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Scott Cain and Ashley Clarke died in February 2013 after entering a container that had dangerously low oxygen levels.
The men were trying retrieve apples for an agricultural competition.
Their boss at the time, Andrew Stocker, denies manslaughter.
Appearing before Winchester Crown Court, Mr Stocker said he knew the units were potentially life-threatening but he never fully appreciated the risk.
When asked whether he accepted that allowing the men to enter the units amounted to gross negligence, Mr Stocker replied: "Yes, I was negligent."
Previously the court heard how Mr Stocker, 57, "encouraged" a practice nicknamed "scuba diving" on Blackmoor Estate to find the best specimens in storage.
Employees held their breath while in the container with 1% oxygen.
Mark Dennis QC, prosecuting, said anyone entering the container would "die immediately" if they ran out of breath while in the facility.
The court heard that days before the deaths the former manager of Tory peer Lord Selborne's estate had instructed Mr Cain to collect fruit samples for the Marden Fruit Show in Kent.
Mr Cain, 23, and Mr Clarke, 24, died while Mr Stocker was on holiday in the Maldives.
Mr Stocker, of Bordon, denies two counts of manslaughter and the trial continues.
Close family and friends of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, who died on Friday aged 89, gathered for a church service in Monroeville.
To Kill a Mockingbird, about racial intolerance in the Deep South, sold more than 40m copies worldwide.
Lee released the sequel, Go Set a Watchman, in 2015 - 55 years later.
A statement from her family confirmed the acclaimed author had died in her sleep on Friday morning.
The funeral service was held at First United Methodist Church in Monroeville on Saturday, with history professor Wayne Flynt, a long-time friend, delivering the eulogy.
She was then laid to rest at her family burial plot, alongside her father and sister, Alice Lee.
The author used Monroeville as a model for the imaginary town of Maycomb, the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird.
The book remains a towering presence in American literature, telling the tale of a white lawyer defending a black man accused of rape.
5,000
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Over 40m global sales
40 languages into which it has been translated
8 Oscar nominations for 1962 film version
3 Oscar wins
In the small fictional town of Maycomb in the depression-ravaged American South, a black man named Tom Robinson is falsely accused of raping a white woman.
A lawyer named Atticus Finch defends Robinson in court. The frenzy stirred up by the case and her father's quest for justice are seen through the eyes of Finch's six-year-old daughter Scout.
The book explores issues of race, class and the loss of innocence.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." - Atticus Finch to Scout.
"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived." - Scout Finch.
In 1962, it was made into a film starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch and Mary Badham as Scout. The novel is currently being adapted for the stage.
Why is To Kill a Mockingbird so popular?
Two Vietnamese men are alleged to have hacked into email providers in the US and stolen one billion addresses.
It is believed the two then profited by sending junk mail or spam to tens of millions of the stolen addresses.
A third man also charged is alleged to have helped the hackers launder the money made from the large-scale spamming scheme.
According to allegations in a US Department of Justice statement, Viet Quoc Nguyen and Giang Hoang Vu hacked into eight separate email providers in the US between 2009 and 2012. The DoJ said they used this access to steal more than one billion email addresses in what it said was the "largest" data breach in US history.
The DoJ also alleges that the pair used their access to the internal systems of the email providers to help them despatch junk messages to tens of millions of people. The trade earned them millions of dollars from spam and from websites that paid to have traffic directed to them via junk mail, said the DoJ.
Some of the spam sent sought to make people pay for software they could get free elsewhere.
Vu was extradited to the US from Holland in 2014 and has pleaded guilty to committing computer fraud. He is due to be sentenced next month. Nguyen remains a fugitive, said the DoJ.
Also charged is Canadian David-Manuel Santos Da Silva who, the US alleges, helped Vu and Nguyen generate cash from their stolen email addresses and by laundering the money they made. Da Silva was arrested in Florida last month and is due to be arraigned before a judge this week.
"Large scale and sophisticated international cyber hacking rings are becoming more problematic for the law enforcement community that is faced with the challenges of identifying them and laying hands on them," said FBI agent J Britt Johnson who led the agency's investigation into the breach.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin is now overseeing the Vostochny project. The strike was triggered when a subcontractor went bankrupt, he said.
He promised the workers that "all the issues will be resolved", he said, and "the strike has ended".
Russian media say the workers' boss Sergei Terentyev has been detained.
Construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region is four months behind schedule, Russia's Vesti TV news reports (in Russian).
The hunger strike by 26 workers began on Friday, but about 100 workers have been on strike since 24 March in the wage dispute.
The Russian government hopes to launch the first rocket from Vostochny in December, but because of the construction delays that target date might be missed, Vesti reports.
The first launch of a manned spacecraft from Vostochny is planned for 2018.
Mr Terentyev runs the firm Stroyindustriya-S - one of the subcontractors in the project. Russia's Investigative Committee (known as SK in Russian) suspects him of an economic crime - failure to pay workers for more than two months.
A federal agency managing the project - Dalspetsstroy - is also under suspicion, Vesti reports.
Investigators are trying to track down 16bn roubles (£189m; $282m) which disappeared from Dalspetsstroy's accounts. The agency's former head Yuri Khrizman was arrested last year, suspected of stealing - along with aides - 1.8bn roubles (£21m; $32m).
How does a Libyan graduate end up in a situation where he's willing to risk his life with people traffickers to get to Germany? One 24-year-old explains how he has reached the point where his goal is to save up enough money so he can pay smugglers to help him.
Khaled, not his real name, thought that when he left Libya in 2009 for a scholarship to an international university in Dubai, his life would follow a set path. For five years he studied hard and enjoyed himself and, even as unrest broke out in Libya, he thought he'd be able to forge a new life.
It was easy for a Libyan to travel to Dubai then and he thought his family back home would be fine as there was no sign of the troubles which were to break out with the emergence of the Arab Spring just two years later.
"I was working in the morning, studying in the evening which was challenging but I told myself it would be worth it in order to secure my future. I even got a small dog so I wouldn't feel lonely or overwhelmed."
Khaled couldn't fathom why his residency would not be renewed. "I'd lived in Dubai for five years with no problem, I'd never got in trouble with the law or had any issues. It didn't make sense. I couldn't return to Libya. The situation was impossible. My own parents had been forced to leave our family home by the militia."
Khaled was advised by his employer to leave temporarily before his residence ended and that he would try to sort out the situation.
"I went to Turkey as at that point we didn't need a visa to go there. It was the option that made more sense.
"My boss told me to give him couple of weeks to sort it out. One week became two, two became three and so on, I was running very low on money and couldn't afford to stay in the country for much longer. I slept on the streets for a couple of weeks. My phone ran out of battery and I had to start using internet cafes to try to keep in touch with people and try to figure out what was going on. I even had to give away my dog who was back in Dubai. I loved her more than anything in the world but it didn't look like I could go back."
He said he was asking everyone he knew for help when an Egyptian friend offered to pay for a flight ticket and entry visa to Egypt if Khaled paid back the favour by doing some translation work for him.
"I'm fluent in English and Arabic so I thought this would help me. It was fine until I was required by law to get residency so that I could work legally. I applied for it in July last year and usually it takes two weeks but since the country is full of refugees escaping war, it's taking a lot longer. It took four months before I was rejected due to the high demand of applications."
He was then subject to even more bad news when his friend said now Khaled owed him money and he would have to work as his driver and cleaner. His treatment of Khaled got worse and the friendship suffered.
"After about six months, I worked off the debt but then I no longer had anywhere to stay. I worked in cafes as a cleaner, shisha boy, trying to find any job that I could. As I have no residence, I get paid just a third of the normal going rate."
Khaled kept hoping that things had the potential to change. He started looking for job opportunities around the world.
"I applied to a number of companies in Canada, USA, UK, and so many more. Companies liked my CV and would accept me, and even sent a full sponsorship letter for me to get a visa in a few cases.
"But then I'd get a letter rejecting me, stating, "You have no proof that you will leave the country once your authorised work period is finished," or, "We require residence in the country you are applying from," as well as other reasons. The Egyptian government won't give me residency. I can't go back to Libya. I'm stuck in a rut.
"I'm trying everything within my power to improve my situation but it feels like everything I worked for, all my degrees, do not mean anything due to something which is outside my control.
"My dream is to have a home, a safe place to come back to, a place to work which most people have. They do not know how lucky they are. I even want to continue my studies. I would like to do my PhD, not clean the toilets and get beaten up on my way home just because I am Libyan.
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"I'm now trying to save as much money as I can so I can go to Turkey and get on one of the boats which take people over to Europe. It's easy enough to do because when you are walking in Turkey, the traffickers see you are an Arab and offer you the chance.
"I would rather drown than spend the rest of my life here in Egypt. I want to go to Germany because they welcome people like me.
"I've never looked for handouts but opportunities. I want to give back to the community."
The word migrant is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "one who moves, either temporarily or permanently, from one place, area, or country of residence to another".
A refugee is, according to the 1951 Refugee Convention, any person who "owing to a well-founded fear" of persecution is outside their country of nationality and "unable" or "unwilling" to seek the protection of that country. To gain the status, one has to go through the legal process of claiming asylum.
The word migrant has traditionally been considered a neutral term, but some criticise the BBC and other media for using a word they say implies something voluntary, and should not be applied to people fleeing danger.
Battle over words to describe migrants
The 08:13 (07:13 GMT) and the 09:13 (08:13 GMT) Paris to London services were delayed by 20 and 30 minutes respectively.
Passengers were evacuated into the main hall at Paris Gare du Nord as a precaution and police were called.
A Eurostar spokeswoman said train services from the station then returned to normal.
Number 10 said both leaders saw there was genuine goodwill across Europe for Mr Cameron's aims, but accepted there was work to do to find solutions.
A spokesman said they also discussed migration and the Syria conference they will co-host in London next week.
The UK is to hold an in-out referendum on EU membership by the end of 2017.
Mr Cameron has pledged to secure a better deal for the UK in the European Union as a prelude to the referendum, in which voters will be asked whether they want to stay in the EU or leave.
There has been speculation that the PM could call the poll as early as June this year if he gets the backing of the EU's other 27 leaders for his reform demands at a summit in February.
Downing Street also said that while discussing migration during their call, both Mr Cameron and Mrs Merkel agreed that a strong external European border and close co-operation with Turkey were vital.
And they agreed that the Syria conference had "the potential to deliver a substantial increase in both financial and practical support for refugees that would help them to stay in the region".
On Monday, Mr Cameron held talks on the EU with his Irish counterpart Enda Kenny.
Mr Kenny said his personal view was that a deal was possible in February but "he couldn't speak for the other countries around the table".
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She lives in a poor and remote part of Kenya where there are no opticians to pick up the problem and she is far from the only one.
The World Health Organization says 285 million people are blind or visually impaired.
The reason is often simple and easy to treat. A pair of glasses or cataract surgery can transform someone's eyesight.
It is thought that four out of every five cases can be prevented or cured.
Even in the poorest parts of the world there are often eye doctors in the major towns and cities.
However, says Dr Andrew Bastawrous of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, finding patients is often the problem.
"Patients who need it most will never be able to reach hospital because they're the ones beyond the end of the road, they don't have income to find transport so we needed a way to find them," he told the BBC.
But he thinks he has come up with a solution that is mobile and can be used with very little training.
He is trialling a smartphone app called Peek (Portable Eye Examination Kit) on 5,000 people in Kenya.
It uses the camera to scan the lens of the eye for cataracts.
A shrinking letter which appears on screen is used as a basic vision test.
And it can uses the camera's flash light to illuminate the back of the eye, the retina, to check for disease.
A patient's records are stored on the phone, their exact location is recorded using GPS and the results can be emailed to doctors.
The phone is relatively cheap, costing around £300 rather than using bulky eye examination equipment costing in excess of £100,000.
But does it give the same diagnosis?
The images taken on the phone during the tests in Nakuru, Kenya, are being sent back to Moorfield's Eye Hospital in London.
The pictures are being compared with ones taken with conventional eye examination gear, which has been transported around the region in the back of a van.
The study is not complete, but the research team say the early results are promising and that 1,000 people have received some form of treatment so far.
They include Mirriam Waithara. She had an operation to remove her cataracts and can now see again.
"What we hope is that it will provide eye care for those who are the poorest of the poor," Dr Bastawrous said.
"A lot of the hospitals are able to provide cataract surgery which is the most common cause of blindness, but actually getting the patient to the hospitals is the problem.
"What we can do using this is the technicians can go to the patients to their homes, examine them at their front doors and diagnose them there and then."
The idea is already attracting praise even at an early stage.
Peter Ackland, from the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, said: "I think the Peek tool is potentially a huge game changer.
"If you're a breadwinner and you can't see and you can't work then the whole family is in crisis.
"At the moment we simply don't have the trained eye health staff to bring eye care services to the poorest communities. This tool will enable us to do that with relatively untrained people."
The greatest need is in poor countries where around 90% of the world's blind and visually impaired people live.
Mr Ackland believes Africa and northern India will be the places most likely to benefit as ophthalmologists and optomotetrists there are operating at around 30-40% of their capacity.
Scotland beat Ireland 27-22 in their opener before a 22-16 loss to France, in which several players were injured.
Their next fixture is against Wales at Murrayfield on Saturday, 25 February.
"We have a lot to improve on - the result against Ireland was amazing but I still don't think we played to our full potential," said Jones.
"We defended for most of the game, struggled to keep hold of the ball and gave away quite a few penalties. The story was the same against France and we ended up on the losing side.
"We've done some things really well, like our conversion rate of chances, so there are definitely positive signs."
Edinburgh-born Jones' family left Scotland for England when he was just two, and he was educated at Millfield College in Somerset.
He moved to South Africa in 2013 to work a "gap year" at Bishops Preparatory School in Cape Town, and was spotted playing for the University of Cape Town.
Now 23, the Stormers centre has five caps and scored two tries on his first Test start against Australia last autumn.
After starting the first two Six Nations games alongside Alex Dunbar in midfield, he is relishing playing a key role for the country he has always had a strong affinity for.
"I bought a Scotland flag when I was up here on tour with my prep school and I've had it in my bedroom ever since - the same one," said Jones.
"I bought it because I thought it was quite cool and I like Scotland."
The centre will swap Cape Town and Super Rugby for Scotstoun and the Pro12 next season, having signed a deal to move to Glasgow Warriors this summer.
"I'll definitely miss Cape Town, it's a wonderful city," he added.
"I don't think I'll miss the amount of travel in Super Rugby. That takes its toll even though it's good to visit those places. I'm looking forward to the new challenge and to play some new teams.
"It was the national team interest [that swayed it]. At the time I was only on three caps and I thought I'd rather play in Scotland and be in and around the camp all the time, which helps.
"I've been in contact with Glasgow Warriors for a number of years and with Glasgow being successful, I was keen to join a successful club."
Sarah Lowndes, from Derby, was told she had breast cancer several years ago and it has since spread.
She and fiancé David Moore say they have been overwhelmed by kindness after they received free catering, flowers, a wedding dress and venue hire.
Ms Lowndes, who has two children, said the family was "very excited".
She and Mr Moore, who met driving buses, have been unable to fund their wedding due to her illness.
They enlisted the help of a charity called Wish for a Wedding, which provides help for couples dealing with terminal illness.
The 40-year-old said: "I can't believe that so many people donated something for someone they didn't know."
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, meeting Mr Moore two years later.
However, in 2013, Ms Lowndes was told the cancer had returned and had spread to her bones and liver.
She had to give up her job as a bus driver to undergo chemotherapy.
"I feel fine, just tired," she said. "I have to have treatment every three weeks, but we're all excited and my children are bouncing off the walls."
Alison Walker, from the charity, said the wedding had been a challenge as she only had eight weeks to help make it possible.
"It feels like I have made life-long friends," she said.
"It's a bit emotional for me too as I have a lot of family history of breast and ovarian cancer, so it means a lot to me that I was able to do this for them."
The wedding is due to take place at Makeney Hall, in Milford, Derbyshire, on Friday.
John Williams VC, from Cwmbran, was one of 11 decorated for bravery after the battle on 23 January 1879.
Roads were closed for a short time for Saturday's annual parade in Llantarnam where a new gravestone to the soldier was erected in 2013.
About 150 British soldiers defended the mission station against 4,000 Zulus.
The events were immortalised in the 1964 film Zulu starring Michael Caine.
The Anglo-Zulu war saw Britain fight against the Zulu kingdom in South Africa and brought an end to Zulu independence.
Matthew Wilson from Sheffield died in hospital after he was stabbed in Wadsley Lane at about 02:30 BST on Saturday
Lucas Bigley, 18, of Wadsley Lane, Sheffield, has been charged with murder and remains in custody.
He is to appear at Sheffield Magistrates' Court on Monday, said South Yorkshire Police.
A post-mortem examination "concluded the cause of death was multiple stab wounds", said the force.
Atletico, who started the day level with the defending champions, took an early lead when Koke fired home.
But Messi slotted in the equaliser after 31 minutes and Suarez raced clear to score his 19th league goal of the season eight minutes later.
Atletico had Filipe Luis and Diego Godin sent off for bad challenges.
With a game in hand and a three-point lead at the top of the table it looks like Barcelona's title to lose now.
Luis Enrique's side have won five of their six league games since the winter break and are beginning to look unstoppable with 17 games to go.
Their remaining fixtures do not look too demanding, bar a visit from Real Madrid, who are now seven points back, at the start of April.
This may have been Atletico's last chance to stay in the hunt but they have now not won in 10 league attempts at the Nou Camp and with Barca doing the double for a second successive season, there may be no way back for Diego Simeone's men.
Atletico's lack of discipline may have cost them their last tilt at the title after Luis and Godin were both sent off for needless challenges.
Luis' dangerous lunge at Messi just before half-time was as crude as it was reckless by the former Chelsea defender.
Barcelona coach Enrique was furious but Messi managed to avoid injury and his side was handed a one-man advantage.
Atletico were not out of it and still managed to create chances as they looked to fight back from 2-1 down.
But another wild challenge from Godin on Suarez, which could have earned him a straight red rather than a second yellow, left them too much to do as they played the final half-hour with only nine men.
Barcelona goalkeeper Claudio Bravo: "It was a tough game because they were very strong, but we came out on top in the duel and that is thanks to our work in the week."
Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone: "Even with nine men we maintained our way of playing. In a game you can win or lose, but I always prefer to lose in this way."
Barcelona continue their quest for a treble of La Liga, Champions League and Copa del Rey when they meet Gary Neville's Valencia in the first leg of their Spanish Cup semi-final next Wednesday night.
They return to league action at bottom club Levante next Sunday, while Atletico's next match is at home to Europa League hopefuls Eibar in La Liga next Saturday.
The country remains in a political stalemate following December's inconclusive election.
On the request of King Felipe VI, PSOE leader Pedro Sanchez has been leading talks with other parties.
But Podemos (We Can) leader Pablo Iglesias demanded that he stop speaking with centrist Ciudadanos (Citizens).
"Our negotiating team will be ready as soon as the Socialists opt for a government of progress," Reuters quoted him as saying.
The move followed a survey on Thursday that showed Podemos would come second in a new national election, overtaking the Socialists.
Despite coming first in the election with close to 29% of the vote, acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of the conservative Popular Party (PP) lacks the support to form a government.
Mr Sanchez said he would continue to talk with all parties except the PP and called for Mr Iglesias to reconsider his demand.
The El Pais newspaper quoted him as saying: "There are things that divide us, but one thing unites us all: we have to end the government of Mariano Rajoy and the PP."
Mr Sanchez earlier pledged to form a "progressive and reformist" government.
Podemos, Ciudadanos and smaller regional parties hold the balance of power in Spanish politics, which has been dominated for decades by the PP and PSOE.
If no working government can be formed, a fresh general election will be called.
One device - the controversial 'halo' - had been on schedule for this year but its introduction was delayed last summer following claims it needed more research.
There have been complaints that the 'halo' has a number of different problems.
Two different versions of a transparent frontal screen will now be developed in an attempt to avoid the halo's compromises.
One is a development of the so-called 'aeroscreen' - a transparent material attached to a metal hoop - tried by Red Bull last year but abandoned after it failed the official tests that had been passed by the halo.
Another is a device made only of a transparent material, similar to the front half of a jet-fighter's cockpit.
Governing body the FIA has given itself a deadline of the end of April to take these as far as possible before they are discussed with the teams.
From the start of May, a unanimous agreement of the teams is needed for any rule changes.
The FIA has the right to impose any rule on the basis of safety, but president Jean Todt does not want to take this approach with what has become known as additional frontal protection (AFP).
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FIA F1 director Charlie Whiting's plans to introduce the halo in 2017 were derailed at a meeting of F1's strategy group of leading teams and then-commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone in July.
It was decided that the halo needed further research before bosses committed to its introduction because at that stage only three drivers had tried it for a total of four laps.
All but one of the drivers then ran with the halo in practice sessions over the remainder of last season.
An FIA spokesman said: "Any team or driver that says halo won't happen in 2018 is wrong. Although technically the strategy group agreed to AFP for 2018, the halo is the only suitable design at present.
"It is therefore wrong to say that the teams have voted against it."
He said that, following a letter from the Grand Prix Drivers' Association in July in support of the halo, the FIA had assured the drivers that AFP would be introduced in 2018.
The spokesman added: "In order to ensure the drivers were still of the same view, the FIA wrote to 22 of them individually on 10 January and have so far received responses from 16. Let's say opinion is divided 50/50 - some are clearly against, some clearly in favour and some are sitting on the fence.
"In parallel, the strategy group has asked the FIA to investigate other solutions which don't have the 'drawbacks' of halo - forward vision, claustrophobia, egress and extrication have all been cited as problematic by certain drivers, although we believe these can be overcome to everyone's satisfaction.
"In truth we could even imagine that everyone would also like something more aesthetically pleasing."
The body that represents the drivers, the GPDA, says it should not be their decision whether a device proven to enhance safety is introduced.
Chairman Alexander Wurz told BBC Sport: "I encourage the fact the FIA and F1 stakeholders include the drivers in decision-making, which is something that has emerged in recent times as a positive.
"But safety matters are the decision and responsibility of the FIA, something which the drivers expressed to me in a 100% unanimous opinion - that we respect that role and position of the FIA.
"This very clear-cut process has worked well for decades and in the GPDA's opinion should not change.
"Rest assured the GPDA is very supportive towards the stakeholders for our sport's future, fans, safety and sustainability."
Additionally, some sources have dismissed concerns about visibility and access and egress in the event of an accident.
They point out that Nico Rosberg set the fastest time in a practice session at the Belgian Grand Prix, held on the demanding Spa-Francorchamps track, with the halo fitted to his car.
The FIA has also conducted tests with an upturned car, in which one of its operatives proved it was possible to get out.
Although the strategy group has agreed that AFP should be introduced in 2018, several insiders have told BBC Sport they believe there is an intention in some quarters to keep pushing its introduction back. This, they say, is partly on the basis of concerns that it is counter to the ethos of F1 and adds to a perceived impression that the sport has become too sanitised.
This was a view strongly promoted by former boss Ecclestone, who last month was removed from his position as chief executive by new owners Liberty Media.
Discussing the halo in a speech in January, FIA safety delegate Laurent Mekies said: "The engineering work is done. Somebody needs to decide if it's right for F1 or not, if it is compatible with the DNA [of the sport].
"Its net safety benefit is established. After that, we accept that F1 is not a closed car [so] is it right for F1?"
There are also issues surrounding the provenance of some of the devices.
The halo arose from a design initially produced by Mercedes - and insiders say Red Bull are objecting to on the basis of a belief that it gives the world champions an aerodynamic advantage the others do not know about.
Similar concerns have been expressed by others about the aero-screen as a result of the fact that it was invented by Red Bull.
Some senior figures have expressed privately the view that there is a major risk attached to not introducing additional cockpit head protection as soon as possible.
This is because of the chances of someone being held liable if there is an accident in which a driver suffers a head injury, or worse, that could demonstrably have been prevented by the halo.
The FIA is already facing a legal fight with the family of Jules Bianchi, the Frenchman who died in July 2015, nine months after suffering catastrophic head trauma in a collision with a recovery vehicle at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix.
Because safety is the FIA's responsibility, some insiders argue Todt risks the body being accused of not fulfilling its statutory role if it does not act to ensure some form of head protection is introduced soon.
Red Bull abandoned work on the aero-screen following its failure in the FIA's test which involves a wheel being fired at the screen at 250km/h.
The halo passed this test in deflecting the wheel away from the cockpit without impacting on a driver's head, whereas the aero-screen was badly damaged and the test proved the driver would have sustained a substantial impact.
Attempts to strengthen the transparent material used for the screen caused vision problems and Red Bull stopped work on the device on the basis it was taking too many resources away from its work on the design of its 2017 car.
However, insiders say this does not necessarily mean that the FIA will not find a solution that enables one of the new devices to work as effectively as the halo in the primary function of preventing the driver from injury.
Time, though, is a serious problem, in finding a solution that satisfies the political concerns before the end of April.
"There is always a chance of another delay happening," one senior figure said. "You can see how it got put off from 2017 to 2018 and it probably won't be too long before somebody says: 'We're still not ready in 2018. We need to make sure it's right, so let's delay it again."
Another went further. "For sure it will be delayed another year," he said.
Gigi Shoes has occupied this prime spot on Wong Nai Chung Road since 1975.
But this week, after four decades in business, the sole hold-out on a street once known as the best area in town to purchase handmade women's shoes is closing, a victim of rising rental prices.
Its founder and owner Ng Chung-fu, 88, had failed to agree a new lease with the landlord.
"Our business is doing well. We have a lot of customers who want us to keep going," he says.
Mr Ng started working with shoes in his teens, before becoming his own boss in his late 40s with the well-known store on Hong Kong's "shoe street".
"The customers say they are very happy with our service and have nowhere else to go to buy shoes. When I hear that, I feel really helpless."
Gentrification is a trend all over the world.
But in Hong Kong, it has been happening at break-neck pace due to low interest rates, a booming retail industry and the rise of the mainland Chinese economy.
According to figures from property firm Jones Lang Lasalle, rental prices at high street shops in Causeway Bay, a prime shopping district just a few minutes walk from Gigi Shoes, have risen by 45% since the beginning of 2010.
Compared to prices a decade ago, commercial rentals in the area have more than doubled.
Another index from Jones Lang Lasalle grouping rental prices in four of Hong Kong's top retail neighbourhoods - Causeway Bay, Central, Tsim Sha Tsui and Mongkok - shows a nearly identical trend.
"I've taken friends to that shoe store," says Denis Ma, head of Hong Kong research at JLL. "Most locals who need tailored shoes, either they have really small feet or gigantic feet, go to that street. It has changed a lot in the last 10 years."
Now Gigi is surrounded by nine property agencies advertising the latest commercial or residential deals.
Mr Ng's son, Desmond, 50, says the store has a profit margin of about 5%, which is average in the industry.
The business was more profitable 10 years ago, when costs were lower and competition less plentiful.
The younger Mr Ng says there were no long, drawn-out negotiations with the landlord because the property owner understood the store's finances and knew what they could afford.
Mr Ma of JLL says the general rule of thumb is that rental costs should not exceed 30% of revenue, for a business to be sustainable.
On a recent afternoon several days ahead of the closing, old and new customers flock to Gigi, lured by sale prices between 60% and 80% lower than usual.
A pair of comfortable yet elegant leather ballet slippers sells for 200 Hong Kong dollars ($25.80; £16.80).
Shiny patent leather pumps cost just 400 Hong Kong dollars.
The elder Mr Ng and two of his three children, Desmond and Annie, busily serve the shoppers, who include office worker Hazel Chan, 30.
"It is so sad that it's closing," says the customer of five years. "I think Hong Kong people like these family-owned shops because they are nicer to you, and the service is better."
She laments the disappearance of the mum and pop shops of her youth, when she was able to purchase snacks for one or two Hong Kong dollars after school.
Ms Chan's two friends, who each snap up several pairs of shoes, note that residential rental prices have been soaring too.
China's slowing economy and possible future interest rate hikes may present a silver lining for Mr Ng, who hopes to re-open the store at another location.
Mr Ma reckons high street shop rentals will fall by 20% to 25% this year, compared to 2014.
It would be the first such fall since global financial crisis of 2008.
Marcos Chan, a Hong Kong-based research director at property firm CBRE, says retail rental prices in nearby Causeway Bay have already dropped by an average of 22% so far this year, and are expected to fall even more.
It is good news for the elder Mr Ng, who professes to wanting to retire, passing the torch to his son Desmond.
But even as he is closing down his four-decade old business, the shoe designer is still looking for inspiration from French fashion magazines.
Perhaps, at 88 years, he will re-invent himself again.
The New York Times said it had received some of Mr Trump's 1995 tax documents revealing $915m losses that allowed him to legally avoid paying taxes.
The real estate tycoon's camp refused to confirm or deny the report, but said the filing was "illegally obtained".
The campaign of his rival, Hillary Clinton, called it a "bombshell".
But the Republican presidential nominee's surrogates took to the airwaves on Sunday morning to defend him.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said the New York Times article was a "very good story" because it showcased the "genius" of Mr Trump.
Mr Christie told Fox News Sunday the report would only underline that Mr Trump is best qualified to ease tax policy on working people.
Analysis by Anthony Zurcher, BBC North America reporter
There's no evidence at this point that Mr Trump did anything improper. Just because it's legal, however, doesn't mean this revelation isn't potentially damaging. First, Mr Trump has staked his campaign on being a savvy businessman, and posting a financial loss so large that his tax accountant's software couldn't process the number could undermine that claim.
Then there's the fact that Mr Trump has, over the years, condemned prominent Americans, including Barack Obama and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, for not paying enough taxes. Now he looks like a hypocrite.
Hotel impresario Leona Helmsley once famously said that "only little people pay taxes" - and she was excoriated for it. Americans know the wealthy have a multitude of ways to avoid taxes. Knowing is different from seeing the cold, hard evidence, however. At the very least, this latest revelation once again puts Mr Trump on his heels in the final weeks of the presidential campaign.
Rudy Giuliani, a close adviser to Mr Trump, also said the Republican nominee was an "absolute genius" if he avoided federal income taxes.
"A lot of the people that are poor take advantage of loopholes and pay no taxes," the former New York mayor told NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday.
"Those are loopholes also."
Mr Trump himself played down the report on Sunday. "I know our complex tax laws better than anyone who has ever run for president and am the only one who can fix them. #failing@nytimes," he tweeted.
During the first presidential debate last Monday, Mrs Clinton attacked Mr Trump for not releasing his tax returns, as all previous White House candidates have done since Jimmy Carter in 1976.
The Democratic nominee suggested he was hiding "something terrible" and that he had perhaps not paid any federal income tax. He replied: "That makes me smart."
In its story, the New York Times said three pages of documents were anonymously sent last month to one of its reporters who had written about Mr Trump's finances.
A former accountant for the property tycoon, Jack Mitnick, whose name appears as Mr Trump's tax preparer of the filings, said the documents appeared to be authentic copies of portions of the 1995 returns, according to the newspaper.
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Mr Trump's campaign did not directly address the authenticity of the excerpts, but the New York Times said a Trump lawyer had emailed the newspaper arguing that publication of the records was illegal.
The Republican candidate's camp accused the New York Times, which has endorsed the Democratic candidate for president, of being "an extension of the Clinton campaign".
Mr Trump, the campaign added, was a "highly skilled businessman who has a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required.
"That being said, Mr Trump has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes, sales and excise taxes, real estate taxes, city taxes, state taxes, employee taxes and federal taxes, along with very substantial charitable contributions."
The Clinton camp said Mr Trump embodied the "rigged system" of an unfair US tax code.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said in a statement: "This bombshell report reveals the colossal nature of Donald Trump's past business failures and just how long he may have avoided paying any federal income taxes whatsoever."
Mrs Clinton has already disclosed nearly 40 years of federal income tax returns, while Mr Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, has made publicly available 10 years of his tax returns.
At a Saturday night rally, Mr Trump appeared to accuse Mrs Clinton of marital infidelity.
"Hillary Clinton's only loyalty is to her financial contributors and to herself," he told thousands gathered in Manheim, Pennsylvania.
"I don't think she's even loyal to Bill if you want to know the truth. Why should she be, right?"
Meanwhile, Alec Baldwin has debuted his impression of Mr Trump on Saturday Night Live, parodying the candidate's pronunciation of China, among other things.
Sporting a blonde wig and a lip-puckering scowl, the actor appeared on the comedy show alongside SNL regular Kate McKinnon as Mrs Clinton, using a walking cane.
Some academy bosses "have decided to treat education as a gravy train and are milking schools", Leicestershire delegate Simon Clarkson told the conference.
Too many multi-academy trusts have "fat cat" bosses he said.
"As well as being immoral, it is unsustainable," Mr Clarkson added.
"If it were sustainable, the older and more mature private sector market of independent schools would have fat cats in the way the academy and multi-academy trust sector have now," he said.
"They do not and they do not for good reason."
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Tim Jefferson, from Norfolk, said the level of responsibility for chief executives who run several academy schools was in no doubt.
But, he added, the issue was with their pay and a lack of transparency in pay increases - particularly in the context of the education sector where most staff are on modest salaries.
"This is after all taxpayers' money," said Mr Jefferson.
"Yes, being a chief executive is a huge responsibility,
"There are no government rules or guidance on how this pay should be set. This needs to change," he concluded.
According to Mr Clarkson, the excuses used to justify "excessive CEO pay are myriad... our response however should be simple".
"We should say no to any multi-academy trust chief executive earning an excessive amount and certainly no to any chief executive earning more than a local authority chief executive in the area where the headquarters of the multi-academy trust is based."
Proposing the motion, Bob Groome from Norfolk highlighted a number of trusts, including Ormiston Academies Trust, whose outgoing chief executive, Toby Salt, earned £205,001 to £210,000 in 2015-16, up from £200,001 to £205,000 the previous year.
The debate came after figures were published in February which showed that a number of academy bosses saw their salaries rise last year, with some earning significantly more than the prime minister.
A Times Educational Supplement (TES) analysis of the accounts of 20 academy trusts ranked Sir Dan Moynihan, chief executive of the Harris Federation, as the highest individual earner, earning £420,000 to £425,000 in 2015-16.
A Harris Federation spokeswoman said at that time that the trust had transformed some of London's most challenging schools, and that its board "recognises that leadership is among the key drivers of our success, so leaders throughout our federation are rewarded for their contribution".
The union conference passed the resolution with 98% of delegates in favour.
But, according to a Department for Education spokeswoman, official limits on executive pay are not on the agenda.
"It is for governing bodies to determine the salary that school leaders will be paid," she said.
"It is vital we have the best people to lead our schools if we are to raise standards and ensure all pupils can reach their full potential.
"That's why we have given all schools greater flexibility to set staff pay, reward exceptional leaders and attract strong leadership teams to work in the most challenging schools," the spokeswoman added.
Mr Barrrow, 64, called the election in September, more than a year ahead of schedule.
Belize is heavily dependent on aid from Venezuela, which also offers it oil at discounted prices.
Critics of Mr Barrow said he brought the polls forward in case Venezuela cuts its funding.
Venezuela is holding legislative elections on 6 December and some polls predict the governing socialist party will lose control of the National Assembly.
Many of the recipients of Venezuelan aid fear that with continuing low oil prices Venezuela will soon significantly reduce its contributions to its allies.
Mr Barrow has invested much of the $150m (£98m) Belize received from Venezuela in the past years in an ambitious infrastructure programme and road building.
With results announced in all but two of the constituencies, Mr Barrow's party won in 19 and the opposition People's United Party in 10.
Mr Barrow called it "a magnificent victory".
His main rival, Francis Fonseca, had run on a promise of creating 25,000 jobs and cutting living costs.
Mr Barrow will now have to grapple with its much larger neighbour, Guatemala.
Guatemala's newly elected president, comedian-turned-politician Jimmy Morales, in his campaign said he would pursue with renewed vigour his country's claims over more than half of Belize.
Khizr Khan told a rapturous crowd that his son Humayun had sacrificed his life to save those of his fellow soldiers.
If it had been up to Mr Trump, he said, his son would not have been in America.
Mr Khan asked if Mr Trump had "even read the United States Constitution", and offered to lend him his copy.
Appearing on stage in Philadelphia with his wife, Mr Khan, 65, paid tribute to their son who was killed by a car bomb in 2004 at the age of 27.
"Tonight we are honoured to stand here as parents of Captain Humayun Khan and as patriotic American Muslims with undivided loyalty to the country,"
He said Mr Trump, by contrast, had "sacrificed nothing and no-one".
"Donald Trump consistently smears the character of Muslims," he continued.
Mr Khan, a Pakistani-born legal consultant, moved to the US with his family in 1980.
As delegates cheered, he said: "Donald Trump... have you even read the United States Constitution?"
Waving his copy of the document, he said he would gladly lend it to Mr Trump, and invited him to look for the word "liberty" and the 14th amendment on equal protection before the law.
The Democrats have focused on the themes of diversity and inclusiveness during the campaign.
They have consistently accused Mr Trump of sowing discord, notably with his plan to build a wall along the Mexican border and his threat to ban Muslims from entering the US.
In her final speech at the convention, Hillary Clinton - who will face Mr Trump in November's presidential election - said the Republican candidate "wants to divide us - from the rest of the world, and from each other".
Mr Trump tweeted that the speech had failed to address the threat posed by radical Islam, making the former secretary of state unfit to lead the country.
SNP MSP Christian Allard - who is a French national - will lead a debate to commemorate the victims of the Paris attack, which left 12 people dead.
Another five people were also killed by Islamist gunmen over the next two days.
Mr Allard said the right to free speech was essential, and an attack on cartoonists and journalists was "an attack on us all".
He added: "The tragic attack on Charlie Hebdo was not just an attack on one magazine. It was an attack on the principle of free speech.
"Charlie Hebdo has responded to this attack in the best possible way - to keep on doing what they were doing before. To be outrageous, to mock and to challenge us all.
"One year on, let us make sure that we continue to respond to terrorism by valuing and embracing freedom of speech and our right to disagree. Rather than 7 January solely being an anniversary of terrorism we should celebrate it as Cartoonists' Day."
Cartoonist Terry Anderson will lead a discussion on freedom of expression at the parliament's cross-party group on France following the debate in the main Holyrood chamber.
The Charlie Hebdo attack was carried out by brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, who forced their way into its offices, shooting dead 11 people and injuring 11 others.
They later shot dead a French National Police officer outside the building.
The gunmen said they belonged to the Yemen branch of the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda, which took responsibility for the attack.
Both brothers died on 9 January 2014 after being shot by police following a siege in Dammartin-en-Goele, about 20 miles north east of Paris.
This is what the taskforce, chaired by former acting leader Dame Margaret Beckett, says about Wales:
The result in Wales was disappointing - we underperformed compared with other traditional Labour heartlands. There was a small swing in votes to the Conservatives from Labour (0.3 per cent) compared to the average swing in England and Wales of 3.4 per cent. We lost two seats - Vale of Clwyd and Gower - to the Conservatives, by very small majorities.
"We won one of our target seats - Cardiff Central, which has a large student population -from the Liberal Democrats, who also lost a seat to the Conservatives. The Conservatives fought a campaign on local issues and played down national politics, and indeed played down the word "Conservative".
We remain the largest party by some distance, with a 10 per cent lead on the Conservatives. UKIP made large gains in votes, and, while they didn't win any seats, are in second place in five Labour seats. They could, therefore, present a threat in the Welsh assembly elections, because of the list system."
Its recommendations include this: "We are the largest party in Wales, but the Welsh assembly elections present a key electoral test, and our approach to them must be entirely without complacency, especially given the list system. In some parts of Wales we have had success in countering the threat of nationalism and of UKIP, but these lessons need to be learnt and applied across Wales as a whole."
The overall conclusions have been widely trailed and contain few surprises. You can read the report for yourself here.
Football's world governing body decided to lower the age limit for international transfers to include players aged 10 and above. That's right: 10.
Before the change was introduced in March, clubs only needed to go through the official process of applying for an International Transfer Certificate if their target was at least 12 years old.
"The executive committee decided to reduce the age limit… due to the increased number of international transfers of players younger than 12," Fifa told the BBC in a statement.
But what happens when clubs simply start recruiting six, seven and nine-year-olds to bypass Fifa's new red tape?
Well, if that does happen, Fifa says the age limit "could be reconsidered" if it detects a trend of players even younger than 10 being transferred.
Nonetheless, the change of the rules highlights the growing problem of the illegal movement of minors.
The Paris-based non-governmental organisation, Foot Solidaire, helps send boys back to Africa after they have been tricked by unscrupulous agents and empty promises into leaving the continent.
It estimates that 15,000 teenage footballers are moved out of just 10 West African countries every year - many of them underage.
Jean-Claude Mbvounim, Foot Solidaire's founder, says that agents can pocket anywhere between $3,000 (£2,000) and $10,000 for each child they send to a fictitious trial at an imagined club - and says football needs help to combat the issue.
"Fifa has to do more with public authorities, governments and civil society because this issue is a social issue," says Mbvounim.
"Today we have criminal activists threatening world football and the young players, so it's important to work together. Fifa will have to be on top of this battle."
What makes the actions of Champasak United in Laos, who imported 23 underage players in February, interesting is that they are the actions of a club, albeit under the guise of an academy.
The normal story is that teenagers duped into leaving Africa end up on the streets of whatever country they have been sent to, since the 'agent' has disappeared and no club is aware of their presence.
According to the boys who went to Laos and have since returned to Liberia, thanks to the help of global players' union Fifpro, Champasak's academy lacks a proper coach, medical facilities and there is no provision for education.
The club's player-'African players manager' Alex Karmo admits Champasak brought in the players to sell them on at a profit afterwards.
The contracts they offered the youngsters enabled the club to pay them absolutely nothing should they want to, although Karmo says they were paid each month.
The signed deals also stated that players must pay back the cost of their flights from Africa, and all food and accommodation received, should they wish to break their contract - an unrealistic goal for players earning zero a month at worst and $140 at best.
The Liberians are not the first Africans to be disappointed, but their nation is one of the few in West Africa to have no football academy, even if the Liberian FA says it plans to open one later this year.
To put it into context, the youngsters were keen on Laos even though it has made next-to-no impact on the international stage and is ranked 16 places below 161st-rated Liberia in Fifa's national rankings.
"Liberia is over 165 years old and we are just completing the first football training centre," said the country's FA chairman Musa Bility.
"Maybe if that training centre was here, those kids would not be in Laos."
The plan is to have former Liberian football star George Weah as a title name for the academies, but can their presence stop the flow of young players abroad?
As another potential form of defence against this problem, Foot Solidaire is looking to open an observation centre in the Senegalese capital Dakar next year. It hopes to both inform youngsters and families of the perils of trafficking, as well as keep a close eye on the exodus of West Africa's youngsters.
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Neither started the Champions League defeat at Barcelona, with Kompany not even on the bench, leading to reports they are not in Guardiola's plans.
But the Spaniard said: "Vincent was not perfectly fit. Sergio, I said after the game, was a tactical decision.
"If Sergio decides to leave it will be his decision."
Guardiola confirmed Pablo Zabaleta and Bacary Sagna will both miss Sunday's Premier League game with Southampton at Etihad Stadium due to injury.
His decision to leave out Aguero and Kompany has been questioned, as has the performance of goalkeeper Claudio Bravo, who was sent off at the Nou Camp, and his high intensity, possession-based philosophy, which Guardiola has said repeatedly he will not change, has drawn criticism.
In a series of detailed, expansive and passionate answers, one of which lasted six minutes and 35 seconds, Guardiola spent 31 minutes explaining:
"Vincent and Sergio's futures are at Manchester City. When he is fit, he is a real central defender. I like him. With respect to Aguero, it was a tactical decision. I wanted one more midfield player in the middle. I try to keep the ball because when you have it, Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez don't.
"The next time before you give your opinion and decide Sergio is not in my plans you can call me. I appreciate him as a football player and as a man. When Sergio decides to leave Manchester City, it will be his decision.
"I saw the game this morning and until the first goal the game was under control. My mistake is my mistake. Aguero was my decision. We lost 4-0. I'm guilty. If we win in Barcelona, I am a genius."
"I know from the beginning when Claudio Bravo makes a mistake, he will be on the front page. He has to fight against that. He was alone, just one guy pressing the ball and three players to pass to. The decision was not wrong but he did not pass well.
"We cannot forget its the first time John Stones, Raheem Sterling, Ilkay Gundogan and Kevin de Bruyne went to Barcelona for this kind of game. Stones has had two Champions League games. For him to go there and play with that personality is amazing."
"I think about changing the way I play but the solution is not better than what I believe. In seven years I won 21 titles, three titles per year playing in that way. I am not going to change. If it is not going well next season I will go home.
"I came here for three years. After three years in Barcelona and Bayern Munich it was much better than after three months. I need time to learn the competitions, especially the Premier League.
"On Saturday (Everton manager) Ronald Koeman said in his press conference he never saw a team play football like Manchester City. That is the best compliment I could ever receive."
Mr Lukashenko, once described by US officials as "Europe's last dictator", hosted Mr Depardieu in his residence near the capital Minsk.
The visit comes ahead of Belarus's presidential elections, which Mr Lukashenko is widely expected to win.
In 2013 Mr Depardieu received a Russian passport from President Vladimir Putin.
The actor had decided to leave France to avoid paying higher taxes.
He has described Russia as "a great democracy".
During Wednesday's visit to Belarus, the 66-year-old actor and the president, who has ruled Belarus since 1994, also discussed the cultivation of organic food products.
The Belarusian leader was once a farm director.
And Mr Depardieu was treated to traditional Belarusian food and home-made vodka, reports say.
The actor has recently been criticised by the Ukrainian authorities for supporting Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Ukraine's security services are now reportedly checking whether his comments pose a threat to the country's security.
Mr Depardieu's highly publicised tax row began in 2012 after President Francois Hollande said he would raise taxes to 75% for those earning more than €1m (£705,000; $1.1m).
The actor accused the socialist government of punishing "success, creation and talent", and announced he would move to Belgium.
His decision was described by French officials as "shabby and unpatriotic".
Victory was Notts' third from five games so far, inflicting a second straight loss on Leicestershire.
After Notts put the Foxes into bat, Mark Cosgrove (80) was the visitors' top scorer as James Pattinson (4-42) helped restrict their total to 217.
Samit Patel (79) put Notts on course and half-centuries from Brendan Taylor and Steven Mullaney saw them home.
Having initially started their chase by losing Michael Lumb to the first ball of their reply, victory saw the Outlaws leapfrog the Foxes into third in the North Group table.
Leicestershire lost five wickets for just 15 runs between their 35th and 39th overs, as only Cosgrove passed 40 for the visitors.
The Commonwealth Games in Glasgow were a highly complex challenge, and the 1986 Games in Edinburgh a reminder that things are not guaranteed to go well.
As chairman, Lord Smith showed his ruthless streak in ousting the first chief executive, at a time things were going off track.
Then there was the Smith Commission. The Prime Minister gave him the task of bringing five political parties round the table and hammering out a deal on new powers for the Scottish Parliament.
It was a far-reaching, multi-sided constitutional negotiation, under intense political pressures, and achieved in only a few weeks after the referendum.
On that role, you can also see the accountants' canniness - the chairman stepped well back once his report was delivered, probably knowing that some more difficult work started at that point.
His career has taken him from private equity dealmaking to the top of Deutsche Asset Management, then one of the largest fund managers in Britain. He has chaired SSE, and is newly chair of Forth Ports.
He was appointed by the UK Government, and re-appointed, as chairman of the Green Investment Bank, which he is currently preparing for privatisation.
He's chaired museum boards, advised the ministers on education and training, been Scottish governor of the BBC and sits in the House of Lords. He was chancellor of the University of the West of Scotland before a transfer up the Clyde to become chancellor of Strathclyde.
At the age of 71, you might think it's time for Smith to sit back, relax and chew the cud with his Highland cattle. That's particularly after having a heart attack last year, during dinner as a guest of the First Minister at her Bute House official residence.
But not so. He has agreed to another challenge - a small company, but a big pedigree, and facing a bigger challenge.
Alliance Trust has been under siege from activist investors for years. The Dundee fund manager gave ground to Elliot Advisers last year, and agreed to let two of the shareholder's nominees on to the board.
Within a year and a half of that, every face round the boardroom table will be new. Karin Forseke, a Swede and veteran of London finance, left the board in November without much ceremony.
Katherine Garrett-Cox, the highly-paid chief executive, was also ousted from the board and told she should get on with improving the Trust's performance. She takes her instructions from outside the room.
That involves a turnaround of her strategy for the Trust, aggressively going after a closing of the discount - the gap between the Trust's valuation and the value of the assets that make up its portfolio.
There's usually a gap, but activist investors have been complaining for years that it's too big at Alliance Trust, and that it is either inefficient or too costly to run.
It's certainly dwarfed by its neighbour to the north, Aberdeen Asset Management, where the boss, Martin Gilbert, has suggested he could take over the funds and run them better.
That is what now hangs in the balance. I'm told Elliot Advisers and its allies have given the board until July to prove that Alliance Trust can be turned around.
In addition to the boardroom changes, there is a radical shift in investment strategy, shedding several asset classes, including fixed income, and embarking on an extensive share buyback.
The retail savings end of the operation is also being organisationally split from the investing side, with separate boards - abandoning Garrett-Cox's patient approach to building up such new offshoots.
There's also little talk of the emphasis on ethical investments focussed on environmental and social outcomes, and good governance. The women who have run Alliance Trust for some years have been pushed aside for a more macho approach.
If these changes don't get the desired results, Elliot wants the funds handed over to other, bigger fund managers.
The new chairman is understood to be agnostic on whether that happens, but given to some sentimental attachment to Alliance Trust's long pedigree.
This was the company built up by Dundee's merchants and jute barons from the merger of three trusts in 1888. It invested for them in colonial developments and in America's frontier.
It occupies a prominent place in the city centre, and in the Dundee identity. It has a large number of small investors, many of whom have inherited a commitment to the Trust going back generations.
Brewin Dolphin, the wealth manager, represents many of their stakes, and could be a key player in what happens next.
The long-standing investor base also includes DC Thompson, the Dundee publisher, which has been so canny in managing its affairs that it has also become a significant investor.
That could lead to an interesting showdown - between the aggressive, and sometimes ruthless tactics of hedge funds such as Elliott Advisers, and the couthy conservatism of the Family Thompson.
Lord Robert Smith is not one to shy away from a showdown.
Public Services Ombudsman Nick Bennett said there was a "systemic failure" by consultants at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, to recognise and respond to the patient's condition.
It is the third Ombudsman report on the hospital in the past two months.
The health board has apologised.
The patient, who is still alive and referred to as Mr D, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in July 2014.
Despite Welsh Government guidelines stating patients newly diagnosed with cancer should start treatment within 31 days, Mr D had to wait 132 days.
The probe found not only were there delays in conducting diagnostic investigations, but also in scheduling of Mr D's surgery.
"In this particular case there was a disturbing lack of urgency in which referrals between consultants across the health board's various hospital sites were conducted," said Mr Bennett.
"There appears to have been a systemic failure to recognise and respond to the fact that Mr D was suffering with an aggressive, potentially life-threatening form of prostate cancer that required urgent and radical treatment.
"I have seen nothing in the health board's response to my investigation that could justify such a disquieting failure."
Some of the recommendations Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board has agreed to include a full written apology and a review of its urology service's compliance with Welsh Government guidance.
Chief executive Gary Doherty said: "While our urological services are under severe pressure, the way that this patient's care was handled was not acceptable, neither was the decision to delay responding to the patient's formal complaints until after his treatment had been completed.
"I am very sorry for the additional anxiety and distress that we will have caused to the patient at what will already have been a very worrying time for him and his family."
Mr Doherty said he would apologise to the patient directly.
The aircraft, piloted by Squadron Leader Hugh Nichols, was accompanied by two other F-35Bs from the United States Marine Corps.
They touched down at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire just before 20:00 BST on Wednesday, watched by aviation enthusiasts waiting outside the base.
The supersonic jets were supported by refuelling tankers for the crossing.
They will be displayed at the Royal International Air Tattoo and the Farnborough Air Show over the next few weeks.
It is the first time an RAF F-35 has made the transatlantic crossing to the UK from the US.
Plans for the F-35 to display in Europe last summer were scrapped due to a technical problem.
The Lightning II, which is capable of short take off and vertical landing, will enter service with the RAF and the Royal Navy in 2018.
The UK will have 24 of the aircraft available on its two new aircraft carriers by 2023.
Its design uses stealth technology techniques to minimise its presence on radar, giving it "very low observable characteristics", according to the RAF.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: "The F-35Bs are the most advanced fast jets in the world.
"Whether operating from land or from one of our two new aircraft carriers, they will ensure we have a formidable fighting force.
"They are part of our plan for a stronger and better defence - more ships, more aircraft, more troops available at readiness, better equipment for special forces, more being spent on cyber - to deal with the increased threats to our country."
Officers were looking for people they allege had vandalised election posters and fled to the property.
A police spokesman said petrol bombs were also found, but Mr Mwamba's party has said they were planted.
There have been growing concerns over political violence in Zambia ahead of next month's general election.
The raid comes just two days after a ban on political campaigning in parts of the country had been lifted, reports the BBC's Meluse Kapatamoyo from the capital, Lusaka.
Mr Mwamba, who was not in the house in Kasama in the country's Northern Province at the time, said his grandchildren were injured during the raid.
"My small grandchildren have been taken to hospital as they have been victims of this barbaric act carried out by the police," he said in a post on his Facebook page.
Mr Mwamba is the running mate of Hakainde Hichilema, the presidential candidate of the United Party for National Development (UPND) party.
Northern Province Police Commissioner Bonnie Kapeso said the police officers had to use tear gas in order to get the people they were chasing out of the house.
He added that five petrol bombs were found as well as spears and machetes.
The UPND said in a statement that "the items allegedly found were only recovered once the house was cleared. We know these have been planted".Zambians go to the polls on 11 August to elect a president and a new parliament.
Incumbent President Edgar Lungu, from the Patriotic Front, is facing a tough challenge from Mr Hichilema.
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The swimming pool on Justice Mill Lane closed in 2008 because of council budget cuts.
It is estimated more than £5m will be needed to refurbish the historic art deco design building.
The campaigners are nearing a £5,000 total to start a Save Bon Accord Baths fund.
Fundraising manager John Law told BBC Scotland: "It was great to get into the baths, I have to say first impressions were incredible.
"It's an amazing place, and it's in much better condition than we first thought it would likely be.
"The main structure seems to be in really good condition."
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Campaigners trying to reopen Aberdeen's Bon Accord baths have expressed delight and relief at its condition after getting inside the building to see it.
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Two-thirds of Australians were expected to complete the national survey online in an ambitious shift from paper.
An investigation is likely to focus on tech giant IBM's efforts to protect the A$470m (£280m, US$360m) project.
The government has been unable to say when the website will be online more than 36 hours after it was shutdown.
It is the latest in a series of headline-grabbing scandals faced by the the government in the weeks after the election.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics shut down the census website after what it said were four "denial of service" attacks.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull admitted that there were "serious failures" with the census and moved to assure people that their data was safe.
"I too am very angry about this, I am bitterly disappointed about this," he told radio station 2GB.
"This has clearly been a failure on the part of the ABS."
A denial of service attack is when hackers orchestrate thousands of compromised computers to overwhelm a website with traffic.
In the lead up to the census, the ABS claimed its servers could handle one million forms per hour.
The prime minister said that "there will be some very serious consequences" following the investigation into the debacle.
One person likely to come under scrutiny will be David Kalisch, the head of the ABS, who receives a salary of more than A$700,000.
Meanwhile, a personal website for the newly appointed minister responsible for the census appears to have been shut down.
Assistant Treasurer Michael McCormack's personal website displayed the message: "Error 500 - internal server error".
A spokesman for the minister did not answer questions about whether the website had been attacked.
"It's down for maintenance," he told the Australian Associated Press.
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The offences are alleged to have taken place at the former Thorp Arch Grange Children's Home in Wetherby.
The men - from Leeds, Burnley and Linlithgow - are due to appear at Leeds Magistrates' Court on 2 October.
They were arrested as part of Operation Polymer, an inquiry into abuse at children's homes in Leeds in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Roy Leonard Allen, 71, from Burnley, Lancashire, is charged with 17 offences including indecent assault.
Anthony Gordon Poles, 77, from Boston Spa, Leeds, has been charged with five including indecent assault.
Mark Walker Wyllie, 59, from Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, has been charged with indecent assault.
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Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Canada, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Peru, Italy and Albania have all received fines.
Chile have also been ordered to play their qualifier against Venezuela on 28 March 2017 behind closed doors.
This is because it is their second infringement this year.
In May, they were banned from playing at the Estadio Nacional Julio Martinez Pradanos in Santiago for two matches and fined 30,000 Swiss francs (£24,004) as a result of homophobic chants from supporters, with the second suspension suspended for a year.
Some of the recent incidents by fans of the 11 nations included homophobic chants.
The fines range from 65,000 Swiss francs (£52,009), given to Honduras for two cases, to the 20,000 Swiss francs (£16,002) for Brazil and Canada.
Researchers found that sites with the highest abundance of the native animals had the lowest shrub layer vegetation cover and a lower number of birds.
It is described as the first study of its kind in the UK to examine the possible impact of just one species of deer on the natural environment.
Details were presented at the British Ecological Society's annual meeting.
A team from Durham University and the Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) carried out the study to investigate:
"I collected data on vegetation cover, diversity and abundance at 35 woodland field sites across England during May and June 2011 and 2012," explained co-author Georgina Palmer from Durham University.
"Each of these field sites are part of the Breeding Bird Survey scheme, so - along with the vegetation data I collected - I also had access to long-running bird and deer abundance data."
Data collected from the 35 sites highlighted an apparent relationship between increasing roe deer density and a decrease in shrub diversity and cover.
(Source: Deer Initiative)
However, Ms Palmer told BBC News: "I am still analysing this data, so cannot yet say whether roe deer are causing the reduction in shrub layer cover and, consequently, bird abundance or whether roe deer are more strongly associated with woodlands with open shrub layers."
She added that the research was the first of its kind to just look at a single species of deer.
"Much of the recent literature on impacts of deer on their environment has focused on multi-species systems and, there, authors cannot attribute impacts they find on vegetation to one particular species," Ms Palmer observed.
"My study is the first in Britain which both looks solely at the roe deer, and within natural environments, ie without the use of deer exclosures where deer densities are artificially managed."
Losing control
Six species of deer are found in the UK, of which only two are classified as native: roe and red deer, although fallow deer are considered to be part of the natural heritage as they have been present in the UK since the 11th Century. The others - muntjac, sika and Chinese water deer - were introduced in the past 150 years.
Ms Palmer's research builds on findings of a recent study that showed landowner partnerships over large areas were the best way to deter deer damage.
The findings, based on data from 80 Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs), also warned that the impact of overgrazing by deer had a knock-on effect that undermined woodland ecologies.
Since 1995, the Deer Initiative - a partnership between statutory, voluntary and private organisations - has been looking at ways to establish and promote the "sustainable management of wild deer" in England and Wales.
In order to deliver an effective management policy, the partnership highlighted a number of challenges that needed to be addressed, including:
Ecologists warn that the threat from deer to woodlands consist of a number of factors, including a reduction in the growth and density of saplings, bark damage and a change in the composition of under-storey vegetation.
The team presenting details of their study at the recent BES annual meeting in Birmingham said there was growing concern regarding the potential cascading effects deer may have on other components of biodiversity, such as fewer suitable nesting sites for birds and a reduction in food sources for other woodland species.
In 2015/16, more than 250,000 syringes were given out to drug users in the area - 27% of the total across north Wales.
A report was commissioned last November after concerns from residents that discarded needles blighted the area.
Wrexham councillors discussed its findings on Thursday.
A group looking into the issue was chaired by Councillor Carole O'Toole, who said needles could cause injury, stop children using public spaces and affect the perception of crime and community safety.
There were also concerns it was also undermining attempts to attract visitors to the town and creating "no-go areas" for residents.
Wrexham Streetscene - which cleans public-owned land - said the problem has "grown considerably in recent months", with a number of areas highlighted as "hotspots".
In the report, a resident described the scene of "filth" at Rhos Cemetery, saying this could cause "major harm" to children playing there.
"Innocent people need to be protected", they said.
"I could have picked up 200 needles in two minutes and then there are used condoms and human faeces that go with it."
Another resident said they find up to 40 discarded needles every day on Holt Road.
"I have heard some say that Wrexham hasn't got a problem but I think they are walking around with their eyes closed," they added.
Council-owned land adjacent to Capel-y-Groes in the town centre was also highlighted as becoming an "encampment" for homeless and substance, drug and alcohol mis-users in August.
With some suffering from mental health issues and "complex problems" surrounding them, the report said simply moving the people on is not easy.
"(Things) can spiral out of control rapidly and create a hugely challenging situation which is quickly overwhelming to all those trying to deal with it," the report said.
It added: "In the worst affected areas, people in our communities, especially the most vulnerable like the elderly, young families, feel intimidated and harassed by the people causing the problems.
"And it is not just at night - it's in the middle of the day."
Of the 945,664 needles and syringes issued by community pharmacies and other outlets in 2015/16 to people in the six north Wales authorities, 26.9% (254,453) were distributed in Wrexham.
The report lists recommendations for addressing the issue, that include reporting, dealing with and cleaning up drug litter and working with Betsi Cadwaldr University Health Board to recognise and tackle the specific issue in Wrexham.
A legal order giving police and council officials powers to disperse anyone causing a nuisance such as taking drugs in Wrexham town centre came into force in August.
Farah, 31, who was running his first competitive marathon, finished in eighth place. He also missed out on breaking the British record.
Wilson Kipsang from Kenya won the event in a new course record. Stanley Biwott came second and Tsegaye Kebede third.
Kenya's Edna Kiplagat won the women's elite race with Florence Kiplagat in second and Tirunesh Dibaba third.
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World record holder Kipsang crossed the line in a time of two hours, four minutes and 29 seconds.
Farah - the Olympic and world champion at both 5,000m and 10,000m - had been the bookies' most backed runner in the history of the event.
He had also aimed to beat Steve Jones' British record of 2:07:13 seconds which has stood since 1985 - but missed out by finishing in 2:08:21.
After the race he told the BBC: "I will be back. I gave it a go but I'm disappointed I didn't give a bit more than the crowd deserved.
"It was the strongest field ever brought together by the London Marathon. It would have been wrong to do any other marathon. This is my hometown."
Steve Jones said Farah's first competitive marathon was "extremely good" and he was "honoured not to have my record broken".
After the race men's winner Kipsang, said: "I was feeling good and took advantage of controlling the pace and controlling the guys."
The other Britons who finished the men's elite race were Scott Overall, Craig Hopkins and debutants Chris Thompson and Ben Livesey.
In the women's race, British runners Amy Whitehead and Emma Stepto finished in 13th and 14th places with times of two hours, 34 minutes and 20 seconds and two hours 36 minutes and five seconds.
Britain's David "Weirwolf" Weir lost his bid to become the best wheelchair racer in the event's history.
He had been aiming to win his seventh title but was beaten into second place by Switzerland's Marcel Hug.
American Tatyana McFadden took the elite women's wheelchair race title, a month after winning a silver medal at the Winter Olympics for cross-country skiing.
Legions of fun-runners taking part in the event raised thousands of pounds for charity.
Celebrities including former Liverpool and England footballer Michael Owen, Game of Thrones actress Natalie Dormer, and Michelin-star chef Michel Roux Jr were just some of those who took up the challenge.
Nine MPs also tackled the course with Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls running his third consecutive London Marathon.
Sisters Katie, 23, and Polly Ryall, 21, from Newbury, Berkshire, fell short of their quest to become the fastest pair of female siblings to run a marathon.
The pair needed a combined time of five hours, nine minutes and 14 seconds to break the record, but knew before they finished they had not achieved it.
In the 34th year of the event there were also 15 runners who have competed every year.
Race starters Grainger and Watkins, who won the women's double sculls gold at the London 2012 Games, were two of 13 London Olympics gold medallists who took on the famous course from Blackheath to The Mall.
Olympic stars to start marathon
At one point the dollar fell to 104.06 yen, its lowest since August 2014.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 index closed down 3.05% to 15,434.14 points.
The Bank of Japan boosted the yen, which has been gaining ground as a haven for nervous investors, further after it ended its meeting saying it would not add new stimulus.
Continuing worries around the upcoming EU referendum in the UK are adding to general unease about the lack of economic growth.
Comments by the Federal Reserve head, Janet Yellen, overnight sounded a warning over a possible British exit from the EU.
A stronger yen hurts Japan's big exporters.
It makes their goods more expensive to buy overseas and affects their bottom line when they repatriate earnings.
In China, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell 2.1% to 20,038.42, while the Shanghai Composite closed 0.5% lower at 2,872.82.
News that the Federal Reserve would keep interest rates unchanged for the moment was initially welcomed by several markets in Asia.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 index opened up 0.5% and continued to rise in morning trade. It later closed flat at 5,146 points.
In New Zealand, the benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index spent much of the day in positive territory and closed up 0.28% at 6,888.56.
Investors there were given a boost by positive economic growth numbers released earlier. Official statistics showed New Zealand posted faster-than-expected growth in the first quarter, up 2.8% from a year earlier.
Stocks in South Korea opened in positive territory but lost some ground later, with the benchmark Kospi index closing down 0.86% at 1,951.99.
Analysts said investors would continue to be wary of news from the UK and whether voters there will move to leave the EU.
The possibility of Brexit was one of the factors that led the US Federal Reserve to keep interest rates on hold, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said.
Ms Yellen said the decision to be made on 23 June could have consequences for economic and financial conditions in global financial markets.
The Federal Reserve raised rates in December for the first time in nearly a decade.
For a start, we can't live without it, for very obvious reasons.
But it also underpins pretty much every activity we pursue in life - not just in our everyday lives, but in growing food, energy production and industry both large and small-scale.
Water is also unique in that it's pretty much indestructible - unlike most resources, it doesn't break down when heated up, but evaporates, constantly changing form to be transported to another place at another time.
As Betsy Otto, global director at the World Resources Institute's (WRI) Water Programme, says, "the water we drink today dropped off the nose of Tyrannosaurus rex".
This may help explain why this most precious of resources is free. For despite being incomparably more precious than any amount of gold, platinum or diamond, in most places on Earth water holds practically no financial value whatsoever.
But water can no longer be seen as an infinite resource as shortages become ever more commonplace across the world.
Unprecedented population growth, allied with greater wealth leading to far more water-intensive meat consumption; climate change causing more erratic weather and extreme droughts; and pollution are all putting a huge strain on finite water reserves.
So much so that more than a billion people currently live in water scarce regions, according to the WRI, a number that could grow to 3.5 billion by 2025. Indeed demand for water is projected to rise by 40% in the next 20 years.
To make matters worse, food and clothing production has in recent years moved increasingly to areas of water shortages - typically developing countries that have welcomed the opportunity to establish industries, creating jobs and wealth.
Indeed water and its delivery are often cheapest in the parts of the world where it is most scarce.
As Richard Mattison, head of environmental research group Trucost, says: "If jeans were made in Denmark, fine. But they're not, they're produced in parts of the world that suffer from severe water stress."
Clearly something has to give.
"We are in a race to the bottom, as if there were no supply limitations," says Ms Otto. "That needs to change. We need to understand that we are out of balance and that there are very serious risks."
But the message is starting to get through.
There has been a "sea change in the last five years, led by forward looking companies", says Ms Otto, particularly in the clothing, food and drink industries.
SABMiller is just one such company. As Andre Fourie, its head of water security and environmental value, puts it, "no water, no beer!"
Acutely aware of risks to the business of water stress in the countries in which it produces - including India, Nigeria, Peru and South Africa - the UK brewer decided eight years ago to calculate its water footprint, and claims to be the first consumer goods company to do so.
It found that 90% of its water use came from growing the ingredients for its beer, such as barley and hops, rather than the actual water used to make the beer itself.
It resolved to cut its own water use by 20% by 2015, a target that was met "a little early". It now uses on average 3.5 litres of water to produce a litre of beer, and the company has set a target of just three litres by 2020.
But it also resolved to address the wider risks of water shortages in its supply chain, for example speaking to local mining companies and farmers outside of Lima, Peru, to reduce pollution and fertiliser run-off into local rivers.
And addressing these risks is not cheap. Such are the scale of the long and short-term risks to the overall business, the company is prepared to spend serious amounts of money to secure not just its supply of water, but its quality as well.
SAB typically spends $500,000 in each locality it operates, which may be home to just one brewery.
US clothing giant Levi Strauss, best know for its jeans, is another leader in water conservation.
Five years ago, understanding that water was a "critical" issue for its business, the company initiated a drive to reduce water use in its supply chain without compromising quality.
It is now using 96% less water in making a pair of jeans - far less than the industry average of 11,000 litres.
Actions like these will "reduce operational and reputational risk, [help] manage costs and generate growth through product innovation", says Michael Kobori, vice president of sustainability.
This initiative has saved not only one billion litres of water, but also energy consumption, and it has translated into a costs saving of 4 cents (2.8p) per pair of jeans.
Elsewhere, the consumer goods giant Unilever and the carmaker Volkswagen have spent several hundred thousand dollars on planting trees to secure their water supplies in Africa and South America.
The coffee giant Starbucks has committed millions of dollars to protect the water supply to its coffee plantations in Mexico and Indonesia.
Microsoft is even experimenting at vast expense with putting data centres under the ocean off the coast of California in a bid to reduce the water needed for cooling.
There are numerous, very real threats to water supplies for corporations the world over, primarily in agriculture, energy, utilities, IT and mining, but also in food and drink, clothing, consumer goods, retailing and beyond.
The great unknown is whether, one day, water itself rather than the delivery of it will be priced to reflect its uniquely important role in the global economy and to the human race.
Some argue that as a basic human right a price can never be put on accessing water; others that it is an unavoidable necessity.
A precedent has already been set in California and in the Murray Darling Basin in Australia, where water trading systems have been used successfully to reduce water use dramatically in times of drought.
If such schemes became widespread, the consequences for the corporate world would be dramatic.
Indeed research by Trucost suggests that more than half of the profits of the world's biggest companies would be at risk if water was priced to reflect its value.
Companies need to act now before it's too late.
Early goals by Michael Murphy and Colm McFadden sent the Ulster champions on the victory path - 20 years after the county's previous Sam Maguire success.
Underdogs Mayo fought back and were just 2-4 to 0-7 down at the break.
However, Jim McGuinness's Donegal picked things up again in the second half to emerge worthy winners.
So, another disappointing day for Mayo on the big day out in Dublin - they have not won an All-Ireland final since 1951.
James Horan's Connacht champions had been regarded as a defensively tight unit in the 2012 campaign, but they were left reeling by those two early goals.
The Mayo heads had dropped briefly when the second goal went in and there must have been momentary concern that the GAA's big showpiece occasion could dissolve into a disappointing no contest.
Donegal had raced into a seven-point lead inside the opening 11 minutes but Mayo did well to gain the momentum later in the half and be just three in arrears at the interval.
The first goal came after just two minutes, 28 seconds, as captain Murphy collected a high ball and beat maker Kevin Keane to blast a right-foot finish past a helpless David Clarke.
Mayo defender Lee Keegan was then guilty of a high challenge on Mark McHugh. That gave Keegan a yellow card and McFadden the easy task of converting the free.
