geisio deall y rhesymau pam na fydden nhw'n dewis darparu cyrsiau yn y Gymraeg ac rydym wedi sicrhau bod grantiau arian ar gael i'w cynorthwyo gydag unrhyw gostau ychwanegol".
Mae CBAC hefyd wedi cadarnhau bydd tri phwnc arall, sef celfyddydau perfformio, astudiaethau hamdden ac astudiaethau twristiaeth yn cael eu gollwng ym mis Medi a does dim sicrwydd eto os bydden nhw'n cael eu cynnig yn Gymraeg yn y dyfodol.
Gofynnwyd i Lywodraeth Cymru am ymateb.
A hearse took the body from a Newark funeral home as two vehicles carrying relatives - including singer Dionne Warwick - followed behind.
Bobbi Kristina, 22, died at a hospice on 26 July, six months after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub.
Houston drowned in a bathtub at a Los Angeles hotel in 2012 on the eve of the Grammy Awards ceremony.
Bobbi Kristina was the only child of Whitney Houston and her father was R&B singer Bobby Brown.
The casket had earlier been at a memorial service in Alpharetta in Georgia on Saturday.
The burial at the Fairview cemetery in Westfield, New Jersey, on Monday was reserved for friends and family.
Police sealed off roads to the cemetery and only about a dozen fans could be seen at the gates as the gold-coloured hearse passed by.
One who was at the cemetery, Michael Tarashuk, told Reuters: "I wanted to show support to the Houston family and for Whitney Houston. I was here three years ago for Whitney Houston."
A friend of the family who was invited to the funeral service, TV host Kevin Frazier, told the agency: "This wasn't a celebrity funeral. This was a little girl and [the family] can't understand why we're back here so soon.
"It was sad, it was heartbreaking, nothing like anybody should ever experience."
Bobbi Kristina Brown began performing with her mother in 1999, singing duets of My Love is Your Love and recording Little Drummer Boy for a holiday album in 2003.
She was found in the bathtub in the home she shared with Nick Gordon in Atlanta.
Authorities are still investigating the death, which police have described as a drowning.
The Right Reverend Robert Paterson, 67, has served the Diocese of Sodor and Man since 2008, as well as holding a seat on the island's Legislative Council.
He told Manx Radio his decision to retire on 11 November was motivated "purely by age".
Sodor and Man is the smallest diocese in the Church of England, overseeing 45 churches and 27 parishes.
Before moving to the Isle of Man, he was a parish priest in Wales and chaplain to the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu.
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Fe wnaeth y ddynes, sydd ddim wedi ei henwi am resymau cyfreithiol, drefnu ymosodiad rhyw ar y ferch gyda Stuart Bailey mewn cyfres o negeseuon tecst.
Cafodd Bailey, 54 oed o Ynysybwl, Pontypridd, ei garcharu hefyd am 13 mlynedd, wedi i'r ddau eu cael yn euog o gynllwynio i dreisio merch o dan 13 oed mewn achos ym mis Rhagfyr.
Clywodd Llys y Goron Caerdydd bod y fam wedi prynu tabledi cysgu i roi i'w merch, a'i bod wedi gyrru lluniau noeth ohoni at Bailey.
Cafodd cynllwyn y ddau ei ddarganfod wedi i bartner y ddynes weld y negeseuon ar ei ffôn a hysbysu'r heddlu.
Fe gafwyd Bailey yn euog hefyd o annog dosbarthu lluniau anweddus o blentyn ac annog ymosodiad rhyw ar blentyn.
Roedd Bailey wedi gwadu'r cyhuddiadau yn ei erbyn, gan ddweud ei fod yn cael ei "gyffroi" drwy anfon negeseuon "erchyll a ffiaidd" at bobl.
Roedd y fam hefyd wedi dweud wrth y llys ei bod hi'n cael ei "blacmelio a'i bwlio" gan Bailey a'i fod wedi ei "bygwth gyda thrais".
Dywedodd y barnwr, y Cofiadur Eleri Rees, bod Bailey wedi cysylltu â nifer o fenywod ar wefan Plenty Of Fish.
Roedd "patrwm" bod Bailey yn dechrau sgwrsio am weithredoedd rhyw anghyfreithlon, gan weld pa mor bell y byddai'n gallu gwthio'r merched.
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Ar ôl i'r ddau gael eu harestio, daeth i'r amlwg bod Bailey yn cael sgyrsiau tebyg gyda merched eraill.
Clywodd y llys bod Bailey hefyd wedi dweud y byddai'r fam yn derbyn rhwng £200 a £300 am adael iddo dreisio ei merch.
Cafodd y ddau ddiffynnydd hefyd orchymyn atal niwed rhyw.
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The girl, named in reports as Terrie Kirby, died along with friends named as Alexandra Binns, 18, Ryan Beal, 20, and Brandon Brown, 20.
The quad bike was in a crash on the A6201 between Upton and Hemsworth in West Yorkshire early on Sunday.
Two men who were in the car were questioned about the crash and bailed.
Three of the people died at the scene while one of the men died in hospital from his injuries.
Friends and family members went on to social media to express their condolences and post messages of sympathy, and one said Terrie had died on her birthday.
Ashleigh Lynch wrote on Facebook: "I don't actually know what to do with myself. Absolutely wounded, my heart's actually melting.
"Why does it have to the best ones? My best friend out of it all. And on her 16th birthday.
"You're my angel. My beautiful Alexandra, Beal... and Drea will show you how to have a good time."
Jeorgia Lynch added: "Can't believe it, doesn't seem true. Going to miss you Ryan Beal, Terrie Lynch. Fly high, don't party too hard up there, beautiful angels.
"Love you Alexandra Binns... too young, taken too soon."
Ray Henshaw, principal of Minsthorpe Community College where Terrie Kirkby was a pupil and Alexander Binns and Ryan Beal had previously been taught, said the deaths were "devastating".
He said: "We are trying to help our young people come to terms with it, the understandable grief and loss.
"The sense of devastation is [because of] the age of these young people, the tragic loss and the fact they had so much of their lives left ahead of them."
In a statement, glazing firm Safestyle, where Ryan Beal worked as a fitter, said staff were in mourning.
The firm said: "We are deeply saddened and shocked by the news.
"Our heartfelt condolences go out to the family and friends of Ryan."
West Yorkshire Police said the quad bike was unregistered and believe the Nissan was travelling towards Hemsworth on the A6201 when it collided with the bike.
At a press conference earlier, Det Ch Insp Richard Homes said the car was seen parked on the bypass prior to the incident.
The A6201 is still closed with rush-hour traffic being diverted away from the scene.
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Bristol Crown Court was shown footage of Alison Dove, 25, of Kingswood, hitting the same patient.
Dove is one of 11 ex care workers of Winterbourne View, near Bristol, being sentenced for neglect or abuse.
The care home, now under new management, looks after people with severe learning difficulties.
The court heard that five residents - Simone Blake, Simon Tovey, Louise Bissett, Louisa Deville and Lorraine Guildford - were abused by the defendants.
Dove, referring to Miss Blake, was filmed by a BBC Panorama reporter as saying: "She loves pain, doesn't she? She thinks it's funny."
She then told Miss Blake: "Simone, come here and I'll punch your face."
The court then saw footage of Dove run up to Miss Blake, who was sitting on the floor with her back to her, and striking her hard on the back with the flat palm of her hand. Miss Blake squealed in pain twice.
In another scene from the footage recorded by journalist Joseph Casey, Dove was seen filling jugs of water from a sink and pouring water over Miss Blake.
Water splashed into her face and she cried out: "I'm cold mum."
Dove and colleague Graham Doyle were seen on the footage encouraging Miss Blake to go outside wet. Dove also squirted shower gel towards Miss Blake's face.
The care worker asked her: "Do you want another shower?"
The footage then captured Miss Deville tell Miss Blake: "Simmie, don't mess with Ali or she will put you in the shower again. Yes, she will put you in the shower."
In another incident, with Miss Guildford, Dove straddled her as she was lying on the floor and said: "Listen, you don't get to chuck stuff at me, you know that.
"I don't let you get away with it. I'm going to keep it, all right, until you say sorry, all right, because we've done nothing to you except tell you to get dressed, so you can have your dinner."
After Miss Guildford swore at her, Dove responded with: "Go on, spit on my staff. I dare you. There you go, spit on your own bedding, you won't do that will you?"
Other footage shown included an incident where a chair was broken by Miss Bissett where she was told by Dove that she would have to sit on the floor in the future because she didn't "deserve a chair".
Dove and Doyle then carried Miss Bissett into a room with all the lights turned off, to join Miss Blake - in the hope they would fight.
Dove made a swinging punch motion and told Mr Casey: "I was like, fight, and they were both just going and that's when it gets..."
In another scene caught by the undercover journalist, Gardiner grabbed Mr Tovey by the neck and aggressively pushed him towards a door.
Afterwards Mr Casey saw red marks on Mr Tovey's neck, who by this time was uncommunicative and appeared subdued.
During five weeks spent filming undercover, the Panorama reporter captured footage of some of the hospital's most vulnerable patients being repeatedly pinned down, slapped, dragged into showers while fully clothed, taunted and teased.
Judge Neil Ford QC, the Recorder of Bristol, said the sentencing hearing could last up to five days.
A serious case review published in August condemned the hospital's owner Castlebeck for putting profits before care.
Castlebeck said the criticisms in the report were being "actively addressed".
The full list of defendants is:
Michael Ezenagu, 29, from Shepherds Bush, west London; Alison Dove, 23, of Kingswood; Graham Doyle, 25, of Patchway; Jason Gardiner, 44, of Hartcliffe; Daniel Brake, 27, of Downend; Holly Laura Draper, 23, of Mangotsfield; Charlotte Justine Cotterell, 21, from Yate and Neil Ferguson, 27, of Emerson Green, Wayne Rogers, 31, of Kingswood, who all admit ill-treating patients in their care.
Sooaklingum Appoo, 58, of Downend, and Kelvin Fore, 33, from Middlesbrough, pleaded guilty to wilfully neglecting patients in their care.
Dove and Rogers have requested to remain in custody but the remaining nine defendants were released on bail by Judge Neil Ford QC, the Recorder of Bristol.
The sentencing hearing continues.
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"Look," he said, his excitement rising, "Look at the grill work, look at the brass lamps!"
Swiping one image after the next on his ipad, Kumar rummaged through a series of shots of art deco buildings in the western city of Mumbai; buildings he has known and loved for years.
Now he is trying to bring them to the wider attention of the public, and put the city's art deco heritage in a definitive way on the global map.
In December last year, a small team assembled by Mr Kumar began working on documenting exactly how many art deco buildings there are in the city.
Urban legend has it that there are at least 200, and anecdotally, Mumbai is believed to have the second highest number of art deco buildings after Miami.
"But we wanted to get a sense of the actual number," said Mr Kumar, a finance professional by day. "Mumbai has been living in the shadow of Miami and in the shadow of its Gothic heritage. We wanted to get it out of the shadow of both."
The city is best known for its triumphant 19th Century buildings like the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station, the Bombay High Court, and the municipal headquarters. So its later structures have remained relatively less celebrated.
With his passion project Art Deco Mumbai - a documentation endeavour, social media effort and soon-to-be-launched web repository - Mr Kumar is hoping to change that.
He first began last year with online efforts to popularise art deco, posting images of individual stylistic features such as curving balconies, swirling grillwork and zigzagging facade patterns of buildings on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
That initiative has since grown into a full-time project that aims to document every art deco building in the city.
The team first chalked Mumbai up into zones, then sub-sections and then individual blocks, and have now completed the first phase by mapping the southern-most Colaba precinct.
Of the area's 367 buildings, they have zeroed in on 55 deco buildings. Each has been photographed extensively and profiled by element.
"It was born out of a desire to reach out to a wider audience," said Mr Kumar, "To put it on the map, to get more people to appreciate it. Where is Mumbai on the art deco map?"
Art deco as a style swept through the world beginning in the 1920s and flourished in Mumbai - then Bombay - between the 1930s and 1950s when a rash of such buildings sprung up in the burgeoning southern part of the city.
Cinema theatres such as Regal, Liberty and Eros are some of the best known iterations of this style, with their geometric designs and spiky ziggurats.
The sea-facing Marine Drive promenade is also a cornucopia of deco - and has 35 residential buildings boasting splendid cylindrical balconies, window ledges, or "eyebrows" and that bold, distinctive deco type face.
The area is also part of the precinct named in the "Victorian and Art Deco ensemble", a central government nomination as a Unesco World Heritage site.
The sea-facing Marine Drive's buildings though, are relatively well known.
Mr Kumar and his team next plan to do field work in the Fort area or further north towards Peddar Road and Carmichael Road - expensive addresses whose deco buildings are barely registered in public memory.
Even further north in Dadar and Matunga, Mr Kumar expects to find many more buildings. He estimates that a decisive count will take another year.
"It's more than a hobby, it's a commitment," he said. "It's what I want to do for the city."
Art Deco Mumbai has been entirely backed by him till now and will launch its website this month, an online database that will feature tales of the buildings documented so far, pictures, research papers and conservation stories from around the world.
"We hope it will be two-fold," said Mr Kumar. "For both the curious, uninitiated explorer, as well as for the more serious academic or student."
The record of preserving these buildings has been mixed - in the southern part of the city they have been better maintained, and protected thanks to a 2015 state government notification that prohibits unauthorised changes.
But some have been damaged or altered in the preceding years. With Art Deco Mumbai, the intention is to highlight and help recognise the value of these structures.
"Art deco was a crucial point as the first expression of a modern Indian architectural style," said Prathyaksha Krishna Prasad, head of research and content of Art Deco Mumbai.
"Documentation is a step towards preservation. Heritage is not just ours, but is something to be passed on from one generation to another."
Sirens were sounded at the same moment as the first explosion at the reactor, in the early hours of 26 April 1986.
The meltdown at the plant remains the worst nuclear disaster in history.
An uncontrolled reaction blew the roof off, spewing out a cloud of radioactive material which drifted across Ukraine's borders, into Russia, Belarus and across a swathe of northern Europe.
The relatives of those who died attended candle-lit vigils at several churches, including at Slavutych, a town built to re-house workers who lived near the nuclear plant. A series of events are being held throughout the day.
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko attended a ceremony in Kiev, and laid a wreath at a memorial to the victims of the disaster before observing a minute's silence.
He is heading north to the site of the plant itself, not far from the border with Belarus, for a ceremony there.
Vasyl Markin, who had been working in Chernobyl at the time of the disaster, attended the service in Slavutych.
"This tragedy will stay with us till the end of our lives. I won't be able to forget it anyway," he said.
Some former residents returned to the area, now derelict and overgrown, ahead of the anniversary.
Zoya Perevozchenko, 66, lived in Pripyat, the town inhabited by Chernobyl workers which was abandoned in the wake of the accident.
She told Reuters news agency: "I barely found my apartment, I mean it's a forest now - trees growing through the pavement, on the roofs. All the rooms are empty, the glass is gone from the windows and everything's destroyed.
Levels of radioactivity remain high in the surrounding area. A charity, Bridges to Belarus, is warning that a number of babies in a region close to Ukraine's border are still being born with serious deformities, while an unusually high rate of people have rare forms of cancer.
Donors around the world pledged €87.5m (£68m; $99m) on Monday towards a new underground nuclear waste facility in the region. Ukraine will need to commit a further €10m in order to complete the new storage site.
Work began in 2010 on a 25,000-tonne, €2.1bn sarcophagus to seal the uranium left in the damaged reactor, thought to be about 200 tonnes.
Experts fear that if parts of the aging reactor collapse, further radioactive material could be spewed into the atmosphere.
The number of people killed by the disaster remains disputed. A report in 2005 by the UN-backed Chernobyl Forum concluded that fewer than 50 people died as a result of exposure to radiation, most of them workers killed immediately after the disaster, but some survived until as late as 2004.
The forum estimated up to 9,000 people could eventually die from radiation exposure, although Greenpeace claims the figure could be as high as 93,000.
In a statement, the Farc says "incidents which led to the distancing between the groups" have been overcome.
The development comes as Farc leaders resume peace negotiations with the Colombian government in Cuba.
They are discussing how Farc could enter politics if a deal is reached to end five decades of conflict.
According to the Farc statement, the meeting with the ELN (National Liberation Army) at an undisclosed location discussed the need to "work for the unity of all political and social forces" involved in changing the country.
The two groups have clashed in the past but have recently joined forces in armed operations against government targets in Colombia.
The ELN - Colombia's second largest group - is not part of the peace talks in Cuba.
But its leaders have made clear they would like to participate.
Talks between the Colombian government and the Farc resumed in Havana on Monday on the second key issue on the peace agenda: how to bring the rebel group into the political process after a future peace deal.
Q&A: Colombia peace talks
They reached an agreement on land reform late in May.
Farc leaders want general elections be put back a year, to 2015, to allow for a constituent assembly to draw up Colombia's political future.
But the government has warned it will only discuss the previously agreed agenda.
"The political participation discussion is only over these issues. This is what the government is ready to discuss and nothing else," Colombia's chief negotiator, Humberto de la Calle said.
Landmark peace negotiations have been going on in Cuba for more than six months.
The Farc is thought to have some 8,000 fighters, down from about 16,000 in 2001, while the government says the ELN has fewer than 1,500 men.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed since the conflict began in the 1960s, with some three million more internally displaced by the fighting.
Helped by a wind advantage, Cavan led 1-8 to 0-7 at the break with Gearoid McKiernan netting on 34 minutes.
However, Aidan McCrory's subduing of Martin Reilly in the second half and Mark Bradley's introduction helped turn the game Tyrone's way.
Tyrone levelled by the 48th minute as they went on to hit the last 10 scores.
After his side's encouraging first-half display as Reilly hit three outstanding points from play, Cavan manager Mattie McGleenan will surely be concerned by a second-half fade-out which leaves the Breffni County remaining in a relegation spot.
Cavan pulled men behind the ball in the first half and then broke at pace following turnovers as Tyrone struggled for fluency.
Points from McKiernan and Dara McVeety gave the visitors a two-point lead by the ninth minute and while two Sean Cavanagh frees helped edge the Red Hands ahead, Cavan led again at 0-4 to 0-3 thanks to Reilly's first score.
Cavan led by the minimum on three occasions over the following 10 minutes, only to be pegged back each time, before McKiernan's 1-1 late in the half left four between the teams at the break.
After Cavanagh and Kieran McGeary points halved the margin, Conor Madden replied on 42 minutes but that proved to be Cavan's last score as Bradley - introduced following half-time substitute Ronan McNamee's black card - began to make a big impact in the Red Hand attack.
After a Darren McCurry score levelled the game, Bradley's second point edged Tyrone ahead and with Cavanagh's move from full-forward to midfield also benefiting the Red Hands, Cavan faded rather alarmingly in the closing stages.
McCurry's black card briefly Tyrone's momentum as tempers, not for the first time during the game, began to fray but Tiernan McCann's 60th-minute score ended a nine-minute scoreless period.
Keeper Niall Morgan was among Tyrone's late scorers as Bradley brought up his tally to 0-3 with substitute Ronan O'Neill hitting the final two points.
Tyrone's win moves them a point ahead of Dublin while Cavan remain three points from safety with their closing games against Mayo [away], Kerry [home] and Roscommon [away] to come.
SUNDAY'S ALLIANZ LEAGUE RESULTS
Football League Division One
Tyrone 0-19 1-09 Cavan
Hurling League Division One A
Clare 0-20 1-15 Dublin
Waterford 1-13 1-21 Cork
Division One B
Kerry 0-12 1-22 Galway
Offaly 0-15 1-17 Wexford
Division Two A
Armagh 2-11 2-18 Antrim
Westmeath 2-20 2-07 London
Kildare 2-17 1-20 Carlow
Division Two B
Derry 3-15 0-12 Roscommon
Mayo 0-15 2-19 Meath
Wicklow 0-18 0-11 Down
Division Three A
Donegal 1-21 2-13 Monaghan
Tyrone 1-22 2-10 Louth
Division Three B
Leitrim 1-15 3-16 Sligo
NFU Scotland carried out the checks at Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and Marks and Spencer stores.
President Nigel Miller said sheep farmers needed a "confidence boost" that their product was "valued".
He said a "retailer commitment" to Scots lamb could help drive an improvement in the industry's fortunes.
The union said it was a "hugely challenging" for sheep farmers with sales slow in autumn and no pre-Christmas rise in prices.
It has been carrying out regular checks on supermarket commitment to home produced lamb over the past six months.
It found Morrisons had continued to stock only Scottish or British lamb.
The union also highlighted branding efforts by Marks and Spencer and Sainsbury's.
However, it criticised Tesco and Asda, which it said had "some Scottish or British produce" but still had "substantial quantities of New Zealand and Australia lamb".
Source: NFU Scotland
Mr Miller said: "This is a time when sheep farmers need a confidence boost from their major customers - the UK supermarkets - with a clear signal that their product is wanted and valued.
"Morrisons show what can be achieved with 100% commitment to Scottish or British produce in the stores we visited, with packs of lamb being sold at shop shelf prices that are comparable to its competitors.
"That contrasts starkly with the volume of New Zealand and Australian lamb that has stubbornly remained on the shelves of Tesco and Asda even during our peak marketing season in Scotland, when our lamb is at its freshest and tastiest."
He said there was a "genuine opportunity" for supermarkets to increase their stocks of Scots lamb.
"With lambing only a few months away, that would send out a positive signal to producers and help lift some of the gloom generated by one of the more difficult seasons on record," he said.
A Tesco spokesman defended the company's policy on which lamb it stocks.
"We are committed to offering our customers the best local and regional produce Scotland has to offer," he said.
"That includes stocking 100% Scotch lamb in our Finest range in our Scottish stores, from June to December, when Scotch lamb is in season and using Scotch lamb year-round for our core Tesco-branded lamb products."
A statement from Asda said: "We are committed to buying Scottish lamb wherever we can - in fact around 60% of our current range is from Scottish farms."
By showing up for a 9/11 commemoration ceremony on Sunday, despite being diagnosed with pneumonia, the Democratic presidential hopeful was doing what millions of Americans do every day - ignoring her symptoms and attempting to "power through" a day's work.
"No one's allowed to be sick. Sickness is weakness," says LeaAnne DeRigne, associate professor of social work at Florida Atlantic University.
"The attitude is 'I'm irreplaceable - if I don't show up, my job won't get done.' Some of it is also concern about how you are going to be viewed as an employee - whether you can be counted on or not. Whether by having too many sick days, too many absences, you are not seen as reliable."
She adds: "At the very core of being American is the idea of being a hard worker."
Not that most Americans have a choice in the matter.
America is one of the few developed industrial nations that does not guarantee paid sick leave by law.
Eligible workers are allowed to take up to 12 weeks off for illnesses or a new baby without fear of losing their job - under the Family and Medical Leave Act, signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1993 - and many companies will allow their staff a few days' sick leave as part of their employee benefits package.
But for millions of low-paid workers, the rule is simple - if you don't show up for work you lose a day's pay.
Sick leave and pay are most generous in the Netherlands, where workers can be absent for up to two years, while receiving 70% of their salary, according to a report in February for employment agency Glassdoor.
The least generous sick leave in the EU is in the UK, where workers are paid a flat rate of about £88 a week for 28 weeks.
EU countries also guarantee 20 paid vacation days a year, plus public holidays. Some EU countries go further.
Sweden, France and Denmark all offer 25 days' paid leave a year as minimum. Spain is the best place for public holidays with 14.
There is no statutory minimum for paid holiday in the US, although the average is about 10 days in practice, plus public holidays. Polls suggest unused vacation is at an all-time high.
The UK government is facing calls from trade unions and the Labour opposition to protect paid leave and workers' rights when the country negotiates its exit from the EU.
America's national vacation problem
Nearly a quarter of US adults have been fired or threatened with the sack for taking time off to recover from illness or to care for a sick loved one, according to Family Values at Work, which campaigns for paid leave.
This climate is particularly tough for women, who are still the main caregivers for young children and elderly relatives, says Leanne DeRigne, whose research suggests some families could be spending more on medical bills because they are delaying treatment rather than taking time off.
It can also have serious repercussions for public health.
In February, Mexican fast-food chain Chipotle partly blamed a 2015 outbreak of the norovirus vomiting bug on employees who had come to work sick at branches in Boston and Simi Valley, California.
The company, which employs 50,000 people across the US, now requires employees to stay home from work on paid sick leave for five days after their symptoms have disappeared.
But even when they are entitled to sick leave, many Americans don't take it. More than a quarter of workers surveyed in 2014 by public health agency NSF said they always go to work when they are ill.
The hard-driving, long hours culture of the American workplace is no place to risk being seen as a slacker.
"Any real business venture, besides government employment, when you say you have a 'nine-to-five' it's more like you have an 'eight-to-seven', at least in DC, and especially in New York City," says Nicholas Scheeberger, a 30-year-old technology sales executive, from Washington DC.
"It's like an unspoken understanding. Your boss isn't going to tell you you need to stay and work extra, but if you are the guy that gets in at nine and goes home at five every day, you are probably not going to last."
Scheeberger says he had no problem with the lack of paid leave when he worked as a bartender - casual employment suits those marking time between "real jobs", who make most of their income from tips.
Now that he has an office job, he has two weeks' vacation and "seven to 10 sick days" - but there is pressure not to use the entitlement.
"Don't get me wrong - there are plenty of people who call in when they are hungover. But it's more - even if you are sick and there is something of importance, you absolutely need to be at work."
If there is a big client meeting or seminar, he adds, "unless you are on your deathbed, chances are you are going to work".
Polls suggest the American public are strongly in favour of paid sick leave - but progress towards it has been slow.
Some states, such as California and New York, have passed their own laws. As a result, an estimated 11.3 million American workers now have the right to some form of paid leave.
Hillary Clinton has vowed to introduce 12 weeks' paid family leave and sick leave if she wins the presidential election. Donald Trump has yet to comment on the issue, although he has backed paid maternity leave.
The Obama administration's attempts to introduce paid leave ran into stiff opposition on Capitol Hill.
Republicans argued it would hurt small businesses and lead to job losses - and scoffed at the idea that America could learn lessons from supposedly less hard-working European nations.
It's thought that Channel 4 offered more money to Love Productions who make Bake Off.
This year's series, which is currently airing every Wednesday evening, will be the last to be shown on the BBC.
It's not known yet whether the presenters or two judges, Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, will move with the show to Channel 4.
It's not known yet if there will be any changes to the format of the programme. But it's likely that the show will now have one or more advert breaks in it.
Jay Hunt, who is Channel 4's chief creative officer, said: "Channel 4 is very proud to be the new home for The Great British Bake Off.
"I'm delighted we have been able to partner with the hugely talented team at Love Productions to keep this much loved show on free-to-air television."
The BBC said: "Working with Love Productions, we have grown and nurtured the programme over seven series and created the huge hit it is today.
"We made a very strong offer to keep the show but we are a considerable distance apart on the money. The BBC's resources are not infinite."
Bake Off was 2015's most-watched programme, with 15.1 million viewers for the final, according to viewing figures.
It's also won a total of nine Bafta awards.
Stephen French, 53, of Eleanor Park, Prenton, was arrested after armed officers responded to an argument on Water Street in March.
French, who also admitted possessing a bladed weapon, will be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on 3 July.
In 2008 he said he wanted to stop the spread of guns in Merseyside.
French was arrested after an incident in which the Liverpool One complex, including the Hilton Hotel, was sealed off for two hours by police following "an altercation" on Water Street.
In an interview with the BBC in 2008, Mr French said he had become an anti-gun campaigner because members of his family had been shot.
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The European 10,000m champion questioned whether the sport can police itself with the IAAF accused of helping to cover up doping in Russia.
"As athletes at the moment we've all lost confidence in the IAAF," she said.
But she joined former British athletes including Paula Radcliffe and Roger Black in backing president Lord Coe.
A report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency and released on Thursday was heavily critical of the organisation, but author Dick Pound said he "could not think of anyone better" than Coe to lead reform.
Admitting the IAAF - the International Association of Athletics Federations - was a "failed organisation" and that the sport was at a crossroads, 59-year-old Coe said: "We have to make sure we redouble our efforts to be very clear with people that we are not in denial."
World marathon record holder Radcliffe believes the 2016 Rio Olympics will be cleaner than the London Games four years ago, while 1996 Olympic 400m silver medallist Black believes the sport can move forward.
But fellow former British athlete Kriss Akabusi questioned how Coe, who was vice-president for eight years before taking over from the shamed Lamine Diack, could not have known about the extent of systematic doping.
"I find it very difficult for Lord Coe to say he's got absolutely no clue," said the ex-400m runner, who won two bronze medals at the 1992 Olympics.
"The only way is if a vice-president is in a titular position that has no real contact with the sport."
Pavey, 42, aims to compete at the Olympics for a fifth time later this year but described the report as "absolutely devastating".
"As athletes at the moment, we've all lost confidence in the IAAF and we don't trust them to police our sport as far as anti-doping and looking after the interests of clean athletes," she said.
"It's a frustrating time and it makes you want to call for something independent, where the sport isn't policing itself on anti-doping issues, because I think we've lost a lot of faith.
"I think it's going to take longer than until Rio to restore faith. There's been action taken against Russia, but it goes so much deeper than Russia."
Russia's athletics federation was provisionally suspended from international competition, including the Olympic Games, in November for its alleged involvement in widespread, "state-sponsored" doping.
Despite her concerns about the organisation itself, Pavey believes Coe can help bring about change.
"It's an opportunity for him to turn it around, he's passionate about taking our sport forward and hopefully we can look forward to a brighter future," she said.
Coe has the task of rebuilding trust in athletics while facing questions over why he did not know about the scandal that was unfolding while he was vice-president.
On Wednesday, he said there had been no "cover-up", yet Pound clearly indicated there had been, although he insisted he did not believe the double Olympic 1500m champion had lied.
"There are no tomorrows for athletics, we are at a crossroads," Coe said, calling for the sport to move on from the "horror show".
Coe apologised if his language had occasionally been "clumsy" and said he understood the seriousness of the situation.
"The overall issue about whether or not we are in an organisation that has failed, I tell you we have," he said.
"I know that. We are a failed organisation.
"I'm sorry if my language has in any way demonstrated a sort of a lack of understanding about the depth of this."
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, Akabusi said Coe needed people alongside him who would challenge his own thinking, adding: "Lord Coe will be looking at it as a chance for a new start. The sport can't get any lower, can it?"
Radcliffe warned against blaming Coe for the current crisis, suggesting he might consider walking away if criticism of him persisted.
"If we attack and attack, then he might say it is not worth it," she said. "It is then athletics' loss."
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"It is extremely damaging but extremely good that this has come to light and is not still going on in the background.
"Athletes in Rio will be taking part in a much cleaner Olympics than London 2012 was.
"We have to move forward from this, restore integrity and the ability of the public to watch athletics and believe in what they are seeing."
"It's another bad day for athletics, but hopefully we can really look forward now and the majority of people believe Seb Coe is the right man to do the job.
"We're British so there is a degree of bias here, but who else would do this job? The sport is in an absolute mess, though, and it has to be done rigorously and properly to turn it round and it's going to take a long time."
"First and foremost, we have to root out all that rot and restore the public's faith in the sport. We have to involve the public.
"Lord Coe has to restore the faith. He is the man at the top."
"It is hugely disturbing that individuals at the highest levels of the IAAF were abetting and covering up doping for their own financial gain.
"This flagrant disregard for the law and anti-doping rules undermines trust amongst clean athletes, and indeed the public, worldwide.
"Given their criminal nature, the actions of these individuals are now in the hands of the French justice system."
UK-wide there was a 19% fall, with a 20% drop in England and 3% in Scotland.
Data from BankSearch for Lloyds Bank showed almost half of Scotland's regions recorded growth.
The bank said the downward trend was likely to be in response to the "uncertain economic environment".
Across Wales, 23,195 new business start-ups were recorded in the 12 months to November 2011, compared to 17,089 in the year to November 2016.
Anglesey saw the biggest fall, from 668 start-ups to 337 in the same period, but Merthyr Tydfil only fell from 364 to 363.
Economists say this could be a sign that things are going well with those forced to become self-employed after the financial crisis now finding more secure work.
Prof Dylan Jones-Evans, of the University of Western England said: "Lloyds Bank have said shows the economy was uncertain because of this drop.
"Well, actually it works the other way because many people go into self-employment not because they've seen an opportunity but because of necessity and once the economic problems get better then what happens is they go away from self-employment back into employment."
"So paradoxically perhaps what this data is actually showing is that the economy is improving".
The Federation of Small Businesses said it was essential that those starting out were prepared.
"There are a few common challenges," said Ben Cottam, of FSB Cymru.
"The first is that businesses expand - too big, too quickly. We also find that people fail to look for the right advice to support them so it might be not sourcing an accountant to get the right financial advice, which is absolutely crucial."
The operation is being overseen by a team from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
The mission was established under a United Nations resolution, which was passed after agreement between Russia and the US.
The resolution followed international outrage at a chemical weapons attack near Damascus in August.
In an interim report, UN chemical weapons inspectors confirmed that the nerve agent sarin had been used in the attack in Ghouta on the outskirts of the city on 21 August.
It was estimated to have killed hundreds of people and was blamed by the United States and other Western powers on the regime of Bashar al-Assad. But he accuses Syrian rebels of being behind it.
By Paul WoodBBC News, at the UN in New York
It's a huge task - one estimate says Syria has 1,000 tonnes of the nerve agent sarin, VX nerve gas, mustard gas and other chemical weapons at some 20 sites.
Only the regime's inner circle knows if Sunday's highly symbolic images were the start of a serious process or a public relations exercise. Some diplomats say the Syrian leader knows he can't use chemical weapons again without inviting a military strike and so has decided to co-operate fully with the disarmament process.
The rebel Free Syrian Army, on the other hand, accuses the regime of moving chemical stocks to its ally Hezbollah in Lebanon. That claim is not supported by proof but it emphasises that the international experts are attempting to work in the middle of a civil war. UN monitors were forced to withdraw last year because of the difficulty of working across active front lines. And, of course, getting rid of chemical weapons is not a means of bringing that civil war to an end.
It was not clear at which of the chemical weapons sites declared by the government, thought to number about 20, that Sunday's operation took place.
An official on the joint OPCW-UN delegation later said: "The first day of destruction and disabling is over and missile warheads, aerial bombs, along with mobile and static mixing and filling units, were dealt with. Work continues tomorrow and in the next few days."
The destruction of the stockpile, being carried out by the Syrians, is not expected to be straightforward, as some sites are in combat zones.
It is the first time the OPCW - based in The Hague - has been asked to oversee the destruction of a chemical weapons armoury during a conflict.
The Syrian government gave details of its chemical weapons arsenal last month to the OPCW under the Russia-US agreement which also provided for Damascus to join the Chemical Weapons Convention.
That arsenal is thought to include more than 1,000 tonnes of sarin and the blister agent sulphur mustard among other banned chemicals.
Under the terms of the agreement between the US and Russia, Syria's chemical weapons capability should be removed by the middle of 2014.
The speed with which the team has been able to reach the sites and start the process of destruction underlines the urgency of the mission, says the BBC's Anna Holligan in the Hague.
Syria's chemical weapons stockpile
How to destroy Syria's chemical arsenal
Q&A: Syria disarmament deal
Syria chemical attack: What we know
It was hoped that the new climate of co-operation would help bring about a wider conference in Geneva on ending the Syrian conflict.
UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi was quoted on French media on Sunday as saying he was encouraging all parties to come to Geneva in the second half of November but that peace talks were not a certainty.
President Assad has meanwhile suggested Germany could mediate to try to end the 30-month-long civil war.
Speaking to Germany's Der Spiegel magazine in an interview to be published on Monday, Mr Assad said he "would be delighted if envoys came from Germany".
But he stressed that Damascus would not negotiate with rebels unless they laid down their weapons.
Mr Assad again repeated his denial that his troops had used chemical weapons, blaming the rebels instead.
More than 100,000 people have died since the uprising began in 2011 and millions more have fled Syria.
The whales were found on the Lincolnshire coast over the weekend - two at Gibraltar Point and another in nearby Skegness.
Jan Smith, who led a team of 14 workers to remove the 30-tonne animals, said it had gone more smoothly than expected.
The work took place at night to keep disturbance to a minimum, he said.
Mr Smith said he expected the "delicate operation" to take up to eight hours, but all were removed by 01:30 GMT. The process started just after 20:00 in Skegness.
"It's gone very well, really," he said.
"The last one where the flaps had been cut open for the autopsy was hard work.
"You can't really plan what you are going to do because you don't know if they are likely to blow up or something. All that you can do is treat them with the utmost respect.
"It's a delicate operation."
The whales were positioned on to three low-loaders before being taken away. They will be buried in a landfill site in Sheffield.
The public were being warned to keep their distance while the work took place because of safety concerns.
The warning came after one of the whales "decompressed rather spectacularly" while scientists were carrying out tests on it.
Hundreds of people have turned out to see the mammals since they were discovered.
Footage has emerged showing what could be two of the whales swimming in the North Sea on Saturday.
Two other whales washed up on the east coast - one is on the site of a former bombing range near Wainfleet in Lincolnshire. Another was found in Norfolk on Friday.
"I live in Trump Tower. This is how I reconcile it with myself," he jokes, before turning a little more serious.
"I'm moving out soon."
At E3's indie game corner, where the multi-million dollar budgets are replaced with games made on a shoestring, politics is the driving force behind many new ideas.
"There's been a social political trend that we're seeing in the games," says Stephanie Barish, the chief executive of Indiecade, the a company that promotes independent developers, much like a film festival.
"It was kind of amazing to think how personal, and thoughtful, and political, and meaningful developers are trying to make their games.
"They're using the medium of game making the way an artist would use their paintbrush to express what they're thinking and how they're feeling about the current political climate. There's a sense of resisting against a feeling of oppression or tyranny."
In March Indiecade backed #ResistJam, an event billed as a creative response to the "rise of fascism" in the US and elsewhere.
Over seven days, attendees produced a number of basic but emotive games.
Several of them are on display at E3, including The Cat in a Hijab - a point-and-click mini-adventure that has you playing the role of a cat (in a hijab) who boards a subway train. You're then faced with a barrage of comments. Some aggressive, others naively ignorant - and it's up to you to defuse the situation (or not) with your response.
"Our hairball-in-chief is going to send you back to your own country soon," reads one attack. Another: "He's going to make our country great again."
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On another table, Gonzalo Alvarez is demonstrating Borders, his simple but fiendishly difficult game in which you control a man trying to run over the border from Mexico into the US.
"My Dad crossed the border when he was 17," Mr Alvarez tells me.
"A lot of [his] stories are in the game. The border control, the helicopter that comes out later in the game."
As you navigate your character through the map, avoiding border guards, you pass the "skeletons" of other players that have tried the game.
"My dad saw the skeleton of another human being on the way here."
Mr Alvarez said the game wasn't about encouraging people to try and cross the border illegally, but to demonstrate how difficult it is.
"Look at how many people die. Building a bigger wall isn't an answer to what's happening here."
Mr Jarvis' game - Polititruth - uses a swipe-left, swipe-right Tinder-like interface to help decipher fake news. If you think a statement such as "millions will lose health insurance" is fake news, swipe left. If you think it's true, swipe right.
The decision over what's true or not is powered by Politifact, the Pulitzer-winning fact checking organisation.
Eventually the hope is to integrate the idea into Facebook directly to help people distinguish fact from alternative fact. But the challenge that faces the app, and all of the games on show here, is in getting the title in front of the people who perhaps most need to see it.
"It might be a slow process," says Indiecade's Ms Barish.
"I don't think millions of people are going to play these games and change their minds. But I think it's empowering a group of creators, and I do think there's enormous potential there."
With Borders, Mr Alvarez took his idea direct to his target audience. He created an arcade booth and installed it in a gallery in Port Arthur, Texas. The presidential election vote in the area was tight - with President Trump winning over Hillary Clinton by just 0.5%.
"Putting it in an installation, that'll bring you a group of people who may be conservative - so that's at least a target I can market at.
"Having it in a public setting, not sitting on someone's computer, I think really helps it become approachable."
In a divided city, not everyone welcomed the concept of Mr Alvarez's game.
"People wanted me to make a game to control the other side, wanting to shoot people in the game," he says.
"To me that's a disgusting thought process. They said they wanted me to get kicked back to Mexico.
"They might have a problem with that since I'm from New York."
Though not on show at E3, there are also several pro-Trump indie games available.
Make America Great Again: The Trump Presidency is a "simulation" (to use the term very loosely) of the President's regular day-to-day activities (with the exception of playing golf).
You control the president as he flies around the world in a helicopter, and make decisions as to whether to drill oil, install the controversial Dakota pipeline, or "beat ISIS". At the top of the screen, a ticker shows the national debt falling, but also the world getting more "angry" at he US. As anger builds, a progress bar starts to fill… you're headed to World War 3.
The game, you'd presume/hope, isn't designed to be taken seriously, but as a gameplay concept there's no denying it looks much more fun than other the other games I've mentioned here.
And that's the big challenge in creating games with an activist message, says Mr Alvarez.
"I didn't want to make something preachy. That's not fun. Making something that was fun was my top priority."
It's fair to say the major games publishers steer clear from even remotely controversial political messages. In an industry where making a lead character a woman is a talking point, anything more daring is avoided - boycotts can be costly.
"A lot of it has to do with the diversity of the people making the games," says Indiecade's Ms Barish.
"From the top down, I think it's an uphill battle.
"Because as you can see people are really risk-averse. It's a year where they all have new consoles. The market for those is hardcore gamers and they're focusing on that particular market and so they're not taking the risk."
There are signs this could change, however - with the latest Far Cry title straying into political territory with its storyline of a town overrun with religious fanatics. Its creative director told Radio 1 Newsbeat that the games industry should "mature" and take on such topics.
But Far Cry is an outlier, for now. But Ms Barish says she believes what starts in the indie scene eventually seeps into the wider industry.
"Ultimately we're just beginning. There's no reason to think that because these are small political games they won't end up making an impact.
"All the material that's on the edge of the game industry ultimately ends up impacting the game industry."
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The 28-year-old had never played a professional game before last summer's tour match against Australia.
He has since appeared in 15 games across all three formats on a match-to-match basis, taking three wickets in both of his last two T20 appearances.
"His level of performance has been nothing short of sensational," said director of cricket David Ripley.
"He's turned himself from someone who looks like they'll be a good red-ball bowler and add some volume to our bowling resources to someone that's one of the early names on the teamsheet and branched into all formats.
"I think he can get better as well. He's got this far in a quite a short learning curve so his learning curve is steep at the moment," Ripley told BBC Radio Northampton.
"He's got to show his durability over seasons, but I'm really excited about Richard. It's quite amazing to think he's 28, never featured professionally and I would say we've done a good job in finding him."
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union are fighting plans to have drivers instead of guards operate the doors on some services.
The union insist the dispute is about "ensuring that Scotland's trains run safely".
But ScotRail said the RMT had been running a campaign of "disinformation that doesn't bear any scrutiny".
In a statement, RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said: "The union has made sufficient progress to enable us to suspend the current programme of industrial action on ScotRail to allow for further detailed discussions on the issue of platform train despatch procedures.
"The progress we have been able to make in this dispute is entirely down to the resilience, determination and strength of our ScotRail members who have taken wave after wave of rock-solid action in defence of rail safety.
"They are a credit to the entire trade union movement."
ScotRail have said a solution to the dispute is "in talks not strikes".
Phil Verster, Managing Director of the ScotRail Alliance said: "I am really pleased for our customers and our people that the RMT have accepted our request to suspend further industrial action.
"Doing this allows us to get round the table and finalise an agreement that will, hopefully, bring this dispute to an end."
Mr Verster said they would keep a second member of staff on board their trains to look after our customers.
He added: "We have made a very positive proposal that we will now seek agreement on. If it is agreed, it would mean that conductors could concentrate on delivering an even better service to our customers.
"It would also mean that our trains will be more punctual and would allow us to deliver faster journeys."
The Tykes won 3-1 in the League One play-off against Millwall at Wembley on Sunday.
The tour, which started at Oakwell Stadium at 16:15 BST, was followed by a celebration at Barnsley Town Hall.
Up to 6,000 fans were expected to turn out for the event, with many wearing team colours and bringing flags.
Councillor Linda Burgess, the mayor of Barnsley said: "We're really proud to be able to welcome our home team on to the town hall balcony for the second time this season."
The parade followed a route which took in Grove Street, Pontefract Road, Kendray Street, Eldon Street, Church Street and Sadler Gate.
Barnsley's earlier trip to Wembley saw them beat Oxford United 3-2 in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final.
Substitute Elliott Whitehouse thought he had won it for the Imps with 10 minutes remaining but Deacon, the star of Sutton's memorable run to the fifth round, pegged the visitors back to leave them top on goal difference alone ahead of Tranmere Rovers.
Just over a fortnight after their cup adventure came to an end with a 5-0 quarter-final defeat at Arsenal, Lincoln ran out at Gander Green Lane - the scene of Sutton's loss to Arsene Wenger's side in February.
Sutton created the better chances in the first half and captain Jamie Collins controlled the ball and spun in front of the same goal he scored the penalty which knocked out Leeds, but skied his effort from 10 yards.
Bedsente Gomis then headed narrowly over from Kevin Amankwaah's long throw-in moments before half-time.
Early in the second half Sean Raggett, Lincoln's goalscoring hero against Burnley, almost repeated the trick with a downward header which was deflected up on to the crossbar.
Burly Imps striker Matt Rhead was then frustrated by a fine reaction save from Will Puddy, who kept out a fierce volley at the far post.
Lincoln got their noses in front when Sam Habergham swung in a late corner which Whitehouse rose highest to nod home.
But the final word went to Deacon, who charged at a tiring Lincoln defence before lashing the ball high into the net from the edge of the box.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Sutton United 1, Lincoln City 1.
Second Half ends, Sutton United 1, Lincoln City 1.
Goal! Sutton United 1, Lincoln City 1. Roarie Deacon (Sutton United).
Substitution, Sutton United. Craig Dundas replaces Kevin Amankwaah.
Goal! Sutton United 0, Lincoln City 1. Elliot Whitehouse (Lincoln City).
Substitution, Lincoln City. Adam Marriott replaces Lee Angol.
Substitution, Sutton United. Adam May replaces Adam Coombes.
Substitution, Sutton United. Daniel Spence replaces Gomis.
Lee Angol (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Elliot Whitehouse replaces Alan Power.
Jamie Collins (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Sutton United 0, Lincoln City 0.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Harry Anderson replaces Terry Hawkridge.
First Half ends, Sutton United 0, Lincoln City 0.
Alan Power (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
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The incident began at about 14:30 GMT on Monday at flats at John Street, close to Craigavon Bridge, and ended just after 20:00 GMT.
Police said they had concerns for the welfare of a man who was in a distressed state in one of the flats.
Residents had to be moved from their homes for several hours.
Specialist police units and other emergency services were involved in the operation.
The claim: Elmar Brok, who chairs the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, says the UK will have to negotiate its divorce agreement before its future relationship.
Reality Check verdict: We will not know for sure until after Article 50 has been triggered, but a number of senior European politicians support this two-stage process.
It had been widely assumed that trade would be a crucial part, but Elmar Brok, who chairs the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, has now told the BBC the UK would have to negotiate two separate deals with the EU:
Mr Brok said the negotiations could be held partly in parallel but the Brexit agreement would have to come first.
In July 2016, EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom also said the UK would be able to negotiate a trade deal with the EU only after Article 50 negotiations had been concluded.
If this is the case, Brexit negotiations would be likely to focus on issues such as how much the UK would pay to settle outstanding liabilities, including projects it has already agreed to support and pensions for EU civil servants.
It may also include cross-border security arrangements and relocation of EU agencies headquartered in the UK.
Open Europe has put together a useful list of possible areas.
None of this is certain - a European Commission representative told the BBC it would not speculate before Article 50 had been triggered on the specific areas that would be covered in the negotiations.
Once Article 50 has been triggered, Britain's exit from the EU would have to be negotiated within two years, a timeframe that can be extended only by unanimous agreement from the 27 remaining members of the European Council.
Should the UK be unable to reach an agreement with the EU within those two years and should at least one member of the council veto an extension of the negotiations, the UK would automatically exit the EU and all existing agreements, including those involving the single market, would cease to apply to the UK.
Two years is a very short time for a trade agreement to be reached.
And the EU's negotiations with the US (TTIP) and Canada (CETA) suggest reaching a comprehensive trade deal with it is far from straightforward.
The EU's trade agreement with Canada has been under discussion for seven years, although its agreement with South Korea was negotiated and signed within three years.
In addition, unlike the Brexit agreement under Article 50, which needs the approval of only a reinforced qualified majority (at least 72% of the members of the council representing member states comprising at least 65% of the population of the EU) a new trade deal between the UK and the EU would also have to be ratified, meaning it could be vetoed by any of the remaining 27 EU member states.
In Parliament on Wednesday, Prime Minister Theresa May said: "There's going to be lengthy negotiations over the course of those two years and more."
Consultant surgeon Prof David Paul Berry was based at the University Hospital of Wales.
A professional review of 31 of his patients found that 10 died, and "eight of those 10 deaths were avoidable".
The Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has issued "unreserved apologies" to every family affected.
A patient watchdog said families of those affected are being supported.
"It's a distressing time for the families concerned and we can't imagine what they are going through," said Stephen Allen, chief officer of Cardiff and Vale Community Health Council.
BBC Wales discovered on Tuesday that Prof Berry had been suspended at the start of the year.
Prof Berry, who moved to work in south Wales from the Leicester area, was originally put on restricted practice in October 2012 following concerns about the outcomes of some liver patients in his care.
An initial internal investigation confirmed the health board's concerns and he was fully suspended from duties in January this year.
Two further independent reviews by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) followed.
The second RCS review, of the individual care of 31 patients who underwent complex liver surgery by the surgeon, found that 10 later died and eight of those 10 deaths were avoidable.
"Every death is a tragedy for the family concerned, but we do not underestimate the impact of a death in these circumstances," said Cardiff and Vale University Health Board's medical director, Dr Graham Shortland.
Martyn Rogers, 66, died of blood poisoning and acute liver failure on 25 July last year - a week after undergoing surgery by David Paul Berry to remove tumours from his liver at the University Hospital of Wales.
Three days after the procedure, his organs began shutting down and it was discovered one of his major veins had been damaged.
Following his death the Royal College of Surgeons commissioned a report which found the surgery showed evidence of "poor judgement" and "technical errors"... which reflected "poor operative skills".
It concluded Mr Rogers's death was "avoidable".
His partner of 40 years, Maria Davies, has instructed solicitors Irwin Mitchell to investigate further.
Ms Davies, who lives in Newport, said her partner had suffered bowel cancer since 2010 "but we were led to believe that the surgery would remove the tumours and ultimately prolong his life".
"To learn that Martyn's death could have been avoided is very difficult to comprehend and has left me feeling angry," she said.
She said she wanted to know why his treatment was not better, and whether other patients had been affected.
"I would also like to know what steps are being taken by the board within the hospital to ensure no-one else suffers the same unnecessary ordeal," she added.
"We would like at the outset to put on record our unreserved apologies to every family who has been affected."
The surgeon was also referred to the General Medical Council.
"The health board has been in dialogue with the majority of those families concerned for some time and has put individual advocates in place to support them through this difficult period. There are two families who have not responded to our repeated correspondence," Dr Shortland added.
"As a health board, our absolute focus is on the safety and quality of the care we give to our patients."
Dr Shortland said the health board picked up "anomalies" in the surgeon's results from "routine clinical data" which was scrutinised.
"We have worked with the Royal College of Surgeons, and our own staff, to make sure we are clear about the numbers of people whose care and treatment may have been affected by this issue," he added.
"We appreciate this is a worrying time for patients and their families and would like to reassure patients who are receiving or awaiting liver surgery at the moment that the UHB has full confidence in the current liver service at the University Hospital of Wales."
The health board has set up a helpline for anyone who is concerned about the surgical care they received in relation to liver surgery between February 2011 and October 2012.
The helpline number is 0800 952 0244 and will be open from 12 noon to 8pm every day from Wednesday, December 11 to Friday, December 13.
A Welsh government spokesperson said it was "aware of this serious issue and appreciate how concerning and upsetting this is for the families affected".
"The health board reported this to the Welsh government in line with our serious incident reporting requirements," said a spokesperson.
"We are satisfied that they took appropriate steps to ensure patient safety as they commissioned an independent review and are now acting on those findings."
She believes Labour's offering was "too narrow" at the election and insists she can broaden its appeal and put "the fight for equality and social justice back at the heart" of the party.
The shadow home secretary - who has held various front bench roles in government and opposition - says she has the "strength, experience and progressive ideas" to secure a Labour victory in 2020.
So what would the leadership hopeful do with power if she was elected?
Who is Yvette Cooper?
Ms Cooper has strongly defended the previous Labour government's economic legacy, saying the party should "take on the Tory myths" that it spent too much before the financial crash. She has criticised leadership rival Andy Burnham for apologising for Labour's record, saying that by doing so he is falling into "George Osborne's trap".
She is strongly opposed to the government's cuts to public spending, which she has branded an "ideological assault on public services". Labour, she says, needs the "confidence" to set out "a credible alternative" to the Conservatives' economic strategy, promising "a fairer approach" to building strong public finances and sustainable growth.
The Labour leadership contender has called for a "fresh start" to Labour's relations with business, saying the party, under Ed Miliband, alienated the business community with its rhetoric. She has pledged to set up a business advisory group including non-Labour supporters, if she becomes leader, to ensure regular dialogue.
Ms Cooper wants to turn Britain in to a "hi-tech" economy, promising to encourage start-ups and create hi-tech digital "jobs for the future". She is also committed to increase the UK's investment in science and research development to 3% of national income, saying Britain should become the science and technology capital of Europe.
She wants to create two million more high-skilled manufacturing jobs and has argued that Labour should drop its opposition to the government's cut in corporation tax to 20%.
Ms Cooper has made her opposition to the government's welfare reforms known, calling the bill "unfair and damaging". She backs the government's benefits cap, limiting the amount one household, in principle, but she has vowed to protect tax credits from cuts, warning that the government's plans will leave working families worse off. She has pledged to establish a Welfare Reform Commission to look at "how state best supports work, prevents poverty and delivers value for money". Ms Cooper has also outlined a commitment to ending child poverty within a generation.
Ms Cooper wants to oversee a "revolution" in family support, and is promising to revive Sure Start children centres, introduce free Scandinavian-style universal childcare and to "end child poverty in our lifetimes".
One of the reasons for her contesting the leadership is that no party has offered a "bold enough" vision for families, she says, arguing that childcare and family policy are "fundamental building blocks of a strong modern economy and of strong communities". Ms Cooper would also consult on extending the period whereby new mothers can take up a workplace discrimination claim.
On higher education, Ms Cooper has said she supports the idea of a graduate tax, saying that this is a "fairer system" of financing higher education. She has also been critical of the government's free schools programme, saying it has not been value for money.
Like the other leadership contenders, Ms Cooper has criticised Chancellor George Osborne's National Living Wage as inadequate and vowed to implement the full living wage - currently £7.85 an hour and £9.15 in London - beginning with Britain's 1.4 million care workers. The Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford MP would also raise to 50p the top level of income tax.
She has vowed to reverse planned government changes to trade union strike laws and has condemned plans to end union subscription fees, saying it makes "little sense".
Ms Cooper wants Labour to commit to building more homes to address the "housing crisis". She has pledged to build 300,000 new homes a year, which is further than the 200,000 homes the party was promising in its 2015 election manifesto. She has also spoken in favour of Eco towns and Garden Cities.
Ms Cooper wants a freeze or cap on the number of new appointments to the House of Lords, pending a process of "proper reform". She has committed to create an "extra-parliamentary constitutional convention" involving the parties and all parts of civil society. She says there needs to be "major reform", including more devolution, "the need for a new framework for England and Wales and for local government", and House of Lords reform.
A pro-European Union MP, Ms Cooper says she wants Britain to take the lead in Europe, "promoting international development and human rights". But she would argue for reforms "before, during and after" a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU, including on the agency workers' directive.
Under Ms Cooper's plans, a Labour government would end indefinite detention in the asylum and immigration system. She is also calling for more frontline police officers which would be paid for by an £800m savings plan. She has also vowed to introduce new laws and steps to tackle discrimination and prejudice.
Anne Bury, 56, from Swainby in North Yorkshire, was murdered at her villa in Dalyan in September 2013.
Her elderly mother Cecilia, 87, and 25-year-old son Alex were also injured in the shooting.
Gardener Veli Acar, who was jailed on Wednesday at a Turkish court, had claimed the pair were in a romantic relationship which the family denied.
After his sentencing, the family said Ms Bury had intended to dismiss Acar, then aged 46, as her property manager after discovering his "dishonest and deceitful nature".
"We also know that Anne's killer was aware of what she intended to do and believe that Anne was killed in order to prevent her from doing so, as this would have revealed to his family and friends the lies he had peddled of a romantic relationship with Anne and the illegitimate source of his new-found wealth," a statement from the family said.
They added she had been unable to defend her reputation but had left "irrefutable documentary evidence" proving there was no romantic relationship and Acar was simply trying to cover up stealing from her.
Ms Bury, a trained midwife, worked in a healthcare role for an oil company in Dubai. She had also worked as a barrister specialising in health and social care.
She was described by her family as a "caring, compassionate, considerate and trusting woman".
"Although justice has been done, nothing can bring back Anne or restore the grievous mental and physical wounds inflicted by this evil man on Anne's mother, son and wider family which will be with us for the rest of our lives," the family added.
After losing Mancini criticised City's owners for not quashing reports that a deal with Pellegrini, 59, was done.
But Chilean Pellegrini told Malaga's website: "I categorically deny that I am the new Manchester City coach."
On Monday morning, Mancini took training ahead of the match against Reading on Tuesday.
He made no comment as he arrived at Loftus Road, where City are based following the FA Cup final.
In his statement Pellegrini said: "I have an agreement with Malaga not to talk to anyone and nothing has been agreed with any other outfit."
He added: "Nothing has been signed and no agreement reached. I've been fortunate enough, and very proud, that every year the big clubs are interested in me.
"I hope the future of this club will become somewhat clearer in the next few days."
Mancini took over from Mark Hughes in December 2009, leading City to the FA Cup in 2011 and the Premier League title a year later.
City officials met with with Pellegrini's agent, Jesus Martinez, in April. Martinez also represents Malaga midfielder Isco, a reported target for the Blues.
Mancini said he did not know why the meeting had taken place.
Pellegrini, who has previously had spells in charge of Real Madrid and Villarreal, took charge of Malaga in November 2010.
In his first full season in charge, he guided Malaga to fourth in La Liga and Champions League qualification for the first time.
Malaga reached the last eight of the Champions League, before being knocked out by Dortmund. They are currently sixth in La Liga.
They will not play in European competition next term after being banned by Uefa over unpaid bills.
The so-called malvertising affected Spotify's subscription-free service on Windows, Mac and Linux machines.
People reported that virus-infected pop-up websites were appearing while they listened to music.
Spotify said in a statement: "We have now identified the source of the problem and have shut it down."
It said "questionable website pop-ups" had affected a "small number of users".
Cybersecurity experts have warned that malvertising is on the rise, because the scale of popular advertising networks can be misused to push malicious content to a wide audience.
"Malvertising can slip onto any platform or website that displays ads delivered by advertising networks," said Jan Zika of antivirus firm Avast.
"While malvertising is usually hosted on sites that provide illegal content such as movie downloads, it does occasionally make its way on to more mainstream platforms, such as Spotify.
"Users should install antivirus software that will catch malvertising before it can do any harm."
It is not the first time Spotify has inadvertently distributed malware-infected content through its advertising network. A similar issue affected the software in 2011.
Other prominent companies have also been targeted.
"We've seen an increase in malvertising of this kind," said Rahul Kashyap of the computer security company Bromium.
"Malware via ads provides great return of interest for the attackers and are difficult to be reliably blocked at the ad launch."
The company said it had found that more than a quarter of the world's 1,000 most visited websites had delivered malware through malicious advertisements in 2015.
Spotify said it would "continue to monitor" advertisements in its software.
They were found on Cat and Kittens Lane in Bushbury at 12:30 GMT, near the junction with Greenfield Lane, said West Midlands Police.
A dog found in the vehicle has been taken to a vet to be checked over, said police.
The deaths are not being treated as suspicious.
Officers are working to trace and inform their next of kin.
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The entrance to the nearby Greenfield Golf Club was sealed off by police.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: "Crews found two patients, a man and a woman, both of whom were inside a car.
"Unfortunately it quickly became apparent that nothing could be done to save either of them and they were confirmed dead at the scene."
He was speaking on Tuesday after the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee published its report on the controversial On the Runs scheme.
Mr Kelly escaped from the Maze Prison in 1983 while serving a jail sentence for the 1973 IRA Old Bailey bombing.
He told the BBC's Talkback he received the pardon, but not as an "On the Run".
The Royal Prerogative of Mercy, commonly known as a royal pardon, allows changes in sentences without the backing of or consultation with parliament.
Last year, Secretary of State Theresa Villiers disclosed that 365 royal pardons had been issued between 1979 and 2002.
It is not clear how many of those pardoned were members of paramilitary groups, or what proportion, if any, were members of the security forces.
The Northern Ireland Office has previously said the vast majority of pardons were not terrorism-related.
Asked by TUV leader Jim Allister if he had received a Royal Prerogative of Mercy, Mr Kelly said: "Actually I have - if you remember, and I presume you do, I was arrested in Holland, and the Dutch quashed all my sentences and the British agreed to that to get me back here, by the way, and yes, it was after an escape.
"But it wasn't a letter to do with On The Runs or to do with this scheme at all."
Mr Allister asked him: "From Her Majesty, the one against whom you were leading rebellion, you have a letter of Royal Prerogative of Mercy?"
Mr Kelly said: "The Dutch said they would not extradite me unless the British (government) quashed the sentences.
"Now it was up to the British (government) to quash the sentences whatever way they wanted to quash them - if they chose to produce a prerogative then that's their choice.
"I didn't care what way it was done - the point was that I came back to Ireland as a remand prisoner as opposed to someone who was doing this length of sentence, because the Dutch came to the conclusion that it was unjust."
The On The Runs were republicans suspected of involvement in terrorist crimes but who had never been charged.
Under the scheme, letters were sent to more than 180 Irish republicans, telling them they were not wanted by police.
It came to light when one letter caused the collapse of the trial of a man accused of the 1982 IRA Hyde Park bomb.
The 35-year-old earlier posted a picture of herself on Snapchat posing in a mirror with the message: "20 weeks" before deleting the post.
The American, who won an Open-era record 23rd Grand Slam in Australia in January, will miss the rest of the season.
This includes three Grand Slams - the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open.
Williams, who will return to world number one next week, would be eligible to retain her ranking under the WTA special ranking rule if she is ready to play her first tournament within 12 months of giving birth.
US Open Tennis responded to Williams' message by saying: "Serena Williams will have a new pride and joy to hug and call her own soon! Congratulations on the exciting baby announcement!"
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller:
We are very unlikely to see Serena compete in another Grand Slam before the French Open of 2018. That event will take place four months before her 37th birthday - but do not write off a woman who will return to world number one on Monday.
Victoria Azarenka is a useful guide. Even though she is eight years younger, Azarenka gave birth to her first child in December, returned to serious training in March and is targeting the WTA event in Stanford at the end of July for her return to the WTA Tour.
Williams, who is engaged to the co-founder of community news and chat site Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, is top of the all-time list of major winners since Grand Slams accepted professional players in 1968.
She is second only to Australian Margaret Court on the list of women's all-time Grand Slam singles titles leaders.
She is also a five-time Tour finals winner, the last of which came in 2014, and was recently picked as the greatest female tennis player of the Open era by BBC Sport users.
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The world number 68 won 6-4 6-0 in 56 minutes, meaning both Kerber and men's top seed Andy Murray exited the Rome tournament at the second-round stage.
British number two Kyle Edmund also suffered a straight-set defeat by Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro.
The 22-year-old world number 53 lost 7-5 6-4 in one hour and 46 minutes.
Fellow Briton Aljaz Bedene was also knocked out in the second round by world number two Novak Djokovic.
Del Potro, the 2009 US Open champion, will face Japan's Kei Nishikori in the last 16.
Meanwhile, Rafael Nadal eased through to the third round when opponent Nicolas Almagro retired after injuring his knee early in the first set.
Nadal raced to a 3-0 lead before Spanish compatriot Almagro withdrew with less than half an hour played.
Third seed Stan Wawrinka progressed with a 6-3 1-6 6-3 win over France's Benoit Paire, with the Swiss facing American John Isner in the next round.
In the women's draw, American Venus Williams beat Ukraine's Lesia Tsurenko 6-4 6-3 to set up a third-round meeting with British number one Johanna Konta.
Second seed Karolina Pliskova beat Lauren Davis 6-1 6-1 to progress, while Russia's Ekaterina Makarova knocked out world number four Dominika Cibulkova 1-6 6-1 6-3.
There were also wins for world number five Simona Halep and eighth seed Elina Svitolina.
The young woman is believed to have taken a form of the drug known as Mastercard.
She died in hospital after police were called to the Victoria Warehouse in Trafford, shortly after 05:00 BST.
Greater Manchester Police urged anyone who may have taken the pills to seek medical attention.
Det Insp Helen Bell said: "This is a tragic situation, the death of a young person is always devastating, but in these circumstances, it is all the more heartbreaking."
"Sadly we know it is very unlikely that the girl was the only person to have taken this drug last night."
In a statement, Victoria Warehouse's owners confirmed the incident took place at the venue and said they were working with investigators.
"[We] would like to convey our deepest sympathies to the family of the deceased," it added.
Thomas Anthony Carlin attempted to arrest Lord Justice Gillen during a trial last month.
The Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan, ruled that the 43-year-old had acted with premeditation and determination.
He has been sentenced for contempt of court.
Mr Carlin's alleged outburst came at the end of a ruling in a house repossession case last month.
He had been representing himself in the legal battle with Santander over a property in County Antrim.
At the end of that High Court hearing, he allegedly got up and moved towards the bench, claiming he was going to arrest Lord Justice Gillen.
Security and court staff intervened before he was led from the courtroom.
He was arrested on suspicion of two counts of common assault, but subsequently released without charge.
Mr Carlin is alleged to have interrupted proceedings without justification, refused to resume his seat, approached the presiding judge, threatened to arrest him without lawful excuse and physically interfered with a member of court staff.
Mr Carlin rejected offers of legal representation and declined to apologise for his actions.
Speaking in court the Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan, said: "We are satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that (Mr Carlin) was a man driven by self-importance and attention seeking."
Mr Carlin was told that if he seeks to apologise after 28 days, the rest of his sentence will be set aside.
The Police Ombudsman has also launched an investigation into the incident.
Swansea University and Swansea FC will jointly own the facility which will include eight full-size pitches.
The Premier League club have never had their own training ground but will now be leasing land at Fairwood which is owned by the university.
The first pitches could be ready by October with the rest built in phases.
Swansea University has not said how much the facility - which once completed will have eight full-size pitches and two all-weather pitches - will cost.
Changing facilities and specialist medical rooms will also be built.
The first of the pitches could be ready by October with the rest of the development being built in phases over the next 12 to 18 months.
The university will also use the facilities for competitive fixtures and team training.
"We are delighted to join forces with Swansea University on this exciting project,'' said Swans chairman Huw Jenkins.
"Our aim as a football club has always been to develop a top-flight training facility, but also to develop a good working relationship with like-minded organisations and people.
"Swansea City and Swansea University will work together to enhance the sporting facilities at Fairwood that will form part of the fabric of the city for many years to come."
Swansea University vice chancellor Prof Richard B Davies said the deal represented a major addition to the sports facilities on offer by the university.
He added: "At Swansea University we are serious about sporting success. We have already invested £20m in our sports village.
"We want to be able to offer our students an outstanding sporting experience with facilities fit for the 21st Century.
"Today's agreement is a big step forward to help us achieve that and it is a particular delight and privilege to collaborate with a football club whose success has put Swansea on the global map."
Swansea council's cabinet member for regeneration, Nick Bradley said the contributions both the Swans and the university make to Swansea Bay helps to drive the local economy.
In June, the Swans announced building of a new facility at Landore available for use from mid-September which would be available for junior, youth, first-team and community use.
The Swans playing squad have begun their pre-season tour of America.
They will play their first friendly against Colorado Rapids at 02:00 BST on Wednesday where a minute's silence will be
observed
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shooting
tragedy.
Rapids play at a stadium a little over 10 miles from the cinema in Aurora where a gunman killed 12 people and wounded 58 more during a screening of Batman.
James Holmes, 24, has appeared in court accused of the attack.
Rapids players will also wear black armbands at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
Oliver Appleby and Sarah Delf, both 24, died at the scene of the crash on the A140 at Yaxley, Suffolk just before 20:30 GMT on 15 November.
In a statement, the families described them as "popular" and said they were "devoted" to each other.
The couple from Norwich were driving a blue Mazda which collided with a lorry. The lorry driver had minor injuries.
In a statement, Miss Delf's family said she was a "much loved daughter, sister, adored member of the family, devoted girlfriend to Oliver Appleby, and a dedicated friend to many".
"Sarah was beautiful in every sense of the word," the family said.
"She loved life, and lived hers to the full.
"Our hearts feel empty because she has gone but resonate with the love we shared for her and the lasting memories she has left behind."
Mr Appleby's family said; "He was a bright, enthusiastic young man with a heart of gold.
"He always put others first and doted on his beautiful girlfriend Sarah.
"Spending five happy years together, they were inseparable."
The blast happened in the Osney Lane and Gibbs Crescent area at about 16:45 GMT on Tuesday, causing a three-storey building to collapse.
Search and rescue teams are making the pile of debris safe by propping up walls and removing loose brickwork before searching underneath the rubble.
The cause of the blast is unknown.
The missing man has been named by police as 48-year-old Guido Schuette, who they "strongly believe" died in the explosion and is underneath the debris.
But Thames Valley Police has appealed for the public to look out for him while his death remains unconfirmed, in case he is missing.
He is 6ft tall of heavy build, short grey hair, and blue eyes. According to the description, he walks with a limp and uses a crutch.
Supt Joe Kidman said: "Our strong hypothesis is that Guido died in the fire, and we are continuing to offer support to his family at this time.
"Given the circumstances of the incident, we are asking members of the public not to approach Guido but to call 999 immediately."
Police said fire investigators and dog search units could not access the site until it was "fully safe".
An Oxfordshire County Council spokesman said: "Once these safety measures are in place a police dog will carry out a search of the debris pile and then firefighters will start to remove the rubble so a search can be undertaken to confirm if anybody is under the rubble.
"This will then allow detectives, fire investigators and crime scene investigators to determine the cause of the incident."
Forty firefighters fought the blaze, and 60 people remain at the scene as part of a joint operation between police, councils, and the ambulance and fire services.
A number of properties were evacuated, with the Red Cross providing assistance.
The council said 40 households were displaced, with 19 still unable to return.
Dawn Wightman, A2Dominion housing director, called it a "very difficult time for our residents".
Two people were treated for minor injuries and one was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital following the blast.
Incident commander Julian Green said: "Clearly the sequence of events has to be to make the buildings safe first before the removal of rubble begins, so as to ensure safety of personnel.
"We are expecting to start removing rubble later today, working with fire and police investigators alongside to determine the cause."
The court in Turin ruled last month that the woman saying "enough" to her colleague who allegedly attacked her was not a strong enough reaction to prove she had been sexually assaulted.
The alleged victim is now facing charges for slander, reports said.
The ruling has caused outrage in the country.
"Certainly, you cannot punish the personal reaction of a woman terrified by what is happening to her," said opposition MP Annagrazia Calabria.
Justice Minister Andrea Orlando has asked ministry inspectors to begin looking into the case, which was examining incidents that took place in 2011, Ansa news agency reported.
The alleged victim, who worked in hospitals in Turin, said the defendant had forced her into sexual acts and threatened to stop providing her with work if she did not comply, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reported (in Italian).
Asked why she had not reacted to the alleged assault more strongly, she told the court: "Sometimes saying no is enough but maybe I did not use the force and violence that in reality I should have used, but that is because with people who are too strong, I just freeze."
The woman had been a victim of repeated abuse as a child by her father, prosecutors said during the trial.
Acquitting the defendant, the judge said the woman had not "betrayed the emotion that a violation of her person had to inspire in her", described her account as "unlikely" and said the assault "did not exist", Corriere della Sera said.
The defendant admitted sexual encounters with the woman but said they had been consensual.
Water levels at the lake are at a 30-year-high after recent heavy rain.
At Oxford Island on the lough's southern tip, flood waters are knee-deep and several business properties have been badly damaged.
One MLA has said the Northern Ireland Executive must give more help to businesses damaged by floods.
A warning is in place from the Met Office for more heavy rain on Wednesday night and businesses at Kinnego Marina at Lough Neagh say they are worried they would face more problems.
The firms employ 20 people and are unable to trade due to floods at their premises.
The water level in Lough Neagh is controlled by flood gates at Toomebridge in County Antrim, which the Rivers Agency has said have been fully opened since early November.
But business owners at Kinnego Marina have said they want to know if that was done in advance of recent severe storms so that the lough could accommodate the additional water.
One man, Paul Quinn, said his business was "inoperable" and he had not seen the water level as high in over 40 years.
"This is going to take us months to clean up and get back on track again, and this is our busiest time of year," he said.
"It's really going to have a big effect on all four businesses.
"Our biggest predicament is the rainfall coming later this evening and tomorrow morning.
"And if the wind rises, we're going to get a wave effect off the lough, and that's really worrying us."
The SDLP's Dolores Kelly said an emergency executive meeting was needed to discuss how to help business across Northern Ireland affected by floods.
She said she had contacted government agencies to get help for the traders at Kinnego Marina but was told that "commercial properties were well down the pecking order" when it came to receiving assistance.
The businesses had lost stock worth "tens of thousands" of pounds, she said, and one of the shops had recently spent £10,000 on renovations.
"These businessmen have invested in these properties and they really are distraught as to what they're going to get in terms of help today and coping with the aftermath when [flood waters] recede," Ms Kelly said.
"I find it incomprehensible that in GB, [Prime Minister David] Cameron on St Stephen's Day held an emergency meeting regarding the floods in Cumbria, but it's my understanding that the next executive meeting isn't until 21 January.
"I've called on the executive to release additional funding to help commercial properties."
David Porter of the Rivers Agency said "repeated winter storms" were putting pressure on the lough and its outlets.
"The gates have been opened fully since early in November to let as much water out of the system as we possibly can," he said.
"But more rain keeps falling within the catchment."
The National College for Teaching and Leadership panel was told children at Tollgate Primary School in Bury St Edmunds could regularly be heard "shouting or crying" from the rooms.
Alison Earl admitted leaving children in the rooms, but denied it was for an "inappropriate" amount of time.
The education secretary is to rule on what disciplinary action she will face.
The hearing heard, under Mrs Earl's leadership, staff would put children into solitary confinement for bad behaviour.
It was heard staff would hold the handle from outside so children could not get out.
The handle was then moved higher up the door so the children could not reach it, the panel was told.
In summer 2015, a second room, known as the "blue room", was created.
It was about 2m (7ft) by 1.5m (5ft) and teachers could not observe it from the main corridor.
A few children were put into solitary confinement in this room, the panel was told.
Mrs Earl said she expected staff to supervise children who were put into solitary confinement, but the panel said it had no evidence to support her claim.
The 55-year-old, however, did admit putting children at risk.
The panel said Mrs Earl had shown a "lack of insight into the impact of the room upon the wellbeing and safety of pupils and a disregard for the law and guidance".
Mrs Earl had been the head teacher at the school between 2014 and 2015. She resigned in December 2015 after an investigation was carried out.
Young will host her final Crimewatch next month but will continue to present BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
"There are very few TV programmes that are part of the national fabric and my years working with the Crimewatch team have been a great privilege," she said.
"With the crucial help of viewers the show has played a pivotal role in solving crimes for more than 30 years."
The show launched in 1984 and asks its three million viewers for information to help crack serious cases. Young added: "Long may that invaluable work continue."
Young's co-presenters are Matthew Amroliwala and Martin Bayfield. Since joining the show in 2008, she has fronted high-profile appeals, including the disappearance of Madeline McCann and the Hatton Garden heist.
As well as hosting Desert Island Discs, she will also front a number of one-off special programmes for the BBC.
They will include a programme honouring the work of Sir David Attenborough in his 90th birthday year and a one-hour special about the Queen's annual festive message, titled Cue The Queen: Celebrating the Christmas Speech.
BBC One controller Charlotte Moore said: "Kirsty has been such an integral part of Crimewatch over the last seven years and she will be greatly missed.
"Nevertheless, Kirsty will continue to play an important role on BBC One and I'm looking forward to her special documentary about The Queen's Christmas message next month."
The BBC said a new Crimewatch presenter will be announced in due course.
His pay package in 2016 was worth $11.6m (£9.3m), down from $19.4m in 2015.
It follows a rebellion by shareholders, who last year voted against Mr Dudley's 2015 pay award.
The rebellion prompted BP to review its pay policy. It says the resulting proposals will "better align pay and performance" and lead to a reduced maximum payout for the chief executive.
In February 2015, BP reported record losses and announced 3,000 job cuts. Despite that, Mr Dudley was offered a pay package worth 20% more than his 2014 award.
That sparked dissent from shareholders and at last April's annual general meeting, almost 60% of them voted against the pay package.
The vote was non-binding and Mr Dudley received the package, but BP's chairman acknowledged the unhappiness of shareholders and ordered a review, the results of which were announced on Thursday.
"The proposed remuneration policy is designed to ensure a clear link between delivery of BP's strategy and pay," the company said.
"From 2017, we propose a simplified approach with a significant reduction in overall remuneration levels."
Back in April, the Institute of Directors (IoD) said that British companies were in the "last chance saloon" when it came to executive pay.
It welcomed the latest changes announced by BP, but said directors must take greater responsibility for pay.
"Boards themselves must take the initiative and ensure that pay for CEOs [chief executives] is linked explicitly with the long-term performance of the company," said Olive Parry, head of corporate governance at the IoD.
"The signs so far are good, but the coming months will be telling," she added.
BP is proposing a number of changes to its pay scheme for the chief executive. They include:
The new bonus scheme will be voted on by shareholders at the annual general meeting on 17 May.
It will be applied for pay awards for 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Royal London Asset Management holds a stake in BP worth almost £680m. Its corporate governance manager, Ashley Hamilton Claxton, said:
"We applaud the BP remuneration committee for being proactive in responding to the shareholder revolt last year and see this as a milestone in the engagement between companies and shareholders
"It is rare for a company to consult with us on proposals for reducing pay, setting an example for other companies holding binding votes this year."
McCulloch has led Killie to top-flight safety but the club have yet to reveal whether that has earned him the job.
And Jones, who has been offered a new contract, said: "Could that sway my decision? Yeah it could.
"If someone else were to come in that would probably make me think twice about staying on."
And the winger added: "That's just because I've got so much faith in the manager we have here right now.
"It's not just me, if you see the results we've had as a team under Jig (McCulloch) and the way we've been performing as young players then there's every reason to think a lot of us will go on to bigger and better things."
Former Middlesbrough man Jones, 22, has enjoyed a fine first season at Killie after signing under previous manager Lee Clark last summer.
He has been in talks over a new deal but is now "waiting to see what happens with the management situation" before making a decision.
McCulloch took over in February following Clark's departure to Bury and Jones says the former Scotland midfielder has had a hugely positive influence on him and the team as a whole.
"I'm really progressing under Jig and Peter Leven (assistant boss) right now," he added.
"They have both been really good with me and the team, and if I keep progressing it's only going to benefit me by staying here.
"It's been a good year both personally and as a team.
"We've all done well, especially since Jig's been in charge. We've come together and the mentality has really changed. We're all looking to get better and better.
"If we could get seventh place by beating Ross County this weekend it would cap off a good season.
"The main reason for me moving up was to play week in, week out and that's what's happened. The first part of the season has really helped me understand the defensive side of the game a lot better. Jig has said to me if I lose the ball it doesn't matter as long as I do the defensive side.
"So that has given me total freedom on the ball which is great. I think you can see that coming through in my performances now."
A comprehensive study by the Carnegie UK Trust looked at the habits of 10,000 people across the country.
People aged 15-24 in England were the most likely age group to use libraries.
But the data didn't show what they were using them for - so it could be for the computers and free internet.
The results suggested that around half of the population of the UK and Ireland continue to use libraries.
Nearly half (46%) of people aged 25 to 34 still visit them according to the study - a rise of 2%.
However, overall library use in England declined by 4% over five years with the public using libraries less frequently.
There was also a drop in the number of older people using libraries.
The study involved 5,000 interviews which took place in 2011, and a further 5,000 interviews last year.
Researchers then compared the two sets of data, which was broken down by region.
The highest levels of library use were in Scotland and Ireland, with the lowest in Northern Ireland.
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David Akers, 61, drove the girl to remote locations and assaulted her while he was deputy head of Budmouth School in Weymouth.
He was found guilty of three counts of indecent assault of a child under 16 and cleared of three others following a trial at Bournemouth Crown Court.
He was jailed for four years and put on the sex offenders' register for life.
Dorset Police said the offences came to light when the victim told her partner and friends in 2015.
In a police interview Akers, from Waddon in Weymouth, admitted knowing the victim as a former pupil, but denied having had any sexual contact with her.
Det Con Richard Bayley said: "David Akers was in a position of trust and abused that trust to engage in an inappropriate relationship with a pupil."
The school previously confirmed the defendant had not worked at the school since December 2015.
A spokesman for Budmouth College - its new name - said: "The college has assisted the police throughout the investigation and judicial process. We respect the verdict of the jury and now hope to move forwards, continuing to focus on our students, staff and wider community."
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement voting had been "largely peaceful and orderly".
Voting continued for a second day in some parts of Nigeria after problems with new electronic card readers.
It is expected to be a closely fought battle between President Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari.
Thousands of opposition supporters in Rivers State have protested against alleged killings of campaigners and voting irregularities.
Nigeria's election commission said its office there had been set on fire and it was investigating the complaints.
Mr Ban praised the "determination and resilience" of Nigerian voters, despite reports of attacks by Boko Haram militants and others.
He urged voters to maintain a "peaceful atmosphere and to exercise patience" throughout the process.
His comments were echoed by John Kufuor, the head of the regional bloc Ecowas, who said the process has been "quite peaceful, orderly and credible".
The election as it happened.
Mr Jonathan and at least three governors from his ruling party were among those whose biometric details could not be checked by the electronic card readers - new technology intended to reduce fraud.
Instead, they had to be processed by hand. Mr Jonathan's Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) called it a "huge national embarrassment" and a "vindication" of its position against the technology.
"There should have been a test-run for a smaller election before deploying it for an election of this magnitude," said Mr Jonathan's presidential campaign spokesman Femi Fani-Kayode.
About 300 polling units out of 150,000 were affected, a spokesman for the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) said.
The vote had been delayed by six weeks because of the insurgency by militants from the Islamist group, Boko Haram.
Both the main candidates had pledged to prevent violence during and in the aftermath of the elections.
But several hours after voting started, reports came in of attacks at polling stations.
Muhammadu Buhari, All Progressives Congress (APC), Muslim northerner, ex-military ruler, fourth presidential bid
Goodluck Jonathan, People's Democratic Party (PDP), Christian southerner, incumbent president, second-term bid
Unpredictable poll
Nigeria decides 2015: Full coverage
Attacks were reported in north-eastern Gombe state, including incidents where gunmen opened fire on voters at polling stations.
Mr Jonathan told the BBC's Peter Okwoche that most of the violence there was not related to the elections.
"The war against terrorists is going on, voting or no voting," he said. "There was a conflict, kind of a crossfire, between soldiers and terrorists that had nothing to do with the elections."
The PDP has dominated Nigerian politics since 1999, but Gen Buhari's All Progressives Congress is viewed as a serious challenge.
Voters are also electing members of the house of representatives and the senate. Initial results could come as early as Sunday evening.
He is a product of the Latics academy and scored once in six outings last season before a shoulder injury meant he missed most of the campaign.
The Wigan-born 20-year-old was part of the club's League One winning season.
"On the ball his quality is undoubted, he's a fantastic technical footballer," boss Gary Caldwell told the club website.
"He has to continue to work on his fitness for the new season, it's a massive part of football now especially in midfield."
A poor pass by Steven Hammell gifted Chris Erskine the chance to nip and give Partick the lead.
Ade Azeez had three good chances to increase Thistle's lead, with Danny Devine also forcing a save from close range and Ryan Edwards heading over.
And they were punished when Scott McDonald headed in a late goal.
Partick Thistle would have been stung by regret. Having deservedly taken the lead in the first half, they should have established a commanding lead before Motherwell even managed an effort on target in the second half.
Three times Ade Azeez was presented with an opportunity while one-on-one with the Motherwell goalkeeper Craig Samson. The first was the clearest chance, when he was sent running through by Erskine's pass, but the striker pulled his effort wide.
He did the same with his next effort, while the third was blocked at close range by Samson. The goalkeeper also stopped an effort by David Amoo late in the second half, but Azeez will be haunted by his misses. The best of his work took place outside the area, and he was important for his side's tactical approach, but the spurned chances were critical.
In the first half especially, Partick Thistle were in control of the game. The basis of that was the combination of attributes of their three central midfielders.
Ryan Edwards was a busy, scurrying figure who covered much of the pitch, hassling, harrying and shuttling the ball to and from teammates, while in the second half he lashed a 30-yard shot off the post. Alongside him, the debutant Adam Barton was a tall, strong figure, providing an air of authority.
They were the foundation for Erskine to prompt and create from the pocket of space behind Azeez. Erskine was the game's most accomplished player, taking his goal with expertise after collecting Hammell's misplaced pass. His poise was missed when he was substituted with 20 minutes to go, when his side was still leading 1-0.
Motherwell were out of sorts in the opening half, with the home side dominating play. It was a sign of their fortunes that Louis Moult - who scored four last week against Hamilton - was substituted without even having an effort on goal.
They did see a McDonald effort from close range ruled out before eventually forcing an equaliser late on, with McDonald converting Richard Tait's cross. Chris Cadden saw his shot from distance pushed away by the Partick goalkeeper Ryan Scully late on, but this was a rescue job for the visitors.
Mothererwell manager Mark McGhee will be looking for more from the likes of Cadden, Moult, and Ryan Bowman.
Partick Thistle's Alan Archibald: "We created a number of very good chances and we've got to take them.
"At the moment, to win a game it looks as though we almost need two goals. We've conceded again late on and we don't look like keeping a clean sheet. It's frustrating because we were in charge in the first-half. If Ade takes his chance at the beginning of the second half, clean through, the game could have been dead and buried.
"[Ade] probably needs one to go in off his rear end or just bounce off him and go in. With his overall performance, it's almost nearly there for him, he worked ever so hard and got us up the pitch. But he's a striker and he's paid to score goals. We'll back him to the hilt. We need to start scoring.
"Apart from the first day of the season, we've not had a clean sheet and that's frustrating because the defenders mostly did their job today. We didn't deal with a decent delivery into the box and we have to deal with that.
"It's out job to make sure the players [aren't downbeat], because there are a lot of positives to take. We need to make sure we turn these draws into wins because we don't want a gap to open up [at the bottom of the table]. We want to keep it as tight as we can. We'll keep working hard and move on."
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Motherwell's Mark McGhee: "We deserved a draw in the end. Our first-half performance was lethargic, I don't know what went on there but we were disjointed, we didn't have the same team performance as of late. That was a worry but at half-time I had a word and the second half was much better. It took us a while to get the goal, although we had one disallowed that was a goal, but given the poor first half we'll settle for the draw.
"[The disallowed goal] was just a bad call, it happens. We make bad calls, referees make bad calls and you've got to forgive them, they do their best. Had it been given, it doesn't mean we'd have got the second one, so we take it on the chin.
"There was a time in the past when we could have lost that game but we've grown up since then and learned to dig in and take it the distance. We kept going, we kept trying to change it. Louis Moult hadn't trained all week, he'd hurt his hamstring, so we took him off. It worked out in the end."
Match ends, Partick Thistle 1, Motherwell 1.
Second Half ends, Partick Thistle 1, Motherwell 1.
Attempt saved. Chris Cadden (Motherwell) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Kris Doolan (Partick Thistle) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Ben Heneghan (Motherwell).
Danny Devine (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Ryan Scully.
Attempt saved. Ryan Bowman (Motherwell) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Kris Doolan replaces Steven Lawless.
Foul by Scott McDonald (Motherwell).
Sean Welsh (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Chris Cadden (Motherwell) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Chris Cadden (Motherwell).
David Amoo (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ryan Bowman (Motherwell).
Christie Elliott (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Partick Thistle 1, Motherwell 1. Scott McDonald (Motherwell) header from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by Richard Tait.
Attempt blocked. David Amoo (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Sean Welsh (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. David Amoo (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Liam Lindsay (Partick Thistle).
Ryan Bowman (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ryan Bowman (Motherwell) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.
Substitution, Motherwell. Lionel Ainsworth replaces Keith Lasley.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Ziggy Gordon.
Attempt missed. Ben Heneghan (Motherwell) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Danny Devine.
Attempt blocked. Stephen McManus (Motherwell) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Ryan Edwards.
Ryan Edwards (Partick Thistle) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box.
Liam Lindsay (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Scott McDonald (Motherwell).
Attempt missed. Sean Welsh (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Motherwell. James McFadden replaces Louis Moult.
Foul by Adebayo Azeez (Partick Thistle).
Steven Hammell (Motherwell) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Liam Lindsay (Partick Thistle) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Sean Welsh replaces Chris Erskine because of an injury.
Corner, Partick Thistle. Conceded by Ben Heneghan.
Attempt saved. Liam Lindsay (Partick Thistle) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
American entrepreneur Robbie Tripp, who describes himself as "husband to a curvy goddess", posted a photograph of him and his wife, explaining in a popular post that becoming a feminist taught him that "curvy" women could be sexy.
"I love this woman and her curvy body. As a teenager, I was often teased by my friends for my attraction to girls on the thicker side," he wrote.
"As I became a man and started to educate myself on issues such as feminism and how the media marginalizes women by portraying a very narrow and very specific standard of beauty (thin, tall, lean), I realised how many men have bought into that lie."
"For me, there is nothing sexier than this woman here: thick thighs, big booty, cute little side roll etc."
The post quickly attracted criticism online for suggesting that men be applauded if they prefer body types that do not fit the "tall and thin" look portrayed as conventionally attractive by popular culture.
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Journalist Julia Pugachevsky suggested, in a comment that has been retweeted 18,000 times since Friday, that feminism is not about being attracted to curvy women.
"Why do you think you're a modern saint because you date a normal sized woman?" asked @luciadraco.
"'I'm a feminist, I objectify women for completely different reasons than most of society'", Nate Cook on Twitter suggested was the real meaning behind Mr Tripp's post.
Others criticised Mr Tripp for suggesting that his wife is not a "normal" size and for objectifying women's bodies.
End of Twitter post by @_ImogenEllis
End of Twitter post by @amandamull
"Um she isn't what I'd call big. My legs look like hers and I wear a size 10. I'd like to sub that as "average" and "normal," @christenlabell wrote.
Some women were much more blunt.
"I would dump a guy so quickly for patting himself on the back for having the audacity to date me," Kat Blaque wrote in a popular comment on Twitter.
But others defended Mr Tripp.
Instagrammer Amanda Fotheringham wrote: "I love this so much. I'm tired of people getting offended by everything and anything. This is a beautiful post and we need more men like you in the world.
Mr Tripp was also praised for his efforts to change the conversation about standards of beauty for women.
"Beautiful, sincere and as it should be. Real man and a real woman. Thank you for the statement of truth and giving hope to many," commented @lettistruluv.
"That's so awesome. If you change one man or woman's way of looking at others or themselves you have done an amazing thing," said @char514.
By Georgina Rannard, UGC & Social news
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The 29-year-old Olympic champion only decided to compete in Beijing within the past month, having returned to training only last autumn after the birth of her son Reggie.
But she steadily built a near-unassailable lead over the first six events and then stormed through to win her 800m heat in two minutes 10.13 seconds to amass 6,669 points and leave Canada's Brianne Theisen-Eaton trailing 115 points down in silver.
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Latvia's Laura Ikauniece-Admidina was 38 points further back in bronze.
The British one-two that had seemed a genuine possibility after the first day of competition disappeared when Katarina Johnson-Thompson dramatically fouled out of the long jump, the fifth event.
Johnson-Thompson slogged through the final two events under duress but was in tears at the end, her hopes of a first senior global medal dashed by a combination of inexperience and inaccuracy.
Ennis-Hill was clearly stunned with her win and told BBC Sport that she would have been happy with third place.
"This is definitely one of the greatest moments of my career, I still can't believe it," she said. "Me and coach Toni (Minichiello) spoke about coming here, and we only wanted to come if I was able to compete for a medal.
"We spoke about the bronze medal and that it would be amazing for a silver medal, but we never spoke about gold. I kind of thought it was a little beyond me this year.
"There were doubts before the Anniversary Games but performing in London showed me I was making progress. If I'd come away with a bronze I'd have been so happy, so to win gold is unbelievable.
"This has been the hardest year ever. There were different pressures going into London 2012, but here juggling all my mummy duties has been even harder.
"I want to thank everyone for their help and sacrifices in helping me get back to being the athlete I was."
Ennis-Hill, 29, began Sunday's second day by recording a season's best of 6.43m in the long jump, just nine centimetres off her personal best, and then threw 42.51m in the first round of the javelin to open up a gap of 86 points over Nadine Broersen of the Netherlands in the silver medal position and 94 over Theisen-Eaton in third.
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That equated to a cushion of just under six seconds over the field in the 800m, and with Ennis-Hill boasting a personal best three and a half seconds faster than Broersen's and more than a second faster than that of Theisen-Eaton, the race was effectively a coronation.
Yet nothing about this win should be taken for granted, with a gold medal here arguably more impressive even than her Olympic triumph of 2012.
Where her rivals either underperformed or cracked under the pressure, Ennis-Hill was by contrast relentlessly consistent - a solid 12.91 seconds in the 100m hurdles, an equal season's best with 1.86m in the high jump, 13.73m in the shot put and 23.42secs in the 200m.
While several women have come back from childbirth to win distance-running titles, no multi-eventer has ever come back to win a world title.
And when her training was repeatedly interrupted by Achilles problems in the first half of this year, the Briton's hopes of even getting a qualifying score for these World Championships seemed remote.
Only an improved showing over the sprint hurdles at the Anniversary Games at the end of July persuaded her and coach Toni Minichiello that it was worth travelling to China, and then with a target of a podium place rather than a repeat of the world title she won in 2009.
After she had come past Theisen-Eaton in the home straight of the 800m, she fell to the track with her hands over her face. A road back that began with a 15-minute bike ride last November ended on a warm Beijing night in fairytale fashion.
Michael Johnson: "This will be a great springboard towards Rio for Jess, and a fantastic confidence booster for her as an athlete. Already looking towards next year, it puts a lot of pressure on her rivals."
Kelly Sotherton: "I am really over the moon for Jess. That is one super woman. She is unbelievable - and on her way to becoming a legend.
"None of her performances here were outstanding but they were consistent and I see no reason why she can't do even better in Rio and defend her title."
Steve Cram: "What a performance from a true, true champion. If she wasn't already the darling of British athletics then goodness me, she is now. This is what it's all about - years of training to show that athletics can be pure and great and inspirational."
Her young compatriot and rival Johnson-Thompson had recorded no-jumps in the first two of her three long jump attempts but then appeared to have rescued matters with a huge leap in the third.
Yet after protracted and despairing discussions, the 22-year-old was ruled to have marginally fouled that one too and, with no points from the fifth discipline, her competition was effectively over - despite a later team appeal.
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She had almost fouled out of another of her strongest events, the high jump, on the first morning, only clearing the relatively modest 1.80m on her third and final attempt.
Ennis-Hill, who tried to console Johnson-Thompson after the long jump, said: "It's awful. We're rivals and we want to better each other, but when she did that in the long jump my heart sunk for her.
"I felt really emotional for her because when you put yourself through two days of heptathlon it's really awful and it's hard work."
And although Johnson-Thompson came out for the javelin competition while the appeal continued, her demeanour told its own story.
After a fine first day - a personal best of 13.37secs in the 100m hurdles, another with 12.47m in the shot before an impressive 23.08secs in her first 200m of the season - she looked set to go head-to-head with Ennis-Hill in what was shaping up to be an epic 800m.
To miss out on a world medal in such circumstances will be chastening, yet with the Rio Olympics a year away it is also a valuable lesson for a young athlete with a huge future.
The prospect of a showdown between the two Britons on the greatest stage of all is an alluring one.
But this weekend the spotlight is for Ennis-Hill only. She had pledged a performance to make Reggie proud, and just as in London three summers ago, she delivered in peerless style.
Two men were captured on CCTV footage taking the items out of Goulds Garden Centre, Weymouth, on 10 December.
Police said they had since been recovered and a 26-year-old man from Wimborne had been arrested and bailed.
It is hoped the raffle will raise more than £1,000 for Cancer Research and child bereavement charity Mosaic.
It is being held in memory of former garden centre employee, Lyn Weaver, who died two months ago.
Penny Corp-Palmer, operations manager at the garden centre, said news of the recovery of the prizes was "an amazing end to the story".
Police said the 4ft (1.2m) teddy bear and other items, including scarves and hats, were returned in time for the draw at 12:00 GMT.
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Jessica-Ennis Hill took silver in the heptathlon, while there was a bronze for long jumper Greg Rutherford.
Farah overcame a tumble to win the 10,000m, while Trott's women's pursuit team beat the USA with a world record.
The men's eight rowers won gold just after the women were second, before cycling and swimming silver medals.
American swimming legend Michael Phelps bowed out of the Olympics with a 23rd gold medal, as Britain took silver in the men's 4x100m medley relay.
Jamaican Elaine Thompson won the women's 100m in 10.71 seconds, ahead of Tori Bowie and two-time champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
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The eight medals - three golds, four silvers and one bronze - represented Britain's most successful day of the Games so far and kept GB third in the medal table on 30 - one more than at the same stage of London 2012.
Farah, 33, became the first British track and field athlete to secure three Olympic titles - following a long-distance double at London 2012.
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Trott, 24, is the first female GB competitor to win a third gold, having triumphed alongside Joanna Rowsell-Shand, Elinor Barker and Katie Archibald.
Another medal in the velodrome came via Becky James, who claimed a silver in the keirin.
The evening athletics action had been billed as a chance for Britain to replicate Super Saturday in London when Farah, Rutherford and Ennis-Hill all won golds.
But Ennis-Hill had to settle for silver after a thrilling finish to the heptathlon won by Belgian Nafi Thiam, with GB's Katarina Johnson-Thompson sixth after poor throws in the javelin.
Tearful Ennis-Hill, 30, said afterwards this was her last Olympics and hinted she could retire from the sport altogether.
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The medals charge began on the rowing lake where the men's eight led from start to finish after the women's crew claimed a first medal for GB in their event.
Britain secured a medal in the last swimming event of the Games as Adam Peaty added to his 100m breaststroke gold earlier in the week in a team completed by Chris Walker-Hebborn, James Guy and Duncan Scott.
Peaty's blistering time of 56.59 seconds was well inside his own world record of 57.13 and helped deliver a sixth medal in the pool - double the tally of four years ago and the highest number since 1908.
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Andy Murray remains on course to win back-to-back Olympic tennis titles after seeing off Japanese fourth seed Kei Nishikori in the semi-finals of the singles.
Murray will face Argentine Juan Martin del Potro, who defeated Rafael Nadal in a final-set tie-break, in Sunday's gold-medal match (19:00 BST).
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Justin Rose, who hit a hole-in-one earlier this week, is in the gold-medal position in the men's golf going into Sunday's final round (starts 14:39), one ahead of Open champion Henrik Stenson.
Britain are guaranteed another gold medal in the velodrome on Sunday after Jason Kenny and Callum Skinner advanced to the final (21:04) of the men's sprint.
British Olympic Association chief Bill Sweeney has said Team GB are on track to realise their goal of at least 48 medals.
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Jamaica's Usain Bolt began his quest for a third successive Olympic 100m title by cruising through the opening heats.
The reigning Olympic champion at 100m, 200m and the 4x100m relay clocked 10.07 seconds despite easing up 50 metres from the finish line.
American Justin Gatlin, likely to be one of Bolt's rivals in Monday's final (02:25 BST), comfortably qualified in 10.01, while Briton CJ Ujah's 10.13 saw him safely through.
Asked about American swimmer Lilly King's comments that people who have been caught doping "shouldn't be on the team", Gatlin, twice been caught using banned substances, responded: "I don't even know who Lilly King is."
Athletics
James Dasaolu squeezed into the men's 100m semi-finals as one of the fastest losers having run in the same heat as Jamaica's Bolt.
"He's Usain Bolt to everyone, but to me he's another competitor and I focus on my lane," said the 28-year-old Briton. "I can't control what Usain does."
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Team-mate James Ellington, 30, finished fifth in his heat with a time of 10.29, which was only good enough for 40th overall.
Matthew Hudson-Smith, 21, finished second in his 400m semi-final in 44.48 seconds to qualify seventh fastest for the final.
Christine Ohuruogu, the 2008 Olympic champion and runner-up in London, was second in her 400m heat with a strong performance to finish in 51.40 seconds.
Emily Diamond, who had food poisoning two nights earlier, finished fourth in heat five to join her team-mate in Sunday's semi-finals.
Seren Bundy-Davies missed out on a semi-final place in the same event, finishing seventh in heat two and 49th overall.
Other sports
British super-heavyweight Joe Joyce is through to the quarter-finals of the boxing, after a first-round stoppage win over Cape Verde's Davilson Dos Santos Morais.
In the women's hockey, unbeaten GB defeated USA 2-1 to top their group and will play their quarter-final match on Monday.
At the Aquatics Centre, Grace Reid made the final of the women's three-metre springboard diving after finishing 11th in the semi-final.
Officials at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Park say the water polo and synchronised swimming pool will be emptied overnight and re-filled with "crystal clear" water from the warm-up pool.
The water in the diving pool will remain where it is, though, as treatment continues to reverse its green tinge.
"Hopefully this will work," said a Rio 2016 spokesman, who said it was important the synchronised swimmers had crystal clear water to compete in so they can see each another and the judges can see them perform.
Meanwhile, organisers claim ticket sales are "very promising", with 93% of tickets sold for Saturday's morning athletics session and 79% for the evening.
In other news, the only Russian due to compete in athletics - long jumper Darya Klishina - has been banned from the Games following new, but unspecified, information.
Only a photo could separate the top two in the men's single sculls on Saturday, but it was defending champion Mahe Drysdale of New Zealand who retained his title, despite being awarded the same time as Croat Damir Martin.
Germany's Christoph Harting followed in the footsteps of his brother Robert by winning the Olympic discus title.
Harting, whose brother failed to qualify for the final after straining his back, saved his best until last and managed a personal best of 68.37m on his sixth attempt.
Etenesh Diro received the biggest roar the Olympic Stadium has heard so far.
The Ethiopian fought on despite losing a shoe - and then whipping off her sock - with two and half laps to go in the 3,000m steeplechase semi-finals. Although she didn't qualify automatically, she was later advanced to the final on appeal.
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14:39: Golf - Great Britain's Justin Rose will tee off as leader in the final round with a one-shot lead over Henrik Stenson.
17:05: Windsurfing - Nick Dempsey guaranteed to win a silver when the men's RS:X medal race gets under way. 18:05: Women's race features Bryony Shaw.
19:00: Tennis - Andy Murray seeks to retain his London 2012 title in the gold-medal match against Argentine Juan Martin del Potro.
19:30: Gymnastics - Max Whitlock favourite in the pommel horse as Britain seek to claim a first-ever gymnastics Olympic gold medal, but faces competition from team-mate Louis Smith, a silver medallist at London 2012.
21:04: Cycling - Britain guaranteed a gold as defending champion Jason Kenny faces team-mate Callum Skinner for the men's sprint title.
Athletics after midnight UK time (early hours Monday)
01:00: 100m - Semi-finals. Usain Bolt - after 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay golds in 2008 and 2012 - continues his bid for an unprecedented sprint 'treble treble'.
02:00: 400m - Men's final. Two-time Olympic champion LaShawn Merritt among the contenders.
02:25: 100m final - Jamaican Bolt likely to take on American Justin Gatlin, who has twice served doping bans.
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An investigation into the secondary tickets market has been launched by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
Many websites re-sell tickets for music, theatre or sporting events which have previously been bought by others.
Earlier in the year four of the biggest firms promised greater transparency.
The new investigation will focus on whether information is provided about:
"A night out at a concert or a trip to a big match is something that millions of people look forward to. So it is important they know who they are buying from and whether there are any restrictions that could stop them using the ticket," said Andrea Coscelli, the CMA's acting chief executive.
The CMA will consider whether both the businesses selling tickets and the secondary ticketing platforms advertising them are breaking the law by failing to provide the full range of information.
Enforcement action, including fines determined by the courts, could result if the competition law is found to have been breached.
The Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers said: "We welcome and support this latest development and the continuing work of the Competition and Markets Authority to ensure compliance with the law by all those operating in the ticket resale sector."
While it is not illegal to re-sell tickets, it is thought that some of the selling patterns are only possible because of software known as "bots", which automatically sweep up huge numbers of tickets the moment they go on sale. Tickets are then resold at a profit on secondary market websites.
Some tickets for popular bands have been advertised for nearly 100 times their face value. Sir Elton John has also branded secondary ticket sites "disgraceful".
The market has been in the firing line from authorities this year.
The CMA carried out a review of the four main secondary ticketing websites - Get Me In, Seatwave, StubHub and Viagogo - to ensure they improved the information provided about tickets advertised on their sites. One website was not fully complying with its promises, the authority said.
And in November, the BBC revealed that the tax affairs of the secondary ticketing industry are being targeted by HM Revenue and Customs.
A government review, authored by Professor Michael Waterson, economics professor at Warwick University, praised Glastonbury's ticketing model where tickets are "deliberately personalised" and ID is checked at the gates.
MPs have also criticised the opportunities the secondary market offers to touts.
A recent survey by consumer group Which? found the rules were consistently being breached.
"On numerous occasions we have found tickets being sold unlawfully, so we welcome the competition authorities taking action to tackle this," said Vickie Sheriff, director of campaigns at Which?.
"No one can know the real value of their ticket if they have not been given the information on face value, where the seat is located and any restrictions. We expect the CMA to take strong action against ticketing sites and businesses not playing by the rules."
The plan involves a new building to house the Concorde with a museum in two neighbouring World War I hangars.
Plans for a museum at nearby Cribbs Causeway stalled after a bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund was turned down.
Filton Airfield, which is owned by BAE Systems, is due to close in 2012.
BBC Radio Bristol's political reporter Robin Markwell said the new centre would be on land just off a new link road between Filton and Cribbs Causeway - bordering the northern edge of the airfield - which opened in 2010.
He said the plan included a science and technology centre which would train engineers from local universities.
Plans for funding it have not yet been announced. It would also require planning permission from South Gloucestershire Council.
Concorde 216, or Alpha Foxtrot, was the last of the fleet to fly when Concorde was withdrawn from service by British Airways in 2003.
It is currently on the opposite side of the runway at the airfield, where it formed part of an open-air exhibit which closed in 2010.
Andrew Cheeseman, from BAE Systems, said new plans for Concorde would be announced "in the near future".
The teenager had to be rescued by fire crews after she tried to squeeze through and enter her house in Malvern, Worcestershire. It took 20 minutes to free her.
On Saturday morning, another girl had to be cut free after she became stuck in a cat flap at her home in Drayton Bassett, near Tamworth.
Both girls escaped without injury.
Christopher Stalford made the comments when he was asked about Sinn Féin's demand for an Irish language act.
"We need to stop using culture as a stick to poke each other with," the DUP MLA told the BBC's Any Questions show.
But Sinn Féin's Declan Kearney said the DUP's treatment of Irish culture had contributed to the crisis at Stormont.
Disagreement over legal protection for the Irish language is just one of the issues which has led to deadlock in talks aimed at restoring power-sharing at Stormont.
Sinn Féin wants a "stand-alone" Irish act, but the DUP has suggested a hybrid act which would also provide legal protection for Ulster Scots.
"An Irish language act is pivotal to ensuring that we close a deal, but it needs to be set in the broader context of the rights and the equality agenda," Mr Kearney said.
Sinn Féin has warned that the Conservative government's parliamentary deal with the DUP has made the prospect of a deal less likely.
The party has complained that the Downing Street agreement had "deepened DUP intransigence" and emboldened its socially conservative views.
"At this particular point in time, the Tories and the DUP effectively represent an anti-equality axis in the north," Mr Kearney said.
He said that during the talks, the DUP had not moved on a number of issues, including an Irish language act, same-sex marriage, a Bill of Rights and measures to deal with the legacy of the Troubles.
An Any Questions audience member asked the panel: "Why are Sinn Féin pushing for an Irish language act, as opposed to a more inclusive culture act, involving other languages spoken in the province?
"After all, there are more Polish speakers on the island of Ireland than there are Irish speakers."
In his reply, Mr Stalford said: "As a society, moving forward, I believe that what we need to do is we need to take the heat out of culture.
"We need to stop using culture as a stick to poke each other with and we need to create a society where people feel free to celebrate their culture, to affirm their identity and I'm personally up for that."
The South Belfast MLA said he represented one of the most diverse constituencies in Northern Ireland.
"We have more than 100 different nationalities living in my constituency.
"I want us to get to a situation where we take the heat out of culture and we stop fighting a culture war in Northern Ireland because its not in the interests of any of us."
Mr Stalford also defended his opposition to same-sex marriage, and said it was partly influenced by his Christian faith.
"To be a supporter of traditional definition of marriage is, at times, to open yourself up to being called a religious zealot, a Bible basher, a fundamentalist, a dinosaur - all these sorts of the things.
"The language that's been used by people who share my view, towards others who don't, has also been inappropriate and wrong."
He said the tone of the same-sex marriage debate had been "ugly and unpleasant".
"I think we just, frankly, in terms of this discussion, could do with being a bit less screechy at each other."
Mr Kearney reiterated the importance of securing a "rights-based" approach to the outstanding issues before Sinn Féin would return to government.
He also accused the government of reneging on a previous agreement to protect the Irish language, struck 10 years ago with the then Prime Minister Tony Blair.
"Delivery on an Irish language act needs to be seen in the context of delivery on a swathe of agreements which to date have never been delivered upon," Mr Kearney said.
Northern Ireland has been without a devolved government since January, when the coalition led by Sinn Féin and the DUP collapsed after a green energy scandal.
The UCI Mountain Bike World Cup at Nevis Range near Fort William will involve more than 300 competitors from 28 countries.
More than 16,000 spectators are expected to attend competitions taking place on Saturday and Sunday.
Skye-born street trials rider Danny MacAskill will also be performing his Drop and Roll show during the event.
The LGA said there were 2,056 cases of theft recorded in 2015 compared with 1,756 in 2014 and 656 in 2013.
Prosecutions for using stolen or lost badges to park for free dishonestly nearly trebled in the last five years.
Blue badges entitle drivers to free parking in pay and display bays and allow them to park in disabled zones.
At least 2.4 million disabled people hold the badges in England, which are issued by local authorities.
The LGA, which represents more than 370 councils in England and Wales, said the number of people prosecuted for abusing the use of blue badges had increased from 330 in 2010 to 985 in 2015.
Martin Tett, LGA Transport spokesman, said: "The theft of blue badges is clearly a crime on the rise and it is alarming that incidents have trebled in just three years.
"Illegally using a blue badge is not a victimless crime.
"For disabled people, blue badges are a vital lifeline that helps them get out and about to visit shops or family and friends.
"Callous thieves and unscrupulous fraudsters using them illegally are robbing disabled people of this independence."
Blue badges also allow disabled people to park for up to three hours on yellow lines, while in London they exempt holders from having to pay the congestion charge.
They are only allowed to be used when the holder of the badge is driving the vehicle or is a passenger.
Mr Tett added: "To help councils win the fight against blue badge fraud, residents must keep tipping us off about people they suspect are illegally using a badge, bearing in mind people's need for a badge might not always be obvious."
The 41-year-old beat Alex Noren of Sweden 1 up in the final.
Wall, who has struggled with back and hip injuries over the past three years, said: "I've been struggling all year, not feeling well. And then this week, I've been really enjoying myself."
Wall's only previous European Tour win came in the Alfred Dunhill Championship in 2000.
In the third-place play-off, James Morrison was a 4&2 winner over fellow Englishman Oliver Fisher.
Borrowing the names of organisations like Nasa and the Environmental Protection Agency they are directly attacking the president.
Mr Trump has called climate change a hoax.
The @RogueNASA account says it is the "unofficial 'Resistance' team of NASA".
"Not an official NASA account. Not managed by gov't employees. Come for the facts, stay for the snark," the account declares.
BBC News contacted the rogue Environmental Protection Agency account called @ActualEPAFacts.
They told us they acted to make sure "factual information about climate change and other scientific research continues to be shared during the Trump administration".
They claimed to be three EPA employees and said they acted after a gagging order stopped them from doing interviews relating to their research.
Media reports have suggested that the Trump administration sought to limit how certain government agencies - including the EPA - communicate with the public. The official EPA Twitter account has not posted since 19 January, a day before Mr Trump's inauguration.
ActualEPAFacts told us they were surprised by how many people are now following their account - more than 90,000 currently - but also felt exposed by what they were doing.
The other rogue accounts also have large numbers of followers. More than 370,000 are following @RogueNasa after a handful of tweets in a few days.
The rogue National Park Service account @AltNatParkSer has attracted even more people, with more than a million followers after less than 300 tweets.
There are also rogue accounts for the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
They use similar phrases such as "resistance" to describe themselves and post a mixture of scientific information and attacks on Mr Trump.
Some of those running the other alternative accounts also claimed to be disgruntled government agency workers, at least going by their tweets.
The @AltNatParkSer account tweeted on Tuesday that they were "being run by several active NPS rangers and friends".
However, on Thursday they said they were handing over to a different group of people - activists and journalists who were former scientists.
On Tuesday the official account of Badlands National Park in South Dakota started tweeting about global warming, but those posts were later deleted.
The people behind the @AltNatParkSer told us this inspired them to set up their Twitter account.
The other alternative accounts also appear to have been created after the Badlands tweets were deleted, while some official US national park accounts also tweeted about climate change on Wednesday.
By Nathan Williams, BBC UGC & Social news team
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The Irish National Teaching Organisation (INTO) said the Department of Education NI (Deni) had not made provision for real term increases.
A departmental letter sent to schools this week warned them they would have to make "difficult decisions".
It stressed they had to live "within their budgets as a matter of urgency".
"Put simply, boards of governors cannot spend more than they receive without the express and advance approval of their funding authority and must not plan to do so," the letter from Deni finance director Trevor Connolly said.
However. schools have not yet been told what their budget for the next year will be and are likely to find out only at the end of this month, one month before they start spending it.
Despite an assurance that money had been found to increase schools' spending, the union said it did not take into account the extra costs principals have to cover.
Tony Carlin, INTO, said the department had not made provision for real term increases.
"The increased monies were only in respect of cash terms, schools were not protected from inflation, external financial pressures, pay rises etc," he said.
"The result will be that schools will probably face around 3.5% to 4% cuts this year.
"There will be about 500 teaching posts lost and also support staff's jobs will be lost as well.
"The schools believed that they had money but unfortunately the devil is in the detail in this one. We are disappointed because ultimately children's education will suffer."
Mr Carlin said there would also the the impact of another £83m in savings.
"This could mean cuts perhaps to school meals, transport, special needs, crossing patrols. This is going to impact on schools indirectly and on the education of pupils."
The union said "drip feed" was an unacceptable way to fund schools and has called on the Department of Education to set up a working group to find a new way of planning budgets.
The comments come in a joint letter to parents of pupils published on the school's website.
There has been an ongoing industrial dispute in the school over a number of months.
Most recently, around a third of the teaching staff were absent from school on Monday and Tuesday.
The letter is signed by the principal, Claire White, and Nuala Lynn from the board of governors.
It said the school is introducing "support mechanisms for the coming days and weeks to address the educational provision in the light of staff absences".
These include:
The letter said that the school hopes these additional measures will address parents concerns.
It also says the steps have been taken in consultation with the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS).
On Tuesday, about 20 parents of pupils held a protest outside the school to express their concerns about ongoing incidents at the school.
Mr Hargreaves, co-founder of investment firm Hargreaves Lansdown, described Bristol as a "sleepy city" with "crazy parking schemes" that drive people out of the centre.
He said high commercial rates were destroying many small businesses.
The city council has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.
Mr Hargreaves made the comments during a debate on BBC Radio Bristol on whether the city's boundaries should be re-drawn.
Mr Hargreaves said: "When I moved to Bristol 30-odd years ago there were lots of businesses coming to Bristol.
"It's very rare you hear a big company move to Bristol [now]. I think there's a feeling Bristol's a sleepy city and that the local authority is almost anti-business. All these crazy parking schemes are mad."
He said the city was "very difficult to get around".
"I don't know why the roads should be so bad, but certainly there isn't any desire to help business here," he said.
"Of course the best way you can help business is to reduce the commercial rates which are destroying most of the small businesses in Bristol."
The Bristol Democracy Project's Gez Smith, who also took part in the debate, said he had conducted research into "what the shape of Bristol would be" after a mayor was elected for the city in 2012.
"It's meant to be this great new thing that's going to bring people together and drive the city forward," he said.
"[But] how would that affect the people living in what is technically the city of Bristol really, but not within the mayor's authority?"
Deborah White, of Avon Local Councils Association (ALCA), which represents town and parish councils in the unitary authorities around Bristol, also joined the debate.
Ms White said Bristol did not have any local councils and ALCA's members would "find the idea of a 'Greater Bristol' preposterous".
She said: "What Bristol needs to do is think about creating town and parish councils, so that local people can have a better voice.
"Until Bristol addresses its very local governance and looks at how local communities contribute to the debate then we should stay as three unitaries, as we are at the moment."
Arely Gomez Gonzalez released more than 80 volumes of material.
The case has prompted protests across Mexico, increasing pressure on President Enrique Pena Nieto.
Relatives dispute his government's account that police in Guerrero state handed the students over to a gang who killed them and burnt the bodies.
The attorney general's office said the document had taken around 100 investigators seven months to compile.
But an international panel of experts said it had found many flaws in the investigation.
It concluded that the government's account that the students were incinerated beyond identification at a rubbish dump was physically impossible.
It said official reports appeared to downplay the presence of federal police and troops near the areas where the students were seized.
The experts said the army had refused to allow them to interview soldiers.
The attorney general has said her office has not closed the file and will continue to investigate the case.
His energetic campaigning and powerful oratory attracted many voters and he came close to achieving a share of government for his party.
Under his leadership, the Liberals looked to be regaining their position as a strong force in British politics.
But his political career ended when his life was engulfed in scandal and he faced trial on charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder.
John Jeremy Thorpe was born in Surrey on 29 April 1929.
He came from a Conservative family - both his father and grandfather were Tory MPs. One of his ancestors was parliamentary Speaker Thomas Thorpe, who was beheaded by a mob in 1461.
He was sent to a school in Connecticut in 1940 to escape the Blitz.
One historian has suggested that the liberal regime at his American school played a large part in formulating his political thinking and was, no doubt, a huge contrast to Eton where he went from 1943.
He read law at Trinity College, Oxford where he cut a dash, both by wearing Edwardian-style clothes and as a noted debater. He became chairman of the Liberal Club and then the Oxford Union.
While training as a barrister he set out to find a parliamentary seat and was selected for Conservative-held North Devon, firmly in the west country Liberal heartland.
His energetic campaigning, and inspiring performances as an orator saw him halve the Conservative majority in the 1955 general election.
Just four years later, he won the seat by the narrowest of margins, a rare Liberal triumph in what had been a poor election showing for the party elsewhere in the country.
He entered the 1960s as a pioneering campaigner for human rights, attacking South Africa's policy of apartheid and the post-colonial excesses in South East Asia.
He also achieved a reputation as something of a wit exemplified by his observation on Harold Macmillan's dismissal of a third of the Conservative cabinet in 1962.
"Greater love hath no man than this," quipped Thorpe, "that he lay down his friends for his life".
He became a favourite at Liberal party conferences and served as the party's treasurer before being elected leader in 1967 promising to turn the Liberals into a radical pioneering force.
However Edward Heath's win in the 1970 general election dashed hopes of a Liberal revival and shortly after it Thorpe's young wife Caroline was killed in a car crash.
Three years later he married Marion Stein, a noted concert pianist and the divorced wife of the Queen's first cousin, the Earl of Harewood.
Helped by Thorpe's elegant appearance and charismatic style, the Liberals won 14 seats in the February 1974 election.
With a hung parliament, Conservative leader, Edward Heath, approached Thorpe to discuss a possible coalition.
Thorpe was attracted by the offer of a seat in Cabinet, but met opposition from his own MPs.
In the event, Harold Wilson's clear victory in the October 1974 election ended any hopes that the Liberals might have a share of power.
Within two years, stories were circulating about Thorpe's relationship with a former male model, Norman Scott.
It was made worse because the relationship was alleged to have started in 1961, when male homosexual acts were illegal.
The story broke when Scott was appearing at a court in Barnstaple on a minor social security charge.
During the hearing, Scott shouted out, "I am being hounded because of my sexual relationship with Jeremy Thorpe." He gave a statement to the police but no action was taken.
Thorpe issued an immediate denial but when an affectionate letter between them appeared in the press, Thorpe resigned as leader.
But worse was to come. Eighteen months later, a man called Andrew Newton was released from prison.