Then came the second Donegal goal. Patrick McBrearty's effort came off the far upright, defender Keane missed a chance to collect and McFadden capitalised by drilling a low shot into the net.
Donegal, 2-01 to the good, could have led by double figures but Clarke made a good close-range save from McFadden's shot.
Mayo got their first point in the 16th minute through Kevin McLaughlin and Cillian O'Connor added a free.
Buncrana half-forward Ryan Bradley advanced to add to the Donegal score but then Mayo were boosted by four unanswered points through McLoughlin, two O'Connor frees and a splendid effort from out wide by Michael Conroy.
McFadden, who came into the game with a 2012 Championship tally of 3-28, added two more frees before the break with Enda Varley and another O'Connor free ensuring Mayo trailed by just 2-4 to 0-7 at the turnaround.
The early stages of the second half were evenly contested with McFadden and Murphy tagging on frees and Frank McGlynn scoring from play for Donegal, and Cillian O'Connor (2) and Enda Varley landing frees for Mayo.
Two more frees and a point from play by Murphy edged Donegal towards the finishing line.
Replacement Richie Feeney and Keegan scored for Mayo while Neil Gallagher registered a score for Donegal.
Another Mayo substitute Jason Givens landed the final point but there was no denying Donegal their historic triumph in front of 82,269 spectators at GAA's headquarters.
Donegal scorers: Murphy 1-4, McFadden 1-4, Bradley 0-1, McGlynn 0-1, Gallagher 0-1
Mayo scorers: McLoughlin 0-2, O'Connor 0-5, Conroy 0-1, Varley 0-2, Feeney 0-1, Keegan 0-1, Gibbons 0-1
It has spent five non-consecutive weeks at number one in the UK and in doing so became the first track to get two million streams in a week.
The track has also been number one in the US, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and Canada. You get the picture, people like the song.
The only place that seems immune to it is Russia where, as noted by Ronson himself, it peaked at number 198.
But why does everyone else love it so much?
During an appearance on Radio 1's Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw, the producer got a pretty detailed explanation from Canadian self-labelled music genius Chilly Gonzales.
"It's a funk song which means there aren't a lot of chords. There are two in this song, they are D minor 7 and G7.
"There's a sneaky little third part that falls from a C to a B."
At this point Mark Ronson said: "I have no idea [what he's talking about] but it sounds so smart.
"I just hit the funk button on the computer keyboard. I'm dying to hear what he has to say."
Chilly continued: "You have the bass that rises, the middle part that falls and of course the top note that anchors it all together.
"This makes sense, this is a tight-ass nervous pop song.
"Secretly I believe that this build up, this break so to speak, [before the chorus] was influenced by techno music and what you might hear at a rave.
"And of course you usually hear some kind of siren.
"I would like to point out the masterful build up towards the song's money shot which is the phrase 'Don't believe me just watch'.
"The way that this build up is achieved is with live instruments with the stripped down funk band."
He then described the effect of a sequence "on the off beats in the build up to the phrase 'don't believe me just watch'" that helps to emphasise that line in the song.
Mark Ronson gives credit to Jeff Bhasker, who co-produced the record, for coming up with that section of the song.
Chilly concluded his analysis of the track by by saying: "We have a mix of the old, the new, the modern and the classic. And that's why I love Uptown Funk."
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The 25-year-old, who signed a six-year contract at Real when he joined from Monaco for £71m in July 2014, made just 22 appearances in La Liga last season.
He had been linked with a summer move to Premier League champions Chelsea as well as Manchester United.
"Signing James Rodríguez was our coach Carlo Ancelotti's biggest wish," Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said.
"We're delighted we've been able to complete this transfer."
Colombia captain Rodriguez, the top scorer at the 2014 World Cup, was signed by Ancelotti during the Italian's two-year spell as Real manager.
But the playmaker found his playing time limited under Zinedine Zidane, who succeeded Rafa Benitez as boss of the Spanish giants in January 2016.
He made 111 competitive appearances for Real, scoring 36 goals and providing 41 assists, but was left out of the 18-man squad that beat Juventus in the Champions League final last season.
"James is a very versatile player. He's a goalscorer himself, he sets up a lot of goals and on top of that he's great from set-pieces," continued Rummenigge.
"There's no question that this transfer further increases the quality in our team."
Rodriguez has been included in the squad that will travel to China and Singapore on Sunday for a 12-day tour by Bayern, who have won the last five Bundesliga titles.
German football journalist Raphael Honigstein speaking to BBC Radio 5 live:
The reality is that Alexis Sanchez was their number one target, and they couldn't quite make it work. James Rodriguez is a player with similar talents but doesn't really do as much as far as Bayern's needs are concerned. It's not a bad move for Bayern but it's not really the one they wanted.
Having said that, he's still a big name and some people feel he has a lot of talent that can be brought to bear with the right management. Being a loan deal there's not a lot of risk for Bayern but it's not the big marquee signing everybody was craving.
We have a pretty good idea of how much he's costing. There's a loan fee of 5m euros (£4.46m) per year and then his wages will be around 10m euros so effectively Bayern pay up to 30m euros if he stays for those two years and have an option to buy him for another 35m euros.
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Dumfries and Galloway Council provided £54,000 towards Youth Beatz this year when it was headlined by former X Factor winner James Arthur.
However, with increased pressure on finances, a potential cut of 10% or 20% was being considered.
The Nithsdale area committee agreed in principle to reduce funding by £5,400.
The festival has been held in Dumfries for several years and repeated attempts to charge for entry have always been rejected.
This year 12,000 free tickets for the event at the town's Dock Park were given out.
A report to councillors indicated that a reduction of 10% in funding from the council could be accommodated through a reduction in the scope of the festival and an increase in external support.
It said that if more significant cuts were to be considered they could have a greater impact on the event.
Edwards recently took a position as a non-executive board director with Hampshire and Southern Vipers, who she captained to the inaugural Women's Super League title in the summer.
The 36-year-old retired from international cricket in May, having captained England more than 200 times.
She will play for Adelaide Strikers in the Women's Big Bash this winter.
"After spending the last year at the Ageas Bowl with the Southern Vipers it felt the right move for me to play my last few years of cricket with the club," Edwards told the Hampshire website.
"The opportunity has come at a great time in my career and I look forward to playing with such a young and exciting group over the next few seasons."
Hampshire play in Division Two of the 50-over Women's County Championship and T20 competitions.
"The immense value, experience and knowledge she adds will be key in driving the improvement of women's and girls' cricket in Hampshire and across the Southern Vipers region," said Bob Parks, Hampshire Women head of performance.
Anil Yadav was accused of snatching the necklace, worth 63,000 rupees ($995; £648), from a woman on Monday.
Doctors at Mumbai's Sion hospital also gave him four enemas after an X-ray scan of his body showed the necklace lodged in his stomach.
Meanwhile, the owner of the necklace has said she will not wear it again.
Rajashree Mayeker told Midday newspaper correspondent Saurabh Vaktania that she would take it to her jeweller who would melt it and re-make it.
The hospital authorities said Mr Yadav expelled the necklace on Thursday morning in his stool after he was put on a special diet of bananas, milk and antacids.
They said the necklace took so long to come out because it had a large pendant which was hindering its expulsion.
On Wednesday, police official Rahul Pawar told the BBC that Mr Yadav, 30, snatched the necklace weighing 25g (0.06lb) from Mrs Mayeker, 52, as she was walking home in the Sion area on Monday afternoon.
He was caught after a chase by the police and public.
After some people who had caught him said they had seen him swallowing something, Mr Yadav was taken to the hospital where an X-ray revealed the necklace inside his body.
Doctors, however, have questioned the use of bananas as a laxative with some saying medicines could have done the job much more easily.
Sustained winds of up to 210 km/h (130mph) were reported in parts of the eastern Bahamas, the US National Hurricane Centre said.
The NHC says Joaquin could affect the US East Coast by Sunday, and said it was now an "extremely dangerous" storm.
Emergency teams said there were no reports of casualties in the Bahamas.
Forecasters in the US and the Bahamas are warning that central islands, many of which are low-lying, could see a storm surge of up to 3.7m (12ft).
"We do not know the impact of 130mph on those areas," Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie said. "We know it's a horrific kind of experience."
One Bahamas resident, Shandira Forbes, said she had been in contact with her mother on the island of Acklins.
"She was calling for help because the sea was coming into her house," she told Associated Press. "People's roofs were lifting up. No one knew, so there was no preparedness, there was no meeting, there was nothing."
Images on social media showed water reaching close to the roofs of some homes. The Tribune 242 website said dozens of people were trapped in their homes in the southern Bahamas.
After being classified only as a storm early on Wednesday, Joaquin had become a Category Four hurricane - on a scale of five - by Thursday afternoon.
The NHC said the storm could strengthen again as it nears the central Bahamas, but it is likely to lose strength as it moves north.
States along the eastern US coast - many of whom have suffered heavy rains in recent days - have warned residents to take precautions.
But the NHC, while warning the path of the hurricane could change, said it was "becoming optimistic that the Carolinas and the mid-Atlantic states will avoid the direct effects from Joaquin".
In other developments:
A White House spokesman said the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) was following the progress of Joaquin and preparing in case it made landfall in the US.
The charge follows the 33-year-old's tackle on Harlequins' Tim Swiel during the first half of Saturday's 30-27 loss in the Premiership at Kingsholm.
Former Ulster forward Afoa will appear before a three-person RFU disciplinary panel on Tuesday evening.
Capped 36 times by New Zealand, he has been with the Cherry and Whites since 2014, starting 63 games.
The only ferry linking Hayling Island to Portsmouth closed down in 2015 when the company went into administration.
The firm's collapse left about 70 schoolchildren and commuters facing a 16-mile road journey instead of a three-minute ride to Eastney.
Sir Richard was approached for support after taking part in an annual Hayling Island kitesurfing festival.
The entrepreneur's Virgin group sponsors the event, which runs this year from 17-19 June.
The 200-year-old ferry service collapsed in March 2015.
The company was then sold to Baker Trayte Marine Ltd but the new owner's plan to restore the service stalled when Hampshire County Council said it could no longer justify an annual subsidy. The service cost the authority £71,000 in 2014.
The newly-launched Hayling Ferry Trust, led by local councillor Clare Satchwell, said it aimed to raise a total of £40,000 to support the new private operator.
Ms Satchwell said: "It's like a phoenix from the flames. We want to harness public positivity... and Sir Richard's donation is a real boost."
Harry Chivers, from Bangor, received the £80,000 miniaturized ventricular assist device (MVAD) at Newcastle upon Tyne's Freeman Hospital two weeks ago.
His health was failing after he suffered a heart attack in last August.
Experts have said the new pump is a "huge step forward" for heart patients.
Mr Chivers, 63, was waiting for a heart transplant when the possibility of pioneering the pump arose.
The retired father-of-three travelled to the Freeman Hospital for the treatment by Prof Stephan Schueler.
Since then he has made good progress and could be allowed home next week.
His consultant cardiac surgeon said the device, that is smaller than predecessors and with settings that allow it to adapt to the patient's lifestyle, sits on the tip of the heart and helps it to pump blood.
Prof Schueler said there were hundreds of thousands of people with advanced heart disease, but in the past treatment was limited to an "elite" few who could receive a transplant.
"They have now the choice to get these revolutionary devices. It is the fourth generation and they are tiny," he said.
The MVAD weighs 78g and is about the size of a golf ball, and is said to be about half as large as previous devices.
It is powered by a battery pack from a wire that passes out of the patient's abdomen.
The pack can be carried in a bag or around the waist.
Mr Chivers said he was "getting a lot better" after having the MVAD fitted.
"I feel great, it has really improved my breathing and the operation has gone really well," he said.
"I was quite happy to volunteer here because I have 100% confidence in the fantastic hospital.
"I'm eating a lot better, I'm getting around and working on my physio.
"There's a long way to go but I'm going to do it."
The Freeman's ventricular assist device co-ordinator Neil Wrightson said the new pump's size made it a huge step forward.
He said Mr Chivers was slumped in his chair and looked "appalling" when they first met in a Belfast hospital.
The pump's availability had come "in the nick of time" for him.
"He is not a dying man anymore," Mr Wrightson said.
Patients would need to be ill enough to require a heart transplant but well enough to recover from the treatment, he added.
He said because of its small size it could be suitable for children with heart disease, and it will now go through a lengthy trial process.
Worst hit was Moore, south of the city, where neighbourhoods were flattened and schools destroyed by winds of up to 200mph (320km/h).
About 120 people are being treated in hospitals. Earlier reports said more than 90 people had died.
President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma.
He also ordered federal authorities to join in the search efforts which have continued throughout the night.
By Jonny DymondBBC News, Moore
There is lightning in the sky above Moore, flickering on and off every 10 or 20 seconds; at ground level the only light is from the blue and red flashing lights of emergency vehicles and the bright portable lights with generators at their bases.
It is deceptively calm; insects chirrup in the background. Everywhere is covered in a light spray of soggy debris and a film of mud.
At the deserted Moore police station, cars are spattered with mud. Larger concrete structures are still standing - a cinema, a supermarket, reminders of what there was before the tornado struck.
But houses, offices and shops have been torn apart by the force of the winds that ripped through here, sturdy telephone poles snapped at their bases, street signs sent flying.
And most disconcerting - though unsurprising - is the complete absence of any residents.
In pictures: Tornado before and after
Monday's twister hit Moore, a suburb of about 55,000 people, at 15:01 (20:01 GMT) and remained on the ground for about 45 minutes.
On Tuesday morning, the chief administrative officer of the Oklahoma City Medical Examiner's Office told reporters that the death toll had been revised down.
"Fifty-one deaths were reported to the OCME during the early phases of the recovery efforts yesterday," Amy Elliott said.
"To date, 24 deceased victims of the tornado have been transported to our Oklahoma City Office, and positive identification have been made in the vast majority of those, and these are ready for return to their loved ones."
Earlier, local authorities said a further 40 bodies had been found but not identified.
Several children are believed to have been killed when Plaza Towers Elementary school took a direct hit. The storm tore off the building's roof and knocked down walls.
"The school was flattened. The walls were pancaked in," Oklahoma's Lieutenant Governor Todd Lamb told the BBC.
"There's still roughly two dozen children that are missing. There have been some bodies recovered from that school and it's absolutely horrific and devastating."
Another school - Briarwood Elementary - was also damaged, and teachers were later seen leading pupils out to safety.
Lt Gov Lamb said Moore had been prepared for a tornado, but not of this strength: "There was a warning in place, but when it veers and is as extensive as this one is - two miles wide - on the ground for 45 minutes, that is just wreaking havoc that it's hard to get out of the way of."
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin said it was a "tragic" day.
More than 200 Oklahoma National Guardsmen as well as out-of-state personnel have been called in to assist the search-and-rescue effort.
The storm destroyed several areas, leaving a tangle of ruined buildings, piles of broken wood, overturned and crushed cars, and fires in some places.
The BBC's Alastair Leithead in Oklahoma says many tornadoes in the region hit the open plain, but this one struck a residential area.
Many houses are built on hard ground without basements, so residents did not have recourse to shelter, our correspondent adds.
"We locked the cellar door once we saw it coming, it got louder and next thing you know is you see the latch coming undone," survivor Ricky Stover said.
"We couldn't reach for it and it ripped open the door and just glass and debris started slamming on us and we thought we were dead, to be honest."
Melissa Newton, another survivor, said: "There's shingles and pieces of sheet rock and wood in our yard and all across our neighbourhood. Some homes are completely gone. It's devastating."
James Rushing said he had hurried to Plaza Towers Elementary School, where his foster son Aiden was a pupil, to see it destroyed by the storm.
"About two minutes after I got there, the school started coming apart," he told the Associated Press news agency.
Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Weather Service (NWS) said Monday's tornado had generated winds of up to 200mph.
"It's certainly the most powerful tornado that I've ever dealt with in my 20 years with the weather service," NWS meteorologist Rick Smith in Norman, Oklahoma, told the BBC.
The NWS said the tornado measured EF-4 on the five-point Fujita scale - the second most powerful type.
The town of Moore was hit by a severe tornado in May 1999, which had the highest winds ever recorded on Earth.
But Betsy Randolph of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol told local news station Skynews 9 that the damage on Monday appeared to exceed that of the 1999 tornado.
Tornadoes, hail and high winds also hit Iowa and Kansas, part of a storm system stretching from Texas to Minnesota.
On Sunday, a tornado smashed a trailer park on Highway 102 near Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Oklahoma's state medical examiner confirmed earlier on Monday that two people had been killed in the area.
The star played 18 songs over two hours, in what was her first UK concert in four-and-a-half years.
Dedicated fans had travelled from Japan and South Africa to see her perform, but Adele also had a message for anyone attending under duress.
"I know some of you have been dragged along," she joked, "but I'm going to win you over."
"Although some of my songs get a bit depressing."
By the end of the night, however, even the steeliest of hearts would have been forced to concede she had brought the goods.
Adele: The full story
Even if they weren't moved by the songs - Set Fire To The Rain, Make You Feel My Love, Rolling In The Deep - there was always Adele's disarming and bawdy humour.
She first addressed the audience 15 minutes into the show, explaining: "They told me not to talk for three songs so my nerves could calm a little."
After that the floodgates opened. She discussed perspiration ("I need to wipe the puddle off me face"); Bob Dylan ("I couldn't understand what he was saying"); and being a working mum ("you should have seen me in the dressing room - I had to do an emergency shave on my legs").
The 27-year-old, who openly admits to suffering stage fright, also talked about her toilet habits for the day.
But for many fans, this no-frills honesty is what makes Adele so endearing - and sets her apart from contemporaries like Taylor Swift, Coldplay and Rihanna.
"She's just so down to earth. She's not a superstar, she's normal," said Rosemary Shield, who attended the show from Belfast.
"She talked about her wee boy and she talked about going to the zoo. Just normal things that we all do."
"I love how she acts on and off stage," agreed Melissa Gordan, who had travelled from Johannesburg for the opening night.
"She's just human. I think she's a phenomenal person."
Hiroki Takahashi, who had flown 18 hours from Saitama, near Tokyo, to attend the concert, added: "She has a powerful energy and an amazing voice.
"My dream has come true."
The concert began simply enough, with a moody black and white projection of Adele's eyes on two gigantic silk screens, as the refrain from Hello echoed around the arena.
Then, to the audience's surprise, the star rose out of a satellite stage in the middle of the auditorium (she had been smuggled underneath it, inside a black box, 10 minutes earlier).
It was one of a small handful of production flourishes in what turned out to be a simple, stripped-back stage show.
For the most part, Adele stood, or sat, at the front of Belfast's SSE Arena, belting out the hits with a large grin plastered across her face.
There were no pyrotechnics, no video interludes and no costume changes. She wore a black sequinned custom Burberry dress all night, exuding an old school glamour.
"It's not a Beyonce show," she noted, drily at one point.
Despite a few jitters at the Grammy Awards two weeks ago, her voice was flawless throughout.
It's no secret that Adele possesses a powerful set of lungs (a high note on When We Were Young made some people around me gasp) but she refrains from the showboating that ruins many divas' performances, instead aiming directly for the emotional core of her songs.
The show also highlighted the subtlety of her phrasing, particularly when she dipped into her low register on Million Years Ago - although that may have been helped by the fact she "woke up sounding like Arnold Schwarzenegger" after leaving the air conditioning on in her hotel room.
Further highlights included her Oscar-winning Bond theme, Skyfall, during which searchlights dramatically swept over the arena; and a warm-hearted audience singalong to Someone Like You.
Musically, the songs stayed true to the recordings - except for a playful acoustic take on Send My Love (To Your New Lover) - aided by a 21-piece backing band that included an eight-strong string section.
In the tour programme, Adele said the production was guided by two big questions: "How do I make an arena show feel intimate?" and "how do I put my stamp on a big industrial room?"
The answer turned out to be deceptively simple: Play the hits and have a chinwag.
No doubt the show will develop over the coming months - there are more than 100 dates pencilled into Adele's diary before November - but the pacing, flow and sound design have already been meticulously and thoughtfully honed.
"This was the best way to kick off our world tour," Adele declared as she left the stage.
"I could get used to this."
Needing a point to end a wait stretching back to the 1958 World Cup, Chris Coleman's side were beaten by Milan Djuric and Vedad Ibisevic's second-half goals.
But they went through anyway thanks to Cyprus' 2-1 victory in Israel, which sparked wild celebrations from the away fans in Zenica.
Wales' first defeat of the campaign saw them overtaken at the top of Group B by Belgium, who qualified with a 4-1 win in Andorra.
Relive the Euro 2016 qualifiers.
Those success-starved supporters can now look forward to next summer's tournament in France, and consign half a century of heartache to history.
Littered with false dawns and squandered opportunities, Welsh football has come to be defined by agonising failure - but not any more.
The current generation of Wales players grew up watching agonising near-misses. Paul Bodin struck the bar with a penalty in a defining World Cup qualifying defeat against Romania in 1993, while Mark Hughes' side lost a European Championship play-off against Russia 10 years later. It is the anguish of the past which has inspired this generation.
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A year ago, Wales and Bosnia were inseparable in an absorbing goalless draw in Cardiff, and Coleman's men knew a repeat would clinch Euro 2016 qualification.
Top seeds at the start of the campaign, Bosnia needed a win to keep alive their play-off hopes but were without their captain and all-time leading scorer Edin Dzeko.
The Manchester City striker, on loan at Roma, failed to recover from a knee injury but, despite his absence, Bosnia began confidently with another Roma player, Miralem Pjanic, orchestrating matters in midfield.
Coleman had said beforehand Wales would "take the game to Bosnia" and, although there was attacking intent from the visitors, they were deprived possession for long periods.
Their best chance came moments before half-time as Aaron Ramsey jinked his way to within a yard of goal - but his and Neil Taylor's scrambled close-range efforts were thwarted by Bosnia goalkeeper Asmir Begovic.
The hosts improved in the second half and, roared on by their hostile crowd, took the lead as Djuric's header looped over Hennessey.
Bosnia sealed victory as Ibisevic tapped in from close range, and Welsh attention turned to the match between Israel and Cyprus.
While a point in Zenica would guarantee their place in France, Wales also knew they would qualify if Israel failed to win their final two fixtures against Cyprus and Belgium.
Israel were expected to beat Cyprus but, after 58 minutes, fell behind to a goal from Dossa Junior.
When news of that strike reached the 750 Wales fans in Zenica, their little pocket of the vociferous Bilino Polje Stadium erupted.
Delirium soon turned to anxiety when Israel equalised and Djuric headed Bosnia in front, much to the deafening delight of the home crowd in Zenica.
But there was a sense of mutual joy moments later, as Walsall defender Jason Demetriou put Cyprus back in front against Israel and put Wales back on the brink of history.
Regardless of the result against Bosnia, Wales knew they had the insurance of Tuesday's home game against an Andorran side without an away win in their competitive history.
The final fixture of a momentous campaign, the match at the Cardiff City Stadium has long been earmarked as the opportunity for Wales fans to welcome home their heroes with an almighty party.
The result will be academic now that qualification has been secured but, having suffered a first defeat of the campaign in Bosnia, Wales can end it on a high and toast their historic achievement in front of a delirious home crowd.
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Wales manager Chris Coleman: "I've wanted this not only as a player and manager but as a fan, as a child growing up.
"We didn't know what the other result was but now we do and wow, I can't explain how it feels. We got a bit flustered in the second half but in the circumstances, you can understand that.
"It is a dream come true. All the players from my generation, and generations before, nearly got there, and it was really tough. But this group have gone that extra yard."
Wales forward Gareth Bale: "This is right up there in my career. It was a dream from when I was a small child to play in a major tournament. It doesn't stop here. We have business to do in France.
"We can breathe a sigh of relief and enjoy the occasion. We can now test ourselves against the best."
Wales midfielder Aaron Ramsey: "What a great moment for Welsh football. What an achievement to have made history, we are finally going to a major tournament.
"This group of players is quite special. It didn't quite happen tonight, but the togetherness, we've been really hard to beat.
"We're only a small nation, but we've done it. We're over the moon. Thanks to all the supporters. See you in France!"
Wayne Hennessey (6), Chris Gunter (6), Ashley Williams (7), Ben Davies (6), Jazz Richards (6), Joe Allen (8), Joe Ledley (7), Neil Taylor (8), Aaron Ramsey (6), Gareth Bale (7), Hal Robson-Kanu (7).
Match ends, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2, Wales 0.
Second Half ends, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2, Wales 0.
Goal! Bosnia and Herzegovina 2, Wales 0. Vedad Ibisevic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Milan Djuric following a corner.
Attempt missed. Milan Djuric (Bosnia and Herzegovina) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left misses to the right. Assisted by Vedad Ibisevic following a corner.
Substitution, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ermin Bicakcic replaces Anel Hadzic.
Corner, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Conceded by Dave Edwards.
Attempt blocked. Miralem Pjanic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sejad Salihovic.
Attempt saved. Sam Vokes (Wales) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey with a cross.
Corner, Wales. Conceded by Miralem Pjanic.
Attempt blocked. Gareth Bale (Wales) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Neil Taylor with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Dave Edwards (Wales) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Simon Church.
Asmir Begovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) is shown the yellow card.
Toni Sunjic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Wales. Dave Edwards replaces Joe Allen.
Substitution, Wales. Simon Church replaces Hal Robson-Kanu.
Aaron Ramsey (Wales) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Sejad Salihovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Ramsey (Wales).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Sejad Salihovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Gareth Bale (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Sam Vokes with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Sejad Salihovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Senad Lulic.
Attempt missed. Aaron Ramsey (Wales) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Neil Taylor with a cross.
Corner, Wales. Conceded by Toni Sunjic.
Substitution, Wales. Sam Vokes replaces Joe Ledley.
Foul by Vedad Ibisevic (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Joe Ledley (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Senad Lulic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joe Ledley (Wales).
Goal! Bosnia and Herzegovina 1, Wales 0. Milan Djuric (Bosnia and Herzegovina) header from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Miralem Pjanic following a set piece situation.
Vedad Ibisevic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ben Davies (Wales).
Mensur Mujdza (Bosnia and Herzegovina) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Hal Robson-Kanu (Wales).
Mensur Mujdza (Bosnia and Herzegovina) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Neil Taylor (Wales).
Miralem Pjanic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Hal Robson-Kanu (Wales).
Foul by Vedad Ibisevic (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Joe Ledley (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Australian couple Sean and Shelley Thomas found it in a sand dune at Rattray Head on the north-east coast.
The note inside is dated 15 January 1971 and was written by then 14-year-old Raymond Davidson from Carlisle at the start of the 1970s.
Mr and Mrs Thomas tracked down Mr Davidson and his wife Denise after a social media campaign to find him.
Mrs Thomas said Mr Davidson has given it to the couple to take back to Brisbane as a souvenir.
He said he was "overwhelmed" by the social media campaign and he has had more friend requests since it started than when he opened his account.
A treaty signed by Australia and East Timor in 2006 outlined the allotment of billions of dollar in revenue from oil and gas fields in the sea between the neighbours.
Dili says Canberra was spying during these negotiations giving Australia an unfair commercial advantage.
It wants the treaty torn up and a new maritime border negotiated.
Claims were made before a tribunal in The Hague that the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (Asis) used listening devices, planted in East Timor's cabinet office under the guise of refurbishment, to obtain information about a Timor Sea gas treaty in 2004.
More than 10,000 activists gathered in Dili on Tuesday with schools across the capital closed for the day, organisers say.
"This is possibly the biggest demonstration we've seen since we declared independence," protest coordinator Juvinal Dias told the AFP news agency.
Timorese supporters in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines are expected to stage protests in solidarity.
Inside the sad, expensive failure of Google+ (Mashable)
After last week's uncoupling of Google+ and YouTube, many have been saying that's essentially it for the search giant's lonely social network. Here, Mashable has the inside line on how the site came to be. "Facebook is going to kill us," warned the maker of Google+, according to a Google exec quoted in the piece.
Smartphone survives 9,300ft fall (Times Record News)
Man drops smartphone out of a plane door, and incredibly, the device survives. Even more incredibly, it's an iPhone - a phone that doesn't exactly have a stellar reputation for handling falls. Not only was the phone intact, but it was working well enough to tell Wilson where to find it. Pretty remarkable.
Hitchhiking robot viciously attacked (AP)
A friendly robot named hitchBOT has been hitchhiking, on its own, across many parts of the world. First it was Canada, then Europe. Its latest journey was supposed to be from Marblehead in Massachusetts to right here to San Francisco. But it only got as far as Philadelphia before some mean-spirited hoodlum (they don't know who… yet…) attacked it, putting it out of action and leaving it untraceable. Bye hitchBOT, we hardly knew you.
Woman at centre of Reddit storm speaks (Adweek)
Victoria Taylor was the Reddit employee who was laid off recently, kicking off a chain of events that eventually ended up with the resignation of interim chief executive Ellen Pao. Taylor hadn't spoken about the whole ordeal until this weekend, where she gave a talk at a bloggers' conference in New York City.
And finally, check out this deliciously nerdy home plane simulator a user posted to Reddit.
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Twenty-nine-year-old Harry Thornton, who was a father of six, was shot dead by another soldier as he drove past Springfield Road police station.
The witness was a teenage soldier in the Parachute Regiment at the time.
He has been giving evidence from behind a screen during the inquest in Belfast and is referred to only as "Soldier C".
He told the court on Tuesday that he believed a passenger in the van that Mr Thornton was driving had pointed a weapon out of the window of the vehicle and that two shots had been fired.
Soldier C also told Tuesday's hearing that he did not believe the two bangs he heard were the van backfiring.
On Wednesday morning, counsel for the Thornton family questioned the former paratrooper's version of events.
The lawyer produced Ministry of Defence (MoD) personnel files showing that before the shooting, Soldier C had pleaded guilty to Army charges of being asleep while on sentry duty, and of being inattentive while on patrol.
He also produced evidence of a traffic incident in 1975 where Soldier C had made false statements.
The family's lawyer told the witness: "You cannot tell the truth, you manipulate the truth."
Soldier C replied: "That is incorrect"
Looking at the comments of commanding officers about Soldier C, the Thornton family's lawyer quoted an Army captain and a major from redacted documents.
One of them said of Soldier C: "He must learn to tell the unvarnished truth."
The commanding officer added: "He always has a plausible injured innocence."
Soldier C told the court that he was still in the Army 26 years later and had been awarded the British Empire Medal.
"If I was that bad a soldier... why was I still in the regiment?" he asked.
Counsel for the MoD and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) pointed out that Soldier C had travelled to Belfast and co-operated with the inquest voluntarily, despite ill health.
After completing his evidence to the inquest, Soldier C made a brief statement saying he felt that it was important that someone who was there at the time of the shooting said "sorry".
The man who fired the fatal shot, known at the inquest as Soldier A, has since died.
Mr Thornton was an unarmed civilian who had no connection to any paramilitary group.
Following his death in 1971 there was sustained rioting in west Belfast.
The killings of 10 people who were shot dead by the Army, in a period later known by the victims' families as the Ballymurphy Massacre, began two days later.
In 2012, the government wrote a letter of apology to Mr Thornton widow, Mary, confirming that her husband had been an "innocent man".
The actor and comedian took his own life at his Californian home at the age of 63.
Ms Williams told NBC's Today Show there was "no point" in asking why her father killed himself.
"We don't have an explanation," she told reporter Kate Snow. "There's no point questioning it... blaming yourself or the world. It happened."
The 25-year-old said it was "going to take a lot of work to allow myself to have the sort of fun, happy life that I had, but that's important".
"Anybody who has ever lost anyone works very hard to continue that memory in a positive way."
Williams, who was famous for films such as Good Morning Vietnam, Dead Poets Society and Mrs Doubtfire, was understood to have been battling depression at the time of his death.
Hummingbird
"A lot of people feel his absence," said his daughter. "The side of him that people know and love... is the characters that he had so much fun being."
"I do think that's what a lot of people will hold on to. That's not going anywhere. They knew a dad that he was proud of them knowing. Laughter was incredibly important to him."
But she added he was also very private, calm and subdued.
Reflecting on her own memories she said: "They are mine and I love that. They are private and lovely and perhaps very different. Who knows?"
She revealed she had acquired a hummingbird tattoo on her right hand shortly after his death.
"I like hummingbirds. They're fun and flighty and strange. It's hard to keep them in one place and Dad was a bit like that," she said.
"Sometimes there are going to be days where things are really difficult and having a reminder that is permanently there is nice."
The NFL imposed the punishment following the "Deflategate" scandal.
NFL officials found that Mr Brady had colluded with New England Patriots team members to deflate footballs below the allowable limit during a playoff game.
Mr Brady can now play on 10 September against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman found that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's penalty suffered from "several significant legal deficiencies" including failing to notify Mr Brady about the possibility of a punishment against him.
"The court finds that Brady had no notice that he could receive a four-game suspension for general awareness of ball deflation," Judge Berman wrote.
Commissioner Goodell's inquiry concluded that Mr Brady "knew about, approved of, consented to, and provided inducements and rewards" to ensure that game balls were deflated.
Deflated footballs are considered easier to throw and catch.
In an appeal hearing last June Mr Brady admitted to NFL investigators that he had destroying his mobile phone, but claimed it was to preserve his family's privacy.
Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement that the league will appeal the judge's ruling.
"The commissioner's responsibility to secure the competitive fairness of our game is a paramount principle.... While the legal phase of this process continues, we look forward to focusing on football and the opening of the regular season."
Experts say Thursday's ruling is unlikely to put an end to the controversy, which has dominated sports headlines in recent months.
On Twitter, football fans are using the term "Teflon Tom," referring to a non-stick coating used on cooking pans, to either support or disparage Mr Brady.
"No one likes a cheater. Terrible message it sends to the youth and adults when obstruction of justice goes unpunished," one message on Twitter read.
ESPN sports reporter Steve Levy tweeted that while in a Boston hospital, he heard an announcement over the loudspeaker saying that "Tom Brady is free".
In the South West, home to plenty of the many voters who chose Brexit and voted for UKIP last time round (3.8 million UKIP voters at the last election), a message that says unashamedly she is ready to do battle over the After Eights is hardly likely to be a problem.
Around the country too, there are 71 currently Labour constituencies where the number of UKIP voters in 2015 was bigger than the size of the Labour majority.
We have, of course, to be wise to what is going on. In the Brexit negotiations there will be dozens and dozens of episodes of spin wars. And our election will be full of it too.
But Theresa May's comment is revealing about her strength, and also her weakness. No political leader wants to be seen to be pushed around. When the UK talked tough as a member of the EU the others had no choice but to listen.
But now the UK is on the way out, the incentives for the others to pay attention - let alone do our bidding - is very different.
Refusing to be pushed around is one thing, refusing to show any sign of compromise or listen quite another.
PS Remember of course that there is a strong argument we've discussed here, that pushing for a bigger majority will ultimately allow Theresa May to compromise over Brexit much more than she has so far signalled. But it's perfectly possible, if deeply ironic, that her language to get her to the majority she hopes for becomes tougher towards the EU.
Open data published by Nasa was used to make the map, which has been posted on the OS Flickr account.
This is the first time that OS has produced a map of territory from another planet.
It has also been printed in a one-off edition for a British scientist helping to plan the landing of a rover on Mars in 2019.
"It was a little hard at first to actually understand the data itself in terms of things like the elevation and the scale and so on," said the OS cartographer behind the map, Chris Wesson.
"But actually the physical process was almost identical to what was used to make an Earth map, or any OS map."
The map itself covers roughly 10 million sq km (3.8 million sq miles) - or about 7% of the total Martian surface.
Mr Wesson said he could imagine a future astronaut using a copy of the map - perhaps in digital form - when exploring Mars.
"You have these large areas that looked flat but they're actually really rocky and uneven surfaces - that was the most difficult bit of the map, to try to show that but put it in proportion to these huge craters," he told the BBC.
OS was asked to make the map by Dr Peter Grindrod, a British scientist at Birkbeck, University of London.
Dr Grindrod is helping to plan the landing of the European ExoMars rover in early 2019.
"He's given extremely good responses so far," said Mr Wesson.
Dr Grindrod said he had always admired OS maps and pointed out that they are good at including lots of information in an easily read format.
"It's wonderful to see the same style applied to Mars, and especially such a fascinating region," he said.
Profits at Bank of America were $4.35bn (£3.44bn), up 44% from the same period in 2016, with gains across its major divisions.
Goldman Sachs profits rose 80% from a year earlier to $2.2bn.
But the firm disappointed analysts with a decline in revenues from institutional investors.
Shares in Goldman Sachs fell more than 3% after the market opened.
Goldman chief executive Lloyd Blankfein said: "The operating environment was mixed, with client activity challenged in certain market-making businesses and a more attractive backdrop for underwriting in our investment banking franchise."
Goldman said revenue in the January to March period was about $8bn. Investment banking revenue rose 16%, but its institutional client services unit - the largest division by revenue - declined 2% from the 2016 first quarter.
Total costs at the bank increased by 15%, driven by higher pay.
At Bank of America, gains in the global banking unit helped to boost profits in the January-to-March period. The division's net income was $1.7bn, rising 58% year-on-year due to record investment banking fees.
Total revenue increased 7% to $22.2bn.
"The US economy continues to show consumer and business optimism, and our results reflect that," chief executive Brian Moynihan said.
Bank of America, which serves some 46 million households, last year was hurt by losses related to property and the energy industry in the first quarter. Those have declined, but the firm said it saw an uptick in credit card losses from the end of 2016.
Gwent Police said the incident happened at about 00:10 BST on Saturday on the A472 between Tredomen and Nelson.
It involved a Volkswagen Polo and a Mini and the force said one of the drivers had been taken to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales.
Anyone with information is asked to call 101.
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The slump in expectations came as Bank of Scotland's latest business monitor indicated improved export activity seen in the first three quarters of 2014 had ground to a halt.
The bank said exporting was "proving a challenge" in the face of stagnant eurozone economies.
Overall, it expects economic recovery to continue through 2015.
But it also expects the rate of growth to ease.
The bank's summer business monitor saw firms' expectations about exports reach their second highest level in more than 16 years.
But its latest survey, covering the three months to the end of November, showed a big fall in the percentage of firms which were positive about overseas sales over the next six months.
There was a net balance of +5% - down on the +32% of the previous quarter.
The overall net balance for export activity was -4%, which was well down on the +13% of the previous quarter, but an improvement on the same quarter in 2013.
The net balance is calculated by subtracting those that report a decrease from those that report an increase.
In the latest survey, 41% of firms said they had increased turnover, while 34% experienced static turnover and 25% reported a decrease.
This gave a net balance of +16% - down from the +30% of the previous quarter but marginally up on the +15% noted a year ago.
The Bank of Scotland said it was the fifth best result in seven years and provided further evidence of the embedding of the recovery.
Expectations for turnover in the next six months showed an overall net balance of +19%. This was marginally down on the previous quarter but up on the +16% recorded in the same quarter a year ago.
Volumes of repeat business remained at high levels in the latest quarter, with a net balance of +15%.
Bank of Scotland chief economist Donald MacRae said: "The surge in economic activity identified in summer 2013 has been maintained throughout 2014.
"Expectations have fallen slightly but are close to pre-recession levels, suggesting the recovery will continue into 2015 but the rate of growth will ease.
"Further increases in investment by firms would enhance and embed the recovery."
The first websites ending in شبكة. - pronounced dot shabaka, and meaning web - went online a day ahead of schedule.
Until now, there were only 22 gTLDs, including .com and .org, in addition to country code endings, such as .uk.
Organisers say the existing system had become too crowded, but critics say the expansion will add to firms' costs.
Businesses wishing to protect and publicise their brands will want to register what are called second-level domains under the new suffixes- for example Coca-Cola might want to safeguard coke.shop when the .shop gTLD becomes available.
Although most of these new domains should only cost about £10 to £30 a year to own, the sheer number and associated administrative costs will add up.
Wholesalers offering the new gTLDs need to charge such amounts to cover their own costs, including the $185,000 (£113,200) application fee they had to pay to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), a non-profit organisation overseeing the process.
The DotShabaka Registry - the Dubai-based business running the شبكة. gTLD - announced that both its own homepage and that of the United Arab Emirates telecoms provider Etisalat had started using its new suffix, at a conference in Dubai.
Any other organisation or member of the public will be able to start applying for their own addresses - which can rely solely on Arabic script - through registries including GoDaddy, 101Domain, and Lexsynergy from Tuesday.
"It's monumental, in my opinion, because it means the internet finally speaks in Arabic," Yasmin Omer, general manager of the DotShabaka Registry told the BBC.
"For a long time we've had Arabic-language content online but you needed to speak English to directly navigate to the sites.
"Now, if I'm an internet user that speaks only Arabic, I don't need to rely on search engines or other pools to get to where I want."
Although this is the first generic top-level domain in Arabic, there were already country code top-level domains in the script, including .الاردن for Jordan and .السعودية for Saudi Arabia, which went live in 2010.
Other non-Latin script gTLDs expected to launch over the coming days include 游戏, Mandarin for game; сайт, Russian for site; and онлайн, Russian for online.
Meanwhile, a wholesaler called Donuts has announced that seven new English-language suffixes will become available from Wednesday. They are:
The domain name system was created to offer an easy-to-use alternative to the long strings of letters and numbers that represent the internet protocol (IP) addresses used by computers under the IPv4 and IPv6 systems.
There was no technical reason for there to be any limit to the number of gTLDs used, however the list was originally limited to .com, .us, .edu, .gov, .mil, .net and .org.
Over time, Icann has expanded the range to include others including .info, .mobi and .asia.
But it says that offering further choice will allow more competition and innovation into the marketplace.
"The constraints that we had in the past with top-level domains were purely artificial, which is one reason that the very popular ones - for example .com - can be so expensive," explained Dr Ian Brown from the Oxford Internet Institute.
"But how far people actually use them to access sites is an important question. In reality these days most people tend to go to a search engine rather than try to remember a company's domain name that they have seen on an advert, for example.
"So, I think the impact overall will be less than it might have been, say, five years ago. I think it's also a valid complaint from companies that say they are already having to shell out quite a lot of money to register their trademarks and brands under the existing top-level domains, and worry they will have to do this for hundreds or even thousands of new ones."
Terry denies the allegation he used "abusive and/or insulting words and/or behaviour" towards Anton Ferdinand in a game against QPR on 23 October 2011.
Terry and Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck were at Wembley for the second day of the disciplinary panel hearing.
23 October 2011: Terry releases a statement denying he made a racist slur against Ferdinand during Chelsea's defeat at QPR after videos circulate on the internet.
1 November: The Metropolitan Police confirms it has launched a formal investigation into allegations of racist abuse of Ferdinand by Terry.
21 December: The Crown Prosecution Service announces Terry will be charged with racially abusing Ferdinand.
1 February 2012: District judge Howard Riddle orders that Terry should stand trial in the week beginning 9 July - after Euro 2012.
3 February: Terry is stripped of the England captaincy by members of the 14-strong FA board, without consulting manager Fabio Capello.
8 February: Capello resigns as England manager two days after, criticising the decision to strip Terry of the captaincy.
13 July: Terry is cleared at Westminster Magistrates' Court of making a racist insult to Ferdinand.
27 July: Terry is charged by the FA.
24 September: FA independent regulatory commission into the case begins.
"Nobody thinks John Terry is a racist. The FA need to leave it," Grant said.
"I think the message was clear and I don't think they need to charge him. For the FA, the more important thing is the message that it will not have racism in sport."
Terry was cleared of racially abusing fellow defender Ferdinand in a high-profile court case in July. The FA investigation followed the criminal proceedings.
Ferdinand gave his testimony to the FA independent regulatory commission on Monday morning, where Terry was also in attendance.
Neither Terry nor Buck commented as they arrived at Wembley on Tuesday. Terry left after 1300 BST and the hearing could last until Wednesday.
Terry announced his retirement from international football on the eve of the hearing and Grant, who was his manager in the 2007-08 season, expressed his surprise at the decision.
Grant told BBC Radio 5 liveDrive: "John likes to fight and he's very passionate about the national team so I was surprised. But he's not a child, he knows what he's doing.
"One thing I must say about JT is that he's not a racist, that's for sure. He's a good man.
"He respects everybody, he's good with people and I was very surprised that people thought bad things about him."
The independent panel are examining the FA charge against Terry, which includes an accusation that he also used "a reference to the ethnic origin and/or colour and/or race" of Ferdinand.
The commission requires a lower burden of proof than applies in the English and Welsh courts.
A similar hearing involving Liverpool striker Luis Suarez last season took four days and led to the Uruguayan being banned for eight matches after he was found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra.
Terry left Wembley at the end of the first day of the hearing at 14:50 BST having been represented by George Carter-Stephenson QC, who defended him in court two months ago.
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At July's trial, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard accusations that Terry had insulted Ferdinand, describing him as "black" and using extreme sexual swear words.
In reaching a not guilty verdict, chief magistrate Howard Riddle stated it was "possible that what was said was not intended as an insult but rather as a challenge to what he believed had been said to him".
The prosecution had to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Terry had used the words in an insulting manner, which it could not.
But the FA only has to prove its case "on the balance of probabilities" and the use of racist language is a breach of the rules.
On Sunday, Terry, who won 78 caps for England, said the FA's decision to pursue charges against him after being cleared in court meant his position with England had become "untenable", a claim disputed by FA general secretary Alex Horne.
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Australia thrashed Ireland, who were already eliminated after losing their first three group games, by seven wickets in Delhi.
But they needed New Zealand to beat South Africa to clinch their place in the last four.
The White Ferns duly recorded a seven-wicket victory to top the group with four wins from four matches.
Australia finished second and could face England in the semi-finals on Wednesday if England beat Pakistan in their last group game in Chennai on Monday.
England lead Group B with six points, while West Indies and Pakistan have four each and India have two.
Ireland's openers failed to score from the first 11 deliveries as Australia bowled a tight line.
Clare Shillington broke the shackles with a six and then hit three successive boundaries before falling for 22.
Cecelia Joyce hit three fours in her 22, but the Irish managed only two boundaries in the last 15 overs.
Kim Garth top-scored with 27, but took 46 balls to do so, and in total there were 65 dot balls in Ireland's 91-7.
Ciara Metcalfe dismissed Australia's Alyssa Healy for six, courtesy of a superb one-handed catch by skipper Isobel Joyce.
Garth saw off Meg Lanning, the top-ranked international women's batter, but Elyse Villani stroked six boundaries in her 43 from 35 balls, before being well caught by Lucy O'Reilly off Garth with just seven required.
Ellyse Perry finished unbeaten on 29 as Australia eased home with 40 balls to spare.
In Bangalore, South Africa were bowled out for 99 after being sent in to bat by New Zealand, with Sophie Devine and Leigh Kasperek grabbing three wickets each.
The White Ferns replied with an opening stand of 57 between skipper Suzie Bates, who hit 29 off 25 balls, and Rachel Priest, who smashed a run-a-ball 28.
Both openers fell in the space of two overs, but Devine hit an unbeaten 27 with three fours and a six to complete a dominant all-round performance.
The first match will take place on 9 October with further contests on 11 and 13 October.
A four-day game against Zimbabwe A will follow on 17 October before the Irish start their Intercontinental Cup match in Namibia on 24 October.
Ireland beat Zimbabwe in a thrilling World Cup game in Hobart last March.
Ed Joyce was the Irish hero in that game as he hit 112 as they posted their highest ever one-day international total of 331-8.
Zimbabwe came close to achieving the target as Brendan Taylor hit four sixes in his 121 but eventually fell five runs short.
Ireland coach John Bracewell said that the Zimbabwe games would offer his side a "really competitive series".
"Ireland have enjoyed some really hard tussles with Zimbabwe over the years and I expect these games will be equally as tough," added the Irish coach.
The Irish have played only six one-day games against Zimbabwe.
Their first meeting at the 2007 World Cup ended in a dramatic tie before Zimbabwe beat Ireland convincingly in Nairobi in a one-off game in 2008.
Zimbabwe also earned a 2-1 victory in the only ever series between the countries in 2010.
A parked motorcycle and an explosive device were detonated late on Tuesday next to the headquarters of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (PDK) in Koy Sanjaq, east of Irbil.
The attack took place as party members celebrated the winter solstice.
The PDK alleged that Iranian forces were behind the blasts.
There was no immediate comment from Iranian authorities but PDK members have in the past been involved in armed clashes with Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
The PDK is striving for autonomy for predominantly Kurdish areas in north-western Iran.
Jihadist militants from so-called Islamic State (IS), whom Kurdish forces are battling in northern Iraq, have carried out similar attacks in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region.
Correction 22 December 2016: The attack targeted the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (PDK), not the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) as stated in a previous version of this story.
Firefighters and police were called to a small blast on the fifth floor of Lenham Towers, Northumberland Rd, Stockport at about 07:45 BST.
No-one was injured. The building was assessed for structural damage before later being declared safe.
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service has launched an investigation into blast.
The woman was walking away from Datchet railway station in Berkshire at about 22:10 BST on Wednesday when she was approached by her attacker.
After trying to ignore his advances, the victim was dragged to a wooded area at the junction of Majors Farm Road, Ditton Road and London Road.
Thames Valley Police said the woman was being supported by specialist officers.
The attacker was described as an Asian man of average build aged about 35 to 45 with receding black hair and a prominent nose.
He was holding an umbrella and wearing a smart jacket or blazer, a dark patterned scarf and blue jeans.
The 31-year-old had returned to Ayrshire in January on a short-term deal, making 13 appearances.
He originally joined the club on loan for the 2010-11 season and was nominated for the PFA Scotland player of the year award.
Killie have also signed former Hibernian youth player Euan Smith.
The 20-year-old midfielder, who had loan spell at Arbroath last year, has signed a three-year deal.
"We're absolutely delighted," said manager Allan Johnston of Eremenko's new contract.
"We spoke to him early in pre-season to try and get him over and get something sorted so it's good it's finally done.
The sooner we get him match-fit and playing games, the better.
"Somebody with his quality, especially on this pitch, I think will be a massive factor in how well we do this season.
"You saw the last couple of games of last season, the performances he put in. He maybe wasn't fully fit at first but he worked really hard to get himself in great condition.
"He has not played any games yet but he looks in decent condition. The sooner we get him match-fit and playing games, the better.
"We've brought in players who are young and hungry to do well, and have good energy and good pace about the team.
"With him supplying the passes for them, I'm sure it should be a good combination."
The playmaker becomes manager Allan Johnston's seventh summer capture, joining Josh Magennis, Lee Miller, Paul Cairney, Tope Obadeyi, Mark Connelly and Jamie Hamill on the list of new signings ahead of the new season. The Rugby Park outfit also snapped up former Hibernian youth player Euan Smith on a three-year deal.
Eremenko has previously earned 59 caps for Finland scoring 14 goals, and has had spells at HJK Helsinki, Lecce, FC Saturn, Metalist Kharkiv, Rubin Kazan and Kairat Almaty.
The left-hander made 65 as England declared on 514-8, which featured 243 from Alastair Cook, on day two of the inaugural day-night Test at Edgbaston.
Malan scored only 35 runs in four innings in his debut series against South Africa this summer.
"I didn't look like scoring a run against South Africa," he said.
"It was nice to hit a few in the middle today. I feel a bit more composed at the crease."
West Indies were 44-1 in reply - trailing by 470 - when rain ended play in the final session.
The match is the first of three in the series, England's last Test assignment before they travel to Australia for this winter's Ashes.
Middlesex batsman Malan hit 10 fours in his 186-ball innings before edging off-spinner Roston Chase to slip on the stroke of lunch.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan told BBC Test Match Special: "He will be delighted, but 65 isn't enough to guarantee his place on the plane to Australia.
"Today was a perfect opportunity for him to get a big score. There were runs there for the taking."
The Ashes start in Brisbane on 23 November, but Malan said he is not "thinking that far ahead".
"You never know when your last game is going to be," he added.
Malan added 162 for the fourth wicket with opener Cook, whose dismissal prompted England's declaration before tea.
"Alastair didn't look like he strayed once from the first over of the game to when he got out," Malan said.
"To watch how a master goes at his work, watching him compile his runs, shows you what you need to do to be successful at this level."
The former Scotland captain left Wolves in May and has also managed the likes of Livingston, Norwich and Aston Villa.
"There's one or two things that I'm mulling over in my head at the minute," the 47-year-old told BBC Scotland.
"I'm never adverse to anything but I think I would rather stay in England or I'd go abroad."
Lambert departed Wolves after a restructure at the Championship club and Nuno Espirito Santo has since taken charge.
"I'm fortunate I don't really need to jump into anything that I don't think's worthwhile or I think, 'no, it's not for me'," Lambert told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
"So, I'll take my time and I'll see what I can do. It's been brilliant [in England]. I've loved my time down there. I've had opportunities to go abroad, which I've turned down. I think my time's probably away from Scotland.
"Wolves is a brilliant club, terrific fan-base. There's some really good players there at Wolves and I'm talking about the lads that Walter Zenga brought in as well.
"Our job was to try to help them along the way but they made the decision, everybody became comfortable with it. There was no animosity whatsoever - there's some good people there and we just decided to go our separate ways."
With football clubs north and south of the border changing how they recruit players, Lambert still believes the manager needs to have the final say.
"I think the way any manager would like to work is if you're going to fail, you make sure you fail on your own terms and you fall on your sword and that's the way I've always viewed it," he added.
"I've always thought, if a player's going to come to your club, you make sure you've seen him or you know his character. Ultimately, you have to manage him for one, two, three years, for how long his contract's going to be.
"I know for a fact that the top [managers] will never let anybody will come in without them knowing. That's vital.
"You could have a really nasty dressing room with it if it doesn't work and you don't know their character."
Sarah McClay, 24, died at South Lakes Wild Animal Park - now known as South Lakes Safari Zoo - in Dalton-in-Furness, south Cumbria, in May 2013.
A Sumatran tiger, which got through an unlocked gate, left deep puncture wounds in her neck and body.
The zoo's owner, David Gill, 55, had faced individual charges on the same allegations but was formally acquitted.
The prosecution offered no evidence against him.
Miss McClay, from Barrow-in-Furness, suffered "unsurvivable" multiple injuries in the attack and was airlifted to hospital where she was formally pronounced dead.
Her boyfriend, David Shaw, said it was a "shame it took this long to come to what was a fairly obvious conclusion".
In September 2014, an inquest jury in Kendal ruled, in a narrative verdict, the tiger got to Miss McClay by entering two open internal sliding gates within the tiger house and then an open door that led on to the corridor.
Systems were in place at the park to ensure animals and keepers remained apart at all times through indoor and outdoor compartments connected by lockable self-closing doors, it heard.
The zoo pleaded guilty to contravening the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and failing to ensure people who were not staff were not exposed to risk on the day in question.
It accepted it had not sufficiently addressed risks arising from a defective bolt on the door that was open immediately before the attack.
The company said "a more proactive maintenance and inspection regime" should have been in place to ensure the door functioned efficiently and that its self-closing mechanism worked properly.
"The failure of the door to self-close was a more than trivial cause of harm," it said.
Sentencing will take place at Preston Crown Court on Friday when the company is expected to receive a financial penalty.
Miss McClay, who was originally from Glasgow, had worked at the park for more than two years and was experienced with working with big cats, which she saw as a "privilege".
Her mother, Fiona McClay, from Linlithgow, West Lothian, said it was her daughter's "dream job" after she had visited the park as a child.
The family asked for Padang not to be put down at the time but he was put to sleep because of his age this year.
It can now be reported that the zoo pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to two other contraventions of the Health and Safety at Work Act when a zoo keeper fell from a ladder while preparing to feed big cats in July 2014.
The company admitted it failed to ensure the health, safety and welfare at work of its employees, including Yasmin Walker, and to carry out a suitable and sufficient risk assessment.
Barrow Borough Council, which oversees the zoo, is considering whether to renew the park's operating licence, which would have expired on Tuesday but has been extended until a council hearing on 5 July where Mr Gill must show a number of requirements have been met.
Inspectors previously demanded more than 30 improvements to the attraction, having found it had placed staff and the public in potential danger.
Aidan Kielty, who retired two years ago, said his concerns about the GMP unit were not properly investigated.
Mr Kielty spoke after a sacked police officer claimed he was the victim of "corrupt practice" within the force.
GMP said former Ch Insp John Buttress had "fallen below" the force's accepted honesty standards.
Before his retirement, Mr Kielty was responsible for the Criminal Investigations Departments for the Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers.
He was also responsible for assisting officers accused of criminal or misconduct matters.
He said he became dismayed at practices which he considered to be "corrupt, criminal, underhand and contrary to the police regulations".
His complaints about the department include concerns about the case of an officer who was dismissed for striking a prisoner without justification.
A spokesman for GMP said those concerns had been "considered and reviewed at the time".
Mr Kielty told the BBC: "From my experience, in my opinion, Greater Manchester Police Professional Standards Department would regularly lie, cheat, change witness statements and bully people into changing witness statements.
"They would prosecute an officer rather than investigate an officer. And by that I mean they would decide at the earliest opportunity whether an officer was innocent or guilty. And then work towards that end game."
Mr Kielty claims the branch was "not trusted" by the majority of officers "because they don't follow the rules".
He added: "They breach police regulations and the law in respects of obtaining evidence. They do it on a regular basis."
He said the practice appears to continue.
On Monday, Ch Insp John Buttress said he believed there was corrupt police practice in targeting him.
He was cleared in January by a crown court jury in Liverpool of mortgage fraud but, under a lower burden of proof, was brought before a police disciplinary panel.
A spokesman for GMP said: "We have been working on a range of developments to the way in which we conduct internal investigations.
"This has included working with the Police and Crime Commissioner to introduce an ombudsman.
"It is understandable that staff who have the difficult job of investigating colleagues sometimes find themselves facing allegations from those they investigate."
The operation will involve army and federal police units, along with tribal fighters.
Their main targets are the towns of Aanah, Rawa and al-Qaim, which lie along the River Euphrates.
Last year, government forces drove IS out of much of Anbar province, retaking the major cities of Ramadi and Falluja.
But large parts of the vast desert region remain under jihadist control.
The first target of the offensive is the town of Aanah, about 240km (150 miles) north-west of Baghdad.
"Our forces started advancing from Haditha towards Aanah from several directions," Lt Gen Qassem Mohammedi, head of the military's Jazeera Operations Command, told AFP news agency on Thursday.
Troops then aim to advance westwards along the Euphrates towards Rawa and then al-Qaim, which is 330km from Baghdad and next to a key crossing on the border with Syria.
The offensive comes as government forces continue to battle IS militants for control of the northern city of Mosul.
On Wednesday, a senior Iraqi commander said 65-70% of eastern Mosul had been recaptured and that troops expected to reach the banks of the River Tigris in the city centre within days.
Lt Gen Talib Shaghati, head of the elite Counter-Terrorism Service, told Reuters news agency that IS had carried out hundreds of suicide car bomb attacks since the assault began 11 weeks ago in an attempt to hold on to its last major urban stronghold in Iraq.
A spokesman for the US-led multinational coalition supporting the offensive said troops had made significant progress since launching a new phase on 29 December, when they began synchronising attacks on three axes and the number of coalition military advisers was doubled to about 450.
"What we're finding is that the synchronized attacks present the enemy with more problems than they can solve, and the Iraqi security forces are making progress with the continued benefit of coalition strikes and advisers," Col John Dorrian told reporters on Wednesday.
However, the presence inside the city of hundreds of thousands of civilians continues to slow progress.
"There are more than 200,000 buildings in Mosul. And really, in order to do this properly, given the way that the enemy has conducted themselves, you end up having to clear each one," Col Dorrian said.
Vikki Thompson, 21, from Keighley, was found dead in her cell at HMP Leeds in 2015 with a ligature around her neck.
The jury at the two-week inquest in Wakefield concluded it was right she was held in a male jail and that she did not intend to take her own life.
But the foreman said "more attention should have been paid" to her.
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"Vikki has been let down by various departments including the NHS, Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, the Prison Service and also by her family," he said.
"Although these departments were individually aware of Vikki's history, the overall coordination of her mental and health state were lacking in any form of organisational structure.
"During her last stay at HMP Leeds, the management of her treatment and mental state of mind were also lacking in professionalism and inadequate for an individual of such complex issues."
Speaking outside court, Miss Thompson's family solicitor Philip Goldberg said: "Vikki's mother remains deeply distressed by the loss of her daughter, yet hopes that if any good is to come of her death it's that the Ministry of Justice also undertakes a complete overhaul of HMP Leeds.
"It was the responsibility of HMP Leeds to ensure she was properly looked after and safe."
The jury heard Miss Thompson, who was found dead in her cell on 13 November, had repeatedly told prison and court escort staff that she would be "carried out in a box".
Her partner Robert Steele had told the inquest she said to him in a phone she wanted to move to a women's prison and her solicitors were waiting for her to make a formal application to the governor.
But, in a statement read in court, Miss Thompson's mother Lisa Harrison said her daughter did not say she had a problem being in a men's prison.
Miss Thompson did not have a Gender Recognition Certificate establishing her female identity so she was sent to a male prison, the coroner said.
PC Fiona Bone, 32, and PC Nicola Hughes, 23, died after apparently being lured to a bogus burglary at a house in Greater Manchester on Tuesday.
A man, Dale Cregan, handed himself into police shortly afterwards.
Sir Hugh said: "Guns don't necessarily solve the problem. You only have to look to the American experience.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Many colleagues in America are lost without even drawing their gun at close ranges. I can't describe this particular case in detail but the reality is, the clear view of the British police service from top to bottom is we don't want to be armed.
"One of the learning points in Northern Ireland - I had an armed service - was it distances us from communities. They don't like approaching officers with guns," he added.
But Ash Rathband, whose father David was shot and blinded by Newcastle gunman Raoul Moat, tweeted after the Hattersley incident: "It's time for police to be armed in my opinion. Yet again another awful incident."
His comments were echoed, again on Twitter, by his uncle Darren: "Give them more than a bloody piece of plastic and some spray. Tragic!"
The widower of a police officer shot dead in Bradford in 2005 also added his voice to the chorus calling for the routine arming of officers.
Paul Beshenivsky, whose wife Sharon was killed during a bungled robbery at a travel agency, told ITV News: "You wouldn't think it'd happen again, but it has."
He said: "I think police, in honesty, should be armed, walking into situations that they're not totally aware of. You can't have armed response at every situation, but I think, as an officer being armed... feeling more comfortable, walking into that situation, thinking, 'I could respond...'."
Andy Hill, a senior lecturer in policing and criminal justice and a former sergeant with Thames Valley Police, said: "I'm totally against the routine arming of officers.
"We've got fantastically highly trained firearms officers, I mean we can almost name the officers who have lost their lives to firearms in the last 20 to 30 years. It is tragic, it is unforgivable but it's rare, thank goodness."
Film director Michael Winner, founder of the Police Memorial Trust, has also called for officers to be routinely armed but Greater Manchester Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy is against it.
He said: "We are passionate that the British style of policing is routinely unarmed policing. Sadly, we know from the experience in America and other countries that having armed officers certainly does not mean... that police officers do not end up getting shot."
Mr Fahy's point was underlined last month in LaPlace, Louisiana, when two sheriff's deputies - both armed - were shot dead at a trailer park.
Two other sheriff's deputies were also injured in the incident.
The battery-free camera was modified so it could scavenge power from ambient wi-fi signals, store it and then use it to take photos.
The experiment was one of several by US researchers looking at ways to use wi-fi as a power source.
The team behind the project believes its techniques will be useful for powering the many devices expected to form the "internet of things".
The system, known as power-over-wi-fi, has been developed by PhD student Vamsi Talla and colleagues at the Sensor Systems Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle.
The team realised that the energy contained in ambient wi-fi signals that are now ubiquitous often came close to the operating voltages required by a variety of low power devices.
Unfortunately, because wi-fi signals are broadcast in bursts across different frequencies the required amount of energy was only available too intermittently to be useful.
To fix this, the research team modified standard wi-fi hotspots and routers to broadcast noise when a channel was not being used to send data. This meant the power of the wi-fi signals stayed constant and, though low, was high enough to power some components.
Adding the noise did little to slow data rates across hotspots, said the team.
The team used the power beaming system to run a temperature sensor and a small surveillance camera that both sat several metres away from a wi-fi hotspot.
The low-power camera gathered energy from wi-fi and stored it in a capacitor that prompted the camera to take a picture when it was charged. By leaching off the ambient radio signals, the camera gathered enough energy every 35 minutes to take a snap.
In a paper detailing their work, Mr Talla and colleagues said it had the potential to help power the small, low-power sensors and actuators that are expected to become common in homes and workplaces as part of the internet of things.
"The ability to deliver power wirelessly to a wide range of autonomous devices and sensors is hugely significant," said a story about the research in MIT's Technology Review. " Powi-fi could be the enabling technology that finally brings the internet of things to life."
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) scientists, who work in the affected grassland area of Western Mongolia, say the disease originated in livestock.
It is a virus known as PPR or Peste des Petits Ruminants.
WCS veterinary scientist Dr Enkhtuvshin Shiilegdamba told BBC News that 2,500 Saiga had already died.
The animal carcasses are burned to prevent the spread of the disease.
Researchers described the speed of the disease spread as "alarming".
"The first case of PPR was confirmed in the Saiga on only 2nd January this year," Dr Shiilegdamba told BBC News.
She and her colleagues say that this is the first deadly infectious outbreak known to have occurred in this population of animals. And beyond this one, rare species, there is concern for the impact on the wider grassland ecosystem.
"Many other species share this same range," explained Dr Shiilegdamba, "including ibex and big-horned sheep."
"And there are about 1.5 million Mongolian gazelle that migrate through the eastern part of the country.
"If this [spreads east] and hits the gazelle population, it could be economically and ecologically devastating."
One major concern is that, with the disappearance of wildlife in the area, there will be a lack of prey for the endemic snow leopard. As well as affecting the health and population of these carnivores, this could put leopards at greater risk of being shot by farmers - as a lack of wild prey drives them to take livestock.
Professor Richard Kock from the UK's Royal Veterinary College agreed that the broader ecological consequences were potentially "dire".
"It is a catastrophe," he told BBC News. "I expect some Saiga will survive, but if surviving animals - in poor condition and with weakened immune systems - in the spring are challenged by opportunist bacteria, extinction is a very real possibility.
"The solution to the PPR problem is effective vaccination of livestock and its elimination from Asia.
"There is a global programme [to co-ordinate this] but no resources coming from donors as yet in any significant way, and this is critically important."
Herds of sheep, goats and other domestic livestock in the affected area have been vaccinated, but Dr Amanda Fine, a vet with the WCS wildlife health program in Asia agreed that "further immunisation" was needed "in not only Saiga range areas but [in the habitats] of other affected species".
"We need to ensure the disease does not spread to unaffected populations," added Dr Fine, "in order to save the last population of Mongolian Saiga from extinction".
Jean Sebastien Beaud, 31, is a rescuer and officer of the High Mountain Police based in Jausiers in the French Alps.
He and two of his colleagues were the first to arrive on the crash site of the Germanwings aircraft on Tuesday, just half an hour after the impact.
"We got the alert at 10:45 local time (09:45 GMT) on Tuesday, we grabbed our equipment and took off with the helicopter in direction of the area where we thought the Airbus went missing.
"At 11:07 we spotted the crash site." A few minutes later Jean Sebastien was winched down at the top of the crash site with another colleague and a doctor.
"What we saw there was surreal, beyond imagination. The smell of burned metal and kerosene was overwhelming.
"There was a lot of debris, we saw the first human remains and we immediately knew there was going to be no survivors."
"We found less than ten bodies entirely or partly preserved, to be honest only one body was almost intact.
"We do this job to rescue and help people but in this case we were only spectators, it was very distressing."
In the absence of any survivors the rescue operation turned into a search operation.
"We were instructed to take pictures of the scene for the report and we were also asked to find the black boxes."
On his smartphone Jean Sebastien shows me pictures of the scene as he found it, smoke coming out of the vast slopes covered with debris and burned pieces of metal.
On one video he recorded on his mobile you see a couple of unrecognisable aircraft parts still in flames. It then pans across the scene and reveals very graphic images including what look like body parts.
"We started to walk down slope the best we could as it's a dangerously steep side of the mountain. At the top of the hill we could see the largest parts of debris but down the slopes only very small pieces.
"After 30 minutes of research I found an orange piece of metal of about 1ft (30cm) at the bottom of the valley near the impact point and I immediately called on the radio to indicate that one of the black boxes had been found."
His discovery has since proved to be key to answering some of the questions surrounding the drama.
The High Mountain Police are special units of the French National Military Police. They are trained rescuers and they know the mountains well.
There are 15 squads of High Mountain Police as well as Lower Mountain Police, most them based in the Alps and the Pyrenees.
Well equipped, they have helicopters and rescuers on standby 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
Every night since the accident High Mountain Police officers have spent the night at the crash site to secure the area. Thursday night was Jean Sebastien's turn.
"It's very dark at night, we base ourselves only 100 meters away from the debris but we don't see anything.
"The atmosphere is pretty gloomy as we are on the site of the tragedy. The smell of burning and of kerosene is still strong and of course you can't help and think about the people who died there.
"We don't sleep. It's very cold up there and last night was very windy, there were four of us spending the night there.
"We light a fire and chat to each other to stay awake, we talked about what we saw - it's a form of therapy. Even if we don't consciously feel traumatised by what we see, it's good to talk about it between us.
"It's a way to deal with the horror we witnessed."
In an open letter to staff, chief executive Howard Schultz said the president's order had caused "confusion, surprise and opposition".
Recruitment will begin in the US and focus on people who had served or supported the military.
Mr Schultz is the latest US corporate chief to criticise the ban.
Silicon Valley heavyweights including Facebook, Google and Tesla have made public statements, while Airbnb is offering free accommodation to people affected by the travel restrictions and unable to get into the US.
On Friday, President Trump signed an executive order barring immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries for a minimum of 90 days, and suspending the US refugee program for 120 days.
Mr Schultz said he wrote to employees with "deep concern, a heavy heart and a resolute promise" - adding he wanted them to know that the firm would "neither stand by, nor stand silent, as the uncertainty around the new administration's actions grows with each passing day".
The recruitment pledge was "a concerted effort to welcome and seek opportunities for those fleeing war, violence, persecution and discrimination", he said.
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The Austrian hit a three-under-par 69 to take a three-stroke lead over South African Dylan Frittelli into Sunday.
Fisher also carded a 69 to lie alongside American David Lipsky and South Africa's George Coetzee and Dean Burmester on 11 under.
Finland's Mikko Korhonen had a hole-in-one at the 16th.
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A source in the south-east Asian oil industry has told the BBC that the company behind the drilling, Repsol of Spain, was ordered to leave the area.
It comes only days after it had confirmed the existence of a major gas field.
Those reports have been corroborated by a Vietnamese diplomatic source.
According to the industry source, Repsol executives were told last week by the government in Hanoi that China had threatened to attack Vietnamese bases in the Spratly Islands if the drilling did not stop.
China claims almost all of the South China Sea, including reefs and islands also contested by other nations.
The drilling expedition began last month in an area of sea about 400km (250 miles) off Vietnam's south-east coast.
The Vietnamese call the region Block 136-03 and have leased it to a company called Talisman-Vietnam, a subsidiary of Repsol.
China calls it Wanan Bei-21 and has leased the same piece of seabed to a different company.
Exactly which company is not clear. In 2015, the Chinese rights were sold to a Hong Kong-listed company called Brightoil, but it has recently denied owning them.