He had been jailed on charges arising from an incident on Exmoor in which Norman Scott's dog, Rinka, was shot.
He claimed that he had been paid by a leading Liberal supporter to kill Scott because of his blackmail threats but said he had lost his nerve and shot the dog instead.
Nine more months of police investigation led to Thorpe and three associates being charged with conspiring to murder Scott.
The 1979 trial was postponed for eight days at Thorpe's request so that he could contest his North Devon seat in the May general election. He was heavily defeated.
The trial attracted reporters from all over the world. It took 20 days for the prosecution to present its case to the jury while defence evidence occupied just a single day.
On the advice of his barrister, George Carman QC, Thorpe and his co-defendants elected not to go into the witness box.
Eventually, after six weeks, the charges were dismissed. For two years Jeremy Thorpe stayed out of the public eye.
But the affair resurfaced again when one of his co-defendants, David Holmes, a former deputy treasurer of the Liberal Party, wrote a series of articles for the News of the World newspaper.
In the first of them he claimed that Thorpe did incite him to murder Norman Scott. Thorpe's solicitor immediately issued a rebuttal and the director of public prosecutions said there was no question of another trial.
But Thorpe's public life was finished.
Shortly after his acquittal he was offered the post of director general of the British section of Amnesty International.
He had previously been a valuable source of information to the organisation, particularly on the subject of human rights abuses in Ghana.
But there was huge opposition from Amnesty's members and the appointment was never made.
His later years saw the onset of Parkinson's Disease. But he kept in close touch with the Westminster he loved, despite painful memories.
He became the President of the North Devon Liberal Association, later Liberal Democrat Association, and received a standing ovation when he appeared at the 1997 Liberal Democrat conference.
In an interview in 2009 the ailing former politician reflected on the events that had brought him down
"If it happened now," he said, " I think the public would be kinder."
The call comes after Private Eye magazine had a freedom of information (FOI) request turned down by the Met.
The Met has yet to comment, but reportedly turned down the FOI request to "safeguard national security".
Sheila Coleman, of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, called for police to show "transparency" and admit spying.
Private Eye asked the Met for files it held on the Hillsborough Justice Campaign and the Hillsborough Family Support Group following claims Special Branch officers were involved in surveillance of the organisations.
It reported that police would neither confirm nor deny that it held any papers on the disaster.
Both the justice campaign and the support group have been at the forefront of attempts to discover what happened at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final which saw the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans.
Fresh inquests into their deaths will begin in Warrington in March after the original accidental death inquest verdicts were quashed in 2012 following an independent report.
Louise Brookes lost her brother Andrew Mark Brookes in the disaster and she alleges she has had her post intercepted or tampered with.
She said: "Everything to do with Hillsborough would arrive opened."
Meanwhile, Ms Coleman claimed campaigners' phones were "definitely tapped".
She said: "I represented six families in 1993 and we were aware we were under surveillance.
"A lot of attempts were made to frighten us but it just went with the territory.
"It was appalling. Not so much for me but those who had been bereaved were effectively criminalised.
"I'm disappointed that the government acknowledged a state cover-up but the Met are still holding back."
She said families and campaigners for Hillsborough have been "promised transparency and accountability and the Met should fall into line with that".
Ninety-five victims were crushed to death in Britain's worst sporting disaster, on 15 April 1989, at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium during Liverpool's FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest.
The 96th victim died in 1993 when the Law Lords ruled that doctors could stop tube-feeding and hydration.
As well as fresh inquests, there are two ongoing investigations into the disaster.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is examining police actions at and after the tragedy, while former Durham Chief Constable Jon Stoddart is looking at the causes of the tragedy and the deaths and examining the actions of a range of organisations and bodies, including South Yorkshire Police.
The IPCC said it was not actively pursuing allegations of spying on families and campaigners.
But a spokesman said: "We are reviewing all material in relation to Hillsborough and clearly if we came across any evidence that this had happened we would investigate it whether or not we have received a complaint."
Steffan Vernon, 33, and Alex Hadley, 21, died at Ceunant Mawr waterfall near Llanberis, Gwynedd, on 7 June.
The inquest in Caernarfon concluded their deaths were accidental.
Coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones will write to the council asking it to install danger warning signs at the site.
The hearing was told the friends had gone for an early morning walk with three others after a night of drinking and socialising.
Mr Vernon went into the water first, followed by Mr Hadley, before both got into difficulty.
Their friend Barnaby Lloyd Foster went in to help but had to pulled from the water by others when he began suffering from the cold.
Post mortem examinations found traces of cocaine in both men, while Mr Vernon had taken ecstasy and Mr Hadley's blood alcohol levels exceeded the drink-drive limit.
Pathologist Dr Mark Lloyd told the inquest: "They would not have been able to react."
Mr Pritchard Jones added: "I'm fairly certain that hypothermia would have set in almost as soon as they entered the water... and [they] would also have been affected by the substances that had been taken and were present at the time.
"I don't think they appreciated the dangerous situation they were in."
The men's families complained there were no warning signs at the site and said the friends would not have gone in the water if they had known the waterfall's pool was 9m (29ft) deep.
Mr Pritchard Jones said that while signs could not be installed at all of Snowdonia's waterfalls, he would write to the local authority asking it to put signs at Ceunant Mawr because it is so close to the village of Llanberis.
Gwynedd council said it was considering placing warning signs and life-saving equipment at the site.
10 January 2016 Last updated at 14:03 GMT
10-year-old Harry has been awarded 41 activity badges, all earned for a variety of skills from cooking to martial arts.
Hayley met up with Harry to talk more about his big achievement and what he wants to do next.
The scent, it transpires, is white tea and thyme. And it is coming from a new branch of Lloyds Bank.
"It gives that inviting feel, that welcoming feel," says the building's designer, Sarah Harrison.
"You can smell it on the High Street when the wind's blowing in the right direction."
Lloyds is not the first bank to spot the possibilities of sensory attraction.
Across the Atlantic, one bank offers its customers freshly brewed coffee, using the nutty aromas of Arabica to entice new followers. In fact rather than banks, it calls them cafes.
In the UK, High Street banks are set to close hundreds more branches in 2017.
Nevertheless, with ideas for alluring new formats, the industry believes that the concept of branch banking at long last has the whiff of something positive about it.
Hence they are investing millions of pounds in makeovers. In fact, in 2017 at least three British banks will open more branches than they will close.
When the US firm Capital One launched a digital-only bank, it thought it would never have to go to the expense of building any branches.
But seeing that customers wanted a more physical relationship with their bank, it changed its mind. Now it has 13 banking "cafes" across the US, where a cup of coffee is half price for those who pay with their card.
Account holders can also enjoy a freshly baked muffin, or tuck in to as many bytes of data as they wish from the free wi-fi, as they do some online, or face-to-face, banking.
"We had a digital bank, and we needed to connect with the communities that we serve," says Shaun Rowley, Capital One's director for national expansion.
"These cafes give customers a chance to come in, and experience our brand: see, touch and taste Capital One."
He describes the branches as "more cafe than bank", but promises that customers can do any financial transactions they would normally expect.
"There are a lot of banks experimenting with different formats. There's all sorts of transformations going on," he tells the BBC.
Among those impressed by the Capital One cafes is Jakob Pfaudler, the chief operating officer of Lloyds Bank's retail division.
"There's a bunch of beautiful stores over there, where you really have the human touch, combined with quite heavy digital content. I think that is our mental model," he says.
In 2017, Lloyds is planning to close another 200 UK branches, following a similar number in 2016. But it will also build some new, large ones.
"Yes there will be some branch closures, but what we are doing is reformatting the entire branch network over the next four or five years, and building more of the branches like the one in Clapham."
One other feature of the Clapham blueprint is a giant video wall, on which customers can view house prices in nearby streets, or get property-buying tips.
The aroma device is now a key part of Mr Pfaudler's thinking too.
"It moves further away from the traditional, rather stiff branch environment. So, while it wasn't necessarily a design feature, I think we're going to roll this out into many more of our branches - maybe not that specific scent, although I like it."
In 2017 at least three smaller brands expect to grow their network.
Metro Bank - which opens its latest branch in Basingstoke on 31 December - is planning a dozen new "stores" as it calls them.
Both TSB and Handelsbanken will also expand their branch numbers next year.
And Santander will upgrade as many as 60 branches.
At a pilot branch in central London, customers can already pay in cheques and cash at the same machine they use to withdraw money. And they can receive an email confirming the transaction.
The old-style counter, complete with tellers, is hidden away at the back.
Uniformed customer service assistants show members of the public how to switch to the new-style cash machines.
"For the customer to understand all the functionality on an ATM, to pay in a cheque for the first time, for example, they'll often need a colleague to walk them through it," says Martin Bischoff, managing director of retail distribution at Santander.
If banks get this wrong, there could be trouble.
The story is told by one banking executive of how a Polish online bank opened its first branch, only to find an army of customers queuing up outside - as they had just been presented with their first opportunity to complain.
In case customers really lose it, another executive told me, they now plan so-called "defusing" rooms in their branches, where account holders can be taken to cool down.
It's not just the branches themselves that are changing. It's their attitudes to customers.
In an attempt to be more welcoming, some in the industry want their branches to feel like hotels or restaurants.
"From a physical perspective, hospitality offers a very good role model," says Ray Erscheid, senior vice president for store design at Bank of America.
"If you think about a hotel experience, it can be relatively scripted: you enter, there's a welcoming experience, you're either directed to where you want to go - which might be the restaurant - or there's a check-in experience."
He even refers to the front-of-house staff member as the "concierge".
"Again, I would go back to the hotel experience. The doorman might be able to get you a taxi, they might be able to tell you where the nearest restaurant is, but they're going to turn you over to the concierge if you say you want a particular kind of dining experience. So we want to have that same idea."
But one expert warns about being too free-thinking with branch design.
Marcus Pequeno, a Spanish banking consultant, remembers the case of a South American bank wthat decided to offer free coffee, wi-fi and soft drinks in a refurbished branch.
The morning of the opening did not go according to plan.
"Basically there were 100 students in front of, and inside the branch, hanging out and taking selfies," he told a conference called Branch Transformation earlier this month.
"They were doing anything but banking."
So don't expect your branch to turn into a coffee bar in 2017.
But don't be surprised if a visit there feels better, and quicker, than it used to. With perhaps a few nice smells to enjoy at the same time.
Fantasy classics Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland make the line-up for babies to teens, compiled for the publisher's 70th anniversary.
The pirate adventure Treasure Island and the tear-jerking classic Watership Down also feature.
The classic counting book The Very Hungry Caterpillar tops the list of best bedtime books.
Eric Carle's title sells a copy every 30 seconds somewhere in the world, according to Puffin.
The list is divided up into categories including mischief and mayhem, weird and wonderful, and best blood and guts.
Toddlers' favourites The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis and Gwen Millward; the nostalgic Peepo! by Janet and Allan Ahlberg; and Hairy Mclary from Donaldson's Dairy are among the titles in the section called "best to cuddle-up to".
Roald Dahl takes up the entire "phizzwhizzers" category on his own, meanwhile, with his classic tales The BFG, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Fantastic Mr Fox.
Dahl sells more books every year than any other Penguin author in both the adults and children's categories.
And his sales rocketed by 35% in 2009.
Modern best-sellers, such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kenney and Charlie Higson's thriller The Enemy, are also included in the list.
The titles feature in The Puffin Handbook, a new guide to children's books for parents.
Published by Puffin, it is being made available for free from UK bookshops, libraries and to download from the Puffin website as part of the 70th anniversary celebrations.
1 August 2017 Last updated at 07:46 BST
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And the advantage for girls' schools remains even when other factors are taken into account, such as social background or a selective intake.
Girls from poorer families in single-sex schools got better GCSEs than their counterparts in mixed schools.
The study showed much less advantage for boys in single-sex schools.
The high performance of girls in single-sex schools has been identified by education data analysts SchoolDash, in a breakdown of GCSE results published last week.
In terms of overall GCSE results, single-sex state secondary schools, about 11% of the total, performed much better.
In mixed schools, 55% of pupils got five good GCSEs including English and maths, while in single-sex schools the proportion was 75%.
Among these single-sex schools, girls' schools got better results.
But there are some underlying factors skewing these results, such as:
When these and other factors are taken into account, girls' schools still showed a clear advantage, with greater levels of "value added" in terms of pupils' progress and better results for poorer pupils.
The difference in like-for-like comparisons, the researchers say, was equivalent to girls' schools being three percentage points ahead of mixed ones.
Boys in single-sex schools were ahead of mixed schools in raw GCSE results, but they did not show a significantly better performance once other factors had been taken into account.
The analysis also showed single-sex schools were concentrated in London and the South East.
London's GCSE results were the best in England - and the study showed almost a third of secondary schools in the capital were single-sex, far higher than anywhere else.
Girls' schools in London did particularly well in this year's GCSEs - with single-sex schools in the capital an average 12 percentage points higher than their counterparts
The study described a "halo" of single-sex schools around the edge of London, including those in the independent sector and grammars.
There were other clusters, such as around Liverpool, but smaller numbers in northern England and the Midlands, and overwhelmingly in urban rather than rural settings.
Single-sex schools had a higher proportion of ethnic-minority pupils, but a lower than average proportion of deprived pupils, as measured by eligibility for free school meals.
Teachers in single-sex schools tended to be older, better paid and taking significantly less sick leave than their counterparts in mixed schools.
SchoolDash founder Timo Hannay said: "It would now be interesting to try and understand why girls at girls' schools tend to do better than their peers, and what the vast majority of mixed schools might be able to learn from this phenomenon."
Earlier this month, Richard Cairns, head of Brighton College, said girls at single-sex schools would be at a "huge disadvantage" if they could not feel confident talking to boys.
Single-sex schools were described as a "deeply unrealistic world".
But Caroline Jordan, president of the Girls' School Association, claimed the analysis of this year's results as a vindication of an all-girl education.
She said teachers with classes of girls could focus their teaching style on what worked best for girls.
"Girls are more collaborative, they like lessons to be more discussion-based," said Ms Jordan, who represents schools in the independent sector, where there is a long tradition of single-sex schools.
And an all-girl environment allowed them to "escape gender stereotyping", by, for example, encouraging more girls to pursue science subjects.
"Girls can be more confident in themselves, they don't have to become a particular type of girl, they're able to relax more," she said.
The claim girls in single-sex schools were more likely to study science was backed by long-term tracking studies, said Alice Sullivan, director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, at the UCL Institute of Education, in London.
"We found that girls from single-sex schools were more likely to take male-dominated subjects such as maths and science at school. Girls who had attended single-sex schools also had slightly higher wages than their co-ed peers in mid-life," said Prof Sullivan.
"People often make claims about the consequences of single-sex schooling for relationships between the sexes without referring to any evidence," she said.
"We found that women who attended single-sex schools were no more or less likely to marry than those in co-educational schools."
Four people stopped at the Port of Dover on Wednesday were issued with court orders under Section 21A of the Football Spectators Act.
Another man was arrested at the port on suspicion of breaching bail conditions.
A sixth man was stopped at the Channel Tunnel on Thursday, but failed to appear at court and was issued with a three-year ban in his absence.
Specialist officers looking for anyone who could potentially disrupt the tournament have been screening passengers leaving Kent for France.
Kent Police said hearings at Folkestone Magistrates' Court for four of the men - a 24-year-old from Southampton; a 22-year-old from Middlesbrough; a 27-year-old from Stockport and a 26-year-old from Shropshire - were adjourned but they were ordered to surrender their passports until after the Euro 2016 final on 10 July.
The man who failed to appear in court is 48, and from Darlington.
The hearing into a 25-year-old man from Shepshed, in Leicestershire, who was on bail was also adjourned until after the conclusion of the tournament.
Ch Supt Alison Roden, of Kent Police, said: "We want Euro 2016 to be remembered for all the right reasons and not for the actions of a minority intent on causing trouble in France."
The figure - the difference between the number of people arriving and leaving - was 82,000 more than the previous year.
Jay Lindop, from the ONS, said the majority of people over the last year came to the UK for work or study.
The government said it highlighted the challenge to reduce net migration to "sustainable levels".
Downing Street aims to get net migration down to five figures by 2020.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the statistics showed the government's "complete failure to control immigration" and urged people to vote to leave the EU in the "in/out" referendum expected by the end of 2017.
The net migration figure was also higher than the last provisional data, which showed the index at what was then a record 330,000 in the 12 months to March. This has since been revised up to 336,000 as well.
The ONS data revealed that:
Ms Lindop, head of population statistics at the ONS, said the latest net migration figure "remains the highest on record".
Meanwhile, separate Home Office figures revealed the number of people claiming asylum in the UK has reached its highest level for 12 years.
UK urged to show more compassion for Syrian refugees
Analysis
By Danny Shaw, home affairs correspondent, BBC News
The release of the immigration statistics, every three months, is a day the Home Office must dread.
Since the end of 2012, net migration has being going up almost continuously. Net migration, of course, is the key figure we look for because the government is aiming to bring it down to below 100,000 by 2020.
It failed to do that by the general election in May, and, to much surprise, decided to stick with the target when critics were saying it was unachievable and should be dropped. A lot can happen in four and a half years of course, but it's hard to see how it can do it.
Emigration is broadly stable, and immigration is at record levels and rising from both EU and non-EU countries.
If ministers are to reach their goal, they'll have to reduce the so-called "pull factors". That's tough when one of the biggest attractions of the UK is its relatively buoyant economy and the prospect of work.
The ONS said the rise was due to a 62,000 increase in immigration to 636,000 and a 20,000 reduction in emigration to 300,000.
More than two thirds of the immigration increase was driven by EU citizens, the majority of whom came to Britain to work.
Immigration minister James Brokenshire said the government was committed to reforms "across the whole of government" to deliver "the controlled migration system".
"Our new Immigration Bill will address illegal working, the pull factors that draw migrants to Britain and the availability of public services which help them to remain here unlawfully," he said.
"The last two set of figures show record levels of EU immigration which show why the prime minister is right to negotiate with the EU to reform welfare to reduce the financial incentives that attract EU migrants to the UK."
The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford said asylum remained "the smallest component" of UK immigration "by some distance".
Director Madeleine Sumption said migration for work and study were "the largest categories" and said changes in net migration were "mainly being driven" by economic factors like the success of the UK economy rather than by new policies.
Alp Mehmet, vice chairman of Migration Watch UK, said the figures were "very disappointing" and warned "the pressure on our infrastructure will intensify" if the numbers continued to rise.
UKIP's Nathan Gill has been tweeting images from the floor of the chamber, while two of his party colleagues have been spotted with soft drinks bottles.
Mr Gill said he did not see the harm of taking photos during Senedd debates, but promised not to do it again.
UKIP said the drinks were an "innocent mistake".
According to the minutes of the assembly business committee on 25 May, Ms Jones urged party business managers to ask their members "not to take photos in the chamber during proceedings".
She also asked that they "reminded them that no food and drink are allowed in the chamber, except for the glasses of water provided for members".
Mr Gill, an AM for North Wales and UKIP Wales leader, has posted pictures from within the chamber on several occasions since proceedings in the fifth term began.
He said: "I'm not that rebellious. I will abide by that rule."
"It's completely normal in Strasbourg," he added, referring to one of the bases of the European Parliament where he serves as an MEP.
"People do Periscope and all kinds of stuff," Mr Gill said, referring to a live video app.
"I don't see the harm in it, I think it would be a good way to engage more people on social media.
"But if that's the rule, that's the rule."
Michelle Brown, also a UKIP AM for North Wales, and South Wales Central UKIP AM Gareth Bennett were seen with soft drinks bottles in the Senedd chamber on 24 May.
A UKIP group spokesman said: "Neither Michelle nor Gareth realised that the rules prevented taking anything other than water into the chamber.
"As soon as they were told that fizzy drinks were not permitted, they got rid of them.
"It was an innocent mistake and we don't see this as a major issue.
"So far, UKIP has created its own fizz inside the chamber and will continue to do so."
An assembly commission spokeswoman said: "The presiding officer is responsible for keeping order in the chamber and for ensuring members behave with courtesy and decorum, and don't detract from the dignity of the assembly."
She added that Ms Jones had not considered sanctions against those involved and "doesn't expect to need to".
Rangers' third promotion in four years brings with it a renewed rivalry with Celtic - and a new sense of anticipation ahead of the Scottish Premiership season.
Despite beating their city rivals in last season's Scottish Cup semi-final, the Ibrox club know they have to up the ante if they are to attempt to compete with the Hoops on a weekly basis and challenge the reigning champions.
The capture of much-admired teenager Jordan Rossiter from Liverpool was a sign of early intent by manager Mark Warburton and the addition of fellow midfielders Joey Barton and Niko Kranjcar has added box-office, if ageing, appeal.
Celtic showed their determination to make it a sixth title in a row by replacing manager Ronny Deila with Brendan Rodgers, with reports suggesting that the former Liverpool manager is now the highest-paid boss in Scottish football history.
The Northern Irishman bided his time before revealing the first part of his Parkhead masterplan, but the arrival of teenage striker Moussa Dembele from Fulham is being viewed as one well worth waiting for.
Former Arsenal, Manchester City and Liverpool centre-back Kolo Toure, followed as Rodgers returned to a tried and trusted face from his time at Anfield.
Elsewhere, Premiership managers are operating at English League One and Two level in terms of budget and quality, while Kilmarnock scouted around the fringes of Premier League and Championship clubs before announcing 11 signings in one day.
The Ayrshire side appear to be in most trouble if League Cup form is any guide. However, with just about every squad being strengthened this summer, it is difficult to predict who will struggle along with them at the foot of the table.
Last season: 2nd
Manager: Derek McInnes
Summer priority: Scott Brown and Adam Collin, who had been on loan from Rotherham United, failed to take their opportunity after Danny Ward returned to Liverpool in January, leaving Derek McInnes seeking a new goalkeeper this summer. The Dons boss will hope that Joe Lewis, at 28, still in his prime as a goalkeeper, will show the form that led to him gaining experience in England's top two divisions. Former Scotland cap Neil Alexander has arrived from Hearts as reliable, if ageing, back-up.
Key signing: With the return of loanee Simon Church to MK Dons and the failure of David Goodwillie to make an impact, the Dons moved swiftly to secure two strikers. Jayden Stockley arrives from Bournemouth but has only scored consistently while on loan in England's League Two with Exeter City, while Miles Storey merely showed promise on loan to Premiership rivals Inverness Caledonian Thistle from Swindon Town and manager Derek McInnes will hope that at least one of them can step up a level.
Verdict: 3rd. Derek McInnes has improved the depth of his squad in attack and in goal, but central defence and creativity in central midfield remain a concern if they are to mount a challenge for the title or even hang on to the runners-up spot for a third year running.
In: Jayden Stockley, forward (Bournemouth); Joe Lewis, goalkeeper (Cardiff City); Neil Alexander, goalkeeper (Heart of Midlothian); Miles Storey, forward (Swindon Town); Callum Morris, defender (Dundee United); Anthony O'Connor, defender (Burton Albion). Loan:James Maddison, midfielder (Norwich City); Wes Burns, forward (Bristol City).
Out: David Goodwillie, forward (Plymouth Argyle); Willo Flood, midfielder (Dundee United); Scott Brown, goalkeeper; Barry Robson, midfielder (retired); Michael Rose, defender (Ayr United); Kalvin Orsi, forward; Lukas Culjak, defender; Sam Robertson, defender; Liam Lambert, defender. Loan ended: Simon Church, forward (MK Dons); Adam Collin, goalkeeper (Rotherham United). Loan: Cammy Smith, forward (Dundee United); Danny Rogers, goalkeeper (Falkirk); Lawrence Shankland, forward (St Mirren); Aaron Lennox, goalkeeper (Raith Rovers); Daniel Harvie, defender (Dumbarton); Robbie Mutch, goalkeeper (Arbroath).
Last season: 1st, Scottish Premiership champions
Manager: Brendan Rodgers
Summer priority: Celtic's defence creaked last season under the rigours of European competition and a series of injury problems meant that cover at centre-half is even more pressing and new manager Brendan Rodgers turned to Kolo Toure, who was with him at Liverpool, as a reliable, if ageing, addition.
Key signing: With Colin Kazim-Richards and Carlton Cole being unceremoniously shipped out the back door after a disastrous few months in Glasgow and fellow striker Anthony Stokes' failure to secure a new deal despite helping Hibernian to Scottish Cup glory, a partner or rival for Leigh Griffiths was a must for Brendan Rodgers. Snatching Moussa Dembele after his exit from Fulham appears to be a shrewd piece of business considering his 17 goals in the English Championship last season at the age of only 19.
Verdict: 1st. Brendan Rodgers inherited an over-abundance of midfielders and has yet to trim that area of a squad that still requires more strength in depth in defence and up front. Celtic are likely to have enough in reserve to win a sixth successive domestic title even without such changes despite the return of city rivals Rangers, but significant progress in Europe depends on it.
In: Brendan Rodgers, manager; Chris Davies, assistant manager (Reading); Scott Sinclair, midfielder (Aston Villa, undisclosed); Kolo Toure, defender (Liverpool); Dorus de Vries, goalkeeper (Nottingham Forest, undisclosed); Cristian Gamboa, defender (West Bromwich Albion, undisclosed); Moussa Dembele, forward (Fulham, undisclosed); Kristoffer Ajer, midfielder (Start, undisclosed); PJ Crossan, forward (Dunfermline Athletic, undisclosed).
Out: Ronny Deila, manager; John Collins, assistant manager; Colin Kazim-Richards, forward (Coritiba, undisclosed); Stefan Scepovic, forward (Getafe, undisclosed); Charlie Mulgrew, defender (Blackburn Rovers); Anthony Stokes, forward (Blackburn Rovers); Darnell Fisher, defender (Rotherham United); Stuart Findlay, defender (Newcastle United); Jack Breslin, defender (Hamilton Academical); Carlton Cole, forward; Ciaran Lafferty, forward (Dunfermline Athletic). Loan: Saidy Janko, defender (Barnsley); Michael Duffy, midfielder (Dundee); Scott Allan, midfielder (Rotherham United); Paul McMullan, forward (Dunfermline Athletic); Jamie Lindsay, midfielder (Greenock Morton); Aidan Nesbitt, forward (Greenock Morton); Luke Donnelly, forward (Alloa Athletic); Colin McCabe, goalkeeper (Stenhousemuir); Fiacre Kelleher, defender (Peterhead).
Last season: 8th
Manager: Paul Hartley
Summer priority: While Dundee manager Paul Hartley has added to his squad in all areas apart from goalkeeper, his priority will be the retention of Greg Stewart, who has been linked with Rangers among others as he enters the final year of his contract, following the sale of Kane Hemmings to Oxford United split up the deadliest strike partnership in the Scottish Premiership.
Key signing: Persuading winger Danny Williams, along with fellow midfielder James Vincent, to make the switch from Premiership rivals Inverness Caledonian Thistle and adding Michael Duffy on loan from Celtic could provide the width to their attack that Dundee lacked last season.
Verdict: 8th. Almost as soon as Paul Hartley found himself a potent strike force, he was having to construct a new one. Such is the way of the Scottish Premiership manager and he will be hoping that Faissal El Bakhtaoui can prove as prolific as the departed Kane Hemmings if his side are to challenge again for the top six.
In: Kevin Gomis, defender (Nice); Danny Williams, midfielder (Inverness Caledonian Thistle); James Vincent, midfielder (Inverness Caledonian Thistle); Mark O'Hara, defender (Kilmarnock); Yordi Teijsse, forward (Quick Boys); Faissal E Bakhtaoui, forward (Dunfermline Athletic). Loan: Michael Duffy, midfielder (Celtic).
Out: Greg Stewart, forward (Birmingham City, £500,000);Kane Hemmings, forward (Oxford United, undisclosed); Paul McGinn, defender (Chesterfield); Gary Harkins, midfielder (Ayr United); Daryll Meggatt, defender (Ayr United); Kevin Thomson, midfielder (Tranent); Thomas Konrad, defender; Andy Black, defender. Loan ended: Arturo Juan Rodriguez Perz-Reverte, forward (Cordoba). Loan: Josh Skelly, forward (Arbroath).
Last season: 10th
Player/manager: Martin Canning
Summer priority: Michael McGovern's contract came to an end, along with defender Lucas, and the goalkeeper's performances for Northern Ireland at Euro 2016 secured a move to Norwich City. Remi Matthews headed in the opposite direction on loan and will compete with Gary Woods, who was on loan to Ross County last season but has now left Leyton Orient.
Key signing: With Ziggy Gordon having rejected a new contract and joined Partick Thistle, Accies have brought in teenager Jack Breslin from Celtic as a replacement, but midfielder Massimo Donati, who was previously with Bari, could have a significant influence should the 35-year-old retain the qualities he showed previously with Celtic.
Verdict: 10th. Martin Canning had a hard act to follow in Alex Neil and the player/boss has still to fully convince the Accies faithful. He will surely do so if he can steer his meagre resources to another finish above the relegation places.
In: Massimo Donati, midfielder (Bari); Georgios Sarris, defender (Kayseri Erciyesspor); Danny Seaborne, defender (Partick Thistle); Rakish Bingham, forward (Hartlepool United); Gary Woods, goalkeeper (Leyton Orient); Jack Breslin, defender (Celtic); Jordan McGregor, defender (Hibernian). Loan: Remi Matthews, goalkeeper (Norwich City); Sean McKirdy, midfielder (Heart of Midlothian).
Out: Michael McGovern, goalkeeper (Norwich City); Ziggy Gordon, defender (Partick Thistle); Chris Mandiangu, midfielder (Zilina); Jon McCracken, goalkeeper (Norwich City); Steven Boyd, midfielder (Albion Rovers); Lucas, defender; Kemy Agustien, midfielder; Oumar Diaby, forward; Colin Granger, defender; Victor Gutsul, forward. Loan ended: Carlton Morris, forward (Norwich City). Loan: Conor Scullion, midfielder (Airdrieonians).
Last season: 3rd
Head coach: Robbie Neilson
Summer priority: Abiola Dauda is back at Vitesse Arnhem following his loan spell, so Hearts were again looking for a new striker. Head coach Robbie Neilson has increased the odds of finding a goalscorer by signing four strikers - Conor Sammon, whose form has resulted in a slip from the Premier League down to League One in recent seasons, Robbie Muirhead, who has failed to shine at both Dundee United and Partick Thistle but is still just fresh out of his teens, Tony Watt, who is recovering from injury and has been sent out on loan from Charlton Athletic, and 19-year-old Nikolay Todorov from Nottingham Forest.
Key signing: With Juwon Oshaniwa having failed to live up to his reputation as a Nigeria international, Hearts have brought in Belgium-born Faycal Rherras to compete for the left-back role and he has already impressed.
Verdict: 5th. Head coach Robbie Neilson and director of football Craig Levein have had the resources to create a squad that managed a creditable third-place finish in their return to the top flight. However, there remains a suspicion that the one-dimensional whole is less than the sum of its parts, although Tony Watt could be an exciting addition should the striker at last fulfil his promise.
In: Faycal Rherras, defender (Sint-Truiden); Viktor Noring, goalkeeper (Lyngby); Conor Sammon, forward (Derby County); Bjorn Johnsen, forward (Litex Lovech); Krystian Nowak, defender (Pdobeskidzie Bielsko-Biala); Robbie Muirhead, forward (Dundee United); Paul Gallacher, goalkeeper (Partick Thistle); Nikolay Todorov, forward (Nottingham Forest). Loan: Tony Watt, forward (Charlton Athletic).
Out: Neil Alexander, goalkeeper (Aberdeen); Morgaro Gomis, midfielder (Kelantan); Blazej Augustyn, defender; Miguel Pallardo, midfielder; Soufian El Hassnaoui, forward; Liam Henderson, defender (Falkirk); Jahmal Howlett-Mundle, defender; Sean McKirdy, midfielder. Loan ended: Abiola Dauda, forward (Vitesse Arnhem). Loan: Jordan McGhee, defender (Middlesbrough); Billy King, midfielder (Inverness Caledonian Thistle); Sean McKirdy, midfielder (Hamilton Academical); Juanma, forward (Murcia); Gavin Reilly, forward (Dunfermline Athletic); Alistair Roy, forward (Stenhousemuir); Nikolay Todorov, forward (Cowdenbeath); Lewis Moore, midfielder (Cowdenbeath); Callum Morrison, midfielder (Stirling Albion).
Last season: 7th
Manager: Richie Foran
Summer priority: Having lost or shed six midfielders over the summer, new manager Richie Foran will be looking to add to that department and find someone with the creativity that exited with the sale of Ryan Christie to Celtic last season.
Key signing: With Miles Storey having preferred to join Aberdeen from Swindon Town after his loan spell at Caledonian Stadium, Richie Foran managed to persuade Scott Boden to reject a new deal at Newport County, where he scored 15 times last season, and will hope the 26-year-old can make the step up from England's League Two to Scotland's top flight.
Verdict: 7th. Caley Thistle finished a difficult season impressively under John Hughes once their injury problems started to ease and new manager Richie Foran will ice doing well if he can match that while ditching his predecessor's passing system with a more direct approach.
In: Lonsana Doumbouya, forward (Cercle Brugge); Brad McKay, defender (St Johnstone); Jake Mulraney, midfielder (Queens Park Rangers); Kevin McNaughton, defender (Wigan Athletic); Scott Boden, forward (Newport County). Loan: Billy King, midfielder (Heart of Midlothian); Larnell Cole, midfielder (Fulham).
Out: John Hughes, manager; Danny Devine, defender (Partick Thistle); Danny Williams, midfielder (Dundee); James Vincent, midfielder (Dundee); Dean Brill, goalkeeper (Motherwell); Nat Wedderburn, midfielder (Dunfermline Athletic); Jordan Roberts, midfielder (Crawley Town); Calum Ferguson, forward (Albion Rovers); Liam Hughes, midfielder (Barrow); Richie Foran, forward (retired); Andrea Mbuyi-Mutombo, forward; Calum Howarth, defender; Ryan Williams, midfielder. Loan ended: Miles Storey, forward (Swindon Town). Loan: Jamie Insall, forward (East Fife); Jason Brown, midfielder (Arbroath).
Last season: 11th
Manager: Lee Clark
Summer priority: Manager Lee Clark has moved swiftly to reshape the squad he inherited midway through last season and, having discarded eight defenders, it was easy to see where his priority lay, and five have already been recruited to bolster Kilmarnock at the back.
Key signing: Having retained an experienced spine to his squad, Lee Clark has taken a gamble by recruiting 11 players of 23 or under to make up the rest of his squad. They all come from the fringes of English clubs, with the most well known to Scottish fans being former Scotland Under-21 midfielder Callum McFadzean, who had fallen out of favour at Sheffield United. However, the most intriguing is striker Souleymane Coulibaly, who signed for Tottenham Hotspur after starring for Ivory Coast at the Under-17 World Cup but was last year loaned to Newport County by Peterborough United.
Verdict: 12th. Lee Clark managed to steer the side he inherited clear of relegation via a play-off win over Falkirk, but the Englishman will do well to avoid another scrap at the bottom unless his rapidly assembled team of signings from his homeland adapt swiftly to the Scottish top flight.
In: Dapo Kayode, defender (Dinamo Bucuresti); Callum McFadzean, midfielder (Sheffield United); Martin Smith, midfielder (Sunderland); Souleymane Coulibaly, forward (Peterborough United); Jordan Jones, midfielder (Middlesbrough); Jamie Cobain, defender (Newcastle United); Joshua Webb, defender (Aston Villa). Loan: Oliver Davies, goalkeeper (Swansea City); Mark Waddington, defender (Stoke City); Jonathan Burn, defender (Middlesbrough); George Green, midfielder (Burnley); Luke Hendrie, defender (Burnley); Scott Boyd, defender (Ross County); Charlee Adams, midfielder (Birmingham City); Flo Bojaj, forward (Huddersfield Town); William Boyle, defender (Huddersfield Town).
Out: Josh Magennis, forward (Charlton Athletic, undisclosed); Julien Faubert, defender (Aris Saloniki); Mark O'Hara, defender (Dundee); David Syme, defender (Partick Thistle); Chris Johnston, midfielder (Raith Rovers); Jamie Hamill, midfielder (Queen of the South); Kevin McHattie, defender (Raith Rovers); Lee Ashcroft, defender (Dunfermline Athletic); Tope Obadeyi, forward (Dundee United); Mark Connolly, defender (Crawley Town); Craig Slater, midfielder (Colchester United); Kallum Higginbotham, midfielder (Dunfermline Athletic); Conor Brennan, goalkeeper (Raith Rovers); Dale Carrick, forward (Livingston); Conrad Balatoni, defender; Lee McCulloch, defender (retired); Alex Henshall, midfielder; Darryl Westlake, defender; Aaron Splaine, midfielder. Loan ended: Lee Hodson, defender (MK Dons); Stuart Findlay, defender (Celtic).
Last season: 5th
Manager: Mark McGhee
Summer priority: With David Clarkson and Wes Fletcher exiting Fir Park, manager Mark McGhee moved to secure Jacob Blyth. The striker joined Leicester City at the same time as Jamie Vardy and hopes that tips from the England international will help him make an impact in Scotland's top flight.
Key signing: Ben Heneghan had been linked with the Burnley, Hull City, Blackburn Rovers and Brighton after impressing with Chester in England's National League. However, the 22-year-old has chosen to move to a club where he has received assurances about first-team football.
Verdict: 6th. Motherwell will miss the influence of Stephen Pearson in midfield, but Mark McGhee, now with former Scotland forward James McFadden as his assistant, has managed to keep together most of the side that did so well to finish in the top six last season and has imported some added potential from English football.
In: Jacob Blyth, forward (Leicester City); Dean Brill, goalkeeper (Inverness Caledonian Thistle); Carl McHugh, midfielder (Plymouth Argyle); Richard Tait, defender (Grimsby Town); Craig Clay, midfielder (Grimsby Town); Ben Heneghan, defender (Chester). Loan:Luka Belic, forward (West Ham United).
Out: Stephen Robinson, assistant manager (Oldham Athletic); Ben Hall, defender (Brighton & Hove Albion, undisclosed); Marvin Johnson, midfielder (Oxford United, undisclosed); Stephen Pearson, midfielder (Atletico de Kolkata); Robbie Leitch, midfielder (Burnley, undisclosed); David Clarkson, forward (St Mirren, loan to permanent); Josh Law, midfielder (Oldham Athletic); Wes Fletcher, forward (The New Saints); Jack Leitch, midfielder; Brett Long, goalkeeper. Loan ended: Connor Ripley, goalkeeper (Middlesbrough); Morgaro Gomis, midfielder (Hearts). Loan: Louis Laing, defender (Notts County); Craig Moore, forward (Ayr United); Luke Watt, defender (Stranraer).
Last season: 9th
Manager: Alan Archibald
Summer priority: Frederic Frans, Danny Seaborne and Gary Miller all rejected new contracts at Firhill, leaving manager Alan Archibald seeking a new central defence. Danny Devine brings experience from Premiership rivals Inverness Caledonian Thistle, but Ziggy Gordon appears to be the most astute signing after the right-back attracted the attention of several clubs after deciding to leave Hamilton Accies.
Key signing: Ade Azeez won the play-off penalty that helped Wimbledon win promotion to England's League One but rejected a new contract to join Thistle. The Glasgow club will be required to pay the Wombles compensation, so they must think the 22-year-old striker will be a worthwhile investment.
Verdict: 9th. Despite interest from elsewhere, and from Inverness Caley Thistle in particular, Alan Archibald managed to keep a hold of key midfield trio Stuart Bannigan, Steven Lawless and Abdul Osman and that could go a long way to helping Thistle again avoid relegation trouble.
In: Ade Azeez, forward (Wimbledon, undisclosed); Adam Barton, midfielder (Portsmouth, undisclosed); Ziggy Gordon, defender (Hamilton Academical); Chris Erskine, midfielder (Dundee United); Danny Devine, defender (Inverness Caledonian Thistle); David Syme, defender (Kilmarnock).
Out: Frederic Frans, defender (Lierse); Mathias Pogba, forward (Sparta Rotterdam); Gary Miller, defender (Plymouth Argyle); Paul Gallacher, goalkeeper (Heart of Midlothian); Chris Duggan, forward (East Fife); Danny Seaborne, defender (Hamilton Academical); Marc Waters, goalkeeper (Queen's Park); David Crawford, goalkeeper; Jordan Leyden, midfielder; Scot Whiteside, defender. Loan ended: Aidan Nesbitt, midfielder (Celtic). Loan: Kevin Nisbet, forward (Ayr United).
Last season: 1st in Scottish Championship
Manager: Mark Warburton
Summer priority: Rangers were vulnerable at times in central defence last season and manager Mark Warburton has recruited Clint Hill after the 37-year-old's release by Queens Park Rangers to add extra steel, if not pace, to that department.
Key Signing: Warburton has sought to completely reshape his midfield and, while Jordan Rossiter, who was highly rated at Liverpool, could be the most exciting addition in the long run, Joey Barton, fresh from leading Burnley to the Championship title in England, is the man they will look to for extra bite, presence and leadership.
Verdict: 2nd. Mark Warburton's side brushed aside the predicted threat of Hibernian in last season's Championship thanks to their greater consistency while suggesting they will be force again in the top flight by knocked Celtic out of the Scottish Cup. Adding quality and experience in the shape of Niko Kranjcar and Barton, they are likely to be the reigning champions' closest challengers.
In: Niko Kranjcar, midfielder (New York Cosmos); Joey Barton, midfielder (Burnley); Philippe Senderos, defender (Grasshoppers); Joe Garner, forward (Preston North End, undisclosed); Matt Gilks, goalkeeper (Burnley); Jordan Rossiter, midfielder (Liverpool); Clint Hill, defender (Queens Park Rangers); Joe Dodoo, forward (Leicester City, undisclosed); Lee Hodson, defender (MK Dons); Josh Windass, midfielder (Accrington Stanley); Matt Crooks, midfielder (Accrington Stanley).
Out: Cammy Bell, goalkeeper (Dundee United); Nicky Clark, forward (Bury); Nicky Law, midfielder (Bradford City); Maciej Gostomski, goalkeeper (Korona Kielce); Luca Gasparotto, defender (Falkirk); Przemyslaw Dachnowicz, midfielder (Annan Athletic); Jamie Mills, defender (Stirling Albion); Dean Shiels, midfielder; David Templeton, midfielder; Andy Murdoch, midfielder; Darren Ramsay, midfielder. Loan ended: Gedion Zelalem, midfielder (Arsenal); Dominic Ball, defender (Tottenham Hotspur); Billy King, midfielder (Heart of Midlothian). Loan: Tom Walsh, midfielder (St Mirren); Ryan Hardie, forward (St Mirren); Liam Kelly, goalkeeper (Livingston).
Last season: 6th
Manager: Jim McIntyre
Summer priority: County manager Jim McIntyre appears to have targeted his back line for improvement next season, with four of his five signings being defenders and the other a goalkeeper, but the sale of Jackson Irvine to Burton Albion means midfield reinforcements are also required.
Key signing: Big things were expected for Jay McEveley when he won his first Scotland cap. That was back in 2007 and he never quite made the expected move to England's top flight, but the 31-year-old left-back has still been playing regularly at a reasonable level with Sheffield United.
Verdict: 11th. Jackson Irvine was a driving force in midfield as County achieved their highest-ever league finish and Jim McIntyre will be doing well to match that achievement without the Australian.
In: Jay McEveley, defender (Sheffield United); Tim Chow, midfielder (Wigan Athletic); Christopher Routis, defender (Bradford City); Kenny van der Weg, defender (Breda); Aaron McCarey, goalkeeper (Wolverhampton Wanderers); Erik Cikos, defender (Slovan Bratislava).
Out: Jackson Irvine, midfielder (Burton Albion, undisclosed); Richard Foster, defender (St Johnstone); Rocco Quinn, midfielder (St Mirren); Stewart Murdoch, midfielder (Dundee United); Brian Graham, forward (Hibernian); Raffaele De Vita, midfielder; Chris Robertson, defender; Peter Tait, goalkeeper; Darren Moffat, midfielder. Loan ended: Gary Woods, goalkeeper (Leyton Orient). Loan:Scott Boyd, defender (Kilmarnock); Kyle MacLeod, forward (Elgin City).
Last season: 4th
Manager: Tommy Wright
Summer priority: With captain Dave Mackay ruled out for the second half of last season, Saints looked short at the back, but the 36-year-old is back in training and manager Tommy Wright has added right-back Keith Watson, who had top-flight experience with Dundee United, from St Mirren.
Key signing: While Paul Paton, the new arrival from Dundee United, is much admired for his graft and leadership, it is the signing of Blair Alston from Falkirk that could give a new element of creativity and vigour to an often staid midfield.
Verdict: 4th. Chairman Steve Brown heeded manager Tommy Wright's warning that he would have to increase the playing budget as a result of Rangers adding their spending power to the Premiership and together they had added some quality signings that will give them a chance of a sixth consecutive top-six finish.
In: Richard Foster, defender (Ross County); Paul Paton, midfielder (Dundee United); Blair Alston, midfielder (Falkirk); Keith Watson, defender (St Mirren); Michael Coulson, midfielder (York City). Loan:Joe Gormley, forward (Peterborough United).
Out: John Sutton, forward (St Mirren); Brad McKay, defender (Inverness Caledonian Thistle); Simon Lappin, midfielder; Michael Doyle, defender (Greenock Morton); Scott Brown, midfielder (Peterhead); Plamen Krachunov, defender; Jordan Millar, goalkeeper; Neil Martyniuk, defender (Edinburgh City); Greg Kerr, forward; Bradley Sinclair, forward. Loan ended: Darnell Fisher, defender (Celtic). Loan: Scott Roberts, midfielder (Raith Rovers); Mark Hurst, goalkeeper (East Fife); Jason Kerr, defender (East Fife); Craig Thomson, midfielder (Stranraer); Greg Hurst, forward (Berwick Rangers).
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Whether you like the term or not, the Old Firm fixture is back in the Scottish top flight.
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The Japanese company will build the next version of the Qashqai and X-Trail in the North East.
It's a remarkable development in the light of what Nissan's chief executive Carlos Ghosn said about Brexit.
He cast real doubt over the company's commitment to Sunderland.
"If I need to make an investment in the next few months and I can't wait until the end of Brexit, then I have to make a deal with the UK government.
"If there are tax barriers being established on cars, you have to have a commitment for carmakers who export to Europe that there is some kind of compensation."
And it is certainly possible that those tax barriers could be significant.
The EU imposes a tariff on car imports of 10%. Whether that will apply to British made cars, including Nissan's, will depend on the terms of any agreement negotiated with the European Union.
But one possibility is Britain trading on World Trade Organization terms with the EU - and facing the same barriers as WTO members with no trade deal. That would mean that those tariffs would apply.
Inevitably the Nissan decision has led to speculation about just what government ministers have said to the company. Has Nissan received some sort of assurance that there will be compensation if its cars do face EU tariffs?
The government says not.
Nissan says it was given assurances that its products would remain competitive after the UK's exit from the EU.
Mr Ghosn's earlier remarks focussed on tariffs, so presumably that was at least in the minds of top Nissan managers when they received these assurances.
One option would be some sort of direct compensation to the company if it did face new tariffs on its sales into the EU.
That could easily fall foul of World Trade Organisation rules because export subsidies are banned - they are defined as subsidies contingent on export performance. So direct compensation for a tariff looks like it would be caught.
Some creative design of the compensation might get around it, breaking the explicit link with tariffs and export sales.
Even so Nissan's competitors in other countries would in all likelihood be alert to any such move and could still persuade a government to take the case to the WTO's dispute settlement system, arguing that the arrangement was in effect a prohibited subsidy.
The UK could then ignore the WTO ruling.
But in that event the Organisation can then authorise retaliation - additional tariffs - against a range of British exports.
In any case, British governments have generally been keen on the WTO and its system of international trade based on rules that constrain subsidies and trade barriers.
So Britain would probably be reluctant to defy a WTO ruling.
There is another possibility suggested by the former Prime Minister Tony Blair on BBC Radio 4.
"I should imagine they gave strong assurances about the car industry's access to the single market".
If that is the case it would mean no tariffs and no need for any compensation.
Even without the degree of access that Norway, for example, has, there is the option of seeking a trade agreement with the EU that would eliminate tariffs, if they were willing to go down that path.
Nissan has already had one boost for its competitiveness.
Its cars are cheaper in foreign currency because of the decline of the pound, though that has raised the cost of imported parts.
Still, the company is unlikely to want to make any long-term assumptions about exchange rates. The fall in sterling may have helped, but would Nissan want to rely on that?
We don't know exactly what the government has offered - indeed whether it has offered anything very specific at all.
However, a trade agreement that ensured tariff-free access for British industry to the European Union market would raise fewer legal and financial challenges.
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Scarlets will face Munster in the Pro12 final at Dublin's Aviva Stadium on Saturday bidding to win their first title since 2004.
Williams, who made his Scarlets debut in 2010, says the region have the strength in depth to be successful.
"We've always had a strong 15," Williams said.
"We've got boys competing and some boys are unlucky not to be involved or unlucky to be on the bench.
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"But that's a good thing. You can't win trophies with 15 men and that's why we believe we can go all the way.
"We've got some really dangerous players who can create something out of nothing."
Scarlets secured their place in the final with a 25-17 semi-final win over Irish side Leinster, despite being reduced to 14 men after winger Steffan Evans was sent-off for a tip tackle.
Williams said they will take confidence from games where they had been under pressure and reserved particular praise for the forwards.
"We've come up against some of the biggest teams in Europe and come out on top," Williams added.
"We've got to give credit to our forwards.
"You can have any backline in the world but if you haven't got the forwards putting you on the front foot then there's no point."
Scarlets, Celtic League champions in 2004, lost to Ulster in the Pro12 play-off semi-finals in 2013.
Williams played in the defeat by Ulster and says Saturday's final against Munster is a big opportunity.
"We know there's a big challenge in front of us and we're looking forward to it," Williams said.
"When you get older you realise that there's less opportunities to win silverware.
"When the opportunities come round you've got to take them with both hands."
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Refuse workers have been taking action in a dispute over job losses with the action now in its sixth week.
It has led to rubbish mounting up on streets across the city, with Birmingham City Council facing a huge backlog.
The authority said its recovery plan was aiming to deal with "100 per cent of wards by the end of the week".
See more updates on this story and others across Birmingham and the Black Country here
A council spokesperson said: "We are now well into our recovery plan to address the backlog of waste caused by the ongoing industrial dispute.
"As of yesterday, we have visited approximately two-thirds of the city's 8,200 streets.
"We are adopting a different approach that does not involve the regular collection schedules, with the aim of having dealt with 100 per cent of wards by the end of the week ahead."
On Avon Street, in Sparkhill, bags of waste were piled up on the pavement, with waste, including nappies, spilling from torn bin bags.
Resident William Turner, 73, who has lived on the street for 34 years, said the bins have not been collected for three weeks.
"It's unhealthy and dangerous," he said.
"They ask us to leave it out and then don't collect it. The council tax is being paid and up to date [but the service] is below zero. I would like to see a refund with some interest."
Mr Turner, who said he supports the refuse workers, added the two sides must now come together to reach a resolution.
The conflict centres on restructuring plans that trade union Unite says are threatening the jobs of more than 120 refuse collectors.
The council says plans will modernise the service and save £5m a year.
On Monday the union said there had been further contact with the council, which had been positive, but there was no breakthrough in finding a resolution.
It announced on Friday that airline Emirates would sponsor the Spinnaker Tower in a £3.5m deal.
Over the weekend, nearly 10,000 people signed an online petition against plans to repaint the tower, which is currently white.
Red and white are the colours of nearby Southampton's football club, Portsmouth's major rivals.
Council leader Donna Jones said she had been "extremely worried and concerned" about the strong public response against the plans.
She said: "I am passionate about this city. I was born here and have lived here all my life... Likewise I love Portsmouth Football Club, the Royal Navy and our heritage. I fully understand people's feelings about blue being the city's colour and the city emblem.
"I am pleased to advise that, after working with Emirates over the weekend, and having spoken to Mark Catlin, chief executive of Portsmouth FC, and other key stakeholders, we are working up a new design for the tower. The design will reflect the city's heritage."
The tower is due to be renamed the Emirates Spinnaker Tower. The revised design will be made public in the next few days.
The branding is due to be in place in time for the America's Cup World Series sailing event in July and will remain in place for five years.
The petition against the changes said: "To allow the colours of Southampton to stand tall on one of our city's most prominent landmarks shows an incredible lack of empathy for the residents. It must be stopped."
Paul Andrews, who describes himself as a Southampton FC supporter on his profile, wrote on Twitter: "All it needs now is the #SaintsFC badge at the top."
The colours of Portsmouth Football Club are blue and white.
The 560ft (170m) tower opened in 2005. It is owned by the council but run by a private company.
In the first defence of his WBA title in Manchester last month, Crolla stopped previously unbeaten Venezuelan Ismael Barroso in the seventh round.
The 29-year-old Mancunian has now won 31 of his 38 professional bouts.
Ex-WBC champion Linares, 30, also from Venezuela, has won 40 of 43 bouts, most recently against Ivan Cano in October.
He has fought in Britain once before, when he stopped Britain's Kevin Mitchell in the 10th round at 02 Arena in May last year.
Crolla and Linares will fight for the WBA, WBC 'diamond' and Ring Magazine world lightweight titles.
Linares was stripped of the WBC belt - since claimed by Dejan Zlaticanin - in February, and the winner of September's bout is set to challenge the Montenegrin for that title.
Officers are searching land in Poleglass, after receiving a report of a suspicious object in the area.
A section of Brians Well Road was shut shortly before 18:10 GMT. There are no reports of homes being evacuated.
A PSNI tweet said nothing had been found so far and asked for local residents' "continued patience".
SDLP councillor Brian Heading told BBC News NI that he had been speaking to the PSNI about the security operation as early as Friday night.
"I understand that police are still investigating that report of a suspicious object," Mr Heading said.
"This is tying up PSNI resources, which could be used to combat drugs offences and anti-social behaviour."
Malignaggi, 36, previously said UFC lightweight champion McGregor meeting former five-weight boxing champion Mayweather was "an absolute joke".
He retired in March but is in talks for a sparring role for the 26 August bout.
"I have the mentality of being a member of the team and trying to benefit it as much as I can," Malginaggi said.
Malignaggi does not want to return to competition but during his 16-year career, he held world titles at super-lightweight and welterweight, winning 36 of his 44 fights.
When speaking to 5 live in May about McGregor potentially moving into boxing to face unbeaten Mayweather, 40, he said that not "a second of the fight is competitive".
But he expects to come to an arrangement with the McGregor's team and said he would even sign a confidentiality agreement to prevent him talking about the training in the event he parted ways with the 28-year-old before the Las Vegas bout.
"I've never been the type to talk about what happens in sparring," said Malignaggi. "If they are comfortable with a confidentiality clause I'd have no problem. I've never done this before. I've never been the sparring partner since my early twenties. I'm not a 22-year-old going in there to make a name for myself.
"They are the bosses and they run it how they want to. I'm curious about it, to see how Conor has progressed in these months."
Mayweather will stretch his unbeaten record to 50 fights with victory over McGregor, who has never boxed professionally but became the first man in history to hold titles in multiple UFC weight categories in 2016.
Fifty-seven workers were hired to build a stretch of railway in Pennsylvania known as Duffy's Cut.
However, within weeks all of them were dead.
It is thought some died from cholera, while others were murdered by local people who believed the immigrants were spreading the disease.
They all hailed from counties Tyrone, Donegal and Londonderry.
Six sets of remains have previously been uncovered and the new searches that are taking place are at what is believed to be the site of a mass grave containing the remaining 51.
In July, a funeral mass and burial took place at St Patrick's Church in Clonoe, near Coalisland, County Tyrone, for one of the migrants - 29-year-old Catherine Burns.
Injuries to her skull indicated she had been murdered.
The new search site is about 50 yards from where the other remains were found.
Duffy's Cut and its story have been brought to light over the past 12 years by brothers Frank and William Watson, a Lutheran minister and a historian at Immaculata University.
Dr Frank Watson said the site currently being searched is close to the modern railway line.
They had to negotiate with Amtrak, the national railroad in the United States, to carry out the dig.
"What we are conducting now are core samples at the site of what we believe is the mass grave of the remaining 51 labourers at Duffy's Cut," he said.
"We have core samples being taken between 20 and 30 feet along an area underground that our geophysicist indicated looks like the mass burial place.
"If we find human remains in these core samples, our intent is to excavate the remains and re-inter them in the United States and Ireland as we have already done with the first six bodies who were buried at the base of the 1832 railroad tracks."
The new searches are close to a stone memorial wall that was built for the migrants in 1909.
"That wall replaced an earlier 1872 wooden fence put in place by Irish-American railroaders who wanted to remember those who died at Duffy's Cut," Dr Watson said.
"Anti-Irish and anti-Catholic sentiment combined with fear of a world-wise cholera pandemic that hit Chester County, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1832, led to the vigilante violence at Duffy's Cut."
Police said the accident involved two lorries, a car transporter and a car.
It happened about one mile south of the Granish junction, north of Aviemore, at 15:05.
The A9 remained closed on Monday evening with traffic diverted through Aviemore.
Supergroup, which owns the brand, has announced it will begin moving to a distribution centre in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, later this year.
Its current units in Brockworth and Barnwood will continue to operate until the new unit fully opens next year.
The Cheltenham-based group said no units were available in Gloucestershire that could meet the company's needs.
It added it would be encouraging current distribution employees to make the 90-mile (145km) move with the company, but would proactively help those that could not to find other employment.
Suzanne Given, chief operating officer, said Supergroup was combining its two distribution centres to become efficient and give customers a better experience.
"We're doing it because our company has grown very significantly and we have some very ambitious growth plans for the future," she said.
"We asked five potential logistics partners to look throughout the UK, including Gloucester, to find a unit which in terms of layout and design would deliver great efficiency but also facilitate the capacity that we need to grow this company over the next five years.
"They came back with a variety of suggestions but unfortunately we were not able to find a unit in Gloucestershire."
John Leamon, from the Cheltenham Chamber of Commerce, said there was very little office, retail and warehouse accommodation available and the chamber was campaigning for more land to be developed.
"We get quite a lot of inquiries from businesses that want to move to Cheltenham and we have difficulty accommodating them," he added.
The incident happened in Lewis Terrace in Mill o' Mains between 19:00 and 19:30 on Monday.
The housing association building was unoccupied at the time and is understood to have been in the process of being adapted for a disabled tenant.
Police Scotland said all three boys would be reported to the youth justice assessor.
Commuters are facing a second day of delays in a 48-hour strike by guards over proposed changes to their roles.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said he would be willing to "thrash out a workable solution" with the government.
But Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the unions had failed to come to the table for talks.
The RMT claimed that in three recent agreements on rail contracts the role of conductors had been retained.
It said the arrangements cover Great Western, East Coast and TransPennine Express contracts, in addition to the deal achieved on the Scottish government's rail contract this year.
Mr Cash said: "All we are asking is for [the government] to authorise a similar deal on its Southern rail contract. This would provide a basis for a Christmas truce."
But the Department for Transport said the union's claims were misleading and the three contracts did not stipulate whether services should be run with or without guards.
How services are run on these franchises is down to the individual train companies, the Department for Transport‎ added.
The Transport Secretary added: "I have reaffirmed my offer for talks with the unions if they call off strike action, but they have failed to come to the table.
"No jobs are being lost and no pay is being cut... The unions want to take the rail industry backwards and stop the roll out of new, modern trains."
RMT union members walked out at midnight on Sunday in a dispute over guards' roles on new trains.
Under the changes already being brought in by Southern, drivers take responsibility for opening and closing the doors and guards become on-board supervisors.
However, the union fears job cuts and has raised safety concerns.
Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald said it was within the government's "gift" to bring about a suspension of the strikes.
He added: "The government should acknowledge that the whole issue of the dispatch of trains from platforms is in need of review.
"It must take this opportunity to resolve the dispute and sort out Southern's unacceptable service."
A Southern spokesman said: "We invited the RMT to talk to us last week and, to show good faith and a genuine interest to find a solution, to call off their strike action.
"We're happy to listen to their proposals to help us implement our modernisation plans with the driver in full control of the train."
Southern said services during the strike would be "significantly disrupted" with no trains on some routes and no service after 18:00 GMT on others.
Previous RMT strikes have affected about 40% of services but Southern said an overtime ban instigated by the train drivers' union Aslef would add to the disruption.
Meanwhile, a study of the economic impact of the Southern dispute has put the loss in terms of Gross Domestic Produce (GDP) at around £300m.
The University of Chichester examined the impact on productivity of both the RMT and Aslef strikes - basing its calculation on the thousands of commuters who are late, missed work or have had to work from home.
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The economy grew 0.5% in the quarter, while the annualised rate of growth was 2.2% - the fastest rate for a year.
The figures means Japan has now recorded its longest period of expansion in more than a decade.
The economy's prospects have been boosted by strong exports, a pick-up in consumption and investment for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.
Exporters have been helped by the recent falls in the yen against the US dollar, which has made their products more competitive and has boosted the value of profits earned overseas.
The data could provide a lift to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as his government tries to encourage Japanese consumers and companies to spend more.
Mr Abe's grand plan to kick start the world's third largest economy, known as "Abenomics", was aimed at tackling nearly two decades of stagnant growth and falling consumer prices.
David Kuo, chief executive of the Motley Fool Singapore, said the numbers showed that "Abenomics could be working."
He Kuo added: "Consumers appear to be regaining their confidence which should provide sustainable growth if it continues."
But he warned that Mr Abe's work could be undone if the political controversy surrounding President Trump led to further falls in the US dollar.
The row over the firing of FBI director James Comey has led to growing scepticism about Mr Trump's ability to deliver tax and regulatory reform.
This has hit both US shares and the dollar. The US dollar is currently trading near six-month lows against other major currencies.
In a piece for the Sunday Times at the start of Conservative party conference, Mr Davies accused Labour and Plaid Cymru of a "left-ward lurch".
He claimed Plaid Cymru was a "nationalist comfort blanket" for First Minister Carwyn Jones.
Plaid called the attack "bluster", while Labour said it was "tired".
Mr Jones has "struggled to put forward a clear vision for Wales", the Welsh Conservative leader wrote, accusing him of having "flip-flopped" on freedom of movement and becoming "increasingly reliant" on Plaid Cymru.
"It's abundantly clear that Nicola Sturgeon is no longer alone in posing a danger to the future of the union," he said.
Alleging there was a disconnect between Mr Jones and Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood's "post-Brexit vision for Wales versus the will of the electorate", he accused the two parties of a "violent leftward lurch".
He said this was "compounded this week by the first minister's endorsement of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership and by Plaid's repeated calls for independence".
Mr Davies said it had "left a vacancy in the centre ground of Welsh politics which Welsh Conservatives are ideally placed to fill".
His comments are understood to refer to an exchange between Mr Davies and Mr Jones in the Senedd last Tuesday, when the Welsh Tory leader asked the first minister if the best interests of the UK would be served by having Jeremy Corbyn as the next prime minister. Mr Jones said: "Yes".
A spokesman for Carwyn Jones said: "Under the leadership of Andrew RT Davies the Tories in Wales have moved steadily but assuredly towards total irrelevance. Now the third party in Wales, the Tories have no policies to showcase, no victories to celebrate - just tired old attack lines which are utterly meaningless outside the Cardiff Bay bubble.
"The Welsh Tories' decision to ditch their own grammar school policy just days before [Prime Minister] Theresa May's first conference shows they are a party in deep confusion and in search of genuine leadership."
Steffan Lewis, Plaid Cymru's external affairs spokesman, described the attack as "characteristic fumbling bluster".
"The only coalition that exists on Brexit is the coalition of the Westminster establishment, both Labour and Conservative, who seem determined to lead our nation towards a dangerous isolationism," he said.
Meanwhile David Jones, minister for exiting the EU and Clwyd West Conservative MP, said he was "determined to make a success of Brexit for Wales, and for all parts of the United Kingdom".
"The public gave their verdict at the referendum. It is a national mandate, which we will deliver in the national interest," he added.
Three men aged 52, 44 and 31 years and a woman aged 30 were arrested after searches in Coleraine, this week.
Police also arrested a man aged 29 years in the Craigavon area.
They said the arrests were related to a burglary at Moyraverty Road West, Craigavon, between 24 and 26 October.
They said a quantity of Pandora jewellery had been recovered.
The jewellery business Argento previously said ??80,000 of stock was stolen in the incident.
Two men, aged 41 and 63 were arrested last month in connection with the theft. They were later released pending further inquiries.
This macaque monkey won world-wide fame in 2011, when she got hold of a photographer's equipment, and took her own selfie.
But it led to a row over who owned the photograph.
Knowing who owns the photo is important, because it affects copyright.
Copyright protects the photo under law, so that people can't use it without the owner's permission.
Some people said that they could use the picture without anyone's permission, because it was taken by a monkey - not a person.
But the photographer, David Slater, argued that the photo was his, because it was his equipment.
Now an American Judge has decided that the monkey doesn't own the photograph.
Even though animals are protected by the law like people are, he said that it doesn't mean that they can own things under the law as well.
The 30-year-old was paralysed from the waist down in a four-horse pile-up at Kempton on 31 October.
Tylicki moved from intensive care to a spinal ward in November and will now start rehabilitation at the London Spinal Cord Unit.
He tweeted: "I've been waiting on this day for a long time and it's finally come #nextchapter #keepfighting."
Earlier this month, Tylicki said he was "dealing with" his injuries but has "more bad days than good".
He also said he is grateful for the support he has received from family, friends and the whole racing community - which has raised at least £330,000 to help him.
Champion jockey Jim Crowley and Ted Durcan suffered minor injuries in the incident while a fourth jockey, Steve Drowne, and all the horses, were unhurt.
The rebels had abducted the policemen after stopping a bus carrying security personnel in Bijapur on Monday.
The Maoists say they are fighting for communist rule and greater rights for tribal people and the rural poor.
Their insurgency began in West Bengal in the late 1960s, spreading to more than a third of India's 676 districts.
Senior Bijapur official KL Dhruv told BBC Hindi that the bodies had been recovered near Kutru [a village in Bijapur district] early on Wednesday.
Kutru is a rebel dominated area, some 525km (326 miles) south of the state capital, Raipur.
Chhattisgarh is often hit by Maoist violence. At least 14 policemen were killed in an ambush in the state in December.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described India's Maoist insurgency as its "greatest internal security challenge".
Maldini and doubles partner Stefano Landonio lost 6-1 6-1 to Poland's Tomasz Bednarek and Dutchman David Pel.
The 49-year-old earned a place at the tournament with Landonio, who is also his coach, by winning a qualifier.
The Milan event is part of the Challenger Tour, one tier below the top-level ATP World Tour.
Landonio, 46, was once ranked 975th in the world, and has coached Maldini since he retired from football.
Maldini, capped 126 times by Italy, made his AC Milan debut in 1985, and played his final Serie A match for them in May 2009, a month before his 41st birthday.
A defender, he won seven Serie A titles with Milan, as well as the Champions League - or the European Cup, as it previously was - five times.
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Chinese diver He Zi had just received a silver medal for the women's three-metre springboard at the Rio Olympics on Sunday.
But she ended up with another prize when her boyfriend Qin Kai, in front of a global TV audience, went down on one knee.
Luckily for Qin, who himself won bronze in the men's three-metre synchronised springboard last week, He Zi said yes.
"We've been dating for six years, but I didn't expect him to propose today," she said. "He said a lot of things, made a lot of promises, but I think the thing that touched me the most is I think this is the guy I can trust for the rest of my life."
But some viewers have suggested that his shock proposal stole the limelight from her other precious metal, her Olympic medal.
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Imagine that you are an Olympic diver and are busy getting a silver medal for this....
When you are approached on the podium by your boyfriend of six years and a bevy of cameramen.
He positions himself on one knee in front and one enterprising cameraman takes up close position behind you.
This is what happened to He Zi, who, when faced with the little red velvet box, is overwhelmed and wipes tears from her eyes.
She covers her face with the hand that is not holding her Olympic medal case, her silver medal glinting.
It lasts just a few moments but Qin Kai appears unable to bear the anticipation...
A little fist pump gives the audience a clue that he may have got his way after all.
He stands up and slides the ring onto her engagement finger.
They embrace and the footage is beamed across the world.
Fellow medal winners share in the elation.
But the gesture has divided audiences. On the BBC's Facebook page, some users say that his proposal upstaged the glory of her medal win, while others say it merely added to her medal tally.
It's one of the biggest trends on China's Twitter-like Weibo service with some calling it "sweet and romantic" but others weighing in with more scepticism: "What a way to add pressure to her, having the entire world watch her as she makes such a private and life-changing decision".
Further planned walkouts by train staff were called off last week, but a final deal has yet to be reached.
The dispute centres on proposals to run more trains where drivers rather than guards operate the doors.
Last week, ScotRail offered a guarantee that there would be guards on all new electrified trains.
The RMT then announced it would suspend five days of planned strikes while talks continued.
The union insisted the dispute was about "ensuring Scotland's trains run safely".
But ScotRail said the RMT had been running a campaign of "disinformation that doesn't bear any scrutiny".
RMT representatives are meeting with ScotRail in Glasgow.
Following last week's decision to suspend industrial action, RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said: "The union has made sufficient progress to enable us to suspend the current programme of industrial action on ScotRail to allow for further detailed discussions on the issue of platform train despatch procedures."
ScotRail have said a solution to the dispute lies "in talks not strikes".
Phil Verster, Managing Director of the ScotRail Alliance, said: "Doing this allows us to get round the table and finalise an agreement that will, hopefully, bring this dispute to an end."
Wightlink Ferries wants to build a three-storey terminal in Gunwharf Road for its Portsmouth to Fishbourne service as part of a £45m project.
The upgrade will see new ramps put in so vehicles can be simultaneously loaded and unloaded on two levels.
Portsmouth City Council's planning committee approved the plans at a meeting on Wednesday.
The firm still has to secure planning permission from Isle of Wight Council next month for a new loading ramp at the Fishbourne terminal.
The new ferry will carry 178 vehicles and more than 1,000 people on each crossing.
It is expected to come into service in 2017.
It said a presidential commission report into their group-stage exit was "hideously inappropriate" in parts.
The Dzamefe Report outlined a $100,000 fee paid to Ghana's equipment manager - dubbed a "ball boy" in the report.
Ismail Hamidu did receive the payment but the GFA said his role as "kit manager" was being ridiculed by a commission it accuses of "posturing".
In earning $100,000 (£64,000), Hamidu received the same appearance fee as players and manager James Kwesi Appiah, but the GFA claims his bonus payments would not have been equal to theirs.
"It is apparent that the description of the kit manager as a 'ball boy' is calculated to bring disaffection for the person in charge of the position even though his role is key for the highly-tuned professionals to perform at the top level," a GFA spokesperson told BBC Sport.
"While the commission is seeking to mock the person, the position or his role in the team, it must be made clear that the payment of the appearance fees to the kit manager was made after government vetted and approved it."
BBC Sport reported the commissions' disclosure of the $100,000 paid to Hamidu, players and staff members on Thursday.
The Dzamefe Commission also highlights some payments during qualifying and the build-up to the Brazil World Cup which could not be accounted for.
But the GFA has been left angered by the reaction to the report and said it has been "led to instruct its lawyers to challenge the findings in court".
The GFA added: "We wish to emphasise that we should not waver from our desire of finding out the REAL REASONS for Ghana's early exit from the tournament and the other off-the-field incidents that brought embarrassment to the country."
During the tournament, in which the Black Stars drew their final group game with Portugal, the country's government flew $3m (£1.91m) to South America to settle a pay dispute with players.
Ms Blake, 43, Zachary, eight, and Amon, four, were found at the family home in Erith, London, on 5 January after being reported missing on 16 December.
Arthur Simpson-Kent, 48, entered guilty pleas before Mr Justice Singh at the Old Bailey via video link from Belmarsh prison.
Outside court, Ms Blake's sister Ava said the family were "really relieved".
Simpson-Kent, a hairdresser, was remanded in custody ahead of a three-day sentencing hearing, starting on 4 October.
He was arrested at Heathrow Airport in February after being extradited from Ghana.
Ms Blake and her sons died from neck and head injuries, a post-mortem examination found.
Their bodies were found buried in the garden of the family home by police after Simpson-Kent had left.
Days after the bodies were found, he was arrested on a beach in Ghana by local police.
The arrest came after locals recognised him from a photo shared on social media and tipped off the authorities
Det Ch Insp Graeme Gwyn said: "Arthur Simpson-Kent has never given a reason as to why he killed Sian, Zachary and Amon in the way that he did.
"Sian's close-knit family are devastated by the loss of their much loved sister, daughter and cousin.
"The deaths of Zachary and Amon have compounded their grief and they have lost two entire generations of their family to a violent and completely senseless act of murder at the hands of Simpson-Kent."
Ms Blake played Frankie Pierre in 56 episodes of EastEnders between 1996 and 1997 and had been living with motor neurone disease before she died.
The EastEnders actor appeared in the 1998 film Siberia and TV movie May 33rd in 2004 under her stage name Syan Blake, according to her profile on IMDB.
The Met has referred the case to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) over its handling of the investigation.
A serious case review is also under way.
The attorney-general's office said the $681m (£479m) that Mr Najib received in his bank account was a personal donation from the Saudi royal family.
Critics had alleged the money came from state-owned investment fund 1MDB.
Mr Najib has consistently denied these accusations, but has faced pressure to resign over them.
Anti-corruption officials have previously said he received money as a gift from a foreign funder.
Attorney-General Mohamed Apandi Ali said in a press statement on Tuesday that the amount was a "personal donation" from the royal family in Saudi Arabia, transferred between the end of March and early April 2013.
He added that anti-corruption officials had met witnesses including the person they identified as the donor to confirm it.
"I am satisfied that there is no evidence to show that the donation was a form of gratification given corruptly," he said, adding that evidence did not show the donation was used as an "inducement or reward" for Mr Najib to do anything in his capacity as prime minister.
Case that gripped Malaysia: Karishma Vaswani, BBC Asia Business correspondent
The case of the mysterious millions has in equal part enthralled and angered Malaysians.
Even after this decision many still have unanswered questions. In the first place, why did their prime minister need this personal donation? What was the money used for?
The attorney general said Mr Najib had returned $620m, but that begs the question - where did the other $61m go?
Leaders from Umno, Mr Najib's party, have claimed the donation funded party activities including the campaign for the 2013 election, but critics have alleged it was used to buy political support within the leadership and for Mr Najib's personal use.
Some Malaysians have pointed to the fact that the new attorney general is a recent appointment - replaced after Mr Najib kicked his predecessor out over this very same drama.
The scandal has cast an ugly shadow over Mr Najib's seven-year leadership. But this decision effectively clears him, which political analysts say will secure his position within his own party and the country for now.
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Malaysia held its last general election in May 2013, which returned Mr Najib's party to power but with one of its poorest showings on record.
The attorney general also said no criminal offence was committed by Mr Najib in relation to three other related investigations and that no further action would be taken.
Mr Najib said the findings "confirmed what I have maintained all along, that no crime was committed".
He urged the country to "unite and move on", saying the controversy had been "an unnecessary distraction".
Opposition members, however, criticised the prosecutor's decision.
Lim Kit Siang, parliamentary leader of Malaysia's main opposition party, Democratic Action, told the BBC it came as "a great surprise... that the attorney general can exonerate the prime minister for the $680m scandal".
"Nobody would give that donation for nothing," he added, and said the attorney general had to provide more evidence to justify his decision.
Meanwhile, activist group Transparency International said several questions remained: "Where did it [the money] go and why was this personal donation made?"
Trees for Life began the project in March when it released 33 red squirrels from Forres and Strathspey around Shieldaig in Wester Ross.
The Findhorn-based charity is now preparing to introduce 70 reds near Kinlochewe and Plockton.
The sites currently have no squirrels, Trees for Life said.
The charity, which is doing the work under a licence from Scottish Natural Heritage and with landowners' consent, hopes to establish 10 new populations.
The areas involved are too isolated for the squirrels to reach themselves.
But the locations do have habitat, and food, favoured by reds and may have supported populations of the animals in the past.
The areas are also free of non-native grey squirrels, which compete with the smaller reds for food and carry diseases fatal to the native species.
Becky Priestley, Trees for Life's wildlife officer, said: "We are giving red squirrels a helping hand to return to some of their long-lost forest homes.
"Many Highland woodlands offer the species excellent habitat far from disease-carrying grey squirrels - but because reds travel between trees and avoid crossing large areas of open ground, they can't return to isolated woodlands without our help."
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The squirrels are transported in nest boxes lined with hay and with food and water available, Trees for Life said.
Small numbers of the animals are moved from where they are trapped so as to avoid harming the survival of "donor populations".
The captured squirrels are also checked for diseases before being transported.
At the new sites, the nest boxes are fitted to trees and the exit holes are opened and filled with grass, which the squirrels can push their way through to get outside.
Food is provided for several months while the animals become accustomed to their new habitat.
There are an estimated 138,000 red squirrels in the UK, Trees for Life said.
Trees for Life said red squirrels introduced to woods around Shieldaig in March have bred and raised young.
The new phase of the project will involve animals trapped on land owned by Forestry Enterprise Scotland and others in Moray and near Inverness.
They will be relocated to the privately-owned Coulin Estate next to Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve, near Kinlochewe in Wester Ross, and to Plockton in Lochalsh.
Landowners involved include conservation charity the National Trust for Scotland.
Red squirrels are not the only native species to be moved from one area to another in the interests of wildlife conservation.
In June it emerged that Scottish pine martens were raising young in Wales for the first time in a six year-long project.
Twenty pine martens were captured and released into the Welsh countryside last year.
The animals, one of Britain's rarest carnivores, were caught by the Inverness, Ross and Skye team at Forestry Enterprise Scotland.
At least three of the 10 females captured were thought to have given birth to kits.
The capture and release of the Scottish martens forms part of the Welsh Pine Marten Recovery Project.
The animals were introduced to woodland owned by Natural Resources Wales and their behaviour is radio tracked.
Water voles have also been trapped in Scotland and relocated to England.
The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland staff and conservationists have used empty cardboard snack tubes for catching and handling feisty voles.
"Sometimes they can be a bit nippy," said Roisin Campbell-Palmer, of RZSS, referring to the mammals' bite.
RZSS is involved in vole conservation projects in England and previously worked on one in the Trossachs.
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No wonder more than 40 million people visit Africa every year, according to the World Bank, and that number is rising fast.
Research group Euromonitor International says tourism income has risen from $42bn (£25bn) in 2011 to an estimated $54bn in 2014.
Competition to attract this tourist cash is fierce and technology is becoming an increasingly powerful tool in the battle.
For many, Cape Town - situated on the continent's southern-most tip and famous for its beaches, penguins and Table Mountain backdrop - is a "must-see" destination.
"Technology has levelled the playing field in terms of how you market a destination," says Enver Duminy, chief executive of Cape Town Tourism.
"I think technology and innovation has affected the tourism industry perhaps more than any other industry."
Mr Duminy's organisation began looking at ways to use technology to reach potential visitors, as well as interact with those that choose Cape Town as a regular destination.
"Just before the 2010 World Cup, which was held in South Africa, we realised we had to innovate," he says.
"We don't have the same budgets as other big cities and the exchange rate was not in our favour. We saw a mega trend in the shift to digital and we embraced that."
The most recent innovation has been the creation of a mobile visitor information vehicle known as Thando, which means "love" in the local isiXhosa language.
The vehicle offers visitors free wi-fi along with LCD [liquid crystal display] screens and the ability to make bookings and secure trips at roving locations.
For most travellers, the use of mobile has opened a world of opportunities to explore and understand the places they are visiting.
A small South African start-up called VoiceMap is trying to bring a local feel to walking tours with the use of smartphones and GPS technology.
Founder Iain Manley travelled around the world for many years before returning to South Africa and getting involved in GPS-triggered commentary on cruises and open-top bus tours.
He soon found that there was something lacking in the big box product.
"When we were doing the commentary for Cape Town's open-top bus tour the single voice idea didn't work at all because Cape Town has so many different communities and the history of the city is so contested. The same is true of cities all over," he says.
This gave him the idea of creating a platform to enable people to record their own personalised GPS-based commentaries. Anyone can go to the VoiceMap website and use the publishing tools to create some sort of walk and put their voice over it.
The company also has an iPhone app and is working towards launching an Android version soon.
The person creating the route commentary can decide if they want to offer it for free or charge a small fee. After the usual payments are made to the likes of Apple and PayPal, profits are shared between the storyteller and VoiceMap.
Mr Manley believes that technology is uniquely placed to change the way people perceive Africa and travel within it.
"I think there is a lot of stereotyping in terms of what it means to go to Africa and people don't appreciate the nuances," he says.
"Not only every country, but every city and place, has a completely different identity. Technology obviously provides people with a way of communicating those different identities and [allows] others to access those nuances," says Mr Manley.
Thanks to technology, remote places, as well as small businesses, can now reach a global audience and encourage people to move away from the traditional African experiences and be more adventurous.
Damian Cook is the managing director of Kenyan-based E-Tourism Frontiers, an initiative aimed at developing online tourism in global emerging markets.
He comes from a traditional tourism background, but after many years in the industry he noticed the growth of technology in the sector and how Africa was lagging behind.
Security concerns in countries like Kenya and South Sudan have not helped.
"I saw what Bill Clinton called the digital divide - technology that should have been helping emerging and developing economies was actually harming it," says Mr Cook.
"It was rather a slow process lobbying government and I realised that the private sector could do it themselves if trained and given the right connections and resources."
He soon started holding training seminars on how businesses could be more effective online, and lobbied government for better internet connectivity and e-commerce solutions.
"Social media has changed the game because, for the first time, people are getting referrals not from any official sources but from clients," he says.
"People are coming into the destinations with smartphones, getting access to free wi-fi and... constantly broadcasting their experiences."
One success story E-Tourism Frontiers tells is about a small lodge off the Tanzanian coast that embraced social media and turned itself into a "must-visit" destination.
According to Mr Cook, the Ras Mbisi Lodge relies completely on social media for its marketing, and thanks to an active and innovative Twitter profile has been featured globally in numerous travel and lifestyle magazines.
But many obstacles remain when it comes to bringing tourism and technology together, such as limited internet bandwidth, relatively high costs and skills shortages.
And the team at E-Tourism Frontiers warns that putting the technology ahead of the tourism experience can result in a lacklustre offering.
"We have also found that there is an increased challenge in terms of keeping up with market expectations," adds Mr Cook, "especially in regards to social media, locally based content and mobile applications."
Despite these challenges, tourism is booming in Africa, buoyed by a resurgent economy and a more digitally connected world.
Gary Eugene Brissett, 48, of Clissold Road in Hackney, is accused of causing criminal damage to a motor vehicle.
The Aston Martin V8 Vantage was parked in a supermarket car park on Morning Lane, Hackney, when it was damaged on 19 June.
Mr Brissett is to appear before Thames Magistrates' Court on 4 September.
The alleged attack was filmed by a camera placed on the dashboard of the supercar.
Twenty-two people were killed and 64 injured after Abedi detonated a homemade device at the concert venue on Monday
It's not known if he was on any watch-list.
What powers do the police currently have to stop suspected terrorists from travelling?
Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 gives the police the power to stop, search and hold individuals at ports, airports and international railway stations.
As well as being questioned for up to nine hours, the police also have the power to inspect electronic devices such as phones and laptops.
The police do not need prior knowledge or suspicion to use Schedule 7 - although the Home Office says it's done after "informed considerations".
A total of 23,717 people were stopped under the power in the year ending June 2016, a fall of 23% on the previous year.
Despite fewer people being stopped, the number detained under the power has increased by 7%, rising from 1,649 to 1,760 in the same period.
Of those detained, 41% categorised themselves as Asian or Asian British.
The police have the power to temporarily seize travel documents if they believe someone is travelling in order to engage in terrorist activity. It was a power granted in the 2015 Counter-Terrorism Security Act.
Travel documents can be held for 14 days. The police can apply for an extension through the courts, but this must not exceed 30 days in total.
Between February and December 2015, the power was used 24 times. The Home Office says that in some cases this led to further action, such as cancelling passports.
As a British passport is the property of the Crown, Royal Prerogative can be used to confiscate, cancel or refuse them.
The criteria changed in 2013, allowing a home secretary to withdraw passports if they are satisfied there is a public interest to do so.
The power was used 23 times in 2015 in relation to national security. This means that passports were either revoked or the application was refused.
The decision to take away passports can be challenged in the courts.
The authority to carry scheme prevents certain individuals from travelling to or from the UK - essentially it is a no-fly list.
The carrier - such as an airline - is liable to a financial penalty of up to £50,000 if it fails to comply and the individual manages to travel.
The scheme came into force in March 2015 and in its first year, a total of 1,132 people were refused travel.
Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures, or TPims, are a form of house arrest. It applies to people who are deemed a threat but cannot be prosecuted or deported if they are a foreign national. They were first introduced in 2012 and replaced controversial control orders.
Those under TPims can be subjected to electronic tagging, having to report regularly to the police and surrendering travel documents. A suspect must live at home and stay there overnight - possibly for up to 10 hours.
The suspect is allowed to use a mobile phone and the internet to work and study, subject to conditions.
In 2015, TPims were toughened by granting the ability to relocate subjects up to 200 miles away from their normal residence.
TPims initially last for one year, although they can be extended to two. It is possible for them to remain beyond the two-year maximum if there is suspicion of further terrorism activity. A breach of the TPims can lead to imprisonment.
As of November 2016, seven people were subjected to TPims - six of whom were British citizens.
Temporary Exclusion Orders (TEOs) were created by the 2015 Counter-Terrorism and Security Act. They apply to British citizens suspected of involvement in terrorist activity abroad. They are designed to stop suspects from re-entering the UK unless they give themselves up at the border.
Those subjected to TEOs are only allowed to return if they make contact with the UK authorities. If they do come back, they are likely to face either prosecution or close supervision under monitoring powers.
The Orders last for up to two years at a time and can be renewed. Breaches could lead to a prison sentence.
The home secretary applies the TEO where they "reasonably suspect that the subject is or has been involved in terrorism-related activity while outside the UK".
Since they came into force two years ago, nobody has been subjected to a TEO.
The 2014 Immigration Act granted the home secretary the power to strip citizenship from dual nationals or from immigrants who have become naturalised citizens and are now fighting overseas, even if that renders them stateless. An individual can mount a legal challenge to the decision.
In 2015, five people were stripped of British citizenship on the basis it was "conducive to the public good".
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Anne Darwin hid John Darwin in their Teesside home for several years, after he pretended to go missing on a canoe trip in the North Sea in 2002.
Both went to prison after their story unravelled, and she was shunned for several months by her family.
Mrs Darwin said she felt "blessed" that both sons had since forgiven her.
She told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she was now "happy", after going through what she described as a "living nightmare".
Mrs Darwin was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail in 2008 for fraud and money-laundering, after she conspired with her husband to fake his disappearance in a canoe near their home in Seaton Carew.
She falsely claimed £250,000 in insurance and other payments and kept up the pretence by lying to her two sons, Mark and Anthony, telling them their father had died.
"I was leading two lives," Mrs Darwin told Victoria Derbyshire. "I was going through the emotions of living the life of a widow and, I suppose, I was performing that life in a way that I thought people would expect me to under the circumstances.
"It certainly wasn't an easy thing to do, but the emotions that people saw weren't an act. They were genuine emotions, but the emotions were for different reasons, because of how I was feeling about what I was putting the boys through.
"And seeing their pain was unbearable. But people felt the emotions they saw were ones of my own grief. But it wasn't that way at all. It was just a living nightmare."
Asked about how it had felt to lie to her sons that their father was missing, presumed dead, she said: "Fortunately I didn't actually have to do that in person, but nonetheless that guilt will remain with me for the rest of my life."
Mr Darwin hid at the family home in Seaton Carew, near Hartlepool, until the couple - with Mr Darwin using a false identity - moved to Panama in 2007.
He returned to the UK that year and walked into a police station, claiming he had suffered amnesia. Mrs Darwin pretended to be shocked at his return.
But a photograph of the couple with an estate agent in Panama surfaced later and they were arrested.
Mr Darwin admitted fraud, but Mrs Darwin pleaded not guilty, on the grounds of marital coercion. She was convicted on all counts and both husband and wife were jailed, Mrs Darwin's sentence being a few months longer than Mr Darwin's.
While in Low Newton prison, County Durham, Mrs Darwin wrote to her sons to apologise. Initially there was no response but, after a few months, Mark sent a letter back.
She said: "It offered me hope that I hadn't lost them forever, which by this point I felt I had."
A few months later Mark wrote again and asked if he could see his mother in prison. "I was just overjoyed at the thought," she said, "but dreading it at the same time, because this was the first time he was going to ask me what had happened.
"Eventually that day came and I was waiting for the visit and it was quite a cold greeting, a difficult visit, but when it came to an end there was some affection. I was greatly relieved and hopeful."
Mrs Darwin, who has written a book called Out of My Depth about her experiences, gradually repaired her relationship with Mark, and her younger son, Anthony, also came to see her.
"The first meeting with him and his wife in prison was when I found out I'd got my first grandchild," Mrs Darwin said. "So, again, that was a very emotional visit. I was overwhelmed.
"I'm very blessed that they've given me an opportunity to be in their lives again and I now have four grandchildren. And they mean the world to me."
The reconciliation came despite Mrs Darwin keeping up the story that she thought her husband had genuinely been missing, even after his return to the UK. Mark and Anthony gave evidence against their mother at her trial.
While in prison, Mrs Darwin decided to separate from her husband, after seeing a psychologist.
Although he was "controlling", she said, she could not blame her ex-husband "100%" for her decision to go along with his plan in the first place.
Mrs Darwin now works for the RSPCA and her ex-husband lives in the Philippines.
"I am happy. I'm comfortable in my own skin," she said of her life today. "I have no feelings towards [Mr Darwin] whatsoever. Completely zero. No emotion whatsoever."
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.
Voges, 36, ended day two in Wellington on 176 not out to move ahead of Bradman, whose career average of 99.94 from 52 Tests is the best of all time.
Voges' average is 100.33, although that would drop to 92.4 if he did not score any more runs in his 19th Test innings.
Usman Khawaja hit 140 as Australia closed day two on 463-6, a lead of 280.
The pair put on 168 runs for the fourth wicket and Khawaja, who has scored four centuries in his last six Test innings, said he may start calling his batting partner "Sir Voges" in a nod to Bradman who is considered to be Test cricket's greatest ever batsman.
Voges has scored three successive centuries, adding to the 269 not out and an unbeaten 106 against West Indies in December to take him past India legend Sachin Tendulkar's record of most Test runs between dismissals, which stood at 497.
He has extended that to 551 runs but he should have been out for seven in the final over of Friday's first day at the Basin Reserve when he was bowled by Doug Bracewell - but English umpire Richard Illingworth called a no-ball, when television replays showed it was a legitimate delivery.
Khawaja described Voges' innings as "almost faultless", adding: "He's batted very sensibly, patiently at the start. He was hitting a lot of good shots straight to fielders but didn't get frustrated with it.
"The way he's been batting lately it feels like he's not going to get out sometimes, and he's making big hundreds which is important for the team."
Voges, who will play for Middlesex again this summer, became the oldest player to score a Test century on debut, at the age of 35 against the West Indies eight months ago, and has now compiled five.
If he is dismissed in this Test innings, he will need to have scored 272, eclipsing his current highest score of 269 not out, to keep his average above 100.
Bradman famously needed just four runs in his final Test innings to finish his career with an average of 100 but was bowled for a second-ball duck by England's Eric Hollies at The Oval in 1948.
The only man to have a Test career average higher than Bradman - technically speaking - was West Indies opener Andy Ganteaume, who scored 112 against England in his only Test innings in 1948, and was never picked again. However, cricket average lists normally require a minimum number of innings to have been played.
A venue is still to be decided for the game, which will form part of the annual International Champions Cup.
It will be the first Manchester derby to be played outside the United Kingdom.
City should have played United in the Chinese capital Beijing last July but the match at the Bird's Nest was cancelled due to heavy rain.
City will face another Premier League rival, Tottenham, in Nashville on 29 July before playing Spanish giants Real Madrid in Los Angeles on 26 July.
Spurs also play French champions Paris St-Germain, winners of the tournament for the past two years, in Orlando on 22 July and Italian side Roma in New Jersey on 25 July.
The event also features only the second El Clasico to be played outside Spain when Real Madrid meet Barcelona in Miami on 29 July - the teams met in Venezuela in 1982.
United will also play Real Madrid in Santa Clara on 23 July before they meet Barcelona in Washington DC on 26 July.
Meanwhile, International Champions Cup games in Singapore this summer will see Premier League leaders Chelsea play German champions Bayern Munich on 25 July and Serie A side Inter Milan on 29 July, while Arsenal will feature when tournament games are played in China.
London matches at Wembley are also to be announced in the coming days.
The magistrate said he would examine the evidence on 28 August to see if the charges were valid.
The complaint alleges that Ms Irani made contradictory claims about her degree in documents filed in different years with the Election Commission.
The Delhi law minister was arrested earlier this month on similar charges.
Jitender Singh Tomar, who is from the Aam Admi Party (AAP), quit his post after he was accused of forgery and cheating and sent to jail amid allegations his law degree was fake.
Wednesday's court order is being seen as a setback for Ms Irani, a former television actress, who is the youngest minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet. Ms Irani has not yet commented on the specific allegations.
Freelance writer Ahmer Khan, who has brought in the court complaint against her, has accused the minister of "not being honest" in her election affidavits.
His complaint alleges that while contesting the 2004 general election, Ms Irani said she had graduated with an arts degree in 1996 from Delhi University's School of Correspondence.
Mr Khan alleges that while contesting last year's general election, Ms Irani said she had pursued a degree in commerce from the same university.
The hospital said there was flooding in the resuscitation and assessment area and ambulances were being diverted.
A spokesman said capacity was "severely affected" and patients were being asked to use alternatives such their GP or NHS Direct.
He said the flooding was caused by a leak from a hot water pipe. No one has been injured, he added.
The eight-year-old is odds-on favourite to retain his title in March and won by 15 lengths under jockey Ruby Walsh.
Stablemate Nichols Canyon, who had beaten him at Punchestown in November, challenged at halfway.
But an error at the second-last ended his hopes as he finished third behind Arctic Fire.
The win for the 3-10 favourite gave trainer Willie Mullins a sixth consecutive win in the race after Hurricane Fly's five successes.
"Faugheen was explosive," said Walsh, who had ridden Hurricane Fly to four of those wins.
"He travelled and jumped really well. We went at it from the word go - he jumped like a buck and you saw what he did when they tried to take him on - he destroyed them.
"I was riding the Champion Hurdle horse and if they are going to beat me they are going to have to come and get me."
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Tuesday's 1-0 home defeat to Morton leaves the Kirkcaldy side eighth in the Championship, four points above the relegation play-off place.
Locke, 41, took over at Stark's Park last May following Ray MacKinnon's departure to Dundee United.
The former Hearts manager resigned as Kilmarnock boss in January 2016 after less than a year in the post.
Rovers started their league campaign with three consecutive victories but have only won three more games in the Championship since, their last success coming in late October.
Jackson, 50, had been on the coaching staff at Dundee United, leaving in September 2015, along with manager Jackie McNamara.
Capped 28 times for Scotland, he joined Rovers immediately after Locke's appointment.
Locke's dismissal drew sympathy from Morton manager Jim Duffy, whose side moved back up to third in the Championship with victory at Stark's Park.
"You always feel for every manager; we all know how difficult a job it is, how hard every manager works - it is a 24/7 job," Duffy told BBC Scotland.
"It totally takes over you and consumes you. Gary is a terrific boy and I absolutely feel for him. It is very difficult if it is ultimately your team [Morton] that tips the balance against him.
"For any manager time is the key element, and if you get a bit of time, there is a chance you can turn things around.
"But patience is generally not a virtue in football. Normally if it is not going your way, the inevitability is you are going to lose your job."
It was one of four William Burges pieces and was at risk of being sold to an overseas buyer unless someone could match the asking price of £225,000.
Culture minister Ed Vaizey has placed the temporary bar on the vase, designed in 1874 and the last one still in private ownership.
The export licence application has been deferred until 16 September.
This could be extended to 16 February 2017 if a serious intention to raise funds to buy it for £225,000 is made.
The four vases were designed for the summer smoking room in the castle's clock tower.
One is in London's Victoria and Albert Museum, another at the Higgins Gallery and Museum, Bedford, while the third vase was subject to an export bar last year and was subsequently saved by the National Museum of Wales.
William Burges was commissioned by John Patrick-Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, to rebuild Cardiff Castle.
The vases were designed to reflect the interior of the summer smoking room.
Chairman of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA), Sir Hayden Phillips, said: "Apart from this vase's intrinsic quality, the opportunity is now there for us to retain the original quartet which would be a noble purpose, in the public interest and of great historical significance."
Among the reasons for the RCEWA's recommendation were that the vase is of outstanding aesthetic importance and of outstanding significance for the study of the development of Burges's designs.
Ms Wood said she was "seriously considering" the move after a General Election was called for 8 June.
But on Sunday, she Tweeted: "After much consideration, I'm not standing as MP for the Rhondda. Confident that @Plaid_Cymru will have very strong candidate."
The seat is currently held by Labour's Chris Bryant.
Ms Wood took the Rhondda seat from Labour in the 2016 assembly election, beating former minister Leighton Andrews.
Speculation had been mounting she would throw her hat into the ring for the Westminster seat.
However, Ms Wood, who has been Plaid leader since 2012, distanced herself from the move while speaking on BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme earlier on Sunday.
"On balance, I'm coming down against, as we've got other people who I believe can win in the Rhondda," she said.
"Going to Westminster, for me, would mean I couldn't be the leader of the party," she added.
"The National Assembly is an important institution to us a party. It is vital that the leader is in that institution."
Plaid currently has three MPs in Westminster and are targeting at least two more seats in the General Election.
Of Wales' 40 MPs, 25 are Labour but Ms Wood says they are in "no fit state" to provide an opposition to the Conservatives.
"There is a good opportunity for us in this election," she said.
"Labour are divided and seem unable, therefore, to protect people in Wales. We know that the Tories are a threat to our nation and a threat to our economy.
"There is an opportunity for Plaid Cymru to make sure Wales has a strong voice to defend Wales and the only way we can do that is to ensure we have a strong team of Plaid Cymru MPs in Westminster.
"This is our chance."
British artists accounted for 11.7% of all albums sold in the US in 2011, the BPI said, up from 9.8% in 2010.
Adele's second album 21 led the pack, selling 5.8 million copies, followed by Mumford and Sons' Sigh No More, which sold 1.4 million.
A total of 30 albums by UK acts sold more than 100,000 copies in the US.
The Brits' share was the highest since comparable figures were first compiled in 2000, and could be the highest since the 1980s, the BPI said.
The other best-selling British albums in 2011 included Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto, Susan Boyle's Someone to Watch Over Me and the two albums by Florence and the Machine.
Adele's debut 19 sold more than 900,000 copies last year, while Liverpool-born R&B singer Marsha Ambrosius was also among the year's biggest British sellers with her debut solo album Late Nights and Early Mornings.
Meanwhile, Jessie J, Tinie Tempah, Coldplay, Taio Cruz and The Beatles were among the UK acts who joined Adele in selling more than a million single tracks in the US last year.
BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor said boybands like One Direction and The Wanted, who are both enjoying chart success across the Atlantic, looked set to continue the trend.
"These results prove that the risks UK labels take investing in British talent... help British artists break internationally and generate important exports that boost the UK economy," he said.
The teams included former South Africa fast bowler Makhaya Ntini and ex-England spinner Ashley Giles.
The game was played at a height of 5,730m (18,799 ft) in a flat crater just below the summit.
They played 10 overs each of a Twenty20 game before clouds stopped play.
"This is absolutely incredible! We are playing cricket on the summit of Africa!" Giles tweeted on Friday morning.
The current record for the world's highest game is 5,165m, played in the Himalayas at Everest base camp in Nepal in 2009.
The "Gorillas" team, led by England women's vice-captain Heather Knight, scored 82-5 to beat Giles' "Rhinos" team, who managed 64-9, the AFP news agency reports.
The daily wildlife drama surrounding the Norwich Cathedral peregrine falcon family has become addictive viewing for millions of people watching online around the world and for thousands of visitors to the cathedral's watch point.
For one man, observing the chicks' progress has become a labour of love as he spends hours in his "den" recording them via a live web stream to tell their story.
"I really try not to get paternal - but I probably do," said Dave Gittens, a volunteer with the Hawk and Owl Trust (HOT) who is responsible for the live nest-cams.
"I try really hard to be objective, they are wild animals, they are doing things we might find distasteful or difficult to watch - and when they die naturally, to watch a chick go through its last moments of life is terrible."
Mr Gittens said he spends what "feels like 90 days" watching the breeding season - but quickly adds "it's not an arduous task, it's a real privilege to be in a position where you can see these birds."
The peregrine falcons, nesting on a special platform on the cathedral spire 246ft (75m) above the ground, have been breeding in Norwich since 2011 as part of an urban peregrine breeding programme managed by the Hawk and Owl Trust.
This year's chicks, among the first in the city for more than 200 years after the pair's first successful clutch in 2012, hatched at the end of April.
Mr Gittens said the moment was exhilarating.
"The excitement of seeing the first chick hatch, watching with trepidation as they walk up and down the nest ledge.
"Your knees go weak, you get bouts of vertigo for them, you can almost hear the people screaming on Facebook - at this stage they are right on the cusp of being flight ready - but they're only just ready.
"Until you see them flying around and all the rest of it - it's heart-stopping," he said.
Mr Gittens describes himself as "a cog in the wheel" with more than 100 volunteers working on the urban peregrine project.
While he watches the birds in their nest from the comfort of his den, others tackle the elements to take a more "hands-on" approach to capturing images of them.
"I quickly became addicted to these superb and charismatic birds," said Norwich-based photographer Andy Thompson, who can spend more than 270 hours taking pictures of the adults and their chicks during the breeding season.
"It can be quite cold and bleak... but any activity gets the adrenaline going as you follow them around the skies."
"Fledging time is often the most exciting period... but it can also be quite an upsetting time as unfortunately the birds do have accidents and may get killed," said Mr Thompson.
"This is a natural thing that happens in urban and rural nesting areas, but it is still somewhat a blow when a bird you have watched for many weeks is suddenly no more."
The birds are the fastest thing on earth with an ability to fly at more than 200mph (322km/h) when diving for prey, making them faster than a cheetah and on-par with a Formula 1 car.
Wildlife presenter Chris Packham, who returns to RSPB Minsmere in Suffolk for the new season of Springwatch on 25 May, is a big fan of the peregrine and the urban projects.
"They are the fastest things on earth... which struck me as almost unbelievable when I was 10 and still does now," he said.
"They look pure muscle assassin, brutal, totally hard, it's the eye and the moustacial stripe and the massive feet - their weapons.
"If I was re-incarnated as another species of animal there is only one I'd be... and it isn't a pigeon."
The wildlife expert and conservationist is also a keen supporter of the urban peregrine scheme. There are a number of nesting projects on buildings across the country including Bath, Derby and Nottingham.
"If you own a tall building... you should be putting up nest boxes," he said.
The hours Mr Gittens spends watching the peregrines needs an "understanding" from his wife Caroline. She says she is "very proud" of the work as it brings "so much pleasure to millions of people".
"I totally support him... it's something we both enjoy and get a kick out of," she said.
"They are just such a fantastic bird - it's great we have the technology to be able to see them 24/7 - to see the body language and the things they get up to - it's a privilege."
Peregrine falcon numbers declined during the 19th and 20th centuries due to illegal shooting and use of certain pesticides on farms.
The species became almost extinct in the 1960s but became protected in 1981.
There are about 1,500 breeding pairs in the UK, according to the RSPB. The Norfolk-based British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is currently collating data from a peregrine survey recorded last summer with the results expected later in the year.
Early analysis shows "more peregrines are now breeding in lowland England than during the last survey in 2002, especially in the urban environment," said Dawn Balmer from the trust.
Despite the long hours and heart-stopping moments, Dave Gittens said he would never change his hours of watching.
"It's rewarding - it makes you feel you've provided a service to people to bring them closer back to nature."
The Buddies, who parted with boss Alex Rae last week, led through John Sutton but Nicky Clark levelled.
A second from Sutton put the visitors ahead again until Andy Webster's own goal restored parity.
Clark put the Pars in front only for Ryan Hardie to equalise but El Alagui struck from close range to settle the match.
Just over 20 years since they last played together for Hearts, Allan Johnston and Allan McManus came head to head in a managerial capacity for the first time as St Mirren's Head of Youth Development took charge of St Mirren for the first time.
Dunfermline opened the brighter of the two sides and Joe Cardle spurned an early chance to open the scoring after the ball appeared to catch between his feet as he failed to convert Nicky Clark's cross.
Sutton had a first half to remember by taking both chances that came his way. The first came when Lewis Morgan was allowed two chances at delivering his cross and Sutton guided the low ball into the corner of the net, his shot just evading the diving Sean Murdoch.
Dunfermline quickly responded and were deservedly level nine minutes later when Clark netted with a low diving header perfectly meeting Jason Talbot's cross.
But Sutton was to have the last word in the first half. The striker gathered a simple ball forward into his feet at the edge of the box and he held off Callum Fordyce to unleash a quick shot with perfect placement to restore Saints lead.
Ryan Williamson replaced Fordyce at half-time and immediately the home side searched for an equaliser which almost came when Cardle shot wide.
Sutton headed wide, missing his opportunity for a hat-trick.
Scott Gallagher pulled off a great save from Clark but St Mirren could not clear and Cardle reacted after the ball rebounded off to score with a deflection off Webster.
Clark scored his second of the game with fourteen minutes to play when he read Michael Paton's cross and nipped in to steer the ball beyond Scott Gallagher.
Saints were behind for only five minutes when Hardie found the top corner from the right side of the box as the game continued to thrill with its attacking intent.
The game was settled by a defensive lapse nine minutes was timer when Rocco Quinn attempted a passback into the box but he didn't anticipate the threat posed by El Alagui who clipped the ball beyond the onrushing Gallagher to secure the points and their first league win since opening day for Dunfermline.
Dunfermline's Allan Johnston: "It's good to finally get the result we deserve. We are looking to push up in the table and challenge in the top four, we believe we have the players capable of doing that and I think we showed that today.
"I couldn't see how we were behind at half-time, I thought we were the much more dominant team and it was a really good team performance in the second half. Nicky Clark was unplayable, he was everywhere with great finishes for the goals. There were some special goals.
"The players have shown a lot of confidence in the last four games and we've not been far away but it was good to get that result."
St Mirren's Allan McManus: "We were very unlucky, I thought we deserved at least a point from the game. We created numerous opportunities and another day it could have been different.
"Where we are at the moment is fine lines with the goals and there was a mistake at the end. I can't ask for more from the players, they played some really good stuff at times. I've told the players that there is no point in sitting with their heads down they just have to come back in on Monday and work hard and keep working hard and playing like that and it will turn round.
"I have no idea if I will be in charge for the Falkirk game, I will keep doing what I am doing until a new management team is in place. I am more than happy with my job which is to develop players for the first team but this is a great experience for me."
Match ends, Dunfermline Athletic 4, St. Mirren 3.
Second Half ends, Dunfermline Athletic 4, St. Mirren 3.
Jason Talbot (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren).
Foul by Michael Paton (Dunfermline Athletic).
Gary Irvine (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Lewis Martin.
Goal! Dunfermline Athletic 4, St. Mirren 3. Farid El Alagui (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from more than 35 yards to the top left corner.
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Scott Gallacher.
Goal! Dunfermline Athletic 3, St. Mirren 3. Ryan Hardie (St. Mirren) left footed shot from long range on the right to the top left corner. Assisted by Stephen Mallan.
Foul by Farid El Alagui (Dunfermline Athletic).
Andy Webster (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Paul McMullan replaces Joe Cardle.
Goal! Dunfermline Athletic 3, St. Mirren 2. Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from long range on the right to the top left corner. Assisted by Michael Paton.
Attempt missed. Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Farid El Alagui (Dunfermline Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Farid El Alagui (Dunfermline Athletic).
Andy Webster (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Farid El Alagui replaces Gavin Reilly.
Attempt missed. Jason Talbot (Dunfermline Athletic) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic).
Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Lee Ashcroft.
Foul by Ryan Williamson (Dunfermline Athletic).
Gary Irvine (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, St. Mirren. Tom Walsh replaces Lewis Morgan.
Foul by Joe Cardle (Dunfermline Athletic).
Jason Naismith (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Andy Webster.
Own Goal by Andy Webster, St. Mirren. Dunfermline Athletic 2, St. Mirren 2.
Andrew Geggan (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren).
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Jason Naismith.
Attempt blocked. Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Foul by Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic).
Jason Naismith (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Andrew Geggan (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kyle Hutton (St. Mirren).
Attempt missed. John Sutton (St. Mirren) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
They died in the eastern Kailahun district, which borders southern Guinea where the outbreak started in March and has killed more than 145 people.
There is no cure or vaccine for Ebola - one of the world's deadliest viruses.
But people have a better chance of surviving if it is identified early and they get supportive medical care.
Ebola can kill up to 90% of those infected and is passed on through contact with the fluids of infected people or animals, such as urine, sweat and blood.
Dr Amara Jambai, the director of disease prevention and control at Sierra Leone's health ministry, said a health worker was among the four people who had died of Ebola.
The deaths had occurred over the last three to four days, he said.
People who developed a fever should immediately report a medical facility and an emergency medical team has been deployed to the remote area, Dr Jambai said.
Why Ebola is so dangerous
The UN World Health Organization said it has been informed about the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and would help deploy essential supplies.
It said it had received information from the field that there had been six deaths - one of which had been laboratory confirmed as Ebola.
Freetown-based journalist Alpha Kamara told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme that many people in Kailahun district were staying indoors for fear of catching the virus.
A local chief in the area told him that there had been 11 suspicious deaths between Thursday and Sunday.
In Guinea, there have been a total of 258 suspect and confirmed cases of Ebola, including 174 deaths - 146 of which have been laboratory-confirmed positive.
In Liberia there have been 12 suspected cases, with nine deaths.
The 31-year-old opener, who has appeared in nine Test matches, left Taunton by mutual agreement last month in order to relocate to London.
Compton, who previously played for Middlesex between 2001 and 2009, has signed a three-year deal at Lord's.
"The time feels right to return home. Hopefully I can come back and reproduce my best cricket here," he said.
South Africa-born Compton made his England debut in November 2012 after scoring 1,494 first-class runs for Somerset that summer, but he has not featured for the national team since being dropped for the home Ashes series against Australia in 2013.
Following five years at Taunton, he described his return to Middlesex as an "exciting challenge" and has targeted a return to the England set-up.
"Leaving Lord's to play for Somerset was, at the time, a step in my development I felt I needed to make," he said.
"Whilst at Somerset I grew as a player and a person. I also fulfilled the dream of representing England, which is something I am determined to do again."
The grandson of England great Denis Compton, he has scored 9,163 first-class runs at an average of 43.84 since making his debut in 2004, including 22 centuries.
Middlesex managing director of cricket Angus Fraser said the right-hander had "a lot to offer" the club on and off the pitch.
"Players of Nick's ability do not become available very often and when we were made aware of his desire to move back to London we immediately moved," he added.
"With Chris Rogers hopefully playing for Australia next summer we needed to find a high quality top order batsman and in Nick we have secured the services of one.
"It will be great to see him once again wearing a Middlesex cap and sweater."
A study led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) gathered data from 8.6m people across London's 32 boroughs.
Scientists found deaths were 4% more common in adults and the elderly where the daytime traffic noise was more than 60dB compared to less than 55dB.
Experts said the study did not imply a causal link.
Researchers looked at data for people living in London between 2003 and 2010.
They analysed road traffic noise levels during the day, between 07:00 and 23:00 and at night, between 23:00 and 07:00.
More than 1.6 million people in the city are exposed to road traffic noise levels during the day above 55dB, the level defined by the World Health Organisation as causing health problems.
The increase in the number of deaths was most likely to be linked to heart or blood vessel disease, possibly due to increased blood pressure, sleep problems and stress from the noise, they said.
Jaana Halonen from LSHTM said: "Our findings contribute to the body of evidence suggesting reductions in traffic noise could be beneficial to our health."
Prof Francesco Cappuccio at the University of Warwick said the study was a "welcome addition" to the body of evidence about the role the environment plays in health.
"Public health policies must pay more attention to this emerging evidence," he said.
He warned the study did not imply a direct cause between noise pollution and early deaths and strokes, but added to evidence suggesting there was a link between the two.
Some 56% of the 1,200 delegates at the NUS conference in Brighton backed Shakira Martin, 28, as president.
Previously vice-president, she ousted Malia Bouattia who was elected in 2016.
Ms Bouattia ran into controversy when an article she co-wrote in 2011, describing Birmingham university as a "Zionist outpost", came to light.
Ms Martin, a former student at Lewisham and Southwark College, highlighted the fact that she is "black single mother from a working-class family" during her campaign.
Ms Martin told the BBC News website: "This is where I am coming from. It's the only thing I know.
"I came into this campaign with nothing but overcoming adversity and challenges and barriers.
"I was born into barriers and the struggle is real."
She said things began to change for her when she returned to college after the birth of her first daughter six years ago.
Ms Martin saw an advert for the role of women's officer at her college student union and went for it.
"Here the people didn't look like me or talk like me, but they had a heart like me.
"The rest is history," she added.
The former student has promised a union which is "united and fighting for free education for everyone".
She said: "I am honoured and humbled to have been elected as NUS national president.
"I take this as a vote of trust that our members believe I can lead our national movement to be the fighting and campaigning organisation we need it to be, representing the breadth of our diverse membership.
"Further education made me who I am today and I look forward to sharing stories of just how powerful all forms of education can be when we're all given access to it.
"During my term in office I want to spend my time listening, learning and leading."
The post of NUS president has long been a coveted position for those seeking political office.
Former NUS presidents include Jack Straw, Charles Clarke, Liam Burns and Trevor Phillips.
The new president pushed the standing president into second place winning by 402 votes to 272.
The NUS paid tribute to Ms Bouattia's efforts to make the student movement "more diverse" and representative.
In her speech seeking re-election, she spoke of the death threats and harassment she had faced during her presidency.
She was the first black Muslim to hold the post of NUS president, repeatedly denied accusations of anti-Semitism and also apologised for her past comments about Birmingham University.
A string of disaffiliation votes by student unions around the country during the summer followed the controversy.
However, most of these had actually been set in train before the issue flared up.
Three of the 26 who held referendums, Loughborough, Hull, and Newcastle universities, disaffiliated.
Then a group of student leaders wrote an open letter saying Jewish students had not felt safe "participating in our national movement".
The third candidate, Tom Harwood, who won just 35 votes, stood on a platform of "re-legitimising" the student movement and speaking "for all students".
"We should be fighting credible battles, and offering constructive solutions. Only then can we deliver.
"We must shout louder about living costs, fight for realistic improvements to tuition fees, and be flexible and innovative in our response to government policy."
Not just applause - that is standard. But multi-party approbation. Leaders and their colleagues all applauding each other, commending the comments of their rivals.
It was a display of solidarity, of unity, of determination to defy terror in the face of the tragic scenes from Westminster. A small thing, perhaps, the collective hubbub of colliding palms. But, in its way, significant.
It is an animal instinct, a social imperative, to huddle together when under attack. But this was also about a declaration of shared values; of democracy and freedom of expression.
Each of the leaders performed their role well, deftly choreographing their condemnation and commonality of purpose.
The first minister talked of the "heinous attack" witnessed at Westminster. Like other leaders, she praised the police, the security officers and others who had tendered assistance. Those who ran towards chaos, to help, rather than understandably fleeing the scene.
Terrorists, she said, seek to undermine, to divide. "They will not succeed", she declared. It was a conscious echo of statements made by others, including the prime minister. It was a deliberate act of consolidation.
Ruth Davidson spoke of a cowardly attack, Kezia Dugdale described Westminster as a beacon of democracy, Patrick Harvie urged a programme of education to ease division.
Willie Rennie told movingly of how he used to walk across Westminster Bridge on his way to work as an MP, no doubt quietly reciting Wordsworth's lines, "a sight so touching in its majesty". Many years earlier, I pursued the same route daily, from Waterloo.
Mr Rennie reflected that the splendour he had once witnessed was now associated with brutality and death. One can but hope that Wordsworth's majesty will return.
All the leaders, all the leaders, emphasised that terror must not be allowed to divide communities in Scotland. In particular, that there must be no backlash against Muslims.
Then it was over - and, in further questions, MSPs returned to discussing hospitals, care of the elderly and the like. There was even room for a little muted humour.
Mundane? Of course. Deliberately so. A conscious return to parliament's duty.
Vote Leave has published an "illustrative" dossier of 50 criminals the UK has been unable to deport.
Mr Raab said British families were being put at risk - and argued leaving the EU would make the UK "safer".
Immigration minister James Brokenshire, who backs Remain, said the UK had deported 6,500 EU criminals since 2010.
And he said Prime Minister David Cameron's EU renegotiation gave the UK greater control over deportation - but Mr Raab said the EU had "refused any change" to the rules.
The row comes with just over two weeks to go until the UK votes on whether to stay in or leave the EU, in a referendum on 23 June.
Meanwhile, in other EU referendum campaign developments:
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Raab said the 50 cases in Vote Leave's dossier were an "illustrative set of examples of the kinds of people" the UK cannot remove from the country because of EU rules on freedom of movement.
He was unable to say how many of the criminals were currently in prison, but said they had been convicted for a year or more for offences ranging from murders to "mid-ranking crimes" such as drug offences and fraud.
"We've tried to deport them and can't which means all of them will be released or have been released into the community," Mr Raab told Today.
He added: "It is putting the British public at risk because it effectively means we import criminal risk into the country and then the EU rules tie our hands in dealing with it."
He said Vote Leave was not saying "you can't remove anyone" but argued that the deportation threshold was higher for EU nationals than non-EU nationals, saying eight times as many offenders from countries outside the EU were removed in 2015.
"That shows you the difference in operational bite between the rules in relation to EU nationals and non EU nationals," he added.
Cross-border policing and security collaboration but also freedom of movement.
Arguing in favour of an EU exit, he said the UK would be able to "regain" control of its borders and deport more foreign criminals from the EU, which, he said, would make the country "safer".
He also insisted extradition relations would continue with the EU if the UK voted to leave on 23 June, saying there would be "no public protection lost from being outside" the bloc.
"If you look from Passenger Name Records, to co-operation with Europol, to extradition - these are all things you can have whether you're in or out of the EU but the one thing you don't get unless you're out of the EU is control of your borders."
Responding to Vote Leave's claims, Mr Brokenshire said: "The UK sought greater control over the deportation of foreign criminals in its EU renegotiation - and that's precisely what the prime minister's deal delivered."
He said the UK's ability to deport foreign criminals had been "strengthened", allowing the UK to take into account "the full background of a criminal in a decision over whether to deport".
The minister added: "The bigger picture is that our access to the European Arrest Warrant has allowed us to deport 6,500 European criminals since 2010. That's 130 times the number of criminals Vote Leave have identified.
"If we left the EU, we could no longer use the European Arrest Warrant. That's just one of the reasons we are safer inside the EU, where we can co-operate to deal far more effectively with crime and security."
A report by the Home Affairs Committee said last week that failure to deport 13,000 foreign criminals - equivalent to a "small town" - would lead people to "question the point" of the UK remaining in the EU.
The MPs said it was "deeply concerning" that 5,789 overseas criminals were free in the UK, more than anytime since 2012 - but the Home Office said it deported record numbers of EU criminals last year.
Vote Leave also picked up on a ruling by the European Court of Justice, saying it could put the UK's security at risk.
The ECJ said non-EU migrants illegally entering an EU state in the passport-free Schengen zone should not face detention on those grounds - and should instead be returned to the country they came from under a directive giving them up to 30 days to go voluntarily.
The ruling does not apply to the UK or Ireland, which are not within the Schengen zone.
But Mr Raab said the ruling increased the risk of illegal immigrants entering the UK, "because it weakens the ability of other EU governments to put in place proper checks".
Labour MP and Remain campaigner Emma Reynolds said Vote Leave was "misleading people yet again", adding: "They know perfectly well that this court ruling does not apply to the UK because we are exempt from this directive."
The note said: "Dear chief secretary, I'm afraid there is no money. Kind regards - and good luck! Liam."
His successor, Lib Dem David Laws, broke with tradition and made the note public, accusing Mr Byrne of flippancy.
Mr Byrne said he had been following a tradition dating back to Churchill.
And he had never expected his attempt to be humorous would become a "centrepiece" of the Conservative Party's victorious 2015 general election campaign.
The Birmingham MP, 46, told a Cheltenham Literature Festival "business breakfast" audience a combination of his father's death from alcoholism and the furore over the note had left him feeling "completely" ashamed.
And although he had never seriously contemplated suicide, he had sought solace with his uncle in Dorset.
"I had not been able to save my dad from drinking, and I had written this note that was now being used to hammer the Labour Party," he said.
"So I, in my desperation, in a real moment of anguish, took myself to my uncle, who is the wisest man I know.
"He walked me up to the cliff at the back of his house in Dorset, and I was kind of ready to throw myself off.
"I said, 'What am I supposed to do?'
"And he gave me a brilliant line from Samuel Beckett: 'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.'"
In 2010, Mr Byrne admitted it had been "a foolish letter to write."
A team of scientists from Switzerland, America and the UK teamed up to research the eating habits of certain species of spider.
They discovered that spiders from 10 different families were eating nectar, sap, honeydew, leaves, pollen and seeds from things like weeds, shrubs, trees, grasses, ferns and orchids.
The spiders who ate the most plants were the 'Salticidae', or the jumping spider family.