Two of the directors of Brightoil are senior members of the Chinese Communist Party.
Talisman-Vietnam was formerly owned by the Canadian company Talisman, but since 2015 has been part of the Spanish-owned Repsol group.
One analyst, who did not want to be named, estimated that Repsol has spent about $300m on developing the field so far.
It has therefore come as a surprise to observers that Vietnam should have backed down so quickly.
In 2014 coastguard vessels and other ships belonging to China and Vietnam confronted each other in a different area of the South China Sea, further north, near the Paracel Islands.
Since then the two countries have tried to avoid confrontation.
Roedd ceir yr heddlu, cerbydau'r Gwasanaeth Tân a cherbydau'r Gwasanaeth Ambiwlans mewn o leiaf 3,636 o wrthdrawiadau rhwng Ebrill 2011 a Mawrth 2016.
Heddlu Gogledd Cymru oedd wedi cofnodi'r nifer uchaf o ddigwyddiadau o'r fath, ond roedd mwyafrif o'r achosion yn wrthdrawiadau bychain.
Dywedodd Gwasanaeth Ambiwlans Cymru y gallai gwrthdrawiad ar alwad 999 fod yn "gatastroffig".
Dangosodd ffigyrau cais Deddf Rhyddid Gwybodaeth fod swyddogion Heddlu Gogledd Cymru wedi bod mewn 331 gwrthdrawiad yn 2015-16 - sef gostyngiad o'r 361 gwrthdrawiad yn y flwyddyn flaenorol.
Dywedodd Stephen Roberts, pennaeth cyfleusterau a fflyd trafnidiaeth Heddlu'r Gogledd: "Mae'r mwyafrif o gerbydau Heddlu Gogledd Cymru yn cael defnydd cyson, gan ymateb yn chwim ac effeithiol i sefyllfaoedd heriol ac argyfyngus. Mae ein fflyd o 557 cerbyd yn teithio pellter maith ymhob tywydd a chyflwr ffyrdd.
"Am y cyfnod dan sylw fe gafodd pob digwyddiad ei nodi. Mae hyn yn cynnwys crafiadau bychain a niwed i gerbydau oedd yn gyfrifol am 74% o achosion yn ystod 2015.
"Cyn 2015 nid oeddem yn gwahaniaethu rhwng gwrthdrawiadau a difrod bychan."
Gwasanaeth Ambiwlans Cymru oedd gyda'r ail nifer uchaf o ddigwyddiadau - gyda 150 o'r rhain yn digwydd ar alwadau brys.
Roedd yr achosion pan fu gwrthdrawiadau ers mis Ebrill yn cynnwys marwolaeth gyrrwr yn dilyn gwrthdrawiad rhwng dau ambiwlans ar ffordd yr A499 yng Ngwynedd.
Dywedodd Andrew Challenger, pennaeth hyfforddi gyrrwyr Gwasanaeth Ambiwlans Cymru, fod gyrrwyr achosion brys wedi eu hyfforddi i ragweld risg ac ymateb i beryglon ar y ffordd.
Ychwanegodd fod pobl yn mynd i banig yn aml wrth weld cerbydau'r gwasanaethau brys ar y ffordd, ond apeliodd ar yrrwyr i barhau'n bwyllog gan eu cynghori i yrru i'r ochr gan wneud lle i basio.
Fe wnaeth Heddlu Dyfed Powys ddarparu gwybodaeth am y cyfnod rhwng 2012 a 2015, gan ddweud fod 75 o'r gwrthdrawiadau wedi digwydd tra roedd swyddogion yn ymateb i alwadau brys.
Fe gafodd cyfanswm o 26 o bobl eu hanafu mewn gwrthdrawiadau gyda cherbydau'r llu, yn cynnwys 19 o swyddogion.
Ni wnaeth Heddlu Gwent a Heddlu De Cymru ddarparu gwybodaeth am wrthdrawiadau.
Cafodd 156 gwrthdrawiad eu cofnodi gan Wasanaeth Tân ac Achub De Cymru pan oedd eu cerbydau'n ymateb i alwadau brys.
Dywedodd Gwasanaeth Tân ac Achub Canolbarth a Gorllewin Cymru fod achosion pan fu eu cerbydau mewn gwrthdrawiadau'n gymysgedd o gerbydau'n mynd i, neu ddychwelyd o, ddigwyddiadau. Roeddynt hefyd wedi cofnodi achosion o ddifrod cyffredinol i gerbydau.
A palm print found on a getaway van has been linked to a set of fingerprints.
The new evidence comes 40 years after the killings by an IRA gang and 13 years after the families began fighting for an inquest.
Ten Protestant men were shot dead in the massacre by an IRA gang near the County Armagh village of Kingsmills in 1976.
Colin Worton, whose 24-year-old brother, Kenneth, was one of the men killed, said the announcement that the PSNI would re-open the investigation was a "total shock".
"I have to be truthful to you", he told the BBC, "I do feel a mixture of emotions, but one of the worst ones I have is anger.
"Why has this taken more than 40 years to come out?"
He called the men who fired the shots "animals" and said he was "totally sickened" that the investigation has gone on so long.
The men who were killed were travelling home from work in a textile factory when their mini-bus was ambushed.
After checking their religion, the gang ordered one Catholic to leave before opening fire.
Only one man survived the shootings.
Alan Black, a 32-year-old father of three at the time, was seriously wounded and spent months recovering in hospital.
On Tuesday, an inquest into the deaths resumed following a short delay.
A senior investigating officer has now been allocated to the case and the criminal investigation re-opened.
Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton, head of the PSNI's legacy and justice department, said he appreciated this was "a very difficult time" for the victims' families.
"Due to a recent forensic development, detectives from legacy investigation branch are now following a line of inquiry in relation to the murders at Kingsmills in 1976", he said.
"We have been liaising with the coroner's office in relation to this and will continue to do so.
"We are committed to progressing this matter as expeditiously as possible and will keep them (the families) updated as appropriate."
Howley, 46, says "external" opinions do not influence the team or the coaches, but would not want the public's obsession to change.
"One thing about being Welsh is the passion we have and the opinions everyone has about the game," he said.
"We wouldn't want that to change and it hasn't changed in 20 or 30 years."
Wales needed a last-minute Sam Davies drop-goal to clinch a win against Japan with Howley admitting the performance did not match his own or public expectation.
A number of former players were highly critical of the display and there was more criticism on social media.
Wales face South Africa in the final match of the autumn series in Cardiff on Saturday.
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"As a coach and as a player you learn through your successes and your failures and you learn more from your failures," Howley said.
"I haven't read or listened to anything over the past two or three weeks.
"From a coaches' perspective we always talk about internal and external perception and it's important from a player's perspective and our perspective that nothing changes our decision making.
"But the public opinion is a continuation of the passion and the opinion everyone has about the game in Wales and that's absolutely right."
"The expectation against Japan - and we won the game - within the group as well was that it wasn't good enough.
"But hopefully we have an opportunity now in the next week against South Africa to put that right."
South Africa have drawn with the Barbarians and lost against England and Italy on their current tour and have made seven changes for the match against Wales.
Howley expects the Springboks to play an expansive game in Cardiff.
"I think there's less pressure on them, I think they'll come out and play," he said.
"I watched the game down in Florence and the weather wasn't great. And they will be a danger to us they'll come to play.
"They'll have watched Japan against us and Japan and as a back three we have to defend better than we did against Japan."
Ten people were left critically injured at a lawnmower factory in Hesston on Thursday, where the attacker worked.
Police say the gunman, Cedric Ford, had been served a court order hours before, which may have been the trigger.
The attack comes less than a week after a man was charged with killing six people and wounding two others during a shooting rampage in Michigan.
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Local police say the gunman, identified as 38-year-old Cedric Ford, began shooting at around 17:00 local time in the town of Newton.
Harvey county's Sheriff T Walton said the attack happened hours after the suspect was served a "protection from abuse" order - a civil court order telling a person not to have contact with someone - suggesting it could be a possible motive.
"I believe that probably is the trigger, and it went from there," Sheriff Walton told reporters on Friday.
He had a history of convictions for previous offenses, including burglary, theft and fleeing a police officer, according to public records.
The gunman shot a truck driver in the shoulder, and another man in the leg as he drove towards the Excel Industries site where he worked.
He then opened fire in the car park, killing one person, before killing two more people inside the factory site.
Factory employee Martin Espinoza described how the gunman, a colleague who he said usually had a calm demeanour, attempted to shoot him.
The gunman pointed his weapon at Mr Espinoza and pulled the trigger, but the weapon was empty. Mr Espinoza then ran away as the gunman took out a second gun.
"I looked right at him and he looked right at me," Mr Espinoza said.
Another witness described scenes of panic.
"All I know is I'm seeing people running and so I'm assuming fire, and so I take a few steps and I hear pop, pop and I'm thinking just some paint cans or something going up, and more people running and all of a sudden, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop and I'm going, ahh, I start running too," said one man.
Chosen by the Confederation of African Football (Caf), the award will be some consolation for Pitroipa after his side lost Sunday's final to the Nigerians.
The Rennes winger's outstanding performances resulted in two goals.
Sent off in the semis, he played in the final after Caf rescinded his ban.
Man of the Tournament: Jonathan Pitroipa (Burkina Faso)
Goal of the Tournament: Youssef El Msakni, Tunisia v Algeria
Fair Player of the Tournament: Victor Moses (Nigeria)
The incident proved to be one of the competition's biggest talking points, after Pitroipa picked up a second yellow card for simulation late in the semi-final victory over Ghana.
Thankfully for Pitroipa, referee Slim Jdidi admitted he had made a mistake in his match report, so allowing Caf to overturn the ban and allow him to take to the field in Johannesburg on Sunday.
Pitroipa's compatriot Bakary Kone also made the team but the bulk of the players came from the Super Eagles, who lifted the trophy for the first time since 1994 - and for the third time overall - after their narrow 1-0 win.
Vincent Enyeama, who pulled off a brilliant and important save in the final to deny Wilfried Sanou with the score at 1-0, was named as the team's goalkeeper.
The Israel-based goalkeeper was joined by several compatriots in the side: defender Efe Ambrose, midfielders John Obi Mikel and Victor Moses as well as striker Emmanuel Emenike.
Chelsea winger Moses, who was superb in the final, also picked up the fair play award and Emenike, who missed the final through injury, won the golden boot as the tournament's top scorer.
"Winning my first African Nations Cup - and ending as the joint top scorer, I am so, so happy," Emenike told BBC Sport.
"This tournament has been very great, starting from the first game when I scored against Burkina Faso, because I hadn't been doing great for the national team before that."
One player was picked from each of the losing semi-finalists Mali and Ghana, as well as quarter-finalists Cape Verde and Ivory Coast.
There was no place for Ghana's Mubarak Wakaso, who found the back of the net four times to finish as the joint top scorer alongside Emenike.
Africa Cup of Nations All Stars:
Goalkeeper: Vincent Enyeama (Nigeria)
Defenders: Efe Ambrose (Nigeria), Bakary Kone (Burkina Faso), Nando (Cape Verde)
Midfielders: Jonathan Pitroipa (Burkina Faso), Siaka Tiene (Ivory Coast), John Obi Mikel (Nigeria), Seydou Keita (Mali), Victor Moses (Nigeria)
Forwards: Asamoah Gyan (Ghana), Emmanuel Emenike (Nigeria).
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Some businesses had to close for months after the River Severn through the city burst its banks.
BBC Midlands Today's Kevin Reide went to the city centre and spoke to restaurant owner John Bishop, department store manager, Blanche Abbott, and tourism officer Roy McDonald, to find out if the city is recovering from the impact of the floods.
Jayne Smith is leaving Foula Primary, in Shetland, after three-and-a-half years in the post.
The job is being advertised with a salary of £49,133 and rented three-bedroom accommodation is available.
The closing date is Thursday and there has been interest from as far afield as South Africa and Azerbaijan.
Foula, about 20 miles west of the Shetland Mainland, is one of the UK's most remote inhabited islands and has a population of just 32. It was the location for the 1937 Michael Powell film The Edge of the World.
The school currently has two pupils but one is leaving for high school in Lerwick at the end of the current term.
Ms Smith, 38, told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland: "I have loved my time on Foula, it has just been amazing.
"Most of the time I have been there we have actually had just one pupil.
"He has been in the upper stages of primary, so we have been able to go and visit Fair Isle, we have had lots of trips to the Mainland, it has just been brilliant."
Of her decision to leave in October, she said: "When I came I was initially going to do two years, I thought it would look good on my CV, and then of course I got caught up with being there.
"But I feel it is time to go and get back to the mainland, because I miss the little things like.....roads, proper roads, being able to get the car into fifth gear. If you get it out of second on Foula you're doing really good."
And of the type of person suited to the post, the departing teacher said: "To be quite honest, the job is only a small part of it, it's got to be someone who's so adaptable and able to live in an isolated area.
"We can be cut off from the mainland for, I think the longest time while I have been there has been three weeks that we have had no ferry and no plane.
"You have to be really resilient.
"We want somebody special who is coming in enthusiastic with new ideas and who is going to love living on Foula."
The flight to the Shetland Mainland is 15 minutes, and the ferry journey is two-and-a-half hours.
Any "experienced" candidates interested in the post can call 01595 744099 or email [email protected]
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The film, which reportedly cost around $100m (£77m) to make, took just $11.4m (£8.7m) on its opening weekend.
Suicide Squad held the number one spot, taking $20.7m (£15.8m) on its third weekend of release, despite a lukewarm response from critics.
Animated comedy Sausage Party was also a non-mover, taking $15.3m (£11.7m) to retain its number two position.
War Dogs, the first film Todd Philips has directed since he completed The Hangover trilogy, debuted at three with $14.3m (£10.9m).
Jonah Hill and Miles Teller star in the comedy, which is based on the true story of two young men who won a contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.
Another new entry - Kubo and the Two Strings - landed at number four after taking $12.6m (£9.7m).
The animated children's film features the voices of Charlize Theron, Ralph Fiennes and Rooney Mara.
Ben-Hur is the fifth film adaption of Lew Wallace's novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, which was published in 1880.
It was first made as a silent film in 1907, and again in 1925.
The first big screen adaptation to include spoken dialogue was released in 1959, with Charlton Heston playing the lead role.
The actor also lent his voice to an animated children's adaption of the story which was released in 2003.
The new film stars Jack Huston as Judah Ben-Hur, alongside Morgan Freeman and Rodrigo Santoro, who plays Jesus Christ.
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The pair, who suffered minor injuries, were among five treated by ambulance crews at the scene in Penhalls Way, Playing Place, on Tuesday.
A hazardous materials team removed the package from a bungalow.
Devon and Cornwall Police said a 47-year-old man from Penryn is being questioned.
Ch Insp Ian Drummond-Smith, of Devon and Cornwall Police, said he wished to reassure the public.
"No other homes are at risk of receiving such a package and we are carrying out a focussed stalking investigation".
"The package will go off today for investigation at a laboratory to determine its contents" he said.
The ATP 250 event which is currently staged in Nottingham will move to Eastbourne and be held alongside the long-running WTA tournament in Sussex.
A joint men's and women's event was staged at Eastbourne's Devonshire Park between 2009 and 2014.
Nottingham will now hold a WTA event - the Aegon Open - alongside a $100,000 (£70,000) ATP Challenger Tour event.
Meanwhile, the Lawn Tennis Association has doubled the prize fund for Aegon Trophy Series events - joint ATP Challenger and ITF Pro Circuit events at Ilkley, Surbiton, and Manchester - to more than $600,000 (£425,000) in 2017.
"This is all about delivering a bigger and better set of grass court tournaments for the players and our fans," said LTA chief executive Michael Downey.
"It represents another major step in the evolution of the British grass court circuit."
The grass court season has been changed after a three-week gap between the end of the French Open and the start of Wimbledon was created in the calendar last year.
The move allowed the Aegon Championship at Queen's Club to be upgraded to an ATP 500 status, while Nottingham held a WTA event for the first time.
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Harris painted the work in the Theatre Royal Plymouth in 1994 when he starred in Jack and the Beanstalk.
A spokesman said it was "currently protected by Perspex" but would be "covered in vinyl to obscure it".
The entertainer was jailed for five years and nine months after he was found guilty of indecently assaulting four girls.
A theatre spokeswoman said the mural was in dressing room G4 and would be covered "in the near future".
Harris, 84, was convicted of offences that took place between 1968 and 1986 against the girls who were aged seven or eight to 19.
Nicola Sturgeon believed it was vital to give young people the "best start".
In an address to the Scottish Parliament, she pledged plans to double government-funded childcare to 30 hours a week.
Scotland's other political leaders also used the debate to set out their stalls ahead of the 2016 Holyrood elections.
Addressing the first Scottish Parliament debate of 2016, Ms Sturgeon said the SNP would run in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament elections on its record in government and plans for the future.
She said the Scottish government should be proud of its achievements in abolishing prescription charges, maintaining free university tuition and committing a record budget and staffing level to the NHS.
Ms Sturgeon said the party had "ambitious plans" for the next parliament, with education at "the front and centre" alongside a "distinctly Scottish approach to welfare".
She said: "Over the next four months there must be a great, ambitious and thriving debate in Scotland.
"A debate about how to build on our achievements, address the challenges that we face, and in so doing realise the full potential of our nation.
"I am determined that, for the SNP, education will be front and centre of our plans for a third term in government."
"We will not take one single vote for granted. We will not assume success; we will work for it. We will work harder than we have ever worked before."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said the SNP had chosen the "easy politics of grievance over the radical politics of change" throughout its time in government.
She said Scotland could do "so much more" if it had a government which looked "beyond the politics, to what is possible".
Ms Dugdale said there is "an incredible opportunity" for the Scottish Parliament to use its powers to break from Westminster austerity.
She said Labour would make "radical change", telling the first minister she should "stop campaigning and start truly governing".
Ruth Davidson said she wanted to hold the SNP to the pledge that there would not be another independence referendum for "a generation".
She said she would "never apologise" for standing up for the Union during the referendum campaign, and said none of her candidates in May would either.
Ms Davidson said if the electorate did not want to change the government in May, they could at least change the opposition from Labour to the Conservatives.
She earlier also set out a position on schools, saying: "It is time for us to rise up against the bog standard comprehensive and work towards gold standard schools in every village, town and city in Scotland.
"I don't want the international experts to be using words like 'good', 'average' or 'satisfactory' when they are describing our schools in future. I want our schools to be 'great' and, as these studies show, there is currently room for substantial improvement."
Willie Rennie said the Liberal Democrats had made a difference with just five MSPs, saying "power is safer when it is shared".
He said the "best way to deliver on liberal values is to get behind Scotland's liberal force", and called for a pupil premium to help reverse decline in a "once leading education system".
Mr Rennie said Ms Sturgeon was "a little too pleased" with herself, saying while the issue of independence was "in the driving seat", police, schools and the NHS were "stuck in the boot."
"Please move on from the constitutional debate," he said. "We all need to move on - the next five years should be dominated by a bright, liberal and green programme for Scotland."
Scottish Green Party co-convener Patrick Harvie said pressure to privatise public services would increase in coming years, and said this must be resisted.
He said there must be adequate funding for local authorities to ensure public service provision, saying closing the gap between the rich and the poor would be priority for the Greens.
Mr Harvie also said measuring the economy on GDP growth alone meant the government was fuelling inequality, saying Scotland must grasp opportunities to "make the break from the fossil fuel economy".
Jerome Cahuzac resigned in 2013 after it emerged he had once held an undeclared Swiss bank account and had lied about it to parliament.
If convicted, he faces up to seven years in prison and hefty fines.
The trial is seen as an embarrassment for Mr Hollande as he gears up for the 2017 presidential elections.
Mr Cahuzac struggled to make his way through hordes of journalists as he arrived at the court in Paris on Monday.
Before entering politics, Mr Cahuzac was a successful cosmetic surgeon who made a fortune providing hair implants for the rich and famous.
He was appointed budget minister by Mr Hollande in 2012 and gained a reputation as a vocal crusader against the use of overseas tax havens by the wealthy.
He initially denied a report by the investigative website Mediapart that he had kept an undeclared Swiss bank account until 2010.
But after a meeting with investigating magistrates in April 2013, he admitted having the account, which contained about 600,000 euros (£460,000). He said at the time that he was "consumed by remorse".
In the light of the scandal, President Hollande ordered his ministers to disclose their personal wealth.
Mr Cahuzac is charged with tax fraud and money laundering.
At the opening of the trial, Mr Cahuzac's lawyers challenged the constitutionality of the case against him, arguing that he has already settled his debts with tax officials and should not be tried twice for the same matter.
If the case is referred to the Constitutional Court the trial could be delayed.
Mr Cazuhac's ex-wife Patricia Menard is also on trial as a co-defendant along with financial advisers and a Swiss bank.
Ninety-six Liverpool fans were fatally injured in a crush during an FA Cup semi-final at Sheffield Wednesday's stadium on 15 April 1989.
The six facing charges in relation to what happened are:
Former Ch Supt David Duckenfield was South Yorkshire Police's match commander at Hillsborough and will face charges of the manslaughter by gross negligence of 95 of the victims.
He gave the order to open exit gate C following a build-up of Liverpool fans trying to enter the ground outside the Leppings Lane turnstiles.
It is alleged the opening of the gate led directly to the fatal crush in the central pens of the terraces behind the goal.
The FA Cup semi-final was the first football match the newly-promoted Mr Duckenfield had taken control of.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said it will allege Mr Duckenfield's "failures to discharge his personal responsibility were extraordinarily bad and contributed substantially to the deaths".
The CPS added that in order to charge Mr Duckenfield, they would need to apply to the High Court to remove the stay of prosecution imposed at the end of a 1999 private prosecution.
Also, because the law at the time of the disaster has to be applied in charging decisions, he cannot be charged over the death of the 96th victim, Anthony Bland.
Mr Bland died almost four years after he was injured in the crush and a charge would have required his death to have occurred within one year and one day of him receiving those original injuries.
Graham Mackrell was the company secretary at Sheffield Wednesday at the time of the disaster.
His role gave him responsibility for the overall control of safety at the club's stadium, Hillsborough.
Defects at the ground, including calculations over crowd capacity, allegedly contributed to the disaster.
He has been charged with two offences of contravening a term of condition of a safety certificate contrary to the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 and one offence of failing to take reasonable care for the health and safety of other persons who may have been affected by his acts or omissions at work under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
Peter Metcalf was the solicitor for South Yorkshire Police during 1989's Taylor Inquiry, which looked at what had happened at Hillsborough, and during the first inquest into the fans' deaths, the verdict of which was quashed in 2012.
An experienced solicitor, he was instructed by Municipal Mutual Insurance to represent the interests of the force at the inquiry and in any civil litigation that might result from the disaster.
He has been charged with perverting the course of justice.
The CPS said the charge relates to material changes made to witness statements.
It is alleged he reviewed accounts provided by the officers and made suggestions for alterations, deletions and amendments.
Mr Metcalf has declined to comment on the accusations.
Former Ch Supt Donald Denton was a senior South Yorkshire Police officer who, it is alleged, oversaw the process of amending officers' statements following the disaster.
He has been charged with perverting the course of justice.
Alan Foster was a detective chief inspector with South Yorkshire Police at the time of the Hillsborough disaster.
The CPS claimed he was "central to the process of changing the statements and took action to do so".
He has been charged with perverting the course of justice.
Sir Norman Bettison was a chief inspector with South Yorkshire Police at the time of the Hillsborough disaster, which he witnessed as a spectator in the ground.
In the aftermath, he was part of a police team that gathered evidence about what had happened for use at the Taylor Inquiry.
He went on to become chief constable of Merseyside Police and West Yorkshire Police.
He has been charged with four offences of misconduct in public office.
The CPS said the charges relate to alleged lies about his involvement in the aftermath of Hillsborough and the culpability of fans.
In a statement, Sir Norman said he was "disappointed to be charged".
"The charge is not in relation to my actions around the time of the disaster but in relation to comments I made years afterwards," he added.
"I will vigorously defend my innocence as I have been doing for nearly five years."
United Utilities has confirmed customers will be compensated but it has not named a figure.
The firm has been investigating how the microbial parasite, cryptosporidium, was found at a water treatment works near Preston on 6 August.
The company believes it has "identified and isolated" the source.
Samples have improved but "highly specialised testing in some external laboratories" is being carried out.
United Utilities said once it received test results a meeting would take place with Public Health England and the Drinking Water Inspectorate.
A decision would then be made on whether to lift the water alert.
The areas affected include Blackpool, Chorley, Fylde, Preston, South Ribble, Wyre and the Mellor area of Blackburn.
Domestic retail director at United Utilities, Gary Dixon, said: "The traces were small in the beginning and are even smaller now. We are continuing to see the levels of cryptosporidium in the tests reducing day after day.
"We are confident we are going in the right direction and confident we are doing the right things. Tomorrow is a big meeting for us when we get these results back."
He said he hoped to have "more news" for customers by Thursday evening.
The Drinking Water Inspectorate will carry out a formal investigation into how the bug contaminated the water.
Source: United Utilities
Some customers earlier criticised the company for not informing customers quickly enough or communicating well throughout.
About 1,000 members of United Utilities staff have been working in response to the incident.
Jo Harrison, who has been co-ordinating the customer information service, said: "We've been experiencing about two and a half times our normal call volume. On Friday we had about 4,500 calls from customers enquiring about their water supply."
Compensation will be available for both domestic and business customers, Mr Dixon said.
"We will be proactively going out to customers to compensate them. There are real examples where businesses have not been able to operate. We have contacted them.
"We're really, really sorry for the inconvenience this has caused."
Cryptosporidium exists in the environment in a form called an oocyst, which is less than a tenth of the thickness of a human hair.
Infection with the parasite can cause diarrhoea and abdominal cramps.
People with weak immune systems are likely to be more seriously affected.
A number of farmers and pet owners prosecuted or investigated by the RSPCA have accused it of being over-zealous in cases going back years.
In 2012, it was criticised for spending £330,000 to privately prosecute a hunt.
Mr Cooper told the Daily Telegraph the charity had made "mistakes" in the past and would now focus on "dialogue".
He said all future decisions on illegal fox hunting prosecutions would be passed to the Crown Prosecution Service and it was "very unlikely" the RSPCA would privately prosecute a hunt.
The charity's policy of bringing private prosecutions rather than referring alleged offences to the CPS had also been criticised in a parliamentary debate in 2013.
Although members of an Oxfordshire-based hunt pleaded guilty in 2012 to unlawfully hunting foxes with dogs in a case brought by the RSPCA, the presiding magistrate called the charity's costs "staggering" and said the public could question whether the money could have been better spent.
Mr Cooper said persistent criticism of the way the charity pursued its aims "hurts" and detracted from the "fantastic job" done by many of the organisation's 1,600 employees.
Asked how policy would change under his leadership, Mr Cooper said: "We should look to fall back on education and advice wherever possible.
"My style of advocacy is encouragement and dialogue... If you want to shout and use rhetoric, that's fine, but it isn't helpful to anybody.
"We have made mistakes. We have to be honest about that."
Mr Cooper said a less political approach "doesn't mean we won't stand up for animals. But we are not a political organisation."
The Countryside Alliance welcomed Mr Cooper's comments.
Spokeswoman Charlotte Cooper said: "We have been concerned for years about its dual role of both investigating and prosecuting cases. We have a big problem with that.
"To say they will pass prosecutions to the CPS is very positive. It's what we've been calling for."
Mr Cooper said that the RSPCA's next big campaign would focus on the illegal puppy trade rather than fox hunting or badger culling.
"Puppy trading is a real problem," he said. "It is about animal welfare. People may have had the perception we were becoming an animal rights organisation. It is not the reality now and it won't be in the future."
All 999 fire calls in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire will be dealt with by Thames Valley Fire Control Service (TVFCS) from Reading.
It replaces individual control rooms in the three counties and will save £1m a year, Oxfordshire County Council said.
The Fire Brigades Union said 40 jobs had been lost in the merger and the move was about "cutting costs".
FBU southern region chairman Steve Allen said the union would review the service in the coming months.
He said: "This is all to do with cutting costs in public sector services.
"We are in the business of managing risk and we have done that really well over the years, now the management of risk is tainted with economic necessity."
Oxfordshire's deputy chief fire officer Nathan Travis told the BBC the joint control room would make the service more "efficient".
A non-staffed control room will be retained at Kidlington as a back-up service.
A spokesperson for police agency Europol said the situation in Europe "seems stable".
In Asia, where many offices closed before the WannaCry ransomware struck on Friday, the attack has been less severe than expected.
The ransomware takes over users' files, demanding $300 (£230) to restore them.
Only about $50,000 (£39,000) has been paid so far, according to Elliptic Labs which tracks illicit use of the internet currency Bitcoin.
However, the ransomware warning said that the cost would double after three days, so the payments may increase.
It threatens to delete files within seven days if no payment is made.
Computer giant Microsoft said the attack, which has affected hundreds of thousands of computers, should serve as a wake-up call.
Among the organisations targeted worldwide have been Germany's rail network Deutsche Bahn, Spanish telecommunications operator Telefonica, US logistics giant FedEx and Russia's interior ministry.
Many firms employed experts over the weekend to try to prevent new infections.
Senior spokesman for Europol, Jan Op Gen Oorth, told the AFP news agency: "The number of victims appears not to have gone up and so far the situation seems stable in Europe, which is a success.
"It seems that a lot of internet security guys over the weekend did their homework and ran the security software updates."
UK Health Minister Jeremy Hunt confirmed to the BBC that UK intelligence services had found no evidence of a second wave of attacks on Monday.
The badly affected National Health Service said seven out of 47 trusts that were hit were still facing serious issues.
French carmaker Renault said its plant in the northern town of Douai would not reopen on Monday as it dealt with the cyber-attack.
In Asia, the spread was reportedly slowing, with banking systems largely unaffected:
In the US, a small number of critical infrastructure operators were affected but not significantly, a Department of Homeland Security official told Reuters. There were no victims within the US federal government, he added.
This won't take long. Nobody knows. Europol's Jan Op Gen Oorth said: "A bit early to say... but we are working on a decrypting tool".
Associated Press quoted Tim Wellsmore, of US security firm FireEye, as saying: "We expect this is a small operation... They just happened to hit the mother lode."
Russian President Vladimir Putin said: "Russia has absolutely nothing to do with it."
EU Commissioner for Security Julian King told the BBC on Monday that the EU was proposing legislation to reinforce cyber security in the wake of the attack.
Companies in Asia and Europe have been warning employees to be careful when clicking on attachments and links in their emails.
The message from the UK's National Crime Agency was "do not pay!" - there is no guarantee that systems will be restored.
Michael Gazeley, of Network Box, a Hong Kong-based cyber-security firm, told Reuters there were still "many 'landmines' waiting in people's inboxes", adding that his firm had detected a new version that infected users directly via a malicious link on hacked websites.
Becky Pinkard, from Digital Shadows, a UK-based cyber-security firm, also said it would be easy for the initial attackers or "copy-cat authors" to change the virus code so it is difficult to guard against.
A UK security researcher known as "MalwareTech", who helped to limit the ransomware attack, had predicted "another one coming... quite likely on Monday".
MalwareTech, whose name was revealed in UK media to be 22-year-old Marcus Hutchins, was hailed as an "accidental hero" after registering a domain name to track the spread of the virus, which actually ended up halting it.
The computing giant says the tool used in this current attack had been developed by the US National Security Agency and was stolen by hackers.
It is highly critical of the way governments store data on software vulnerabilities.
Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith said on Sunday: "We have seen vulnerabilities stored by the CIA show up on Wikileaks, and now this vulnerability stolen from the NSA has affected customers around the world.
"An equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the US military having some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen."
The organisation also said that many organisations had failed to keep their systems up to date, allowing the virus to spread.
Microsoft said it had released a Windows security update in March to tackle the problem involved in the latest attack, but many users were yet to run it.
How roots can be traced to the US
There are going to be some tough questions on Monday for those institutions which didn't do enough to keep their networks secure, as well as the organisations that were best placed to stop it happening in the first place - the NSA and Microsoft.
The NSA keeps a chest of cyber-weapons to itself so it can hit targets, but Microsoft has long argued that this is dangerous. If there is a flaw in Windows, the company said, surely the safest thing to do is to let its team know straight away so it can be fixed.
But then Microsoft also needs to consider what obligation it has to update all users - not just the ones who pay extra for security on older systems.
Updating your computer if you're an individual is a piece of cake, but for a network the size of Britain's National Health Service? Tough - time-consuming, expensive and complex.
For a company like Microsoft to say it won't keep those systems safe unless they shell out more money, then that in itself, I think, is something of a ransom.
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It hopes to unearth the detailed history of what has been described as the "best preserved" World War One internment camp in the world.
It was home to up to 4,500 German prisoners of war during the conflict.
Dr Chris Bowles, Scottish Borders Council's archaeologist, said the project was important as without it the story of the camp could be lost.
The site was acquired by the UK government from the owners of the Stobs Castle Estate in 1902 and the following year it was established as the main training base for British soldiers in Scotland, hosting 20,000 soldiers in its first full year.
However, usage tailed off during the following decade and its future was in doubt until the outbreak of war in 1914 when it started a new role.
Dr Bowles started a project proposal for the area several years ago, having identified the potential of the site.
"This really is a huge project, and will be one of the biggest archaeology projects in Scotland," he said.
"Stobs Camp is of international significance because of the excellent state of preservation of some of its infrastructure - it is the best preserved First World War internment camp in the world and was the headquarters of the POW camp system in Scotland.
"This project is important as without it there is a real danger that the story of Stobs will be lost and the buildings that remain deteriorate further."
He said the aim was to develop a management plan for the site, improve access for visitors and create interpretation materials, including an app, to make sure the important role of the site was remembered.
Dr Bowles said: "Stobs was used to house POWs for over five years, stretching on until after the war was officially over, and during that time around 45 POWs died in the camp from various ailments, despite there being a hospital on site.
"The camp commandant allowed the prisoners to create a cemetery, which still exists, although in the early 1960s the bodies were all exhumed and reburied in a German war graves cemetery in Staffordshire."
Prisoners built a cairn to remember their comrades at Stobs and also planted a ring of yew trees behind the memorial.
However, the memorial was destroyed and the Stobs camp was decommissioned by the army in the 1960s.
As part of the new project, the Borders Family History Society is tracing the ancestors of the German soldiers and seamen interred at Stobs.
It also aims to restore the cairn and host a special ceremony on Armistice Day 2018, on the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One.
Andrew Jepson from Archaeology Scotland, the Stobs Camp project officer, said: "Stobs Camp has a fascinating story to tell, and so far we have only just scratched the surface.
"We are now very much at the start of what will be an exciting journey of discovery.
"Along with our team of volunteers we will now be able to conduct a detailed survey of the POW camp, record the camp buildings and undertake targeted excavation."
The project has been supported by SBC, Historic Environment Scotland, the Hawick Archaeological Society, Borders Family History Society, Live Borders and other local partners.
Funding has come from the Heritage Lottery Fund (Scotland), Borders LEADER, Historic Environment Scotland, Fallago Environment Fund and BCCF Environmental.
The 27 mile (43km) route created by the Canal and River Trust involved improving access to the River Soar and adding platforms for boats.
The £12,000 project was funded mostly by donations from the public.
The route starts at Trent Lock, near Long Eaton, in Derbyshire, and passes through Loughborough and Leicester to Narborough.
Andy Oughton, from the trust's Central Shires waterway partnership said: "There's something very special about canoeing on the River Soar, it's a great opportunity to see Leicester from a completely different perspective."
The trail was launched as part of the national Go Canoeing week, a selection of events to encourage more people on to the water.
The victim, Rebecca Rawson, 65, was fatally injured after approaching the armed householder's home on Tuesday night, say sheriff's officials.
As her relative knocked on the door, Eugene Matthews, 83, emerged firing a handgun, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.
Ms Rawson was taken to a local hospital, where she died.
Officials say that Ms Rawson and her daughter waited in their car as her brother-in-law knocked on Mr Matthew's door to ask if he had seen their dog.
Police say Mr Matthews opened his door and started shooting at the family.
As she sat in the car, Ms Rawson was struck by a bullet that went through the windscreen.
The Manatee County Sheriff's Office arrested and charged Mr Matthews with second-degree murder.
He is expected to appear in court later on Wednesday.
The A44 was closed in both directions following the incident on Thursday morning near Nantmel, with recovery work taking place throughout the day.
The road between Gravel Road, A470 North Street and B4518 West Street (Rhayader) was affected.
It has since been fully reopened.
Marie Collins was the only remaining panel member abused by a cleric.
She said the commission had suffered constant setbacks, "despite the Holy Father approving all its recommendations".
Pope Francis set up the panel in March 2014.
It was seen as an attempt to address the bitter and long-standing scourge of child abuse which has dogged the Catholic Church.
In her resignation letter, Ms Collins said she believed the pontiff had acted sincerely when he appointed the commission to advise on keeping children safe.
However, she condemned the lack of co-operation by those dealing with cases of abuse.
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The Vatican said Pope Francis had accepted her resignation "with deep appreciation for her work on behalf of the victims/survivors of clergy abuse".
Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston, the head of the commission, said Ms Collins' concerns would be examined at a meeting next month.
Ms Collins, who is Irish, is the second abuse survivor to leave the panel, known as the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
Briton Peter Saunders departed in 2016 after quarrelling with other members about how to handle serial abuse allegations against an Italian priest.
Mr Saunders said he felt betrayed by the Pope and felt he had been tricked into backing up a "smoke and mirrors" exercise.
It claimed responsibility on Twitter for the denial-of-service attacks.
Websites affected include the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office.
The Wikileaks founder is staying at Ecuador's embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex assault claims, which he denies. He was granted asylum by Ecuador last week.
He has been at the embassy since June and on Sunday addressed crowds of his supporters from the embassy's balcony, thanking Ecuador and other South American countries for their support.
The UK has insisted it is obliged to extradite Mr Assange, 41, and wants a "diplomatic solution", making clear that Mr Assange will be arrested if he leaves the embassy.
But Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said the UK would be committing diplomatic "suicide" if it tried to enter his country's embassy.
Meanwhile, Swedish prosecutors told the BBC they remain determined to question Mr Assange in Sweden, rejecting a suggestion from Mr Correa that prosecutors could travel to London to question Mr Assange.
Anonymous, a loose collective of computer hackers, has gained notoriety by launching denial-of-service attacks, which flood websites with requests, causing them to operate more slowly or fail, on international government and corporate websites since 2010.
The latest attacks were launched on Monday and most of the affected websites appear to be operating normally now.
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Justice website said it "had been experiencing some disruption".
A later statement said: "The Ministry of Justice website was the subject of an online attack last night at around 20:00 BST.
"This is a public information website and no sensitive data is held on it. No other Ministry of Justice systems have been affected.
"Measures put in place to keep the website running mean that some visitors may be unable to access the site intermittently."
"We will continue to monitor the situation and will take measures accordingly."
In an interview with state television, Mr Correa was asked if he thought there was now no possibility the UK authorities would enter the embassy premises to arrest Mr Assange, as they had previously indicated they might in a letter to Ecuadorean officials.
Mr Correa said: "While the United Kingdom hasn't retracted or apologised, the danger still exists."
He said such a course of action would be "suicide for Great Britain because then people could enter their diplomatic premises all around the world and they wouldn't be able to say a thing".
There was very little said on what the next diplomatic step might be regarding removing Mr Assange from the embassy.
But Mr Correa said, if needed, he was prepared to take the issue to the United Nations.
He also said Ecuador was hoping for strong support from a meeting of the Organization of American States on Friday.
"Remember that David beat Goliath. And with many Davids it's easier to bring down a number of Goliaths," he said.
"So we're hoping for clear and coherent backing because this violates all inter-American law, all international law, the Vienna Convention and all diplomatic traditions of the last, at least, 300 years on a global scale."
The UK Supreme Court in May dismissed Mr Assange's bid to reopen his appeal against extradition and gave him a two-week grace period before extradition proceedings could start.
The US is carrying out an investigation into Wikileaks, which has published a mass of leaked diplomatic cables, embarrassing several governments and international businesses.
In 2010, two female Wikileaks supporters accused Mr Assange, an Australian citizen, of committing sexual offences against them while he was in Stockholm to give a lecture.
He claims the sex was consensual and the allegations are politically motivated and fears extradition to the US if extradited to Sweden.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said he was arrested on suspicion of offences contrary to the Terrorism Act.
A property on Thelwall Avenue in Fallowfield, Manchester is being searched as part of the investigation.
Twenty-two people were killed by suicide bomber Salman Abedi after an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May.
Police forensics teams have taken photos of the inside of the housing association property and the contents of the bins outside.
A young man and a woman, covering their faces, were led away by plain clothes detectives and taken away in an unmarked car.
Neighbours said a Libyan family has been living at the address for a number of years - a mother, two sons and a daughter, though the father is believed to be in Libya.
Ali Mohamed, visiting a friend at a house across the road, said: "I saw Salman Abedi here. He didn't show any danger or anything bad. He just seemed like a normal kid."
It is understood the arrested man was on an inbound flight to the UK when he was held at the airport.
The man, who remains in custody, is the 23rd person to be held in the investigation.
Two people were de-arrested and 20 others were freed without charge.
Someone is de-arrested if police find the person in custody has no case to answer before the paperwork for their arrest has been processed.
On Thursday, GMP's head of counter terrorism Ch Supt Russ Jackson said Abedi was not part of a larger network.
However, he said officers believed other people may have been "aware or complicit" in the bombing.
In Rhyl, Denbighshire - one of the worst-hit areas - evacuees are being cared for at the town's leisure centre, and 400 properties are without power.
Many were ferried to safety by the RNLI and emergency services.
Another high tide is expected in the area just after midnight, but serious flooding is not expected.
Thursday's storm hit the coastline about lunchtime causing major disruption with roads closed, schools shut and trains stopped.
Two severe warnings - suggesting there was a danger to life - had been issued for the area earlier on Thursday.
In Rhyl, one of the worst affected areas, a rest centre has been set up at the leisure centre for residents and schoolchildren forced to leave buildings because of the tidal surge.
At one point, up to 400 people were being cared for there, but about 90 remained by Thursday evening.
Denbighshire council said 400 properties were without power, in addition to the homes that had been affected by flooding.
At least 25 residents and six dogs were rescued and two inshore lifeboats manned by RNLI crews and assisted by the fire service ferried people to safety from flooded bungalows in Rhyl.
At the height of the flooding, the fire service dealt with 34 flood related calls in a four hour period.
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Most of the flood water in Kinmel Bay, Conwy, has receded, though the local Asda car park is still under water, and water surrounds a nursing home like a moat.
But it's the possibility of further flooding this evening which is now worrying residents as the light begins to fade.
Supermarket staff are busy reinforcing the front doors with sandbags on both sides, and on the seafront, council workers are placing concrete blocks against the flood gates to make sure they hold.
One resident, Kieran Jones (pictured above), has even bricked up his own doorway to give extra protection.
A builder by trade, he said: "I used rapid hardening cement so it will set before any flood waters arrive this evening.
"It was quite scary to see the flood waters coming towards the house this morning.
"We were lucky they didn't get inside the house earlier, but I don't want to take any chances tonight."
Red Cross volunteers were also helping in Rhyl, sending 4x4 vehicles to help with evacuations.
All of the flood warnings were lifted across north Wales at about 16:00 GMT including the highest state of alert at Greenfield, Bagillt and Point of Ayr.
Earlier, people living near the River Dee at Saltney, Flintshire said they could not remember the river being so high and several cars were caught in the flood water.
A BBC reporter at Talacre, Flintshire said the area was "like a ghost town an hour and a half after the evacuation.
"The Dee estuary is bubbling away like a broth."
There were reports that the defences had broken.
During the height of the storm, scaffolding being used in roof repairs at an Aldi store in Mold, Flintshire, collapsed onto cars in high winds.
An Aldi spokesperson said: "Although nobody was hurt in the incident, we immediately evacuated the store."
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) had warned that high tides and gale force winds could "cause sea surges at their highest levels for the last 10 years, possibly 20 years".
Strong winds of between 60-70mph (97-113km/h) had been reported on the Llyn peninsula on Thursday morning.
The NRW had urged people to keep away from sea fronts and said emergency response workers were at "key sites".
Roads in Wrexham were also affected by fallen trees. Emergency teams went to Ruabon, Johnstown and Wrexham bypass, among other areas.
Flintshire Bridge which straddles the Dee at Connah's Quay was closed.
Meanwhile, Virgin Trains stopped services between Chester and Holyhead.
And Arriva Trains Wales said some of its services had been hit.
The flooding was caused by a storm surge from a combination of low pressure and winds of up to 70 mph, causing water to pile high.
At high tide, the sea level rose by at least a metre above usual levels.
The highest wind speed was 77mph inland at Capel Curig in Conwy.
Elsewhere, a 50 tonne tree fell on top of a car, blocking the A40 near Crickhowell, Powys.
Those inside were taken to hospital Dyfed-Powys Police said they are not believed to be seriously injured.
A Welsh government spokesperson said: "We are in contact with the UK Government on the general situation, and with Natural Resources Wales and responder agencies in Wales on conditions in North Wales."
The Met Office expects the worst of Thursday's weather to hit north and west Scotland and parts of north and eastern England, and has issued an amber "be prepared" warning.
Flood alerts updates and information are available on Floodline 0845 988 11 88.
The Welsh Government asked Carno Station Action Group and the community council to consult with residents on two potential locations.
One of the sites is the original station closed in 1963 as part of the Beeching cuts to Britain's railways.
The old station then became a part of the Laura Ashley site in Carno.
The village lies on the Cambrian line between Aberystwyth and Shrewsbury.
A campaign to re-open Carno station started in 2002.
In 2011 Mid Wales Transportation, a group working with the Welsh Government, said there was a strong case for future investment in the station after carrying out an out an appraisal.
The site could be developed into a tourist information centre centre and a Laura Ashley museum if plans are given the go-ahead.
Action Group chairman, Jeremy Barnes said the week-long consultation ended on 22 March and the results would be processed before being passed on to the Welsh government.
He added: "We have talked to the Welsh government about the possibility of the new station including a tourist information centre, cafe, an office for the community council's clerk and a small museum dedicated to Laura Ashley should the existing site be chosen."
"Carno is a growing village with a population of about 750 and this proposed development will create employment and allow residents affordable access to work further afield."
"It is located on the longest stretch of railway without an intermediate station in the whole of Wales, the 22 miles between Caersws and Machynlleth.
"There is a strong consensus that the capital asset of the railway line passing through the village is being wasted as long as the trains pass through without stopping."
The consultation followed a meeting between the action group and Transport Minister Edwina Hart last October.
Fashion designer Laura Ashley had strong links with Carno for nearly a quarter of a century before her death in 1985.
Carno was the original Welsh base of the Laura Ashley company when she moved with her husband Bernard from Kent in 1961.
She is buried in a churchyard in the village.
Laura Ashley's former headquarters in Carno, where many of her products were manufactured, closed in 2004.
Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag married a Christian man and was sentenced to hang for apostasy earlier this month after refusing to renounce Christianity.
She is allowed to nurse her baby girl for two years before the sentence is carried out.
Born to a Muslim father, she was convicted by a Sharia court.
Sudan has a majority Muslim population, which is governed by Islamic law.
Ms Ibrahim was also convicted of adultery on the grounds that her marriage to a Christian man from South Sudan was void under Sudan's version of Islamic law, which says Muslim women cannot marry non-Muslims.
For this the judge sentenced her to 100 lashes, which will reportedly be carried out when she has recovered from giving birth.
Ms Ibrahim was raised as an Orthodox Christian, her mother's religion, because her father, a Muslim, was reportedly absent during her childhood.
According to Amnesty International, she was arrested and charged with adultery in August 2013, and the court added the charge of apostasy in February 2014 when she said she was a Christian and not a Muslim.
Lawyer Elshareef Ali said his 27-year-old client had given birth to a baby girl in the early hours of Tuesday morning in a hospital wing at the prison.
She also has her 20-month-old son with her as he has been held with her in prison since late February, he said.
Correspondents say death sentences are rarely carried out in Sudan.
Ms Ibrahim's legal team lodged an appeal on 22 May as Mr Ali says the verdict contravenes the constitution's enshrining of freedom of faith, the Bloomberg news agency reports.
Western embassies and rights groups have urged Sudan to respect the right of the woman to choose her religion.
British Transport Police (BTP) said it was called to Marston Green station at 16:59 BST to reports of a person being struck by a train.
Paramedics attended but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Services have been cancelled and delayed and travellers were warned of ongoing delays and disruption to their journey until at least 22:00.
The 16:50 Birmingham New Street to London Euston service was involved in the fatality, a spokesman for BTP said.
The death was not believed to be suspicious, he added.
Virgin Trains, Arriva Trains Wales, CrossCountry and London Midland services were affected as result.
The 33-year-old South African, who has won his first event of the calendar year in four of the last five years, carded seven birdies at Doha Golf Club.
Spaniard Larrazabal, 32, also made seven birdies in a bogey-free round.
Andrew Johnston is a shot off the lead following a round of 66, with fellow Englishman Tommy Fleetwood and Scot Paul Lawrie both on five under.
Defending champion Branden Grace from South Africa and 2014 winner Sergio Garcia from Spain both shot 70s.
The development off the A41 Oxford Road would have included three stores, three restaurants, a gym and car park.
The initial application was refused by Cherwell District Council in October 2015.
Planning inspector Martin Whitehead said there would be an "unacceptable" impact on traffic should the site go ahead.
He added there would be a "harmful effect" on the surrounding highway network which would not be adequately mitigated.
Councillors rejected an outline planning application in October, citing concerns over traffic and the appearance of future residential developments in the area.
CPG Development Projects said the park would have prevented shoppers travelling to Oxford and Milton Keynes - a situation they described as "increasingly unsustainable".
The firm lodged an appeal and a six-day planning inquiry led by the government planning inspector took place in June.
Mr Whitehead's decision to dismiss the appeal was delivered last week, ending the developer's hopes.
The council's lead member for planning, councillor Colin Clarke, said residents feared the site would increase traffic around the already heavily congested town.
"Until we can be assured that enough provisions are in place to mitigate congestion, which this development is sure to generate, the inspector agrees we cannot justify approving these proposals," he said.
The photo-themed social network took the measure after being asked to respond to an investigation by #BBCtrending - a new social media series.
The journalists had uncovered many pictures and videos of narcotics posted alongside text advertising their sale.
Instagram is owned by Facebook.
The firm has a policy of acting on posts reported as being inappropriate, but it believes it would be impractical and invasive to search for such material.
"Instagram has a clear set of rules about what is and isn't allowed on the site," a spokeswoman told the BBC.
"We encourage people who come across illegal or inappropriate content to report it to us using the built-in reporting tools next to every photo, video or comment, so we can take action.
"People can't buy things on Instagram, we are simply a place where people share photos and videos."
Among Instagram's "report photo/video" choices is the option to identify suspected drug use.
The BBC understands Facebook's staff aim to review posts flagged to either of its social networks within 48 hours. They also have the option of blocking terms classed as "bad hashtags" - ones that promote banned activities - if they are mentioned in the press or in user reports.
The only content Facebook does actively search for is images of child abuse.
Most of the drugs-related activity appears to be taking place in the US.
"Just getting a few packs ready for tomorrow morning... Place your order today, it gets shipped out at 8AM tomorrow," read one post placed beneath an image of bags of marijuana.
Another picture showed a variety of pills, adding: "$2 a pop for xans, $10 a pop for roxys."
This refers to Xanax, a psychoactive anxiety treatment, and Roxicodone, an opiate used to treat pain.
Both require prescriptions in the US and the UK, but are sometimes bought on the black market.
Crystals of MDMA and other amphetamine-related substances were among other drugs advertised via photos and videos.
In many cases the buyer and seller arranged to finalise their deals using WhatsApp or Kik - instant messaging apps in which they could keep messages private. Like Instagram, accounts can be set up on these services without revealing either party's true identity.
Instagram is not the only social network on which drugs are advertised.
The BBC has also seen instances of the practice in comments below some videos on Google's YouTube service.
But while it is relatively common for the person who uploaded a drug-themed photo or video on Instagram to be the one advertising the sale of the substance, on YouTube the person posting the ad tends to do so below videos belonging to others.
Like Facebook, Google relies on users reporting a problem before taking action.
"We take user safety seriously and have guidelines that prohibit any content encouraging dangerous, illegal activities," said a spokeswoman for YouTube.
"This includes content promoting the sale of drugs. YouTube's review teams respond to videos flagged for our attention around the clock, removing millions of videos each year that violate our policies."
One drugs abuse researcher - who has advised the UN, World Health Organization and the UK government - said he was concerned by what he had seen.
"I'm not particularly sophisticated on the internet, and it took me 10 seconds to see posts selling class-A drugs on Instagram," said Prof Neil McKeganey, founder of the Centre for Drug Misuse Research, in Glasgow.
"Here is a public space being used to trade some of the most dangerous substances that we know are being abused.
"I absolutely feel there is a responsibility to take proactive action.
"It seems to me far too serious for those who own the companies that provide the public space through which this is occurring to simply say it's up to contributors to bring this to their attention."
UK-based drugs treatment charity Addaction said it too wanted social media companies to act "swiftly and vigilantly", adding that it believed the companies could make a positive difference if they did.
"Social media is a great way of reaching out to millions and millions of people," said spokesman Elliot Elam.
"That's why we'd like to see providers of these sites work with organisations like ours, so they can find ways to engage with any users who may be struggling with drug or alcohol problems."
Google and Facebook are not the only companies that rely on user reports to indentify potential drugs deals.
Yahoo's blogging service Tumblr confirmed it had the same policy.
"For legal reasons, we do not proactively monitor the site," said a spokeswoman.
"We respond to reports of activity that is illegal or against our policies pursuant to those policies and relevant law."
Although the BBC found photos of illegal drugs on Tumblr, searches for the terms that brought up associated adverts on Instagram did not appear to do so on Yahoo's service.
This is not the first time Instagram's self-policing policies have been called into question.
In August the Fusion.net blog suggested that the illegal psychedelics 2C-I and 2CB were also being advertised via the app.
Vice Magazine also highlighted that marijuana and several kinds of prescription pills were promoted on the service.
However it suggested that banning related hashtags would not solve the problem, saying "users would get more creative and choose other labels".
More recently US senator Edward Markey wrote to the service's chief executive, Kevin Systrom, asking him to look into reports that unregulated gun sales were being conducted through the app.
"Other companies that enable online sales have enacted commonsense protocols," he wrote.
"I encourage Instagram to take similar steps and adopt safe business practices that curb the marketing and sale of guns."
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Taking place in Northern Ireland for the first time, this year's event is live at The SSE Arena on 20 December.
Tickets cost £45 and will be restricted to six per person.
They can be bought on the arena's website, by calling the box office on 028 9073 9074, or in person from the box office at the venue.
The first wave of tickets went on sale last month and sold out in 35 minutes.
Gary Lineker, Clare Balding and Gabby Logan will again present the show, which will be live on BBC One, the BBC Sport website and BBC Radio 5 live.
Ella Henderson and Sigma, performing with the Belfast-based Ulster Orchestra, will open the show.
The contenders for the Sports Personality of the Year award will be announced on BBC One's The One Show at 19:00 GMT on Monday.
The Sports Personality of the Year award will be determined by a public vote on the night with the 10-strong list of contenders selected by the following panel:
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Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton won last year's Sports Personality of the Year award in Glasgow, taking 34% of the 620,932 votes cast, with golfer Rory McIlroy second and athlete Jo Pavey third.
Real Madrid footballer Cristiano Ronaldo was named Overseas Personality of the Year, and the England women's rugby union team took the Team of the Year prize.
European Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley won Coach of the Year, six-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy was honoured with a lifetime achievement award, and Young Sports Personality of the Year was given to gymnast Claudia Fragapane, who won four gold medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
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Her attacker is believed to have followed her home on Monday after she had collected her pension from Sea Mills Post Office in Shirehampton Road.
She suffered "nasty head injuries" and is recovering in hospital after being hit several times, police said.
The victim's son, 45, was inside the home and ran to her aid. He fought with the attacker and was also struck.
An Avon and Somerset Police spokesman described the man as white, of medium-build, 25 to 29 years old, with stubble on his face and wearing a light-coloured baseball cap, and a grey long-sleeved top and jeans.
Investigating officer Det Con Andy Jones said: "This was an horrific attack on an elderly woman who was arriving home after collecting her pension.
"We believe the offender may have followed the woman from the Post Office back to her home.
"She suffered nasty head injuries and although she is recovering in hospital this attack could easily have had more serious or even fatal consequences."
The Herald newspaper reported that the website Craigslist featured men across Scotland offering flats to women for "favours" and "romance".
Ms Sturgeon told MSPs the housing minister had written to the website asking them to take action.
She said such landlords would not pass a fit and proper person test.
However, the first minister added that these arrangements were likely to be "informal" so the landlords would not be part of the government's registration scheme.
At First Minister's Questions at Holyrood, Labour MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Claire Baker, asked the first minister for her response to reports of sexually exploitative behaviour in the private rented housing sector.
Ms Sturgeon said: "I was horrified to read the reports that the member refers to and the minister for housing (Kevin Stewart) has already written to the website concerned, that hosted these adverts, asking them to take action."
She added that poverty and inequality can often leave people vulnerable to being exploited.
"Any person always has the right to refuse to consent to sexual activity and forcing someone, in any way, to participate in sexual activity is a crime," she said.
"We continue to keep all laws under review to ensure they are fit for purpose in tackling what I think are unacceptable behaviours."
Ms Baker said there was no way of knowing how many tenants in Scotland had such arrangements.
She said: "The practice opens the door to vulnerable tenants who are already facing homelessness and poverty to finding themselves in commercially-exploitative arrangements."
The first minister said: "Where landlords are behaving unacceptably then clearly there are provisions to seek to deal with that.
"I suspect in cases like the one she is highlighting often the problem will be that there is no formal tenancy agreement.
"These are informal arrangements, which does not make them any more acceptable, but sometimes that will be one of the challenges. These are not formal arrangements where there is a recognised and registered landlord."
Green MSP Patrick Harvie said he was aware that not all such cases involved a registered landlord.
But he added: "Isn't it pretty clear that any such exploitative arrangements should lead to an automatic fail of the fit and proper person test and revocation of any existing landlord registration."
Nicola Sturgeon agreed, saying: "I struggle to see how anyone who placed an advert of this description would pass the fit and proper person test."
She said the housing minister would continue to investigate the matter.
Alexander Monson, 28, was arrested in Diani on suspicion of possessing cannabis in May 2012 and died in police custody.
Kenyan Police have denied any involvement in his death.
The inquest in Mombasa was adjourned until 27 April to allow closer study of the documents.
Mr Monson was heir to his family's Burton estate in Lincolnshire.
An independent pathologist hired by his family found he died from a head injury. The family was originally told he died of a drugs overdose.
The family lawyer said they had been kept in the dark about the findings of three separate investigations into his death.
Erol Incedal, 27, from London, was acquitted of planning a terror attack at the Old Bailey last week.
His friend, Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, who admitted having a manual identical to Incedal's, was given three years.
Most of the trial was behind closed doors and details cannot be reported.
While sentencing, the judge said the bomb-making guide included information for viable explosive devices, although it lacked detail.
Mr Justice Nicol said: "The potential for such bombs to cause death, injury and destruction are obvious."
"The fear, panic and terror which explosions also bring are often a deliberate part of the terrorist's ambition."
He said both men had been to the Syrian-Turkish border and mixed with jihadists. While at a safe house there they had learned about weaponry and explosives.
Incedal has been in custody since he was stopped by police by Tower Bridge, London, in October 2013. Rarmoul-Bouhadjar has also been on remand for about 18 months.
The case involving the two men became a legal first after an attempt by the Crown Prosecution Service to hold the entire trial in secret was scuppered by a media challenge at the High Court.
It led to the defendants, previously referred to as AB and CD, being named for the first time and the decision to split the trials into three parts - public, private with 10 accredited journalists present but barred from reporting, and completely secret.
Before the sentencing process began Mr Justice Nicol refused to lift further reporting restrictions, and said he could not give further details.
Lawyers representing several media outlets, including the BBC, had asked the judge to allow some of the secret evidence to be reported.
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Erol Incedal has been sentenced for possessing a bomb-making plans - but he's been cleared of a far more serious charge of plotting some kind of terrorist attack in the UK. All clear?
Here's the problem: We don't really know what's been going on in this trial.
Incedal insisted he had a legitimate reason for carrying those plans - but we were never allowed to hear it in open court.
The judge has now blocked our media requests to report the main allegations - and the reasons why the jury dismissed them.
If I knew the truth, I'd go to prison if I told you what it was.
The journalists who were accredited to sit in some of the secret parts of the case can't tell you either. Their notebooks have been taken away and remain under lock and key.
Last week Turkish-born Incedal was acquitted in a retrial of plotting with a terrorist in Syria to either murder an individual of significance, such as former prime minister Tony Blair, or launch an attack such as that in Mumbai.
The jury deliberated for a total of 27 hours.
The prosecution said Incedal's plans were thwarted by police who bugged his car after he was stopped for speeding in September 2013 and taken into custody.
During a search of Incedal's car while he was in custody, officers found a slip of paper inside a glasses case which had the address of a property belonging to Mr Blair and his wife, Cherie.
Incedal was released and the listening device recorded him talking about buying a gun and his time in war-torn Syria.
After two weeks, armed police stopped him and Mounir Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, also 27, as they were driving in central London.
Inside Incedal's phone case was a memory card and on it were instructions on how to assemble a bomb.
Ashutosh Maharaj was declared dead by authorities in Punjab on 29 January after a suspected heart attack.
But, confident that he was merely in a state of deep meditation, his followers froze his corpse.
He led the Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan (Divine Light Awakening Mission) which claims more than 30 million followers.
"He is not dead. Medical science does not understand things like yogic science. We will wait and watch. We are confident that he will come back," his spokesman Swami Vishalanand told the BBC.
He said that although doctors had declared Maharaj "clinically dead", he was actually alive and in a state of samadhi, which is the highest plane of meditation.
The guru is thought to have been in his seventies.
Swami Vishalanand said the guru had "often indicated that he would not be with for us a long time, and we would have to manage the organisation in his absence".
He said after the doctors declared him dead, his devotees watched over the body for a week at the centre in Punjab's Jalandhar city.
"The body did not decompose before we put it in the freezer. It was a spiritual experience. We thought of embalming it, but somebody told us that his chances of revival were less if we did it," Swami Vishalanand said.
"He has assured us that he will come back," another devotee, Lakhwinder Singh, told the Indian Express newspaper.
The decision to place the body in the freezer was challenged in court by a man, claiming to be a former driver of the guru, who alleged that his devotees were not releasing the body because they wanted a share of the guru's properties.
"The court rejected his pleas after the Punjab government said that the man is clinically dead and that it is up to his followers to decide what they want to do with the body," Punjab legal official Reeta Kohli told the AFP news agency.
Senior police official Gurinder Singh Dhillon said police "cannot interfere" now that the court had made its ruling.
The website of the Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan says it was established in 1983 and aims to "achieve world peace". It claims to have 350 branches in 15 countries.
In 1993, the devotees of a Calcutta-based guru Balak Brahmachari refused to cremate his body for nearly two months, insisting that he would recover from a "meditative trance".
Eventually, some 450 policemen entered his religious centre on the outskirts of the city and took away his decomposing body for cremation in the face of fierce protests by the devotees.
The man, named locally as Huw Smith, who was in his 60s, died on Wednesday evening at a farm in Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd.
Mr Smith is understood to have been working on the vehicle when he was killed.
North Wales Police said the death was not being treated as suspicious and the case would be handed to the coroner.
The firm said shares would be sold at 180p each, up to a third less than the expected price range of 220p to 270p.
Biffa chief executive Ian Wakelin said the stock market listing was "a significant milestone" for the company.
The UK's second-largest waste management group, which employs more than 7,000 staff, announced plans for the flotation in September.
The 100-year-old company has not had its shares listed on the stock market since 2008, when it was bought by a group of private equity firms.
This should be a fantastic time to sell shares. After all the FTSE 100 is hovering near record highs, so why has waste management company Biffa been forced to offer a discount on the shares it is selling?
It is not the only one to scale back its ambitions. Software firm Misys has cut the amount it hopes to raise by ??1bn, while several other companies have decided to shelve their plans to list on the stock market - at least for now.
Meanwhile in the US, floats - or IPOs - are going gangbusters, with Snapchat about to sell a slice of the company that would value the whole around 20 billion.
So what's going on. City sources tell me there are a few concerns about new flotations in general. Companies that have previously been owned by private investors typically owe more money to their banks as they were acquired in the first place with borrowed money.
Second, their track record of making profits is either shorter or less transparent than established public companies.
Third, in the case of Biffa, the company is UK focused and relies on the public sector for a chunk of its revenue - an uncertain income stream going into a period where the public finances are likely to be shaken up by the upcoming Autumn statement.
Add all that to general disquiet about prospects for the UK economy and it's enough to make investors think twice - or a least want a discount - before buying anything new.
The flotation, which is expected to raise about ??262m, comes at a difficult time for investors. Many are wary of committing cash amid the fall in the pound and until the details of the UK's exit from the EU are clearer.
Last week, fitness chain Pure Gym blamed "market volatility" for its decision to abandon its London stock market flotation.
Vehicle parts manufacturer TI Fluid Systems also cited "uncertain market conditions" for its decision to postpone its float.
And earlier this month, doughnut maker Krispy Kreme UK announced it was being bought by its American parent, instead of going ahead with a London stock market listing thought to be worth about ??200m.
Biffa said the price for the share sale would value it at ??450m, and its shares are expected to start full trading on Thursday.
It plans to use the money raised from the float to reduce debt and pay HMRC in connection with a dispute over landfill tax.
The Public Accounts Committee found a "lack of clarity" over the role of the Treasury, Downing Street and the Cabinet Office in reforming services.
Meanwhile, ministers had to overcome "resistance" among some civil servants to change, it added.
But the government said it had strengthened efficiency in Whitehall.
The committee found disagreement within government, saying: "The civil service remains committed to departmental autonomy whilst ministers want an effective, smart and challenging centre.
"This lack of agreement means that there is no clear definition of the role of the centre and the accountabilities for implementing cross-government initiatives are not always clear."
The committee cited problems with Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith's Universal Credit benefit reforms, which had to be "reset" last year amid concerns over progress.
It also said there had not been an "overall strategic view of risks" in relation to NHS reforms.
The committee's chairwoman, Labour MP Margaret Hodge, said: "Confusion exists at the heart of government about what exactly the role of 'the centre' - Number 10, the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury - should be.
"This current lack of clarity about the precise role and responsibilities of the centre jeopardises government's ability to deliver value for taxpayers' money in key public spending areas."
Mrs Hodge said the centre of government "often responds only after crises occur rather than picking up on the warning signs".
Departments were making "unacceptably slow progress" on some efficiency initiatives, such as shared back-office services and debt collection, she added.
But a government spokesman said: "As part of this government's long-term economic plan, we have worked since the 2010 general election to strengthen commercial, project management and digital capability at the centre of Whitehall.
"Last year alone, the Efficiency and Reform Group worked with the Treasury and departments to save taxpayers £14.3bn compared with a 2009-10 baseline. There's more to do to improve efficiency but we have just appointed a new chief executive to accelerate reform and strengthen control over key functions.
"We thank the committee for their report and will consider the recommendations carefully."
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A tall, elegant right-hander whose cover drive was a joy to behold, Graveney scored 47,793 first-class runs for Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Queensland and England between 1948 and 1972 and retired with a monumental 122 centuries to his name.
His Test career was a stop-start affair featuring dizzying highs - such as his 258 against West Indies in 1957 - and long spells in which he was overlooked for selection, despite consistently plundering runs at county level for Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.
He returned from a three-year hiatus in 1966 at the age of 39 and played the best Test cricket of his career, scoring four of his 11 hundreds and finishing, in the week of his 42nd birthday, with a batting average of 44.38 from 79 Tests.
Thomas William Graveney was born in Riding Mill, Northumberland, on 16 June 1927 as one of five children and lost his father at the age of six.
Alongside his elder brother Kenneth - who died nine days before Tom - the younger Graveney shone as a cricketer at grammar school, but was primed to pursue accountancy before opting to volunteer for the army.
While serving in Greece and Egypt, he played lots of cricket on concrete pitches and developed an ability to hook and pull off the front foot which served him to great effect whenever the pacemen of the West Indies were in town.
It was while on leave from the services in 1947 that Graveney was offered a trial with Kenneth's county side Gloucestershire and impressed them so much that he was offered a contract for the following season. With a heavy heart he abandoned the forces, shelved his accountancy plans and began to ply his trade as a cricketer.
Graveney scored more than 1,500 runs in his second and third seasons with the county and was handed a Test debut against South Africa at Old Trafford in 1951.
He scored 175 against India in his second Test but only mustered one further hundred in the following six years as his inconsistent form saw him frequently left out of the side.
Graveney played some of his finest cricket after joining Worcestershire in 1961, becoming the first player since World War II to reach a century of centuries in 1964 when he scurried a single off Northamptonshire's David Larter following an uncharacteristically mistimed pull shot.
His prolific form for the county prompted an England recall in the summer of 1966, which he fully justified with 459 runs at 76.50 in four Tests against the touring West Indians.
Graveney's international career ended on a sour note when he was suspended for three Tests as punishment for playing a benefit game on the rest day of the first Test against the Windies in 1969, and was never picked again.
He retired from county cricket in 1970 but spent two further seasons playing and coaching Queensland in Australian first-class cricket.
Graveney became a pub landlord in retirement, worked as a cricket pundit for BBC television and continued to play golf off a handicap of one.
He was president of the MCC from 2004-2005 and four years later was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. At the time of his death he was one of only 25 men in the history of cricket to reach a hundred hundreds.
Graveney's nephew David followed his father and uncle in captaining Gloucestershire, and was England's chairman of selectors during their 2005 Ashes success.
Bottles, seats and coins were thrown at London Stadium as hundreds of fans clashed. Six people were arrested, three of whom have been charged.
It was the latest outbreak of disorder at West Ham's new ground this season.
"None of these problems were unforeseeable given the nature of the stadium," said Mark Field MP.
"Within the next 14 days, the West Ham board should present a detailed plan to the Football Association and Premier League outlining what they are going to do about security," the all-party parliamentary football group vice-chairman told the Evening Standard.
"There have been clear failings. If there is a repeat of the violence, the next two or three home games for West Ham should be played behind closed doors."
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Hammers vice-chairwoman Karren Brady said the club would ban all fans involved in the violence. The club say it is finalising the identification of 200 individuals.
"Football doesn't want these people and, with over 55,000 supporters on our season ticket waiting list, we certainly don't need them at West Ham," she wrote on Twitter.
Damian Collins MP, the chairman of the select committee for culture, media and sport, told the Telegraph that West Ham "should face playing behind closed doors if they can't police the ground properly".
A spokesperson for the Sports Grounds Safety Authority (SGSA) - which advises the government on the matter - said it is "monitoring the situation very closely".
The SGSA also issues licences to 92 football clubs in the Premier League and the English Football League, as well as to Wembley and the Principality Stadium in Cardiff.
It says it is "aware and involved in issues relating to the London Stadium", adding: "All partners must act together to prioritise safety."