The lead scientist Martin Nyffeler from the University of Basel thinks that the reason why the spiders eat plants might be to help them to avoid going hungry when there aren't as many insects around and to give them have a balance of different nutrients from the food.
The case concerned whether the publication of pixelated CCTV footage meant a criminal offence had been committed.
But the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) ruled there was "nothing sufficiently distinctive" likely to identify her.
Evans and his supporters are trying to get his conviction overturned.
The disgraced Wales football international was jailed for five years in 2012 after being found guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman at a hotel near Rhyl, Denbighshire.
The 26-year-old was released last year after serving half of his sentence.
In January, the CPS was asked by the Attorney General to consider whether there was a case to answer.
CPS Wales chief crown prosecutor Ed Beltrami said it was "deemed unlikely that a member of the public could identify the victim and for that reason it was decided that there was insufficient evidence to charge".
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that "we were way over-optimistic" about Libya's future, adding that the elections of 2014 "made things worse".
His comments came after a two-day visit to Libya, where he urged rival parties to compromise and unite the country.
Mr Johnson pledged £9m to help tackle people trafficking and terrorism.
In a landmark meeting, Mr Johnson became the first senior Western politician to visit the Libyan military commander Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar on the ground at his home base near Benghazi.
He said Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, who controls eastern Libya, has pledged to give up military rule if he becomes the country's president.
Mr Johnson said he pushed the point of political compromise to Libyan politicians.
He said: "I think the politicians need as it were to suppress their own selfish interests, compromise for the good of the country and get behind the UN plan."
But he said he told Libyan politicians to learn from UK Prime Minister Theresa May's mistake - and not to hold an election before they were ready.
Oliver Miles, the UK's former ambassador to Libya and deputy chairman of the Libyan British Business Council, said that Mr Johnson's visit was a "useful and good follow-up" to the French president's meeting during which Field Marshal Haftar and his rival, the UN-backed Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, agreed to a ceasefire.
But he told the Today programme it was "misleading" to think of Libya as divided into two parties, adding that it is much more divided than that.
Though it is six years since the removal of Col Gaddafi, he said: "There's been a complete breakdown of government authority - Libya is not in a state of civil war - it would be more accurate to describe it as in a state of anarchy.
"There is no government authority who runs the country and there are large parts of it where there is no government at all".
Shortly after Col Gaddafi was overthrown in 2011, thousands of Libyans turned out to cheer former Prime Minister David Cameron and then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Benghazi - hailing the pair as heroes for their support.
Field Marshal Haftar's forces control much of eastern Libya and he is seen as a key player if Libya is ever to be united, something the UN-backed government of national accord has failed to achieve.
While there have been questions about whether Field Marshal Haftar would ever allow his forces to be subject to civilian control, the foreign secretary said he had been given at least one assurance.
Mr Johnson told the BBC earlier: "We are very clear, and so is Ghassan Salame, the UN special representative, that there has got to be civilian leadership in this country."
Adding that while that does not mean there cannot be a role for Field Marshal Haftar, Mr Johnson said he accepted that were he to stand and be successful, "then he could not continue in his military role".
After visiting the many different sides of this deeply divided country, Mr Johnson said he was encouraged and that there was a chance of a political deal.
But he said other countries with different ideas about Libya's future should unite behind a new UN plan expected to be announced next month.
"A secure and stable Libya, better able to deal with the threat from terrorism and the challenge of migration, is firmly in the UK interests," Mr Johnson said.
"The Libyan people need a stable state that can meet their fundamental economic and security needs.
Adding that all sides needed to "compromise and work together", Mr Johnson said only a united Libya could "defeat the terrorists and smuggling networks who are exploiting the instability".
Though Mr Johnson did not say which countries should unite behind the UN, Mr Miles told Today: "I hope he had in mind the fact that the United Arab Emirates and, to some extent, Egypt have been supplying arms - contrary to the UN embargo to Hafta and his forces.
"And [there are] allegations that Qatar and Turkey have also been supplying arms to the other sides. I think that we and the other 'big boys' in the UN, the Security Council, should be stamping this out because I don't think it's helping a solution."
The BBC's James Landale, who is travelling with the foreign secretary, said the visit highlighted just how insecure Libya remains.
By BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale in Benghazi
In the naval port in Tripoli, one is reminded of the different roles Britain has played in Libya in recent years.
In one dock lies the wreck of a frigate sunk by the RAF in 2011. It rests on its side, a rusting symbol of David Cameron's decision to use military force against Colonel Gaddafi's regime.
In another dock is a handful of coastguard vessels whose crews were partially trained by British Marines to help tackle the trafficking of migrants.
As Boris Johnson visited the port, it was clear both the scale of the problem Libya faces and the lack of resources it has to deal with it.
Read James' full analysis
On Wednesday, 11 of Field Marshal Haftar's soldiers were beheaded by the so-called Islamic State group in the south of the country.
And in Benghazi, Mr Johnson was only able to hold his meetings within the safety of Field Marshal Haftar's compound or the well-defended airport.
During Wednesday's meeting with Libya's unity government prime minister Fayez Sarraj in Tripoli, the foreign secretary said the UK would give the country more than £9m to bolster efforts to combat "terrorists, gun-runners and people traffickers".
Mr Johnson said Libya was the front line in Europe's struggle against illegal migration and terrorism.
The aid package includes £4m to support the removal of mines and improvised explosive devices, particularly in the city of Sirte, a former IS stronghold from which the militants were removed by Libya's military earlier this year.
Former journalist, Ian Bailey, 53, is wanted by authorities in Paris over the killing of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, 39, who was beaten to death in west Cork in 1996.
Mr Bailey was arrested twice by gardai in connection with the murder investigation but he was never charged.
He denies any involvement in her death.
Ms Toscan du Plantier was found dead outside her holiday home at Toormore, near Schull, two days before Christmas 1996.
Under French law, authorities can investigate the suspicious death of a citizen abroad but cannot compel witnesses to go to Paris for questioning.
Investigating magistrate Patrick Gachon was appointed by officials in Paris to conduct an inquiry into Ms Toscan du Plantier's violent death after the Director of Public Prosecutions in Ireland announced nobody would be charged.
A European arrest warrant was issued for Bailey.
During a two-day hearing in December 2010 barrister Martin Giblin, senior counsel for Mr Bailey, argued there has been no new evidence against him to support an extradition.
He also maintained the application was an insult to the Irish state and the DPP, who has repeatedly directed that no prosecution be taken.
Mr Justice Michael Peart will deliver his judgment on Friday morning.
Manchester-born Mr Bailey, a recent law graduate, lives in Schull with his partner Jules Thomas.
He worked as a journalist in Gloucester and Cheltenham before moving to Ireland in 1991.
Mr Clegg said the house arrest-style system would be reformed but refused to be drawn on its replacement.
In a speech on civil liberties, he pledged to reform libel for the internet age and to protect everyone from academics to "humble bloggers".
He said the current libel system had turned the UK into a "laughing-stock".
The government's massive review of counter-terrorism laws is expected to be published within weeks.
That review has been overseen by Lord Macdonald QC, a Liberal Democrat peer and former director of public prosecutions.
But its publication has been delayed amid tense discussions in government over the future of control orders. The home secretary can impose the house arrest-style measures on people suspected of involvement in terrorism who cannot be charged because they have not yet committed a crime.
In each case, controlees face restrictions on their liberties including home curfews, electronic tagging and a ban on who they are allowed to contact and where they can go.
The Liberal Democrats made a manifesto pledge to scrap the scheme, But supporters of control orders say there is no alternative for a small number of potentially dangerous people.
In his speech to the Institute of Government think tank, Mr Clegg said: "This is not a straightforward trade-off between liberty or security, as if one must come at the expense of the other. It is about how we balance the two.
"The Government has not been consumed by some sort of almighty row between peaceniks on the one hand and securocrats on the other.
"While the full details of the review are still to be decided, there will be significant reform.
"Control orders cannot continue in their current form. They must be replaced.
"And we will introduce a system that is more proportionate, in line with our long-held commitment to due process and civil liberties; that seeks to disrupt and impede would-be terrorists from carrying out their heinous crimes; and that continues to focus on bringing terrorists to justice."
Responding to the speech, Lord Reid, the former Labour home secretary, said Mr Clegg appeared to have "backed off" on control orders.
"I very much welcome the fact that Nick Clegg seems to have backed off from plans to abolish the central thrust of control orders," he said. "Obviously we must await full details but it now appears to be recognised that these measures remain essential in a small number of cases to protect the public."
Elsewhere in his speech, Mr Clegg said the coalition government would restore civil liberties with the same systematic ruthlessness with which the former government took them away.
And he said he wanted to reform libel and turn the law from "an international laughing-stock to an international blueprint."
He said a forthcoming draft libel bill would propose a statutory defence for those speaking out in the public interest, "whether they be big broadcasters or the humble blogger".
That move, which was being considered by the former Labour government when it ran out of time, comes after a string of cases in which scientific writers have been sued over legitimate academic research or studies.
Mr Clegg said libel should also be reformed to better reflect "the realities of the internet" and also to end "libel tourism" under which foreign claimants sue foreign publications or writers in the British courts.
"We want public-spirited academics and journalists to be fearless in publishing legitimate research. Not least when it relates to medical care or public safety," he said.
"It is a farce - and an international embarrassment - that the American Government has felt it necessary to legislate to protect their citizens from our libel laws."
Well, they've all been chosen as 50 of the films children should watch before they turn 11.
Film industry experts picked the movies which most benefit a child's development and creativity.
The list, put together by education charity Into Film, also allows for the nostalgia factor when choosing which films families want to watch together.
The Must See Movies Before You Grow Up campaign - run in conjunction with the UK video industry - is split into five categories: Classics, thrills and chills, heroes and villains, kids rule and adventure.
Old favourites like Mary Poppins and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory are included alongside popular recent films like The Lego Movie and Kubo and the Two Strings.
Roald Dahl is well represented on the list, with films of his books The Witches, The BFG and Fantastic Mr Fox also among those picked.
The oldest film chosen is Disney's 1941 animation Dumbo, with a handful selected from last year including Trolls and The Secret Life of Pets.
Others selected include Night at the Museum, Shrek, Free Willy, Star Wars: A New Hope and Babe.
Into Film's chief executive Paul Reeve said he hoped that watching the films would help foster "a love of movies that can last a lifetime".
He added: "Film entertains, educates and inspires. The Must See Movies list of the 50 films every child should see before they reach the age of 11 has been selected by our panel to do all of those things."
All 50 films - the full list of which can be seen on the Into Film website - are being distributed by retailers this summer.
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Okinoshima is home to the Okitsu shrine, built in the 17th century to pray for the safety of sailors.
Before stepping foot on the island, men must take off their clothes and undergo a cleansing ritual.
When they leave they are not allowed to take away any souvenirs, or disclose details of their visit.
Long before the shrine was built, Okinoshima was used for rituals involving prayers for oceangoing ships and trade ties with Korean and Chinese people, the Japan Times reports.
Thousands of artefacts brought as gifts from overseas have been found on the island, including gold rings from the Korean Peninsula, it says.
The island now welcomes visitors on a single day every year, 27 May, and ancient rules are still observed.
The number of visitors is restricted to 200. They must perform ablution rites in the sea, and - most controversially - be male.
The Blues made the early running as Evan Horwood found Tom Shaw with a cute pass and the midfielder struck the post.
Most of the first-half efforts were restricted to long range, and Shaw also tested the grip on Magnus Norman's gloves.
It looked like stalemate was setting in as the second half progressed, but Chester goalkeeper Alex Lynch picked out Horwood with a long kick and the defender lobbed Norman brilliantly to put the visitors ahead.
The Sandgrounders roared back strongly, but were desperately unlucky as Liam Hynes and Jim Stevenson both struck the woodwork.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Southport 0, Chester FC 1.
Second Half ends, Southport 0, Chester FC 1.
Substitution, Southport. Ashley Grimes replaces Lindon Meikle.
Substitution, Chester FC. Craig Mahon replaces Evan Horwood.
Liam Hynes (Southport) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Southport. Ben McKenna replaces Liam Nolan.
Substitution, Southport. Louis Almond replaces Andrai Jones.
Goal! Southport 0, Chester FC 1. Evan Horwood (Chester FC).
Substitution, Chester FC. Elliott Durrell replaces Tom Shaw.
Tom Shaw (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Chester FC. Theo Vassell replaces Luke George.
Second Half begins Southport 0, Chester FC 0.
First Half ends, Southport 0, Chester FC 0.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The boat was spotted at about 05:40 BST, the Home Office said.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) sent a search and rescue helicopter and a boat.
A Home Office spokesman said: "Six men were recovered from the boat and are due to be interviewed by Border Force officers."
The migrants were discovered at the Varne sandbank about seven miles off Dover.
This is the eighth rescue of migrants in small boats made by Border Force officers off the Kent and Sussex coast since March.
Earlier this year, the National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed migrants trying to reach the UK were paying smuggling gangs up to £13,500 for their journey.
Some were quoted five-figure sums to make the trip by air.
Others were thought to have spent as much as £12,000 to travel from France in inflatable boats.
Investigators also said that criminals may be using less busy ports in the UK, including Tilbury, Purfleet, Hull, Immingham and Newhaven, as well as the main Channel crossing between Calais and Dover.
The nine-year-old tabby cat has lived at 10 Downing Street, the official home of the British prime minister, since 2011.
And the "chief mouser" will stay when Theresa May replaces Mr Cameron as the UK government's new leader.
He was adopted from Battersea Dogs and Cats home to help scare mice and rats away from Downing Street.
However, he seems to prefer sleeping and lounging around to catching mice!
He is well loved by lots of people, including US President Barack Obama, and he even has his own social media page.
8 April 2016 Last updated at 20:53 BST
Prosecutors say two other men were arrested in the same raid in a Brussels suburb. A fourth was also detained.
Abrini is a suspect in the Paris terror attacks of 13 November, but media say he is also believed to be the "man in the hat" seen shortly before the twin bombing at Brussels airport on 22 March.
As the band played "Follow England Away" - a song it regularly performs - some of the 5,000 away fans began the anti-IRA chant.
Manager Roy Hodgson said: "I didn't have a clue what they were chanting.
"If anyone was offended, I'm sure the FA would like to apologise to them."
An FA official contacted the band during the first half to ask it to stop playing the song because it was providing the tune for the offensive singing.
England band leader John Hemmingham has also apologised for any offence caused but stressed the musicians were unaware of the issue.
He explained: "All the fans around us were singing "Follow England Away". It was only when a band member saw on Twitter that some people were saying we were playing anti-IRA songs that we became aware.
"Then we immediately stopped and played something else."
He also insisted it was the band who brought the issue to the attention of the FA, and not the other way round.
Hodgson added: "I don't condone it. Hopefully they will behave themselves and not get themselves into a situation where their chanting is being criticised."
Police Scotland reported no football-related disorder in the immediate aftermath of the match and said they had not received any reports of offensive chants.
England won the match 3-1 with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain putting them ahead before Wayne Rooney scored either side of Andrew Robertson's goal for Scotland.
The move follows a proposal to slash 10% from MPs' salaries and ministry spending, and to use billions of dollars from an emergency fund.
Russia's economy has been badly hit by low oil prices and Western sanctions over Moscow's role in Ukraine's crisis.
It was not clear when the cuts would come into effect, and whether they would cover Mr Putin's own pay.
The move is presumably meant to set an example, as Russia enters difficult economic times, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow reports.
It is all part of a broader austerity drive, she says, as Russia's income has shrunk along with the falling oil price. Western sanctions over the Ukraine conflict are also biting.
In a brief statement on Friday, the Kremlin said permanent members of Russia's security council discussed "a number of social and economic issues".
It added that Mr Putin informed the council about his decision to lower salaries in the presidential administration "outside the context of the meeting's agenda".
Earlier this week Sergei Naryshkin, the speaker of the State Duma (lower chamber of parliament), said lawmakers should take a 10% pay cut to help the country through a financial crisis.
Mr Naryshkin appealed to their patriotism to back his proposal.
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has also pledged to reduce the spending by the federal ministries and government agencies by 10% in 2015.
In a separate development, Mr Siluanov's first deputy said on Friday the government would ask parliament to allow the spending of up to 3.2tn roubles ($52bn; £34bn) from the Reserve Fund, according to Reuters news agency.
This would include 500bn roubles already envisaged in the budget for 2015.
The Russian government is already revising the budget, which was based on oil prices at $100 a barrel. Prices are now hovering at about $60.
The drop in oil income - along with the impact of sanctions following the crisis in Ukraine - has left the country heading for recession, analysts say. Forecasts suggest Russia's economy will contract this year by up to 4%.
This week supermarkets announced a price freeze on essential items to help struggling customers. Pharmacies are set to follow.
It is all a long way from the boom times that have characterised much of Mr Putin's presidency, our correspondent says, but so far it seems his personal rating is unshaken. A key opinion poll just released showed his popularity actually increased in February to 86%.
The first phase last year raised around £500,000 and took the fans' ownership from just under 2% to just over 20%.
Their launch of the second phase came the day after a blow to their promotion hopes with a 3-0 home loss to Morton.
"This is another opportunity for the fans to invest and take the club to another level," said Stubbs.
"They have seen the benefit of that on the pitch.
"It's very important as a fan that, if you're investing in a club, you want to see it moving in the right direction and I think why it has been so successful is that they can see the ground we're making on the pitch."
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Wednesday's surprise defeat by the visitors from Greenock leaves Hibs eight points behind leaders Rangers in the race for the one automatic promotion spot in the Scottish Championship.
Asked if Hibs would have to win all 11 of their remaining league games to have a chance of the title, Stubbs told BBC Scotland: "From that point of view, nothing changes.
"It just makes it more difficult to win automatic promotion."
With only the champions assured of going up, the three teams below face a series of play-offs before a final against the side finishing second bottom of the Premiership.
"I've said all along we want to go up automatically," said Stubbs. "If not, we'll try to do that through the play-offs."
Although Hibs have beaten four top-flight sides in cup competitions already this season, Stubbs was reluctant to comment on how confident they could be of winning any play-off.
"I'll probably answer that question a little later in the season," he replied.
Stubbs says they will try to ensure the title race is still alive ahead of their final league meeting with Rangers, which will be rearranged for a date in April from 7 March with both teams in the Scottish Cup quarter-finals that weekend.
The good news for Stubbs is that, regardless of what conspires at the end of the season, chief executive Leeann Dempster has stressed that all the money raised from the share issue will go towards the continued development of the football department.
"We always said it would support the club's sporting ambition," she said.
"Supporters often ask what that means, but for me it's about the players we have in our squad, about the players we want to have in our squad in transfer windows to come and it's about the financial stability of the club."
North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Winston Roddick QC made his comments as the UK government wants to move supervising low risk offenders into the private sector.
Under the plans security firms and voluntary groups could manage probation on a "payment by results" basis.
Mr Roddick said the job skills needed could not be bought off the shelf.
The former senior legal adviser to the Welsh assembly explained that judges consider probation reports before sentencing a convicted criminal on the likelihood that they could reoffend and the risk they pose to the public.
As a barrister and former court recorder he said he vouched for the quality of the current probation service and the experience of its staff.
The National Association of Probation Officers (Napo) has also voiced its concerns, saying up to 750 jobs could be put at risk in Wales.
Mr Roddick told BBC Radio Wales: "If you are supervising somebody who is a bit problem and the threat of reoffending is higher than low then you do really need someone of experience.
"I'm hoping that the Ministry of Justice will answer these concerns namely, can those who have the care of the offender on probation reassure the public that the risk of reoffending and harm to the public be minimised and well managed?"
Most released prisoners and people serving community sentences are currently managed by the public sector probation service - provided by 35 probation trusts across England and Wales.
But under the Ministry of Justice's proposals - which are subject to a six-week consultation period - responsibility for monitoring some 200,000 medium and low risk offenders will be transferred from 35 local trusts to the private sector.
Private companies and charitable bodies successfully bidding for probation contracts will be paid according to the results they achieve in cutting re-offending.
However, the public probation service will continue to supervise some 50,000 high-risk offenders, including all serious violent and sexual offenders.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said: "What we do at the moment is send people out of prison with £46 in their pocket, and no support at all.
"No wonder we have such high levels of reoffending. It is madness to carry on with the same old system and hope for a different result."
Under the proposals, a nationwide Justice Data Lab will also be established to help rehabilitation organisations access data on reoffending.
And the government will offer £500,000 to voluntary and community sector groups to help them as they prepare to bid for probation contracts.
In 2011, a record number of offenders sentenced for serious crimes were found to have committed previous offences, according to government figures.
The final changes to the probation service are expected to be set out later this year and implemented by the spring of 2015.
It now expects growth of 2.1% in 2017 and 2018, against earlier estimates of 2.3% in 2017 and 2.5% in 2018.
The forecast is also below the 3% rate targeted by the White House.
Proposals such as cuts to spending on programmes that benefit low and middle income households could lead to even slower growth, the IMF warned.
"The consultation revealed differences on a range of policies and left open questions as to whether the administration's proposed policy strategies are best suited to achieve their intended purpose," the IMF said.
The US is enjoying its third longest economic expansion since 1850.
But the country is having trouble adjusting to the challenges produced by technology and demographic changes, the IMF said.
Analysis: Andrew Walker, economics correspondent
There are some features of this report that must make uncomfortable reading at the White House, suggestions of a struggle to agree policies and concerns about the impact on poorer Americans.
The IMF's forecasts were initially raised on the Trump administration's desire to reform taxes and boost infrastructure. Now it's a case of as you were, due to "differences on a range of policies within the administration" and IMF doubts about whether the "proposed policy strategies are best suited to achieve their intended purpose".
And as for the current budget plan, the IMF's economists say it seems to place a "disproportionate share of the adjustment burden on low and middle-income households".
The US economy is also "effectively" at full employment, making further growth difficult, the IMF said. Meanwhile poverty and income divisions have inhibited demand.
The organisation said it supported ideas such as tax reform, family leave policies and investment in infrastructure as a way to boost growth.
But it cautioned against some of the other measures supported by the Trump administration.
It urged the US to preserve the current system of financial oversight, maintain a commitment to free trade and retain recent gains in health insurance coverage.
The IMF's earlier forecasts had assumed the economy would receive a boost from the Trump administration's policies, but it has now dropped those assumptions.
"During the Article IV consultation it became evident that many details about these plans are still undecided," the IMF said. "Given these policy uncertainties, the IMF's macroeconomic forecast uses a baseline assumption of unchanged policies."
He said he regretted strained relations with Moscow but said the US had to "prioritise deterrence" on Nato's eastern flank.
US-Russian ties have been strained by the Ukraine crisis and recent military encounters in the Baltic Sea.
Russia has accused Nato of threatening its national security.
Speaking during a ceremony at the US European Command Headquarters in Germany, Mr Carter said Russia was "going backwards in time".
But Mr Carter said: "We do not seek a cold, let alone a hot war with Russia."
Mr Carter's warning about Russia's nuclear sabre-rattling is a measure of how poor relations are between Nato and Moscow.
At root is Russia's annexation of the Crimea and its military operations in eastern Ukraine. But Moscow sees Nato's response - a whole series of reinforced exercises in Poland and the Baltic republics along with additional US armour stock-piled in Europe - as yet another expansion of the alliance's activities towards its own borders.
Russia has explicitly warned Denmark that its warships could become the target of nuclear strikes if it joins Nato's ballistic missile defence system and similar threats have been made to Norway and Poland.
Russia is significantly modernising its nuclear arsenal. It has also deployed Iskander-M nuclear capable missiles to its Kaliningrad enclave. This, along with increasingly aggressive Russian air patrols, is only encouraging Nato to enhance its own deterrent capability.
"We do not seek to make Russia an enemy. But make no mistake, we will defend our allies, the rules-based international order, and the positive future it affords us."
He added: "Moscow's nuclear sabre-rattling raises troubling questions about Russia's leaders' commitment to strategic stability, their respect for norms against the use of nuclear weapons, and whether they respect the profound caution that nuclear-age leaders showed with regard to brandishing nuclear weapons."
Mr Carter outlined plans to deploy a third US Army combat brigade in Europe in the coming year.
He said it was part of a $3.4bn (£2.3bn) initiative to reassure Nato allies of US commitment to their security and to deter Russian aggression.
"We haven't had to prioritise deterrence on Nato's eastern flank for the past 25 years, but while I wish it were otherwise, now we have to," he said.
Relations between Russia and the West deteriorated after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea region in 2014.
Ukraine and the West have accused Russia of covertly backing pro-Russian rebels who now control much of eastern Ukraine. Russia strongly denies the claims.
Last week, the US accused a Russian jet fighter of aggressively intercepting a US Air Force reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea. It said the Russian jet had performed a barrel roll.
Earlier last month, two Russian planes flew close to a US guided missile destroyer almost a dozen times in the Baltic.
Russia's envoy to Nato said the destroyer had sailed close to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad in an attempt "to exercise military pressure on Russia".
Correspondents say such encounters have raised fears of a full-on confrontation, be it deliberate or accidental, between the world's two great military powers.
The figures show 488 mobile phones and SIM cards were seized at the Lancashire prison - 200 more than any other prison in England and Wales.
The category D open prison, near Preston, houses 562 male prisoners.
Over 1,000 of the 7,451 handsets or SIM cards confiscated across England in 2013 were found in north west jails.
Possession of a mobile phone in prison is illegal and is often associated with the supply of drugs.
Prisons Minister Andrew Selous revealed the figures in a written parliamentary answer to Labour's Jim Cunningham.
He said the seizures showed the success in clamping down on the use of banned items.
The National Offender Management Service has begun supplying some prisons with mobile phone blocking technologies.
The Ministry of Justice refused to disclose whether Kirkham prison uses mobile phone blockers to stop prisoners using banned handsets.
A spokesperson said: "Mobile phone blocking technologies have already been trialled in ten prisons and in October 2013 a further 300 short range portable mobile phone blockers were rolled out to prisons."
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Traditionally a light switch-on day and a Diwali day event, with a firework display, is held in the Belgrave area.
This year, the planned two-week celebration will have new activities in the city centre, in libraries and museums and at the football stadium.
Leicester City Council said it would be "bigger and brighter than ever".
The annual Diwali events, which attract more than 35,000 people along Leicester's Golden Mile, are believed to be among the biggest celebrations outside of India.
However, Anand Bhatt, a dance school owner, had said: "Diwali has become stale, in that the same thing keeps happening."
The revamped festival will begin with the Diwali light switch-on on Sunday 1 November.
The switch on will be followed by city-wide events including a 100ft (30m) ferris wheel on the Belgrave Road, a Diwali Mela on Humberstone Gate West, live Rangoli at the Clock Tower, cookery demonstrations at Leicester Market, exhibitions at the Peepul Centre and dance at Leicester City's King Power Stadium.
Mr Bhatt said the new programme was good progress, but it still felt like a local event.
"We need people to be tweeting at that moment that this was the most incredible experience, or uploading their You Tube videos," he said.
"We need moments that make people go, 'wow'."
Councillor Piara Singh-Clair, assistant city mayor, said: "We need to improve, make it more vibrant and appealing to people who come from outside Leicester."
He said that the change had been a result of community feedback and support from other local organisations.
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Leicester's Diwali festival, which had been described as "stale bread", will be revamped to introduce a fortnight of events, the city council has said.
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Olivier Giroud broke the deadlock with a stunning header before Blaise Matuidi blasted the second 66 seconds later.
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Karim Benzema had a penalty saved but Mathieu Valbuena added a third for the 1998 World Cup winners.
Goals by Benzema and Moussa Sissoko made it 5-0 before Blerim Dzemaili and Granit Xhaka reduced the arrears.
France's dominance at Arena Fonte Nova was every bit as emphatic as the scoreline suggests.
Les Bleus, seeking to reach a third final in five World Cups, now have six points, with a match against Ecuador on 25 June to come.
Having self-destructed in South Africa four years ago, the French have scored eight goals in their first two games in Brazil.
The Swiss were not helped by the ninth-minute loss of defender Steve Von Bergen to injury, but Ottmar Hitzfeld's men, who had beaten Ecuador 2-1 in their first game, were no match for France.
Giroud's goal, the 100th France have scored in World Cup finals, set his team on their way, the Arsenal forward leaping high above the Swiss defence to direct an unstoppable header into the net.
They doubled that lead 66 seconds later when Matuidi fired home after Velon Behrami conceded possession carelessly soon after the restart.
This was the third 2014 World Cup group game staged in Salvador, and already the Arena Fonte Nova has seen 17 goals. It was the scene of Spain's 5-1 humiliation by Netherlands on 13 June, while Germany beat Portugal 4-0 at the same ground three days later.
It looked all over when referee Bjorn Kuipers pointed to the spot after Benzema was brought down by Johan Djourou, but goalkeeper Diego Benaglio kept out the penalty and Yohan Cabaye smashed the rebound against the woodwork.
Switzerland's reprieve was brief, though, with Valbuena converting Giroud's cross to make it 3-0 five minutes before the interval.
Benzema did manage to score his third of the tournament with a clinical finish after good work by substitute Paul Pogba midway through the second half.
Sissoko then made it 5-0 in the 73rd minute after more shambolic defending, before the Swiss scored two late consolation goals.
First Dzemaili beat Hugo Lloris from 40 yards with a low free-kick, before Xhaka beat the French offside trap before finding the net.
Switzerland manager Ottmar Hitzfeld:
"It was truly a very bleak day for us. There will be a lot of criticism, quite appropriately, but the team will come together.
"France are one of the teams that certainly can go very far in this tournament. They were much superior to England or Italy."
France manager Didier Deschamps:
"I don't want to put a brake on the enthusiasm. It's a huge satisfaction within the team, but we're not going to get carried away. We shouldn't think we're prettier than we are.
"Karim Benzema is confirming that he's in very, very good form. His happiness is a joy to behold, he's one of the best players in the world and having such an efficient player is very important in a competition like this.''
Match ends, Switzerland 2, France 5.
Second Half ends, Switzerland 2, France 5.
Yohan Cabaye (France) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Blerim Dzemaili (Switzerland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Yohan Cabaye (France).
Goal! Switzerland 2, France 5. Granit Xhaka (Switzerland) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Gökhan Inler.
Admir Mehmedi (Switzerland) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Paul Pogba (France).
Attempt saved. Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Blerim Dzemaili.
Corner, Switzerland. Conceded by Laurent Koscielny.
Offside, France. Moussa Sissoko tries a through ball, but Mathieu Debuchy is caught offside.
Foul by Blerim Dzemaili (Switzerland).
Yohan Cabaye (France) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Blerim Dzemaili (Switzerland).
Antoine Griezmann (France) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, France. Antoine Griezmann replaces Mathieu Valbuena.
Goal! Switzerland 1, France 5. Blerim Dzemaili (Switzerland) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Laurent Koscielny (France).
Admir Mehmedi (Switzerland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mathieu Debuchy (France).
Corner, Switzerland. Conceded by Blaise Matuidi.
Attempt blocked. Gökhan Inler (Switzerland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Granit Xhaka.
Attempt saved. Karim Benzema (France) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Blaise Matuidi (France) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Karim Benzema.
Attempt saved. Mathieu Valbuena (France) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Moussa Sissoko.
Foul by Blerim Dzemaili (Switzerland).
Blaise Matuidi (France) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal! Switzerland 0, France 5. Moussa Sissoko (France) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Karim Benzema.
Attempt missed. Patrice Evra (France) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Yohan Cabaye.
Attempt missed. Granit Xhaka (Switzerland) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ricardo Rodriguez with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Switzerland. Conceded by Raphael Varane.
Stephan Lichtsteiner (Switzerland) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Mathieu Valbuena (France).
Substitution, Switzerland. Josip Drmic replaces Haris Seferovic.
Goal! Switzerland 0, France 4. Karim Benzema (France) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Paul Pogba with a through ball.
Foul by Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland).
Paul Pogba (France) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, France. Laurent Koscielny replaces Mamadou Sakho because of an injury.
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France all but secured a place in the last 16 as three first-half goals helped them to an easy Group E win over Switzerland in Salvador.
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The incident happened as the officer and three colleagues were responding to reports of youths causing annoyance in Craigavon in November 2013.
The youth said he was shaken roughly from side to side by the officer and he was frightened by the experience.
The officer said he thought the youth was going to assault him or run off, so he grabbed him and conducted a search.
The Police Ombudsman investigator concluded the officer's actions were oppressive and unprofessional.
In the youth's statement, he said he had been in a field with two other youths when they saw four or five people coming towards them.
They started to walk away but found their path blocked by a canal. They said that a police officer then ran towards them, grabbed one by the coat and shook him while screaming abusive and threatening remarks.
The youth said he had been frightened by the experience and thought he was going to be thrown into the canal. He was then searched - nothing was found - and he was told to leave the area.
He was not injured during the incident and did not seek medical attention afterwards.
The officer said he had used minimal force to restrain the youth, but denied having assaulted him. His account was only partially corroborated by his colleagues.
The Police Ombudsman investigator prepared a report for the Public Prosecution Service, that advised that the officer should not be prosecuted.
The investigator then considered the evidence for potential misconduct issues and concluded that the officer's actions had been oppressive and disproportionate to the circumstances.
In particular, he found that there was no need for the officer to have grabbed hold of the youth and shaken him, and he concluded that the officer's use of language had been inappropriate and unprofessional.
The PSNI has since acted on a recommendation that the officer should be disciplined.
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A police officer has been disciplined after an investigation found he grabbed and shook a youth in County Armagh.
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David William Black is alleged to have grabbed a prisoner by the neck and kneed him in the face in October 2013.
The 48-year-old, whose address was given as the Tayside Division Bell Street police headquarters in Dundee, pleaded not guilty to two summary charges at Forfar Sheriff Court.
A trial date was set for February 2016.
Fiscal depute Mohamad Sadiq said the case was "sensitive" and that it was anticipated the trial would run for two days.
Mr Hammond is facing a backlash against the Budget announcement, which breaks a 2015 manifesto pledge on tax rises.
He insisted ministers had honoured a "broad commitment" not to raise taxes.
Labour urged the government to "think again" on the change, which will mean 1.6 million people paying £240 on average more every year.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said his party could join forces with rebel Conservatives who say the increase does little to encourage enterprise and risk-taking.
Wales minister Guto Bebb told BBC Radio Cymru he believed the party should apologise to voters for breaking their manifesto pledge. He said, speaking in Welsh, "I will apologise to every voter in Wales that read the Conservative manifesto in the 2015 election."
Fellow Conservative, Stephen McPartland MP, described the measure as "unacceptable", saying it sent out the wrong message to ordinary working families. He appealed to the chancellor to do a "U-turn" quickly before a manifesto promise was broken.
But Mr Hammond defended the move in an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Asked about the Tories' pre-election pledges not to increase National Insurance, he said: "There was a broad commitment to lock taxes so there would be no tax increases. That's what we have done."
As chancellor, Mr Hammond said he was "working in an extremely constrained environment" where most taxes could not be increased and spending in many areas was ring-fenced.
The government, he said, faced "some new challenges which we have to rise to".
Referring to the extra £2bn committed to adult social care in the Budget, he said: "We have to pay for these things somehow."
The government says self-employed people now have much the same pension and benefit rights as those in employment, so the disparity in National Insurance rates can no longer be justified.
Mr Hammond added: "What I think we have done now is get the relationship between employed and self-employed National Insurance contributions into a fairer place."
Some Conservative MPs have questioned the change, and Mr Hammond said that while he was "always prepared" to listen to backbench MPs: "We have made a decision here to make the National Insurance system a little bit fairer."
The Conservatives' last general election manifesto explicitly ruled out rises in National Insurance, VAT and income tax during the lifetime of the current Parliament
During the campaign, the then Prime Minister David Cameron continually repeated the commitment in public and contrasted it with the "jobs tax" which he said people could expect if they elected a Labour government.
But speaking in October, after Mr Cameron's resignation as prime minister, one of his former advisers, ex-head of strategic communications Ameet Gill, called it "probably the dumbest economic policy" possible.
Mr Gill said the pledge had been made up "on the hoof".
In the wake of Mr Hammond's Budget announcement, ministers argued that legislation enshrining the manifesto commitment in law - approved by Parliament in 2015 - only referred to National Insurance contributions paid directly by employers and their employees.
Mr Hammond told BBC Breakfast that "no-one had objected" when this legislation made clear the "no increases" pledge did not include NI rates for the self-employed.
Asked about the manifesto pledge during a press conference, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: "The government made a clear promise and we didn't just honour that promise, we legislated in Parliament to honour that promise and we made clear during the passage of the legislation exactly what we were talking about when we made that promise."
Wednesday's changes would see the 9% rate of Class 4 National Insurance contributions currently paid by those self-employed people earning between £8,060 and £43,000 go up to 10% in April 2018 and to 11% in April 2019.
Labour accused the government of "breaking their promises" and "clobbering" the self-employed while the Lib Dems and UKIP also criticised the move.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell told BBC Breakfast there was a "general sense of unfairness" and said he was "hoping that we'll be able to persuade the chancellor to back off from this".
He said: "Certainly the Labour Party will oppose this. I think other parties will as well. We may be able to persuade enough Conservative MPs to ask the chancellor now to think again."
Mr McDonnell said the policy would hit "middle and low earners in particular".
Other Conservatives to voice concern included ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, who told Sky News it should be kept "under review", and Anne-Marie Trevelyan, who told the BBC the chancellor was "going in the wrong direction".
Several other Tory backbenchers intervened in Wednesday's Budget debate to question the policy.
There has also been a backlash from business with the Federation of Small Businesses saying it "undermined" the government's ambition for the UK to become the best place to start and grow a business.
MPs who are opposed to the National Insurance rise will have the chance to vote against it when legislation to make the change comes before the Commons.
Sources said the government would include it in a bill making a separate National Insurance change which will help low-paid self employed people.
In his first Budget, Mr Hammond also announced a £2bn cash injection for social care services in England, and £345m in help for firms hit by business rate rises across England.
Mr Hammond acknowledged the care system was under pressure with an ageing population, and said the new £2bn for services in England over the next three years would allow councils to "act now to commission new care packages".
He also said the government would set out the options for long-term funding of the social care system later in the year - although these would not include a "death tax".
Police were called to the North Lincolnshire airport on Tuesday morning after a vehicle was reported stolen in The Ridge Way in Grimsby.
Matthew George Dobson, 39, of no fixed address, was arrested after abandoning the car at the scene.
He will appear at Cleethorpes Magistrates' Court later.
The airport's operations were unaffected by the incident, Humberside Police said.
She reported being attacked while walking in Chapel Street, Levenshulme, Manchester, on 22 November 2016.
A 16-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of rape faces no further action.
Ch Insp John-Paul Ruffle said: "It is not appropriate for us to pursue a prosecution in this instance due to a number of vulnerabilities."
"The girl is now being fully supported by specially trained officers and partner agencies."
"Putting staff back in stores, opening enough checkouts, food on the shelves and lowering prices. Not rocket science is it?" he said, following the announcement that Tesco is losing sales at a slightly slower rate than it was three months ago.
To understand why Tesco is slowly turning the corner it is worth looking at the rather mundane world of the humble ham sandwich.
Tesco now offers 30% fewer sandwich lines after it realised that the wide range it was selling meant that customers often could not buy their favourite, simple sandwich, like, say, one with ham in it. So, it reduced the range and increased the supply of the top sellers. Customers were happier that they could buy what they wanted and the number of transactions increased.
It is the same across the business, with ranges often reduced by 20% to simplify the Tesco "offer" made to customers.
To rebuild Tesco, chief executive Dave Lewis is concentrating on "volume" (that is the number of items being sold) rather than profit. He says he needs to make sure the engine is running again properly before he focuses on the bottom line. Investors appear, for the moment, to be willing to sacrifice margin (the amount of profit made on sales) to encourage customers back through the doors.
As an emergency measure to right the ship, that seems reasonable to most. But in the end a business that is not making sufficient profit is not much of a business.
The former Chelsea striker got the 40th-minute opener as the American club he captains and co-owns beat Whitecaps FC II 2-1.
Ex-Newcastle midfielder Tiote died after collapsing in training in China.
"I want to want dedicate this to Cheick Tiote who passed away doing what he loved," Drogba, 39, wrote on Instagram.
"My thoughts and condolences go out to his family, the Ivory Coast and the whole of Africa, mourning the passing of one of their own."
Previously known as Arizona United, Phoenix hope to become one of four planned expansion teams in the MLS over the next three years.
They are in their fourth season in the Western Conference of the United Soccer League, which features several MLS reserve sides.
Drogba, who had not played since leaving MLS club Montreal Impact in November, also set up former England winger Shaun Wright-Phillips, 35, for a 77th-minute winner.
Ivory Coast's record goalscorer hit 157 goals in 341 appearances during his first spell at Chelsea from 2004 to 2012, winning three Premier League titles and the Champions League.
Following moves to Shanghai Shenhua in China and Turkish side Galatasaray, he returned to the Blues for the 2014-15 season, scoring seven goals in 40 appearances, helping Jose Mourinho's side to another league title, before 18 months with Montreal.
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Arwel Jones and Elwyn Williams were demoted by two grades over concerns about the way a tender had been awarded and managed for promotional work.
They won their cases at an employment tribunal last year.
The payouts have been revealed in the annual accounts for 2014-15 for the library in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion.
One was paid £71,890 in compensation and the other received a redundancy payment of £53,498 and £28,460 in compensation.
Included in the total, a sum of £88,000 is listed in the accounts under "exceptional items", and refers to the cost of fighting the employment tribunal.
In addition to the £153,000 the library has said it's legal costs were £53,000, giving a total cost of £206,00.
The accounts also reveal the library paid out £601,544 to nine staff who accepted its voluntary severance scheme last year with a further 18 due to share £752,230 this financial year.
The library also says that the costs resulting from a fire in April 2013 have had a "significant impact".
In June 2014, he pledged £250,000 to shops in the UK and Ireland. Since then more than £130,000 has already been allocated to more than 70 booksellers.
The funding has gone towards projects ranging from refurbishment and expansion of children's sections to organising a bedtime reading project.
He said he was "impressed and enthused by the calibre of the applications".
Any independent bookshop with a dedicated children's book section was eligible for a grant of between £250 and £5,000.
Patterson added: "I have been completely overwhelmed by just how many people have applied for the grants second time round.
"It's been very exciting to see the ideas from the first round in action. I have again worked to identify independent bookshops for whom this money may make a difference and I'm excited to follow their progress."
Tim Walker, president of the Booksellers Association, said: "We are thrilled that so many UK and Irish indies have shown such creativity and passion in their applications.
"For the lucky shops, the James Patterson money will make a real difference to how they reach children and encourage them to read."
According to the Booksellers Association, 67 independent bookshops closed in the UK in 2013.
Patterson, best known for his Alex Cross series of books, made a $1m (£590,000) donation to US bookshops last September.
He is also giving 45,000 copies of his books to young readers to more than 300 schools in New York.
James first played for Blues in 2006 and returned to the region in 2015 after spending two seasons with Exeter.
The 29-year-old has scored 51 tries in 136 appearances over two spells with the Arms Park-based region.
"Tom is a key player for us and will be an important part of what we are trying to build here," said Blues head coach Danny Wilson.
"I'm delighted we have been able to secure one of the in-form Welsh players to a new, long-term contract and hope there are many more performances like we have seen so far this season to come."
The 29-year-old has played 12 times for Wales - his last appearance coming against Scotland in the 2016 Six Nations championship.
James has been a key player in Blues' unbeaten start to the new Pro12 season - scoring two tries in the 24-23 away win against Munster and impressing in the home win against Glasgow.
"I couldn't get the deal signed quick enough," said James.
"I left because I wanted to test myself in a new environment and improve as a player. I was very happy to come back ahead of last season and I feel I came back a better player.
"I've been really pleased with the way things have gone and I bit Danny's hand off when he offered me this new deal."
The Bundesliga club say the bus was fired at by a motorcyclist in Bielefeld in north-west Germany but added that no-one was injured.
Hertha are staying near Bielefeld before their first-round tie with German second division side Arminia Bielefeld on Monday night.
Only the driver was on board at the time of the shooting and police are now investigating.
The vehicle was travelling from the team hotel to pick the players up from Bielefeld Central Station.
Hertha say the motorcyclist had overtaken the bus and threatened the driver "with his fist", before turning and pointing a gun at the bus and the driver.
Pictures from the club show the windscreen of the bus with a bullet hole.
Hertha chief executive Michael Preetz said: "We are deeply shocked and hope that the perpetrators will be caught. Luckily our bus driver got off with a fright."
Arminia Bielefeld tweeted: "We are shocked by the attack on the team bus from HerthaBSC."
The Mahle Engine Systems employee suffered a deep cut to his elbow as a steel coil was being handled near a bonding machine on 21 October 2014.
The Warwickshire-based firm admitted breaching health and safety laws.
The guilty plea came after a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found that there was no safe system of work in place covering the incident.
They also found that no suitable and sufficient risk assessment had been carried out for the task.
The HSE concluded that the accident could have been avoided had reasonably practicable precautions been taken.
The incident happened after an employee bypassed a machine guard in an attempt to connect the ends of a steel coil that was running through a machine designed to bond aluminium alloy to steel.
He was passing one of the ends of coil up to a colleague, who was standing above him on a gantry, when he was told by a manager to get out of the area.
When the employee let go of the steel coil, it slipped from the grasp of his colleague on the gantry and fell, causing a deep laceration to his left elbow.
Gary Aitken, head of the health and safety division at the Crown Office, said: "This was a foreseeable and avoidable accident which resulted in the serious injury of an employee.
"Mahle Engine Systems UK Limited accepted liability and the Crown accepted their guilty plea to the contraventions of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974.
"Since this incident the company has introduced new risk assessments and has put into practice safe systems of work."
He added: "It is unfortunate that these long-standing issues were only dealt with following a serious accident and it is hoped that other companies learn from this incident."
A selection of photos from Africa and of Africans elsewhere in the world this week:
The 22-year-old has agreed a one-year deal with the Reds, with the option of a further 12 months.
Roberts made just 13 appearances last year for Scottish Premiership side Inverness because of a groin problem.
The former Aldershot Town player becomes Crawley's ninth signing of the summer transfer window.
Roberts scored 11 goals in 86 league appearances for Aldershot before his move to Caley Thistle last summer.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
As his trial opened, Rurik Jutting pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter but this was rejected.
Police found the bodies of Sumarti Ningsih and Seneng Mujiasih in Mr Jutting's apartment in November 2014.
Mr Jutting, 31, faces a possible life sentence if convicted in what is Hong Kong's biggest murder trial in years.
Jurors were warned they would have to see "extremely upsetting" images during the trial, including video taken on Mr Jutting's phone.
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"Not guilty to murder by reason of diminished responsibility, but guilty to manslaughter," Mr Jutting said according to AFP news agency, entering his plea for the first time in the city's High Court.
He also pleaded guilty to a third charge of unlawful burial of a body.
Mr Jutting, who has been detained at a maximum security prison since his arrest, has already been deemed psychiatrically fit to stand trial.
Rurik Jutting appeared noticeably thinner in court than during his earlier pre-trial hearings. He arrived flanked by four police officers.
Clean-shaven, he wore a smart blue shirt and black spectacles. The Cambridge educated banker took notes and appeared calm and collected as he pleaded not guilty to murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
The jury were warned that they would be expected to look at extremely violent evidence during the trial.
The court heard that the defendant recorded scenes of torture inflicted on his first victim on his phone.
Police were called to Mr Jutting's luxury apartment in Hong Kong's Wan Chai area early on 1 November 2014.
They found one of the victims with knife wounds on her neck and buttock, police reports at the time said. Later they found the body of the other victim in a suitcase decomposing. Both women were in their 20s.
The gruesome deaths shocked the city, widely considered among the safest in the world.
Mr Jutting, a Cambridge University graduate, worked at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch as a securities trader up until a few days before the discovery of the bodies.
The Portaferry woman admitted to some tiredness after a busy day of travelling on Friday and further morning drive from Dublin to Belfast.
"My legs are a little heavy but I came here to get the win and I did that," said Mageean after clocking 2:07.49.
Mageean's 4:04.49 1500m in Rome booked her place at the World Championships.
In the loaded field at Thursday's Diamond League meeting, Mageean finished 10th but that still represented a fine run with several world-class performers behind the county Down woman.
Mageean set her personal best of 4:01.46 at the Diamond League series in Paris last August but she admits that she is still having to get used to racing in such high-class company.
"You are super nervous but that's where I want to be. I want it be a regular occurrence that I run in Diamond League meets."
Last year's European Championship bronze medallist will race in the London Diamond League meeting on 9 July and before that will have an 800m outing in Sligo the week after next.
The majority of the local athletes to have achieved Commonwealth Games consideration standards were in action at the Mary Peters Track although Rio Olympian Kerry O'Flaherty had to pull out of the 1500m after suffering a recurrence of her recent calf problem following a steeplechase outing in France on Friday.
Sprinter Leon Reid went closest to adding to the list of athletes with Commonwealth standards as his 200m heat time of 20.81 was only 0.04 outside the Gold Coast standard.
With a less favourable wind, Reid clocked 21.12 in the final to complete a sprint double after winning the 100m in 10.59 which left him ahead of Paralympic star Jason Smyth (10.76).
Emma Mitchell, who has the Commonwealth 10,000m standard, won the women's metric mile in 4:24.18 after showing an impressive turn of foot to pull away from Ann-Marie McGlynn on the final lap.
Letterkenny athlete Danny Mooney's hopes of achieving the 1500m standard of 3:41.10 were dashed as he ran out of gas on the final lap to clock 3:44.40 after being paced to 1000m by his club-mate Darren McBrearty.
Derry Track Club athlete Adam Kirk-Smith, who has the 3,000m steeplechase standard, finished third in 3:50.45 with City of Derry's Conor Bradley just over three seconds behind Mooney.
Michael McKillop showed encouraging form in the same race as a time of 4:04.17 left him in 10th place as he prepares for the IPC World Championships in London next month.
"I ran 4:16 recently so that was a big improvement today. I was very happy with that," said the four-time Paralympic gold medallist.
Amy Foster, who has achieved the 100m consideration standard, won the women's 200m in 24.13 which left her ahead of southern pair Steph Creanor (25.19) and Roisin Harrison (25.26) with 400m hurdler Christine McMahon (25.27) in fourth place.
After securing the Commonwealth 110m hurdles consideration standard with a 13.60 clocking last weekend, Ben Reynolds crossed the line in 13.99 on Saturday as windy conditions again affected a sprint event.
One of the performances of the day was produced by 16-year-old Beechmount Harrier Davicia Patterson who cut over a second off her 400m personal best as she clocked 54.50 to finish second.
DCH athlete Catherine McManus (54.36) was pushed all the way by the Belfast youngster who will represent Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas later this summer.
The men's 400m was also an excellent race as Ballymena & Antrim winner Craig Newell (47.31), runner-up Ben Maze (47.55) and Nenagh's Paul White (47.88) were all under 48 seconds.
Doctors suspect the 51-year-old athlete succumbed to an unusual, but severe form of an infection called Weil's disease or leptospirosis.
It's likely that Holmes, who had been involved in coaching over the past two years after returning to the sport, caught the disease from contact with dirty river water.
How worried should we all be about this disease?
Leptospirosis is found all over the world, including in the UK, but generally is more of a problem in hot places, like the tropics.
Animals, like rats and cattle, carry the bacterium and it can spread it to humans who come into close contact.
In the UK it is people like farmers, who work with animals, who are at greatest risk of infection.
• Never drink water from a river or lake
• Only drink from your own water bottle
• Always shower after contact with the water
• Wash hands thoroughly and shower if necessary before eating or drinking
• Cover cuts and abrasions (including blisters) with waterproof dressings
• Wear suitable footwear when launching or retrieving a boat,
• Avoid immersion in, or contact with, water, particularly if there is an algal scum or bloom
• If contaminated water has been swallowed, consult a doctor
• Hose down all equipment after outings to remove any potential contamination
But watersport fanatics, like canoeists and divers, who come into contact with lakes and rivers should also beware.
This is because the infection can be carried in water contaminated with animal urine.
The bacterium responsible can enter the body via cuts and abrasions of the skin, or through the thin lining of the throat, nose, mouth or eyes.
In recent years, the number of cases of infections have numbered in the 60s and 70s in England and Wales, according to the Health Protection Agency.
Each year the disease kills two to three people, says the HPA, which has been gathering data on infections since 1996.
And it is still a threat even if you are a fit rower who is in great shape for a middle-aged man.
Chris Williams, club chairman of the Tideway Scullers School in London, said the rowing community was shocked by Andy Holmes' death.
"It's very sad about Andy. We used to pass each other on the water from time to time.
"The disease is something all rowers know about. It's in all of our literature and safety programmes that stress good hygiene, like keeping cuts covered.
"But I don't ever remember hearing about another case like this.
"Everyone in the rowing world is enormously sad. He was a regular coach on the tidal part of the Thames where he trained club athletes. He was an icon who put time back into the sport and was heavily involved in rowing. It is a shame he can no longer do so."
He said it was unusual to catch Weil's from a stretch of river like the Tideway because it is a moving body of water.
"It tends to be stagnant water that is more unsafe."
Steve Redgrave told BBC Radio 5 live: "it is very rare that anything happens because normally rivers flow fast enough and dilute it."
Tony Reynolds, regional safety advisor for the Thames Region Rowing Council, said it was difficult to know where Andy might have caught the infection from.
"We just don't know and that is the worst thing. It can take weeks after catching the infection to develop the symptoms, which makes it harder to trace."
Symptoms can range from none at all to a mild flu-like illness, or a more severe illness called Weil's disease, with jaundice and kidney failure.
In most cases, with antibiotic treatment, the person will make a complete recovery. But for a few, it can be fatal even with the best hospital care.
Mr Reynolds said: "It's important not to speculate. But it shows that anyone can be at risk and how important it is to protect yourself.
"The disease is out there. Thankfully, there is enough information out there too to reduce your chance of being infected."
British Rowing says simple precautions, like covering cuts, scratches or sores with a waterproof plaster and showering after going out on the river, can minimise risk.
The former Sweden international headed home from a brilliant Jesse Lingard delivery after only five minutes to put the visitors ahead.
Ibrahimovic struck again just after the break when his effort from inside the box went in off Baggies defender Craig Dawson.
United are now unbeaten in 10 matches in all competitions and have drawn level on points in the Premier League with fifth-place Tottenham, who play Burnley on Sunday.
The Baggies remain in seventh place and are now seven points off the European places.
Ibrahimovic's double at the Hawthorns brings the striker to 16 goals for the season - 11 more than any of his team-mates.
Lingard will take huge credit for the opening goal, though, after his sublime cross from the right landed perfectly for the Swede, who headed down past Ben Foster from eight yards out.
His second goal was teed up by captain Wayne Rooney and Ibrahimovic managed to worm his way into the box before striking with his right foot on 55 minutes.
Rooney, meanwhile, must wait again to equal Sir Bobby Charlton's record of 249 goals for the club, after he saw a first-half strike from outside the area forced on to the bar by Foster.
West Brom have won three of their past six meetings with United but they could not stop their opponents from dominating possession on Saturday evening.
Tony Pulis' side managed one shot on target all match, when Chris Brunt fired at David de Gea in the first half.
Salomon Rondon scored three headers in his side's mid-week victory over Swansea but on this occasion he could only nod wide from Matt Phillips' cross.
It means the Baggies miss out on equalling their Premier League club record of four consecutive home victories.
United manager Jose Mourinho was forced to defend Marcos Rojo following Wednesday's win over Crystal Palace, after the defender escaped with a yellow card for a two-footed lunge - the second incident of its kind this month.
Defender Rojo went in the book again against West Brom after clashing with Rondon. The pair were booked for dissent after the Baggies striker appeared to push his opponent in the chest, before slapping him across the face.
Ibrahimovic may have been lucky to escape with only a yellow card - his sixth of the season - when he barged Dawson off the ball with some force - much to the disdain of the home fans.
And in the latter stages of the game Chris Brunt took out an on-rushing Marcus Rashford and was also booked.
When asked about Ibrahimovic's punishment after the match, Pulis replied: "Ask the 28,000 fans what they thought of it."
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West Brom boss Tony Pulis: "We gave them a poor goal at the start, which was disappointing. It knocked us a little bit flat.
"At half-time I said 'let's make sure we stay in the game, we'll grow into it' and I thought we would. The last thing we wanted was that second goal. It was very fortuitous.
"We've played against a team who have found some form and you can see why."
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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho on Ibrahimovich: "He is the kind of player who doesn't need to prove anything to anyone but when he decided to come to England for the last period of his career - to the most difficult championship in the world - I think he proved he is a superman in his mentality.
"What he is doing at 35 is a dream for every striker of 25 in the Premier League. I need to give him a rest. Now we have a little rest for the first time. It is not just him but everybody."
Manchester United welcome former manager David Moyes back to Old Trafford when Sunderland visit on Boxing Day, while West Brom travel to Arsenal.
Match ends, West Bromwich Albion 0, Manchester United 2.
Second Half ends, West Bromwich Albion 0, Manchester United 2.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Gareth McAuley.
Attempt blocked. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Substitution, Manchester United. Chris Smalling replaces Ander Herrera.
Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Hal Robson-Kanu tries a through ball, but Salomón Rondón is caught offside.
Chris Brunt (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Chris Brunt (West Bromwich Albion).
Substitution, Manchester United. Marouane Fellaini replaces Wayne Rooney.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Jonathan Leko replaces Nacer Chadli.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Hal Robson-Kanu replaces Matt Phillips.
Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Substitution, Manchester United. Marcus Rashford replaces Jesse Lingard.
Foul by Matteo Darmian (Manchester United).
Nyom (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. James Morrison replaces Craig Dawson.
Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jonas Olsson (West Bromwich Albion).
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Wayne Rooney.
Attempt blocked. Matt Phillips (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Phil Jones (Manchester United).
Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Matteo Darmian (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Matt Phillips (West Bromwich Albion).
Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Matt Phillips tries a through ball, but Darren Fletcher is caught offside.
Foul by Paul Pogba (Manchester United).
Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Marcos Rojo (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card.
Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Salomón Rondón tries a through ball, but Matt Phillips is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Gareth McAuley (West Bromwich Albion) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Chris Brunt with a cross following a set piece situation.
Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card.
Hand ball by Antonio Valencia (Manchester United).
Goal! West Bromwich Albion 0, Manchester United 2. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Wayne Rooney.
Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Michael Carrick.
Ander Herrera (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Claudio Yacob (West Bromwich Albion).
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Gareth McAuley.
They form the centrepiece of a display on mammoths at the Dinosaur Museum in Dorchester.
Their tusks could grow to 5m (16ft) but only 1.5m (5ft) sections are on show.
At the time the animal died the North Sea did not exist and the area was low-lying grassland connecting the British Isles to the continent.
When the North Sea formed at the end of the last ice age, the tusks became buried in the thin layers of sand at the bottom of the shallow southern part of it.
They remained there for thousands of years and eventually tidal currents and dredging released the fossilised remains, which were caught in the fishing nets of a trawler earlier this year.
Tim Batty, curator of the Dinosaur Museum, said the tusks were unusually coloured because they had been in water for so long.
He said: "The new display comes at a time when new research has revealed that humans were not responsible for the extinction of the mammoths.
"It had traditionally been thought that mammoths had been hunted to extinction.
"However it now appears that it was climate change that caused their extinction.
"Mammoths were well adapted to the low temperatures of the ice age.
"The climatic conditions during the ice age did not favour the growth of trees and consequently there were extensive grasslands for the mammoths to graze on.
"However with the end of the ice age and the warming of temperatures, tree growth accelerated causing a spread of forests and dramatically reducing the available food supply for mammoths."
Sonny Richards, 24, also pleaded guilty to careless driving while under the influence of alcohol and failing to stop on 12 March.
Nathan Dale, a 34-year-old father and RNLI volunteer, was wearing a helmet and lights when he was hit by Richards who was on the wrong side of the road.
CCTV showed Richards driving with no lights.
Plymouth Crown Court was told Mr Dale was struck on Outland Road in Plymouth shortly after 03:00 GMT and died about an hour later.
Richards sent a text message to his mother, saying: "I've let you down big time.
"...Been drinking, taken a sniff, taken car, on way home hit someone, he hit the windscreen, gonna have to go tomorrow and own up."
Jailing him, Judge Ian Lawrie QC said: "You are clearly not a bad person, it was never your intention to cause harm.
"You are clearly caring, thoughtful, you cared for your ailing father. You have expressed a profound sense of remorse.
"If you had been sober, Nathan would be alive today."
David Lister, volunteer Lifeboat Operations Manager at Plymouth RNLI, said: "Nathan was a volunteer deputy launching authority with Plymouth RNLI and had been with the station for two years, providing on-call cover one weekend a month.
"Not only did Nathan dedicate his time to the operation of the lifeboat, he was also involved with many fundraising events at the station, as well as volunteering with other charities.
"(He) was a valued member of our team at Plymouth and he will be fondly remembered."
The British world number one has not played since losing in the fourth round of the Australian Open five weeks ago.
Also in the Dubai draw is Roger Federer in his first tournament since winning his 18th Grand Slam title in Melbourne.
"I'm fine now, I've been training flat-out for the past few weeks," 29-year-old Murray said.
"I was a bit sick for 10 days, a couple of weeks, after I got back from Australia.
"I feel fresh and ready to go here. I had shingles. It's not terrible, but it's not great. I had to go easy for a little while, so I wasn't able to push that hard in training when I got back into it."
Murray, who lost in four sets to unseeded Mischa Zverev at the Australian Open, said he was not sure if the illness had started developing while he was playing in Melbourne.
Murray is the top seed in Dubai and faces Tunisian world number 47 Malek Jaziri in the first round, while Federer is in action on Monday against Frenchman Benoit Paire, ranked 41.
US Open champion Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland is seeded second and takes on Bosnia's Damir Dzumhur in the first round.
Briton Dan Evans, up to a career-high ranking of 44 after reaching the last 16 in Melbourne, faces Germany's Dustin Brown in round one.
Murray plays on day one in the doubles, partnering Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic against Evans and Gilles Muller of Luxembourg.
The Serious Fraud Office case relates to the way Barclays raised billions of pounds from Qatari investors during the 2008 financial crisis.
Apart from Mr Varley the other three are former executives Roger Jenkins, Thomas Kalaris and Richard Boath.
All were bailed to appear at the next hearing on 17 July.
That will take place at Southwark Crown Court, where the accused, along with their former employer Barclays PLC, are expected to enter a plea.
All four were appearing at a preliminary hearing at Westminster magistrates court.
The charges mark the first time that any UK bank or its former top executives have appeared in a criminal court to face charges relating to the way they behaved during the financial crash.
The senior district judge, Emma Arbuthnot, told Mr Jenkins, aged 61, and Mr Kalaris, also aged 61, to pay bail of £500,000 each, as Mr Jenkins lives in the US and Mr Kalaris has dual nationality.
Mr Varley, aged 61, and Mr Boath, aged 58, were given unconditional bail.
The BBC understands that the four former executives all intend to plead not guilty at the next hearing.
Carl Davies, 33, a teacher from Sittingbourne in Kent, died on Reunion Island in November 2011 in what was initially treated as an accident.
A murder investigation was launched 10 days later and four men were charged.
One man is still due to face trial. but the family said the French authorities' decision was "a massive blow".
Mr Davies, a former marine, is believed to have arrived on the French-governed island on 7 November 2011.
His body was discovered at the bottom of a ravine two days later.
The murder investigation began after a post-mortem examination in Kent found stab wounds and evidence Mr Davies had been beaten.
Four men were charged with his murder in February 2013 but no trial has ever been held.
Kerrie Stewart, Mr Davies' sister, said the decision to drop the charges against three of the suspects was "heartbreaking".
"It's just a massive, massive blow.
"The evidence that we thought was against them was overwhelming. It doesn't at this minute make any sense at all as to how the judge has come to his decision," she said.
The family are planning to challenge the decision by appealing to the French Supreme Court.
Maria Davies, Mr Davies' mother, said: "You don't steal something so precious from me and not expect us to fight.
"If it takes every last penny we have and every last breath in our body we'll continue to do that."
Emergency services were called after two adults and four children got into difficulties on Saturday.
The incident occurred on an island in the River Almond at the Sma' Glen near Crieff.
Rescuers used an inflatable sled and ropes to bring them safely to the river bank.
Paramedics treated the family for the effects of the cold and wet conditions, but they did not require hospital treatment.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) said water levels had risen as a result of sustained heavy rainfall overnight in the area.
SFRS station manager Brian Robertson urged members of the public to consider the potential dangers of attempting to enter local rivers and lochs.
He said: "Whilst we do not wish to discourage people from enjoying the countryside, we would urge the public to be aware of the potential hazards of rapidly rising water levels.
"Changeable weather conditions of an unpredictable nature should not allow the opportunity for complacency or familiarity to affect your judgement, even when the river state can initially appear relatively tranquil.
"Although the family were well prepared in terms of their camping trip, this serves as a reminder to ensure all safety precautions are followed, especially when camping at or near water."
Water levels are expected to continue to rise over the Easter weekend, with two flood warnings currently in place for parts of Perthshire.
The European Commission said talks had already started, but a Greek government spokeswoman said that high-level talks would not begin until later this week.
Olga Gerovasili said that senior negotiating staff would only arrive in Athens on Thursday or later.
Negotiators were initially expected to arrive last week.
But Ms Gerovasili said there was "no reason" for the delay, adding it was up to Greece's creditors as to when talks began.
European Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva told a news briefing: "Teams from the institutions are already on the ground in Athens and work is starting immediately as we speak.
"Work has started, meaning that the institutions are talking to the Greek authorities."
The talks come as it emerged former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis told a group of investors in London that a five-man team under his leadership worked on a contingency plan to create euro liquidity if the European Central Bank (ECB) cut off emergency funding to the Greek financial system.
Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported Mr Varoufakis as saying in a phone call that a small team in the governing Syriza party had prepared plans to secretly copy online tax codes.
It said the "Plan B" was devised to allow the government to introduce a parallel payment system if the banking system was closed down, which would have seen the return of the drachma.
Mr Varoufakis said passwords used by Greeks to access their online tax accounts were to have been copied secretly and used to issue new Pin numbers for every taxpayer to be used in transactions with the state.
"This would have created a parallel banking system, which would have given us some breathing space, while the banks would have been shut due to the ECB's aggressive policy," Mr Varoufakis was quoted as saying.
In the same phone call, Mr Varoufakis accused German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble of being "hell-bent" on ensuring Greece left the eurozone.
He added that while the government had a Plan B, the difficulty was "to go from the five people who were planning it to the 1,000 people that would have to implement it".
"For that I would have to receive another authorisation which never came," he said.
Mr Varoufakis told the Daily Telegraph the quotes were accurate but accused the Greek press of trying to make it look as if he planned a return to the drachma from the start.
"The context of all this is that they want to present me as a rogue finance minister, and have me indicted for treason. It is all part of an attempt to annul the first five months of this government and put it in the dustbin of history," he told the paper.
Under new rules, bins will be inspected and stickers will be placed on those containing food. If it happens three times, black bins will not be emptied.
Enforcement will begin when all homes receive food caddies - small plastic baskets designed for food waste.
But the council admits caddy supplies are low after "unprecedented demand".
Since the ban was announced at the start of this month, staff have been bombarded with thousands of calls from householders who are still waiting on the delivery of food caddies and biodegradable bags to line the caddies.
Some are also still waiting on the delivery of large brown compost bins, which is now the only wheeled bin into which Belfast households are permitted to place food waste.
In a message to ratepayers on its Facebook page, the council said it had received orders for 10,000 food caddies over the last two weeks alone.
Their post added that "due to the high demand, our delivery time has been a little longer than usual as we work our way through orders".
The council thanked residents for their "patience" while the recycling changes are rolled out.
Despite the delay, food waste stickers have already started to appear on black bins across the city, which has caused some concern among residents.
One Facebook user complained to the council that the implementation of the changes had been a "shambles".
"I had to explain to a very upset OAP that she wasn't going to get fined because of the sticker," he wrote.
The man complained that his "entire street hasn't received brown bins yet, while most have requested weeks ago".
In a statement to the BBC, a council spokeswoman said: "Stickers that are being put on bins at the moment are reminders only - not warning stickers".
"We haven't started enforcement yet as we're aware some residents are still waiting for their food caddy and/or brown compost bin."
She clarified that the reminder stickers are being being placed on all black bins, regardless of their contents, and that the move was in conjunction with leaflets sent out by the council explaining the changes.
A date for the start of bin inspections and enforcement has not yet been confirmed.
The aim of the food waste ban is reduce the amount of un-recycled rubbish that is currently been thrown into black bins, which ends up on landfill sites.
Councils are required by law to reduce landfill waste, or face fines which will ultimately have to be paid by ratepayers.
Belfast City Council currently supplies biodegradable bags to line food caddies free of charge, at householders' request.
However, several Facebook users replied to the council's message, complaining that bags they had recently ordered had not been delivered.
The council replied: "We understand some residents have been having issues when requesting green bags, and this is something we're working hard to address."
Its spokeswoman told the BBC that during the last two weeks the council's recycling team had handled "almost 18,000 calls and we've distributed almost 23,000 rolls of green recycling bags".
"We still have orders for 15,000 green bags which will be delivered in the coming days.
"It is keeping up with the unprecedented demand for caddies and green bags that is causing delays, not a supply problem."
The outcome of last month's referendum "adds to the uncertainty" for the global economy, the group of the world's 20 largest economies said.
It urged the UK to remain "a close partner of the EU", amid concerns Brexit talks could be acrimonious.
Chancellor Philip Hammond said Brexit had come up "a great deal" at the G20.
"The reality is there will be a measure of uncertainty continuing right up to the conclusion of our negotiations with the EU," he told reporters.
Following the meeting in the Chinese city of Chengdu, the G20 group said it had the tools to cope with the potential economic and financial consequences from the referendum result.
Other factors complicating the world economy include geopolitical conflicts, terrorism and refugee flows, according to the G20.
The president of Germany's central bank, Jens Weidmann, said there were no signs yet that economic development in Europe had been affected by the UK's referendum on 23 June.
The G20 members agreed that despite the Brexit vote the global economy would improve in 2016 and 2017, Mr Weidmann said.
However, new figures on UK companies in the three months to the end of June have raised concerns about the health of the economy before the Brexit vote.
Sixty-six UK listed companies issued profit warnings in the second quarter, which was the most for that period since the financial crisis in 2008, according to accountants EY.
Alan Hudson, EY's head of restructuring in the UK and Ireland, said: "It's been a dizzyingly unpredictable time since the UK voted to leave the European Union.
"What we saw in the second quarter - and are still seeing now - is the initial impact of this uncertainty."
Analysts expect economic data on Wednesday to show the UK economy grew by about 0.5% in the second quarter compared with the previous three months.
Last week the International Monetary Fund (IMF) downgraded its forecasts for UK economic growth, from 1.9% to 1.7% for 2016, and for the global economy, from 3.2% to 3.1%.
On Sunday IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said the G20 had taken place at a time of "political uncertainty from the Brexit vote and continued financial market volatility".
In a statement the G20 finance officials said the global economic recovery was continuing "but remains weaker than desirable".
Separately, G20 policymakers said they recognised that excess steel supply was a global issue.
The excess capacity of steel has had a negative impact on trade and workers and requires a collective response, they said.
More than 90% of the islanders are ethnic Melanesians, but there has been intense and bitter rivalry between the Isatabus on Guadalcanal, the largest island, and migrant Malaitans from the neighbouring island.
Fighting broke out in 1998 when the Isatabu Freedom Movement began to force Malaitans out, accusing them of taking land and jobs. Around 20,000 people abandoned their homes, with many subsequently leaving Guadalcanal.
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A rival militia group, the Malaitan Eagle Force, staged a coup in June 2000 and forced the then prime minister to resign, saying he had failed to deal with the crisis, which had left up to 100 dead.
An Australian-brokered peace deal was signed in October 2000. But lawlessness continued and an Australian-led peacekeeping force arrived in July 2003.
The force arrested many rebel commanders, collected thousands of illegally-held weapons and oversaw a slow return to order. The military contingent withdrew in 2013 leaving solely a policing mission.
The Australian intervention also provided for the appointment of foreign nationals to government posts and included financial assistance; Australia says it aims to make the country self-sustaining.
Prosperity remains elusive. Civil war left the country almost bankrupt, and post-election riots in April 2006 sent some of the advances made since 2003 up in smoke.
The World Bank says the Solomon Islands, one of the Pacific's poorest countries, has been hit by successive global food, fuel and financial crises. In 2009, with a fall in log exports and a major drop in international commodity prices, growth fell to just one percent.
Economic hopes have been pinned on the resumption of palm oil production and gold mining.
The Solomon Islands chain consists of several large volcanic islands to the south-east of Papua New Guinea, as well as outlying islands and atolls. The terrain is mountainous and heavily forested.
During World War II the island of Guadalcanal saw some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific theatre as the US battled to wrest control of the territory from Japanese occupiers.
The 20-year-old's arrival on an 18-month contract follows a trial at Oakwell last week.
He only made two substitute appearances for United, but played eight games for Barrow during a loan spell earlier this season, scoring four goals.
"This is a great opportunity for him to kickstart his career," boss Lee Johnson told the Barnsley website.
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On the one hand a crowd of more than 4,000 at Cardiff Arms Park yielded a profit on a Wales women's home for the first time.
But the 63-0 scoreline in favour of England underlined that in spite of the strides made off the field there remains a chasm in playing terms between the very best and the rest.
So what's next for the women's game in Wales?
And how can they bridge the playing gap between the full-time professionals of England and the amateurs with jobs who wear the red shirts?
Wales women's team manager Caroline Spanton says despite the heavy defeat to England, playing all home games at Cardiff Arms Park has been an important development.
In previous seasons Wales have played home matches at various stadiums around the country.
"In terms of everything else around that day and that event it was hugely successful," she said.
"First of all it was to get the girls playing in a stadium of the right quality and of an international footing. That was a huge milestone in terms of Wales' women being represented in quality stadia.
"[It was] hugely positive. Playing in the Arms Park was not a decision that happened overnight.
"That has been a good 18 months in the making to make sure could do that" Spanton added.
The squad is coached by former Wales men's defence coach Rowland Phillips who made 10 appearances for Wales in the back row.
He saw a positive aspect to the defeat by an England team made up of either fully or semi-professional athletes.
"I think the main thing now is that I've got 23 players who have experienced absolute top level rugby and that is going to be invaluable going forward," he said.
"What we can do now is to try and close that gap".
Olympian Jasmine Joyce makes her debut in the full-form of the sport against Scotland on Friday night after appearing for Team GB's seven a side team at the 2016 Rio Games.
Student Joyce says it is challenging at times for the women in red to handle rugby and life commitments.
"We have teachers, personal trainers, it is hard work and a lot of girls find it hard to fit in a gym sessions in or running but we all fit it in somewhere and that is what makes us our team," she said.
"It is hard work."
Spanton says the team's immediate focus is not success on the field during the current season.
"We are looking and planning for the future so we are not talking about the next year or 18 months," she said.
"We know this is a long term plan.
"Rowland said this is not about the Six Nations for 2017 or necessarily the World Cup in 2017 it is about the next four years and the next eight years and he is committed to that.
"On the performance front our aspirations are to get on the [World Rugby Sevens] World Series for our sevens programme, to achieve success at the Commonwealth Games in the longer term and also to medal at the World Cup
"My role is to champion and lobby for the women's game and it is to champion and make sure these athletes get better support.
"I will not stop until I make sure we are getting it and looking after these players and I do have the backing of the Union for that".
Joyce says any women's player from would jump at the chance to become a professional.
In the build-up to Rio she spent a year playing and preparing full-time as a sevens player so understands the benefits of not having to juggle a job or studies with playing.
"As a player anyone would dream of a being a professional rugby player and that is the route we all want to go down," she said.
Scott Cain and Ashley Clarke suffocated in the nitrogen-filled apple container, where the oxygen level was 1%.
They were trying to retrieve apples for an agricultural competition.
Andrew Stocker, who was boss of the fruit farm at Tory peer Lord Selborne's Hampshire estate, had encouraged the practice nicknamed "scuba diving".
The two men got in through a small hatch in the roof of the sealed container.
Stocker, 57, of The Links, Whitehill, Bordon, Hampshire, had denied manslaughter, but admitted exposing the men to a risk of death.
He was on holiday in the Maldives at the time of the men's deaths, but had left instructions.
Mr Cain, 23, and Mr Clarke, 24, who were both assistants at the farm at the Blackmoor Estate in Liss, were found lying on crates of apples.
Colleagues and paramedics attempted to revive them, but were unsuccessful and both men were declared dead at the scene.
Mark Dennis QC, prosecuting during the trial at Winchester Crown Court, said anyone entering the unit would "die immediately" once they ran out of air.
The apples were stored for preservation in nitrogen gas.
Mr Dennis said accepted practice in the industry for gathering samples was to use a net to hook out the fruit.
The apples the men were looking for were to be entered in the Marden Fruit Show in Kent.
Mr Dennis said: "Andrew Stocker was a keen participant in this competition and took pride in his entries.
"Financial prizes were very modest; however, it was the kudos of winning that was more important.
"The defendant knew that the only way the best samples could be gathered is for someone to enter from the top hatch and make a selection of fruit."
Mr Cain was 23, engaged and had a young child, and had been working at Blackmoor Estates since 2009 as a pack house assistant.
Mr Clarke, 24, who was also engaged, had been working as an assistant checking the quality of fruit for eight months.
His parents Ian and Sharon Clarke described the trial as "emotionally draining".
In a statement, they said "collecting apples from confined atmosphere units with virtually no oxygen" was not a "safe and acceptable practice".
"Whilst we recognise [Mr Stocker] is not a bad man and did not mean to harm Ashley, his negligent actions led to his death.
"We as a family... will be serving a life sentence as we try to come to terms with the loss of a son and brother who we shall never see again," the statement said.
Adrian Barlow, chief executive of English Apples & Pears Ltd, which represents apple growers throughout the UK, said the industry was "appalled and shocked" by the "tragic incident".
He said: "There has always been a golden rule that you should never enter a controlled atmosphere store until it has been fully vented and the oxygen level has risen above 19.5%."
All operatives had reviewed their operating procedures, equipment, and security since the deaths, he said.
Det Sgt Rich Sellwood, of Hampshire Constabulary, said the deaths were "completely avoidable".
He added: "It is a tragedy for all involved. We hope that lessons will be learned that prevent this from ever happening again."
It can now be reported that Blackmoor Estate Ltd pleaded guilty to three offences related to contravening health and safety regulations in January.
The company and Stocker will be sentenced on 1 July.
Her achievements earned her the freedom of "Steel City" where she grew up and forged her skills as an athlete.
And it is in the city which has always remained her training base that news of her retirement has been keenly felt.
Former sports minister and Sheffield MP Richard Caborn said: "She is an exemplar for Sheffield and the nation."
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He leads the delivery of the Olympic Legacy Park which will stand on the site of the former Don Valley Stadium where Ennis-Hill trained and competed.
The stadium was pulled down in November 2013 as part of budget cuts by the city council - a decision the 30-year-old athlete described as "a huge shame" and "a massive disappointment".
Less than a year earlier, thousands of people had packed the city centre to celebrate their golden girl's achievements at homecoming celebrations outside the city's Town Hall.
In the same month, Sheffield United football club renamed a stand at its Bramall Lane stadium 'The Jessica Ennis Stand' in her honour.
Just over a year later on 5 September 2013 Ennis-Hill was awarded the Freedom of the City of Sheffield.
Richard Wright, executive director of Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, said: "People will be sorry to hear that Jess is retiring for many reasons.
"She has been an inspiration to so many of us and by being the face of London 2012 she really raised the profile of Sheffield.
"My immediate reaction is 'Thank you very much for what you've done for all of us'.
"I hope she doesn't retire from public life altogether. Jess is a genuine role model with an amazing personality in the world of sport and has the capability of being an important ambassador for that and our great city."
Sheffield City Council leader Julie Dore said: "Sheffield is so very proud of Jess and her amazing achievements.
"She is one of the city's greatest ever athletes and was awarded Freedom of the City in 2013. She has been an inspiration to all in the city and her legacy will continue.
"We've followed her every step of the way on her journey to becoming one of Britain's most successful female athletes. A great ambassador for sport, she has represented Sheffield and the UK with real grace and humility.
"She truly is a role model for so many people and we would like to wish her good luck and success in her future".
Young athletes at Ennis-Hill's old school, King Ecgbert's in Dore, Sheffield, told the BBC how the famous former pupil continues to inspire the school's budding sports stars.
Sarah, a year 9 pupil, said: "She was a very big inspiration and I loved watching her running and win most of her races.
"Not seeing her face is going to kind be upsetting because usually you just see her crossing the finish line first or getting over the highest jump and it's not going to be like that any more.
"There's pictures all over the school so wherever you look you're kind of like 'Oh, Jessica Ennis went here'."
Year 12 student Amy said: "I think Jessica Ennis is a huge inspiration and just because she's retired, I don't think this is going to mean she'll stop being an inspiration because I think her legacy will live on."
Ennis-Hill's announcement also prompted tributes on social media from other figures with links to Sheffield.
Former Sheffield Central MP Richard Caborn said: "I want to congratulate Jessica on an outstanding career.
"Her success has been a massive inspiration to the hundreds of thousands of youngsters who take part in sports camps, sports days and athletics sessions every year at the English Institute of Sport Sheffield where she trained.
"She's consistently proved herself at the highest level and she should feel incredibly proud of all she's done and achieved."
Ms Cafferkey is in an isolation unit in London after tests indicated the Ebola virus is still present in her body.
The health board confirmed she was sent home by an out-of-hours doctor in Glasgow earlier this week.
In an interview with the Sunday Mail newspaper, her sister Toni Cafferkey said it was "absolutely diabolical" the way the nurse had been treated.
Ms Cafferkey, from Cambuslang in South Lanarkshire, spent almost a month in isolation at the beginning of the year after contracting the virus in December 2014.
Bodily tissues can harbour the Ebola infection months after the person appears to have fully recovered.
On Tuesday, the 39-year-old was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow after feeling unwell.
She was later flown to the Royal Free Hospital in London where she remains in a serious condition in an isolation unit. She is not thought to be contagious.
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Toni Cafferkey told the Sunday Mail that her sister had gone to a GP out-of-hours clinic at the Victoria Hospital in Glasgow on Monday night but the doctor who assessed her diagnosed a virus and sent her home.
She said: "At that point me and my family believe they missed a big opportunity to give the right diagnosis and we feel she was let down. Instead of being taken into hospital, she spent the whole of Tuesday very ill.
"I think it is absolutely diabolical the way she has been treated... We don't know if the delays diagnosing Pauline have had an adverse effect on her health, but we intend to find out.
"It has not been good enough. We think there have been major failings and we just want her to pull through. This kind of recurrence seems to be rare but we don't yet know enough about it."
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde confirmed that Ms Cafferkey did attend the New Victoria Hospital GP out-of-hours service on Monday.
A spokesman said: "Her management and the clinical decisions taken based on the symptoms she was displaying at the time were entirely appropriate.
"All appropriate infection control procedures were carried out as part of this episode of care."
On Friday, a statement from the Royal Free Hospital confirmed Ms Cafferkey had been transferred to the hospital "due to an unusual late complication of her previous infection by the Ebola virus".
It added: "The Ebola virus can only be transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person while they are symptomatic, so the risk to the general public remains low and the NHS has well-established and practised infection control procedures in place."
Sergei Vovnenko, known as Fly, was arrested in Naples for suspected trafficking in stolen credit cards.
Mr Vovnenko is also thought to have been behind the plot to send heroin to prominent blogger Brian Krebs in 2013.
The plan was foiled because Mr Krebs was surreptitiously monitoring the website where the plot was hatched.
Writing on his blog Mr Krebs said Mr Vovnenko was arrested thanks to a joint US and Italian investigation into his activities. When arrested Mr Vovnenko was travelling under an assumed name - Sergei Volneov.
Mr Vovnenko is being held in an Italian jail and is likely to face extradition to the US, wrote Mr Krebs.
He was tracked down largely thanks to several mistakes he made when trying to conceal his identity online, said Mr Krebs. These led security researchers and law enforcement to email accounts and social media profiles run by Mr Vovnenko that helped them home in on him.
"This case is another reminder that nobody is anonymous, and that operational security is hard to do well consistently," wrote Mr Krebs.
He believes he was targeted by Mr Vovnenko and others because of his work to expose people who trade in stolen credit cards and identities.
As well as having heroin sent to him, in March 2013, Mr Krebs was "swatted". This involved a 911 call spoofed to look like it came from Mr Krebs' house where, supposedly, hostages were being held.
An armed response unit investigated and this led to Mr Krebs being handcuffed and questioned before he could convince the police nothing was happening.
Officials said about 2,500 homes had been destroyed, leaving 11,000 people homeless.
The fire, the worst ever to hit the city of Valparaiso, broke out on Saturday and quickly spread fanned by strong winds from the hills.
Fifteen people died in the blaze; many of them had refused to be evacuated.
Firefighters continued to try and extinguish pockets of the blaze which still remained active on Monday night.
But with forecasters predicting a cooler and less windy day for Tuesday, some residents were allowed to return to areas where the fire had been extinguished.
Many found that their entire neighbourhood had been razed to the ground by the blaze which quickly spread from the wooded hills surrounding the city of 250,000 inhabitants.
Valparaiso's poorest neighbourhoods, often made up of little more than wooden huts. were worst affected.
Carolina Ovando, 22, said she would "rebuild right here".
"Where else would I go?", the mother of three asked.
Volunteers accompanied some of the residents, helping to remove debris and handing out water bottles.
Some people had refused to leave altogether, fearing that looters would steal their possessions.
"I will not let go of what little I have," Arturo Gomez told the AFP news agency.
"This represents 15 years of effort. My wife and my four children are in a shelter."
Fifteen people are confirmed to have been killed in the fire. Many of them were found in the burned-down homes they had refused to leave.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said the fire had grown to "dimensions never seen before".
She said the state would make "available all possible resources to confront this tragedy, first, with the relocation and support for families affected and as a second phase, reconstruction".
On Sunday, the president declared the area destroyed by the fire a disaster zone. The government said it would send 500 million Chilean pesos ($0.9m, £0.5m) to help the clean-up effort in Valparaiso, and promised more help would be given.
This is the second emergency that President Bachelet has had to face in the first month of her second term in office, after an 8.2 magnitude earthquake hit the north of the country on 1 April.
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Jigme Dorje Palbar Bista, who reigned the Buddhist kingdom for more than half a century, died on Friday aged 86.
King Bista lost his royal title in 2008 when Nepal abolished its own centuries-old monarchy.
He lived most of his life in the medieval capital Lo Manthang, acting as local spiritual leader.
He moved to Kathmandu after he started to experience health problems.
He was admitted to hospital earlier this week, the former king's nephew Tsewang Bista told the AFP news agency.
His health began to deteriorate last year and he suffered from heart and kidney problems.
"He had not been well on and off," Tsewang Bista said, adding that the former king was "having more difficulty recently because of the cold".
As a young man, Bista supported a CIA-funded guerrilla campaign to oust Chinese forces from neighbouring Tibet after a failed uprising there in 1959.
The remote Buddhist kingdom of Upper Mustang sits surrounded by canyons on the high, arid Tibetan plateau close to the border with China.
The Championship's bottom club are currently £172.9m in debt.
Despite Bolton asking for more time to raise the money or sell the club, HMRC decided to serve the petition.
"Quite clearly the club remains in a critical financial position," said Trevor Birch, who is acting as financial advisor for Bolton.
"We will continue to try and finalise a sale or alternatively raise some short-term funds needed to give the club breathing space and time in which to consider its options."
There are understood to be four parties interested in taking over the club.
If Bolton enter administration they will automatically be deducted 12 points.
"I think Trevor has a few plans in place to avoid that scenario," manager Neil Lennon told BBC Radio Manchester.
"He's confident he can avoid that because that would mean we'd be a League One team and we'd just be fulfilling fixtures for the rest of the season."
Former Bolton striker Dean Holdsworth is leading one of the parties interested in a takeover, while former Trotters midfielder Stelios Giannakopoulos is part of another.
"What we need is someone to come up with the money and help the club out and just get us through a difficult period until January," added 44-year-old Lennon.
"However, what we may have to do in January is sell some assets in terms of the football side. That could be a realistic proposition.
"If that means getting the club through stormy waters then that's what we'll have to do.
"It's not ideal for a manager, but the club's future is the priority rather than the present."
The latest figures available show 158 babies were stillborn in Wales in 2015 - 0.47% of all births.
Stillbirth and neonatal death charity Sands said while many women seek support, men were often reluctant.
The Welsh Government said health board bereavement services offered help.
Sands is holding a remembrance service for affected parents in Cardiff on Sunday.
Heatherjane Coombs, 43, was 36 weeks pregnant with her son Xander when she suffered a placental abruption in September 2004.
He died in the womb and she had to deliver him two days later.
Mrs Coombs, chairwoman of the Cardiff and Newport Sands group, said while the couple had fantastic care from their midwife and there was support for her, there was no-one for her husband to talk to.
She said: "So many people will say to the dads, 'how's your wife?' or 'how's your partner?' and very rarely people will say 'how are you?'
"I think that's another reason why it's a taboo with men, because of the fact that society in general doesn't make them feel that they can open up."
Mrs Coombs said while some couples come to the charity's support meetings together, and they have two male volunteers for fathers to talk to, generally more women attend.
Her husband, who is now a Sands befriender, said support for fathers had improved since his own loss but more could still be done.
He said: "As the partner you go into the mode where you're the hunter-gatherer - you try and keep working, you try and support, you have to be the strong one but what happens is you fall over later on.
"It's about saying to men, 'it's ok to grieve, it's ok to be upset' - in the long run, for your physical, emotional and mental health, it's good that you do grieve because it tends to come out in either physical or mental illness later on."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "Stillbirth and late miscarriage can be devastating for the baby's parents and for the wider family members.
"That's why each health board in Wales has its own bereavement service which supports not only the parents, but wider family members."
Since losing Xander, Mr and Mrs Coombs, who did not have any more children following two further miscarriages, helped set up the Cardiff and Newport Sands group to support other parents.
Run mainly by volunteers, it holds monthly meetings and funds support packs and memory boxes for bereaved parents at the area's four main hospitals.
It also holds an annual memorial service to give parents the chance to remember babies who have been lost.
This year's service, led by Reverend Rhiannon Francis from the University Hospital of Wales Chaplaincy, is at 11:30 BST on Sunday at Wenallt Chapel at Thornhill Crematorium.
Memory cards can be written and relatives will have the opportunity to place a memory pebble in the memory bowl in its Ilex Garden.
Plaid Cymru has campaigned for Wales to get some of the cash under the Barnett formula rules for public spending.
The party accused Welsh Labour of not pursuing a share of HS2's budget, which some have claimed could reach £80bn.
The Welsh government denied the claim, saying ministers had called for a "fair share" of the extra transport funding.
The new high-speed line, linking London to Birmingham by 2026, with routes to Manchester and Leeds by 2033, is officially predicted to cost £55.7bn, according to the Department for Transport.
Jonathan Edwards, Plaid Cymru MP for Carmarthen West and Dinefwr, accused First Minister Carwyn Jones of trying to "pull the wool over our eyes" about Welsh Labour's attempts to ensure a fair share of extra rail funding.
"It's bad enough that Labour MPs from Wales supported the project despite being fully aware that it will suck hundreds of millions of pounds out of the Welsh economy each and every year," he said.
"Now, however, the First Minister and his party have been exposed as having done nothing to back up their rhetoric."
A Welsh government spokesman rejected "misleading statements" and said ministers had ensured Wales would get extra money as a result of HS2.
"Wales will receive a Barnett consequential of over £755m over the next 5 years because of increased UK Department for Transport budgets, a consequence of the investment being made in HS2," he said.
"The way Barnett works is that we get a share of the departmental spend for transport - not individual programmes.
"The devolution settlement differs for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - for example rail infrastructure is devolved to Scotland and Northern Ireland but not to Wales.
"As a result, the mechanics of the Barnett formula are a bit different for each administration and additional funding is allocated somewhat differently.
"But the fact is that Wales has received significant additional funding over this SR (Spending Review) period as a result of increases in the Department for Transport budget which in large part arise from funding for HS2."
Jockey Gregory Benoist won on the 6-1 chance from Nemoralia and Alice Springs.
Earlier, former jump jockey Dougie Costello delivered Quiet Reflection perfectly to win the Commonwealth Cup for trainer Karl Burke.
Frankie Dettori claimed his fourth winner of the week, on Across The Stars in the King Edward VII Stakes.
And there was a 577-1 double for champion Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien with two of his outsiders winning.
Brave Anna (16-1) took the Albany Stakes under Seamie Heffernan, while 33-1 shot Sword Fighter gave Colm O'Donoghue his first Royal Ascot win in the concluding Queen's Vase.
Heffernan was given a nine-day ban over his use of the whip, while Fran Berry was given a seven-day suspension for careless riding although his mount Kinema kept the Duke of Edinburgh Stakes after a stewards' inquiry.
A former jump jockey claimed a Group One race for the second year running at the big flat race meeting as Costello won on Quiet Reflection.
Last year, Graham Lee triumphed in the Gold Cup aboard Trip To Paris.
Costello, who rode Countrywide Flame to win the Triumph Hurdle at the 2012 Cheltenham Festival, said: "I owe Karl Burke a lot and I'm so lucky.
"Anybody would have won on her today, and the last day."
"There aren't too many fairytales in the big business world of Flat racing, but Quiet Reflection's success provided one.
"Winning trainer Karl Burke was a little-known jump jockey who turned to training, not unsuccessfully, but a brush with authority led to a ban; however, to his credit, he's rebuilt his reputation, and this was his most significant win to date.
"Jockey Dougie Costello spent many years on the jumps circuit (he was at Uttoxeter a year ago today), but decided better chances lay on the flat. He's had to work hard to make it, and a trophy at Royal Ascot, no less, is a deserved reward."
Rouget was masterminding a second straight victory in the Group One contest, following his success last year with Ervedya.
"To do the double is a childhood dream," said Roget, who holds the European record for winners trained with over 6,000 to his credit.
His joy was in sharp contrast to that of Ryan Moore on the fancied Aidan O'Brien runner Alice Springs.
Moore, not for the first time in recent weeks, met trouble and flashed home for third.
He was also luckless in the Duke Of Edinburgh Stakes, finishing third on King's Fete behind the Ralph Beckett-trained winner Kinema, who survived a stewards' inquiry after veering to his right in the closing stages.
14.30 The Albany Stakes (Group 3) 6f - Brave Anna 16/1
15.05 The King Edward VII Stakes (Group 2) 1 ½m - Across The Stars 7/1
15.40 The Commonwealth Cup (Group 1) 6f - Quiet Reflection 7-4 fav
16.20 The Coronation Stakes (Group 1) 1m - Qemah 6-1
17.00 The Duke of Edinburgh Stakes (Handicap) 1 ½m - Kinema 8-1
17.35 The Queen's Vase (Listed) 2m - Sword Fighter 33/1
All the results from Royal Ascot
John O'Neill, from York, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme it "must be horrific" for them to see his sexual predilections shared online.
Mr O'Neill, who said he had an interest in sado-masochism, was cleared of rape last year but subjected to the order and could be jailed if he ignores it.
North Yorkshire Police said it was satisfied the order was proportionate.
Mr O'Neill said he had not had sex since the restrictions were imposed on him.
He said the interim sexual risk order (SRO) had resulted in a "devastating" effect on his personal life, saying his children - who are aged 12 and 16 and live abroad - had deleted him on Facebook.
He claimed one of his friends "has been threatened with being fired [from her job], just because she knows me".
Mr O'Neill's identity was made public last week after an order protecting his anonymity was lifted at York Magistrates Court.
In June he had threatened to go on hunger strike in protest at the restrictions.
The SRO requires Mr O'Neill to disclose any planned sexual activity to the police or face up to five years in prison.
SROs can be applied to any individual who the police believe poses a risk of sexual harm - even if they have never been convicted of a crime. But Mr O'Neill said he was "amazed" the police sought one after his acquittal.
"It is the only crime I have ever been accused of," he said.
The police applied for the order in part after the judge at the rape trial called Mr O'Neill "dangerous". The father-of-two denied being dangerous and said the police had misinterpreted the judge's words.
He is to have a full hearing in August, when magistrates will decide whether to impose a longer order of up to five years.
Mr O'Neill described it as a "rape trial in miniature" with the same witnesses and evidence.
He said the SRO had effectively allowed police "to ignore [the court's] verdict."
He said he had not had sex since the order was imposed, but stands accused of breaching another of the SRO conditions by not giving police the pin number to his mobile phone.
North Yorkshire Police said in a statement it "will only make an application to the court for a Sexual Risk Order in circumstances where it is considered necessary to do so to protect the public from the risk of sexual harm".
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays from 09:00-11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.
The teams are tied 1-1 after the Lions won the series opener and the
Jones says Gatland must ponder changes beyond those forced by injury.
"The final Test... will define Warren Gatland's coaching career with the Lions," said pundit Jones.
Parling is lightweight and ineffectual as a second row, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's a change there
The former Llanelli and Cardiff flanker, whose career was ended by a serious neck injury in 1997, believes Gatland is likely to replace injured skipper Sam Warburton with Ireland's Sean O'Brien.
But he says if fit, England prop Alex Corbisiero (calf) and Wales centre Jamie Roberts (hamstring) should come in.
Jones would also select Wales number eight Toby Faletau ahead of Ireland's Jamie Heaslip and Wales hooker Richard Hibbard's added scrum power over England's livewire Tom Youngs.
And Jones also says England lock Geoff Parling, who took over from injured Irishman Paul O'Connell (broken arm) for the second Test defeat, should also make way.
"I think Parling is lightweight and ineffectual as a second row so I wouldn't be surprised if there's a change there," said Jones.
"And I think if you're going to pick a big team to scrimmage Australia to win the final Test, I think Hibbard probably comes into the reckoning.
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"And for me, I think Faletau has been the better eight than Heaslip.
"But then you're making seven changes to the team for the final Test, the deciding Test; and the Test, really, that will define Warren Gatland's coaching career with the Lions.
"And that's a big gamble to make for 80 minutes of rugby - to completely change half your side.
"I don't know if we'll see that many changes, but there will have to be at least four or five.
"He's not that much of a gambler. He's bold occasionally with individuals."
Jones doubts the Lions will change their powerplay approach - dubbed "Warrenball" in the Australia media - or that Warburton's Wales open-side rival Justin Tipuric will earn a Test start.
"The natural replacement for Warburton would be O'Brien, who plays the same type of game as a competitive tackle-area seven rather than the more open and looser player that Tipuric is," said Jones.
"Having said that, the last game anyway was run by Australia.
"It was open, it was fluid and in those sorts of environments I think that Tipuric would be more effective.
"But I doubt whether he'll get the start."
It displayed an error message on some computers, but not others, saying access had been blocked because of a "high volume of visitors".
Users had complained that this was inaccurate bearing in mind it was being shown in the early hours of the morning and the issue was continuing.
Argos said it was an intermittent problem that might take time to solve.
The company - which is owned by the Milton Keynes-based Home Retail Group - said that its site was currently working, but might face further issues.
"Following planned maintenance to our website and apps, we have been experiencing some technical issues which means customers may have limited access to our website at intermittent periods," a spokeswoman told the BBC.
"We are really sorry for any inconvenience caused. Serving customers is our absolute priority and are pulling out all of the stops to fix the problem as soon as possible."
She said the site had only been offline to all customers for "just over half a day" on Tuesday morning.
The firm had used social media to apologise for the problem, but unless customers searched for the posts they would not have been aware of them since more recent marketing tweets were embedded into the "fault" page.
The spokeswoman said the failure to properly explain the problem on the page was in itself "caused by a technical issue which is currently being fixed".
One retail expert said it was not unusual for website updates to create glitches, but suggested the company should have explained the issue more clearly.
"Any retailer that has a robust enough e-commerce platform should have some sort of contingency plan in place around communication," said Steve Mader, from the consultancy Kantar Retail.
"Argos has historically done a fairly good job of doing iterative improvements on its website - although in heavy periods leading up to Christmas it has been known to slow down or restrict access.
"I think for every retailer, having an outage like this can be a wake-up call."
L/Cpl Craig Roberts, 24, of Conwy, died during the Brecon Beacons exercise in 2013, despite resuscitation attempts.
He was found lying on the ground convulsing, the West Midlands hearing was told.
L/Cpl Edward Maher and Cpl James Dunsby died in hospital after collapsing while attempting the same march.
The soldier, known as 1D to protect his identity, said L/Cpl Roberts was lying down and vomiting when he found him before the last course checkpoint.
The reservist pressed his emergency button and shouted his name but there was no response.
L/Cpl Roberts stopped breathing and his colleague began trying to resuscitate him before other recruits, responding to the emergency call, arrived after 20 minutes.
A medic arrived and performed a tracheostomy - a procedure in which a tube is inserted into the windpipe to help someone breathe - and fitted a drip.
Reservist 1D told the hearing the recruits worked for "two hours to get him back", before it was agreed they should stop.
He said: "The weather was just a bit freaky that day… we weren't used to training in those conditions. I don't think fitness had anything to do with it. Craig was a really fit guy."
The hearing has previously been told the exercise took place on one of the hottest days of the year on 13 July 2013, with temperatures expected to hit 27C (80.6F).
The inquest continues.
The defendant, named by prosecutors as Ali Qazimaj, 43, denies killing Peter and Sylvia Stuart, from Weybread, Suffolk.
Mr Stuart, 75, was stabbed to death last June. The body of Mrs Stuart, 69, has never been found.
The accused claims he did not know them before his arrest in Luxembourg.
At an earlier hearing at Ipswich Crown Court, prosecutor Kharim Khalil QC told jurors a dispute about identification was "at the heart of this case".
The defendant said his name is Vital Dapi, that he is 44 years old, and is from the city of Elbasan in Albania.
Mr Stuart's body was found in shallow water in woodland near his home on 3 June. His wife is still missing - presumed dead.
The defendant, formerly of Tilbury, Essex, was arrested in Luxembourg on 17 June and extradited back to the UK.
Questioned by Max Hill, defending, the accused said: "I've never been in the UK all my life."
He denied killing Mr and Mrs Stuart and said he had no information about her disappearance, and no knowledge of them before his arrest.
"In Luxembourg they showed me picture of two people, one with glasses and a woman," he told the court.
"I've never used the name Qazimaj as I'm proud of my name and who I am."
He said he had also never used the name Marco Costa, which prosecutors had suggested the defendant used in relation to gambling.
Mr Hill asked the defendant about a silver Citroen car found by police in Dover which prosecutors say contained his fingerprints.
"I don't know how they were planted there but it's not me," said the defendant.
Prosecutors say the defendant is Ali Qazimaj - a carer to the father-in-law of the Stuarts' daughter Christy Paxman.
It is alleged Qazimaj had accrued gambling debts and believed the Stuarts to be millionaires.
The trial continues.
The show examines the work of William Billingsley, founder of the Nantgarw China Works and a known perfectionist.
The bicentenary exhibition features rare examples of the works' output, alongside items created by some of Wales' foremost contemporary potters.
Billingsley fled Wales in 1820, pursued by creditors.
But his work is still regarded as some of the finest ceramics ever produced - a single piece can fetch tens of thousands of pounds at auction.
One of the reasons is the rarity of Nantgarw chinaware - the artist was regarded as a complete perfectionist, rejecting 90% of everything he ever made.
His pieces were deemed so exquisite that fearful Staffordshire potteries ganged up in an attempt to put Nantgarw out of business.
Founded in 1813 on the banks of the Glamorgan Canal, it was also claimed that the clay formula Billingsley used was stolen from Royal Worcester.
But in just seven years, despite being regarded as the finest ceramicist in Britain, Billingsley had racked up crippling debts and quit the Nantgarw works.
"Nantgarw China Works is such a thrilling story that it really should be made into a film," enthused Lowri Davies, who has organised the exhibition.
Her own Billingsley-inspired collection featured at the Sculpture Objects and Functional Art exhibition in Chicago, USA.
"It's the tale of a man so driven to perfect his art that nothing else mattered," she added.
"He was a hopeless businessman who was always in some scrape or other, constantly being sued and pursued by creditors, but as long as his pieces were the best the world had ever seen then he didn't care about little things like intellectual property or even making money.
"And his work was brilliant - exquisite wet paste china and instantly recognisable, breathtaking floral artwork."
After Billingsley left Wales in 1820, his business partner William Western-Young managed to stave off formal bankruptcy by selling Billingsley's remaining work, which had acquired an increased value following news of the demise of Nantgarw China Works.
Western-Young kept the factory open, but without Billingsley's expertise they were reduced to manufacturing clay smoking pipes and rough earthenware pots and jugs.
This proved to be infinitely more profitable, and the works went on to survive until 1920, when the switch away from pipes to cigarettes was the death knell for the business.
But despite a hundred years of pipe manufacturing, according to Lowri Davies it will always be their fine china for which Nantgarw China Works will be best remembered.
"In some ways it's a tragedy that Nantgarw China lasted such a short time, but then again, if it had gone on for decades or even centuries, then would we be talking about it today?"
The china works near Caerphilly lay derelict for decades until it was acquired by the former Taff-Ely council in the 1980s and was turned into a museum.
Earlier this year Rhondda Cynon Taf council handed over the museum to the Friends of Nantgarw China Works Trust, who are now undertaking an extensive restoration of the original studios and kilns.
Amongst others, the exhibition at the works museum features craftwork from Caitlin Jenkins, of Ewenny Pottery, and Geoff Swindell of Dinas Powys, whose creations are included in the collections of some 40 museums including the Victoria & Albert in London.
The exhibition runs at the museum until 12 January, 2014.
The 45-year-old will work with police, businesses and the public to create a vision for the city's nightlife.
Ms Lame said she intended to "inspire a positive change in the way people think about the night-time economy".
The Conservatives at London Assembly said the post may be "less about the economy and more about ribbon cutting".
London's late-night industry is worth £26.3bn annually but research suggests this could rise to £28.3bn by 2029.
The broadcaster promoted Camden's live music venues and nightclubs as mayoress of Camden in 2010 and is known for campaigning to save renowned LGBT venue the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
The former BBC Radio London co-presenter also co-founded and hosts the Olivier award-winning comedy theatre Duckie at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern and was chosen to the new post from 200 candidates.
Ms Lame said she would hold monthly surgeries to speak to businesses, police, councils, night-time workers and Londoners to create a safer and more responsible nightlife.
She said: "For too long, the capital's night-time industry has been under pressure - music venues and nightclubs in particular are closing at an alarming rate."
Fabric nightclub, one of the UK's best-known clubs, lost its licence and shut down over what Islington Council said was a "culture of drugs".
In response to the closure, Mayor Sadiq Khan claimed the capital had lost 50% of its nightclubs and 40% of its live music venues in the past eight years.
Mr Khan said: "The recent closure of the world-famous nightclub Fabric and the threats facing other venues across the capital show why Amy will be a much-needed ambassador for the city after dark."
Gareth Bacon, Conservative London Assembly member, said appointing a "celebrity over someone with more experience running a business in the night-time economy is a decision the Assembly will need to seriously scrutinise".
Three of Cheshire's four councils submitted a bid for more powers and funding from government last August.
Conservative MP for Warrington South David Mowat said a mayor would ensure "clear, democratic accountability".
But Helen Jones, Labour MP for Warrington North, argued the plans were a Conservative "stitch-up".
"In terms of Warrington, this is not real devolution at all because what it will do is, very likely, give a Tory power over areas that overwhelmingly vote Labour."
Devolution deals with elected mayors have already been agreed for regions across England including Greater Manchester and the Liverpool City Region.
The councils in Warrington, Cheshire East, and Cheshire West and Chester claimed in 2015 that their devolution bid would help create 112,000 jobs, improve transport and boost business.
It is believed an election could take place next year.
The Labour leader of Warrington Borough Council, Terry O'Neill, claimed the mayor would be "just a figurehead" who would have responsibility over devolved powers funding and powers, but the three local authorities "would have a veto over the mayor's decisions".
Mr O'Neill added: "From the government's point of view, there has to be a mayor."
A Parliamentary debate on the issue will take place next week.
Chancellor George Osborne, who is MP for Tatton, said: "I'm in favour of elected mayors but don't want to impose them. So I'm happy to listen to what local elected councils want."
A joint statement from Warrington, Cheshire East and Cheshire West & Chester councils said "no decisions have been made" and a public consultation would be held before any deal was confirmed.
The School Teachers' Review Body (STRB) has recommended a 1% pay rise for most teachers, in line with public sector pay increases.
But there is no increase at the top levels, so some heads will miss out.
A Conservative spokesman said it was right that the higher paid took "more of the burden of pay restraint".
The ASCL says it wants the decision overturned.
The union says that in real terms teachers' pay has declined by 12% since 2010.
It says that by recommending no pay rise for very senior leaders, the STRB is in effect implementing a "pay freeze".
Although the STRB recommended a salary rise of up to 2% for some classroom teachers in the main pay band, it will be up to individual schools to award this based on their teachers' performance.
It adds that school governors could also decide to spend some of their budget on higher pay for senior leaders.
The report says: "As a consequence of recent reforms, governing bodies have considerable flexibility in setting salaries above the maximum of the relevant head teacher pay group, if merited."
Brian Lightman, general secretary of ASCL, described the "pay freeze" as "ill-conceived", saying: "Although the monetary value is small, the message that it sends is that the contribution that some staff make is not valued.
"As many of them may be nearing retirement, there is a risk they will decide not to continue in the profession, thereby further exacerbating the retention problems in the leadership group."
He said "a cost-of-living increase" was needed by all teachers at every level.
Teachers received a 1% pay rise last year in line with the two-year pay cap across the public sector, introduced in 2012. The 1% cap is to be extended to 2015-16.
A Conservative spokesman said he agreed with the recommendations from the STRB and the government had reformed pay and conditions to give schools greater freedoms in recruiting and rewarding teachers.
"Our pay reforms provide schools with more control over the management of their budgets and allow them to meet their school and community's needs more effectively," he said.
The Liberal Democrats say they will guarantee public sector pay increases by "at least" the rate of inflation up to 2018 and after that make sure pay bodies award "above inflation increase" in public sector pay.
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The president felt this was "something that needs to be reformed" as he is an elected leader in a republic, his press secretary Venu Rajamony told the BBC.
Under the new rules, Mr Mukherjee will be referred to as "Mr President".
He would be called Excellency only when he interacts with foreign leaders "as is customary international practice".
Mr Mukherjee was elected as the Indian President in July.
"In the Indian constitution everyone is equal under the law, and so the president felt the protocols needed a fresh look," Mr Rajamony said.
"This was a routine review and reform of the protocols by the new president," he added.
Mr Mukherjee has also asked his office to organise all his functions within the Rashtrapati Bhavan [Presidential Palace] to avoid the "inconvenience caused to the public during his movement within the city and in order to reduce the burden on police and other agencies", a statement on the president's website said.
Dorset County Museum will be the first place to host Dippy the Diplodocus when it temporarily moves out of its London home.
The capital's Natural History Museum is having a big front-of-house makeover.
A blue whale skeleton is being put in the dinosaur's prominent position by the main entrance - and so Dippy is going on the road.
The plaster-of-Paris model - so loved by generations of visitors - will be on show in London for the last time on 4 January.
Conservators will then spend the next 12 months getting it ready for its trip around the UK.
This will involve re-making some parts and giving it a new, modular support structure, or armature, to facilitate frequent packing and unpacking.
After Dorset, 21m-long Dippy will visit Birmingham Museum; Ulster Museum; Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow; Great North Museum, Newcastle; the National Assembly for Wales; Number One Riverside, Rochdale; and Norwich Cathedral.
At each location, the dinosaur will be used as the centrepiece of a display that will highlight local natural history and nature collections. The tour will end in late 2020.
Director of the Dorset County Museum, Dr Jon Murden, said: "We are so excited to be welcoming Dippy on Tour here in 2018 at the heart of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. As the birthplace of palaeontology, there is nowhere in the UK more appropriate for Dippy to start the tour than Dorset."
Specialists are already deep into the task of preparing the blue whale ready for its new role.
It is due to be suspended in a dramatic diving pose from the ceiling of the NHM's Hintze Hall. The grand opening will be next summer.
The bones were recently removed from their old display position in the mammals gallery and taken into a laboratory.
"There was an amazing carpet of dust on the whale's bones," said Lorraine Cornish, the head of conservation at the NHM.
"In many ways it was very beautiful - like a Mars or a Moon surface. And so the first thing we had to do was clean all that away using vacuum cleaners, to see the surface more clearly, to check if there were cracks or issues we hadn't spotted before," she told BBC News.
The near-4.5-tonne whale specimen is more than 100 years old, and - unlike Dippy - is the real deal; it is not a cast.
It was acquired for the NHM shortly after the institution opened in 1881.
The animal had beached at Wexford on the southeast coast of Ireland, and London's curators paid £250 for the carcass. Nearly every bone is present, and they still leach oil.
The workmen who first put the whale on public display in 1935 probably thought it would never be taken out of its gallery. This might explain why it was shot through with long iron rods and cables.
Some of the alterations made to accommodate this scaffolding are really quite brutal.
"They just drilled very big holes and put very large bolts in the bones, and very large pieces of wire cabling. As conservators, we'd not now drill a hole in a specimen," said Lorraine Cornish.
"It's scientific data for us; it's one of our collection items. Wherever possible we'll re-use some of those holes but we'll add additional armature to the outside to make sure the whale is protected when it suspends above the public."
The museum team made a quick lidar scan of the bones before moving them to the lab, to help understand how they fit together and to begin designing the new display pose.
A more comprehensive, 3D mapping exercise will be conducted in the next few weeks, however.
This is key to the NHM's big digitisation strategy, which seeks to make virtual copies of 20 million of its more than 80 million specimens over the next five years.
It will allow researchers to more easily study the London collection. It would even make it possible for someone to "print" their own blue whale skeleton.
The NHM wants the cetacean to be a new kind of emblem.
The museum expects the skeleton's display in Hintze Hall to increase the wow factor for visitors.
It also hopes the whale can convey better all the cutting-edge science it does on a daily basis.
But for fans of Dippy, the NHM is keen to stress the dinosaur will not be sidelined.
Indeed, on its return to London the Diplodocus is likely still to enjoy star billing.
The museum plans to renovate and re-model the gardens that surround its buildings.
Dippy is set to be re-cast in bronze and be the first thing visitors see as they approach the institution from South Kensington tube station.
"In many ways, Dippy and the whale are tied together; I feel passionately about both of them," said Lorraine Cornish.
"They do different things but they are both part of our strategy to get people interested and excited about science, the natural world and the challenges we face."
BBC TV's Horizon programme is following the whale's preparation for its re-suspension in the NHM's front entrance. The episode will be broadcast next year around the time of the public unveiling.
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Safety tests on three people, published in the journal Science, showed the immune system could be trained to fight skin cancers.
The American team say the early results mark a "significant step" towards personalised cancer vaccines.
The charity Cancer Research UK called the tests an "exciting but very early-stage trial".
UV light can transform healthy skin cells into deadly melanomas by damaging the DNA.
The tumours are a genetic mess, containing hundreds of random mutations that are different in every patient.
The mutations can change the proteins that stick out from the surface of cells and act like identifying flags.
The team, mainly based in St Louis and Oklahoma City, analysed the genetic mutations to predict the new and unique flags that would be flown by the cancer cells.
A computer algorithm then analysed the new flags, known as neoantigens, to decide which would be the best targets for a vaccine.
Personalised vaccines were given to three patients with advanced tumours in 2013. All had already been treated with another therapy - ipilimumab.
One was in remission and has stayed cancer-free; another still has stable tumours; and the third patient's tumour shrank in the months after the vaccine before returning to its original size and remaining stable.
The team are, at this stage, testing just the safety of the vaccine and whether it provokes an immune response.
They say it was successful on both counts.
One of the researchers, Dr Gerald Linette, said: "Our team is very encouraged by the quality of the immune response directed against the melanoma neoantigens in all three patients.
"Our results are preliminary, but we think the vaccines have therapeutic potential."
His colleague, Dr Beatriz Carreno, added: "These findings represent a significant step toward more personalised immunotherapies."
The personalised vaccine approach has a number of hurdles to clear.
For a start, proper clinical trials are needed to prove that the immune boost actually makes a difference to controlling the tumour.
There are also questions about cost and the time it takes - currently three months - to develop each person's vaccine.
However, if the approach proves successful it could be useful in other highly mutated cancers such as those found in the lung.
They may also have a role in breast and ovarian cancers in women with BRCA mutations, such as the Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, which also tend to be very mutated.
Dr Alan Worsley, of Cancer Research UK, said: "This exciting but very early-stage trial shows that it may be possible to create vaccines that are tailored to the specific genetic mistakes in a patient's cancer.
"At the moment it's not clear how effective this immunotherapy would be at killing cancer cells in the body and improving survival, but this promising study sets the stage for creating vaccines that are designed to target each patient's individual tumour in the future."
Prof Caroline Springer, who works on new drugs for melanoma at the Institute for Cancer Research, told the BBC News website: "I think it's very interesting.
"It's a very positive results and it's good that it's safe, but it's quite early days.
"Ipilimumab can have long-lasting effects on its own. The vaccine has mounted an immune response but it is difficult to tell if that amounts to an anti-tumour response if it is already responding to ipilimumab."
Thomas Clark was last seen at 10:45 that morning when he was pictured on CCTV leaving Hairmyres Hospital.
Police believe he returned to his home in Kirkton Park at some point before 18:00 on Thursday but that has not been confirmed.
Officers have been conducting door-to-door inquiries since the pensioner was reported missing on Friday.
They have also been talking to local businesses and transport firms.
Mr Clark is about 5ft 6in, of slim build with white hair.
When he was last seen he was wearing a long brown puffer jacket and brown leather shoes.
He also wore a checked grey jumper with blue and green diamonds on the front, a black beanie hat and grey padded gloves with leather palms.
Typical cases will include broken garden fences, dislodged roofing tiles and minor damage to cars hit by debris.
Insurers say they should be able to deal with all the calls fairly easily, as they are used to this type of weather "event".
"Their first priority will be to work as quickly as possible to deal with claims, and help customers recover," said Mark Shepherd, a policy adviser to the Association of British Insurers (ABI).
Should I contact my insurer immediately, or wait for a couple of days?
Insurers advise that you should contact them as soon as possible. Most companies offer a 24 hour emergency helpline. But it is important that serious damage is inspected as soon as possible.
Am I covered for storm damage?
Most household, business and and comprehensive motor policies cover both flood and storm damage. If damage is serious, and you need to move out of your home temporarily, most policies will cover the cost up to a specified limit. Typically you can spend up to 20% of the total insured value to cover alternative accommodation and heating costs.
Can I arrange for repair work to be done immediately?
If work needs to be done to stop further damage occurring, you can go ahead and get the repair work done. But keep receipts. Photos are also a good idea.
Who will assess the damage?
If the damage is serious enough, your insurance company will appoint a loss adjuster. He or she is independent of the insurance company, but paid by it. A loss adjuster should contact you within 24 hours, and visit your home within three days. But bear in mind that many loss adjusters will be extremely busy for the next few weeks. The loss adjuster will give you a timetable for the repair work, and tell you who will be doing it.
Should I appoint my own loss adjuster?
If you decide to appoint your own, you will have to cover the costs yourself. The insurance company will not pay. So be certain to ask for their charges before you hire them. And remember that the insurer's own loss adjuster may have a different opinion to yours.
If a roof tile comes off, and causes damage to somebody else's property, am I covered?
Most buildings insurance policies contain liability cover, up to a certain amount. Individuals are advised to contact their insurance company for further advice.
Will insurance premiums go up as a result of this storm?
Insurance companies say they are not expecting premiums to go up "across the board" as a result of the St Jude storm. But anyone making a claim may lose their no claims discount next year, and so may have to pay a higher charge.
How much will this storm cost insurance companies?
It is still too early to say. The great storm of October 1987 cost insurance companies £2bn in today's money. But floods in the summer of 2007 cost more than that: £3bn.
The Frenchman was one of the team who first spotted the rings in 1984, naming them Equality, Fraternity and Liberty after the motto of the French Republic.
In a tribute, French President Francois Hollande said Brahic had known "how to easily explain the mysteries of space".
Brahic, who was 73, was seen as a key figure in increasing public awareness of research into space.
He once said science "could make the eyes of small children light up".
"He was a brilliant character: extraordinarily warm, profound and authentic, a great scholar and also a storyteller, a writer," his publisher and friend Odile Jacob said.
His discovery of Neptune's rings, along with American astronomer William Hubbard, followed on from his interest in the rings of Saturn.
In his work with the Commission for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies in Paris and as a professor at the University of Paris, he helped carry out research into the solar system through Nasa and European unmanned missions.
A minor planet numbered 3488 was named Brahic in tribute to his work.
Froome, bidding to become the first man in 38 years to win the Tour and Vuelta in the same season, finished fourth on the climb to Mirador de Ezaro.
He is 11 seconds behind overall leader Ruben Fernandez, who came second.
France's Alexandre Geniez claimed his second career Grand Tour stage win, with Alejandro Valverde third.
"It's been a difficult season after a crash in Italy and I'm extremely happy for this moment," said FDJ rider Geniez.
Fernandez's fellow Spaniard and Movistar team-mate Valverde is second overall, four seconds ahead of Froome in third.
"I'm delighted to wear the red jersey. I did not expect to wear it today," said 25-year-old Fernandez.
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Team Sky's Froome, 31, had displayed his remarkable climbing abilities in his third Tour victory this summer, and he put those skills to good use on the finale of the 176.4km route from Marin.
Froome eked out time on rivals Nairo Quintana and Alberto Contador on the short, but steep, 1.7km climb to the finish line.
Movistar's Quintana lost six seconds on Froome, with seven-time Grand Tour winner Contador another 22 seconds further back.
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Spaniard Contador was the last man to win more than one in a season - claiming the Giro and Vuelta in 2008.
Stage three result:
1. Alexandre Geniez (Fra/FDJ) 4hours 28mins 36secs
2. Ruben Fernandez (Spa/Movistar) +21secs
3. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) +26secs
4. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) same time
5. Esteban Chaves (Col/Orica)
6. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar) +32secs
7. Igor Anton (Spa/Dimension Data)
8. Samuel Sanchez (Spa/BMC Racing) +54secs
9. Alberto Contador (Spa/Tinkoff)
10. Gianluca Brambilla (Ita/Etixx - Quick-Step)
General classification after stage three:
1. Ruben Fernandez (Spa/Movistar) 9hrs 16mins 7secs
2. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) +7secs
3. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +11secs
4. Esteban Chaves (Col/ Orica) +17secs
5. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar)
6. Samuel Sanchez (Spa/BMC Racing) +46secs
7. Peter Kennaugh (GB/Team Sky) +47secs
8. Leopold Koenig (Cze/Team Sky) +51secs
9. Daniel Moreno (Spa/Movistar) +58secs
10. Gianluca Brambilla (Ita/Etixx - Quick-Step) +1min 1sec
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Flower was shown a red card after two minutes, having knocked Hohaia to the floor before landing a second punch while the Saints man was on the ground.
Hohaia played no further part as Saints went on to win 14-6 at Old Trafford.
"I don't hold any grudges against Ben," said New Zealander Hohaia, 31.
"In the heat of the moment, people do some things they regret. I've done some silly things on the field myself.
"He's probably disappointed in himself for not being able to play a part in the game as well."
In a statement on Wigan's website, Flower, 26, said he was "devastated" by what he had done.
"I firstly offer my apologies to Lance. I have full respect for him, and have never gone onto a rugby field to injure a fellow player.
"I'd also like to say sorry to my team-mates, our fans and the Wigan Club. I know I've let them down like never before and accept I'll have to live with this for the rest of my career.
"Finally, I'm sorry to the sport of Rugby League. It was a big night and I know I've taken the attention away from what was a special event."
Hohaia was unable to return to the field because of concussion and will have scans this week before hopefully being cleared to fly out with his family for a holiday.
"I wanted to go back on but the doctor wouldn't allow that to happen," added Hohaia. "My health comes before anything else.
"I don't remember the incident. People have told me what happened, I guess I was hit around the head somewhere. Sometimes these things happen in the game."
Wigan coach Shaun Wane said he "will stand by" his player for an incident that attracted wide condemnation.
A Rugby Football League spokesman said it would be up to Hohaia and St Helens to decide whether to pursue legal action but the case would go as normal before the match review panel on Monday.
Flower is set to face a disciplinary tribunal on Tuesday when he can expect a suspension of about eight matches.
RFL chief executive Nigel Wood said: "The matter will be dealt with as with any other Super League fixture."
A statement said it had begun talks to sell "a portion of its ownership". Once a deal is done, Nintendo will no longer be the team's principal owner.
It has struggled to repair its finances in the face of competition from mobile gaming. On Wednesday it released a 60% net profit drop for the past year.
Nintendo took over the team in 1992 when it was at risk of being relocated.
The president at the time, Hiroshi Yamauchi, then pushed the investment so it could become the principal owner of the Mariners. Since then, the baseball team has had several star Japanese players including Ichiro Suzuki and Hisashi Iwakuma.
Nintendo's ownership also helped boost the team's popularity among Japanese baseball fans.
Profits from the planned Seattle Mariners sale were not reflected in Wednesday's weak financial forecasts and the firm said that they would "adjust the financial forecasts and release them as needed" once a deal was agreed.
The half-back was knocked to the ground and punched by the Wigan player in the 2014 Super League Grand Final.
He played the next year but retired in April 2015, citing "recurrent post-match concussion-type symptoms".
New Zealander Hohaia, 32, says St Helens refused his request for time off and he was urged to take medication to help him continue his career.
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"I had tests but, with concussion and brain injuries, there is not an exact science," Hohaia told the New Zealand Herald. "The tests were inconclusive but I needed some time.
"Unfortunately Saints chose not to support me through that time and that hurt me a lot.
"I was offered prescription medicines to help with the headaches. I wasn't comfortable with that, as it was masking a bigger problem.
"I needed a period of time to heal but I wasn't given that choice. The option was, take the medication and play... or walk away."
St Helens strenuously deny Hohaia's claims and threatened legal action against the former Kiwi international.
"Hohaia's version of events at St Helens between the Grand Final in 2014 and his voluntary resignation without notice six months later is utterly inaccurate and malicious," a club statement read.
"Throughout that time he received the highest level of professional support and empathy, both rugby and medical. His subsequent version of ongoing 'concussive symptoms' were entirely retrospective and only raised by him at the end of that period.
"At no time was he put under any pressure or duress by the club to play and he was provided with highest level of professional advice and support by the club. St Helens set the very highest standards in that regard.
"His decision to retire was entirely his and his resignation was without due notice to the club. It was he, and not the club, that later put the matter in the hands of solicitors.
"His assertions were totally without merit or foundation and he then decided not to take the matter further. His retrospective version of events bore little, if any, relation to our detailed professional records.
"We are totally outraged that now, some nine months after his voluntary resignation, he regurgitates his grossly inaccurate and misrepresentative assertions against St Helens in a New Zealand newspaper whilst he is resident in the United States.
"It is particularly despicable that he has publicly so wrongly and maliciously impugned St Helens and its highly professional and caring staff who provided him with support and understanding, and simply because he was clearly not entitled to continue to be paid by the club after he voluntarily resigned.
"Such malicious and public misrepresentation is clearly highly damaging to the highly respected and valuable name and reputation of St Helens and to the reputations of our first rate professional staff. We will review all possible actions open to us and seek due redress from all relevant parties."
Hohaia, now 32, moved to the USA with his American-born wife and two children and will soon start work with a property development company in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
He has been contacted for a response.
The study was carried out by scientists from Queen's University Belfast.
It analysed prescribing data for over 250,000 people, aged 65 years and over, living in NI from 2008 to 2010,
It found that antipsychotic drug dispensing in older people more than doubled when they entered care.
The study found that 8.2% were prescribed the drug before entry to care homes and that rose to 18.6% after entering care.
Lead researcher on the Queen's study, Aideen Maguire, said: "Although drug dispensing is high in older people in the community, we have found that it increases dramatically on entry to care.
"This study showed that the high uptake of psychotropic drugs observed in care homes in Northern Ireland cannot be explained by a continuation of drug use initiated in the community prior to entering care.
"With an ageing population globally it is important that we look at the reasons behind this type of increase following admission to care.
"Antipsychotic uptake in Northern Ireland is similar to that in the rest of the UK and Ireland, and this study highlights the need for routine medicines reviews especially during the transition into care."
Overall, recorded crime in London fell by about 6% with 45,000 fewer reports between 2012-13.
The Met said personal thefts have gone up by 17% on the year before, with 70% involving mobile phones being taken.
Former Met officer Mike Pannett said he was concerned how the crime reduction would continue to improve.
He said: "Although I think it's great news, what I'm going to be looking towards is how that is going to be sustained; that level of reduction going forward over the next two to three years"
The Met said it had taken proactive measures which had led to there being a drop in crime.
It said the launch of the Trident Gang Crime Command to tackle an estimated 250 active criminal gangs in London, using a combination of enforcement and preventative approach, has had its impact.
Offences involving weapons also decreased with knife crime reducing by 20% and gun crime down by 20%.
Recently the unit lost its brief to investigate firearms deaths as the force said it had led to an "unhelpful" situation where murders were distinguished on the basis of the weapon used, when the same offenders could be involved in both knife and gun deaths.
Homicides have remained at a similar level with 106 deaths, compared to 103 last year - the lowest number in over 40 years.
Victim Support said it hoped the 16% rape increase was due to people feeling more confident about reporting it.
Jeff Gartner, from the charity, said: "I think there's been a real effort by the Met to look at the culture there is around the investigation of rape and I hope people are getting more confident and of course people need a good deal of support when they report a rape."
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: "London is one of the safest big cities in the world and it's great news that crime rates are continuing to fall.
"This is testament to the sterling work our cops are doing, and we are keeping bobbies on the beat to continue the fight against crime."
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Roy Hodgson's side were knocked out of Euro 2012 by Italy on penalties.
"I don't attach any blame to Roy Hodgson," Shearer told BBC Sport. "But I don't go along with the idea England go home with their heads held high.
"It's no good sitting here saying we will win the World Cup in two years' time. The reality is we will not."
"Alan Shearer's outspoken comments about England will strike a chord with those who believe Euro 2012 confirmed that a change of football culture is needed in this country.
"They may not go down well with the players who fought so hard against a vastly-superior Italy before losing in the quarter-final in Kiev, but he is only echoing the thoughts of many."
Hodgson's side were beaten by Italy last Sunday after being outclassed in a goalless draw in Kiev.
England's players won plaudits for an improved performance in Poland and Ukraine, after a disastrous World Cup in South Africa in 2010.
Germany coach Joachim Loew - who masterminded a 4-1 thrashing of Fabio Capello's side two years ago - has praised Hodgson's management, and said that "England will develop under him in the next few years."
But Shearer sees a vast gulf in quality between England and the likes of Spain and Loew's Germany side.
"The big thing people have spoken about is the togetherness and work ethic but if you just want 11 guys to go out and work hard, I can find you 11 men from Newcastle city centre who will work their socks off," he said.
"That has to be a given, whether at a club or even more so for an international team.
"We are a million miles away from the top sides. Heads held high? Do you think France will go home to that reception?
"It's a sign of how far behind we are now that we can go home and say we can hold our heads up high for getting into the quarter finals."
The Football Association recently voted in proposals for youth coaching which include smaller-sided games on smaller pitches with smaller goals.
But Shearer believes any progress on the international stage will need a vast improvement in the coaching culture of the country, which could take years.
He said: "We have got to get out of the habit of going to tournaments thinking we can win it. This tournament has proven that. We need a change in culture and to be fair to the FA they are trying to change things now.
"It's going to take time to put these systems in place. Our league is the best in the world for entertainment but only because it is full of foreigners."
Fellow England international and BBC Sport pundit Lee Dixon also called for changes.
"Let's remind ourselves where we were two years ago under Capello," he said. "We have come on, the team was an absolute shambles. We have repaired that but we haven't moved forwards football-wise.
"If you go and watch how they teach kids to play football on the continent, they are all doing it a different way to us. And we are not progressing, so they must be doing it right.
"It's not rocket science."
Adrian McKernan and his fiancée Megan Rafferty had lived in Australia for three years before moving back to Northern Ireland just before Christmas.
They were preparing to move into their home just outside Portadown when heavy rains caused water levels on Lough Neagh to rise resulting in serious flooding in the area.
As a precaution the couple are staying in their home to ensure it suffers no further flood damage.
"This is day 10 and we haven't had much sleep at all as there are pumps inside of the house because the water is still coming in," Ms Rafferty said.
"There's just so much to control so it's been pretty devastating.
"We've had to pull up all our floorboards we had to take our new kitchen back up the wall.
"We've had Rivers Agency who have been fantastic here around the clock checking all our pumps."
She explained the impact of the flooding on a personal level.
"It's devastating, especially because I didn't actually feel quite ready to leave Australia because we'd made a good life out there as well so coming back here to this happening it's just sort of straining me," she said.
"It's a lot of pressure on me and Adrian, especially when we're planning a wedding as well for next year so we don't know whether we're coming or going.
"We've to ask each other each day what day it is. We can't even start work because this a 24 hour job.
"Adrian's father had to actually take a week off work too to help us."
The couple have been comforted by the support they have received from the local community.
"We've just received a hamper put together by St Vincent De Paul which is fantastic, just a lot of help from the community as well," she said.
Work on their renovated cottage had been ongoing for several years and her fiancé's father, Adrian McKernan, had been heavily involved in preparing the cottage for the couple's return from Australia.
"The most heart-wrenching thing is that Adrian's father took a lot of time, took every evening to come down here and to help us to get home faster," she said.
"Now all his good work has been undone as the floors he put down, he's had to take up again and they have been damaged so they've all swollen so we're going to have to replace it all and replaster the walls because there are holes in it now."
Megan is trying to keep positive despite the desperate situation she has found herself in.
"This has never happened before like this in the last 100 years anyway and I'm just hoping that it won't happen in the next 100," she said.
"We just want to prepare now and make sure and try and prevent anything like this happening to us again because you know I'll definitely be on that flight back to Australia then."
The couple received a morale-boosting visit from Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill on Wednesday.
"She was basically saying that there will be help there," she said.
"There's a certain amount of money that they are going to give the people affected. We're not the only people affected in this area. There's another two houses down the road so all we can do is really do the best we can with that money."
Megan did admit that although the thought of packing it in and returning to Australia had crossed her mind, she had now decided to stay put.
"Since we've been back, I've just fell in love with it and I don't want to give up on it and I mean this area is beautiful," she said.
"I'm not going to give up but I'm hoping that we'll have the resources and the help there to get us through this."
The offence is alleged to have occurred two months ago and was brought to the authorities' attention by someone who said they had seen the broadcast.
The accused's lawyer says that she "categorically" denies the charges.
An expert said the case highlighted the impossibility of controlling content on live-streaming services, which are gaining in popularity.
According to the indictment, the sexual assault took place in the city of Columbus on 27 February.
Marina Lonina is also accused of taking a photo of the 17-year-old in a state of undress the previous night.
Lonina's boyfriend, Raymond Gates, has been accused of carrying out the assault. It is not yet known how he intends to plead.
The two face charges of rape, kidnapping, sexual battery and pandering sexually-oriented matter involving a minor.
Twitter declined to comment. Periscope's guidelines say that graphic content is banned.
But this is not the first time the app has been linked to an alleged offence.
Earlier this month, it was reported that police in London had intervened after a fight between two rival gangs had been arranged via the app.
Other incidents include:
The app has hosted more than 100 million broadcasts since it launched last year, the vast majority of which are innocuous.
But the issue of live-streamed crime could become more common as the activity becomes more mainstream.
Earlier this week, Facebook announced it was adding a tab to its app to help users find live-streamed videos.
The social network had already altered the algorithm of its news feeds to prioritise such feeds.
"The volume of content being created and uploaded every day is far too great to be regulated manually and automatic systems are simply too inaccurate to be practical," commented Dr Joss Wright from the Oxford Internet Institute.
"There is almost no practical way to prevent content like this being uploaded and shared if people want to do it and any system to do so would also have serious implications for freedom of expression and the publication of legitimate but controversial content.
"The internet has undoubtedly made this case worse for the alleged victim. But as with other real-world crimes, prevention is not always possible."
The A8 Greenock Road was closed in both directions between Abbotsinch Road and Inchinnan Drive following the crash.
Police were called to the scene at about 10:30 and have been directing traffic onto diversion routes.
Traffic was reported to be heavy in the area.
Lulu Quinn's work, marking the 70th anniversary of Liverpool-born MP Eleanor Rathbone, can be found in the walled garden at Greenbank Park, the Rathbone family's former estate.
Ms Rathbone waged a 25-year battle for cash to be paid directly to mothers.
Her perseverance resulted in the 1945 Family Allowance Act - which originally saw weekly payouts of five shillings.
Among those attending the unveiling of the artwork were Liverpool's Deputy Mayor Ann O'Byrne, Louise Ellman MP, and Lesley Urbach of the Remembering Eleanor Rathbone campaign.
Ms Rathbone represented the Combined Universities seat (which covered all English universities except for Cambridge, London and Oxford) in the House of Commons from 1929 until shortly before her death.
The artwork features three quotations taken from her writings about women's suffrage, the Family Allowance Act and her campaigns for refugee rights.
It is created out of Corten steel sheets which are used in shipbuilding - a nod to her family's business.
"I wanted to use Eleanor Rathbone's words to animate the garden," said Ms Quinn. "In the current political climate her words are the voice of reason and rationality."
Jenny Rathbone, who represents Cardiff Central for Labour in the Welsh Assembly, said it was "fantastic" that her great aunt's achievements were being recognised and that she would have been "very pleased to see her words commemorated" rather than her personally.
Born in 1872, Eleanor Florence Rathbone has been described as one of the 20th Century's greatest humanitarian activists.
She also became known as the "MP for refugees" for her campaigning on behalf of people fleeing Nazi persecution.
The future MP attended Oxford University but, as a woman, was not allowed to graduate.
She was the first woman to be elected to Liverpool City Council, representing Granby Ward from 1909 to 1934.
She was later elected as an independent MP for the Combined Universities constituency.
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At least 200 original props from all seven films will feature in the interactive show at the O2 in Greenwich.
The props have been loaned by the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, established by the saga's creator George Lucas.
The exhibition opens on 18 November.
The show, called Star Wars Identities, is interactive and allows visitors to explore the franchise universe, understand how the characters were made and also create a character of their own.
The exhibition first began in Canada and has toured European cities including Cologne and Munich.
Other pieces of memorabilia which will be on show include the famous bikini worn by Princess Leia -played by actress Carrie Fisher - in the third film Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
The robot R2-D2 costume, operated by the late small English actor Kenny Baker, will also be exhibited.
President of X3 Productions - creators of the show - Jacques-Andres Dupont said: "This exhibition offers a fresh perspective on the beloved characters of Star Wars.
"We get a deeper understanding of their identities, and, at the same time, we get a deeper understanding of our own."
The show also includes concept art produced before the filming of the first three Star Wars films, which gives an insight into how characters such as Chewbacca were developed before film production commenced.
The rights to the franchise were bought by Disney from Lucasfilm in 2012 for $4.05bn (£3.12bn), and was successfully rebooted in December with the seventh film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a large portion of which was shot at Pinewood Studios.
A spin-off film called Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, is due to be released in December this year.
The scoreline could have been ever worse for Antrim as their keeper Chris O'Connell made several brilliant saves.
Goals from Jonjo Farrell and Ollie Walsh helped the Cats lead 2-2 to 0-1 although Antrim stayed in touch to trail only 2-12 to 0-10 at half-time.
The second half was one-way traffic as Richie Hogan, Richie Leahy (two) and Farrell added further three pointers.
In addition to keeper O'Connell, Conor McCann and Conor McKinley battled well for the Antrim but the gulf in class showed the tough job that joint-managers Terence McNaughton and Dominic McKinley have on their hands in re-establishing the Saffrons as a genuine hurling force.
Rachid Lamrabet, 42, is accused of raping the man to his injury at Greyfriars Kirk on 26 August 2015.
Mr Lamrabet, a native Spanish speaker from London, denies the charge and has lodged a special defence claiming the complainer consented to sex.
The trail at the High Court at Livingston, before Lord Woolman, continues.
The 23-year-old admin worker said he clearly remembered being raped and asked his attacker to stop.
The contemporary theatre graduate from Manchester said he ran half naked from the graveyard to escape his attacker.
He claimed he recalled nothing else until he woke up in an ambulance.
Giving evidence from behind a screen in court, the man said he had come to the Scottish capital with friends to perform in a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2015.
He said he had gone out socialising in the city centre with his friends after they had finished a performance.
He admitted he had had at least 10 drinks before he left the Hive nightclub in Niddry Street alone, and identified himself on CCTV stumbling drunkenly outside the club and dropping his mobile phone several times.
The jury also saw CCTV footage of the alleged victim wandering the streets around the Cowgate area before apparently approaching a man in the street outside the rear of the Budget Backpackers' hostel near Grassmarket.
He confirmed that video shown in court showed him and the other man "kissing and embracing" each other before setting off down the street hand in hand.
The alleged victim is then captured by another CCTV camera at the Greyfriars Bobby Bar with his right arm around the neck of an older man as they walk together towards the churchyard.
He agreed with advocate depute Tim Niven-Smith that he had met the person seen on the court TV screens and "gone off willingly somewhere with them".
Mr Niven-Smith said: "Clearly you are agreeing with what is happening at that point; you're consenting to what is happening, approving, going along." He replied: "Yes."
He said he was then raped in the churchyard.
He said he had suffered "intimate" injuries as a result of the rape.
He said he had no memory of meeting two "Good Samaritans" who called an ambulance after they found him lying in his underpants at a bus stop on George IV Bridge across from the churchyard shortly before 06:30.
Andy Hall, from Lincolnshire, was given a three-year suspended jail term and fined 150,000 baht ($4,300; £3,300).
Hall had contributed to a report by a Finnish watchdog, Finnwatch, in 2013 alleging the Natural Fruit Company mistreated its workers.
Finnwatch said it was "shocked" by the verdict.
"Andy has been made a scapegoat in order to stifle other voices that speak out legitimately in support of migrant worker rights," said executive director Sonja Vartiala.
"This is a sad day for freedom of expression in Thailand. We fear that many other human rights defenders and victims of company abuse will be scared to silence by this ruling."
Speaking to the BBC before he went into court, Hall said it would be incredibly unjust if he was convicted, but that he was grateful for the international attention the case had brought to migrant rights in Thailand.
Hall's sentence was suspended for two years, meaning he will not go to jail. Because the report was published online in Thailand, he was also found guilty of violating the Computer Crimes Act.
A spokesman for the British embassy in Bangkok said they would be raising the matter with the Thai authorities.
The Finnwatch report - Cheap has a High Price - included allegations that migrant workers were being paid wages below the legal minimum, working long hours at factories and had had their passports illegally confiscated.
Natural Fruit, one of Thailand's biggest pineapple producers, denied all the allegations and brought charges against Hall, who was living in Thailand at the time.
Owner Wirat Piyapornpaiboon had said the report caused damage to him and his company.
Thailand has grown to become one of the world's biggest food producers, but is repeatedly criticised for the treatment of migrant workers.
The frequent use of the criminal defamation law in Thailand to silence critics has been condemned by human rights groups.
The US-based Human Rights Watch said Hall had co-ordinated "important research" and that prosecuting him raised "serious questions about Thailand's readiness to protect workers' rights".
Waits range from two weeks to six months, Sunday Politics Wales found.
Shadow Health Minister Darren Millar said more must be done to avoid future problems, including more veterans taking their own lives.
A specialist veterans' mental health service will re-launch on Thursday.
Veterans' NHS Wales treats ex-service personnel with mental health problems including (PTSD), receiving £485,000 funding a year.
Lead clinician Dr Neil Kitchiner said veterans with symptoms of PTSD must get help quickly.
"If someone doesn't present when they're in service to the psychiatric team then they often leave and several years down the road they present with problems and symptoms which could have been dealt with much sooner," he says.
"They may have fallen out of love several times, they may have gone to prison, they may have been homeless and they may have battled with alcohol and drugs."
Sunday Politics Wales asked local Veterans' NHS Wales services for current waiting times from first assessment to beginning treatment.
Of those who responded, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board service reported waits of two to three weeks while Cardiff and Vale University Health Board said they were about 26 weeks.
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Maldwyn Jones served nearly 18 years in the Army, including the Falklands War in 1982 with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards. He also served in Northern Ireland, Belize and Cyprus. A former police officer, he is now a publican.
"Coming out of the Army is difficult. In the armed forces a lot of things are done for you. The way of life and camaraderie is a real different outlook on life.
"With PTSD I think I recognised quite early I was suffering and I got chatting to a Army psychiatric nurse over lunch and talked about a third party - but it was me - and he said the symptoms sounded like PTSD. I got a bit of good advice. I self-diagnosed and self-dealt with it.
"The first time I talked about the event was 16 years after and the lid came off."
Some of an extra £650,000 to improve access to psychological therapies for people with mental health problems is to fund treatment for veterans suffering from PTSD, the Welsh government has said.
Further details are expected this week.
Conservative Shadow Health Minister Darren Millar, chair of the cross-party group on the armed forces, welcomed the extra resources.
But he said: "We need to make sure that when clinicians come across a veteran with PTSD in particular, that they're able to strike while the iron is hot and provide a timely service".
"If we don't have that then unfortunately we are going to see more veterans turning up in the criminal justice system, we're going to see more family breakdown and we're going to see - unfortunately - more veterans taking their own lives."
Sunday Politics Wales, BBC One Wales, 1100 BST on 22 June.
The Hare Krishna Festival of Chariots began in Granby Street with a welcome ceremony and ended at Cossington Park, in Belgrave, on Sunday afternoon.
Leicester hosts one of the largest celebrations of its type in Europe, organisers said.
The chariot carried deities of the Lord Jagannatha and his sister Subhadra.
The vibrant procession was accompanied with music, singing and dancing as it made its way through the city.
Pradyumna Das, the president of the the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), said Rathayatra, as it is also known, was "the second largest such festival in Europe."
The 5,000-year-old event was first brought to the West by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, the founder of ISKCON, in 1967.
At Cossington Park, revellers were entertained with dance, live music, drama and exhibitions.
Sheridan, 51, led Oldham to 17th in League One after taking over from David Dunn in January.
Ex-Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Mark Crossley will be assistant to Sheridan, whom he worked with at Chesterfield.
Previous manager Mark Cooper left Notts in May to join Forest Green, despite the offer of a permanent contract if a points target was achieved.
Oldham initially rejected approaches from Notts County for Sheridan but later allowed him to speak to Notts, who finished 17th in League Two and are currently under a temporary transfer embargo because of unpaid bills.
"There are several reasons behind this move and not all will be apparent to everyone, but John goes with my blessing and eternal thanks for his tremendous effort," Latics chairman Simon Corney told his club's website.
"Whilst we recognise the huge disappointment many fans will be feeling, we ask everyone to try to stick together and continue to support our club. This is not something we wanted or envisaged."
Sheridan started his managerial career at Oldham in 2006 and left after three years with the Latics.
While in charge of Chesterfield, he won the League Two title in 2011 and the Football League Trophy a year later.
"Notts County is a big club - far bigger than its current league position suggests and I know what is required to succeed and get the club back to a higher level," Sheridan told Notts County's website.
"The tremendous home support has always made Notts a tough place to come - this passion can make a real difference and give us a huge advantage in our endeavours next season."
Chief executive Jason Turner added: "I'm confident that we've found a manager who can have us challenging for promotion at the top end of the League Two table.
"He's vastly experienced with a proven track record at this level, so to attract somebody of his calibre is a real statement of intent by the club."
Margaret Harries, from Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taff, later went on to have a second stroke at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Llantrisant, in 2012.
Her family made repeated requests for answers from Cwm Taf health board.
The public services ombudsman said the health board "failed to properly protect" her from an avoidable stroke.
Nick Bennett upheld the family's complaint and said Cwm Taf health board failed to assess and treat her symptoms promptly and effectively. It has apologised.
The ombudsman said there was also a delay in her being seen by a suitably trained clinician and in transferring her to an acute stroke unit, he said.
A report into her care said Mrs Harries was admitted to hospital on 24 March 2012 because she was suffering with diarrhoea and vomiting.
She was waiting to be discharged on 4 April when she suffered her first stroke and, despite family requests, was not seen by a doctor for more than six hours.
Then, overnight whilst she was sleeping, she suffered a further significant stroke.
The report found the health board failed to:
Mrs Harries' son Ceri Harries said the health board repeatedly delayed responding to the family's complaint and he was dissatisfied with the way it was handled and with Cwm Taf's response.
"I still feel angry about it," he said. "Just reading the report now is quite upsetting.
"We all feel really upset about what's happened because my mother was a lovely woman and she's disappeared over time."
Cwm Taf has agreed to give a written apology for the failures identified in the report - which referred to Mrs Harries as Mrs M - and to pay £5,500.
Allison Williams, chief executive of Cwm Taf University Health Board, said: "We reiterate our sincere apologies to Mrs M's family following her treatment in April 2012, and apologise for the distress caused as a result of the failings identified within the report.
"We accept the Public Services Ombudsman's findings in respect of this case and work is ongoing within the health board to address the report's recommendations."
Mrs Harries was transferred to another hospital for rehabilitation a week after her stroke and was discharged to a nursing home in February 2013. She died in November 2014.
Margaret Hughes, 91, was found dead in her bungalow during floods at St Asaph, Denbighshire, in November 2012.
Witness Steven Green told the Ruthin hearing he knocked on her door at 09:00 GMT and said she should go with him.
But the pensioner, who was eating breakfast, "weighed up the pros and cons" and declined, shutting the door.
Mr Green said he had been staying with his parents in a nearby street when the floods hit.
He woke up to see a lot of activity on the street and so decided to check on his grandmother, who lived next door to Mrs Hughes.
Mr Green's grandmother was safe, but he saw a Red Cross worker at Mrs Hughes' door and went to help.
"I think you need to come with us," Mr Green told the great-grandmother.
At that point the flood water was flowing but had not reached kerb height. It was a foot away from her house, Mr Green said.
"She was eating her breakfast," Mr Green told the inquest.
"She looked like she gave it some thought, she weighed it up but she decided not to... and closed the door."
He added: "She looked like she weighed up the pros and cons of it."
Mr Green told the hearing Mrs Hughes looked "warm and cosy".
"She was old but she understood what I was asking her to do," he said. "There was no misunderstanding."
The hearing also heard from David Hallows, one of two Red Cross workers who had been asked to help evacuate the area.
"From what I could see happening, a crisis was coming," he said.
Mr Hallows said he advised Mrs Hughes to leave her home, and pointed to her disabled ramp which had water lapping up around it.
"I think she felt comfortable where she was and she wanted to stay," he said.
"She said she was fine and the door was closed."
Water levels rose by up to 7ft (2.1m) in about 30 minutes.
On Wednesday, the inquest heard Mrs Hughes had joined a flood warning scheme but an alert failed to reach her.
She had signed up to receive alerts through her daughter Gwenda Jones's mobile phone, who she said she did not get one on that day.
The hearing continues.
Joyon, 60, and team-mates took 40 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds - Frenchman Loick Peyron held the previous record set in 2012.
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"It's the result of long years of work," Joyon said after arriving at the Channel island of Ushant.
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He told BBC Scotland: "They are in a title race, Aberdeen are only a point behind them. There is pressure.
"So if there are any kind of nerves we need to capitalise on them.
"If we can silence the crowd by not giving anything away in the first 15 minutes that might put a bit of pressure on them."
And the Jags boss added: "If we are not at our best they could turn us over.
"We have to be switched on and make sure we do the simple things really well."
Aberdeen's 2-1 win over Thistle on Tuesday moved them to within a point of the reigning Premiership champions, though Celtic have played one game fewer.
Archibald thinks both title contenders have the mental strength going into the last quarter of the season.
He said: "Some people were questioning if Aberdeen had enough bottle.
"They showed plenty coming back from a goal down to beat us. Celtic have lots of experience, lots of players who've been over the course before and lots of internationals."
After Saturday's match eighth-placed Thistle will have played all top three Premiership sides in a seven-day period.
They lost 1-0 at Hearts on Saturday prior to that defeat by the Dons.
"In those two games we lost goals at set plays, which isn't like us," said Archibald.
"We have to take the positives out of those games. We've struggled for goals this season but we created three or four good chances against Aberdeen, and if we'd scored one of them when we were a goal up we would probably have won the match.
"The next five games will define our season. After we play Celtic we play three teams below us in the league (Hamilton, Kilmarnock and Dundee United) and Ross County before the split. They are all winnable games.
"After that we'll see where we are, we are dividing the rest of the season into two groups of five games.
"We just have to get through this tough period. We've won two and lost two of the games we had in hand.
"We've had to make changes to freshen things up and because of injuries, it's taken a lot out of us on some heavy pitches, with our own being probably the worst. If we can keep everyone fit we'll be all right."
Zaha's inclusion follows his decision to switch international allegiance from England, where he grew up.
The 24-year-old was born in Ivory Coast but has two England caps, having played against Sweden in November 2012 and Scotland the following year.
As both were friendly matches, he is permitted to commit his international future to his country of birth.
The tournament in Gabon, which starts on 14 January, could see Zaha miss up to six weeks of the season for Palace.
Manchester United defender Eric Bailly has also been called up to the 24-man squad by French coach Michel Dussuyer, as has veteran forward Salomon Kalou, who is set to appear in his fifth Nations Cup.
However former Arsenal forward Gervinho - who now play for Hebei Fortune in China - will be absent after injuring his anterior cruciate ligament.
One player will be cut from the party before the tournament starts.
"Gervinho's absence weighs down on us, for sure. But we have had several weeks to get used to the idea," Dussuyer said. "The arrival of Zaha is therefore great news. His profile is similar to Gervinho's."
The defending champions have a training camp in Abu Dhabi starting on 2 January.
"One of the challenges facing us in camp will be that some of the players will be rested and others - those playing in England - will be tired and in need of some rest," Dussuyer said.
Ivory Coast kick off the tournament against Togo on 16 January, before facing DR Congo and Morocco in the group stage.
Squad:
Goalkeepers: Sylvain Gbohuo (TP Mazembe, DR Congo), Badra Sangare (AS Tanda, Ivory Coast), Mande Sayouba (Stabaek, Norway)
Defenders: Serge Aurier (PSG, France), Mamadou Bagayoko (St Trond VV, Belgium), Eric Bailly (Manchester United, England), Simon Deli (Slavia Prague, Czech Rep), Ousmane Viera Diarrassouba (Adanaspor, Turkey), Wilfried Kanon (ADO, Netherlands), Lamine Kone (Sunderland, England), Adama Traore (Basel, Switzerland)
Midfielders: Victorien Angban (Grenada, Spain), Cheik Doukoure (Metz, France), Franck Kessie (Atalanta, Italy), Yao Serge N'guessan (AS Nancy, France), Geoffroy Serey Die (Basel, Switzerland), Jean Michael Seri (Nice, France)
Forwards: Wilfried Bony (Stoke City, England), Max Gradel (Bournemouth, England), Salomon Kalou (Hertha Berlin, Germany), Jonathan Kodjia (Aston Villa, England), Nicolas Pepe (Angers, France), Giovanni Sio (Stade Rennes, France), Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace, England)
No-one has been found guilty of the Real IRA bomb attack in August 1998, in which 29 people were killed.
A High Court judge ruled that Michael Gallagher has established an arguable case that the authorities are in breach of an investigative obligation.
A full hearing will be held in April.
It will explore claims that intelligence may exist to back Mr Gallagher's belief that the attack could have been prevented.
Mr Gallagher's son Aidan was one of the victims of the atrocity.
In September 2013, Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers rejected calls for a public inquiry, saying an investigation by Police Ombudsman Michael Maguire was the best way to address any outstanding issues.
Last October, Dr Maguire published a report where he found RUC Special Branch withheld some intelligence information from detectives hunting the bombers.
No-one has ever been convicted of carrying out the attack, but Seamus Daly, a 44-year-old bricklayer from Cullaville, County Monaghan, is currently charged with the 29 murders which he denies.
Central to the bid to have Ms Villiers' decision judicially reviewed was a contention that the government has a duty under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights to protect lives and investigate the bombing.
Mr Gallagher was in court with his family and Stanley McComb, who lost his wife Ann in the blast, to hear his lawyers claim that the terrorist attack was at least arguably preventable.
They argued that a range of intelligence from British security agents, MI5 and RUC officers could have been drawn together to stop the killers.
Counsel for the secretary of state said that four separate Police Ombudsman examinations into Omagh had already been held.
In the latest report Dr Maguire concluded nothing had been identified which could have prevented the atrocity, but that Special Branch had acted "cautiously".
Further opposition to the challenge was based on the date of the bombing - two years before human rights legislation was incorporated into UK law in 2000.
But granting leave to seek a judicial review, Mr Justice Treacy held that Article 2 duties were at least arguably engaged.
He also decided an arguable case had been established that the state was in breach of its obligation to conduct such an investigation into claims the attack could have been prevented.
The judge listed the case for a substantive two-day hearing on April 29-30.
Outside court, Mr Gallagher expressed delight at the outcome.
He said: "This is but a step on our continued fight for justice. Today the courts have agreed at the very least that the secretary of state's decision was questionable.
"We will now move on to prepare for a full hearing to show the state has yet to properly investigate the circumstances of the Omagh bomb."
The decision was also welcomed by Amnesty International.
"What the families, and Northern Ireland more broadly, deserve is the fullest account possible of what happened in Omagh," Amnesty's Patrick Corrigan said.
Head coach Warren Gatland has decided to stick with the players that he knows best from coaching Wales. They won the Grand Slam in 2012, beat England in the final game to win this year's Six Nations and made the 2011 World Cup semi-final.
Gatland knows what they can do, but his decision does put a bit of pressure on him.
If they win he is a hero. If they lose, everyone will be criticising him for picking so many Welshmen. His decision also puts added pressure on the Welsh players to perform.
All selections are a gamble in many ways, but it is a little surprising that five changes were made for the second Test and another six for the Sydney Test. It is unusual to have so many changes as successful sides do not do that - they are settled.
Gatland's front-row selection looks solid, although I believe England lock Geoff Parling is quite fortunate to keep his place in the second row.
And in the back row I would have had yet another Welshman - flanker Justin Tipuric - in the starting line-up!
The Welsh players will also have the added motivation of the nation's poor recent record - they have lost eight on the bounce - against Australia.
Wales have been really unfortunate against the Wallabies of late though, and they could easily have won two of their three most recent encounters.
With those defeats in mind, they will be bursting for revenge.
I am surprised that Ireland centre Brian O'Driscoll has been left out as he would have been the ideal captain. But Wales lock Alun Wyn Jones is playing very well, and he will certainly lead by example.
Provided Wales centre Jamie Roberts is fully fit when he returns at the weekend, he has the ability to go across the gain line.
An inability to do so was a real problem last Saturday, when the Lions made no breaks at all.
To beat the Australians, we have to have somebody who can put us on the front foot.
While our regional sides have been very poor in recent years, luckily the national team has been very consistent.
Remembering back to the 1971 and 1974 Lions teams, of which I was a part, we also had a strong Welsh influence.
You can really take the positivity from the national side to the Lions - that certainly happened in 1971 when we were series victors in New Zealand, and in 1974 when we finished unbeaten in South Africa.
Let's hope the same thing happens again for the Lions on Saturday.
The last two games have been decided by two-point and one-point margins, and it could go down to the last minute again.
It will be very tight, and I think Australia will start as slight favourites.
JPR Williams was talking to BBC Sport's Matt Monaghan
Perera scored 135 as the tourists made good use of a run-friendly wicket with an imposing 377-8 from their 50 overs.
Andy McBrine top-scored for Ireland at number eight with 79 off 64 balls, including seven fours and two sixes.
Sri Lanka's total never looked in any real danger and Suranga Lakmal helped see off the tail, with figures of 4-38.
After Perera and Danuska Gunathilaka, who made 63 off 78 deliveries before being run out, had put on 147 for the opening wicket, Seekkuge Prasanna contributed 95 off 46 balls, his best one-day total, to help put Sri Lanka in control.
By the time Perera was eventually out, caught by Paul Stirling off Tim Murtagh in the 42nd over, Sri Lanka had pushed on to 309 to leave Ireland facing a testing run chase.
The total was the highest accumulated in a one-day international in Ireland and the visitors scored 212 of their runs in boundaries, 32 fours and 14 sixes.
Murtagh was the most successful of the Irish bowlers, with three wickets for 66 runs from his 10 overs.
In reply, Ireland's top order, though, failed to make an early progress, as opener William Porterfield went for eight and number three Ed Joyce for nine.
John Anderson scored 34 and Stuart Poynter 36, before McBrine put up some late resistance with his maiden ODI half-century.
After their heaviest home defeat in a one-day international, Ireland will look to bounce back when they play Afghanistan next month in a five-match ODI series, the first game at Stormont taking place on Sunday, 10 July.
The events included broken instruments falling into patients' bodies, electrical sparks causing tissue burns and system errors making surgery take longer than planned.
The report notes that the figures represent a small proportion of the total number of robotic procedures.
But it calls for fresh safety measures.
"Despite widespread adoption of robotic systems for minimally invasive surgery, a non-negligible number of technical difficulties and complications are still being experienced during procedures," the study states.
"Adoption of advanced techniques in design and operation of robotic surgical systems may reduce these preventable incidents in the future."
Robotic surgery can reduce the risk of infections and help patients heal more quickly.
The UK's Royal College of Surgeons said it believed the report should be "treated with caution".
"The authors note 'little or no information was provided in the adverse incident reports' about the cause of the majority of deaths, meaning they could be related to risks or complications inherent during surgery," said a spokeswoman.
"The authors do not compare the level of complications in surgery where robots are not used, nor do they examine the benefits of robotic surgery which are starting to be reported."
The work was carried out by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Chicago's Rush University Medical Center.
Their paper says 144 deaths, 1,391 injuries and 8,061 device malfunctions were recorded out of a total of more than 1.7 million robotic procedures carried out between January 2000 and December 2013.
This was based on reports submitted by hospitals, patients, device manufacturers and others to the US Food and Drug Administration, and the study notes that the true number could be higher.
Its authors say the number of injuries and deaths per procedure has remained relatively constant since 2007. But due to the fact that the use of robotic systems is increasing "exponentially", they add, this means that the number of accidents is increasing every year.
They highlight that when problems do occur, people are several times more likely to die if the surgery involves their heart, lungs, head and/or neck rather than gynaecological and urological procedures.
They acknowledge that the data does not pinpoint why, but suggest it is because the former are more complex types of operations for which robots are less commonly used, so there is less experience and expertise available.
The researchers did not, however, compare accident rates with similar operations in which robots were not used. Their study has not been peer reviewed.
Surgical robotic devices are typically expensive - costing millions of pounds - but offer advantages.
They can allow surgeons to use smaller instruments, letting them make smaller and more nimble cuts. That can mean patients recover faster, with less risk of infection and the promise of smaller scars.
In addition, the development of remote surgery means that doctors do not always need to be in the same room as their patients, allowing specialists who are in demand to treat more people.
Despite these benefits, sales of surgical robots declined by 2% in 2013 - the most recent year for which figures have been published by the International Federation of Robotics.
That has been linked to some medical experts questioning claims that the cost of using such machines is justified by improved outcomes.
"There is no good data proving that robotic hysterectomy is even as good as - let alone better - than existing, and far less costly, minimally invasive alternatives," the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said in 2013.
"Aggressive direct-to-consumer marketing of the latest medical technologies may mislead the public into believing that they are the best choice."
Others specialists have, however, vouched for such systems' benefits in other procedures.
"The Royal Marsden has performed more robotic surgical procedures for prostate cancer than any other hospital in the UK," states the London hospital's website.
"We have dramatically improved functional and oncological outcomes for patients undergoing radical prostatectomy [the removal of the prostate gland to treat cancer]."
Although the study links hundreds of injuries and deaths to robotic surgery, in most cases the FDA's logs do not make clear whether the use of the machines was directly responsible.
In fact, of the headline figures, only a minority - five of the deaths and 436 of the injuries - are specifically tied to technical errors that occurred during an operation.
But the authors say there is still reason to be concerned.
They list 1,166 cases of broken/burned parts falling into patients' bodies, which contributed to 119 injuries and one death.
Uncontrolled movements and spontaneous powering on/off of the machines are said to have caused 52 injuries and two deaths.
Electrical sparks, unintended charring and damaged accessory covers are linked to 193 injuries, including the burning of body tissues.
And the loss of quality video feeds and/or reports of system error codes are said to have contributed to a further 41 injuries and one death.
The report's authors suggest that one way to tackle such problems would be to give surgical teams more troubleshooting training - including the use of computer simulations that feature technical problems - to help them learn how to restart surgery more quickly after interruptions.
The scheme hopes to safeguard the future of the Torwoodlee Tower near Galashiels which dates back to 1601.
A fundraising campaign was launched in 2001 to generate the resources necessary to consolidate the building.
A two-year £150,000 project is now able to get under way which should help to make the structure safe to view.
The tower plays a part in the history of Galashiels and its annual Braw Lads' Gathering celebrations.
James Pringle, the 14th and current laird of Torwoodlee, said: "In 2001 we launched a campaign to raise the funds we needed to consolidate this romantic ruin.
"That year was the quincentenary of 1501 when we first came to Torwoodlee and it seemed a very apt moment to be thinking of the next 500 years.
"Now, thanks to the generosity of the Fallago Environment Fund, Historic Scotland, local people and Pringles around the world, we are in a position to undertake the two year project to stop the tower falling down any more."
He said when the project was finished the tower would be "safe for people to look at and admire once again".
The Anaphylaxis Campaign - an allergy charity - says there are about 35 known cases in the entire world.
And for that reason, scientific understanding of the condition is relatively limited.
Aquagenic urticaria - as it is officially called - is something that even many medical professionals know nothing about.
But after discussing the condition on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show, the production team was amazed when dozens of people came forward to say they were suffering in a similar way.
It seemed that thanks to our radio phone-in, we had discovered that more people suffer with an allergy to water than previously thought.
Dr Sarah Jarvis, a GP and BBC Radio 2's medical expert, says: "Allergy to water is remarkably rare.
"Some people are so allergic to water that even their tears or their sweat can cause them to come out in a rash.
"The most common time to develop allergies in general is around the time of puberty, although they can be developed at any stage of life.
"Often the allergy can become worse over time.
"A true water allergy is a type of urticaria.
"With urticaria, within one to 15 minutes of being exposed to a substance, you come up in hives.
"It is like nettle rash on the skin, and you can get really dramatic swelling all over.
"Fingers especially can become red, hot and intensely itchy."
Dr Jarvis says antihistamine tablets are used to treat most types of urticaria, but they deliver only variable success for those with a genuine water allergy.
"There simply aren't enough people in the world who have it to be able to successfully conduct the studies we need to," she says.
"There is no definitive cure."
But as with any allergy, people who suffer do so with varying degrees of severity.
Dr Jarvis says: "Some people will come out in hives regularly, others occasionally, and some people will get it chronically, with the swelling and itching lasting for weeks."
Below, some of our listeners explain what it is like to be allergic to water.
There have been times where it has felt like someone is holding a stinging nettle to my face.
The allergy - which mainly causes intense itching - is concentrated in the creases of my elbows, the backs of my knees and my face.
Even sweat makes me itch.
I have to carry a hand towel with me everywhere I go to wipe it off.
I am a cyclist, and every time I come to standstill, I dab my face.
Sometimes people do not believe that you are allergic to water; they take the Mickey out of you.
It all started when I was about 60.
I was a metal grinder, and initially I thought it had something to do with metal dust getting to me.
If I had a shower or got my hands wet, they - along with my torso and back - would itch like nobody's business.
I get a red rash all over.
If you were to feel my arm after I have a reaction, it feels like sandpaper.
And in fact if someone had rubbed actual sandpaper on me after, it would have been a relief.
The itching is so intense that at times I would actually go outside and rub my back against a pebbledash wall.
I flare up even if I do everyday tasks like cleaning out the fish tank.
If it was much more severe, I can see how it might drive you to suicide.
You just want anything to take the pain away.
I went to the see the doctor, and we went through everything in my lifestyle.
I changed shampoo, shower gels, water temperature, and nothing worked.
My doctor eventually decided that the only thing it could be was water.
I am helped now by a heavy-duty antihistamine.
I was eight when it first happened.
I was walking to school one day in the rain, and my hands and neck swelled up with hives - it was really frightening.
I later went to the doctor for an allergy test.
They put tiny drops of different substances on my arm to see what I was allergic to.
They also put a 'control' substance on, which was water.
It is a control substance because water is not supposed to cause a reaction at all.
But after 15 minutes, my entire arm swelled up.
It turns out that I was allergic to it.
It got worse for me.
I would play sport at school - but the moment I started to sweat, I would get swelling.
When the swelling happens around my joints, it really hurts.
When my neck swells up, it makes me wheezy.
Teachers did not believe me when I said I could not play sport in the rain - until they saw what it did to me.
I take antihistamines every day, which means I can drink water - it is a necessary evil.
I tend to have three-minute showers and have to get dry as fast as possible.
From the response we got from our listeners on the Jeremy Vine Show, it would appear that a true allergy to water could be more common than widely believed.
Amena Warner, the head of clinical services for Allergy UK, said: "Once awareness is raised of what the symptoms are of this condition, then many people may associate this with the symptoms they are experiencing.
"And so, we may come to realise that actually it is not quite as rare as we think."
On 18 June 1994, a few regulars had just finished watching the Republic of Ireland's footballers beat Italy in the World Cup.
Just after 22:00 BST, two gunmen from the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), one armed with an AK47 and the other with a Czech-made rifle, walked inside and began firing indiscriminately.
Six men were killed instantly.
They were 34-year-old Adrian Rogan, Malcolm Jenkinson, 53, Barney Green, 87, Daniel McCreanor, 59, Patrick O'Hare, 35, and Eamon Byrne, 39.
All were Catholic civilians. Mr Green was one of the oldest people to be killed in the Northern Ireland Troubles.
Witnesses said that the killers laughed as they ran to their getaway car.
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, the brother of the bar owner described how the dead were "piled on top of each other".
"We are still in a state of complete numbness. My head is just saturated with the thought of it all. My feelings for these poor families," Keiron O'Toole said.
He also rubbished claims by the UVF that the bar had been hosting a republican meeting.
"That is absolute nonsense. This was a mixed pub, Protestant and Catholic came in, no-one cared what religion they were.
"There was just a complete attempt to kill Catholics and who ever else happened to be in the bar among them."
The UVF's explanation for the attack was also dismissed angrily by unionist politicians.
"Obviously these people are psychopaths - nothing short of it," an Ulster Unionist councillor said.
"I feel shocked and disgusted to think that these people call themselves loyalists."
Senior police officers had their own views on the reason for the murders - a random sectarian attack in response to other killings.
Two days previously, republican terror group the Irish National Liberation Army had killed three UVF members in Belfast.
The following day, the UVF responded by killing a Catholic taxi driver and later two Protestants, they believed to be Catholic.
They then turned their attention to the County Down bar.
No-one has ever been convicted over the Loughinisland attack and the families of those who died became concerned about the investigation.
In 2006, they lodged an official complaint with the police ombudsman, who has the power to investigate the actions of police in Northern Ireland throughout the Troubles.
The families said they were prompted by revelations that linked the gang with at least one person who was an agent of the security forces.
They were also concerned that the getaway car used by the killers was destroyed by police ten months after the shootings and not retained for evidential purposes.
The ombudsman's report has been delayed on several occasions.
It had been scheduled for publication in 2009, but was postponed after new material came forward.
Relatives of those who died were strongly critical of the original ombudsman report when it was finally published in 2011.
It found that the police did not properly investigate the killings but said there was no evidence of collusion between police and the UVF paramilitaries who carried out the attack.
The report's findings were later quashed by Belfast High Court and a fresh investigation was opened by the ombudsman.
In 2014, one of the survivors, Colm Smyth, called on those responsible to come forward.
A police reservist was arrested and questioned over perverting the course of justice and withholding information in 2010.
After considering the charges against him, the Public Prosecution Service said there was insufficient evidence and it would not be proceeding with a court case.
Ant and Dec dedicated their Bafta TV Award to the Queen after winning a prize for their presentation of her 90th birthday celebration event.
But Netflix's lavish royal drama The Crown left empty handed even though it had the most nominations.
Here are seven things we learned from some of the winners backstage:
"I am not going to be the first female Doctor," said Phoebe Waller-Bridge after winning the prize for best female comedy performance. "Not that I know of."
The Fleabag star had been the bookies' favourite to take over the lead role in Doctor Who after Peter Capaldi bows out.
But speaking after her Bafta win she seemed to settle the rumours once and for all.
The actress, who has a role in the untitled Han Solo Star Wars spin-off, admitted she hadn't even started writing series two of Fleabag.
"I had an idea on a bus and I thought I might be able to open it up again," she said.
"It's galvanizing because you feel like there's something that resonates with people."
Planet Earth II won the public vote for TV's must-see moment award for its snakes vs iguana chase.
Its makers revealed how every 400 minutes of film shot produces just one minute of screen time.
But fans of the natural history show, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, have a long wait before the next one.
For a start, Planet Earth III hasn't even been commissioned. And even if it had it wouldn't be on TV screens until 2022 at the earliest.
"These things take five years to make even if we started today," said Mike Gunton, the show's executive producer.
Sir David wasn't at the ceremony, and the team admitted they hadn't been able to send him a message about the win.
"Sadly, texting is not an option," Gunton added. "He doesn't do texting."
"It was a horrible year," said Charlie Brooker, after he and his team won best comedy for his satirical review series Wipe.
"At one point I said I don't want to do the show because it was so depressing - and then I was reminded we had a contractual obligation and so we had to push on.
"We've done these shows for years. Do you remember when it was about a woman dropping a cat in a bin? That was the worst thing that happened that year."
Brooker added there were no plans for a snap election special due to lack of time.
"This time last year they asked us if we wanted to do an EU referendum Wipe and I said 'that would be boring - who cares about that?'.
"Which goes to show how much I know."
The Night Manager's Tom Hollander, who won best supporting actor, was the only cast member to be recognised at the Baftas.
The six-part thriller, adapted from the 1993 John Le Carre novel, had been the biggest TV winner at the Golden Globes.
So many were surprised when it got just one Bafta nod.
"This show itself has not been underexposed," admitted Hollander, who played the scheming character Corky.
"We all feel we've had our fair share of attention and it's time to exit stage left and stop slapping ourselves on the back.
"But I'm utterly thrilled to get an award on home territory."
EastEnders star Danny Dyer found out in Who Do You Think You Are? that he is a direct descendant from King Edward III.
Speaking after the show was named best feature programme, he said: "There was a bit of a void in my life and I never understood why I was an actor or why I was famous...
"To understand that I've got a bloodline that is extremely famous fills a little hole. It's still hard to get my head round."
Had any royals been in touch since the programme?
"No, they've been blanking me!" he joked.
"I wouldn't mind meeting any of them, have a bit of dialogue with them - talk about football or something."
Speaking after Saturday Night Takeaway was named best entertainment programme, Ant and Dec confirmed that ITV is "on board" with the idea of a one-off reunion of hit kids' morning show SM:TV Live.
The show, which ran from 1998 to 2003, launched the presenting careers of the Geordie duo, who appeared alongside Cat Deeley.
Ant said: "We've had first discussions about it and it looks like it's going to go ahead."
Expect the show to land in August or Sept 2018 for its 20th anniversary.
Dec said: "We'll get the team back together and have a bit of fun on a Saturday morning at 09:25."
When Sarah Lancashire picked up her best actress Bafta she thanked The Crown's Claire Foy for "the best 10 hours under a duvet I've ever had".
The Happy Valley star explained later that she'd started the first episode at 09:00 on a Sunday and was still watching in bed 10 hours later.
"There were so many brilliant performances in it but Claire's was so subtle," Lancashire said.
Holding up her gold Bafta mask, she added: "I'd like to be able to chop this in half."
The actress also noted how two of her best roles - in Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley - had happened in her late 40s.
"I can't complain," she said. "At a time when most actresses are disappearing I seemed to become very visible."
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United boss David Moyes said England winger Young, 28, would be out "for a time" but unsure exactly how long.
Moyes was angry his side were not given a penalty for the tackle that felled Young during United's 2-1 defeat to Spurs on New Year's Day.
He claimed Howard Webb's decision not to award a spotkick was "scandalous".
Moyes added: "It's an incredible decision, in fact probably one of the worst I think I saw. If you follow through on a player anywhere else on the pitch with your foot high, it would be a red card."
Moyes was unable to offer an update on the fitness of striker Robin van Persie, who has missed the last six matches with a thigh injury.
The 31-year-old Portuguese's last deal was set to end in June 2018 but he will now remain with the Spanish giants until June 2021.
He added that the new contract would not be the last deal he signs.
"What I most want is to continue enjoying the years I have left to play," said the former Manchester United player. "I still have 10 years."
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez added: "We want to be together for many years to come."
Ronaldo has scored 371 goals since joining Real from United in 2009 and has helped the club win the Champions League twice and La Liga once.
While he wants to end his career at the Bernabeu, he admitted: "No-one knows what the future holds."
He added: "I'm going to be here for another five years, but let it be known this will not be my last contract.
"I have said many times that I carry this club in my heart, it is part of me and it is a special time in my life.
"Of course I would like to end my career at this club. I want to be here for many years to come. I want to continue rewriting history at this club."
It has been reported his weekly wage will remain at around £365,000.
Ronaldo helped Real cement their place at the top of the La Liga table by beating Leganes 3-0 on Sunday.
After the game, Real boss Zinedine Zidane described Ronaldo as "unique".
Wales became the first country in the world to make it mandatory that all new buildings - such as homes, flats and care homes - be fitted out.
Ruthin School's 40-bedroom block for boarding pupils has a system installed.
North Wales Fire and Rescue's Stuart Millington said it is "leading the way".
He said: "The legislation is intended to reduce the number of deaths and injuries from fire, improve the safety afforded to fire fighters and contribute to the sustainability of new developments."
The school's new-build is the first residential facility in north Wales to have sprinklers installed since the legislation came into effect, the service said.
However, the new rule has not been welcomed by all, with developer Redrow saying the "red tape" would lead to less new buildings in Wales.
Mr Bird, 78, from Barnsley, was regarded as one of the game's most popular and consistent umpires.
A guard of honour by the players and a standing ovation from the crowd marked his final Test, between England and India, at Lord's in 1996.
After retiring in 1998, he set up the Dickie Bird Foundation which gives grants to under-privileged children.
Speaking about the award, Mr Bird told the BBC: "It came as quite a surprise... but I'm tremendously delighted and honoured to get this great honour, this OBE.
"It's a marvellous and wonderful honour and I never expected it, really.
"It came out of the blue, because I got the MBE in 1986 which is a long time ago, and so when this came along I was completely stunned, shocked."
Talking about his foundation, Mr Bird said: "It's for under-privileged kids, who the mothers and parents can't afford to buy them sports equipment... and if we think they are a worthy cause then we send them a grant.
"And my aim is to get them off street corners, away from television, doing exercises and giving them a start in life."
Other people honoured in South Yorkshire include the county force's recently-retired chief constable, Med Hughes, who has been appointed CBE for his services to the police.
World taekwondo champion Sarah Stevenson, from Doncaster, becomes an MBE for her services to martial arts.
And Christine Manby has been appointed OBE for her work with South Yorkshire's Women's Royal Voluntary Service.
A lot of them just get sent a bag of kits so it's a really unique part of being on this team and it will definitely get us excited and make us feel like we're part of the team going forward.
My preparations for Rio are going really well.
I had a bit of a blip a couple of weeks ago in Leeds. I was hoping to race a bit better there but things don't always go to plan.
I have to re-evaluate and move on. I'm looking forward to racing again in the ITU series race in Stockholm on Saturday, as that will be the last race before the games.
Hopefully I can have a good hit out in Stockholm and rectify some of the mistakes and problems that I had in Leeds when I finished ninth.
There were a few issues, I had a pretty terrible swim which was unexpected.
Training has been going really well but sometimes these things happen.
There's no excuse for it. I've had a few weeks to think of what might have happened. I just want to go out in Stockholm and rectify that and have a good race there.
It's a quality field and it's a series that brings out some of the top in the field. It will be an opportunity for me, Vicky Holland and Helen Jenkins to actually race together before the games.
It will be fun to race with them and see what we can do as a team. Everything is building towards Rio and from Stockholm we're going to go on to St Moritz which is our final big camp before we head out.
I'm absolutely looking at a podium again and you always do when you start a world series race, that's the aim. For me it will be to build on Leeds and progress from there, really.
We're surrounded by a fantastic medical team and we're constantly being updated on anything that comes through on the Zika virus.
I have a lot of confidence in the medical team that they will make smart decisions for us. They would never send us anywhere or let us go anywhere where there was a huge threat to our health.
At the moment I don't think that threat is too bad, especially as I'm not planning on having a family myself in the next few years, that's the worry of a lot of the athletes and staff travelling.
For me personally at the minute, I'm confident in the decisions that the British medical team are making for us.
Everyone's talking about the fact that Wales have got to the quarter finals of Euro 2016 and England haven't, but I think the focus should really be on the fact that Wales have done it.
Regardless of how England or any of the other home nations are doing, it's an incredible achievement when you look at where Wales have come from in the past 10 years.
Everyone is really proud of them and I think that's why the nation has really got behind it and is excited about what's happening.
Anything that happens from now on is an absolute bonus. Hopefully they can ride this crest of success with the excitement behind it and that can put them forward to at least the next round.
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If we make the semi-finals then that will be quite the achievement.
I'll try my best to watch Wales play Belgium on Friday night. I'm in Sweden for the ITU World Triathlon event so if I can tune in, that will be fantastic.
We'll see what the Swedish football fans are demanding.
Belgium are going to be a tough team, they're gaining momentum as the tournament progresses.
It's a tough call but the way the boys have been playing so far, I think they can walk away with another win to get them to the semi-final.
Non Stanford was speaking to BBC Wales Sport's Jay Freeman.
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The Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) said it had deciphered a document, from 8 January AD 57, found at the dig at Bloomberg's new headquarters.
The first ever reference to London, financial documents and evidence of schooling have also been translated.
Over 700 artefacts from the dig will go on display when the building opens.
According to MOLA, the tablets reveal the first years of the capital "in the words of the people who lived, worked, traded with and administered the new city".
Director Sophie Jackson said the findings had "far exceeded all expectations" and would allow archaeologists "to get closer to the first Roman Britons".
Earliest reference to London
Researchers believe this tablet, is the earliest ever reference to London predating Tacitus' mention of London in his Annals which were produced about 50 years later.
Dated AD 65/70-80, it reads "Londinio Mogontio" which translates to "'In London, to Mogontius".
Earliest readable tablet
This tablet was found in a layer dated by MOLA to AD 43-53 so is thought to have been from the Romans' first decade of rule.
In translation it reads "...because they are boasting through the whole market that you have lent them money. Therefore I ask you in your own interest not to appear shabby... you will not thus favour your own affairs...."
Evidence of schooling
The letters on this tablet show part of the alphabet: "ABCDIIFGHIKLMNOPQRST"
Archaeologists believe it is writing practice, or a demonstration of literacy or letterforms, and possibly the first evidence of Roman schooling found in Britain.
Earliest dated document from Roman Britain
This tablet reads: " In the consulship of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus for the second time and of Lucius Calpurnius Piso, on the 6th day before the Ides of January (8 January AD 57).I, Tibullus the freedman of Venustus, have written and say that I owe Gratus the freedman of Spurius 105 denarii from the price of the merchandise which has been sold and delivered. This money I am due to repay him or the person whom the matter will concern..."
According to MOLA, it is the earliest intrinsically-dated document ever found in the UK, and is a financial document written on 8 January AD 57.
The documents were written on wooden tablets which would have been covered in blackened beeswax.
Although the wax has not survived, the words were etched into the wood below using styluses.
The area is around the buried Walbrook River and objects were trapped in soaking mud which helped to preserve the wood.
Once excavated, the tablets were kept in water, then cleaned and freeze-dried.
Dr Roger Tomlin, who translated the documents said it had been "a privilege to eavesdrop" on the people of Roman London.
The London Mithraeum exhibition will open at the site in autumn 2017.
BBC iWonder: The history of handwriting, from tablet to tablet
John Bercow said the SNP members deserved respect for the way they turned up in large numbers to support each other in the chamber.
But he said he did not believe the party had yet changed the parliament.
Mr Bercow was speaking at an the Edinburgh Festival Fringe organised by Edinburgh University's business school.
The SNP won 50% of Scottish votes in the general election to secure an unprecedented 56 of the country's 59 Westminster seats.
Asked how the Scottish nationalists - who now form the third largest party in the Commons - have changed the parliament, the Speaker said: "The significant thing is not how the SNP have changed parliament, because I don't think yet that they have.
"I think the significant thing is that, whatever you think of the SNP, their parliamentary party has said something very significant by its behaviour since May about group solidarity.
"They turn up in large numbers, they turn up very regularly, they turn up to support each other and a lot of them are already proving to be very good parliamentarians.
"It's not for me to support the SNP or oppose the SNP and I wouldn't dream of doing so, but I'm simply saying respect where it's due."
Mr Bercow said Nicola Sturgeon's party had scored a "notable political victory" when it was credited with forcing the Conservatives to shelve plans to water down the hunting ban in England and Wales.
In a wide-ranging discussion, Mr Bercow also indicated that the House could change its stance on applause within the chamber if MPs so wished.
In May, the Speaker told SNP MPs to stop clapping during a response from the party's Westminster leader Angus Robertson to the Queen's Speech.
Asked why they were not allowed to applaud, Mr Bercow said: "I think my attitude to that is if the House wants to change its procedures, it can, if they vote to do so."
David Roache, who was convicted in 2002 of murdering John Kelly, died at HMP Low Moss, near Bishopbriggs on Saturday.
Police Scotland have been advised of the death and the matter will be reported to the procurator fiscal.
The SPS said that the prisoner's next of kin had been informed and that a fatal accident inquiry may be held.
The Pole, whose right arm was partially severed in a rally accident in 2011, has driven Mercedes' F1 simulator.
Motorsports boss Toto Wolff told BBC Sport Kubica was "helping" Mercedes.
"If there's any chance of getting him back in a DTM touring car or F1 cockpit, we'd love to do it," said Wolff.
"Any team would love to have a Robert Kubica."
But Wolff, also the executive director of the Mercedes F1 team, emphasised that the former BMW and Renault driver was focusing mainly this year on his programme in the European Rally Championship.
"He is somebody I have known for 10 years but it's absolutely his call how he wants to help us and his main focus is rallying," said Wolff.
"This is where he wants to be successful and what he wants to do in the future."
Kubica, 28, is competing in rallying this season as he continues his recovery from the injuries that forced him out of F1 ahead of the 2011 season.
The Pole, who was one of the most highly regarded stars in F1, is undergoing regular rehabilitation on his right arm, which still does not have full movement.
Kubica posted competitive lap times earlier this year in a Mercedes DTM (German touring car championship) car - during a test arranged by Wolff - and admitted at the weekend that he had been in the Mercedes F1 simulator.
BBC Sport understands the door is open for Kubica to continue to use the Mercedes simulator should he wish to do so.
Kubica has made no secret of the fact that he wants to return to F1 eventually, assuming he can recover sufficient movement in his right arm to allow him to operate an F1 car within the tight confines of its cockpit.
"There is no guarantee I will or will not come back to F1," he told Autosport magazine on last weekend's Rally Azores.
He added: "Unfortunately, my F1, not career, but my F1 story got interrupted, so I found rallying was my best option to slowly come back. For this year, it was what I was looking for."
Kubica's former team Lotus, which changed its name from Renault ahead of the 2012 season, have also made it clear they would welcome Kubica back.
And Ferrari have in the past made no secret of their admiration for his skills.
But the fact Kubica is now being given access to the Mercedes simulator - one of any F1 team's most closely guarded secrets - suggests they would be his number one option should he recover sufficiently to allow him to race in the sport again.
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The 21-year-old kicked 35 points over two legs in the Championship play-off final as Bristol won promotion.
Sheedy has not featured at all for Bristol in the Premiership this season after suffering a hamstring injury.
"He's worked his way back to fitness and should be an exciting addition to our back-line," Jersey head coach Harvey Biljon said.
Sheedy will be on the bench for injury-hit Jersey as they travel to Merthyr Tydfil to face Cardiff Blues Premiership Select in the British and Irish Cup on Saturday.
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An armed ex-policeman hijacked the bus carrying Hong Kong tourists in August.
The five-person jury found that the victims were unlawfully killed and the authorities' botched handling of the crisis directly led to their deaths.
Police stormed the bus and shot dead gunman Rolando Mendoza, who seized the vehicle in a bid to get his job back.
The gunman had spent almost three decades with Manila's police force, but was sacked over claims of extortion.
The hostage drama lasted for 11 hours and eight of the 25 people on board were shot dead.
The botched rescue attempt by Philippine forces was broadcast live on television and radio, heightening questions about how it was managed.
The Hong Kong inquest jury said the Philippine authorities had not met the hostage-taker's demands quickly enough and that they had lied to him.
The jury said the bungled rescue had meant potentially life-saving treatment for two of the victims was delayed.
"Philippine officials left to dine at a restaurant even after Mendoza fired warning shots, meaning no one was on scene to take command when Mendoza started firing at the hostages," the jury said in its verdict.
The inquest heard minute-by-minute details of the crisis from 31 witnesses from Hong Kong and 10 from the Philippines.
The inquest's findings do not ascribe criminal or civil liability to anyone involved.
The incident has strained ties between Manila, Hong Kong and the Chinese government.
Following a Philippine inquest in October, Philippine President Benigno Aquino sought only minor charges, such as "neglect of duty" against four police officers.
The Mayor of Manila, Alfredo Lim, escaped criminal prosecution after President Aquino overturned a judge's recommendation; the mayor and a deputy ombudsman were recommended for administrative charges only.
The BBC's Hong Kong correspondent, Annemarie Evans, says President Aquino came in for much criticism in what constituted his first international crisis.
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Dr Abdullah, a former foreign minister, has 44% of the vote while Mr Ghani has 33%, election officials say. About half the votes have been counted.
About seven million people voted across 34 provinces in the 5 April poll.
A runoff will take place in late May if no candidate gets a majority.
Final results are expected on 14 May. Independent Election Commission chairman Ahmad Yousuf Nouristani has warned that the current statistics are "partial" and "changeable".
Speaking after the latest results were announced, Dr Abdullah said he was ready for a second round.
"It's important that the process is a free and fair one," he told AP news agency.
"If it goes to the second round in accordance to the rule of law, we are ready for that as well. At this stage, we believe that another round might not be needed."
Zalmai Rassoul, another former foreign minister, who is believed to be President Hamid Karzai's preferred successor, has 10% of the vote from the first round.
The Taliban failed to disrupt the first round but warmer weather, at the height of the so-called fighting season, would make a second round more of a security challenge, the BBC's David Loyn in Kabul reports.
If this lead widens further as more results come in, then Dr Abdullah's ability to form a government on his terms would be unstoppable, our correspondent adds.
Possible electoral fraud has been a concern, but the election body responsible for dealing with complaints has previously said that it would be weeks before it rules on the issue.
There were allegations of large-scale fraud when Mr Karzai was re-elected in 2009. Dr Abdullah came second in that poll.
Mr Karzai is barred by the constitution from seeking a third term.
The next president will face several challenging issues, including the expected withdrawal of foreign combat troops from Afghanistan and ongoing attacks by the Taliban.
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Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah has extended his lead over his rival Ashraf Ghani, according to latest partial results from the presidential election.
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The continent's skipper Darren Clarke is proving just as meticulous as his predecessor Paul McGinley as he prepares to take on the United States at Hazeltine in Minnesota.
McGinley famously invited Sir Alex Ferguson to deliver words of inspiration to his team at Gleneagles two years ago, and Liverpool supporting Clarke can see a role for the man in charge of the team he follows.
"Jurgen Klopp is definitely one of the guys I want to speak to, especially as a Liverpool fan myself," Clarke revealed during a dinner with golf journalists in Florida last week.
"He's an absolute livewire isn't he? He's a bundle of energy, and that sort of thing can be infectious. He's obviously very passionate and a terrific motivator so I want to pick his brains a bit."
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McGinley's use of Ferguson in Scotland was a masterstroke and his victorious team were thrilled and inspired by hearing from Britain's most successful football manager.
"Kenny Dalglish is someone else I'll seek out, and Sir Alex Ferguson was such an inspirational figure at Gleneagles that I'd love to have him on board again," Clarke added.
"I'll look into whether he's free that week, and check out the possibility of flying him over with us."
Whether Klopp can have a similar effect remains to be seen, but Clarke is seeking the opinions of successful figures from across the sporting world.
The skipper wants to harness the extra percentages of preparation to help secure Europe's fourth win in a row.
"I'll be talking to a bunch of people over a whole range of sports. Sir Clive Woodward is another guy who would be very interesting on the team dynamic, and the former Ireland and Lions captain Paul O'Connell is another one."
Clarke has already taken a line from the Ireland rugby anthem and "shoulder to shoulder" will become Europe's team mantra when they head to Minneapolis in the autumn.
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Expertise of those who have excelled in other sports cannot do any harm but it will be Clarke's own golfing intuition that might make the biggest difference.
The 2011 Open Champion is already closely monitoring the performances of all the players in with a chance of qualifying for his 12-man team. Clarke has an app on his phone which provides statistical data on how they are performing.
Each component of a player's game is broken down to show how they are performing, particularly in pressure situations. The information is shown in a spider's web style of graph - the wider the web the better the player is performing.
Already he has an intimate knowledge of each golfer's game. He showed me the data for one player and commented that it was clear he was being too aggressive on par fives - this explained the dent in an otherwise impressive web.
Clarke expects the app will prove invaluable with his wildcard picks and in putting together foursomes and fourball pairings during the match itself.
Last week the captain had two sit down meals with all of the likely candidates who were on show at the Players Championship at Sawgrass and he must be relieved Jason Day is not a US player.
The data surrounding the Australian could not be more impressive as he stretched his lead at the top of the world rankings with his seventh win since finishing fourth at last year's Open.
Day's ruthless Players victory robbed the tournament of its usual final day drama but left no one in any doubt over the identity of the best player in the world at the moment.
How Rory McIlroy would love to regain Day's winning touch. There are still too many unforced errors creeping onto the Ulsterman's scorecard.
McIlroy is the only member of the world's top five not to have won this year, despite five top six finishes. There is nothing wrong with his ball striking but he acknowledges that he is making too many mental errors.
"It's just knowing when to play the right shot at the right time," he commented after finishing tied for 12th at Sawgrass.
McIlroy's charitable foundation hosts this week's Irish Open at the K Club and he will be desperate to make up for last year's missed cut in the same event.
"The last golf tournament I won was in Dubai in November, so it feels like a long time ago now," he acknowledged.
"But again, I need to stay patient because if I keep pushing and keep looking for the win, that's when these sloppy mistakes start to creep in.
"I just need to go out there and play my game and trust that I'm playing well enough for the chips to fall my way sooner rather than later."
As an individual McIlroy doesn't need a statistical app or a football manager to tell him where he is going wrong. Within the team dynamic it might be a different story.
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Firefighters were called to Burnhead Crescent in the south of the city at about 00:50.
They managed to rescue two people from the house, who were then treated by paramedics. But one of them died later.
The fire was extinguished by 03:30. A joint investigation by the police and fire service has been started.
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Timothy Medhurst was researching the life of Elsie Bowerman, a suffragette and barrister, when he stumbled upon his connection with her.
His great-great-grandfather Robert Hitchens, was a quartermaster on Titanic and was in lifeboat number six with Ms Bowerman and about 22 others.
Mr Hitchens also survived the sinking of the luxury liner in 1912.
The portrait of Ms Bowerman, which was found by a local man who was cleaning out his home, will be sold in March at Duke's Auctioneers in Dorchester, Dorset, with an estimated price of up to £1,000.
Ms Bowerman joined Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) two years before boarding the Titanic on its maiden voyage from Southampton.
In World War One she joined a Scottish women's hospital unit and was later the first female barrister to practise at the Old Bailey.
In World War Two she worked with the Women's Royal Voluntary Service, the Ministry of Information and the BBC and in 1947 went to the US to help set up the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
She died in 1973 and a blue plaque now marks the site in St Leonards, East Sussex, where she lived.
"It is a wonderful thing to be able to look at the same lady who would have looked at my great-great-grandfather over 100 years ago on board a lifeboat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean," said Mr Medhurst.
"It is unusual to see a female subject dressed in service clothes - she is wearing the uniform of the Scottish Women's Hospital."
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Emergency services were called to Mugiemoss Court in the Bucksburn area of the city at 20:20 on Thursday.
A woman was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Her condition was not believed to be serious.
Police said their inquiries were at an early stage.
Jalal Uddin, 64, was found injured in a play area in Rochdale, on 18 February.
He was taken to hospital but died a short time later. He died from a head injury, a post-mortem examination found.
A 21-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy were arrested earlier at a property in Ramsay Street, Rochdale, police said.
Both remain in custody for questioning.
Police also seized a Vauxhall Astra.
A 31-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder on Friday has been released without charge.
It is understood Mr Uddin was a qari, or Koran reader, at the Jalalia Jaamé Mosque. He is believed to have been on his way home from a friend's house when he was assaulted.
Billy Monger, 17, drove at high speed into the back of a car which seemed to have stopped on the track during Sunday's race at Donington Park.
Lewis Hamilton has also offered support, tweeting: "Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family."
More than £500,000 had been raised by 13:00 BST on Thursday.
Monger, who has been described as "an extremely talented young driver" had to be extracted from his vehicle at the Leicestershire track and airlifted to hospital.
Button, the 2009 world champion who retired last year but will make a one-off outing for McLaren at next month's Monaco Grand Prix, was among the first to voice his support for Monger.
"This guy needs our help. I will be doing as much as I can to help this dude out," he wrote on Instagram.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen also appeared to make a pledge on the page, tweeting: "Really shocked about Billy Monger's terrible accident. If you can, please join me in helping him out."
Donations also appeared to be made by former F1 drivers Max Chilton, Karl Wendlinger and Andre Lotterer, as well as touring car driver Jason Plato and American Nascar racer AJ Allmendinger.
Williams' Brazilian driver Felipe Massa showed his support on Twitter, writing: "Let's help him. I'll do my best."
Ex-F1 driver Mark Webber wrote "keep boxing mate", while the Mercedes, Force India and McLaren teams have also showed their support on social media.
Steven Hunter, head of the team JHR Developments that Monger has been with for the past four years, said it had been a "heart-wrenching" time.
"We saw the crash and our fears were as low as they could be," he said. "But everything has been in the right direction since.
"Yesterday we lined everyone up and just took some time to wish him well. The pipes are out of his mouth and he spoke. He was hoarse but he just about spoke."
The exchange-traded fund (ETF) is run by celebrated financier and Pimco co-founder Bill Gross, who has been interviewed by US authorities, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Pimco Total Return ETF has grown rapidly in the past couple of years.
Pimco said the investigation was a "private matter" and that its pricing procedures were "entirely appropriate".
The Californian firm confirmed it had been co-operating with the US regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), but did not elaborate on the nature of the investigation.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that the investigation had been going on for months and concerned the manner in which Pimco purchased and valued certain bonds.
The company, widely considered to be the world's biggest bond manager, was set up in 1971, and acquired by insurance giant Allianz in 2000.
Shares in Allianz have fallen slightly following news of the SEC investigation.
Pilot Bertrand Piccard brought the plane in from Phoenix, Arizona, in a flight that lasted just over 18 hours.
The zero-fuel aircraft has now reached halfway across America, with its immediate goal of getting to New York firmly in sight.
The Swiss team wants to be on the East Coast at the start of June to begin planning the big Atlantic crossing.
To complete its circumnavigation of the globe, the solar-powered aeroplane needs to get to Abu Dhabi, UAE. That is where the adventure got under way in March last year.
As well as setting new aviation milestones, the stated purpose of the project is to demonstrate the capability of clean technologies.
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
The first half hour was emotionally charged, loaded with policy and robust exchanges. Compulsive stuff.
Carwyn Jones himself set the tone in his opening statement by focusing entirely on health services and the inevitable mention of the lack of a junior doctors strike in Wales.
The simmering row in England has given Labour a useful point of contrast when dealing with attacks on the NHS, and the strike this week could not have been timed better for them as we approach polling day next week.
There was a marked contrast to last week's leaders' debate, when the opposition parties spent much of their time ganging up on Carwyn Jones.
There was a broken-up feel to this, with different rows breaking out among different leaders at different times.
Nathan Gill and Kirsty Williams locked horns over EU steel dumping and Andrew RT Davies attacked Kirsty Williams and Leanne Wood for doing deals with the Labour administration.
An interesting theme was also the consistent attacks by Carwyn Jones on Leanne Wood about Plaid's plans to reorganise the NHS and their plans to only pay off the debt of students who return to Wales.
This came despite Labour repeatedly saying that this election is a fight between them and the Conservatives.
In the end, a clearly annoyed Leanne Wood had enough, and accused him of misrepresenting her policies.
Afterwards, Plaid said they took the criticism as a compliment, saying it clearly showed Labour were rattled by a Plaid threat.
Labour for their part feel there are soft Plaid votes out there up for grabs in marginal seats like the Vale of Glamorgan and the Vale of Clwyd, where they are up against the Tories.
Elsewhere, Nathan Gill struck a different tone. So far in the assembly campaign he's been at pains to move away from any talk of the EU as the party tries to show it's deadly serious about devolution.
That all appeared to come to an end with repeated references to the EU during the debate. This struck me as an appeal to get their core voters out.
A big question is whether UKIP voters, who are clearly enthused by the EU referendum, will be enthused enough to turn out next week.
There's no precedent to fall back on so we'll all have to wait and see, but the impact of the UKIP numbers, particularly in the marginal seats could be huge.
One party insider described a strong UKIP vote in a tight marginal as "like a bomb going off" because of the impact it could have on the votes of the other parties and, as a result, the final result in many counts.
The musician scored his biggest hit in 1985 with the club single Trapped, which reached number three in the UK.
Last year, it emerged he was living homeless in New York. Friends then launched a fundraising campaign to help him obtain vital diabetes medication.
His death was announced on Facebook by DJ Tony "Tune" Herbert, who said: "Now he is at peace."
He added: "Our condolences go out to his family and fans world wide. He is no longer suffering or Trapped."
Colonel Abrams - his real name - was born in Detroit, the home of Motown, in 1949.
He said his music was a blend of those melodies and the hard street rhythms of New York, where he moved as a child.
"I studied all the people on Motown, and I studied the music and listened to the lyrics Smokey Robinson used to write, and just craved the opportunity to be on Motown," he told the Associated Press news agency in the 1980s.
"But after my family moved to New York, I studied street music, and I sort of combined them both: The Detroit sound and the street sounds of New York."
Abrams was in the group Conservative Manor with his brother Morris in the late 1960s, then sang lead vocals for 94 East in 1976.
They briefly featured Prince on guitar, and recorded his song Just Another Sucker in 1977.
The band dissolved once Prince's solo career took off, and Abrams joined Surprise Package, a New Jersey group.
He scored a small hit in 1984 with the ballad Leave the Message Behind the Door but it was the follow-up, a soulful house mantra called Music Is The Answer, which finally propelled him into the limelight.
An international dance hit, it earned him a record deal with MCA - which led to the chart hits Trapped and I'm Not Going to Let You.
Abrams continued to feature on the US dance and R&B charts into the mid-1990s, and performed around the world into the new century.
However, he fell upon hard times in his final years, prompting Herbert and house DJ Marshall Jefferson to launch a crowdfunding campaign.
"The Colonel is very ill with no permanent place of his own to live at this time and limited financial resources," they said at the time.
"Those of us who have listened to his awesome music and know of his plight, have banded together to try and help him through this rough patch."
According to Herbert, the musician died on Thanksgiving.
Joey Negro, Dave Pearce and Swizz Beatz are among those to have paid tribute online.
"It's a sad day for the House Music community," wrote Jellybean Benitez, a producer who worked on Madonna's Holiday and Whitney Houston's Love Will Save The Day.
"Just learned Colonel Abrams passed away," added Jefferson. "Never to be forgotten, R.I.P."
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But the Cardiff Blues flanker is likely to be fit for the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand in June.
Lions head coach Warren Gatland names his tour party on 19 April, with Warburton tipped to be captain.
"Sam has a low grade strain which will put him out for approximately six weeks," said Blues coach Danny Wilson.
"It won't interfere with the Lions.
"If we were fortunate enough to make the second European [Champions Cup qualifying] play-off game, we would envisage him being available for that.
"So he shouldn't have any problems regarding the Lions."
Former Blues, Wales and Lions flanker Martyn Williams expressed mixed feelings over Warburton's injury.
He said: "There will be a concern I'm sure in the back of Sam's mind.
"It's not ideal even though you always look at the positive side of things that there is a break before the tour.
"But Sam Warburton is as professional as they come and I'm sure he'll be fine.
"Ideally as long as he's up and running for that first Test, that's all it's about."
However, another former Wales and Lions flanker, Colin Charvis, said: "It's horrendous timing.
"He's spent a couple of years and then a couple of years building for the Lions and he is in great form at the moment.
"But it's not just Warren Gatland who will look at this - it's the whole Lions management team and will wonder about what they are going to do with Sam Warburton."
Cardiff Blues will be involved in a play-off for a place in European Champions Cup in late May - with the Lions not due to play the first game of their tour until 3 June.
Wilson is confident Warburton - who captained the Lions in 2013 but missed the third Test v Australia with a shoulder injury - will recover in time for the tour.
"You see players who get back quickly if they follow protocol through religiously and get a bit of luck and I am sure that will be the case with Sam, knowing how diligent he will be.
"Sam is very experienced and a good pro. He knows his body and knows if he works hard to get that right he will be back relatively quickly.
"He has been fine today. I think it's relatively good news considering how it could have been."
3 June - v Provincial union team (Toll Stadium, Whangarei)
7 June - v Blues (Eden Park, Auckland)
10 June - v Crusaders (AMI Stadium, Christchurch)
13 June - v Highlanders (Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin)
17 June - v Maori (International Stadium, Rotorua)
20 June - v Chiefs (Waikato Stadium, Hamilton)
24 June - v New Zealand (First Test, Eden Park, Auckland)
27 June - v Hurricanes (Westpac Stadium, Wellington)
1 July - v New Zealand (Second Test, Westpac Stadium, Wellington)
8 July - v New Zealand (Third Test, Eden Park, Auckland)
The Crumlin rider underwent surgery to have the arm amputated this week.
A statement released by Thompson's family explained that trauma suffered as a result of the crash had been causing major problems since the crash.
"The forearm was suffering from muscle wastage and other problems with blood supply," the statement explained.
"The surgeons explained to us that it was infected and if they didn't act soon it could be a worse situation than we were in.
"Stephen had to make a life-changing decision either to lose the lower part of his arm or we could lose him.
"Stephen made this decision on Sunday after speaking to the surgeons and the operation was scheduled in. Stephen has come through the surgery well and today is the start of the road to recovery.
"Thank you for all your continued support and prayers it means a lot to us all, especially to Stephen."
Thompson, 39, sustained a collapsed lung and bleeding on the brain as well as well as leg, arm and hand fractures in the crash on 16 May.
A fund has been set up which aims to raise money to help aid Thompson's treatment.
Spectator Violet McAfee sustained head and leg injuries in the crash but later told the BBC that was was "confident" of making a good recovery.
Liechtenstein rider Horst Saiger sustained a broken arm in the crash while Englishman Dean Harrison escaped injury.
Members of France's main opposition party voted to support the rebranding on Friday, with 83% of members approving the move.
The move has sparked widespread debate in France, with critics arguing that all French people are Republicans.
Mr Sarkozy is widely expected to try for the presidency again in 2017.
According to one opinion poll, almost 70% of the public - and 40% of UMP supporters - said that no political party had the right to use the Republican label.
In an editorial in Le Monde (in French), a group of three writers and politicians said: "For Nicolas Sarkozy to name his party in such a way that claims to represent all Republicans, as though there is no-one else apart from him, is insulting and irresponsible."
Left-wing sympathisers had challenged the plan in court, arguing that - thanks to the French Revolution - every citizen of France is a Republican, not just those who vote for Mr Sarkozy, the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Paris reports.
However, the court rejected their call for a ban.
Mr Sarkozy says that the rebranding was a "rallying call to all who are distressed to see the Republic decline day after day and who want to stop this decline".
The former French president is expected to try for the presidency again in 2017, having lost to Francois Hollande in 2012.
South Wales Police was called to Trem-Y-Cwm House flats in Beddau, Rhondda Cynon Taff, at about 13:00 GMT on Tuesday.
The man, who has not been identified, was wrapped up but not buried.
Det Supt Paul Hurley said the "priority" was to identify the man.
A post-mortem examination will be carried out on Wednesday to determine the cause of death.
Det Supt Hurley added: "We would appeal for anyone who has concerns for the welfare of a male friend, relative or neighbour who has, uncharacteristically, not been seen or heard from in a number of weeks to get in touch with us."
Police are continuing house-to-house inquiries and a cordon outside flats 54 to 57 remains in place. Forensic officers have been to the scene with a white police tent erected at the side of the flats.
Nearby residents said they were shocked by the news.
Mother-of-two Andrea Phillips, 61, said: "Everyone is stunned to hear there's been a murder. A lot of elderly and disabled people live in those flats. God forbid it's someone from there.
"It's awful news to hear really. It's a shock. I don't think it's quite sunk in yet."
An elderly woman living in a flat nearby, who did not want to be named, said: "It's awful to look out of my window and to think someone's body has been lying there."
Firth, who will transfer from ITM Cup side Counties Manukau, made two appearances for the Chiefs in Super Rugby last season.
"We've been tracking Jarrod for some time in the ITM Cup," Warriors head coach Gregor Townsend said.
"He's built a very good reputation as a strong scrummager."
Townsend added: "Initially, he'll be working with our conditioning staff as we start to get him integrated into the rugby we aspire to play.
"Jarrod has made a big commitment in coming to Scotland and we believe he'll fit in really well at Scotstoun and add further competition in our front row."
Firth, who has made 25 appearances for Counties Manukau over the last three seasons, said: "Everyone I spoke to had great things to say about the club and the city, so I jumped at the chance to get over here.
"Glasgow have had a few Kiwis before and they've always done well, so there is no reason why I can't be successful too."
Firth knows Warriors scrum-half Grayson Hart, having faced him in New Zealand.
"I played against Grayson in my younger days and it's good to see him doing well here," he said.
"I hope I can earn the chance to pull on the jersey."
The leader of Kent County Council has met Home Office officials to request support in dealing with the arrival of hundreds of young migrants in Dover.
And Kent Police has asked neighbouring forces to help manage Operation Stack, where lorries queue on the M20 when Channel crossings are disrupted.
The backlog has grown as migrants make fresh attempts to enter the tunnel.
More than 3,500 attempts have been made this week to get into the Channel Tunnel, with people gathering at fencing at its freight terminal.
In the UK, Highways England said there were nearly 6,000 lorries parked on the motorway as part of Operation Stack, which will continue into the weekend.
It is the first time Kent Police have asked neighbouring forces in south-east England to help deal with the chaos.
County council leader Paul Carter said a "massive logistical exercise" was under way in Kent, with the surge in the number of migrants arriving set to continue.
In the last three months, the number of under-18 asylum seekers in the care of Kent County Council has nearly doubled to 605.
Mr Carter said: "Our social services are working all the hours that they possibly can and we have no more capacity to take many more in the coming weeks if the increase in numbers continues as in the past few weeks."
Mr Carter said the council faced a £5.5m shortfall in covering care costs and it was asking for help "from Theresa May down" to manage the crisis.
A national fostering agency is appealing for families to come forward to help cope with a five-fold rise in unaccompanied asylum-seeking children on its books.
Compass Fostering says it has received 275 referrals from local authorities in the past three months, compared with 56 for the same period last year.
The Local Government Association has urged the government to reimburse the costs councils face when unaccompanied child asylum seekers arrive in the UK.
Deputy Chairman Cllr David Simmonds said councils where children arrive are responsible for every aspect of caring, housing and educating them, through to the age of 25.
"The current situation is placing unprecedented pressure on an already overburdened system," said Cllr Simmonds
The prime minister has said the UK will not become a "safe haven" and warned that illegal immigrants would be removed if they reached the UK.
Speaking in Vietnam during his tour of South East Asia, Mr Cameron said: "Everything that can be done will be done to make sure our borders are secure and make sure that British holidaymakers are able to go on their holidays."
He said the situation was "very testing" because there was a "swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean, seeking a better life".
The Refugee Council attacked Mr Cameron's use of the word "swarm" as "irresponsible, dehumanising language".
Labour's acting leader Harriet Harman said the choice of words was "inflammatory", while Lib Dem leader Tim Farron described it as "deeply alarming" as the prime minister was talking about "some of the most desperate people in the world".
The last official estimates suggest there are about 3,000 migrants in Calais. It is not known how many migrants have reached Britain in recent months via the tunnel.
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The driver applied the emergency brakes when the train hit 106mph (170km/h) on a 50mph track, said the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
But his efforts had only brought the speed down to 102mph when the deadly crash happened.
The speed was recorded in the so-called black box recovered from the wreckage.
Robert Sumwalt of the NTSB told reporters a speed control system in place along parts of that route along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor was not yet in place on that section.
"We feel that had such a system been installed in this section of track, this accident would not have occurred," he said.
Amtrak Train 188 was going from Washington to New York when it derailed on Tuesday night, leaving more 200 people injured.
The death toll rose from six to seven on Wednesday, as another body was found by the search and rescue team.
Only three victims have been publicly identified so far:
One of the busiest stretches of passenger rail in the country, between Philadelphia and New York, is closed as officials continue to try to establish exactly what happened.
President Obama said he was "shocked and deeply saddened to hear of the derailment".
As emergency crews continued to dig through the wreckage, lawmakers in Washington debated the future of Amtrak's budget, with one spending committee voting to slash their funding by almost a fifth.
"We are divesting from America," accused one member of Congress.
"Don't use this tragedy in that way," another Congressman responded angrily.
Congress has only 18 more days before federal funding for transportation infrastructure expires, but the funding is likely to be temporarily extended.
Amtrak is a national publicly funded rail service, serving tens of millions of people every year.
With Cameroon having already won the group Mauritania needed a win to have any chance at all of earning one of the two best runners-up places available.
The draw means that Mauritania finish in second place with eight points and South Africa third a point behind.
The Gambia, who play Cameroon on Saturday, finish bottom of the table.
Mauritania gave themselves some hope in Nelspruit as they took the lead after 17 minutes.
The goal came against the run of play, as captain Diallo Guideye's low shot from the edge of the area beat South Africa's keeper, Itumeleng Khune.
South Africa's equaliser came about 10 minutes later from a Mpho Makola corner that was headed on by Thulani Hlatshwayo to allow Hlompho Kekana to head home from close range.
Thamsanqa Gabuza had a great chance to give Bafana Bafana the lead just before half-time but was denied by the keeper after a one-on-one chance.
The stop left keeper Brahim Souleymane injured and he did not recover for the second half.
Gabuza was then denied from the penalty spot by Souleymane's replacement.
Mauritania played the last 15 minutes with 10 men after the dismissal of Ismail Diakhite for a second bookable offence.
Also on Friday the Nations Cup hosts Gabon came from behind to beat Sudan 2-1 in Khartoum.
All three goals came in the first-half with Hamid Nizar on target for Sudan before Borussia Dortmund's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and then Cardiff City's Bruno Ecuele Manga gave Gabon the victory.
Television pictures appeared to show him aiming a kick at O's assistant boss Andy Hessenthaler after Orient's 3-2 win against Portsmouth on Boxing Day.
A club statement said Becchetti accepted his actions on the touchline were 'improper conduct'.
However, it added Becchetti "strongly denied" it was violent conduct and had requested a personal FA hearing.
At the time of the incident, Orient described the exchange between Becchetti and Hessenthaler as being "in very good humour".
Tia Sharp left her grandmother's home in New Addington, south London, heading for the Whitgift shopping centre in Croydon town centre.
Police said she only has a small amount of money and did not take her travel card or her mobile phone.
They added her disappearance is out of character and are appealing for help in finding her.
The clothing she was last seen wearing is described as a yellow bandeau top, light grey leopard print leggings and black and pink Nike high top trainers.
She is known to frequent the Croydon, Mitcham and Wimbledon areas of south London.
Ninety firefighters fought for several hours on Tuesday to control the blaze at Prezzo Italian restaurant in Albert Street. Thirteen flats were evacuated.
The street will be closed for at least two days as the building is shored up.
Local MP Andrew Jones said: "Many of the businesses will be out of action for some time."
A Harrogate Borough Council spokesman said the local authority was considering what support it could give to businesses affected by the fire.
However, he said the immediate priority was to ensure public safety and scaffolding would be erected over the next two to three days to stabilise the front and rear of the affected properties.
Residents from the 14 housing association flats which were evacuated have all been found temporary alternative accommodation.
But local businesses have already expressed concern about the effect on their trade.
Businesswoman Sam Addy said: "I thought for a little independent shop like myself, and the other one at the other end of the street, that is no good for us.
"Although I feel bad for Prezzo and Pizza Express they can afford to make a loss but we can't really afford to be out of business for a few weeks.
"I just hope that we stand strong and people will support us."
Mr Jones, the Conservative MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough, said: "The fire on Albert Street is a hammer blow for the business and residents affected.
"Many of the businesses will be out of action for some time and the employees without jobs during that period.
"Around 13 families had to be re-housed overnight from flats in the area and I understand that the housing association that owns the properties will be assessing whether or not people can return to their homes.
"It seems likely though that some have lost their homes and belongings - a personal tragedy for them.
"This terrible fire has drawn the community together and I would like to thank all those who have donated cash, blankets, food and toiletries to help those who may have lost their belongings. "
North Yorkshire Fire Service said the fire was the biggest in the town since the Majestic Hotel was severely damaged in May 2010.
Station manager Lee Smith said the age of the buildings in Albert Street had contributed to the fire's spread.
"There was a fire in the ducting area and it travelled through the different nooks and crannies, spaces and voids in that building," he said.
"It's quite an old building, it's had lots of work done over the years and this has meant there's been lots of spaces that enabled the fire to progress."
Although none of the residents was injured in the fire, it is feared a number of pets may have perished.
One resident called Steve told BBC Radio York: "At the moment I'm gutted and feel bereaved because I feel my cat's dead. I'm almost in tears."
Another resident, Jessica Scott, told Stray FM that she had watched the fire knowing her pet rabbit and two hamsters were inside.
The prime minister warned illegal immigrants would be removed, as migrants told the BBC they remained determined to reach the UK.
Mr Cameron was speaking after people gathered for a third night at fencing at the Channel Tunnel freight terminal.
Over 3,500 attempts have been made this week to get into the tunnel.
New fencing supplied by the UK government is being installed in Calais and Eurotunnel said it would protect the platform area where vehicles are loaded on to the train shuttles to "stop the migrants... trying to jump on to the train shuttles there".
Meanwhile, Kent Police has for the first time asked for neighbouring forces to provide officers to help in the policing of Operation Stack - where lorries wait on the M20 in the county when Channel crossings are disrupted.
Highways England said there were nearly 6,000 lorries parked on the motorway as part of Operation Stack, which will continue into the weekend.
Eurotunnel said security guards and police logged more than 300 attempts to enter its site in Calais overnight on Wednesday. The figure was down from 1,500 the previous night, a drop the company attributed to an increased French police presence.
Speaking in Vietnam during his tour of South East Asia, Mr Cameron said: "Everything that can be done will be done to make sure our borders are secure and make sure that British holidaymakers are able to go on their holidays," he said.
The prime minister said the situation was "very testing" because there was a "swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean, seeking a better life".
The Refugee Council attacked Mr Cameron's use of the word "swarm" as "irresponsible, dehumanising language".
Labour leadership contender Andy Burnham said the comment was "disgraceful", while Lib Dem leader Tim Farron described it as "deeply alarming" as he was talking about "some of the most desperate people in the world".
The last official estimates suggest there are about 3,000 migrants in the port town in northern France.
It is not known how many migrants have reached Britain in recent months via the tunnel although MP Keith Vaz said police had told him 148 were held in Folkestone on Tuesday after about 2,000 migrants breached security in Calais.
Meanwhile, Kent County Council said its children's social services department was under "enormous strain" - it is currently caring for 605 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
Raihan Jan, 24, a clerk from Afghanistan, said he had travelled through Iran, Turkey, Greece and Italy before reaching Calais four days ago.
"We know it's very dangerous, but there is not another way to go the UK," he said.
English literature graduate Mohammad Al-Mohammad, 26, said he had fled Syria's civil war, arriving in France three months ago.
The Eurotunnel rail shuttle has been delayed in recent days, but is now operating to schedule.
Conservative MP David Davies has echoed calls for the Army to be sent to Calais and urged the government to build camps in the countries migrants were from so they could be "sent back in a kind and humane fashion".
Senior UN official Peter Sutherland said demands for migrants to be kept out of the UK were "a xenophobic response to the issue of free movement".
Humza Yousaf, the Scottish government's Minister for Europe, said: "By refusing to take its fair share of vulnerable migrants... the UK government has turned its back on those in desperate need of help and, in turn, has contributed to the situation that has now developed."
Lucy Williamson, BBC correspondent
As night fell on Wednesday, the road towards the Channel Tunnel started to come alive. Groups of 10 or 12 migrants moved steadily along the darkened highway, jackets pulled close, hoods up.
After a day of discussion in Paris and London over how to secure the tunnel, and fresh deployments of riot police, the determination of Calais' migrants seems unchanged.
They include people like Jamal - an Ethiopian who arrived here on Wednesday.
He said he'd spent most of his adult life doing military service in the Ethiopian army, had spent 10 days drifting in the Mediterranean, and had crossed six different European countries to get here.
Not once had his dream of reaching England wavered. For Jamal, a barbed wire fence, or brush with police, might change his tactics, but probably not his goal.
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Sinopec will acquire a 49% equity interest in Talisman's UK North Sea business.
Talisman's Aberdeen-based operation has about 2,500 staff and contractors, and involves 11 North Sea installations.
Talisman president John Manzoni said: "This will provide additional resources and energy to the talented team."
He added: "Collectively, we will invest more in the UK than Talisman would have on its own, leading to a stronger, more sustainable business."
Meanwhile, China's state oil company is poised to become the new owner of the major Buzzard oil field in the North Sea.
CNOOC is set to spend nearly £10bn to buy Nexen, the Canadian company that owns the Buzzard oil field.
Jared Kushner wanted to use Russian facilities to avoid US interception of discussions with Moscow, the Washington Post and New York Times said.
Mr Kushner, a senior White House aide, has not commented.
He is said to be under scrutiny by the FBI as part of its inquiry into Russian interference favouring Mr Trump's win.
Reports in the US say investigators believe he has relevant information, but he is not necessarily suspected of a crime.
The most recent reports - which cited unnamed US officials as sources - said Mr Kushner had spoken with Moscow's Ambassador to the US, Sergei Kislyak, about setting up a back channel using Russian diplomatic facilities in America.
The meeting was held in early December at Trump Tower in New York - Mr Trump's power base.
According to both reports, Mr Trump's first national security adviser Michael Flynn was present at the meeting.
The secret channel was supposed to be used to discuss Syria and other policy issues during the transition period between Mr Trump's election in November and his inauguration in January 2017.
The Washington Post says the proposal surprised Mr Kislyak as it meant Americans using Russian facilities at their diplomatic missions in the US.
The New York Times said the line was never established.
The US and Moscow have always had a hotline - popularly referred to as the Red Phone, even though it was not a telephone. This was meant to enable the two superpowers to avoid nuclear catastrophe during the Cold War.
Mr Kushner appears to be proposing a similar set-up.
But what is unusual is that this would be a channel using Russian hardware.
So this would have been outside official communications normally used by a team about to assume the leadership of the US - meaning US leaders were using Russian channels instead of their own.
And, significantly, these communications would not form part of documented US policy-making.
Very. Remember that Russian allegations of interference to sway the election in favour of Donald Trump emerged in May 2016 with the first reports of hackers targeting the Democratic Party.
What followed were reports that US intelligence agencies had traced the breaches back to Russian hackers. In August, Wikileaks released 20,000 internal emails of members of the Democratic National Convention (DNC), stolen by the hackers.
Mr Trump's then campaign manager, Paul Manafort, resigned after being accused of accepting millions of dollars in cash for representing Russian interests in Ukraine and US.
In October, the US intelligence community released a unanimous statement formally accusing Russia of being behind the DNC hacking.
So, by December when the alleged Kushner-Flynn-Kislyak meeting was held, the Trump team would have had grounds to believe in the existence of an investigation into the Russian links.
The Washington Post had already reported FBI investigators were focusing on meetings Mr Kushner held last year with Mr Kislyak, as well as a banker from Moscow, Sergei Gorkov.
Mr Gorkov is the head of Vnesheconombank, which has been subject to sanctions imposed by the Obama administration in response to Russia's annexation of Crimea and its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.
The bank is under the control of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and other members of the government, and has been used to fund major projects such as the 2014 Winter Olympics in the southern Russian resort of Sochi.
Mr Kushner has said he did not discuss sanctions with Mr Gorkov.
His lawyer has previously said his client would co-operate with any inquiry.
Team Delft's machine triumphed over its rivals at both of the two tasks.
One involved selecting products from a container, picking them up and putting them on a shelf. The other was doing the actions in reverse.
Amazon already uses robots to move goods about its buildings but relies on humans to stock its shelves.
"Our vision is humans and robots working shoulder to shoulder," said Tye Brady, chief technologist at Amazon Robotics.
"It was inspiring to see 16 top teams with so many different approaches to the same problem, and we also saw the advancements robotic technology has made since last year."
The Dutch winners were awarded $50,000 (£37,695).
They beat two teams from Japan and five from the US - countries better known for their robotics research - at the contest in Leipzig, Germany.
Forty different items, representing some of the retailer's bestselling products, were used in the Amazon Picking Challenge.
They represented a mix of different shapes, including soft clothing, a boxed DVD, a bottle of water and a toothbrush.
In the "stow" task, 12 different items were put in a red plastic box. The robots had to pick them out - in any order - and put each one at a predetermined place on a shelf.
In the "pick" task, a dozen specific items had to be lifted off shelves containing a mix of goods and packed in the boxes. In some cases, other products had been deliberately placed in the way of the targets. This proved the tougher of the two jobs.
In both cases, the teams were only given a computer file describing the range of objects involved and instructions for which should be moved, five minutes before they had to start. Once the task began, the robots had to act autonomously.
Points were deducted for:
"Because of the variation in items, you couldn't have a single picking strategy," Team Delft's Kanter van Deurzen explained to the BBC.
"Usually in industry, you would have a suction cup or a mechanical gripper designed for one type of item or part.
"Here, we had to handle dozens varying from simple boxes to a T-shirt and a dumbbell - each required a different approach.
"To do all of this with a single arm, to have to recognise how the objects were oriented and to avoid collisions with other objects on the shelves was a really big challenge."
In the stow task, the Dutch team came close to a perfect score.
Its only mistake was that when its arm's suction cup lifted a small pack of glue, it also picked up a bottle-cleaning brush, which then dropped to the ground.
It made more errors in the pick task, and initially tied on points with Japan's Team PFN.
But Delft was given the advantage because it took 30 seconds less time to make its first pick.
The rapid development of robots and the artificial intelligence software that powers them has raised concerns.
About one in three existing jobs in the UK could be done by machines within two decades, according to a study by Oxford University and Deloitte.
Amazon's $775m (£584m) acquisition of Kiva Robotics in 2012 already means the US company has been able to limit the number of employees it needs to move its portable shelves about.
Elsewhere, Germany's Magazino has developed bots that can pick standard rectangular objects off warehouse shelves.
And Google owns a start-up whose automated arms can unload boxes off lorries and sort them on to conveyor belts.
Despite such progress, Mr Van Deurzen said warehouse operators would still need to employ at least some humans for the foreseeable future.
"It's really difficult to design a system that can create any type of object in any type of situation," he said.
"But a lot more is already possible than most warehouse owners are aware of.
"Maybe we can't do everything, but if we aim for 50% that would still be a really big step. [Human] workers would still be needed for the other objects."
Tina Locke, 43, from Penygraig, Rhondda, had been feeling unwell for about two years and asked for tests.
But her husband Jason said his wife had been let down after her health complaints were not investigated.
Cwm Taf Health Board said it was looking into the matter.
Mr Locke, 51, said his wife had been complaining of pain for about two years but was instead diagnosed with depression.
Despite repeatedly asking for an endoscopy he said she was treated for anxiety and fibromyalgia and given antidepressants.
"She begged and begged for the cameras, she had never been to A&E in her life, my wife always looked well, but she knew her own body," he said.
"My kids are going to be left without a mum, I'm going to be without a wife, she is only 43.
"You just couldn't make it up, it's unbelievable, it's shocking - my heart is just totally broken."
It was only after she was given an endoscopy that Mrs Locke, mum to Dylan, 15 and James, 24, was diagnosed with signet ring cell adenocarcinoma, a rare kind stomach cancer.
It has spread to the former hairdresser's stomach lining, and her family have said they have been advised by doctors that giving her chemotherapy could cause the tumour to rupture.
Mr Locke said the family were now trying to raise money to get her treatment in Germany after hearing about a woman from Manchester with the same cancer was successfully treated.
"The NHS's view is that she is going to die, but mine is that they owe her her life: if there is even half a chance they owe it to her to try, I am going to fight and fight," said Mr Locke.
A spokeswoman for Cwm Taf health board said: "We are unable to comment on any individual patient and the circumstances surrounding their care.
"However we are aware of this case and an investigation is under way."
The Londoner's role was announced on BBC One during half time of the FA Cup semi-final match between Everton and Manchester United.
Mackie, 28, replaces Jenna Coleman, whose character Clara Oswald left the show in 2015.
Filming for the next series of the long-running science fiction show will start this year but air in 2017.
Mackie, who graduated from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2010, played Anne-Marie Frasier in Doctors in 2014 and is currently performing in the National Theatre's West End production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.
"I'm incredibly excited to be joining the Doctor Who family," she said. "It's such an extraordinary British institution, I couldn't be prouder to call the Tardis my home."
She added: "Peter Capaldi is such a brilliant actor, and his Doctor is such a wacky and wonderful character, I can't wait to see what adventures are in store for him and Bill throughout time and space."
Mackie said her new character "Bill" was "wicked", describing her as "cool, strong, sharp, a little bit vulnerable with a bit of geekiness thrown in".
Capaldi said: "It is a genuine delight to welcome Pearl Mackie to Doctor Who. A fine, fine actress with a wonderful zest and charm, she's a refreshing addition to the Tardis and will bring a universe of exciting new possibilities to The Doctor's adventures."
Doctor Who, which was first shown in 1963, is heading for its 10th season since it was reintroduced to schedules in 2005 after a gap of nine years.
Coleman joined the show in 2012, and starred alongside two Doctors, Matt Smith and Capaldi, the 12th Doctor who joined in 2014.
She asked to be written out and left to take on the role of Queen Victoria in a major ITV drama series.
In January, it was announced that the head writer and executive producer of Doctor Who, Steven Moffat, was stepping down from the show.
The next series will be his last, after which he will be replaced by Broadchurch writer Chris Chibnall.
Following an inspection of the pitch at the Matchroom Stadium the game was called off at 11:20 GMT.
Temperatures dropped to well below freezing in east London overnight.
Orient are 20th in League Two and two points above the relegation zone having lost their past three matches, and Morecambe are 17th, six points clear of the O's.
Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi said he was "really sorry" for his actions and asked for forgiveness.
He was accused of leading rebel forces who destroyed historic shrines at the world heritage site in 2012.
It is the first time that the court in The Hague has tried a case of cultural destruction.
It is also the first time a suspected Islamist militant has stood trial at the ICC and the first time a suspect has pleaded guilty.
Prosecutors said Mahdi was a member of Ansar Dine, an Islamist group that occupied Timbuktu for months.
Islamists regard the shrines and the city's ancient manuscripts, covering everything from history to astronomy, as idolatrous.
Court documents describe Mahdi as a religious scholar who directed fighters to wreck several sites with pickaxes and chisels after failing to deter locals from praying at them.
He was charged with war crimes over the destruction of nine mausoleums and a mosque.
Pleading guilty, he said: "I am really sorry, I am really remorseful, and I regret all the damage that my actions have caused.
"I would like to give a piece of advice to all Muslims in the world, not to get involved in the same acts I got involved in, because they are not going to lead to any good for humanity," he added
Given his guilty plea the trial will probably be over by the end of this week. He faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in jail.
Nine victims are later due to share their experiences in court.
Human rights groups say their presence is especially significant in demonstrating how the destruction of cultural heritage not only harms buildings but tears through the social, cultural and historical fabric of communities.
At the time, Unesco said the attack on the shrines of local saints was "tragic news for us all".
Timbuktu is famous for its distinctive mud and wood architecture. It was a centre of Islamic learning between the 13th and 17th centuries and was added to the Unesco world heritage list in 1988.
Ansar Dine, an extremist militia with roots in the nomadic Tuareg people, has ties to al-Qaeda. It was eventually driven out of Mali in a French-led intervention.
The court has previously heard that Mahdi, a former teacher aged about 40, was a "zealous member" of the militia. He is alleged to have been the head of the section that enforced strict Islamic law in Timbuktu.
Treasures of Timbuktu
Two Jack Carty penalties put Connacht 6-0 ahead but two Niko Matawalu tries and a Stuart Hogg score helped the visitors lead 19-6 at the interval.
An Aly Muldowney try helped Connacht cut the lead to 19-13 but Carty's third penalty miss hindered the home side.
Adam Ashe's 68th-minute score secured Glasgow's bonus point before Tommy Seymour added a fifth Warriors try.
Glasgow's win moves them three points ahead of Ulster who briefly went top of the table after Friday's 26-10 victory over champions Leinster while Connacht are now out of the top six after Edinburgh's win over Zebre.
Connacht need to finish in the top six to clinch a place in next season's European Champions Cup.
The Irish province produced all the early pressure with a series of forward drives yielding two successful penalties for fly-half Carty.
However, Connacht's early promise then began to be undermined by a series of set-piece errors.
After a line-out over-throw from Tom McCartney, the home side were then punished following a botched scrum as Fijian Matawalu ran in his first try after a brilliant one-handed off-load from Fraser Brown.
Following Finn Russell's conversion miss, Carty had two glorious penalty chances to extend but was badly off-target.
Connacht's failure to put more points on the board was emphasised when the Scots stung them with two opportunist tries in the three minutes before half-time.
A series of missed tackles allowed Seymour to sail through midfield and his pass put Hogg over to the right of the posts.
Russell converted and also added the extras to Glasgow's third touchdown which saw Matawalu intercept Henshaw's attempted pass as Connacht tried to counter from deep in injury-time.
Seymour's 47th-minute sin-binning for a ruck offence gave Connacht the chance to produce pressure and a series of attacks eventually yielded Muldowney's try as he reached to score.
Carty's conversion cut the margin to 19-13 but his horrible penalty miss from in front of the posts on the hour seemed to knock the stuffing out of Connacht.
Despite having flanker Chris Fusaro in the sin-bin, Glasgow secured the bonus point on 68 minutes as replacement Josh Strauss's break set up a simple finish for Ashe.
Glasgow's clinical display was wrapped up five minutes later as Seymour scored in the corner after some slick passing.
TEAMS
Connacht: Tiernan O'Halloran, Danie Poolman, Robbie Henshaw, Bundee Aki, Matt Healy, Jack Carty, Kieran Marmion; Denis Buckley, Tom McCartney, Rodney Ah You, Ultan Dillane, Aly Muldowney, John Muldoon (capt), Eoghan Masterson, Eoin McKeon.
Replacements: Ronan Loughney for Buckley 68, Finlay Bealham for Ah You 68, Andrew Browne for Dillane 52, George Naoupu for Masterson 62, John Cooney for Marmion 49 mins, Miah Nikora for Carty 62, Darragh Leader for Henshaw 53.
Not used: Shane Delahunt
Glasgow Warriors: Stuart Hogg, Tommy Seymour, Richie Vernon, Peter Horne, Niko Matawalu, Finn Russell, Henry Pyrgos; Jerry Yanuyanutawa, Fraser Brown, Euan Murray, Leone Nakarawa, Jonny Gray (capt), Rob Harley, Chris Fusaro, Adam Ashe.
Replacements: Kevin Bryce for Brown 51, Ryan Grant for Yanuyanutawa 41, Jon Welsh for Murray 41, Tim Swinson for Nakarawa 53, Josh Strauss for Harley 53, Duncan Weir for Russell 68, Peter Murchie for Strauss 72, Lee Jones for Matawalu 70.
Referee: Marius Mitrea (FIR)
Assistant referees: Andy Brace, Oisin Quinn (both IRFU)
Citing commissioner: Dennis Templeton (IRFU)
TMO: Dermot Moloney (IRFU)
They died in blasts at the governor of Kandahar's guesthouse on Tuesday, where at least six others were killed including the deputy governor, two senior Afghan officials and two MPs.
The governor and the UAE ambassador were among at least 18 wounded.
The attack was one of several in Afghanistan on Tuesday.
The Taliban admitted attacks in the capital Kabul and in Helmand province, but denied the Kandahar attack, instead blaming it on "internal local rivalry".
Afghanistan's Tolo News quoted survivors as saying that the bomb was hidden in a sofa at the guesthouse.
Kandahar police chief Gen Abdul Raziq was among the guests, but was unharmed.
Senior police and intelligence officials were also present, officials say.
There are many theories as to who was behind the guesthouse attack, but three are seen as being most likely:
The first is that the Taliban or their allies in the Haqqani militant network carried out the attack. Kandahar police chief Abdul Raziq, who was present when the blasts took place, has been on the militants' hit list and is known to be staunchly anti-Pakistan. The Taliban denied involvement but may have done this when they realised the victims were UAE officials. The Taliban are on good terms with the UAE and usually avoid attacking diplomats from countries not involved in military operations in Afghanistan.
Regional tensions mean intelligence agencies from other countries could be involved. Pakistan and India have long tried to shape events in Afghanistan and recently Gulf Arabs, led by Saudi Arabia, intensified their efforts to increase their influence. Iran is not happy about this and has established what it calls "contacts" with the Taliban.
The third possibility is that of local rivalries between officials and politicians in Kandahar. They have sometimes been accused of using the Taliban to harm each other. The Afghan government has launched an investigation to identify those who carried out the attack and their motives.
Three days of mourning have been declared in the UAE.
UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed has ordered that flags across the country should be flown at half-mast in honour of its "martyred" citizens.
The UAE said the officials had been carrying out "humanitarian, educational and development projects".
Among the projects was signing an agreement with Kardan University, in the capital Kabul, to offer scholarships funded by the UAE.
More than 62 people were killed and 100 wounded in a string of attacks in Afghanistan on Tuesday.
The deadliest was in Kabul where at least 45 people were killed when a suicide bomber and a car bomb detonated near the Afghan parliament complex.
Tolo News said 36 parliament workers were among the dead.
In Helmand province a Taliban suicide bomber targeted a guesthouse used by an intelligence official, killing at least seven people.
Faith Downey, from Cushenny Road in County Armagh has found a purr-fect pal in her black and white cat, Mittens.
Mittens won the "Furr-ever Friends" category in the Cats Protection's National Cat Awards this year.
The award "celebrates tales of friendship" between cats and children. Faith's family say he helps her cope.
"Mittens is very special to me because he always sticks by my side and we love playing together ," Faith told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster.
"Whenever I'm worried or upset he'll come over on to my knee and cuddle up to me," she said.
"He has a strange fascination for hair bobbles so whenever I throw him a hair bobble he'll run after it and pick it up in his mouth."
Mittens has been Faith's special friend for four years and she was excited by the trip to the awards ceremony.
"I was very privileged that Mittens was recognised as the special cat he is," she said.
Her mum, Elizabeth, said: "Living with autism can be very hard and Faith faces lots of challenges.
"Earlier this year, she was also found to have a brain tumour, and doctors are still deciding how to treat this.
"Faith finds it difficult to interact with people, yet has formed an amazing bond with Mittens.
"When she's sad, Mittens will curl up on her and he is never bothered by her meltdowns."
Elizabeth said Mittens makes a real difference to Faith's emotional state - and has learned to respond to Mittens' body language.
She has also become more aware of the world around her.
"Through Mittens, Faith has learnt so many new skills but also has a constant, reliable and fun friend by her side. He really is a one in a million and we all love him to bits," said Elizabeth.
Cats Protection's awards organiser Kate Bunting said: "Mittens and Faith's story is a truly inspiring one and just goes to show how important cats can be to family life.
"It's wonderful to hear how Faith's bond with Mittens has helped her on so many levels, from being a fun and playful friend to helping her understand the world around her."
It is the work of researchers from the Climate Action Tracker (CAT), a consortium of research institutions.
They examined the commitments already made by governments to limit warming.
The CAT rated seven of the 15 submitted carbon plans as "inadequate" to keep temperatures below the accepted level of dangerous warming.
The analysis was released at a UN climate negotiation meeting in Bonn aimed at advancing a new global treaty.
As part of the attempts to tackle global warming, countries have agreed to submit their national plans to the UN before key talks in Paris in December.
So far, 56 governments have published their "intended nationally determined contributions," or INDCs in the jargon of the UN.
The likes of China, the US and the EU have already submitted their intentions. In this analysis, the CAT looked at the plans of 15 countries that between them account for almost 65% of global emissions.
However, seven - including Australia, Canada and Japan - were said to be "inadequate", meaning that they are not considered fair contributions to limiting warming to 2C.
Six - including the US, EU and China - were said to be "medium", meaning they are consistent with the target.
Two countries, Ethiopia and Morocco, were said to be "sufficient", and in line with the 2 degree goal.
"It is clear that if the Paris meeting locks in present climate commitments for 2030, holding warming below 2C could essentially become infeasible, and 1.5 degrees C beyond reach," said Bill Hare of Climate Analytics, part of the CAT group.
According to the analysis, the commitments made so far would see temperature rises of up to 3C, with greater impacts on sea-level rise and the frequency of extreme weather events.
Many countries with significant emissions of CO2 have not declared their hands so far, including Indonesia and Brazil.
Brazilian environmentalists have come up with their own INDC at this meeting in an effort to push their government forward.
They claim that the country, the world's seventh biggest emitter, can trim carbon by 35% by 2030 from 2010 levels. They call for an end to deforestation, replanting at least 14 million hectares of native forests and boosting hydropower and biofuels.
"We are showing that it's possible for the country to give a fair and ambitious contribution that is both good for the climate and good for the economy," said Carlos Rittl, from the Brazilian Climate Observatory.
The overall lack of progress towards meeting the 2 degree target will not come as a surprise to government officials meeting here to push forward negotiations on a new global compact.
This week they are attempting to cut down an unwieldy 83-page draft text into something more manageable. There are still major divisions over the shape and content of a new treaty, which will attempt to put long-term ambitions to curb carbon into a legally binding form.