The Football Association and English Football League are also investigating. A league spokesman called the incidents "distasteful and unwelcome".
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Previously, the Metropolitan Police have not deployed officers inside the stadium because the radio system emergency services use to communicate will not be operational until 2017. However, security was boosted for Wednesday's EFL Cup tie.
Police commander BJ Harrington said: "There were a minority of people who attended the match who were clearly intent on being involved in confrontation and violence.
"Despite extensive work with both clubs and a large and robust policing operation, there were unacceptable incidents inside and outside the stadium, before, during and after the game."
Ian Marchant said the government was significantly underestimating the scale of the capacity crunch facing the country.
He was commenting on the company's decision to cut back on power generation at five sites.
The energy regulator, Ofgem, has also warned of an increased risk of a blackout.
In February it predicted power station closures could mean a 10% fall in capacity by April alone.
SSE points out that the regulator did not take into account its plans to cut power generation when the warning was issued and that therefore, makes the warning even more stark.
Ofgem's chief executive Alistair Buchanan told the BBC that Britain "would be very tight on power station capacity in three to five years' time".
SSE's Mr Marchant added that the government "can reduce this risk significantly by taking swift action to provide much greater clarity on its electricity market reforms and bringing forward capacity payments for existing plants from 2018 to 2014".
Energy minister John Hayes denied the government was being complacent, saying he was confident that its approach, combined with the responsiveness of the market, would provide secure supplies.
"We're alive to the challenge facing us. The Bill before Parliament will set the conditions for the investment needed to keep Britain's lights on in the long term," he said.
"The amount of spare power available today is currently comfortable, " he added. "We will make sure it stays manageable.
"We have an insurance policy - the capacity market. We're considering how and when this can best be used to bring about any necessary increase in supply or reduction in demand."
SSE is reducing its energy generation by 2,000MW over the next year. The power stations affected are Ferrybridge, Keadby, Slough, Uskmouth and Peterhead. It is also postponing further investment in gas-fired electricity generation until at least 2015.
Scotland's Energy Minister Fergus Ewing expressed concern about the decision.
"We are facing an unprecedented challenge in ensuring security of future supply while making the transition to a low carbon generating mix," he said.
"We can deliver a significant amount of that secure low carbon energy from Scotland. But the UK Government must deliver its Electricity Market Reform programme quickly and effectively to give confidence in the future market and allow companies to plan and invest for a future secure, stable and broad based electricity generating mix."
About 150 jobs are affected by the news, but the company is confident that most employees will be redeployed.
Peterhead has been named as one of two preferred bidders in the £1bn competition to encourage the development of carbon capture and storage technology. The announcement will have no impact on these plans.
SSE is one of the UK's six big power companies.
It says despite efforts to cut costs in generating power, costs have increased over the past year, meaning that they are in some cases losing money. SSE thinks it is unlikely to be the last energy company to warn about the tight capacity situation.
"The kind of decisions SSE is taking, to close existing generation plant on the one hand and delay investing in new plant on the other, is likely to be reflected across the industry in the coming months," said Paul Smith, managing director of SSE.
Separately, a study by the Reuters news agency shows that, if the current cold snap continues as forecast, the country could run out of stored gas supplies as soon as 8 April. In that case supplies to big industrial customers may be cut, as in 2010 when there were severe gas shortages.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change said it was monitoring the situation closely.
Britain's biggest gas supplier, Centrica, has already implemented some withdrawal restrictions
Ms Johnson was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia in 1930.
She died when her plane crashed into the Thames Estuary near Herne Bay in January 1941. Searches failed to find her body or the aircraft after she ditched off the Kent coast.
The statue of the pilot, commemorating her at the age of 37, has gone on display on Herne Bay's seafront.
Paul Courtenay, who was Amy Johnson's godson, said: "To be here today to see this wonderful statue unveiled is marvellous. I'm very glad to have been able to come."
Amy Johnson took off alone from Blackpool Airport to deliver an RAF aircraft to Kidlington airbase in Oxfordshire for the Air Transport Auxiliary.
The flight should have taken 90 minutes but, for reasons unknown, her plane ditched in the Thames Estuary four and a half hours after take-off.
Ms Johnson was 100 miles off course and 12 miles off the coast of Herne Bay.
People on boats in the area at the time saw the crash, but were unable to rescue her.
The Herne Bay statue was created by Ramsgate artist Stephen Melton and funded by local people and businesses.
A second bronze statue has been cast for her home city of Hull.
In January, Tracey Curtis-Taylor completed the 14,600-nautical mile flight from the UK to Australia in a vintage open cockpit bi-plane.
She retraced pioneer Amy Johnson's 1930 flight, flying over 23 countries and making some 50 refuelling stops.
Amy Johnson was the first woman in the UK to become an Air Ministry qualified ground engineer in 1929.
She became the first woman to fly solo to Australia, landing in Darwin on 24 May 1930 after 19 and a half days.
In 1931 she became the first pilot to fly from London to Moscow in one day.
In 1932 she flew solo from London to Cape Town in South Africa, breaking her husband's previous record by 11 hours, in .
In 1936 she regained her London to Cape Town record. This was her last long-distance flight.
Jonathan Baines of Prestwich, Manchester, handed himself into police the day after the offence in Rhyl.
"I've come to report a crime I've done," he told Rhyl police station.
Baines was told he would serve seven years in prison, but when released would be on an extended period of licence for five years.
Caernarfon Crown Court recorder Jeremy Jenkins accepted he had a high degree of remorse.
Baines will remain on the sex offenders' list for life.
The men abused their victims aged 13 to 22, mainly in Rochdale, Greater Manchester between 2005 and 2010.
The principal victim came forward after a number of men of mainly Pakistani heritage were jailed in 2012 for grooming white girls in the town.
A tenth man was jailed for five-and-a-half years last September for sexual activity with the girl.
The main victim, who has a learning disability, was described in court as an "extremely vulnerable young woman" who had endured "a very difficult home life".
She gave evidence in two separate trials, which lasted a total of 15 weeks. She said hundreds of men would ring her up wanting sex when she was aged between 14 and 18.
No evidence was put before the court that the men had acted as part of an organised gang or that they all knew each other.
Some of the offenders gave their victims "alcohol or drugs as a way of controlling or even incapacitating them", Alison Cartmell from the Crown Prosecution Service said.
"Some used violence and threats to intimidate and coerce them into having sex," she added.
A spokeswoman for the NSPCC described the crimes as "depraved and horrifying", adding that one of the victims spoke of "the 'brilliant relief' she felt in telling someone about her ordeal, so allowing her to move on after many years of anguish".
Richard Scorer, from law firm Slater and Gordon, which represents one of the victims, said: "In 20 years of acting for victims in cases of this nature, these are some of the most appalling, sadistic and vile crimes that I have ever encountered."
Det Ch Insp Jamie Daniels said: "This was an extremely complex case and I want to commend the victims for the immense bravery they have shown.
"The process can be emotionally demanding and traumatic for the victims and we do not underestimate the courage this took."
The convicted offenders:
The launcher is due to be introduced in 2020 and long-term will replace the Ariane 5 and Soyuz vehicles that currently operate out of French Guiana.
Airbus Safran Launchers, the company set up exactly one year ago to build the new rocket, is in the process of pulling together its subcontractors.
CEO Alain Charmeau said rapid progress was being made on the project.
"The basic design of Ariane 6 is now frozen to allow us to move into a more detailed design and production phase," he told BBC News.
"We have already signed some major contracts, and more will be signed in the coming days. And for those equipments not on the critical path, we will sign contracts in the coming months after running some competitions."
The company is a joint venture between the aerospace giant Airbus and the aero and rocket manufacturer Safran. The tie-up has yet to receive full and final sign-off from the French authorities because of corporate tax arrangements, but Mr Charmeau said this delay had made no impact yet on future Ariane developments.
"We were set up to manage Ariane 5 and 6 and we are doing that very efficiently, but it's true we can't maintain our current company configuration forever. But we will soon shift into a new configuration."
Ariane 6 will be a modular rocket that can be tailored to a wide range of satellite and mission types.
One version, known as Ariane 62, will loft medium-sized spacecraft into orbit - the kind of platforms that image and study the Earth.
The second version, known as Ariane 64, will put up the heavy telecoms spacecraft, which sit 36,000km above the equator.
Both variants will lean heavily on technologies already proven or under development for Ariane 5.
They will also borrow elements from Europe's small Vega launcher. The "2" and the "4" in the version names refer to the number of strap-on solid-fuelled boosters that do the initial lifting off the pad. These boosters will be the same as Vega's first firing stage.
The hope is that the commonalities between the different rocket types will help drive down costs.
Airbus Safran wants further economies by employing more modern methods of production and from streamlining assembly lines.
"We have chosen an optimised industrial organisation where we will try to maximise the rate of use of production tools. For example, there will be only one place for the machining of the big metallic structures. And we will of course be using additive layer manufacturing (3D printing) and processes like friction stir welding. We will be investing in new tools."
The question that is always asked concerning the future, is whether Ariane 6 will ever become a re-useable rocket.
The American company SpaceX already offers its Falcon vehicle for prices that significantly undercut the Ariane 5. And although Ariane 6 is expected to be 40-50% cheaper to produce than the existing model, SpaceX is promising to move the goalposts again by recovering and re-using its Falcons.
This same capability is also currently being demonstrated by another US company, Blue Origin, which has aspirations in the same markets as both Ariane and SpaceX.
For its part, Airbus Safran does not envisage making Ariane 6 recoverable, not in the short term.
Mr Charmeau believes that different market conditions apply in Europe and the US, which means there will not be a single, winner-takes-all approach.
He cites, for example, the restricted procurement that exists in all major political blocs, which essentially bars foreign rockets from launching home institutional and government satellites. Nowhere is this more true than in the US, but in Europe too there is an "unwritten rule" that European states should use European rockets.
Mr Charmeau added: "And we have other specificities in Europe, such as the technology of propulsion, which is much better than the US one, both in solid and cryogenic propulsion. This allows us to launch [two satellites at once], which is another factor for competitiveness, maybe much better than re-usability - we will see in the future. And one characteristic, for example, is that we have only one (main) engine on the Ariane 64, whereas our competitor is going for re-usability because he is using much more engines. (The Falcon 9 has nine engines on its first stage.)
Long term it is hard to envisage Ariane shunning re-usability, and Airbus is studying a concept called Adeline that would modify the 62 and 64 variants to allow their main engine to fly back to a runway after consuming its launch propellant.
Whether Adeline, or some other re-usability concept, ever sees the light of day - and it would not be before 2030 - will ultimately come down to the attitude of European Space Agency member states. They fund the R&D of the Ariane programme and they may feel the American competition demands a response.
But like Mr Charmeau, Esa's director general, Jan Woerner, is not rushing to judgement.
"There is no magic formula with one global validity," he told reporters earlier this month.
"So, don't say 'this is the one and only solution'. We have to find a way to the best launcher for Europe; and we are doing so.
"I could talk for two hours about the advantages or disadvantages of re-usability. Is it appropriate for the European situation? I don't say 'no'; I don't say 'yes'. I just say 'we're discussing it'; we're looking into it in detail.
"But just look to your daily life: you are buying returnable bottles or one-way bottles, and obviously for both there is a market."
Waterlogged roads have caused severe traffic blocks along arterial roads and all flights have been delayed.
The local train service, used by hundreds of thousands of commuters daily, has been suspended, with many stranded at stations.
The annual monsoon often causes a complete breakdown of infrastructure and transport services in Mumbai.
Further tests are being carried out, but if confirmed, it would be the first case of BSE (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy) in Ireland since 2013.
The animal involved is a five-year-old cow from a dairy farm in County Louth.
The Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) said the cow was not presented for slaughter and did not enter the food chain.
In a statement, a DAFM spokesperson said: "The case was identified through the department's on-going surveillance system on fallen animals (that is, animals which die on farm)."
They added that the results of the further tests should be available next week.
The Irish Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney, said this appeared to be an isolated case, and there was absolutely no risk to people.
A positive result would be a blow for the Irish beef trade, which just last week welcomed the decision by the World Animal Health Organisation to grant the Republic of Ireland a "negligible risk" status in respect of BSE.
At the time, Mr Coveney hailed it as a "landmark decision" and "major step forward on BSE certification".
He said the new status had "reflected the huge progress made over many years in eradicating this disease from the national herd".
Stormont's Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill said her department had been in contact with their southern counterparts and was being kept informed of the situation.
"We are now awaiting details of the confirmatory tests following DAFM's investigation. I understand that the animal was not presented for slaughter and did not enter the food chain," she said.
"DARD (Department of Agriculture and Rural Development) has in place robust and rigorous control and surveillance measures around BSE."
Traffic Scotland said the police closed one lane of the eastbound carriageway near J5, Harthill Services.
Road contractor Amey repaired the pothole before 09:00 and the closed lane was reopened.
Traffic was moving slowly for a while as congestion in the area cleared.
About 20,000 have been forced from their homes in the south and west of the country, rescue agencies said.
Military boats and helicopters have been sent to help rescue operations.
The flooding is believed to be the worst since May 2003 when a similarly powerful south-west monsoon destroyed 10,000 homes and killed 250 people.
Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said the death toll was rising as reports filtered in from outlying areas.
"The south-west monsoon began with very intense rain," Dunesh Gankanda, deputy minister for disaster management, told reporters in the capital, Colombo.
"There are some areas where we are unable to reach, but relief operations are under way."
One of the worst affected areas is reported to be the south-western district of Kalutara. Police spokesman Priyantha Jayakody said at least five mudslides had been reported there.
The DMC issued evacuation notices to residents along the Kelani river, which flows through Colombo, amid fears that it was about to burst its banks.
"Residents who are living along the Kelani should evacuate to high ground within six hours," the agency said.
As the death toll rose, the government appealed to the UN and to neighbouring countries for assistance.
"The (foreign) ministry will continue to monitor the flood situation and seek assistance as required in consultation with the ministry of disaster management," the government said in a statement.
Toi Van Le is accused of holding a person in slavery or servitude contrary to the Modern Slavery Act 2015, police said.
He was also charged with facilitating the travel of another person with a view to exploitation and eight counts of producing cannabis.
Mr Le, of Tanners Hill, Deptford, London, was due to appear before Telford magistrates earlier.
West Mercia Police said Mr Le, who was arrested in Birmingham on Wednesday, was remanded in custody to appear at Shrewsbury Crown Court next month.
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The 30-year-old, who was also pulled out of the 200m heats on Monday, was withdrawn by organisers the IAAF "due to a medical condition".
Makwala had earlier told the BBC he would be "devastated" to miss out.
Public Health England says 30 athletes and support staff have been affected by sickness at the Tower Hotel in London.
Makwala was considered to be a leading challenger to Olympic champion and world record holder Wayde van Niekerk in the 400m (21:50 BST).
He turned up at the stadium before the race but was ordered to leave by IAAF officials.
He had admitted to vomiting before the 200m heats, but said he was not tested.
"I could have run. I did my warm up well and I was ready to run. I feel ready to run today, tonight," he said.
"This is bad. Sometimes I feel heartbroken. Yesterday, I was ready for this. I worked hard for this."
IAAF spokeswoman Jackie Brock-Doyle told BBC Sport: "It's a sad case but we have to follow process for the health and well-being of all athletes.
"All processes have been followed, clear statements released and very clear guidelines issued to team managers and doctors on Sunday.
"We can't go into details of athletes' conditions. It's better the statements and Public Health England statement stand."
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Several German and Canadian athletes staying at the Tower Hotel fell ill last week.
A further 30 Germans due to arrive on Tuesday will be moved to other hotels.
German triple jumper Neele Eckhardt collapsed but was well enough to compete on Saturday, and took part in Monday's final.
The Ireland team, who are also staying at the hotel, have confirmed that one athlete - 400m hurdler Thomas Barr - has been affected.
The Tower Hotel said investigations conducted with environmental health officers and athletics' governing body the IAAF had shown the hotel was "not the source of the illness". That has also been confirmed by Public Health England.
Michael Johnson, four-time Olympic gold medallist athlete
The IAAF may soon realise they have got this horribly wrong as to why they have chosen to disqualify Makwala.
Does this apply to other athletes? If you collapse, you are OK but if you vomit you aren't OK?
Has he been advised not to be around other athletes?
There is a lot of inconsistency here.
And then of course, there is the elephant in the room - Wayde van Niekerk's only challenger has been pulled out of both the 200m and 400m. The conspiracy theories will come out of the silence.
Michelle Roberts, BBC Health
Stomach bugs that cause diarrhoea and vomiting are very common and easy to catch. You can get them from eating contaminated food or through contact with people who have got gastroenteritis.
If that infected person doesn't wash their hands before handling your food or touching objects and surfaces that you then touch, there's a good chance you could get sick too.
A person with gastroenteritis is most infectious from when their symptoms start until a couple of days after all their symptoms have gone.
A Freedom of Information request showed 49,536 households were being housed temporarily by 33 local authorities from March to August 2015.
Around a third of them - 16,981 households - were placed outside the boroughs responsible for housing them.
London Councils said authorities were "in the midst of a housing crisis".
Kensington and Chelsea and Waltham Forest councils both housed more than two thirds of temporary households outside their borders.
Meanwhile, Hammersmith & Fulham housed homeless people in 28 other London boroughs, and Wandsworth housed people in 26 other parts of London.
Naomi Emmanuel, 24, and her two-year-old daughter Kira are among the more than 30,000 households with children who are in temporary accommodation across the capital.
The fashion graduate and former nursery nurse ended up homeless after her mother died.
She said she was moved five times over two years between three different London boroughs - an experience which was unsettling for her toddler and also prevented her from holding down a job.
"I had to take her out of nursery with a day's warning. I had to quit a job with a day's warning," she said.
"If I could afford private renting I would definitely have done that instead of being placed wherever the council feels like placing us.
"I like being in control of my own life which is why I worked and studied to be in control of my future.
"It's unnerving, having to wait for a letter to find out where we're going to be moved."
According to the Freedom of Information responses, 26 of all 33 London councils moved homeless households to other parts of the South East.
Eight councils moved people into temporary accommodation in the Midlands and the north of England, the figures showed.
While families can request a review of their case, they have no choice about where they could end up, according to Kate Webb, from the housing and homeless charity Shelter.
She said: "If you are sent to Birmingham and you refuse to go, the council can say you have intentionally made yourself homeless."
Melaku Ader, 36, took up the offer of moving to Liverpool after finding himself homeless when his construction job on the Olympic Stadium ended.
However, he was left feeling isolated and after two years he returned to east London where he is living in a homeless hostel.
He said: "I had many friends in London. When I went to Liverpool it was too hard for me to find friends and enjoy [life]. It was just me."
Newham and Brent had the highest number of households in temporary accommodation, while Brent was also the borough with the highest number of homeless households with children.
The longest a household spent in temporary accommodation according to the figures was 22 years in Tower Hamlets.
The council's mayor John Biggs said a 22-year wait was "shockingly unusual" and the average wait for a permanent home in the area was about seven years.
He hopes developments like the Ocean Estate with a mix of 225 new affordable homes will ease the pressure.
He added local authorities across the capital were struggling to house homeless people because of rising rents and fewer council homes.
Mr Biggs said: "When we need to place homeless families we need to go somewhere that is affordable and very often these days that's not in your own borough.
"It is a continuing nightmare finding temporary accommodation for people.
"We need to work hard to get people into permanent housing."
Some 29 of the councils spent more than £358m in total providing temporary accommodation from 2012 to 2015.
The highest spend was in Enfield with more than £81m from 2012 to 2015.
The Department for Communities and Local Government said it was the responsibility of councils "to house families in settled accommodation as quickly as possible" and said it had given them new tools to offer quality accommodation in the private sector to families as well.
A spokesman for London Councils said local authorities in the capital were doing their best "to give people a roof over their heads in the midst of a housing crisis".
A judging panel gave the award to Walsh for the one-liner: "I just deleted all the German names off my phone. It's Hans free."
But fellow comic Pete Cunningham said he had been using the joke in his own routine for many years.
TV channel Dave, which sponsors the award, defended its choice of winner.
A spokeswoman said she was "entirely confident" the award had been given to the rightful recipient.
She added: "The jokes for Dave's Joke of the Fringe are submitted by 10 extremely experienced comedy critics from shows performed at the Edinburgh Fringe.
"Each submission is checked and cross-referenced for originality before being put to a public vote."
Cunningham, who has a Fringe show at the Voodoo Rooms, told BBC Scotland that he and Walsh "go back a few years" and are "always going backwards and forwards with comments and puns about each other's stuff".
The pair had a Twitter exchange in April of this year in which Cunningham tweeted the "Hans free" punchline, which he said he had first used as part of a routine by his Frank Sanazi character about seven or eight years ago.
He added: "Frank Sanazi is my most popular character and has a bit of a cult following.
"I was doing a gag seven or eight years ago - some new material. One of the gags is that I pretend that I have an agent called Harvey Goldberg, because being Frank Sanazi - you see what I mean, having a Jewish agent - that's the joke.
"And I say my agent likes me to take the German names off my phone to make it Hans free.
"Darren has used the punchline for that joke."
Cunningham insisted he "wasn't bitter about it", but that it would be nice to be recognised for telling the joke first.
He added: "There's the famous saying that there are only two or three jokes in the world and they are all sort of spun around but I have been using it for quite a while, an extended version of his gag."
He said he had a "little chat" with Walsh about it, and was "happy for him that he won because he's a nice guy and I love his stuff, but there's a small feeling that I had actually done the gag before".
He claimed: "It wasn't one of the best gags in my show anyway. It's quite ironic that the best gag at the Fringe is one of the weakest gags in my show."
The latest salvo between Nato allies came in a German government briefing to Spiegel magazine that accuses the alliance's supreme commander (American Gen Philip Breedlove) of disseminating "dangerous propaganda" on the extent of Russian military involvement, trying to undermine a diplomatic solution to the war.
The Kremlin has denied its forces are directly involved in combat, but the latest estimate by US Lt Gen Ben Hodges, commander of the US Army in Europe, says 12,000 Russian troops are operating inside the neighbouring country.
As the conflict there has worn, on this intervention has become increasingly hard to hide, growing bigger, with more advanced weapons, and capturing more territory for the nominal "separatist army".
The evidence of the Kremlin's direct military involvement can be gleaned from many different types of sources:
For those distrustful of the Pentagon or Western intelligence agencies, you can set their information entirely aside.
Indeed, there may be some reasons (such as not wanting the diplomatic damage involved in directly labelling the Russian moves an invasion) why Western leaders may have held back when describing the Kremlin's action.
Sustaining the operation in Ukraine and on its borders has, however, required the mobilisation of units across the breadth of Russia, according to a new assessment by Dr Igor Sutyagin, of the Royal United Services Institute.
He believes 90,000 troops were required in late 2014 to provide deployments around Ukraine, inside its eastern (rebel held) districts and in Crimea.
This effort has been so great, he argues, that, "it is obvious that there insufficient resources... to sustain military operations at the current level for over a year".
This intervention evolved in several phases:
A journalist from the Russian newspaper Kommersant met several young Russian soldiers in Debaltseve who told him they had come from the same mechanised infantry unit after commanders appealed for volunteers.
"Their commanders did not oppose their going," the journalist reported, "on the contrary, they welcomed their enthusiasm, explaining to the soldiers why it was necessary for them to go to those very areas to protect their homeland."
Another Russian paper, Novaya Gazeta, interviewed a badly burned tank crewman in Donetsk hospital who said he had been serving with the 5th Independent Tank Brigade in Siberia when ordered on "exercises", which all the soldiers involved had understood meant they were deploying to eastern Ukraine.
Since last August, when the scale of this increased considerably, the Russian Soldiers' Mothers Committee and other human rights groups have published details of dead soldiers being returned for burial in Russia.
Open Russia, a group funded by Kremlin opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has compiled evidence of 276 Russian soldiers killed there up to late January.
Dr Sutyagin says this is a considerable underestimate and the total is nearer to 800.
During the August fighting, entire Russian units were sent across, a necessity perhaps in view of the crisis faced by separatist forces, but one that produced some tell-tale evidence.
Ten paratroopers from the 331st Guards Airborne Regiment, usually based at Kostroma in Russia, for example, were captured together by the Ukrainian military inside their country.
And in Pskov, home of another airborne unit, several corpses were returned together for burial.
When Russian forces drew down a couple of months later, I was told by a senior Nato official that as few as 1,000 remained in eastern Ukraine.
It was then, evidence suggests, that the Russian army determined a change in the way it would use force across the border, forming composite units of volunteers that would be exercised together so they attained the necessary military slickness, but would come from a variety of garrisons and units so their identity would be harder to prove.
There could be another reason for the use of smaller detachments from far flung units across Russia.
Dr Sutyagin says it "appears to indicate a shortage of badly needed manpower".
Recent Russian reporting makes clear the direct involvement of its combat troops in February's battle for Debaltsevo, something Nato did not even allege at the time.
Indeed much of the Nato or US analysis, however critical German backers of a diplomatic solution may have been of it, may have erred on the side of conservatism.
At a meeting with journalists in London last month, for example, the US ambassador to Nato, Doug Lute, said the Russian military had committed specialists to help crew advanced weapons such as anti-aircraft missiles or electronic warfare gear, and "an alternative chain of command".
That Russian officers are providing the brains as well as co-ordination behind the Donetsk and Luhansk separatist forces became clearer last November, when Lt Gen Alexander Lentsov, deputy commander of Moscow's ground forces, appeared in eastern Ukraine.
He has subsequently been appointed to the committee trying to uphold the latest ceasefire.
As for whether this command structure was actually relying on Russian combat units, Lt Gen Lute would not go that far, saying the Russian military in the east of Ukraine was "not a force in the sense of being an entity".
But reporting from the Russian side of the front suggests that during the fight for Debaltseve, Lt Gen Lentsov won the battle with three battalion groups made up almost entirely of troops originally from units across the border in Russia.
In the Novaya Gazeta interview with wounded tank man Dorzhi Batomunkuev, he said his group, from the 5th Tank Brigade, had been combined with detachments of men from other Russian army combat units during three months of training at a camp near Kuzminsky, close to the Ukrainian border.
The battalion, equipped with 31 T72 tanks, had crossed into Ukraine early in February before taking part in the Debaltseve battle.
The men who had actually joined locally, in the breakaway areas of eastern Ukraine, had made up less than 10% of the unit, he said.
Other reports suggest the local men, as well as some Cossack volunteers from Russia, make up the public face of the separatist forces, manning checkpoints and so on, while the composite Russian army units, equipped with the latest tanks and artillery, are employed for offensive action.
Of course trying to differentiate between these forces (genuine locals, Russians who have come individually to fight alongside them, and trained units of serving Russian army soldiers) is not easy for reporters on the ground - or even it seems for Nato countries with their considerable intelligence resources.
Lt Gen Lute, for example, noted late last month the presence of "hundreds" of Russian army troops in Ukraine. Now, Lt Gen Hodges has raised that figure to thousands.
"If you don't believe Russia is directly involved in Ukraine now, you'll never believe it," he said.
Did the US assessment change dramatically in less than a fortnight?
It's possible. But it's also the case that Nato military people I've spoken to have been notably more hawkish on their estimation of the Kremlin role than politicians or diplomats (Lt Gen Lute is something of a hybrid, having previously served as a US Army general and in the White House).
US political authorities have also sought to minimise the gap between their public statements and assessments by Germany and others determined to avoid confrontation with Russia.
President Barack Obama and his team have long sought to avoid painting themselves into a corner over Ukraine, for example by labelling the Russian action "an invasion", something that might suggest tougher action was needed against President Vladimir Putin.
But the odd thing is that the most compelling evidence that his army is bearing the brunt of the fighting against the Ukrainian government is now coming from Russian reporters or the mothers of dead soldiers rather than the West.
The Mill O' Mains Community Pavilion is being demolished following Sunday's blaze, which is suspected of being started deliberately.
The volunteer-run pavilion was used for youth group and community activities, including providing meals for children.
The petition calls on Dundee City Council to build a replacement for the centre.
The council said it was left with "no other viable option" but to demolish the building.
The petition states: "The pavilion was a hub to the local community and a place for children from different backgrounds to have a place to play and relax.
"We would love to see it rebuilt for the community."
Dundee City Council leader John Alexander told the petitioners: "I'm currently working with officers to identify what led to the fire, what could have been done to prevent it and where we go from here.
"The bottom line is that we will absolutely be working with the community and local councillors.
"Local community officers have been working with key community activists and there will hopefully be some more detail and clarity in the coming days."
Police Scotland said the cause of the fire was still under investigation.
A Dundee City Council spokesman said: "Following the fire at the Mill o' Mains Community Pavilion we are left with no other viable option than to demolish the site.
"The building suffered extreme structural damage, having entirely lost its roof and most of its internal fabric during the fire.
"Work is currently underway to demolish the remnants of the building.
"At this stage our main focus is to clear the site and remove the danger."
Monkey experiments showed low status alters the immune system in a way that raises the risk of heart disease, diabetes and mental health problems.
One expert said the findings were "terrifically applicable" to people.
The findings, in Science, had nothing to do with the unhealthy behaviours that are more common in poorer groups.
The gulf in life expectancy between the richest and poorest is huge - in the US it is more than a decade for women and 15 years for men.
Part of the explanation is that people from poorer backgrounds are more likely to have a worse lifestyle - including smoking, little exercise and diets containing junk food.
But the latest study goes further to show low status - with all of those other factors stripped out - still has an impact on the body.
Looking at 45 non-human primates allowed scientists to adjust only social status to assess its impact - something impossible to do in people.
The captive Rhesus monkeys - who were all female, unrelated and had never met before - were divided one-by-one into nine new groups of five.
The newest member nearly always ended up at the bottom of the social order and became "chronically stressed", received less grooming and more harassment from the other monkeys.
A detailed analysis of the monkeys' blood showed 1,600 differences in the activity levels of genes involved in running the immune system between those at the top and bottom.
It had the impact of making the immune system run too aggressively in those at the bottom. High levels of inflammation cause collateral damage to the body to increase the risk of other diseases.
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One of the researchers, Dr Noah Snyder-Mackler, told the BBC News website: "It suggests there's something else, not just the behaviours of these individuals, that's leading to poor health.
"We know smoking, eating unhealthily and not exercising are bad for you - that puts the onus on the individual that it's their fault.
"Our message brings a positive counter to that - there are these other aspects of low status that are outside of the control of individuals that have negative effects on health."
Further experiments showed the immune system was not fixed and could be improved, or made worse, by mixing up the social rankings.
Sir Michael Marmot, one of the world's leading experts on health inequalities and based at University College London, said the findings were "extraordinarily interesting" and underpinned much of his own research.
He told the BBC News website: "This is hard science saying there's a plausible biological mechanism that results in clear differences depending where you are in the hierarchy.
"The gateway through which the social environment impacts health is the mind. Whether it is unhealthy behaviours or direct stress, the mind is crucial and this study is lending real credence to that."
While Rhesus macaques do form strict societies, they are far more simplistic that human ones.
But Prof Graham Rook, from University College London, told the BBC News website: "All the evidence is showing the findings are terrifically applicable to humans."
He pointed to evidence suggesting people at the bottom end up with worse health when the top gets richer, even if they themselves do not get any poorer.
He said: "It is something governments just don't understand; they think people at the bottom have got cars, have got TVs, so compared with people in India they're enormously wealthy.
"But that really isn't the point, they feel they are at the bottom of the heap."
Hierarchies are a fixture of society. However, the researchers believe more can be done to ease the health problems coming from being bottom of the pile.
Dr Snyder-Mackler said: "Status is always relative, but if we could flatten the slope so the differences between the highest and lowest weren't as much, or find ways to focus attention on lower social environments so they are not as 'crappy' we could mediate some of those consequences.
"It's a hard problem that might never be fixed, but it might be possible to make it less worse."
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The 76-year-old was given the honour for his services to football and charity.
Aberdeen-born Law, who scored 237 goals during his time at United, said the royal recognition was unexpected.
The player rounded off his career by representing Scotland at the 1974 World Cup in West Germany.
Speaking after the ceremony he said: "I just think this is the type of honour that goes to other people. You do not expect to get something like this. It's fantastic."
He said he enjoyed some brief football-related banter with the Duke of Cambridge, who is an Aston Villa supporter.
The footballer said: "The conversation was a bit short because they (Aston Villa) are bottom of the league and things are not going well but the thing is, when you're a supporter you will support your team wherever they are. So I was glad that he supports them, because that's his team."
Law was one third of what became known as Manchester United's Holy Trinity, when he played alongside George Best and Sir Bobby Charlton during his 11-year stint with the Red Devils.
He left Manchester United in 1973 to return to Manchester City, where his 81st-minute back-heeled goal confirmed United's relegation from the top flight.
Storms uncovered the 1.5m (5ft) fossil at the base of Black Ven near Charmouth on Boxing Day.
The giant marine reptile fossil was painstakingly removed over eight hours, shortly before another storm was due.
Professional fossil hunter Paul Crossley, who helped excavate it, said it was "a beautiful find".
"There was a very difficult, short window before another storm blew in so we were limited for time before it got ploughed out," he said.
With only part of the snout missing, but with most vertebrae and its rib cage in place, Mr Crossley said it was one of only a few ichthyosaur fossils found in such a complete condition on the Jurassic Coast in the past decade.
Ichthyosaurs (literally 'fish-lizards') were predatory dolphin-like reptiles that swam the world's oceans 200 million years ago at the time of the dinosaurs.
The fossilised remains were spotted by hobby collector Alan Saxon, from Chippenham in Wiltshire, who was on a post-Christmas visit to the Jurassic Coast.
"It was actually easy to spot - I just saw a long black snout against the grey shale. I had a closer look and could see jaws, teeth and backbones," he added.
Mr Saxon, 59, said he was considering the best approach to ensure the fossil was conserved.
"In the long term I'd like it to be available for people to see, especially in the Lyme Regis locality," he said.
Recent storm-force south-westerly winds hitting the crumbling cliffs have produced some of the most conducive conditions for fossil hunting on the beaches around Lyme Regis in several years.
Mr Crossley said: "The word is already out that Lyme Regis is the capital of fossil hunting at the moment, we've seen more people than normal on the beaches.
"We always advise going when the tide is falling and always stay well away from the cliffs and mudslides. Use common sense."
Most of that amount is owed by the Irish airline Ryanair and its marketing subsidiary AMS, the Commission says.
Ryanair and Dutch carrier Transavia had rebates and marketing deals at three airports - Pau, Nimes and Angouleme.
The carriers therefore paid less than they should have for using the airports, the Commission says.
Ryanair profits have surged recently.
Net profits for the three months to June were €245m, up from €197m a year earlier.
The airline no longer flies to Pau or Angouleme.
A year ago, the Commission says, it told France to recover nearly €10m from Ryanair and Transavia. The case of Transavia concerned only €430,000 due for a deal at Pau airport.
France failed to meet a four-month recovery deadline, because the airlines appealed against the move.
But the Commission says France's suspension of efforts to recover the funds contradicted European case law. It is now taking the case to the European Court of Justice.
In a separate case last October, a French court told Ryanair to pay €8.1m in damages and €200,000 in fines for breaches of French labour laws.
An appeal court in Aix-en-Provence found the company guilty of paying workers under Irish contracts to avoid making French social security payments.
The case referred to Ryanair staff employed at Marseille airport between 2007 and 2010.
Jurors found Ralph Clarke from Erdington, Birmingham, guilty of 21 counts of abusing two girls in the 1970s and 80s.
He admitted nine charges relating to a young boy part-way through his trial at Birmingham Crown Court.
Clarke told police he was "immune to feelings", the court heard.
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The former RAF serviceman, of Holly Lane, who was born in March 1915, sat impassively as the unanimous verdicts were delivered.
Judge Richard Bond said he needed to "ponder with care" the sentence and added: "The reality is that he's so old it's unlikely he'll be released back into the community."
He said the public would be "horrified" if Clarke was not sent to prison.
The court had made some special arrangements for the 101-year-old former lorry driver.
He didn't have to sit in the dock and had an intermediary to help him hear proceedings. The court only sat until lunchtime each day to allow Clarke to rest.
But prosecutors said he was "lucid" with an "excellent memory".
Clarke did admit some of the offences he was charged with relating to one of the three victims but described his actions as "something that happened" for which he showed no real remorse.
At the start of Clarke's trial, prosecutor Miranda Moore QC said the defendant was arrested after two of his victims walked into a police station in August last year.
Before the case was opened by Miss Moore, the judge informed the jury there would be occasions when Clarke left the hearing without permission for personal reasons.
Det Con Emma Fennon from West Midlands Police's historical sexual offences team described the crimes as "horrific offences" and said Clarke showed no remorse.
When questioned on the merits of taking a 101-year-old man to court, she said: "The day that not prosecuting someone who hurts a child is not in the public interest, we may as well all pack up and go home."
Det Con Fennon added that his age was "no defence to what he has done".
She said: "The nature of what he did to his victims has robbed them of their childhood."
Claire Nicholls from the West Midlands Crown Prosecution Service said for more than 40 years "Clarke thought he'd got away with his crimes".
"However, due to the courage of the victims we were able to bring this defendant to justice," she said.
Clarke had told the jury the offences against the schoolboy were "something that happened".
The court heard he abused the girls at his home in Erdington, in the cab of his works truck and in his garden shed after placing them on a work bench.
His victims reported the offences to West Midlands Police in August last year after seeing Facebook posts celebrating Clarke's 100th birthday.
Investigations revealed a catalogue of abuse spanning many years.
Clarke admitted two counts of attempting to commit a serious sexual offence, two of indecency with a child and five indecent assaults on the boy.
The retired lorry driver was remanded in custody and is due to be sentenced on Monday.
The election will determine who will succeed Sepp Blatter, who has been president since 1998.
Blatter, 79, and vice-president Michel Platini have both been suspended for 90 days amid corruption allegations, which both men deny.
Platini is seeking the next presidency, as is Prince Ali bin al-Hussein.
Frenchman Platini, president of European football's governing body Uefa, submitted his candidacy papers earlier this month, but Fifa says it cannot recognise his candidacy while his ban is in place and he cannot campaign.
However, Fifa's electoral committee says it may allow him to stand if his suspension ends before the election date.
Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain is expected to contest the election. Former Trinidad and Tobago midfielder David Nakhid said he will stand, while ex-Tottenham defender Ramon Vega is considering doing likewise.
South Korean Chung Mong-joon, another confirmed candidate, claimed his campaign has been "sabotaged" by a six-year ban from Fifa's ethics committee. On Tuesday, the 64-year-old's bid to lift the ban was rejected a Zurich district court.
Swiss Blatter is under criminal investigation over claims he made a £1.35m payment to Platini in 2011, as well as allegations he signed a contract "unfavourable" to Fifa.
Fifa's reform committee also made a number of recommendations for the governing body to make changes to "improve efficiency, prevent fraud and conflicts of interest and increase transparency in the organisation".
A 12-person panel, chaired by former International Olympic Committee director general Francois Carrard, including officials from the six continental confederations, proposed:
More recommendations will be added before being put to the executive committee in December 2015 prior to Fifa's members approving any changes in February 2016.
Suning Commerce Group Co Ltd will pay 280m euros (£220m) for the majority stake as part of an overall £750m euro (£590m) deal.
Ex-owner Erick Thohir remains as president with a reduced stake of 31%.
"Suning will inject a steady stream of capital investment in Inter Milan, which will help attract more talented players," said chairman Zhang Jindong.
There will be no changes to Inter's management team, with Roberto Mancini remaining as manager and Michael Bolingbroke staying on as chief executive.
Suning are taking on 230m Euros (£180m) of debt and a 100m euro (£79m) loan from Thohir.
Former Inter president Massimo Moratti will sell off his entire stake of just under 30% and will leave the club, ending a direct association dating back to 1995 when he became president.
The club has been under foreign control since Indonesian businessman Thohir took a 70% stake in 2013.
Thohir's International Sports Capital now becomes the sole minority shareholder, meaning the club is entirely in foreign hands for the first time.
Suning also controls Chinese Super League side Jiangsu Suning, who signed Brazilian midfielder Ramires from Chelsea for 25m euros in January.
Inter's rivals AC Milan, with whom they share the city's iconic San Siro stadium, are also in talks with Chinese investors over a possible sale following 30 years under the control of former Italy prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.
In 2010 under Jose Mourinho, Inter became the first Italian club to win the Serie A, Coppa Italia and Champions League treble but have missed out on European football twice in the past three years. Former Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini secured a fourth-placed finish in 2015-16.
The four-storey, 95,000 sq ft (8,825 sq m) Heritage Transport Museum, located off a highway near the capital, Delhi, showcases the evolution of various forms of transport in India. The collection has been mainly put together from contributions of private donors.
The museum features cars that have been used in India since the advent of motoring. On display are over 75 vintage and classic cars.
The cars are parked alongside a recreated Indian street scene from yesteryears.
On display is the Ambassador, the first car to be made in India. Modelled on the Morris Oxford, the design of the Ambassador has changed little since it first went into production in 1957. Earlier this year, the manufacturer halted production of the car, blaming weak demand and financing problems.
"Oddly, in the sea of glimmering metal here, a 1935 Buick Series Limousine stands out for its decrepit state," wrote a reviewer for a leading automobile magazine, while reviewing the museum.
The improvised four-seater auto-rickshaw, locally called "phatphati", continues to run in parts of the capital's old city. The ornate, vintage ones are built out of old Harley Davidson motorcycles.
The humble pedal-driven cycle rickshaw is still used as a mode of transport over short distances in a number of Indian cities and towns.
On display are also locally-made indigenous forms of motorised transport, like this tempo which has been improvised to carry passengers.
A 1946 Piper aircraft also finds a pride of place in the museum. These yellow-painted, light aircraft were built between 1937 and 1947 mainly for flight training.
Palanquins, bullock carts, horse carriages and camel carts were among the earliest forms of transport in India and some of them can still be seen in rural India. The museum has a collection of bullock carts.
The hosts were dominant in the first half and two Ashley Johnson tries, along with one from Danny Cipriani, helped them to lead 22-3 at half-time.
Bryn Evans' early second-half try reduced the deficit to 12 points.
But two quick Miller tries proved vital in securing Wasps a fifth successive league win at home, despite Evans and Mike Haley going over for the Sharks.
It was a quiet afternoon for Sale wing Josh Charnley, who made his first Premiership appearance since his cross-code switch from Wigan Warriors.
AJ MacGinty put the visitors ahead with a penalty but from then on it was one-way traffic in Wasps' favour.
Cipriani, facing his former club on his 150th Premiership appearance, powered over for the home side's first try before Johnson crossed twice in 11 minutes.
Relentless pressure from the hosts saw Johnson go over for his first, and he then ran in his second at pace as Wasps took full control.
The visitors made a great start to the second half as TJ Ioane fed Evans to run in, but Miller - another former Sale player - powered in from 30 metres to seal the bonus point and was then set up by Dan Robson from the restart.
Evans capitalised on Cipriani's wayward kick for his second try and Haley danced through a gap in the Wasps defence, but it came too late as Sale were beaten for a fifth time this season.
Wasps climb above Bath, who lost at Harlequins, into second place in the Premiership.
Wasps director of rugby Dai Young:
"I always felt we were in control but it wasn't fantastic.
"Although we were good in patches, I'm disappointed we gave away so many points in the second half.
"Sale were a dogged team but the introduction of our replacements caused us to become disjointed."
Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond:
"At one stage it looked like we'd concede a huge score but we did well to get back into it.
"Their first try was definitely controversial but fair play to Wasps, they did enough in the first half to put us away and Ashley Johnson is certainly a top-class player.
"A few of the players made too many errors, as they've been doing too frequently in recent games, and we need to eradicate them."
Wasps: Miller; Wade, Eastmond, Gopperth, Halai; Cipriani, Simpson; Mullan (capt), Taylor, Moore, Symons, Myall, Johnson, Young, Rieder.
Replacements: Willis, Bristow, Swainston, Rowlands, Gaskell, Robson, Leiua, Howe.
Sale Sharks: Haley; Addison, James, Tuitupou, Charnley MacGinty, Phillips; Harrison, Briggs, Mujati, Evans, Ostrikov, Neild, Seymour, Beaumont (capt).
Replacements: Webber, Flynn, Aulika, Neild, T Curry, Stringer, Jennings, Arscott.
Referee: Tom Foley (RFU).
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Google's shares closed 16.26% up as investors cheered profit figures that showed strong advertising growth on mobiles and its YouTube arm.
The rise took the company's market size to well above $400bn (£256bn), second only to Apple, valued at $745bn.
It means that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin each made a paper profit of about $4bn in just one day.
On Thursday, after trading had closed, Google reported that second-quarter net income was $3.93bn in the three months to end-June, up from $3.35bn for the quarter a year earlier.
The results ended six consecutive quarters in which Google's earnings fell short of analysts' targets
Finance chief Ruth Porat highlighted the growth in mobile advertising and time people are spending streaming video's on YouTube.
She said YouTube had more than one billion users and that the number of people in the key 18-49 age group who watch its videos on mobile devices was greater than the number watching cable television.
Reuters reported that at least 27 broking firms raised their price targets for Google shares, with one predicting that the stock could rise as high as $800.
As the market opened on Friday, Google added an instant $50bn as the shares jumped. The stock eventually closed $97.84 higher at $699.62.
The rise helped the tech-rich Nasdaq index, on which Google is listed, close at a record high for the second consecutive session on Friday, ending up more than 0.9%.
Deutsche Bank issued a research note on the profit figures called "Dawn of a New Era?" - adding that it "feels like it".
The USA Freedom Act extends the government's ability to collect large amounts of data, but with restrictions.
The bill, which replaces the Patriot Act, had been backed by President Barack Obama as a necessary tool to fight terrorism.
Mr Obama said on Tuesday that he will sign the bill into law.
The bill undoes a national security policy that had been in place since shortly after the attacks on 11 September 2001.
The new law replaces a National Security Agency (NSA) program in which the spy agency collected personal data en masse.
The revelation of this program by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden triggered a global public backlash.
Instead of receiving bulk quantities of data from telephone and internet companies the NSA will now be forced to request the information through a court order.
The data will also be stored on telephone and internet company servers rather than government servers.
The request must be specific to an individual entity such as a person, account, or electronic device.
A six-month transition will be in place as the policy shifts so that data storage remains with private companies, rather than on government servers.
What is changing? The expiry of the Patriot Act brings to an end bulk collection of Americans' phone metadata - who called who, when and for how long, but not the content of calls - by the US. Under its successor, records must be held by telecommunications companies and investigators need a court order to access specific information. Technology companies will be given greater leeway to reveal data requests. The measures are intended to balance concerns on privacy with providing the authorities the tools they need to prevent attacks.
What stays the same? Key parts of the Patriot Act are retained in the Freedom Act. They include the provision allowing the monitoring of "lone wolf" suspects - potential attackers not linked to foreign terror groups, despite the US authorities admitting the powers have never been used. The Freedom Act also maintains a provision allowing investigators to monitor travel and business records of individuals, something law officers says is more effective than bulk collection.
The law's passage had been temporarily blocked by libertarian-minded senators who are fearful of government's intrusion into individuals' private lives.
Kentucky senator and presidential hopeful Senator Rand Paul repeatedly criticized the bill from the Senate floor.
"We are not collecting the information of spies. We are not collecting the information of terrorists. We are collecting all American citizens' records all of the time," Mr Paul said. "This is what we fought the revolution over."
The law was held up for weeks by intense debate among lawmakers.
Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, also from Kentucky, fought to prevent any rollback in surveillance powers.
Speaking on the floor of the Senate Mr McConnell said the law will "take one more tool away from those who defend our country every day."
Uefa president Michel Platini said on Monday that he wanted eight extra teams in the finals from 2018 onwards.
The proposal followed Fifa president Sepp Blatter's suggestion that more African and Asian countries should play at the expense of European ones.
"Never say never, but it's unlikely," said Valcke, number two to Blatter.
Europe has 13 slots in the current set-up, while Africa has five and Asia four plus a play-off place.
Platini's idea for 40 teams would see eight groups of five at the World Cup as opposed to the present structure of eight groups of four.
Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko said expecting the country to accommodate eight extra teams in 2018 was "unrealistic".
"We've already got to the stage of discussing the calendar," said Mutko. "Everything's possible, but you need to respect the country that's carrying out the preparations for the tournament.
"We're preparing on the basis that 32 teams will be taking part."
Mohammed Rafiq, 60, employed large numbers of Hungarians at his firm Kozee Sleep and its subsidiary Layzee Sleep, which supplied retailers like John Lewis, Next and Dunelm Mill.
Police said the men had "no contract, no rights and were exploited terribly".
Rafiq, of Thorncliffe Road, Batley, was convicted of conspiracy to traffic.
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An investigation into Rafiq's businesses in Dewsbury and Batley found he had knowingly employed men trafficked into the UK by Hungarian nationals Janos Orsos and Ferenc Illes for about two years.
At trial, the jury heard Rafiq knew Orsos's organisation would source him "cheap slave labour" and he "went along with their exploitation as a slave workforce".
The jury also heard how ethical audits by leading high street retailers failed to spot what was going on.
The men were promised good wages, housing and food if they travelled to the UK but found themselves living in shared, cramped and squalid accommodation.
Jailing Rafiq at Leeds Crown Court, judge Christopher Batty said Orsos was a "ruthless gangmaster" who preyed on his countrymen, but that his "hideous exploitation" was only possible with the help of businessmen like him.
He said: "You accepted the cheap labour that he found you regardless of how they were being treated. I'm satisfied you did nothing to help, you did not care."
Det Insp Andy Leonard, from West Yorkshire Police, said the men had been "controlled heavily" by the traffickers.
"They had very little money, they were not allowed out and they were transported to and from the workplace.
"They worked long hours, they worked seven days a week, up to 15 or 16 hours a day, every single day of the week for little or no pay.
"They had no contract, no rights and were exploited terribly."
He said Orsos had been paid £200 per week for each worker but would only give the men £10 each, leaving them "totally helpless and totally controlled".
One man who was trafficked to the UK and put to work in Rafiq's factory said: "I could not comprehend how they could do this. There were people there who had been living there in abject poverty, struggling for three or four years."
Orsos and Illes were jailed for five years and three years respectively in 2014 after admitting people trafficking offences.
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The British team have never finished outside the top five in the medal table.
At London 2012, they won 120 medals, including 34 golds, to finish third behind China and Russia - and hopes are high they can surpass that in Brazil.
Here you will find the names of every athlete selected by the British Paralympic Association.
London medals: Two (one gold, one silver)
Competition dates: 10-17 September
Venue: Sambodromo
Previous gold medallists John Cavanagh and John Stubbs head the GB archery squad for Rio.
Cavanagh, who will be appearing in his fifth Games, won gold in Athens while Stubbs triumphed on his Games debut in Beijing four years later.
Among the debutants are London 2012 Games Maker Jo Frith, who has won European and world medals since switching from swimming to archery, 16-year-old Jess Stretton and Invictus Games veteran Mikey Hall.
London medals: 29 (11 gold, 7 silver, 11 bronze)
Competition dates: 8-18 September
Venue: Olympic Stadium
London 2012 gold medallists David Weir, Richard Whitehead, Aled Davies and Hannah Cockroft are among the 13 track and field athletes named in the first round of selections for the Rio Paralympics.
All of those selected won gold or silver medals at last year's IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha and showed form in 2016.
The squad also includes Libby Clegg, who broke the 200m world record at the Anniversary Games in her new T11 class, and Jonnie Peacock, who will be looking to defend his T44 100m title, plus many debutants.
London medals: Two (one silver, one bronze)
Competitions dates: 10-16 September
Venue: Carioca Arena 2
David Smith, Stephen McGuire and Nigel Murray have all been named in the 10-strong GB boccia squad.
McGuire is world individual champion in the BC4 classification, while Smith won team gold alongside double Paralympic gold medallist Murray at Beijing 2008.
London medals: None (sport making its debut)
Competition dates: 14-15 September
Venue: Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas
Canoeing will make its Paralympic debut in Rio and Great Britain will be one of only two nations, along with Australia, to have a full quota of six boats in action.
All of the squad have experience at World and European Championships, with Anne Dickins and Emma Wiggs current world champions in their respective categories.
Wiggs represented Great Britain in sitting volleyball at London 2012 and Nick Beighton competed in rowing, while Jeanette Chippington will be appearing at her sixth Games after a successful swimming career.
London medals: 22 (Eight gold, nine silver, five bronze)
Competition dates: 8-11 September (track) 14-17 September (road)
Venues: Rio Olympic Velodrome (track), Pontal (road)
The British Para-cycling team have enjoyed huge success on the track and the road in recent times, topping the medal table four years ago.
Dame Sarah Storey, who won four golds at London 2012, has been selected for her seventh Games, having made her debut as a swimmer in Barcelona 1992.
London 2012 medal winners Neil Fachie, Karen Darke, Jody Cundy, Helen Scott and Jon-Allan Butterworth also feature in the team along with Kadeena Cox, who will be competing in both cycling and athletics in Rio.
London medals: 11 (five gold, five silver, one bronze)
Competition dates: 11-16 September
Venue: Olympic Equestrian Centre
The five riders selected for the Paralympic equestrian team in Rio have 13 Games' worth of experience between them and a shared haul of 30 Paralympic medals.
Lee Pearson will be aiming to add to his 10-gold-medal haul while Sophie Christiansen will be defending the three titles (two individual and one team) she won at London 2012.
Sophie Wells, who won team gold with Pearson and Christiansen four years ago, returns along with double individual gold medallist Natasha Baker.
The team is completed by 67-year-old five-time gold medallist Anne Dunham, who will be competing in her fifth Games.
London medals: None
Competition dates: 8-16 September
Venue: Deodoro Stadium
All but two of the football squad will be making their Paralympic debut with former Everton FC Academy player Michael Barker and Scottish veteran Jonathan Paterson competing in their third Games.
The team, which will be captained by former Birmingham City player Jack Rutter, has representatives from England. Scotland and Northern Ireland - many of whom competed internationally for their home nations at recent World and European Championships.
London medals: Two (one silver, one bronze)
Competition dates: 8-10 September
Venue: Carioca Arena 3
The judo squad became the first full GB squad to be named for the Rio Paralympics.
London 2012 silver medallist Sam Ingram will be competing in his third consecutive Games and he is joined by a trio of newcomers in Jonathan Drane, Chris Skelley and Jack Hodgson.
London medals: One (bronze)
Competition dates: 8-14 September
Venue: Riocentro Pavilion 2
World and European champion Ali Jawad heads the GB powerlifting team, eager to make up for the disappointment of missing out on a medal at London 2012.
Natalie Blake will be competing at her fifth Games, Zoe Newson won bronze four years ago and there is a debut for Micky Yule, a former staff sergeant in the Royal Engineers, who lost both of his legs in an explosion while serving in Afghanistan in 2010.
London medals: one (gold)
Competition dates: 9-11 September
Venue: Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas
Gold medallists Tom Aggar and Pam Relph head the GB rowing team for Rio.
Aggar won men's single sculls gold when the sport made its debut in 2008 while Relph was part of the victorious mixed coxed four in London but has four new crewmates this time around in Dan Brown, Grace Clough, James Fox and cox Oliver James.
Former gold medal-winning handcyclist Rachel Morris will be making her rowing debut while Laurence Whiteley and Lauren Rowles will be making their first appearances at a Games.
London medals: Two (one gold, one bronze)
Competition dates: 12-17 September
Venue: Marina da Gloria, Guanabara Bay
Defending Paralympic champion Helena Lucas was the first athlete to be named for either Rio Games when she was selected in April 2015.
Lucas will compete in the 2.4mR category and will be joined by London bronze medallists Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell and the Sonar crew of John Robertson, Hannah Stodel and Stephen Thomas, who will be competing in their fourth Games.
London medals: three (one silver, two bronze)
Competition dates: 8-14 September
Venue: Olympic Shooting Centre
Three-time Paralympic medallist Matt Skelhon has been named as part of the GB shooting squad, aiming to add to his medal haul.
Skelhon won gold in Beijing in 2008 and followed that up with silver and bronze in London.
He is one of six athletes with previous Games experience while Issy Bailey, Owen Burke, Lorraine Lambert and Stewart Nangle will be making their debuts in Rio.
London medals: 39 (Seven gold, 16 silver, 16 bronze)
Competition dates: 8-17 September
Venue: Olympic Aquatics Centre
A 30-strong team will represent GB in swimming at the Rio Paralympics.
Six swimmers - Ellie Simmonds, Ollie Hynd, Josef Craig, Jessica-Jane Applegate, Jon Fox and Bethany Firth - won gold at London 2012 and 20 of the squad bring previous Games experience.
Abby Kane, who turns 13 in August, will make her debut while veteran Sascha Kindred, 38, will be appearing in his sixth Games.
London medals: Four (one silver, three bronze)
Competition dates: 8-17 September
Venue: Riocentro Pavilion 3
World number ones Will Bayley and Rob Davies head the 12-strong GB table tennis team for the Rio Paralympics.
The team have a wealth of experience, with Sue Gilroy competing in her fifth Games. Liverpool's Jack Hunter-Spivey is the only member who has yet to compete at a Paralympics.
London medals: None (sport is making its debut)
Competition dates: 10-11 September
Venue: Fort Copacabana
Great Britain will take 11 athletes and two guides to the inaugural Paralympic triathlon event at Rio - the most of any country.
Reigning world champion Lauren Steadman is included, as are Andy Lewis and Alison Patrick, who won European gold in Lisbon in May.
London medals: None
Competition dates: 8-16 September (women), 8-17 September (men)
Venues: Rio Olympic Arena and Carioca Arena 1
Both the GB men's and women's teams will be represented in Rio.
The men's team go in as three-time European championships after completing the hat-trick in Worcester last September and will be hoping to improve on their fourth-placed finish four years ago.
All but one player was part of the European-winning squad with 19-year-old Gregg Warburton the only newcomer for Rio, while Simon Munn will be competing in his seventh Paralympics and Terry Bywater in his fifth Games.
Women's coach Myles Thompson has selected a youthful squad with an average age of 22.5, all of whom represented GB at last year's Europeans where they won a fifth consecutive bronze medal.
Clare Griffiths (nee Strange) will be appearing in her fifth Games while there are seven debutants, including teenagers Katie Morrow (16), Charlotte Moore (17), Joy Haizelden (17) and Leah Evans (19).
Great Britain have named Dimitri Coutya and Piers Gilliver as their fencing team for this summer's Paralympic Games in Rio.
The pair, who won silver medals at the 2015 World Championships, will be making their Paralympic debuts.
London medals: None
Competition dates: 12-16 September
Venue: Youth Arena
London medals: None
Competition dates: 14-17 September
Venue: Carioca Arena 1
Alan Ash, who will be competing at his fifth Games, and Coral Batey, the sole female, have both been included in the 12-strong Great Britain wheelchair rugby squad for Rio as they bid to win a first medal in the sport.
Ash first competed for GB at the 1996 Games in Atlanta but failed to make the team for London 2012.
Jonathan Coggan, Bulbul Hussain, Mike Kerr and Mandip Sehmi all have previous Games experience.
London medals: two (one silver, one bronze)
Competition dates: 9-16 September
Venue: Olympic Tennis Centre
London 2012 medallists Jordanne Whiley, Lucy Shuker and Andy Lapthorne have all been named on the 10-strong Great Britain wheelchair tennis team for the Rio Paralympics.
Whiley and Shuker won women's doubles bronze four years ago while Lapthorne claimed quad doubles silver with the now-retired Peter Norfolk. Jamie Burdekin won bronze with Norfolk in Beijing.
Teenager Alfie Hewett and quad player Antony Cotterill will be making their debuts.
The rotating wire bristles cleared a roughly 5cm-wide patch on an area of ground dubbed "Ekwir 1" by scientists.
Brushing away the dust gives the robot's survey instruments a clearer view of the texture and chemistry of the underlying rock.
Curiosity is building towards using its hammer-drill, the last major tool yet to be deployed on the mission.
This should see action very soon, provided a suitable rock can be identified. The drill will produce a powdered sample that can be put in the robot's on-board laboratories for analysis.
The rover is currently investigating a location in Mars' Gale Crater known as Yellowknife Bay, a small depression several hundred metres from the point where it landed back in August.
It is using its mast-mounted colour cameras and laser spectrometer, together with its arm-held "hand lens" camera and X-ray spectrometer, to try to find the best drill candidate. Scientists need to be sure that when the big hammer tool turns in a rock it breaks the surface into a useable powder that will not clog or damage the sample handling mechanism.
Brushing the surface of rocks with Curiosity's dust removal tool first enables the arm-held hand lens camera and X-ray spectrometer, in particular, to see features that might otherwise be obstructed. This information could be critical in selecting the most suitable rock for drilling.
Explore the Red Planet with Nasa's robot
"We wanted to be sure we had an optimal target for the first use [of the dust removal tool]," said Diana Trujillo from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
"We need to place the instrument within less than half an inch of the target without putting the hardware at risk. We needed a flat target, one that wasn't rough, one that was covered with dust. The results certainly look good."
Curiosity has now spent more than 150 Martian days on the Red Planet.
It is trying to determine whether past environments in Gale Crater might have allowed any microbial life to flourish. Already it has identified rock deposits that were laid down in a streambed billions of years ago.
The 31-year-old Real Madrid superstar carried his country's hopes into the final against hosts France in Paris not only as Portugal's captain but also the player who posed the greatest threat to Didier Deschamps' side.
It looked like all the aspirations of Ronaldo and Portugal would be shattered when he was taken off on a stretcher after 25 minutes following two attempts to battle through a knee injury sustained in a seventh-minute collision with France's West Ham United midfielder Dimitri Payet.
And yet, as this long night at Stade de France ended with an ecstatic Ronaldo lifting the Euro 2016 trophy, his earlier heartbreak will surely have been erased.
He may have only played 25 minutes - but such was the pure theatre of his presence on and off the pitch that this was almost 'The Ronaldo Final'.
Ronaldo's focus was obvious from the moment he walked out into the warm summer sunshine at Stade de France late on Sunday evening.
He closed his eyes as he sang the national anthem with feeling - although even his normally smooth appearance was disrupted during his pre-match routine when he had to bat away several of the moths that invaded the stadium.
He had made a quiet start when the incident that changed his match took place in the 17th minute, Payet getting a touch on the ball before crashing into Ronaldo, catching the Portuguese's left knee with his right knee.
The sight of Ronaldo rolling around while banging the turf did not receive instant or unanimous sympathy given previous histrionics but it quickly became apparent he had sustained a significant problem.
He received lengthy treatment on the pitch and returned to the action, albeit clearly in reduced circumstances. He made one run but not at any pace, waving a hand in the direction of the bench to signal he was struggling.
He came off and went back on again as this player of real physical courage attempted to somehow get through the pain with his knee heavily strapped. It was to no avail as eventually he dropped to the turf once more, one of the thousands of moths swirling around the stadium landing on his face as he waited for the stretcher.
Ronaldo's exit was given a genuinely sympathetic round of applause by France's fans, putting partisanship to one side to share in the disappointment of one of the game's greats being carried away from the biggest international game of his much-decorated career.
Ronaldo's reputation is not that of a selfless personality who puts team before himself - indeed he has often been accused of selfishness and petulance in dealing with his Portugal team-mates.
Euro 2016 has seen him gesturing tetchily at colleagues who have not lived up to his own high standards, but here he took on the role of inspirational leader when it was required.
Ronaldo's stature and influence, even when out of the action, came into play at the end of 90 minutes.
Footage has emerged of him encouraging a reluctant Joao Moutinho to take a penalty in the quarter-final shootout win against Poland, and here he played the role of inspiration at a crucial time.
Ronaldo marched purposefully out of the tunnel and out on to the pitch, walking among Portugal's players urging them to one last effort, one that would end with the greatest moment in their country's football history.
In remarkable scenes in extra time, Ronaldo appeared to virtually assume the role of Portugal coach.
Ronaldo, it seemed, ordered Raphael Guerreiro on to free-kick duties, a move that almost brought a goal as he rattled the woodwork. Portugal's disappointment was short-lived as Eder struck a fine winner seconds later, in the 109th minute.
It was then the Ronaldo show really got into its stride.
As the seconds ticked away and Portugal's great moment came within sight amid unbearable tension for their supporters banked in a corner of the stadium, Ronaldo appeared to appoint himself as, at least, joint manager.
He was offering just as many tactical instructions as Fernando Santos, taking up position alongside him in the technical area and beyond. It came mighty close to undermining the coach's authority but by this stage anyone of a Portuguese persuasion was past caring.
Ronaldo, limping heavily, then indulged in some celebratory bumping into the stone-faced Santos, who was unmoved as he counted down the seconds to the result that guarantees him sporting immortality in Portugal.
While Ronaldo will inevitably claim the headlines and much of the glory, 61-year-old Santos' contribution must not be under-estimated.
He produced an organised, disciplined side of great resilience and spirit. It would have been easy for Portugal to feel sorry for themselves after Ronaldo's injury, fearing the fates were against them once more, but not a bit of it.
If anything, they grew once he went off and were duly rewarded. Santos' side maybe be unspectacular, but he has given them real backbone and deserves huge credit.
Having broken down twice as he tried to shake off the injury and when he realised his efforts were in vain, Ronaldo shed tears for a third time when referee Mark Clattenburg blew the final whistle to signify Portugal were European champions.
His journey up the steps should have been painful given his injury but he looked as though he was floating on air as he lifted the trophy amid jubilant scenes and pyrotechnics.
He was then front and centre of the team photos, lying on the floor posing for pictures before leading the Portugal contingent over to celebrate with their fans, giving the impression the silver trophy might have to be surgically removed from his grasp.
Ronaldo has experienced the full range of sport's emotions in his wonderful career - here he experienced them all in one night.
Ronaldo had a mixed start to Euro 2016, drawing condemnation for criticising Iceland's attitude in their opening 1-1 draw after refusing to exchange shirts with captain Aron Gunnarsson at the final whistle.
Iceland bore no grudges and their football association's official Twitter feed not only offered congratulations to Portugal on their triumph but another account @icelandfootball tweeted when he went off injured: "It doesn't matter what Ronaldo said about Iceland. This is absolutely heartbreaking. We feel so sorry for him. Devastating for this legend."
Ronaldo missed a penalty in the goalless draw with Austria but then kicked into gear.
He scored two brilliant goals in the 3-3 draw with Hungary, helped created Ricardo Quaresma's winner late into extra time in the last-16 win against Croatia, scored in the penalty shootout victory against Poland in the quarter-final then broke the deadlock with a towering header in the 2-0 triumph against Wales that put Portugal in the final.
He is the player Portugal looks to and he has led from the front - even when he only watching from the sidelines in Paris.
Ronaldo can now be ranked with the true greats of the game. He has finally added success in the international arena, with a Euro 2016 win to add to his accolades and honours with Manchester United and Real Madrid.
He has won the Champions League once with Manchester United and twice with Real Madrid and victory in Paris closes a big gap in his achievements and enables him to eclipse, in one context at least, his great rival in La Liga at Barcelona, Lionel Messi.
Messi, who has also won the Champions League three times with Barcelona, has struggled to repeat his club successes with Argentina and the 29-year-old recently announced his retirement from international football after a failed Copa America campaign.
Ronaldo might have pondered his own Portugal future and remained similarly unfulfilled had France won Euro 2016 - now he has remedied that on a night of drama on and off the pitch.
The RPS exhibition has been held 156 times since it began in 1854 and this year attracted nearly 5,000 entries from 1,285 photographers, spread across nearly 60 countries. It truly is a global competition.
That said, the top three spots went to three photographers from Italy. Antonio Busiello won a gold award, Mattia Vacca a silver and the under-30s award was won by Michele Palazzi.
The pictures are judged anonymously by the selectors who this year were commercial and fine art photographer Ray Spence FRPS; Sophie Batterbury, picture editor of The Independent on Sunday; Anthony Holland Parkin, director of editorial content at Getty Images; contemporary portrait photographer Kate Peters; and fine art photographer Bill Jackson.
Here are the winners and a selection of other pictures that were chosen.
The exhibition opens at Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford on 20 July 2013 before moving on to venues around the country. All the selected images can be seen online.
Richard David Curtis, 57, from Bawtry, South Yorkshire, was stopped at the Port of Dover in November 2013.
He failed to attend trial at Maidstone Crown Court in November 2016 and was found guilty of evading more than £1.3m in excise duty.
He was jailed for three years nine months in his absence.
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A total of 5,729,900 cigarettes were found hidden under boxes of chips in Curtis' HGV. He told customs officers in Dover he had spent the weekend in Belgium before collecting the food, and was unaware the lorry contained illicit cigarettes.
A warrant was issued for his arrest after he failed to appear at court.
Curtis has links to Doncaster, the South Yorkshire area and Nottinghamshire.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are appealing for anyone who knows where he is to contact 0800 595 000.
Alan Tully, of the HMRC fraud unit, said: "Richard Curtis gambled with his liberty in a brazen bid to profit from smuggling illicit cigarettes into the UK.
"He lost and now he must face up to his crime and come forward to begin his time behind bars."
Grimsby's first cup tie since returning to the English Football League is away to Derby, while League Two side Blackpool host League One side Bolton.
The ties will be played in the week commencing Monday, 8 August.
Newcastle and Norwich will enter the competition, previously known as the League Cup, in the second round, having finished higher than Villa in 2015-16.
Sheffield Wednesday, who reached the quarter-finals of last season's competition after winning at Newcastle and beating Arsenal 3-0, are away to Cambridge.
The final will take place at Wembley on Sunday, 26 February 2017.
The full draw for the first round of the EFL Cup is as follows:
North Section
Carlisle v Port Vale
Rotherham v Morecambe
Accrington v Bradford
Rochdale v Chesterfield
Mansfield v Blackburn
Barnsley v Northampton
Cambridge v Sheffield Wednesday
Derby v Grimsby
Oldham v Wigan
Scunthorpe v Notts County
Doncaster v Nottingham Forest
Burton v Bury
Fleetwood v Leeds
Sheffield United v Crewe
Shrewsbury v Huddersfield
Preston v Hartlepool
Blackpool v Bolton
South Section
Peterborough v AFC Wimbledon
Bristol Rovers v Cardiff
Coventry v Portsmouth
Luton v Aston Villa
Brighton v Colchester
Cheltenham v Charlton
Birmingham v Oxford
Southend v Gillingham
Wolves v Crawley
Leyton Orient v Fulham
Ipswich v Stevenage
Wycombe v Bristol City
Walsall v Yeovil
Exeter v Brentford
Queens Park Rangers v Swindon
Barnet v Millwall
Reading v Plymouth
Newport v MK Dons
Ospreys and Wales pair Alun Wyn Jones and Rhys Webb are in talks about their dual deals which expire at the end of the season.
Toulon full-back Leigh Halfpenny has been touted for a return to Wales, with Scarlets among his potential suitors.
"There should be good news," Davies told BBC Wales Sport.
"If there's a chance to get players like Leigh Halfpenny or if we have to look to keep players like Alun Wyn Jones in Wales, then we have to consider that seriously.
"I do not want to say too much at the moment but maybe there will be good news over the next few days."
Wales scrum-half Webb is eager to extend his dual contract despite receiving offers from English and French clubs.
His half-back partner at regional and international level, Dan Biggar, became the first Welsh player to renew his dual contract on 4 December.
Wales have 17 dually-contracted players and another of those, Ospreys captain Jones, has said he is "weighing up" his options.