Issues of money are never too far from the surface in these talks. In their opening statement, Sudan, on behalf of the African group of countries, affirmed their "strong reservations" over the current text.
"The group reaffirms that loss and damage is very critical to the core agreement," pointing to the issue of reparations for damages caused by climate change - something that is anathema to richer countries.
It is one of a number of thorny issues that have paralysed progress in this forum. Delegates are aware that they face a very difficult task with just one more week of formal negotiations left after this one, before the parties gather in Paris.
Arnold made 30 National League appearances last season for Dover, keeping nine clean sheets.
The 27-year-old previously played under Gills head coach Ady Pennock at League Two club Forest Green Rovers.
"For me he hasn't fulfilled his potential as a goalkeeper. He is a good lad and will fit in well," Pennock told the club website.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Antrim's quest for a 16th title in a row got off to a brilliant start as they beat Donegal 3-24 to 1-10 at Celtic Park.
In Inniskeen, Armagh edged a keenly-contested local derby with Down on a 1-17 to 2-12 scoreline.
The provincial final will be played on Sunday, 16 April.
Donegal led briefly against the Saffrons after a Davin Flynn goal, but James McNaughton's netted 26th-minute reply handed Antrim a lead they would not relinquish.
Antrim led by 2-9 to 1-5 at half-time, with Loughgiel clubman McNaughton firing a second goal in the 32nd minute.
The reigning champions built up a 15-point lead inside 12 minutes of the restart, with Daniel McKernan scoring their third goal.
In the other semi-final, two goals by Malachy Magee helped Down to a 2-5 to 0-7 lead.
Down were reduced to 14 men at this stage, after the dismissal of Caolan Baile in the 25th minute.
A Dylan McKenna goal levelled the tie at 1-10 to 2-7 inside 13 minutes of the restart, with the sides level on three further occasions, until Armagh fired two injury-time points, to ensure a two-point win.
The charity Parkinson's UK said being stared at, laughed at or mistaken for drunk left some sufferers feeling "intimidated" and "invisible".
It wants the public to show more patience and understanding.
Parkinson's is a degenerative neurological condition which causes tremors, slow movements and rigidity.
There are around 127,000 people with the condition in the UK.
Professor David Burn, clinical director at Parkinson's UK and consultant neurologist, said the impact of thoughtless reactions from the public could be devastating.
"Patients I see in the clinic are already battling a myriad of neurological symptoms including anxiety, depression and insomnia.
"The last thing they need is to feel like a zoo exhibit when they step out of their front door."
The survey, carried out by Parkinson's UK, also revealed the unseen effects of negative public reactions on people with the condition.
Almost one in five who had experienced this kind of reaction said they would rather skip a meal than venture out to the shops.
One in six said they felt trapped inside their homes after being on the receiving end of public humiliation.
To try to improve this situation, Parkinson's UK is urging people to show small acts of kindness and be more friendly towards others who may be living with the condition.
Steve Ford, chief executive at the charity, said: "We certainly don't expect people to be experts in knowing whether or not the person taking a little longer at the till, or looking unsteady on their feet is living with Parkinson's.
"But by signing up to our new campaign with a small pledge - to smile or be that bit more patient - you can have a real impact on the lives of people with Parkinson's."
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Aarons, 21, was expected to miss the rest of the season with an anterior cruciate ligament injury in November, having played five games this term.
He is back in training and could be considered for first-team duty.
"It takes normally around six to eight months," Benitez told BBC Newcastle.
"He had the operation in another country, in Italy with the surgeon we knew, and it's been really good.
"After four months he's been doing a full training session with the team, so we are really pleased with the way he is going on."
The Magpies have options in Aarons' absence, with Matt Ritchie, Ayoze Perez, Yoan Gouffran and Christian Atsu filling the role for Benitez's side.
There are eight league games remaining for Newcastle, who are top of the Championship and lead Brighton by a point.
"I had a conversation with him, and the doctor, about our ideas and we don't want to take any risks," Benitez added.
"The player is training so we could say he can play but we don't want to take any risks for a couple of games at the end of the season.
"We prefer to monitor the player every day to see how he progresses and it depends on the necessities of the team, but normally if he plays this year it will be at the end."
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Experts say understanding deer numbers is crucial to monitoring their impact on the natural environment and ensuring their safety.
BBC London's Tom Edwards spoke to Tom Hayward, from the London Wildlife Trust, and councillor Andrew Curtin, from Havering Borough Council.
Delcy Rodriguez was speaking at the general assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS).
International pressure is building on Venezuela to resolve its problems.
Supplies of food and medicine are running short, with the opposition blaming President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government.
On 2 May, opposition leaders handed the National Electoral Council (CNE) a petition with almost two million signatures demanding that a referendum be held to recall Mr Maduro.
After a series of delays and cancelled meetings, the CNE announced on Friday that its scrutiny of the signatures suggested that 600,000 of them were fraudulent.
But even with those 600,000 signatures deducted, the opposition has more than six times the number of signatures needed at this early stage of the process.
The CNE announced that the remaining 1.3 million signatories would be asked to verify their identities by having their fingerprints checked at CNE offices between 20 and 24 of June.
But on Monday the government asked the Supreme Court to reject the petition, alleging widespread fraud.
The government has also said that it will not hold the referendum this year.
The timing of the referendum is key. If it is held by 10 January 2017 and President Maduro loses, a new election will be called.
If it is held after that date and the vote goes against him, his vice-president - who is loyal to Mr Maduro - will take over and remain in power until the end of the presidential term, in January 2019.
Speaking at the OAS general assembly in the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo, US Secretary of State John Kerry called on the Venezuelan government to "honour its own constitutional mechanisms" by allowing a "fair and timely recall referendum".
Mr Kerry called the situation in Venezuela "deeply troubling".
He said he was joining OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro and other international leaders in calls for President Maduro to "release political prisoners, respect freedom of expression and assembly, [and] alleviate shortages of food and medicine".
Ms Rodriguez responded by saying that Venezuela's internal affairs would be settled by Venezuelans.
She also hit out at Mr Almagro, whom she again accused of being "an agent of Washington".
Mr Almagro earlier this month asked for an emergency OAS meeting to be held to discuss the crisis in Venezuela.
In a 132-page letter, Mr Almagro argued that Venezuela had suffered an "unconstitutional alteration of the constitutional regime that seriously impairs the democratic order".
After the session, both Venezuela and the US said they would launch a new round of talks.
Mr Kerry said he would send a senior US envoy to Venezuela as soon as possible.
In a televised broadcast, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said the country had agreed to a new dialogue with the US.
Her predecessor had cast a long shadow, having dominated the education landscape and in many ways re-made it in his own likeness.
Mrs Morgan was introduced as a less confrontational figure, offering an olive branch to a teaching profession that had felt that it was being used for target practice.
But many of the questions she faced were about how she defined herself against the Gove legacy, rather than about her own vision.
Now she is back under her own steam, authority enhanced and able to stamp her own identity on the Department for Education.
So what will be the direction of schools in England under Mrs Morgan? Will it be more olive branches? Or will it be more burning bridges?
The first education bill of the new Parliament promises to create hundreds of academies and free schools, with plans to replace the leadership of schools that are struggling. So no surprises there, it's going to be more of the same.
And it will raise the same questions about whether structural change really raises standards.
But so much of this debate is about the rhetoric rather than the reality - and head teachers have been bristling at the language of threats to send in teams of new leaders to "failing and coasting schools".
Heads' leaders have been irritated that the public discourse is already so negative.
And they ask where are all these armies of superstar replacement heads waiting to be "parachuted" into schools?
The "coasting school" motif really irritates them, not least because it's such a vague term, leaving many heads unsure whether they should be looking over their shoulder.
But maybe they should see it as part of the cycle of government.
"Hundreds of schools in England which are considered to be 'coasting' are facing a government crackdown." This was a story from 2007, with an almost identical threat of such lacklustre schools being taken over.
And it wasn't even new then.
"The school standards watchdog in England is to crack down on 'coasting' schools". That was from 1999 - and it annoyed head teachers then too.
It's also worth noting that Ofsted at the same time announced that schools would only receive from six to 10 working weeks' notice of an inspection, instead of two terms. It's now less than one day's notice.
And schools are still "coasting".
One of the balancing acts for Mrs Morgan will be how to keep school leaders on board, as serious professional partners, when at the same time the political language about education often reverts into accusations and threats.
Heads say they are facing big practical pressures in the next five years - hundreds of thousands of extra pupils needing places, fears of a shortage of teachers and head teachers, and worries about over-stretched budgets.
Constantly talking about academies seems an ideological sideshow to them.
And the engagement of heads will be crucial in what is going to be a major task for the next five years - rolling out the curriculum and qualifications reforms announced under the previous coalition government.
There are bound to be some unforeseen bumps, and downright craters, in this delivery phase.
Mrs Morgan has promised that the next five years will see an end to "constant change". There was a strong message to teachers during the election campaign that there would be more bedding in and less uprooting.
And that means finding a way to avoid any more headline-grabbing changes, without looking like this is an administration that is becalmed. She'll have to show that less is more.
But there are still questions to be decided which will be seen as symbolic. Not least about whether to allow a Kent grammar school to open a satellite branch in another town.
Speaking privately, heads' leaders say there seems to be a balancing act.
Mrs Morgan is described as being much more accessible and wanting a better relationship with the teaching profession - and the atmosphere in the Department for Education is described as "completely different" than in the Gove era.
They describe ministers as being "very upbeat".
But head teachers still bridle at what seems to be a very different political tone, that they criticise as negative towards schools, lacking in evidence and counter-productive.
Good cop, bad cop? Mrs Morgan now has the chance to establish her own classroom style.
The new series has two new presenters, Caroline Flack and Olly Murs, and two brand new judges.
Pop star Rita Ora and BBC Radio 1 presenter Nick Grimshaw are both joining the judging panel for the first time.
The X Factor also announced that it will be handing power over to the viewers, to choose which categories the judges will mentor.
It will be the first time in the show's 12 years that a live vote is held during auditions.
Leah went to the London auditions to find out if the new changes are enough to get more people watching.
She also met some of the acts hoping to stand out and impress the judges this year.
Ticket fraud expert Reg Walker claimed that some sellers were paid in advance, and given powerful software to manage their inventories.
He said sites were dependent on "bad actors" who used computers to harvest "and resell high volumes of tickets".
"Secondary sellers are covering [for touts] in some cases," he added.
Mr Walker is head of the Iridium Consultancy, which tackles ticket fraud for a number of major UK venues, including London's O2 Arena.
Speaking to MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport select committee, he said that some sellers were "courted" by sites like GetMeIn, Viagogo and Stubhub.
"And the reason is there's a finite amount of these people that harvest tickets in bulk."
Stubhub, which is owned by eBay, also gave evidence, and insisted that they carried out "due diligence on all our sellers".
However, "we do not police or monitor our site and we are not required to do so", said Paul Peake, head of the company's legal department.
You Me At Six singer Josh Franceschi was among those calling on MPs to clamp down on online ticket touts.
The 26-year-old said computer programmes known as bots, which bulk-buy tickets the second they go on sale, should be made illegal.
Those tickets often ended up being sold at inflated prices on the secondary market, he added.
"Money is been taken out of the industry and put into the hands of people who are only concerned with lining their own pockets.
"The main losers here are the fans of live music."
However, Mr Walker revealed that it is not just professional touts who exploit the system.
He said tickets for a recent Michael Buble tour had been handed directly to secondary ticketing websites by one of the star's associates.
"I believe that was done without the artist's knowledge," he said, "but it makes me wonder if there are other artists that this is happening to."
Arctic Monkeys' manager Ian McAndrew said he had been offered similar deals in the past.
"I have often been approached by one of the big four resale sites asking to enter into an arrangement where I give them inventory in return for participation in the resale profit," he told MPs.
"That is a proposal I've refused on a number of occasions - but I can understand how that would be a temptation for some who want to maximise profits for a show."
Mr McAndrew also called for greater transparency from primary sellers. He said it is often "unclear" how many tickets will be available when a tour goes on sale - as venues, promoters, bands and sponsors often receive their own allocation to distribute separately via pre-sales and promotions.
"The number of tickets that then go on sale at general sale is unknown, is unclear to us. But there is increasing evidence to suggest it is far smaller than it should be."
A limited supply of tickets helped fuel the secondary market, he said.
Chris Edmonds, Chairman of Ticketmaster UK, confirmed that up to 50% of tickets could already have been allocated when the general sale begins.
"We can have hundreds of thousands of consumers queuing on our site to buy tickets for an event, with no real visibility of how many tickets are left," he said.
"Wherever you have an instance where demand is beyond supply, it creates a concern and a frustration and a disappointment."
A government review of the ticketing market was conducted earlier this year by Professor Michael Waterson, economics professor at Warwick University.
Speaking on Tuesday, he said he was not in favour of banning the secondary ticketing market, but supported the idea of outlawing "bots".
He also called for pop concerts to introduce variable pricing - as seen in opera and theatre - in an effort to deter touts.
Labour MP Sharon Hodgson, co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on ticket abuse, told the BBC: "Fans cannot be fleeced any longer.
"I hope the government will realise that sitting on their hands cannot go on and will listen to the chorus of concerns coming from the industry, fans and Parliamentarians and finally take action."
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Wa-ays Dhaye, 18, from the town, died in hospital following an attack at the junction of Thurston Road and Waterbeach Road, Manor Park, on Monday.
On Friday, two men were arrested on suspicion of murder and a third on suspicion of assisting an offender.
A warrant for further detention was granted at Oxford Magistrates' Court.
Det Ch Insp Simon Steel previously described the attack as "senseless and violent".
A post-mortem examination on Tuesday confirmed the victim died from multiple stab wounds.
Mr Dhaye, who was Somalian, had travelled from London to Slough railway station at about 22:30 BST.
Thames Valley Police said he had been returning from Notting Hill Carnival.
He is thought to have walked home via the crossroads between Stoke Poges Lane, Oatlands Drive and Elliman Avenue, then into Mildenhall Road before reaching Thurston Road.
The force said the death was not linked to an assault in Salt Hill Park on 28 August.
Cooke cited the example of the US where the law requires equal funding for male and female university sport.
"We could do the same with TV time. If the BBC is paid for by the public, then maybe equality there could be brought in," she said.
The BBC said about 1,000 hours of women's sport was broadcast every year.
BBC Wales has learned that millions of pounds of Lottery cash will be made available in April to encourage under-represented groups, including women and girls, to take up sport.
Figures from the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation suggest just 5% of media coverage in the UK is devoted to women's sport.
Sport Wales statistics show only 33% of girls take part in sport frequently compared to 44% of boys.
There is also a marked drop in girls' participation and enjoyment once they start secondary school.
Cooke, the 2008 Beijing gold medallist, was scathing about the portrayal of female sports, despite women having won 36% of Team GB's medals at the 2012 London Olympics.
"There are some fantastic athletes and some fantastic performances in many sports, but the biggest issue for women's sport is media coverage," she said.
"I think young girls who are active and who play sport will always be asking where they want to get to, and what their ambition is.
"There is a very obvious lack of women role models and that is because they are invisible.
"There are lots of female athletes out there achieving great things, but there aren't the role models to aspire to like there are on the men's side. That can be addressed and would have a very big impact on giving youngsters who are thinking about a future in competitive sport or just playing sport to keep going."
The former cycling world champion also pointed a finger at sports governing bodies for not pushing the profile of female sport hard enough.
Cooke had her own run-ins with cycling's authorities when she was prevented from riding in women's races despite being a highly talented youngster and has also been highly critical of what she calls the "crumbling" of professional women's road racing.
While Cooke calls for change at the top, her former school - Brynteg in Bridgend - has taken a different approach in conjunction with the local council, through what they have called a "girls' power programme".
The school has relaxed rules on PE kit, tried to let girls take part in friendship groups, held talks on self-esteem and given girls control over what they do in PE classes.
On the day BBC Wales visited a year 9 class was hammering pads and gloves in a no-holds-barred self-defence class.
The school has also acquired around £30,000-worth of grants to refurbish an old gymnasium and changing rooms to include TV screens, sound system, mirrors and hair driers.
A "networking group" of girls was given £800 to in-effect run their own PE lessons and is now also applying for charitable status to raise further funds.
The BBC said it was committed to covering a wide range of women's sports and was proud of "our audience offer across TV, radio and online".
"We broadcast around 1,000 hours of women's sport every year on BBC television, meaning almost 20% of our coverage is dedicated to women's sport," said a spokesperson.
"In 2013, we delivered over 40 live commentaries of women's sport including cricket, rugby, wheelchair basketball, football, golf, tennis on Radio 5 live and 5 live sports extra.
"In addition to live commentary the BBC provides comprehensive daily news across a huge range of women's sports via the BBC Sport website."
The BBC said last year its sport website published more than 1,000 articles about 40 different women's sports.
Cooke retired from cycling in 2013 at the age of 29 and is currently studying for an MBA at Cardiff University.
She is also writing her autobiography, which is scheduled to be published in the summer of 2014.
Christina McCallion, who lives in Curragh Walk, said she now wants security gates erected to help deal with anti-social behaviour in the area.
She said that she cannot let her children out to play in the garden.
A spokesperson for the council said funding has been approved for gates at three locations in the Shantallow area.
Christina has moved her children to a different bedroom because of what she says is anti-social behaviour at night in the area.
"We all live in fear after the fire at the weekend in case it happens to one of us.
"They have been pulling down my back fence and have had rubbish thrown into my back yard.
"The security gates will keep them from the alley and away from houses in this area."
Writing in the programme for 1992's Diamonds and Pearls tour, he explained: "There are no accidents. Music is made out of necessity. It's a fact of life. Just like breathing."
His recorded output extends to nearly 1,000 songs. Many more are thought to be stashed in a vault at Paisley Park.
It is impossible to boil that productivity down to a list of 50 or 100 songs, never mind 16 - but here's a broad (and personal) portrait of his hits, mixed with a few fan favourites.
Prince's first single sets the tone for what follows - staccato funk with a racy lyric co-written by Chris Moon, the producer who discovered the musician in Minneapolis.
But flimsy production and a conventional arrangement show a writer who is only just beginning to learn his studio craft.
The title track of Prince's third album was where he really hit his stride. Recorded in his home studio, the music is pared back to its bare essentials - the raw, gritty sound finally a match for his lyrical thrust.
Reviewing the record, rock critic Robert Christgau declared: "Mick Jagger should fold up his penis and go home."
Intrigued, Jagger invited Prince to support the Rolling Stones on tour. But the musician and his band, subjected to a torrent of racial and homophobic abuse, were booed off stage.
Prince's first bona-fide classic came to him while he slept in the back of a car - not a Corvette, but a bright pink Ford Edsel owned by his bandmate Lisa Coleman.
A perfect fusion of soul and rock, it builds slowly from those mournful opening lines ("I guess I should've known by the way you parked your car sideways that it wouldn't last") to a climactic guitar solo, and Prince's trademark squeal "Ah-oh-wa".
By hiding his cruder thoughts behind a car/sex/horse-racing metaphor, the song achieved airplay ubiquity and gave Prince his first top 10 hit in the US.
Purple Rain, the film, was as much about Prince's phenomenal live band, The Revolution, as it was about him. For a long time, the soundtrack was the closest he came to releasing a live album.
Several of the songs, including the timeless title track, were captured in concert at the First Avenue nightclub in Minneapolis on 3 August 1983 (notably, it was guitarist Wendy Melvoin's first gig with the band.)
When Doves Cry was the exception. Prince recorded it alone at home. Perhaps the story, loosely based on his parents' failed marriage, was too personal to share. Or maybe it just came to him too quickly to call the band together.
But when he played it back, The Revolution scoffed. Prince had erased the bass from the track, heightening its sense of alienation. "How are you going to have a hit record without a bass?" they teased.
According to his engineer, Prince replied: "Nobody else would have the balls to do this. You just wait - they'll be freaking."
During his purple period, Prince's b-sides were the equal of his hits; and Erotic City is one of his lesser-known classics.
A duet with drummer Sheila E, it's an extended club track based around an infuriatingly catchy bass line that showcases a more playful side to Prince's self-serious public persona. It also features the first instance of Prince speeding up his voice and toying with androgyny.
Amazingly, Kiss was originally given away to another Minnesotan band, Mazarati, after Prince floundered over the arrangement. Bootlegs circulated amongst fans suggest it started life as a (beautiful) acoustic blues number, but Prince just couldn't make the song work.
"I had that song for a long time," he said. "Changed it around a lot. Happens all the time."
Once he heard Mazarati's dizzying electro-funk arrangement, though, he demanded the song back - even retaining their backing vocals. It was one of the smartest decisions he ever made.
A desolate ballad about the death of a loved friend, Sometimes It Snows In April is simply one of Prince's most beloved and devastating songs.
By 1986, Prince was working on a dizzying number of potential projects - among them a solo record under the pseudonym Camille and a triple album called Crystal Ball.
Both were abandoned and the best tracks compressed into his masterpiece, 1987's Sign o' the Times.
But that meant the loss of Crystal Ball's title track, a 10-minute pop-funk number about making love during the apocalypse (probably). It features several musical movements, a bass solo and an orchestral overture by Grammy-winning composer Clare Fischer.
If you want an unfiltered example of Prince's musical agility and compositional prowess, this is the one.
Prince was told he couldn't write the ultimate pop song. He came up with this - a duet/stand-off with Sheena Easton. "Boy meets girl in the world series of love." Not a bad effort.
An odd, yet tender, ode to intimacy - in which Prince imagines what it would be like to be his lover's female best friend. "Would you run to me if somebody hurt you, even if that somebody was me," he wonders aloud.
According to engineer Susan Rogers, it was written for his girlfriend Susanna Melvoin - twin sister of Wendy, his guitarist in The Revolution.
"It was a way of asking, 'Why can't I have the closeness you have with your sister? Why can't we be friends too?"
Simple, carefree, joyous. Prince climbs aboard his "daddy's Thunderbird" and proclaims "life is too good to waste".
Curious fans should track down a bootleg of Prince rehearsing the song for 1988's Lovesexy tour. It illustrates how the star drilled his band to perfection, cueing in different musical elements - "Just the horns and drums!", "Timbale solo!" on a whim.
Every so often Prince chants "v, w, x, y, z," and the song comes to a juddering halt - before Prince cues the musicians back in with the simple utterance: "Good God!"
It's mesmerising.
Prince's "sequel" to Purple Rain, 1990's Graffiti Bridge, was diabolical - but the soundtrack hides a few gems, including this bluesy ballad, which features one of his most romantic lyrics: "Holding someone is truly believing there's joy in repetition."
Prince never really worked out how to meet the challenge of hip-hop ("the only good rapper is one that's dead on it," he sang in 1987) - but this was his best attempt.
Recounting an eventful evening out ("23 positions in a one-night stand") Prince is at his lascivious best over this drawling, drooling funk groove.
The full length, 10-minute version is also worth seeking out purely for Eric Leeds' flute solo in the coda.
An acoustic song with a mystical Eastern flavour, 7 foreshadowed Prince's decision to "kill" his public persona and adopt a new name - with the video showing the star being assassinated seven times.
A big hit in the US, Prince continued to play it live - often combining it with a cover of The Beatles' Come Together.
After a "lost decade" in which Prince battled with his record company and tragically lost a newborn son to clover leaf syndrome, his sound began to resurface via the recordings of R&B super-producers Pharrell Williams and Timbaland.
Reinvigorated, he returned to the studio and beat them at their own game on this tough, nasty groove that made effective use of sonic negative space.
"You'll be screamin' like a white lady," he informed his lover, the charmer.
The saddest aspect of Prince's untimely death is that he had recently rediscovered his muse, playing incessantly - first with his new, all-female band 3rdEyeGirl, then on an intimate "piano and a microphone" tour.
That coincided with a slew of new material, of which Breakdown was a highlight.
Apparently an autobiographical account of his former excesses - "I used to throw the party every New Year's Eve/First one intoxicated, last one to leave" - it is also a love letter to the person (or higher power?) who set him free.
The vocal performance - literally the sound of a man breaking down - is astonishing. It's a shame more people didn't hear it.
Tony Pulis made just four changes, with Salomon Rondon heading home the opener from Rodriguez's whipped cross.
The Baggies doubled their lead before the break when Matt Phillips took down a ball over the top and rifled in.
Rodriguez cut inside to drill a third into the bottom corner, while Tom Dallison slotted in a late consolation.
Kayden Jackson had a penalty appeal turned down for the hosts immediately before Rodriguez's strike, while substitute Mekhi McLeod twice went close for Stanley, forcing Boaz Myhill to tip wide of the post.
Rondon and Rodriguez, who signed from Southampton last month, were wasteful in front of goal as the Baggies could have won by a wider margin.
West Brom, captained by recent signing Gareth Barry, have won all three of their games this season, while defeat for John Coleman's side ended their perfect home record this term.
Match ends, Accrington Stanley 1, West Bromwich Albion 3.
Second Half ends, Accrington Stanley 1, West Bromwich Albion 3.
Seamus Conneely (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nacer Chadli (West Bromwich Albion).
Goal! Accrington Stanley 1, West Bromwich Albion 3. Tom Dallison (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Billy Kee.
Attempt blocked. Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Liam Nolan (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matt Phillips (West Bromwich Albion).
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Nacer Chadli.
Attempt blocked. Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Leko (West Bromwich Albion).
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Craig Dawson.
Attempt blocked. James McClean (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Nyom.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Rekeem Harper replaces James Morrison.
Attempt missed. Mekhi Leacock-McLeod (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Foul by Jake Livermore (West Bromwich Albion).
Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Janoi Donacien.
Attempt blocked. Mekhi Leacock-McLeod (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion).
Mekhi Leacock-McLeod (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Boaz Myhill.
Attempt saved. Mekhi Leacock-McLeod (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Jonathan Leko (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Mekhi Leacock-McLeod (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Mekhi Leacock-McLeod replaces Kayden Jackson.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Seamus Conneely replaces Scott Brown.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Jonathan Leko replaces Jay Rodriguez.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Jake Livermore replaces Gareth Barry.
Attempt missed. James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Goal! Accrington Stanley 0, West Bromwich Albion 3. Jay Rodriguez (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Matt Phillips.
Attempt missed. Kayden Jackson (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion).
Jordan Clark (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Ben Richards-Everton.
Attempt missed. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Padge-Victoria Windslowe, 45, illegally injected silicone into Claudia Aderotimi, 20, a London dancer and university student.
The silicone eventually moved to her lungs, stopping her heart.
Windslowe was also convicted of assault and faces as much as 40 years in prison for the murder charge alone.
Prosecutors argued Windslowe travelled to hotel rooms and "pumping parties" to inject women's buttocks using syringes and instant glue to close the injection sites.
Aderotimi was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to celebrate her birthday with a friend. In 2012, the friend testified they went to meet the woman they knew as "Lillian" for a "a touch-up".
Windslowe's defence lawyer said the former madam did not know about the risks of the procedure because she had only had satisfied clients.
"Clearly with all the information from this case, we know it shouldn't be done, it's too risky," David Rudenstein said. "We know that now. But we didn't know that then."
Analysis: Rajini Vaidyanathan, BBC News
These types of convictions are rare - the number of fatalities from backstreet buttocks injections is still low. But more people are opting for cheap, yet unregulated procedures in their quest for a bigger behind.
It can lead to horrific consequences. Some victims have been left maimed and disfigured after they put their trust in fake doctors who injected them with all kinds of substances including Krazy Glue, tyre sealant and silicone.
One FBI official told me last year that they're investigating more of these cases. But there are challenges when it comes to tackling this boom in black market cosmetic surgery.
Many people are too embarrassed to come forward when things go wrong - there's still a huge stigma when it comes to admitting you've had enhancement on your behind.
During closing arguments on Friday, a prosecutor described Aderotimi as "a regular girl" who had asked whether the injections could interfere with her ability to have children.
Windslowe misled Aderotimi, telling her she had medical training, prosecutors said.
Prosecutor Bridget Kirn argued when the 20-year-old began having chest pains after the injection, Windslowe "kept up that ruse'' of being a nurse and pretended to examine her.
A jury decided to find Windslowe guilty of third-degree murder, which is not premeditated but involves malice.
Aderotimi's death was one of several similar incidents, including a mother of three in Texas who was left by the roadside after she died in 2011 following an injection.
A review of Southern Health NHS Trust found it only investigated 37% of deaths over a four-year period.
Problems came to light in 2013 when a man at a care facility in Oxford drowned in a bath having had an epileptic fit.
The trust said all deaths since December have now been reviewed.
According to a new report conducted by the trust, all 259 deaths since then were reviewed by a clinical panel which decided whether a full investigation was required.
The report said: "We have made extensive changes to the way we record and investigate deaths of any patient who use services."
NHS Improvement - the new body in charge of monitoring the quality of trusts - has taken regulatory action against Southern Health and will continue assessing the trust for some time.
A report commissioned by NHS England, published in December 2015, discovered that only 272 of the 722 deaths in the trust over the previous four years were investigated.
There were further calls for resignations among the trust's leadership at a meeting of Oxfordshire County Council's .
Committee member Laura Price said a change of culture was needed and asked why a change of leadership at Southern Health had not "seriously been put on the table".
Medical director of Southern Health, Lesley Stevens told the meeting there had been an "enormous amount of pressure and scrutiny" around the leadership of the organisation.
"We know what we need to do here. We've got a lot of external scrutiny, we're providing a lot of assurance around the improvement on safety of our services. We want to get on and deliver it."
The council and Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group had previously decided not to renew Southern Health's contract to provide services for people with learning disabilities due to "quality and performance concerns".
In 2013, 18-year-old Connor Sparrowhawk died at Slade House in Oxford when he drowned in a bath after suffering an epileptic fit.
The trust currently provides services to residents in Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire.
The "continuing concerns" over the governance of the trust will be debated in parliament, after Southern Health's chief executive Katrina Percy addressed MPs at the Hampshire All-Party Parliamentary Group on Tuesday.
Some council highways officials said they did not start gritting roads until Monday morning as overnight forecasts said it would not freeze.
North Wales Police said it saw a "surge in demand" with calls to its control room with 69 reports of road traffic collisions between 07:00 and 13:00 GMT.
A spokesperson urged motorists to take care on the roads.
An injured man was airlifted to Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, after a two-vehicle collision in Pentre Halkyn, Flintshire, at 08:00.
In another incident, a cyclist suffered serious injuries after a collision with a tractor on Hawarden Road, Hope, Flintshire, at 11:35.
Supt Alex Goss from North Wales Police said: "We experienced a surge in demand into our control room reporting collisions across all six counties.
"As a result of two separate collisions two people have been taken to hospital in Stoke with serious injuries and we wish them a full recovery."
Trouble spots in Denbighshire included the A547 near Rhuddlan and the A525 near St Asaph while the A5151 at Trelawnyd, Flintshire, was also affected.
In Anglesey, the A5025 at Pentraeth and B5111 at Llangefni were both affected.
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Denbighshire council said it received several weather forecasts on Sunday, including one at 22:00 stating that temperatures would remain above zero due to cloud cover.
It added: "A further update was issued at 05:00 today [Monday], stating the cloudy skies had cleared unexpectedly and temperatures had dropped. As a result the council deployed its gritters and they are still out and about this morning treating the main roads and problem areas."
Flintshire council said: "The council did not undertake any precautionary gritting yesterday [Sunday] evening because the forecast received by the council did not require it. Temperatures did however fall below freezing this morning in some areas and the gritting fleet were deployed to treat the network."
Further west, Conwy council gritted all its priority routes on Sunday night and Monday morning.
And Gwynedd council said: "We can confirm that parts of the primary network roads were gritted last night based on forecasts for icy conditions."
Handling the increased volume of emergency admissions to hospitals and juggling demands for beds will be as tough as ever.
On top of that will be a raft of meetings discussing the potentially most radical shake-up of health services in decades.
The sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) being produced in 44 local areas of England are seen as vital ingredients in the redesign of care to cope with increasing patient demand.
The plans will focus on trying to moderate that demand and treat more patients away from hospitals.
But there has been no denying that some of the plans will see closures of accident and emergency units and hospital wards, concentrating services on fewer sites.
The STP process has got off to a difficult start.
Accusations of cover-ups and stealth cuts have been fuelled by the King's Fund report that said local health teams had been asked by the NHS nationally to keep the plans out of the public gaze.
Local campaigners, fearing closures, are gearing up to take to the streets to defend local hospitals. There could be a winter and spring of discontent ahead.
A bigger question raised by the King's Fund report was whether the STPs would be deliverable.
Local health leaders have enough on their shoulders with the day-to-day running of services, never mind managing ambitious and sometimes controversial transformation plans.
Investment for a shake-up of local care provision will be hard to come by in stretched budgets.
I am hearing there is a big variation between the best and the worst STPs and the way they are being handled locally.
One source close to the process said that while NHS managers were always good at setting out healthcare challenges and aspirations, it was much harder to get agreement on concrete action plans.
Egos, money and jockeying for leadership positions often get in the way of difficult decisions on change.
Sustainability and transformation plans are are aimed at overhauling NHS services and saving money.
Each area of the country has been asked to come up with its own plans, and so local NHS managers have divided the country into 44 "footprints".
It is all part of NHS England's five-year strategy to release £22bn of efficiency savings by 2020. As health is devolved, the plans do not affect the rest of the UK.
The 44 areas started reviewing local services in early 2016, and all have now submitted proposals to NHS England and NHS Improvement.
Consultations on major changes are expected to take place early next year, with implementation following soon after.
Sustainability and Transformation Plans explained
The STP process has brought together hospital bosses, community health organisations, GPs, commissioners and local authority social care leaders, often for the first time.
In some areas, tensions have emerged and local council leaders have hinted that the NHS is dominating the process.
Reading Council has gone public with criticism of its local STP, claiming the local authority view has not been properly heard: "we have serious reservations about a process in which a five year plan for local health services can be drawn up behind closed doors and without proper public, or indeed political scrutiny."
This has been compounded by confusion over publication and public involvement, with some plans released unilaterally by local authority representatives.
Some of the STPs already published have plenty of predictions about anticipated increases in activity and how they need to be tackled.
But they are short on detail and run the risk of being dismissed as pie in the sky.
On the other hand, plan teams know that specific references to closures will spur local protests.
At a Kings Fund discussion Caroline Clarke, chief finance officer at Royal Free London Trust, was supportive of the STP work and noted that it was galvanising efforts on system-wide problems.
The fund itself has made clear that it sees STPs as the best hope for improving health and care services, even if they are controversial.
NHS England has made clear that more plans will be published in the weeks ahead and the public will have a chance to have their say.
As the debate gathers momentum, the Department of Health will watch closely.
Government sources indicate it is supportive of the process but needs to see and assess the plans.
There is a sense of keeping things at arms length at this stage. Downing Street is known to be taking an interest, keen no doubt to assess the likely political fallout.
The head of NHS England, Simon Stevens, has made clear to the service that the STPs are an essential part of his much heralded Five Year Forward View strategy.
For Mr Stevens personally, there is a lot riding on these plans. If they get derailed, it will be a serious blow.
Success could see a major shift in health and social care management, with the STPs blueprints for a new devolved care model.
England's Sophie Thornhill and Helen Scott won gold in a new Games record of one minute 8.177 seconds.
Australia's Brandie O'Connor and Breanna Hargrave won bronze.
McGlynn and Haston were also pipped to gold in the tandem sprint by Thornhill and Scott.
Italian Turi Calafato's phone snapshot of two people sunbathing on the beach secured more than half the online public vote, with 6,700 votes.
The winners of the open and youth categories were also revealed, including three British photographers.
The overall winners will be announced at a ceremony on 23 April.
The mobile phone category was introduced this year to recognise how technology now allows us to capture everyday moments in our daily lives "which would otherwise go unnoticed".
Judges narrowed down 10,200 entries to a shortlist of 20 for the public vote, which saw Janos M Schmidt from Hungary take second place with this image of a train station.
Iran's Ako Salemi took third place in the mobile category, with this image of a child going head to head with a goat.
The winning photographers were chosen from more than 96,000 entries and include three British photographers.
Stephanie Anjo, 14, from Guildford in Surrey was the youngest British winner and one of three in the youth competition, winning the portraits category.
In the open competition, Antony Crossfield, who is based in Hackney in London, won the enhanced category.
Norman Quinn, who is based in Belfast, won the panoramic category in the open competition.
This image by Hector Munoz Huerta from Mexico won the arts and culture category.
Spain's Jaime Massieu won the "split second" category with this basketball image.
Antonie Weis - who has joint nationality from Switzerland and Luxemberg - won the nature and wildlife category with this image.
This photo by Wilson Lee of Hong Kong won the category entitled "smile". The thirteen category winners will now compete for the overall open photographer of the year and youth photographer of the year titles.
The images will be shown at Somerset House in London as part of the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards exhibition, which runs from 24 April - 10 May,
Both teams were aiming to bounce back from opening-weekend losses, to Hull City and Liverpool respectively, but could not find a breakthrough in a fiercely-contested game.
Referee Mark Clattenburg was the villain for Leicester fans after denying strong penalty claims in each half, first when Laurent Koscielny tangled with Danny Drinkwater then late on when Hector Bellerin appeared to upend Ahmed Musa.
Leicester striker Jamie Vardy failed to punish the club he turned down this summer when he shot wide from close range as Claudio Ranieri's side started to exert a measure of control after the break.
Arsenal keeper Petr Cech saved crucially from Riyad Mahrez in the dying seconds while Arsenal had opportunities of their own as they enjoyed the better of the first half, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain shooting narrowly wide.
Relive the action from the King Power Stadium
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Arsenal fans were not celebrating a hard-earned point at the final whistle - they were busy venting their fury at manager Arsenal Wenger's lack of activity in the transfer market.
Wenger was urged, loudly and in very industrial terms, to start spending some money as Arsenal fought through a spell of late Leicester pressure.
It left Arsenal without a win from their first two games and means they are already five points behind Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea - and indeed Hull City.
And there can be no doubt Arsenal's fans have a valid point when they question why Wenger has not beefed up his squad more, certainly with more than the £35m acquisition of midfielder Granit Xhaka from Borussia Monchengladbach.
Wenger is hoping to complete a £25m deal for Valencia's German central defender Shkodran Mustafi but there is also a need for further class in attack to augment, and perhaps replace, Olivier Giroud.
This is a defining season for Wenger so it could be said he faces a defining few days in the transfer market.
Arsenal's fans certainly know it. Wenger must surely know it too as he listened to those angry voices in the travelling support tucked away in a corner of the King Power Stadium
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Leicester may not defy the odds and all logic to win the title this season - but there is no reason to believe they will simply fall away after the glory of that Premier League title campaign.
Ranieri's side may still be awaiting their first win of the season but there was plenty to suggest this will be another campaign to enjoy for the fervent Foxes fans who create such atmospheric surroundings at the King Power Stadium.
Leicester may not have been at their vibrant best but they matched Arsenal and showed real resilience and character to apply pressure themselves in the second half after the Gunners enjoyed the best of the first half.
They may have lost N'Golo Kante to Chelsea but Nampalys Mendy looked a decent replacement before his injury and, while Vardy and Mahrez could not apply finishing touches as they did last season, they will on enough occasions to win matches.
And with the old firm of Wes Morgan and Robert Huth back together in central defence, some of the steel that was missing in defeat at Hull City - and that served them so well last term - was restored.
Arsenal's soft centre was brutally exposed by Liverpool in the 4-3 defeat at Emirates Stadium last Sunday - leading to much criticism of Wenger's decision not to play Laurent Koscielny.
Wenger decided Koscielny was not ready after his Euro 2016 exertions with France, even though Per Mertesacker and Gabriel were both long-term injury casualties. It backfired as both Calum Chambers and 20-year-old Rob Holding, a £2m buy from Bolton, struggled badly.
Koscielny's return brought authority to Arsenal's defence and also helped guide Holding through a spell of heavy Leicester pressure, particularly distinguishing himself with a lunge that forced Vardy to shoot high and wide.
He is a fixture in Arsenal's central defence - now Wenger must provide him with quality support.
Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri: "I am very happy. We didn't concede. We closed very well all the space and created clear chances to score. It was a draw but I think our fans enjoyed the match. Vardy scored against Manchester United, and he works so hard. I am happy with him."
On the penalty appeals: "Difficult to say. My philosophy is it's a penalty when the referee blows his whistle and that's it."
On the injury suffered by Mendys: "I don't know how bad. the ankle twists a little. Tomorrow we will see."
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger: "I think overall it was a good performance, a good match between two good teams. It was a game of top level intensity and I believe we responded well to last week's disappointment.
"Leicester are a good team - they did not win the league and only lose three games last season for nothing.
"We had to fight until the end. We could have lost or won it in the last 20 minutes. We wanted to win the game and we finished with five attacking players on the pitch."
Leicester are away at Swansea next Saturday and the Gunners are at Watford - both 15:00 BST kick offs.
Match ends, Leicester City 0, Arsenal 0.
Second Half ends, Leicester City 0, Arsenal 0.
Offside, Leicester City. Daniel Drinkwater tries a through ball, but Andy King is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Rob Holding (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Rob Holding (Arsenal).
Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daniel Drinkwater.
Attempt saved. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Mesut Özil.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.
Substitution, Leicester City. Ahmed Musa replaces Marc Albrighton.
Rob Holding (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City).
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Kasper Schmeichel.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Wes Morgan.
Attempt blocked. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Héctor Bellerín with a through ball.
Mesut Özil (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City).
Substitution, Arsenal. Olivier Giroud replaces Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Attempt saved. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Francis Coquelin.
Substitution, Arsenal. Mesut Özil replaces Santiago Cazorla.
Substitution, Arsenal. Jack Wilshere replaces Granit Xhaka.
Nacho Monreal (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City).
Attempt missed. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Danny Simpson.
Substitution, Leicester City. Leonardo Ulloa replaces Shinji Okazaki.
Attempt blocked. Andy King (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jamie Vardy.
Offside, Arsenal. Francis Coquelin tries a through ball, but Theo Walcott is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Laurent Koscielny.
Attempt missed. Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Francis Coquelin (Arsenal).
Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Leicester City. Andy King replaces Nampalys Mendy because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Nampalys Mendy (Leicester City) because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Nampalys Mendy (Leicester City) because of an injury.
Foul by Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal).
7 November 2016 Last updated at 11:31 GMT
Nick Jablonka's coursework, titled John Lewis Christmas Advert 2016 - The Snowglobe, has attracted hundreds of thousands of views.
The 18-year-old, who studies in Bournemouth, said the clip got about 200 views when it was first uploaded in June, "but in the past week it went crazy".
The retailer said it was so impressed it was arranging for Mr Jablonka to spend some time with its advert team.
The US state department said it deeply regretted the move and hoped that it would bring closure to the case.
The row erupted after Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was arrested in New York on charges of visa fraud and underpaying her housekeeper.
She was asked to leave and arrived back in Delhi on Friday evening.
The state department said it now hoped India would return to constructive ties with the US.
By Jonathan MarcusBBC diplomatic correspondent
In requiring the US to remove one of its diplomats from Delhi the Indian government is effectively treating the departure of its own diplomat from the US as an expulsion.
The question now is whether this draws a line under the messy diplomatic spat between the two countries.
Of greater importance is the longer-term impact this may have on bilateral ties. India, a democracy and rising power in Asia, is seen in many quarters in Washington as a natural fit to become a special partner of the United States. The US has sought a closer strategic and military partnership with Delhi but to a large extent has been rebuffed.
India is cautious about advancing ties too quickly. It doesn't want to antagonise Beijing and many Indians still see the US as having been far too close to Pakistan.
Spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: "We deeply regret that the Indian government felt it was necessary to expel one of our diplomatic personnel.
"This has clearly been a challenging time in the US-India relationship. We expect and hope that this will now come to closure and the Indians will take significant steps with us to improve our relationship and return it to a more constructive place," she said.
The expelled diplomat has not been named.
Sources told Agence France-Presse that the individual was of similar rank and had been involved in the Khobragade case.
India had demanded an apology after Ms Khobragade, 39, was handcuffed and strip-searched following her arrest last month. It refused to waive her immunity.
Ms Khobragade has always denied any wrongdoing.
On Thursday she was indicted by a US federal grand jury in Manhattan, but was also granted immunity by US officials, paving the way for her to return to India.
She arrived back in the Indian capital at about 22:30 (17:00 GMT) on Friday.
Her father, Uttam Khobragade, said: "We are very relaxed and happy that she is back home. We are filled with joy."
He added: "We are overwhelmed by the country's support."
Ms Khobragade was arrested after a complaint from her maid, Sangeeta Richard.
She in turn accused Ms Richard of theft and attempted blackmail.
Delhi said it was "shocked and appalled" at the manner of her arrest, and ordered a series of diplomatic reprisals against the US.
Security barricades around the US embassy in the capital were removed and a visiting US delegation was snubbed by senior Indian politicians and officials.
On Wednesday, the embassy was ordered to stop "commercial activities on its premises". India also said that embassy cars could be penalised for traffic offences.
The embassy has been told to shut down a club within its premises which includes a pool, restaurant and tennis court, NDTV news channel said.
The east Caribbean island was once dominated by a hugely profitable sugar industry that exploited African slaves - whose descendants now make up the large majority of the population - and European indentured labour.
We asked Barbadians ("Bajans") who remember the days before independence to share their memories of that time, and explain how life has changed on the island five decades later.
A schoolboy of 14 at independence, Elridge Dixon has vivid memories of that day, 30 November 1966: "I watched the live TV broadcast of the Union Jack being lowered and the new Broken Trident flag of Barbados being raised in the pouring rain."
Mr Dixon went on to become a teacher, a field worker for a UN development project and, finally, a manager for a German pharmaceutical firm.
"We've made tremendous strides in the past 50 years, in education, healthcare and housing," he says. "The country has remained stable and holds elections that are free, fair and without incident."
Sandra Straker, a political activist and grandmother, went to watch the ceremonial raising of the new Barbados flag in person, at the British Army parade ground at Garrison Savannah (now a racecourse).
"I was a little girl and I will never forget that night," she says. "As we watched the flags change, an English sailor gave me his hat to wear - but I had to give it back or he would have been charged when he got back on his ship!"
Ms Straker has seen major social transformation: "There used to be whites-only areas. We as little black people could not walk there. That's all changed now."
But she also sees clouds on the horizon today: "In the past, fishermen gave free fish to those who had children but no money. Now we are richer, people don't care for their brothers and sisters like they used to."
Barbadians reacted to the prospect of independence with a mixture of excitement and concern about the future, recalls Lady Gwendolyn Brancker: "I felt a feeling of trepidation, not because I was against independence but because the event was so emotional."
She feels the practical effects of full independence have been minimal but predicts more constitutional change will come.
"I don't think anything has really changed - our culture and life in general have remained the same. Independence was a continuation of our lives and it mainly meant that we were no longer a colony of Britain.
"Nowadays, some people think we should go further and become a republic. I believe one day that will happen."
Nita Trottman has worked in her rum shop (the Barbadian equivalent of an English local pub) for the whole of her adult life.
Her parents opened the shop - named "Trotties" - in Watts Village in St George parish in 1952, and Nita began work there after leaving school around the time of independence.
For her, full Barbadian self-rule was a final release from routine inconveniences.
"In those days, if you got a money order from England, you had to go to a justice of the peace and get him to sign the back of it before you could get the money. Now we have ID cards for things like that."
While things have not always gone well since independence - the global financial crash in 2008 heavily affected the tourism-dependent island - she is adamant that self-determination has brought benefits.
"Things are better now. We've had hard times but everyone's got enough to eat."
At the time of independence, Ervin Ford was serving as a 31-year-old merchant seaman, helping deliver sugar cane and other products from Barbados to islands around the Caribbean.
At home in Wildey, St Michael, he listened to the independence ceremony on the radio.
"Only richer people had TVs. Black people were nothing in Barbados," he remembers.
He has since witnessed the country's main industry move from sugar cane production to tourism.
"Visitors from England and America have helped build tourism here," he says. "This country is blessed by the Lord - it's a beautiful country, the best in the Caribbean."
Interviews by Adrian Dalingwater and Andree Massiah.
The Exiles won a penalty when Richard Duffy fouled Rhys Healey and Sean Rigg scored on the rebound after Notts keeper Adam Collin saved his spot-kick.
Healey drove from long range to double Newport's lead but was disallowed a second goal for a foul after the break.
Josh Sheehan scored his fifth goal in six games with a 25-yard volley as the visitors sealed a fine win.
Newport County manager Graham Westley told BBC Radio Wales Sport: "I think it was a strong away performance and we worked very, very hard for the points.
"There was a lot of discipline, organisation and care in our performance and we were good with and without the ball.
"It's obviously pleasing to come to a tough environment like this against a very good side and earn three points."
Match ends, Notts County 0, Newport County 3.
Second Half ends, Notts County 0, Newport County 3.
Attempt blocked. Josh O'Hanlon (Newport County) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is blocked.
Foul by Jennison Myrie-Williams (Newport County).
Carl Dickinson (Notts County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Alan Smith (Notts County) is shown the yellow card.
Jazzi Barnum-Bobb (Newport County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Alan Smith (Notts County).
Substitution, Newport County. Jennison Myrie-Williams replaces Rhys Healey.
Tom Owen-Evans (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Robert Milsom (Notts County).
Darren Jones (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alan Smith (Notts County).
Attempt missed. Genaro Snijders (Notts County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Josh Sheehan (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Adam Collin.
Attempt saved. Tom Owen-Evans (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Graham Burke (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Robert Milsom (Notts County) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Darren Jones.
Attempt blocked. Graham Burke (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Jordan Richards (Notts County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Dan Butler (Newport County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jordan Richards (Notts County).
Tom Owen-Evans (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Robert Milsom (Notts County).
Attempt blocked. Graham Burke (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Scot Bennett (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Graham Burke (Notts County).
Substitution, Newport County. Tom Owen-Evans replaces Jack Jebb.
Attempt saved. Josh Sheehan (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Ben Tozer (Newport County) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Elliott Hewitt.
Jazzi Barnum-Bobb (Newport County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Genaro Snijders (Notts County).
Attempt saved. Graham Burke (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Notts County 0, Newport County 3. Josh Sheehan (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Josh O'Hanlon.
Foul by Josh O'Hanlon (Newport County).
Richard Duffy (Notts County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ben Tozer (Newport County).
Bobby Molloy was first elected to the Dáil as a Fianna Fáil TD (deputy) for Galway West in 1965.
He served as minister for local government, minister for defence and minister for energy during an almost 40-year term in Leinster House.
A Progressive Democrat TD since 1986 he retired from politics in 2002.
Peter Wright, who runs HMP Lincoln, said that on two occasions he thought prisoners would die and staff had been injured on another.
He welcomed the announcement of further powers to tackle the problem.
Lincolnshire Action Trust, which works with prisoners, said legal highs were also causing problems for families.
"The consequence we've had so far with legal highs is that prisoners... have been grotesquely violent and staff have to be extremely brave in controlling and restraining prisoners," Mr Wright said.
"But also prisoners who have taken those legal highs have suffered terribly, something akin to an epileptic fit.
"It's been very humiliating for them to be seen under the influence."
Mr Wright was keen to stress that their use was not widespread but welcomed the announcement by the Ministry of Justice that prisons will receive more powers.
Christina Hall, from Lincolnshire Action Trust, helps rehabilitate prisoners and works with their families.
She said families were being pressured into smuggling legal highs into the prison and had even seen children used to distract guards.
"It may be a threat where [a prisoner says to another prisoner] 'you make sure your partner brings that in' and children are used to do that," she said.
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A prison governor said the use of so-called legal highs is a growing problem and causing inmates to be "grotesquely violent".
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Nigeria striker Oshoala was lively before meeting a Gemma Bonner cross to volley home just before the break.
Oshoala cut the ball back for Fara Williams to make it 2-0 before Aoife Mannion gave Birmingham late hope.
Liverpool's first win of 2015 was overshadowed as Kate Longhurst went off on a stretcher with concussion.
The forward received lengthy treatment on the pitch following a clash of heads with Remi Allen.
Defeat for Birmingham leaves them winless in the league, although they have already ended Liverpool's FA Cup hopes with a 3-1 fifth-round win at Damson Park.
Liverpool striker Asisat Oshoala:
"I feel very happy and excited about the goal and the victory for the team.
"It's very nice for me hearing them singing my name. It's a crazy atmosphere. I have never seen supporters like this and I have been playing football for quite a long time now. The supporters here are awesome, they are great people.
"It's been a difficult start to the season but I believed we would bounce back. We showed the spirit here is very high, and we are really giving everything."
Birmingham City boss David Parker:
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"The first goal is always crucial and giving them the goal at such a crucial time was poor game management.
"We should never have allowed them that opportunity. We should have gone into half-time at 0-0 and taken it from there.
"It's the things we absolutely preach to the players, and that's what makes it most frustrating. They are our basics as a football club, we play in a certain way, and the players have done the opposite to that at times and got themselves into trouble as a result."
Liverpool: Stout; Harris, Bonner, Murray, Schroder; Easton; Smorsgard (Rolser 69), Williams, Longhurst (Dale 90), Oshoala (Staniforth 90); Dowie.
Substitutes not used: Darbyshire, Ryland, Donoghue, Pacheco.
Bookings: Easton (81).
Birmingham City: Spencer; Windell (Sargeant 88), Mannion, Harrop, Carter; Potter, Moore, Allen, Lawley, Wellings, Westwood.
Substitutes not used: Rogers, Linnett, Simpkins, Stringer, Torkildsen, Haines.
Bookings: Moore (81), Allen (90+2).
Attendance: 421
Referee: M Woods
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Asisat Oshoala scored her first goal in English football to help defending Women's Super League One champions Liverpool overcome Birmingham City.
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Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir was detained at Beirut airport early on Saturday.
He had been on the run since clashes with the Lebanese army in 2013, which left at least 17 soldiers dead.
The cleric organised followers to fight alongside rebels in Syria in response to Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia group which backs President Bashar al-Assad.
Sheikh Assir is wanted over an incident in June 2013 in which one of his men was caught with unauthorised weapons in his car at a military checkpoint in Sidon, 40km (28 miles) south of the capital, Beirut.
Witnesses at the time said machine guns and rockets were used - and when the army went to Mr Assir's compound, it found heavy weapons and military-style uniforms.
Lebanese officials said he was arrested trying to fly to Egypt using a false passport, having "changed his appearance".
Unconfirmed reports said he had shaved off his beard and undergone facial surgery.
BBC regional analyst Sebastian Usher says the media-savvy sheikh has been one of the fieriest voices in Lebanon, stoking up sectarian tensions as the Syrian war has raged next door.
Sheikh Assir built his reputation on television talkshows as a self-proclaimed defender of Sunni rights against the Shia movement, Hezbollah, and its backing of Syria's President Assad, our analyst says.
Despite being on the run for two years, he has continued to issue video and audio messages.
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Lebanese authorities have arrested a fugitive radical Sunni preacher as he was trying to leave the country, officials say.
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The government said it would halt "combat operations" in line with the plan announced by the US and Russia.
But the opposition said its acceptance depended on government forces ending sieges and air strikes of civilians.
The deal will not apply to the two main jihadist groups in Syria, Islamic State (IS) and the rival al-Nusra Front.
Al-Nusra is an affiliate of al-Qaeda and forms part of a major rebel alliance that controls large parts of the country's north-west.
What's a 'cessation of hostilities'? How it differs from a truce or a ceasefire
Who's in and who's out? Which armed groups will not be abiding by the accord
More than 250,000 people have died in almost five years of war in Syria.
Eleven million others have fled their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other, as well as IS militants.
Under the terms of the agreement announced by the US and Russia on Monday, the Syrian government and opposition were required to indicate by noon on Friday (10:00 GMT) whether they would comply with the cessation of hostilities.
The High Negotiation Committee (HNC) issued a statement after a meeting in Saudi Arabia saying it was "committed to the success of the international efforts dedicated to ending Syrian bloodshed".
But it warned that "acceptance of the truce is conditional'' on the implementation of UN Security Council resolution 2254, which calls on all parties to lift sieges, allow aid deliveries, halt aerial and artillery attacks on civilians, and release detainees.
The Syrian government later declared "its acceptance of a halt to combat operations on the basis of continuing military efforts to combat terrorism".
It added that it would work with Russia, which has conducted air strikes against Mr Assad's opponents since September, to identify areas and armed groups that were covered and reserved the right to "respond to any breach by these groups ".
Moscow's military intervention in Syria has been a game changer.
Not only has it forced the West to sit down at the negotiating table and deal with Russia and its president, but also to recognise Russia as a major world power. And, of course, it has given a huge boost to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The reason Washington no longer demands the Syrian leader's resignation as a pre-condition to peace is because it knows that is no longer realistic: Russian firepower has made Mr Assad more secure, his armed opponents weaker.
The Russians sense that both the United States and Europe want a swift end to this conflict, and they know that the Syrian refugee crisis is putting a huge strain on the EU.
So, Russia sees its chance to change the way it is viewed: it wants to be seen by the West not as the problem, but the solution.
The Syrian government also stressed the importance of sealing Syria's borders, halting foreign support for armed groups, and "preventing these organisations from strengthening their capabilities or changing their positions".
The Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance told the Associated Press that it would not abide by the deal because it was fighting only IS in northern Syria.
The UN special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has described the plan for the cessation of hostilities as encouraging, but acknowledged that enforcing it on the ground will be challenging.
Mr de Mistura will convene a taskforce to monitor the deal as soon as it takes effect, due at midnight on Saturday (22:00 GMT on Friday).
The US, which supports the opposition to Mr Assad, will also share information with Russia, including data that delineates territory where armed groups are active.
Rebel commanders expressed doubts about the accord, saying it would provide cover for government forces and Russian aircraft to continue their attacks.
"Russia and the regime will target the areas of the revolutionaries on the pretext of al-Nusra Front's presence," Bashar al-Zoubi of the Yarmouk Army told the Reuters news agency. "If this happens, the truce will collapse."
US Secretary of State John Kerry told a Senate committee that it would be clear very soon whether Russia was serious about ending the conflict.
"The proof will be in the actions that come in the next days," he said.
He added that Mr Assad was going to "going to have to make some real decisions" about the formation of a transitional administration, as part of a UN Security Council-endorsed peace process, or the US would consider "Plan B options".
Fighting continued on Tuesday despite the plan for a cessation of hostilities.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, reported that air strikes, believed to have been carried out by Russian jets, had targeted one of the last roads into opposition-held eastern areas of the city of Aleppo.
South of Aleppo, IS militants captured the town of Khanaser, cutting a road used to supply government-controlled areas of the city, the Syrian Observatory said.
Meanwhile, state TV reported that an aid convoy had entered the eastern Damascus suburb of Kafr Batna, which is under siege by government forces.
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The Syrian government and the main opposition umbrella group say they accept the terms of a deal to cease hostilities from Saturday.
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The Beatles spent time at the 18-acre ashram, meditating and writing songs in 1968. Many of the songs made it onto the band's iconic White Album.
The ashram was run by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a flamboyant self-styled Indian guru, who died in 2008.
It was abandoned by the guru and his followers in the 1970s.
But the retreat, which was taken over by the local forestry department in 2003, remained a big draw with Beatles fans from all over the world. They would usually sneak in by climbing the walls or paying a small bribe to a gatekeeper.
The derelict ashram is located on the fringes of a tiger reserve. A meditation hall with colourful graffiti on the walls is the main attraction.
Authorities opened the ashram to visitors on Tuesday, and are charging Indian and foreign tourists 150 ($2.24; £1.49) and 700 rupees ($10.49; £7) respectively.
"We have cleaned up the place and lined the pathways with flowers. We are making some gardens and putting some benches for visitors," senior forestry official Rajendra Nautiyal told the BBC.
"We are introducing a nature trial and bird walk. We also plan to set up a cafeteria and a souvenir shop at some point. We want to retain the place's rustic look."
However visitors will not be allowed to draw on the walls on the ashram without permission from the authorities, he said.
The Beatles had planned a three-month retreat at the estate in 1968, but, according to some accounts, it descended into farce.
Ringo Starr went home after 10 days complaining about the spicy food.
Paul McCartney stayed for a month, while John Lennon and George Harrison left abruptly after six weeks.
Paul Saltzman, author of The Beatles in Rishikesh, says the band wrote some 48 songs during their stay.
The retreat itself - leased to the guru by the government in 1957 - was gradually reclaimed by nature after being abandoned.
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An abandoned spiritual retreat in the Indian town of Rishikesh where The Beatles learned to meditate has been opened to the public.
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A 21-year-old was attacked in Minshull Street at about 02:00 GMT after she refused to give a man her phone number.
Police think the man, in his late 20s or early 30s, had previously attacked two other women in recent weeks.
He was said to be Asian, wore a bubble coat and was carrying an umbrella with the logo of clothing firm Blacks on it.
The umbrella the suspect was carrying had the logo of the outdoor clothing company and "was about nine years old and quite rare", according to police. He ran off towards Canal Street.
A 22-year-old woman was attacked in Kent Road West at about 04:00 on 6 February. The man approached the victim from behind and sexually assaulted her.
On 30 January, the man put his arm around a 19-year-old woman on Oxford Road and assaulted her. He then followed her into Whitworth Street and attempted to assault her again.
She pushed him away and ran off.
Anyone with information about the incidents is asked to contact police or Crimestoppers.
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A man carrying a distinctive umbrella has sexually assaulted three women in separate incidents in Manchester city centre, police said.
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City of London Police and armed officers were alerted to the incident on Liverpool Street just after 14:30.
Three men on mopeds reportedly used sledgehammers to smash the shop windows before fleeing.
Officers chased three of the men to a car park in Gravel Lane where one man was arrested. The two others remain on the run.
The force said a sledgehammer and the machete, which was used to threaten the officer, were recovered and there were no reports of any injuries.
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A police officer has been threatened with a machete during a raid on a jewellery store.
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Darren February, 33, of no fixed address, had denied breaking into the Holland Park house while the music mogul and his family slept.
He took jewellery and two passports from an open safe while a security guard was in the toilet in December 2015, Isleworth Crown Court heard.
February had previously been convicted of 37 burglaries, the prosecution said.
He is currently serving an eight-and-a-half year jail sentence for causing death by dangerous driving after hitting a motorcyclist near Mr Cowell's home just 10 days after the burglary. He was convicted last year.
He was first convicted aged 12 and has committed 58 offences spanning two decades.
The jury took less than an hour to find him guilty following a four-day trial.
The court heard February's DNA was found on gloves dropped during his escape and on a handprint left on a wall at the property. A security worker also spotted him as he fled.
In a statement read out in court, Mr Cowell said he and his partner Lauren Silverman had been "very concerned" for their son Eric after learning about the burglary.
He explained the safe had been left open as Ms Silverman was catching a flight in the morning and wanted to "quietly get her jewellery" when she left.
Among the items taken were a ring estimated to be worth £500,000 as well as earrings, watches and a diamond bracelet.
February will be sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on Wednesday.
Sean Smyrichinsky was diving for sea cucumbers near British Columbia when he discovered a large metal device that looked a bit like a flying saucer.
The Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) believes it could be a "lost nuke" from a US B-36 bomber that crashed in the area in 1950.
The government does not believe the bomb contains nuclear material.
It is sending naval ships out to the site, near the Haida Gwaii archipelago, to verify the find.
Mr Smyrichinsky says he came upon the device while diving off the coast of Pitt Island near Haida Gwaii in early October, which is near the Alaskan border with British Columbia. It was "bigger than a king-size bed", perfectly flat on top with a rounded bottom and had a hole in the centre just "like a bagel," he told the BBC.
"I found something really weird, I think it's a UFO," he joked with his fellow divers once he came to shore. The area is remote, and Mr Smyrichinsky says he had to wait a few days before he could go into town and find somebody who might know what it is.
One of his friends, an "old-timer" from the area, had an idea: "Maybe you found that nuke they lost here in the 50s!"
It may sound like something from a thriller movie but accidents did mean that nuclear weapons sometimes were lost in the Cold War and it has often taken years for the full story to emerge.
I visited North Greenland a few years ago to look into a 1968 crash in which a US bomber approaching the Thule military base crashed. Parts of a nuclear weapon sank beneath the ice.
Special submarines found some of the parts but not everything could be recovered.
Two years before that another B-52 bomber crashed in Palomares in Spain.
In that case three weapons were found on the ground but a fourth was only located after more than two months of searching the sea.
The level of secrecy around nuclear weapons during the Cold War meant that often the full details of what had happened were classified - partly to avoid giving away secrets of weapons design but also because of fears of how local people might respond.
The story of the lost nuke has plagued military historians for more than half a century. In 1950, American B-36 Bomber 075 crashed near British Columbia on its way to Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. The plane was on a secret mission to simulate a nuclear strike and had a real Mark IV nuclear bomb on board to see if it could carry the payload required.
Several hours into its flight, its engines caught fire and the crew had to parachute to safety. Out of a 17-person crew, five didn't make it.
The American military says the bomb was filled with lead and TNT but no plutonium, so it wasn't capable of a nuclear explosion. The crew put the plane on autopilot and set it to crash in the middle of the ocean, but three years later, its wreckage was found hundreds of kilometres inland.
Dirk Septer, an aviation historian from British Columbia, says the US government searched the wreckage but couldn't find the weapon.
"It was a mystery to everyone," he told the BBC. "It was the height of the Cold War and they were just paranoid that the Russians would get a hold of it."
Crew members have said they dumped the bomb in the ocean first, fearing what the payload of TNT could do on its own if it were detonated.
A spokesperson for DND told the BBC the department had conferred with its American counterparts, and that the object the diver found could very well be the bomb. The American military do not believe the bomb is active or a threat to anyone, he said, but Canada is sending military ships to the site to make sure.
But while the military and the diver believe they may have found the lost nuke of Bomber 075, Mr Septer says the diver's location is totally wrong, given what we know about the plane crash.
"It could be anything," Mr Septer said. "Whatever he found, it's not the nuke."
Gavin Swankie opened the scoring with a fine finish before goals from Ewan McNeil and David Gormley put Clyde ahead.
Martyn Fortheringham equalised, but Peter MacDonald's penalty looked to have won the points for the visitors.
Jim Lister's header levelled matters, before Cox lashed in a winner.
Match ends, Forfar Athletic 4, Clyde 3.
Second Half ends, Forfar Athletic 4, Clyde 3.
Jim Lister (Forfar Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chris Smith (Clyde).
Substitution, Forfar Athletic. Marc Scott replaces Gavin Swankie.
Grant Adam (Forfar Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Forfar Athletic 4, Clyde 3. David Cox (Forfar Athletic) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jamie Bain.
Corner, Forfar Athletic. Conceded by Chris Smith.
Attempt saved. Danny Denholm (Forfar Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Ewan McNeil (Clyde) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Eoghan McCawl (Forfar Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ewan McNeil (Clyde).
Goal! Forfar Athletic 3, Clyde 3. Jim Lister (Forfar Athletic) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jamie Bain.
Substitution, Forfar Athletic. Jim Lister replaces Josh Peters.
Foul by Ross Perry (Clyde).
David Cox (Forfar Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Ewan McNeil (Clyde) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by David Cox (Forfar Athletic).
Goal! Forfar Athletic 2, Clyde 3. Peter MacDonald (Clyde) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty Clyde. David Gormley draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Jamie Bain (Forfar Athletic) after a foul in the penalty area.
Corner, Clyde. Conceded by Gavin Swankie.
Martin McNiff (Clyde) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stuart Malcolm (Forfar Athletic).
Attempt saved. Peter MacDonald (Clyde) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Forfar Athletic. Eoghan McCawl replaces Lewis Milne because of an injury.
Corner, Forfar Athletic. Conceded by Chris Smith.
Corner, Clyde. Conceded by Stuart Malcolm.
Attempt missed. Michael Kennedy (Forfar Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Goal! Forfar Athletic 2, Clyde 2. Martyn Fotheringham (Forfar Athletic) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by David Cox.
Chris Smith (Clyde) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Cox (Forfar Athletic).
Attempt missed. Ewan McNeil (Clyde) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Second Half begins Forfar Athletic 1, Clyde 2.
First Half ends, Forfar Athletic 1, Clyde 2.
Goal! Forfar Athletic 1, Clyde 2. David Gormley (Clyde) header from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Peter MacDonald following a set piece situation.
Jamie Bain (Forfar Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jamie Bain (Forfar Athletic).
Ewan McNeil (Clyde) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Clyde. Conceded by Michael Kennedy.
According to reports, newly-elected Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has decided to revisit some deals signed with China by his predecessor Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The suspension of the port city project in Colombo and subsequent protests by Sri Lankan workers have gained wide attention in Chinese papers.
Mr Sirisena's government said that the project was launched "without relevant approvals from concerned institutions".
Some papers report that Sri Lankan workers are very angry over the decision, while other news portals quote foreign media reports saying that the incident is a test of Beijing's "ambitious overseas ventures".
The Xinhua News Agency highlights Mr Rajapaksa's criticism of the suspension.
"Halting of development projects means that the Sri Lankan workers and engineers working on them will lose their jobs and thereby the cash flowing to villagers will stop," state media quote him as saying.
The Colombo port project is part of Beijing's Maritime Silk Road initiative, which is aimed at connecting China with the Indian Ocean nations and the larger Asia-Pacific region.
A commentary in the Haiwai Net, a news portal of the People's Daily newspaper, stresses that China views Sri Lanka as one of the important "components" in the country's Maritime Silk Road project.
Observers in international media outlets say the initiative poses a direct challenge to India. Chinese papers, however, dismiss such views, assuring that the project will benefit every country in the region.
"The authorities cite regulations and environment issues as reasons for the suspension… but this is only an excuse," says the Haiwai Net article.
The commentary notes that the new Sri Lankan president is "very pro-India" and suspects Colombo may have been "facing pressure from Delhi".
However, it highlights that India is unlikely to have the economic capacity needed to help Sri Lanka, and predicts that Colombo will "still depend on Beijing for infrastructure investment in the long term".
Turning to domestic news, papers assess "judicial fairness" after Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court Zhou Qiang urged the courts to learn from wrongful convictions.
His comments come months after a high-profile case involving a wrongly-executed 18-year-old sparked a debate.
An article in the Global Times points out that it is "rare" for judicial authorities to use "such strong words".
The admission shows that the authorities "have been reflecting on their flaws" and "proactively responding" to the public's doubts about judicial fairness in China, it says.
Praising the judicial departments for being "courageous", the Beijing News urges the authorities to put in more effort to improve the system.
Echoing similar views, the Beijing Times says the admission of fault is "a first step". It urges judicial workers to "carry out their responsibilities according to the law".
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The drug combination was unable to cure four patients, who had all visited Africa, in early signs the parasite is evolving resistance.
A team at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said it was too early to panic.
But it warned things could suddenly get worse and demanded an urgent appraisal of drug-resistance levels in Africa.
Malaria parasites are spread by bites from infected mosquitoes.
It is a major killer of the under-fives with one child dying from the disease every two minutes.
Between 1,500 and 2,000 people are treated for malaria in the UK each year - always after foreign travel.
Most are treated with the combination drug: artemether-lumefantrine.
But clinical reports, now detailed in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, showed the therapy failed in four patients between October 2015 and February 2016.
All initially responded to therapy and were sent home, but were readmitted around a month later when the infection rebounded.
Samples of the parasite that causes malaria were analysed at the Malaria Reference Laboratory at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Dr Colin Sutherland told the BBC News website: "It's remarkable there's been four apparent failures of treatment, there's not been any other published account [in the UK]."
All of the patients were eventually treated using other therapies.
But the detailed analysis of the parasites suggested they were developing ways of resisting the effects of the front-line drugs.
Dr Sutherland added: "It does feel like something is changing, but we're not yet in a crisis.
"It is an early sign and we need to take it quite seriously as it may be snowballing into something with greater impact."
Two of the cases were associated with travel to Uganda, one with Angola and one with Liberia - suggesting drug-resistant malaria could be emerging over wide regions of the continent.
Dr Sutherland added: "There has been anecdotal evidence in Africa of treatment failure on a scale that is clinically challenging.
"We need to go in and look carefully at drug efficacy."
The malaria parasites all seemed to be evolving different mechanisms rather than there being one new type of resistant malaria parasite spreading through the continent.
The type of resistance is also clearly distinct from the form developing in South East Asia that has been causing huge international concern.
Dr Sutherland says doctors in the UK need to be aware the drugs might not work and argued current treatment guidelines may need to be reviewed.
Prof David Lalloo, Dean of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, said more studies are needed.
"This is an interesting and well conducted study and again emphasises the incredible ability of the malaria parasite to rapidly evolve to become resistant to antimalarial treatment," he said.
"It is too early to fully evaluate the significance of these findings but the paper highlights the need to be constantly vigilant when treating patients with malaria and larger studies are certainly needed to explore this issue further."
Prof Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer for England, said: "This is a stark warning for the future of global medicine.
"We are in dire need of new drugs to keep pace with resistance, in low and middle-income countries in particular, the consequences of ineffective drugs are catastrophic."
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The group, whose hits included I Owe You Nothing and When Will I Be Famous, announced they were reforming on Wednesday after a break of 24 years.
They said they would play London's O2 arena on 19 August 2017 - the anniversary of their last gig, at Wembley Stadium in 1989.
The show sold out "in seven seconds" on Friday morning, said promoters.
As a result, six further dates have been added, in Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Newcastle and Glasgow, along with a second night at the O2.
Twin brothers Matt and Luke Goss, who formed the band in 1986, said they were "overwhelmed" by the reaction.
"We're so exited to play these shows, we wish it was next week," they said in a statement. "Summer can't come soon enough."
The full tour schedule is:
Tickets for the new dates go on sale on Saturday 8 October, at 10:00 BST.
The speed at which Bros tickets sold out broke box office records, says promoter Live Nation. And there's no doubting that the flames they lit in teenage hearts three decades ago have never gone out.
Outside the press conference for the band's reunion this week, middle-aged Brosettes crowded around the doors in T-shirts sporting the legend: "If found, please return to Matt Goss".
Inside, TV host Emma Willis presented the band with the Bros scrapbook she had made, aged 12, in her bedroom. "There's a picture of your backing dancer," she told Matt and Luke, "And I've written underneath, 'Yuck, I hate her.'"
But shifting 20,000 tickets in seven seconds seems more like a victory for touts than fans. With cunning automated computer programmes, called bots, the touts can harvest tickets microseconds after the sale opens, then sell them for profit on the secondary market.
If you want proof, take a look at the four main secondary ticketing sites. At the time of writing, there are 2,768 seats available for the opening night of the Bros tour - more than 13% of the capacity of the O2 arena.
With prices reaching an eye-watering £4,000, you have to hope the fans saved up more than just Grolsch bottle tops.
Bros were fleetingly the most famous band in the world at the tail end of the 1980s. Their debut album, Push, topped the charts in 19 countries and sold more than seven million copies.
They were mobbed by fans, dubbed Brosettes, and inspired a curious fashion trend of wearing Grolsch bottle tops on their shoes.
Speaking to the BBC, the band said the idea for a reunion came about organically after they held an impromptu jam session in a music shop.
"There's a big difference between having to do something and wanting to do something," said Matt. "And that's the key element here: We wanted to be on stage together again."
The concert will be "outrageously enjoyable", they added, featuring special guests and an acoustic section to establish an "informal, relaxed connection with our audience".
Bassist Craig Logan, who quit the band after their first album, will not be part of the reunion, but Luke Goss said he would be "more than welcome" if he changed his mind.
"Craig chose to leave, he now has a successful career in the record business as an executive," said Luke at a press conference on Wednesday. "I'm very comfortable to say that Matt and I are Bros, literally."
Matt agreed: "As the lead singer of the band, my musical connection has always been with Luke. Bros is Matt and Luke."
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Red Nose Day 2015 coverage included a host of celebrities performing one-off sketches live on BBC One.
Host Claudia Winkelman said £78m was the highest total that had ever been raised on Red Nose Day.
Comic Relief founder Richard Curtis said he was "enormously proud" of the charity's achievements.
The show started with Radio 2 DJ Dermot O'Leary completing a 24-hour danceathon.
Rowan Atkinson and Dawn French also appeared, reprising their roles for Mr Bean and The Vicar Of Dibley.
Comedian Lenny Henry kicked off this year's appeal, held for the first time at the London Palladium.
Henry – who co-founded Comic Relief with writer and director Curtis in 1985 – has hosted the show since it was first held in 1988. Before the show started on Friday, Comic Relief had raised a total of £960m.
By the end of the live programme, £78,082,988 had been raised - taking the total amount raised by Comic Relief to £1,047,083,706.
Richard Curtis, founder and vice chair of Comic Relief, said: "This is a very strange moment for me. When a bunch of comedians got together all those years ago we dreamed of raising a million or two, and never imagined the generosity that would be shown by the British public for so many years.
"Figures tell us that the billion pounds have helped around 50 million people in the UK and overseas, 50 million people whose lives have been changed or saved by the generosity of people they've never met."
Comedians Johnny Vegas, Patrick Kielty, Vic Reeves, Jack Dee and Nick Helm took to the stage as No Direction – a spoof version of One Direction.
Walliams' Little Britain character Lou appeared in another film alongside scientist Professor Stephen Hawking.
Other highlights of the evening included James Bond stars Daniel Craig and Sir Roger Moore in a 007 mockumentary.
David Walliams co-wrote the sketch, which also featured 007 director Sam Mendes and Skyfall actors Rory Kinnear and Ben Whishaw.
There was also a special guest appearance by Professor Stephen Hawking.
Earlier, Radio 2 presenter and X Factor host O'Leary raised more than £643,336 by gyrating non-stop outside BBC Broadcasting House.
When his fundraising total was revealed live on BBC One, he welled up with tears.
Asked by Lenny Henry about the state of his feet after 24 hours on the dance floor, he said: "They've seen better days, my friend."
O'Leary was supported during his dancing feat by hundreds of people who turned up to cheer him on.
Musical highlights of this year's show included performances from John Legend – who won an Oscar last month – and Grammy winner Sam Smith.
Early on Friday, Legend tweeted: "Just touched down in London Town! Excited to perform at Red Nose Day 2015 with @samsmithworld tonight!"
The classic Yorkshiremen sketch, famously performed by Monty Python, was recreated with a modern edge by John Bishop, Eddie Izzard, Davina McCall and David Walliams.
And a special edition of The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice, presented by Jo Brand with Frank Skinner and Mary Berry, saw four Star Bakers from The Great Comic Relief Bake Off series compete against each other.
A series of short films also reminded viewers of the serious side of Comic Relief's work, with appeal films presented by Peter Capaldi, Olivia Colman, Idris Elba and Lenny Henry.
Tony Hall, director general of the BBC, said: "Comic Relief has crossed the billion pound threshold - a stunning achievement and a great tribute to the tireless work of Richard Curtis and the team.
Kevin Cahill, chief executive of Comic Relief, said: "We could not have done it without the generosity of the British public, the BBC, the many famous faces who do their bit and all of our wonderful partners, some of whom have been with us since the very beginning all those years ago.
"The commitment of so many amazing people is truly humbling. We would like to say thank you to everyone who played a part."
You can watch the BBC's Red Nose Day coverage on BBC Iplayer.
According to a Panelbase survey of 3,019 people, 38% were influenced by the debates, 23% by TV news coverage and 10% by party political broadcasts.
The research group said TV was "by far the most influential media source", outscoring newspapers and social media.
Of the papers, the Daily Mail came top followed by the Guardian and the Times.
On 2 April, an average audience of seven million people watched the leaders of the seven biggest parties in England, Scotland and Wales take part in a leaders' debate on ITV.
It was the only live debate that David Cameron agreed to take part in, following a fierce row which broke out between the parties over three potential debates proposed by the broadcasters.
A fortnight later, more than four million people tuned in to BBC One's televised leaders debate, which featured the leaders of the five opposition parties which had participated in the ITV debate.
BBC Two's Daily and Sunday Politics show, hosted by Andrew Neil and Jo Coburn, also held a number of other debates featuring leading politicians.
Of those surveyed by Panelbase, 62% said TV coverage overall had been the most influential in informing them about the general election, the parties and their policies - helping them form their opinions.
TV wielded far more power on those surveyed than newspapers at 25%, websites at 17%, radio at 14%, and speaking to family and friends at 14%.
People were least likely to be influenced by social media and magazines, with Facebook the leading influencer for just 7%, followed by Twitter at 4% and magazines at 2%.
Ivor Knox, managing director of Panelbase, told the BBC: "While social media use has expanded hugely in recent years, its influence on most people's opinions seems to have been fairly limited in the lead-up to the General Election."
Mr Knox pointed to separate research which has shown that social media can often serve as an "echo chamber" for peoples' own views, since we usually surround ourselves online with people who think along similar lines.
The research, published by Science magazine, examined how 10.1m US Facebook users interacted with shared news on the site.
Mr Knox said that Panelbase's research showed that major media outlets also "led the online conversation".
Of those who said they were most influenced by what they read on websites, 61% said they had read their political information on the BBC News website, followed by newspaper websites at 31% and Sky News at 25%.
Google searches were most influential for 23% of those gathering information online, followed by the political party websites at 21%.
He added: "Social media came well down the list, below radio and conversations with friends and family."
Of the 740 respondents (25% of the overall survey group) who claimed to be influenced most by newspapers, 30% said the Daily Mail had been most influential in shaping their opinion.
The Panelbase survey was conducted less than a week before the general election across a sample group of 1,013 adults in Scotland and 2,006 adults in England and Wales.
Bharat Soma slashed the throat of Darshana Narotam, 18, and stabbed Prashant Govinde, 23, in the neck on a Leicester street in January after they fled their homes in London.
Soma, 26, who also injured a teenager, was found guilty at Leicester Crown Court of two counts of attempted murder and a third charge of wounding.
The judge sentenced him to 23 years.
Mr Justice Saunders described the attack as an attempt at a cold-blooded murder to prevent Darshana Narotam from marrying anyone else.
Soma tracked down Ms Narotam, who was 17 at the time, and Mr Govinde to Leicester and struck while they were shopping in the city's East Park Road.
Armed with a kitchen knife, Soma grabbed Ms Narotam and slit her throat before stabbing Mr Govinde in the neck. A 15-year-old boy who was with them, who cannot be identified because of his age, suffered a cut to his hand.
During the eight-week trial, the jury watched footage from body cameras worn by the officers which caught the moments the couple thought they were going to die.
As they lay huddled together in a pool of blood, Ms Narotam told Mr Govinde: "I'm going to die. You won't be able to save me now."
Officers stemmed the bleeding and took a short statement on the cameras in what they thought could have been the last chance to interview the victims.
Soma, who denied the charges, said he carried out the attack because his "mind wasn't working" and he was a victim of black magic.
The jury had heard an agreement had been made between Ms Narotam's family and Soma, who were from the same part of India, that they would marry after she turned 18.
Steve Chappell, chief crown prosecutor for the East Midlands, described the attempted murders as a "shocking attack in broad daylight".
"The victims had done absolutely nothing to warrant being attacked. There is no honour involved in this kind of incident - just violence," he said.
"Bharat Soma acted as he did because a young woman had refused to marry him. Today he has faced the consequences of his actions."
Atletico drew 1-1 at nearest rivals Barca to earn the point they needed to become La Liga champions for the first time since 1996.
Atletico Madrid have won their 10th Spanish La Liga title, the third highest tally after Real Madrid (32) and Barcelona (22)
Their success ended Barca and Real's 10-year stranglehold on the title.
"Today will be one of the most important days in the history of the club," said Simeone, 44.
Atletico became the first club other than Real or Barca to win La Liga since Rafael Benitez's Valencia in the 2003-2004 season.
Simeone's men led the table from the end of March and, although they faltered slightly near the end with a defeat at Levante and a home draw against Malaga, they knew a point would suffice in their final-day fixture at Barca's Nou Camp.
Uruguay centre-back Diego Godin's thumping second-half header clinched their 10th La Liga title and Simeone said afterwards he never doubted that his side would fight back to earn a draw.
"I never thought for a moment the team would not do it," he said.
"They always have a response. The bigger the challenge is, the more determined they are to achieve it.
"To become champions against Barcelona is a great feeling."
Barcelona would have won the title if they had beaten Atletico and led through Alexis Sanchez's thunderous first-half strike.
But the visitors improved after the break, despite already losing top scorer Diego Costa and creative midfielder Arda Turan through injury, and deservedly levelled when Godin powerfully headed in from Gabi's corner.
"We were calm at half-time as the team had started well although the injuries to Diego and Arda were a problem," added ex-Argentina midfielder Simeone, who was a player for Atletico when they last won La Liga.
"From there though we continued to be competitive and fight for each ball which is what I asked for. We looked comfortable."
Simeone also dedicated the success to former Spain coach Luis Aragones, who was a major figure at Atletico after representing them as a player and manager and died aged 75 in February.
"I have been thinking of Luis and I am sure that he was out there helping us defend in the area in the second half," said Simeone.
Now Simeone and his team turn their attention to Saturday's Champions League final in Lisbon, where they can record a remarkable double by beating neighbours Real Madrid.
The 28-year-old joined the Tykes for a third spell in November and scored nine goals in 34 competitions.
The former Liverpool trainee scored at Wembley as the Oakwell side won both the Johnstone's Paint Trophy and the League One play-off final.
"I'm absolutely delighted. I've listened to my heart," Hammill told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"The affinity that the fans have for me was one of the main reasons for staying.
"Taking that team spirit that we have here forward I am sure we will have a really impressive season."
The new deal will keep him at Oakwell until the summer of 2018.
The 28-year-old will sign his contract on Tuesday and will be in place as pre-season training starts on Wednesday.
The Scot left Valencia in May but said leaving Champions League football for a club who narrowly avoided Premier League relegation is a positive move.
"It's a forward step to a different type of football. Not stronger or weaker, different," he told BBC Sport.
Cathro decided in February to vacate his role at Valencia - a position that seems likely to be filled by former Manchester United assistant Phil Neville - partly because he was keen to be closer to his family in Dundee, but also because he was eager to become a manager in his own right.
Indeed, he was only dissuaded from doing so a year previously when head coach Nuno Espirito Santo asked his assistant to join him in making the move from Portuguese top flight side Rio Ave to Valencia.
But Cathro, who held talks with Rangers before the appointment of Mark Warburton as the Ibrox club's manager, refused to entertain suggestions that accepting a role on the Newcastle staff was at odds with his stated ambitions.
"I wanted a fresh challenge and didn't want to just sit it out over there and wait for the right manager's job to come up," he said.
"To come into British football as a manager with no experience of working with English-speaking players is perhaps not advisable anyway so this makes perfect sense."
Ill-feeling and despair enveloped St James' Park last season, with fans angered by an apparent lack of interest and ambition on the part of owner Mike Ashley.
However, Ashley's assurances over his commitment, promise of more investment and the appointment of McClaren have lifted spirits and convinced Cathro of the club's potential.
"Steve coming in has brought a freshness and enthusiasm to get the club back to where it should be and serve the love that exists for it," Cathro added.
"I'm convinced that it's a club willing to grow and would be comfortable higher in the league. It's now ready to do that."
A parallel could be drawn with the Valencia that Cathro discovered upon his arrival. The club were in flux off the pitch and floundering on it, having failed to qualify for European football the previous season.
By the time he left 12 months later, the Mestalla outfit were in the Champions League qualifying round.
It is a lot to leave behind, but Cathro has no regrets.
"I'm completely comfortable with it," he said. "I'm going to watch Valencia in the Champions League and in La Liga and enjoy them playing in wonderful games in great stadiums.
"But I've no fear of missing out because the intention is to go to that level again. If that was with Newcastle, that would be perfect, but if not I'll certainly be back working abroad in the next five to 10 years."
Such confidence was partly what attracted Rangers to Cathro during their search for a new manager.
It had been suggested that his decision to leave Spain was informed by that interest but the former Dundee United youth coach is adamant that the initial contact and two informal meetings with Ibrox directors Paul Murray and John Gilligan only came after he had decided to return to Scotland.
"I was interested in the uniqueness of the challenge," he said. "And it would be foolish not to talk to them, but it may not have been the correct conditions for me to begin as a manager and perhaps they adopted a similar view.
"It was a positive experience and I'd wish them well because they demonstrated that they were keen to really look at what caused the issues on the football side in the past and build something different."
The announcement followed a meeting of health professionals, the Public Health Agency and the ambulance service.
The Department of Health said everyone agreed that it should be retained because of the "clinical need" and "projected population growth".
Health officials had warned that overnight closures may be unavoidable due to staff shortages.
Following the meeting, Southern Health Trust said it remained committed to delivering safe, sustainable 24/7 emergency services at the Newry hospital for the foreseeable future.
The announcement addresses the immediate staffing pressures at the hospital but by no means suggests that a long-term solution has been found.
The BBC understands that consultants will be drafted in from the Belfast Health Trust to help fill the emergency department rota.
The Department of Health's statement reminded the public that Northern Ireland's health service requires transformation and that work will continue at a regional level.
Those who have been campaigning to save the service can breathe a sigh of relief for the time being.
Minor incursion by troops are common on the ill-defined 4,057km (2,520 miles) border between China and India.
There are differing perceptions on where the border lies and overlapping claims about the lines up to which both sides patrol. As a result, both Indian and Chinese troops routinely transgress into areas claimed by the other side.
According to the Indian Home Ministry, there have been 334 "transgressions" by Chinese troops over the Indian border in the first 216 days of this year.
Departing from their past practice, however, Indian security forces are now more aggressive with daily patrolling along certain areas on the border and ready to forbid Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the de-facto border.
This is partly responsible for the increase in stand-offs between the two sides in recent years, but there is a bigger story too.
Border incursions have been repeatedly used by China to keep India on the defensive. Before every major bilateral visit, such incursions tend to take a serious dimension.
In May 2013, Indian officials accused Chinese troops of straying into Indian territory and putting up tents in the Depsang valley in Ladakh, just before Prime Minister Li Keqiang's visit to India. The matter was resolved days before the visit started.
But the latest stand-off coincided with a visit to India by Chinese President Xi Jinping, resulting in embarrassing media headlines.
It is possible that after feting Mr Modi's landslide election victory, Beijing was annoyed by his government's foreign policy moves, in particular with Mr Modi condemning "18th century expansionist mindset: encroaching on other countries, intruding in other's waters, invading other countries and capturing territory" during his recent trip to Japan and India, giving a boost to its ties with Japan and Vietnam days before Mr Xi's visit.
The Chinese forces might also be probing Indian defences along the disputed border and testing India's willpower to stay the course.
The Chinese have invested in border infrastructure much more efficiently than India, where border management continues to suffer from serious deficiencies.
With its repeated transgressions, Beijing has underscored Indian vulnerabilities and the potential costs of challenging China. And with every intrusion, China changes the ground realities at the border, gaining ever more territory in the process and redrawing the map in its favour.
However, it is not readily evident if such an approach would benefit China strategically.
Many believe China has failed to use the opportunity that Mr Modi coming to power gave to Beijing to re-examine the assumptions of its bilateral ties with India.
Mr Xi's visit was widely viewed in India as a damp squib. Even on the economic front, the visit was a disappointment.
There were media reports in India of China pledging $100bn (£61bn) of investment in India. However, only $20bn-worth of deals could be finalised over the next five years.
Officially, Beijing has maintained that Mr Xi's visit to India helped in removing "some suspicions" between the two nations, pushed the ties to a "new age", and that an "important consensus" was reached on politically resolving the border issue through friendly consultation.
But on the eve of his visit to the US, Mr Modi is challenging Beijing by asserting that India cannot close its eyes to problems underscoring that "we are not living in the 18th Century".
Given the turmoil it faces on its eastern flank, it is in China's interest to ensure that India does not join the US-led balancing coalition in Asia.
But with its hard line on the border issue, Beijing might just push New Delhi into a tighter embrace of Japan and the US.
Harsh V Pant is Professor of International Relations at King's College, London.
Things started to go wrong for the Southern League Premier Division outfit after Darren Locke had headed them into a surprise lead at Clarence Park.
Lee Stevenson and Anthony Howell put Mansfield 2-1 up before half-time.
Colin Daniel, Ollie Palmer and a quartet of goals from Clucas, the fourth a delightful chip, sealed an easy win for the Stags.
The last six goals came in the final 20 minutes as St Albans, who were playing in the first round for the first time in 11 years, saw their 11-match unbeaten run come to an end in emphatic fashion.
After Locke's eighth-minute opener, St Albans led until the 43rd minute when Stevenson slotted home before Howell tapped the Stags in front on the stroke of half-time.
Daniel volleyed in for 3-1, Clucas curled home a fourth and Palmer drove in to make the game safe.
Saints folded in the final 10 minutes, with Clucas scoring three more times, including a chipped finish after racing clear.
The party now has 56 MPs while Labour and the Lib Dems have seen their standing slashed to one seat each. The Conservatives retain their single seat.
In 2010, Labour had 41 seats, the Lib Dems 11, SNP 6 and the Conservatives just one. Nicola Sturgeon's party has dramatically overturned those figures, taking 40 from Labour and 10 from the Lib Dems.
Labour now holds just Edinburgh South and the Liberal Democrats retain only Orkney & Shetland. The Conservatives keep Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale.
A change of this magnitude has not been previously seen in Scotland in a single election.
The Conservatives went from being the largest party (by one seat) in 1955 to being electorally wiped out in 1997 but that decline took decades.
Senior figures to lose their seats to the SNP include Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander.
Also thrown out by the voters: Anas Sarwar, Scottish Labour's deputy leader; and Liberal Democrat John Thurso, a hereditary peer.
Former prime minister Gordon Brown, former chancellor Alistair Darling, and former Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell all stood down as MPs at this election. The seats they left have all been won by the SNP.
Twenty-year-old student Mhairi Black is one of 20 SNP female MPs. The party has increased its proportion of women to more than one third.
Number of women in Parliament rises by a third
As with the independence referendum, turnout was very high across Scotland at 71.1%. Two seats have seen turnout rise above 80%, Dunbartonshire East and Renfrewshire East, both SNP gains from Labour.
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The interactive maps below show the share of the vote won by each party regardless of whether they won in that particular constituency.
The closest constituency was Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk which went to a recount. The SNP won by just 328 votes ahead of the Conservatives.
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The SNP has taken some of the safest constituencies in the UK in terms of 2010 majorities (%).
Below are the five safest Labour seats and one Lib Dem seat to fall:
This was the fifth safest seat in the whole of the UK in 2010 with Labour's Willie Bain commanding a 68.4% vote share and a 54.2% majority.
Anne McLaughlin now enjoys a 24.4% majority, after a UK-record swing of 39%.
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Former prime minister Gordon Brown stood down in this seat rather than defend his majority of 50.2% and 23,009 votes.
The new MP is Roger Mullin who took 52.2% of the vote in after a 34.5% swing from Labour to the SNP. Meanwhile, a 15.9% swing from Conservative to Labour suggests tactical voting by Tory supporters.
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Labour's Tom Clarke has lost the Coatbridge constituency he has represented, in its various incarnations, since 1982.
He saw his 20,714 majority overturned by Philip Boswell who won with a 56.6% vote share.
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Chris Stephens beat the incumbent Labour MP Ian Davidson who was defending a 14,671 majority. All seven Glasgow seats turned from Labour to the SNP.
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Margaret Ferrier took Labour's fifth safest Scottish seat of Rutherglen and Hamilton West with a share of 52.6% and 30,279 votes.
Tom Greatrex, who won the seat in 2010, saw his support drop from 28,566 to 20,304 votes.
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The Liberal Democrats kept their safest seat of Orkney and Shetland but former party leader Charles Kennedy was among the party's 10 casualties.
He saw his 13,070 majority fall to Ian Blackford who now has a 12.3% majority of 5,124.
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Mr Gordhan had described the allegations as without merit and politically motivated.
News of the charges earlier this month rattled the financial markets and the South African rand fell more than 3%.
The finance minister has been seen as standing up to President Jacob Zuma in cabinet and has warned against corruption becoming rampant.
He was appointed for a second stint in the job late last year after the president's preferred candidate lasted just a few days.
The fraud charges related to alleged severance payments made to a senior executive at the South African Revenue Service (Sars), when it was under Mr Gordhan's leadership 10 years ago.
After reviewing the charges, the head of South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Shaun Abrahams, said there had been no criminal intent.
This is the latest in a series of blunders relating to the finance ministry that have cost South Africa's economy millions of dollars.
Many had alleged that the fraud case against Mr Gordhan was politically motivated and the NPA's U-turn plays into those claims.
It seems to have buckled under pressure following the public outcry against the decision to charge Mr Gordhan.
Dozens of high-profile South Africans, including 100 stalwarts of the governing African National Congress had rallied behind the minister, seeing the charges as a political ploy aimed at ousting him from office so that the treasury could be looted by corrupt people.
The debacle has raised questions about the independence of the NPA and whether it has been reduced to a political tool.
At a news conference on Monday, Mr Abrahams rejected criticism that the original charges had been politically motivated.
He said that everyone was treated equally before the law, and that laying charges and reviewing them was normal practice, IOL news website quotes him as saying.
He added that he did not owe anyone an apology and dismissed calls for him to resign.
The financial markets reacted positively to the news and there was a spike in the value of the currency when it broke.
When President Zuma sacked Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister last December, replacing him with David van Rooyen, the widely-criticised move sent the rand to record lows and caused the stock market to tumble.
Within a few days Mr Gordhan was appointed in Mr Van Rooyen's place - a move designed to quell market discontent and restore some confidence.
Many analysts believe that President Zuma would like to replace Mr Gordhan, who had previously served as South Africa's finance minister from 2009 until 2014.
Ambulance Service staff alerted police after the 37-year-old man was discovered on Leamington Terrace, near Bruntsfield Place, at about 05:35.
The death is being treated as unexplained and detectives were particularly keen to trace a couple who may have tried to help the man earlier.
They have appealed for anyone with information to come forward.
Det Insp Alan O'Brien said: "Our inquiry is at an early stage and we are currently working to establish the man's identity.
"However, I encourage anyone who may have noticed or spoken to this man and can provide potentially vital information on his movements to please contact police immediately.
"In particular, we understand that a couple had attempted to help the deceased male and I appeal to them to come forward as soon as possible."
Stephen Downes, from Glebe Gardens in Moira, is a teacher at Parkview Special School, Lisburn, County Antrim.
He had denied hitting a child's face after she took another pupil's milk. He also denied assaulting a second girl who then fell against a radiator .
Parents of the two children said they were glad justice had been done.
They added that the case had been very difficult for their families.
The children both attend Parkview Special School where Downes has been a senior teacher since 1997.
The offences took place in late 2010 and early 2011.
He had faced a total of five charges but the judge at Lisburn magistrates court dismissed three of them and found him guilty of two charges.
Downes is due to be sentenced on 10 May.
The Galway native won more than 20 tournaments on the Irish and British circuit and finished in the top 10 of The Open on 10 occasions.
O'Connor competed in every Ryder Cup between 1955 and 1973 and was inducted into the prestigious World Golf Hall of Fame in 2009.
He was uncle to Christy O'Connor Junior, who died in January aged 67.
O'Connor Senior won the British Masters in 1956 and 1959 and his best finish in The Open was tied-second at Royal Birkdale in 1965, two strokes behind Peter Thompson.
He often explained his chances of winning a major were greatly diminished by the fact he could rarely afford to travel to the United States.
O'Connor Senior also played in 15 World Cups, winning in 1958 with Harry Bradshaw.
He won six PGA Senior Championships between 1976 and 1983.
Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke said he learned the news with "great sadness".
"Christy was in many ways the father of Irish golf and his death, so soon after that of his nephew, Christy Junior, means that Ireland has lost two Ryder Cup legends in the space of five months.
"Christy Senior was a golf icon and a wonderful person as well. He did so much for the game he graced for many years while the Ryder Cup to some extent is what it is today because of his passion for it.
"Irish golf in particular and golf in general has lost one of its greatest heroes."
The tourists were taken from a resort in the southern Philippines.
In the video, one hostage calls on the Canadian and Philippine governments to stop military attacks in the area.
The Philippines often sees kidnappings by Islamist militants in the south, who hold hostages for ransom.
The video, which began circulating online on Tuesday, shows three men and a woman surrounded by masked gunmen, with two black flags in the background.
"We beseech the Canadian government to please, please help us and the Philippine government... by stopping all of the operations that have been going on, like artillery fire which came near us," one hostage, who identifies himself as John Ridsdel, says in the video.
The other two introduced themselves as Robert Hall and Kjartan Sekkingstad. The Filipino woman did not speak.
A gunman also read out a statement repeating the demand for artillery attacks to stop, and saying the kidnappers were ready to negotiate for the hostages' release.
But the Philippine army has said negotiations would be unlikely and military offensives would continue.
Colonel Restituto Padilla, an army spokesman, was quoted by GMA News as saying: "The policy of the government as well as others who have been in this kind of situation is that there is no negotiation that can be made with any of those who perpetrating this crime."
Mr Ridsdel and Mr Hall were previously identified by Philippine authorities as Canadian tourists, while Mr Sekkingstad was said to be the Norwegian manager of the Holiday Oceanview resort on Samal Island, where the group was taken last month.
Mr Hall's Filipino girlfriend, Marites Flor, was taken as well.
Authorities have still not ascertained which militant group took the hostages.
In a separate case, gunmen kidnapped an Italian man from his pizza restaurant last week in the southern Zamboanga Sibugay province.
A study for the Environment Agency concludes that trees round a feeder stream can slow the rush of rainwater and save properties from flooding.
But it warns that natural flood prevention methods do not always work.
And it urges a strategic approach because foresting a whole catchment would be counter-productive.
The report - from the universities of Birmingham and Southampton - says that with increased building on flood plains and climate change increasing the risk of heavy rain, many places can't be completely protected by walls of concrete.
There has been a rush of interest in natural methods - planting trees and creating leaky dams which attempt to delay the flow of water by creating mini-floods upstream.
But the report's authors suggest that most successful natural methods are likely to be on a much larger scale than currently in operation.
They advise a strategic approach - taking a tributary stream to a main river then foresting the area round it, allowing the stream to make its own meanders, and letting dead wood from the forest to block the stream where it will.
A drop of up to 20% in flood maximum can be achieved by doing this over 25-40% of the main catchment, they say.
That is because the forested area will release its water to the main stream later than water running off pastureland.
Proponents of "re-wilding" suggest turning a whole catchment to forests. But the authors say this would not work because all the water would be released at the same time.
They say the strategic approach will be challenging because of the numbers of landowners involved in tackling the catchment of a whole tributary stream.
New incentives may need to be found for farmers, who currently get EU grants for keeping land as pasture and clearing scrub and trees.
Simon Dixon from Birmingham University Institute for Forest Research told BBC News: "Where its possible to do more extensive planting than we're doing we really need to do it. It's a bit of a no-brainer."
He said that foresting even 10-15% of a catchment could prevent some flooding.
Ben Lukey, a flood risk manager for the Environment Agency, said there were insufficient funds to attempt the scale of works proposed in this report, although recent changes in grants might help.
"What's identified is opportunity for bigger impact with more strategic catchment but we have to be mindful of the possibility that if it's not done well it could make matters worse.
"To make the scale of changes to help a big city like Leeds for Manchester - that's a scale of ambition that would take sometime to come to pass."
The environment select committee will produce a report on flood management soon.
Floods minister Rory Stewart said the government was spending more than ever to protect communities and tree planting had a role to play along with improved defences and dredging.
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Particular concerns were raised about maths where performance has fallen from high to average over the past decade.
The review of the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) was undertaken by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The international experts said CfE was at a "watershed moment" and changes could deliver a world class system.
The curriculum has been operating in schools since 2010 and gives teachers more flexibility over what and how they teach.
The OECD review, commissioned by the Scottish government, focused on the "broad general education" element of the curriculum up the age of 15 and found "much to be positive about", including;
The review team also highlighted some "problems and challenges", including;
The CfE aims to give learners a "holistic understanding" of what it means to be a young Scot growing up in today's world.
It aims to equip learners with four key "capacities" - successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens, and effective contributors.
However, the report noted there was still some confusion about what constitutes the CfE and suggests setting out clearer definitions.
It also highlighted concerns from school inspectors that assessment results are often not used to improve pupils' learning progress - and a lack of clarity over what should be assessed.
The experts concluded: "Current national assessment arrangements in Scotland do not provide sufficiently robust information, whether for system-level policy-making, or for local authorities or an individual school."
The report notes that these problems may be remedied by the new system of national testing announced recently by the first minister.
The experts called for more academic research into how the curriculum is being implemented and suggest it be less centrally managed, with a greater role for schools themselves and local authorities.
They added: "To achieve the full potential of CfE, building on the valuable consensus and the clear enthusiasm, and for this watershed moment to be 'take off point' there is a more ambitious theory of change needed."
Scotland's largest teaching union, EIS, said the report painted a "largely positive picture" of Scottish education.
General secretary Larry Flanagan said: "It confirms previous data that indicates that Scottish schools and levels of pupil attainment compare well both internationally and with other countries within the UK.
"It also highlights the well-established challenges facing Scottish education, including the poverty-related attainment gap that continues to have a negative impact on too many young people across the country."
The Scottish government said it "broadly supported" the OECD recommendations - and said the review supported its plans to introduce national testing as part of its National Improvement Framework.
First minister Nicola Sturgeon said: "We share their view that we have a great opportunity to lead the world in developing an integrated assessment and evaluation framework.
"I firmly believe the Framework will play an important role in driving work to close the attainment gap and continually improve Scottish education."
Scottish Conservative young person spokeswoman Liz Smith said the review confirmed many encouraging signs including good levels of achievement in science and reading.
"However, it also confirms that there are major issues in numeracy and it sends out a very stark message about addressing failing schools,' she added.
"A range of recent statistics prove the extent of the attainment gap and the fact that literacy and numeracy are not as strong as they should be."
A judge overturned Clarence Moses-EL's rape and assault conviction, saying he would likely be found innocent if the case went to trial again.
He was first charged in 1988, despite the fact that the victim named someone else when originally asked who assaulted her.
She then identified him and said Mr Moses-EL's face came to her in a dream.
"This is the moment of my life, right here," Mr Moses-EL told reporters as he left the jail in Denver, Colorado. "I'm at a loss for words. I just want to get home to my family."
Now 60 years old, he hugged three of his 12 grandchildren for the first time outside of the jail.
"I'm just glad to be home," he said. "That surpasses a whole lot of things right now."
He said he was looking forward to going home and having pizza "with chopped shrimp and steak, smothered in cheese" and sitting in a comfortable chair.
He has been arguing his innocence for a long time - his case even brought about legislation requiring authorities to preserve DNA evidence, after police threw out swabs and clothing in his case.
Mr Moses-EL said his spirituality and innocence kept him going in prison.
Prosecutors are still deciding whether to try him again.
At the beginning of the case, the assault victim first named a man who said he had sex with her, then she said Mr Moses-EL's face came to her in a dream.
He won a legal bid for DNA testing of the evidence, but Denver police threw it away, and in 2008 the Colorado governor fought legislation that would have given him a new trial.
In 2013, the man who confessed to having sex with the victim wrote to Mr Moses-EL in jail. That was the key break in his case.
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The U's scored the opener 10 minutes before the break after Kevin Amankwaah was brought down in the Braintree box, when former Middlesbrough midfielder Nicky Bailey beat goalkeeper Sam Beasant for his third goal of the season.
Isaac equalised in kind just before the break as he fired home from the penalty spot following a foul by Louis John.
Beasant did well to tip Amankwaah's header over the bar after 50 minutes and put in a diving save to deny Chris Dickson, while - at the other end - Ross Stearn's attempt to find the top corner missed by inches.
The away side lost Ian Gayle to a red card with seven minutes remaining but Isaac completed his brace at the end when his 25-yard strike beat Ross Worner to clinch all three points.
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Match ends, Sutton United 1, Braintree Town 2.
Second Half ends, Sutton United 1, Braintree Town 2.
Goal! Sutton United 1, Braintree Town 2. Chez Isaac (Braintree Town).
Ian Gayle (Braintree Town) is shown the red card.
Craig Braham-Barrett (Braintree Town) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Joe Maybanks replaces Sam Matthews.
Substitution, Sutton United. Ryan Burge replaces Craig Eastmond.
Substitution, Sutton United. Maxime Biamou replaces Gomis.
Substitution, Sutton United. Roarie Deacon replaces Bradley Hudson-Odoi.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Lee Barnard replaces Brandon Goodship.
Second Half begins Sutton United 1, Braintree Town 1.
First Half ends, Sutton United 1, Braintree Town 1.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Jon Ashton replaces Jake Goodman.
Goal! Sutton United 1, Braintree Town 1. Chez Isaac (Braintree Town) converts the penalty with a.
Ross Worner (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Sutton United 1, Braintree Town 0. Nicky Bailey (Sutton United) converts the penalty with a.
Sam Corne (Braintree Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Daniel Wishart (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Ian Gayle (Braintree Town) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Paul Wilson, 38, suffered a severe anaphylactic shock in January 2014 after eating a takeaway from the Indian Garden in Easingwold, North Yorkshire.
Mohammed Zaman, 52, of Aylesham Court, Huntington, appeared at Teesside Crown Court earlier accused of manslaughter.
A trial date was set for 25 April and he was granted bail.
Mr Zaman, who has not entered a plea, also faces a charge of forging a food safety training certificate, an immigration offence relating to the employee who served the contaminated meal, and food safety offences.
The attack happened as two youths robbed and assaulted a 16-year-old boy and girl on a walkway under East Trinity Road just before 21:00.
A mobile phone and handbag containing a purse and other personal effects were stolen.
Detectives have appealed for witnesses. The suspects were in their late teens, about 5ft 8in tall with local accents.
One was of slim build, with short dark hair and was wearing a dark or black coloured hooded top.
The other had short blond or fair hair and was wearing a light coloured hooded top.
Andrew Broadhead, 42, and eight-year-old Kiera died in the blaze at their home in Ash Crescent, Stanley, on Wednesday.
Detectives said Mr Broadhead got out of the property but went back to "save Kiera who was trapped inside" the fire.
They believe an "accelerant was poured through the letterbox".
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A woman aged 35 and a 13-year-old girl who were also in the house were treated in hospital before being discharged.
Police think the arsonist may have been injured because the fire took hold so quickly.
They appealed to people who had seen anyone with suspicious burns to contact the force.
Det Ch Insp Nicola Bryar, of West Yorkshire Police, said: "This is a terrible incident which has robbed a family of a husband and their youngest daughter.
"The seat of the fire appears to have been by the front door and we are investigating the possibility that an accelerant was poured through the letter box.
"We know that this fire took hold extremely quickly and it is possible that the person who set this fire was themselves burned in doing so.
"Have you seen anyone with burns or burn injuries in the last 24 hours in circumstances which you found suspicious?
"If so, then please contact us as a matter of urgency."
Firefighters were called to the scene at about 04:20 BST.
Ch Sup Mabs Hussain, of Wakefield District Police, said: "It cannot be overstated how devastating this fire has been for the local community in Stanley.
"Several of our officers working on the inquiry have also been significantly and understandably affected by this tragedy."
Rachel Mace, Kiera's teaching assistant at Stanley St Peter's Primary School, paid tribute to "a vibrant and confident little girl" who was "quite a delight to know".
Nine out of 10 councils say they expect to increase bills by 2% from April to boost social care funding.
But the Local Government Association says rising demand and the new National Living Wage will absorb most of the cash.
Ministers insist supporting those most in need is an absolute priority.
The findings come as a ComRes survey for BBC 5 live suggests three quarters of people in England and Wales do not want local authorities to cut social care spending and are happy to pay more in council tax to enable payment of the National Living Wage, which represents an increase of 50p per hour over the existing National Minimum Wage.
Social care covers a wide range of services, from help in the home to eat, get dressed or move around, to day centres and residential care.
Demand is growing enormously - official figures show the number of people aged over 85 increased by 30% between 2005 and 2014.
The LGA says there will be a shortfall of more than £2.9bn in care services by 2020, and despite the power - granted by the chancellor - to raise more money from council tax, cuts in other areas will mean extra money must still be found.
"The quality and quantity of services on offer could drop," LGA vice-chair Councillor Nick Forbes said.
"Councils will continue to do all they can to maintain the services that older and vulnerable people rely on, but services supporting the elderly and disabled are at breaking point. It cannot be left to council taxpayers alone to try and fix them.
"Vital social care services will increasingly be unable to help ease the growing pressure on the NHS and the threat of a care home crisis is still very real."
The warning was echoed by Labour, who said government plans to fund social care were "completely inadequate".
"The significant shortfall in social care funding is going to leave many local authorities unable to raise enough money from a 2% council tax increase to cover rising costs, particularly in more deprived areas," the party's spokeswoman Barbara Keeley said.
The LGA recently found that 90% of councils in England are considering, or have approved, plans to raise council tax next year - costing taxpayers on average £24 a year for a Band D property.
The move will raise about £372m a year, but the LGA says increases to the minimum wage - which will be replaced by the National Living Wage in April - will wipe out nearly 90% of that.
Ryan Godwin, the owner and manager of Holme Manor, an independent care home in Rossendale, Lancashire, told BBC 5 live the new money would not be enough to address "chronic under-investment over the last few years".
A Department for Communities and Local Government spokesman said that by 2020, councils would be receiving £3.5bn a year through the council tax rise and money available from a joint fund with the NHS.
"Supporting those most in need is an absolute priority and we have provided a £3.5bn social care package - compared to the £2.9bn councils said they needed," he said.
BBC Radio 5 live asked more than 900 adults in England and Wales to prioritise the three services they thought should be spared from funding cuts.
The highest support was for services which support vulnerable people - 74% of those asked said they wanted to protect services for the elderly, and 65% wanted to protect children's services.
There was also support for housing (29%), community safety (23%) and roads and planning (21%).
The same survey also found 71% of adults thought local authorities should increase council tax to help care home workers get the living wage.
5 live Daily with Adrian Chiles will be broadcast live from Holme Manor care home on Tuesday 23 February from 10:00 GMT to explore the issues around paying for social care. You can listen to 5 live at bbc.co.uk/5live.
Landman was sent to the sin bin after referee Ben Whitehouse viewed video replays of his shoulder charge on Alex Cuthbert at a ruck.
Blues coach Danny Wilson said it was harsh, and Jones agreed.
"I don't know where the game is going. You can slow-motion every breakdown," said former Wales captain Jones.
"That's the way rucks are run, there's two big fellas bumping into each other.
"Alex has fallen over, but it's just nonsense. I don't really want to get drawn on it, but it's a poor decision for me."
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The incident came two minutes after the Blues had been reduced to 14 men when Rey Lee-Lo was sent to the sin-bin for a high tackle.
Speaking during the match, Wilson felt his player probably deserved to see yellow, but that Landman was unlucky.
Blues secured only their second win in their last six Pro12 outings, while Dragons are now 11 points adrift as the lowest placed of the Welsh regions.
It was an extraordinary match with all four tries and all 43 points coming in an exciting first half.
A second-half stalemate left Blues frustrated at missing out on the bonus-point they would have received for scoring a fourth try.
"I thought it was a pretty awful second half, if I'm honest," said Wilson.
"First half we saw some great rugby played, three good tries scored. You think then you can maybe win the game first and go on and look for the bonus point.
"But there were way too many errors and it was a 0-0 second half and that's a bit disappointing.
"I'm just pleased that we got the win, but maybe it's a second half when we've left it [the bonus point] out there."
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Reading East, which has been held by Tory Rob Wilson since 2005, fell to Labour's Matt Rodda with a 9.8% swing.
In Slough, new MP Tan Dhesi increased Labour's share of the vote by 14.4% and became the UK's first turban-wearing Sikh MP.
Conservative MPs were re-elected in Reading West, Maidenhead, Windsor, Bracknell, Newbury and Wokingham.
In a bruising night for the Tories nationally, the party suffered its most damaging Berkshire loss in Reading East.
Labour's Matt Rodda won that - with a majority of 3,749 - overturning Conservative Rob Wilson's previous 6,520 majority.
Mr Rodda said he was "a bit surprised" by his victory and believes Labour "set a new tone for politics in the south" during the election campaign.
However, in neighbouring Reading West, Conservative Alok Sharma held off the Labour challenge and won with a reduced 2,876 majority.
Slough had been a target seat for the Conservatives but Labour's Tan Dhesi held the seat with an increased 16,998 majority.
When asked by the BBC how he felt to be the first turban-wearing Sikh MP, Mr Dhesi said he was "proud and honoured".
"It is a great honour and privilege to serve the town where I was raised," he added.
Elsewhere, Prime Minister Mrs May retained her Maidenhead seat with a 26,457 majority.
Despite her party's disappointing results elsewhere, she said: "My resolve this morning is the same as it always has been."
In Bracknell, Labour almost doubled its share of the vote. However, Conservative Dr Phillip Lee still prevailed with a 16,016 majority.
Dr Lee said the Conservatives now needed to examine why they were "not appealing to young voters".
Former secretary of state for Wales John Redwood held Wokingham with a 18,798 majority, while Richard Benyon won with a 24,380 majority in Newbury.
In Windsor Adam Afriyie held Windsor for the Tories with a 22,384 majority.
The ferry operator, owned by the Scottish government, said passenger traffic went up by 2% and vehicles 9% during 2015/16 while total turnover increased from £172m to £190m.
The company said the losses were down to a number of factors.
They included planned investment in new technology and becoming involved in new tenders.
The company's chairman David McGibbon said: "This has been another hugely successful year for David MacBrayne Ltd. It has been particularly satisfying for me personally to be at the helm during such transformational and exciting times for the company. We really are going from strength to strength.
"Among a year of highlights, winning the Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Service (CHFS) contract is the stand-out experience for me. The uncertainty that has surrounded the company since the tender process began has been unsettling for everyone connected to the CalMac family.
"But our bid was recognised as both compelling and innovative in meeting the needs of communities, customers, stakeholders, our partner agencies and the Scottish government, while offering best value to the taxpayer. In summary, we were simply the best company for the job."
The company made a loss of £4.6m for the year, up from £2.3m in the red over the previous 12 months.
It said this was driven by planned investment in new technology to improve customer service and business development activities, including the team to secure the successful CHFS tender.
It also supported the bid and transition costs to run Marchwood Military Port in Hampshire, as part of a new joint venture, Solent Gateway Ltd.
"Winning the Marchwood deal will provide a regular income stream for the company over the long term and is a great marker for the future expansion ambitions of the company," Mr McGibbon said.
"We were up against some of the biggest port and harbour operators in the UK and I'm delighted that we have secured what is a 35-year concession from the Ministry of Defence to support the army and to develop commercial opportunities at the port.
"It is huge endorsement of our harbour handling and logistics management expertise."
Total numbers employed by the company rose from 1,482 to 1,568 over the course of the year.
Piotr Olejarczyk, 29, got into an argument with Jakub Gorski in Salford on 10 June before stabbing him in the heart with a kitchen knife.
Mr Gorski was taken to Salford Royal hospital where he later died.
Olejarczyk, of Knoll Street, Salford, was told he would serve a minimum of 21 years at Manchester Crown Court on Friday, Greater Manchester Police said.
Following the argument, Olejarczyk walked to a friend's house to fetch a kitchen knife before returning to confront Mr Gorski, police said.
When Mr Gorski approached him to try to disarm him, Olejarczyk stabbed him in the chest before fleeing.
Later that day Olejarczyk approached two PCSOs at the crime scene and turned himself in.
Samsung will initially invest $2.3bn in the plant, which will make chips for smartphones, tablets and MP3 players, and increase its investment gradually.
The firm has been looking to tap into the lucrative Chinese market, but there have been fears of technology leaks.
Samsung won government approval to build the plant earlier this year.
In an emailed statement to the BBC, Samsung said the new facility would help it "rapidly respond to meet the fast-growing demand from customers and further strengthen competitiveness in the memory industry".
The plant is expected to start production by the end of 2013.
Over the years, China has become a leading manufacturing hub for consumer electronics.
Contract manufacturers such as Foxconn, have been making gadgets ranging from smartphones to tablet PCs for leading global brands.
Many of these products use memory chips manufactured by Samsung. Analysts said having a production facility in China would help Samsung to further strengthen its position with its customers.
"Inventory cycles are very short for electronics manufacturers," Tim Charlton of Charlton Media Group told the BBC. "You need to be close to your customers for inventory and delivery reasons."
He explained that being in China would help Samsung take out extra layers of transport and storage and ensure speedier deliveries to its clients.
"It makes perfect sense for them."
Along with becoming a global electronics manufacturing hub, China has also seen a rise in domestic demand for consumer electronics.
China's economic growth over the last few years has seen income levels rise in the country, giving more disposable cash to its consumers.
That has turned China into one of the biggest and fastest growing markets for high tech gadgets.
Domestic demand in China is likely to grow even further in the coming years, which analysts say will result in higher demand for memory chips.
They say Samsung's decision to open a production facility in the country will help it tap into the growing market and maintain an edge over its competitors.
Dr Dre is set to launch his Beats Music service in the US on Tuesday.
Spotify's foray into merchandising is seen as the site's latest way to improve its relationship with artists and record labels.
The company said it would not be taking any percentage of the products sold through the platform.
Compared with services like Apple's iTunes, where music is bought, streaming sites offer revenues that are regarded by some as unreasonably minuscule.
Radiohead's Thom Yorke took his work off Spotify in July last year, declaring on Twitter that he was "standing up for our fellow musicians".
Tom Pakinkis, deputy editor of Music Week, said: "Spotify's main thrust recently is transparency.
"That's what the artists have been crying out for for quite a while now. The market as a whole is slowly but surely winning [over] the last few artists that are holding out from the service."
As part of that effort, Spotify has recently sought to include other ways for artists and labels to earn money.
In conjunction with London-based start-up Songkick, Spotify suggests local gigs and concerts based on the music a user has been listening to.
Announcing the plans, Spotify's head of artist services, Mark Williamson, said: "We're really excited that Spotify's 24 million music-loving users can now see merchandise and concerts while listening to their favourite artists, and that we, in turn, can provide additional revenue opportunities for artists of all sizes."
Keeping artists on-side will be a key part of any streaming site's continued success as the market becomes more crowded.
Beats Music will now be competing not only with Spotify but the likes of Pandora, Rdio, Bloom.fm, Deezer and Google Play, which all offer similar services.
Various music professionals and DJs have been enlisted by the firm to create expert playlists, rather than the algorithm-based approach used by other sites.
"We tried to remember a time a robot found us magic but all we could find were the times the robot made us laugh," the company said in a blog post poking fun at existing services.
"'You like Pantera? Have you heard of Black Sabbath? You like Mumford and Sons? Here's another song with banjos!'"
Dr Dre's involvement in the headphone industry, which started with the launch of Beats in 2008, has attracted hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and spawned a vast array of other artist-endorsed headphone products.
Mr Pakinkis said the strength of the Beats brand alone set the music service apart as a credible rival.
"It's a big company with a lot of marketing resource, and that gives the implication that it could be a significant player," he said.
"There are a lot of different players on the market now, and the struggles of some of them financially are well-documented."
To clutter the market further, another streaming service - from controversial internet tycoon Kim Dotcom - was launched on Monday.
His offering, Baboom, went live with a single album available to play - Mr Dotcom's own release, Good Times. More content is expected at a later date.
New Zealand-based Mr Dotcom is currently fighting extradition to the US on charges of copyright infringement.
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IBM Watson works with a program called Conversation to interpret the commands.
The game was released last month, but the new voice command feature will be unlocked on Thursday.
One player, the captain, can play with two other crew members played either by other people or by the computer.
"The idea is you can now talk to your bridge crew, and that part has been powered by Watson," said Joshua Carr, technical liaison at IBM.
"Originally, there was a set of menus to click to instruct the helm and so on
"It works fairly well, but it is the lowest common denominator - we are using our hands to give out instructions - but this is virtual reality, and this is Star Trek.
"When we think about some of the incredible lines by Patrick Stewart's Jean Luc Picard or [William Shatner's] Captain Kirk, it's all about your voice - how you communicate."
Piers Harding-Rolls, a research director for IHS Markit, told the BBC News website: "In your average video game experience, you don't have things like voice control.
"When it comes to virtual reality, you're looking for something to keep you in the experience.
"Using your voice to engage with characters in the game is a step further, it adds believability to the experience you're having, unlike if you had to use a controller."
If you've ever wondered what it's like to utter the immortal words "Engage" and "Warp speed ahead" and then zoom off around outer space, then you are in for a bit of a treat.
Star Trek Bridge Crew has a triple-A rating, which means it had a huge budget, and it shows.
The graphics are impressive and the production values are high.
It retails at about £35 in the UK, but you also need a high-end VR headset to enjoy it - and they cost considerably more.
Crucially, using the new voice control, you don't have to use set phrases to communicate - you can use your own words. Or, at least, that's the plan.
Being captain of the USS Enterprise for a short while was great fun, but the demo model I tried wasn't entirely able to follow my commands.
At one point, it felt more like a game of charades as I struggled to think of as many different ways as possible of telling the crew to beam aboard another crew on a stricken vessel we were supposed to rescue - it failed to understand the essential Trekkie phrase "beam them up".
This turned out to be a rookie mistake on my part as I'd forgotten to scan the virtual vessel first - but my virtual crew had no response when I asked them why they didn't understand me - it would have been useful if they had been able to tell me what I'd done wrong.
Joshua Carr says this will be part of the learning process for the Watson-enabled software as it gets to grips with human speech.
She began her programme on Monday night by saying it's "time to move forward" after days of attacks against her from the hotel tycoon and his followers.
In Thursday's debate, she put Mr Trump on the defensive about remarks he made in the past about women.
The New York businessman is ahead in a crowded Republican field.
After the debate in Cleveland, Mr Trump said Ms Kelly "had blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever".
He denies he was referring to her hormones but the comments got him removed from a conservative event at the weekend.
After refusing to apologise, he instead demanded the popular news anchor say sorry for asking unfair questions.
But Ms Kelly told her viewers she "will not apologise for doing good journalism".
She called her questions during the debate, including one about his name-calling of women, "tough but fair".
"We agree to disagree," she said on her show.
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In a round of TV interviews on Tuesday, Mr Trump revealed that Fox News boss Roger Ailes phoned him to defuse the tension.
The former star of The Apprentice also repeated his pledge to consider running as a third-party candidate should he lose the Republican nomination.
Grilled about his policy proposals on CNN's New Day, he argued that having flexibility is better than making specific plans.
"I know exactly what I want to do, I just don't want to announce it yet," Mr Trump said. "I'm just not prepared to tell you right now."
Southend Hospital in Essex said the fire service had been called after the leak on the third floor of its Cardigan Wing just before midday.
The hospital has been closed to patients and visitors as it "is currently not safe", the hospital said.
Patients have been moved to other areas of the site while the leak is assessed by fire crews, the statement continued.
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Essex Fire and Rescue Service said two crews and a hazardous material team had been sent to the hospital.
Work is ongoing to stop the leak and crews are monitoring carbon dioxide levels on all floors, the service said.
Ambulances are being diverted to other hospitals in the region while the leak is dealt with.
The girl was left shaken and scared following the incident which happened between Kellie Wynd and Menteith View at about 23:30 on Saturday 29 October.
The suspect was white, aged 16-25 and was about 5ft 11in tall.
He spoke with a strong Scottish accent and wore dark trainers and a top with dark sleeves.
Her father told BBC Scotland: "This is a horrific experience for any family, but fortunately we are a strong unit supporting our daughter."
"She is lucky to be surrounded by a wonderful group of friends and I would appeal for anyone who has any information to contact the police.
"There must be someone in this area who knows who this person is or knows something that could help."
In a letter, several Tory government ministers, including Michael Gove and Chris Grayling, said there was "more than enough money" to make the promise.
David Cameron has said it was not certain if the money would be replaced.
The Remain campaign said a Leave vote would "rip Wales away from its most secure source of funding".
In the open letter, the Leave campaign said all programmes would be funded at current levels until 2020, "or up to the date when the EU is due to conclude individual programmes".
They also said the programmes would be run "much more effectively", freeing up extra money to be spent on other "priorities".
A recent study by Cardiff University estimated Wales received £245m more from the EU than it put in in 2014.
The net gain is a result mainly of money allocated to farmers and development programmes for poorer areas.
The letter has been signed by Conservative MPs Boris Johnson, Mr Gove, Priti Patel, Mr Grayling, John Whittingdale, Iain Duncan Smith, Theresa Villiers, Julian Brazier, James Duddridge, George Eustice, Penny Mordaunt, Dominic Raab and Desmond Swayne.
The leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Andrew RT Davies, said: "Today's announcement is hugely welcome and is further evidence that Wales would be better off out of the European Union.
"Despite the first minister's fantasy claims, we now know that funding for each and every part of the UK, including Wales, would be safe if we vote to leave.
"The real danger therefore lies in voting to remain, where EU leaders have imposed stringent cuts to regions across the European Union."
But First Minister Carwyn Jones said those pushing for Brexit were in no position to give Wales funding guarantees.
He told AMs: "The 'vow' before the Scottish referendum, those who signed it had the power to deliver on it.
"Those who signed this letter have no more power to deliver on it than my children's pet cat."
Sir Emyr Jones Parry, a former diplomat who chaired an inquiry into Welsh devolution, called the Leave campaign's promises on Wales' EU funding "false".
He told BBC Wales' Y Sgwrs programme: "Do we really think on the basis of experience, all the problems we have had with the Barnett formula [which determines Welsh Government funding]?
"Do we believe that Westminster and the British government will be saying, now that we have got this very substantial sum of money that we are no longer paying in gross terms to the EU budget, let's re-allocate it?
"Wales can have this rather splendid contribution, and we will more than match what was given by the EU. I don't believe it would happen."
Net profit in the months from October to December dropped by 2% to 1.6 trillion won ($1.4bn).
Earnings were weighed down both by stagnating demand in emerging markets and by discounts to revive sales in the US.
Shares in the carmaker fell by just over 1% on the news.
The overall net profit for 2015 was 6.4 trillion won, making it it Hyundai's lowest annual profit in five years.
Sales fell by 7% in China, with the slowdown in the world's second largest economy taking its toll.
Other emerging markets also saw retail sales declining, while the US, EU, Korea and India saw a slight increase in the number of vehicles sold.
China and the US are Hyundai's two biggest markets.
The company warned the outlook for 2016 remains cloudy though.
"We expect the uncertainty surrounding the global auto market to persist this year," Hyundai said in a statement.
Earlier this month, Hyundai and its affiliate Kia Motors said they missed their global sales targets for last year for the first time since the financial crisis.
The carmakers, which together are the world's fifth largest automaker by sales, sold 8.01 million vehicles, compared with a forecast of 8.2 million.
Leanne Joseph was 25 when she had ducts removed from both breasts by Ian Paterson.
Prosecutors said she was wrongly told a scan on her left breast had found pre-cancerous cells.
Mr Paterson denies 20 counts of wounding with intent against nine women and one man.
Mother-of-two Ms Joseph told Nottingham Crown Court she was left "devastated" when she was unable to feed her daughter, who was born two years after the procedures.
Ms Joseph said she became paranoid and developed OCD after giving birth, fearing for the immune system of her daughter who is now aged eight.
She said: "I found it very hard because all the other mums in the hospital were breastfeeding and there were posters everywhere telling you that breast milk was the best thing for your child's immune system."
In 2006, she had opted for private treatment after noticing a discharge from her left breast and was told a scan had found pre-cancerous cells, prosecutors said.
She had a procedure carried out by Mr Paterson at Little Aston Hospital, Sutton Coldfield, in October.
As she went to have her stitches taken out on her left breast, Mr Paterson told her it was common for her condition to appear on both sides and she was advised to go under the knife again, which she did at the same hospital, the court heard.
She told jurors of the moment her diagnosis was given by Mr Paterson and said: "He just told me that I would need an operation to have them (milk ducts) removed and that he could do it two days later.
"I was quite shocked, he told me that although the operation was quite straightforward I would not be able to breastfeed if I had any children but it was a small price to pay for my life."
Speaking about Mr Paterson, she said he was "lovely" to her, was "really kind" and held her hand.
She stated: "He just made me feel at ease and I remember thinking I was making a big fuss... in getting upset about the anaesthetic."
Mr Paterson has denied the 20 counts of wounding with intent relating to procedures he carried out between 1997 and 2011.
Jurors have heard claims he carried out completely unnecessary operations for "obscure motives" that may have included a desire to "earn extra money".
Mr Paterson, of Castle Mill Lane, Ashley, Altrincham, Greater Manchester, was formerly employed by Heart of England NHS Trust and also practised at Spire Healthcare.
The trial continues.
The scam involves UK nationals who want to bring in close relatives from outside the European Economic Area.
Police said immigration advisers, lawyers and accountants were behind the multi-million pound fraud.
The UK government is warning it is a growing industry that exploits European free-movement rules.
The scam uses the so-called Surinder Singh route, named after a historical immigration court case.
If a UK national lives and works in another European country for a period of time, they can be considered under EU rather than British law on their return.
That means that if they have been joined by a non-EEA spouse, they are allowed to bring them into the UK without having to meet certain immigration requirements that apply to Britons.
This route has grown in popularity since 2012, when the government introduced a minimum income a UK citizen had to earn before they could bring a spouse from outside the EU into the UK.
Each year, about 20,000 non-European family members come into the UK this way.
The fraudsters are charging thousands of pounds to create a fake life so it looks like someone has genuinely moved to a European country - in most cases Ireland - while in fact they have stayed in the UK.
Det Supt Stephen Courage, from the Garda National Immigration Bureau, said fraudsters were charging up to £25,000 for the scam.
"The facilitator will quite often set up a company, of which you will either be an owner or a director," he said.
"They will also create a work history for you.
"They will create payslips, they will open bank accounts, and also pay nominal tax so when the immigration service receives an application to exercise EU treaty rights, they will look at the paperwork and on the face of it, it will appear that you have a life in Ireland.
"The people we are coming across in our investigations are often from a professional background, whether it be in law or accounting, these are white-collar criminals.
"The profits they're making are staggering. We would see this as a multi-million euro enterprise."
Det Supt Courage said police were examining cases from the past three years and had already identified 600 where they believed someone had obtained EU treaty rights illegally.
UK Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill said: "There is a growing industry, fed by unscrupulous immigration agents, that seeks to exploit free movement rules to help non-EEA nationals circumvent our immigration system, creating backdoor routes into the UK.
"Last month we introduced tough new regulations which allow us to remove these individuals and ban them from re-entering the UK for 10 years."
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Players came out onto the pitch before a proposed 16:25 BST start time, but further rain forced them straight off.
Division One leaders Essex are on top on 106-0, with Alastair Cook unbeaten on 64 as they look to surpass Middlesex's first-innings total of 246.
Wednesday will feature 104 overs to make up for time lost in the match.
The facility, funded by a £20m Welsh Government grant and £10m from project partners, will work with the aerospace, automotive, nuclear and food sectors.
Broughton-based Airbus with be the first tenants, and will use the centre to design new wing technology.
The investment will help safeguard thousands of jobs up to 2030, Economy Secretary Ken Skates said.
Mr Skates said "in light of the uncertainties" following Brexit, it was more important than ever to "support innovation and competitiveness."
He said the centre would be a "catalyst" for growth and jobs in Deeside, and the Northern Powerhouse region of north Wales and England.
"The world-class facilities provided at the institute will deliver these benefits to large and small businesses and offer a significant asset in terms of securing new investment," he added.
Secretary of State for Wales, Alun Cairns said it was "great news" and "demonstrates Wales is open for business."
"Global aviation leaders like Airbus continue to invest heavily in the talent and skills available in north east Wales," he said.
The centre will be split between a proposed 4,500 sq m hub in Broughton, and a business development and advice facility near Deeside industrial park.
Analysis by Brian Meechan, BBC Wales business correspondent
Research and development is very important - an investment in skills and equipment which makes Wales more productive and competitive in the global market, especially as the UK moves towards leaving the European Union.
The Deeside economy is booming. Airbus is one example and has a knock-on effect on other companies. It also encourages other firms to start up around it.
And it's not just Airbus but Toyota and Tata are other big names driving things. This centre is also about working with educational establishments as well as business, with the support from the government.
But Ken Skates also put a shot across the bows of the UK government, saying investment was coming from the Welsh Government but he also wants to see something coming from Westminster in the Autumn Statement in terms of investment in north Wales.
Further details about the facility are expected to be confirmed by summer 2017.
The institute has been developed by the Deeside Enterprise Zone Advisory Board, the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Swansea University, and Coleg Cambria.
Head of Airbus Broughton, Paul McKinlay, said the new institute would enable them to "stay ahead of the competition."
Fisheries Secretary Fergus Ewing revealed 41 projects will benefit from the latest round of awards made by the European and Maritime Fisheries Fund.
The bulk of the cash is coming from the European Union, which is contributing £6m, while the Scottish government has committed £1.5m.
The rest of the funding is coming from other public sources.
A total of £1.8m will go to the Scottish Fishermen's Federation to pay for independent observers on boats following the introduction of the discard ban. The ban was brought in to stop fishermen throwing dead fish back into the sea if they had reached quota limits.
Other projects which will benefit from the funding include Box Pool Solutions in Aberdeen, which provides boxes for fishermen to sell their produce at markets, including Peterhead. It will receive nearly £1.2m for a new facility and equipment.
Mr Ewing said: "This £8m investment will encourage growth and protect jobs in the sea fisheries and aquaculture industry by allowing businesses to upgrade technology and buy new equipment.
"This is just one example of why EU funding is so important as it is helping the sea fisheries sector improve the quality of its products and enabling them to develop more environmentally-friendly methods."
The funding allocation was announced as Mr Ewing met members of the Shetland Fishermen's Association in Lerwick, with projects in the islands receiving £1.6m of the cash.
Chisholm, who can play at full-back or on the wing, came through Quins' youth system and has made 78 appearances for the club since his debut in 2009.
Scrum-half Mulchrone, 27, joined Quins from Worcester Warriors last season and has played 11 times this term.
"They both complement the environment I am seeking to create within the club," said director of rugby John Kingston.
"They are both real team players who have a significant positive influence on others around them."
Their new deals follow the announcements that the experienced duo of fly-half Nick Evans and scrum-half Karl Dickson will both retire at the end of the season.
Harlequins are seventh in the Premiership - one place and one point outside the automatic qualifying spots for next season's European Champions Cup - with two games left to play.
Mary Cameron, 81, has put her name to a campaign against plans by Conservative-run Oxfordshire County Council to close a number of the centres, according to the Daily Mirror.
The BBC has seen a petition which shows the signature of Mary Cameron alongside her middle name and post code.
Downing Street declined to comment on the reports or the petition.
Retired magistrate, Mrs Cameron, told the newspaper: "My name is on the petition but I don't want to discuss this any further."
She reportedly signed the petition while visiting her son in Oxfordshire.
Oxfordshire County Council leader Ian Hudspeth refused to comment on Mrs Cameron's signing of the petition or the planned cuts.
Campaigners are trying to stop the closure of nearly all of Oxfordshire's 44 children's centres - the county council wants to keep eight hubs, to save £8m pounds.
The petition describes the proposals as a "false economy", and says the early intervention services provide numerous economic and other long-term benefits.
Campaign organiser Jill Huish said she was "not surprised" to have the Prime Minister's mother's endorsement.
"It shows how deep austerity is cutting our most vulnerable when even David Cameron's mum has had enough," she said.
"While our local authority and our prime minister squabble over who's fault it is that there are 95 separate cuts planned for Oxfordshire, we are the people who will suffer without our frontline services."
Council workers are to stage a 24-hour strike in protest at the plans.
The prime minister previously wrote to the local authority in his capacity as MP for Witney expressing "disappointment" at planned cuts to museums, libraries and day centres for the elderly.
But council leader Mr Hudspeth hit back, saying the cuts were the result of reductions in funding from central government.
Members of Unite employed in early intervention by Oxfordshire County Council will walk out on strike on February 16 after voting overwhelmingly for industrial action.
Unite regional officer Chris Gray said his members were "deeply committed" to the children and families they worked with.
"But they have decided that they cannot sit back and watch while the council denies Oxfordshire's young people a future and destroys its top class children's early intervention service."
Speaking at a Q&A session at Harvard University, the Fed chair said gradual rate rises would be appropriate.
"If the labour market continues to improve, and I expect those things to occur ... in the coming months such a move would be appropriate," she said.
The central bank meets on 14-15 June to discuss raising rates.
The Fed raised interest rates by 0.25% for the first time in nine years last December and has left them unchanged since.
"We saw relatively weak growth last year, but growth looks to be picking up," Ms Yellen said.
On Friday, the US Commerce Department revised its estimate for first quarter GDP growth up to 0.8%, from the sluggish 0.5% originally estimated.
Unemployment was 5.5% in May - a level the Fed regards as good, although Ms Yellen did acknowledge that many part-time workers were still looking for full-time employment.
The Fed also wants to see US inflation rise to 2%.
Justice Minister Amy Adams said an application process will be introduced and cases will be judged individually.
In 1986 when the Homosexual Law Reform Act was passed, sex between men above 16 years old was decriminalised.
But convictions for consensual sex between men prior to that still appear in criminal history checks and may have to be disclosed in job applications.
Ms Adams said the government intends to introduce legislation to implement the scheme in the coming months. About 1,000 people could be eligible to apply, according New Zealand media reports.
A petition was introduced to parliament last July, asking for a process to reverse those convictions brought before 1986 and for an apology from the government.
On Thursday, Ms Adams apologised while addressing reporters.
"Although we can never fully undo the impact on the lives of those affected, this new scheme will provide a pathway for their convictions to be expunged," Ms Adams said.
"It means people will be treated as if they had never been convicted, and removes the ongoing stigma and prejudice that can arise from convictions for homosexual offences."
Only convictions between consenting adult men will be quashed, Ms Adams said, not those where the acts are still illegal today.
Britain announced it would pardon thousands of men convicted of offences that once criminalised homosexuality last year and a 2012 bill allowed those with historical convictions for consensual gay sex to apply to have them disregarded.
It would succeed the current system based in Reading, UK.
Member states of the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) made the indicative decision to relocate the facility on Wednesday.
Detailed negotiations will now be held with Italian authorities. The intention is to confirm the choice in June.
That is the date of the next full Council meeting of the ECMWF.
The bid from Italy's Emilia-Romagna Region to erect a new €50m (£43m) building on the site of an old tobacco factory was regarded as the leading contender, according to an evaluation panel.
A proposal from Finland is back-up should the legal, financial and technical discussions over the next few months suddenly fall over.
The ECMWF is an independent intergovernmental organisation supported by 22 full member states from Europe, with another 12 co-operating nations.
Its supercomputer system ingests weather observations to run models that construct forecasts out to 15 days ahead.
These forecasts are then shared with the member national meteorological agencies, such as Meteo France and the UK's Met Office.
The ECMWF's HQ has been sited at Shinfield Park on the outskirts of Reading since the organisation's set-up four decades ago.
Its first supercomputer, a CRAY-1A, was installed in 1978. The machines have been regularly updated, but the existing Reading buildings are not considered capable of meeting the technical requirements of the next device.
The dual CRAY-XC40 system currently running the numerical models will therefore be the last supercomputing to be done at Shinfield Park.
"It has been clear for a while now that the current data centre facility does not offer the required flexibility for future growth and changes in high-performance computing technology," ECMWF's Director-General Florence Rabier said in a statement.
"As laid out in our 2025 Strategy launched last September, we believe that continuing to improve weather predictions relies heavily on our ability to support our science with proportionate computing power. Intermediary goals to 2020 already require that the Centre’s next supercomputers should provide a tenfold increase in our computational capacity."
ECMWF staff do not need to be in the same location as the supercomputing facilities and there is no plan to move them as well.
The centre employs more than 300 people in Reading, many of them engaged in advanced meteorological research.
They will, for example, be working very closely with the European Space Agency later this year when it launches the British-built Aeolus satellite. This spacecraft is due to gather the first truly global, three-dimensional view of winds on Earth, providing a significant boost to the skill of medium-range forecasting.
A spokesperson for the centre said the movement of data storage and supercomputing out of the UK would have no impact on research activities in the UK. The ECMWF remained committed to Reading, she told the BBC.
Half of its €100m (£85m) budget comes through direct contributions from member states. The other half comes from the European Union, which contracts the ECMWF to perform climate change and atmospheric monitoring under its Copernicus environmental programme.
Brexit should have no impact on that arrangement, the spokesperson said, as the ECMWF already includes non-EU member states.
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Jason Cummings' close-range finish rewarded Hibs' early dominance.
And the best chances continued to fall for the hosts, with Liam Fontaine hitting the bar and Farid El Alagui missing from close range.
But El Alagui scored a deserved second in time added on after champions Hearts were opened up on the break.
The win ensures Hibs remain in front of Rangers on goal difference ahead of next weekend's Scottish Cup semi-final with Falkirk.
It was also a first derby win for manager Alan Stubbs, whose side had twice lost leads in the previous meetings between the sides this term.
This time, though, Hearts rarely got going at Easter Road, understandable perhaps with the Scottish Championship title already assured.
Their supporters arrived in Leith in party mode, with their side having gone over a year without defeat against their capital rivals.
However, it was Hibs who started on the front foot.
Fraser Fyvie side-footed over, Callum Paterson headed against his own bar and Fontaine had a close range effort blocked, all within the first quarter of an hour.
Neil Alexander then pushed a curling Cummings effort wide but Hibs' top scorer would not be denied minutes later.
Scott Allan's corner was only partially cleared and, when it was played back into the box, El Alagui flicked a header into the path of Cummings, who stroked it home.
Fontaine then struck the bar with a ferocious strike, with Hearts all at sea from a corner kick.
Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson responded by abandoning his three-man defence, and his side did begin to make more of an impact in the final third.
Alim Ozturk fired a free-kick wide and Jamie Walker's rising shot forced Mark Oxley to make his first real save of the match.
Hibs should have doubled their advantage, though.
El Alagui flicked a weak volley straight into the arms of Alexander after Jordon Forster picked him out inside the six yard box.
Hearts remained in the contest, and only a tremendous block by Forster prevented them levelling amid a goalmouth scramble.
Hibs then had another opportunity to secure the win after breaking, but substitute Dominque Malonga elected to go for goal rather than pass and the chance was lost.
Hearts' Osman Sow had a low effort saved, but Hibs confirmed victory when El Alagui broke clear on the right and clipped the ball over the advancing Alexander.
The rail and bus operator cut its full-year earnings forecast as it said passengers had cut back on trips to big cities since last month's attacks.
The company also said there had been "softer than expected revenue" for several of its regional UK bus businesses.
Shares in Stagecoach closed down 14.4% to 304.7p in response.
However, the fall in the share price was also due to other factors mentioned in the statement released with its half-year results, said Nomura analyst James Hollins.
"The combination of a cautious outlook, withdrawal from the East Anglia rail bidding process and clear indication from management that exceptional shareholder returns should not be expected near-term are likely to drive market concerns," he said.
Chief executive Martin Griffiths admitted that "challenges remain in our sector in the short-term".
Stagecoach said that discretionary travel had been worst hit, with fewer journeys to London on its South West train network outside usual commuter times.
There were also fewer journeys between Oxford and the capital on its regular coach service.
Finance director Ross Paterson said passenger journeys had started to return to more normal levels.
"We are certainly seeing it recovering, the growth rates, particularly over the last week - they're starting to pick up again," he said.
Stagecoach runs East Midlands Trains and operates the East Coast and West Coast rail franchises in partnership with Virgin.
The company also has bus operations in cities including London, Liverpool, Newcastle, Manchester, Sheffield and Cambridge as well as Megabus long-distance coaches in North America, Europe and the UK.
Lower motoring costs in the US and Canada had reduced demand for Megabus inter-city services, Stagecoach said, prompting a review of its operations there.
For the six months to 31 October, revenue rose £430m to £1.97bn, with pre-tax profit up £12.9m to £121.5m.
The interim dividend was raised by 9.4% to 3.5p.
The incident happened on the cycle path near Leith Links on Saturday at about 16:30 when a passing cyclist deliberately kicked the little girl.
The toddler was walking with her father and both had moved out of the way to give the cyclist room.
The cyclist was white, in his mid 20s and of medium build. He was clean-shaven and had dark scruffy hair.
He also had dark circles under his eyes.
He was wearing dark jeans and a black hooded jacket, and was riding a silver mountain bike.
Officers are now urging witnesses to come forward.
Sgt Mark Wilson, of Police Scotland, said: "Thankfully the child was not seriously injured but this was still a distressing and inexplicable incident.
"We are keen to speak to anyone with information that can help us with our inquiries and assist us to trace this suspect."
The tiny, heavy pulsar is locked in a fiercely tight orbit with another star.
The gravity between them is so extreme that it is thought to emit waves and to bend space - making the pulsar wobble.
By tracking its motion closely for five years, astronomers determined the pulsar’s weight and also quantified the gravitational disturbance.
Then, the pulsar vanished. Its wheeling beams of radio waves now pass us by, and the researchers have calculated that this can be explained by “precession”: the dying star wobbling into the dip in space-time that its own orbit created.
Their findings are published in The Astrophysical Journal and were presented at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
A pulsar is a small but improbably dense neutron star - the collapsed remnant of a supernova.
“They pack more mass than our Sun has in a sphere that’s only 10 miles across,” said the study’s lead author Joeri van Leeuwen, from the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (Astron).
When they occur as binaries, neutron stars come hard up against Einstein’s theory of general relativity, and should generate space-time ripples called gravitational waves, which astronomers hope one day to detect.
This particular specimen, Pulsar J1906, popped up unexpectedly during a survey Dr van Leeuwen and colleagues were conducting at the Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico.
“That was a real Eureka moment that night,” he told journalists at the conference.
“It was strange, because that part of the sky's been surveyed lots of times - and then something really bright and new appears.”
They soon discovered the pulsar had a companion star, and that it was pushing the boundaries of what astronomers know of these bizarre systems.
The pair circle each other in just four hours - the second fastest such orbit ever seen - and the pulsar spins seven times per second, sweeping its two beams of radio waves across space to Earth.
Dr van Leeuwen’s team set about monitoring those waves, nearly every day for the next five years, using the world’s five biggest radio telescopes.
All told, they clocked one billion rotations of the pulsar.
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“By precisely tracking the motion of the pulsar, we were able to measure the gravitational interaction between the two highly compact stars with extreme accuracy,” said co-author Prof Ingrid Stairs of the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Each is approximately 1.3 times heavier than our Sun, but they are only separated by about one solar diameter. “The resulting extreme gravity causes many remarkable effects,” Prof Stairs said.
Chief among those is the time-space warp and the wobble that has now caused J1906 to shine its light elsewhere - for the time being.
The pulsar’s axis drifts by two degrees every year, and according to Dr van Leeuwen’s calculations it should swing back around to shine on Earth again by about 2170.
Prof Tim O'Brien is an astrophysicist working at the University of Manchester and the Jodrell Bank Observatory in the UK - one of the facilities that helped track the pulsar.
He was not involved in the research, but told BBC News he had watched the project develop with interest.
"It's a pretty unusual object," he said, adding that tracking it in such detail had been a "big campaign".
"Using these five telescopes all around the world, they effectively accounted for every single one of the billion rotations over five years.
"It's incredible that you can measure all these parameters with such precision.
"These systems are amazing natural laboratories for studying gravity. We were very lucky to catch it for that particular period."
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The former US Navy intelligence officer, now 61, was caught selling classified documents in 1985 and given a life sentence two years later.
Campaigners and successive Israeli governments have tried to secure Pollard's early release.
The case has been one of the most contentious issues between the two countries for the past 30 years.
Pollard has been serving his sentence at a prison in North Carolina. His parole terms bar him from leaving the US without permission for five years.
He has said he wants to move to Israel to be reunited with his second wife.
Last year it was reported that the US was considering freeing Pollard in exchange for concessions from Israel to the Palestinians amid faltering peace talks.
In Israel, Jonathan Pollard has many supporters who will joyfully welcome his release. He's widely perceived as having been harshly punished for providing information critical to national security.
For years, a Free Pollard campaign has lobbied to try to secure the release of the former intelligence analyst. It has prepared piles of letters of encouragement from members of the public for him to read once he is out of jail.
The Pollard saga has been a long-time strain on relations with Israel's closest ally and there is relief that it is almost over. However the cabinet was instructed not to talk about the ex-spy too soon for fear of upsetting Washington. On Army Radio the Economy Minister, Naftali Bennett, simply referred to how Israelis "embrace him".
Pollard's lawyers said earlier this year that they had found employment and accommodation for their client in the New York area, but gave no further details.
At the time of his arrest, Pollard said he gave classified documents to Israel, a key US ally, because Washington was not passing on important information.
However, some intelligence officials have said that he also offered information to other countries.
Israel initially denied Pollard had spied for them. However, in 1996, Israel made Pollard a citizen and two years later officials admitted he was their agent.
These numbers are hardly revelatory. We've seen them from Scotland before against France and England and Ireland and Wales and pretty much everybody else you care to mention.
We've seen Scotland hold on to the ball for an age in games like this. For a decade and more we've seen them batter their way from halfway, across the opposition 22 and up to the try-line.
And then we've seen it all go wrong.
Not just seen it, but expected it. The expectation is changing, though. Murrayfield's fatalistic attitude is under threat now that Scotland have backed up their win in Rome with their first victory over France in 10 years. The 29-18 scoreline is also their biggest win over France in 17 years. This is the kind of history that Scotland want to be involved in.
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It's only a few short weeks, but it seems like an eternity since Greig Laidlaw's men were being spooked by the thought of 10 championship losses in a row. Now the narrative has altered and it's become about a shot at three straight wins, in Dublin on Saturday - a feat that Scotland haven't managed in this competition since Rob Wainwright's team of 1996.
Ireland will have more substance than France. Better players, greater motivation, a cannier coach in the celebrated Joe Schmidt, Vern Cotter's old pal from their days at Clermont. On Sunday, France showed again that their reputation outflanks their reality. Guy Noves isn't so much staging a revolution as a re-run of recent failings.
Scotland had the hammer blow of an early French try, then they lost their stand-off, Finn Russell. In the opening 13 minutes, Cotter's side gave up a try, three penalties and a line-out and for those of us who can still see the ghosts of the past, it was ominous.
This team, though, has a resolve that doesn't just exist in sound-bites in press conferences. It was there in glorious deed.
Stuart Hogg typified it. In a game that is dogged, at times, by brutality and danger, Hogg reminds you of rugby's beauty. He's a modern player but he plays the way the maestros of yesteryear played, back in a time of space and freedom and invention.
Hogg will get the headlines but he had a hell of a supporting cast.
Duncan Taylor has gone from nowhere man to pivotal in the midfield. Laidlaw has gone from a slightly haunted leader into an inspirational one. John Barclay has exposed as lunacy his long exile from the set-up. There are renaissance stories here.
If they carry on and win in Ireland then even the most doubting of souls would have to admit that a corner has been turned at long last.
Tommy Seymour was not one of the names on everybody's lips as the Scotland fans floated out of Murrayfield.
We could start the roll call of key influences in a huge Scotland victory and it would take a while to get to him. Two defenders beaten all day, five carries, 25 metres gained. Solid, but not spectacular. Not by his standards. Seymour is a fine predator, but this was a game where the prey were just a little too hard to find.
Why talk about Seymour? Because of one moment that reveals the truth of what players and coaches say about games of this magnitude being decided by fine margins. Sometimes the margins are so fine that you need to watch the game all over again, pausing and rewinding, to find them.
This is where Seymour comes in.
Sunday's Test is in its 36th minute and France are on the attack. Maxime Mermoz is blasting up the left touchline, Hogg measuring him for the tackle. In the background is Seymour, watching the play like a hawk, anticipating Hogg's hit and the subsequent ruck, at which he would play a major part that would go largely unnoticed in real time.
When Mermoz hits the floor, Seymour swoops. His timing is perfection. His body immovable. Mermoz has no option but to hold on and give away the penalty. What happens next is Scotland's progression in microcosm.
Everything is quick and accurate - the decision-making and the execution. Seymour rips the ball out of Mermoz's grip and shovels it to Taylor, who is 10 metres inside his own half but blissfully aware of the opportunity at hand. He taps and goes - and goes.
Virimi Vakatawa can't stop him. Neither can Wenceslas Lauret. Taylor gallops on and scores in the corner, then Laidlaw bangs over the conversion from the touchline. Seven beautiful points in the blink of an eye.
Seymour didn't score on Sunday, he didn't make any box-office plays or produce moments that got Murrayfield to its feet, but his contribution at that breakdown had a huge ripple effect. It set Taylor in motion, whose try shook France, who never fully recovered.
That was Scotland's second try of the day and a window to the new team's ambition. So, too, the third. We will remember Laidlaw flinging out a speculative pass and Hogg helping the ball along to Tim Visser while simultaneously fooling Scott Spedding, who was expecting Hogg to catch it.
That was a lovely moment that spoke to Scotland's ability to finish, but the penalty that gave Laidlaw the freedom to throw that Hail Mary pass without fear came on the back of a surge from WP Nel.
This was in the 66th minute - a prop still driving on while the two starting French props had already been replaced. This is the norm for Nel and Alasdair Dickinson, his partner in the front row.
Dickinson has played 282 minutes of this Six Nations, Nel has played 298. Of all the other props only England's Dan Cole has had more involvement (301 minutes).
As a partnership, Dickinson and Nel have been out there together far longer than any other starting props. It's a symbol of their great strength but also a sign of the uncertainty about what's in reserve.
The burden on them has been huge, but these are physically and mentally strong men. Against France, they were part of a Scottish pack that won three scrum penalties and two scrum free-kicks (Scotland won a fourth penalty when Moray Low replaced Nel). In Rome, they won six scrum penalties.
Joy at scrum-time is a new phenomenon for Scotland - as is winning Six Nations matches. They have two in a row now. After Sunday, Ireland won't doubt their capacity to make it three.
Clermont flanker Damien Chouly is included in the extended squad in place of Toulon back-rower Charles Ollivon.
Castres scrum-half Antoine Dupont and Brive back-rower Fabien Sanconnie retain their places after making debuts in the 18-40 win against Italy.
Meanwhile, Toulon prop Xavier Chiocci has also dropped out of the squad ahead of the visit of Rob Howley's side.
Forwards: Uini Atonio (La Rochelle), Rabah Slimani (Stade Français), Cyril Baille (Toulouse), Eddy Ben Arous (Racing 92), Mohamed Boughanmi (La Rochelle), Camille Chat (Racing 92), Guilhem Guirado (Toulon), Christopher Tolofua (Toulouse), Yoann Maestri (Toulouse), Sébastien Vahaamahina (Clermont), Julien Le Devedec (Brive), Paul Jedrasiak (Clermont), Damien Chouly (Clermont), Louis Picamoles (Northampton/ENG), Bernard le Roux (Racing 92), Kevin Gourdon (La Rochelle), Fabien Sanconnie (Brive).
Backs: Antoine Dupont (Castres), Baptiste Serin (Bordeaux-Bègles), Camille Lopez (Clermont), François Trinh-Duc (Toulon), Rémi Lamerat (Clermont), Gaël Fickou (Toulouse), Henry Chavancy (Racing 92), Jonathan Danty (Stade Français), Virimi Vakatawa (FFR), Noa Nakaitaci (Clermont), Yoann Huget (Toulouse), Scott Spedding (Clermont), Brice Dulin (Racing 92), Djibril Camara (Stade Français).
Lee Dent, 42, said he thought Alex Peguero Sosa, 17, had a knife before the late-night attack at a taxi rank in Kingsbridge, Devon.
He also told Plymouth Crown Court he did not know he had a bottle in his hand before striking Mr Peguero Sosa.
Mr Dent, from East Portlemouth, Devon, denies murdering Mr Peguero Sosa.
The former Plymouth Argyle youth squad player from Aveton Gifford, near Kingsbridge, was killed in the early hours of 6 July last year.
Mr Dent and Mr Peguero Sosa had been out socialising with friends before the attack in which Mr Dent stabbed Mr Peguero Sosa in the neck, the court heard.
Mr Dent told the court: "I thought he had a knife. He said he was going to stab me up."
Martin Meeke, defending, asked him if he had seen a knife and Mr Dent said he saw a "glint".
"He put me a position where I had no option but to defend myself," he said.
He also said that he had been more drunk than ever before.
The trial continues.
The Owls lost 4-3 on penalties after the tie finished 1-1 on aggregate, with Sam Hutchinson and Fernando Forestieri seeing efforts saved by Danny Ward.
"He said he did not feel confident," Carvalhal told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"The worst thing I could have done was force him to take one."
The 51-year-old added: "It would have been a big mistake to make him take one. It's one of the worst things you can do to a player.
"The five players who took them were the ones who had practised them best and said that they wanted to take them."
Rhodes, who has scored 175 league goals in his career, is on loan at the Owls from Middlesbrough before joining for a fee believed to be around £10m in the summer.
He has scored three goals in 20 appearances for the club and had a penalty saved in their 1-0 defeat by Leeds in February.
Defeat on Wednesday at Hillsborough means the Owls have failed to secure promotion through the play-offs for the second successive campaign. Last season they lost 1-0 to Hull City in the final at Wembley.
Owner Dejphon Chansiri said he wanted promotion in two years when he took over in March 2015 and there has been speculation that he intended to sack Carvalhal if the Owls failed to go up this season.
However, the Portuguese said nothing has been decided about his future.
"In the club there are two people who make decisions: the chairman and me," he said.
"I will have some time back home and then I will sit down with the chairman next week. I like the club and I have a good relationship with the chairman. I have no problems here. We will see what is decided."
The hosts took the lead when David Smith's low ball across the six-yard box was tapped in by Andy Stirling.
But Hardie, who had earlier curled wide, levelled before the break when he nodded in Tom Walsh's cross.
Substitute Calum Gallagher could have sealed St Mirren's first win of the season but his shot was well kept out by Alan Martin.
Match ends, Dumbarton 1, St. Mirren 1.
Second Half ends, Dumbarton 1, St. Mirren 1.
Corner, Dumbarton. Conceded by Darren Whyte.
Corner, Dumbarton. Conceded by Gary Mackenzie.
Corner, Dumbarton. Conceded by Gary Irvine.
Grant Gallagher (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Sutton (St. Mirren).
Attempt missed. Robert Thomson (Dumbarton) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Lawrence Shankland (St. Mirren) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by Gregor Buchanan (Dumbarton).
Lawrence Shankland (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, St. Mirren. Lawrence Shankland replaces Ryan Hardie.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Craig Pettigrew.
Foul by Darren Barr (Dumbarton).
John Sutton (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, St. Mirren. Darren Whyte replaces Kyle Hutton.
Substitution, Dumbarton. Samuel Stanton replaces Andy Stirling.
Attempt missed. Ryan Hardie (St. Mirren) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Alan Martin.
Attempt saved. Calum Gallagher (St. Mirren) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Josh Todd (Dumbarton) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Kyle Hutton (St. Mirren) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Garry Fleming (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kyle Hutton (St. Mirren).
Substitution, St. Mirren. Calum Gallagher replaces Lewis Morgan.
Garry Fleming (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Irvine (St. Mirren).
Substitution, Dumbarton. Garry Fleming replaces David Smith.
Attempt missed. Gregor Buchanan (Dumbarton) header from the centre of the box is too high following a corner.
Corner, Dumbarton. Conceded by Gary Mackenzie.
Gregor Buchanan (Dumbarton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kyle Hutton (St. Mirren).
Robert Thomson (Dumbarton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt missed. Ryan Hardie (St. Mirren) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Dumbarton. Conceded by Scott Gallacher.
Corner, Dumbarton. Conceded by Jason Naismith.
Corner, Dumbarton. Conceded by Gary Mackenzie.
Corner, Dumbarton. Conceded by Scott Gallacher.
Attempt blocked. Andy Stirling (Dumbarton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Hand ball by Kyle Hutton (St. Mirren).
In an open letter to mark the web's 28th anniversary, Sir Tim has set out a five-year strategy amid concerns he has about how the web is being used.
Sir Tim said he wants to start to combat the misuse of personal data, which creates a "chilling effect on free speech".
He also called for tighter regulation of "unethical" political adverts.
The British computer scientist said he wants the people who have helped develop the web with blogs, tweets, photos, videos and web pages to help come up with practical solutions to make a web "that gives equal power and opportunity to all".
Users are often unable to tell outlets what data they would not like shared, Sir Tim said. Terms and conditions were "all or nothing".
Sir Tim said he wants to work with companies to put "a fair level of data control back in the hands of people".
He also expressed concerns that government surveillance is going too far and stopping the web from being used to explore topics such as sensitive health issues, sexuality or religion.
Social media sites and search engines must be encouraged to continue efforts to combat the problem of fake news, Sir Tim said.
However, central bodies deciding what is true or not should be avoided, he added.
Certain algorithms can favour sensationalist information designed to surprise or shock users rather than reflect the truth and can "spread like wildfire", Sir Tim said.
The arrival of social media - and the fight for clicks - has meant real and fictional stories are presented in such a similar way that it can be hard to tell the two apart.
So-called "fake news" could be false information deliberately circulated by those who have scant regard for the truth but hope to advance particular (often extreme) political causes and make money out of online traffic.
Or it could be false information circulated by journalists who don't realise it's false.
Fake news has become so prevalent that the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee is now investigating concerns about the public being swayed by propaganda and untruths.
The committee was spurred by claims that voters in the US election were influenced by fake news, it said.
Pope Francis was reported to have backed Donald Trump's presidency campaign, for example, when he had not made an endorsement.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump himself has used the term fake news to refer to critical stories about his administration, picking out organisations such as CNN and BBC.
Sir Tim advocated transparency so users can understand how web pages appear on their devices and suggested a set of common principles for sites to follow.
And he raised concerns about how online political advertising had become a "sophisticated" industry.
Sir Tim said there were indications some targeted advertising was being used in "unethical ways" to keep voters away from the polls or directing people to fake news sites.
He suggested companies could put subscription payments and small automated charges in place to make money without these types of adverts.
However, despite highlighting issues on the world wide web which be believed need addressing, Sir Tim has admitted the solutions "will not be simple".
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In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said it was pursuing lines of inquiry linked to the incident at a Debenhams department store in north London.
It said new evidence had emerged during a review of undercover operations.
In 2012 an MP used parliamentary privilege to allege that an officer had planted the device in north London.
The announcement by the Metropolitan Police is one of the most significant developments since allegations of wrongdoing first emerged against the force's now disbanded Special Demonstration Squad (SDS).
The SDS, shut down in 2008, was a secret team inside Special Branch which was tasked with infiltrating political protest groups and activists associated with a range of left-wing or alternative causes, including animal rights campaigners.
Scotland Yard said detectives had reopened the file into the incident in Harrow on 11 July 1987 which was believed to be linked to an anti-fur campaign.
"A team is now pursuing a number of lines of enquiry which were identified following a thematic review of the original investigation, by the then bomb squad," said the force.
"This will include exploiting potential advances in DNA techniques, new information that has been established by Operation Herne [the internal police investigation into historical undercover policing] and claims made under parliamentary privilege by an MP in 2012."
In 2012, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, speaking in Parliament, said that Geoff Sheppard, one of the activists convicted in relation to the incident had named a former senior SDS officer as being behind the attack.
Ms Lucas said Mr Sheppard alleged that Bob Lambert had planted the device after he had been deployed undercover.
The former officer, whose time undercover investigating the Animal Liberation Front is not disputed, has vehemently denied playing any part in the bombing.
"I did not commit serious crime such as planting an incendiary device at the [Debenhams] Harrow store," Mr Lambert said in 2012.
Mr Sheppard and a second man, Andrew Clarke, launched appeals appeals against their convictions in 2014.
The Scotland Yard statement said that the reinvestigation was being led by a senior detective from the Directorate of Professional Standards, the arm of the force that looks into allegations made against police officers.
"As with all ongoing investigations we are not prepared to give a running commentary on its progress, nor to identify who may or may not be subject of the investigation.
"The MPS has made the public inquiry into undercover policing aware of this re-investigation."
The attack in Harrow, north-west London, caused £340,000 of damage and was part of a series of attacks that also targeted stores in Romford and Luton. In all Debenhams lost £8m in relation to the incidents and stopped selling furs.
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She wore the white T-shirt at the start of a debate on media sexism.
Chairman of the session, Labour's Jimmy Hood, interrupted her and told her to "put her jacket back on" and comply with Westminster's dress code.
Ms Lucas picked up a copy of The Sun and waved Page Three, but said she would comply with the ruling.
She added: "It does strike me as a certain irony that this T-shirt is regarded as an inappropriate thing to be wearing in this House, whereas apparently it is appropriate for this kind of newspaper to be available to buy in eight different outlets on the Palace of Westminster estate."
During the debate, the MP for Brighton Pavilion argued The Sun newspaper's Page Three, which features topless models, should be consigned to the "rubbish bin where it belongs".
She expressed her support for the No More Page Three campaign and said the content of the page was not acceptable in a family newspaper said to be seen by 7.5m people each day.
Earlier this year, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who owns The Sun, hinted on Twitter that Page Three may be replaced with a "halfway house" of "glamorous fashionistas".
Ms Lucas said: "To date, public pressure has secured the most public sign from The Sun's proprietor that the paper might scrap Page Three. But the clock is ticking and we still have not seen any concrete action.
"So if Page Three still hasn't been removed from The Sun by the end of this year, I think we should be asking the government to step in and legislate."
She also called for The Sun to be removed from sale in Parliament until it dropped the photo feature.
Culture minister Ed Vaizey said there were no plans to regulate the content of the press.
He said it was for adults to choose what they read, provided something remains within the law or does not impact inappropriately on the rights of an individual.
He added: "Freedom of expression is a vital part of our society. But, as well as maintaining this freedom, we as a government are committed to maintaining a media that commands respect from the public through high standards and is capable of appropriately protecting the rights of individuals."
Limited rules on member's dress are set out in Erskine May, the official parliamentary rule book. It says MPs should not wear military insignia or uniforms in the Commons and the custom is "for gentlemen members to wear jackets and ties".
However, other standards of dress are expected to be adhered to as a matter of convention.
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"It is for the chair of a debate to make a judgement on whether those conventions are being met."
The Great Famine of 1845-51 has the grim distinction of being the most costly natural disaster of modern times.
Ireland had witnessed a massive surge in population from 2.6 to 8.5 million by 1845 when blight struck the staple food of the masses - the potato.
Some 80% of this teeming population lived on the land, making Ireland one of the most densely populated countries in Europe.
Under a land system where most of the land was owned by the great Plantation landlords, vast numbers of the poorest 'cottier' class lived on 'potato gardens', often sub-divided among their sons.
By the 1840s, close on two-fifths of the population were totally dependant on the potato and it was the major food-source of the rest.
Between 1845 and 1849, the potato crop failed in three seasons out of four.
The result was starvation and the spread of the "road disease" - dysentery, typhus and cholera.
One million people died of hunger and disease during the crisis and more than one million emigrated, mainly to the United States - often in the notorious 'coffin ships', so-called because many people died because of the terrible conditions during the crossing.
In dealing with the crisis, the British government introduced 'Outdoor Relief' - the provision of soup kitchens in distressed area and public works, such as the building of roads and harbours.
However, these measures were woefully inadequate.
The country's workhouses were grossly overcrowded, adding to the vast mortality.
The claim that the Famine did not affect Ulster has been debunked by recent historical research.
Between 1845-51 Ulster's population fell by 340,000, a drop of 15.7% compared with 19.9% for the whole of lreland.
The greatest losses of population were in the south Ulster counties of Cavan, Fermanagh and Monaghan.
Fermanagh lost almost 30% of its inhabitants.
Tyrone, Antrim and Armagh were close to the national average with rates of around 15%.
Surprisingly, research shows that the events from 1845 to 51 affected normally prosperous parts of the north-east, including Belfast, north Down and particularly the linen triangle of north Armagh.
By December 1846 the first deaths from starvation were reported in the local press.
By early 1847 cholera was spreading in Fermanagh, with the Erne Packet reporting: "In Garvary Wood hundreds of corpses are buried, they were the victims of cholera and their relatives too weak to carry them to the graveyard."
One of the most surprising aspects of the Famine was its searing impact on traditionally prosperous parts of eastern Ulster.
Particularly hard-hit was the Lurgan-Portadown linen triangle of north Armagh.
Lurgan Workhouse in 1847 recorded the third highest mortality of any workhouse in Ireland.
An inquiry blamed the crisis on overcrowding and the fact that the corpses of fever victims were interred beside the workhouse well. The result was a cycle of death.
In normally prosperous Newtownards, there were queues at the soup kitchen of "emaciated and half-famished souls", covered with rags.
In 1847 the worst affected areas in Down included the Mournes and the fishing port of Kilkeel.
The reactions of the landlords varied. Lord Londonderry, the largest landowner in north Down, rejected rent reductions due to "personal inconvenience" and was much criticised.
Newry - the site of the all-island Famine Commemoration - became a key centre of emigration from south Ulster, with vessels carrying thousands direct to Canada and the United States.
Among these was the ill-fated 'coffin ship', the Hannah, carrying emigrants from South Armagh. Fifty people were drowned when it struck ice near Quebec.
The Famine had a traumatic impact on the growing industrial town of Belfast, which attracted large numbers of famished and disease-ridden people from all parts of Ulster.
In March 1847, typhus fever swept the town following the arrival in the port of the Swatara, an emigrant ship from Connacht.
The Plaguey Hill at Friar's Bush Graveyard in south Belfast is a grim cenotaph commemorating some 800 victims of 'Black '47'.
The commemoration to mark the 170th anniversary has been held at the Albert Basin in Newry, County Down.
Attended by ministers from the Irish government and the Northern Ireland Executive, it was the high point of a week of talks, walks, music and drama about the tragedy.
In her remarks, the Irish Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys, recalled how in Newry workhouse all the health professionals died of fever.
"A point that has struck me forcibly is how the legacy and memory of the famine is deeply ingrained in the collective memory of the host community in Newry," she said.
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The 21-year-old was described as "destined for the Premier League" by former U's boss Kevin Keen in January.
"Alex was one of the outstanding young talents in League One last season," Latics manager Gary Caldwell said.
"He's exactly the sort of player and person who suits this club and we're delighted to add him to the group for pre-season."
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The charity saw lifeboats at its 30 stations across Wales launch 1,175 times in 2016, an 11% rise on the previous year.
Mumbles RNLI in Swansea was the busiest station for the second year running, with 83 launches.
RNLI lifeguards also had a busy year, responding to 1,271 incidents across 39 patrolled beaches.
Matt Crofts, RNLI lifesaving manager, said the charity was "extremely grateful for the dedication show by its lifesavers" who spent almost 28,000 hours at sea last year.
"But we really do see our rescue service as a last resort," he said.
The 2016 Wales figures also showed:
The latest figures came as the charity celebrated the official opening of a new visitor centre in Vale of Glamorgan.
The Barry Island venue claims to be the first of its kind in the UK, focusing on drowning prevention.
The RNLI hopes to help teach 30,000 visitors a year about water safety, using bespoke interactive exhibitions.
It is part of the charity's bid to cut drowning deaths in Britain by 50% by 2024.
Speeding this process up - without compromising on safety or efficacy - would seem to be in everyone's interests.
And cloud computing is helping to do just that.
"Cloud platforms are globally accessible and easily available," says Kevin Julian, managing director at Accenture Life Sciences, Accelerated R&D Services division.
"This allows for real-time collection of data from around the world, providing better access to data from inside life sciences companies, as well as from the many partners they work with in the drug development process."
Clinical trials - testing how a new drug works on people once you've tested it on animals - are a crucial part of this process. But they can be very complex to organise and run.
There are three main phases, starting with a small group of healthy volunteers, then widening out to larger groups who would benefit from the drug.
"A big phase three trial will cost anything from $30m-$60m (£24m-£48m) for a pharma company," says Steve Rosenberg, general manager of Oracle Health Sciences Global Business Unit.
These trials may be conducted over 30 to 50 countries and involve hundreds or even thousands of patients - this takes a lot of time and money.
"Patient recruitment has always been the number one problem," says Mr Rosenberg.
And as drug development targets more specific groups of people, largely thanks to the insights coming from genomics, finding the right patients for such clinical studies is becoming even harder.
This is where the cloud can help.
"With cloud and related technologies, we are now able to mine real-world data to find patient populations better, and utilise globally available technology to conduct trials in an even more distributed and inclusive manner," says Mr Julian.
Cloud and increasing digitalisation is also helping to improve the efficiency of data collection and analysis.
"Data collection used to be very inefficient, with data being written on paper forms, faxed and then entered into computers manually," explains Tarek Sherif, co-founder and chief executive of Medidata, a company that has developed a cloud platform for clinical trials.
"Then it had to be double-checked for errors. It could take up to a year before you could draw any conclusions from the patient data."
Digitising the process and automating the checking process in the cloud has reduced this time to "one to two weeks," says Mr Sherif.
And cloud offers many additional advantages to pharma companies, says Mr Rosenberg.
"These days health data is coming from a wide variety of sources, like labs, wearable devices, electronic diaries, health records. Pharma companies can't necessarily handle all the data that's coming in to them.
"So cloud computing helps them do that and gives them a whole bunch of other advantages - the technology is kept up to date, you get the latest security, the latest features and so on."
A spokesman for pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) told the BBC: "Advances in computing and data analytics are providing new opportunities to improve the efficiency of our research and increase our understanding of a disease or a patient's response to medication."
Speeding up the clinical trial process also cuts costs.
"We were able to save one of our clients about 30% on the cost of running a trial," says Mr Sherif, whose firm facilitates nearly half of all clinical trials in the world and counts 17 of the top 25 pharma companies as clients.
And Accenture's Mr Julian says: "We've seen overall savings of 50% - in some cases up to 75% - on the historically labour-intensive parts of the drug development process."
Of course, not all prospective drugs work, or they're shown to work but not any better than existing drugs on the market.
"So the Holy Grail is to fail faster so you're not failing in the very final phases of drug development when you've already spent most of your money," says Mr Sherif.
Winning regulatory approval for a drug is only half the battle. Pharma companies also have to convince health services and insurance companies that's it's worth paying for.
This means collecting reliable patient data.
In the past, patients were often asked to keep written diaries of their experiences with a drug being tested, but these were "horribly inefficient", says Mr Sherif.
So the rise of electronic diaries and wearable devices is helping to improve the evidence a pharma company can present in defence of their latest drug.
With this is mind, Oracle is helping add "mHealth" capability to Accenture Life Sciences' cloud platform.
And GSK says: "We've been conducting clinical studies with biosensors and mobile devices for some time.
"Today's digital technology is enabling us to collect and analyse data in new ways - monitoring activity and vital signs in patients, and collecting patient feedback in real time, improving the quality of data we use in the development of new medicines."
The cloud is also encouraging more pharma companies to co-operate on molecule development [the building blocks of a potential drug], says Mr Rosenberg, as well as on data analysis.
And all this anonymised patient data - historical and recent - can potentially be shared in the battle to combat disease.
"We are seeing clients increasingly use 'virtual studies' - using external and historical data to perform advanced statistical analysis and reduce the need for complicated, costly site-based study activity," says Accenture's Mr Julian, citing a collaborative Alzheimer's project between some of its clients and the Coalition Against Major Disease.
But while efficiencies in the drug development process are undoubtedly being found, discovering the initial molecule is still very difficult, experts warn.
Cloud computing is having a big practical impact, but won't necessarily result in a flurry of "miracle" cures.
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The chief executives of Belfast International, Belfast City and the City of Derry airports want a review into the impact of scrapping the tax.
And they want it to begin as soon as possible.
The confidence and supply deal struck between the Conservatives and the DUP in June contained a commitment to review air passenger duty.
In a letter to First Secretary Damian Green, the airport chiefs said it would be helpful if they could be advised of the timescale for the review and who will carry it out.
They said they stand ready to put the case for removing air passenger duty on the grounds of both economic growth and jobs.
The three airports have said they "already have a number of our existing and potential airlines ready to commit to flying from Northern Ireland should air passenger duty be removed".
They asked that the review could be "initiated, completed and the result implemented as soon as possible".
The Rt Rev Michael Perham was told by police last month he faces no action over two claims of indecent assault.
The Bishop of Tewkesbury, the Rt Rev Martyn Snow, said of the cancellation: "I know this will be the cause of huge frustration and deep disappointment."
Bishop Perham is due to retire officially on 21 November.
Since the allegations were made, the Bishop of Gloucester stepped back from his duties and they were handed to the Bishop of Tewkesbury.
Bishop Snow said: "Church House, Westminster has confirmed to me the process is still ongoing and there is no formal timetable for this process as it must be completed with fairness to all.
"The diocese must therefore await the conclusion of that process."
Bishop Perham was questioned in August over allegations of historical sex offences dating back more than 30 years.
The special service had been planned for 8 November.
Correction 11 November 2014: A quote from Bishop Snow has been amended to clarify that there is no formal timetable for the investigation
Seven-year-old Georgia Allen and her five-year-old brother Geordie were injured at Killowen Primary School.
Their father, 36-year-old George Allen, remains critically ill.
Staff at the school used a defibrillator on Mr Allen after the incident, and he was resuscitated at the scene.
His son was also originally said to be in a critical condition.
The Russian president signed similar documents last week, so the New Start treaty will come into effect when the papers are exchanged this weekend.
The treaty was approved by the US Senate in December and by the Russian parliament last month.
It replaces the 1991 Start treaty which expired in December 2009.
The New Start treaty, agreed to by Mr Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in April, limits each side to no more than 800 deployed nuclear warhead delivery systems (including bombers, missile launchers and nuclear submarines), a cut of about 50%. It limits each side to 1,550 deployed warheads.
It will also allow each side visually to inspect the other's nuclear capability, with the aim of verifying how many warheads each missile carries.
The White House barred reporters from the Oval Office when Mr Obama signed the treaty, but allowed still photographers.
The pact, opposed by many Republicans, could become an issue in the 2012 US political campaign.
Among other criticisms, US opponents of the treaty argued Russia would have reduced stockpiles anyway as its arsenal aged, so the US had no reason to agree to scrap its own nuclear arms.
About 100 fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) took part, some crossing the border from Iraq, some moving from inside Turkey.
The toll - of 24 dead and 18 injured - is the largest suffered by the Turkish security forces since 1993.
The response by the Turkish military has been a predictable one: more raids by jets and helicopters on targets inside Iraq, with ground forces moving around 8km (five miles) across the Iraqi border.
The military says it killed 15 of the PKK insurgents; it claims to have killed as many as 160 in air raids carried out since July.
The PKK has proved before that it is capable of such an attack, and of inflicting heavy losses.
In June last year, it carried out a very similar night-time raid, using large numbers of fighters, and killed 13 soldiers stationed at a remote outpost along the border.
The government vowed then that the soldiers would be better protected, and questions were posed about the suitability of a young, conscript army for tackling an entrenched insurgency.
If lessons were learned, they do not appear to have helped those battling the PKK in the latest attacks.
Bigger questions hang over why the PKK has escalated its operations against the military over the past four months, and why the Turkish government, which repeatedly says it wants to pursue reconciliation, has been unable to stop the harsh treatment of Kurdish nationalist figures by the judiciary.
Time and again, apparent windows for peace have been shut down abruptly.
In October 2009, following Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's unprecedented offer of a new beginning for relations between Turkey's largest minority and the state, 34 Kurdish activists, including eight PKK fighters, crossed the border from Iraq, and turned themselves over to the Turkish authorities.
It was presented as a gesture, a test of the government's intentions. The activists were allowed to go free, instead of being prosecuted.
But then it all went wrong.
A jubilant welcome for the activists by tens of thousands of Kurds, waving PKK symbols, provoked a strong nationalist reaction in a Turkish public conditioned to think of the PKK only as an evil, terrorist organisation.
The government had rushed into a badly thought-out peace initiative, without preparing the Turkish people for it.
By the end of 2009, the main Kurdish party had been banned - for the seventh time - by the constitutional court, and dozens of Kurdish community leaders were being prosecuted under the draconian, catch-all anti-terror laws.
One Kurdish editor was sentenced to 166 years in prison, merely for the pro-PKK sentiments published in his newspaper.
It was a similar situation after the general election in June this year, in which Kurdish candidates did well.
This opened the possibility of Kurds pressing their demands through parliament, and working with the government on a new constitution - one of their central demands.
But a court decision to strip one Kurdish MP of his seat, and give it to the ruling AK party, poisoned the atmosphere.
Kurdish MPs boycotted parliament, and announced what they called their own "democratic autonomy" initiative, taking greater control of local government.
There has never been a constructive dialogue between the AK, Turkey's most successful democratic party, and Kurdish leaders.
They just seem to talk, or shout, past each other, even though both have acknowledged that the use of military force by both sides has brought about nothing but hatred and the loss of more than 40,000 lives.
This despite the fact that the AK is the first party to attempt to address the grievances of the Kurds, and has managed to ease some of the restrictions on Kurdish expressions of identity.
The terrible atrocities committed against Kurdish communities in the 1990s have left a searing anger towards the Turkish state, compounded by the poverty, unemployment and ill-treatment that blight the Kurdish south-east.
But such is the engrained hostility of millions of Turks towards the Kurdish nationalist movement, that any attempt to negotiate with it could cost a government significant numbers of votes.
The lack of leadership on the Kurdish issue has left a vacuum, now filled by the armed hardliners of the PKK.
It is hard to interpret its decision to increase its attacks on the army and police as anything else but an attempt to sabotage any future peace initiative, should it ever get off the ground.
In the current, bitter climate of mutual recriminations, that is unlikely to happen.
"We're a lot fitter than we ever have been, we're scoring more goals and we look like a right good team," said the Ladbrokes Player of the Season.
"We're closing people down and we're playing with a high intensity.
"Last season I was struggling with injuries and now I feel I can go for two, three or four seasons more."
The midfielder, 32 next month, has been a key player under Brendan Rodgers, the league sponsor's manager of the season, as the League Cup winners and Premiership champions seek to extend their unbeaten run of 45 domestic games to the Scottish Cup final against Aberdeen on 27 May.
"I'm enjoying my football and playing with a smile on my face," said Brown, adding that the award was "thanks to all the players for digging me out a hole now and then".
"We check GPS and heart rates and make sure everybody is working hard.
"Against Partick, in the 91st minute I ended up on the left wing and trying to close the goalie down.
"That's never been seen before by me in the last five or six years. It shows I still have the energy and desire to keep going for 90-95 minutes.
"It's been enjoyable this season but it's been really hard, with dedication from everyone and the way the gaffer wants high intensity for 90 minutes."
Rodgers may make use of statistical data but he said it "can't measure the size of a player's heart".
He described Brown as "inspirational" and said that, should Celtic complete the treble, "it would be very fitting for a captain of his quality to do that".
"As a manager it's very important that you have that chemistry between you and your captain," continued the Celtic boss.
"It was pretty clear early on when I met him that he was top class in his outlook. He hasn't let up.
"He has been absolutely sensational in how he has led the team and how he's taken on the football idea that we've tried to impose on the team - his tactical positions to get on the ball, the variety so that he can move freely to create space for himself.
"He presses with a real aggression, he anticipates and he blocks and he doesn't need to be jumping in. That has been consistent, whether it's League Cup, the league or Champions League."
Rodgers revealed that he advised Brown last summer that if he looked after his fitness he could play until he was at least 35.
He said: "You have to ensure that everything about your life is perfect.
"He readjusted his diet, took on board everything we were looking to impose and that has given him confidence.
"He will run all day for you; it was just guiding that and making sure it was consistent. I look at his physical shape, he's in great condition - fit, strong.
"He has never let up in any day. I've given him a few extra days off through the season but he has never wanted it. Even in training, he brings intensity."
David Coombs also targeted people in hospitals in Hampshire and Dorset, pretending to be a wealthy businessman.
The 52-year-old, of Hunston Road, Chichester, had previously pleaded guilty to nine fraud offences committed in 2015.
He received a four-year sentence at a hearing at Southampton Crown Court.
Police said his victims were aged between 49 and 83 years old.
Coombs would strike up relationships with them before asking to borrow money claiming his wallet had been stolen or his card mistakenly blocked by his bank.
He purported to be a wealthy businessman, employed by an interior design company, and claimed to have multiple properties and offshore bank accounts.
Coombs came to the attention of police after one woman he had been in a relationship with contacted them when he began to harass her.
Det Sgt Will Whale said he had been "spinning a web of lies" over 22 months.
"His persistent offending has had an immeasurable effect on the lives of his victims, not just financially but also psychologically."
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The video is for The Next Day, taken from his comeback album of the same name.
It depicts Bowie as a messianic figure, dressed in a robe and fronting a band in a basement bar.
Oldman plays a priest who dances with Cotillard before she bleeds from stigmata marks on her palms.
Bowie's last video, for The Stars (Are Out Tonight), featured another Oscar-winner, Tilda Swinton.
The new film was directed by photographer Floria Sigismondi and features characters dressed as clergymen amid heavy religious imagery.
As it ends with the characters arranged in a tableau, Bowie says: "Thank you Gary, thank you Marion, thank you everybody."
Oldman previously worked with Bowie in the 1990s when they performed a duet on guitarist Reeves Gabrels' 1995 album The Sacred Squall of Now.
Imperial War Museum Duxford plans to overhaul the offering at its American Air Museum, built in 1997.
It also plans to put 15,000 rarely seen prints and slides online and carry out conservation work on its aircraft.
Robyn Llewellyn, from the Heritage Lottery Fund, said the grant would allow "fascinating stories" to be told.
The museum said the first phase of the project involves putting its Freeman Collection online, which contains thousands of pictures and artefacts about the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in Britain during World War Two.
Mr Llewellyn said: "The American Air Museum has possibly the best collection of US military aircraft outside the USA.
"This project will give IWM Duxford the opportunity to overhaul the displays and galleries and bring many of the fascinating stories of the First World War, Second World War, and more recent conflicts to life in new and exciting ways."
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Selby, 33, made a stunning comeback on Monday to beat Scotland's John Higgins 18-15 and win his third Crucible crown.
"I am determined that Mark's achievements should be celebrated," mayor Peter Soulsby told BBC Sport.
Last year, Leicester's footballers had their Premier League title win marked by several murals around the city.
Players such as Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy, as well as manager Claudio Ranieri, had their portraits painted on the side of buildings in the streets.
In 2016 Selby, a boyhood Leicester City supporter, potted the winning ball in the final against China's Ding Junhui to secure his second world title just 12 minutes after the Foxes became top-flight champions for the first time.
Two years prior to that, Selby won his first world title against Ronnie O'Sullivan, which came in the same year as the football club achieved promotion back to the Premier League.
Soulsby added: "I am sure Mark will understand, being a City fan himself, that last year there was a danger of his win being overshadowed by Leicester City's Premier League victory, but not so this time.
"I think we should have a mural for him, similar to the murals we have in the centre of Leicester celebrating the football club's win.
"This is a fantastic win for Mark, and for Leicester. It is an amazing achievement."
Selby had fallen 10-4 behind in this year's final, before a run of nine out of 10 frames helped him towards victory.
A 17-year-old boy and a girl, aged 16, remain in hospital after the collision on Battersea Park Road on Monday morning.
Their injuries are not believed to be serious, the Metropolitan Police said.
Five other pedestrians - four boys and a girl, all in their late teens - were treated for minor injuries but were later released from hospital.
One victim is understood to have fallen onto the back window of a parked car on the street below the bridge where the accident occurred, the Evening Standard reported.
The 35-year-old driver of the red Ferrari 458 stopped at the scene and was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
He remains in custody at a west London police station.
Emergency services, including London's Air Ambulance, attended the incident and road closures were put in place.
It was initially reported that six people were hurt in the crash, but that figure was updated by the Met on Tuesday.
There are 24 award categories and, this year, performers in the four-hour ceremony will include Rita Ora, Lady Gaga and Adam Levine.
Radio 1's Film Critic, Rhianna Dhillon, has shared her predictions for the top categories with Newsbeat.
But, as well as who she THINKS will get an award, she also revealed who she WANTS to get one.
I think Boyhood will win, not necessarily because it's the best film but because there has been SO much campaigning around it. I think the dedication of everyone involved (12 years!!) will resonate with voters.
Seeing a fantastically, well-made film is not rare at the Oscars but watching actors grow up and mature before your eyes is such a unique experience and that is what makes Boyhood stand out.
I want Whiplash to win. I wasn't expecting a tense thriller about a jazz drummer but that's what I got.
Again I think it will be Richard Linklater.
Boyhood is not the most action heavy film but it's beautifully shot and captures moments that almost everyone can empathise with. It's got the awkwardness of growing, embarrassing parents, falling in and out of love. It's such a natural story.
I want it to go to Birdman. Alejandro G. Iñárritu should get it for his unnerving and excellent 'all shot in one take' experience.
I reckon Eddie Redmayne will probably take home a little golden man in this one. Mainly because he's just so transformative in the Theory of Everything. His performance goes so much further than just a good impression of Stephen Hawking.
It would have been easy to make the film sad or depressing but he makes it an inspirational and uplifting watch.
It's what I want to happen as well! Eddie's performance is stand-out and he deserves the award.
Julianne Moore has given two stunning performances, for Maps to the Stars and Still Alice. Her characters in those films are poles apart and it's incredible that someone so experienced can still surprise with her versatility.
Still Alice is a film that will stay with audiences for a very long time after they've watched it, not for the script, not even necessarily for the plot, but for Moore's acting ability.
Just because she's pulling a double during the awards season, I want Julianne to get this one.
Patricia Arquette. She's won SO MANY awards already for her role as a single mum struggling to bring up 2 children in Boyhood. It's a very human role and one that audiences can recognise.
She almost makes you forget you're watching a film because she's so natural and portrays such raw emotion in it.
I want Emma Stone to get it for Birdman. That would be brilliant because of the way her character rebelled her egotistical dad.
JK Simmons as the vicious, megalomaniacal conductor in Whiplash is such a alteration from the smaller, character roles we usually see him play.
He shows us a super-villain in an ordinary situation and it is breath-taking and gripping in equal measure. This was the role that came out of nowhere and wowed audiences. He deserves an Oscar.
If JK doesn't get it, I'll eat all the M&Ms in that picture.
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Mr Phillips said the decision was to focus on building Swansea's regional and national profile although details of his new role are not yet known.
It comes a week after he was told to expect a leadership challenge after sacking two cabinet members in a reshuffle but he would not comment on whether his departure was linked.
Mr Phillips led the council's Labour group for 10 years.
The Labour group has been in power at the authority for the last two years.
The selection process to find a new leader begins on Monday.
He said from the back benches he will continue to give his "complete support to the new cabinet and the group as we work to continue to deliver on our manifesto commitments for the good of the people of Swansea and the wider region".
Labour group chairman Robert Francis Davies said: "David Phillips has made an enormous contribution to Swansea and to Labour and will continue to do so in the future. We want to keep his talents working for our city."
James Healy-Pratt, of Stewarts Law, said aircraft owners Canfield Hunter Ltd admitted responsibility in 2015.
He said the firm had resolved two claims and nearly resolved a third.
The owners said the admission was a statutory requirement and they could not comment further on compensation.
The Hawker Hunter jet crashed on to the A27 in West Sussex during the air show on 22 August last year.
The pilot, Andy Hill, is at the centre of a manslaughter investigation. The final AAIB report into the crash has not yet been published.
Mr Healy-Pratt said: "We obtained an admission of responsibility from the owners of the Hawker Hunter at the end of 2015.
"Through their aviation insurance in London, we have already negotiated several compensation packages for some of our families, and the other ones we're continuing to negotiate and they'll probably get resolved this year."
He said his firm was representing just over half of the families involved.
He said the compensation packages were final and did not not depend upon the final AAIB report or any criminal prosecution.
A spokesman for Canfield Hunter said the owners could not comment any further given that the AAIB and police investigations were ongoing and the inquest had not yet taken place.
"We remain committed to doing everything we can to assist those affected by this tragic incident," he said. "We continue to be in contact with the authorities and are co-operating fully with the various ongoing investigations."
Events to mark the first anniversary of the crash on Monday include a minute's silence on a toll bridge, where thousands of tributes were laid after the disaster. A church service is also being held on Saturday.
The partner of Mark Trussler, 54, one of the men who died, has said it is getting harder to deal with his death.
The father-of-six from Worthing went to watch the last flight of the Vulcan bomber, which was due to take place that day.
Giovanna Chirico, his fiancee, said: "I don't feel anything's got any easier, if anything it's got harder."
She said: "With it coming up to the year, I think I've become more emotional - it's really hard to explain really, just lost."
Ms Chirico said the toll bridge was a hard place to be: "There are just so many emotions when I'm up there.
"I sit there and I think why Mark? Why the other 10? Why the accident? I feel like I'm always overpowered by questions in my own head."
Lamara Bell, 25, and John Yuill, 28, died after lying in a crashed car for three days after the incident was first reported to police.
Officers had failed to follow up a call received about the crash.
The couple were eventually discovered in the vehicle, close to the motorway at Bannockburn on 8 July, 2015.
The case was subsequently referred to the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc).
Former Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland QC, who stepped down from the role earlier this year, said he would expect an FAI to be held, given the level of public concern over the incident.
In a letter to Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie, the new Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, wrote: "As you know, the former advocate considered that this was a case of the utmost seriousness.
"He was committed to ensuring the matter was investigated thoroughly. I share that view.
"When the investigations, which go beyond the work the procurator fiscal has directed the Pirc to do, are completed the case must be reported to Crown counsel."
Mr Wolffe said that all options that were open to Crown counsel when considering a sudden death would be available.
He added: "One of these options is for Crown counsel to instruct that a fatal accident inquiry should be held.
"Like my predecessor, I consider it inconceivable that a fatal accident inquiry will not be held given the public concern over this tragedy.
"The investigations are, at present, ongoing and there is considerable work to do before the case can be reported to Crown counsel."
An interim Pirc report into the case was submitted in November last year and a supplementary report submitted in June.
A Pirc spokesman said: "The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) is currently considering the content of both reports submitted by the Commissioner on her independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of John Yuill, 28, and Lamara Bell, 25.
"We have received no instruction from the COPFS to undertake any further enquiries in relation to this investigation.
"The Commissioner will undertake further enquiries as required."
Mr Rennie said: "The fact that the new Lord Advocate holds the same view as his predecessor is welcome.
"This will help ensure that no stone is left unturned as we seek the answers that we need over the tragic M9 crash.
"An FAI is the best way to ensure that the circumstances that led to the crash and the failure to respond are fully understood.
"The families deserve nothing less."
Mr Quang, 59, has been head of the ministry of public security, which has been the focus of Western criticism of the nation's human rights record.
He had been nominated for the largely ceremonial role at January's communist party conference.
One of his first tasks will be to welcome visiting US President Barack Obama next month.
Mr Quang won 91.5% of a rubber-stamp vote in parliament on Saturday.
"I sincerely thank the National Assembly for electing me," Mr Quang said as he was sworn in. He is the first police general to fill the post.
The Communist Party in January re-elected Nguyen Phu Trong, 71, in the leading role of general secretary for a second term.
His re-election came after reformist Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung withdrew his candidacy.
The National Assembly will vote next week on a new prime minister - set to be Deputy PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc,
Earlier in the week, the assembly elected its first woman Speaker - Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.
Analysts believe one-party Vietnam will continue with economic reforms, but steer clear of major political changes.
Steve Pankhurst, a founder of the website, said the platform was still used by "a handful of members" but that it was "no longer used for the purpose it was built for".
The term "Friends Reunited" has been among the top trending topics in the UK on Twitter.
Here, people who have been Friends Reunited users share their stories on how the website has affected their lives.
Emma Hetherington [pictured above with husband John] said it was a "sad day" for Friends Reunited.
"It was thanks to this early social media platform that my husband John and I saw each other again, 18 years after we'd split up in our early 20s," she said. "Over that time he'd married, had two kids and was in the process of divorcing. I had been widowed for five years with a young daughter.
"John looked me up on Friends Reunited in 2002 and got in touch. We've been together ever since and married in 2014 in Cuba."
On Facebook, Rachel Hughes recounts being found on Friends Reunited by an old boyfriend:
@neil_taylor_ tweeted about meeting his wife on the site:
As did @seanymogs:
Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes could even give Graeme the task of marking midfield playmaker Andrew, who is on loan at cup holders Hibernian from Birmingham City, out of the game at Hampden Park.
It will be the first time that the former Inverness Caledonian Thistle team-mates have played against one another in a competitive senior game.
The Aberdeen-born siblings have only been in opposing colours once - when Birmingham faced Caley Thistle in a friendly at a time when Graeme was still operating more regularly at full-back.
But Graeme believes that destiny has played its hand and that facing his older brother on Saturday was "meant to be".
"It just had that feeling about it that it was going to go that way," he said.
"We have had a bit of banter about it. We both know it's a massive occasion for both teams and we both will just be focused on doing well.
"We're both professionals. We both know, when it comes down to the day, we've both got a job to do for our teams."
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Andrew, two years the elder at 27, had left Caley Thistle by the time a Highland side featuring his brother lost the Scottish League Cup final to Aberdeen at Celtic Park in 2014.
A year later, Graeme captained Caley Thistle to their first major cup success in the Scottish Cup final against Falkirk.
Andrew was also three months too late in joining Hibs to be able to enjoy the celebrations that accompanied them lifting the same trophy for the first time in 114 years.
Then, in November, Graeme was part of the Dons side that lost this season's League Cup final to Celtic.
The younger Shinnie is all too aware that he could help crush Andrew's dreams of reaching a cup final, while Andrew can destroy his own hopes of a first winner's medal with the Dons.
"The relationship of brothers goes out the window for that 90 minutes," he said. "It's all about doing what we've been doing all season.
"It'll be a different experience but one that can't get in the way of what either of us are trying to do.
"We just need to treat it as a normal game."
Although rivals this weekend, the sibling rivalry has run in the family for a lot longer.
"We were both really competitive - probably one of the worst things for our parents," said Graeme, whose fine strike secured the Dons a place in the semi-final at the expense of Partick Thistle.
Andrew, who can boast one more Scottish Cup goal this season after hitting the net against Bonnyrigg Rose and Hearts, agreed.
"We have always been like that from a young age," said the Hibs midfielder. "Everything we did was to the max.
"We argued quite a lot when we were younger as brothers because we are that competitive, whether it was football or computer games.
"But it made us what we are now - we're winners.
"He's a winner and I like winning as well and it bode well for our futures really."
Any brotherly love will be left in the locker room as both insist that winning comes first, especially when a cup final place is at stake.
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"Winning silverware is always the best thing in football," the Dons midfielder explained. "I'm at a club now where it is kind of expected.
"The fans are desperate for us; the players are desperate for it, the management, everyone's desperate for it.
"The whole focus is on the game on Saturday and trying to get through to the final."
Andrew is looking forward to the challenge.
"It's going to be a feisty affair, but you've got to keep your head as well and you've got to keep your composure and play with a bit of quality and that's what's ultimately going to get you there," he suggested.
"Both teams desperately want to be in the final. I know I do and I know Graeme does."
For the brothers, there is happiness that at least one Shinnie will be in the Scottish Cup final.
As for the parents, Graeme suspects: "They'll try find the most neutral seat in Hampden."
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Ferguson, 71, will step down as United manager at the end of the season after winning 38 trophies during his 26 years in charge.
"It is unbelievable to change around probably four different squads and have the success he has," Robson said.
Prime Minister David Cameron described Ferguson's record as "exceptional".
Mr Cameron, an Aston Villa supporter, added: "Hopefully his retirement will make life a little easier for my team."
It's come as an absolute bombshell. I'm sad and disappointed
Former Newcastle and England striker Alan Shearer, who almost joined Manchester United from Blackburn in 1996, said: "If it wasn't for my love of Newcastle, then I would have signed for Sir Alex. I was that close I'd actually found a house in Manchester.
"His know-how, his desire, his hunger, his will to win and longevity are absolutely staggering. He's an absolute genius. If you could bottle that, it'd be worth a fortune."
Labour leader Ed Miliband tweeted: "Proud man. Great manager. Staunch Labour Party supporter. Sir Alex Ferguson will never be forgotten."
A host of former United players joined Robson, who was at United from 1981 until 1994, in paying tribute to Ferguson, who took over from Ron Atkinson on 6 November, 1986.
United legend Sir Bobby Charlton spoke fondly of a "fantastic" and "sensational" manager.
"I am a director at United but I hardly do anything because we are winning all the time and it is all down to Sir Alex Ferguson," said Charlton, who made more than 600 appearances for United between 1956 and 1973.
"He would get up in the middle of the night and travel 300 miles if he thought there was a schoolboy he could sign. He loves the game."
Premier League: 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013.
FA Cup: 1990, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2004
League Cup: 1992, 2006, 2009, 2010
Champions League: 1999, 2008
Cup Winners Cup: 1991
Fifa Club World Cup: 2008
Uefa Super Cup: 1992
Inter-Continental Cup: 1999
FA Charity/Community Shield: 1990 (shared), 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011
Steve Bruce, who captained Ferguson's 1993-1994 double winning team, said his former boss has a "wonderful humility", adding that he would "treat the groundsman the same as he would a star player".
Former England captain Paul Ince, who played under Ferguson between 1989-1995, does not believe there will be another manager who will replicate the Scot's achievements.
"You will never see anyone of his kind again," Ince said. "His standards were so high. He was so demanding. Yes, we had our ups and down. The way he treated me was like a son."
Champions League winning goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel said he could not make sense of the timing of the announcement.
"It's come as an absolute bombshell," he said. "I'm sad and disappointed. I was really, really hoping he was going to stay for another couple of years."
Dwight Yorke, Schmeichel's treble-winning team-mate of 1999, said he could understand why Ferguson has decided now is the time to retire, given that he had regained the Premier League title and was due to have hip surgery in the summer.
The former striker also cited David Gill's decision to stand down as United chief executive as a factor.
"I just feel it's the right time for him to go," said Yorke.
Former England striker Michael Owen, who played under Ferguson at United from 2009 until 2012, said he was proud to have worked with the Scot, while Real Madrid winger Cristiano Ronaldo, who played for United for six years from 2003, simply tweeted a message of thanks along with a picture of the two of them together.
Former United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy, who scored 150 goals in a five-year spell at Old Trafford, tweeted: "It was a unique privilege."
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, current manager of Norwegian side Molde, spent more than a decade at United, playing more than 200 games from 1996 until 2007. He was also a coach for a time.
The former forward told MUTV: "I will never forget the loyalty he showed me. Everything I have learnt I have learnt from the boss."
England manager Roy Hodgson described Ferguson's announcement as "a sad day for English football".
England rugby union coach Stuart Lancaster: "His longevity and what he has achieved as a coach I think is unparalleled in world sport. I admire him hugely for what he has done."
Golfer Rory McIlroy: "An end of an era today. Sir Alex Ferguson, the greatest of all time! United will have a tough time trying to replace him."
"It marks the end of an era in football management," Hodgson added. "No one will be able to match his achievements, his dedication, his support for colleagues in need and his team building know-how."
Senior figures at football governing bodies spoke highly of Ferguson's contribution to the sport as a whole.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter tweeted: "His achievements in the game place him without doubt as one of the 'greats'. It was an honour to present Sir Alex with award at 2011 Ballon D'Or. Will his longevity at the top ever be repeated?"
Uefa president Michel Platini described Ferguson as a "visionary" who "has made a massive contribution to football across Europe", while Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore said he defined the Premier League era.
"The Premier League has had the privilege to witness many great players, managers and teams," he said. "No one has made as great a contribution to the Premier League than Sir Alex Ferguson."
League Managers Association chairman Howard Wilkinson said: "He is the epitome of the mantra 'Survive, Win, Succeed'. In private, with those he trusted, he was the very best sort of friend you could ever wish for."
Jessica Wongso, an Indonesian citizen and Australian permanent resident, said the verdict was "not fair".
The victim, Wayan Mirna Salihin, met Wongso at a Jakarta cafe in January.
She died minutes after sipping a coffee ordered by her friend. An autopsy found traces of cyanide in her body.
The trial of Wongso, dubbed by some as the "Coffee Killer", attracted intense public interest in Indonesia as well as Australia, where Wongso and Ms Salihin had met and lived for several years.
Wongso denied all the charges and her lawyers have said they will appeal against the verdict.
Prosecutors argued she had decided to kill Ms Salihin after the latter had advised her to break up with her boyfriend.
Defence lawyers had argued that police never found cyanide in Wongso's possession, and she had never been seen spiking the coffee.
Australian police agreed to assist Indonesian police with their investigation after receiving assurances that she would not be handed the death penalty.
People had been queuing outside the Jakarta central court from before dawn to get a seat to witness the verdict in this murder trial that gripped the nation. Some in the crowd had travelled from other islands just be here.
Hundreds missed out on a seat and crowded around monitors watching events inside the court. Five hundred riot police were deployed to control the crowd.
Court waiting rooms were turned into TV studios. The entire month-long trial has been broadcast live on all the major stations.
The families of both the victim, Ms Salihin, and the accused have given long, passionate and tearful interviews. The broadcasting commission has criticised a number of stations, accusing them of a conducting a media trial.
Across the archipelago it is hard to find someone who does not have a strong opinion on whether Jessica Kumala Wongso is guilty or not of murdering her college friend by slipping cyanide into her coffee.
Wongso, 28, and Ms Salihin, 27, became friends when they were both studying at a design college in Sydney.
On 6 January, the two met for coffee at an upscale cafe in a mall in Jakarta, together with another college friend.
Wongso had texted earlier to say she would order drinks for all of them.
CCTV footage broadcast during the trial showed Ms Salihin arriving with the other friend and sitting down with Wongso, then taking a sip of her coffee. Within minutes Ms Salihin is seen slumping in her seat.
An autopsy later found cyanide in her stomach.
The trial has played out in packed courtrooms for the past month. Among those present on Thursday was Erikson, who had travelled from North Sumatra to Jakarta to hear the verdict.
"We have never had such an open and public court case..." he told the BBC. "The court case has created so many unanswered questions in my mind. How are we going to know the truth unless we see it for ourselves?"
It is the 26-year-old's first call-up to the senior national team.
Roy Hodgson's team travel to Berlin to face world champions Germany on Saturday, 26 March, then host the Dutch at Wembley on Tuesday, 29 March.
Tottenham full-back Danny Rose and Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge are also included in a 24-man squad.
But Wayne Rooney is left out as he recovers from a knee injury.
Clubs represented in England squad:
Drinkwater, a former Manchester United youth team player, has been an influential figure in the stunning rise of Leicester, who top the Premier League table with eight games to go.
"What he's done has been evident to everybody," said Hodgson. "He's had a fantastic season, but even last year we were aware of him."
Drinkwater's Premier League stats:
Hodgson added that the competition for a place in England's midfield is "quite fierce" but said it was a good opportunity to see if Drinkwater "can reproduce the quality that he's shown for Leicester".
Hodgson says he "deliberately ignored" Arsenal's Kieran Gibbs and Everton full-back Leighton Baines in favour of Rose and Ryan Bertrand.
Manchester United's Michael Carrick, 34, was overlooked in favour of Drinkwater but Hodgson said he could still make the squad for the finals in France.
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Goalkeepers: Jack Butland (Stoke City), Fraser Forster (Southampton), Joe Hart (Manchester City).
Defenders: Ryan Bertrand (Southampton), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool), Phil Jagielka (Everton), Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur), Chris Smalling (Manchester United), John Stones (Everton), Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur).
Midfielders: Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur), Ross Barkley (Everton), Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur), Danny Drinkwater (Leicester City), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Adam Lallana (Liverpool), James Milner (Liverpool), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City).
Forwards: Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool), Jamie Vardy (Leicester City), Theo Walcott (Arsenal), Danny Welbeck (Arsenal).
BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty:
Drinkwater is the stand-out name in Hodgson's squad for the friendlies against Germany and The Netherlands - a reward for his outstanding role in Leicester City's dream season.
While Foxes manager Claudio Ranieri often describes attacking pair Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez as "the pinnacle of the iceberg", Drinkwater has anchored the midfield with reliability and no little ability.
He has a real chance to push his claims for a midfield holding role in England's Euro 2016 squad, with Jack Wilshere sidelined and Michael Carrick surely now out of opportunities.
Dele Alli may be in contention for that position but Drinkwater can make a late bolt for inclusion if he impresses.
Like club-mate Vardy, he has been rewarded for patience, persistence and honest professionalism, having had loan spells at Huddersfield Town, Cardiff City, Watford and Barnsley before establishing himself at Leicester.
Rose is another who will hope to make his mark, while Hodgson takes the chance to assess if Sturridge is worth the gamble of taking to France.
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Title rivals Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso qualified fourth and eighth. Alonso will start seventh after a penalty for Williams's Pastor Maldonado.
Maldonado missed a weight check and was given his third reprimand of 2012 which triggers a 10-place grid drop to 16th.
Alonso is 13 points behind Vettel and must finish on the podium to have any chance of overhauling the German.
Red Bull's Mark Webber was third, with Ferrari's Felipe Massa fifth and out-qualifying team-mate Alonso for the second race in a row.
It was a tight battle for pole between Hamilton and Button, who missed out by just 0.055 seconds.
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"I'm grateful to be able to put the car on the front row and to have had my last qualifying with McLaren as a one-two," said Hamilton. "It is a fantastic job by the team and I hope we can turn it into something positive tomorrow."
Alonso has been unconvincing all weekend - he has been slower than Massa.
However, there is a suspicion that the Spaniard compromised his ultimate dry-weather pace to set up his car to favour the wet conditions that are expected in the race.
His engineer Andrea Stella said over the team radio: "We know the situation is good for tomorrow."
Asked if he had made any changes to the set-up in anticipation of a wet race, Alonso said: "No not really. I think in these days the wet or dry set-up is dominated by the aerodynamics, so you can change the level of downforce.
"But here you run with the maximum downforce already in the dry so in the wet it is no big change. I don't think anyone gambled today hoping for tomorrow rain or anything like that and [it was the] same for us."
To win the championship, Alonso must win with Vettel lower than fourth, be second with Vettel lower than seventh or be third with the Red Bull driver below ninth.
There are 25 points for a race win, 18 for second, 15 for third, 12 for fourth, 10 for fifth, eight for sixth, six for seventh, four for eighth, two for ninth, one for tenth.
Vettel was 0.179 seconds slower than Webber and said he was "disappointed", adding: "I need to look at the data and see where I wasn't quick enough."
Alonso will line up one place ahead of Force India's Nico Hulkenberg. The German has now out-qualified team-mate Paul di Resta for five races in a row.
Di Resta was 11th, 0.417secs behind Hulkenberg in second qualifying, which the Scot did not progress beyond.
Michael Schumacher's final qualifying did not go well - he was only 14th, 0.486secs slower than team-mate Nico Rosberg in the second session, which Schumacher did not progress beyond.
Schumacher said he had set the car up in anticipation of a wet race on Sunday.
Alonso may well have been even further from the front had Lotus driver Romain Grosjean not failed to make it beyond the first knock-out session.
The Frenchman collided with the back of Pedro de la Rosa's HRT and broke his front wing.
The Frenchman had time to do one more lap after fitting a new wing and although he briefly made it into 17th place, Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo then beat him by 0.223 seconds.
1. Lewis Hamilton - McLaren 1:12.458
2. Jenson Button - McLaren +0.055
3. Mark Webber - Red Bull +0.123
4. Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull +0.302
5. Felipe Massa - Ferrari +0.529
6. Pastor Maldonado - Williams +0.716
7. Nico Hulkenberg - Force India +0.748
8. Fernando Alonso - Ferrari +0.795
9. Kimi Raikkonen - Lotus +0.840
10. Nico Rosberg - Mercedes +1.031
Drivers have made it clear they would prefer to be able to attack more and not drive conservatively, as the sensitive current tyres require.
Leading drivers reiterated this at a meeting of major players on Tuesday.
But F1's tyre supplier will only start to work on changing the tyres for 2017 once new regulations that will make the cars faster have been finalised.
Teams are trying to conclude them by the end of February after months of dispute.
The drivers' desire for tyres with different characteristics was made officially for the first time by Grand Prix Drivers' Association chairman Alexander Wurz last month, when he told BBC Sport the drivers wanted "a tyre fit for maximum-attack racing".
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Seven drivers attended a meeting of major stakeholders at Pirelli's Milan headquarters to discuss this issue on Tuesday - Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, one of the GPDA directors, his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, Mercedes' Nico Rosberg, Red Bull drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Daniil Kvyat, and Williams's Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas.
BBC Sport has learned that the drivers asked Pirelli to make some improvements to the tyres, especially to enable them to attack harder and to reduce the amount of tyre management required.
The drivers would like to see an end to the need to nurse the tyres by driving significantly below the physical limit of driver and car. This has been required since Pirelli entered F1 in 2011 because the tyres are designed deliberately to lose performance if they are pushed too hard, as a way of promoting more pit stops.
All parties have agreed not to comment publicly on the content of the meeting. However, one insider said on condition of anonymity that "in terms of ensuring the right people heard the issues, it was a good meeting and we made progress".
The event was hosted by Pirelli chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera and also attended by FIA president Jean Todt, FIA F1 director Charlie Whiting, F1 commercial boss Bernie Ecclestone, Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne, McLaren chairman Ron Dennis, Mercedes head of motorsport Toto Wolff, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner and Williams deputy team principal Claire Williams.
Insiders say Pirelli is happy to accede to the drivers' requests once the regulations for 2017 have been finalised and as long as the teams can agree on a mechanism for testing during 2016.
Pirelli is already hoping to make a small step towards reducing the need for tyre management with changes it has made to the tyres for this season.
The rules permit up to 12 days of testing during this year for Pirelli to use to develop tyres for 2017, when cars are to be made faster and more dramatic looking in an attempt to arrest an apparent decline in interest in F1.
But obstacles remain, particularly how to fit the days into the busiest calendar in F1 history with a record 21 races, and also finding a car that can accurately represent the higher cornering loads that will be generated in 2017. No 2017 cars will be ready until February next year.
The teams and the FIA are discussing ways to resolve those difficulties.
Plans to make the cars up to five seconds a lap faster and more dramatic-looking for 2017 hit a hitch before Christmas.
Pirelli told teams its current tyres could not cope with the increased loads envisaged without being run at much higher pressures, which would negate much of the increased performance from the cars.
As a result, the FIA asked the teams to look at a watered-down set of rules that increased the downforce created by a smaller amount. This revised plan abandoned changes to the underfloor and making the bodywork wider, but retained the greater width between the wheels and modifications to the front and rear wings.
Some teams, however, said F1 should stick to the original plan.
Insiders say that the most likely solution is a halfway house between the original plan and the newer one. The current suggestion is to focus on trying to increase downforce as efficiently as possible - without increasing drag more than necessary. This is likely to mean reinstating some changes to the underfloor, but not as extensively as before, while reducing the scope of changes to the rear wing.
Wider front and rear tyres have always remained part of the plans.
To satisfy the drivers' requirements, though, Pirelli will also have to change both the structure of the tyre and the philosophy it uses for the composition of the tread.
Despite huge growth in UK venison sales, supply of wild and farmed meat has not kept up with consumer demand.
That has led to imports from as far afield as New Zealand to fill the gap.
Ministers said they were supportive of the industry and that farmers were entitled to apply for payments via the Common Agricultural Policy.
In recent years venison has become a staple on most supermarkets shelves, with all reporting a massive increase in sales.
Ali Loder, a red deer farmer at Glenkindie in Aberdeenshire, said the growth in the sector had been driven by its perceived health benefits.
He said: "A lot of the chefs on TV are using it now and that's attracted a lot of people to the meat and its demand has just growth exponentially and we simply can't meet the demand in the UK."
Dick Playfair, secretary of the Scottish Venison Partnership, which is trying to stimulate both growth in demand and supply, said the meat's popularity had grown dramatically in the past ten years.
He said: "Some estimates have been as high as the market growing by 400%. We're slightly more modest in our outlook and really are looking at a 10% growth, which is I think is realistic."
Despite the growth in the market, the number of wild deer being shot in Scotland has remained static, with conservationists saying it is at a sustainable level that cannot grow any further.
That has led to calls for an increase in the number of deer farms to cope with demand.
Until then that demand is being met with imports.
Mr Loder, who has been a deer farmer for 12 years, added: "The problem is that you cannot just turn on a tap and increase numbers. It is not like a factory where you can buy more widgets, you can't just make more venison.
"It takes a while to build up stock and farms."
A Scottish government spokesman said: "We are very supportive of efforts by the deer farming industry to seize market opportunities to grow the rural economy.
"Since 2015, deer farming has been eligible for direct payments through Common Agricultural Policy schemes.
"Venison operations can also apply to the Food Processing, Marketing and Cooperation EU grant scheme for support to expand their processing facilities."
He added: "For example, a grant of £142,581 was recently awarded to Downfield Ltd to enhance their venison processing operations. This will enable the company to supply venison from both farmed and wild deer all year."
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The first time I realised how delicious olive oil from the West Bank can be was more than ten years ago when a Palestinian farmer offered me breakfast as I stood watching a broad strip of his land being destroyed.
Listen to Jeremy Bowen's report on Olive Wars, broadcast on Radio 4 on Sunday 7 December at 13:30 GMT.
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He was unlucky enough to live close to Ariel, one of the biggest Jewish settlements Israel has inserted into the land Palestinians want for a state.
In the first few years of this century Israel was in the early stages of building its separation barrier, the complex of walls and high tech fences that it says are necessary to protect its people from attacks by Palestinians.
The barrier would be less controversial if it followed the old 1949 ceasefire line.
It was the boundary between the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and Israel, until the Israeli army captured the area in the 1967 war.
But instead the barrier takes big bites out of land Palestinians consider to be theirs.
That morning it was the turn of the farmer to see the dark earth of his olive groves torn up.
He had tried to move as many trees as possible, but his land was still going to be divided by a fence.
He was going to have to get permits to tend his trees on the other side of the wire. Most farmers, if they are lucky get a day to plough and a day to harvest, assuming the Israeli army is there to let them through gates in the barrier.
He invited me back to his house, and served glasses of sweet tea, traditional taboon flatbread, cheese made from the milk of his sheep, and a great bowl of olive oil from his own trees.
I could taste the fruit in the oil, and then a pungent, peppery mouthful. It was impossible to imagine the hills of the West Bank producing anything bland.
Olive oil from the West Bank is perhaps the most political food in the world.
The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has politicised every part of life, from the birth rate to some burials. The annual olive harvest is about much more than oil.
According to the UN office for humanitarian affairs, attacks by Jewish settlers in the last five years on Palestinians and their property have destroyed around 50,000 fruit trees, mainly olives.
Palestinian farmers get a quarter of their incomes from olives, but it's about more than money.
The trees are the most powerful symbol of Palestinian attachment to the land.
A Palestinian farmer called Salah touched one of the branches of the most remarkable olive tree I saw during my trip through the West Bank.
The central core was steel-hard caldera, ancient, gnarled, almost hollow and huge.
I could not get my arms around even a quarter of the main truck, which makes the diameter something approaching 20 feet (more than six metres).
Over centuries new shoots became branches and big trunks in their own right. It is more like a thicket of olives than a single tree, and it would be Salah's prize possession, except he talks about the tree as if it owns him.
"Only God knows how old it is. But it might be around 4,000 years or more. I am honoured to be this tree's servant. The connection goes back to my father and grandfather. I feel so connected to this tree, it's as if it's part of my body and soul," he says.
Salah Abu Ali says: "This is life, like water, honestly I love this tree. I have a relationship with this tree. I know what it needs, what pains it. When I'm around it, I feel safe, I would give it my sweat. This tree stands as a symbol to the Palestinian people, a history, and a civilisation.
"How many generations have passed by it and are now gone, yet the tree is still here today and bearing fruit."
Mr Abu Ali's land is in Wallejah, a village close to Jerusalem, not far from Bethlehem.
The route of the separation barrier runs very close to the massive, ancient tree.
Mr Abu Ali smiled at me as if I couldn't understand when I told him that the tree, however massive, was just a tree.
For him it was a symbol of his life, the lives of his children and ancestors and their place in the land of Palestine. It was also economically important. The oil was sought-after, and expensive. I found feelings like that everywhere I went.
The harvest is about much more than olives and oil. It is an annual battleground in the struggle for possession and control of land.
The Israeli occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is enforced by violence and breeds violence. Jewish settlers and Palestinians attack each other.
Some Jewish extremists believe the land is theirs alone, and the trees are legitimate targets. Increasingly too, olives have their place in the growing religious war between Muslims and Jews.
In a valley not far below the Jewish settlement of Tapuach, I met Avraham Herzlich.
He is a sharp, charismatic, and a religious Jew who emigrated to Israel from Brooklyn in New York more than 50 years ago.
Mr Herzlich is a guru to the young men in his settlement. His daughter Talia was killed in a Palestinian gun attack in 2000, along with her husband, a rabbi who was the son of the notorious Jewish militant, Meir Kahane.
He herds goats.
Mr Herzlich says they give him a connection to the land he believes God gave to the Jews, a link to the soil and the vegetation that is unobtainable for Israelis living in Tel Aviv and the other towns on the Mediterranean coast, which can seem a long way from the conflict.
He pastures his goats in olive groves that belong to Palestinians from a nearby village. His rangy, wiry animals stand on their long hind legs to pull and chew on the olive branches and the mature fruit.
Under his arm, Mr Herzlich carries the Torah.
He has an answer for Palestinians who are angry about the damage his goats do to crops.
"Well, I tell them very simply this is our land. When I see an Arab with a tree I say this is Israel - this is the land of Israel. Are they are your trees? Then take them to your village. This is our land. It's not their land," says Mr Herzlich.
He brandished his holy book: "Torah tells us this land was given to the people of Israel, to the seat of Abraham, to the seat of and Isaac and Jacob, not to Ishmael. This is our land."
And then Mr Herzlich produced what he said was not a threat, but a statement of fact: "I speak to the Arabs, I tell them I don't want to see them dying.
"They have to leave. Because if they don't leave they're going to die here, they're going to die here. There's going to be another war, and the next war they're not going to be leaving. It's going to be a very difficult war.
"You see there are many who speak about peace with the Arabs but a person that suffered so directly, the Arabs killed my daughter, and made my grandchildren orphans, you cannot measure the pain. The epitome of brutality are these people. They can explode themselves."
Settlers like Mr Herzlich are leaders in their communities, but many mainstream Israelis, including some settlers who moved to the occupied territories for cheap housing and fresh air rather than to be closer to God, consider them at best an expensive nuisance and at worst a threat to the future of Israel and its democracy.
But Mr Herzlich and other ideological settlers are important, because settlers dominate Israeli right wing politics and the debate over the future settlements is one of the key issues that would need to be discussed if ever there was to be another peace process.
In the valley below Tapuach is a Palestinian village called Yasuf, where Bassem Rashed and his wife Naja were harvesting their olives.
A few days earlier they had heard settlers had used chainsaws to cut down some of their trees, including some that were more than a century old.
Mrs Rashed was close to tears and full of anger: "It feels like bringing up a child, and then losing him. Those trees are our base and roots.
"We felt we were burying a family member. Every week the settlers try to come down to our land. Our men try to stop them and fight them.
"Those settlers say we should be the ones to leave? We prefer to die in our land, let them cut the trees, destroy the land, demolish the homes and attack the children, we will still remain in our land. We won't ever leave, and if they don't, this will continue to be an everlasting war."
The problem is economic as well as emotional.
Mrs Rashed says: "We have a lot less to harvest. We can't get to that land to get the oil and the olives. Almost a third of our harvest is up there, and we've lost all of it.
"We used to take the kids and the old people out with us to the harvest, but we don't anymore. We worry about the settlers coming and attacking us.
"We fear trouble, or getting beaten up, because even if we try to defend ourselves, it becomes our fault, and we're taken to jail or harassed, and we lose our travelling permits."
In a valley not far from Ramallah, where Palestinians living close to a settlement were harvesting olives, two young Israeli officers, Or Maliki and Yam Matir, insisted the army did all it could to stop trouble between Palestinians and settlers.
Public order, they said, was the priority and they did not automatically favour Israelis.
The local Palestinian landowner, Abdullah Nassan, welcomed the soldiers and offered them tea from a blackened pot that was sitting on a bonfire of olive trimmings.
Mr Nassan, who owns 7,000 olive trees, did not see things the same way.
He pointed to an olive grove he said the settlers had claimed, which he and his men were not allowed to touch: "When there is a conflict they push us back and they let the settlers do whatever they want.
"But the nice thing about them, when they're here the settlers don't come around. When they're not here they come around, they push us around with guns."
He pointed to a settlement on a neighbouring hill.
"Every time I come here they follow me from that settlement right there. It's very dangerous here to come alone. People are scared because the settlers are very violent and they will come down from that hill and they will harm them," he says.
One day, says Mr Nassan, olives will be a vital part of constructing an independent Palestinian state.
"It's a symbolic issue. This is the only thing that we have left to be honest. What else can we grip on, we have to hold on to the trees. Our goal is to protect our land," he says.
Listen to Jeremy Bowen's report on Olive Wars, broadcast on Radio 4 on Sunday 7 December at 13:30 GMT.
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The former farmer became the first man to break the two hours three minutes mark for a marathon on Sunday.
He was given a red carpet reception on his return to Nairobi airport.
The 30-year-old, who only started professional running five years ago, said he "didn't expect to break the world record".
He shook off fellow Kenyan Emmanuel Mutai with just under three miles remaining to run 2:02:57.
Kimetto was adorned with flowers and garlands as he was taken on a victory tour of Kenya's capital.
He said: "I went to Berlin to just compete but I thank God that I have come back as a world record holder. It was a surprise."
The previous world record had been set on the same course 12 months ago by Kimetto's compatriot Wilson Kipsang, who ran 2:03:23.
Officers searched the Audi factory in Ingolstadt in Bavaria, and eight other locations, including parent company Volkswagen's headquarters in Wolfsburg.
The searches were carried out in order to identify those involved in installing the devices that cheated the diesel tests, Munich prosecutors said.
Audi-owner VW has already agreed to settlements of $21bn (£17bn) in the US.
The raid at Audi's sites coincided with the company's annual press conference, in which it reported pre-tax profits of 3bn euros (£2.6bn) for 2016, a 37% drop on the previous year. The firm also announced a new autonomous vehicles division.
In a statement, Audi said it was co-operating with authorities.
In September 2015, Audi admitted that more than two million of its cars were fitted with software that allowed for the manipulation of test.
Prosecutors from three German states said the raids were in connection to some 80,000 V6 3.0-litre diesel cars sold in the US between 2009 and 2015, whose buyers were unaware of the emissions scandal.
They added that the search warrants were carried out particular to "clarify which people were involved in applying the [manipulation] technology and in providing false information to third parties".
The 23-year-old was released by fellow National League side Southport this week after joining the Merseyside club from Shrewsbury in August.
He scored two goals in 24 appearances for the Sandgrounders.
Caton began his career at Blackpool in 2012, before joining Shrewsbury in 2014, and has had loan spells at several clubs including Lincoln, Wrexham and Accrington.
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The "bold and moving" story about a juvenile delinquent is also the first French language opener since 2005.
The past decade has favoured big star-laden movies such as The Great Gatsby and Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris.
Organisers admitted the "different" choice "may seem surprising".
La Tete Haute follows the story of a young delinquent called Malony from childhood through to adulthood. A children's judge (Deneuve) and social worker try to save him from himself.
"It is a clear reflection of our desire to see the festival start with a different piece, which is both bold and moving," said Cannes general delegate Thierry Fremaux.
"Emmanuelle Bercot's film makes important statements about contemporary society, in keeping with modern cinema. It focuses on universal social issues, making it a perfect fit for the global audience at Cannes."
The world premiere will open the festival on 13 May, with the film released in French cinemas on the same day. The festival's full line-up, or official selection, will be revealed on Thursday 16 April.
Diane Kurys was the last female director to open the festival in 1987, with her film A Man in Love starring Peter Coyote and Greta Scacchi.
Bercot has a history of debuting her work at Cannes, having won the Jury Prize for her short film Les Vacances in 1997.
Her first feature film Clement - in which she plays the main character - made the Un Certain Regard official selection in 2001 and she also co-wrote the script for Maiwenn's Polisse which won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2011.
She has previously directed Deneuve in 2014's On my Way (Elle s'en va).
This year's Cannes jury is chaired by American directors Joel and Ethan Coen, while Isabella Rossellini chairs the Un Certain Regard category's jury. The festival runs from 13 to 24 May.
A special screening of Max Max: Fury Road, starring Tom Hardy, has already been confirmed for 14 May.
14 December 2015 Last updated at 10:24 GMT
In this method, data is sent at the best time, potentially making signals much faster even in busy locations.
BBC Click's Vieri Capretta spoke to Aleksandar Kuzmanovic of the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University about the results of their experiments.
More at BBC.com/Click and @BBCClick.
The US software giant paid $7.2bn (£5.5bn) for Nokia's handset business in 2014, but failed to make a success of new devices.
In May, Windows-powered smartphones accounted for fewer than 1% of global smartphone sales.
One industry analyst suggested the firm was too late to the market.
"They spent all that money because they recognised that the smartphone market was important," said Eddie Murphy, telecoms analyst at Priory Consulting.
"They were right - but just too late. Apple and Android devices have dominated the space and Windows hasn't made an impact."
One of the problems Microsoft faced was the so-called "app gap"- a shortage of popular titles appearing on its smartphones. The problem also blighted Blackberry's BB10 operating system.
"It was a tremendous problem," said Mr Murphy. "I have a lot of sympathy because I have a Windows phone and the number of apps is very small in comparison to Android. That was a real disadvantage for Microsoft."
The job losses were initially announced in May as part of a plan to close 1,850 posts in Microsoft's smartphone business.
The firm's latest operating system Windows 10 can still be used to power smartphones and in February computing giant HP announced a smartphone running Windows 10 that could transform into a desktop PC.
"I think they have looked at what Google did with Android. The dominance of the Android platform is because it is open and other companies can use it," said Mr Murphy.
"One of the things Microsoft has done is introduce the common Windows 10 platform, that allows apps to work across desktop, tablet and mobile. It's a good idea and hopefully one that will generate some new apps for the platform.
"I hope we haven't seen the last of Windows Phones. Having more platforms in the market is in the best interests of consumers."
The idea behind it is to encourage victims to come forward and talk about what's happening confidentially.
Folami Prehaye, the founder of a revenge porn support website (who was a victim herself) says something like this would have helped her at the time.
"I felt isolated and embarrassed by what had happened to me," she explains.
"If there had been a helpline around at least I could have talked to someone in confidence."
Revenge porn is when people upload explicit photos and videos of their ex-partners online without their consent.
Last year, charities - as well as one of the UK's leading online support groups - told Newsbeat that they're dealing with a rise in complaints about it.
The National Stalking Helpline, Women's Aid and the UK Safer Internet Centre all say the problem's become more common.
Used for blackmail
Figures obtained by the Press Association in September 2014 showed girls as young as 11 had been victims of revenge porn.
The majority of the perpetrators were male, with their subjects usually being young females.
Some shared images - sometimes recorded during the relationship - with the victims' family and friends, while others used the footage to blackmail them.
"I set up my website to offer support to victims who made contact with me, and to encourage other women to come forward," says Folami Prehaye.
"Now this helpline will help everyone that needs support and advice."
Later this year, England and Wales' new Criminal Justice and Courts Bill will make "the distribution of a private sexual image of someone without their consent and with the intention of causing them distress" illegal.
This will include images posted to social networks, as well as "offline" sharing via text messages.
Those convicted will face a maximum two-year jail sentence.
Equalities minister Nicky Morgan says: "I want to ensure that anyone who finds that they have had images of themselves shared without their consent has the support and advice that they need."
The helpline is run by the South West Grid for Learning charity on 0845 6000 459.
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But they're not the only ones whose performance is being watched very closely.
30 boys and girls, known as ball kids, have been specially trained to be on court and around their edges during the biggest matches.
It's their job to keep the matches moving, making sure the players have enough balls, and that they get new ones quickly.
Ayshah went to a Barclays Ball Kids training camp in Southampton to see if she has what it takes to be one too.
Mr Trump said that "these words don't reflect who I am... I apologise".
In the video, Mr Trump says "you can do anything" to women "when you're a star" and brags about trying to grope and kiss women.
Top Republicans condemned the comments. His election rival Hillary Clinton called them "horrific".
"We cannot allow this man to become president," she posted on Twitter.
In the video, Mr Trump is heard saying, "Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."
"Certainly has been an interesting 24 hours!" Mr Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday.
Mr Trump's 2005 comments overshadowed the release of transcripts of Mrs Clinton's speeches to private events, by the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks.
In the video, posted by the Washington Post, Mr Trump is heard bragging to TV host Billy Bush about trying to have sex with a married woman as well as kissing and groping others.
The clip was part of unaired footage of an Access Hollywood segment ahead of Mr Trump's appearance on the soap opera Days of Our Lives.
"I moved on her and I failed. I'll admit it," Mr Trump is heard saying. "She was married. And I moved on her very heavily.
"I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn't get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything. She's totally changed her look."
Later in the conversation, he told Mr Bush he was "automatically attracted to beautiful" women and often tried to kiss them.
"I just start kissing them," he said. "I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."
Mr Trump's 90-second statement on Saturday morning appeared to be his first full apology in a campaign laced with controversial remarks.
"I've said and done things I regret," he said. "Anyone who knows me knows these words don't reflect who I am. I said it, I was wrong, and I apologise.
"I've never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone I'm not. I pledge to be a better man tomorrow."
However, he also tried to deflect the impact by attacking former President Bill Clinton.
"Bill Clinton has actually abused women, and Hillary has bullied, attacked and shamed his victims.
"We'll discuss this in the coming days," he said. "See you at the debate on Sunday."
The second TV debate between Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton will take place on Sunday evening in St Louis.
Mr Trump recently said he would not bring up stories about Bill Clinton's infidelities in the debate, after previously threatening to do so.
The latest opinion polls suggest Mrs Clinton is pulling ahead. Mr Trump will need a good performance at the debate to slow the trend.
Mr Trump has said the latest remarks are "nothing more than a distraction" and "locker-room banter".
Top Republicans have been incensed.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said he was "sickened by what I heard today" and rescinded his invitation to Mr Trump to attend the Republican Fall Fest in his home state of Wisconsin this weekend.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the comments were "repugnant," adding that Mr Trump "needs to apologise directly to women and girls everywhere".
Another senior Republican, John McCain, said there were "no excuses for Donald Trump's offensive and demeaning comments".
For his part, Billy Bush said he was "embarrassed" by and "ashamed" of the contents of the video.
"It's no excuse, but this happened 11 years ago. I was younger, less mature, and acted foolishly in playing along. I'm very sorry."
The TV host is the first cousin of former President George W Bush.
Mrs Clinton's campaign released a video featuring the audio, playing over footage of women and girls.
The day after a video emerged in which he suggested he could have any woman he wants because he's a star and so could just grab them by the pussy, Mr Trump is in a whole ocean of hot political water.
Enough, quite possibly, to sink any chance he had of winning the White House.
There is a violence in the phrases "grab 'em by the pussy" and "you can do anything" that any victim of abuse would recognise and that most women would find sickening.
But this tape doesn't just offend women, judging from the reaction in the Republican party. It has offended a lot of men too. Whether those men will now withdraw their endorsements of him is yet to be seen.
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At the nearby airfield is the biggest event in the aerospace-defence calendar, the biennial Farnborough International Airshow.
It is a must-do for decision-makers in the industry, no matter how much they may tell you in private that it's a chore.
"To have to be there might well be a pain in the butt, but the more important point is that not to be there can be both costly and potentially embarrassing," says analyst Howard Wheeldon, who is about to attend his 23rd Farnborough.
It is where Boeing and Airbus, and their airline customers, announce with great fanfare multi-billion-dollar aircraft orders.
And it is where official defence delegations, preferring a rather lower profile, come to observe the latest military hardware.
Farnborough is also a place where hundreds of small sub-contractors showcase cutting-edge technology or their latest widgets.
The event has a critical mass of customers, decision-makers and the world's media, says Ben Jensen, chief technology officer at Surrey NanoSystems.
The firm, a small Surrey University spin-off, is using Farnborough to unveil a special coating used on sensors, cameras or telescopes. The material protects against distortions from light and radiation, enhancing visibility on the battlefield or in deep space.
"Our potential customers are quite specialised and spread around the world, but at Farnborough they will all be in one place at the same time," Mr Jensen says.
At the top end of the corporate food chain is Lockheed Martin, the titan of the defence-aerospace-security industry.
The US company is due to display its new all-singing, all-dancing F-35 Lightning II fighter jet, which will be used on the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers.
But an engine fire in the US grounded the entire F-35 fleet earlier this month, so there is a question mark over when, or if, the $60m-plus jet will make an appearance.
Yet, even if the F-35 is a no-show, Lockheed will still be displaying its missile defence shields, cyber-security and communications technologies, and air traffic management systems.
With some 90 government delegations due to visit the show, it was important for Lockheed to be out in force, according to the company's UK chief executive, Stephen Ball.
"Farnborough gives us a great opportunity to showcase our business to an international audience," he told the BBC.
For decades, Lockheed relied on defence spending in the US and Europe. But with budgets being cut, the firm is looking for more commercial opportunities as it diversifies into new areas.
That's why Lockheed, along with several major US contractors, has taken more space at Farnborough than in previous years. The competition to win the hearts and minds of potential customers is as intense as it has ever been.
"We are taking advantage of our participation to highlight the strength of our portfolio and ability to respond to the new reality," Mr Ball says.
And the US contingent will be supported by a big turn-out of top brass from the Pentagon and the US Defense Department.
Having largely ignored last year's Paris Airshow due to US budget cuts, there is a long list of senior officials making the journey to Farnborough.
It is a surprise, perhaps, that Farnborough retains this pulling power.
Years ago, the event was a showcase for the UK's once mighty domestic aerospace and defence industries to advertise their wares to the world.
But the industry's centre of gravity is moving eastwards as booming commercial airlines in the Gulf and Asia drive demand for aircraft.
Defence contractors, too, are looking to these regions for new business to offset military budget cuts in their domestic markets.
That is why rival, and much-respected, international airshows have sprung up in Dubai and Singapore.
And yet they still all come to Farnborough.
Qatar Airways is planning to show off three of its airliners at the show, including its brand new A350. Qatar was a launch customer of the all-new Airbus aircraft. Meanhwile, both Boeing and Airbus will be out in force, as usual. The Eurofighter Typhoon, Dassault's Rafale, and the Saab Gripen NG jets will be hoping to woo customers.
Interested in drones, military or civil? There will be plenty to see. There is also talk that the UK and France will use the show to announce further co-operation on drone development.
Russian companies, despite reports of executives facing visa problems because of Ukraine tensions, are planning a series of announcements and press conferences to promote deals and developments.
Perhaps the only major absence will be a significant Chinese presence, possibly due to the slow progress of its ambitions to create a domestic aircraft industry to break the Boeing-Airbus duopoly.
There have been complaints that the show is starting to look tired, set against some of the competition.
But Shaun Ormrod, chief executive of the organisers, Farnborough International Limited (FIL), insists that the figures speak for themselves.
Some 68% of the exhibitors are from overseas, against more more than 50% two years ago. In addition to companies exhibiting, almost 20 countries have taken their own stands, including some, such as Norway and Malaysia, for the first time.
"We've earned the right to call ourselves a truly international show," Mr Ormrod says.
There are also more UK small and medium-sized firms at the show, helped by a new government subsidy that contributes to the exhibition costs.
With support for UK manufacturing moving up the political agenda, the government is keener than ever to help.
It's worth remembering that the airshow is a money-making enterprise. FIL is a wholly owned subsidiary of ADS Group Limited, the trade body for the UK aerospace and defence sector.