Dual contracts are 60% funded by the WRU and 40% by the regions.
While the WRU is in negotiations to keep its leading players in Wales, its funds are also used to bring players back from foreign clubs.
Wales centre Jonathan Davies is rejoining Scarlets on a dual contract from French side Clermont Auvergne at the end of the season, and he could be joined by Halfpenny.
The 27-year-old joined Toulon on a two-year deal in 2014 and has been linked with a move to Scarlets, Wasps and former club Cardiff Blues.
The 20-year-old, who is yet to make a first-team appearance for the Premier League side, has had previous loan spells with Stockport and Grimsby.
Henderson, 20, spent the first half of last season on loan with League Two side Grimsby Town, where he was signed by Paul Hurst, now the Shrewsbury boss.
He was part of the England squad who won this month's Under-20 World Cup.
"I had a few options but the interest the gaffer has shown in me was massive," said Henderson. "But you've got to show progression and I'm obviously delighted to come here."
He is the fourth Town player signed by Hurst to have played for him before at Grimsby, following defender Aristote Nsiala, and two of his eight signings this summer, striker Lenell John-Lewis and midfielder Jon Nolan.
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The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) initially thought the remains found at a bog in the Republic of Ireland on Thursday were those of Joe Lynskey.
He was abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA in 1972.
There was "surprise", an investigator said, when another body was found.
Two more of the Disappeared, Seamus Wright and Kevin McKee, were believed to have been buried close to the site that was being searched in Coghalstown, County Meath.
The term the Disappeared refers to victims who were murdered and secretly buried by republicans during the Northern Ireland conflict.
Geoff Knupfer, the head of the ICLVR investigation team, said the "assumption" was that the first body discovered was that of Mr Lynskey.
"But as our archaeologists continued to excavate they found further remains in the grave," Mr Knupfer said.
"Because there are two people in the same grave, clearly there's a distinct possibility that what we have here are the remains of Seamus Wright and Kevin McKee.
"But that remains to be seen.
"So, we're just saying that we have two victims in the same grave, which fits the profile of the Wright and McKee abduction and murder," he added.
Mr Knupfer also said that an adjoining plot of land had been searched "some years ago" for the bodies of the two men.
While the remains have not yet been identified, Mr McKee's sister Maria said she was feeling a mixture of emotions after being informed that one of the bodies could that of be her brother.
"It's a happy time, but it's also going to be a sad time," Ms McKee said.
"The sad thing about it is my mummy only missed it by three years. On her deathbed she did ask for Kevin.
"It's unreal, it's surreal to us."
Jon Hill, a senior investigator, said that due to the passage of time there could have been confusion among those who had provided information to the ICLVR on the where bodies of the Disappeared had been buried.
"It's so long ago that this happened and this ground where we're searching has changed dramatically from when these events occurred," he said.
Kevin McKee and Seamus Wright were both IRA members who were abducted and murdered by the organisation in 1972.
Mr Lynskey had been a former Cistercian monk from the Beechmount area of west Belfast, and later joined the IRA.
Once the remains have been recovered, they will be taken to Dublin for examination by the state pathologist.
Mr Hill said it would be "some weeks before the DNA can give some more clarity" as to whose bodies had been uncovered.
Maria Lynskey, a niece of Mr Lynskey, had travelled to the site after the initial discovery.
Anne Morgan, the sister of another of the Disappeared, Seamus Ruddy, has been supporting the Lynskey family.
She said Ms Lynskey had "thought the whole day that it was her uncle" who had been found, but has "come to terms" with indications that now may not be the case.
Excavations had started at the bog in March in a search for Mr Lynskey.
Mr Knupford said that if it transpired that his body was not among those that had been found a search of the site would continue.
The ICLVR was set up by the British and Irish governments in 1999 to liaise with former paramilitaries to find the Disappeared.
Any information provided to the commission cannot be used in criminal proceedings.
Over the past 16 years, the ICLVR has searched for 16 people who were officially listed as the Disappeared.
The remains of 10 of the victims have been recovered and formally identified to date.
The most recent confirmed discovery was that of Brendan Megraw, whose remains were found in Oristown bog, also in County Meath, last October.
The deal with a Birmingham healthcare supplier is worth £250,000 over four years, enough to ensure continued support for GB at international level.
"Just three months ago, it really did look as though Sochi would be the last Olympics for our biathletes," said the British Biathlon Union's Andre Oszmann.
"Now we have a real chance to develop the sport in the UK."
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The financial commitment from Aspen Healthcare Solutions exceeds the £200,000 figure the team had said was necessary for survival beyond next month's Olympics, where Lee Jackson and Amanda Lightfoot will compete for Great Britain.
All but one of the British senior team come from the military. Their continued participation in the sport's top events - World Cups, the World Championships and the Games - had been in jeopardy as the British Army cut its contribution.
"The reality is, unless a sponsor steps in, we won't be able to continue with the sport in Britain," Jackson had said earlier in January, before the deal was announced.
The British Biathlon Union lost its previous sponsor, Skandia, after Vancouver 2010.
"We are already looking forward to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Korea," said BBU chairman Oszmann.
Undercover reporters were offered treatment by one therapist who had been fined thousands of pounds just months earlier.
The General Dental Council has already prosecuted 24 people this year - more than the whole of last year.
But with the popularity of teeth whitening soaring, who is allowed to do it and what are the dangers if you are treated by someone who isn't properly qualified?
Celebrity culture and reality shows such as The Only Way is Essex have made teeth whitening one of the most popular cosmetic treatments in the UK. According to Mintel research, more than a third of adults are considering having it done. It involves bleaching your teeth using a whitening product usually containing hydrogen peroxide.
The British Dental Association (BDA) says whitening is perfectly safe if carried out by a registered dental professional. But the BDA warns anyone else won't have the right training or knowledge and could cause permanent damage to your teeth and gums. For example, if the mouthguard containing the bleaching gel does not fit properly some of it may leak and cause painful chemical burns. In extreme cases, people have been sick after swallowing the bleaching product. The BDA says beauticians aren't properly trained to take a medical history to make sure someone is suitable for teeth whitening.
Under the Dentists Act 1984, it's illegal for anyone other than dentists or dental health professionals such as hygienists to carry out teeth whitening. But we found dozens of beauty therapists across the UK offering the treatment.
One of those is Janet Johnstone who operates out of a salon called Simply Chic in Walkden, Greater Manchester. In January, this year she was ordered to pay £4,450 in fines and costs by magistrates after being found guilty of unlawfully "holding herself out as being prepared to practice dentistry" - namely teeth whitening.
But when I visited the salon last month, she was still offering the procedure for £50. She asked me to fill out a basic medical questionnaire and explained how the treatment would work.
"You have a gum shield in for 13 minutes and you jiggle it around," she said. "Then you stop it and jiggle it around again in your mouth, press start again, and do it for another 13 minutes."
Mrs Johnstone told me I would have to do the treatment myself in the salon, but she would be close by. "I don't actually do it. I'm here with you. Well, I am around it."
She did say if I was unhappy about going ahead I should contact my doctor or dentist.
The General Dental Council (GDC) is adamant that people cannot get round the law by handing customers the equipment to do the treatment themselves.
The GDC said: "The Dentists Act makes it illegal for anyone who is not a dentist to give 'treatment, advice or attendance' that would usually be given by a dentist.
"Handing an individual a tooth-whitening tray and advising them on application, amongst other things, could constitute the giving of 'advice or attendance' and would be illegal."
We also showed our undercover footage to Dr Nigel Carter, chief executive of the British Dental Health Foundation.
While he said he could not comment on individual cases, he told us: "It is concerning to hear that any beautician would provide tooth whitening through a self-prescribed system, take a medical history and provide instructions on how to place the trays and the light.
"A defence of merely offering hire of the treatment room in which a patient can carry out their 'at-home' whitening is an inadequate one. In this case, from the footage we have seen, this was certainly not made clear to the reporters, the implication was that the company in question was providing the treatment.
"Assuming that she is neither medically or dentally trained, we would question her ability to take and interpret a medical history."
Mrs Johnstone told 5 Live Investigates: "Simply Chic offers teeth-whitening kits to be purchased at £50 just like High Street chemists and offers the hire of a treatment room. This is also being done right around the UK by High Street companies. A list of instructions informs the client what to do."
She said her teeth-whitening kits did not contain any hydrogen peroxide and could be used by anyone without the supervision of a dentist.
While only dental professionals can provide a teeth-whitening service, it is perfectly legal for anyone to treat themselves with an over-the-counter kit, provided it contains less than 0.1% hydrogen peroxide. A dentist though can legally use 6% hydrogen peroxide and some home kits do not contain enough whitening product to be effective.
The British Dental Association says the products you can buy online or from High Street shops often fail to declare the precise chemicals used so it is very difficult to assess their safety.
5 Live Investigates was able to buy a teeth-whitening kit from an online retailer in the UK which contained sodium perborate. This chemical is banned for use in cosmetic products by the EU which says it can cause infertility and foetal abnormalities.
Prosecutions against people who carry out illegal teeth whitening are brought by the General Dental Council. Anyone caught before 12 March this year faced a maximum fine of £5,000, but now the fine is unlimited. They may also be ordered to pay other costs including compensation to any victims.
But the BDA feels the courts need to be tougher. It says fines should reflect the profits made and persistent offenders should face imprisonment.
"Some of the fines imposed by the courts are derisory - a few hundred pounds," the BDA told the BBC, "which is doing nothing to stamp out unsafe and illegal tooth whitening. If profits are higher than risks, there is no effective deterrent."
Sources: The British Dental Health Foundation, British Dental Association, General Dental Council and NHS
BBC 5 Live Investigates is broadcast on BBC 5 Live on Sunday 20 September at 11:00 BST.
Developers behind the Circuit of Wales scheme in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, are said to be asking the Welsh and UK governments to commit up to £50m.
Silverstone's MD has written to the prime minister to intervene.
Planning issues have delayed the start of work at the site.
Heads of the Valleys Development Company wants to create 6,000 jobs and bring 750,000 visitors a year to the area as part of its plans but doubts have been raised over the number of jobs claimed.
The development promises to transform one of Wales' most deprived communities.
Alongside the racing circuit, there are plans for hotels, a grandstand, a technology park and a solar park.
But those projects all rely on the racetrack going ahead.
The Circuit of Wales would host all motor racing events except Formula 1.
A spokesperson for Silverstone confirmed on Monday that its managing director Richard Phillips had written to Mr Cameron about funding for the Circuit of Wales.
The letter said: "An injection of funds by the Welsh and/or UK governments to the Circuit of Wales project would amount to a transfer of state resources, which gives Circuit of Wales an economic and selective advantage over other circuits. As such, it could amount to illegal state aid.
"There are a number of well-established, privately funded circuits in the UK, including Wales, that feel that the British motor sport industry would be threatened by the addition of a government-funded circuit."
A statement added: "Silverstone has no objection to competition between UK circuits, but it has to be a level playing field.
"Silverstone reiterates that it is sympathetic to the economic situation in Ebbw Vale, but motor sport at circuit level is not particularly profitable and is often loss-making.
"Many UK circuits are under-utilised and struggle for revenue. It is unrealistic to suggest Circuit of Wales will be the exception."
Downing Street confirmed a letter had been received from Silverstone regarding the Circuit of Wales.
Nick Smith, Labour MP for Blaenau Gwent, said Silverstone had received local and UK government funding, and said its objection "feels a bit like the pot calling the kettle black".
He said potential public funding for the Circuit of Wales "should be treated on its own merits", adding: "What wouldn't be fair would be if assistance for the Circuit of Wales were stymied by the self-interest of a competitor such as Silverstone."
The Association of Motor Racing Circuit Owners, which represents 17 UK race tracks, said last summer the circuit would harm motorsport.
Developers have asked both the Welsh and UK governments for up to £50m in total towards the scheme, it was revealed this month.
BBC Wales understands the Welsh government is considering investing £30m in the project.
The Welsh government told BBC Wales on Monday the Circuit of Wales had not asked it for money.
A spokesperson said: "Apart from an initial grant to fund the early stages of project development there has been no request or offer for any funding support for this project."
Michael Carrick, chief executive of the Heads of the Valleys Development Company, said they were disappointed with the letter's contents, adding: "It sounds like Silverstone is resistant to investment within the automotive sector which is vital to its continued growth and development in the UK.
"The suggestion of 'illegal state aid' made by Silverstone also highlights they do not understand the basic process of applying for state funding of this nature."
He said the Welsh government and the Blaenau Gwent community understood and supported the Circuit of Wales "both as a catalyst for economic growth and as a venue for world-class sporting entertainment".
"The Circuit of Wales is a unique investment opportunity - a development designed to meet the public's expectations of a modern sporting venue and the commercial imperative to deliver a business hub that will sustain and support the British motorsport industry," he added.
A key part of the racing circuit development involves securing the rights to host MotoGP - the motorbike racing equivalent of Formula 1 - which attracts global audiences of up to 300 million.
The company has said it aims to build the circuit in time to host the prestigious event in September 2015 but it is understood no deal has yet been signed.
It was hoped that building work could start on the site last December but there have been delays because of planning issues.
The circuit is being built on 332 hectares (820 acres) of common land so the company has to deregister it, find an equivalent amount of land elsewhere and re-register that as common land.
The Planning Inspectorate for Wales said the process could take almost a year to complete.
She was previously flown from the island to Australia to have an abortion, but was flown back without having had it, a few days later.
Authorities said she changed her mind about the procedure, but the woman, known as Abyan, denied this.
Australia refuses to accept refugees attempting to reach it by boat.
They are kept in camps in Nauru and Papua New Guinea while their claims are processed. Even those found to be genuine refugees are resettled outside Australia.
Abortion is legal but heavily restricted on both Nauru and Papua New Guinea, hence the need for the woman to fly to Australia.
Earlier on Wednesday, the United Nations urged Australia to provide "a decent option" for the woman, who it said was "in a very fragile mental and physical condition". The Australian government says it will provide counselling when she is in the country, though it declined to be specific on when that might be.
Abyan's lawyers said she was returned to Nauru the first time just for wanting counselling and more time to make up her mind, not because she had decided against an abortion. The head of the Australian Human Rights Commission described the case as "extraordinary".
It comes as the Philippines says it will not accept refugees sent by Australia unless they are only there temporarily.
President Benigno Aquino, responding to an Australian proposal to resettle refugees in the country, pointed out that his country was far more populous than Australia and had difficulties providing for its own population.
Australia is one of the world's richest countries, whereas roughly a quarter of the Philippines' approximately 100 million people live in deep poverty.
Mr Aquino also noted that after the Philippines agreed to host Vietnam War refugees temporarily in the 1970s, hundreds of thousands ended up staying for many years.
Australia currently has an multi-million dollar agreement with another developing nation, Cambodia, to resettle refugees there. But so far only four have made the move, despite offers of cash and free accommodation.
The Local Government Association says councils are now providing temporary housing for 120,540 children with their families.
It says the growth rate - equivalent to an extra secondary school's worth of children per month - is unsustainable.
The government said the figures were a worry but still below the peak of 2006.
Based on the latest figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government from March 2017, the figures show a net increase of 32,650 (37%) since the second quarter of 2014 - an average of 906 extra children every month - just 40 fewer than the number of pupils in the average secondary school.
Councils say the net cost of providing temporary accommodation has tripled in the last three years, as the extra demand for places increases pressure on local government.
And the LGA, which represents 350 councils in England, says councils need to be able to build more genuinely affordable homes and provide the support that reduces the risk of homelessness in the first place.
This means councils being able to borrow to build and to keep 100% of the receipts of any home they sell to reinvest in new and existing housing.
Council leaders are also calling for an adaption to the implementation of welfare reforms to reduce the risk of homelessness and for access to funding to provide settled accommodation for families that become homeless.
Councillor Martin Tett, the association's housing spokesman, said: "Whilst the government's indication [that] it will explore ways to enable councils to build more homes is encouraging, these new homes can't appear overnight, and the demand is urgent.
"Councils are working hard to tackle homelessness, with some truly innovative work around the country - and we now need the government to support this local effort by allowing councils to invest in building genuinely affordable homes and taking steps to adapt welfare reforms to ensure housing remains affordable for low-income families."
The LGA sets out the lengths that councils are going to in order to tackle homelessness in their area in a new report.
Examples include innovative modular housing, dynamic purchasing systems and offers of housing in private rented sector.
A DCMG spokesman said: "We're clear that whilst temporary accommodation is vital in making sure that no family is without a roof over their head, councils have a responsibility to find secure good quality accommodation as quickly as possible.
"This government is determined to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping - that's why we're investing £550m to help tackle the issue."
Dozens of tyres and pallets have been left in the middle of the recently opened pathway in the Connswater district of east Belfast.
The pathway forms part of the £40m Connswater Community Greenway project.
The council said bonfire issues were "complex" and it was working with communities to address the matter.
The greenway project includes a number of new bridges, cycle paths and walking routes.
It also features a new civic square with sculptures of characters from Narnia - in tribute to author CS Lewis who grew up in the area.
On Wednesday, about 500 people attended the official opening of a new greenway bridge, dedicated to Z Cars actor, James Ellis.
The investment was aimed at improving the urban environment by creating open public spaces and cleaning up rubbish from neglected riverbanks.
For weeks, complaints have been lodged with the council about the discarded tyres and pallets.
Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) councillor John Kyle told the BBC's Evening Extra programme the stockpiling was "unacceptable" and unwanted by local residents.
"We've seen tremendous improvement and enhancements in the Connswater Community Greenway over the past three or four years, people are very proud of what has taken place," he said.
The councillor added talks were ongoing to try to get the materials taken away.
"The community want to see them removed, the council wants to see them removed, but it's always best done working with the bonfire builders."
Mr Kyle added that youths had built bonfires for "generations" in Northern Ireland and suggested that dedicated areas should be set aside for the practice.
"We need to, I think, create cultural spaces where young people and communities can build their bonfires and celebrate.
"Areas that are appropriate, that are suitable, that can be reused year after year, that are sustainable.
"That, I think is what our goal is - that we aren't destroying public property, we aren't destroying the infrastructure that everyone else enjoys for the rest of the year."
Alliance councillor David Armitage told BBC Newsline the council had held meetings and consultations about the issue and he was "hopeful" of progress.
A coalition of governments and charities has committed $460m to speed up vaccine development for Mers, Lassa fever and Nipah virus.
They are asking funders at the World Economic Forum Davos for another $500m.
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (Cepi) aims to have two new experimental vaccines ready for each disease within five years.
New vaccines usually take about a decade to develop and cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa, closely followed by the Zika epidemic in Latin America, exposed just how "tragically unprepared" the world is for new outbreaks.
Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, one of the founding members of Cepi, said: "Before the 2014 outbreak we only had very small Ebola epidemics that were in isolated communities that we were able to control.
"But in the modern world with urbanisation and travel, 21st Century epidemics could start in a big city and then take off the way Ebola did in West Africa.
"We have to be much better prepared."
Ebola killed more than 11,000 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
The arrival of the Zika virus in Brazil in 2015 has left thousands of children brain-damaged.
During both outbreaks, there were no treatments or vaccines to prevent people getting sick.
Scientists scrambled to resurrect research on these obscure diseases.
Effective vaccines were eventually developed during the Ebola outbreak, but only as it started to wane.
Nevertheless, governments, scientists and regulators all came together with unprecedented speed, and managed to expedite the notoriously complex development and regulatory processes.
Cepi wants to continue that momentum and develop vaccines for other viruses so that by the time an outbreak hits, experimental vaccines are ready to be sent to affected areas for large human trials that can establish how effective the vaccine is.
Lassa, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) and Nipah virus are "top of the list" of 10 priority diseases that the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified as potentially causing the next major outbreak.
Dr Marie-Paule Kieny, assistant director-general of the WHO, said: "Besides the known threats - such as Ebola and others - there are also all those viruses that are known but are thought to be very benign.
"They could mutate and become more dangerous for humans.
"Then there are the things that are completely unknown to us at the moment," said Dr Kieny.
The lottery of viruses that could hit us next makes it very difficult to plan for the future.
Pharmaceutical companies aren't lining up to invest in these little-known viruses because there is no commercial market for them.
However, some have come on board with this new alliance, including GSK and Johnson and Johnson.
"We've got lucky so far," said Jeremy Farrar, because recent outbreaks haven't become airborne.
But he said a far more contagious version of an Ebola like virus could emerge.
"I could cough it over you today and you could cough it over someone tomorrow and it could spread very quickly.
"That puts the world in a very vulnerable place."
Ted McDermott, 79 - also known online as The Songaminute Man - was diagnosed with dementia in 2013 after decades of entertaining in pubs and clubs.
He was filmed by his son singing Quando, Quando, Quando in the car as they drove around Blackburn in May.
The videos have now been watched by thousands around the world on YouTube.
"It's gone crazy," his son Simon McDermott, 40, said.
"The song Quando, Quando, Quando has been really popular. People love it. We have a link on it to our fund-raising page.
"We've nearly raised £30,000 for the Alzheimer's Society now."
The Carpool Karaoke craze originated with James Corden's Late Late Show in the United States, which features stars such as Adele and Michelle Obama singing along with Corden in a car.
"We've had messages from people all over the world saying the videos have brought them so much joy," added Mr McDermott.
"I'm hoping to put some more videos up. I'd love to get him singing with a band, he'd really love that.
"My dad's been a singer all his life and entertainer all his life singing in cubs across the North West.
"He's 80 on Sunday and he is the eldest of 14, so we had a big party for him.
"He's a real character and he loves singing. He's got a good voice."
Ministers intend to allow housing association tenants in England to buy their homes at a discount.
But the plans have been criticised by rural housing groups, who say they will further restrict the already scarce supply of affordable homes.
The government says it is listening to the concerns of campaigners.
Exact details of the scheme will be announced in the autumn.
The founder of the Glastonbury Festival, farmer Michael Eavis, told BBC News the plans were "absolutely dreadful."
Mr Eavis has donated several acres of land over the past two decades to allow a housing association to build 22 affordable homes near the festival's site in the village of Pilton in Somerset.
"It would be absolutely fatal for this village. They'd be sold off in no time so they'd go to people who come in from outside."
And Michael Eavis says he wouldn't donate any more land if right to buy was extended to villages like Pilton. "It defeats the whole object of the exercise, which is to provide low cost housing to local people."
Extending right to buy to housing association tenants was a key commitment in the Conservative manifesto.
The scheme would allow tenants to buy their homes at a discount, which would be financed by councils being forced to sell their high value homes when they become available. The government says each house sold will be replaced on a one for one basis.
Social housing makes up just 12% of rural properties, according to the Rural Policy Housing Review, 7% less than in urban areas. Rural house prices are also, on average, 26% higher than in urban areas as competition from commuters, retirees and second home owners push up prices, according to a survey by the Halifax in November 2014.
Housing associations often rely on local farmers being willing to donate land or sell it below market rates in order to build homes.
Ed Buscall, a farmer in Saham Toney, Norfolk was approached by Hastoe Housing Association and the local parish council a few years ago.
"They came to me and said the village school was under threat and that locals were finding it increasingly difficult to find houses here because of people retiring from London and pushing up prices."
The arable farmer sold the land cheaply and the housing association built eight homes, but like Michael Eavis, he wouldn't do it again under the government's plans.
"I wouldn't have sold the piece of land if I knew that in a few years time people could just sell it on to anybody."
One of the houses built on Mr Buscall's land is now occupied by Sarah Green, her husband and 2 daughters. A teaching assistant in the local school, she found it difficult to find a house in Saham Toney - buying a property in the village is not an option, she says, as prices are too expensive.
Ms Green is in theory the sort of tenant right to buy is aimed at helping. But she's not interested. "I don't think it's my right to have one of these houses. Where is everyone else going to go? And the younger generations coming into the village? Well, they won't be able to will they, as there won't be any homes like this."
Around 465,000 council houses have been sold in rural England since right to buy was introduced for council housing tenants in the 1980s, according to the National Housing Federation. Coupled with transfers of stock to housing associations, it means that 65% of rural local authorities don't own any housing stock.
Campaigners wonder therefore who'll compensate rural housing associations forced to sell their homes. The government say they're still consulting on the details but the housing minister, Brandon Lewis, strongly hinted to BBC News that urban councils will help fund rural sales.
"The government will fund that discount using high value sales," said Mr Lewis.
"Central government will ensure that housing associations are able to do 1:1 funding. We will make sure we support the discounts that housing associations will give, ensuring people can buy a home of their own. We will outline the details when we publish the housing bill in the autumn."
The smallest rural areas are already exempt from existing right to buy legislation - and the government is considering extending those restrictions.
But that might not be enough for rural campaigners, who fear that some villages will be overrun by second home owners and retirees snapping up former housing association properties as they come onto the market.
But that is not the way his widow, Marina, and son, Anatoly, 21, want to remember him.
The photos they spread across a kitchen table tell the story of Mr Litvinenko's life, not his death.
There is a picture of him aged 17 in military uniform. He became part of the security apparatus - what was the KGB and, after the end of the Soviet Union, the FSB.
Another picture shows him sitting astride a tank - a man who fought for his country.
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But there is also an image from a press conference in which he spoke out about corruption in the FSB.
He went to see the FSB's newly-appointed director to complain, hoping he would act. But, instead, Mr Litvinenko was cast out. The director's name was Vladimir Putin.
Alongside the pictures of his work, are those of his personal life - holding his newborn son, teaching Anatoly to swim on his back, and playing with him on a sofa. Anatoly looks away from these.
"I try not to think too much about my early childhood," he says. "It is easier that way."
Soon after speaking out over corruption, Mr Litvinenko made the decision to flee Russia for his and his family's safety.
He arrived in London and eventually became a British citizen, in 2006.
Within weeks of that event, he would be poisoned.
The 10-year journey to the inquiry - which found that his murder was "probably" approved by President Putin - was tortuous.
An inquest began but then hit a brick wall when the government said much of the information it held was classified and could not be revealed in public.
The only solution, said Sir Robert Owen, the judge sitting as coroner, was to hold a public inquiry.
The government resisted that option, but Marina Litvinenko continued to fight through the courts.
Eventually, the Home Office relented, a decision many saw as the result of a downturn in relations with Russia.
Anatoly had little understanding of his father's work when he was a child, and it was only the inquiry that helped him understand the extent to which Mr Litvinenko had remained involved in the world of security and intelligence.
This included working for Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, MI6.
The inquiry revealed how Mr Litvinenko was receiving regular payments for consultancy work and had a case officer - known as Martin - he met regularly.
The details of the poisoning itself have long been known, although fresh information did emerge which linked Andrei Lugovoi and Dimitri Kovtun to multiple attempts to kill Mr Litvinenko.
Those two men have denied any role and Russia says it cannot extradite them to face charges.
One key conclusion that Sir Robert announced in his report following the inquiry was that there was "undoubtedly" a personal animosity between Mr Putin and Mr Litvinenko.
Mr Litvinenko's friend Alex Goldfarb says: "They disliked each other immensely, because Litvinenko complained about corruption… and Putin shelved his report,"
"And Putin considered Litvinenko, after the fact, a traitor for going public with his allegations."
However, the specific trigger for the killing remains a subject of speculation.
Mr Litvinenko had been vociferous and outspoken in his accusations about the Kremlin from London - co-writing a book accusing the Russian security services of bombing Moscow apartments to justify a war in Chechnya.
But it may well have been his work investigating specific individuals in the Kremlin and their ties to the mafia that prompted his killing.
He had already helped Spanish prosecutors arrest a number of individuals and was due to travel out to give further evidence when he was poisoned.
One of the people he had told about that work, and was due to travel to Spain with, was Andrei Lugovoi.
The issue of state responsibility has ramifications beyond the Litvinenko case.
An inquest is due to start in Surrey in the coming months into the death of Alexander Perepilichnyy.
He had come to Britain with information of corruption inside the Russian state.
It is not yet clear whether he was murdered, but Bill Browder, whose own lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was killed in Russia, believes he was.
"Anything that potentially exposes money that the government crime figures are collecting puts the person who exposes that money at a risk of being killed," Mr Browder says.
He says not enough has been done in the wake of the Litvinenko killing.
"If the Russian government sends assassins to the United Kingdom to kill people and there are no consequences, it basically gives them a green light to keep on killing people," he says.
Mr Browder says the UK and EU should "at a minimum" impose individual sanctions such as asset freezes and travel bans on people in the Russian government shown to have any responsibility for the Litvinenko killing.
British diplomats involved in the Litvinenko case accept the measures taken at the time may not have been strong enough to deter Russia (these included the expulsion of diplomats and the suspension of intelligence cooperation, which was of relatively small importance anyway).
But the signs are the British state may not be keen at this moment to further escalate tensions with Russia, particularly because of Moscow's role in the Middle East and the Syria crisis.
Marina and Anatoly Litvinenko are aware the political context around the inquiry has changed and may shape the response.
They also recognise the report may be a milestone but might not not end their struggle.
"It is important, but it is not necessarily the end," says Marina.
And Anatoly says: "I feel a sense of duty.
"My father did a hell of a lot to get me to this country to make sure I was safe.
"I need to respect that and do whatever I can to honour his memory.
"Finding the truth is the closest we can get to justice for my father."
The midfielder, 24, tested positive for Benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, after the club's match against Hartlepool United on 22 November.
He admitted breaking anti-doping rules.
The suspension, which followed an Independent Regulatory Commission Hearing, is effective from 15 December 2016 to 14 February 2018.
Lacey, who joined Accrington in July 2016, made 17 appearances in 2016-17 but has not played since 10 December having been immediately suspended by the Lancashire club pending the outcome of the disciplinary action.
"Accrington Stanley has strong values on anyone taking any prohibited substances and will always act in the strongest possible way to protect the integrity of the football club," read a club statement.
Homeless charity Crisis said of 458 street sleepers it interviewed in England and Wales, 80% had suffered an attack or abuse in 2016.
More than half said they did not report crimes, as many believed that the police would not be able to help them.
The government has promised to support a bill aimed at tackling homelessness.
Crisis chief executive Jon Sparkes said the report exposed a "horrifying state of affairs".
"We knew it was dangerous on the streets already but the very scale of it is quite shocking," he told BBC News.
He said crimes like urinating on a person, which affected 7% of those surveyed, were "appalling and dehumanising" but that victims often felt too ashamed to go to the police.
Gary, who has slept rough in Yorkshire, told Crisis he feared gangs of youths who would roam the streets in the early hours.
"Anyone sleeping in the shop door was done," he said. "They used to brick them or worse still - a couple of lads that were sleeping on the streets with me got knifed while they were asleep."
Being homeless was the only reason Simon, also interviewed by Crisis, was kicked in the head by a member of the public this year.
"He said, 'Are you homeless?' I said, 'Yeah' and he just kicked me in the head. I was sat on the floor reading my book."
Many of those interviewed said they had become reclusive in order to avoid violence.
Dan, from south-west England, said: "I stay by myself quite a lot. I don't want to get involved.
"It doesn't really do me any good mentally because I'm on my own, but I do find it's safer."
Six per cent of the street sleepers surveyed said they had been sexually assaulted in the past year.
"Police need to reassure homeless people their safety is paramount and they will investigate these crimes," Mr Sparkes said.
More than 250,000 people in England are homeless, according to charity Shelter.
On any one night in England last year, an average of 3,569 people slept rough, according to government figures, a 30% increase on the previous year.
Recent estimates suggest there are some 8,000 homeless people in Wales,15,000 in Northern Ireland and 35,000 in Scotland.
Crisis expects to take in 4,000 people over the festive period at its Christmas centres in London, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Coventry and Birmingham.
Volunteers provide hot meals, healthcare and advice on how to access housing, work and benefits.
But Mr Sparkes called on the government to do more to prevent people from losing their homes in the first place.
In January, the Homelessness Reduction Bill will be examined in detail by a House of Commons committee.
Bob Blackman MP, who introduced the bill, has said he hopes it will give people longer to seek help from their local authority.
He proposes councils intervene when someone is facing homelessness within 56 days' time, instead of 28 days as now.
The continued strength of the pound can, in some instances, result in savings on the same items bought in euros in the Republic of Ireland.
Dundalk retailer Gerard McEvoy said: "It is a nice change to see them coming down.
"There is a big difference, especially on Saturdays."
BBC Newsline carried out a price comparison of sample products selected at random.
The programme found that the identical bottle of perfume at £68 in Newry is available at £4 cheaper in Dundalk.
A leading brand's tablet computer, priced at £319 in Northern Ireland, is for sale in the Republic of Ireland at £25 less, once converted from euros.
Recent research by the Automobile Association (AA) suggested that only 7% of southern shoppers intended going north for Christmas purchases - its lowest level since 2008.
That is not great news for places like Newry, County Down.
The manager of Newry's Buttercrane shopping centre, Peter Murray, said: "At the minute we are under the cosh [in respect of currency] but seven or eight years ago we were the beneficiaries."
"We just get on with it."
While numbers are lower than years gone by, Mr Murray said that about 12% of the centre's visitors still travel from the Republic of Ireland.
Retailers have already battled hard to survive the recession.
Now border traders in Northern Ireland face another challenge to ensure Christmas delivers the bumper payday that shops bank on.
The Canadian played in 352 games during six years as a Giants player and was a favourite with the fans and team-mates.
"I know what the supporters and this city expects with regards to trophies," said Keefe.
"I also know what is expected of me and I look forward to the challenge, I would not have it any other way."
He added: "An Adam Keefe team competes hard every single night. It's not easy to win in this league and a consistent work ethic will carry us through.
"I'm a big believer in relentless puck pursuit with fast physical hockey. Years ago our arena was known as a tough place to come into, teams knew they were going to pay the price when they came here with a hard fought game.
"I'd like to bring that back and make it tough for teams to come in here and win hockey games."
Keefe's appointment comes a month after Walser departed when his contract was not extended.
The 33-year-old posted 56 goals, 78 assists, 134 points and 1,082 penalty minutes as a Belfast forward and captained the Elite League team from the 2012/13 season.
Keefe carried out the role of player/assistant coach for the last two seasons.
"I am delighted that Adam accepted the position of head coach," said Steve Thornton, head of hockey operations.
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"Adam understands what it means to be a Giant, what the Giants mean to the community and he is one of the best leaders that I have seen.
"Coaching is in his bloodlines, this is something that he has been prepping for and he knows what it takes to win in this league which will help him with the transition.
"We are confident that we have found the right man for the job."
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It touched 1.2798 against the dollar on Wednesday, a 31-year low, before recovering slightly to $1.2963.
The pound has now fallen about 14% against the dollar since hitting $1.50 ahead of the referendum result.
US government bond yields also fell to record lows as investors rushed to put money in perceived havens.
The falls follow decisions by fund managers, including Standard Life and Aviva, to stop investors withdrawing money from their UK property funds.
They said the high levels of uncertainty caused by the referendum had led to investors rushing to pull their money out.
Investor confidence was further undermined by the Bank of England's warning on Tuesday that there was evidence some of the risks it identified related to Brexit were already emerging.
Disappointing data on the UK services sector and a decline in US factory orders also fuelled pessimism.
Financial markets were shaken by the Brexit vote two weeks ago, with trillions of dollars lost from global equity markets and currencies like the pound suffered steep falls.
They have since recovered some ground on speculation central banks will ramp up stimulus measures to stabilise the markets.
However, investors now face more uncertainty after UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who campaigned for the UK to stay in the EU announced his resignation, leading to a sharply contested ballot to replace him as leader of the Conservative Party and PM.
As a result, there has been a rush to buy up government debt, another haven investment, from certain countries.
This includes 10-year US, UK, Swiss and German bonds which have seen their yields at or near their lowest on record.
Yields on Australian and Japanese government bonds have also hit record lows.
High demand tends to push up bond prices, and when the price of bonds rises their yield falls.
The renewed Brexit concerns hit Asian stock markets. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 share index closed 1.85% lower at 15,378.99, but it had been more than 3% lower at one point during the day.
The broader Topix index shed 1.8% to 1,234.20 as the yen, another haven investment, strengthened against the US dollar.
South Korea's Kospi index fell 1.9% to close at 1,953.12 and its currency the won extended losses to a one-week low.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 shares index lost 0.6% to shut at 5,197.50.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index closed down 1.2% at 20,495.29, although the Shanghai Composite finished the day up 0.4% at 3,017.29.
Stock markets in Indonesia, India, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines are closed for holidays.
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Healthcare Inspectorate Wales has just published its findings after inspecting the Heddfan Unit in April.
They said there was significant scope for improvement.
Bosses at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said they have already addressed a number of the recommendations.
The publication of the report comes after allegations were made about two mental health wards run by the health board, including the Gwanwyn ward, which is part of the Heddfan Unit.
Inspectors noted good team working on the Heddfan Unit's wards, with strong leadership and supportive management and that patients were generally complimentary about the staff.
But the report also noted some dirty utility rooms which were being used to store sterile equipment, and that some health and safety checks were not being carried out correctly.
It also said bed occupancy levels required effective monitoring to ensure patient numbers did not exceed the number of beds.
Prof Mathew Makin, health board executive medical director, said: "The majority of actions have now been completed to address the issues raised."
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About 385 children and adults gathered at Cardiff's Principality Stadium on Saturday to raise awareness of bereavement charity 2 Wish Upon A Star.
Founder Rhian Burke thanked those who took part, saying their effort would "never be forgotten".
The record was confirmed by Guinness World Records.
Mrs Burke set up the charity following the sudden deaths of her son George and husband Paul in 2012.
She said they chose the elephant mascot because child bereavement was often like the "elephant in the room" and was something people were often afraid to discuss.
2 Wish Upon A Star works with 14 of the 15 emergency units across Wales and has supported over 50 families in the last 12 months.
Ofcom said from 2011 to 2014, the firm did not provide its customers with full information about their right to take complaints to an independent body.
EE should have informed customers about this in writing, but did not, it found.
The investigation into EE is part of Ofcom's wider look at complaints handling by telecoms companies.
EE stressed that the fine related to historic conduct.
"While this in no way excuses it, it is important to note that we identified issues in our complaints handling and began our programme to tackle these problems head-on in 2013, before Ofcom started their investigation," a spokesperson for the company said.
"We have made considerable improvements since then. Ofcom's current figures highlight that complaints into Ofcom about EE have fallen by 50% in the past year."
Ofcom point that the 50% figure relates solely to complaints about mobile services, but that complaints about EE broadband and landlines services have actually risen by 50% and 30% respectively.
EE customers have the right to take complaints that cannot be resolved to an independent body after two months have elapsed from the time of the original complaint or after an official "deadlock" letter has been received.
Between 22 July 2011 and 8 April 2014, Ofcom found that a number of customers who had requested a "deadlock letter" as a precursor to referring their complaint to the independent body never received such a letter.
It also found that EE did not notify some customers on their paper bills that they could refer any complaint to this body free of charge.
"It's vital that customers can access all the information they need when they're pursuing a complaint," said Ofcom's Claudio Pollack.
"Ofcom imposes strict rules on how providers must handle complaints and treats any breach of these rules very seriously. The fine imposed against EE takes account of the serious failings that occurred in the company's complaints handling, and the extended period over which these took place."
The regulator said EE had 20 days to pay the penalty, which would then be passed on the UK Treasury.
Labour peer Lord Brooke said its use was spreading on a "wide scale" in the US despite being banned by some states.
Powdered alcohol, he argued, could be "snorted" or "baked into cakes" or added to confectionery, making it easier for minors to consume it.
Home Office minister Lord Bates said the government was aware of the issue and was considering how to address it.
Lord Brooke was speaking as peers discussed the government's Psychoactive Substances Bill, which will criminalise the production, supply and trade in psychoactive substances and carry a maximum prison sentence of seven years.
Legitimate substances, such as food, alcohol, tobacco, nicotine, caffeine and medical products, would be excluded from the legislation but Lord Brooke said powdered alcohol posed a particular risk and urged ministers to act now.
Although not available in the UK, he warned that "as night follows day" powdered alcohol, which can be mixed with water to make a standard flavoured drink, will eventually come to the UK through the internet.
Leading powdered alcohol brand Palcohol was approved for sale by US regulators earlier this year.
Its manufacturer, US firm Lipsmark, has criticised efforts by certain US states to ban it in advance of it going on the market, arguing that it is "legal, safe and revolutionary" and will reduce carbon emissions by "being so much lighter to ship than liquid alcohol".
It was recently banned in the Australian state of Victoria but the Australian government has rejected calls for a federal-wide ban.
The prehistory park at Oyne, near Insch, was shut down in 2011.
Attempts to find a new backer have ended in failure.
It opened in 1997 but cost more than £100,000 a year in annual subsidies.
Aberdeenshire Council has agreed to put the former museum and a large amount of open space on the open market.
Councillor Fergus Hood, chairman of the Garioch area committee, said: "Archaeolink has served its use as a tourist facility and, having considered a range of options since its closure, it is felt offering the site for sale is the most sensible way forward.
"As well as the museum structure itself, the site boasts a substantial amount of open space and we hope it will attract significant interest."
Prosecutors said Karen "Gary" Kazaryan, 27, had hacked into hundreds of Facebook, Skype and email accounts to obtain naked or semi-naked pictures.
It is alleged he threatened to post the nude images of victims publicly unless they removed their clothing on camera.
If convicted, he could receive a maximum jail sentence of 105 years.
A press statement from the US Department of Justice detailed the charges against Mr Kazaryan, of Glendale, California.
Mr Kazaryan is said to have gained unauthorised access to hundreds of women's accounts, changing their passwords to prevent them from getting access.
"Once he controlled the accounts, Kazaryan searched emails or other files for naked or semi-naked pictures of the victims, as well as other information, such as passwords and the names of their friends," the statement said.
"Using that information, Kazaryan posed online as women, sent instant messages to their friends, and persuaded the friends to remove their clothing so that he could view and take pictures of them."
US authorities said they had found about 3,000 pictures of nude or semi-nude women on Mr Kazaryan's computer.
Some of the images had been taken from online accounts, while others had been captured by Mr Kazaryan himself on Skype, they alleged.
"When the victims discovered that they were not speaking with their friends, Kazaryan often extorted them again, using the photos he had fraudulently obtained to again coerce the victims to remove their clothing on camera," the statement said.
The FBI said on some occasions Mr Kazaryan had gone through with his threat to publish the sensitive images.
He now faces 30 charges - 15 counts of computer intrusion, and 15 counts of aggravated identity theft.
The FBI described the alleged blackmail as "sextortion".
In recent years, hackers have concocted ever more devious ways to coerce victims, or to spy on them unawares.
Writing in the Naked Security blog, Sophos researcher Graham Cluley recounted prior incidents.
In 2011, a Southern Californian man was sentenced to six years in prison for hacking into more than 100 computers - often posing as targets' boyfriends in order to obtain pictures.
Luis Mijangos, 32, said: "To all the victims I want to say that I'm sorry. I'm ready to do the right thing and stay out of trouble."
In July last year, Trevor Harwell, 21, was given a year-long jail sentence for setting up a ruse in which he convinced women that they needed to "steam" their webcams in order to fix a fault.
The easiest way to do this, Mr Harwell's "error" message explained, was by setting up the webcam near a shower.
The impact of drugs such as as Spice and Black Mamba was "unlike anything" prison staff had seen, chief inspector Peter Clarke told the Guardian.
He said "clear strategies" were needed to tackle drug supply behind bars.
Synthetic cannabis has similar effects on the brain as herbal cannabis but can be much more potent, experts say.
The government's Psychoactive Substances Act was due to become law last month, to clamp down on the production, distribution and sale of legal highs, but its introduction was postponed.
Synthetic cannabis is banned in prisons.
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However, Mr Clarke - who became chief inspector earlier this year - said the presence of psychoactive substances in prisons had "given rise to debt, bullying and violence".
He said their impact had been "devastating", adding: "They are destabilising some prisons, making it difficult for normal prison life to continue."
Synthetic cannabis is either sprayed on dried, shredded plant material and smoked, or sold as liquids to be vaporized and inhaled.
Figures from RAPt (Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust) have reported a seven-fold increase in the number of people seeking help with new psychoactive substances (NPS).
Meanwhile, the government has said there were 120 deaths involving NPS in England, Scotland and Wales in 2013.
A report by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO), published in July, found legal highs were a factor in at least 19 prisoner deaths nationwide between 2012 and 2014.
In September, the Prison Officers' Association (POA) wrote to the chief coroner for England and Wales asking for an investigation into links between prisoner deaths and so-called legal highs.
England's final two wickets lasted barely four overs and added only 12 runs as they were all out for 240, leaving the hosts with a target of 286.
Imrul Kayes struck 43 and Mushfiqur Rahim (39) put on 87 with debutant Sabbir Rahman as they raced to 227-5.
Gareth Batty took 3-65 but Sabbir, dropped on 34, remains unbeaten on 59.
Bangladesh have won only seven of their previous 93 Tests, losing all eight matches against England to date.
Their only victories have come against Zimbabwe and an under-strength West Indies.
Bangladesh have scored more than 286 in the fourth innings on three previous occasions against England but have lost each time.
England should have ensured their target was over 300, but there was a needless run-out in the second over of the day when Stuart Broad was well short of his ground attempting an injudicious single to gully.
Kayes was immediately keen to attack when England opened with their two off-spinners, 39-year-old Batty in his first Test since 2005, and Moeen Ali, the man who took three wickets in the first innings.
But the fact the Tigers still have a golden opportunity to record a momentous win is down to the 163-ball sixth-wicket partnership between their defiant, astute captain and the counter-attacking of 24-year-old Sabbir.
The spirited Batty claimed lbws in consecutive overs, both after reviews from either team, and the wicket of Shakib Al Hasan, after one enormous six in his 24, appeared to have put England in command with 146 needed from the final five wickets.
But 24-year-old Sabbir clobbered Moeen for two sixes on both sides of the wicket and rattled up 23 from his first 20 balls.
He survived a difficult low chance down the leg-side to Jonny Bairstow off Broad with 83 needed but the fervent home support was silenced when captain Mushfiqur departed 59 short of the winning post, as Batty got one to spit up at him and take the glove, another example of the wearing surface.
Broad then produced a spirited spell, with seam often favoured over spin as the Tigers attacked, the 30 overs from the England quicker bowlers conceding only 51 runs.
Broad claimed wickets in consecutive overs to put England in sight of victory but number 10 Taijul Islam edged Batty through the hands of Ben Stokes only yards away from the bat in the gully as both teams felt the tension under the floodlights.
The one conclusion nobody was expecting was the umpires taking the players off for bad light 12 minutes earlier than the previous evening had finished.
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew:
Broad produced some brutal balls. He really fired himself up on a very hot day. It has been an outstanding game and I think Bangladesh were right in their approach.
At times it looked a little reckless but it put pressure on England's spinners. To load pressure on them was the right tactic.
Former England women's batter Ebony Rainford-Brent:
For Bangladesh it's hard to come back and find that form especially Sabbir, who has been in the zone and concentrating all day.
What a fantastic day of cricket. Broad, picking up those two wickets at the end, has changed the shape of the game.
For the bowlers it's better to go back, get a bit of rest and come back fired up in the morning.
Final day commentary from 04:45 BST on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra
James "Geordie" Chance, from Northern Ireland, was killed when the bus carrying 34 Brentwood School pupils crashed on a motorway on Sunday.
Two boys remain in hospital in Belgium. One of them, aged 13, is in intensive care with a head injury.
Several pupils travelled back to the UK late on Sunday night on a coach arranged by the school.
"The coach returning the remaining pupils and staff has just arrived at school safely," tweeted Brentwood School head Ian Davies.
"Thoughts and prayers still with two pupils in hospital," he added.
The Belgian authorities are working to establish details of the accident, which happened on the A18 (E40) at Middelkerke, West Flanders. Eyewitnesses said the bus crashed into a motorway bridge pillar.
One of the injured boys, 12, is being treated for a broken leg at a hospital in Bruges.
Other students, a number of whom were treated for cuts, bruising and swelling, were picked up by their parents who travelled to Belgium.
Mr Chance was believed to have been sitting in the coach's courier seat when the vehicle crashed at 09:45 local time (08:45 BST).
The BBC has been told he was a grandfather of five.
It is understood a second man from Northern Ireland was seriously injured.
They were also charged with facilitating the trafficking of arms and drugs and associating with criminals in El Rodeo jail.
The riot at the jail, outside Caracas, began after a fight between rival inmate gangs of prisoners.
National Guards were then sent to search the jail for drugs and guns.
But one group of heavily armed prisoners refused to surrender, leading to a stand-off which went on for almost a month.
The former governor of one half of the El Rodeo prison was arrested alongside the deputy governor of the other section of the jail and a captain of the National Guard who worked at the prison in late June.
In a statement, the public prosecutors' office said the three had been charged with corruption and have been remanded in custody to await trial.
In response to the events at El Rodeo, President Hugo Chavez created a new prisons ministry, which recently announced plans to release almost half the country's inmates in order to ease overcrowding.
Venezuela's prisons house more than twice the number of inmates they were originally designed for and violence amongst prisoners is commonplace.
7 March 2016 Last updated at 08:31 GMT
Thrill-seeking dogs and their owners opened the global surfing event at the weekend.
The festival also has competitions for children, people aged 70 years and above, and lots of different styles of surfing including, longboard, shortboard, finless, stand-up paddle boards and body surfing.
Organisers say dog-boarding helps strengthen the bond between humans and their pets.
Let's hope the waves weren't too 'woof'!
Sir Jeremy Heywood rejected claims he had "washed his hands" of the inquiry, which has been going nearly six years, telling MPs he had offered Sir John Chilcot help at a recent meeting.
But he told MPs there was nothing he could do to accelerate the process
David Cameron has said he is "fast losing patience" over lack of progress.
Sir John has said he still cannot set a deadline for when the report into the UK's involvement in the 2003 Iraq invasion and its aftermath will be finished.
The last public hearings took place in 2011 but progress has been delayed, first by drawn-out negotiations over what documents can be published, and then by the process of so-called "Maxwellisation" - where those likely to be subject to criticism in the report are given a right to respond.
Appearing before the Public Administration Select Committee, Sir Jeremy said that the inquiry was independent of government and its timetable was not "in my hands".
"I'm not washing my hands of it," the cabinet secretary said. "I have repeatedly offered to Sir John extra resources on behalf of the prime minister, extra legal resources and so on.
"At the prime minister's request I saw him again recently, we had a private meeting at which I repeated that request, obviously.
"I just know that John Chilcot will complete this report as soon as he possibly can. He is as aware as everybody else is about the importance of getting this done and quickly.
"We have repeatedly offered the inquiry further resources, they say they don't need them, they are doing it as fast as they can."
Sir Jeremy said "everyone" was frustrated at the length of the inquiry and suggested that, once it had been published, officials would take a "long-hard look" at why so much time had elapsed.
"But not in a way that interrupts the last phase of the inquiry, the inquiry needs to just get its head down and complete its work."
Ministers have rejected calls from MPs and peers for the inquiry either to publish its findings now or for it to be wound up.
The basic reason is that his Catholic flock in Africa has increased faster there than in any other part of the world during the past 50 years.
The Pope has just been forced to set up a new programme of evangelisation in Europe, where Catholics have been leaving the church in ever greater numbers.
In Europe there is a serious problem of renewing an ageing priesthood.
In West Africa his flock is flourishing, despite antagonism and even violence between Christians and Muslims in several countries. New vocations are booming.
The Ouidah Catholic seminary is the burgeoning training ground for new African priests who - 150 years after the first Catholic missionaries from Switzerland established themselves there - are prepared to reverse the missionary direction and carry out pastoral work among Europeans in Europe.
But Ouidah is also a centre for traditional African religions. It is the heartland of Voodoo, whose rituals and beliefs travelled to the Caribbean and to South America, particularly Brazil, during the centuries when slavery depopulated West Africa.
By Virgile AhissouBBC Afrique, Cotonou
Voodoo is completely normal in Benin.
People across West Africa, especially Togo, Ghana and Nigeria hold similar beliefs but in Benin it is recognised as an official religion, followed by some 40% of the population.
It has none of the negative connotations it has in the West and many of those who are officially Christian or Muslim also incorporate some Voodoo elements into their beliefs, especially in times of crisis.
But Voodoo is more than a belief system, it is a complete way of life, including culture, philosophy, language, art, dance, music and medicine.
Voodoo priests ask the gods to intervene on behalf of ordinary people but local adherents stress that they have nothing to do with sorcery or black magic.
People here do not stick needles into dolls to cause misfortune to their enemies, as you see in some Western films.
What is Voodoo?
In pictures: Voodoo priestess
There is still a Voodoo temple filled with sacred pythons in Ouidah, not far from the huge Catholic seminary.
Voodoo is a belief system with a culture which includes art, dance, music, rituals, medicine, and is expressed in several languages.
Nearly half the population of Benin still follow traditional African animist religions such as Voodoo. Many who have converted to Catholicism still refuse to abandon their former beliefs entirely.
The Catholic Church however has a problem with this. It is called syncretism, which means treating all religions on the same footing.
Right-wing Catholic traditionalists denounced the late Pope John Paul II for allegedly "consorting with Satan" when he invited an African animist to take part in his groundbreaking interfaith prayer for world peace in the Italian city of Assisi, the shrine of Saint Francis, back in 1986.
Pope John Paul's successor, Benedict, invited another African traditional religious leader to celebrate with him the 25th anniversary of that meeting only last month. But this time there were no public prayers together, only private meditation.
The Catholic Church, which cannot tolerate the idea of Protestants and Catholics sharing the same communion table, has even greater difficulty in reconciling the worship of Jesus Christ side-by-side with African animists offering libations to spirits of the forest.
The Pope travelled to Cotonou, the economic capital of Benin, with a larger retinue of advisers than usual on his travels.
All the senior Vatican Cardinals who work in the Roman Curia were invited by the pope to join him for the six-hour flight.
They included Cardinal Peter Appiah Turkson from Ghana, the head of the Vatican's Council for Justice and Peace, the body which monitors human rights records not only in African countries but around the world.
Cardinal Turkson is the first Ghanaian to be appointed to the highest rank of prelates in the Catholic Church. He is even considered to be a possible candidate to succeed Benedict XVI, when the 84-year-old pontiff dies.
Another member of the Pope's retinue is Bishop Barthelemy Adoukonou, a former student of the Pope at the University of Regensburg in Germany, where he taught theology. Monsignor Adoukonou, promoted to the rank of Bishop as recently as last month, is rapidly gaining influence as an adviser in the highest ranks of the Roman Curia.
One of Pope Benedict's restricted number of engagements in Benin - but one to which he to which he attaches great importance - is a meeting with 200 sick and disabled children, who are looked after by Catholic missionaries.
He will address all the suffering children of Africa in a speech he plans to make where they live.
Another high point of Pope Benedict's visit to Benin will be a meeting with the head of state, members of the government and members of the diplomatic corps in the presidential palace.
About 3,000 people are expected to attend and Pope Benedict plans another keynote speech, in which he will refer to the many human rights abuses in Africa.
He will refer also to the role of the Church during the democratisation of the country, following Marxist rule after its independence.
Here, he also plans to greet some local leaders of traditional African religions who have been invited for the occasion.
Vatican Radio has produced its first music CD on the occasion of the Pope's African visit.
Five thousand copies will be distributed to representatives of local churches. It is called Afrika Tenda Amani and has been recorded by two popular West African musicians Papa Wemba and Bonga.
Presenters of Mabat LaHadashot (A Glance At The News) on Channel One complained of being denied a dignified farewell after 49 years on air.
An earlier show's presenter choked back tears after learning of the news.
The cancellations came as parliament approved the closure of the state-run Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA).
It will be replaced with a new, smaller entity known as Kan on Monday.
The IBA was established in 1948 and held a monopoly on TV and radio broadcasts in the country until the 1990s. Like the BBC, it was funded mainly by licence fees.
In 2014, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government announced that the IBA would be replaced with a new public broadcaster that would be less costly.
Opponents expressed concern that Mr Netanyahu, who has accused IBA journalists of being overly critical of his right-wing coalition, wanted to control the media.
The setting up of Kan was delayed repeatedly and almost abandoned in March.
Mr Netanyahu reportedly wanted it scrapped because he was concerned that two officials appointed to senior positions in the new broadcaster were left-leaning. However, the leader of another party in his coalition, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, insisted on pressing ahead.
The dispute, which almost led to an early general election being called, was resolved after it was agreed that the two officials would not oversee news.
Although they were aware that Kan was scheduled to launch next week, IBA employees had not expected TV and radio broadcasts to cease on Tuesday night.
"We thought of parting a bit differently than this," Michal Rabinovich, the lead presenter of Mabat LaHadashot told viewers.
Commentator Yaakov Ahimeir called it "a mark of disgrace on this government", adding: "They notify you two hours before going on air that this is the last Mabat. What are we, criminals?"
Retired presenter Haim Yavin blamed Mr Netanyahu for the move, but the prime minister's office insisted on Wednesday that it "was not done with his knowledge".
"The prime minister was the one who fought so that the news company of the channel would continue broadcasting with as many workers as possible absorbed into the news body," it added.
The Haaretz newspaper reports that 440 of the IBA's 1,050 employees have so far been hired by Kan. Legislation says the number can be increased to 510.
The message, a GPS tracker-fitted device, was one of two dropped from a helicopter in the sea off southern Iceland a year ago.
One was found on Tiree in January and the second was found in the Faroese island of Sandoy earlier this month.
President Guðni Jóhannesson was on an official trip to the Faroe Islands.
The devices were released simultaneously as part of an experiment highlighting marine pollution.
Both floated west, passing the coast of Greenland and then towards Canada before drifting east.
For several weeks it had looked as if the second device would end up back on the shores of Iceland.
It then headed in the general direction of Shetland before drifting back to the Faroes.
The two devices were part of a science experiment set up to test where marine litter ends up.
Rhoda Meek, who found the Tiree device, posted it back to the Icelandic scientists involved in the test.
The Dutchman broke the deadlock in the 58th minute from the edge of the area, his first goal in five months.
Connor Mahoney and Elliott Bennett had further chances as Rovers claimed a third straight home win to go two points clear of the relegation zone.
Jamie Hanson sliced wide and Omar Bogle headed over for Wigan, but they remain in 23rd place, four points from safety.
Blackburn's win means they have now seven points from a possible nine since Tony Mowbray was appointed manager on 22 February.
By contrast, the Latics, who had assistant boss Graham Barrow in charge following Warren Joyce's minor operation, are now without a win in four Championship games.
The visitors had chances - Michael Jacobs shooting wide after running the length of the pitch and Callum Connolly blazing over from a well-worked corner routine - but the league's lowest scorers were left to rue their lack of precision in front of goal.
Emnes, who was re-signed on loan from Swansea on January's deadline day, made the difference, collecting a long ball from goalkeeper Jason Steele before cutting inside from the left and unleashing a fierce 18-yard drive that flew past Matt Gilks.
Mahoney could have made it 2-0 following a good run, but Rovers held off a late surge from Wigan to make it two wins and two clean sheets in a row and boost their survival hopes.
Blackburn head coach Tony Mowbray: "I think the performance level of the team has been good. I think their endeavour, their drive, their commitment, their togetherness has been what's got us through.
"I'm delighted for Marvin because he needs to add goals to his game and I know he can. In the past he's got 18 or 19 league goals and he needs to get into double figures.
"If you're going to play number 10 behind the striker in any football team, you have to have goals. You've got to get to double figures every season.
"There was a lot of hard work from that group of players today and hopefully we'll get the benefits."
Wigan assistant manager Graham Barrow: "It's a massive game for both teams and Blackburn probably just showed the bit of quality that was needed to win it.
"We think we've got the quality on the pitch and we've got the lads who battle away at the back and keep you in the game.
"I think the finger has to be pointed at people higher up the pitch. From midfield onwards, we have to do better.
"There's different ways to score and it's probably down to bravery and commitment to get forward. It certainly wasn't there first half was it?"
Match ends, Blackburn Rovers 1, Wigan Athletic 0.
Second Half ends, Blackburn Rovers 1, Wigan Athletic 0.
Attempt missed. Omar Bogle (Wigan Athletic) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Gabriel Obertan with a cross.
Attempt missed. Jamie Hanson (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by William Grigg.
Sam Morsy (Wigan Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Sam Morsy (Wigan Athletic).
Connor Mahoney (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Charlie Mulgrew.
Stephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers).
Attempt blocked. Jason Lowe (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Elliott Bennett.
Attempt blocked. Danny Graham (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Dan Burn (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Connor Mahoney (Blackburn Rovers).
Attempt missed. Dan Burn (Wigan Athletic) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jamie Hanson with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Elliott Bennett.
Attempt missed. Connor Mahoney (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. William Grigg replaces Callum Connolly.
Attempt missed. Callum Connolly (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jamie Hanson with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Sam Gallagher.
Attempt blocked. Omar Bogle (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Gabriel Obertan replaces Michael Jacobs.
Charlie Mulgrew (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Charlie Mulgrew (Blackburn Rovers).
Omar Bogle (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Max Power (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Sam Morsy.
Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jamie Hanson (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt missed. Connor Mahoney (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Elliott Bennett.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Elliott Bennett replaces Marvin Emnes.
Goal! Blackburn Rovers 1, Wigan Athletic 0. Marvin Emnes (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jason Steele.
Attempt saved. Callum Connolly (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ryan Tunnicliffe.
Attempt blocked. Jason Lowe (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Connor Mahoney replaces Liam Feeney.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Danny Graham replaces Craig Conway.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Dan Burn.
Attempt blocked. Stephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Danny Guthrie (Blackburn Rovers).
Omar Bogle (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Zohore, 23, was Cardiff's top scorer last season with 12 goals.
The Dane will be marked by former England skipper Terry, 36, who joined Villa from Chelsea this summer.
"It'll be another experience for him because he won't have played against the quality of John Terry yet," said Warnock.
"There aren't any leaders anymore - John Terry's a dying breed and you need that on the pitch.
"As a young lad you want to see what it's about. You hit a brick wall and you think, 'wow, is it that good?'
"Ken's only just started his career really. I wouldn't say wasted it, but it's taken him a while to focus on what he can do in the game and now the sky's the limit, and this is a good test.
"In a couple of years he'll be playing against John Terrys every week, hopefully for Cardiff."
Zohore joined Cardiff from Belgian club Kortrijk in February 2016 on loan initially and, after an underwhelming start to his career in south Wales, he was a player transformed in the second half of last season.
All 12 of his goals came after Warnock's appointment in October, and his improvement has prompted interest from rival clubs.
However, Warnock is determined to keep the muscular forward, who scored the only goal in Cardiff's victory at Burton on the opening weekend of this Championship campaign.
On Saturday the Bluebirds host Villa, whose extensive spending under manager Steve Bruce has seen them tipped for a return to the Premier League.
"The sort of money Steve has spent on John Terry we haven't spent on the whole squad," said Warnock.
"It's a fantastic signing, I know exactly where Steve is coming from. He'll be giving experience to those around him.
"All credit to him. Yeah he's on a good wage but he could have earned more abroad and I think it's great he's gone with Steve and another chapter to his story."
Cardiff expect a crowd of more than 20,000 for Villa's visit to Cardiff City Stadium.
Attendances have dwindled in recent years, with mediocre performances on the field exacerbating a residual sense of disillusionment stemming from the club's controversial red rebrand in 2013 - since reversed - under owner Vincent Tan.
Warnock instigated a significant improvement last season, and he hopes a strong start to this campaign can convince fans to return.
"They would get value for money. If they've got any feelings for the club, now's the time to come on board," he said.
"We need everybody. Villa will make a right racket and we've got to match that, as we did against them around Christmas last year, but I think we can do even better.
"I think they know now it's not just a one-off and we're talking a good game, I think they know they're going to get good value for money, whatever the result, and they can be proud of their own club.
"I think that's what I'm delighted about in, putting the pride back in the club and getting everybody behind us. The more people through the turnstiles the better for us."
That's 19% - nearly one in five. But when you look at the figures for UK sports coaches, provided by UK Coaching, the percentage who are disabled drops to 6%. And the number who have gained a qualification in sports coaching since 2009 is only 2%.
So how can these discrepancies be addressed? BBC Get Inspired asked three advocates of disability sports coaching what progress has been made and what still needs to be done.
Based at Basildon Sporting Village in Essex, Jack Edgar is the head coach of Sport for Confidence, an organisation that offers sports coaching to people with mental illness, and physical and learning disabilities. It also integrates the work of healthcare professionals into the sport and leisure industry, as Jack explains...
"When I was 18, I was working as a multi-sports coach and was given the chance to work with occupational therapist Lyndsey Barrett.
"That was the beginning of Sport for Confidence and now I run the sessions as a coach, supported by health professionals and working to help our clients develop a range of skills, both physical and social.
"We're making huge strides, bringing together professionals from health, sport and leisure. One participant is a young lady called Donna Robinson, who has cerebral palsy.
"Two years ago, Donna was attending our sessions as a participant and showed interest in becoming a coach or volunteer. In response to her enthusiasm, we created a sports programme called Pathway to Coaching, helping people with disability, like Donna, to achieve their coaching goals.
"We run several boccia sessions a week. Donna completed her Pathway to Coaching course and a boccia leader's course. Now she is on board as a member of the coaching staff.
"We're working hard to attract more leisure operator partners so we can take this model to new parts of the community. We also work with leisure centres to train staff and help them become more disability friendly.
"When some of our participants first attend, they're too anxious even to come into the hall. But we're seeing a huge difference in people. It's a big team effort but it really works."
For more details on the Pathway to Coaching programme, email [email protected] or follow @sportforconf on Twitter.
Most people want to relax after a hard day at work, but not Bisi Imafidon. Bisi, 50, is a school manager in Newham, but also coaches running, basketball, goalball, boccia, swimming and more...
"When I was growing up I had no interest in sport or PE and only got into keeping fit after I had children. I joined my local running club, which was all volunteers. At the time I was working in a bank but was made redundant and it was a 'now or never' moment.
"In 2009 I took my level one coaching qualification in running and it just built from there. I was putting on sessions and got lots of encouragement and good feedback from the members.
"I knew how welcome the coaches had made me feel, never having done any running before. So it was really giving back.
"My specialism in disability coaching has always been mental health and I have quite a lot of people who have had issues with mental health and the effects of medication.
"I know what impact being active has made on my life and those of the people I've met. And you don't have to be sporty.
"One thing I do a lot is hula-hooping because it's active but it's a really good way to bridge the gap between sport and non-sport, disability and non-disability.
"That sends a really powerful message that you have those different groups working and playing together side by side."
Discover more about Bisi's running club - East End Road Runners - here, and follow Bisi on Twitter here.
Anna Jackson played 70 times for the GB wheelchair basketball team before retiring from elite competition in 2008. She has since dedicated herself to coaching the next generation of players - and up-and-coming coaches - from her base at Cheshire Phoenix Basketball Club in Ellesmere Port. This is her coaching story...
"I was a hockey player and tennis player and always enjoyed helping other people learn to play. Then I started having problems with my knees and had to give up sport on foot but discovered wheelchair basketball.
"Almost right away I put the coaching skills I had learned from other sports into wheelchair basketball. So for me it was always a natural progression.
"Wheelchair basketball changed my life and I probably wouldn't be here if I hadn't discovered that sport. If I can give a taste of that to other people, that would be amazing.
"Perceptions of disability sport are changing. I first noticed that in Sydney in 2000 at the Paralympics. For them it was just about sport. It's starting to happen over here, but I think that Australian attitude was the catalyst.
"Now it's about finding the sports coaches out there who have disabilities and telling people about them. I'm a tutor for British Wheelchair Basketball and giving all my players aged over 14 the chance to do a leadership course - right from youngsters with quite severe physical disabilities to a older players who have additional needs because of autism and ADHD.
"I want them to succeed and get that qualification and I'm in a place to help them do just that."
Find out more about Anna's club Cheshire Phoenix here, or find a club near you here.
Use our inclusive Get Inspired guides to find out more about disability sport,coaching and volunteering. And discover more about the work UK Coaching does here.
Cardiologist Neil Ineson, 60, of Sandhurst, Berkshire is charged with a series of sexual assaults at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey.
The alleged assaults took place between August 2007 and November 2014.
Surrey Police said Dr Ineson had been released on conditional bail and would appear at Guildford Magistrates' Court on 10 May.
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After running in the points early on, the Venezuelan's day began to unravel when an apparent brake problem saw him overshoot the pit-lane entrance.
The time lost dropped him down the order and as he attempted to make up ground he lost control and span.
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There followed a superb duel with McLaren's Jenson Button over 13th place, with Maldonado getting the upper hand before the Briton missed his braking and took both men off at Turn One.
Button tweeted an apology to Maldonado "for getting a little over excited".
The trio of incidents gave way to a slew of criticism on social media, with Twitter users branding the 30-year-old Lotus driver "shocking", "awful" and the "gift that keeps on giving".
And let's not forget the website that exists solely to inform the world whether Maldonado has suffered a crash on any given day.
Add into the mix the fact that he is one of the sport's wealthiest pay drivers - bringing a reported £30m a year to Lotus from the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA - and he is an easy target for ridicule.
But is Maldonado really all that bad?
Don't forget this is a man who won the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix from pole position in a Williams car that was nowhere near the class of the field that year, all except for that one weekend.
Talk about taking your chance when it's presented.
The previous season, his rookie year, he stacked up very well in qualifying against Rubens Barrichello, an 11-time grand prix winner who made 322 starts, so his pace is not in question.
No, the problem with Maldonado is, and always has been, his tendency to crash.
In the grands prix that followed his Barcelona victory in 2012 he suffered a number of collisions - three penalties were collected in just one weekend at Spa - and nine races would pass before he finished in the points again.
If ever a season summed up the yin and yang of Pastor Maldonado, it was 2012.
Both sides of Maldonado's temperament were very much on display in China.
For the first 34 laps he was driving well at the head of the entertaining Lotus-Sauber-Toro Rosso battle, and therefore leading team-mate Romain Grosjean.
He ruined it by completely overcooking his entry to the pits and running wide, and then spinning while trying to make up time on his return to the track.
Maldonado was blameless for his collision with Button but had displayed excellent race craft during the battle that preceded it, going wheel-to-wheel with the 2009 world champion, driving with precision and bravery.
Of course, without the two earlier errors Maldonado would have been nowhere near the uncompetitive McLaren on the road.
Nevertheless, Maldonado's had been a hugely entertaining performance in what was otherwise a largely uneventful grand prix.
Surely there is something to be said for that in a sport so often accused of lacking personalities and excitement?
Arnel Martinez Raymundo had been sought following the incident involving a 43-year-old woman in Grangetown on 12 June.
South Wales Police confirmed he had been arrested in Croydon, south London, on Thursday.
He was later questioned in Cardiff and charged on Friday.
Mr Raymundo appeared at Cardiff Magistrates' Court on Saturday and was remanded in custody, with his next appearance at Cardiff Crown Court later this month.
Ajer, a project player for now, brings the number of midfielders at Celtic Park to 17 with another five currently on loan at lower-league clubs. On the face of it, 17 - or 22 depending on how you look at it - is an eye-watering number, but, of course, the overall figure is a bit misleading.
Among that cavalry are young players on loan and who may never get a look-in, plus the deadwood that is Derk Boerrigter, a passenger who has cost Celtic, between transfer fee and wages, somewhere north of £4.5m since his arrival from Ajax in 2013.
Strip out those who haven't got any kind of realistic shot at the first team next season and you are still left with more than a dozen and possibly as many 14 or 15 midfield players at Celtic Park.