The company must keep the trade and the public coming back for more. So there has been investment in new exhibition space and long-term deals have been agreed - including with the UK's GKN - to ensure companies return in the future.
It can cost several million pounds for a global aerospace contractor or airline to put on a big show at Farnborough, so FIL's customers want a big bang for their buck.
"As long as you can command the most senior players and military delegations then you will attract people and companies to Farnborough," says Mr Ormrod.
They set out from Selma, Alabama - the starting point 50 years ago for a march in support of watershed legislation enabling black people to vote.
Activists say a 2013 Supreme Court decision has allowed some states to reverse some of that progress.
They hope thousands will join a final rally in Washington DC in September.
America's Journey for Justice will take an 860-mile (1,385 km) route passing through Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.
Organisers say the outcry triggered by the recent police killings, including the shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, needs to be channelled into a long-term commitment to bring about change, Reuters reports.
"We can continue to be serially outraged, or we can engage in an outrageously patriotic demonstration with a commitment to bringing about reform in this country," said Cornell William Brooks, leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Marchers sang as they crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge, where state troopers beat activists protesting about the death of a black man at the hands of a white police officer in March 1965.
That event, and a follow-up march from Selma to Montgomery led by Martin Luther King helped build momentum for Congress' approval of the Voting Rights Act that removed all barriers preventing African-Americans from registering as voters.
In March, President Barack Obama visited Selma to pay tribute to the original marchers.
He called them "heroes" and said that they had "given courage to millions".
Despite progress, he said, the fight against racism was not over.
"This nation's long racial history still casts its long shadow upon us. We know the march is not yet over, the race is not yet won," the president said.
He also condemned new attempts by state governments to restrict voting rights.
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They have paid a world-record fee for Tomkins, eclipsing the £450,000 that Wigan spent on Stuart Fielden in 2006.
A switch to rugby union had been a possibility for the full-back, who is England's all-time leading try scorer.
2008: Scores five tries on Wigan Warriors debut in Challenge Cup tie against Whitehaven.
2009: Named in Super League's Dream Team for the first time. Scores three tries on international debut for England against Wales.
2010: Scores in Grand Final win against St Helens as Wigan claim their first title since 1998. Equals England record for tries in a single Test match, crossing four times against France.
2011: Plays in Wigan's Challenge Cup win over Leeds Rhinos at Wembley. Signs new five-year contract on the same day his older brother Joel swaps codes to join Saracens. Makes first rugby union appearance, playing on the wing for Barbarians against Australia at Twickenham.
2012: Wins League Leaders' Shield with Wigan. Ends season with 36 tries and is voted Super League's Man of Steel for the first time. Becomes England's all-time leading try scorer.
2013: Equals club record by scoring in 11 consecutive matches for Wigan. Scores last-minute try in Wigan's Challenge Cup final win against Hull FC at Wembley. Named in Super League's Dream Team for fifth year in succession.
But Tomkins, has agreed a three-year deal with a club that finished 11th of 16 teams in Australia's domestic league.
The 24-year-old's move has been confirmed ahead of the upcoming World Cup, at which Tomkins will be crucial to England's chances of success on home soil, and at the DW Stadium on Friday.
Wigan, who have also announced that full-back Matt Bowen, 31, has joined from North Queensland Cowboys as a direct replacement, will have first refusal to sign Tomkins if he chooses to return to Super League in the future.
"This has been a very difficult decision to make but it is now perfect timing for me to make the switch to the NRL," said Tomkins. "It is something in my career I have always wanted to do and this agreement with the Warriors also allows me to return back to Wigan in the future.
"I head to New Zealand with some great memories of Grand Final and Challenge Cup success and some very special times.
"Going to Auckland is a huge step for me and my rugby league career but one I am really looking forward to. I want to end my time with further success with Wigan as we aim for Grand Final glory, and then with England as we focus on winning the World Cup on home soil."
Wigan head coach Shaun Wane said he was excited for Tomkins, describing the full-back as a "great kid".
"For all his plus points, the main one is that he's competitive," Wane told BBC Radio 5 live. "The Warriors will get someone who wants to win and he'll be very vociferous in the changing room.
"He's one of my leaders. They'll get a competitive player who will challenge the coaching staff because he wants to get better. They have a fantastic player in Sam Tomkins."
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Writing in his column for a local newspaper in June 2012, Tomkins had said a move to the NRL later in his career was while he refused to clarify his future in an interview with BBC Sport immediately after in August.
Tomkins, who has scored 144 tries in 150 appearances for the Cherry and Whites, had to run.
England-born players moving to NRL clubs has become an increasingly common occurrence in recent years and the number is set to grow further in 2014, with and as well as Leeds Rhinos teenagers among those heading to Australia.
But there is expected to be huge interest in how Tomkins fares in the southern hemisphere, given his status as one of the star attractions in world rugby.
He burst onto the scene in 2008 when, as a 19-year-old, he became the first player in the sport's history to score five tries on their first-team debut in a Challenge Cup tie against Whitehaven.
Tomkins, who has played alongside brothers Joel and Logan during his time with the Warriors, has been a regular in the Wigan side since his Super League debut in 2009 and has been
Among his domestic honours are two Challenge Cup final victories (2011 and 2013) and a Super League Grand Final win (2010), while he is also England's all-time leading try scorer with 16 in 15 appearances.
Jonathan Kovacik is accused of shooting Rosalynde Pitcher in the temple with a pellet after she told him they were not going to have a long term relationship.
Mr Kovacik, 58, from the Isle of Wight, told Portsmouth Crown Court he had no recollection of the attack on the 21-year-old.
He denies wounding Ms Pitcher with intent.
He also denies possession of an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, having an article with a blade or point, and possessing an air gun with intent to cause fear of violence.
Mr Kovacik, who is from Shanklin, told the court he had fallen in love with Ms Pitcher and promised to give her £50,000 if she stopped taking drugs and working in the sex industry.
He also gave her £6,000 to pay for a breast enlargement operation.
On 12 December, while at her flat he said he was confronted by her father Lee Pitcher, who accused him of making her pregnant.
Mr Pitcher was allegedly "abusive and aggressive" and threatened to kill him, leaving Mr Kovacik in a "state beyond terrified".
Five days later, Mr Pitcher punched him in the face and body several times, he said.
On 20 December, Mr Kovacik went to see Ms Pitcher again to clear the air.
He said he took an air pistol and a knife for self defence, as he was scared Mr Pitcher would be there.
He said: "Rose turned round and said to me 'I am not on my own, he's in the bathroom'."
He was then "overcome with blind terror [and] panic" and drew the gun.
It turned out to be another man who ran away, Mr Kovacik said.
"I turned back to Rose and said 'I just want to know why, I thought you loved me'.
"Her reply: 'I can't believe you fell for that, we were never going to get together, it was never going to happen.'"
Mr Kovacik claims not to remember what happened next, but recalls driving away in his car and calling police with the aim of committing suicide by being shot by them.
He was arrested in the ensuing confrontation.
He said: "I had voices saying to get the police to shoot me, that is the solution.
"They didn't seem to be shooting me despite my best efforts to make them do so."
The trial continues.
Ulster defeated the French side in last week's game at Kingspan Stadium but the scrum was creaking, especially after front row switches in the second half.
"We weren't scrummaging as a unit.
"Some people were going off on their own and scrummaging as individuals, it's something we need to improve upon," McCall told BBC Sport NI.
Clermont came from 21 points down and scored two converted tries to pick up two losing bonus points in the 39-32 defeat.
The result left Clermont still in charge of Pool 5, three points ahead of both Ulster and Bordeaux-Begles.
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McCall admitted allowing Clermont to leave Belfast with two bonus points took the gloss off one of their best displays of the season.
"We know it was a good performance, but it wasn't a finished performance.
"We let them back into it and we weren't happy with that.
"If we can go over there and tighten up our defence and show that attacking threat that we have, hopefully we can do a job.
"We haven't been overly happy with our defence at times. We've been slipping off a few tackles here and there and we need to tighten up on that going over there especially.
"It'll be tough, but we need to tighten up on our defence."
The artists mostly supported the Republican side, which had been ejected from power by General Franco. Most of the artists are dead - but painter Ursula McCannell can recall the Spain she encountered as a teenager in 1936.
Simon Martin has curated the exhibition Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War.
"It puzzles me that no-one has done the show before," says Martin. "It's fairly easy to discover how writers like George Orwell or WH Auden or Laurie Lee reacted to the Spanish crisis. But what Britain's painters and sculptors did is less well known."
Given that the civil war ended in 1939, it's remarkable that the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester has pictures on the walls by a living artist, painted just after she returned from a country in the early stages of war.
McCannell was 13 at the time. Today, at 91, she still paints at her home in Surrey.
Her father was Otway McCannell, a painter and teacher. As with many intellectual British families in the 1930s there was much discussion at home of the growing crisis in Madrid.
She remembers her father worrying about the pressure the Republican government was under from the Nationalists under General Franco. Later in the war he would plot the two sides' changing fortunes on a big map of Spain, despairing as the Republicans lost control.
"Every Thursday we had Left Book Club meetings at our house and there would be people talking about Spain and politics. In truth, when we went to Torremolinos in 1936, it was partly to stay with a school friend. But I remember the suffering of the local people clearly. The sense of unease was obvious, even to a young person like me."
One of McCannell's paintings on show is Family of Beggars. "I didn't paint or sketch in Torremolinos, which in those days was just a sleepy little village and totally unlike how it is now. I started the paintings when we got back to England. There were quite a lot of them but I sold some.
"In fact the beggars were outside the cathedral at Malaga. They were a pathetic sight but my parents thought I ought to see everything.
"When we got back I was interviewed by newspapers including the Daily Mail. They were fascinated that a 13-year-old had painted pictures of the Spanish poor. I wasn't painting the conflict as such, but they said I'd portrayed the suffering of refugees well. You couldn't help being moved."
McCannell is among the last artistic witnesses to the crisis of Spanish politics in the 1930s. Martin has selected around 100 other works to give an overview of how British art responded.
"Artists had seen the rise of Fascism in Germany but there was no political debate in Germany: the Nazis had simply crushed the opposition.
"Spain was different and at first it seemed the elected Republican government might be able to fight back. So British artists felt it worthwhile to take sides. Though it's true that only a few of the painters went to Spain once the conflict was underway: the poets did a bit better in that regard.
"But the very first British volunteer to die in Spain was an artist: Felicia Browne. She was killed during fighting in August 1936 and became a heroine for many in British art.
"In fact it became very difficult for artists and others to get to Spain: they would be denied visas. Well-known names such as Henry Moore and Jacob Epstein tried to go but couldn't. It's hard to think of artists today seeking to enter a dangerous war-zone: it's something we associate more with photo-journalism.
"People often assume all artists were anti-Franco and indeed modernist artists usually were. But there were exceptions: the artist Wyndham Lewis was more sympathetic to the Nationalists, as we make clear.
Martin says one of the most interesting paintings is Clive Branson's Demonstration in Battersea.
"Branson came from a fairly well-off background and in the 1930s became a Communist. He was one of the few British artists who actually did fight in Spain with the International Brigade. When he was taken prisoner he did some quite well-known pictures of the camp he was in.
"But the Battersea picture has a real flavour of London politics in the 1930s. The painting features the Union Jack, a Spanish flag and a red Communist banner.
And someone is reading the Daily Worker, which was the Communist newspaper of the time. It's a record of a moment in political history."
The Pallant House exhibition is essentially about the work of British artists responding to events in Spain. But Martin has made an exception for Picasso's well-known painting Weeping Woman, which belongs to the Tate.
"It's a picture of Picasso's lover Dora Marr, painted in 1937. But I felt we needed to at least hint at how important Picasso was at that time for British artists.
"In 1938 Picasso's great classic Guernica was brought to England by the artist Roland Penrose. It shows the German bombing of the Basque town of Guernica, done at Franco's request: it became a rallying point for those who detested Franco and the Fascists.
"Of course it would have been lovely to bring the original from Madrid but that might be a little impractical: so Weeping Woman can take its place."
One of the most chilling pictures is Premonition, by German artist Walter Nessler. It seems to ask, as early as 1937, what would happen if the Germans ever bombed London.
Other artists in the exhibition include Henry Moore, Edward Burra and E McKnight Kauffer, best known for his poster work.
Martin says it's fascinating how many of them draw on the imagery of Spain's Old Masters. "Look around the walls and you'll see an influence of Velazquez here and there. And certainly Ursula McCannell was aware of the work of El Greco - which for a teenager was pretty remarkable."
He says he'll be delighted if his show makes visitors more aware of the political engagement of the artists of the 1930s.
"Someone like Henry Moore now seems an establishment figure but this show will remind people that these artists were once young and politically engaged. It was a time when culture and politics intersected - it's a rich and fascinating moment in art."
Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War runs until 15 February 2015 at Pallant House, Chichester.
They grab the attention - which is of course the aim of a headline - but talk of a breakthrough is premature.
The Sunday Times reported that a British man with HIV was receiving a prototype therapy designed to eradicate the virus from his body.
Early tests from the clinical trial have apparently shown no signs of the virus in his blood.
That may sound astonishing unless you know that conventional antiretroviral therapy (ART) - which the patient was also taking - already reduces HIV to undetectable levels.
Sarah Fidler, Prof of HIV Medicine at Imperial College London, who is leading the trial, told me: "All the participants are taking antiretrovirals and so will have an undetectable viral load, which shows the great success of current treatment."
It does indeed. HIV medication has turned the infection from a death sentence to a chronic, manageable condition, which is remarkable.
The limitation of ART is that it cannot eliminate HIV.
The virus remains dormant in some immune cells and will start replicating if patients stop taking their medication.
That's why antiretrovirals must be taken for life.
The RIVERS trial - which stands for Research in Viral Eradication of HIV Reservoirs - is trying to rid the virus completely from the body.
'Kick and kill'
So far, 39 out of a total of 50 patients have been recruited to the trial. All will receive ART but half will also be given a drug which forces the virus to emerge from hiding places in the body. These chosen patients will also receive two vaccines which aim to boost the immune system so that it can attack HIV-infected cells.
The strategy is called "kick and kill".
The anonymous patient quoted in the newspaper article is simply the first of the participants to have completed the kick and kill treatment.
No results are expected until 2018.
The trial is being conducted by a consortium of research teams at Imperial and King's College, London, Oxford and Cambridge Universities and University College London.
The partnership began six years ago, and set out to search for a cure for HIV.
Mark Samuels, managing director of the National Institute for Health Research Office for Clinical Research InfraÂstructure, which set up the medical consortium, told me: "This is an unprecedented collaboration and to get to clinical trials in six years shows remarkable progress."
So how will the researchers know whether their trial has been a success?
This will take some time and involve detailed analysis of blood samples from volunteers.
Viral reservoir
John Frater, Prof of Infectious Disease at Oxford University, told me: "We will carry out a very targeted genetic test to look for HIV lying dormant within immune cells."
All the trial volunteers are newly infected HIV patients which means they will have a small viral reservoir and their immune system will not have been repeatedly damaged by the virus.
If it is possible to cure HIV, these patients represent the easiest target.
But even if the trial is a complete success, caution will be required in interpreting the results because it may not work in long-standing HIV patients.
Dr Michael Brady, medical director Terrence Higgins Trust told me: "In test tubes it has been shown that you can drive the virus out of dormant cells, but we will have to wait and see whether it works in patients.
"Even if it works we can't talk about a cure for everyone and there would need to be bigger trials."
To date, only one person appears to have been cured of HIV infection.
Timothy Ray Brown, the so-called Berlin patient, received a bone marrow transplant from a donor with natural immunity to the virus.
However, bone marrow transplants are potentially dangerous and so not an approach that is recommended.
Earlier this year I reported on a gene editing trial in California involving 80 HIV patients.
They had immune cells in their blood removed and editing to try to mimic the gene mutation which gives some people a natural immunity to HIV.
One of the volunteers, Matt Chappell, has been off all antiretroviral medication for two years since having his immune cells gene edited.
These were small trials so caution is needed before reading too much into the results, but they are nonetheless promising.
The British trial is taking a different approach but with the same aim - trying to free patients from the need to take daily medication.
But talk of cures is premature.
It comes after a US hospital offered to ship an experimental drug to the UK to help treat him.
It also offered to admit the 11-month-old if "legal hurdles" can be cleared. Great Ormond Street hospital has said further treatment will not help.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said it would be impossible for Charlie to be transferred to another hospital.
Charlie's mother Connie Yates told Good Morning Britain on Friday: "We are not bad parents, we are there for him all the time, we are completely devoted to him and he's not in pain and suffering, and I promise everyone I would not sit there and watch my son in pain and suffering, I couldn't do it."
Ms Yates said the Pope's intervention earlier this week came after she wrote a letter to him.
She said: "It does give us a hope definitely, because there was no hope left. Charlie was going to die on Friday and, you saw the video we did, we were absolutely devastated.
"We had no control over it, the way it was done.
"And then it was going to be on the Monday instead but I think the White House got involved over the weekend and then that changed things."
Charlie has mitochondrial depletion syndrome, a rare genetic condition which causes progressive muscle weakness.
Doctors have said he cannot see, hear, move, cry or swallow and that his life support should be switched off because there is no chance of his condition improving.
Charlie's parents, Ms Yates and Chris Gard, raised £1.3m on a crowdfunding site to pay for experimental nucleoside therapy in the US.
But they lost a legal battle with the hospital last month after judges at the European Court of Human Rights ruled further treatment would "continue to cause Charlie significant harm".
The US hospital, which cannot be named for legal reasons, said that it would treat the boy with an experimental drug pending approval from government regulators, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
It said it had "agreed to admit and evaluate Charlie, provided that arrangements are made to safely transfer him to our facility, legal hurdles are cleared, and we receive emergency approval from the FDA for an experimental treatment as appropriate".
It added: "Alternatively, if approved by the FDA, we will arrange shipment of the experimental drug to Great Ormond Street Hospital and advise their medical staff on administering it if they are willing to do so."
A US specialist told judges that a "small chance" of a meaningful improvement in Charlie's brain function would be provided by therapy.
Charlie's parents, from Bedfont, west London, have spent the last days of their son's life with him, after being given more time before his life-support is turned off.
Last week they said the hospital had denied them their final wish to take their son home to die.
The two Bridport fishermen who found the crustacean near Portland Bill handed it to Weymouth Sea Life Park.
Albinism is caused by a lack of melanin in the skin, which means there is a lack of colour pigment.
Fiona Smith, from the park, said: "There have only been one or two other albino lobsters found around the UK in the last 20 years or so."
Without camouflage she added, it was "incredible" this one had not been eaten by a predator such as a shark.
Ms Smith also explained that the size of a lobster determines its age. At 40cm (15.7in) long, including its claws, she said this animal was "pretty big".
"[It] could easily be more than 30 years old," she said.
Lobsters can grow up to 75cm (29.5in) long and live for up to 50 years.
They shed their hard shells as they outgrow them.
It will not be known if Santa Claws' condition is temporary until it next moults.
The 28-year-old has struggled with wrist problems since reaching a career-high fourth in the world in 2010.
After missing most of the 2014 and 2015 seasons, Del Potro returned in 2016 to reach the Olympic final and help Argentina win a first Davis Cup.
He told Auckland Classic organisers he has "not had sufficient recovery time".
Del Potro began 2016 ranked 1,042th but finished at 38th after a year that included wins over Stan Wawrinka, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray.
He revealed earlier this week he was considering not playing in Australia next month, telling reporters: "Tennis waited for me for two years and it can wait one more Australian Open."
The antiquities minister said radar scans carried out in November pointed to "different things behind the walls".
A more advanced scan will be conducted later this month to ascertain whether the empty spaces are in fact chambers.
A British Egyptologist believes Nefertiti was buried there.
She ruled in the 14th Century BC, and may have been Tutankhamun's mother.
His tomb was discovered in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter.
Announcing the results of November's scans on Thursday, Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty said they had revealed the presence of two empty spaces behind two walls of the burial chamber.
"We can say more than 90% that the chambers are there. But I never start the next step until I'm 100%."
"[The scans point to] different things behind the walls, different material that could be metal, could be organic."
He added: "For Egypt it is a very big discovery, could be discovery of the century."
"It is very important for the Egyptian history and for all over the world."
The British Egyptologist Dr Nicholas Reeves believes the remains of Tutankhamun, who died 3,000 years ago aged 19, may have been rushed into an outer chamber of what was originally Nefertiti's tomb.
He posited in early 2015 that Nefertiti may have been buried there too after examining scans of the tomb, near the site of the original Valley of the Kings in Luxor.
Tutankhamun's tomb was the most intact ever discovered in Egypt. Close to 2,000 objects were found inside.
But its layout has been a puzzle for some time - in particular, why it was smaller than those of other pharaohs' tombs.
Dr Reeves believes there are clues in the design of the tomb that indicate it was intended to store the remains of a queen. His theory has yet to be peer-reviewed and leading Egyptologists have urged caution over the conclusion.
Some believe that Nefertiti's mummy was discovered in 1898 and is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
This year's Tough Mann Adventure Challenge, held at Ballamoar Farm, features 25 obstacles including muddy bogs, rope scrambles and monkey bars.
Co-organiser Richie Cryer said it is a "real challenge just to complete the gruelling course".
The event will get under way at 13:00 BST.
Competitors will have to climb 1,000ft (300m) in the first 2km of the course on a climb known as "killer hill."
The obstacles also include more than six tonnes of ice.
Mr Cryer added: "The obstacle course has been designed to test physical strength and mental courage."
A study has examined how long alleged conspiracies could "survive" before being revealed - deliberately or unwittingly - to the public at large.
Dr David Grimes, from Oxford University, devised an equation to express this, and then applied it to four famous collusions.
The work appears in Plos One journal.
The equation developed by Dr Grimes, a post-doctoral physicist at Oxford, relied upon three factors: the number of conspirators involved, the amount of time that has passed, and the intrinsic probability of a conspiracy failing.
He then applied his equation to four famous conspiracy theories: The belief that the Moon landing was faked, the belief that climate change is a fraud, the belief that vaccines cause autism, and the belief that pharmaceutical companies have suppressed a cure for cancer.
Dr Grimes's analysis suggests that if these four conspiracies were real, most are very likely to have been revealed as such by now.
Specifically, the Moon landing "hoax" would have been revealed in 3.7 years, the climate change "fraud" in 3.7 to 26.8 years, the vaccine-autism "conspiracy" in 3.2 to 34.8 years, and the cancer "conspiracy" in 3.2 years.
"The mathematical methods used in this paper were broadly similar to the mathematics I have used before in my academic research on radiation physics," Dr Grimes said.
To derive his equation, Dr Grimes began with the Poisson distribution, a common statistical tool that measures the probability of a particular event occurring over a certain amount of time.
Using a handful of assumptions, combined with mathematical deduction, Dr Grimes produced a general, but incomplete, formula.
Specifically, he was missing a good estimate for the intrinsic probability of a conspiracy failing. To determine this, Dr Grimes analysed data from three genuine collusions.
The first was the surveillance program conducted by the US National Security Agency (NSA), known as PRISM. This programme involved, at most, 36,000 people and was famously revealed by Edward Snowden after about six years.
The second was the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, in which the cure for syphilis (penicillin) was purposefully withheld from African-American patients.
The experiment may have involved up to 6,700 people, and Dr Peter Buxtun blew the whistle after about 25 years.
The third was an FBI scandal in which it was revealed by Dr Frederic Whitehurst that the agency's forensic analysis was unscientific and misleading, resulting in the imprisonment and execution of innocent people.
Dr Grimes estimates that a maximum of 500 people could have been involved and that it took about six years for the scandal to be exposed.
The equation he created represents a "best case scenario" for conspirators - that is, it optimistically assumes that conspirators are good at keeping secrets and that there are no external investigations at play.
Crunching the numbers from the three known conspiracies, Dr Grimes calculated that the intrinsic probability of a conspiracy failing is four in one million.
Though this number is low, the chance that a conspiracy is revealed becomes quite large as time passes and the number of conspirators grows.
The Moon landing hoax, for instance, began in 1965 and would have involved about 411,000 Nasa employees. With these parameters, Dr Grimes's equation suggests that the hoax would have been revealed after 3.7 years.
Additionally, since the Moon landing hoax is now more than 50 years old, Dr Grimes's equation predicts that, at most, only 251 conspirators could have been involved.
Thus, it is more reasonable to believe that the Moon landing was real.
Prof Monty McGovern, a mathematician at the University of Washington, said the study's methods "strike me as reasonable and the probabilities computed quite plausible".
Dr Grimes added: "While I think it's difficult to impossible to sway those with a conviction... I would hope this paper is useful to those more in the middle ground who might wonder whether scientists could perpetuate a hoax or not."
Asked if his Labour leadership was "toast" if the party did not hold on to seats in Copeland and Stoke-on-Trent Central, he said it was a chance to set out its policies on the NHS and Brexit.
He told the BBC's Andrew Marr Labour would "fight very hard" to keep seats.
Unite leader Len McCluskey said Mr Corbyn remained "on a learning curve" as leader of the Labour party.
Mr Corbyn's interview followed the resignation this week of Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central Tristram Hunt, who is quitting as an MP to take a job at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A by-election is also due after Jamie Reed left his Copeland seat to take up a position at the Sellafield nuclear power plant.
Mr Corbyn, who said media coverage of Labour had not been "very fair", said the by-elections were "an opportunity to challenge the government on the NHS, on the chaos of Brexit, the housing shortage, on zero hours contracts".
He was questioned about a ComRes poll that found 43% of people thought the Tories under Prime Minister Theresa May would do a better job of managing the NHS this winter compared with 31% who thought Mr Corbyn and Labour would.
But almost half of the 2,038 questioned, 47%, agreed the Red Cross was right to say the NHS was in a "humanitarian crisis".
There has been a renewed focus on the state of the NHS in the past week after figures showed more than four in 10 hospitals in England declared a major alert in the first week of the new year as they came under unprecedented pressures and Downing Street put pressure on GPs to open for longer hours.
Asked about the more positive showing for his opposite number, and expected strong challenges in coming by-elections Mr Corbyn said: "I think the more people see the reality of the under-funding of the NHS, of the hiving off and privatising of services, the outsourcing of NHS facilities, the more and more disappointed and angry they are going to get."
Healthcare, social care and mental health services were under-funded in the current government, and that was putting a "massive strain" on Accident and Emergency departments, he said.
Labour would stop cuts in corporate taxation and the top rate of tax to keep £70bn for the Treasury, he said, and use that money to stop cuts to NHS services and to invest in social care.
Len McCluskey, who is seeking re-election as his union's general secretary, told the BBC's Pienaar's Politics that leading Labour was still Mr Corbyn's "challenge" following his re-election in September.
"I think he's a decent man and I think he's putting forward really excellent policies at the moment. But there are huge challenges, now it's up to Jeremy to try to rise to those," he said.
Mr McCluskey said he didn't speak to Mr Corbyn that often "but when I do have access to leadership team they're very open and seem fairly competent to me".
Labour MPs are on a "learning curve" to "recognise the changing nature of Labour", he said, adding "Jeremy's on a learning curve to become a leader. He's still on that learning curve. I think he's getting better and I think he speaks to an awful lot of people, because he's an incredibly decent man. But it's his challenge."
Mr McCluskey has been accused by one of his Unite leadership rivals, regional official Gerard Coyne, of putting Westminster "power games" ahead of the union - a charge he denied.
Mr Coyne told Pienaar's Politics that whether someone was a supporter of Mr Corbyn or not had become an "obsession". More important was protecting Unite's members in the changing economy, he said.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell told Sky News it had been a "pretty good" week for Labour, despite critics' claims of "muddled" policies on high pay and migration.
Labour has faced questions recently about its position on the free movement of people, with Mr Corbyn being urged to back a change in the rules to allow migration numbers to be reduced.
Mr Corbyn said the UK should not "cut ourselves off completely" after leaving the EU, saying free movement would be a factor in negotiations over single market access.
Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said Labour was not going to "die in a ditch" for the sake of the continued free movement of labour and that there would have to be new rules after Brexit.
Speaking to ITV's Peston On Sunday, she said: "If we're leaving the European Union then we need to make sure that we have fair rules and properly managed migration but it's all subject to negotiation because our economy comes first."
But an EU spokeswoman said the sanctions would be "reversible", depending on the situation in Ukraine.
Pro-Russian separatists and government troops are observing a fragile truce.
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has arrived in the strategic port city of Mariupol, parts of which have been shelled as rebel forces edge closer.
Announcing his arrival in a tweet, Mr Poroshenko said: "We won't hand over this Ukrainian land to anyone."
The separatists have recently made big gains in eastern Ukraine. But a ceasefire agreed on Friday appears to be holding despite some sporadic shooting.
Fighting in the east has killed some 2,600 people since April.
Major state-owned oil firms including Rosneft are on the new EU sanctions list, but gas is not affected, diplomats say. US sanctions already target Rosneft.
Russia has warned that it could block international flights through its airspace if the EU goes ahead with new measures over the Ukraine conflict.
Russia has repeatedly denied accusations by Ukraine and the West that it has been sending troops into Donetsk and Luhansk regions to help the rebels, who want to establish an independent state.
Rosneft calls itself the leader of the Russian petroleum industry. That makes it a very important player in the European Union's energy market. About 90% of the crude oil used in the EU is imported and Russia is, by a large margin, the biggest supplier.
The sanctions don't appear to directly affect that relationship. They would prevent Rosneft raising money in European financial markets.
But as crude oil is mainly transported by sea, if the trade were disrupted any losses from Russian suppliers could potentially be replaced. It would almost certainly be more expensive, but it could be done, up to a point.
Gas is another story, which may explain why Gazprom's main business is reported not to be on the new sanctions list. Russian gas is delivered to Europe by pipeline. There is a trade in gas transported by sea, but it would be very difficult to compensate for a major disruption of supplies from Russia.
A European Commission spokeswoman said the new sanctions package targeting Russian firms and officials "is due to be formally adopted by member states through a written procedure later today, so the procedure is ongoing".
"It will then be published in the official journal of the EU, which should happen in the course of tomorrow at the latest as plans currently stand," she said.
Publication in the journal puts the sanctions into effect.
Diplomats say the new package will target Russian oil companies Rosneft and Transneft and the petroleum unit of state gas monopoly Gazprom.
Their access to financial markets will be restricted - a serious matter for Rosneft, which last month asked the Russian government for a $42bn (£25.2bn) loan.
The sanctions would also expand the visa bans and asset freezes on Russian officials and entities, including separatist leaders in Ukraine.
Earlier Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned that Moscow would respond "asymmetrically" to further sanctions.
A Russian airspace ban "could drive many struggling airlines into bankruptcy", he told a Russian daily.
"If there are sanctions related to the energy sector, or further restrictions on Russia's financial sector, we will have to respond asymmetrically... For example, restrictions in the transport sector.
"We work on the basis of friendly relations with our partners, and that's why Russia's skies are open to flights. But if we are restricted then we'll have to respond," he told Vedomosti (in Russian).
Airlines would have to pay far more for fuel if Russia blocked their routes to Asian destinations, and flight times would be longer in many cases.
Last week an EU official told the BBC that further sanctions would deepen the existing measures, affecting Russia's access to capital markets, dual-use goods which can be used for military purposes, defence equipment and some other sensitive technologies.
Mr Poroshenko's visit to Mariupol comes after some shelling was reported there at the weekend.
It is the last city in Donetsk region still held by the Ukrainian government and is a strategic port on the route to Crimea, the peninsula annexed by Russia in March.
On Sunday, Ukrainian security official Volodymyr Poliovyi said 864 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since the conflict began.
So far there have been no big prisoner exchanges since the ceasefire took effect.
12-point peace roadmap - key elements
Posted by the OSCE on its website (in Russian).
A third successive loss in front of their own fans came against leaders Sheffield United on Tuesday.
"I keep saying that we've got eight games we need to win minimum," Appleton told BBC Radio Oxford. "But, the games are running out."
Oxford slipped to 11th and are nine points off the top six.
Twelve league games remain for the U's, who also have a trip to Wembley in the EFL Trophy final against Coventry City on 2 April.
"We are where we are for a reason," said Appleton as he reflected on his side's recent dip in home form.
"We're three or four players short of being able to compete with the that type of side (Sheffield United) most weeks in this division.
"The lads will pick themselves up and from an energy point of view, I can't ask any more from them."
The floods - the worst in almost 30 years - have affected over half the country. More than 800 towns and cities have declared a state of emergency.
The capital, Lima, has been without water since Monday and services are only now being restored.
The armed forces have been deployed to help police control law and order across Peru.
There are shortages of food and water in many areas and prices have risen by 5% on average in the past week, the government said.
The heavy rains have stopped for now, but forecasters say the unstable weather is expected to continue for a few weeks.
In recent months, Peru and other countries around the Pacific Ocean have been affected by the phenomenon known as El Nino, a rise in sea temperatures that increases evaporation and brings about heavy rains.
In 1988 floods in Peru were also linked to El Nino, which was particularly strong that year.
The prestigious awards event, first staged in 1954, was last held at the venue in 2008.
Gary Lineker, Clare Balding and Gabby Logan will host a celebration of the best sporting achievements of 2017, in front of an audience of nearly 11,000.
Britain's world number one tennis player Andy Murray has won the main prize in three of the past four years.
The Scot is the only person to win the award more than twice, while other former winners include Bobby Moore, Sir Henry Cooper, Virginia Wade and Daley Thompson, plus Princess Anne and daughter Zara Phillips.
Ticket details for this year's event will be announced later in the year.
Barbara Slater, director of BBC Sport, said: "2017 marks a very exciting year of sport, from England winning the Six Nations to Chelsea winning the Premier League, Arsenal scooping the FA Cup at Wembley to Anthony Joshua's nail-biting fight against Wladimir Klitschko."
Liverpool's mayor Joe Anderson said: "We're honoured and excited to be rolling out the red carpet for BBC Sports Personality of the Year in Liverpool.
"We're a city full of passionate sports fans and we're renowned the world over for our hospitality, so we cannot wait to welcome the BBC in December."
The ceremony will be live on BBC television, radio and online.
Marites Flor, a Filipina, was one of four hostages kidnapped last September from the city of Davao by Islamist separatists Abu Sayyaf.
In April, the militants executed John Ridsdel after ransom deadline expired, then last week executed Ms Flor's partner, Robert Hall.
It was not immediately clear why Ms Flor had been freed.
The Philippines is opposed to paying ransoms to Abu Sayyaf.
Officials said she had been left outside the house of a politician and was now receiving medical checks.
A Norwegian man, Kjartan Sekkingstad, is still being held by the militants at their stronghold on the remote southern island of Jolo.
Abu Sayyaf is a fractured network of militants, and some of its factions have sworn allegiance to the so-called Islamic State.
In recent weeks, a video emerged online urging Muslims in South East Asia to unite behind one Abu Sayyaf leader, Isnilon Hapilon and carry out jihadist attacks.
One of smallest but most radical of Islamist separatist groups in southern Philippines, its name means "bearer of the sword" in Arabic.
It split from the larger Moro National Liberation Front in 1991. Membership is said to number in the low hundreds.
The group has been agitating for the creation of an independent Islamic state in predominantly Catholic Philippines, and uses tactics such as hostage-taking and bombings to pressure the government.
Several of its factions have pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State.
Numerous Filipino and foreign civilians have been kidnapped in south Philippines and parts of neighbouring Malaysia over the decades, and used as hostages to extract ransoms.
Though some have been released after negotiations or attacks by Philippine forces, others have been murdered when demands were not met.
Abu Sayyaf has also said it carried out bombings in cities in the south and a ferry bombing in 2004 in Manila Bay that killed more than 100 people, considered one of the worst terror attacks in the Philippines.
Islamic State threat in Southeast Asia
Russell Peachey, 35, was found on North Street, Grangetown, at about 04:20 BST on Saturday.
Dean Anthony Beasley, 37, from Barry, Shaminder Singh, 40, from Cardiff, and Christopher James Smith, 34, also from Cardiff, appeared at the city's magistrates court on Wednesday.
All three were remanded in custody.
The defendants spoke only to confirm their names, addresses and dates of birth at the short hearing.
Kevin McCarthy, 49, had admitted trying to murder Damien Fowkes, 41, in October last year. The attack left Fowkes with life-threatening neck injuries.
Fowkes is serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 20 years for slashing the throat of Huntley.
McCarthy must serve at least 18 more years, Cambridge Crown Court was told.
Both McCarthy and Fowkes were inmates at HMP Whitemoor in March, Cambridgeshire, at the time of the attack.
Peter Gair, prosecuting, said McCarthy grabbed Fowkes from behind and cut his throat with a homemade blade while lunch was being prepared on 2 October 2016.
He said there was no clear motive for the violent assault, but some prisoners had complained about McCarthy not taking his turn to clean the kitchen earlier that morning.
It was the third time McCarthy had tried to murder a prisoner, Mr Gair said.
In sentencing, Judge David Farrell told McCarthy: "This was a premeditated, planned attack... It only failed to kill him because the cut wasn't deep enough."
McCarthy, who appeared by videolink, sipped from a mug during the sentencing and showed no reaction.
He was already serving time for attempted murder, and has convictions stretching back to 1990.
Huntley is serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 40 years for the murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambridgeshire in 2002.
Fowkes is serving a minimum term of 20 years for the attempted murder of Huntley at HMP Frankland in Durham in 2010.
He went on to strangle paedophile and child-killer Colin Hatch in 2011 at HM Prison Full Sutton, a high security unit near York.
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It comes after two adult carers challenged the way the benefits cap applied to people who care for their disabled adult children or relatives.
Carers can claim about £60 a week for caring for relatives - but claims can be included in the £500 benefit cap.
This indirectly discriminated against disabled people, the judge said.
A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said the government "values the important role of carers" and was "considering the judgment and will respond in due course".
He said 98% of carers were unaffected by the benefits cap, which was introduced across England, Scotland and Wales in 2013 and limits how much any one household can receive in state benefits.
To qualify for the Carer's Allowance, carers must provide full-time care - more than 35 hours a week - to a severely disabled person who receives Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
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People who care for children or spouses have their Carer's Allowance exempt from the overall benefit cap.
However, people who provide care for another adult - such as a parent or grandparent, or a disabled son or daughter over the age of 18 - have their benefit included in the £500-a-week cap.
It means some have had their housing benefit cut, leaving them at risk of losing their homes.
Some 1,400 carers are thought to be affected.
The case was brought by two adult carers from London - Ashley Hurley and Lee Palmer - who both care for a grandparent.
They had earlier told the court of the "devastating impact" the cap had on them.
Ashley Hurley, 26, cares for her severely disabled grandmother Mary Jarrett, 72, in Peckham, south-east London.
Ms Jarrett, whose lung cancer is in remission, suffers from conditions including emphysema and arthritis and has difficulty breathing and poor mobility.
Ms Hurley receives £62 a week but says she cannot afford her own house because of the cap.
She said: "Because of the cap I can't afford my own place. Me and the kids all sleep in a bed in one room. It is a nightmare."
Following the ruling, she said: "I feel so great. It means I should still be able to care for my nan and be able to have my own place at the same time."
The Judge, Mr Justice Collins, said the failure to exempt people who act as carers for relatives was "not making any savings for public funds".
He said he had urged Iain Duncan Smith, secretary of state for work and pensions, to give "serious reconsideration" to whether it is necessary to retain the benefits cap for people who do at least 35 hours a week.
Mr Justice Collins said consideration should be given to exempting "at least individual family carers".
"These are very few and the cost to public funds if the cap is to be maintained is likely to outweigh to a significant extent the cost of granting the exemption," he added.
Evidence presented during the hearing highlighted the "huge contribution to society" made by unpaid carers, who are estimated to have saved about £119bn from public funds every year.
However, the hearing was told how people "had to cease caring" because of the impact of the cap.
Rebekah Carrier, representing the families, urged the government to take "urgent action" following the ruling.
She said: "My clients have been hit by the benefit cap because they are disabled or they provide essential care to their disabled relatives.
"They are not skivers - they are strivers."
An exemption to the cap for people in similar positions "must be drafted and laid before parliament as soon as possible", she added.
During the hearing, Clive Sheldon QC, representing the secretary of state, told the judge that Mr Duncan Smith "does not accept that he acted unlawfully".
Mr Sheldon said the cap had the "clear and reasonable policy aims of making the benefit system fairer for taxpayers by increasing incentives to work".
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They did so in revenge for the Arabs' perceived support for so-called Islamic State (IS), a new report alleges.
Amnesty says Kurdistan Regional Government forces might have committed war crimes in areas recaptured from IS.
But a KRG spokesman said the damage was the result of fighting and air strikes.
Dindar Zabari told the Reuters news agency that the US-led coalition against IS had also requested that civilians be kept away from areas close to the frontline, and that Kurds too had been prevented from returning to some recaptured villages.
Amnesty said its report was based on a field investigation in 13 villages and towns and put together from testimony gathered from more than 100 eyewitnesses and victims of forced displacement.
The group said its findings had been corroborated by satellite imagery that showed evidence of widespread destruction carried out by Kurdish forces - in some cases by Yazidi militias and in other cases by Kurdish armed groups from Syria and Turkey operating in co-ordination with the Peshmerga.
"The forced displacement of civilians and the deliberate destruction of homes and property without military justification, may amount to war crimes," said Amnesty's Senior Crisis Response Adviser, Donatella Rovera.
Arab residents forced to vacate their homes were now prevented by KRG forces from returning to recaptured areas, Amnesty said,
"Tens of thousands of Arab civilians who were forced to flee their homes because of fighting are now struggling to survive in makeshift camps in desperate conditions," Ms Rovera said.
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"Many have lost their livelihoods and all their possessions and with their homes destroyed, they have nothing to return to," she added.
"By barring the displaced from returning to their villages and destroying their homes KRG forces are further exacerbating their suffering."
The Amnesty report follows a UN report on Tuesday which says that violence suffered by civilians in Iraq "remains staggering", with at least 18,800 killed between 1 January 2014 and 31 October 2015.
The UN said the worst excesses were committed by IS, who are responsible for systematic and widespread violence, including holding some 3,500 mainly women and children as slaves.
But it too said that some alleged abuses were carried out by troops, militiamen and Kurdish forces.
The senior official described the figure as a "conservative estimate".
The figure showed air power and a small number of US figures supporting local forces were having an impact, the official said.
The US has, however, repeatedly warned that IS can replace fighters rapidly.
The official on Thursday said that coalition air strikes could be intensified in places like Mosul, which Iraqi troops are now battling to recapture, but that had to be offset against the risk of civilian casualties.
The campaign was beginning to damage IS, the official said.
"I am not into morbid counts but that kind of volume matters, that kind of impact on the enemy."
The US has often been reluctant to provide figures on enemy casualties.
But in August, Lt Gen Sean MacFarland was quoted by the AP news agency as saying that about 45,000 enemy combatants had been killed.
In February, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said IS had about 25,000 fighters operating in Syria and Iraq, citing a US intelligence estimate.
IS has lost a lot of ground since it reached the high tide of its expansion in 2014, and is now under fire from Russian, Turkish, Iraqi, Syrian and Kurdish forces, as well as US and British air power.
It is now entrenched in Mosul and Raqqa and the Sunni Arab tribal heartland of the Euphrates river valley, which stretches from eastern Syria to western Iraq.
Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi is the new king, one of the most influential among the Yoruba people, Nigeria's second biggest ethnic group, who number about 35 million in West Africa.
He is a prince from one of the ruling houses in the Ife kingdom.
The previous Ooni of Ife, Oba Sijuwade, died in a London clinic in July aged 85.
Mr Ogunwusi was selected from 21 candidates who included his older brother.
The BBC's Chris Ewokor in Abuja says the selection criteria have not been made public.
Traditionally, kingmakers from within the family choose the Ooni of Ife from descendents of the Yoruba god Oduduwa in consultation with their oracle, known as Ifa.
Mr Ogunwusi will be one of the youngest traditional rulers in Nigeria, our reporter says.
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Including food subsidies, the worst-paid workers will now take home about 200,000 bolivars a month - less than $50 (£38) at the black market rate.
The pay rise is the third this year from Mr Maduro, and aims to benefit government workers and the military.
It comes a month after deadly protests erupted in the country.
Demonstrators first took to the streets on 1 April to demand elections, after the courts tried to strengthen the president's grip on power.
Marches in various cities descended into clashes between riot police and protesters, which have left 28 people dead.
Observers fear 1 May could bring a spike in unrest, with opposition and pro-government supporters planning rival marches.
Pope Francis has offered to mediate between the Maduro government and its opponents, but the opposition has rejected the overture.
Its leaders say the president has installed a dictatorship, and blame him for Venezuela's economic crisis.
Even a 60% pay rise may come as scant consolation to millions of the country's workers, whose buying power has been damaged by a stricken currency. Critics say the move will merely fuel the country's runaway inflation rate.
Venezuela has one of the world's highest inflation rates, which could hit 720% this year according to the International Monetary Fund.
Even residents of traditionally pro-Maduro districts have been joining the protests against him in recent days.
"I have been a month now joining in all the protests because I want my country to be free of this dictatorship," said 42-year-old Yoleida Viloria, a hairdresser from the capital, Caracas.
"We cannot prove it forensically, but we are certain that is the case," Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff said.
SS captain Brunner, who would now be 102, is accused of deporting more than 128,000 Jews to death camps in WWII.
For many years there has been uncertainty as to whether he is dead.
Dr Zuroff - director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem - told the BBC that new information had recently come to light about Brunner's death and burial in Damascus from a "reliable" former German secret service agent who had served in the Middle East.
He said that the new evidence revealed that Brunner was buried in an unknown location in Damascus around 2010 and was unrepentant of his crimes.
In April Brunner was removed from the Simon Wiesenthal Center's most wanted list, in a move signifying that it considered him to be dead. Dr Zuroff - who is also a Holocaust historian - said that the latest information provided more concrete evidence to support that conclusion.
"[Brunner] played a key role in the implementation of Hitler's 'Final Solution' to murder Jews," Dr Zuroff said, "and was a monster."
He said that Brunner sent 47,000 Jews in Austria, 44,000 in Greece, 23,500 in France and 14,000 in Slovakia to camps where most were murdered.
In the 1950s Brunner is believed to have fled to Syria. He reportedly later served as an adviser to President Hafez al-Assad and is thought to have instructed his government on torture tactics.
In 2001 he was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by a court in France.
Brunner was in charge of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris where Jews rounded up in France were held before being sent to the death camps. An estimated 345 children were among his victims.
Dr Zuroff said that Brunner survived at least two Israeli intelligence assassination attempts while in Syria in 1961 and 1980.
He said that the Syrian civil war made it impossible to know the precise location of Brunner's grave.
Chasing an unlikely 413 to win, and beginning the fifth day on 72-2, the hosts collapsed to 134 all out.
Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took 5-42 and leg-spinner Amit Mishra 3-29, while Dimuth Karunaratne made 46.
India's victory levels the three-match series at 1-1, with the two teams meeting again in Colombo on Friday.
Sangakkara, 37, was dismissed for 18 on the fourth evening at the P Sara Oval, leaving him with 12,400 Test runs at an average of 57.40.
He retires as Sri Lanka's highest run-scorer, and the fifth highest overall in Test history.
Edinson Cavani rounded the goalkeeper early on to open the scoring but Raphael Guerreiro drove in the equaliser for the visitors.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic restored PSG's lead with a tap in before Layvin Kurzawa volleyed home a third.
The win means PSG remain 24 points clear at the top of the table.
Gabrielle Newton-Bieber said she pretends they are married and believes he is "the only man for me".
The 22-year-old Belieber also talks to a cardboard cut-out of the star.
She has five Bieber-related tattoos and her home in Nottinghamshire is filled with merchandise and memorabilia.
Her obsession began when she was 16, at the same time Bieber released his debut single, One Time.
She begged her mother to let her change her name and, eventually, she relented and paid for the name-change as an 18th birthday present.
"I like him even more now than I did as a teenager," said Ms Newton-Bieber.
"I literally wouldn't go out with anybody else unless he had an identical twin or a lookalike."
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Ms Newton-Bieber added: "I always call Justin my husband when I talk to people."
The supermarket worker has two tattoos on her ribs, two on her shoulder and one underneath a breast.
She is planning a sixth and hopes to meet Bieber when he performs in Sheffield in October.
"Honestly if I met him I would probably just burst into tears," she said.
"I do think if I won the lottery I would probably end up finding where he's living and move there."
The 28-year-old England international has made 193 appearances for Quins since joining them from Leeds in 2006.
"The re-signing process was done very quickly as there was never any doubt in my mind to go anywhere else," the scrum-half told the club website.
"Harlequins is a club that I love; I'm very proud and honoured to play for and captain the team."
The club have not disclosed the length of Care's new deal at the Twickenham Stoop.
Care, who has won 53 caps after making his England debut in 2008, was appointed Quins skipper this summer.
"Danny is the ultimate game-changer and has matured and grown in front of us all," Harlequins director of rugby Conor O'Shea said.
"In Danny we see the Harlequins style stamped all over the way he approaches the game.
"Captaincy is another natural progression for him and I am looking forward to watching him become an even better player."
The investment over five years is part of the Welsh Government's £100m to raise school standards over the assembly term.
Education Secretary Kirsty Williams said she wanted all pupils to have the opportunity to learn about and get involved in coding as the importance of digital skills continues to grow.
It is estimated there will be 100,000 new coding jobs by 2020 in the UK.
The Welsh Government said there are currently about 1.5 million jobs in the digital sector in the UK, 400,000 of which involve coding.
"Code is part of almost everyone's life," said Ms Williams. "When we check out social media, access an app or computer we are using systems created through code. It is an essential building block of our modern world and I want to make sure as many of our young people have knowledge of it as they develop their digital skills."
The investment aims to expand the number of code clubs for learners aged three to 16 from the current number of 300.
Three years ago experts warned schools in Wales were in danger of being left behind in terms of digital education.
The new national curriculum, expected to be up and running by 2021, includes a recommendation computer programming and IT be given the same importance as literacy and numeracy.
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Ms Williams made the announcement at Llandough Primary school in the Vale of Glamorgan, where computer skills are already taught throughout the curriculum from nursery to year six.
But the school headmaster hopes the coding club it plans to open from September will add another dimension to learning.
"We are using coding on a daily basis and we're engaged with lots of different companies who have helped us set up coding in our school," said Mark Ellis.
"The curriculum itself is bringing coding into our school as well, but we are going to look to the wider community now and we want to look at our grandparents, our parents, and younger siblings coming in using our technologies to be able to have coding experiences and use them in the wider world."
He explained the club model would offer flexibility and involve families so they can play a full part.
"There is a lack of understanding for some parents who have not seen what coding is and what it brings to children," he said.
Maria Quevedo from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, which runs 10,000 coding clubs across 10 countries, said it was important young people became makers not just consumers.
"Every single job has an element of technology and digital in it and as time passes the world is becoming increasingly digital and technology is key," she said.
Meanwhile, 10 year old Iolo, who was busy coding during the ministerial visit, had finished programming his game.
He said it had been almost as much fun as playing computer games and he would quite like to do it as a job.
Ms Williams said she wanted "as many schools as possible" to take up the opportunity and coding in particular was a specific skill which would help Welsh children compete in the global market in future.
A dominant second-half performance saw them defeat champions New Zealand 31-14, having trailed 14-7.
Australia, beaten by England in the semi-finals, had won all three of the season's previous tournaments.
"We really are building," said England captain Emily Scarratt. "We've gone away and worked really hard and that was the product of it."
She added: "We knew it would be a tough game but that if we played to our style we could win. We're tired but we are very happy."
Ireland finished 11th by beating Japan 12-5 but remain bottom of the 12-team standings.
New Zealand are second with 64 points, 12 behind Australia, but are unlikely to catch the leaders.
Should New Zealand win the next tournament, Australia would have to finish eighth or lower for them to top the rankings.
The final tournament of the season takes place in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand on 28-29 May.
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Plans for the €617m (£517m; $656m) pre-Christmas handout were opposed by European bodies negotiating Greece's financial lifeline.
A deal agreed earlier this month to provide the next tranche of debt relief for Athens is now on hold.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Greece would not be blackmailed.
Athens said the pension payment would come out of a €1bn tax surplus but European creditors on Thursday said the Greek move raised "significant concerns on both process and substance" regarding the country's bailout obligations.
In a joint statement, representatives from the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the European rescue fund said they would now decide whether to uphold a Eurogroup decision granting Greece short-term debt relief earlier this month.
Mr Tsipras said the situation had to be resolved "without blackmail" on the part of Greece's creditors.
France has defended Greece against a hardening stance by Germany and the Eurogroup of EU finance ministers, headed Jeroen Dijsselbloem.
A spokesman for Mr Dijsselbloem on Wednesday said the eurozone was suspending the recently announced debt relief scheme for Athens in retaliation for not being fully briefed on Mr Tsipras's handout plans, which also include a lower sales tax for Greek islands dealing with migration.
"The institutions have concluded that the actions of the Greek government appear to not be in line with our agreements," said the spokesman.
But France's Finance Minister, Michel Sapin, and the country's European economic affairs commissioner, Pierre Moscovici, have publicly distanced themselves from the Eurogroup decision.
"Individual statements are not the collective statements of the Eurogroup," said Mr Sapin.
The latest debt-relief deal with Greece was agreed on 5 December and would reduce the interest burden on the country's debts of more than €300bn.
The Greek government announced its bonus for pensioners receiving below €800 a month just three days later but without consulting the eurozone representatives.
It also scrapped a rise in VAT for residents of Aegean islands to help relieve the economic pressure caused by an influx of migrants.
The arrangement of 5 December included extending the maturity on certain loans to the Greek government, and locking in the interest rate on some of its debts in order to reduce the country's repayment burden, but it did not alter the total amount owed.
A key player in the latest decision to suspend the recent debt deal has been Germany.
"If the rescue programme is going to be deemed a success, it is imperative that measures are not taken unilaterally," said a spokesman for the German finance ministry.
Essex Police said they were called at 01:30 BST to reports a man was being assaulted at the home in Pines Road.
Officers arrived to find a woman in her 50s dead and a man, also in his 50s, with serious injuries. He is in Broomfield Hospital.
A 31-year-old man from Chelmsford has been arrested and is in police custody.
A driver captured the footage on a dashboard camera shortly after a cash-handler was robbed in Newton Heath, Manchester.
The robber threatened to blind the handler with a squeezable bottle of liquid before snatching cash and riding off on a motorcycle with another man.
Officers later found a box of cash and a burned-out motorcycle.
Greater Manchester Police have released the footage along with CCTV in a bid to find the suspect.
The robbery happened on the afternoon of 18 January in Old Church Street.
Bags filled with cash and a deposit box were taken, before the men fled on a Yamaha R6 motorcycle, later found set alight.
About 20 minutes later, in Mossley, a driver noticed two men running across some fields, one carrying bags filled with cash.
Det Con Phil Caine said: "The nature of this incident is truly shocking and we need to make sure those responsible are off our streets, unable to cause any more harm."
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The Queen of Katwe tells how she dropped out of school early, but started playing chess aged nine, becoming a grandmaster. It stars Oscar winner Lupita Ny’ongo and British-born Nigerian actor David Oyelowo.
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Mae drafft o faniffesto Llafur y DU, gafodd ei gyhoeddi'n fuan yr wythnos hon, wedi addo cael gwared â'r ffioedd.
A phetai hynny'n digwydd, mae'r Prif Weinidog Carwyn Jones wedi dweud y byddai'n "anodd dychmygu" sefyllfa ble byddan nhw'n parhau i fodoli yng Nghymru.
Ond mae pleidiau eraill wedi wfftio'r sylwadau, gan ddweud nad yw'n debygol o ddigwydd oherwydd "fydd Jeremy Corbyn ddim yn ennill yr etholiad".
Mae ffioedd dysgu wedi eu datganoli i Gymru, a llynedd fe wnaeth Llywodraeth Cymru amlinellu polisi newydd fyddai'n golygu grant i helpu myfyrwyr gyda chostau byw yn hytrach na'r ffioedd.
Mae plaid Lafur y DU wedi addo fodd bynnag y bydden nhw'n diddymu'r ffioedd yn llwyr petawn nhw'n cael eu hethol i lywodraeth ym mis Mehefin.
Gallai polisi o'r fath gostio dros £7bn y flwyddyn.
Wrth ymateb i hynny dywedodd Mr Jones: "Yn amlwg os nad oes ffioedd dysgu yn Lloegr, mae hynny'n bownd o gael effaith ar sut 'dyn ni'n gweld pethau yng Nghymru."
Ers 2012 mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi talu cyfran sylweddol o ffioedd dysgu myfyrwyr o Gymru - polisi wnaeth gostio £237m yn 2015/16.
Mae wedi golygu mai dim ond £3,900 y flwyddyn mae myfyrwyr o Gymru yn ei dalu, yn hytrach na'r uchafswm o £9,000 mae prifysgolion yn gallu ei godi.
O fis Medi nesaf ymlaen mae disgwyl i bolisi newydd Llywodraeth Cymru ddod i rym, ble bydd myfyrwyr yn gorfod talu neu gymryd benthyciad ar gyfer swm llawn y ffioedd dysgu.
Ond fe fydd pob myfyriwr yn cael £1,000 y flwyddyn tuag at gostau byw, cyn ychwanegu grant pellach yn seiliedig ar brawf modd - gyda myfyriwr sydd yn dod o deulu ar y cyflog cyfartalog yn derbyn £7,000 y flwyddyn.
Mae'r Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol wedi wfftio sylwadau Carwyn Jones, fodd bynnag, gan fod y "wlad gyfan yn gwybod" nad yw Llafur yn mynd i ennill yr etholiad.
"Mae Kirsty Williams yn rhoi egwyddorion y Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol ar waith wrth sicrhau bod myfyrwyr yng Nghymru yn cael swm tebyg i'r cyflog byw cenedlaethol wrth iddyn nhw astudio," meddai llefarydd.
Ychwanegodd Darren Millar, llefarydd y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig ar addysg ei fod yn "synnu bod Llywodraeth Cymru yn newid eu safbwynt ar y mater".
"Mae consensws gwleidyddol yng Nghymru o gwmpas argymhellion Adolygiad Diamond i'r adolygiad o gefnogaeth i fyfyrwyr, fydd y arwain at system sy'n deg i'n myfyrwyr, trethdalwyr a sector brifysgol," meddai.
Dywedodd Liz Saville Roberts o Blaid Cymru mai "ychydig iawn o dystiolaeth oedd y bydd y prif weinidog yn cadw at ei air", hyd yn oed petai Llafur yn ennill mwyafrif yn San Steffan.
"Mae gan Blaid Cymru bolisi ers sbel o weithio tuag at ddiddymu ffioedd dysgu'n llwyr fel bod cymaint o bobl ifanc â phosib yn gallu cael mynediad at addysg uwch," meddai.
Dywedodd Michelle Brown o UKIP y gallai Llafur a Jeremy Corbyn "gynnig y byd ar blat ar hyn o bryd" gan eu bod nhw'n "gwybod na fyddan nhw'n ennill".
"Mae eu haddewidion nhw mor ddibwys felly a phob un arall yn eu maniffesto, ac mae hynny'n beth da, gan y byddai hynny wedyn yn gorfodi newid ar y bobl sy'n gyfrifol am addysg yng Nghymru," meddai.
Steve Lowe, who led a campaign to bring a bust of Trevor Huddleston to Bedford in 1999, said the anti-apartheid activist was not a "serial offender".
The late archbishop, who admitted patting boys' bare bottoms, was honoured with a blue plaque on Monday.
Archbishop Huddleston was investigated by police while the Bishop of Stepney.
The decision to put the plaque up was criticised by Peter Saunders, from the National Association for People Abused in Childhood.
Mr Saunders said the police report could be "the tip of a nasty iceberg".
'Bare skin'
In the Scotland Yard report, made in 1974 and viewed by the BBC two years ago, officers suggested charging him with four counts of gross indecency.
In each case it was alleged he "pulled a boy on to his lap, put his hand underneath his trousers and pants, and fondled his bottom and bare skin".
The case was dropped when the Director of Public Prosecutions said there was insufficient evidence.
As secretary of the Bedford Anti-Apartheid Group and editor of Bedfordshire on Sunday, Mr Lowe campaigned for the bust of Archbishop Huddleston to be constructed in Bedford.
He said "it is still appropriate" for the bust and plaque to be displayed because of the archbishop's "monumental work" in South Africa.
How Archbishop Huddleston's bust came to Bedford:
"He has not been accused of abuse, either sexual or physical, and was never charged," said Mr Lowe.
"These crimes, if they were crimes, were at a time when young boys sitting on adult men's laps was not unheard of."
Mr Lowe added: "It is not like Jimmy Savile, nothing approaching that.
"It was wrong, no doubt about it. As a parent, I would be very angry, but the work he did in South Africa outweighs this particular crime, were it even a crime.
"There are not many great men around who haven't done one or two things they might not be proud of."
The Mitsubishi L200 he was driving came off the westbound carriageway near Livingston at about 01:15 on Saturday.
The man was seriously injured and died a short time later. The road was closed for five hours to allow for recovery and investigation work.
Police officers have appealed for witnesses to the crash - or anyone with information about it - to contact them.
Sgt Andy Gibb said: "Sadly, a 34-year-old man has died as a result of a road traffic collision on the M8 during the early hours of Saturday, May 14.
"Our thoughts are with his family at this extremely difficult time and we will continue to provide them with support as and when they need it.
"Our inquiries into the full circumstances surrounding this collision are ongoing and I ask anyone who was travelling on the M8 at around 1:15am on Saturday, May 14th, to contact us immediately if not already done so."
Russian state TV channels have broadcast footage of men confessing to a plot to carry out terror attacks on the peninsula that was annexed by Russia in 2014.
The suspected saboteurs tell interrogators they were acting on orders from Kiev. Ukraine denies any involvement and calls it a provocation.
Local residents near the scene do report hearing shots fired last Saturday night, when the FSB security service says it intercepted the first group of men.
But the FSB statement describes a second attempted incursion of Crimea accompanied by "massive fire from the neighbouring state and armoured vehicles of the Ukrainian armed forces".
No video footage or independent confirmation of that incident has yet emerged.
What actually took place therefore remains a mystery. But it is what happens next that matters most, as the incident raises tensions between Moscow and Kiev to dangerous heights.
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So is Moscow planning to retaliate militarily against what it is describing as an act of terror masterminded by Kiev?
Vladimir Putin has already pledged that he will "not let such things pass".
In that context, the subsequent deployment of S400 air defence missiles to Crimea could well seem menacing. Russia's Defence Ministry has also announced military exercises on the peninsula next week.
It all underlines Russia's intent to defend the territory it annexed from Ukraine two years ago in a move condemned as illegal by Kiev and the West.
Some see signs that a Russian military offensive is building.
They argue that the timing is ideal, with the US busy with elections, the EU distracted by Brexit and the Olympic Games as an all-round diversion. Here in Moscow though, many are sceptical.
"Nothing is impossible. However I do not think that corresponds to recent tactical moves we've seen by Moscow," counters Andrei Kortunov of the Russian International Affairs Council.
He describes a "micro-detente" in relations with the West and sees signs that Moscow wants to get Western sanctions over Crimea lifted, not reinforced. The stubbornly low price of oil adds to pressure for that.
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"I would be surprised if this is a smokescreen for war as I do not see what Putin has to gain now," Mr Kortunov concludes.
Moreover, he sees a "trend to flexibility" on sanctions from the West.
"It's not a good time for a real war, now the economy has dipped. So these are only words, albeit tough ones," argues Andrei Kolesnikov of the Carnegie Moscow Center.
He believes the latest crisis will pass in a matter of weeks.
"But we do know that frozen conflicts can become hot at any time," he cautions.
So is Russia's tough response, or even the entire incident, for domestic consumption?
The language Vladimir Putin has chosen is certainly striking.
He has accused the authorities in Kiev of supporting terrorism and returned to his old practice of referring to them as having "seized power".
After making up with Turkey last week, Moscow could well be looking for a new external enemy for Russians to rally round, reinvigorating a sense of "us-against-them".
There is logic to that, given concern that an economic downturn could shrink support for pro-Putin parties at next month's parliamentary elections.
Just last May, Russia's prime minister was filmed being harangued by women in Crimea complaining about their pitiful pensions. In an awkward moment, he admitted there was no money.
"Putin needs to consolidate society," Andrei Kolesnikov says. "So a small war, a war of words, is important for this.
"Whenever there's conflict, Putin's rating grows - whether it's trade wars with the West, the sports doping scandal or a real conflict like in Syria."
Staging something so risky - or reacting so forcibly to whatever happened - seems extreme for the sake of a few votes.
So is Russia's reaction aimed at the Ukraine peace process?
Vladimir Putin made it very clear that peace talks on Ukraine are now "pointless". They had been proposed by Kiev on the sidelines of the G20 summit next month.
But it seems more likely that Moscow is trying to shape the process, than walk away for good.
"The Minsk process is at an impasse, neither side can implement it," says Andrei Kolesnikov, referring to the ceasefire deal signed in Belarus' capital. "But Putin won't exclude himself from Minsk, he's just trying to make the situation more tense."
Russia's president was explicit, calling on the West to pressure Kiev to deliver results. Implicit within that was a threat: that Moscow will not play along with the talks forever.
Kiev blames Moscow for the impasse, pointing to ongoing clashes with pro-Russian rebels in the east; Moscow argues that Kiev is stalling on the big political reforms it needs to implement.
"Russia wants the regions (controlled by pro-Russian militants) re-integrated as a blocking share in the Ukrainian political system," Andrei Kortunov says. "The aim is to guarantee that Ukraine does not join Nato or move too far from Russia."
Of course that is what the Ukraine crisis has been about from the very beginning. This is just the latest tense and unpredictable chapter.
Both carriageways of the motorway were closed in both directions at around 09:00 GMT after freezing temperatures were recorded overnight.
Police also closed the Avonmouth bridge near Bristol.
The motorway reopened at about 11:30 after gritters were sent out to de-ice the road surface. Congestion is still being reported on some routes.
Highways England said there had been three crashes.
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The police closed the northbound carriageway between junction 21, near Weston-super-Mare and Junction 18, near Bristol.
They also closed the southbound section between junctions 18 and 19 while vehicles were recovered.
Police said there had been one or two "minor prangs" on the Avonmouth bridge which led to its closure, but that the road was gritted overnight.
Queues of traffic stretched for miles in both directions as diversions were put into place.
BBC weather presenter Emily Wood said temperatures had reached freezing or just below in the Bristol area overnight as forecast.
She said: "At present it is still freezing but temperatures should reach around 5 degrees this afternoon before dipping below freezing again overnight."
Residents in Filigree Close, South Normanton, were asked to leave after the fire was spotted near a property's gas intake just before midnight.
Once the flames were put out gas engineers made the area safe and householders returned at 03:30 BST.
There are no reports of injuries and the cause of the fire is being investigated.
Ms Brown, who founded the site in 2008 with Barry Diller, said she would focus on a conference business, in particular her annual Women in the World summit.
She will leave the site when her contract expires at the end of this year.
Her tenure at The Daily Beast was marked by the website's unsuccessful merger with Newsweek in 2010.
Ms Brown and her team struggled to turn around the storied print magazine, and advertising revenue continued to plunge as circulation lagged.
She defended her attempt to revive Newsweek, saying she was proud of "the battle we waged to save it from the overwhelming forces of media change".
Newsweek was sold to IBT Media in August after ceasing publication of its print edition.
Ms Brown's new venture, Tina Brown Live Media, will continue her successful yearly conference, Women in the World, launched in 2010. Luminaries such as Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton have attended in the past.
"I was surprised - she is such an icon to the print medium," Horizon Media's Brad Adgate told the BBC.
"This just goes to show that the internet is a different animal certainly than magazines."
Ms Brown co-founded The Daily Beast in October 2008 with Mr Diller after a successful track record running print magazines in the US and the UK.
At age 25 she was editor-in-chief of UK society magazine Tatler. She then went on to be the first female editor of The New Yorker magazine, and edit Vanity Fair and the short-lived Talk magazine.
Named after the fictional newspaper in Evelyn Waugh's satirical novel Scoop, The Daily Beast aimed to prove that online news could be made profitable.
The site was backed by Mr Diller's IAC/InterActivCorp, which also owns properties such as the dating websites Match.com and OkCupid and other websites such Ask.com and Dictionary.com.
Although the Daily Beast has reported strong web traffic numbers - with an audience of between six million and 16 million monthly visitors - it has had difficulty generating meaningful ad revenue.
The November 2010 merger with Newsweek - which had been purchased by audio magnate Sidney Harman for $1 from the Washington Post Company - added more pressure.
After struggling to contain losses and generate buzz, Ms Brown announced that the venerable magazine would cease print publication on 31 December 2012.
Mr Diller later called the Newsweek acquisition "a mistake".
IAC will continue to operate The Daily Beast, according to an article posted on the site.
It will be run by executive editor John Avlon and managing editor Deidre Depke.
The incident, involving a motorcyclist and four vehicles, happened between the A4076 at Scotchwell roundabout and the A4075/B4314 at Canaston Bridge roundabout.
The road was closed for about three hours following the incident.
Traffic in the area is reported to have returned to normal levels following earlier queues.
According to research from Deloitte, items from the designer and other luxury goods now cost less in Britain in dollar terms than anywhere else.
It linked the trend to the fall in sterling since the Brexit vote, which has boosted tourists' spending power.
The pound has fallen more than 17% against the dollar since June.
According to the research, which was prepared for the Wall Street Journal, a Speedy 30 handbag from Louis Vuitton cost £645 in London as of 7 October, or $802.
That compared to €760 ($850) in Paris and $970 in New York. In China the bag cost 7,450 yuan, or $1,115.
Nick Pope, fashion and luxury lead at Deloitte, told the BBC a "period of affordability" after the EU referendum vote was proving a "demand pull" for tourists, who account for more than half of the UK's luxury goods market
"The trend in luxury pricing in the UK is being driven mainly by the depression on the sterling - thus making the same item more affordable in the UK market than in any other major luxury market," he said.
"People don't like paying more for the same product."
That chimes with official statistics that show overseas residents made 3.8 million visits to the UK in July - up 2% on the same month last year. In total, they spent some £2.5bn.
Myf Ryan, chief marketing officer at shopping mall operator Westfield, told the BBC: "The number of tourist shoppers at Westfield centres in July increased year on year with average international spend up nearly 70%."
"What we have seen is Chinese tourists bulk-buying designer items," she added.
In August, Chinese spending at Westfield's malls was up 53% compared with August 2015, she said.
The fall in sterling has pushed up the price of some everyday goods, but Deloitte said luxury retailers had kept prices stable for fear of scaring off consumers.
It said 64% of comparable luxury products were now cheaper in the UK than anywhere else.
Other examples include Balenciaga's Foulard Fringe Dress, which currently costs about $400 less in the UK than in the US.
A Brunello Cucinelli cashmere v-neck for men, meanwhile, costs £650, or $843, in Britain compared to $942 in France and $995 in the US.
Mr Pope warned the discounts would not necessarily last, however, adding that a small number of brands had already put prices up.
"Luxury brands are usually - and rightly - cautious about en masse pricing adjustments," he said.
"But if over six to 12 months this sterling position becomes the 'new normal' - and hence margins are under continued pressure - I would expect more brands to respond with pricing adjustments."
The US military said it detected a missile which appeared to explode within seconds of being launched.
North Korea is banned from any missile or nuclear tests by the United Nations.
However, it has conducted such tests with increasing frequency and experts say this could lead to advances in its missile technology.
Earlier this month, the North fired four missiles that flew about 1,000km (620 miles), landing in Japanese waters.
This test came from the eastern coastal town of Wonsan and will be seen as a response to annual military drills under way between the US and South Korea, which the North sees as preparation for an attack on it.
North Korea is believed to be developing an intercontinental ballistic missile that could strike the US, and has previously claimed it had successfully miniaturised nuclear warheads so they can fit on missiles.
However, most experts believe the North is still some time away from being able to realise such a goal.
Today's failure indicates that North Korea's space programme still has some way to go before its blood-curdling threats to turn Seoul and Washington into seas of flame are achievable.
Some experts also believe that the salvo of four missiles fired towards Japan two weeks ago may actually have been five, with one launch failing.
In addition to its missile failures, North Korea is not thought to have developed heat-resistant material necessary to launch a truly long-range intercontinental ballistic missile. But progress does seem to be being made.
Last weekend, North Korea conducted a rocket engine test that its leader Kim Jong-un claimed was a breakthrough in its rocket technology. This has not been confirmed by independent experts.
It came as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Japan, South Korea and China for talks on North Korea's recent actions, including its two most recent nuclear tests.
Mr Tillerson had said a military option was on the table if the North threatened the South or US forces.
Senegal is leading the operation, which is supported by Nigeria and other states in the region.
Mr Jammeh has been told to leave office by the end of Wednesday and hand over to last month's election winner, Adama Barrow, who is currently in Senegal.
Mr Jammeh has ruled The Gambia since taking power in a coup in 1994.
Wednesday was meant to be his last day in office but parliament granted him three more months in the post.
Garba Shehu, official spokesman for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, said Mr Barrow was preparing to be sworn in as president "on Gambian soil" on Thursday.
At least 26,000 Gambians, fearful that violence could erupt, sought refuge in Senegal this week.
Meanwhile, thousands of UK and Dutch tourists are being evacuated from the tiny West African state, which is popular with European holidaymakers because of its beaches.
Ecowas, the Economic Community of West African States, mandated Senegal because it almost surrounds The Gambia.
Col Abdou Ndiaye, a spokesman for the Senegalese military, said Ecowas had decided on the deadline to try to achieve a diplomatic solution.
"Things are getting into place and Ecowas forces are ready to intervene if needed after midnight if we can't find a diplomatic solution to the Gambian crisis," he said.
The Ecowas force is seeking UN Security Council endorsement to use "all necessary measures" to help remove Mr Jammeh.
The Gambia's entire armed forces are made up of only about 2,500 troops, making it difficult to see how they can defeat a regional force if it moves in, says BBC Africa Monitoring security correspondent Tomi Oladipo.
Nigeria says it sent fighters and other aircraft, along with 200 personnel, to Senegal on Wednesday morning.
Nigerian navy vessels are also on standby and a warship that sailed from Lagos on Tuesday will have the task of evacuating Nigerian citizens while putting on a show of force.
Ground troops are also being provided by Ghana.
Most of the civilians crossing into Senegal are women and children, the UN refugee agency said, citing Senegalese government figures.
In the Gambian capital, Banjul, a restaurant worker who gave only his first name, Musa, told Reuters news agency: "People are afraid, we don't know what's going to happen.
"We hope he [Mr Jammeh] will leave so this will be over quickly and things can get back to normal."
Travel firm Thomas Cook said it would fly back to the UK, over the next 48 hours, 985 customers from package holidays after the UK Foreign Office advised "against all but essential travel to The Gambia due to ongoing political uncertainty and potential military intervention following the presidential elections".
About 1,600 Dutch citizens are also being flown home after similar advice from their government.
Tourism has become the fastest-growing sector of The Gambia's economy, and the country, which has a population of about two million, was marketed to holidaymakers as "the smiling coast of West Africa".
But many of its citizens are poor and complain of political repression. Some, including the goalkeeper of the national women's football team, have drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe in the hope of a better life.
Mr Jammeh has declared a 90-day state of emergency, telling security forces to "maintain absolute peace, law and order".
He says there were irregularities in the election process, including the turning away of some of his supporters from polling stations, and errors made by the electoral commission.
The commission accepted that some of the results it initially published contained errors but said Mr Barrow had still won.
Mr Jammeh has said he will stay in office until new elections are held.
Retaining power would also ensure he was not prosecuted in The Gambia for alleged abuses committed during his rule.
The US state department urged Mr Jammeh to peacefully transfer power to Mr Barrow on Thursday.
"Doing so would allow him to leave office with his head held high and to protect The Gambian people from potential chaos," spokesman John Kirby said.
Prosecutors accuse the company of making its employees work long, tiring shifts without sufficient breaks.
The prosecutors' office in the city of Manaus said one worker reported packing nearly 3,000 phones a day.
Samsung said it would take action "as soon as they are officially notified".
In a statement, the company said it would analyse the process and fully co-operate with the Brazilian authorities.
"We are committed to offering our collaborators around the world a work environment that ensures the highest standards when it comes to safety, health and well-being," the statement said.
The plant, located at the Manaus Free Trade zone, employs some 6,000 people.
A worker at the Amazonas state factory has only 32 seconds to fully assemble a mobile phone and 65 seconds to put together a television set, prosecutors allege.
In evidence given to prosecutors, employees say shifts can last 15 hours and some say they suffer from back ache and cramps as they are forced to stand for up to 10 hours a day.
The prosecutors' office is claiming more than 250m reais ($108m; £70m) in damages from the company for serious violations of labour legislation.
The legal suit was filed on Friday, but has only now been made public.
Fortify Rights said that the government's orders, shown in leaked documents, amounted to "state policies of persecution" in Rakhine state.
There was no immediate response to the report from the Burmese authorities.
The government of Myanmar, also known as Burma, views the Rohingya as foreign migrants, not citizens.
There is widespread public hostility towards the Rohingya in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. The Rohingya, on the other hand, feel they are part of Myanmar and claim persecution by the state.
The UN has described the Rohingya as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
In a report, Fortify Rights said it had analysed 12 government documents from 1993 to 2013, and found that government policies imposed "extensive restrictions on the basic freedoms of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state".
The policies restricted Rohingya's "movement, marriage, childbirth, home repairs and construction of houses of worship", it said.
Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state were also prohibited from travelling between townships, or out of Rakhine, without permission, the report said.
The report said a government order stipulated that married Rohingya couples in parts of Rakhine state could not have more than two children, while another document said Rohingya had to apply for permission to marry, in what the report described as a "humiliating and financially prohibitive" process.
One document published in the report said officials should force a woman to breastfeed her child if there were doubts over whether she was the birth mother.
The restrictions have been known about for some time, but what is new is that campaigners say they have the official orders issued by the Buddhist-dominated local government in Rakhine state, the BBC's Jonah Fisher in Rangoon reports.
It is an oft-stated fear of Myanmar's Buddhists that the larger families of Muslims mean they will one day be in the majority, our correspondent adds.
Tensions remain high between Buddhist and Muslim communities with the latest violence - an attack on Rohingya villagers in January - thought to have killed scores of people.
In 2012 widespread rioting and brutal clashes between Rakhine Buddhists and Muslims, largely thought to be Rohingya Muslims, left almost 200 dead and displaced thousands.
It found that the numbers available for work had been falling while employers took on more staff.
The Bank of Scotland survey for September saw weaker growth than in the previous three months.
The number of vacancies grew, but at the slowest pace for 11 months.
The labour market barometer remains high by longer-term comparison and remained stronger in September than the equivalent UK index.
Survey responses from more than 100 recruitment consultants in Scottish cities showed that Aberdeen had the fastest rise in placement of work applicants.
Edinburgh saw growth, but at the slowest rate of the cities.
Glasgow had the highest growth in pay for permanent new recruits, and Dundee had the fastest rise in pay for those on temporary contracts.
The sectors showing strongest demand for recruits were in health and care work, computing, engineering and construction.
The survey data follows a particularly strong set of employment figures last week from the Office for National Statistics, taking the share of the Scottish workforce seeking jobs during summer down to 5.5%.
Donald MacRae, chief economist at the Bank of Scotland, said: "Starting salary pay rose strongly, reflecting the growing lack of available candidates for vacant positions.
"The barometer is showing almost four years of monthly improvement, resulting in the rate of unemployment in September of 5.5%. The Scottish economic recovery continues."
In other economic news from the British Retail Consortium, footfall for Scottish retail grew last month by 2% - while it fell across most other parts of the UK.
Averaged across July to September, Scotland and south-east England were the only parts of the UK to see growth, with Scotland up 2.6%.
Within the 0.9% UK drop in September footfall, compared with the same month last year, shopping centres saw a 2.6% drop, the steepest fall since October last year.
Passing trade on high streets was down by 0.6%, while out-of-town shopping was up by 0.5%. Fashion sales were hardest hit.
Helen Dickinson, of the British Retail Consortium, said: "To look at the figures initially they seem slightly gloomier than they actually are.
"Despite a dip for the month of 0.9%, largely due to less visits to indoor shopping centres, footfall was up on the 1.1% fall for August which shows that it is going in the right direction.
"As online sales increase, overall we can see how shopping is changing and retailers are adapting.
"The industry is working hard on providing great online shopping experiences for consumers and this too impacts footfall."
Peter Hartley's stoppage-time winner at Home Park ended Pompey's hopes of promotion to League One.
Cook, who joined Portsmouth from Chesterfield last summer, is adamant he will be in charge next term.
"My job now is to manage the club again and lead the club by example," Cook told BBC Radio Solent.
"I will lift myself and I certainly will not be leading by example by walking around sulking.
"I don't think managing Portsmouth in any league is easy. I personally hope I am here for a long, long time. I am very lucky to manage this club."
Pompey, who were top of the table in October, eventually finished sixth in League Two after failing to win in their final three games.
But Cook, 49, believes the south coast side must come back stronger and learn from their play-off disappointment.
"We are very much a work in progress," he added.
"The only positive I take out of it is the club and state the club is in - the whole infrastructure from the training ground to the support I get everyday. It's so disappointing to fall short."
Triumphs for Sir Chris Hoy and Laura Trott at the London Velodrome, coupled with success for the dressage team and Alistair Brownlee in the triathlon, took Team GB's tally to 22 golds at London 2012 - ahead of the return of 19 in 2008 with five days of competition still to come.
It is now Britain's best medal haul since the 1908 Games, which were also held in London, when the team secured 56 gold medals, although that was far from a modern Olympics, with events such as the tug of war and motor boating contested.
Great Britain have also bettered their overall Beijing medal haul of 47 following high jumper Robbie Grabarz's bronze - Team GB's 48th of the Games. They also look certain to add to that tally in the coming days - UK Athletics had set a target of a minimum 48 medals at London 2012.
Here, BBC Sport looks back at Britain's best and worst performances at previous Games.
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The 25-year-old centre-back initially joined the club on loan from Brighton and Hove Albion in 2011.
Cook has made 35 appearances for Eddie Howe's side this term, scoring five goals.
"It was not a tough decision for me to stay. My family love it here and I love it here," Cook told the club website.
"The club is obviously still growing, so hopefully I can continue to be a part of that."
Cook signed for the Cherries permanently from Brighton in 2012 after a successful loan spell.
"It's great to be able to get this deal sorted so quickly and secure the future of such a key asset," added Bournemouth chief executive Neill Blake.
"He has been a fundamental part of the team's success this season and we look forward to sharing many more successful years together."
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Judges said it was up to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) whether charges should be pursued against David Tweed.
Mr Tweed, 57, was jailed for eight years in 2012.
The convictions were quashed in October.
The former councillor, from Clonavon Terrace, Ballymena, had been found guilty of 13 counts of indecent assault, gross indecency with a child and inciting gross indecency with a child.
Lawyers for Mr Tweed challenged the conviction based on flaws in how bad character evidence was put before the jury.
Judges in Wednesday's hearing outlined why Mr Tweed's convictions were overturned.
"The real danger is that his background...took on a disproportionate role in the case and created a real risk that the jury would pay more prejudicial attention to it than should have been the case," one of the judge said.
"We do entertain a significant sense of unease about the correctness of the verdict given the real risk that the jury have been unfairly prejudiced.
"Since this appellant has virtually completed the time specified on foot of his conviction, we do not order a retrial but leave this to the discretion of the PPS."
Mr Tweed made no comment outside court but his solicitor described the case as a "landmark judgement" on how courts should treat bad character evidence.
"Mr Tweed is obviously relieved," she said.
"From the outset, he has maintained his innocence in respect of these charges."
She added that the former rugby international "now wants to get on with his life".
Mr Tweed was capped four times for Ireland after making his debut in 1995.
He was also part of Ireland's squad at the Rugby World Cup in South Africa that year and made more than 30 appearances for Ulster.
A former member of the Orange Order, he served as a councillor in Ballymena for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and, later, the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV).
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Peter Humphrey and his wife Yu Ying Zeng, an American national, are charged with illegally obtaining private information, Xinhua news agency said.
The pair were arrested in August 2013.
Mr Humphrey's company, ChinaWhys, was hired by GlaxoSmithKline China, which is embroiled in controversy over alleged systematic bribery of doctors.
Prosecutors say the couple "illegally trafficked a huge amount of personal information on Chinese citizens" for profit, Xinhua reported.
They obtained this information by "secret photography, infiltration or tailing after someone", it said.
"Based on the information, the couple compiled so-called 'reports' and sold them at high prices to their clients, most of which are China-based multinational corporations, including GSK China," it said.
Local courts "will hold [a] hearing about the case soon", the agency added.
•December 2012 - Vivian Shi Wen dismissed from GSK
•January 2013 - Email sent to GSK boss alleging bribery, with sex tape featuring China chief Mark Reilly attached
•April 2013 - Peter Humphrey hired to investigate
•July 2013 - Police detain four GSK employees
•Mr Humphrey and his wife arrested for allegedly buying and selling personal information - no link made with GSK case
•May 2014 - Chinese authorities accuse Mr Reilly of overseeing bribery network
•July 2014 - China says Peter Humphrey and wife will be tried in secret
In a statement earlier this month, GSK said that its China operation hired ChinaWhys in April 2013 "to conduct an investigation following a serious breach of privacy and security related to the company's China general manager".
This is understood to relate to a sex tape said to have shown the general manager, Mark Reilly, who said the footage was filmed without his knowledge or consent.
The video was sent to GSK's London-based CEO Andrew Witty with an email accusing Mr Reilly of being behind systematic corruption in the company's China operation.
GSK suspected a former senior staff member, Vivian Shi Wen, who was dismissed at the end of 2012, had sent the email. ChinaWhys was also asked to find out how the video had been filmed and who was behind it.
Ms Shi has previously denied being the GSK whistleblower. Attempts by the BBC to reach her have been unsuccessful.
Mr Reilly is currently being investigated by Chinese authorities, as are at least two other senior GSK China executives. He is alleged to have pressed his sales team to bribe doctors, hospital officials and health institutions to increase sales of GSK products.
He is currently effectively detained in China, and has made no recent comment.
GSK has described the allegations as "deeply concerning".
"We are learning lessons from this situation and we are determined to take all actions necessary as a result," it said in the statement.
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Drone footage caught the pod jumping in the waves for more than eight hours.
The dolphins were kicking back after recent storms hit the area where they live.
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The 25 year-old from Merthyr Tydfil beat her British -78kg rival Gemma Gibbons in the head-to-head in France.
Powell's first Grand Slam medal will give her a further rankings boost over Gibbons as she bids to be Team GB's sole -78kg representative at the Rio Olympics in August.
Scotland's Sally Conway also won bronze in the -70kg class.
Conway, 29, did not have to fight her last two rounds because of opponent injury and disqualification.
There are now more than 120 separate families of ransomware, said experts studying the malicious software.
Other researchers have seen a 3,500% increase in the criminal use of net infrastructure that helps run ransomware campaigns.
The rise is driven by the money thieves make with ransomware and the increase in kits that help them snare victims.
Ransomware is malicious software that scrambles the data on a victim's PC and then asks for payment before restoring the data to its original state. The costs of unlocking data vary, with individuals typically paying a few hundred pounds and businesses a few thousand.
"Ransomware and crypto malware are rising at an alarming rate and show no signs of stopping," said Raj Samani, European technology head for Intel Security.
Ransomware samples seen by his company had risen by more than a quarter in the first three months of 2016, he added.
Mr Samani blamed the rise on the appearance of freely available source code for ransomware and the debut of online services that let amateurs cash in.
Ransomware was easy to use, low risk and offered a high reward, said Bart Parys, a security researcher who helps to maintain a list of the growing numbers of types of this kind of malware.
"The return on investment is very high," he said.
Mr Parys and his colleagues have now logged 124 separate variants of ransomware. Some virulent strains, such as Locky and Cryptolocker, were controlled by individual gangs, he said, but others were being used by people buying the service from an underground market.
"It's safe to say that certain groups are behind several ransomware programs, but not all," he said. "Especially now with Eda and HiddenTear copy and paste ransomware, there are many new, and often unexperienced, cybercriminals."
A separate indicator of the growth of ransomware came from the amount of net infrastructure that gangs behind the malware had been seen using.
The numbers of web domains used to host the information and payment systems had grown 35-fold, said Infoblox in its annual report which monitors these chunks of the net's infrastructure.
"They use it and customise it for each attack, " said Rod Rasmussen, vice-president of security at Infoblox.
"They will have their own command and control infrastructure and they might use it to generate domains for a campaign," he told the BBC. "Then they'll have some kind of payment area that victims can go to."
"The different parts are tied to particular parts of the chain," he said. "Infection, exploitation and ransom."
The spread of ransomware was also being aided by tricks cyber-thieves used to avoid being detected by security software, said Tomer Weingarten, founder of security company SentinelOne.
"Traditional anti-virus software is not effective in dealing with these types of attacks," he said.
The gangs behind the most prevalent ransomware campaigns had got very good at hiding their malicious code, said Mr Weingarten.
"Where we see the innovation is in the infection vector," he said.
SentinelOne had seen gangs using both well-known techniques and novel technical tricks to catch out victims.
A lot of ransomware reached victims via spear-phishing campaigns or booby-trapped adverts, he said, but other gangs used specialised "crypters" and "packers" that made files look benign.
Others relied on inserting malware into working memory so it never reached the parts of a computer on which most security software keeps an eye.
"It's been pretty insane with ransomware recently," he said.
Marshman, 27, will face Canada's Ryan Janes in what will be the Abertillery fighter's third bout in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
"I'm very confident with this fight," Marshman told BBC Wales Sport.
"I feel I'm going to be a far superior fighter and I can't see myself being troubled by this opponent."
Marshman made a winning start to life in the Ultimate Fighting Championship when he beat Sweden's Magnus Cedenblad at UFC Fight Night Belfast in November.
But at his next fight against Brazilian Thiago Santos in Canada in February, the Welshman was knocked down in the second round by a spinning wheel kick.
His opponent at the in Glasgow has also fought twice in the UFC and will be the least experienced opponent Marshman has faced so far.
"I had a tough start (in the UFC) but went in and proved that I belong here," Marshman continued.
"But I think the UFC are probably thinking 'let's maybe step him back a bit and give him two fights like this', against evenly matched guys.
"Then if I come through them, I think they'll start bouncing me back towards that top 15 (ranking)."
It happened on the Lisburn Road close to Wellesley Avenue at about 22:00 BST on Saturday.
Police believe the silver coloured car involved may have significant frontal damage. It drove up the Lisburn Road and may then have turned left in the direction of the Malone Road.
Police have appealed for anyone who witnessed the incident to contact them.
Images of the figures were published online by the website Gawker.
They show operating losses of more than $100m (£65m) in the second quarter of 2014, albeit coupled with steady growth in revenue.
In a statement, the company hit back at reports but did not deny them."Shock, horror, Uber makes a loss," it said.
"This is hardly news, and old news at that," it added. "It's a case of business 101: you raise money, you invest money, you grow (hopefully), you make a profit and that generates a return for investors."
The company was recently valued at $50bn and is the most-funded start-up in the world.
There has long been speculation over the health of Uber's profit to loss ratio, a subject on which the company has never officially detailed the sums.
One positive note to emerge was the fact that the company increased its cash holdings from $263m in 2013 to over $1bn the following year.
Uber has faced a string of difficulties this summer, including the arrest of two managers in France over allegations that the service was "illegal" there, and the imposition of a $7.3m fine in California after the company failed to provide detailed information about itself to regulators.
The car-sharing app has also been banned in a number of cities and countries around the world, including Spain, Thailand, several Indian cities and faces partial bans in Germany and the Netherlands.
An arms depot used by the Houthi rebel movement in the city's north-east was targeted for a second day, sending a column of smoke into the sky.
The coalition also bombed rebel positions in the southern city of Aden.
The proposed truce to allow deliveries of desperately needed humanitarian aid started at 23:00 (20:00 GMT).
However, Saudi Arabia has said its offer of a pause in air strikes is conditional on the Houthis reciprocating and not exploiting the ceasefire for military advantage.
The Houthis have agreed to the truce, but said they will "respond" to any violations.
On Tuesday, coalition aircraft bombed the arms depot at a military base on Mount Noqum in the east of Sanaa for the second consecutive day, witnesses said.
Explosions caused by two strikes on the depot on Monday sent debris crashing down the mountainside onto a residential area. At least 69 people were killed and more than 100 injured, medical officials said.
The coalition also bombed Houthi positions in Aden, and local militiamen allied to Yemen's exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi continued to fight the rebels in the port city and elsewhere in the country's south, Reuters news agency said.
The UN says at least 828 civilians have been killed and 1,511 injured since the start of the coalition air campaign on 26 March to restore Mr Hadi.
The six days from 4 to 10 May have been the deadliest, with at least 182 civilians reported killed, almost half of them women and children. A significant proportion of the casualties were caused by air strikes, especially in the Houthis' northern heartland of Saada province.
Analysts say the coalition appears to be trying to inflict as much damage as possible on the Houthis and allied security personnel loyal to the ousted former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, before the humanitarian ceasefire is scheduled to begin on Tuesday evening.
The new UN envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, has arrived in Sanaa, where he hopes to meet various parties, including the Houthis.
On Monday, the UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos called on all sides in the conflict to "stop the fighting and bombing and give the people of Yemen respite".
"Given the deteriorating humanitarian situation on the ground in Yemen with hundreds of thousands of vulnerable civilians trapped in the middle of fighting and unable to access lifesaving aid it is essential that this pause materialise," a statement said.
Baroness Amos said two World Food Programme cargo ships arrived in the Red Sea port of Hudaydah over the weekend with fuel, food, water and nutritional supplies. Other supplies were ready to be brought in and planes were standing by to help evacuate the wounded, she added.
Meanwhile, an Iranian naval official said Iran would escort a cargo ship carrying humanitarian supplies to Houthi-held Hudaydah. Iran has rejected Saudi and US accusations that it is arming the Shia Houthis.
In a separate development on Tuesday, a jihadist website reported that four members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) had been killed in a suspected US drone strike on Monday in the eastern Yemeni port of Mukalla.
By the time he first appeared in the role he had already carved out a distinguished career in the theatre and on television.
His role as the flat-capped philosopher made him the longest-serving cast member of the much-loved series.
And he reached an even wider audience as the voice of Wallace, the cheese-loving character in the animated series, Wallace and Gromit.
Peter Sallis was born on 1 February 1921 in Twickenham, Middlesex.
After attending Minchenden Grammar School in Southgate, north London, where the family had moved, he emulated his father and went to work in a bank.
The acting bug first struck during his wartime service in the RAF, when he was asked to play the lead role in an amateur production of Noel Coward's play Hay Fever.
"Acting is a matter of instinct," he later said when appearing on Desert Island Discs. "As soon as I was on the stage I just felt so at home."
When hostilities ceased he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada).
His first professional appearance came in 1946 and for the next six decades he was rarely out of work.
Throughout the 1950s he made a name for himself as a reliable character actor playing everything from Shakespeare to Chekhov.
His first play with a star cast was a production of Three Sisters, where he appeared alongside Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson.
He had film roles in Anastasia, The VIPs and Wuthering Heights, but it was for his television work that he was better known.
He had already acted in two TV plays by writer Roy Clarke, in one playing a transvestite, before landing the role of Clegg in a Comedy Playhouse episode entitled Of Funerals and Fish.
This was successful enough for the BBC to commission a series with the revised title Last of the Summer Wine.
Surprisingly, given its later success, the first series was not well received by either audiences or critics.
Sallis recalled that filming of the early episodes was enlivened by off-screen arguments between his fellow actors Michael Bates and Bill Owen.
"Michael Bates was somewhere to the right of Margaret Thatcher," he said. "And Bill Owen was somewhere to the left of Lenin. It was all incomprehensible to me as I'd never had a political thought in my life."
The series sparked an appreciation society and a deluge of tourists to the Yorkshire village where it was filmed.
Sallis said, "You would not find me getting up to anything crazy that Clegg gets up to, but I have been very lucky to be a part of it all."
As well as Summer Wine, Sallis appeared in the Pallisers and The Diary of Samuel Pepys. In addition, he wrote a stage play, End of Term, and also a handful of radio plays.
Despite calling himself "only mildly well-known", after 30 years of playing Clegg, Sallis's face was one of the most familiar on British television.
And in 1992 his voice became recognisable across the world, when his distinctive tones graced the character of Wallace in Nick Park's celebrated animation films.
As one half of Wallace and Gromit, he appeared in such modern classics as The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave.
Asked for the inspiration behind Wallace, Nick Park called Sallis his automatic choice and explained how the actor had even helped influence the character's face.
He said: "There was something about his voice that somehow insisted I make Wallace's mouth really wide to get it around the syllables."
Peter Sallis considered himself very fortunate to be in the hands of talented scriptwriters.
But his own gentle manner and natural timing certainly helped create comic characters of enduring and wide-ranging appeal.
It was with the mild-mannered Clegg that he felt most at home.
"I am like him in many ways. I am fairly retiring and do not like to be the centre of attention. I think I'm well cast."
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Mariusz Winiarski, 35, attacked Brian Stirling in King Street, Bathgate, on 17 December last year.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Mr Stirling (54) had been holding the woman's handbag before Winiarski attacked him.
Lord Burns, deferred sentence until May and remanded Winiarski in custody.
Defence counsel John Scullion said Winiarski, who had been drinking, saw the victim looking into the handbag.
He said: "His initial reaction was the deceased was stealing from her. He accepts the conclusion he reached was entirely wrong and he accepts his reason in punching Mr Stirling cannot be justified."
He added: "He accepts full responsibility for the tragic consequences of his actions."
Winiarski was originally charged with murdering Mr Stirling, but pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of culpable homicide.
He admitted assaulting and killing Mr Stirling, formerly from Bathgate, by punching him on the head, causing him to fall to the ground where the victim struck his head. Mr Stirling later died of his injuries.
The Polish national, who worked as a driver, also admitted assaulting Mr Stirling's friend Robert Parker by punching him on the head outside Dreadnought nightclub in Bathgate.
Advocate depute Lynsey MacDonald said Winiarski did not know either of the men that he attacked.
The defence counsel said that although it was a case in which a prison term was "almost inevitable" a background report would be required on the first offender before sentencing.
A conversation with a prison inmate about football led James Almond to break the law himself.
The then prison worker was chatting about his favourite team Manchester United, when the prisoner he was speaking to suddenly asked him to bring in mobile phones, which are banned behind bars.
"He kept asking daily, and become aggressive with things he'd say," Almond says.
This was in 2014 when he was employed at Stocken Prison in Rutland.
The 33-year-old eventually agreed to bring phones in, and did so for a number of weeks before being caught, ending up in jail himself.
He's now telling his story so others can understand the pressure he came under from the prisoner and how unprepared he was for dealing with it.
His case highlights the problem of staff corruption in prisons in England and Wales, a problem some believe is being swept under the carpet.
While there's broad agreement that the vast majority of prison staff conduct themselves with integrity and professionalism, a small number act corruptly - and their actions can have a disproportionate effect on stability and safety.
One well-informed source with extensive knowledge of the prison system told BBC Radio 4's File on 4 there was a working assumption that between three and five staff in every jail were corrupt, which equates to around 600 across England and Wales.
Out of some 33,000 prison officers and staff that's still a minority, but a not insignificant one.
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James Almond never expected to be in that minority when he started working at HMP Stocken, which holds around 670 male offenders, many serving sentences for violence.
But his job as an operational support grade worker escorting building contractors in the prison developed. Before long he was out of his depth - having daily contact with prisoners, a role for which he claims he'd had no training.
"I did feel fairly vulnerable in the role, especially because at the time I was suffering heavily with depression after my father passed away.
"And that is the kind of thing these prisoners pick up on quite easily," he says.
One particularly manipulative inmate, with whom Almond had begun discussing football, took advantage - threatening to harm his young relatives if he didn't comply.
"He really scared me with those threats, especially when he said 'I know about your niece and nephew'.
"This gentleman was in prison for armed robbery. I didn't know what he was capable of."
The demands and threats wore Almond down and eventually he agreed to bring in a phone.
Mobiles are a valuable commodity, because they enable prisoners to keep in touch with their family and contact criminals on the outside - and calls are not monitored like the prison pay phones are.
Almond took part in four smuggling missions, collecting a package in a carrier bag from a stranger in a car park, slipping the parcel into his gym bag, then walking through the gates at Stocken.
"I was trying to just play it nice and cool," he says.
He says he never looked inside the packages, but it's thought they may also have contained drugs such as the potent synthetic cannabis substitute, Spice.
"It was a calculated risk that wasn't the day they decided... to do a staff search," he says, claiming he was never searched during his six months working there.
He received £500 for each parcel, double his weekly take-home pay, and acknowledges that as well as acting out of fear of the prisoner, the money was also "an incentive".
John Podmore, who spent 25 years in the prison service - including a stint as head of the anti-corruption unit - believes low pay and a lack of adequate training are two key factors driving staff to bring in contraband.
He says corruption is an "inconvenient truth" which has far more of an impact than the well-publicised problem of drones, which deliver packages to prison cell windows or drop them inside perimeter walls.
"One prison officer bringing in one coffee jar full of Spice or cannabis can keep that jail going for a very long period of time and make an awful lot of money," he says.
"There is a disproportionate effect by this small minority of staff and that's what needs to be understood."
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A number of former prisoners I spoke to agreed that while drugs and phones are thrown over walls, brought in by visitors or sent through the post, corruption is a major source as well.
One man knew of a prison officer who brought in drugs in empty tubs of Pringles crisps. Another former inmate said staff had taken parcels directly from the post room to a prisoner without them being scanned.
And several ex-prisoners said some officers turned a "blind eye" to drug-dealing and drug-taking.
"If you're doing a very, very long time and you're not going nowhere, it would be prudent to just leave you alone, and that's the kind of stance they took for a long while," says Leroy Smith.
He spent the best part of two decades in prison for the attempted murder of two policemen in 1994.
"The doors would be left open and everything was relaxed and people would just do whatever they wished within reason inside the jail."
Smith, who was eventually released in 2014 and has now written a book about his experiences, says corrupt staff didn't bring in drugs often, but when they did it had a profound effect.
"In five years you might have three times when it happens, but when it happens it's big because the whole place is saturated because it is just continuous - everyday they are just bringing it and bringing it and bringing it," he says.
The Ministry of Justice, which is responsible for prisons in England and Wales, says it remains "vigilant" to the threat posed by corruption and takes "swift action" against those involved.
The department is investing £3m in a new intelligence unit, developing a corruption strategy and considering introducing a prison-specific offence of corruption.
Jerry Petherick, one of the country's most experienced prison managers who worked in the public sector for 23 years before joining the private company G4S more than a decade ago, says they do their "damnedest" to catch corrupt staff.
He once sparked an investigation after spotting an expensive car parked outside a prison - it belonged to a member of staff, who turned out to be corrupt.
"It may seem strange for me to say that we actually celebrate those successes," says Mr Petherick, who believes the publicity acts as a deterrent.
"The vast majority of staff do not want to be associated with, do not want to work alongside corrupt members of staff because it puts their safety at risk," he says.
Almond accepts that his actions could have put staff at Stocken Prison at risk.
He was given a 12-month jail sentence for bringing in the phones. After being released early, probation staff helped him find a new job, in a factory.
Almond says the Prison Service should improve training for staff so they're better able to handle manipulative prisoners, but accepts he must take most of the blame for what he did, and it could have been much worse.
"It did occur to me that this was enabling the prisoner... to carry on with their, maybe, drug enterprises on the outside, getting drugs into the prison, and being able to organise a riot or things like that," says Almond.
"It could have resulted in injuries to a lot of staff."
File on 4 is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 GMT on Tuesday 14 March and 17:00 GMT on Sunday 19 March.
Their findings, published in Nature Geoscience, show how climate change can cause surprising geological events.
The Slims River once flowed out to the Bering Sea, but now it flows into the Kaskawulsh River instead.
This phenomenon, known as "river piracy", typically takes centuries but the study documented it over the course of one spring.
"Nobody's ever seen a river piracy occur in modern times, at least to my knowledge," lead author Dan Shugar told the BBC.
The geoscientist at the University of Washington Tacoma says he and six researchers from Canadian and American universities had planned to study the Slims River last summer.
But when they arrived in the Yukon it was barely flowing. They discovered that a small channel had eroded in a large glacier that fed a number of small lakes.
The glacial lakes used to feed two river systems - the Slims River and the Kaskawulsh River - but when water from one lake poured through the channel into another, it cut the Slims off from its water source.
The event is known as river piracy or stream capture, and can take thousands of years. But the researchers documented the piracy of the Slims River in just one spring.
Prof Shugar said his colleague, John Clague, at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, had predicted this event just a decade before because of the area's unique geological formation. But no one knew when or how quickly the stream capture would occur.
River gauges show an abrupt four-day drop in late May 2016, which then continued over the summer, the study found.
By the time Prof Shugar and his associates got there, the Slims was basically "a long, skinny lake".
"The Slims River was essentially cut off from how it was flowing before," he said.
The change in the river's flow affected the whole landscape. Sheep are now grazing on the exposed river bank, while other rivers in the area are running high. Fish population, wildlife and lake chemistry will continue to be affected, the study noted.
In the big picture, Prof Shugar said, the piracy of the Slims is a reminder that climate change "may bring surprises that we are not appreciating fully and that we're not necessarily prepared for".
Instead of the normal teeth grinding and forking out the extortionate cost of a paper ticket, she informed me nonchalantly that she'd use her bank card.
Now I am (allegedly) meant to know about these things but I admit that it had never occurred to me at that moment that a contactless card could save us a few quid.
That was it. Tap in tap out. No bother, extremely convenient and something that makes the Oyster card and cash completely redundant.
Of course, phasing out Oyster cards and cash is not Transport for London's (TfL) plan (yet) but the latest figures show contactless payments on transport are increasing.
Currently one million contactless taps are made each day on London's transport network which TfL claims makes it the fastest growing contactless merchant in Europe after just six months.
Oyster has been a huge success story for London but the system costs TfL millions a year to administer, while the contactless payment system is run by the banks.
In fact, it is actually more beneficial to use contactless than Oyster.
If you are a commuter there is a weekly cap with payments subject to daily capping - when travellers taking multiple journeys will not pay more than the cost of a Day Travelcard - or there's a Monday-to-Sunday cap with the best value over the course of the week.
Labour on the London Assembly believes that contravenes promises that Oyster would always be the cheapest fare.
Val Shawcross said: "What contactless shouldn't become is a stealth attempt to push people away from Oyster cards by reserving the best fares for contactless."
TfL has said it is looking at an automatic weekly cap for Oyster but the technology is not as advanced as that on contactless cards.
What is also interesting is how these payments on transport seem to be driving the rest of the market.
Scott Abrahams from MasterCard said: "This milestone for TfL shows just how quickly consumers have taken to contactless in London.
"This extraordinary take-up is having a halo effect on other businesses in the UK who accept contactless payments."
With new innovations there are glitches - contactless cards and Oyster cards in the same wallet or purse can cause 'card clash' when the system recognises an entry or exit on different cards and can result in charging you the maximum fare.
TfL said: "In November there were 1,564 instances each weekday where customers may have accidentally paid with a contactless payment card they did not intend to pay with, our most recent figures from the end of February show at 1,235 per day, showing a steady decline."
County led for a minute before conceding twice in four minutes to lose 2-1 and extend their winless streak to six matches in the league.
The Rams are in the bottom three, one point above bottom side Wigan, with just one league win all season.
"In the first half we looked as though we were paralysed with fear," Pearson told BBC Radio Derby.
"We have a group which undoubtedly at the moment are not living up to the expectations externally, certainly not living up to the expectations internally and that's my responsibility because I'm the manager," added former Leicester City manager Pearson, who took over at the iPro Stadium in the summer.
"If we don't get the basics out there and we don't get the level of commitment to the game out there, it remains a very tough ask of us to get the performances which warrant points.
"Given what happened, we are exactly where we should be in the league. We got what we deserved and that's the bottom line."
Pearson continued: "I can't keep hoping that players are going to bring their best games to the table week in week out, and then not do it, so I might have to start making changes.
"If that means introducing some of the younger players then so be it, but ultimately it's about getting a team on the field that want to play for us, want to show the levels of commitment and are prepared to go whatever distance it takes to get the result."
Former Leeds United captain Sol Bamba has been training with Derby.
The 31-year-old Ivorian is a free agent after leaving Leeds for personal reasons before the closure of the transfer window in August.
Bamba played for Pearson when the pair were at Leicester City, but the Rams boss says there has yet to be any talks over a possible contract.
"I don't think it's something to discuss openly when it's not been discussed internally," he said.
"I've worked with him before and he's been happy to come in and train with us, so we'll leave it at that."
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The Australian, who is managed by Ricky Hatton, was knocked down in the sixth round but floored Uzbekistan's Chagaev with a big right.
Browne, who improves his record to 24-0, followed up with a series of right hooks before the referee intervened.
Britain's Tyson Fury is considered the WBA's heavyweight 'super' champion as he also holds the WBO version.
In Birmingham, London's Bradley Skeete won a unanimous points decision to take the British & Commonwealth welterweight title from Sam Eggington.
A passenger who uploaded video of the aftermath of the incident said a mother had been struck with the pram as it was forcibly removed by the employee.
The video shows the employee saying, "Hit me! Come on, bring it on!", when challenged by another male passenger.
American Airlines said it was "deeply sorry for the pain we have caused" the woman passenger and her family.
The incident follows another high-profile clash on a United Airlines plane two weeks ago, when a passenger was violently removed from an overbooked flight.
The American Airlines incident took place at San Francisco International Airport as flight 591 prepared to take off for Dallas/Fort Worth.
Passenger Surain Adyanthaya, who posted the video to Facebook, said that preceding the footage the employee had "violently" taken the pram from the mother, hitting her and narrowly missing her baby.
The footage shows the mother clearly distraught as other employees and passengers try to intervene.
One male passenger demands the name of the employee involved and when a man dressed in American Airlines uniform enters the plane, the passenger tells him: "Hey, bud, you do that to me and I'll knock you flat."
The employee confronts the passenger, telling him to "stay out of this", then saying: "Hit me! Come on, bring it on."
He adds: "You don't even know what the story is."
The passenger replies: "I don't care what the story is. You almost hurt a baby."
In its statement, American Airlines said: "What we see on this video does not reflect our values or how we care for our customers. We are deeply sorry for the pain we have caused this passenger and her family and to any other customers affected by the incident."
It said it was "making sure all of her family's needs are being met while she is in our care".
The airline upgraded the woman and her family to first class when she took another flight to Dallas.
"The actions of our team member captured here do not appear to reflect patience or empathy, two values necessary for customer care. In short, we are disappointed by these actions," the airline said.
A statement from the Association of Professional Flight Attendants stressed that all passengers deserve to be treated with respect, but warned against rushing to judgement before the full facts were known.
The UN Budget Committee recognised gay spouses, regardless of whether or not gay marriage is legal in their country of origin.
Previously, the UN followed national legislation on the issue.
The vote went 80 to 43 against Russia's resolution, which had backing from China, India and Muslim countries.
EU member states and the US lobbied hard against the resolution and for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's plan to include gay couples in the staff benefits scheme.
Speaking after the vote, US Ambassador Samantha Power said: "We must speak plainly about what Russia tried to do today: diminish the authority of the UN secretary general and export to the UN its domestic hostility to LGBT rights" - referring to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Earlier, Russia's deputy UN ambassador Petr Iliichev said the UN should return to how the issue was previously regulated, calling it "an example of how the United Nations respects cultural differences, the sovereign right of each and every state to determine its norms".
Russia drew international criticism in 2013 when it banned the spreading of gay "propaganda" among teenagers.
Conservative national traditions are already recognised under UN staff rules, as UN diplomats from countries where polygamy is legal receive spouse benefits for up to four wives.
The scheme works by exploiting the government's Employment Allowance.
The scam could deprive the Treasury of tens of millions of pounds of National Insurance payments.
Anderson Group says that all of its services are fully compliant with UK tax laws.
It says it is "totally incorrect" to say that Anderson Group is promoting the scheme and says it is a product being offered by one of its clients.
Anderson Group, which calls itself the UK's "leading provider of support services to the recruitment industry" has hundreds of agencies and thousands of contractors on its books.
The tax avoidance scheme works by exploiting the government's Employment Allowance which was introduced last year.
The allowance enables companies to claim £2,000 off their annual employers' National Insurance bill and was meant to encourage small businesses to take on more workers.
The BBC secretly recorded Anderson Group's sales manager, Ian Moran, promoting the tax avoidance scheme to a recruitment agency.
The agency he was pitching to employs 300 workers, many of whom work in low paid jobs in warehouses or as labourers.
Mr Moran suggested that if the recruitment agency were to set up more than 100 limited companies with a couple of workers in each of them, each company could then claim the £2,000 allowance.
By Mr Moran's calculations the agency's National Insurance bill would then fall from £300,000 a year to zero.
Mr Moran suggested the recruitment agency, which has no intention of using the scheme, might like to spend the £300,000 on Bentleys and ski chalets.
The ''job's a good'un,'' he said.
Mr Moran told the recruitment agency that 10,000 workers were now being employed through these companies, and the goal was to increase that to 20,000.
If National Insurance was avoided on every worker, HMRC could lose £20m in National Insurance contributions.
At the meeting, Mr Moran admitted that the Employment Allowance was being misused: ''It wasn't intended to be used exactly like this,'' he said.
''Let's be straight, but they set the rules, we'll build a product."
Robin Williamson, head of the low incomes tax reform group at the Chartered Institute of Taxation, has called the scheme "highly aggressive" and "abusive".
He says it drives a coach and horse through the legislation: ''To use the colloquial - they are having a laugh."
The Employment Allowance legislation makes it clear that artificially created companies cannot claim the allowance.
The BBC found on the Companies House website more than two thousand limited companies created by those behind the tax avoidance scheme.
"Schemes like this don't work and anyone thinking of using it should think again," Jennie Granger, head of compliance at HMRC told the BBC.
"Failing to disclose an attempted avoidance scheme is punishable by a fine of up to £1m," she added.
HMRC has promised to "pursue users and promoters" of the scheme.
Tax expert and financial reform campaigner Richard Murphy thinks the scheme's promoters are banking on the idea that by the time HMRC catch up with them, there'll be no money to recover.
'"What they'll say is: well, there's no money in any of these companies, they're all empty shells, therefore, you can sue us, you can put us in to liquidation, but they'll be nothing for you to have,'' he said.
Mr Murphy believes it's time to consider whether there should be a penalty on the directors of limited companies set up for the purposes of abusing the tax system.
None of the tax experts the BBC spoke to were surprised that this scheme was operating within the recruitment industry.
For years this sector has been dogged by allegations of tax avoidance and exploitation of low paid workers. The Treasury is consulting on ways to clean up the sector's shady practices.
Speaking on the Today programme about the UK tax industry, former chair of the Public Accounts Committee Margaret Hodge said: "There are hundreds of people advising on how you could exploit the system, some of them used to worked for the government, and we need to crack down on those advisors.
"We have a ridiculously complex tax scheme with over 1,100 tax relief schemes. I think we should simplify the system.
"In 2010 the government said they'd simplify the tax system, but we ended up with 100 more tax relief schemes than we went in with."
She added that it was worth investing in HMRC because every pound invested in it brought in about £9 in recovered tax.
The 26-year-old Scot missed out on a medal by 1.5 seconds after working his way through the elite field in Lahti, Finland.
The race was won by Canadian Alex Harvey in 1:46:28.9.
Russia's Sergey Ustiugov took silver, with Finland's Matti Heikkinen third.
He said: "I am pretty happy, it was a good race, but at the same time I am a little bit disappointed that I didn't have a stronger finish and get onto the podium.
"I have got stronger in every race I have done and I have never done so well in a 50km so it is awesome.
"I have a lot of confidence going into the next World Cup and hopefully I can pull out a few more good races."
It was a tremendous performance by Musgrave, whose previous best result was sixth in a World Cup 15km.
Elsewhere at the 2017 World Championships, he finished 12th in the 15km Classic and 11th in the 30km skiathlon.
No politician wants to look as though they are overly interested in how they dress.
"You'll see I wear only grey or blue suits," President Barack Obama once said.
"I'm trying to pare down decisions. I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make."
And few voters would want to admit that politicians' clothes have much of an influence over how we vote.
The problem is, experts tell us, that with the clothes we wear we are constantly giving off and receiving signals - whether we are conscious of it or not.
'Speed, modernity'
Theresa May, a self-proclaimed lover of fashion, has had a long while to hone her choices while in the public eye - and to understand what messages she is conveying.
Her clothes have been a subject of hot debate for at least 15 years, when she caused a furore by wearing a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to deliver a Conservative Party conference speech.
On the campaign trail, notes Dr Vanessa Brown, senior lecturer in design, culture and context at Nottingham Trent University, Mrs May tends towards, to coin a phrase, a "strong and stable" wardrobe.
It does not follow fashion too frivolously and suggests a woman who is in control and making rational choices - yet with a flash of "trying to connect through fashion".
She sometimes wears diagonal lines, which can denote "speed, modernity, looking forward" and is a fan of quite structured tailoring, allowing for some movement when interacting with the public and pounding the streets.
It's a style that's easier to wear than body-skimming clothing, without looking "fussy" or "soft".
What about the famous shoes? Will we be seeing some flamboyance there?
Possibly, says Dr Brown, though noting that Mrs May's famous flashes of fun in her wardrobe are only "allowing that level of frivolity as far from her head as she could make it".
Jeremy Corbyn has also come under scrutiny for years over what he wears - although for slightly different reasons.
Way back in 1984 he was being given a dressing down on BBC television for "scruffy dress" - which he responded to while wearing a jumper knitted by his mother and criticising Tory MPs for voting in "dinner jackets".
Despite having so far worn thoroughly respectable suits while campaigning, the "scruffy" tag continues to haunt him.
One voter told a Daily Politics vox pop in Derby this month that Mr Corbyn looked like he'd "come out the back garden", comparing him unfavourably with David Cameron, who was "smart".
"I'm not saying I wouldn't vote Labour, but that has a big influence," said the voter.
On the other hand, Mr Corbyn's clothes seem to appeal to parts of the electorate. Pop culture site Konbini recently ran a piece on how to look like him, with tributes to his oversized blazers, Breton caps and "bicycle chic".
For politicians, you can't appeal to every single voter - so perhaps the important thing is to be "authentic". If you look like your natural self, Dr Brown says, people will find you more likeable, and in turn more believable.
Mr Corbyn, she said, could perhaps "sharpen it up" a bit to make his look "a little more intentional" - and Lib Dem leader Tim Farron, who is similarly normally seen in a suit, with or without a tie - could also "get away with a bit more".
Mr Farron looks "exactly what he is", she notes, so presumably would score highly on any authenticity index - but could perhaps play up any subversive side if he wanted to be more noticeable.
He is reported to wear Dr Martens every day, with the Mirror at one point saying they "almost suggest this man has flair, personality... hobbies".
Mr Farron could perhaps, if that was the way he wanted to go, play up his reported musical roots.
He told the Huffington Post in 2015 that in the late 1980s he had fronted a band "written off as a fourth-rate New Order" , and told Total Politics that he was "once nearly a pop star" - explaining that his band got offered a recording session with Island Records, but didn't do it.
On the campaign trail he has so far not caused a particular stir, sartorially - although he did get his pictures in a lot of media outlets when he boarded a hovercraft in Burnham-on-Sea, clad in a lot of safety gear.
Politicians on the campaign trail do try to signal connectedness with voters by dressing according to their surroundings - for instance by dressing down if they are visiting a refuge or charity centre.
Or think David Cameron wearing casualwear while playing with a lamb during a campaign visit in his Witney constituency in 2015.
But go too far, it seems, and you will lose that sense of your authentic self - politicians still wince at William Hague's baseball cap, and that was from way back in 1997.
The scrutiny
But what about the formal events - the podiums and set-piece interviews?
What is often overlooked is how clothes make you feel, Dr Brown says.
Suits, with their structured tailoring, provide an impermeable smooth "outer casing" - a harder surface which can make you feel stronger and more in control.
That's why tailoring and monochrome colours are so popular - they not only don't look like you're fussing - they literally make you feel more invulnerable.
Although men are also increasingly under scrutiny for how they look, it is still women's clothes that are really picked on and pored over.
An enormous amount has been written about SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon's clothes in the last couple of years - the Daily Mail's recent "Legs-it!" front page, comparing the legs of the prime minister and Scottish first minister while they were meeting to discuss Brexit and a second Scottish referendum, being a case in point.
Ms Sturgeon - who, like Theresa May, has appeared in Vogue and does say she is interested in fashion - has said she is conflicted by the scrutiny she comes under and that there is too much focus on what women wear.
"I do have a concern that for women, if women politicians - prime ministers, first ministers, are always reduced to how they look, and what they wear, and their legs, then we're saying something that we probably shouldn't be saying about the status of women," she recently told BBC Breakfast.
"So I think that focus on appearance is probably something we should try to move away from."
Perhaps that scrutiny partly influences her and other women politicians' fondness for single-colour suits and tailored dresses.
Minimalism, says Dr Brown, tends to appeal to politicians. All the scrutiny can lead to quite similar wardrobes of plain styles - because the more you experiment, "the more potential mistakes, more for people to talk about".
"So a shift dress is where you end up".
'He's wearing clothes'
It's almost enough to make you feel sorry for politicians - having to convey, through their outfits, all these messages about control, intelligence, entitlement to power, authenticity - while still trying to make people want to vote for them.
And you can't really say it doesn't matter because, as Dr Brown says, often for politicians a few words and their appearance are more significant than the depth of what they might say.
Most of us don't engage very deeply in the detail of political offerings - "so what else are people going on?"