The club is on a hoarding mission. In one area of the pitch they're bursting at the seams. In another area - up front - they are almost threadbare.
Consider opening day next season and the possible Celtic line-up from their usual two holding players to the three ahead of them and then Leigh Griffiths up top. Scott Brown and Nir Bitton would probably be the two buffers. Stuart Armstrong, Stefan Johansen and Gary Mackay-Steven could be the three.
Or maybe Charlie Mulgrew and Ajer - if he develops quickly - could be the holding players with James Forrest, Kris Commons and Roberts ahead of them. Then again, Callum McGregor and Liam Henderson - presuming he returns from Hibs - could hold the fort in the defensive midfield roles with Tom Rogic, Scott Allan and Ryan Christie playing in the advanced positions.
Choices, choices. Too many. There isn't a chance in hell that manager Ronny Deila can keep everybody, never mind keep everybody sweet.
Ajer is a development player so he can't be expecting much game-time - he might end up as a centre-half in any event - but most of the rest of them will be looking for plenty of action and most of them are going to be disappointed.
Roberts is an interesting customer. Clearly he's an extremely talented kid and, after Manchester City paid £12m for him, his reputation is skyscraper-high. He's not Celtic's player, but the next 18 months could see him thrill fans and make them suspend reality and pretend that he's one of their own.
If you can forget for a moment that he's only there on loan, Roberts' signing could be something special.
Manchester City would not have given him to Celtic for that length of time if the deal didn't come with a commitment to play him regularly. That was Celtic's bargaining chip - first-team football.
Who would you have alongside him? Commons, Johansen, Rogic, McGregor, Allan? And who would play outside him? Armstrong, Mackay-Steven, Forrest, Christie, Henderson?
Celtic have more midfielders in their squad than Imelda Marcos had shoes in her wardrobe.
Some will be bit-part players, some will have no part to play at all and will be quietly moved on.
There needs to be a cull. Deila has arrived at a bizarre situation where he has way too many midfielders - and too many similar-type midfielders - and not nearly enough strikers - and only one effective striker.
The imbalance is the thing. In defence, Celtic are attempting to make things right. They have a first-choice of Mikael Lustig, Jozo Simunovic, Erik Sviatchenko and Kieran Tierney. Lustig is the only one of that lot who's over 24. That's a promising combination once it has a chance to bed-in.
The back-up doesn't inspire confidence, but at least it exists in bits and pieces. Up front, Griffiths is not just The Man, he's pretty much The Only Man.
You'd call Colin Kazim-Richards a deeply odd acquisition but then what level of puzzlement would you reserve for Carlton Cole? These two have a combined age of 61, zero sell-on value and a questionable - at best - goal threat.
Celtic's most expensive strikers are on loan. Nadir Ciftci is in Turkey, Stefan Scepovic is in Spain and Anthony Stokes is in Edinburgh but may as well be in Timbuktu as far as Deila is concerned.
Deila is packing his squad with midfielders and giving himself a world of choice, but in the business of strikers Celtic continue to leave themselves curiously short.
At some point in the summer they'll need to think about the doomsday question and come up with a compelling answer: What happens if Griffiths gets injured or loses form? How do you like the sound of 4-6-0?
This is because images of the brain can help doctors assess the damage done and predict the risk of another stroke occurring.
In the UK, guidelines recommend urgent treatment of high-risk stroke patients.
But the Stroke Association says thousands of lives could be saved by treating mini-strokes within 24 hours.
The research team, led by Dr Jeffrey Perry, associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Ottawa in Canada, tracked more than 2,000 patients who received CT scans within 24 hours of a transient ischaemic attack (TIA) or non-disabling stroke.
A TIA is caused by restricted blood supply to the brain, and symptoms can last only a few minutes.
A CT scan combines a series of X-ray views to give doctors cross-sectional images of the brain.
The scans revealed that 40% had brain damage due to impaired circulation.
Doctors were looking for signs of newly damaged tissue due to poor circulation, previously damaged tissue and damage to any type of small blood vessel in the brain, such as narrowing of the small vessels.
A quarter of the patients showing all these types of damage to their brain in the scans had another stroke within 90 days.
This compared with 3.4% of people in the study group as a whole, making the scans a useful prediction tool.
Dr Perry said: "During the 90-day period, and also within the first two days after the initial attack, patients did much worse in terms of experiencing a subsequent stroke if they had additional areas of damage along with acute ischemia."
He added that doctors should be willing to use CT scans on patients within 24 hours of a mild stroke, even if symptoms do not last long.
"These findings should prompt physicians to be more aggressive in managing patients with TIA or non-disabling stroke who are diagnosed with acute ischaemia."
Other measures to prevent further stroke can include cardiac monitoring or medication to lower blood pressure, treat high cholesterol or prevent blood clots.
Chris Larkin, regional head of operations at the Stroke Association, said a mini-stroke can often be a warning sign that a major stroke is on its way.
"Each year, around 46,000 people in the UK have a mini-stroke [transient ischaemic attack or TIA].
"A quick response to stroke can significantly reduce the risk of death and disability.
"If patients with mini-stroke are assessed and treated as an emergency within 24 hours, the risk of a major stroke is reduced by 80%.
"This could prevent around 10,000 strokes each year in the UK and save over 3,000."
Specially-trained officers were called to the Category B jail at 17:00 GMT on Sunday.
Three men were arrested in connection with the unrest and up to 60 inmates were removed from the prison.
Michael Rolfe from the Prison Officers Association said: "It's been trashed. It's an absolute mess in there."
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He added: "They've destroyed furniture, there's damaged cells, there's damaged offices, there's damaged CCTV.
"When the prisoners were being told they would be let out they said we will not be going back behind our doors.
"Staff warned about that, management overruled them; they unlocked and look what's happened. We've now got two wings out of action and 220 prisoners are having to be moved out of Bedford Prison."
Prisoners on wings A, B and C - gallery-style Victorian landings - were involved in the disturbance.
They also accessed the centre of the prison which usually contains prison equipment, staff files and other items such as phones.
It took six hours to bring the riot under control.
Two inmates were taken to hospital for treatment and have since returned to prison.
The three arrested men, aged 39, 37 and 26, are being questioned on suspicion of committing offences under the Prison Security Act 1992.
An internal investigation is also taking place into what happened.
The state-run KCNA news agency said the weapon was now ready to be deployed for military action.
The White House said the missile had a shorter range than those used in North Korea's last three tests.
It comes a week after North Korea tested what it said was a new type of rocket capable of carrying a large nuclear warhead.
Last Monday, the UN Security Council again demanded that Pyongyang conduct no further such tests.
It stressed the importance of North Korea "immediately showing sincere commitment to denuclearisation through concrete action".
The Council is now scheduled to meet behind closed doors on Tuesday - a meeting requested by the US, South Korea and Japan.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversaw the launch of the Pukguksong-2 missile on Sunday, KCNA reports, adding that he had "approved the deployment of this weapon system for action."
South Korea's foreign ministry earlier said the launch was "reckless and irresponsible", while US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson described it as "disappointing" and "disturbing".
The latest missile flew about 560km (350 miles) towards the Sea of Japan, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said. Last week's missile travelled about 700km.
Japanese news agencies said the missile probably fell into the sea outside Japanese waters.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference a protest had been lodged with North Korea.
North Korea is known to be developing both nuclear weapons - it has conducted five nuclear tests - and the missiles capable of delivering those weapons to their target. Both are in defiance of UN sanctions.
South Korea said the latest test was conducted in Pukchang, in the west of the country. A missile exploded soon after take-off from Pukchang last month.
Earlier on Sunday, the North's state-run media had said it would continue to launch more "weapons capable of striking" the US.
In early May, the US said a missile defence system it had installed in South Korea was now operational.
The Thaad system can intercept North Korean missiles, although full operational capability is still some months away. North Korea and its ally China have condemned the installation of the system.
However, there is no sign that Thaad was used against the missile tested on Sunday.
Newly-installed South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who is seeking deeper engagement with the North, has convened an urgent meeting of his national security council in response.
This would be the 10th detected missile launch by North Korea this year - outside experts agree that it's making progress in its stated aim of having the ability to strike the mainland US with nuclear weapons.
Though it's not there yet, the latest tests have been of missiles capable of reaching American bases in the Western Pacific, albeit with some failures.
There is intense pressure on Kim Jong-un from the US, which is seeking the help of China. Repeated and more frequent testing of missiles, despite prohibition by the United Nations, indicates the North Korean leader feels able to defy that pressure.
Jeffrey Delisle walked into the Russian Embassy in Ottawa the day he found out his wife was cheating on him.
It took five years for his betrayal to be discovered.
But now that it has been, it has rattled the wider intelligence community of English-speaking allies.
Officials in London are tight-lipped about the precise secrets that Delisle may have spilled that affect British national security.
On the record one official would only say the government was "aware" of the case.
But off the record it is clear that British officials in government and the intelligence agencies have taken an interest in the case at the highest level.
The reason is that even though Delisle was a Canadian spy he also admits he was passing British secrets and in the process may have done real damage to trust among allies.
Delisle pleaded guilty in October to passing sensitive information to the Russian military intelligence service.
"It was never really Canadian stuff," he told police after his arrest in January, according to a report in Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper.
"There was American stuff, there was some British stuff, Australian stuff - it was everybody's stuff."
When Delisle discovered his wife was cheating on him, he walked into the Russian Embassy.
"I said: 'Here I am.' It wasn't for money. It was never for money," he later claimed, although he was paid around CDN$3,000 ($3,000; £1,900) per month.
He would download secrets from his office computers onto a floppy disk, then transfer them to a memory stick before taking this home and loading the data up into a private email account, saving it as a draft.
A Russian handler then logged in to the email account to retrieve the information.
Delisle had access to a system codenamed Stone Ghost.
This is a computer network that shares information between the English-speaking intelligence allies - the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Much of it is thought to be technical and signals intelligence of the type collected in Britain by GCHQ and used by the military.
No-one seems sure exactly how much Delisle purloined from the database.
But given he was spying for years the damage is potentially massive.
His role at the Trinity base in Nova Scotia may be particularly significant, according to one UK based official.
Trinity brings together intelligence from a number of sources on maritime surveillance - watching the Atlantic for suspicious activity, including submarines.
During the Cold War, allies invested enormously in building up a network of undersea acoustic arrays and satellite capabilities to detect Soviet subs.
That capability atrophied at the end of the Cold War, but recent years have seen governments discussing the need to renovate the system to spot submarines in the Atlantic and also the Arctic.
According to one report in 2011, the Canadian Navy was already in discussion with the US Navy and Royal Navy about co-operation.
If details of these capabilities were passed on by Delisle they would be highly valuable to the Russians, allowing them to take counter-measures to avoid being spotted, potentially wasting a huge amount of effort.
The Russians seems to have especially wanted details of human agents but Delisle may not have had much access to this.
But it is in the impact on trust among allies where the greatest damage may be, according to a British source.
A Canadian official conceded to the BBC that the case was very significant but was at pains to emphasise that Delisle had been dealt with.
British intelligence officials say that one of their worst nightmares is a mole like Delisle who spills classified secrets of allies - particularly those of the United States.
Given the much greater size of its intelligence agencies, allies know they need the US more than the US needs them.
The US may have the odd mole itself but no-one would dare suggest cutting the Americans out of the relationship, yet if the Americans fear too many leaks from allies then they might restrict what they share with serious consequences.
"If we lose information from our allies we might not get that indication of an impending terrorist attack… I think this is going to push us back to the Stone Age." Canadian officials feared, according to the Globe and Mail newspaper.
The Delisle case also underscores the worry some intelligence officials have about the security of computer networks - especially among allies.
The Wikileaks case - in which one soldier allegedly downloaded vast amounts of diplomatic traffic stored on a single database - highlighted the dangers when information is collected into one place where relatively low-level staff have access.
Most intelligence agencies (including the UK's) place restrictions on the use of memory sticks on classified computers and also carry out traffic analysis to look for the suspicious downloading of data or unusual searches.
But when intelligence is shared among allies, all that matters is a breach at the weakest link in the chain for other people's secrets to escape.
Canada will be facing tough questions from allies about what went wrong.
So how much damage has the case done? No-one is saying partly because they may not know since Delisle was only discovered years into betrayal.
And his guilty plea means there will be no trial in which what is known comes out.
Rising numbers of children do not get enough to eat, says the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hunger.
"For a minority of children, the school lunchtime represents the only chance each day to eat something substantial," the group reported.
The government said it was committed to an "all-out war" on food poverty.
The report urges the government to use some of the money from the new sugar tax to extend free school meals for poor children into the school holidays.
The government should also make greater efforts to ensure poor families take up their entitlement to vouchers for free milk, fruit and vegetables, it adds.
"In an age of rampant child obesity there has been a shock increase in the number of children starting their first and final years of school who are underweight," say the MPs.
They highlight data from the National Child Measurement Programme for England last year which showed:
In addition, House of Commons Library analysis of the most recent data suggested that more than half a million under-fives were anaemic in 2011, the highest level in 20 years.
The report also sets out evidence from a small scale study in Birkenhead showing more than a fifth of pupils in some schools arrive hungry, with some complaining of "persistent hunger".
There is a not enough data to build a full picture, says the report, but there is evidence to suggest "too many children have hunger as their most constant companion".
In "maybe most" of these families, parents do not have sufficient income properly to feed their children, say the MPs.
But in certain cases, childhood hunger is in part down to poor parenting and is "part of a bigger picture of neglect", they add.
"Something very troubling is happening and there are at least two forces operating," said the group's chairman, Frank Field.
"One is the breakdown in parenting and the second is an increase in the numbers on a low income.
"It's a tragedy if one of these strikes a child, but it's an unbounded horror if a child is hit by both. How can the world's fifth richest nation not know the extent of physical damage caused to its own children by a lack of food?"
But he suggested the issue was failing to get political traction as voters "no longer believe the data that is published" because of "political warfare" between the government and the Trussell Trust which runs almost half of the food banks around the country.
Former Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has accused the charity of "scaremongering" in its figures on food poverty.
The MPs say they are working with the United Kingdom Statistics Authority in a bid to obtain better data.
The government said it wanted "to eliminate child poverty and improve life chances for all".
"In the last Budget, we announced £10m of funding per year to expand breakfast clubs in schools up and down the country and have vowed to continue free school meals for more than 1.3 million children," said a spokeswoman.
"We agree with the all-party group that nobody should go hungry, especially when surplus food goes to waste. We will therefore carefully consider the recommendations made in this report."
A video posted online shows some 100 hostile demonstrators surrounding the bus as it pulls up to deliver migrants to accommodation in eastern Germany.
Another appears to show police roughly dragging a young boy off the vehicle.
Police said they needed to get the migrants into the hostel quickly as the situation was tense.
The incident took place on Thursday night in the eastern village of Clausnitz, south of Dresden, and the video footage from the scene has been widely shared online.
Demonstrators tried to prevent migrants getting off the bus, chanting "we are the people" in a scene the state Interior Minister, Markus Ulbig, described as "deeply shameful".
Upset children can be seen in the video on board the bus, which was blocked for two hours.
Defending the police response, regional police chief Uwe Reissmann said on Saturday that there were too few officers to keep the protesters away from the bus and it was necessary to get the migrants into the building quickly.
He said three of those inside the bus had provoked the crowd - one "showing the finger" to the protesters.
Referring to the removal of the boy, Mr Reissmann said "only physical force" could ensure his transfer to the hostel.
"In my opinion, the police should not face repercussions," he said at a news conference.
The boy and a youth from the bus face an investigation over the "finger" incident, Mr Reissmann added.
Those on board the vehicle were the first refugees to be accommodated at the shelter in the village.
In a further development, German media report that the head of the migrant shelter in Clausnitz, Thomas Hetze, spoke at a recent anti-immigrant rally.
He was invited to the Freiberg gathering by the right-wing Alternative fuer Deutschland party (Alternative for Germany), according to the Sueddeutsche Zeitung (in German).
Local officials are quoted as saying there is no problem so long as he has not broken the law.
The slogan which the protesters chanted on Thursday in Clausnitz, "we are the people" ("Wir sind das Volk"), was used in the peaceful demonstrations against the dictatorship in East Germany which preceded the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
The historic slogan has since been used - misused, according to German President and Communist-era civil rights activist Joachim Gauck - by the anti-Islam Pegida protesters in Germany.
Germany received over a million asylum claims in 2015.
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.
Robert Chisholm, 70, from Glasgow, was convicted of raping the first woman at his then home in Saltcoats, shortly after her 21st birthday party in 1978.
He later moved to Kilmarnock and raped the other woman, who was aged 20, after they had been out selling the church charity's War Cry magazine.
Chisholm was caught after one of the victims contacted police years later.
Jailing him at the High Court in Livingston, judge Lord Turnbull told Chisholm that he had abused the trust bestowed on him by his rank in the church charity.
He said Chisholm's name would remain on the sex offenders register for seven years.
A previous hearing at the High Court in Glasgow was told Chisholm served as a Salvation Army captain in Ayrshire in the late 1970s.
He was described as a "determined sexual predator". The court heard one of the victims became pregnant and had his child.
Chisholm was caught in 2014 when one of the women went to police sparking an investigation into his background.
Prosecutor Steven Borthwick said Chisholm had betrayed his position of trust in the most appalling way.
"Having carried out depraved sexual attacks, he instilled a fear that they would not be believed, ensuring their silence," he told the court.
After the verdict, it emerged that Chisholm left the Salvation Army in the early 80s.
Chisholm had denied all the allegations and did not give evidence during the trial.
John Keenan, defending, said there was little he could say in mitigation because Chisholm continued to deny responsibility for the offences.
He added: "He does at least recognize that he abused the position of trust he was in at that time in the Salvation Army."
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The shadow justice secretary told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show the cabinet changes had been "an amazing distraction" from the country's issues.
Three shadow ministers quit on Wednesday in protest at the reshuffle.
And MP Alison McGovern has resigned from a party policy review group saying she could not work with the leadership.
Lord Falconer insisted the Labour Party remains a "broad church" but to be effective that broad church must not be "at war with itself".
"The country needs an effective opposition," he told the BBC.
"The floods, the junior doctors about to go on strike for the first time in 40 years, what's going on with Britain's support for the justice system in Saudi Arabia, these are issues that we should be focusing on. They are just examples.
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When Lord Falconer was asked if he would have made the same decision as Mr Corbyn in the sacking of Pat McFadden from the shadow cabinet, he said: "The decision as to who is in and who is out of the shadow front bench team is entirely a matter for the leader."
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Mr McFadden was given his marching orders from his role as shadow Europe spokesman for apparent disloyalty.
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Prime Minister Jigme Thinley has outlined an expansion plan for the sector, setting a target of 100,000 tourists by 2012.
About 30,000 tourists are expected to enter the picturesque kingdom this year.
Bhutan, which fiercely guards its ancient traditions, only began to open up to outsiders in the 1970s.
"We want to expand this sector without compromising on our policy of high quality, low impact and not volume tourism," the prime minister told a news conference.
The prime minister did not clarify whether the 100,000 target would include regional tourists, like those from India.
The Association of Bhutanese Tour Operators (ABTO) said it would be possible to bring in up to 60,000 non-Indian tourists by 2012, but perhaps not more.
"If it's only dollar-paying tourists, it seems a rather tall target," an ABTO official said.
Indian tourists pay in rupees as it is the same value as the Bhutanese currency, the Ngultrum.
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It comes a day after troops retook the city's airport from IS.
The army's assault takes them from desert and farmland into a densely packed city, where fighting is expected to be particularly hard.
IS are dug into the west after being driven out of eastern Mosul last month.
Meanwhile, Iraq's prime minister announced that the country's air force had carried out its first strikes against IS in neighbouring Syria.
Haider al-Abadi said IS was attacked in two places from which it had carried out recent bombings in Baghdad.
The jihadist group is already being attacked in Syria by a multi-national air campaign as well as from anti-IS forces on the ground.
Earlier, Iraqi aircraft carried out heavy strikes on IS targets in western Mosul ahead of the ground attack on the city itself.
"This is where the real fighting starts," a colonel leading the operation told the BBC.
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville, who is embedded in the area with Iraqi police, said a small group of men had advanced inside the city from his position. They were driving an armoured bulldozer and other vehicles, while under fire.
He said this next stage of the battle would be even tougher, in narrow streets in a more heavily populated area.
It also includes districts seen as pro-IS.
Leaflets warning residents of an imminent offensive were earlier dropped over the west of the city.
The UN has voiced concern about the welfare of civilians trapped in western Mosul.
Aram Shakaram, the country deputy director for Save the Children in Iraq, told the BBC he believed relatively few people had been able to escape since Wednesday.
He said the charity believed that nearly 800,000 people were still trapped there.
We are very scared, and we are worried that the final stages are going to take long.
IS will not give up and withdraw that easily and the whole operation might take as long as it did in east Mosul.
I won't lie, I am scared too and I don't know if I am going to die in an air strike or be killed by an IS fighter.
Voices from West Mosul: 'Everyone is scared'
More than 160,000 people have fled their homes in and around the city.
The UN said in late January that almost half of all the casualties in Mosul were civilians.
All bridges linking the east and west of the city, across the Tigris river, have been destroyed by air strikes.
The airport and the adjacent al-Ghazlani base are on Mosul's southern outskirts on the western side of the river.
When the airport was taken yesterday, the runway was found to have been destroyed by IS.
However, our correspondent says it still has value.
It is a large piece of land and controlling it will help secure southern routes to west Mosul, he says.
IS overran Mosul as they spread across much of northern and western Iraq in 2014.
They lost large areas of territory, in Iraq and Syria, in 2016.
Their study, published in Nature, is in its early stages, but hints that the hormone progesterone could be used to slow the growth of some tumours.
The UK and Australian researchers say the findings are "very significant" and they are planning clinical trials.
Cancer Research UK said the study was "highly significant" and could help thousands of women.
Hormones play a huge role in breast cancer.
They can make a cancerous cell divide by hooking up with "hormone receptors" on the surface of a cancer.
One of the most successful breast cancer drugs, tamoxifen, bungs up the oestrogen receptor.
Cancers with progesterone receptors were known to be less deadly, but the reason why was unclear and they have not been explored as a treatment.
Now a team at the University of Cambridge and the University of Adelaide have studied cancer cells growing in the laboratory.
They show that the progesterone receptor and the oestrogen receptor are closely linked and that the progesterone receptor can make the oestrogen receptor less nasty.
Cancer cells growing in the laboratory grew to half the size when treated with progesterone and tamoxifen than when given tamoxifen alone.
One of the researchers, Prof Carlos Caldas from the University of Cambridge, told the BBC News website: "It appears you control the tumours better, but to prove it is better in women with breast cancer we need to do the trial.
"It could be very significant. In early breast cancer you could increase the number of people being cured and in advanced breast cancer, where we're not curing, we could control the disease for longer."
The researchers are in the first stages of planning a clinical trial.
About 75% of women have breast cancers with the oestrogen receptor and of those, 75% also have progesterone receptors.
It suggests roughly half of women could benefit.
Dr Emma Smith, from Cancer Research UK, said the early results were an "exciting" prospect.
She told the BBC: "This is a highly significant finding. It could be an easy, cheap and simple way to improve the survival of thousands of women, but it needs clinical trials."
Formerly an avid cyclist, bodybuilder and health club owner, his life changed 10 years ago in an accident that caused a slipped disc to crush his spinal cord, leaving him paralysed from the waist down.
Undeterred, the 61-year-old from Crawley in East Sussex switched to hand-cycling and has since dedicated himself to endurance challenges to raise money and awareness for spinal injuries and other causes close to his heart.
"Since the accident, I chose to fight preconceived ideas of what was possible for someone who could feel nothing below their waist," he says.
"I've been determined to raise money to help others, especially those who may go through something as I did."
He has previously undertaken a 24-hour non-stop endurance race and cycled 600 miles from Scotland to London in five days.
Now he is preparing for his toughest challenge yet - a 2,500-mile journey around the coast of England and Wales, aiming to inspire disabled youngsters and also highlight the issues of pollution and climate change affecting our seas and coastline.
Rob will start his journey in Brighton on Sunday, 2 July - travelling clockwise around the coast - and finish in London on Friday, 28 July.
"I feel more prepared physically and mentally than I was for those previous events," he says.
"Training for this has been the hardest thing I have ever put my body through.
"I am excited and nervous at the same time. Having the right mental state is important all the time, to get the most out of every hour and every day."
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Rob will visit schools en route and hopes to inspire disabled children by showing what a hand-cyclist can do. He will also speak about the effects of pollution and climate change on our seas and coastline.
You can keep up with Rob's progress with his regular updates on social media and find out more about his itinerary and goals on the Coastline Challenge webpage.
If you want to get involved in hand-cycling or explore other cycling adaptations, check out the 'Inclusive' section in our Get Inspired guide to cycling.
The bank claims he collected commissions, and undervalued its stake in the global motor racing business, which it sold in 2005.
Mr Ecclestone's lawyer in Munich declined to comment.
This week a German court halted a bribery trial against Mr Ecclestone, relating to the sale of F1 rights, in exchange for a payment of £60m.
The 83-year-old billionaire had been accused of funnelling some £26m to jailed BayernLB banker Gerhard Gribkowsky to ensure that a company he favoured could buy a stake in F1.
Mr Ecclestone had denied wrongdoing, and his payment was accepted by the district court in Munich.
He walked free and continues running the sport. It also meant Mr Ecclestone was found neither guilty nor innocent.
Gribkowsky was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in 2012 for accepting bribes.
Mr Ecclestone's lawyers last week had offered to pay public-sector bank BayernLB 25m euros, but also said that damage to the company was not evident.
The offer expired on Friday with the bank rejecting it, without giving reasons.
It has not said what its next move would be - it could either negotiate another sum or could launch civil proceedings against him.
In 2005 BayernLB sold its stake in Formula 1 to the private equity firm CVC, making it the largest stakeholder in the business.
Brawn told BBC Sport: "I have had some discussions with them to see if I can help them have any clarity on what they need to do for the future."
His remarks come at the end of a difficult week for Honda, in which it has been heavily criticised by McLaren.
McLaren executive director Zak Brown said: "Something needs to change."
Brown had already said on Wednesday that he had "serious concerns" about Honda's ability to succeed in F1 and that the company appeared "lost" when it came to solving its problems with performance and reliability.
The team have scored no points this season and McLaren cars have finished only four times in 12 races.
Honda F1 boss Yusuke Hasegawa said: "It is very difficult. It is very unfortunate we cannot convince them we can do that. From the results point of view, we demand much improvement. We need to do everything."
He added: "It is obviously a frustrating current situation and we are disappointed with our results so it is no wonder there is some complaining comments.
"But the things we can do is try our very best for the team and we are aiming to go in the same direction."
Brawn added: "We value Honda as part of the sport and if we can do anything to support their efforts to improve for the future we will do that."
Asked about Brawn's comments, Hasegawa said: "I appreciate his comments and I will ask him if we need his support."
There is growing speculation that McLaren and Honda are nearing the point where their partnership will become untenable.
The pair have a long-term contract but Brown has shifted from McLaren's previous position of being "100% committed" to the partnership.
He said in an interview with BBC Sport on Friday at the Canadian Grand Prix: "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. Can't keep doing the same thing and expect things to change."
He added: "We have a plan B, a Plan C. We have some plans."
At least one of those options is an approach to Mercedes to use their engines on a customer basis next year.
McLaren-Honda's lack of performance is threatening their hopes of persuading two-time champion Fernando Alonso to stay with them next year.
Brawn ruled out the F1 Group playing any role in trying to find the Spaniard a competitive car in 2018, as former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has been known to do with drivers in the past.
Alonso said on Thursday that he would stay at McLaren if they were winning by September but that if they were not "maybe it was time for a change of project".
Brown said: "We want Fernando Alonso to stay. If we are not fortunate enough to keep him then we will find someone else.
"We have a lot of races between now and September so we will just focus on getting back up the field. That's what he wants and we want."
Brawn's partner on the commercial side of the F1 Group, Sean Bratches, said he was confident of securing the future of the British Grand Prix despite the threat hanging over the race.
Silverstone has strongly hinted it will activate a break clause that would end the contract after the 2019 race if F1 does not reduce its fee.
The track's owners the British Racing Drivers' Club has until this year's race next month to action the clause.
Bratches said: "We are in conversations with the British Grand Prix and the team there and we are optimistic of having a long-term future of having a grand prix in Great Britain.
"We have three years to the last grand prix under the contract. So there is a lot of things that can happen in that period of time, notwithstanding what happens in the next three weeks."
One likely scenario is that Silverstone will activate the break clause next month but that talks will continue between the two parties aimed at securing the future of the race beyond 2019 on the basis of a new contract.
Chopra, 80, died on Sunday. His funeral is scheduled to take place on Monday afternoon.
His body is being kept for public viewing in a studio at the production house he set up in the 1970s.
Over five decades, Chopra, dubbed the King of Romance, gave Bollywood some of its biggest blockbusters.
His film studios, Yash Raj Films, helped establish some of Indian cinema's biggest names, including Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan.
Almost all the big names from the industry turned up at the Yash Raj studios on Monday but more importantly, hundreds of fans - people who have watched and loved his movies over decades - have also been allowed to pay their last respects, the BBC's Shilpa Kannan reports from outside the studio.
One of his contemporaries, director Shyam Bengal, said Chopra's death was a huge loss to the industry.
"Yash Chopra revived the big studio format, he brought in a culture that didn't exist before. New talent was encouraged and nurtured under him. It has created a stable of talented directors who have made some of the biggest hits in recent times."
Top Bollywood stars took to the micro-blogging site Twitter to pay tributes to Chopra.
"Yash Chopra - 44 years of association... of creativity, friendship, fun and family ties," tweeted superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who starred in some of Chopra's biggest hits including Deewar (Wall) and Kabhi Kabhie (Sometimes).
In his tribute, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described Chopra as an "icon of Indian cinema" and said that he had entertained many generations "with his rare creativity".
"His flourish to essay romance and social drama was unmatched," the prime minister said, adding that the filmmaker had established the international reputation of Indian cinema.
Singer Lata Mangeshkar said: "He made me sing in all his films. He was a jovial person... Even when he was angry, he simply kept quiet."
Chopra started his film career working for his brother before establishing Yash Raj Films and going on to produce more than 40 movies - 12 of them as director.
He was behind major hits including Dil to pagal hai (Heart is mad) and Chandni (Moonlight).
Dilwale dulhaniya le jayenge (The big hearted will take the bride), which Chopra produced and his son Aditya directed, is the longest-running movie in India and is still packing in the crowds in Mumbai cinema halls after more than 18 years.
On his birthday last month, he said Jab tak hai jaan (Till I am alive) - being released next month - would be his last film as a director.
Doughty, 23, began his career at Loftus Road and has had loan spells at Crawley, Aldershot, St Johnstone, Stevenage and Gillingham.
He has played 12 times in total for QPR, including eight this season.
Swindon, who are 16th in League One, face Crewe on Saturday. Earlier in January they saw several key loanees return to their parent clubs.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Lenders are announcing changes to their variable rates, in response to Thursday's move by the Bank of England.
The Bank's governor, Mark Carney, said banks had "no excuse" but to pass on the rate cut.
Customers on these products may have to wait until September or later to benefit from savings.
Meanwhile, for savers, analysts said that many providers had been withdrawing the most generous deals in recent weeks, even before the base rate cut, and this trend would continue.
"It is easy to see that decent savings deals are facing slaughter: repetitive cuts are just not practical for all providers to continue, so the only option left to limit the amount of cash coming in is to withdraw the best deals entirely and not replace them," said Rachel Springall, from financial information service Moneyfacts.
"Small providers that would have never envisaged being market leaders are slowly finding themselves near the top of the market, due to other providers falling out of the best buys.
"This has resulted in a vicious cycle of rate reductions so that they can move to a more mid-market position, or indeed withdrawing the deal entirely due to countless applicants."
The Bank of England announced a cut in its base rate to a record low of 0.25% from 0.5% on Thursday, and has signalled that a further rate cut is possible later in the year.
The Bank's ambition, in part, is for banks to pass this cut to their customers, putting more money in their pockets to spend and so stimulating the UK economy.
On average, this will mean a £22 cut on a monthly mortgage bill of about £779 for those on mortgage deals with rates that change. Those on fixed-rate deals - nearly half of UK mortgage holders - will see no change to their mortgage owing to the nature of these deals.
One in five mortgage customers are on tracker mortgages which move in relation to Bank rate changes. Many of those banks which have announced changes to these rates already say the cut will take effect on 1 September.
Approaching a third of mortgage holders (29%) have home loans that are on the standard variable rate - the default option after a fixed term has run its course.
Whether this rate is changed depends on their lender - although banks are under pressure from the Bank of England to make a 0.25 percentage point cut.
A significant issue for customers to consider is not just whether the cut is handed to customers, but where this variable rate is set.
The average standard variable rate is 4.8%, but the rates range among UK lenders from 3.2% to 6.08%.
For example, RBS, the bank majority owned by the taxpayer, has a standard variable rate of 4%. After, saying it might take weeks to decide if and when it would make a cut, it has announced the cut would be handed on but have yet to decide when.
Called Desert Trip, the three-day event will take place at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California - the site of the Coachella music festival.
Tickets start at $200 (£137) per day, rising to $1,599 (£1,097) for a three-day pass for the area near the stage.
The Who, Roger Waters and Neil Young are also on the bill.
Performances will start after sunset, with each artist playing a full set.
Rumours about the show began to circulate last month, after the first weekend of Coachella.
The Who's Roger Daltrey later confirmed to BBC 6 Music that the festival was likely to go ahead, describing it as a once-in-a-lifetime line-up.
"We have to face it, we are [at] the end of an era," the singer told 6 Music's Matt Everitt. "We're the last of our generation."
"You can see from reading the obituaries lately that we [rock stars] don't make old bones very well, do we?"
The LA Times said Dylan and the Stones were expected to open the festival with back-to-back performances on Friday, 7 October, with McCartney and Young playing the following night, and Waters and the Who concluding proceedings on 9 October.
"I don't think any of us cares who goes on first," said Daltrey. "We've never worried about that. The music is all so different, that's not going to matter at all."
The gigs will be scheduled as follows:
The Chiefs lost 28-20 to Saracens, having trailed the European champions 23-6 at half-time.
"This was going to be a step on where we want to go as a club and where we want to go as a team," said Baxter.
"The great thing about how close we've come to Saracens is that it shows were not getting much wrong."
Having finished in the top four for the first time in their history, Exeter were competing in their maiden Premiership final, six years after they were promoted to the top flight.
"We've come pretty close and that should give us fantastic belief that, if we can keep pushing things a little bit harder, keep getting better just a bit at a time, we're going to get close to these kind of games again," added Baxter, who has been in charge at Sandy Park since 2009.
"I'd like to say we've learnt all the lessons we're ever going to learn, but we've not.
"I want us to get into a European Champions Cup final in the next few years - we'll probably have to learn some tough lessons in that.
"We might learn some tough lessons going away in a semi-final next year because we haven't managed to get a home semi-final, we might be battling it out to get into the top six, there are lots of lessons that we are going to have to learn."
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The Lionesses take on the world's top three sides - USA, Germany and France - in a new four-team competition.
"This is by far and away not a friendly tournament," he said. "It's probably one of our biggest challenges ever."
England kick off against the hosts in Tampa on Thursday, in a game live on BBC One (Friday, 00:45 GMT).
The US won last year's World Cup, beating Japan in the final.
England were beaten by Japan in the semi-finals but beat Germany to finish third, the second best World Cup performance by an England team following the 1966 win by the men's side.
"The World Cup was a magnificent achievement," added Sampson. "But if we were to come away with this cup, you could argue that it's as big as an achievement from a football perspective."
England's games will be shown live by the BBC:
With England currently fifth in the Fifa rankings, Sampson admits his players will start this week's tournament as clear underdogs.
"The challenge for us is to show that we belong and that's our focus," said the Welshman.
"We are the underdogs, we're the bookies' favourite to finish bottom and the wooden spoon's ready with England's name on it.
"Most importantly for me is that everyone in that changing room believes that England are going to win this tournament.
"Back home, we've got to prove a few doubters wrong. We know that. But if we were to win this tournament, it would have a big impact."
England v 'Big Three':
Sampson has picked 19 of the 23 players from his World Cup squad for the tournament, with Gemma Davison, Isobel Christian, Gilly Flaherty and Demi Stoked also selected.
However, he warned his experienced side that they would have to be at their very best is they are to overcome their opposition.
"This is England going up against the three best teams in the world and in the world's best team's backyard," he said.
"We've got a real clear objective... we're here to win it, to be as difficult as we can for our opponents and to make the games a living nightmare for them. We believe that if we get things right, we can cause some upsets".
The drugs, said to have a street value of £500,000. were believed to have been destined for Jersey, which lies 14 miles (22km) from France.
A 57-year-old Irish national was arrested in Granville at the weekend and has appeared in court in France.
Following the arrest, Jersey authorities carried out "a number of searches" in the island.
Officers say the investigation is continuing.
Mark Cockerham, director of enforcement at Jersey Customs and Immigration, described the seizure as "significant".
"Had it been imported and distributed in Jersey this would have led to a large supply being available at user level," he said.
"Whilst we have seen a marked increase in the seizures of new psychoactive substances this year, this demonstrates that there is still a demand for class A drugs in Jersey."
During 2013, Jersey customs seized drugs worth £2.4m.
That's the easy part. So far this year, 213 would-be commander-in-chiefs have done exactly that.
The hard part is everything that comes next.
Announcing one's candidacy, and making it official with federal paperwork, gets a name on exactly zero ballots in the state-level primaries and caucuses that are the key to winning enough delegates to secure the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in July.
Qualifying for those ballots is a state-by-state slog, with different rules and regulations for each. It takes time and money - and lots of it. Only the most organised, professional campaigns can manage the task.
For instance there's a $1,000 (£600) price tag attached to getting on the ballot in New Hampshire - the early-voting state that has made, and broken, many a candidacy.
That's nothing, however, compared with South Carolina, the third state in the nominee selection process and a battleground for Republican candidates looking to build momentum as the Southern states hold their votes.
To have a shot at winning there, Republicans by Wednesday had to cut a cheque for $40,000 (£26,500) to the state's Republican Party - half of which is passed along to the state government for administrative costs. The other $20,000 goes straight to the party's coffers.
"It's extortion," says Richard Winger, editor of Ballot Access News. And it may not even be legal.
In 1972 the US Supreme Court unanimously held that a fee of up to $8,900 to run for a local office in the Democratic Party primary was unconstitutional.
"Many potential office seekers lacking both personal wealth and affluent backers are, in every practical sense, precluded from seeking the nomination of their chosen party, no matter how qualified they might be and no matter how broad or enthusiastic their popular support," Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote.
The case speaks directly to fees like the one in South Carolina, says Winger. "I think it's unconstitutional. If all these states started doing this, pretty soon it'd be up to a million dollars."
And South Carolina and New Hampshire are just the start. Eight other states have primaries with filing fees, mostly in the $1,000 range. Arkansas, which holds a primary on 1 March, charges $25,000 - payable by 9 November. Want in on the caucuses in Kansas or Kentucky? Those will cost $15,000 apiece.
Complicating all this is the fact that filing fees have to come directly from the candidates or their campaign funds - which have maximum contribution limits and strict reporting requirements - not from friends, relatives or the allegedly "independent" Super PAC entities that can raise unlimited amounts of money from deep-pocketed donors to support candidates.
South Carolina's prohibitive amount is said to have helped convince former Texas Governor Rick Perry to end his cash-strapped quest for the presidency in mid-September. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker paid the fee only to drop out the following month. His campaign was reportedly more than $750,000 in debt by the time it folded.
Despite this high bar, no one has stepped forward to challenge the fee in court - and all 15 remaining Republican candidates anted up in South Carolina. Some, like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former New York Governor George Pataki and that longest of long-shots, former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore, filed within days - or even hours - of the afternoon deadline. Everyone, it seems, is content to just sign the cheque and not rock the political boat.
Democrats have their share of fees too, of course, but they're generally much lower. In South Carolina, for instance, candidates like Hillary Clinton will have to pay $2,500 to the state party, which then is responsible for covering the remaining $20,000 to the state for election administration costs out of its own funds.
Money isn't the only obstacle, either. Many states require candidates to gather up to 5,000 signatures from in-state registered voters - a task that demands a strong national organisation with a motivated volunteer base or the funds to pay professional signature-gatherers to pound the pavement.
In 2012 Virginia ballot-seekers had to hand over petitions with at least 10,000 names - and only two, eventual winner Mitt Romney and libertarian Ron Paul, managed to qualify. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Senator Rick Santorum - each with earlier primary wins under their belts - failed to make the cut.
For the 1 March, 2016, balloting, Virginia has reduced that signatures amount to 5,000, due by 10 December, but at least 200 of those names have to come from each of the state's 11 congressional districts. Many states have similar district-by-district requirements, where the failure to gather enough signatures in even one district will keep a name off the ballot.
Some states give candidates a choice. To qualify for the 1 March primary in delegate-rich Texas, for instance, presidential aspirants must either pay a $5,000 filing fee or submit the signatures of 300 registered voters in at least 15 of the state's 36 congressional districts.
Florida, not surprisingly, is a bit unusual. Candidates can cut a cheque for $25,000, gather at least 3,375 volunteer-obtained signatures from across Florida or commit to attending the Sunshine Summit - a presidential forum hosted in Orlando by the state Republican Party in November.
That summit could be a big money-maker for the party, which expects to sell 2,500 tickets to the event - and is charging $200 for a two-day pass and $1,000 for "premium reserve seating" (all major credit cards happily accepted).
Then there's first-in-the-nation Iowa, which has no petition requirements, filing fees or, for that matter, ballots. Voters can support whomever they please in the caucuses, and if enough likeminded individuals show up to do the same, the candidate will be on his or her way to winning prized delegates.
But then the state's caucus system presents challenges of its own. Getting Iowans to turn out on a cold February weekday and spend an evening singing the praises of their politician can be a logistical effort that makes South Carolina's $40,000 price of admission seem like chump change.
Candidates in (and out of) the Republican presidential field
Police watchdogs are investigating the response to an alleged visit by a member of the public to Pontypridd police station four years ago to give details about the former singer.
Watkins was jailed for 29 years for serious child sex offences in 2013.
Two other officers from the force are already being investigated.
Three others from South Yorkshire are also the focus of an inquiry by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) about the way they dealt with complaints about Watkins.
In relation to the latest case, the IPCC said: "One officer has been served with a misconduct notice by the IPCC to advise that their conduct is being investigated."
And they know its opposite is a bear market, which isn't so much a cute panda as an angry grizzly, ready to maul investors as they try to flee as plummeting stocks.
Many also know about unicorns; those rare start-ups that prance majestically on rainbows to a market value of more than a billion dollars, while rivals end up looking more like donkeys with carrots glued to their foreheads.
But they aren't the only beasts used to describe market activities.
As China becomes increasingly integrated into the global economy, it has been making its own colourful additions to this investors' menagerie.
Here's a quick guide:
Crocodiles - a large crocodile can eat an entire horse (and may even try its luck with a unicorn, if it can find one).
In the financial world, it refers to China's major global dealmakers swimming across the national border with Chinese money to hook their teeth into foreign companies.
The government hasn't specifically said who these crocodiles are. But it is looking a little more closely at giants like HNA and Dalian Wanda, who have gone on massive buying sprees, swallowing Western companies whole.
Grey Rhino - You can't miss a rhino. It's as big as a small car, with a thick hide and an intimidating horn. But mostly these languid vegetarians tend not to do much other then chew on leaves. It's only when they get riled up that everyone's forced to pay attention.
The term refers to obvious, clearly visible economic problems which get ignored until they start smashing everything.
In China right now, it specifically refers to corporate giants who are big, well-connected and powerful and yet potentially vulnerable too because of how much they've borrowed and bought.
Again firms like Dalian Wanda fit into this category. A cross between a rhino and a croc. Wouldn't fancy meeting one of those on a dark night.
Hunting rhinos: What Dalian Wanda saga says about China
Why is China so fascinated by unicorns?
Ants - They're tiny, but look at how they swarm...
Once upon a time, all the ants in the world weighed about the same as all the humans (until our numbers and bellies swelled). The lesson here is that the little things can really add up.
Chinese officials have used the term to describe individuals who are loading Chinese money on their backs and marching it overseas.
The Chinese government is concerned about capital flight, and has a system of capital controls in place to slow down this line of ants, but somehow they find a way.
Tigers and Flies - This is President Xi Jinping's rather poetic turn of phrase for corrupt officials.
The tigers are the powerful leaders, while the flies are the petty bureaucrats. President Xi used the term to emphasise a need to address corruption at all levels.
While not exactly a financial term, the integrity of any financial market is dependent on rules being enforced fairly and uniformly, instead of being distorted by strong but belligerent tigers or small but irritating flies.
Orient had not won a home league match since August 16th but Simpson's third goal of the campaign ended that wretched run of eight successive defeats on their own soil.
Stanley skipper Sean McConville was red-carded after denying Gavin Massey a goalscoring opportunity when he pulled back the O's midfielder just outside the penalty box.
Referee Darren Drysdale spent some time in consultation with one of his assistants before dismissing the visiting player and then also booked John O'Sullivan for dissent, while fans clashed behind the goal at the Accrington end.
Massey was the most impressive player for the Os on a rain-soaked pitch before setting up a number of decent chances for his colleagues that were wasted.
The visitors almost snatched the lead on 20 minutes when a shot by Jordan Clark on the greasy surface was spilled by keeper Alex Cisak, who recovered the ball to avert any damage.
Orient eventually broke down their resolute opponents in the 65th minute when full-back Myles Judd sent in a cross that Simpson forced over the line from six yards to give new manager Andy Edwards his first win in his second match in charge.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Leyton Orient 1, Accrington Stanley 0.
Second Half ends, Leyton Orient 1, Accrington Stanley 0.
Attempt missed. Scott Brown (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt blocked. Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Nigel Atangana (Leyton Orient).
Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Michael Collins replaces Sandro Semedo.
Foul by Robbie Weir (Leyton Orient).
Omar Beckles (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Omar Beckles (Accrington Stanley).
Attempt missed. Robbie Weir (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Teddy Mezague replaces Myles Judd because of an injury.
Delay in match Myles Judd (Leyton Orient) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Jordan Clark (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Attempt missed. Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Shay McCartan replaces Terry Gornell.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Romuald Boco replaces Arron Davies.
Attempt saved. Jordan Clark (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Paddy Lacey (Accrington Stanley) left footed shot from more than 35 yards is close, but misses the top left corner.
Goal! Leyton Orient 1, Accrington Stanley 0. Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner.
Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Omar Beckles (Accrington Stanley).
Attempt blocked. Nigel Atangana (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Leyton Orient. Conceded by Matty Pearson.
Attempt saved. Nigel Atangana (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Arron Davies (Accrington Stanley).
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Paul McCallum replaces Jordan Bowery.
Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient).
Attempt missed. Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt saved. Jordan Clark (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. John O'Sullivan (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Companies reported their fastest growth in new orders for seven months in May.
"Furthermore, firms have continued to increase their staffing levels at a faster rate than the long-term average prior to the downturn," said Ulster Bank chief economist Richard Ramsey.
The bank surveys businesses on things like orders, exports and job creation.
Mr Ramsey added: "The latest survey offers encouragement after a disappointing start to the year.
"Despite these encouraging signs, the pace of Northern Ireland's recovery continues to lag behind the UK as a whole and most of the UK regions."
The recovery in new orders is down to increased demand within the UK market.
But the strength of sterling continues to present a big challenge for exporters into the Eurozone.
"Export orders fell for the fifth month in a row in May and have now been flat or falling since October 2014," he said.
The manufacturing sector is performing strongly, but "worryingly" the local construction sector saw new orders at their weakest level in two years, he said.
Special forces arrested another 11 soldiers overnight after a two-week manhunt near Marmaris.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on holiday at the south-western resort on the night of the coup, but fled before his hotel was raided.
Special forces located the fugitives in a forested area, reports say.
Since the failed putsch Mr Erdogan has cracked down on those suspected of being linked to the coup.
Tens of thousands of people have been detained or dismissed or suspended from roles in the military, judiciary, civil service and education.
Over the weekend Mr Erdogan announced a sweeping reform of Turkey's armed forces to bring them under full civilian control.
Turkish authorities accuse US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen of being behind the coup attempt, something he denies.
The rebel soldiers were spotted by villagers hunting boar in the forested area near Marmaris. Gunfire was exchanged during the operation but no casualties were reported.
The soldiers arrested in total overnight on Sunday and Monday morning include Major Sukru Seymen, the alleged commander, according to Anadolu news agency.
More than 20 other members of the military squad suspected of involvement had already been remanded in custody to face trial, the agency reports.
During the coup attempt on 15 July Mr Erdogan spoke live on TV via his mobile phone. He said he had narrowly escaped an attempt on his life.
According to official reports the president's security team was tipped off that a squad of soldiers was heading to his hotel and moved him.
Turkey has summoned Germany's charge d'affaires to the foreign ministry in Ankara to explain why President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was prevented from addressing a rally in Cologne via a video-link on Sunday.
At least 30,000 rallied in the German city in support of the Turkish president.
The German authorities said such messages could stoke political tensions among the three million ethnic Turks living in Germany.
Turkey's interior minister said on Friday that more than 18,000 people had been detained over the failed coup. More than 9,000 of them have been formally arrested.
Nearly 50,000 Turkish citizens have had their passports cancelled, Efkan Ala told state TV.
The sweeping reforms of the armed forces announced by President Erdogan could put the military under full civilian control for the first time in the country's modern history, with the aim of preventing future coup attempts.
However dealing with the movement the government blames for instigating the coup will be a more complex task.
Millions of Turks are believed to be followers of the exiled Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, many of them successful and influential.
More than 60,000 have already been dismissed from state employment; more than 3,000 military officers with suspected links to the preacher have also been sacked.
But eliminating them from other areas like business would require a purge on a massive scale, something Turkey's fragile economy may not be able to sustain.
Christopher Metcalfe, 70, from Blidworth, Nottinghamshire, was a rural studies teacher at a former children's home at Skegby Hall, near Mansfield.
Derby Crown Court was told he raped a girl aged 15 or 16 in his front room at his home in Kirkby-in-Ashfield.
Mr Metcalfe denies five separate sex offences. The trial is expected to last two weeks.
The jury was told as a newly qualified teacher in the late 1970s, he sexually touched a nine-year-old girl during "story-time" and again after a swimming lesson.
She said it felt "painful" and "uncomfortable".
Mr Metcalfe is also charged with indecently assaulting another girl at around the same time, when she was aged nine or 10.
The third girl, who was in care at Skegby Hall in the 1980s, said after he raped her in his front room he said he would "get her" if she told anyone.
Prosecuting, Sarah Knight said: "Christopher Metcalfe took advantage of his position of trust and authority.
"The women hadn't colluded, they don't know each other, and their complaints are quite separate."
She described them as "courageous".
The trial continues.
Homosexual acts are illegal in Kenya, punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
The National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission says the law violates constitutional rights to equality, dignity and privacy.
Last year, Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto said there was no room for gay people in the country.
Most religious groups in Kenya and other African countries are strongly opposed to homosexuality, saying it is un-African.
Hundreds of people have been prosecuted in the last few years under Kenya's anti-gay penal code.
"Those laws degrade the inherent dignity of affected individuals by outlawing their most private and intimate means of self-expression," the group said in its petition.
The HDZ party is set to win about 60 seats, with more than 50 for the ruling alliance led by the Social Democrats. Exit polls had predicted a dead heat.
An alliance of independent candidates is likely to hold the balance of power with more than 15 seats.
The migration crisis was one of the main issues. More than 320,000 migrants have crossed into Croatia this year.
The big winner looks to be the third force in the election - an alliance of independent candidates known as Most (Bridge).
However, most said before the vote it would not join either main coalition, reports the BBC's Guy De Launey in Croatia's capital Zagreb.
So if the exit poll does indeed reflect the result, uncertain days lie ahead, our correspondent adds.
The two alliances have promised different approaches on how to handle the arrival of more refugees and migrants.
Croatia has become a transit hub for migrants, many from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, who want to travel north.
Croatian Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic said this week that 320,000 migrants had passed through the country so far this year.
The cost of managing the arrivals was close to 2m kuna (£189,000; $284,000) a day, he said.
Numbers increased when Hungary shut its border with Serbia, forcing more people to seek an alternative route north through Croatia.
Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic and his Social Democrats (SDP) have won approval for their compassionate handling of the refugee crisis.
But the leader of the opposition HDZ party, Tomislav Karamarko, has suggested using troops and fences to reduce the number of arrivals.
As well as the migrant crisis, Croatia's next government will be faced with a weak economy:
The election is Croatia's first since it joined the EU in 2013.
The Right Reverend Rachel Treweek is the first woman diocesan bishop to serve as one of the Lords Spiritual.
She spoke of her "great surprise" at being appointed Bishop of Gloucester.
Bishop Treweek also talked about the importance of enabling young women to fulfil their potential, ahead of International Women's Day on Tuesday.
'Fully flourish'
She spoke about beginning her professional life in the NHS as a speech and language therapist when the profession was in the spotlight in the context of the Equal Pay act.
The legal claim was that speech and language therapists - predominantly women - were doing work of equal value to that of male clinical psychologists.
She then spoke of being at theological college in the early 1990s when women could not be priests in the Church of England.
"I never imagined that one day I might be called to be a Bishop," she said.
When the first women were ordained as priests in England in 1994, Bishop Treweek was in South Africa, during the lead-up to the first post-apartheid elections.
"This was another pivotal time in my desire for all people, irrespective of colour or gender, to fully flourish," she said.
She spoke of her concern at reading an online pupil survey in which girls said they felt less confident about the future than boys.
International Women's Day "reminds us that we have much work yet to do together to work for the flourishing of women worldwide as well as in the UK", she said.
She said that Gloucestershire would soon be the only county in England in which the Lord Lieutenant, High Sheriff, Bishop and Chief Constable would all be women.
The blue plaque, unveiled at Dartford station in February, says the pair "went on to form The Rolling Stones".
But Wyman complained, saying guitarist Brian Jones created The Rolling Stones and enlisted the other members.
"I've never upset a Rolling Stone before but we are going to put it right," said councillor Jeremy Kite.
Jagger and Richards both went to Wentworth Primary School but met up again on platform two of Dartford station in Kent on 17 October 1961.
They bonded over a love of the blues and formed a musical friendship that still endures.
Wyman, who left the band in 1993, told BBC Radio 5 live the plaque was disgusting.
"Mick Jagger and Keith Richards didn't create the Rolling Stones - they were part of The Rolling Stones like all of us," he said.
"Brian Jones wanted to form a blues band and he enlisted each member one by one.
"He gave the name The Rolling Stones, he chose the music and he was the leader."
Guitarist Jones drowned in the swimming pool of his home at Cotchford Farm in Hartfield, East Sussex in 1969 after taking a cocktail of drink and drugs.
Dartford council leader Mr Kite said the plaque was intended to commemorate the meeting of the two Dartford sons, not the formation of The Rolling Stones.
But he said it would be taken down and replaced by another with new wording.
"Accuracy in history is really, really important and we want it to be right," he said.
"We will create a new plaque which makes it clear that this is where Mick met Keith and went on to be part of The Rolling Stones."
Samson Lokayi, 40, was arrested on Sunday.
He did not submit a plea because he does not understand English or Swahili, the languages used in court.
Mr Voorspuy, a founder of luxury safari company Offbeat Safaris and a former British army officer, was killed on 5 March while inspecting his lodges.
Traditional pastoral herders were suspected of being behind the killing.
They have invaded private ranches in the area to seize pasture amid an ongoing drought.
Mr Voorspuy's body was left at the scene for more than 24 hours owing to the volatile security situation.
Kenya's government has dispatched police units to the region to improve order.
Mr Lokayi is expected to appear again in court on Tuesday.
Even though players were not concussed during the season, researchers found abnormalities similar to the effects of mild traumatic brain injury.
Twenty-four players aged between 16 and 18 were studied and devices on their helmets measured head impacts.
The study was presented to the Radiological Society of North America.
In recent years, a number of reports have expressed concern about the potential effects on young, developing brains of playing contact sports.
These studies have tended to focus on brain changes as a result of concussion.
But this study focused on the effects of head impacts on the brain, even when players did not suffer concussion at any point during the season.
Using detailed scans of the players' brains before the season began and then again after it ended, the researchers were able to identify slight changes to the white matter of the brain.
White matter contains millions of nerve fibres which act as communication cables between the brain's regions.
Those players who were hit harder and hit more often were more likely to show these changes in post-season brain scans.
Dr Alex Powers, co-author and paediatric neurosurgeon at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre in North Carolina, said the changes were a direct result of the hits received by the young players during their football season.
"American football is a direct contact sport. The object is to bring people down.
"When players are hit, the brain moves violently within the skull. The harder the hit is, the more the brain is going to move."
He said the changes could not be called "brain damage" because they do not yet know if the changes were reversible or not.
Their next aim is to find out when young, developing brains are at their most vulnerable - in order to make the sport safer for everyone.
Antonio Belli, professor of trauma neurosurgery at the University of Birmingham, said there was a lot of interest in these kind of injuries, but there was still more research to be done.
"The jury is still out: there are some detectable changes after sub-concussive injuries but we don't know what these mean.
"These may well be innocuous changes in the vast majority of people, but potentially significant in people with a previous head injury."
The home side were reduced to 22-3 in the sixth over and then saw captain Eoin Morgan retire with concussion.
They failed to recover and were eventually bowled out in 33 overs, Ben Stokes making 42 and Mitchell Marsh taking 4-27.
Australia eased to their target inside 25 overs, with Aaron Finch 70 not out.
For the visitors, sealing the one-day series on the final day of their tour represents a degree of consolation after a 3-2 defeat in the Test series.
Though England's summer ultimately ended as a disappointing anti-climax in front a packed crowd, the success they have enjoyed is far removed from the spring-time World Cup humiliation and poor tour of the West Indies that followed.
A thrilling drawn Test series with New Zealand was followed by a new approach to one-day cricket that resulted in a 3-2 win over the Black Caps and a competitive contest with world champions Australia, where they came from 2-0 down.
Most importantly, the Ashes were regained.
England will have been pleased to win the toss in sunny conditions and have the opportunity to bat first on a true Old Trafford pitch.
But an eventful first over, with Starc swinging the ball at a full length, provided a glimpse of what was to come.
Jason Roy was given out leg before to the second delivery before successfully over-turning the decision thanks to an inside edge.
However, when he was given out again from the fourth delivery, Roy walked off. Neither he nor partner Alex Hales spotted that the ball was missing leg stump by some distance.
From there, England had no answer to some very good Australia pace bowling, with Marsh and John Hastings particularly causing problems with consistency of length.
Hales sliced Hastings to point for four to probably end any notion of a call-up for the winter Test series, with James Taylor then feathering the same bowler behind.
After Morgan was forced to retire, Jonny Bairstow was given out lbw on review to Marsh, while the right-armer picked up Moeen Ali and David Willey in the space of three balls.
Stokes sparkled with powerful drives and pulls but after he became Marsh's fourth victim, lbw to one that nipped back, Adil Rashid was left to eke what he could from the tail.
He made a composed unbeaten 35, supported by Mark Wood and debutant Reece Topley, who was last out when pinned in front by Ashton Agar.
England's plight was not helped by the injury to Morgan, who suffered a concussion when struck on the back of the head from a Starc bouncer in the seventh over.
The left-hander had to be steadied by short leg fielder George Bailey, before sitting on the turf to receive treatment.
There was concern from the Australia team, less than a year on from the death of Phillip Hughes, while Starc was comforted by Smith, Hastings, coach Darren Lehmann and Stokes.
Later in the England innings, it was confirmed that Morgan would play no further part in the match, with Taylor taking over as captain.
England had a glimmer of hope at the interval after Joe Burns edged Willey behind in the first over and Smith followed in similar fashion to Wood to leave Australia 31-2.
But that was snuffed out by an unbroken stand of 109 between Finch and George Bailey, who added 104 runs in 14.2 overs after the break.
Finch played drives and pulls of the spinners and swept Moeen, while Bailey punished the poor Rashid, who conceded 34 runs from four overs.
Bailey sealed it by edging Topley for four, with both sets of players now awaiting squad announcements for their next tours.
Australia go to Bangladesh, while England's party for the series against Pakistan in the UAE will be named this week.
The full price of £22,441,250 for the 1824 masterpiece depicting Suffolk rural life places it joint fourth on the list of most-expensive Old Masters.
George Stubbs's Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath, with a Trainer, a Stable-Lad, and a Jockey, fetched the same in 2011.
The Lock had been housed in Madrid's Bornemisza Museum.
Its owner, Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, said it was "very painful" to sell the work but that she had to because she had "no liquidity".
Museum trustee Sir Norman Rosenthal has resigned in protest at the sale, criticising the baroness - known as Tita - for putting one of its prize exhibits up for sale.
In his resignation letter, the former exhibitions director of London's Royal Academy said the decision "represents a moral shame on the part of all those concerned, most especially on the part of Tita".
By Will GompertzArts editor
Constable's six large canvases depicting the area around Flatford Mill in Suffolk changed the course of art.
Pictures such as The Lock might seem a bit traditional now, but in 1824 the artist's use of colour, expressive brushstrokes and contemporary subject was radical.
While The Lock hung in the annual exhibition at the Royal Academy, the Hay Wain - another painting from the series - was being shown at the Paris Salon.
Charles X gave it a gold medal, while artists Théodore Géricault and Eugene Delacroix responded by changing the way they approached painting.
Their Constable-inspired innovations led directly to Impressionism and the birth of modern art.
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A former Miss Spain, the baroness is the fifth wife and widow of Swiss industrialist Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza.
The Lock was part of the huge private art collection he left behind when he died in 2002.
While most of it was sold to Spain, 250 artworks are still in the baroness's private collection and have been lent to the country free of charge for the past 13 years.
Announcing the sale of the
Constable
painting in May, the baroness said she needed to sell because of the current economic crisis.
"It's very painful for me, but there was no other way out," she told the Spanish newspaper El Pais. "I need the money, I really need it. I have no liquidity.
"Keeping the collection here is costly to me and I get nothing in return."
Francesca Von Habsburg, the baroness's stepdaughter and another museum board member, has also expressed disapproval over the sale.
"The baroness has shown absolutely no respect for my father and is simply putting her own financial needs above everything else," she told the
Mail on Sunday
.
The first owner of The Lock was James Morrison, who bought the painting at the 1824 Royal Academy exhibition.
The son of an innkeeper, Mr Morrison became one of the wealthiest British merchants of the 19th Century and a prolific art collector.
The Lock remained in the possession of his descendants until 1990.
The top end of the art market has escaped many of the problems faced by the wider global economy, with new records consistently being set for individual artists.
Last month Joan Miro's 1927 work Peinture (Etoile Bleue) sold for more than £23.5m, a record for the Spanish painter.
In May Edvard Munch's The Scream became the most expensive art work ever sold at auction, selling for $119.9m (£74m) in New York.
The top price for an Old Master was reached in 2002 when Sir Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents sold for £49.5m.
The Volkswagen Passat was spotted in the water at Penmaenmawr on Saturday evening and North Wales Police said the driver suffered minor injuries.
Bangor Coastguard also attended, but was stood down as nobody was in the car and it was not causing pollution.
A recovery firm attended on Sunday to remove the car, which was stuck on rocks.
Aled Thomas, general manager of Moduron Maethlu Motors Ltd, said: "The tide had carried the vehicle away from the slipway and we could only see the roof bobbing about when we got there.
"I waded out to the car and secured a line to stop it dragging further down the beach.
"We then waited for the tide to go out far enough for our Land Rover to go onto the beach.
"The car was stuck on a rock bed so we then cleared large stones out of the way to a point we could winch it out."
He also thanked onlookers who gave information about the tides and sand.
Nelson McCausland wrote to the trustees of National Museums Northern Ireland (NMNI) saying he wants the issues given consideration in the short term.
The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL) said it was part of its commitment to a shared future strategy.
It is understood National Museums NI has not yet responded to the letter.
Speaking on Wednesday, Mr McCausland said: "There are a range of perspectives and I want simply to have in there consideration given to reflecting the diversity of views in Northern Ireland.
"It's also in fact a human rights issue and an equality issue because culture rights, the rights of people in Northern Ireland, should be implemented."
In the letter, Mr McCausland said he believes his department and the trustees "share a common desire to ensure that museums are reflective of the views, beliefs and cultural traditions that make up society in Northern Ireland."
He says National Museums' contribution to the shared future agenda can best be achieved by "practical measures".
Among these measures are consideration of how best to recognise the role of the Grand Lodge of Ireland and other fraternal organisations.
He specifically mentions the "Plantation to Power Sharing" exhibition which is currently on at the Ulster Museum and suggests that the trustees should consider changes to the exhibition before the summer months.
In terms of Ulster-Scots, Mr McCausland wrote that the local history exhibition should recognise the contribution of the Hamilton Montgomery Settlement, considered to be the most important event in Ulster-Scots history.
The issue of the origin of the universe and the different theories explaining it was previously raised by Mr McCausland's DUP assembly colleague Mervyn Storey.
He said that he wanted the views of creationists - the concept of God creating the universe in contrast to the scientific theory of evolution - to be represented in the exhibitions.
Without specifically mentioning creationism, Mr McCausland's letter includes a request for the trustees to consider how alternative views of the origin of the universe can be recognised and accomodated.
In a statement, DCAL said it welcomed the discussions on the NMNI's potential contribution to the shared future agenda and was awaiting a response.
Meanwhile, SDLP culture spokesman Thomas Burns said it was "a mark of a liberal society that its cultural institutions should be free of party-political interference".
"Any attempt to politicise public spaces or dictate to cultural institutions is a serious threat to our hopes of a shared society and should be resolutely resisted," he said.
Sinn Fein's Barry McElduff criticised Mr McCausland's letter as "wholly unacceptable".
The medals have now been returned to the descendants of the two recipients, who were both in the Royal Navy.
Litter pickers found the medals in a cash box which was on the river bank.
Using the medal inscription, members of Swallowfield Village Hall were able to find the owner's descendants via an ancestry website.
Martin Moore and Russ Hatchett discovered the cash box on 19 March.
Mr Moore said: "We took it back to the village hall check that there wasn't anything interesting in there and low and behold, there was something interesting in there."
The medals from WW1 were awarded to Petty Officer Oliver Reed, who fought on the HMS Noble in the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
The Second World War medals were awarded posthumously to Mr Reed's son Alfred.
He was an Able Seaman on the HMS Cornwall in 1942, when it was sunk by a Japanese dive bomber in the Indian Ocean.
Mr Reed's great great-nephew Oliver Dunn-Hipp said he was "absolutely shocked" when he received an email about the medals.
He added: "I was close to deleting the email because I thought it might be junk, but thankfully I didn't.
"It's unbelievable and I'm still shocked by it."
Mr Dunn-Hipp, from London, said he had "no idea" how the medals ended up on a river bank in Berkshire, but hoped to find out more.
The medals were returned to Mr Dunn-Hipp in a ceremony at Swallowfield Village Hall on Saturday.
Improvements in living standards and average earnings tend to come from increased productivity.
In the UK, productivity has only just returned to its pre-crisis level. But it is still almost a fifth lower than in the rest of the G7 advanced economies and almost a third lower than in France the US and Germany.
So what are some of the parties planning to do about it?
The Conservative plan for productivity is mainly the introduction of a National Productivity Investment Fund.
Solving the productivity puzzle is tricky - there's no definite way of doing it, but the Tories plan to spend money on housing, research and development, economic infrastructure and skills.
The specifics are £740m on digital infrastructure (that's things like broadband), £1.1bn to improve local transport, £250m on skills training by the end of 2020 and more investment in railways.
The spending is all meant to add up to £23bn by the end of the parliament, but there are no other details of what it will be spent on.
Labour's solution to the productivity problem is via its industrial strategy.
It has undertaken by 2030 to:
It plans to promote skills through its National Education Service and improve infrastructure by investing £250bn in it over the next decade.
The LibDem manifesto does not specifically mention productivity, but it's promising investment in many of the same areas as the Conservatives and Labour.
It's planning to:
There's nothing about productivity in the Green manifesto, but the big idea is the introduction of a four-day working week up to a maximum of 35 hours.
Caroline Lucas told the Andrew Marr Show last month: "I think there's a lot of evidence that suggests that when people are exhausted their productivity goes down."
Everyone would be assured a living wage and the Greens would also take steps towards the introduction of a universal basic income.
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The 32-year-old man, who teaches at Arden Academy in Knowle, near Solihull, was arrested at his home in Dorridge earlier this month.
West Midlands Police said the allegations "relate to concerns about the man's behaviour with one pupil".
The executive principal has written to parents explaining "a small number of pupils" would have to be interviewed.
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In the letter, Arden Multi-Academy Trust (AMAT) executive principal Martin Murphy said: "Following the police being notified of concerns relating to a member of our school staff, a police investigation has been launched and an arrest made.
"A small number of pupils at the school have or will be interviewed as part of this investigation and their parents are fully aware of the situation."
Mr Murphy added the academy had followed safeguarding procedures and asked parents to "limit any comments or speculation" while the criminal investigation continued.
There are about 1,600 pupils aged 11 to 18 at the academy, which describes itself as a "centre of excellence" which sets its pupils "high academic and personal standards".
Det Sgt Helen Wait, from West Midlands Police's public protection unit, said: "A 32-year-old teacher from Dorridge has been arrested as part of a police investigation into allegations of inappropriate conduct with a pupil.
"The man was arrested at his home around 09.30 GMT on Thursday December 17 2015."
The teacher has been released on police bail while inquiries continue.
Woodhorn was the first venue to host a tour of the ceramic flowers, originally displayed at the Tower of London, to mark the centenary of World War One.
The seven-week exhibition between September and November 2015 attracted 125,505 visitors to the mining museum - almost double the same period in 2014.
Figures showed the benefit to the economy amounted to £1,799,370.
Researchers found that at least 12% of visitors were from outside the region, stayed overnight, and accounted for £726,670 in spending.
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The car left the road and hit a tree in Plain Road near Stoney Cross in the New Forest just before midnight.
Police said the woman from Christchurch was pronounced dead at the scene.
The road was closed overnight for investigations. Anyone who saw the crash is asked to contact Hampshire Constabulary.
A blueprint to "stimulate business growth, generate employment and boost visitor numbers" was launched in November 2014.
The current cost of projects associated with it is more than £17m.
Scottish Borders Council has committed more than £7m of capital and revenue funding to the schemes.
The multi-million pound line between Edinburgh and Tweedbank in the Borders opened to passengers last year.
The blueprint was developed by Scottish Enterprise along with the Scottish government, Transport Scotland, Abellio ScotRail and the City of Edinburgh, Midlothian and Scottish Borders councils.
£3.5m
Permanent home for Great Tapestry of Scotland
£3m
Central Borders Business Park upgrade
£100,000 Marketing programme
£62,300 Integrated transport at station "hubs"
£39,600 Steam train experience
Since its launch, work has concentrated on an action plan to deliver "key investments and commitments".
The Scottish government has committed £10m in principle to meet any "funding gap" in realising these projects.
Scottish Borders Council has already given its support to a number of the schemes associated with the railway.
A report to the local authority said that without this financial commitment there was a risk the blueprint's "economic and community benefits" would not be realised.
Councillors are being asked to note the "significant progress" achieved while agreeing to get further regular reports on the action plan.
The bar reopened in July, almost 20 months after the disaster in November 2013, in which 10 people died.
Three fire engines went to the pub when the alarm was raised at about 01:40 on Sunday.
They were at the scene until 02:23 dealing with a small fire in a bin room.
The pub's Facebook page said the damage was minor.
It said: "Wee Fire at the Clutha - Nothing to worry about! A small fire broke out in one of the bins and caused a bit of smoke around the place.
"The fire service reacted very quickly and it was quickly under control.
"Wee bit of damage to a couple of doors but nothing more. They reckon it was caused by a fag end."
The message went on: "Thanks to everyone for their concerns and thanks again to the fire service and please anyone who does smoke can you make sure your fag is extinguished before throwing away."
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon joined relatives of the dead, survivors and members of the emergency services at the venue when it reopened on 24 July.
More than 100 people were in the bar on the night of 29 November 2013 when the tragedy took place.
The interior of the old bar where the helicopter crashed remains sealed off, but a new bar has been erected in a former smoking area.
The national side, now under McClair's remit, recently played its first home matches, beating Gibraltar twice.
And the former Scotland striker thinks futsal can aid emerging talent.
"It'll help players develop their individual skills, their tactical knowledge. Overall, it's got a lot of things going for it," he said.
The five-a-side game is played widely in South America and across mainland Europe and many of the world's best players - Lionel Messi, Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo among them - learned their intricate ball skills on a futsal pitch.
Futsal is played with a smaller, heavier ball on a court similar to a basketball court.
"It's a game we see very much as something to explore along with other formats of indoor football," McClair told BBC Scotland. "It's a microcosm of an 11-a-side game - lots of touches, it's a very tactical game.
"I'm a great believer that if it looks like football, it probably is football and if you're practising those elements of it, you can only get better at it.
"It can only be a good thing - the opportunity to get lots more touches, to practise one v one situations, both attacking and defending. If there's an opportunity to develop it from a very young level, it's something we should be exploring."
Mark Potter, Scotland's futsal head coach, is a long-term advocate of the potential benefits of the game for the greater good.
"Anyone who's watched these two games [against Gibraltar] will see where the synergy is between the game as a sport in its own right and the development of quick-thinking, creative, technically-proficient football players," he told BBC Scotland.
"Many of the aspects of this small-sided game - the close pressure and high intensity - are things we're beginning to see in football more and more often."
Potter is keen to see futsal proliferate for its own benefit as well as that of the professional 11-a-side game, as is Ross Chisholm, part of the national futsal team and formerly of Hibernian and Dundee.
Now involved with Kilmarnock's youth set-up, Chisholm believes the growth of futsal would go hand-in-hand with an improvement in the development of the country's young talent, but stresses the need for a long-term approach.
"Everyone wants to develop technical players like Spain and Germany do. If you can introduce futsal at most of the academies, maybe at under-eights, nines, tens, and give them a certain amount of hours per week, you'll develop better players," he said.
"It's just if people want to see that long-term effect because you're not going to get instant results. You have to be prepared to start young and you'll get the benefits in 10, 15 years potentially."
Last week, a serving Royal Marine, Ciarán Maxwell, was arrested in Somerset as part of the investigation after searches in Larne and Devon.
The 30-year-old marine is still being questioned.
The arrest is understood to be connected to the discovery of two arms dumps near the County Antrim town earlier this year.
These finds were thought to be linked to dissident republican paramilitaries.
A 30-year-old man was seriously injured during an incident in The Social Bar in the city's Royal Exchange Square earlier this month.
The assault allegedly took place at about 00:30 on 10 April.
A 30-year-old man is expected to appear in Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday in connection with the incident.
Ms Wood told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show "if you don't ask for something you don't get it".
Her party has refused to support a Conservative administration if there is a hung parliament after 7 May.
Ms Wood said Plaid Cymru had "a lot in common" with the SNP and the Green Party.
The Plaid leader also said while not "inevitable", an independent Wales "could very well happen".
Ms Wood said the political equation had changed when the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties all promised to maintain the Barnett Formula in Scotland, which she said was unfair towards Wales.
Main pledges
She called for a "Team Wales" approach to securing more funding from Westminster and parity with Scotland.
"More and more people in Wales want more powers for our national assembly and it is clear our economic situation is not good and we can't carry on as we are," she said.
"Something has to change and we are pushing in this election for the rebalancing of power and wealth throughout these islands."
Policy guide: Where the parties stand
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has said she supports Plaid's call for parity, although not at the expense of Scotland's funding.
Asked about Ms Sturgeon and Green Party leader Natalie Bennett, who she embraced after the second TV debate, Ms Wood said "something different is happening" in politics.
"I'm convinced that we have a lot in common across the three parties... regardless of the three leaders," she added.
However, Labour's Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith has fended off questions about his party working with Plaid Cymru in a hung parliament, calling them "bit-part" players at Westminster.
He told the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme that Plaid's call for an additional £1.2bn a year of public spending in Wales was "pie in the sky".
For the Conservatives, Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb said the party should not get "rattled" by opinion polls showing it neck-and-neck with Labour.
Also speaking on Sunday Politics Wales, he said the Tories should stress "consistency and a sense of purpose", sticking to the message about "the economic progress that we've achieved to date".
Hamilton is 12 points behind the German and has to win the race and hope his Mercedes team-mate finishes lower than third if he is to win the championship.
Hamilton was 0.374 seconds quicker than Rosberg, with the Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo next.
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Reigning world champion Hamilton, 31, will be hoping Red Bull or Ferrari can get between him and Rosberg - that is realistically his best chance of an unlikely fourth title.
However, the Mercedes car has such superiority that Hamilton's best hope is for a problem to hit Rosberg.
"My sole goal is to win the race," Hamilton said on Thursday. "Nico's been really quick here the last couple of years so it will be a challenge for sure but one I'm certain that I can face head on and do well.
"In terms of the championship, if it doesn't go the way I'd hope, well, the championship generally hasn't gone the way I'd hoped up until now.
"So 2016 has generally not been a spectacular year, but there's been lots of positives to take out from it and either way I will take all the positives into next season."
Rosberg, 31, can afford to cruise around behind Hamilton driving a cautious weekend but says he is targeting a race win as the best way to clinch the title.
"The most important thing is to do an awesome performance, because that's going to give both, isn't it?" he said.
"I'm doing whatever it takes to give the best possible performance and that's the same thing that I've done for all the other races."
He added that he is "not thinking about what if because that wouldn't be the right approach for me".
Hamilton's best time was set on the soft tyre while Rosberg's was on the theoretically quicker ultra-soft.
The pair were separated by 0.192secs on the ultra-soft tyre, but unlike Rosberg, Hamilton improved when he ran the soft.
The Red Bulls were very close to Rosberg - Verstappen was only 0.054secs behind the German and Ricciardo a further 0.065secs adrift.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen were fifth and seventh fastest, separated by Force India's Sergio Perez on the super-soft tyre.
Former world champion Jenson Button, who announced on Thursday that this will be his last race barring a change of heart and unlikely opportunity in the future, was only 20th as McLaren's weekend got off to a difficult start.
Button was asked to return to the pits midway through the session with a technical problem.
His team-mate Fernando Alonso was 18th fastest, 0.748secs quicker than Button.
Jolyon Palmer was 16th for Renault, one place and 0.153secs ahead of team-mate Kevin Magnussen.
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The malicious program demanded a payment to unlock files it scrambled on infected machines.
However, a growing number of researchers now believe the program was launched just to destroy data.
Experts point to "aggressive" features of the malware that make it impossible to retrieve key files.
Matt Suiche, from security firm Comae, described the variant as a "wiper" rather than straight-forward ransomware.
"The goal of a wiper is to destroy and damage," he wrote, adding that the ransomware aspect of the program was a lure to generate media interest.
Although the Petya variant that struck this week has superficial similarities to the original virus, it differs in that it deliberately overwrites important computer files rather than just encrypting them, he said.
Mr Suiche wrote: "2016 Petya modifies the disk in a way where it can actually revert its changes, whereas, 2017 Petya does permanent and irreversible damages to the disk."
Anton Ivanov and Orkhan Mamedov from Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab agreed that the program was built to destroy rather than generate funds.
"It appears it was designed as a wiper pretending to be ransomware," they said.
Their analysis of the malware revealed that it had no way to generate a usable key to decrypt data.
"This is the worst case news for the victims," they said. "Even if they pay the ransom they will not get their data back."
A veteran computer security researcher known as The Grugq said the "poor payment pipeline" associated with the variant lent more weight to the suspicion that it was more concerned with data destruction than cashing out.
"The real Petya was a criminal enterprise for making money," he wrote. "This is definitely not designed to make money."
The Bitcoin account associated with the malware has now received 45 payments from victims who have paid more than $10,000 (£7,785) into the digital wallet.
The email account through which victims are supposed to report that they have paid has been closed by the German firm hosting it - closing off the only supposed avenue of communication with the malware's creators.
Organisations in more than 64 countries are now known to have fallen victim to the malicious program.
The latest to come forward is voice-recognition firm Nuance. In a statement it said "portions" of its internal network had been affected by the outbreak. It said it had taken measures to contain the the threat and was working with security firms to rid itself of the infection.
The initial infection vector seems to be software widely used in Ukraine to handle tax payments and about 75% of all infections caused by this Petya variant have been seen in the country.
A government spokesman for Ukraine blamed Russia for starting the attack.
"It's difficult to imagine anyone else would want to do this," Roman Boyarchuk, head of Ukraine's cyber-protection centre told technology magazine Wired.
Computer security researcher Lesley Carhart said the malware hit hard because of the way it travelled once it evaded digital defences.
Ms Carhart said the malware abused remote Windows administration tools to spread quickly across internal company computer networks.
"I'm honestly a little surprised we haven't seen worms taking advantage of these mechanisms so elegantly on a large scale until now," she wrote.
Using these tools proved effective, she said, because few organisations police their use and, even if they did, acting quickly enough to thwart the malware would be difficult.
The success of the Petya variant would be likely to encourage others to copy it, she warned.
"Things are going to get worse and the attack landscape is going to deteriorate," said Ms Carhart.
Typically ransomware spreads via email, with the aim of fooling recipients into clicking on malware-laden files that cause a PC's data to become scrambled before making a blackmail demand.
But other ransomware, including Wannacry, has also spread via "worms" - self-replicating programs that spread from computer to computer hunting for vulnerabilities they can exploit.
The current attack is thought to have worm-like properties.
Several experts believe that one way it breaches companies' cyber-defences is by hijacking an automatic software updating tool used to upgrade an tax accountancy program.
Once it has breached an organisation, it uses a variety of means to spread internally to other computers on the same network.
One of these is via the so-called EternalBlue hack - an exploit thought to have been developed by US cyber-spies, which takes advantage of a weakness in a protocol used to let computers and other equipment talk to each other, known as the Server Message Block (SMB).
Another is to steal the credentials of IT staff and then make use of two administrative tools - PsExec, a program that allows software installations and other tasks to be carried out remotely, and WMIC (Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line) a program that lets
PCs to be controlled by typing in commands rather than via a graphical-interface.
Once a PC is infected, the malware targets a part of its operating system called the Master File Table (MFT).
It is essential for the system to know where to find files on the computer.
The advantage of doing this rather than trying to encrypt everything on the PC is the task can be achieved much more quickly.
Then, between 10 and 60 minutes later, the malware forces a computer to reboot, which then informs the user it is locked and requires a payment from them to get a decryption key.
Sanchez, 27, will miss Chile's World Cup qualifier in Colombia on Thursday.
But the Chilean team's medical staff say the former Barcelona player could return for the home game against Uruguay next Tuesday.
"He will remain in Santiago, under treatment and in evaluation for the meeting against Uruguay," said a statement.
Sanchez, who has scored eight goals for the Gunners this season, played the whole 90 minutes of Sunday's 1-1 home draw against Tottenham.
Fourth-placed Arsenal go to Manchester United on 19 November in their next fixture after the international break.
The UK's departure from the EU is the new prism through which politics, policy and business decisions are viewed.
Trade between the countries is worth a billion pounds every week.
Irish exporters are already having difficult times due to the weak pound.
On his mushroom farm near Athlone in County Westmeath, Gerry Reilly recounted how his business lost 20% of revenue in one night as sterling slumped.
The UK is the key market for mushroom producers in Ireland - each day 50 lorry-loads of the crop travel east across the Irish Sea.
Gerry Reilly said 52% of the mushrooms bought in the UK come from Ireland.
He is hoping that Brexit won't deal another blow to his industry, through the imposition of trade barriers.
"Ireland and England have had a great relationship on food," he said.
"It would be a terrible pity if anything would happen to make it more difficult or more costly."
His workers pluck tens of thousands of mushrooms from compost beds which stretch for 50 metres - and the produce will be on plates in Britain the following day.
Like many companies in the agri-food sector, margins are tight - and the UK export market crucial.
The ultimate effect of Brexit on exporters will be a major factor in how Ireland copes with the departure of its nearest neighbour from the European Union.
The Irish economy has been growing fast recently, having come through a disastrous financial crisis several years ago.
Professor Alan Barrett, director of the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin, said: "One of the great frustrations about Brexit is that it could interrupt what is otherwise a very strong recovery from the difficult times of recent years."
Researchers at the ESRI have modelled the various different forms which Brexit might take, and assessed the potential impact on Ireland.
A "soft" Brexit would result in Irish economic output being around 2% smaller than it otherwise would be.
If there is a "hard" Brexit, the figure is 4%.
The Irish government has said it wants to protect firms who trade into the UK market and it believes Brexit may present opportunities.
IDA Ireland - the agency which promotes the country as an investment destination - has launched an advertisement campaign which flags up Ireland's 12.5% corporate tax rate, coupled with "100% commitment to the EU."
Dublin is not being shy about what it sees as its post-Brexit credentials for investors.
Eoghan Murphy, a minister in the department of finance, said Ireland can offer a solution to firms located in the UK who want access to the European single market.
"We're an English-speaking country, we're incredibly well connected to the UK, and we have the youngest population in Europe," he said.
He highlighted financial services as being one sector which could be particularly attracted to Ireland.
When speaking about Ireland's role in the Brexit negotiations, Mr Murphy emphasised Ireland will be in the "EU 27" - the group states across the talks table from Britain.
He said he hoped 2017 will start with "less noise and hard rhetoric" compared to 2016, so that the negotiations can start "in a positive frame of mind".
Mr Murphy said Ireland's "strong and positive" relationship with the UK will continue - and he wanted trade to go on without excessive costs or burdens.
The terms of Britain's exit from the EU will probably affect Ireland's economy more than that of any other state.
A headless depiction of the river god Ilissos has been sent to Russia to go on display in St Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum until mid-January.
It is one of a number of relics acquired by Lord Elgin in Athens in the early 19th Century, now known collectively as the Elgin Marbles.
Ownership of the artefacts, once part of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon temple, is disputed by Greece.
It maintains that Lord Elgin removed them illegally while the country was under Turkish occupation as part of the Ottoman Empire. The items have remained in the British Museum ever since.
Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, said it was a "very big moment".
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "This is the first time ever that the people of Russia have been able to see this great moment of European art and European thought."
2,500
years old
1816
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British Museum collection includes:
247ft of the original 524ft frieze
15 of 92 metopes (marble panels)
17 figures
Mr MacGregor added that he hoped the Greek government would be "delighted".
"I hope that they'll be very pleased that a huge new public can engage with the great achievements of ancient Greece. People who will never be able to come to Athens or to London will now here in Russia understand something of the great achievements of Greek civilisation."
Asked whether the marbles would be loaned to Greece if it promised to give them back, he said the museum was willing to lend anything in the collection provided it was fit for travel and if it was going a place where it would be safe and from where it would be returned.
The Greek government, he added, had to date not asked to borrow them.
Analysis - Trevor Timpson, BBC News
The statue of Ilissos, with its beautifully carved drapery suggesting river water, is one of the sculptures which adorned the triangular ends (the pediments) of the Parthenon.
The British Museum was willing to send it to the Hermitage for its 250th anniversary, but sent nothing to the new Acropolis museum in Athens, where places are reserved for Ilissos and all the other missing sculptures.
British Museum director Neil MacGregor must have been on tenterhooks when it disappeared from show, in case anyone asked what "display" it was being prepared for.
Sending it in secret to Russia was a nifty piece of footwork. Equally nifty would be if the Greeks could persuade Mr Putin to "return" it - but to Athens, not London.
Mr MacGregor says he is willing to start a dialogue with the Greeks about loans of this kind - and the idea of a permanent loan (of the whole Elgin collection) has been suggested in the past.
But for many Greeks, the idea of borrowing back what they regard as their own property would be painful.
BBC Monitoring says the loan of the Elgin Marbles did not get front page coverage in major Greek newspapers on Friday, but it was reported widely.
Most simply related the story, relying on British media reports for detail, and recalled Greece's long campaign to have the sculptures returned.
Kathimerini and Ta Nea both saw the loan as act of defiance, given Greek wishes.
"The British Museum not only refuses to return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, but, in a move interpreted as a 'show of strength', has decided to lend one of them to the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg," said Ta Nea. Ethnos called it an "unprecedented move".
All papers highlighted the "secrecy" surrounding the move, and some deployed irony. To Vima referred to the "loan" in inverted commas, while the Star news website declared: "For the first time: the British lend out one of the sculptures, but not to Greece!"
In a blog about the loan, Mr MacGregor said the British Museum was a "museum of the world, for the world".
He noted that the British Museum had opened its doors in 1759 and the Hermitage just five years later - making them "almost twins... the first great museums of the European Enlightenment".
The British Museum was today "the most generous lender in the world", he said, "making a reality of the Enlightenment ideal that the greatest things in the world should be seen and studied, shared and enjoyed by as many people in as many countries as possible".
"The trustees have always believed that such loans must continue between museums in spite of political disagreements between governments."
That is how Yeovil Town defender Ben Tozer describes the methods of manager Darren Way.
Some evidence of precisely what Tozer meant emerged on Thursday, when Way surprised the gathered local media with a computer slideshow of his plans for the League Two club.
Having lifted Yeovil from the foot of the Football League to now be 14 points clear of danger, the 36-year-old boss has been rewarded with a three-year deal.
At Thursday's news conference, he was re-introduced by chairman John Fry and then, in front of a room which also included academy players and some of their parents, explained his pathways to success for the Somerset club, before answering questions.
Yeovil have won eight and drawn five of their 16 league games in 2016 since Way was officially appointed, after a six-game spell as interim boss following the departure of Paul Sturrock.
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"Everyone likes him," Tozer told BBC Somerset. "It's incredible the amount of work he has put in to get to where we are.
"You can tell with the way we play for him and work for him.
"When we came in one day, there was green tape everywhere, a horizontal line of green tape. He said it was for the relegation line - we need to finish above that line.
"Little things like that are quirky and stand out. It's worked."
Way was part of the Yeovil team that reached the Football League in 2003.
His career, which included 273 appearances for Yeovil, was ended after a car crash in February 2010 and he subsequently joined the club's coaching team.
On his new contract, Way told BBC Somerset: "The only thing that changes for me is I was a new manager and now I'm a manager.
"It's a proud moment. I appreciate the commitment and support and certainly I'm really, really excited about the future.
"The hard work is just starting now. I have to get people following me in the right way."
The Royal College of Nursing, which made Freedom of Information requests to 27 NHS trusts, said the NHS was being "crippled" by a shortage of nurses.
The biggest rise was at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, which spent £6.1m in 2014, up from £390,000 in 2010.
The hospital trust said it only used agency nurses "when necessary".
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said there were fewer nurses than in 2010, so NHS organisations have had to look for ways to address the shortfall.
As a result, trusts have been paying high rates to agencies to supply temporary staff and recruiting nurses from abroad.
RCN regional director Jeannett Martin said: "An already overstretched workforce is trying to carry out even more work in even less time, so NHS trusts are trying to plug the gap to ensure patients get the care they need, and it is costing the NHS a huge amount of money.
"It takes three years to train a nurse so we need action now to ensure that the UK has the nurses required to provide patients with the care that they need."
The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital's trust said in its last board report in March it was facing an overspend on staff pay of £3.8m, which was partly due to additional agency staff required to cover vacancies.
Deputy chief nurse Tracey Reeves said: "Our priority is providing safe, high quality care for our patients, and we are working hard to ensure that safe staffing levels are maintained.
"A sustained increase in patient demand year on year has increased the need for nursing staff and we have invested over £3.5m over the last two years to increase our nursing establishment."
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust blamed a high volume of patients and "recruitment challenges being experienced across the NHS".
The Department of Health declined to comment.
The number of people donating organs after death has risen by 50% to 1,200 people since 2008. It led to about 3,100 transplants last year.
What is organ donation?
For some seriously ill patients, such as those with acute liver failure or a seriously diseased heart, there is no treatment which can save the organ.
The only option to save their life is an organ transplanted from another person.
There are several types of donation.
The latest figures relate to organs taken after a patient had died. A kidney can be taken from a living donor, often a family member.
Which organs can be donated?
The main transplants are heart, lungs, both kidneys, the pancreas, liver and small bowel. Two corneas can also be transplanted. This is why campaigners say one donor can transform the lives of nine people.
Other tissues such as skin, bone, heart valves, tendons and cartilage can also be used.
Meanwhile, more complicated procedures are being developed.
The UK's first hand transplant took place this year.
Is 1,200 really a success?
Nearly a third of people in the UK, 20 million people, are on the NHS Organ Donor Register.
While half a million people die in the UK each year, fewer than 5,000 die in circumstances which mean they can donate their organs.
Organs can degrade rapidly after death. If the heart stops then oxygen is no longer pumped round the body so tissues die. Most donors are patients already in intensive care who die after a brain haemorrhage, severe head injury, or stroke.
Doctors confirm the patient is brain dead, but a ventilator can keep the blood pumping around the body - preserving the organs for transplant.
Why have the figures gone up?
The increase has been put down to specialist nurses focused on donation who have become a familiar face in intensive care wards.
They approach and support bereaved relatives in hospitals and discuss organ transplants.
Is age a barrier?
No. It is the quality of the organs which count and there have been donations from people well into their 80s. The oldest kidney donor was person aged 85, while the oldest heart donor was 65.
What about poor health?
There are only two conditions which mean people cannot donate - being infected with HIV or having vCJD (the human form of mad cows disease).
A lifetime of heavy smoking is unlikely to leave lungs fit for transplant, however, other organs may still be suitable.
The decision is taken by the surgical team which will access the organs.
Does this affect the presumed consent debate?
In order to be an organ donor you have to opt-in by signing up to the organ donor register.
Some have argued for an opt-out system in which everybody is assumed to be an organ donor unless they state otherwise. This system is in place in other countries and the government in Wales is aiming to introduce presumed consent in 2015.
There is a shortage of organs available for transplant and three people a day still die while on the waiting list. While there has been a surge in donations, it seems unlikely that this will be the end of the debate.
The Bluebirds snatched a late 2-1 win against Bolton to close the gap on sixth-placed Wednesday to four points.
Cardiff must win at Hillsborough on the penultimate weekend of the season to preserve their play-off hopes.
"They [Cardiff's chances] are still slim but probably not as slim as they were before a ball was kicked in the Championship today," said Slade.
"The gap is now four points, and we have a cup final next weekend. We need to dust ourselves down and be ready for it.
"I've always said that if we can take it to the last game of the season, at home, then we would take that."
If Cardiff beat Wednesday, they will trail the Yorkshire club by just one point when the Championship season enters its final weekend.
Slade's side will be at home against Birmingham City, while Wednesday visit Wolves on Saturday, 7 May.
Cardiff midfielder Joe Ralls could be a doubt to face Wednesday after he was taken off at half-time against Bolton because of a thigh strain.
Dutch forward Lex Immers missed the game through illness as he recovers from a hamstring strain, while defenders Bruno Ecuele Manga (malaria) and Fabio (groin) also remain doubts having been absent recently.
"We have to prepare for the Sheffield Wednesday game as normal, but we will do some work on the opposition and see what bodies we have available," said Slade.
"Clearly, we've got to go there and win. It's irrelevant really unless we go and get the three points at Sheffield.
"The odds are stacked against us. If you're betting man on the street, you probably fancy Sheffield are red-hot favourites to get that slot.
"I'd be disappointed if I was a Sheffield Wednesday fan to see the last-minute goal go in. It still means it's game on."
Ross Forbes has the visitors in front early before Jamie McDonagh and Gary Oliver added to the scoreline.
Jai Quitongo scored from a well worked corner kick to increase Queen's misery.
And then Morton captain Thomas O'Ware scored a penalty to wrap up an emphatic win ahead of next week's League Cup semi-final with Aberdeen.
Queen of the South had started strongly and forced a couple of early corners, with talisman Steven Dobbie lashing the ball high over the bar from the edge of the box when he should have done better.
But Morton soon took control and stunned the home fans with the opener.
Forbes cut inside Jordan Marshall effortlessly down the Morton right wing, before curling a delightful shot past the unsighted Lee Robinson in the home goal.
Midway through the first half, against the run of play, Dobbie dashed past the visiting defence and found the space to get a shot at goal, but he dragged the effort just wide of the post.
The visitors were by far the better side though and it was no surprise to see the lead doubled by McDonagh shortly after the half hour. Again, the goal came from an attack down the right-wing where Queens had looked vulnerable all afternoon.
Shock amongst the home fans turned to despair when Morton's third again came from the same area of the pitch.
This time Oliver was the man to supply a fine finish to the delight of the 150 or so travelling supporters.
Queen of the South came back into the game after the break for a spell, but couldn't convert pressure into clear cut chances.
At the other end, Quitongo showed some brilliant footwork before beating Robinson with a fine shot, only to be denied by the inside of the post.
It proved only a stay of execution, as the little striker drilled in a fine finish after a tremendous training ground corner.
O'Ware added to the hurt for Queens fans as he fired in a spot kick.
Match ends, Queen of the South 0, Morton 5.
Second Half ends, Queen of the South 0, Morton 5.
Substitution, Morton. Scott Tiffoney replaces Ross Forbes.
Attempt saved. Jon Scullion (Morton) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Morton. Jon Scullion replaces Jai Quitongo.
Jordan Marshall (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Gary Oliver (Morton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jordan Marshall (Queen of the South).
Attempt saved. Jamie Hamill (Queen of the South) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Jai Quitongo (Morton).
Jamie Hamill (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jai Quitongo (Morton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jamie Hamill (Queen of the South).
Substitution, Morton. Kudus Oyenuga replaces Aidan Nesbitt.
Attempt saved. Lyndon Dykes (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Ross Fergusson replaces Steven Rigg.
Goal! Queen of the South 0, Morton 5. Thomas O'Ware (Morton) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Lee Robinson (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card.
Penalty Morton. Ross Forbes draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Darren Brownlie (Queen of the South) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Jake Pickard (Queen of the South) header from very close range is close, but misses the top left corner.
Jai Quitongo (Morton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Darren Brownlie (Queen of the South).
Attempt missed. Jamie Hamill (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Goal! Queen of the South 0, Morton 4. Jai Quitongo (Morton) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner following a set piece situation.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Andy Dowie.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Dean Brotherston replaces Grant Anderson.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Scott Hooper replaces Mark Millar.
Andy Dowie (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Gary Oliver (Morton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andy Dowie (Queen of the South).
Jai Quitongo (Morton) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the right side of the box.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Michael Doyle.
Jamie McDonagh (Morton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jamie McDonagh (Morton).
Attempt saved. Ross Forbes (Morton) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Andy Murdoch (Morton).
Jordan Marshall (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Grant Anderson.
Thakor, 23, has been suspended on full pay following two incidents which are alleged to have happened in Mickleover, Derby, on 12 June.
Derbyshire and the Professional Cricketers' Association said the player was not on duty with the club at the time of the allegation.
The club said they were unable to comment further at this stage.
Derbyshire Police said they received a report that a man had indecently exposed himself to women on two separate occasions at a housing development off Radbourne Lane, in Mackworth.
A 23-year-old man voluntarily attended St Mary's Wharf police station in Derby and was interviewed in connection with the alleged offences, the force said.
He was released while inquiries continued and the report has been forwarded to the Crown Prosecution Service, which will decide whether he will be charged.
Derbyshire said in a statement: "The club has been advised that the police are investigating an allegation concerning one of our players, Shiv Thakor, when the player was not on duty with the club.
"After discussions with his representatives, the player has been suspended on full pay pending the outcome of the investigation."
Thakor joined Derbyshire after rejecting a new contract with home county Leicestershire in 2014 and signed a new three-year deal in August 2016.
The Public Administration Committee said last year's Iraq Inquiry report had, for many, failed to "provide closure" on an conflict which had left an "indelible scar" on UK politics.
A further probe might be warranted if "relevant material" emerged, it said.
It also said civil servants should have greater scope to challenge decisions if procedures were not properly followed.
The Iraq Inquiry, published last July, concluded that the then prime minister Tony Blair had overstated the threat posed by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, sent ill-prepared troops into battle in 2003 and had "wholly inadequate" plans for the aftermath.
The report, which took seven years to produce, found there was no "imminent threat" from Saddam and the intelligence case for war was "not justified".
In light of these failings and after conducting a "lessons learned" exercise, MPs on the cross-party committee have made a series of recommendations about the conduct of future public inquiries and the machinery of government. They are calling for:
Last November, MPs rejected an SNP motion calling for Mr Blair to be held to account for what he told Parliament in the run-up to the war.
Further action against Mr Blair - who has apologised for any mistakes made but not the decision to go to war - is supported by some of the relatives of the 179 British personnel who died in Iraq between 2003 and 2009.
The committee noted that many MPs who supported the decision to go to war in 2003 have since changed their minds and denounced it. But they said it was clear Parliament could have been "more critical and challenging" of the government's justification for military action at the time.
It noted that the Iraq Inquiry had reached the view that Mr Blair had not personally set out to deceive MPs about Iraq's military capability but it said the question of whether Parliament was misled was still "constantly raised" and could merit further investigation.
"After taking advice, we do not feel that Chilcot or any other inquiries provide a sufficient basis for the committee to conduct such an inquiry.
"However, we think Parliament should be prepared to establish such an inquiry into the matter if any new and relevant material or facts emerge."
Among those who gave evidence to the committee included Iraq Inquiry chair Sir John Chilcot and Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, who is the UK's top civil servant and played a key role in negotiations between the Inquiry and Downing Street about the declassification of secret material, including private correspondence between Mr Blair and US President George W. Bush.
The committee's report, which will be debated by MPs on Thursday, said Sir Jeremy and other top civil servants should have greater powers to intervene in the event of a "breakdown in collective ministerial decision-making" as it claims happened in the run-up to the Iraq conflict.
Should officials be concerned that procedures set out in the Cabinet Manual are not being followed, it says they should be able to record their concerns by issuing a formal ministerial direction or notifying Privy Counsellors.
Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin, the chair of the committee, said the cabinet had been effectively "sidelined" in the run-up to the war and that strong safeguards were needed to stop this from happening again.
"When Tony Blair wanted to write that letter to President Bush saying 'we will be with you whatever', officials tried to stop him but he ignored them," he told the BBC.
"They said cabinet had not been consulted but he said 'send it anyway'. That should not be allowed to happen.
"Just as civil servants can call out what they think is a bad decision in financial decisions, the officials should be able to ask for a letter of direction if cabinet procedure is being by-passed."
A Cabinet Office spokesman said it was "always looking at ways to improve and refine how government works".
"This report will be considered as part of our ongoing work to ensure we have robust processes in place to deliver efficient public services and effective decision-making within government," it said.
Ronaldo, 18, has made seven appearances for Leeds since signing for the Championship side in September 2015.
Meanwhile, brother Romario has signed for United's development squad on a one-year contract.
"It feels great to have managed this within less than a year of first coming to the club," Ronaldo said.
"Me and my brother have played together for most of our lives - I'm happy to be sharing the same club with him again and I'm happy he's been given the opportunity."
General Sir Nicholas Houghton, the chief of the defence staff, criticised the UK policy of restricting RAF air strikes to neighbouring Iraq.
He said the decision "makes no sense" when IS, also known as Isil, has its stronghold in Syria.
MPs rejected possible UK military action in Syria in 2013.
The government remains committed to action in Syria - but will not order air strikes until it is confident it can win win a vote in the Commons authorising them.
About 30 Conservative backbenchers would be likely to vote against military action and ministers are not convinced they can persuade enough of them to change their mind, or get enough Labour MPs to back their case, to win a vote.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said: "The Labour Party is a different organisation to that which we faced before the summer.
"We need to understand where the Labour Party is on this. At the moment even its leader doesn't always agree with its policies.
"There is an exploration process here of understanding whether the majority of Labour MPs would, in fact, back this action."
Mr Hammond told the BBC's Andrew Marr show Britain saw "eye-to-eye" with the Russians on lots of things in Syria, such as "the need to destroy Isil" but he added: "The one thing we disagree on is the future of Bashar al-Assad.
"We and most of our allies believe he needs to go at a point in the transition."
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said it is "morally indefensible" for Britain to rely on other countries to tackle the so-called Islamic State in Syria.
The new owners of Soughton Hall, near Mold, Flintshire, were contacted by Will Bankes whose great-grandparents, Wynne and Elizabeth, were the last people to live there.
He took along artefacts and papers about the 300-year-old building.
"We used to visit my great-grandmother and have tea with her in the library at Soughton," said Mr Bankes.
"We did spend a Christmas there one time when I was about five.
"I also have vivid memories of driving my grandmother's car down the long drive, sitting on her knee. It was a fascinating place to visit as a child."
Built in 1714 by Edward Conway and remodelled by Sir Charles Barry, whose iconic work includes the Houses of Parliament and Highclere Castle of Downton Abbey fame, Soughton Hall became a hotel in the 1980s, with famous clientele like Richard Burton and King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
It is now a wedding venue and has recently undergone a £150,000 refurbishment.
The memorabilia provided by Mr Bankes showed an Edwardian wedding at the house.
James Ramsbottom, whose company now own the building, was also contacted by grandmother Eve Taylor, from Hawarden, who spent much of her childhood at Soughton and served as a cook to Mr Bankes' great-grandparents.
"It is such a grand house and it is terrific to learn that it has such a grand history to accompany it," he said.
"We are asked all the time by our guests about the history of the hall and we feel it is part of our responsibility as the new owners of the building to tell them as much as we can about it."
Norfolk County Council announced immediate changes to its A47 Postwick junction scheme when traffic ground to a halt on Friday morning and evening.
Opening a new slip road sent traffic around the Postwick Hub access roads and meant flows at a crucial roundabout were worse than expected, it said.
The council apologised "to all those whose journeys were disrupted".
New traffic controls have been installed and they will be operated manually to allow for actual traffic flows.
Warning signs are also to go up to alert drivers of any potential delays.
A spokesman said: "The old bridge had been scheduled for a full closure for up to eight weeks for essential maintenance and upgrading.
"It will now remain open for use even when the new bridge opens on Saturday.
"Keeping the old bridge open will allow traffic from the Great Yarmouth direction to avoid the Postwick Hub access roads and will help to relieve any additional pressure on the Peachman Way roundabout at peak times."
Louis took a break from gymnastics after the 2012 Olympic Games but decided to come back in 2014.
With his latest medal, a silver on the pommel horse, he said: "A lot of people thought I wouldn't be able to do it... it's nice to prove those people wrong."
But he was beaten to the top spot by fellow Team GB gymnast Max Whitlock.
"He's the new Louis Smith, the kids are going to be looking up to him - they already do," he says about Max.
Max Whitlock won his first gold of the day in the floor exercise and then followed it up with a second on the pommel horse.
Max said: "I'm literally speechless...you only get a minute to show what you can do on each piece and it just feels incredible."
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For the first time anyone who buys faulty goods will be entitled to a full refund for up to 30 days after the purchase.
Previously consumers were only entitled to refunds for a "reasonable time".
There will also be new protection for people who buy digital content, such as ebooks or online films and music.
They will be entitled to a replacement, if the downloads do not work, but not a refund.
If a download also infects a computer with a virus, the provider could also be liable to pay compensation for getting the virus removed.
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The Act also covers second-hand goods, when bought through a retailer.
People buying services - like a garage repair or a haircut - will also have stronger rights.
Under the new Act, providers who do not carry out the work with reasonable care, as agreed with the consumer, will be obliged to put things right.
Or they may have to give some money back.
In many cases retailers offer to refund goods even when they are not faulty - for example if customers change their minds about a product - but there is no statutory right to a refund.
"The new laws coming in today should make it easier for people to understand and use their rights, regardless of what goods or services they buy," said Gillian Guy the chief executive of Citizens Advice.
When disputes occur, consumers will now be able to take their complaints to certified Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) providers, a cheaper route than going through the courts.
Examples of this include the Consumer Ombudsman, which is free to use for consumers. However not all retailers are signed up to such ADR providers.
The Consumer Rights Act says that goods
The Act has been welcomed by many consumer rights groups and further information can be found here.
"Now, if you buy a product and discover a fault within 30 days you'll be entitled to a full refund," said Hannah Maundrell, the editor of money.co.uk. "The party really is over for retailers that try to argue the point."
The Act also enacts a legal change that will enable British courts to hear US-style class action lawsuits, where one or several people can sue on behalf of a much larger group.
It will make it far easier for groups of consumers or small businesses to seek compensation from firms that have fixed prices and formed cartels.
Roger Gower, 37, who worked for a conservation fund, had been flying near an elephant killed by poachers when his helicopter came under fire last month.
The murder trial itself is due to be held separately in a higher court.
Tanzania lost 60% of its elephant population between 2009 and 2014, mainly due to poaching, officials say.
The four men, among nine people in total charged in connection with Mr Gower's death, pleaded guilty on Thursday to "unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition" at a court in Tanzania's main city Dar es Salaam.
They each received prison sentences ranging between 15 and 20 years.
Mr Gower was originally from Birmingham in the UK and worked in London before moving to East Africa to work as a helicopter pilot.
He was shot down in the Maswa Game Reserve, which borders the world-famous Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania.
Mr Gower managed to land his helicopter but died from his wounds before he could be rescued.
The Spaniard, seeded fifth, had called for the doctor twice before he pulled out trailing 3-0 in the deciding set against world number 94 Damir Dzumhur.
"Hopefully it's nothing, it's just the extreme conditions," said Nadal.
"I called the doctor a couple of times but I felt I was not safe there, so I decided to go."
Dzumhur, the world number 94 from Bosnia-Herzegovina, was leading 2-6 6-4 3-0 after one hour and 50 minutes when Nadal called it a day.
"Everything was fine until the end of the first set," added the 29-year-old.
"I started to feel not very good, it was getting worse and worse and worse. In the second set I realised that I was not able to keep playing. I tried to resist but I got a little bit scared to be too dizzy.
"I wanted to finish the match but I seriously couldn't."
The last match Nadal retired from was the 2010 Australian Open quarter-final against Britain's Andy Murray.
Fourth seed Stan Wawrinka was another leading name to make an early exit, the Swiss player going down 6-4 6-3 to Russia's Andrey Kuznetsov.
Sheku Bayoh, 31, was held following an incident in Hayfield Road, Kirkcaldy, on 3 May but died in custody.
His relatives claim they were told five different versions of what happened.
Peter Watson of PBW Law said: "Comments made by those representing the family of the deceased promote a completely inaccurate and misleading account."
He added: "The officer injured remains off work, has had several hospital visits and is now in rehabilitation.
"An examination by a leading consultant confirms her injuries were significant. The injuries have been documented and photographed.
"The officers involved have never refused to provide statements. It was agreed at the outset with the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC) that they would revert to us when they wanted statements and when they were clear on the basis that statements were to be given.
"PIRC emailed me this morning at 10:46 asking for our assistance to organise interviews and we answered at 11:29 confirming we would be pleased to assist. Those are the facts."
Brian Docherty, Scottish Police Federation chairman, criticised comments made by the Bayoh family's lawyer Aamer Anwar.
He said: "Mr Anwar can try to throw whatever mud he wishes but the fact remains that a petite female police officer was violently assaulted by a large male and believed she was going to die as a consequence.
"In directing increasingly hyperbolic, inaccurate and bizarre rhetoric at the Scottish Police Federation, one could be mistaken for believing that Mr Anwar being at the centre of attention appears to be of greater importance than allowing the investigation to proceed without interference."
PIRC is carrying out an investigation into the death of Mr Bayoh, who had two young sons.
Last month lawer Mr Anwar said Mr Bayoh was a "well-liked, peaceful and healthy young man" who had no previous history of violence.
Mr Anwar said: "The family does not understand why the officers involved in engaging with Sheku Bayoh were not immediately suspended without prejudice after his death.
"It is a matter of wider public concern that officers remain at their desks or in contact with the public pending the outcome of the investigation into a death in custody."
The monument is part of a 2013 out-of-court settlement by the UK government when it agreed to pay £20m ($30m) in compensation to Mau Mau veterans.
It also expressed "sincere regret" for abuses committed under colonial rule.
Thousands of veterans crowded into the memorial site in Nairobi to witness the historic unveiling.
The statue shows a woman handing food to a Mau Mau fighter, their faces turned away so they could not reveal the other's identity if caught by the British authorities.
Tens of thousands of Kenyans were held in detention camps during the Mau Mau campaign. Many suffered abuses including beatings, rape and castration.
"The memorial stands as a symbol of reconciliation between the British government, the Mau Mau, and all those who suffered during the emergency period," Christian Turner, the UK High Commissioner to Kenya, said at the ceremony.
At the scene: Anne Soy, BBC News, Nairobi
Many of the veterans and their families who crowded into Nairobi's Uhuru Park were clad in red T-shirts printed with the words "shujaa wa Mau Mau", meaning "heroes of Mau Mau", the underground movement that fought against British colonial rule.
The midday sun did not deter their enthusiasm as they sang old war songs to remember their struggle for independence.
At the centre of the monument is a sculpture depicting an armed dreadlocked fighter receiving food from a woman in a traditional "kiondoo" basket. The sculptor, Kevin Oduor, told the BBC that it acknowledged the role both men and women played to liberate Kenya. "The veterans re-enacted this scene before I came up with the sculpture," he said.
Excited veterans and their families crowded around the monument as soon as it was unveiled to take pictures. There was a look of satisfaction on their faces. For many, it is a symbol of closure.
Daniel Leader, from the London-based Leigh Day law firm that represented the 5,228 victims Mau Mau veterans who sued for compensation, said the memorial was "historic" and represented "the first apology by the UK government for abuses", the AFP news agency reports.
The Mau Mau began a violent campaign against white settlers in 1952, but the uprising was eventually put down by the British colonial government.
The Kenya Human Rights Commission says 90,000 Kenyans were executed, tortured or maimed, and 160,000 people were detained in appalling conditions. A number of historians believe the figure is lower.
"I want to say to this country's friends all around the world," he told a rally in Ottawa, "on behalf of 35 million Canadians - we're back."
His Liberal Party began the campaign in third place but now has a majority.
Mr Trudeau, an ex-high-school teacher, is the son of late PM Pierre Trudeau.
The BBC's Nick Bryant in Toronto says there is jubilation, but also an air of nostalgia about his victory, as the prime minister's residence is also his childhood home.
Addressing cheering supporters alternately in French and English, Mr Trudeau said: "This afternoon we can celebrate but the work is only beginning".
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During the 11-week election campaign, the Liberal Party said it would:
Why Harper lost
Where did Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper go wrong? After such a resounding defeat, even supporters admit some policies have backfired.
His economic message - based on low taxes and balancing the books - seemed to exaggerate Canada's ability to ride out the global downturn, whereas Mr Trudeau focused on how many people felt.
Mr Harper leader took a hard line on Syrian refugees and opposed the wearing of the niqab at citizenship ceremonies.
While there was support on both these issues, the tipping point came after he suggested a police hotline to report "barbaric cultural practices".
Bill C51, which strengthened powers of surveillance, rallied many against a perceived attack on civil liberties.
The two leaders never warmed to each other. Mr Harper pushed the Keystone XL pipeline hard on a lukewarm US president.
According to a newspaper, Mr Harper was "deeply frustrated" with a president who he felt was "incapable of making a difficult decision".
In 2006, Mr Harper pledged to clean up politics and he introduced a bill to increase accountability but failed to keep more than half of the pledges.
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The economy loomed large during the campaign. Mr Harper highlighted his legacy of balanced budget and tax cuts, while Mr Trudeau pointed to sluggish growth to support his calls to boost demand through public spending.
Mr Trudeau's infrastructure policy is projected to cost C$10bn in the first two years, equivalent to 0.5% of Canada's GDP - tipping the federal budget into deficit. But, BBC business reporter Rob Plummer says, if the money is spent on the wrong kind of infrastructure, it may not do any good, while saddling the government with unnecessary debt.
Whatever happens, richer Canadians can expect to face a higher tax bill, handing over more than half their income in combined federal and provincial taxes, while ordinary people can look forward to tax breaks.
And in the short term, Mr Trudeau's policies may help stabilise the economy, making it unlikely that the Bank of Canada will cut interest rates further - meaning borrowing costs should remain low and house prices relatively high.
Mr Harper, one of the longest-serving Western leaders, had been seeking a rare fourth term.
He will now stand down as Conservative leader but remain as an MP, his party says.
There is no fixed transition period under Canada's constitution. Mr Trudeau is expected to be sworn in in a few weeks' times.
A 42-year-old man, understood to be Robert Daniel, was treated for an arm injury after being shot outside his home in Stepps on Sunday evening.
Detectives are treating the "targeted" attack as attempted murder.
They believe a white Audi estate driven by the suspects fled along the M80 towards Glasgow.
They are particularly keen to hear from anyone who may have dashcam footage.
The victim was reversing his car out of his drive in Honeywell Drive, Cardowan, just after 21:00 on Sunday when a white Audi estate car pulled up and several shots were fired.
A car matching the description was later found burnt out in the Haghill area.
Officers are still trying to establish how many occupants were in the Audi and said inquiries had revealed it sped off down Honeywell Drive and into Dewar Road. It then drove onto the M80 heading towards Glasgow before finally ending up in Hogarth Park, Haghill.
Det Supt Kenny Graham said: "We are following up a number of lines of enquiry. However, we know several people were walking in Dewar Road and in the surrounding areas around the time of the incident. I would urge these people to contact us as I'm sure they have information which could assist our ongoing investigation.
"In terms of the M80, I am appealing to motorists who were on that road on Sunday night, in particular, anyone with any dashcam footage is asked to pass it on to police.
"It could offer us vital footage on the occupants of the car which could lead us to tracing whoever is responsible for this crime."
Detectives have previously said the shooting may be linked to organised crime.
Officers were continuing to carry out door-to-door inquiries and CCTV footage was still being examined.
The arrest forms part of a PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) investigation into the alleged theft of sensitive security documents.
It is understood the documents contained information the police and security service MI5 believe could put the lives of individuals at risk.
The BBC understands they were released to lawyers without authorisation from the ombudsman, or the PSNI.
The police have suspended the release of any further sensitive material to the ombudsman's office until a review of security protocols is carried out.
A 69-year-old man was arrested in Dartford, Kent, on Sunday after detectives from the PSNI's Serious Crime Branch conducted a joint search with local police.
It is understood he retired from the ombudsman's office a number of years ago and that the documents do not refer to any case currently being investigated by it.
This is hugely embarrassing for the Police Ombudsman.
It's not known if the documents released to lawyers contain the names of informers or suspects under investigation, or both, but it's understood that the documents are regarded as historic and not part of any current investigation.
The fact that the PSNI statement was issued by the Assistant Chief Constable who heads its Crime Operations Department, and not the officer leading the actual investigation, is a clear indication that the issue is being taken very seriously.
There have been huge disagreements between the Ombudsman and the PSNI and MI5 over access to sensitive security material.
Some within the police and security services have strongly resisted requests for access to highly-sensitive material and expressed concern that it could be leaked. The Ombudsman's office has dismissed those concerns and pointed out that investigators with access to such information have high-level security clearance.
However, this incident will strengthen the arguments of those who want to limit the amount of material shared with the Ombudsman. That would seriously undermine the Ombudsman's ability to investigate cases where there are serious allegations of wrongdoing by current or former police officers.
In a statement to the BBC, a spokesman for the ombudsman confirmed he was alerted by police last week about the theft of sensitive material originating from the office.
"The material came to light during legal proceedings not connected to the office," he said.
"We immediately asked the police to begin a criminal investigation into how and when this happened. We also informed the Information Commissioner."
Assistant Chief Constable Steve Martin, head of the PSNI's Crime Operations Branch, confirmed that a man has been arrested as part of the investigation.
"The PSNI can confirm that it has become aware of a suspected theft of sensitive documents from within the Office of the Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland," he said in a statement to the BBC.
"We have now commenced a criminal investigation and are also carrying out an assessment of any impact which may be caused by the unauthorised release of sensitive material.".
The statement added that the police and Police Ombudsman's office have agreed to "a temporary period of review during which sensitive information will not be shared."
In its statement, the office of the Police Ombudsman said it was anticipated that this suspension of the sharing of sensitive material "will be temporary."
Jordon Cox, 18, from Brentwood, Essex, was in Sheffield for a lecture and found a one-way train ticket home would cost £47.
He opted instead to fly from East Midlands Airport to Berlin and then fly from Berlin to Stansted.
Mr Cox said the journey, on 20 January, saved him about £8.
He admitted it was not an environmentally-friendly way to travel or the quickest.
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It took him 12 hours to get home compared with the three-and-a-half hour train journey.
• The Brandenburg Gate and free tour of The Reichstag
• Holocaust Memorial and Postdamer Platz
• Mall of Berlin and Museum for Communication
• Currywurst lunch and Checkpoint Charlie
"Obviously it isn't for everyone. Some people will just want to get home, but if you like travelling and saving money then it's a great way to do it.
"The scenery was also 10 times better than any train trip would have been."
Mr Cox, who blogs on the Money Saving Expert website, took a train from Sheffield to Derby and then a bus to East Midlands Airport, from where he flew to the German capital.
He said the trip gave him time to visit the centre of Berlin, which he probably would not have been to otherwise.
The blogger said the two flights, bus fares, his train to Derby, train fares in Berlin and lunch in the German capital cost £44.07, while the train trip plus bus fares and a sandwich would have cost £51.79.
Going from Bournemouth to Liverpool by air can work out £40 cheaper than going there by train - as long as you're prepared to go via Mallorca.
Analysis of flights and rail services shows how people who are prepared to spend longer travelling and go potentially thousands of miles out of their way can cut the costs, at the expense of their carbon footprint.
A rail ticket from Bournemouth to Liverpool Lime Street on 7 April 2016 would set someone back £113 today, according to thetrainline.com booking service.
Starting at 14:45 BST and with a change at Birmingham New Street the five-hour 266-mile journey works out at about 43p per mile.
However, someone willing to set out earlier, take a bus to Bournemouth Airport then fly at 09:10 BST to Mallorca and on to Liverpool John Lennon Airport will pay £72.31, or 3 pence per mile once the bus at the other end is taken into consideration.
The only catch is it means going a long way around, 2,642 miles in total.
It is a similar story with other flights. Going from Birmingham International to Edinburgh Waverley by rail on 2 February 2016 costs £66.51, or 22p per mile. But fly from Birmingham and stop off in Dublin and the cost is £25.91, or 5 pence per mile.
Whether the environmental impact is justified by the cost is a matter for debate.
Analysis by Daniel Wainwright, BBC data journalist
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Priced at just $11 (£8), the pouch was designed by a Singaporean student at Pathlight, the country's first autism-focused school.
PM Lee Hsien Loong and Ms Ho have been in Washington since Monday.
Initially, Ms Ho's choice of accessories was met with some criticism online.
But, once it was discovered to have been designed by 19-year-old Seetoh Sheng Jie of Pathlight, sales of the pouch jumped.
The school typically sells 200 pouches in four months, but sold 200 within a day after images of Ms Ho were shared widely, the school told the BBC.
She was seen carrying the pouch at the arrival ceremony at the White House South Lawn, where President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama officially welcomed Mr Lee and Ms Ho to the US.
The pouch, which is sold on a platform run by the school to promote the talents of people with autism, has since sold out.
Pathlight's principal, Linda Kho, said the school was unaware that Mrs Lee would be bringing the pouch to Washington, which she bought at a recent fundraising event.
"We were pleasantly surprised and honoured that she chose to bring this bag on her official visit. It gave such a great mileage for the artist on our Artist Development Programme (ADP)," she told the BBC.
"[She] is known to be very down to earth and practical and the fact that she carries a less than $20 Singapore dollars pouch to such a world stage event shows she is really confident and authentic."
Ms Ho originally faced much criticism online for her choice in outfit, with netizens quick to point out the difference in dressing between Mrs Obama and Ms Ho.
"[She] really could have chose something, well, more cheery," Dr Siew Tuck Wah, an aesthetics doctor said on Facebook. "We need to get a stylist for her please."
The Pathlight website describes Mr Seetoh as being "extremely pedantic about dinosaurs", with the illustrations drawn from his personal knowledge.
Mr Seetoh was "happy" to find out about the incident, according to his father Mr Jason Seetoh.
"His parents are understandably very proud and honoured," Ms Shae Hung Yee, Senior Manager, Student & Corporate Affairs at Pathlight school said.
Ms Ho is an adviser to the Autism Resource Centre (ARC) in Singapore, which helped set up the Pathlight school.
Reporting by Yvette Tan
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There are clear advantages in being short. Generally, shorter players are more mobile and flexible than taller men and can get into position quicker. Particularly small batsmen do pose unusual problems for bowlers.
England's James Taylor, at 5ft 6ins, emphasised that in the fourth one-day international against Sri Lanka in Colombo on Sunday, as he scored 90 in his side's narrow six-wicket defeat.
Taylor's performance was similar to how a man of similar diminutive size - Aravinda de Silva - used to play for Sri Lanka.
Like De Silva, Taylor pulls balls that are barely short of a length and Sri Lanka soon discovered that after his understandably scratchy beginning. He had just eight from his first 23 balls having come to the wicket in the second over.
Then, he suddenly sidled up the track and picked up a ball from Thisara Perera and hammered it way over midwicket for six. It was an astonishing stroke that surprised the Sri Lankans and got his innings going.
But it was his pulling which was most disconcerting for the bowlers. Several deliveries that would be a decent length to a batsman of average height seem fractionally short to the right-handed Taylor and are rifled to the boundary with a pirouette of the body and a thrust of the bottom hand.
The power Taylor, 24, generates from this rapid swivel and jab of the bat leaves the deep fielders standing.
The huge benefit of this shot is that it forces bowlers to readjust. They can't rely on their regulation length as a banker against Taylor. A simple, good length ball will not guarantee a dot in the book. Often bowlers over-compensate and, in attempting to bowl fuller, over-pitch. Half-volleys materialise.
This frequently happened when bowling to De Silva and, indeed, other short batsmen such as the West Indians Alvin Kallicharran and Gus Logie. They were excellent drivers as well as ferocious pullers and cutters. As a bowler you ended up with no length that you could be sure would contain them.
Taylor enjoys this advantage and makes good use of it. His innings was hugely impressive: lively, energetic, well thought-out, the field manipulated and the ball cleanly struck until he succumbed to cramp.
Most importantly it placed different demands on the bowlers who had to realign their timing - as disruptive to them as a bowler delivering from an unusual angle or an exceptional height is to a batsman.
Diversity in a team is invaluable, as England's bowlers trying to contain the sublime artistry of the right-handed Mahela Jayawardene and the ruthless accumulation of Kumar Sangakkara keep discovering. They put on 96, their 45th partnership of more than 50 in one-day internationals. And both men are under 6ft.
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Their show, Saturday Night Takeaway, received the first prize at the 2015 Bafta TV Awards, a night recognising the biggest names on the small screen.
Picking up the prize, Ant McPartlin told the audience: "What a great start to the show - for us. We're delighted!"
Broadcaster and critic Clive James and Channel 4 News journalist Jon Snow will receive lifetime achievement honours.
Later in the show Benedict Cumberbatch will find out whether he has won his first Bafta for Sherlock - after losing out in 2011 and 2012.
Meanwhile, Broadchurch star Olivia Colman is cited for a fourth consecutive year.
However, neither actor is in attendance at the ceremony.
Read the full list of nominations.
At the beginning of the evening, BBC One led the field with 23 nominations, while non-traditional broadcasters were also starting to make an impact.
In the international category, two of the four nominations went to streaming service Netflix - for the dramas Orange is the New Black and House of Cards.
But the category was eventually won by HBO series True Detective.
The awards, hosted by Graham Norton, are being held at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London, and will be shown on BBC One from 20:00 BST.
"It feels like Christmas Eve," joked Lee Mack, whose BBC One panel show Would I Lie to You? is up for best comedy entertainment programme.
"I always assume we won't win and usually I'm right," added his co-presenter Rob Brydon.
James Corden, whose comedy series The Wrong Mans is up for an award, jetted in from the US, where he recently started presenting his own chat show.
"I landed at 14:00 BST and I leave at 09:00 tomorrow morning," he said. "I'm on the plane longer than I'm here!"
One of this year's nominated shows is BBC Two drama Marvellous, the story of a man with learning difficulties who became kit man with Stoke City Football Club.
Lou Macari, the club's manager at the time, told the BBC earlier that he had never expected to be invited to such a glamorous event.
The former footballer told BBC Radio 5 Live: "I'm thinking: 'What am I doing at [the] Baftas?'.
"But I'm there and I'm going to enjoy it."
Meanwhile, League of Gentlemen star Reece Shearsmith tweeted a good luck message to all the nominees adding: " Tough categories. I wouldn't want to be a judge. Oh, I was."
The woman and her sister, 76, were passengers in a blue Ford Focus driven by the sister's 79-year-old husband.
The northbound car collided with a southbound red Seat Altea on the A76, Catrine, at 11:50 on Monday.
The 32-year-old female Seat driver was not injured. Those in the Ford car were treated in hospital and later released.
On Thursday, the 78-year-old rear seat passenger in the Focus became unwell at home and later died in Ayr Hospital.
A post mortem will take place to establish the cause of her death.
Sgt Kevin Blackley, of Police Scotland, said: "At the time of the crash - it was believed that all three passengers of the Ford Focus had suffered minor injuries and were released after treatment.
"This may obviously still be the case and there may another reason as to her illness, however, because she was involved in the collision a few days prior to her death we are appealing for witnesses who saw it happen at the time.
"Anyone who saw the crash or has any information that will assist officers with their inquiry is asked to contact police."
The incident happened on the westbound carriageway between junction 11 at Reading and junction 12 Theale at about 16:50 GMT.
South Central Ambulance Service said a man was struck by a car close to Reading services. An air ambulance has landed on a nearby field.
The road is likely to remain closed for some time and drivers are advised to avoid the area if possible.
Peter Clifford, 61, from Manchester, will contest the election on 4 May on behalf of the Communist League.
He will campaign about issues such as policing, tackling anti-Semitism and "declining" health care conditions.
The successful candidate will lead Greater Manchester Combined Authority, which is made up of the leaders of each of the area's 10 local authorities.
The mayor will chair meetings and allocate responsibilities to the authority's cabinet.
Candidates so far are:
Sean Anstee (Conservative)
Jane Brophy (Liberal Democrat)
Andy Burnham (Labour)
Peter Clifford (Communist League)
Stephen Morris (English Democrats)
Shneur Odze (UKIP)
Will Patterson (Green Party)
Mr Clifford, a production line butcher at Tulip Meats in Dukinfield, said: "I'm standing to help build a movement of working people to replace capitalism which is the source of the problem."
He said his campaign would take him on to door steps across Greater Manchester where he will explain "how working class people made the two great revolutions of the last century in Cuba and Russia".
"We will need to follow their example and to win we will need a working class revolutionary party, independent of the capitalists," he said.
James Stark, 37, Steven Sheldon, 35, and Martin Williams, 36, all from the Cynon Valley in south Wales, died when a lorry and van collided near Chippenham, Wiltshire, on 9 June 2014.
Stephen Jenkins, 38, of Park View Terrace, Abercwmboi, faces three counts of causing death by dangerous driving.
He is due to go on trial in November, Swindon Crown Court heard.
More than 20 rush-hour trains into London from Kent did not run, with some passengers delayed for two hours.
Services between Ashford and London were disrupted when lines were left without power because of overrunning engineering work.
A Southeastern spokesman said services were now "back to normal".
He said the delays caused by the power loss between Maidstone and Swanley "due to overrunning engineering works, which were supposed to be finished on time today.
"We do apologise for the disruption, but it is out of our control - we can only run our services if the track is fit for purpose," he said.
"Around 70% of all delays are down to infrastructure problems and we are challenging Network Rail to ensure that its asset maintenance programme is fit for purpose."
Network Rail responded saying the conductor rail had been damaged when a piece of equipment broke down at Kemsing.
A spokesman said: "We apologise to passengers who were disrupted this morning and would urge passengers to use the delay repay scheme to claim compensation.
During the disruption, passenger Sue Jones tweeted: "Totally fed up - if my performance at work was as poor as the train companies then I would have been fired!"
The bi-annual National Rail Passenger Survey has found the operators with the three lowest ratings all covered south-east England.
Thameslink had the lowest proportion of satisfied passengers at 73%, followed by Southeastern (75%) and Southern (78%).
Earlier this month, Southeastern blamed "bright sunlight" for delays to services through south-east London.
They may have weakened as voters increasingly act like consumers, happy to switch brands.
But the tribes can still be spotted - groups that could only belong in one political party.
They were there on Monday in Chippenham where David Cameron chose to make the first stump speech of his campaign.
It could have been a country fair or an auction room in the Wiltshire town.
This was the tribe and they visibly brightened when he spoke of "moaning, left-wing commentators" and referred to the Labour leader Ed Miliband as "the man who forgot to mention the deficit".
All political parties need to shore up their base. And even though politics may have changed, the old visceral caricatures still have potency.
So Mr Cameron has quite deliberately gone personal.
"When it comes to who's prime minister, the personal is national," he says.
Labour is depicted as a "bunch of hypocritical, holier-than-thou, hopeless, sneering socialists… the same old condescending, bossy, interfering we-know-best attitude of the Hampstead socialist down the ages".
In many political cultures, politicians go after the metropolitan liberal elite.
In France the centre right mocks rich leftists as the gauche caviar.
In the US, the Republicans scornfully denounce the Washington insiders who "know best".
Although Labour has said it will refrain from personal attacks, it portrays Mr Cameron's government as for "the few at the top".
After the Budget, the Labour leader Ed Miliband said "it's a recovery for the few from a government of the few".
Many Labour supporters like to portray the Conservatives as a party of rich donors, backed by the heavy pockets in the City or by those who live "offshore".
As Len McCluskey, general secretary of the Unite union, said: "If you're a hedge fund, a wealthy retiree or a business shy of providing fairly paid, secure employment, [the Chancellor George] Osborne's Britain is the place for you."
On Monday the actor Martin Freeman came out in support of Labour and said "it was a choice between two completely different sets of values".
The Tories, he said, would "take us on a rollercoaster of cuts".
As Andrew Rawnsley recently wrote in the Observer, both parties "campaign as if they are still back in the 1950s when it really was a two-horse race".
In 1955, the Conservatives and Labour took 96% of the vote. This time round they are each struggling to hold on to a third of votes cast.
The same trend is happening in Europe.
In 1980 an average of 9.8% of the electorates in 13 established democracies were party members.
By the end of the 1990s that figure had almost halved. And the trend has accelerated.
As Peter Mair noted in his book Ruling the Void, voters since the 1980s "appear increasingly accidental or even random.
"There is a world of the parties, or a world of political leaders, that is separate from the world of the citizenry."
All over Europe, citizens are moving away from the established political parties - but the election campaign is still pitched as if the old world continued.
Tribal loyalties may be weakening but Mr Cameron is keen to point out that the choice of prime minister is between him and Mr Miliband.
So the core of the Conservative campaign - as underlined in Chippenham - is to portray Labour as about "more taxes, more spending and more debt", with the line: "Don't put it [the recovery] at risk".
Labour also comes with its warnings; of a Tory party set to reduce the size of the state to the smallest in 80 years; of a recovery that has not reached ordinary people; of a Tory party too dangerous to be left in charge of the National Health Service for five more years.
The reality is that the differences between the two main parties are relatively small.
They are both hemmed in by economic reality.
Both recognise there is a funding gap of £30bn that will have to be filled one way or another.
Both parties have ring-fenced the health and education budgets.
In broad terms, Labour says it will cut less than the Tories, and the Tories say they will tax less than Labour.
If the foundation stones are similar, it becomes even more important to find differences, to demand that your opponent reveals precisely where their cuts in welfare spending will fall.
In a tight race, part of the campaigning will be to embed the caricatures, to deepen the doubts.
Much voting comes down to a gut instinct.
The political parties are trying to sow broad messages: "Don't risk the recovery"; or end a government "for the few".
Part of implanting those broad themes is often to go personal.
The public may say they do not like it but it has long been part of politics.
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Farah, 34, said last year that he will focus on marathons after this year's World Championships in London, which run from 4-13 August.
But he will now compete in the Diamond League at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham on the track on 20 August.
"I'm sure it will be a day I remember for the rest of my life," he said.
Farah won the 5,000m and 10,000m golds at both the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics.
And he will attempt a third successive 5,000m/10,000m double at the World Championships next month.
He ran at the Anniversary Games on Sunday at the London Stadium as he finalised his World Championships preparations with a win the 3,000m with a time of 7:35.15.
The five-time world champion added: "I'll be looking for a good final performance to thank the fans for all their support over the years."
The 23-year-old can "breathe independently" without a ventilator but remains in intensive care after a cardiac arrest on Saturday.
A joint statement by the London Chest Hospital and Bolton said he continued "to show signs of improvement".
It added his condition was no longer critical but remained serious.
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An earlier statement had said "he is also moving his arms and legs" but "his long-term prognosis will remain unclear for some time".
The former England Under-21 player has been at the hospital's heart attack centre after suffering the cardiac arrest during Saturday's FA Cup quarter-final at White Hart Lane.
His fiancee, Shauna Magunda, the mother of his son Joshua, posted on Twitter on Monday evening: "All your prayers are working people thank you so so much. Every prayer makes him stronger."
A family friend, Curtis Codrington, also tweeted that he had visited Muamba in hospital on Monday night. He said the player was as "strong as an ox".
"He said my name words can't describe what I just saw," he added. "To see his wife, to be by his side was great."
Club chairman Phil Gartside and manager Owen Coyle visited the player on Monday morning.
In a statement placed on the club website, Gartside said: "The staff at the London Chest Hospital have been nothing short of exceptional and I would like to thank them all at this ongoing critical time.
"The support we had from Tottenham and our own fans was fantastic - the staff, the fans, the players and the officials at the game - it was unbelievable."
Manager Owen Coyle said: "Everybody is praying for Fabrice, which is very important and that has been a real source of strength to the family."
Meanwhile, Bolton captain Kevin Davies said that suggestions about the club withdrawing from the FA Cup because players were too upset to return to White Hart Lane were "irrelevant" as everybody was focused on Muamba's health.
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Bolton's next Premier League game at Aston Villa on Tuesday has been postponed.
Blackburn Rovers manager Steve Kean also said the club would "do whatever we have to do", and would be happy for Saturday's scheduled Premier League match against Bolton to be called off.
Muamba was born in Zaire, now Democratic Republic of Congo, and moved to England aged 11 as a refugee.
DR Congo FA president Omari Selemani said the midfielder had the support of "65 million" Congolese.
"On the behalf of the Congolese FA, all the Congolese people and myself included, we express our sympathy to Fabrice Muamba."
In the past the player has rejected attempts by the Congolese FA to call him up, choosing instead to play for England at youth level.
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Medics spent six minutes trying to resuscitate Muamba on the pitch after he fell to the ground with no other players around him.
The score was 1-1 when the quarter-final was abandoned after 41 minutes.
It took medical staff two hours to get Muamba breathing again, and they gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation as well as trying to revive him with a defibrillator.
Both sets of supporters chanted Muamba's name as he was taken off the pitch on a stretcher.
Spurs manager Harry Redknapp said at the time: "All we are thinking about now is Fabrice and his family."
Referee Howard Webb called the visibly-shaken players off the field after consulting with Coyle and Redknapp and the game was abandoned.
The IndyCamp group were evicted from their Holyrood camp after 11 months and a lengthy legal case in November.
A panel of judges agreed that the campers were liable for costs.
However, the parliament agreed not to enforce the order until the campers' application for a Supreme Court appeal is settled in the new year.
The camp was set up outside the parliament building in November 2015, with the goal of staying in place until Scotland becomes independent.
The protestors were taken to court by the parliament's corporate body, which argued that they were taking up land that could be used by others and compromising the political neutrality of the Holyrood estate.
Lord Turnbull ruled against the group in the summer after a lengthy legal battle, and his decision was upheld on appeal by the Inner House.
The campers have applied for leave to challenge that ruling in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, and a hearing on that will be held in Edinburgh on 10 January.
In the meantime, the parliament had the group evicted from their camp and put forward a motion to claim costs from the group, citing the cost of the case £105,889.65.
Lady Dorrian, Lord Malcolm and Lord Glennie considered arguments from the parliament's corporate body and the campers at the Court of Session.
Martin Keatings, representing four of the group, said the parliament was using the costs as a "punitive measure" in effect "to teach the respondents a lesson".
He argued that awarding costs would leave the group "destitute", as they "simply don't have the funds to pay" the "unrecoverable amount" sought. He asked the court to refuse the motion or at least mitigate the costs to nil.
Another respondent, Richard McFarlane, told the court that he was "quite frankly skint", adding that in any case, Christ had returned to Earth and had absolved the campers from paying any costs.
He said the group had always been in poverty, saying there was no point in "harassing" them for costs.
One campaigner, who asked to be referred to only as "David" in court, put forward a motion questioning the legitimacy of the court and asking Lady Dorrian, Scotland's second most senior judge, to recuse herself.
He said the "treasonous" court had no jurisdiction as the case was not heard in front of a jury, saying he had "vital evidence" that the case as a whole had been "highly unlawful" and the judgement "null and void". His motion was refused."
The parliament's corporate body - which was represented by law firm Brodies, an advocate and a QC during the case - successfully argued that it was the normal legal convention for the losing side in a case to pay the costs.
Lady Dorrian said: "There is no good reason not to grant the motion. Expenses are awarded to the petitioners."
A spokesman for the Scottish Parliament said: "The SPCB has a duty to use public money prudently, and so welcomes today's decision by the court to award expenses in our favour."
The vehicle blaze was on the eastbound road close to junction 29 for Pant-y-Dulath and the horse got loose near junction 30 westbound.
Emergency services were called to the fire at about 11:40 GMT but all lanes have now reopened.
Traffic heading in both directions had returned to normal by 14:15.
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An £8.6bn deficit on goods was partially offset by an estimated surplus of £7.4bn on services, it said.
The ONS added that in the quarter to April, exports were flat after 0.3% growth in the first quarter, but imports were up 2.1%, the same as in the three months to March.
UK exporters have struggled in the face of weak demand in the eurozone.
Part of the deficit dip was down to a fall in imports of art and furniture, said the ONS. Another factor was less oil being imported.
Last year, companies began stockpiling oil as the price of the commodity collapsed.
The deficit - a description of how much imports exceed exports by value - was less than economists had expected.
"Monthly trade figures are notoriously volatile but today's significant improvement is nonetheless very welcome, but there is no room for any complacency," said David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce.