But of course, not everybody goes in for the idea that clothes are a set of signifiers, sending off complex unconscious messages.
UKIP leader Paul Nuttall, for instance, has been notable for wearing a lot of tweed - a hint, perhaps, of Britishness and a traditional lifestyle - although so far on this campaign trail he has mainly been photographed in a dark blue suit and tie.
Is there a particular message he is trying to convey through his clothes, BBC News asked?
"No," said UKIP head of press Gawain Towler.
"He's wearing clothes, because some suit the outside and some suit the inside, just like you and I would wear clothes."
Melanie Hartshorn, from Cramlington, has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome which causes her skull to sink into her spine.
After almost £160,000 was raised for two operations, the 27-year-old is now able to sit up for about an hour a day.
She said the success of the procedures would now enable her to pursue a career as a teacher.
Surgeons in Barcelona operated for nine hours to fuse her skull to her spine last month.
Ms Hartshorn said: "It has just been incredible. I never thought I would be able to sit up. It was something I was never able to plan for.
"I had to have two operations. The first one was to put screws all the way down from my skull, right down my neck to keep all the bones in line and stop them from compressing my brain stem.
"The second operation to basically do that all down my back to my pelvis."
Ms Hartshorn said she was limited to about one hour a day in her wheelchair, but is hopeful that will increase with physiotherapy.
She added: "I really want to do teaching, go back to university and get my primary teaching qualifications.
"But the first thing is physio rehab, build up my sitting time and get an electric wheelchair.
"That will mean I can go out on my own and access the world again."
She also thanked those who had contributed to her fundraising campaign and who had "changed her life" for good.
One of African football's best-known figures, the ex-Super Eagles captain is one of only two men to win the Africa Cup of Nations as a player and a coach.
NFF president Amaju Pinnick: "This is devastating. We have lost a superhero."
Keshi, who is reported to have suffered a heart attack by local media. also managed Togo and Mali, while his playing career included a spell with Belgian club side Anderlecht.
Sunday Oliseh, a former team-mate and Keshi's successor as Nigeria coach, tweeted his shock at the "horrible news" and called Keshi "an iconic hero".
Keshi skippered the Nigeria team that won the Nations Cup in 1994 before narrowly missing out on a World Cup quarter-final place the same year.
He coached the Super Eagles on three occasions, leading them to the 2013 Nations Cup title in South Africa and the last 16 at the 2014 World Cup.
His contract was not renewed after the Brazil tournament but he returned on a match-by-match deal following the team's failure to reach the 2015 Nations Cup finals.
He was then sacked as caretaker coach but reinstated after intervention from then Nigeria president Goodluck Jonathan.
Keshi, who lost his wife to cancer late last year, was then sacked for a final time last July.
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Dr McDaid has resigned his position on the grounds of ill health.
He has been a priest since 1968 and a bishop since 2010.
In a statement the Bishop of Down and Connor Noel Treanor said Dr McDaid "has served and supported his priests and all those entrusted to his care with a remarkable capacity for empathy and with a Christian heart".
"I wish Bishop Liam every happiness in his retirement and look forward to our continued friendship in the years ahead," he added.
According to a World Health Organization study, in Africa almost 97% of abortions are unsafe, putting women's health at risk.
It said developing countries, particularly those with more restrictive abortion laws, had the most cases of unsafe abortions.
Ms Ayimba told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme about her experiences and her work with women who seek counselling after having abortions.
I went through an unsafe abortion when I was about 20 years old.
I was afraid to go and tell my mother that I was pregnant. I was four months pregnant and decided to face her but on my way home I met a close family friend.
He said, "If you tell your mother you're pregnant, you're going to break her heart."
He said there was another option, another way out. I was very scared because I didn't know anything about abortion but he told me it was going to be OK and safe.
He looked for the money, because I didn't have any at that time, and paid a nurse who took me to a gynaecologist in Kisumu, and that's where the abortion was performed.
I was not put under any anaesthetic and on the abortion bed it was such a very painful experience - though it took place in a clinic.
After that I was given an injection and I slept for a while and then got up and went home. My life went back to normal but every once in a while I would have pains in my stomach. It would make me jerk with the pain - for more than a year.
The pains kept coming. At this time psychologically I felt I was not good enough for another man - in my mind I was thinking no man would want to marry a woman who has gone through an abortion.
So when I got into another relationship, it was with low self-esteem, looking for love and acceptance.
After that, I got pregnant again - I was a very naive person and did not know much about protection - and the one I knew about, the condom, I didn't like.
Because the first abortion had solved my problem, I went through a second abortion. It was the easier option: I didn't think twice about it.
I was able to do my exams, - at the college of my dreams. I didn't want my pregnancy to stop my career.
But after a few months of relief, I then went through a lot of psychological trauma - I was a very, very depressed person.
I would hit depression about two times in a month: I would really hate myself - I couldn't look myself in the mirror because I knew in my heart what I'd done was so wrong.
I was also very suicidal. In fact, twice I attempted suicide.
I was angry with myself, angry with the world, there was anger against the people who took you for the abortion.
There was bitterness and regret because when you're seeing other people's children, in your mind you're visualising how old your baby would have been and you really feel bad about it.
I have recovered because I have been through professional counselling.
I am now pro-life as a result of what I went through.
Kenya's constitution [adopted in 2010] now permits abortion if a woman is considered at risk, but the risk is debatable, allowing some to have abortions for reasons that are not medical.
I now counsel women who have had abortions. Many ladies who have come for the support groups have gone through the abortion knowing they want to solve the problem but later go through post-abortion syndrome and many complications that come after.
I once had a lady who went for an abortion in a proper clinic and after the procedure she thought that her womb was still there, only when she got married and tried to have babies she discovered she had no womb.
She traced back to the clinic and they told her: "Oh, there was a complication and we removed it, sorry we didn't tell you."
Another lady, two months after the abortion, she discovered that she had a spinal cord left in her womb.
The stories are so many - there are so many complications that come after an abortion, even if it's done in a proper clinic.
He is believed to have been walking along the carriageway at about 02:00 BST when he was hit by a car travelling northbound.
He was then struck by three other cars travelling southbound, police said.
The motorway was closed in both directions for several hours between Ramsbottom and Bury junctions but has now fully reopened.
Emergency services have been at the scene overnight and investigation work is being carried out.
Police said the victim had been identified and his family had been informed.
A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and remains in police custody.
Officers are appealing for witnesses and anyone with dash cam footage to contact them.
Local authorities recorded 4,236 data breaches during a three-year period from April 2011, a study by privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch said.
Its director Emma Carr said this showed "shockingly lax attitudes to protecting confidential information".
The Local Government Association said breaches were "proportionately rare" given the volume of data handled.
The report is based on responses to Freedom of Information requests sent to all local authorities in the UK.
Its findings include how:
Specific cases detailed included a social worker at Lewisham City Council leaving a bundle of papers on a train, which contained personal or sensitive data relating to 10 children.
Also, a CCTV operator at Cheshire East Council used cameras to watch part of the wedding of a fellow member of their team, while an employee at Thanet in Kent was dismissed after accessing benefit claim records "inappropriately".
Big Brother Watch is calling for custodial sentences for the most serious data breaches.
Ms Carr said: "Despite local councils being trusted with increasing amounts of our personal data, this report highlights that they are simply not able to say it is safe with them.
"A number of examples show shockingly lax attitudes to protecting confidential information. For so many children and young people to have had their personal information compromised is deeply disturbing.
"With only a tiny fraction of staff being disciplined or dismissed, this raises the question of how seriously local councils take protecting the privacy of the public."
Local authorities with the highest number of data breaches from April 2011 to April 2014
Source: Big Brother Watch
Big Brother Watch said 167 town halls reported no data breaches at all over the period under scrutiny.
A spokesman for the Local Government Association said: "Councils take data protection extremely seriously and staff are given ongoing training in handling confidential data.
"When [breaches] do occur, robust investigations and reviews are immediately undertaken to ensure processes are tightened."
John Swinney has done what he had signalled, and kept the first year of a Scottish Rate of Income Tax at the same level chosen at Westminster.
It was a safe centrepiece to a cautious, pre-election draft budget, signalling priority areas for the SNP re-election campaign - housing and childcare to the fore, with innovation and digital investment for the economy.
The allocation put in place defensive measures to fend off opposition attacks on the Scottish government's performance, notably on policing and college funding.
And it took the safe option of continuing to freeze council tax, for a ninth year, but by so doing, John Swinney increased the strength of case for reform of local taxation.
So no big deal on tax? Well, not quite. The nature of Holyrood politics has started to change fundamentally.
Whereas MSPs have 16 years of experience of distributing a block grant and balancing the books, they have ventured into riskier waters.
They now have the powers to alter income tax, and are on course to get much more substantial powers still. And they have to set a rate. Even if there's no change, it's a choice.
The democratic view of this is that it makes MSPs accountable for the money they raise.
One economic view is that they now have to learn how the use of tax powers can have unintended consequences.
Tax changes create incentives to change behaviour. Take, for instance, the new and devolved tax to replace Stamp Duty - the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax.
For its introduction last April, John Swinney did something unusual - he shifted the tax burden from buyers of cheap houses to buyers of expensive ones.
It was a clear choice for a more progressive tax, with 7% of transactions leaving the buyer worse off than under Stamp Duty.
George Osborne followed the new design of transaction levy - though with a less progressive range of rates.
This showed that ideas can be pinched, and that two very similar countries are likely to find they adopt similar approaches to taxation, however much the rhetoric is about divergence.
That was underlined by the decision to increase the transactions tax on 'additional homes' - second homes, holiday homes and buy-to-let properties. George Osborne did it last month. John Swinney did it this month.
But LBTT has introduced a new dimension to life at Holyrood. If budgets are to be balanced, the tax revenue from such taxes can't veer too far off course.
Governments need an understanding of how much any tax or tax change could raise - and if that revenue isn't raised, they need the flexibility to borrow or find other ways of keeping a level playing field.
The Scottish Fiscal Commission has been set up, with the official role to provide assessments of the soundness of tax and spend forecasting.
While its report, published at the same time as the draft budget, said Mr Swinney's forecasts are "reasonable", it was less complimentary about the means used to get to them.
It detailed how the Scottish government needs to gain expertise, and data, with which to forecast more accurately.
That is after forecasts for LBTT revenue, in its first seven months, has come in £31m adrift from one set of Scottish government forecasts. There was a failure to judge correctly how much transactions for the most expensive property would be brought forward to avoid the new charge.
The commission said it was "increasingly concerned" about the absence of an understanding of how behaviour change can alter tax revenue, and that a great deal of work had to be done on the effect of the supplementary charge on the property market.
If MSPs are only now figuring out that transactions tax can change behaviour, they are going to have to get more robust, reliable data with which to model the impact of income tax.
Unlike property, taxable income is a lot easier to move to places where it will be taxed less. And given that there is a high reliance on top earners to pay Scotland's income tax - more than 20% of income tax contributed by the top 1% of earners - it is rather important that there is an understanding of what happens if you hit high earners with higher taxes.
The other key message from this budget is about public sector reform. We've heard lots about that, going back to pre-SNP days at St Andrew's House. The results have been patchy to disappointing.
John Swinney put fresh impetus into that. Once again, he wants councils to work more closely together and more efficiently. There was a hint that, if they do, the pain of their finance cut could be eased.
He wants more digital access to public services, and smarter procurement.
And he moved the focus on protecting the health service financially, to challenging it to change the way it works.
Such reform, he said, is at least as important as more money. And not reforming will undermine the ability of the NHS to meet rising demand from an ageing population, and rising expectations of what health technology can provide.
That could put MSPs into new territory of confronting the power of the public sector professions and of other vested interests.
It is another signal that governing is about a lot more than distributing cash and giving away free stuff.Scottish taxpayers will have an 'S' at the start of their tax code, but otherwise won't see much difference in their tax bills and pay slips.
The freshly drafted code aims to limit the viral spread of online abuse on social media.
It requires the firms to act quickly when told about hate speech and to do more to help combat illegal and xenophobic content.
The firms must also help "educate" users about acceptable behaviour.
The need for better ways to combat online hate speech had become more urgent in the wake of terror attacks in Belgium, said Vera Jourova, European Commissioner for Justice.
"Social media is unfortunately one of the tools that terrorist groups use to radicalise young people and racists use to spread violence and hatred," she said in a statement.
Hate speech and xenophobia also had a "chilling effect" on groups that sought to champion tolerance and non-discrimination, she said.
The agreement of the four web firms was an "important step forward" in making sure the net stayed a place where free expression was possible, Ms Jourova said.
A core part of the code is the requirement to remove hateful content within 24 hours of being properly notified about it.
The tech giants have also agreed to work more closely with groups that monitor and flag violent and hateful content. They will also develop and promote "counter narratives" to challenge those who post hate speech or illegal content.
Karen White, Twitter's head of public policy for Europe, said "hateful conduct" had no place on its network and added there was a "clear distinction between freedom of expression and conduct that incites violence and hate".
The code also requires the four firms to overhaul their notification systems to ensure people can quickly report inflammatory content when they find it.
The Commission will hold regular meetings with technology firms to monitor what effect the code of conduct is having. A preliminary assessment of its effectiveness will be drawn up for the Commission's high level group on combating racism and xenophobia by the end of 2016.
The code of conduct for net firms was one of several initiatives to tackle abuse online, the Commission said. Other work involves research to help ISPs assess information posted online and produce tools that can counter intolerance.
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However, British businessman Bill Browder, for whom Mr Magnitsky worked, said he had been "thrown".
He did not give a source for his allegation.
According to a press release released by a website linked to Mr Browder, Law and Order in Russia, Mr Gorokhov was due to appear in an appeals court in Moscow on Wednesday to contest its refusal to investigate allegations of organised crime.
Mr Magnitsky died in prison after revealing alleged fraud by state officials.
The incident involving Mr Gorokhov occurred in the town of Troitsk, south-west of Moscow. Russian media said several workmen were helping the lawyer at the time.
Footage on Russian media showed pictures of the tub and the debris of a wooden structure beside it.
One man described as a witness told Russia channel NTV that a delivery company had offered to carry the tub up to the fourth floor but that Mr Gorokhov had said he would winch it up the side of the building himself.
"He tried to use a homemade mechanism to lift it to the fourth floor. While he was doing that the winch got jammed. He went to fix it a bit and fell, with the jacuzzi and the makeshift scaffolding which landed on top of him," he said.
His comments appeared to indicate the workmen were on the ground at the time of the accident.
Mr Magnitsky was jailed after being accused of committing fraud himself. Supporters say his death in November 2009 was the result of a severe beating, but official records say he died of acute heart failure and toxic shock, caused by untreated pancreatitis.
Mr Magnitsky had acted as a legal adviser for London-based Hermitage Capital Management, founded by Mr Browder (formerly a US citizen), who was himself tried in absentia.
The Magnitsky affair soured relations between Moscow and Washington, casting a spotlight on corruption in Russia.
It led to US sanctions on a group of Russian officials, retaliation by Russia and the bizarre spectacle of Mr Magnitsky being put on trial posthumously.
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The former chancellor has been made a Companion of Honour, while Tory MPs Oliver Letwin and Patrick McLoughlin are among those who have been knighted.
Mr Cameron's ex-spin doctor Craig Oliver and Samantha Cameron's adviser Isabel Spearman are also on the list.
The SNP called the list "a form of personal patronage"; Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said it was "full of cronies".
A row broke out after details of the list were leaked to the Sunday Times, including rewards for No 10 staff, party donors and Remain campaigners.
Guide to the Honours
Thirteen new Conservative peers have also been created, alongside two crossbench peers and there is one Labour nomination for Shami Chakrabarti, former director of civil liberties group Liberty.
Ms Chakrabarti, who recently concluded an inquiry into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, said she was "honoured to accept [Labour leader] Jeremy Corbyn's challenge and opportunity to help hold the government to account".
But the appointment was criticised by Marie van der Zyl, of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, who said it was "beyond disappointing" she had been offered a peerage by Labour "following her so-called independent inquiry". "The report, which was weak in several areas, now seems to have been rewarded with an honour," Ms van del Zyl said.
Opposition MPs called for reform of the honours system after the list was leaked but Prime Minister Theresa May has said she will not intervene in the resignation honours because that would "set a very bad precedent".
The full list of Mr Cameron's resignation honours was published after mounting criticism that the former prime minister was to reward his political allies.
Mr Osborne, chancellor of the exchequer from 2010 to July 2016, has been admitted to the Order of the Companions of Honour - a distinction which is given for service of conspicuous national importance and is limited to 65 people.
Recipients may write the initials CH after their name.
Tory party chairman Mr McLoughlin, who was formerly transport secretary, ex-cabinet minister Oliver Letwin, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon and Craig Oliver, Mr Cameron's former communications director, are knighted. Former environment secretary Caroline Spelman becomes a Dame.
Isabel Spearman, who was employed as a special adviser to Mrs Cameron, has been made an OBE. Thea Rogers, a special adviser to Mr Osborne, has received the same award.
Meanwhile, Will Straw, executive director of the Britain Stronger in Europe group which led the failed EU Remain campaign, becomes a CBE for political and public service.
Others to have received honours on the 46-strong list include:
The new Conservative peerages include Mr Cameron's chief of staff Ed Llewellyn and the head of his Policy Unit, Camilla Cavendish.
The list was criticised by opposition parties. Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal Democrats, said: "David Cameron's resignation honours list is so full of cronies it would embarrass a medieval court. He is not the first prime minister to leave office having rewarded quite so many friends, but he should be the last.
"For the reputation of future leaders, such appointments should be handed over to an independent panel."
The SNP's Tommy Sheppard MP said the list showed Westminster's honours system was "rotten to the core" and there should be a "civil honours procedure that recognises service to the community and outstanding performance in a particular field - neither of which applies to this list".
And Katie Ghose, head of the Electoral Reform Society, said Mr Cameron had "followed the well-trodden route of every other PM and packed the second chamber with former politicians, donors and party hacks. These unelected peers will cost the taxpayer millions over the long term - hardly a fitting goodbye".
Earlier, Mr Cameron's former director of strategy, Steve Hilton, criticised the former prime minister over his resignation honours list.
He said it was "not OK" for politicians to appoint people to the legislature, and that big donors "shouldn't have undue influence over political and policy decisions".
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7 June 2016 Last updated at 08:46 BST
During the month of Ramadan, many Muslims spend all day fasting - that includes no water!
We asked different families about their experience of the special month, and you told us exactly what Ramadan means to you.
To find out more about Ramadan traditions, check out the Newsround guide.
The government announcement came as Network Rail consults on options for the line left dangling in the air at Dawlish, Devon.
They include moving the line seawards and strengthening the cliffs above the line.
The line connects Devon and Cornwall with the rest of the UK.
More on the railway line cash, plus more Devon and Cornwall news.
The closure of the line was estimated to cost the South West economy more than £1bn.
The government money comes on top of £5m awarded earlier this year to Network Rail and £3m of Network Rail's money which has been spent on the project so far.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said: "It is vital that we do all we can to prepare our transport system for extreme weather.
"Never has the impact of nature been better demonstrated than at Dawlish and it is important that we make our railways strong enough to weather any storm.
"The further funding we have today announced will help to make sure that this vital link remains open."
Mark Langman, Network Rail's managing director for the Western route said: "Keeping the South West connected to the rest of the country by rail is vital to the economy of the region."
Stockdale replaces the injured Jared Payne at full-back, while Trimble is preferred to Craig Gilroy on the right wing for the trip to Thomond Park.
Henry comes in at openside flanker for a match which is key to Ulster's hopes of making the play-off semi-finals.
A strong Munster line-up sees several Ireland internationals recalled.
Ulster are unbeaten in their last six outings, winning six and drawing one, but lie fifth in the table, level on points with fourth-placed Scarlets.
Payne was ruled out of the derby encounter earlier this week because of an ankle injury sustained in the 24-24 draw with Cardiff Blues last week.
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Fellow Irish international Trimble will make his first start since recovering from a hand injury, having made an appearance in the second half of the draw with the Blues in Belfast.
Henry has overcome a niggle which ruled him out of that game at Kingspan Stadium, and his inclusion sees Sean Reidy move to number eight, with Iain Henderson continuing at blindside.
Stuart McCloskey provides midfield cover from the bench, having regained fitness from the calf injury which has kept him out of action since the win over Edinburgh in early February.
Munster Director of Rugby Rassie Erasmus makes a total of nine changes, with Donnacha Ryan and Tyler Bleyendaal both deemed fit to start after completing their return to play protocols following concussions.
A changed front row sees Dave Kilcoyne, Niall Scannell and John Ryan named, while Ryan links up with Billy Holland in the second row.
There are two changes in the back row with only Jack O'Donoghue retained at number eight as captain Peter O'Mahony and Tommy O'Donnell return to the flanks.
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Keith Earls, Rory Scannell and Simon Zebo are introduced to the back-line with Earls on the left wing, Scannell inside Francis Saili, and Zebo at full-back.
Fly-half Ian Keatley is named in the replacements after undergoing rehabilitation on a knee ligament injury sustained against Cardiff Blues at the start of March,
James Cronin is also included after overcoming a bang to his knee in last weekend's encounter against Glasgow Warriors.
Conor Murray remains absent, having not played since suffering a shoulder injury when in action for Ireland against Wales on 10 March.
Fellow Lions hopeful CJ Stander is still missing after sustaining an ankle problem during the Irish province's Champions Cup quarter-final win over Toulouse.
Munster are challenging for honours on both the European and domestic fronts and boosted their chances of securing a home Pro12 semi-final by seeing off Glasgow 10-7 on Saturday night.
That victory left them seven points clear of third-placed Ospreys in the standings.
Munster: S Zebo; D Sweetnam, F Saili, R Scannell, K Earls; T Bleyendaal, D Williams; D Kiloyne, N Scannell, J Ryan; D Ryan, B Holland; P O'Mahony (capt), T O'Donnell, J O'Donoghue.
Replacements: R Marshall, J Cronin, S Archer, D O'Callaghan, J Deysel, A Lloyd, I Keatley, A Conway.
Ulster: J Stockdale; A Trimble (capt), L Marshall, S Olding, C Piutau; P Jackson, R Pienaar; A Warwick, R Best, W Herbst; K Treadwell, A O'Connor; I Henderson, C Henry, S Reidy.
Replacements: R Herring, C Black, R Ah You, R Diack, C Ross, P Marshall, S McCloskey, C Gilroy.
The FTSE 100 in London ended 0.6% higher at 5,911 points, while Frankfurt and Paris both added about 1%.
Europe had followed Asia lower earlier after Shanghai tumbled 6.4% to its lowest close since December 2014.
Brent crude jumped almost 6% to $32.30 a barrel, reversing earlier falls, while US oil was up 5.4% at $31.98.
The Dow Jones industrial average surged 1.8%, while the S&P 500 closed 1.4% higher.
Oil made gains on hopes that both Opec and non-Opec producers would take action to tackle oversupply, after Opec on Monday called for co-operation from oil producing nations outside the cartel.
Share markets have had a rocky start to the year as worries over slowing economic growth in China have intensified, while commodity prices have also been buffeted.
Although China's economy is still expanding, the pace of growth is slowing, reducing demand for products such as coal and iron ore and thus their prices.
Oil prices were hit again earlier on Tuesday by figures from China showing annual rail freight volume - a key economic indicator - fell 11.9% last year, compared with a decline of 3.9% in 2014.
Daniel Ang, an analyst with Phillip Futures in Singapore, said demand remained weak: "It is going to be very difficult to maintain higher prices."
"Wherever you look - China, oil and the US, there is no clear evidence of improvement in economic fundamentals," said Tatsushi Maeno, managing director at PineBridge Investments.
Commenting on the Shanghai slide, Kaiyuan Securities analyst Yang Hai said: "We've seen another stampede driven by panic."
Rabobank's Michael Every said: "It's just another in a long series of slumps that we have seen in this market, and it's not the last we will see either because the market is still overpriced. And too many people want to get their money out - it's been a bubble since it began last summer."
He expected Shanghai, China's top mainland stock market, to fall a further 10% before stabilising.
The index has already fallen about 17% this year.
On the FTSE 100, the top risers were all miners, including Anglo American, Glencore and Randgold Resources.
Gold rallied to its highest level since November, up 1% at $1,114.70 an ounce. The safe-haven commodity has risen nearly 5% this year, after sliding more than 10% in 2015.
The US Federal Reserve's rate-setting committee starts a two-day policy meeting on Tuesday and is not expected to make any change.
Meanwhile, Chinese state media have warned billionaire investor George Soros against betting on falls in the yuan or the Hong Kong dollar.
Soros, who made more than $1bn from shorting sterling in 1992, has said he was betting against the S&P 500, commodity-producing countries and Asian currencies, although he has not specifically mentioned the yuan or Hong Kong dollar.
China's central bank has been making plenty of liquidity available to the banking system to avoid any cash squeeze ahead of the long Lunar New Year holiday early next month.
Traders said that the bank would inject 440bn yuan (£46bn) into the money markets, the biggest daily injection in three years.
Joanna Rich, 18, was sitting on Smeaton's Pier in St Ives, Cornwall, on Tuesday afternoon when the gull swooped towards her.
Ms Rich, who was airlifted to hospital with back injuries, said she had no choice but to "move forward" to escape the attack.
She has since returned home to recover.
More on the rescue, plus more Devon and Cornwall news
Witnesses said they saw Ms Rich "go into a panic" before she fell from the wall.
"The only way I felt I could get away was to go forward, I didn't actually realise how high it was," she said.
Ms Rich said she was now recovering from injuries she suffered in the fall.
"I'm aching a lot but I'm absolutely fine," she said.
The RSPB has previously said tourists should not feed gulls, as it can train them to see humans as providing a food source.
Over time, it can make the birds more likely to attack unsuspecting beachgoers, the charity said.
Stephen Warman, former head of English Nature in Devon and Cornwall, said holiday towns could become a "haven" for seagulls.
"If people insist on feeding them in towns or make rubbish available by not using proper bin bags then they'll learn from that," he said.
"By far the best way is to restrict the availability of food by stopping people either dropping food or feeding them and managing rubbish better."
A government-commissioned review also recommended the creation of a new register to allow people to opt out of all charity contact.
It follows concerns about aggressive fundraising tactics by some charities.
A BBC poll suggests more than half (52%) of those who regularly give to charities feel pressure to donate more.
The review also said the main fundraising regulator should be scrapped.
Stuart Etherington, of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, who led the review, said the Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB) "really doesn't have the clout or the sanctions" to prevent bad practice.
When the heads of several major UK charities appeared before MPs earlier this month, they placed the bulk of the blame for improper fundraising tactics with outside agencies working on their behalf.
Sir Stuart said charities must "really carefully scrutinise what these agencies are doing", and must be prepared to accept a drop in the amount of money they raise - in the short term at least - in order to improve standards.
At present, the FRSB regulates standards set by fundraisers themselves, but the review found this was an "inappropriate arrangement".
Among the report's recommendations:
Charities could then have to submit future fundraising plans to the regulator before being allowed to recommence their activities.
The regulator could also order compulsory training for fundraisers who have not adhered to the rules, for example by failing to follow correct procedure when dealing with vulnerable people.
The BBC Radio 4 survey found 47% of the 1,006 British adults questioned donate in a planned way, including direct debit and standing order.
Of those, it found:
Sir Stuart said Britain was a "tremendously generous country" but charities were not thinking hard enough about "what it was like to be on the receiving end of some of their fundraising methods".
Two other existing regulators, the Institute of Fundraising and Public Fundraising Association, would merge and continue to monitor aspects of on-street and door-to-door fundraising, but the new overarching regulator would ultimately be responsible for all forms of fundraising.
The FRSB said it agreed some reform was needed, but said "a revamped FRSB, properly resourced, would be the most viable and cost-effective way of moving forward".
The issue was highlighted earlier this month when it was alleged that an 87-year-old dementia patient's personal details were sold or passed on by charities up to 200 times, ultimately ending up with scammers.
Samuel Rae's son, Christopher, said: "I think they [charities] have got a long way to go before they step back over the line we all thought they were behind. The charities need to do more farming and less hunting."
The Institute of Fundraising, which represents the sector, said its members wanted "to see a stronger and more robust system".
But Steve Bell, chief executive of homelessness charity Changing Lives, said the overhaul should go further, with a total ban on street collecting - or "chugging" - and doorstep cold calling.
The victory makes Great Britain the most decorated nation in European Championship history, with Sweden the next best with four.
The teams were level at 25-25 at half-time and GB took a three-point lead into the final quarter before stretching their advantage.
Both teams have secured places at next year's World Championships in Sydney.
It happened at about 19:30 on Wednesday between two sections of the A18 known as Joey's Corner and Guthries Memorial.
Police said the man, who was riding a blue Triumph, sustained serious injuries and died on Friday.
Det Insp Mark Newey said: "If anyone captured the incident on a camera please let the police know so we can piece together what happened."
He told Betsi Cadwaldr, Hywel Dda, Cardiff and Vale, and Abertawe Bro Morgannwg they had not made enough progress in tackling financial and performance problems.
It means they will continue to submit annual plans for government approval.
Together, the four boards overspent by a total of almost £120m last year.
Each is also already subject to an increased level of Welsh Government control and scrutiny.
Betsi Cadwaldr in north Wales - in special measures, the highest level of government intervention - "continues to face a number of service and performance challenges, which require ongoing support", Mr Gething said.
Meanwhile the Hywel Dda board, serving south west Wales, "faces ongoing strategic, service and financial challenges".
In south Wales, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg and the Cardiff and Vale boards also face performance and financial challenges.
According to the statement, the four boards will continue to get extra support from Welsh Government officials with the aim of being able to submit three-year plans this time next year.
Meanwhile the minister has approved the three-year plans covering 2017 to 2020 of six other NHS organisations.
They are Aneurin Bevan, Cwm Taf, and Powys Teaching health boards along with Public Health Wales, the Velindre Cancer Centre and the Welsh Ambulance Service.ULL
Mr Bannon will serve as chief strategist, a role that puts him at the heart of the White House.
His appointment, criticised by the Democrats, will also concern the Republican mainstream, which has been the subject of repeated attacks by Breitbart in recent months.
The combative site serves up an anti-establishment agenda that critics accuse of xenophobia and misogyny. Under Mr Bannon, it has become one of the most-read conservative news and opinion sites in the US.
Born in Virginia in 1953, Mr Bannon spent four years in the navy before completing an MBA at Harvard. He then went into investment banking and, after a spell with Goldman Sachs, moved successfully into media financing.
He shifted into film production, working in Hollywood before branching out into independent political documentary making, paying homage to former US President Ronald Reagan, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement.
Through this work he met Andrew Breitbart, a staunchly conservative media entrepreneur who wanted to create a site that challenged what he saw as liberal-dominated mainstream media.
When Andrew Breitbart died of a heart attack in 2012, Mr Bannon took over as head of Breitbart News and drove it forward.
The site positioned itself as a populist, bellicose, conspiracy-tinged outlet for right-wing Americans disillusioned with mainstream politicians.
"We call ourselves 'the Fight Club.' You don't come to us for warm and fuzzy," the Washington Post quoted Mr Bannon as saying in January 2016.
"We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly 'anti-' the permanent political class. We say [Republican House Speaker] Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation [a conservative think-tank]."
Some of Breitbart's headlines have attracted controversy. A conservative commentator was called a "renegade Jew", and the work of reproductive rights organisation Planned Parenthood was likened to the Holocaust.
One headline read "Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy", while another asked students "Would you rather your child had feminism or cancer?".
During the election campaign the site unashamedly promoted Donald Trump. One piece in November 2015 called him the "John Wayne" of politics, saying "we should thank God that Trump is in this race... He will set back the destruction of America".
It has also been accused of becoming the mouthpiece of the alternative right (or alt-right), a loose online grouping of mainly young people who embrace "white identity" while rejecting progressive views on immigration, race, LGBT issues and gender equality.
Breitbart, in a column in March, said the movement had "a youthful energy and jarring, taboo-defying rhetoric". The Southern Poverty Law Centre called it "a loose set of far-right ideologies" with the preservation of "white identity" at its core.
Readership has risen and the site received 17 million unique visitors in July, according to digital research firm Comscore. But internally there have been ructions.
Ben Shapiro, who resigned as the site's editor-at-large in March over the treatment of a reporter allegedly manhandled by a member of Mr Trump's team, said Andrew Breitbart's "life mission" to fight bullies had been betrayed.
"In my opinion, Steve Bannon is a bully, and has sold out Andrew's mission in order to back another bully, Donald Trump," he wrote.
Mr Trump appointed Mr Bannon as campaign CEO in August and, following last week's election victory, has handed him a key White House role.
Democrats have slammed the appointment.
"It is easy to see why the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) views Trump as their champion when Trump appoints one of the foremost peddlers of white supremacist themes and rhetoric as his top aide,'' Adam Jentleson, spokesman for top Senate Democrat Harry Reid, said in a statement.
Mr Bannon's appointment has also been criticised by civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which campaigns against anti-Semitism, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, a leading advocacy group against hate crimes.
The ADL's chief executive, Jonathan Greenblatt, described Mr Bannon as "a man who presided over the premier website of the 'alt-right' - a loose-knit group of white nationalists and unabashed anti-Semites and racists".
It is not clear how much influence Mr Bannon will wield. A statement from Mr Trump said Mr Bannon would work "as equal partners" with Reince Priebus, his newly-appointed chief of staff.
Washington insider Mr Priebus is a former chairman of the Republican National Committee and a friend of Paul Ryan.
Eli Lake, a columnist for Bloomberg View in Washington, told the BBC the choice of Mr Priebus over Mr Bannon for chief of staff sent a signal that a Trump administration was "willing to work within the Republican Party as opposed to trying to burn it down, which is the kind of thing Steve Bannon was saying in the final weeks of the campaign".
But, he said, clearly Steve Bannon was part of the inner circle - a situation he called unprecedented.
"It is very much a new thing that someone like this will be in the White House and having the ear of the leader of the free world."
Authors including James Patterson and Donna Tartt have signed a letter to the retailer that is due to appear as a full-page advert in the New York Times.
Amazon is in a battle with Hachette, one of the world's biggest publishers, over the terms of e-book sales.
The authors said their books had been "taken hostage" by Amazon's tactics.
The online retailer has delayed delivery, prevented pre-orders and removed discounts for books by some Hachette authors, who include JK Rowling, Stephanie Meyer and David Baldacci.
The letter said Amazon had singled out a group of authors for "selective retaliation" and was "inconveniencing and misleading its own customers with unfair pricing and delayed delivery".
"Many of us have supported Amazon since it was a struggling start-up," the letter continued.
"Our books launched Amazon on the road to selling everything and becoming one of the world's largest corporations.
"We have made Amazon many millions of dollars and over the years have contributed so much, free of charge, to the company by way of co-operation, joint promotions, reviews and blogs.
"This is no way to treat a business partner. Nor is it the right way to treat your friends.
"Without taking sides on the contractual dispute between Hachette and Amazon, we encourage Amazon in the strongest possible terms to stop harming the livelihood of the authors on whom it has built its business."
The letter concludes by asking readers to email Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to urge him to end the dispute. The New York Times said the letter was scheduled to appear as a full-page ad on Sunday.
Other Hachette authors to have signed up include Baldacci, Sandra Brown, Jeffery Deaver, Malcolm Gladwell and Daniel Handler, who writes as Lemony Snicket.
Lee Child, Paul Auster, John Grisham, Philip Pullman and Stephen King - who are published by other houses - have also added their names.
But some of Hachette's biggest names, including Rowling and Meyer, have not.
In a recent blog, Amazon said e-books were too expensive and most should cost $9.99 (£5.95) rather than the current $14.99 (£8.92) or £19.99 (£11.90).
"That is unjustifiably high for an e-book," the company wrote.
"With an e-book, there's no printing, no over-printing, no need to forecast, no returns, no lost sales due to out-of-stock, no warehousing costs, no transportation costs, and there is no secondary market - e-books cannot be resold as used books. E-books can be and should be less expensive."
If prices were lowered, Amazon said, more books would be sold and total revenues would be higher. Hachette was also "sharing too small a portion with the author", it added.
Meanwhile, a petition in support of Amazon, which claims Hachette wants to keep e-book prices "artificially high", has attracted 7,600 signatures, including a number of self-published authors who praised the retailer for creating a more democratic industry.
One, Theresa Ragan, wrote that she had failed to get the attention of established publishers until Amazon allowed her to self-publish.
"They allowed readers to decide whether or not they wanted to read my books," she wrote. "What a concept! Since that time, I've sold over one million e-books."
Yu Muchun, 20, and Tang Wentian, 21, were jailed for four and five months respectively and fined a total of 18,000 yuan (US$2,900), Xinhua reports.
The pair were racing a Ferrari and Lamborghini through a tunnel in central Beijing when they crashed on 11 April.
A woman passenger in the Lamborghini suffered a fractured spine.
The two men are reported to have pleaded guilty to the charge of dangerous driving, and told the court they have no plans to appeal against their sentences.
"I made a mistake, had a bad influence on society, and hurt my family and friends," Tang, who drove the Lamborghini, was quoted as saying.
The court heard the two cars were travelling at speeds of up to 179 km/h (111 mph) when they spun out of control in the Datun Road tunnel, near the national stadium, running over a guardrail and hitting the tunnel walls.
The police at the time said the two men were in their 20s and unemployed, prompting speculation that they were the offspring of wealthy officials or business people.
This has since been denied by Tang's family, who said their son had bought the Lamborghini after making a fortune in the stock market. Yu is reported to have said he borrowed the Ferrari.
The crash coincided with, and so was compared to, the latest Fast & Furious film, which features fast cars and high-value write-offs.
The 24-year-old five-time Paralympic champion set new bests in her T34 category over 100m, 400m and 800m.
Cockroft began the streak of impressive times by lowering her record in the 100m to 17.28 seconds before taking the 400m in 57.86 seconds on Thursday.
She then led from gun to win the 800m on Sunday, knocking one second off her previous best to 1:55.73.
There was also a world record in the women's T53 200m for Britain's Samantha Kinghorn with a new time of 28.91 seconds earlier on the same day.
The six-lane track in Arbon is known to wheelchair athletes as the fastest in the world and the series of Swiss events, which ran from 25-28 May, saw a total of 20 world records broken with 29 competing nations.
Cockroft will join her British team-mates next week in Nottwil, also in Switzerland, for the IPC Grand Prix between 2-5 June.
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The additional money takes the Treasury's contribution to around £60m.
Adapting the stadium could cost between £150m and £190m.
But the deal was secured only after West Ham agreed to increase their own funding of the project by £5m, to £15m. They will move in from August 2016 and pay around £2m a year rent.
We will only go there if it is fit for use. I won't go there if I have to look over a running track. But I believe we are in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Let's face it - they've built a stadium, albeit the wrong shape and size
Under conversion plans, the roof will be extended and the seating capacity reduced from 80,000 to 60,000, with a retractable system allowing the venue to be converted from an athletics arena to football stadium within days.
Seats will slide over the running track to bring West Ham fans closer to the action.
The London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) will begin work on the roof in the autumn and officials hope it will be ready for the autumn of 2015 -
After that the stadium will close again to reconfigure the stadium's lower seating bowl and re-open in time for West Ham to start playing their games there in August 2016.
Although West Ham were appointed preferred bidders by the LLDC three months ago, there were still fears the agreement could collapse over how to finance the transformation of the stadium.
Initially the club had been reluctant to pay anything, but over time they increased their contribution to £10m and are now prepared to pay £15m.
The rest of the money will be drawn from a range of sources, including London Mayor Boris Johnson's budget, a £40m loan from Newham Council and around £20m of borrowings by the LLDC.
To guarantee the 99-year lease, West Ham also had to agree to pay a proportion of any future sale of the club back to the LLDC.
Johnson argued that the move into the stadium significantly enhanced West Ham's value and that the public purse should share in any profits generated from a sale by owners David Gold and David Sullivan.
In response, West Ham have agreed to pay a one-off windfall back to the LLDC if they sell the club in the next 10 years. West Ham say that is a sign of Gold and Sullivan's long-term commitment to the club.
The deal will be a huge relief to the mayor and the government, who feared the stadium could become a major drain on taxpayers.
Government: Around £60m
Loan from Newham Council: £40m
LLDC loan: £20m
West Ham: £15m
There will also be funding from London Mayor Boris Johnson's budget
As well as £2m-a-year in rent, the club will share catering and hospitality revenue with LLDC but it is understood West Ham will take all ticket and merchandising income.
Leyton Orient chairman Barry Hearn is seeking a judicial review of the decision but the LLDC is confident that will not stall the process.
Sources insist Hearn is contesting the LLDC's failure to do a joint deal with the Premier League team and Leyton Orient, rather than the decision to place West Ham in the stadium.
The LLDC and West Ham will now work together to sell the naming rights for the stadium to a major sponsor.
Initial talks with the International Olympic Committee and the British Olympic Association have begun on whether they can use the word "Olympic" in any future naming of the venue.
This is thought to be extremely unlikely unless the sponsor of the stadium is also one of the Olympic movement's big commercial partners.
Total profits for the biggest track of 2013 are $16.68m (£10.87m), with rapper TI getting a $704,000 (£459,000) share according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The trio are being sued for copyright infringement by Marvin Gaye's family, over similarities to Got to Give It Up.
They are seeking money from sales and touring, as well as damages.
According to testimony from damages experts in court in Los Angeles, singer Thicke received $5.66m (£3.69m) from the song's profits.
Williams got a total of $5.15m (£3.36m) - $4.3m of it from publishing royalties, and a further $860,000 for producer royalties.
Thicke, Williams and rapper TI - real name Clifford Harris Jr - deny copying Gaye's 1977 hit.
They have previously insisted there are no similarities "other than commonplace musical elements" and claim the track was created "without copying anyone else's composition".
The financial details of the music industry and the profitability of individual tracks usually remain a closely guarded secret.
But they have been revealed in this instance as Gaye's children, Frankie and Nona, seek a substantial amount of income and damages for lost licensing revenue.
CAA (Creative Artists Agency), who represent Thicke, was served with a subpoena over details of his income.
This revealed that an estimated $11m (£7.17m) of his touring income was attributable to the success of Blurred Lines.
After Thicke, Williams and TI received their share of profits, the rest of the $16.68m was divided between record companies Interscope, Universal Music Group Distribution (UMGD) and Star Trak.
An executive at Universal Music testified that the track's overhead costs accounted for $6.9m (£4.5m).
During opening arguments, a lawyer for the Gayes estimated damages at $40m (£26m).
A second song, Thicke's Love After War, is also being contested at the trial. The Gayes claim it is similar to another Marvin Gaye track, After the Dance, which Thicke also denies.
The trial continues.
As a clean-up operation began on Monday, they said the death toll rose to 13, including three zoo employees.
The disaster has left dozens of families homeless and caused disruption to the city's main infrastructure.
Heavy rains caused the River Vere - normally little more than a stream - to burst its banks and flood the capital.
Raging floodwaters rose to the rooftops of enclosures at the zoo, drowning hundreds of animals and sweeping many out of their enclosures.
Some Georgians have been angered over reports that some of the zoo animals were shot dead after escaping from the zoo.
As the search for survivors continued on Monday, an elderly man was pulled out from inside the rubble of his destroyed house, government spokeswoman Manana Tokmajishvili said.
One resident, Aleko Korkotashvili, told AFP: "I saw a man clutching at a lamp pole in the middle of a violent torrent. He was screaming, asking for help, but we were unable to help him."
Tbilisi zoo director Zurab Gurielidze said that of the three people found dead inside the zoo on Sunday none had been killed by animals.
As many as 300 animals are believed to have died in the flooding, zoo officials said, adding that a number of lions, tigers and jaguars remained on the loose.
Many Georgians have been venting their anger on social media over the killing of one of the zoo's favourites - a white lion cub called Shumba - who was found killed near its zoo den, reports BBC Monitoring's Marica Knezevic.
However, the zoo's director told Rustavi-2 there was no official order to kill the animals.
Two bear cubs were reportedly found alive several miles away from the zoo on Monday, and returned to their enclosures.
A bear found clinging to an air-conditioning unit of a building and a hyena discovered on someone's balcony were both recaptured on Sunday. A hippopotamus was also cornered in one of the city's main squares and subdued with a tranquiliser gun.
Hundreds of people, who were granted the day off work and school, joined the clean-up operation that commenced on Monday - also a national day of mourning.
Thousands of people have been left without water and electricity while others have had to be airlifted to safety.
Roads have been destroyed, and small houses and cars swept away.
Coffins in a city cemetery were reportedly washed out of the ground and left lying on the mud.
Finance Minister Nodar Khaduri warns the damage cost could be higher than the original estimate of $15m (€13m), according to the AFP news agency.
In May 2012, five people were killed in Tbilisi after another river flooded.
The Consumer Rights Act 2015 will make it far easier for groups of consumers to seek compensation from firms that have fixed prices and formed cartels.
It introduces "opt out" actions where everyone affected is automatically a member of the "class" which is suing.
Consumer groups say it is a huge step forward in helping secure compensation.
Previously, when groups of consumers or small and medium-sized businesses wanted to take action against companies who fixed the price of goods or services, on - for example - replica football shirts or air fares, it was very difficult.
All of those affected had ether had to "opt in" to the action or bring a claim in their own name. As individual losses were small and legal costs and risks high, few did.
Such were the problems with opt-in actions that there has only been one of note. This was when consumer body Which? sued JJB Sports which had taken part in fixing the prices of some replica football shirts.
The action was settled and consumers who joined it who had paid up to £39.99 for certain England and Manchester United football shirts, during specific periods in 2000 or 2001, received a payment of £20 each.
JJB Sports also agreed to compensate those who bought one of the shirts but did not join the claim.
They were entitled to £10 if they presented either proof of purchase or the shirt itself, with its label intact, at a JJB Sports store.
It was all a bit messy and many who bought the shirts did not join the claim and so did not get any money back.
Under the new law, everyone who purchased the overpriced goods can be automatically "in" the claim unless they opt out.
It means there will be strength in numbers and consumers could get their money back without lifting a finger.
"The new collective redress rules will give consumers more power against unscrupulous businesses that have been found guilty of anti-competitive practices," said Which? executive director Richard Lloyd.
"Now everyone who has been affected will be automatically included so more people should get redress and sooner."
He added the move was good news for consumers and responsible businesses because "those caught acting illegally will be made to pay the price".
Under the new law, claims have to be approved by the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
They can be brought by a suitable representative of the group affected by the price fixing, who then advertises the claim in order to make others in the group aware of it and would then distribute the money. Any residue goes to charity.
Two kinds of claims can be brought.
Firstly, so-called "follow on" claims that follow a competition regulator's finding that there has been an infringement of competition law.
Secondly, "standalone" claims which are not based on an infringement decision. This frees up claimants to seek damages for any competition law violations - not just those the regulators have chosen to pursue.
In the US, class actions are far more widespread with damages awards running into billions of dollars.
They are not confined to cases where companies get together and fix prices.
Claims against retailers and manufacturers relating to faulty goods and services can also be brought.
Class actions have been filed in the US by groups of consumers affected by the recent Volkswagen emission test scandal.
In the US, juries hear the cases and set the damages, which can then be trebled by the judge.
So, will the new regime really see US-style class actions with huge pay outs?
"The regime incorporates a number of safeguards against what are perceived to be the 'excesses' of the US system," said Anna Morfey, a specialist competition law solicitor with the London firm Hausfeld.
"In particular, the fact that the losing party is typically required to pay the winner's costs acts as a deterrent to frivolous claims in the UK.
"But there are other important differences - no treble or 'exemplary' damages, and no jury trials of these claims in the UK, will mean damages awards really are compensatory and not windfalls for claimants."
What is clear is that companies who fix prices now face a much greater risk of being sued by all of those who have paid the inflated prices.
The Competition Appeal Tribunal decides whether the "class representative" is representative of anybody else who would want to sue
Safeguards to prevent frivolous claims include strict conditions to be met before a claim is approved as "opt-out" as opposed to "opt-in"; and rules governing damages and costs
"Opt-out" provisions only apply to UK-domiciled consumers or companies.
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The devastation was beyond anything seen before. The city was immediately flattened.
80,000 people were killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 were injured.
Leah visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Japan, which is a place dedicated to all those affected by the nuclear bombing of the city during World War Two.
Food Standards Scotland imposed the ban after finding strains of the bacteria in Dunsyre Blue and Lanark Blue.
Producer Errington Cheese has insisted its products are safe.
A judge has now ruled the action taken by South Lanarkshire Council was unlawful and granted an interim measure in favour of owner Humphrey Errington.
Lord Bannatyne said the products must not be marketed for a week to allow the local authority to consider alternative action.
Carnwath-based Errington Cheese was linked to an E.coli outbreak in July in which a three-year-old girl from Dunbartonshire died. A total of 11 people received treatment in hospital.
In September, Food Standards Scotland (FSS) imposed a ban on all cheese produced by the firm.
People were advised not to eat the cheese and to return it to the seller.
After an initial legal challenge to the order was dropped, the watchdog confirmed it had issued a revised order in relation to Errington Cheese products.
It stressed that the full product withdrawal remained in place as the cheeses were "regarded as a risk to health".
Errington Cheese has raised a judicial review against the council over its decision to serve notices on it earlier this month under Food Hygiene (Scotland) Regulations.
At the latest court hearing, lawyers acting for Errington Cheese argued that the measure blocked the firm from challenging the FSS decision in court and potentially securing compensation.
Ronald Clancy QC, for Errington Cheese, told the Court of Session in Edinburgh that the company had operated since 1984 and was "a well-established business in Lanarkshire which made high-quality artisan cheese".
He said they made seven different types from cow and ewe milk, but the present proceedings were concerned with only Lanark Blue and Corra Linn, which are both produced from ewes' milk.
Mr Clancy said the results of FFS tests on the cheese were "highly contentious". The cheesemaker maintained that, properly understood, they did not give rise to concern about the fitness of the cheese for consumption.
"None of the tests which have been done since July last year show any link between Corra Linn and Lanark Blue types of cheese and the E.coli outbreak which occurred last year," he said.
"Nobody is suggesting these two types of cheese were responsible for that outbreak."
Mr Clancy told the court: "E.coli caused by cheese of any kind is a very rare occurrence. Cheese made from ewe's milk has never been blamed."
The FSS issued a notice in November last year asking local authorities to take steps to ensure Errington Cheese products were withdrawn from sale.
Mr Clancy said the notice "effectively directed local authorities throughout Scotland to use their powers to prevent the petitioner's products being placed on the market".
He said it was, in practise, an embargo on all their cheese and the value of their stock was estimated at about £350,000.
Mr Clancy said the firm had been taking expert advice and now had the material with which they could legitimately mount a challenge to the FSS claim that their cheese does not comply with food safety requirements.
He said the cheesemaker had decided to take an "incremental approach" to returning its products to the market.
It and had selected Lanark Blue and Corra Linn and written to the local authority informing them of their intention to resume sales of those types.
Mr Clancy said that since the firm's products were taken off the market, the firm has been "paralysed". They had lost sales, cheese had had to be disposed of and there were fears they might lose a skilled workforce.
Ruth Crawford QC, for the council, said they maintained that they had acted lawfully, proportionally and reasonably.
She said the local authority's use of the regulation it acted under was entirely consistent with the guidance issued by the FSS.
A full hearing in the judicial review is to take place next month.
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Operation Sandpiper is taking place over two days and involves police, local authorities, ambulance crews and other medical staff.
Students from Hartlepool College were drafted in to act as casualties.
Look North's Stuart Whincup reports.
"The blindness of those who attack Hungary could lead to the disappearance of European civilisation," Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in a statement.
He said the unprecedented joint statement by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), Council of Europe and Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) "is not true - Hungary is depicting reality".
Full-page paid advertisements in printed and online media, and audio and video spots on broadcast media, allege that, among other things:
The media campaign will last through Christmas until the end of January, and follows similar campaigns this year by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's right-wing government.
In the early summer, a "national consultation on immigration and terrorism" involved sending questionnaires to all Hungarian households.
In July, when the government began building a razor-wire fence along its southern borders, giant posters went up around the country, insisting on the need to "defend the country from the migrants".
Few have actually entered Hungary since 16 October, when the fence on the Croatian border was completed, but the propaganda has continued relentlessly.
According to the latest opinion survey by the Median agency at the end of November, the campaign is working: 63% of respondents found migrants "aggressive and demanding" in November, compared with 58% in September.
Meanwhile, 56% believed it was likely or very likely that Muslims would "sooner or later become the majority in Europe, and impose their religion and culture on us".
Dislike of Arabs and "blacks" also grew, while it stagnated towards Jews and gay people.
Mr Orban has led the government's anti-migrant chorus since the start of the year - and watched his Fidesz party's popularity grow in response.
"Mass migration is threatening the security of Europeans, because it brings with it an exponentially increased threat of terrorism," he told a recent Fidesz party congress.
"We know nothing about these people: where they really come from, who they are, what their intentions are, whether they have received any training, whether they have weapons, or whether they are members of any organisation. Furthermore, mass migration also increases crime rates."
Mr Orban's speech writers are careful to stress the phrase "illegal migrants" rather than "refugees". They also avoid or reject any comparison with Hungarians who fled the Soviet army in 1956, after the revolution was crushed, or with Hungarian migrants now in Western Europe, especially the UK.
Opposition leftist and liberal parties, already weak, have toned down or forgotten their own, initially pro-migrant rhetoric.
Privately, some senior Fidesz figures do express dismay, even disgust at the tone of the campaign. And in public, several conservative figures have taken a more humane stance.
"The main wave of the current flood of refugees passed us by, but… we were willing to embrace those who knocked on our door," said Varszegi Asztrik, Bishop of Pannonhalma Abbey in western Hungary, interviewed by the HVG weekly.
Some 50 Muslim migrants were given temporary shelter in his monastery.
"At a time when we hear so much about fear," wrote Gergely Prohle, deputy state secretary in the Human Resources Ministry, "about the decadence of European civilisation, about the difficulties of having children, and about the weakness of our faith, there is in this photograph a great and encouraging strength."
The photograph he chose to accompany his article in the Christmas edition of the centre-right weekly Heti Valasz shows an Afghan man holding up his 10-day-old daughter at Roszke, on the Hungarian-Serbian border, shortly before the government closed it on 15 September.
But such sentiments are few and far between in Hungary this Christmas.
The first train departed at 06:12 BST on Monday and the last train will arrive just before midnight.
The new timetable was introduced after Translink spent £46.4m on a new passing loop, and signalling infrastructure, on the Coleraine-to-Derry line.
The service between the two cities will remain unchanged on a Sunday, with just six trains.
"We are pleased to be introducing this new hourly timetable, making it more convenient and attractive for passengers to travel to and from Derry-Londonderry, connecting people and supporting the local economy, attracting visitors and investment," said Translink Group Chief Executive Chris Conway.
"This significant timetable improvement will mean more choices for passengers travelling between NI's two main cities and along the route."
Translink believes that the enhanced train timetable, together with existing bus services, will strengthen links between the North West and Belfast.
Martin Melaugh from the transport lobby group Into The West welcomed the news, with one or two caveats.
"It's good for commuters, tourists, business but unfortunately we can only award Translink six marks out of seven because we are only getting the hourly service Monday to Saturday," Mr Melaugh told the BBC.
"If you're travelling between Belfast and Portrush you'll have 13 trains to choose from on a Sunday but if you're travelling between Coleraine and Derry there's only six trains, we don't think that's fair."
Passengers travelling from Derry to Dublin will still face a delay when they arrive into Belfast, as the new service misses the Enterprise connection by about 15 minutes.
Translink have said they will continue to talk with key stakeholders about how to improve the rail network.
Finance secretary Derek Mackay has been told to re-think his navigation before he can land the legislation safely.
Or to be more accurate, he's been told by MSPs - most prominent among them the SNP convener of the finance committee, Bruce Crawford - that he needs to offer some evidence, economic and environmental, of what such a cut might do.
One of the reasons that there is disquiet is that ministers want MSPs to pass a law on the principles of how a change in APD could be delivered but without setting out the extent of the cut.
Nor is there a worked-out plan for any change in the banding structure (standard and non-standard class bands, and either below or above 2,000 miles) or of the exemptions. These are to follow with subsequent legislation.
And these are difficult political calculations because of the precarious nature of a minority government.
The budget deal done with Green MSPs for 2017-18 would be a lot more difficult in 2018-19 if Derek Mackay wants to start cutting Air Passenger Duty (APD). That is the first point at which he can do so.
Greens, as a general rule, don't much like measures that encourage carbon-emitting aviation. So it looks more likely that Tories would be Mr Mackay's source of votes, or abstentions, to get the next budget passed.
So what about that evidence? Others have tried to model Air Passenger Duty. And it's complicated.
Put simply, we don't know.
It depends on the modelling. A consultants' report for Edinburgh Airport produced a benefit of 3,800 jobs in Scotland, and £200m added value to the economy each year by 2020.
Others suggest the benefit would accrue to the airlines and airports, which would pocket it in higher profits and only pay a small share in corporation tax.
2. If APD is cut, what effects would it have on travelling?
Would it bring in more inbound visitors, spending their money on Scottish tourist attractions and doing business deals?
Or would it boost outbound tourism, substituting staycations with holiday-makers taking their spending power abroad?
Put simply, again, we don't know.
One aero-sceptical report into this, by the Common Weal think tank, suggests inbound tourism is by higher-end visitors whose plans are not primarily shaped by price, so the cut wouldn't boost their numbers that much.
Meanwhile, it suggests outbound tourism is more strongly linked to price, so the cut would have the more dynamic upward effect on Scots flying elsewhere?
And it argues that about £50m of APD is paid for business tickets. These are journeys that will still be made with or without the tax, so cutting it brings no benefit and a big cut in revenue.
That is to ignore the impact on company finances of lower business travel expenses. That means money freed up for other expenses, more business travel, a higher wage bill, investment or more in shareholder dividend.
3. If APD is cut in Scotland, what might it do to take aviation business from the rest of the UK?
Newcastle Airport thinks it would have a horrible impact.
A UK government study agrees but it suggests that would only be the initial response, also taking business from Manchester, and putting up passenger numbers in Glasgow and Edinburgh by 5% to 10%.
Phase two would be a rise in Scots using their cheapened flights to connect to longer-haul flights out of London airports.
And phase three is when the benefit that results from those London airports getting more UK business.
That would make them more competitive, the story goes, and draw passengers out of other English airports.
Using this model, the initial boom for Glasgow (twice that of Edinburgh) would fall back, and Birmingham would be the biggest loser.
The UK government has consulted on what it could do to mitigate the impact of a Scottish APD cut.
A differentiated tax to encourage a shift of air travel from the big London hubs to regional airports, for instance.
It has concluded that it's not going to do anything for now - not while its mind is focused on Brexit.
4. If APD is cut, what impact could it have on the environment?
The aviation industry says the increased passenger numbers would, over time, be offset by improvements in airliner fuel efficiency.
It cites the recent improvement in the efficiency of Europe's airlines, as they have taken delivery of new planes with more efficient engines.
That gain may not be sustained. Airlines can't keep on ordering brand new planes. And advances in fuel efficiency, while impressive, are unpredictably bumpy.
Either way, it's not clear that APD has succeeded in its initial purpose, back in 1994, of being an environmental tax.
Academic analysis has found that, even at one of the highest tax levels in the world, it is too low to dissuade many people from travelling.
5. Would a cut in APD be of disproportionate benefit to the well-off?
This is an argument Scottish Labour is using against the plan.
The opposition party goes on to argue that, with tight finances, this should not be a priority for tax cutting, as it would mean a cut in revenue for public services.
It cites evidence that most flights are made by people in higher-earning households.
As with much of this, the evidence is a bit sketchy. It suggests that the share of total household income spent on air travel is quite similar across the earnings spectrum.
The last time the Civil Aviation Authority surveyed Scottish airport passengers on this subject, which was in 2013, it found Glasgow and Edinburgh had a slightly stronger bias towards the AB and C1 social classes as a share of total passenger numbers than other UK airports.
Some 30% of their passengers were from social classes C2, D and E - those typically with lower income.
The London airports had a lower proportion, while East Midlands, Birmingham and Manchester were higher.
Aberdeen Airport was an outlier on both business and leisure travel, shaped by its internationally mobile energy workforce.
The industry claims its evidence is compelling that the tax revenue cut from lower APD would be offset by higher tax revenue from other taxes, resulting from faster growth.
If true, it would mean that people who never fly could have better public services because people who do fly are saving money on APD and spending that money elsewhere. That's arguable.
But hang on: aren't Scotland's airports telling us that they've never had it so good?
Well, yes they are. Record growth for Edinburgh and Glasgow. Growth is particularly strong in international travel. Not so much for Aberdeen, which is suffering from the oil and gas downturn. And Prestwick is a special loss-making case.
With household spending tight, this is a sign that low fares are drawing in more passengers, and the weak pound seems to be attracting more foreign visitors.
It's also a credit to the competition authority which insisted that Edinburgh and Glasgow should be forced to split their ownership, and to compete.
They are doing well by going out to win more business, with new routes. And such is the congestion at Heathrow, it is easier to attract long-haul routes into North America, the Persian Gulf and, they hope eventually, linking with Asia.
So clearly, the case for a tax cut is not to provide support for an industry in difficulties. It argues - as you'll probably have guessed already - that while business is growing healthily, it could grow lots more with lower tax and therefore lower ticket prices.
Those aero-sceptics suggest that whatever impact there might be from cutting ticket prices, any tax change is being overwhelmed by the impact of Brexit and the lower exchange value of the pound.
There are tight constraints, due to international treaty obligations going back decades, which ban tax on fuel for international flights.
One plan is for the plane to be taxed, rather than the passenger. This would be an incentive to ensure planes are fully laden.
You could further adjust it to penalise the least fuel-efficient aircraft with higher taxes. That's when it gets more complicated. APD has the attraction of being simple to collect.
To tackle the question of social injustice, the New Economics Foundation has suggested a quota system.
Everyone could be entitled to one outbound flight every year without tax.
But frequent flyers - the higher earners, that is - would have a rising level of APD the more times they take off.
Dywedodd AC Dwyrain Caerfyrddin a Dinefwr, Adam Price bod pleidleisio dros Lafur "heb weithio" a'i fod wedi gadael y wlad yn "ddiamddiffyn".
Mae Theresa May yn gobeithio cynyddu mwyafrif y Ceidwadwyr yn San Steffan yn yr etholiad ar 8 Mehefin, gan dargedu rhai seddi yng Nghymru.
Dywedodd Mr Price mai'r dewis i etholwyr yw un ai "gwthio Cymru i'r cyrion" neu ei "chwyddo" ar y llwyfan gwleidyddol.
"Fe wnaeth Theresa May benderfynu galw'r etholiad wrth gerdded yn Eryri ac aros yn nhŷ haf aelod o'r blaid," meddai.
"Mae trosiad yna. Ydyn ni eisiau bod yn ail gartref i Blaid Dorïaidd Seisnig ta meistri yn ein cartref ein hun?"
Yn siarad ar raglen Sunday Supplement BBC Radio Wales dywedodd Mr Price, y tro diwethaf i'r Ceidwadwyr gael mwyafrif mawr mewn etholiad - yn 1983 - ei fod wedi cael effaith enfawr ar ddiwydiannau glo a dur Cymru.
Dywedodd y byddai canlyniad tebyg y tro yma yn cael effaith tebyg ar yr hyn sy'n weddill o'r diwydiant dur, amaeth a'r economi, ac y byddai'n gweld Cymru'n diflannu fel ardal wleidyddol.
Ychwanegodd bod Yr Alban yn cael ei "pharchu, efallai hyd yn oed ei hofni" yn San Steffan, ond dyw Cymru "ddim yn ymddangos yn y darlun gwleidyddol.
Dywedodd Mr Price bod pob prif ddatblygiad yng Nghymru wedi bod yn ymateb i gynnydd mewn cenedlaetholdeb.
"Yn yr 1970au, Awdurdod Datblygu Cymru, y Cynulliad, oll oherwydd bod Cymru wedi rhoi ei hun ar y llwyfan gwleidyddol," meddai.
"Rydyn ni'n anweledig ar y funud oherwydd bod y mudiad cenedlaethol yn wannach."
Yn siarad ar yr un rhaglen dywedodd arweinydd y Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymreig, Mark Williams, bod y posibilrwydd o'r Ceidwadwyr yn ennill mwy o seddi yng Nghymru yn "bryder mawr".
Dywedodd y byddai ei blaid yn well na Llafur fel y brif wrthblaid, ond bod angen i'r holl wrthbleidiau "gydweithio ble fo'n bosib" yn erbyn llywodraeth Geidwadol.
Yn ôl llefarydd ar ran y Torïaid, dyw Plaid "ddim yn siarad dros Gymru".
"Mae'n bodoli am un pwrpas, sef rhwygo Cymru i ffwrdd o weddill y DU," meddai.
"Bydd dau ddewis ar 8 Mehefin: arweinyddiaeth cryf a chadarn Theresa May a'i thîm Ceidwadol, neu glymblaid gythryblus Jeremy Corbyn."
Dywedodd arweinydd UKIP yng Nghymru, Neil Hamilton ei fod yn "chwerthinllyd" meddwl am Blaid Cymru fel gwrthblaid i'r Ceidwadwyr.
Ychwanegodd y byddai Plaid yn cael ei "hanwybyddu" yn San Steffan.
The new station, provisionally named Cardiff Parkway, would be built south of St Mellons Business Park.
The business park would focus on science and technology and would have a 1,600-space car park and a bus station.
Initially trains would run to Cardiff and Newport, but could serve London and Cardiff Airport in the future.
Entrepreneur Nigel Roberts, of NRP and Paramount Office Interiors, is one of the partners behind the proposal, along with his son Andrew.
They set up Cardiff Parkway Developments Ltd as a joint venture with the asset management and specialist banking firm Investec.
They have applied to the Department of Transport and Network Rail's New Stations Fund 2, which considers bids from around the UK to open new stations.
The station would fit as part of the Metro plan for south Wales.
A decision on their application for 75% of the projected £25m cost is expected next spring.
Mr Roberts said: "It's been eight years in the planning. It's been in the [Cardiff] local development plan since January when it was announced. You can't just build a train station without a lot of planning.
"You have got to have commitments from Network Rail, and from the train operating companies that their services are going to stop there."
He added: "We have signed options with seven different families of farmers [who own the land] so we have secured options on the land for the next 12 years."
Mr Roberts believes their ambitious plan to open a station on the site by 2020 is achievable, saying: "We put the bid in on Friday. We're now continuing with the Welsh Government to put the detail in on the station design."
He said once the decision was made, probably in March, they should be ready to progress with the scheme.
Travel times into Cardiff would be just seven minutes from the new station, which could become a park and ride option for people travelling from the north and east, or those going to Cardiff Airport.
There are four train lines running through the St Mellons site, two mainline tracks to the north, and two relief lines to the south.
Mr Roberts said the plan would be to skew the two relief lines further south to allow a platform to be built in the middle of the four lines, and two other platforms on the north and south extremes.
At present there are four non-London services an hour coming through the site towards Cardiff, two from Ebbw Vale, one from Cheltenham, and one from Portsmouth, which could all stop at the new station.
However Mr Roberts said while they were constructing the new station they would be holding "ongoing talks" about the station being used on the mainline, opening up the possibility of a park and ride service to Heathrow and London.
He also said his plan for car parking was nearer 4,000 than 1,600 as those sorts of numbers were what was needed to make a significant impact on road travel.
For the park itself, which would sit across a 176-acre (71 hectare) site, he commented: "We're looking at a science and technology park. If you look at the current tenants we've got [on the St Mellons Business Park] a lot are in that area.
"It's very much clean technology, high tech.
"We're not looking to compete with Central Square or the Capital Quarter.
"We've got a dual carriageway straight into the site. There's a train line already in situ - that's why it's deliverable immediately."
Stephen McGowan, 23, was found with serious injuries in a common close in the Inverclyde town's Tobago Street at 03:20 on Sunday. He died at the scene.
Police also cordoned off an area of Lynedoch Street, which they said was linked to the same incident.
The murder inquiry was launched following a post-mortem examination. Police have appealed for information about Mr McGowan's last movements.
Det Ch Insp Jim Smith, from Police Scotland's Major Investigation Teams, said: "I am still keen to speak to anyone who may have seen or spoken to Mr McGowan in the vicinity of the James Watt Wetherspoons Bar, Waterline Bar or Reds Nightclub in Cathcart Street, Greenock, around 0320 hrs on Sunday 27 July 2014.
"In particular I am anxious to trace and speak to a man who was seen waiting for a taxi in Cathcart Street at this time.
"He was wearing dark trousers and training shoes and had his top off.
"This man may be able to provide vital information that could assist our enquiries and we urge him or anyone who recognises him to contact police immediately on 101, or alternatively through Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111, where anonymity can be maintained."
Anthony Collins, 50, from Chatham, who admitted harassment, sent letters to Cox and told her he was psychologically disturbed and had a criminal past but wanted her to invite him to the BBC.
When police arrested him, they found he had a fake BBC visitor's pass, Cox's sister's work address, and indecent images of girls aged four to 15.
Collins, of Afghan Road, was jailed for 16 months at Maidstone Crown Court.
Sentencing, Judge Martin Joy told him: "You have an obsessive personality."
The court heard Collins bought Cox's address online and sent her letters written in felt-tip pen.
In one letter, he told her he was living unhappily in a bedsit and asked her, to invite him to the Radio 2 studios, saying she was "lovely, warm, kind and sexy".
He wrote: "I'm 49, tall with green eyes. I know you are married to Ben Cyzer and know he is a successful man. I'm unsuccessful in my life."
He also wrote to Cox's husband at his workplace - the letter included a picture of Cox holding a child, and a diagram with the words "Cancer Analysis" in capital letters.
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Prosecutor Mary Jacobson said: "Needless to say that when Ms Cox found out her husband had received a letter she was immediately much more scared, as she put it, and the matter was reported to the police."
The court heard when Collins was arrested he said he "wanted to be in the news" and admitted his actions amounted to harassment.
Officers found the indecent images in Collins's bedside drawers and discovered more unposted letters as well as pictures and press cuttings.
Collins had pleaded guilty to possessing indecent images and making indecent images of children.
The court was told he had a criminal history that included an 18-month jail term for poisoning a 13-year-old girl in a bid to sedate her and have sex with her.
Collins had also broken a restraining order by speaking to two girls aged six and seven and making lewd comments.
In mitigation, defence counsel Ian Dear said Collins's actions towards Cox amounted to harassment but had not intended to cause alarm or distress, adding it was "a cry for help".
Collins was given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and a restraining order.
Another 19-year-old was left seriously injured after being attacked at the Red club in Cross Shore Street at about 02:20 on Saturday.
He was taken to Inverclyde Royal Hospital, where his condition was described as serious but stable.
The arrested man is expected to appear at Greenock Sheriff Court on Monday.
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The decree - signed by President Vladimir Putin - also severely restricts access to the Black Sea resort from 7 January to 21 March.
The Kremlin said the measure was needed to guarantee security during the Olympics and Paralympics.
But activists described the decree as "unconstitutional".
The presidential decree was published in the official Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper on Friday.
It imposes a vast "forbidden zone", banning all vehicles from Sochi - with the exception of locally-owned or specially accredited cars, and those used by emergency services.
The document also sets up a number of "controlled zones" at the Olympic venues where all people and their belongings will be searched.
And the decree states that all "gatherings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets that are not related to the Olympics and Paralympics" will be banned from 7 January to 21 March.
Human rights activists condemned the measures, saying they amounted to "a state of emergency" in Sochi and the surrounding area.
"Putin is effectively turning Sochi into a special operation zone, banning rallies and eliminating freedom of movement," Tatiana Lokshina, a Russia-based member of Human Rights Watch, was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
Gay activist Nikolai Alexeyev wrote in a tweet that the decree was "unconstitutional", vowing to contest it in court.
"There still will be a gay pride parade," he added.
The Kremlin has repeatedly rejected gay rights activists' requests to stage a pride event during the Olympics.
On Thursday, International Olympic Committee chief Jacques Rogge said Moscow had given assurances its law to counter gay "propaganda" would not affect the Sochi games.
The law - signed in June - prescribes heavy fines for anyone providing information about homosexuality to people under 18.
Gay rights campaigners have called for the 2014 Games to be moved from Sochi, amid fears the bill could be used against athletes and spectators.
The Winter Olympics are taking place on 7-23 February and are followed by the Paralympics on 7-16 March.
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Damien Joseph McLaughlin, 40, of Kilmascally Road near Ardboe, was due to stand trial this month.
He is to face charges including aiding and abetting the murder, possessing items to be used in terrorism and belonging to an illegal organisation.
However, Mr McLaughlin has not been seen by police since November.
Mr Black, 52, was shot dead by dissident republicans as he drove along the M1 on his way to work at Maghaberry Prison in November 2012.
Mr McLaughlin had spent time on remand after being charged in connection with the murder, but was granted bail in May 2014.
PSNI chief constable George Hamilton said: "Inquiries have been made with the courts and as a result a European Arrest Warrant has been obtained, bail has been revoked and an arrest warrant has been issued for Mr McLaughlin."
Since he went missing, police have carried out searches, interviewed associates and family members, checked CCTV security camera footage and made media appeals.
They have also liaised with law enforcement agencies across the UK, Republic of Ireland and Europe.
"In the period between 23 November 2016 and 23 December 2016 there appears to have been a breakdown in the monitoring of the bail by police," said Mr Hamilton.
He revealed that a door buzzer at Mr McLaughlin's bail address was faulty.
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He said a computer process was shown to be ineffective in highlighting bail breaches in a timely fashion and noted human error in the form of a breakdown in communication.
The Police Ombudsman has begun an investigation to establish whether there were any failings in police conduct or in policing systems in the management of Mr McLaughlin's bail conditions.
Mr McLaughlin had initially been fitted with an electronic tag while on bail but he was permitted by a court to remove it in December 2014 despite strong police objections.
Mr Black's family have said they feel betrayed by the criminal justice system.
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The LG G Flex 2 is smaller than its predecessor and its display can now handle high-definition images.
The "self-healing" coating on its rear has also been improved to quickly repair any scratches it suffers.
Gadget-watchers were divided over the phone, with some praising its performance while others were unimpressed.
LG has not said when the phone will go on sale nor said how much it will cost.
The updated G Flex has an OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display 5.5in (14cm) in size - a half-inch smaller than the original - and the curve of the whole device is less pronounced than the first version.
LG said the self-healing coating covering the back of the phone will now seal scratches in 10 seconds or so. Earlier versions took minutes to do the same.
The OLED screen also helps make the phone very resistant to damage from being inadvertently sat or stepped on, said the firm.
Also onboard are a 13.1 megapixel camera on the handset's rear and a 2.1 megapixel camera facing forwards. Inside the phone is the latest Qualcomm 810 processor and the gadget runs LG's version of Google's Android operating system.
LG's new flexible phone is evolutionary rather than revolutionary. No great surprise since smartphone news from the big tech firms is usually held back until Barcelona's Mobile World Congress or one-off events.
While the firm focused on the new handset's faster healing skin and protection against falls, I suspect its ability to recharge quicker than before will be the advance consumers appreciate most.
But LG - like arch-rival Samsung - faces a pressing problem. Chinese manufacturers including Xiaomi, Huawei and ZTE are releasing budget-priced high-quality models that play well to the home crowd - and China is the world's biggest smartphone market. That means that average selling prices are dropping putting a squeeze on profits.
LG may have burnished its reputation for innovation with the G Flex 2, but ultimately its mid-range models are likely to prove more important to its bottom line.
Vlad Savov from tech news site The Verge liked the phone, saying the smaller size of the gadget meant it was now much easier to reach the buttons on its rear, making the whole device more usable.
Analyst Carolina Milanesi, chief of research at Kantar Worldpanel, said the original Flex did "okay" and the revision should mean it gets more attention.
However, she said, the phone's self-healing coating and its OLED screen were hard for staff to explain to customers, making it a tough sell in shops.
"The G3 has done much more for LG than the Flex has done," she said, adding that the Flex was more about showing how LG can be different, than anything else.
Ron Amadeo from tech site Ars Technica was underwhelmed with the Flex 2, saying although it was an improvement, it still did not answer any pressing consumer need.
"Every time we see a curved device, we ask 'why is it curved?' — but we have yet to get a satisfactory answer," he wrote in a hands-on review.
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The woman in her 30s alleged she and her child were abducted by two men from Redcar seafront on 3 March.
Cleveland Police later found the incident was "not as first reported" and dropped the search. One man was arrested but released without charge.
Officers say the woman is being questioned and remains in custody.
Jones was proud of his side's efforts in their 22-12 semi-final defeat at Montpellier.
But he says finishing second behind Sale in Pool 2 cost his side a home semi-final.
"The biggest thing we learn is that we need to finish better in our pool stage," said Jones.
"It's two years on the trot we've had an away semi-final."
Dragons lost at Edinburgh in the 2014-15 semi-finals and earned a shock win at Gloucester on the way to facing Montpellier.
"I've been lucky enough as a player to go through to stages and you have to do well in your pool - it makes the last part so much easier," Jones added.
"But I can't fault anyone's effort. There were a lot of young fellas and they will have grown a lot and some of the senior players have stepped up.
"And particularly all the replacements have gone on and done a good job."
Jones is in charge until at least the end of the season following the departure of namesake Lyn Jones as director in the days leading up to their trip to France.
Dragons have only Italian clubs Zebre and Treviso below them in the Pro12, but Jones believes they can improve in the coming seasons.
He added: "This young group, keep them together for a year or two and a bit of luck with a bit of experience around them, keep them on the field and we can go up the (Pro12) league, I'm really confident of that."
Dragons face Scarlets on Welsh rugby's Pro12 Judgement Day IV at Principality Stadium on Saturday, 30 April.
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Kilmarnock keeper Jamie MacDonald - a former Hearts player - saved from Jamie Walker and Abiola Dauda during the hosts' 1-0 win at Tynecastle.
"It's up to the players to decide when they are out there," said Neilson.
"Players should take responsibility. They decide out there who is on form, who is playing well, who is confident."
Speaking to BBC Scotland, he added: "At the start of the season, we scored a lot of them. Yes, we missed two on Saturday, but these things happen."
With Aberdeen being held to a 1-1 draw at home by St Johnstone, Hearts are now nine points behind the second-placed Dons before Neilson's outfit playing their game in hand at home to Inverness Caledonian Thistle on Tuesday.
The Edinburgh side were the only team in the top six to win over the weekend and their coach says the target is to narrow the gap on Aberdeen.
"It was our weekend, we did well." said Neilson. "There will be weekends when we struggle to get points and other teams get maximum points.
"It's a very tight league with teams that can beat each other, so it's about trying to get that consistency."
Striker Gavin Reilly feels it is possible to catch Aberdeen and force their way into second place in the table.
"It's definitely in our grasp." he said. "We just have to keep working, week-in week-out, and hopefully we can get there."
Mr Madsen, 46, pleaded not guilty to a new charge of abuse of a corpse as well as the original murder charge.
Ms Wall, 30, was last seen alive on 10 August as she departed with Mr Madsen on his self-built 40-tonne submarine.
On Wednesday, a headless torso found in waters off Denmark was identified as Ms Wall's via DNA tests.
Samples from the torso - which had been weighted down with metal - matched those on her hairbrush and toothbrush.
"The suspect denies homicide and desecration of a human body," Copenhagen police said in a statement.
Mr Madsen initially said he had dropped the journalist off safely near Copenhagen, but then changed his story to say she died in an accident and that he had "buried" her at sea.
Danish police believe Mr Madsen deliberately sank the submarine hours after the search for Ms Wall began.
Her partner had reported that she had not returned from the trip.
Prosecutors have until 5 September to request an extension of Mr Madsen's custody.
Alex Hales added just five runs to his overnight score of 136 before he was bowled by Andre Adams (3-93).
The away side benefitted from a last wicket partnership of 47 between Jake Ball and Sam Wood to end on 371.
Hampshire reached 167-4 in response with with Jimmy Adams (61) the top scorer before bad light forced the sides from the pitch early.
The day began well for the home side, with the in-form Hales, Vernon Philander and Will Gidman (34) all falling in quick succession.
However, Ball and Wood's tenth-wicket partnership gave the visitor's some momentum which Philander continued to bowl Liam Dawson in the third over of the reply.
Luke Wood (2-44) then accounted for Michael Carberry (30) and Adams before James Vince was run out trying to push for two.
Will Smith (25 not out) was joined by Adam Wheater before the light closed in and play was brought to a close.
Hampshire all-rounder Andre Adams:
"I think before Vince got out we were nice and poised. We are one partnership away from parity.
"After yesterday's toil it was nice to get a bit of reward from a bowling point of view. I think we bowled very nicely and if we continue, it will stand us in good stead.
"For us we were thinking about how to stop Hales from scoring and dominate today's play, so to get him out early was a bonus."
Nottinghamshire bowler Luke Wood:
"It was a good day for us. We feel like we are on top and can maybe force a win in the next couple of days.
"We bowled well as a collective on a decent wicket but we still have some work to do in the morning.
"It was tough losing Jake Ball early but I think we worked hard and covered for him. It is never easy when you are a bowler light but we dealt with it well."
He accused the Conservatives of planning to raise fees to £11,500 and said David Cameron and Nick Clegg had damaged trust in political leaders.
Commons Leader William Hague said his party had not ruled out an increase but dismissed "scare stories" from Labour.
Party leaders are out campaigning on the final weekend before polling day.
Labour's manifesto pledges have been carved into an 8ft (2.4m) monument which Mr Miliband said he would install in the garden of 10 Downing Street if elected, "so you can remind me of them, point to them, insist on them".
He said while Nick Clegg had "betrayed" a promise to oppose any increase in tuition fees once he entered coalition government. He said Mr Clegg and Mr Cameron were guilty of "promising things they can't pay for and have no intention of delivering".
In a speech to supporters in the West Midlands, he said: "I won't break my word as Nick Clegg did. If I had done what he did five years ago, I don't think I could ask you for your trust again. I will cut tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000.
"And I tell you this, if I fail in this task, I won't be standing here again in 2020 making more promises. I won't be standing for the office of prime minister at all. Because there should be consequences when people's trust is let down."
Labour says Conservative plans for spending cuts suggest a rise in tuition fees up to £11,500 a year, based on a £1.5bn cut to the higher education budget by 2018-19.
So Ed Miliband won't stand again for election if he fails to cut tuition fees in England. That was his promise today in Worcester.
But is it any more than a stunt aimed at embarrassing Nick Clegg? Well, he has etched all six of his election pledges on to a tablet of stone to be erected in the Downing Street garden if he becomes prime minister.
Very few of his staff would own up to having anything to do with it - though it is being dubbed not the "Ed stone" internally but the "Torstone" in honour of his policy adviser Torsten Bell.
Labour say the serious point is that a symbol such as the stone is necessary to restore faith and trust in politics - to emphasise he really would deliver on promises. The slight snag in the argument is that some pledges are more equal than others. Ed Miliband wants to be held to account but his offer to stand down is specific to tuition fees.
If Labour does fail on its other pledges - for example on eliminating the current deficit - he would still stand again on his record, not stand aside.
Conservative Commons Leader William Hague told BBC One's Sunday Politics that his party had not "specified the future level of university fees" but said Labour's "scare stories" were "extremely misleading".
Asked if they had ruled out rises, he said: "We haven't ruled that out, but scare stories about what may happen to such fees are really, as I say, just designed to scare people ahead of the election.
"We will continue to act in the interests of universities prospering and of a record number of students going to university, which is what we have achieved against all predictions and forecasts over the last five years."
Mr Clegg has apologised for breaking his party's pledge to oppose increasing university tuition fees in England - but has argued that the package offered by the coalition was fairer for students than the previous system of university finance.
On Sunday Mr Clegg dismissed claims by former No 10 adviser James O'Shaughnessy that he had actually been keen for an increase in tuition fees, telling the BBC: "I don't even know who this chap is and he certainly wasn't in the room, I tell you."
He mocked Mr Miliband's stone tablet, telling Lib Dem activists in Bermondsey, south London there was "nothing attractive about the instability of a hapless Labour minority administration, regardless of these great gravestones they are apparently going to erect".
Bottles and stones were thrown at Thames Valley Police horses before and after the game, injuring two horses.
Area Commander Christian Bunt said a "sizeable number" of supporters from both clubs went to the game specifically to cause trouble.
He added that many further arrests would be made in the coming weeks and a post-match investigation was under way.
"We were forced to deal with a number of disorderly incidents which included serious violence," he continued.
"This kind of behaviour is not acceptable.
"It is a great shame that these individuals ruin football events for genuine supporters who attend matches peacefully."
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In July the the audit office found the renewable heat incentive scheme was poorly controlled.
It also found it was open to abuse and had left taxpayers in Northern Ireland with a massive bill.
Simon Hamilton announced an audit of installations to check the fraud allegations.
Earlier this week, his department said the report would not be published.
But now Mr Hamilton says he intends to make the information available.
The scheme paid subsidies to businesses that switched from oil or gas, to burning wood pellets.
But the subsidy rate was too generous and amounted to significant payments over the 20-year term.
The UK Treasury capped its contribution, leaving the taxpayer in Northern Ireland to pick up the rest.
The shortfall could amount to £20m a year for the next 20 years.
In addition, a whistle-blower alleged that some businesses had abused the scheme.
Among the claims were that firms and a farmer were heating empty sheds to claim the subsidy.
In a statement, the Department of Economy said there were no plans to publish the report.
However, later Mr Hamilton said he would make the investigation's outcome public.
He said he took the fraud allegations very seriously and experts had begun unannounced site visits to check installations.
"While I don't want to get into publishing every single detail of each of those site visits I do want to make public the overall outcome of the inspections and I will do that in due course," he said.
If there was fraud it would be highlighted and dealt with, and if there wasn't the public would be told, he added.
The 50m event was Ferguson's only individual competition at the championships as he is focusing on next month's World Juniors in the USA.
Ferguson's time in the final of 25.27 seconds was only 0.03 seconds outside his personal best.
Russia's world junior record holder Kliment Kolesnikov won in 25.15.
"I'm probably not in the best shape I've been this year but to go a time that close to my best is a fantastic feeling," said Ferguson, 17.
Later in the evening, Ferguson was part of the Irish mixed medley relay team which finished fourth in the final with their Irish record time of 3:54.75 leaving them only half a second behind bronze medal winners Great Britain.
Sligo swimmer Mona McSharry remained on course for a third medal at the championship after qualifying fastest for the 100m breaststroke final.
McSharry, who competes for the Ballyshannon-based Marlins club, has already won the 50m breaststroke gold and 200m breaststroke silver at the championships in Israel.
The 20-year-old Antigua and Barbuda international was released from Loftus Road this summer after coming through the club's youth system.
Parker has spent time on loan at AFC Wimbledon and last season had spells with both Northampton and Wycombe.
He had been on trial at Boundary Park during pre-season and signs just two days after striker Warren Feeney had his contract terminated.
Korean, Japanese and European shipping companies that carry vehicles were found to have coordinated bids and routes in order to keep prices high.
The fines are equivalent to 4% to 9% of the firm's international shipping sales to and from China, the regulator said.
Authorities have been penalising firms under China's 2008 anti-monopoly law.
Several sectors have been affected by the crackdown including automakers, dairy and technology suppliers in an attempt to keep prices down for Chinese consumers.
In February, US chipmaker Qualcomm was fined $975m on charges that it abused its dominance in wireless technology to charge high licensing fees.
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said executives from the firms met over a period of four years to share information and create deals to avoid competition on routes linking China with Europe, North America and Latin America.
The companies fined include Japan's Mitsui OSK Lines, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha and Eastern Car Liner, South Korea's Eukor Car Carriers, Norway's Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, and Chile's Cia. Sud Americana de Vapores.
Japan's Nippon Yusen was exempted from paying penalties, because the firm said it cooperated with investigators.
The biggest fine of $45m went to Eurkor and the company responded by saying they were glad to see the investigation had come to an end.
"We will do everything possible to avoid similar situations going forward," it said in a statement on its website.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said he hoped the meeting would "pave the way for the reopening of negotiations" between Aslef and Southern.
In a statement, Aslef described the talks as "proactive", adding: "Further talks are planned with both the company and then the minister."
The union called off three strikes on Southern in August ahead of the talks.
It also lifted a ban on overtime and rest day working.
Strikes on the same dates by members of the RMT union representing guards and drivers were also suspended after both unions were contacted by Mr Grayling inviting them to a meeting, subject to the action over staffing and pay being halted.
The transport secretary is due to meet the RMT on Friday.
Following the talks with Aslef, Mr Grayling said: "We're doing everything we can to resolve the situation on Southern and get passengers the high quality rail services that they deserve.
"I was pleased to have a constructive meeting with Aslef today and I hope it paves the way for the reopening of negotiations between the union and Southern so we can sort out this situation and get services back to normal for passengers."
Earlier this month, members of the train drivers' union voted overwhelmingly to take strike action after rejecting a pay offer.
Both unions are embroiled in a long-running dispute with Southern's parent company Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) over the decision to replace conductors with "on-board supervisors".
Since January a number of routes have been operating this way, with extra responsibilities - including the closing of train doors - switching to drivers.
The animated makeover of The Power of the Daleks is based on film clips, surviving photographs and audio recordings featuring the original cast.
The six-part story was the first full outing of Patrick Troughton's Doctor.
It will be available on 5 November at 17:50 GMT on BBC Store, 50 years to the minute after its broadcast on BBC One.
The adventure sees the newly regenerated time-traveller battling the evil Daleks with his companions Polly and Ben.
The Power of the Daleks is being produced by the same team behind the animated version of a lost Dad's Army episode that was released on BBC Store in February.
A special screening of the first three episodes will take place at BFI Southbank in London on 5 November, with a DVD release to follow on 21 November.
Charles Norton, producer and director of the black-and-white animation, said it was "the most ambitious Doctor Who archive restoration ever attempted".
"Intelligent, suspenseful and magnificently staged, Power of the Daleks is one of the great lost classics of 1960s television," he added.
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The former England Under-19 captain and Hampshire academy graduate has extended his deal at the Ageas Bowl until 2019.
Weatherley, 20, has made two first-class appearances and spent the winter playing grade cricket in Adelaide.
"Hampshire's where I want to be playing my cricket, it's an exciting club to be at," he told BBC Radio Solent.
Following Hampshire's signing of top-order batsman Rilee Rossouw on a Kolpak deal, Weatherley believes the loan to Division Two Kent will increase his chances of first-team cricket this season.
"It stems down to me being at an age where I want to play as much as possible," the right-hander said.
"Ultimately, I want to be playing as much cricket as I can. Ideally, that would be for Hampshire and I want that to be for them long-term.
"But this year, I think it's best for me to get some cricket elsewhere and I'm looking forward to joining up with Kent.
"They seem like a really good family club, who did well last year and will no doubt be pushing for promotion to Division One of the County Championship."
People living in the area were advised to keep their doors and windows closed due to the amount of smoke in the area.
South Yorkshire Fire said the blaze broke out about 01:00 BST but has been contained.
The service said the site had been evacuated and there were no reports of any injuries.
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At the height of the blaze 10 engines were at the scene. Firefighters managed to contain the fire to one building.
Mike Hood, from Tata Steel, said the fire had broken out as part of the steel making process.
"The men are well trained in reacting to these situations and the response was very good and people were safe," he added.
"The fire is now contained and the emergency services are leaving the site and we are assessing the damage and the clean-up operations that need to occur."
An investigation into the cause of the fire is now under way, South Yorkshire Fire said.
The 34-year-old will have surgery on a meniscus tear he sustained for Auckland Blues in Super Rugby two weeks ago.
But Blues assistant coach Steve Jackson said: "I'm pretty sure he'll be fine for the Lions tour."
The Lions are due to play Auckland Blues on 7 June with their first Test against the All Blacks on 24 June.
"He was feeling it, and it was locking up on him. He'll get his feet up and normally you come back quickly from those sorts of operations," added Jackson.
Two-time World Cup-winner Kaino, who has 77 international caps, is expected to be out for four to six weeks.
Research by the organisation found women only make up 24% of people heard about in the news, despite comprising half of the human population.
The GMMP's Sarah Macharia says the situation is not much better than 20 years ago when the study first began.
She said it would take "at least three quarters of a century" to reach parity between the genders.
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Ms Macharia added: "In 1995 women were 17% of the people interviewed and the subjects in the news, compared with 24% today."
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The report claims digital media has a similar gender divide - with women featuring in a just a quarter of online news stories and tweets across the world.
Some areas of news coverage are better than others for gender balance. Women are more likely to feature in stories about science and health, for example, than they are about politics.
And big regional variations exist too. Women are most visible in the news in North America and least visible in the Middle East.
The report commends Latin America for improving the proportion of female reporters and presenters. In 2000, only 28% of women were in these roles. Now, 15 years on, it stands at 43%.
Dr Macharia thinks there are wider cultural reasons for this change. "It's the region in the world with the highest proportion of female heads of government and it has vibrant feminist movements," she said.
In North America, on the other hand, the proportion of women working in the media appears to be dropping. In 2005, 48% of reporters and presenters in the US and Canada were women. Today it is 38%.
The report's authors say mass redundancies in the American newspaper industry have hit women particularly hard - leaving online news production dominated by men.
The GMMP estimates that across the globe, women make up 37% of all reporters - exactly the same proportion as 10 years ago. That means there is still some way to go to make the world's newsrooms more equal.
The charity was contacted by a member of the public who spotted the animal at St Mary Magdalene Church in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
Inspector Georgia McCormick said the animal was completely trapped and unable to free itself when she got to the site last Thursday.
The animal, which was not injured, was rescued and released into the wild.
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Ms McCormick said: "I'm not sure how he managed to get there, or how long he had been there for, but he really was in a tight spot.
"The call came into us at 11am, and as foxes are nocturnal animals I can only imagine he had been there from the night before.
"I managed to carefully free him and check him over - thankfully he wasn't injured and so he was released back into the wild.
"I dread to think what could have happened to him if we hadn't have been contacted."
The 22-year-old hit 1,409 first-class runs at an average of 61.26 as the north London side won the Championship title for the first time in 23 years.
"Watching him perform was one of the highlights of the summer," managing director of cricket Angus Fraser said.
"He has the game and temperament to thrive at the highest level."
Left-hander Gubbins joined Middlesex aged 14, made his debut in 2014 and has scored hit 2,052 first-class runs at 45.60 in 28 games for the club.
He made four centuries and nine half-centuries as Middlesex won the title this summer, with his highest score of 201 not out coming against Lancashire in June.
The Richmond-born player's form led to him being named in the England Lions squad for matches against the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan over the winter.
Job done, a cracking celebration all but guaranteed.
Some 50 years on, that kind of party planning is likely to obliterate your Facebook Friends list and leave you with a living room laden with uneaten cheddar.
But with karaoke, jelly shots and Trivial Pursuits also starting to feel more than a little passé, how are hosts supposed to ensure their parties feel like they belong to this and not the last millennium?
The BBC asked tech writer Ella Williamson to survey some of the hi-tech options available.
Fancy an automaton with your cocktail? Or one that will order you a cab when you've had one too many?
From summer 2014, Monsieur - the Artificially Intelligent Robotic Bartender - launches.
The $5,000 (£3,005) tabletop device will sport an Android-powered 10in (25.4cm) touchscreen showcasing 300 cocktail options for party guests to scroll through, which Monsieur will then mix and serve. Alternatively you can skip having to queue and send the machine your order via a smartphone app.
Inside the device sit pumps to hold the alcohol, thermoelectric coolers and sensors, activating functions such as an SMS text when bar stocks are running low.
"Monsieur elevates the social drinking experience by making a variety of great tasting drinks at the touch of a button," says Barry Givens, chief executive of Monsieur.
"Although we make ordering a drink easier, we also take drinking responsibility seriously so the mobile app includes an alert for when blood alcohol level is high and helps you get a cab."
From robotic barman to robotic showman, the Party Bot from Ion caused a buzz at Las Vegas's Consumer Electronics Show in January.
The roaming automaton will incorporate a Bluetooth speaker and a light projector that pulses in time to music.
Looking not dissimilar to R2D2, Ion tells us that the Party Bot is still in the concept stage but should be on sale in time for Christmas 2014.
A party isn't a party without music, and as any DJ knows, playlists created on the fly are the great way to ensure tunes match guests' moods.
The days of requiring bulky record decks to do this are past thanks to smartphone and tablet apps such as Native Instruments' Traktor DJ and Beatronik's DJ Studio 5, which offer virtual turntables.
And for those that still complain about touchscreens lacking tactile buttons, Ion's Scratch 2 Go system offers add-ons that use suction caps to attach to a tablet's display to provide precision pitch, crossfade and scratching controls.
Superstar DJs have long enhanced their beats with video projections featuring fancy graphics and mashed up clips cut together by video jockeys.
In this past this required specialist expensive software, but now amateurs can recreate the effect in their home for a fraction of the cost thanks to apps such as Algoriddim's Vjay and Hexler's TouchViz
Owners can cue, slice, loop, mix and scratch together material from their media collection all in real-time.
They can even add in footage freshly shot using their smart devices' cameras, all while beaming the results via wi-fi to a flatscreen TV.
"Crowds at parties and live events are no longer waving lighters in the air, it's all mobile phones and LED wristbands" Christopher Megginson, technical coordinator at the University of Leeds tells the BBC.
Lighting firms have made significant tech in-roads into creating a customisable party environment for both small-scale house parties right up to stadium events.
Xylobands, the British radio-controlled LED (light-emitting diode) wristband firm, is one company making such tech in-roads.
The bands are the brainchild of inventor Jason Regler, and have become a favourite for parties, events and concerts thanks to their customisable lighting capability.
Debuting at Coldplay's 2012 world tour, the wristbands were given to audience members and choreographed lighting effects were beamed out by a technician using the firm's software, turning the crowd into an artwork of light.
Later this year Mr Regler tells us that the firm will launch a handheld control system for the Xylobands, looking not unlike a television remote, to make the technology more user-friendly for smaller parties and events.
Being at the party isn't enough, it's all about being seen to be there.
Facebook invitations, event hashtags, "checking in", playlist-sharing and maintaining a digital conversation long after the lights come up are now all part of the rigmarole.
Social media has made party goers really engage with an event, and even makes people who couldn't make the party feel like they were there" says Justin James, founder of experience-organiser The Bigger Event.
"Coca-Cola Israel's Digital Village is a great example of this".
The drinks firm's annual summer festival brings together about 10,000 young people, each issued with a wristband.
Around the village are Like Points so that when an attendee enjoys something they scan their wristband to automatically share the news on their Facebook wall.
Privacy advocates might weep in despair, but the tech seems to have struck a chord with the event's social networking socialites.
The former shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer after falling ill while on holiday in Spain.
Mr McNamara, who represented Hull North from 1966 to 2005, had no previous symptoms and died at his home in Formby, Merseyside, his family said.
Tributes have been paid tribute to the "widely respected" politician.
Mr McNamara's family said he was staying in Carboneras and was "pain-free" before becoming suddenly unwell last month.
He was taken out of the Spanish town by air ambulance and admitted to Southport and Formby District General Hospital on 28 July.
In a statement, his family said: "He died peacefully at home, surrounded by his family, following a short and unexpected illness."
They also thanked medical staff in Carboneras and Almeria, and NHS staff and an insurance company who helped Mr McNamara return home.
Tributes have been paid to the politician on social media.
Labour MP for Hull East Karl Turner tweeted: "Sorry to hear that former MP for Hull North Kevin McNamara passed away earlier today.
"He was widely respected and will be missed greatly."
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Mr McNamara, who was born in Liverpool in 1934, graduated in law at the then University College Hull before meeting his wife, Nora, who he married in 1960.
He became head of history at Hull's St Mary's Grammar School before becoming a law lecturer.
In 1966 he won the Hull North seat for the Labour Party, two years after unsuccessfully contesting Bridlington in 1964.
Mr McNamara held a range of positions during his parliamentary career, including shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland between 1987 and 1995, followed by shadow minister for the civil service between 1995 and 1996. He was a backbencher under Tony Blair before he stood down from his seat in 2005.
Mr McNamara leaves behind his wife Nora, three sons and a daughter. Another of his sons died before him.
The deal for the 24-year-old Belgium international, initially reported by BBC Sport on Thursday, is believed to include £15m in add-ons.
Champions Chelsea had matched the Red Devils' bid, but missed out on re-signing their former player.
"Romelu is a natural fit for Manchester United. He is a big personality and a big player," said boss Jose Mourinho.
"It is only natural that he wants to develop his career at the biggest club.
"He will be a great addition to the group. I am really looking forward to working with him again."
Lukaku, whose contract includes an option for a sixth year, said: "When Manchester United and Jose Mourinho come knocking at the door, it is an opportunity of a lifetime and one that I could not turn down.
"I cannot wait to run out at Old Trafford in front of 75,000 fans."
Speaking to MUTV, he said midfielder Paul Pogba had played a "big role" in him signing for United.
Lukaku sent a farewell message to Everton on Monday in which he thanked the club and said it was "an honour" to play in front of their fans.
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Mourinho was manager of Chelsea when they sold Lukaku to Everton for £28m in July 2014.
The striker spent the 2013-14 season on loan at the Merseyside club before signing a five-year deal that summer.
He netted 68 Premier League goals across his two spells, scoring 25 times in the Premier League last season.
Lukaku turned down the most lucrative contract offer in Everton's history, thought to be worth £140,000 a week, in March and later said: "I don't want to stay at the same level. I want to improve and I know where I want to do that."
The Belgian had been on holiday in the United States, and linked up there with United's squad for their pre-season tour.
Lukaku was arrested in Los Angeles last week following a noise complaint and is due is due to appear in court on 2 October.
His arrival at Old Trafford follows Wayne Rooney's departure to rejoin Everton, after 13 years with United.
That deal, which was confirmed on Sunday, was not connected with the Lukaku transfer.
Despite matching United's bid, Chelsea were not willing to match the fees Lukaku's agent Mino Raiola will earn from the move to Old Trafford.
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Mourinho on Lukaku expressing surprise he was released by Chelsea to join Everton on loan in 2013:
"Romelu likes to speak. He's a young boy who likes to speak. But the only thing he didn't say is why he went to Everton on loan. That's the only thing he never says. And my last contact with him was to tell him exactly that - 'why do you never say why you are not here?'"
Lukaku on Mourinho in December 2015:
"Everyone says it is Mourinho's fault but it is not his fault because I made the decision [to leave Chelsea]. I went to his office to ask if I could go.
"I signed the deal with Everton at 11 o'clock and the first text message I got on my old BlackBerry was from Mourinho saying 'Good luck, do your best and I will see you next season'."
Mourinho on selling Lukaku to Everton:
"Romelu was always very clear with us with his mentality and his approach was not highly motivated to come to a competitive situation with Chelsea.
"He wanted to play for Chelsea but he clearly wanted to be first-choice striker - but for a club of our dimension it is very difficult to promise to a player."
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And as I used to breast-stroke or crawl my way - embarrassingly slowly I have to say - up and down the lane, I would look up and be inspired by three words printed in big letters on the wall: "Bystree - vyshe - silnee!" (Faster - Higher - Stronger!).
Now this, of course, is the Olympic motto. But to me these three clarion calls seemed to sum up the meaning of sport in Russia. It's about pushing the boundaries, constant improvement and, ultimately, about becoming the best.
Russia has always been a highly competitive country, whether in the days of communism against capitalism, the arms race, the space race or an Olympic relay race.
Sadly, today if you hear Russian athletes claiming they're becoming "Faster - Higher - Stronger" the first thing you think about is doing a doping test. Which is unfair, really, because of course not all Russian sportsmen and women are guilty of taking banned substances.
But there's no doubt that allegations of a state-sponsored doping programme here have cast a huge shadow over Russian sport.
But it's not just doping scandals that have rocked Russia.
Sometimes I think that instead of wearing snazzy suits, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko should be dressed like a firefighter, in a bright yellow hard hat, a hose in one hand and fire extinguisher in the other. Because recently his job has been all about fighting one fire after another.
For example:
What on earth has gone wrong with Russian sport?
Well, you often hear officials and politicians here claiming that it's not their fault, that it's not Russia lighting all these fires - that this is arson by the West, which is exaggerating the problems in Russian sport for political gain.
Moscow maintains that sports doping is a global problem, football hooliganism is a global problem. Don't dump the blame solely on us, they cry.
But Moscow's sternest critics say that cheating and violence in sport here is the result of a resurgent and belligerent Russia which seeks victories on all fronts and at all costs.
Whatever the reason, Russia's reputation is suffering. It reminds me rather of how I used to feel as I spluttered my way across the Olympic swimming pool - in other words, there's a bit of a sinking feeling about Russian sport.
Research suggested a charge of 50p per unit would save nearly £900m over 20 years by cutting crime and illness, with 50 fewer deaths a year.
Ministers said they were committed to using their powers to "improve and protect" the health of people in Wales.
But a drinks industry spokesman said the plans would "ramp up" prices while "doing nothing" to tackle alcohol harm.
Similar plans in Scotland face a legal challenge from whisky producers, who claim they breach European law.
Wales' Deputy Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the new Welsh law would "save lives, reduce rates of crime, help ensure valuable NHS resources are used wisely and help businesses by reducing absence from the workplace".
"Minimum unit pricing will affect those drinks sold at an unacceptably low prices relative to their alcohol content," he said.
"This is a particularly well-targeted measure as it will only have a small impact on moderate drinkers and have the biggest impact on high-risk drinkers."
But Wine and Spirit Trade Association chief executive Miles Beale said such changes would "unfairly ramp up the cost of over half of the drinks on supermarket shelves" while "doing nothing to tackle alcohol harm".
"It is entirely wrong that responsible consumers in Wales should be punished for the actions of an irresponsible few," he said.
Mr Beale also warned Welsh businesses could be hit by people shopping across the border in England and said there were serious legal questions, including whether fixing drinks prices is contrary to UK competition law.
Shadow health minister Darren Millar said the Conservatives backed the Welsh government's aims in principle but "it will be important to resolve questions which remain over whether the proposals fall within the devolution settlement".
South Wales Police Deputy Crime Commissioner Sophie Howe said minimum pricing could help efforts to tackle violent crime.
"Good progress is being made but there is still much more to be done," she said.
The Royal College of Physicians said it welcomed the use of legislation where there is evidence to support its use.
The Welsh government held a previous consultation on minimum alcohol pricing as part of a wider Public Health Bill.
Alcohol pricing will now be covered by a separate bill, to avoid the risk of any EU judgement against it delaying other public health measures, such as restrictions on e-cigarettes and the registration of tattoo parlours.
The consultation will run until December 2015.
Ryan Valentine, 39, donned a long black wig and skirt when he threatened staff at the shop in Leatherhead, Surrey.
He and accomplice Raymond Price, 45, were bundled out of the premises by two staff members who had refused to hand over any cash or jewellery.
Both men were jailed at Guildford Crown Court after they admitted possessing an imitation firearm.
Valentine, of Carlton Road in Walton-on-Thames, managed to flee the scene but was arrested two days later at Gatwick Airport as he tried to board a plane to St Lucia.
He was jailed for six years on Thursday.
Staff and members of the public managed to detain Price, of Thamesmead in Walton-on-Thames, until police arrived. He was jailed for 45 months.
Paula Jones, 29, of Grenside Road in Weybridge, was jailed for 15 months for assisting an offender.
Det Sgt Joe Easterbrook praised shop staff, who "refused to be intimidated by the suspects and showed tremendous bravery."
It was the first time he has visited Mullaghmore in County Sligo.
The prince said earlier that the compassion shown by people there "has done much to aid the healing process".
He said the murder of his great-uncle and three others had given him a profound understanding of how people affected by the Troubles suffered.
The IRA detonated a bomb on a fishing boat at Mullaghmore on 27 August 1979, killing Lord Mountbatten, his 14-year-old grandson, Nicholas Knatchbull, and 15-year-old Paul Maxwell. The Dowager Lady Brabourne died the day after the attack.
On the same day, 18 British soldiers were killed as two booby-trap bombs exploded beside Narrow Water Castle, near Warrenpoint in County Down.
Paul Maxwell's mother, Mary Hornsey, said she felt "such a sense of healing" after the events on Wednesday.
Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, has been described as uncle and godfather to the Prince of Wales. In fact he was neither.
Lord Mountbatten was Prince Charles's great-uncle, through his father. He was also second cousin once removed to the Queen.
His mother was one of the prince's godparents.
As well as his close links to the Royal Family, Lord Mountbatten was a British statesman. He served as the last Viceroy of India and was appointed as the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Defence Staff.
He would spend his summers at Classiebawn castle, overlooking Mullaghmore in County Sligo, a family house of his wife Edwina.
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The prince's visit to the scene of the IRA explosion, held in private, came on the second day of his four-day visit to the island of Ireland, north and south.
On Tuesday, he shook hands with the Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams in Galway, in a major conciliatory step in the Northern Ireland peace process.
"I do wish I could come and see it", Prince Charles wrote to Lord Mountbatten about Classiebawn Castle, his godfather's County Sligo summer residence.
"I know I would be captivated by it".
The letter was sent in 1979.
In Mullaghmore, this afternoon, the prince belatedly fulfilled that wish and he also met some of the people who responded to the slaughter at sea more than three decades ago.
This was a personal pilgrimage by a future British king to an Irish seaside village in honour of a relative he adored.
It was also about achieving yet another little step along the path of an improving relationship between Britain and Ireland.
It's what this royal visit has been about.
Prince Charles summed it up when he quoted these lines by the Sligo poet W B Yeats: "And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow."
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Earlier on Wednesday, the prince told a civic reception in Sligo: "At the time I could not imagine how we could come to terms with the anguish of such a deep loss, since for me Lord Mountbatten represented the grandfather I never had.
"It seemed as if the foundations of all that we held dear in life had been torn apart irreparably.
"Through this experience, I now understand in a profound way the agonies borne by so many others in these islands, of whatever faith, denomination or political tradition."
The prince said the island of Ireland had "more than its fair share of turbulence and troubles", and "those directly affected don't easily forget the pain".
"Recent years have shown us though that healing is possible, even when the heartache continues," he said.
On the second day of the royal couple's visit to the island of Ireland, they also attended a service of peace and reconciliation at St Columba's Church in Drumcliffe, where they visited the grave of Irish poet WB Yeats.
The prince and the duchess ended the second day of their visit with some horseracing at the Sligo Races.
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Arsenal dominated the first half at Adams Park but could not beat City keeper Karen Bardsley, who saved well from Danielle Carter.
City improved after half-time and took the lead when Isobel Christiansen headed in Krystle Johnston's cross.
The result ends Arsenal's record of having won the competition every year since it was introduced in 2011.
City Manager Nick Cushing, responsible for ending the team's 26-year wait for a trophy in his first season in the women's game, said: "This is well-deserved and a reward for the players, who have been exceptional."
Arsenal boss Pedro Martinez Losa said: "We were phenomenal in the first half but they stayed alive and had their time also, and they scored a fantastic goal.
"It is a disappointment for us, but we can only move forward. This club is used to winning and we will make sure that the next final we play we can win."
City have a long way to go to match Arsenal's silverware record, the Gunners having collected 41 trophies in the last 21 years.
But captain Steph Houghton, who last year lifted the Continental Cup as an Arsenal player, is confident that more trophies can follow.
"It's an honour to collect the trophy again," she said. "Being ex-Arsenal it's a strange feeling, but my focus has always been Manchester City this season and this meant so much to every one of us.
"We've experienced that feeling now and it can spur us on for next season.
"This club's all about winning silverware and we want to emulate the men's team in winning things - it's definitely looking up for the future."
City deserved their victory but had to recover from a nervous start in which Arsenal twice might have taken an early lead.
Midfielder Jordan Nobbs sent an 18-yard shot wide, then left-winger Rachel Yankey did the same from 15 yards.
City were being outplayed and their first goal attempt, a Jill Scott snap-shot that flew harmlessly over the bar, did not arrive until the 31st minute.
Four minutes later the Gunners were denied an opening goal by Bardsley, who brilliantly kept out striker Carter's shot at point-blank range.
And Bardsley came to her team's rescue again in first-half stoppage time, diving at Yankey's feet as the winger was about to shoot from five yards.
Following a below-par first period City improved after the break, but it took until midway through the half for them to force Emma Byrne into a save, the keeper diving to clutch Houghton's 30-yard free-kick.
The game's decisive moment arrived six minutes later, Christiansen heading home an excellent Johnston cross.
Houghton almost doubled the lead with a late free-kick that was turned on to the bar by Byrne.
But City had done enough to wrap up a memorable season in style.
"We had a nervy start," admitted Cushing, "but we showed great endeavour to stay in the game and then played some really good football in the second half to win it."
Rich countries say they will strongly resist this move.
Secretary general Ban Ki-moon opened the ministerial segment of the talks in Warsaw, Poland with a warning that the world was facing the wrath of a warming planet.
Mr Ban called on delegates to respond with wisdom, urgency and resolve.
He told delegates that climate change threatens current and future generations, referring to the recent disaster in the Philippines as an example of the extreme weather the world can expect more of.
He had recently visited Iceland and was told that it may soon be a land without ice thanks to rising temperatures.
He called on the negotiators to speed up their discussions that aim to secure a new global treaty in 2015.
However talks here in Warsaw are on familiar territory, the old divide between rich and poor countries over who has responsibility for curbing warming and critically, who will pay for the damage caused by climate change.
Many developing countries are working hard to adapt to climate change often with aid from richer countries.
But campaigners say those funds alone are not enough, because weather events are becoming more extreme and often overwhelm the steps poorer countries have taken.
This was exactly what happened in the Philippines says Dr Saleemul Huq, the director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development.
"The Philippines is adapted to typhoons, the people have shelters and they went to them," he said.
"In normal circumstances you would have heard nothing about it, but in this case they died in the shelters because it was a super typhoon of unprecedented magnitude.
"That's loss and damage, you can't adapt to that."
At last year's UN talks in Doha the parties agreed that by the time they met in Poland, an "international mechanism" to deal with loss and damage should be established.
It has re-opened old wounds of division between rich and poor. The wealthier countries are fighting hard to have any legal responsibility for compensation diluted or removed. But according to Harjeet Singh from Action Aid, this time they won't get away with it.
"There is a lot of pressure on the rich countries, they recognise there is a challenge, but they are keeping their eyes closed, I don't think that will work anymore, they have to deliver," he said.
But not everyone is so sure about that. Many campaigners fear that the influx of politicians will mean a compromise deal will be done.
"I don't think we're likely to see some grand scheme materialise that addresses [loss and damage]," said Paul Bledsoe, an expert on energy and climate with the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
"I think reparations is the right word, in my view it's what's being sought, on issues like slavery or war reparations, historically they have a very difficult time occurring."
Mr Bledsoe believes the most likely outcome is that the richer nations will increase their commitments on finance in return for kicking the legal mechanism into the long grass.
The scale of the monies needed to help countries adapt to climate change was underlined here in Warsaw with a report that Africa would need $350bn annually if global warming rises to between 3.5 and 4C.
The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) report says that Africa is already facing costs of between $7-$15bn a year by 2020.
But if action to cut carbon emissions is delayed, then the total costs could reach 4% of Africa's GDP by 2100.
"Hands-only CPR" has previously been supported by the Resuscitation Council (UK).
But it is now being promoted in a new advertising campaign featuring footballer-turned-actor Vinnie Jones.
New polling by the BHF suggests many feel worried about the idea of giving the "kiss of life".
The official position of the BHF is now that anyone who does not have CPR training should ignore the kiss of life in favour of hard and fast compressions in the centre of the chest.
A new poll conducted across the UK and involving 2,000 respondents showed nearly half were put off from performing CPR because of a lack of knowledge.
A fifth worried specifically about the thought of the kiss of life or about contracting an infectious disease.
Four in 10 people were worried about being sued if they did something wrong, even though the BHF argues no such case has ever succeeded in Britain.
"The kiss of life can often be daunting for untrained bystanders who want to help when someone has collapsed with a cardiac arrest," said Ellen Mason, senior cardiac nurse at the BHF.
She said the kiss of life remained the "gold standard" of CPR, but added if a person had not had training the best option would be to just do chest compressions.
The BHF is also suggesting people hum to the Bee Gees hit Stayin' Alive, to get the tempo of chest compressions right, although others have in recent months questioned whether this is appropriate, suggesting it may lead to compressions which are too shallow.
The new BHF advert features Vinnie Jones in his traditional hardman guise, administering chest compressions to a Bee Gees backbeat after being thrown an unconscious body by his henchmen.
Commenting on the new campaign, he said: "There really shouldn't be any messing about when it comes to CPR. If you're worried about the kiss of life just forget it and push hard and fast in the centre of the chest.
"Hands-only CPR should give have-a-go heroes the confidence to step in and help when somebody is in cardiac arrest."
Ms Mason said everyone should learn what to do: "Thirty thousand people have a cardiac arrest in the UK every single year and half of those are witnessed, but in most cases no-one acts, no-one knows what to do, people panic.
"If it was us, we would all want our loved ones and ourselves to be saved, wouldn't we?"
Three candidates were running for the post of directly-elected mayor in the borough of Copeland - Conservative Chris Whiteside, Independent Mike Starkie and Steve Gibbons for Labour.
Local businessman Mr Starkie won with a majority of 974.
It was reported earlier 1,353 out of the 33,565 ballot papers submitted were spoiled.
The new role will replace the post of council leader, following a referendum last year.
Mr Starkie said: "The people have voted in numbers, the message is very clear for all the political parties.
"The people believe we are elected to serve them and to fight for them, not to fight with each other."
Conservative Mr Whiteside was eliminated from the first round of votes after he polled 9,509 (29%), compared to Mr Gibbons' 12,867 (40%) and Mr Starkie's 9,836 (31%).
As no candidate achieved more than 50%, a second preference count was carried out, with Mr Gibbons getting 14,259 votes and Mr Starkie 15,233.
An inquest on Tuesday heard Caitlin McVeigh-Conlon died after the drugs found in her system induced one or more seizures.
The teenager had just moved into a new home with her partner and six-month-old child when she died.
Her mother, Paula Conlon, has appealed to those involved with drugs "to think twice" before taking them.
Online threats against former Ulster Unionist Lagan Valley MLA Jenny Palmer are the main story in the Belfast Telegraph.
It is understood the comments on her Facebook page warn Mrs Palmer and her councillor husband, John, to leave the area.
Mrs Palmer said they made her feel "vulnerable". She said she had told the police about the abuse and refused to be intimidated.
DUP leader Arlene Foster's "delight" at the support she received from her party's new group of MLAs on Tuesday makes the front page of the News Letter.
It also says one DUP MLA has already responded to North Antrim MP Ian Paisley's comments that the party could do with "perhaps a bit of humble pie being served up and eaten".
East Londonderry MLA Maurice Bradley apparently tweeted to the paper that Mr Paisley "would need to take his own advice". "It is clear he is out on a limb here and does not speak for me," he added.
Meanwhile, the Irish News reports that Sinn Féin had some advice for Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire after their talks at Stormont.
Michelle O'Neill accused Mr Brokenshire of "waffle" and voiced frustration at his replies on funding for legacy inquests.
She said they had asked him to "come back with a positive outcome for those families that need access to the coroner's inquest reports".
Mr Brokenshire, who had discussions with the five main parties, said the meetings had been "businesslike" and recognised "a sense of the urgency of what is at hand here".
The News Letter reports the comments from the head of the Civil Service in Northern Ireland, Sir Malcolm McKibbin, that a lack of an agreed budget is one of the "most difficult and pressing issues".
He says there "is a small window of opportunity" to allow a new executive to agree a budget and put it to the assembly before the start of the new financial year.
The Daily Mirror adds that Sir Malcolm has written to all staff setting out the way ahead if a new executive is not established by April.
It states that in such circumstances the Department of Finance's permanent secretary has powers to allocate a limited proportion of the block grant.
Separately, the Mirror indicates Prime Minister Theresa May will not be flying to Northern Ireland anytime soon to broker a deal.
Mr Brokenshire has been in regular contact with the PM and is expected to brief her at Wednesday's cabinet meeting. Mrs May's involvement in talks at some stage in the future has not been ruled out.
Politicians are used to tying themselves in knots, but if they need a helping hand, Donegal dad Paul Doherty might be the answer.
Mr Doherty used his shoelaces to tie his new baby daughter's umbilical cord after his wife, Georgina, gave birth in the back of the family car, as they made their way to Altnagelvin Hospital.
A heartwarming picture of Georgina and baby Saphia features on the front of the Belfast Telegraph.
"Paul was very relaxed about it all," Georgina said. "I suppose he had no choice really and she came so quickly in the end."
Monitor said Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is currently running at a £12.6m deficit.
The regulator said it was concerned the trust may record a "large loss" over the financial year, instead of the £2.2m surplus previously predicted.
The trust said it would "fully co-operating" with the investigation.
Doncaster Royal Infirmary, Bassetlaw District General Hospital, Retford Hospital and Montagu Hospital in Mexborough are run by the trust.
Monitor said the trust's financial position may force it to apply for further support for funding in the future.
The investigation will try to find out how the deficit has occurred.
Paul Chandler, regional director at Monitor, said: "People are relying on Doncaster and Bassetlaw to provide them with high quality healthcare now and in the future.
"Therefore, we need to make sure the trust can do this in a sustainable way and within its budget."
Mike Pinkerton, chief executive of Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals, said: "On October 20, the trust announced inaccuracies in the reporting of the trust's financial position.
"An internal and external investigation into how our finances have been managed is already under way.
"As a trust, we will be working hard to maximise savings by remaining focussed on putting patient care first and scrutinising how we currently do things."
Last week, a report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated the hospital trust as "requiring improvement".
The CQC said staff vacancies were "impacting on the quality of service" in some areas, but did praise the trust over several areas of outstanding practice.
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Noujain Mustaffa is a disabled 16-year-old Syrian migrant who travelled to Europe in her wheelchair.
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