"The longer-term trend still shows a worsening in the trade position in recent months. It is clear that we are not making enough, sustained, progress in closing the trade gap."
The UK's trade deficit for 2014 widened to £34.8bn, the biggest gap since 2010.
The month saw 462,517 cars registered, up 8.6% on last year, said the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
More than two million cars have been registered so far this year - the first time that the two million mark has been passed in September since 2004.
Car sales have now increased for 43 months in a row, the SMMT said.
March this year saw the the highest monthly level of new car sales this century.
SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes said: "September is traditionally one of the year's biggest months for new car registrations, and last month set an autumn record."
Changes to number plates in September means the month is traditionally one of the busiest of the year.
A spokesman for SMMT said it was too early to say what kind of impact VW's emissions scandal could have on sales.
BBC industry correspondent John Moylan said there were "signs of a growing gap" in the market share of diesel and petrol cars.
"Last year consumers bought more diesel cars than petrol. But in September, 45.9% of car sales were diesel and 51.4% were petrol."
He added that the Volkswagen scandal, with its focus on diesel cars, "is unlikely to help" future diesel sales.
1. Ford Fiesta - 22,807
2. Vauxhall Corsa - 15,670
3. Ford Focus - 14,258
4. Volkswagen Golf - 13,603
5. Volkswagen Polo - 11,026
6. Nissan Qashqai - 10,119
7. Mini - 8,754
8. Vauxhall Astra - 7,920
9, Vauxhall Mokka - 7,670
10. Fiat 500 - 7,460
The parties agreed to back the formation of a minority Labour Welsh Government.
They said it followed "constructive and positive talks" about "shared priorities for the coming assembly, and future working arrangements".
The assembly will reconvene on Wednesday to elect a first minister.
Both party groups met to discuss the proposals on Tuesday.
"We are pleased to confirm that the Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru groups have today contacted the Presiding Officer in order to recall the Assembly tomorrow, and proceed with the nomination procedure for First Minister," the parties said in a joint statement on Tuesday, entitled Moving Wales Forward.
"This will allow the successful nomination of Carwyn Jones as First Minister, and the establishment of a Labour Minority Administration.
"This follows constructive and positive talks about the parties' shared priorities for the coming Assembly, and future working arrangements.
"The First Minister will set out tomorrow the next Government's intentions for the first 100 days, including a commitment to prioritise those areas that enjoy support from across most of the Assembly."
Sources in Plaid and Labour say they have agreed a way for the two parties to exchange ideas and information.
There was no agreement between them on the contentious issue of the M4 relief road, but the sources said the parties had "agreed to progress what they could".
Senior figures from Labour and Plaid Cymru held two days of talks after a Senedd vote was tied 29-29 last Wednesday on whether Mr Jones or Plaid leader Leanne Wood should be first minister.
UKIP and the Welsh Conservatives had backed Ms Wood, while Liberal Democrat AM Kirsty Williams supported Mr Jones.
The tied vote came after Labour fell short of a majority at the 5 May election, leaving it in need of opposition support to govern.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies accused Plaid Cymru of "locking themselves away and doing a cosy deal with their old friends in the Labour Party".
"Plaid Cymru have shown a distinct lack of appetite and ambition in exploring a new kind of collaborative politics," he said.
Leanne Wood, Plaid leader, said her party looks forward to offering "robust opposition over the next five years".
"The Conservatives failed to make a single gain, or to get a single manifesto commitment implemented during their time as the main opposition party in the last Assembly term. Perhaps that's why their seat share went down.
Lib Dem AM Kirsty Williams said: "I welcome the progress that seems to have been made to securing a successful nomination for First Minister tomorrow.
"For my part, I shall engage constructively with others, seeking to do the best for Wales based on Welsh Liberal Democrats policies and priorities."
UKIP is intending to force a vote on the first minister nominations by putting one of their own ranks forward - although assembly sources say this can not be done under Senedd rules.
But it has emerged that the party plans to nominate neither its UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill or UKIP Welsh Assembly group leader Neil Hamilton.
David Rowlands, an AM for South Wales East, is instead the intended nominee.
A source said: "If they put up Neil Hamilton he would have had four votes. That's the reality.
A spokesman for the UKIP group said: "It was Neil Hamilton's idea to put Nathan Gill forward, but then Nathan Gill recommended David Rowlands. Neil accepted his recommendation. There was never any consideration that it might be Neil."
On whether the plan could go ahead, the spokesman said: "The standing orders are not clear and they do not say there cannot be any more nominations. That will be up to the presiding officer however."
That was after its independently commissioned report found evidence of a four-year, state-run "doping programme" across the "vast majority" of the 28 Olympic sports.
Russia's full Olympic team would have consisted of 389 competitors. Of those, 271 were cleared to take part by a three-person International Olympic Committee panel.
However, that number is still rising despite the Games now being under way, with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) handling a number of appeals.
Here's the list of the sports in which Russian athletes have so far been cleared to compete.
Russians hoping to compete: 67
Decision: Some Russians have been banned and further rulings are still expected following appeals to Cas.
London 2012 bronze medallist Yulia Efimova partially won an appeal against her ban on Thursday, 4 August as Cas said it was wrong to stop athletes going to Rio on the basis they had previously been sanctioned. It sent her case back to swimming's governing body for reconsideration as a matter of urgency and she was cleared to compete later the next day, ahead of her first heats.
Russians competing: Three
Decision: World Archery said the three Russians have been "tested extensively" and had no previous doping convictions. It expressed "shock and concern" over recent allegations but praised the IOC's "courageous decision" not to give Russia a "blanket ban".
Russians competing: None
Decision: All 68 Russian athletes have been banned, though US-based long jumper Darya Klishina has been cleared to compete under a neutral flag.
Yuliya Stepanova, the 800m runner whose evidence helped expose the Russian doping scandal, will not be allowed to do the same, however. The IAAF had previously cleared her to compete, but the IOC's latest ruling disallows any athlete with a previous doping ban.
Stepanova has since questioned that ruling, describing it as "unfair".
Russians competing: Four
Decision: The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has included four Russian players, "pending the validation of the International Olympic Committee".
Russians competing: 11
Decision: Governing body the AIBA reviewed each case and cleared each boxer on Thursday, 4 August - and that decision was ratified by the IOC.
Russians competing: 18
Decision: Eighteen Russians remain eligible after the International Canoe Federation "immediately suspended" five of the 23 qualified, as they were named in the McLaren report, pending further investigation.
However, the ROC says one case is still outstanding.
Russians competing: 11
Decision: Governing body the UCI says 11 of Russia's 17 athletes have been cleared to compete, with three withdrawn by the ROC and another three implicated in the McLaren report into state-sponsored doping - their cases are still outstanding.
Russians competing: Five
Decision: Governing body the FEI says there is "no indication of any organised doping malpractices within the Russian equestrian delegation". It adds there is "absolutely no reason why the Russian equestrian athletes should not compete at Rio".
Russians competing: 16
Decision: Fencing's governing body the FIE cleared all 16 Russians to compete, saying it had "re-examined the results from 197 tests taken by Russian athletes in 35 countries, including Russia, between 2014 and 2016", which were all negative.
Russians competing: One
Decision: On Thursday, 4 August, the IOC panel confirmed the eligibility of Maria Verchenova to compete.
Russians competing: 20
Decision: The International Gymnastics Federation announced on 4 August that the IOC had approved 20 gymnasts.
Russians competing: 14
Decision: The International Handball Federation took "immediate action" to re-test Russian athletes following the IOC's ruling and found "all results are negative".
Russians competing: 11
Decision: The International Judo Federation, whose honorary president is Russian President Vladimir Putin, cleared all Russians to compete, with president Marius Vizer saying they had been tested from last September to May "on many occasions, at many international judo events, abroad from Russia".
Russians competing: Three
Decision: One of the four qualifying Russians, plus a reserve, have been banned by governing body the UIPM, after being implicated in the McLaren report's 'Disappearing Positive Methology' scheme. The remaining three have been cleared to compete.
Russians competing: Six
Decision: Russia's initial squad of 28 was reduced following 22 suspensions. Fisa said the latest banned athletes were "not considered to have participated in doping" but did not meet the IOC's criteria of having been tested in labs outside of Russia. An appeal by 17 rowers failed.
Russians competing: Seven
Decision: World Sailing initially suspended Pavel Sozykin but cleared him to compete alongside his other six team-mates.
Russians competing: 18
Decision: An ISSF statement said all 18 Russian shooters are eligible having not been mentioned in the McLaren report, nor tested positive through further doping controls. The governing body added "all Russian athletes are being carefully monitored" by its intelligence-based testing programme.
Russians competing: Three
Decision: "An investigation which included an individual test analysis of each player, conducted outside the Russian anti-doping system met the necessary requirements," said the International Table Tennis Federation.
Russians competing: Three
Decision: Taekwondo's federation has confirmed all three nominated Russians will compete in Rio.
Russians competing: Eight
Decision: The International Tennis Federation said the nominated Russians have been tested 205 times between them since 2014, adding that is "sufficient" for them to go to Rio.
Russians competing: Six
Decision: Russians can compete.
Russians competing: 30
Decision: Governing body the FIVB said it had "conducted a full examination of the Olympic eligibility" of all Russian volleyball and beach volleyball players and had now submitted them all to the IOC for approval.
It had earlier said Russian athletes had been tested at the same level as all other countries and the majority of the testing analysis of Russian athletes had been conducted outside their homeland.
Russians competing: None
Decision: All eight Russian weightlifters have been banned from the Games.
The International Weightlifting Federation confirmed two had been banned for doping violations, while another four were named in the McLaren report into doping.
Russians competing: 16
Decision: One Russian banned.
United World Wrestling appointed a "special commission with the mandate to review the doping cases related to the Russian wrestlers currently qualified to compete for the Rio Games".
On returning its findings, the governing body said Viktor Lebedev, who returned a positive doping test at the 2006 Junior World Championships, will be banned from competing.
However the ROC said one case is outstanding.
Ibe, 20, has been given permission to speak to the Cherries after a 2015-16 season that saw him make 12 Premier League starts for the Reds.
The transfer would top the reported £10m Bournemouth paid Wolves for Benik Afobe in January.
England Under-21 winger Ibe has made 58 appearances for Liverpool since signing from Wycombe Wanderers in 2011.
Ibe had been earmarked as the natural replacement at Anfield for Raheem Sterling after he made a £49m move to Manchester City last summer.
The youngster's form dipped, however, and he was not a regular under Jurgen Klopp after he succeeded Brendan Rodgers as manager.
Ibe did show a glimpse of his promise with a spectacular goal at West Bromwich Albion in Liverpool's final Premier League game of last season.
Bournemouth are seeking reinforcements after selling Matt Ritchie to Newcastle United in a deal that could eventually be worth £12m.
In a statement, the ELN said it had kidnapped the soldier, Freddy Moreno, on 24 January in the eastern province of Arauca.
It said it was willing to release Mr Moreno ahead of peace talks set for next week.
The talks were previously delayed because of the ELN's failure to release the people it is still holding hostage.
Formal peace talks had been due to start at the end of October but the Colombian government said they would not go ahead if the ELN did not first free Odin Sanchez, a former Congressman the rebels have held since April 2016.
The rebels in turn demanded that the government pardon two of its members serving time in Colombian jails.
The two sides struck a deal and the two ELN members were released on Saturday, the ELN confirmed.
The two are expected to serve as rebel negotiators at the peace talks which are due to start on 7 February in the Ecuadorean capital, Quito.
The ELN has said it will release Mr Sanchez on Thursday.
Mr Moreno is expect to be released on the same day.
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The government reached a peace agreement with Colombia's largest rebel group, the Farc, last year.
Members of the Farc have been gathering in "transition zones", where they are to demobilise and lay down their weapons under the supervision of United Nations monitors.
The last of the Farc rebels are expected to reach the designation demobilisation areas by Wednesday, government officials said.
Britain voted by a margin of 52% to 48% to leave the EU - and the contenders to replace David Cameron as PM have all vowed make it happen.
But 22% of people polled for Newsnight said they don't know if it will, while 16% believe the UK will stay in the EU.
Ipsos MORI interviewed 1,077 people between Wednesday and Thursday.
The poll also suggests almost half of voters - 48% - agree there should be a general election before Britain begins Brexit negotiations so that people can vote on plans for life outside the EU.
It comes after US Secretary of State John Kerry suggested the UK might not follow through with its decision to leave.
The vast majority of those interviewed said they would not change their vote if the UK held a second referendum on EU membership.
But 5% of Leave voters said they would now change their vote compared to just 2% of Remain voters.
Results also show that more than half of voters do not believe their current government and MPs reflect the views of the British public towards the EU - including 67% of Leave voters.
And 59% of respondents said they were not confident in Britain's political leaders to get the best possible terms for Britain - rising to 76% of Remain voters.
Quizzed on two of the most contentious issues of the campaign - free movement and membership of the single market - marginally more voters favoured the UK continuing without restrictions on migration in return for continuing to trade in the single market.
A total of 42% of respondents said Britain should continue to allow EU citizens to live and work in Britain in return for access to the single market - including 18% of Leave voters.
But 38% of those polled said losing access to the single market would be a price worth paying for new curbs on immigration.
The overwhelming finding of the poll was that most voters are sticking to their positions - 83% of Remain voters now feel less hopeful for the future of the UK, compared to the 80% of Leave voters who are now more hopeful.
Interviews with adults aged 18-75 across Great Britain were conducted online. Data are weighted to match the profile of the population, and to the estimated relative vote share of this group in the EU referendum.
More on the polling and latest referendum fallout on Newsnight at 22.30 BST on BBC Two, and available on iPlayer in the UK.
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Crossrail is tunnelling right through the heart of London.
They'll create 73 miles of railway line.
The BBC's Richard Westcott was allowed to take a peek.
The man wrote a message on the gantry in what appeared to be some kind of protest, after he climbed up at about midday on Sunday.
He was arrested for causing a public nuisance when he eventually came down shortly after 16:00 BST on Monday.
Leicestershire Police said negotiators talked him down.
Part of the man's message alleged that someone "tried 2 kill me", and he also referred to "2 murder attempts".
The motorway was closed southbound between junctions 23a and 22 earlier, and there is still a lot of congestion despite it being reopened.
After the man came down, Assistant Chief Constable Phil Kay said: "This man is now in custody and therefore I am not able to say more at this stage about the circumstances that led him to climb the stanchion and remain there for so long.
"I am relieved that this protracted incident has now come to a safe conclusion, but I do not underestimate the incredible gridlock and massive inconvenience that this incident has caused to motorists throughout the UK."
He added that he would like to express his "sincere sympathies to the many tens of thousands of people who have been seriously inconvenienced as a result of this incident".
Diversions were in place since Sunday lunchtime, but police said these alternative routes inevitably became "highly congested" too.
Kirsten Farage said the former UKIP leader had moved out of the family home in Kent and the situation "suits everyone" involved.
The remarks follow an unconfirmed newspaper report that Mr Farage was sharing a house in London with the French director of a think-tank.
Mr and Mrs Farage married in 1999 and have two children.
Mr Farage has not commented on the statement put out by his wife.
German-born Mrs Farage said in a statement to the Press Association: "My husband and I have lived separate lives for some years and he moved out of the family home a while ago.
"This is a situation that suits everyone and is not news to any of the people involved."
She urged reporters not to "doorstep" her family home, saying: "Having press camped out in front of my house is extremely distressing, especially for my children. Please let us get on with our lives."
The Mail on Sunday reported at the weekend that Laure Ferrari - who runs the Institute for Direct Democracy in Europe (IDDE) - has been living in the former UKIP leader's house in Chelsea for the past week.
Mr Farage told the newspaper that he was helping her out because she needed accommodation and had nowhere else to stay.
Ms Ferrari said she had been forced to move out of her own flat after the European Parliament stopped IDDE's funding.
A procession accompanying Mr Chavez's coffin took more than six hours to reach the Military Academy where he will lie in state until Friday.
The government has announced seven days of mourning for the president.
Mr Chavez, a controversial figure and staunch critic of the US, was seriously ill with cancer for more than a year.
He died aged 58 on Tuesday after 14 years as president.
A self-proclaimed revolutionary, he inspired a left-wing revival across Latin America.
By Irene CaselliBBC News, Caracas
Dramatic images are being broadcast on Venezuelan TV stations, as the hearse of Hugo Chavez crosses the city surrounded by a sea of red flags. People are crying and sobbing, screaming the name of the late president, many wearing red T-shirts and carrying his images.
"We carry you in our heart," said one woman sobbing on live television. "Long live Hugo Chavez," she screamed.
Foreign presidents, such as Bolivia's Evo Morales, are taking part in the procession, together with Mr Chavez's family members, Vice President Nicolas Maduro and all top government officials.
This is just the beginning of public events to mourn Mr Chavez. The funeral will be held on Friday, and even greater crowds are expected.
Latin American leaders are in Caracas to pay their respects - among them President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina, Jose Mujica of Uruguay and Evo Morales of Bolivia.
Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, Chile, Cuba and the Caribbean island of Dominica have declared periods of official mourning.
Another Chavez ally, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, also announced a day of mourning, describing him as a "martyr".
On Wednesday morning, a priest prayed for eternal rest for Mr Chavez in a brief ceremony at the hospital where he died on Tuesday.
Officials then put the flag-draped coffin on top of a waiting hearse surrounded by crowds.
The procession began its slow 8km (five-mile) journey through the streets of Caracas, led by officials including Vice-President Nicolas Maduro and accompanied by cheering red-clad supporters.
Some shouted "Chavez to the pantheon", referring to the mausoleum he built for revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar.
"I'm here to say my final goodbye to my president. There will never be another Chavez. He is the greatest man that this fatherland gave us," said Jose Gregorio Conde, 34, an education worker, quoted by AFP news agency.
Seven hours later, the streets were still filled with people, some of them crying or clutching pictures of the dead leader, as the coffin arrived at the Military Academy.
Mr Chavez's illness prevented him from taking the oath of office after he was re-elected for a fourth term in October.
Announcing the president's death on Tuesday, Vice-President Nicolas Maduro called on the nation to close ranks after its leader's demise.
"Let there be no weakness, no violence. Let there be no hate. In our hearts there should only be one sentiment: Love."
A statement from the military said it would remain loyal to the vice-president and to parliament, it added, urging people to remain calm.
Vice-President Maduro will assume the presidency until an election is called within 30 days.
Foreign Minister Elias Jaua told state television that Mr Maduro would also be the candidate of the governing United Socialist Party (PSUV).
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles, whom Mr Chavez defeated in October's election, offered his condolences to Mr Chavez's family, saying "we were adversaries, but never enemies".
Mr Capriles is widely expected to be chosen to stand against the vice-president.
The BBC's Irene Caselli, in Caracas, says Mr Maduro will probably win, but the question remains whether he will be able to lead Venezuela following the loss of its charismatic president.
The exact nature of Mr Chavez's cancer was never officially disclosed, leading to continuing speculation about his health, and he had not been seen in public for several months.
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Last May, the former army paratrooper said he had recovered from an unspecified cancer, after undergoing surgery and chemotherapy in 2011 and a further operation in February 2012.
Despite this, he won another six-year presidential term in October 2012.
Mr Maduro has mentioned a plot against Venezuela, saying he had no doubt that Mr Chavez's cancer, first diagnosed in 2011, had been induced by foul play by Venezuela's enemies. The US promptly rejected the accusations as "absurd".
Two US diplomats had been expelled from the country for spying on Venezuela's military, Mr Maduro added.
Mr Chavez burst onto Venezuela's national stage in 1992 to lead a failed military coup.
After two years in prison, he returned to politics and was swept to power in a 1998 election.
A self-proclaimed socialist and revolutionary, he won enduring support among the poor and repeated election victories by using Venezuela's oil wealth to pursue socialist policies.
His government has implemented a number of "missions" or social programmes, including education and health services for all.
But his opponents accused him of mishandling the economy and taking the country towards dictatorship. Inequality has been reduced but growth overall has been lower than in some other Latin American economies.
Internationally, he was a staunch critic of US "imperialism" and accused Washington of backing a failed coup against him in 2002.
The US described the death as a "challenging time", reaffirming what it described as its support for the Venezuelan people and its interest in developing a constructive relationship with Caracas.
Later, unnamed Washington officials said a US delegation would be sent to Mr Chavez's funeral.
Analysts say the death could alter the political balance in Latin America - dealing a blow to leftist states while favouring more centrist countries.
There could also be an economic impact given that Venezuela sells oil at below market prices to some neighbouring countries, especially in the Caribbean.
Lawro's opponent for this week's fixtures is comedian Tim Vine.
Vine, who has just released his latest live DVD - 'Tim Timinee Tim Timinee Tim Tim To You' - is a Sutton United fan who is looking forward to their FA Cup second-round tie at home to Cheltenham Town on Saturday (15:00 GMT).
"The great attraction of a small football club is the feel of it," he told BBC Sport. "We all hear the complaints about big clubs being very corporate but you go to Sutton United, there is not a prawn in sight - it is Marmite sandwiches and sausages, and about seven or eight people.
"The FA Cup is special too. It still contains that romance that no other football trophy has, because it reaches to all the small clubs like Sutton who suddenly have a glimpse of glory."
Football Focus comes live from Sutton's Ganders Green Lane home at 12:00 GMT, and Vine will deliver a team-talk to his team during the show.
Host Dan Walker will be joined by Tony Rains and Matthew Hanlan, Sutton's two goalscorers in their famous giant-killing win over Coventry in the FA Cup third round in 1989.
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Stoke City 2-0 Burnley
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Sunderland 2-1 Leicester City
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West Brom 3-1 Watford
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West Ham 1-5 Arsenal
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Bournemouth 4-3 Liverpool
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Everton 1-1 Man Utd
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Middlesbrough 1-0 Hull City
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The six men, who were hanged, were accused of being members of militant group Sinai Province, which has pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS).
They were found guilty of killing of two officers during a gunfight in March 2014.
However, rights groups had called for a retrial for the six men, arguing that the court process was flawed.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said that three of the men were in custody at that time, and could not have carried out the attack in Arab Sharkas, a village north of Cairo.
Amnesty described the men's trial as "grossly unfair" and said the men said they were tortured into confessing to the charges.
The Sinai Province group has carried out a series of attacks against military targets in Egypt's Sinai peninsula since the army ousted President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
The group has been involved in suicide bombings, drive-by shootings, assassinations and beheadings.
The group was previously called Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (Champions of Jerusalem), but announced a name change in November 2014 after pledging allegiance to IS.
The execution comes a day after a court handed down death sentences to Mr Morsi and more than 100 other people, over a mass prison break in 2011.
Shortly after the ruling, gunmen shot dead four people, including three judges, in the northern Sinai city of al-Arish.
Moe Thwe, a protest leader, and seven others were charged with incitement against the state and demonstrating illegally. They deny the charges.
All were refused bail. Another two activists are wanted by police.
The case is seen as a test of how the new government handles growing protests over projects begun under the military.
Farmers around the country say they have been evicted in land grabs to make way for industry. The authorities deny the allegations.
Dozens of people were injured when police broke up protests against the vast Chinese-backed mine at Monywa in the north-west last Thursday.
Kyi Zin Tha of pro-democracy group Generation Wave told BBC Burmese those produced in court on Monday had not been inciting against the state.
He said they had been responding to public anger at the use of force against protesters, including many monks.
About 70 monks were taken to hospital with burns after last week's crackdown on protest camps near Monywa, BBC Burmese says.
The farmers started their protest in June, saying they had been forced to accept a deal two years ago under which they gave up their land in return for new housing and financial compensation.
The mine's billion-dollar expansion project covers several thousand hectares of land in Burma's Sagaing region.
It is owned by the military and Chinese arms manufacturer Norinco.
The company has said that the deal was voluntary, and that only a small minority of farmers rejected it. The government says it is still committed to a full inquiry into the farmers' complaint.
The farmers have little experience of political mobilisation, and have been encouraged by the involvement of political activists and the support of Buddhist monks.
The BBC's Jonathan Head, who recently visited the Monywa mine, says it has now become a national cause, encompassing issues that will be central to Burma's post-military development - land rights, environmental protection, freedom to protest, and balancing the interests of big investors with those of ordinary Burmese citizens.
Of these, land may turn out to be the most explosive issue, and the hardest for the new government to solve, he says.
On-loan Everton striker Dyson gave the hosts the lead from the penalty spot before Clements wrapped up the points, with Brad Halliday grabbing a late consolation for Shaun Derry's side.
After an even first half with few chances, Grimsby began the second half brightly as Jamey Osborne saw a curling effort from the edge of the box deflected over for a corner.
And it was the midfielder who won a penalty moments later as he was brought down by Conor Newton, giving Dyson the chance to slam the ball past goalkeeper Will Norris.
Medy Elito was presented with a chance to bring Cambridge level seconds after coming on as a substitute, but his first-time shot was well-saved by James McKeown.
Clements made it 2-0 late on as he slotted home from Osborne's cutback, but Halliday set up a grandstand finish as he headed in late on.
Grimsby managed to hang onto their lead, though, as Slade made the perfect start to his second stint at Blundell Park.
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Match ends, Grimsby Town 2, Cambridge United 1.
Second Half ends, Grimsby Town 2, Cambridge United 1.
(Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Leon Legge (Cambridge United).
Goal! Grimsby Town 2, Cambridge United 1. Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) header from very close range to the top right corner. Assisted by Adam McGurk with a cross.
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andrew Boyce (Grimsby Town).
Substitution, Cambridge United. Paul Lewis replaces Liam O'Neil.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Craig Disley replaces Sam Jones.
Attempt saved. Medy Elito (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Grimsby Town 2, Cambridge United 0. Chris Clements (Grimsby Town) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jamey Osborne with a cross.
Attempt missed. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Danny Collins (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adam McGurk (Cambridge United).
Jamey Osborne (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United).
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Gavin Gunning.
Chris Clements (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Medy Elito (Cambridge United).
Tom Bolarinwa (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jake Carroll (Cambridge United).
Foul by Gavin Gunning (Grimsby Town).
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Adam McGurk replaces Conor Newton.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Tom Bolarinwa replaces James Berrett.
Sam Jones (Grimsby Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Sam Jones (Grimsby Town).
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Liam O'Neil (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by James McKeown.
Attempt saved. Medy Elito (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Sam Jones (Grimsby Town) because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Medy Elito replaces George Maris.
Goal! Grimsby Town 1, Cambridge United 0. Callum Dyson (Grimsby Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty Grimsby Town. Jamey Osborne draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) after a foul in the penalty area.
Corner, Grimsby Town. Conceded by Leon Legge.
Resuming on 52-2, the Derbyshire skipper added 112 for the third wicket with Wayne Madsen (56).
Luke Wood removed Godleman (121), but Daryn Smit (32) and Tom Taylor (32) helped the visitors to 363 all out.
Smit's stunning catch removed India Test batsman Cheteshwar Pujara to leave Notts 67-2, still 67 adrift at stumps.
Nottinghamshire assistant head coach Paul Franks told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"We are behind the game, let's not kid ourselves. I think Derbyshire have played better cricket than would belie their position in the table and we've not been at our best. Let's not hide from that.
"We didn't do enough yesterday with the bat to get into a position where we could then capitalise with the ball.
"We created a chance to dismiss Billy Godleman last night and didn't take it and he made us pay with a hundred, so credit to them for building a very good first innings score and they are now putting us under pressure."
Wayne Madsen told BBC Radio Derby:
"We've competed well yesterday and today. We are happy that we are now in a position where going forward we have a decent chance in this game if we play some good cricket tomorrow and on Monday.
"We knew we wanted to start well and get as close to their score as possible, but if we could get through the first hour with no damage, then good; and that's what we did.
"Our partnership set us up for the day and we were able to take it past them."
The announcement, by the archbishop of Boston, follows a meeting between the Pope and his eight cardinal advisers.
It comes days after the Vatican refused a UN request for information on alleged abuse by priests, nuns or monks.
One of the main Italian associations of clerical abuse survivors has said it has "little trust" in the Vatican.
Pope Francis has said dealing with sex abuse is vital for the Church's credibility.
Earlier this week the Pope expressed his compassion for the many victims of sex abuse by priests around the world.
Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston, said the proposed panel of experts could provide codes of conduct for clergymen, guidelines for Church officials and better checks for would-be priests.
"Up until now there has been so much focus on the judicial parts of this but the pastoral part is very, very important. The Holy Father is concerned about that," he said.
"We feel that having the advantage of a commission of experts who will be able to study these issues and bring concrete recommendations for the Holy Father and the Holy See will be very important."
He added that the move was in line with the approach of the former Pope, Benedict XVI, who referred to the "filth" in the Catholic Church. Pope Benedict was, however, accused of failing to do enough to address the problem.
The Commission will keep the Pope informed about programmes in place for the protection of children, will formulate suggestions for new initiatives, the Vatican said in a statement.
The archdiocese of Boston was the centre of a child sexual abuse scandal involving Catholic priests in the US in 2002. It ultimately led to the resignation of the archbishop at the time.
The Catholic Church has faced a raft of allegations of child sex abuse by priests around the world and criticism over inadequate responses by bishops.
Earlier this year the Pope strengthened Vatican laws on child abuse, broadening the definition of crimes against minors to include sexual abuse of children.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child put a wide-ranging questionnaire to the Holy See - the city state's diplomatic entity - last July, asking for detailed information about the particulars of all sexual abuse cases notified to the Vatican since 1995.
The Vatican refused, saying the cases were the responsibility of the judicial systems of countries where abuse took place.
Vatican officials are due to be questioned about child abuse, among other issues, by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in January.
Saturday's 2-1 Scottish Cup final win over Aberdeen sealed an unprecedented, unbeaten domestic treble for Celtic.
"It's phenomenal," said midfielder Brown, who has won seven league titles, three Scottish Cups and three League Cups with the Glasgow side.
"For the 10 years I've been here this is best, most determined bunch of lads I've ever played with."
No Scottish club had previously won the treble without losing a game, and 31-year-old Brown added: "This is the best achievement anyone can ask for."
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Brown credited "phenomenal manager" Brendan Rodgers for Celtic's stunning season, and looked back at the Northern Irishman's first game in charge - a shock 1-0 first-leg Champions League qualifying defeat by Lincoln Red Imps of Gibraltar.
"From the start of the season, away to Gibraltar, nobody would've expected this," the Scotland international added. "But it shows how well we prepared and how much dedication we put into the whole season.
"What we've just achieved, I don't think it will sink in for a few days."
The treble was sealed against Aberdeen thanks to a late Tom Rogic goal at Hampden on Saturday.
Jonny Hayes had given an impressive Dons outfit an early lead, before Stuart Armstrong quickly levelled with a fine left-footed strike.
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Aberdeen, who also finished second in the Scottish Premiership and runners-up in the League Cup, provided Rodgers' side with possibly their most testing domestic contest of the campaign on Saturday.
And despite their dominance this term, Brown admitted the sense of occasion may have played on the minds of the Celtic players in the first half at Hampden.
"The nerves got to us a little bit in the first half. But we sat down in the dressing room, the gaffer was brilliant, and we went out in the second half and knew what we had to do," he added.
"There's always nerves in big games - and to go through the season undefeated, to win the treble, there's always going to be nerves."
Those worries were gone by the time Rogic netted the late winner, with Celtic having dominated the latter stages of the showpiece.
"Its hard to put into words," said the Australian match-winner. "I don't think it has sunk in yet.
"When we look back on going unbeaten through the season domestically with the amount of games we play, and to clinch the treble like that in the last minute is a pretty cool moment."
The TV chef, who led a successful campaign to improve the quality of school food, said the move "put future generations at risk".
He said: "It's a fact. Children perform better after eating a decent lunch."
The Conservatives want to axe the free meals plan for to save money to plug gaps in England's school finances.
The party hopes to save £650m by ending the right to a free meal for all children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2, but has pledged to offer all children a free breakfast.
It said in its manifesto: "We do not believe that giving school lunches to all children free of charge for the first three years of primary school - regardless of the income of their parents - is a sensible use of public money.
"There is now good evidence that school breakfasts are at least as effective in helping children to make progress in school."
But Oliver, whose campaign led to the introduction of tough nutritional guidelines in schools, said: "We've already seen the Childhood Obesity Strategy ripped to shreds, now Theresa May and her government have decided to remove free school lunches from millions of primary children.
"This is a disgrace."
He added: "This move shows a complete lack of understanding of all the data that's been shared and puts our future generations at huge risk, as well as further undermining our teachers who benefit from well-fed kids.
"What are they going to snatch back next?"
National Union of Teachers general secretary Kevin Courtney said cancelling the policy did not make sense, or represent value for money, given the investment many schools had already made in kitchens and staffing to ensure their availability.
"Breakfast clubs are a good addition if properly funded, but getting rid of a universal offer of a hot meal in the day is mean-spirited and wrong-headed.
"It is a long time for a child to go without food from the morning until 15:30, which will be the case for many families in work but struggling."
The National Association of Head Teachers head of policy Valentine Mulholland said it was sad to see the U-turn.
She added: "Many of our members have reported significant improvement in concentration and engagement with learning from pupils since the introduction of the policy, as already evidenced when it was initially piloted."
Labour, which has pledged to introduce free school meals for all primary school children, said the Conservative plan was taking away food from infants to "plug massive holes left by their cuts in school budgets".
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Last week Mr McKinnon's mother said the 46-year-old "had no choice" but to refuse a medical test to see if he was fit to be extradited.
Mr McKinnon, from north London, admits hacking US military computers but says he was looking for evidence of UFOs.
If he is convicted in the US, he could face up to 60 years in jail.
The latest hearing has mainly been about the timescale of the case, BBC correspondent Daniel Boetcher said.
This is partly due to the amount of evidence that has to be considered, but also because Home Secretary Theresa May now had an "increased and all-consuming involvement in the Olympic Games", according to the barrister for the Home Office.
The court also heard that Mrs May wanted to make her decision when Parliament was sitting.
At an earlier hearing, judges were told she was "close" to making a decision.
Mrs May said she was "personally concerned" Mr McKinnon had not been examined by a Home Office-appointed medical assessor, to decide whether there was a risk of suicide if he was extradited.
But his family said the Home Office expert, Professor Thomas Fahy, had no experience in uncovering suicidal tendencies in Asperger's syndrome patients.
Mr McKinnon, who hacked into the US computers in 2002, has been fighting extradition since 2006.
Joe Reilly, 43, a father of one, was shot twice in the chest at Glenwood Court, Poleglass, earlier this month.
Two other people in the house at the time were told to lie on the kitchen floor while the shooting took place.
Police spoke after revisiting the scene as part of a reconstruction to encourage witnesses to come forward.
Det Ch Insp Peter Montgomery urged people to "remember there is a handgun out there which may be used to inflict another death".
He said that a number of witnesses had come forward since the shooting but that police "need the community... to provide us with information so that we can progress our investigation".
"A line of enquiry I'm following is in relation to drugs and I believe this murder has been carried out by a paramilitary organisation," said Det Ch Insp Peter Montgomery.
"At this stage it's too early to say which organisation and I need the public to come forward to help me identify what organisation I should be concentrating on and who are the gunmen involved."
He said that police have a "clearer picture of where the killers went after the murder" and know "the type of clothing the killers were wearing".
"Both were wearing half-zip hooded sports tops and skin-tight jogging bottoms.
"Both had their faces covered and at least one had a Celtic scarf up over his face and was wearing dark-rimmed glasses."
He added: "As members of a civilised society, we owe it to ourselves, to each other and to victims like Joe Reilly and his family to put those responsible for his death before the courts."
Sporting director Monchi says the Serie A club have made an improved offer - of more than 30m euros (£27.1m) - for the 26-year-old Algerian.
Mahrez, who helped Leicester win the Premier League title in 2015-16, has asked to leave.
"At the moment, the club is very close to the limit and I believe our offer is very significant," said Monchi.
Speaking to his club's website, he added: "If my memory does not deceive me, the last offer we made would make it the most expensive purchase in the history of the club.
"We are not making any effort to sign the player, but at the moment we are still waiting on a positive result. At the same time, we are working on other solutions.
"He has said publicly [that he wants to leave] but I think he also respects his club, and rightly so."
The deficit has been partly caused by the Swans' increased wage bill, which has since been reduced this summer.
But the losses are not thought to have directly affected the club's transfer activity, with funds available to head coach Francesco Guidolin.
"I am happy with the squad I have available," Guidolin said.
"There is plenty of quality there and the club has done well to allow me to do my job in the right way.
"I am confident we can and will have a good season."
An American consortium, led by Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan, bought a controlling stake of 68% in the club in July.
The 2015-16 losses contributed to the eagerness of Swansea's existing directors to attract additional investment.
Some of Swansea's highest earners have left this summer, with Ashley Williams joining Everton, Andre Ayew moving to West Ham and Bafetimbi Gomis signing for Marseille on loan.
The Swans have signed strikers Borja Baston - for a club-record £15m fee - and Fernando Llorente, as well as midfielder Leroy Fer, defenders Mike van der Hoorn and Alfie Mawson and goalkeeper Mark Birighitti.
Swansea failed to make any further additions on transfer deadline day, though chairman Jenkins defended the club's business.
"The team has been in transition over the last year or two, with a number of players who have been the bedrock of our success in first achieving and then maintaining our Premier League status moving on for different reasons," he said.
"That transition, which happens to all clubs and proved the downfall of many, has to be managed.
"The recent majority shareholder takeover will help us secure that future, which is one of the reasons they came on board.
"Our accounts are due out next month and it will highlight a significant loss for last season.
"That's why we always have to strike a balance to work financially within the budgets we have."
It has traditionally stated its general aim as being to "safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilisation" of its members by promoting "stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area".
Members agree that an armed attack against one shall be considered an attack against them all, and that they will come to the aid of one another.
Profile compiled by BBC Monitoring
Originally consisting of 12 countries, the organisation expanded to include Greece and Turkey in 1952 and West Germany in 1955. However, then, as now, the alliance was militarily dominated by the United States.
In 1955 the Soviet Union created a counter-alliance called the Warsaw Pact, which dissolved after the break-up of the USSR in 1991.
The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland became the first former Warsaw Pact countries to gain Nato membership in 1999.
The next historic step came in 2004 when Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, republics of the USSR until its collapse in 1991, along with Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania were welcomed as Nato members at a ceremony in Washington.
Bosnia, Montenegro and Serbia have joined Nato's Partnership for Peace programme - a first step towards membership. At a summit in Bucharest in early April 2008, NATO countries invited Albania and Croatia to join on schedule.
Greece vetoed Macedonia's application, but the alliance agreed that the country would be invited when it settles its dispute with Greece over its name. The International Court of Justice ruled in 2012 that Greece had been wrong to veto the application. This opens the way to a new Macedonian bid.
Nato was set up in the post-World War II atmosphere of anxiety, largely to block Soviet expansion into Europe. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and subsequent demise of the Warsaw Pact, therefore, left Nato with no obvious purpose.
Since then Nato has used its defensive role to justify a more proactive approach to "out of area" activities - arguing that instability in any part of Europe would constitute a threat to its members.
Thus, at the end of 1995 it organised its first ever multinational Implementation Force (Ifor), under a United Nations mandate to implement the military aspects of the Bosnian peace agreement.
In 1999 the alliance launched an 11-week campaign of air strikes against Yugoslavia to push Serb forces out of Kosovo. The strikes were the largest military operation ever undertaken by Nato, and the first time it had used force against a sovereign state without UN approval. The Nato peacekeeping force remains in Kosovo, although it has been scaled down from 16,000 to about 6,000 by 2012.
In 2003 Nato took its operations outside Europe for the first time when it assumed strategic command of the UN-mandated peacekeeping force in and immediately around the Afghan capital, Kabul.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Nato embarked on a series of steps designed to build new relationships with former Warsaw Pact countries and particularly with Russia, which was profoundly suspicious of the alliance's plans to expand eastwards.
In 1994 Nato offered former Warsaw Pact members limited associations in the form of the Partnership for Peace programme, allowing them to participate in information sharing, joint exercises and peacekeeping operations.
But this simply appeared to confirm Russian fears that Nato posed a creeping threat to its security.
The Nato-Russia Permanent Joint Council was established in May 1997 to give Russia a consultative role in discussion of matters of mutual interest. While Moscow was given a voice, it rarely felt that it was really listened to.
Russia's fears intensified when in 1999 the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland became the first former Soviet bloc states to join Nato, bringing the alliance's borders 400 miles closer to the Russian frontier.
The 11 September 2001 attacks on targets in the US were a pivotal moment for Nato. The US did not involve the alliance in the international military campaign that followed, even though Secretary-General George Robertson quickly invoked Article Five of the Nato constitution declaring an attack on one member to be an attack on all.
Russia's supportive reaction following the attacks proved to be the catalyst for a thaw in relations with Moscow. The establishment of the Nato-Russia Council was agreed in May 2002. This body gives Russia an equal role with the Nato countries in decision-making on policy to counter terrorism and other security threats.
However, the relationship with Russia continued to be difficult. Russia was unhappy that the Nato expansion of early 2004 brought the alliance to its borders. Relations took a marked turn for the worse after the brief Russo-Georgian war of August 2008, when Nato announced that cooperation would be suspended until Moscow pulled all its troops out of Georgia.
Relations improved after Barack Obama assumed the US presidency in January 2009, and Nato announced in March 2009 that it would be resuming high-level contacts with Russia.
However, relations took a turn for the worse in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine and was accused of supporting separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine. The developments appeared to give Nato, which some described as a Cold War relic, new relevance.
Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the Ukraine crisis "reminds us just how important Nato is. The idea of collective defence has become more important given how Russia is using force to change borders in Europe."
Disputes between Germany, France and the US over the 2003 invasion of Iraq caused one of the worst crises in Nato history. The alliance itself played no part in the invasion, although most member countries did. It later assisted in training Iraqi security forces.
Nato has since shaped a new role for itself. It took command of the international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan in 2003 as part of a growing awareness of the global terrorist threat, and set up a 9,000-strong rapid reaction force for swift deployment to trouble spots anywhere in the world.
However, the reluctance of many Nato governments to supply reinforcements for the Afghan mission raised questions about the alliance's ability to sustain such large-scale operations.
At a key summit held in Lisbon in November 2010 the alliance adopted a new "strategic concept" or mission statement that pledged it to cut costs while prioritising defence against new emerging threats, such as cyber attacks.
Nato allies also agreed to deploy a missile defence system to cover all of the territory of its European members, complementing US plans for a missile defence shield.
And agreement was secured on moving towards Afghan control of internal security, which is due to begin in July 2011 and envisages full Afghan control by the end of 2014.
The imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya in March 2011 posed a tricky problem for the alliance. Although countries such as Britain and the US were keen for Nato to play a major role in heading the operation, some Arab governments were initially uneasy at the prospect of Nato command.
Following a period of disagreement and confusion, Nato agreed to take on the responsibility of enforcing the no-fly zone, which proved crucial in defeating pro-Gaddafi forces in October.
The European Commission's plan for standard time limits for flying will now come into force across the EU.
The transport committee rejected the plan last week, after safety concerns were raised by the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) and others.
But the changes have broad support from member governments, including the UK.
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) also backed the plans.
The transport committee's recommendation to dismiss the new rules was rejected by 387 MEPs, with 218 voting in favour and 66 abstaining.
Balpa argues the proposals could mean some aircrews fly for longer, with more risk of pilots falling asleep at the controls.
However, EU officials insist the new rules will boost safety standards and ensure that all European airlines have the same maximum time limits for flying.
Under the new act
There has been a huge row over whether the proposals really will make flying safer, the BBC's Duncan Crawford reports from Strasbourg.
Balpa argues that loopholes in the proposals could result in British aircrews being on shift for longer, with pilots potentially being awake for 22 hours before needing to land an aircraft.
The group is concerned that the new limits lower existing UK standards - saying that, for instance, crews might have to do up to seven 05:00 starts in a row, up from three.
The maximum of 1,000 flying hours is an increase on the current 900 that applies in Britain - though airlines will be free to stick to the 900 if they wish.
Jim McAuslan, Balpa's secretary general, said after the vote: "British pilots want to make every flight a safe flight and are deeply concerned that these unsafe new EU rules will put the lives of passengers at risk."
He accused the British government and CAA of forcing through the new regulations.
"Passengers and pilots deserve flight safety rules based on rigorous science and evidence, not secret dodgy deal-making in Strasbourg, which will mean that Britain no longer has the safest skies in Europe," he said.
That claim has been dismissed as a distortion, our correspondent says. An EU official said suggestions the new rules would weaken safety were "false and irresponsible".
The European Parliament's Transport and Tourism Committee chairman, Brian Simpson, noted that every national safety regulator had supported the new measures.
In a statement, the CAA said the new act would give regulators "far greater oversight of fatigue".
"The CAA is calling on the aviation industry to work together to ensure that reporting is improved, fatigue management is strengthened and the new European rules, when implemented, are utilised to their full to enhance aviation safety," the UK body said.
The real annual salaries of emergency workers, many of whom will be working over Christmas, have dropped by thousands of pounds, it said.
The Treasury said "difficult decisions" on public sector pay would protect 200,000 jobs.
It added that public sector wages had kept pace with the private sector.
Midwives and firefighters have seen a real terms annual pay cut of more than £3,000 on average, and nurses' and ambulance drivers' salaries have dropped by more than £2,000, the TUC said.
Police officers' pay is down £1,300, it added.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "Nearly a million people will be working on Christmas Day this year.
"Ministers should show some seasonal goodwill and end the real-terms pay cuts.
"The government's Scrooge-like public sector pay cap has to go, to ensure that wages at least keep up with prices."
But the Treasury said: "The government has made difficult decisions on public sector pay to maintain fiscal discipline and protect public sector jobs."
Dozens of residents have complained about delays in collections after Bridgend County Borough Council introduced a new system on 5 June.
Town and community councillors claimed the situation was "spiralling out of control".
Bridgend council apologised to residents for the inconvenience.
It added its private contractor Kier had already made changes. The company has been asked to comment.
The new scheme aims to recycle almost all rubbish, with different coloured sacks for cardboard, paper, plastics and nappies and caddies for glass and food waste.
Homes with fewer than five occupants are limited to throwing out two bags of non-recyclable waste every fortnight.
But the changes have been branded "shambolic" on social media by some residents who have waited up to two weeks for their rubbish to be collected.
Angela Pearce, from Cefn Glas, posted a picture of maggots in her food waste caddy, which was supposed to have been picked up on Wednesday.
Her daughter Abi Pearce said: "It still hasn't been collected. It's so unfair that our elderly and disabled have to put up with this, I can't imagine how families are coping with nappies.
"I'm disgusted with Bridgend County Borough Council for allowing this."
John Whitehouse, from Litchard, said collections on his street were four days late, food waste caddies ordered around seven weeks ago have still not arrived and calls to the council and Kier had been fruitless.
"I don't disagree with the scheme in principle but I don't agree with how it was set up," he said.
"It's an absolute shambles and it doesn't seem as if the council or Kier have properly prepared for the changes.
"As a resident who pays my council tax every month on time, I would expect in return my waste to be collected on time by the council."
More than 40 councillors have signed the letter calling on council leader Huw David to take "personal responsibility" for the situation.
"The scheme is well into its second week and there is no sign of things improving," it said.
"We call upon you to recognise that a crisis is unfolding before us and to intervene personally to bring this matter under control."
Bridgend town councillor Freya Sykes Bletsoe said the situation was "horrendous" and that many residents were frustrated at a lack of information from both the council and Kier.
Mr David said: "I can certainly understand people's frustration, and like them, I am extremely disappointed that Kier are not performing as well as they should be. It is clearly not good enough.
"I want to apologise to residents for the inconvenience that this has caused, and thank them all for persevering with us during this initial stage of the contract."
But Mr David said efforts were already yielding positive results with a 50% recycling rate increase.
He added: "Kier have made changes such as increasing the number of staff at their call centre, introducing an additional vehicle to ensure that collections can be completed in some of the county borough's harder-to-reach streets, ensuring that staff have worked over the weekend to help complete rounds, boosting crew numbers and more."
Smith was crowned the Lance Todd Trophy winner in the Challenge Cup final at Wembley, where Wigan defeated Hull FC.
And he can make it a unique double when his side face Warrington in the Grand Final at Old Trafford on Saturday.
Date of birth: 27 July 1987
Born: Whiston, Merseyside
Previous clubs: St Helens, Widnes, Crusaders, Salford
Did you know? Smith was at Everton at the same time as Wayne Rooney, James Vaughan and Victor Anichebe before being released by the Toffees at the age of 15
"It would be amazing to win both man of the match trophies. It has never been done before," Smith told BBC Sport.
Former Wigan stars Kris Radlinski and Jason Robinson have won both awards, but as yet it has never been done in the same campaign.
With Shaun Wane's men looking to complete a double of their own by winning the Super League title to go with their cup victory - a feat not achieved since St Helens in 2006 - Smith is confident in his own ability and is pleased at how he has performed this season.
"It is a team game, we set our sights on winning both cups at the start of the year and to do that would be fantastic," he said.
"I was not sure who would win between Wigan and Leeds last week and I cannot call this one either.
"From an England perspective there are six players from Wigan and two from Warrington [in England's World Cup squad] but that does not tell the whole story.
"Warrington have got a couple of old stagers like Adrian Morley and Garreth Carvell who just missed out with England, then a couple of the younger boys like Stefan Ratchford and Richie Myler who could easily have been selected.
"I think it is a very even match-up between the English boys. It could be the foreign contingent that decide the final."
"If we do end up winning, then someone on our side will pick up the Harry Sunderland trophy and I have a chance of doing that.
"But it has been a great year for me. I haven't surprised myself at how well I have done because I knew I had it in me."
The Merseyside-born 26-year-old already has experience of playing in a Grand Final in 2010, but it was not a good one as his St Helens side were beaten 22-10 by his current employees.
"I still think back to the 2010 final and I never want to feel that pain again, what I felt at the final whistle," said Smith.
"Walking out in front of 80,000 people, the best moment of your career, to the worst moment when you get beaten.
"It was awful but they say you have to lose one to win one so hopefully that will be the case for me on Saturday."
Smith - a former Everton trainee - has predicted a close contest at Old Trafford and feels it will be a showpiece occasion that will live long in the memory.
"It is hard to split the two sides. Both are fantastic, attacking teams that are able to strike from anywhere on the pitch," he added.
"Both are great defensively too and have a first-class kicking game so I think it will be one of the best finals ever."
Marcus Nash alerted birders nationwide after seeing the citril finch in Burnham Overy on Sunday morning.
The bird normally lives in mountainous areas of Europe including the Alps and the Pyrenees.
Mr Nash said: "I've seen them before in the Alps, so immediately knew what it was."
The male bird remained at the dunes during the day and was spotted again on Monday.
Paul Stancliffe, from the British Trust for Ornithology, said the only other recorded sighting of the bird in the country was on the Shetland Isles, in 2008.
"It's just an incredible record," Mr Stancliffe said. "It doesn't normally move very far. It must have got caught up in a weather front."
David North, from Norfolk Wildlife Trust, said the area was a "mecca" for wild birds and continued to amaze.
"There are always surprises but not many birders would have guessed they would see a citril finch," he said.
Mr North urged visitors to keep to footpaths, to protect nesting birds.
The 30-year-old Wales international's previous deal was set to expire at the end of the season.
Edwards has made 22 appearances this term and scored four goals, including the first in Wolves' 2-1 win at QPR on Thursday.
"I am both proud and excited to have agreed a deal to extend my stay at this great club," said Edwards.
He told the club website: "It is great that the manager [Paul Lambert] wanted to get this deal sorted out and now it is up to me to reward him on the pitch with my performances."
By signing a new contract until 2019, Edwards should pass the milestone of spending 10 years at Molineux, having joined from Luton in January 2008.
The Independent Transport Commission (ITC) said research showed there had been "rapid" progress on aircraft noise and emissions over the past 30 years.
In July, the Airports Commission (AC) said the expansion of Heathrow was preferable to expanding Gatwick.
Anti-expansion campaigners said the ITC "was not living in the real world".
The ITC researches the economic, social and environmental aspects of travel and recommends possible solutions to transport problems.
Its report said the reduction of CO2 emissions was "not an impossible problem to solve" and restricting aviation expansion in the UK would just push the carbon output to other countries.
It also said the rollout of Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 aircraft could deliver noise improvements too.
"Whether the government pursues the proposal to expand Gatwick or Heathrow, the ITC research demonstrates that sustainability concerns should not stop the UK realising the great additional benefits that increased connectivity can provide," said the ITC's Dr Stephen Hickey.
"The findings suggest that noise and local air quality impacts can be managed downwards given the right mix of operational, policy and technological development, while incremental improvements in carbon emission output are being delivered on an annual basis."
John Stewart, chairman of ant-Heathrow group Hacan, dismissed the report, saying it repeated "the myth that the noise climate" around major airports had improved.
"The report is right to say that individual aircraft have become less noisy but for most residents this is offset by the sheer rise in the number of planes," he added.
"This report really does skate too easily over the impact of another 250,000 flights a year at Heathrow if a third runway is built."
Heathrow welcomed the report's "unequivocal" conclusions, saying it confirmed that road vehicles were the principal contributors of air pollution around the airport.
The airport's Director of Sustainability, Matt Gorman, said: "This report adds to the evidence presented by the Airports Commission that road traffic is the main contributor to poor air quality and it is a national problem which needs government action.
"Heathrow has worked to maintain airport-related traffic broadly static since the 1990's and is taking action to reduce emissions further by switching to electric vehicles and increasing public transport options for passengers and colleagues."
The AC has recommended building a new runway at Heathrow rather than providing a second runway at Gatwick.
But it did not completely rule out another runway at Gatwick or doubling an existing runway at Heathrow.
The government has said more work needs to be done on the environmental impact and his delayed its decision to the summer at the earliest.
Powys county councillor Gary Price, standing for Brecon and Radnorshire next year, is alleged to have brought a local authority into disrepute.
A formal complaint has also been made about his selection at a public meeting in July where all registered voters in the area were invited to take part.
Mr Price had no comment to make.
The Welsh Conservatives said the local constituency party had decided to choose its candidate via the "open primary" meeting in July and ratified the decision to endorse Gary Price, who had won the vote at a meeting attended by 140 people.
However, the president of the local branch, Jonathan Reeves, said he believes that the Conservatives' chances in the election in Brecon and Radnorshire, where they will be up against Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams, will be harmed.
BBC Wales has seen a copy of an email sent to the Welsh Conservatives' chairman Jonathan Evans.
If the ombudsman investigation goes against Mr Price, the letter says: "This would make his position as a candidate even more untenable than it already is, create a large amount of negative publicity and leave any campaign to take the seat from the Lib Dems in tatters."
A source at the office of the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales confirmed it was investigating a complaint that Mr Price behaved in a way which brought Powys council into disrepute.
It is understood to relate to an employment disciplinary matter.
Mr Price, a former Plaid Cymru candidate in the last assembly election in 2011 in Brecon and Radnorshire, was suspended as a councillor two years ago when he disclosed sensitive information which was given to him in confidence.
The local branch has also received a complaint alleging that Mr Price received texts during a question and answer session in the open primary near Llandrindod Wells, Powys.
Mr Price said: "As a candidate, I have no involvement in the process, other than as a candidate.
"The view that I have had from members of the public is that these complaints are from one or two individuals just mischief-making.
"There was a moderator in the room with all the candidates. Nothing was reported."
The Conservatives hope to repeat their success in Brecon and Radnorshire after Tory candidate Chris Davies comfortably beat the Liberal Democrat MP Roger Williams in the May general election.
Last week, the Lib Dems won a council by-election in Glasbury, beating the Conservatives in the ward formerly held by Mr Davies.
Its
report on the impact of 20% funding cuts to police in England and Wales by 2015
said the Met Police, Devon and Cornwall and Lincolnshire were at risk.
There would be 5,800 fewer front-line officers across the 43 forces, it said.
Ministers said the "vast majority" were "rising to the challenge of reducing budgets while protecting services".
Among the HMIC predictions:
Neither the Met nor Cheshire could provide detailed figures of how the cuts would affect their front lines.
By Danny ShawHome affairs correspondent, BBC News
The HMIC's comments about the Met, Devon and Cornwall and Lincolnshire serve as a warning that the police service to the public will be damaged unless each force puts effective plans in place for the further cuts they must make.
The Met's position is the most serious. The government cutbacks were initially cushioned by Boris Johnson's determination to maintain police numbers in election year and money from the Olympics.
Once the Games are over cuts already planned will bite and the force will have to identify a further £233m of savings.
Add to this low levels of public satisfaction in the force; relatively high crime rates; poor performance on anti-social behaviour and a new leadership team and it's clear why the watchdog is so concerned.
One source said the Met was near the "cliff edge". Although it has denied that 8,000 jobs will go, as has been rumoured, it's hard to see how costs can be reduced without substantially shrinking the workforce.
Policing Minister Nick Herbert insisted the proportion of officers on the front line was increasing.
"The number of neighbourhood officers has gone up, crime is down, victim satisfaction is improving and the response to emergency calls is being maintained," he said.
"While there are particular challenges in three forces, we know that the vast majority are rising to the challenge of reducing budgets while protecting service to the public."
HMIC said the Metropolitan Police did not have any plans in place to make savings of £233m and this was of "particular concern".
In a statement, the Met said that it had delivered budget savings of £201m in 2011/12 and planned to deliver £537m by 2015.
But it said it recognised more savings were needed and was "committed to making reductions by considering how we do things differently and prioritising our service to communities".
The report also said plans had been put forward to close 260 front counters in police stations, but that forces planned to open 140 other locations where police would be based in buildings such as supermarkets.
In Devon and Cornwall, the report found there was a £2m budget shortfall, and raised concerns about crime levels. Between December 2010 and December 2011 crime rose by 3%.
HMIC said that because the force had cut costs before 2010, it had found it more difficult than some other forces to find the extra savings required by the spending review.
As a result, plans to balance their books relied to a significant extent on making savings quickly by cutting police officer and staff numbers.
Lincolnshire Police needed to save £21 million between March 2011 and March 2015, but by spring 2012 had only planned how to save 85% of this, and so had more work to do, HMIC said.
In a statement, Lincolshire Police said "relentless efficiency drives and partnership with the private sector" had "seen the leanest force in the country become even leaner".
"However, there remains a budget gap (of over £3m a year) in the years ahead and very limited means remaining to close that gap," it said.
The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) said HMIC's report showed police had "been able to continue to reduce crime and increase public confidence in policing" over the first three years of the cuts.
But it said maintaining performance would become more difficult.
Police Federation chairman Paul McKeever told the BBC that the headlines from the report were "disturbing".
"When I travel around the country speaking to police officers at open meetings, they're already expressing their concerns about the fall in police numbers - the stretch they're actually experiencing and the fears they have for public safety," he said.
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told the BBC that the police cuts detailed in the HMIC report were "deeply irresponsible".
"Our view was that the police budget could sustain a reduction of about 12% over a course of a Parliament," she said. "Instead, by going too far and too fast, the government is putting police services at risk - putting communities at risk."
Official
Home Office figures released in January
showed that the number of police officers in England and Wales had fallen to its lowest level for a decade.
There were 135,838 police officers in September 2011 - 6,012 (4.2%) compared to 141,850 a year earlier.
"I like rightists," Mao told Nixon. "I am comparatively happy when these people on the right come into power."
Four decades after that historic meeting, China is watching the rise of another "rightist" in the US in Donald Trump, who expresses his love for China while also blaming it for much of America's economic woes.
Premier Li Keqiang has said the US election "has been lively and has caught the eye", but many in China see it as more than that.
They see the flamboyant New York billionaire as an inspiration rather than an antagonist.
We talk about free trade. It's not tree free trade, it's stupid trade. China dumps everything that they have over here...."
Even before Mr Trump declared his intention to run for the presidency, the name Trump was well known in China.
In Henan province, there is a property management consulting firm called Trump Consulting. It has no connection with Mr Trump, but says on its website it is inspired by his property empire.
There is also a company in southern China, Shenzhen Trump Industries, that produces smart toilet seats and bathroom fixtures for high-end hotels, and Trump Electronics, a company based in eastern Anhui Province, has been making air purifiers since 1996, according to People's Daily.
Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump has more than 14,000 fans on microblogging site Sina Weibo. There is also a Trump Weibo fan page that is dedicated to "everything Trump".
There is no reliable opinion poll on how Mr Trump's comments are received in China, but state media are watching him with a degree of schadenfreude.
A recent Xinhua report said his rise showed "the limitations of the 'democracy' that Americans have long boasted about".
After he won a huge margin in Super Tuesday primaries, state-owned newspaper Global Times ran an English-language piece saying it was "solid proof that US voters are tired of Washington politics".
"It is probably on this point that Chinese public finds Trump somewhat more agreeable," wrote Ai Jun.
But he added that "in the normal run of events, Chinese people should reject an arrogant, hawkish candidate like him out of hand".
Last week, the newspaper went further, issuing a stern warning that "the rise of a racist in the US political arena worries the whole world".
"The US had better watch itself for not being a source of destructive forces against world peace, rather than pointing fingers at other countries for their so-called nationalism and tyranny."
They tell me, 'You can't really build a wall, can you?' And I say, 'China, thirteen thousand miles, the Great China Wall, the Wall of China, right? "
But many on the Chinese internet think that perhaps the media isn't treating Mr Trump fairly.
"He tore down the hypocritical masks of many Americans," says Weibo user ClairvoyanceCard. "Every sentence he said is true, but they are not all pleasant to hear."
His down-to-earth attitude when he meets voters certainly appeals to many in a country where politicians are remote and rarely mingle with citizens at rallies.
Shanghai-based corporate lawyer Wei Li, who spent 10 years living in the US, tells the BBC that Mr Trump "is really speaking for heartland Americans, and he is a rare politician who speaks in plain English".
Mr Li says American election politics is "like a theatre" and rational politics will ultimately triumph over rhetoric.
"Trump's pragmatism, his access to information, his smartness as well as good counsel may translate into good decisions, should he win," he says.
Sijia Liu, a veteran radio host and commentator who has millions of daily listeners in Beijing, agrees.
"Perhaps Trump will be the president who makes politics understandable to ordinary people," Ms Liu says. "In America, even though you are the president, you cannot behave recklessly."
"So I wouldn't worry that Trump might become a bad president."
A recent widely circulated article on Chinese messaging network WeChat also provides some insights into the Trump phenomenon.
In it, author Wan Weigang claimed he read Mr Trump's book - Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again - and concluded that, among all Republican candidates, his political ideas were actually "the mildest".
In other words, Mr Wan thinks Mr Trump is not as hawkish as he appears to be.
"Before Obama became president, he wrote a book called The Audacity of Hope, and he used 'change' in his first term and 'hope' in the second to galvanise Americans," he continues.
"But what kind of change and hope that Obama has brought to Americans? Where is his audacity now? Americans have already been bored of such politicians."
I would get China to make [Kim Jong Un] disappear in one form or another very quickly."
Even among the Chinese diaspora, who might have been put off by Mr Trump's views on race and immigration, there is some admiration.
"Many people are having a hard time understanding why Trump is so popular, or have the misconception that people who support him are poorly educated, white and angry males," says Wendy Wang.
Ms Wang moved to the US from China at the age of 25 and became a naturalised American citizen three years ago. She holds a PhD degree and is a professor at a private California university.
Ms Wang tells the BBC she will "definitely" vote for Donald Trump as she sees him as "the medicine America needs".
I asked what exactly it is about Mr Trump that appeals to her. Her answer: "He's smart, honest, outspoken, and he is also a strongman."
She adds: "He is the kid who yells that the emperor has no clothes."
Paul Polman said that companies should have more time to defend themselves in the event of an approach.
He told the Financial Times that there needed to be a "level playing field".
Under the UK Takeover Code, a company has 28 days to prepare a defence before a business returns with a firm offer.
The so-called "put up or shut up rule" was changed in 2011 by the Takeover Panel, the body which polices mergers and acquisitions, so that from the day a company announces it has received an approach, the business making the offer has 28 days to put forward a firm bid.
This was in response to another, but this time successful, bid by Kraft, which bought confectionery group Cadbury for £11.5bn.
At the time, it was felt it had become too easy for foreign business to buy UK companies.
Following the vote for the UK to leave the European Union, and the subsequent fall in the value of the pound, those concerns have re-emerged.
British business Arm Holdings, the chip designer, was bought by the Japanese conglomerate Softbank for £24bn.
Mr Polman said on Tuesday: "We're not talking about protection; we are saying that when you have a situation like this, with a national champion, there should be a level playing field."
The government has limited powers for intervention. Under existing laws, it can only step in when a deal threatens national security, media plurality and ownership, and financial stability.
For example, it holds a "golden share" in Rolls-Royce and BAE, two UK strategic defence and aerospace companies.
The government is examining adding "critical national infrastructure" such as nuclear power plants to the list.
The business secretary Greg Clark recently said that he would soon publish draft proposals on dealing with controversial takeover offers.
John McAfee has been on the run in Belize following a police investigation into the murder of his neighbour.
Belize officials said the software pioneer was a "person of interest" in the death of Florida businessman Gregory Faull on 11 November.
The American has protested his innocence in an online blog and says he has been "harassed" by police.
Appearing in public for the first time in weeks on Tuesday, Mr McAfee and his lawyer said he would petition the Guatemalan government to stay there.
The multi-millionaire fugitive reportedly checked into the five star Villa Real hotel in Guatemala City after sneaking out of Belize. The hotel told the BBC that he checked out at 11:00 local time (17:00 GMT).
He has hired a high-profile Guatemalan lawyer and told reporters: "Now that I'm here I can speak freely, I can speak openly".
"Belize does not have a good track record of providing safety when they ask to question you. I felt much more secure crossing the border," Mr McAfee added.
The 67-year old had earlier revealed that in order to go unnoticed, he changed his appearance by dying his hair and beard, sticking chewed bubble gum to his upper gums to fatten his face and staining his teeth.
Mr McAfee has blogged and spoken to journalists regularly during his three weeks on the run, saying he was writing to publicise the treatment he had received at the hands of the police in Belize.
Gregory Faull was found dead with a single gunshot to the head on 11 November. His Belize home sits next to Mr McAfee's compound on a tropical island.
The US software creator is known to have had a long-running row with Mr Faull about the guard dogs he used to protect his compound.
He denies any involvement in the businessman's death and says he went into hiding so he could stay close to his Belize home and conduct his own investigation into Mr Faull's death, adding that he had little faith that the island's police would find the murderer.
In an interview with US TV station NBC, Mr McAfee offered a reward of $25,000 (£15,700) for the capture of the "person or persons" behind the killing.
Speaking through a representative, the Faull family has said that they feel the death of their loved one has been overshadowed by the media frenzy the software pioneer has whipped up.
McAfee has led an eccentric life since he sold his stake in the anti-virus software company that bears his name in the early 1990s.
He moved to Belize about three years ago seeking lower taxes and has lived in semi-seclusion on a heavily guarded compound until recently.
The 44-year-old died after his red Ford Fiesta was involved in a collision with an Audi between St Madoes and Errol, known locally as the Low Carse Road.
The two men travelling in the Audi were taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee for treatment after the crash on Saturday.
A report has been submitted to the procurator fiscal.
"Twenty years ago I would hardly have believed I'd have a book published, let alone an accolade as wonderful as this," she said.
The Harry Potter and the Cursed Child script, which she created with John Tiffany and Jack Thorne, was 2016's biggest seller.
Every year Rowling has released a new Potter tale, the book market has grown.
In 2007, final Potter book The Deathly Hallows took the sector to an all-time high of £1.79bn.
Rowling paid tribute to the book industry behind the awards: "Tonight is really all about you, the booksellers, without whom of course there would be no bestsellers.
"I want to thank you all for supporting my books throughout the years - this award is really for you! Thank you!"
But Harry Potter and the Cursed Child failed to win best children's book of the year.
It was beaten by mythical teen novel The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave.
Word-of-mouth hit The Essex Serpent was the overall winner at the trade awards, also known as the Nibbies, taking the coveted book of the year title.
Sarah Perry's gothic novel went on to become a Waterstones Book of the Year and sold over 200,000 copies - 40 times more than the initial sales target.
"I am absolutely delighted the extraordinary work of my team at (publisher) Serpent's Tail has been honoured in this way. It's a prize for everybody. The team understood everything I wanted to achieve - and they achieved it for me," Perry said.
Astronaut Tim Peake triumphed with a win in the non-fiction: lifestyle category for his collection of images of planet Earth taken from the International Space Station in Hello, is this Planet Earth?
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The heptathlete has had the problem all season, although she did compete in the hurdles and long jump at the Anniversary Games last weekend.
The 27-year-old said: "To say I am gutted is an understatement. No athlete likes to miss the opportunity to compete at a major championships.
"They don't come round that often."
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The Sheffield athlete took part in the Anniversary Games to test her fitness and had admitted on Saturday she was not sure she would be fit in time for the championships, which run from 10-18 August.
It was only her second competitive appearance since winning gold at London 2012 and she finished fourth in the 100m hurdles and eighth out of eight in the long jump.
"Up until now we have been focusing on managing the pain so I can train and get myself in shape to win in Moscow," she said. "The time has now come to stop chasing fitness and look to cure the problem."
Coach Toni Minichiello explained there had not been enough improvement in the athlete's condition to ensure she could complete both days of the heptathlon event in Moscow.
"There are nine global medals up for grabs over the next three years not including Moscow," he said. "So a long term view has been taken."
Minichiello added that while Ennis-Hill was disappointed to be missing the World Championships, she was also relieved to be able to move on.
"Up until this point it was maybe she can go, maybe not, and it is difficult to be on the edge like that," he added.
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"Yes it is not the best decision because it is a negative, but a decision has been made and I think as a sportsperson you get a lot of solace from that because the line in the sand has been drawn and you can step forward and move on from it."
Neil Black, UK Athletics performance director, said: "No-one wants to see her competing in pain. We look forward to seeing her wear the Great Britain and Northern Ireland vest again in 2014."
Ennis-Hill's withdrawal from the Great Britain squad means the remaining track and field athletes who won gold at London 2012 are long-distance runner Mo Farah and long jumper Greg Rutherford, who was himself selected
UK Athletics said there would be no replacement for Ennis in the squad as none of the potential candidates had reached the required 'A' qualifying standard.
That leaves Katarina Johnson-Thompson, 20, as Britain's sole entrant.
The move required the agreement of all 28 of the EU's member states.
It makes it illegal for Hezbollah sympathisers in Europe to send the group money, and enables the freezing of the group's assets there.
In a statement, Hezbollah said the EU decision "was written by American hands with Israeli ink".
The group said the move "has no justification and is not based on any proof".
Some EU member states had been wary of the measure, saying it could further destabilise the situation in Lebanon.
The BBC's Chris Morris in Brussels says some states had also argued it would be difficult to distinguish fully between the group's military and political wings.
By Jim MuirBBC News, Beirut
Given the magnitude of on-the-ground developments in which it is involved, the EU's move to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist group will likely be shrugged off by the militant movement as part of the Israeli-backed conspiracy against "resistance" that it sees behind much of what is happening in the region.
In practical terms, it would be more of a political slap on the wrist than a stunning body-blow. Hezbollah is not known to have substantial identifiable assets in EU countries which could be frozen, and it does not depend on donations from supporters there.
Hezbollah is the most powerful military force in Lebanon but also the dominant behind-the-scenes political mover. Diplomats may find it hard to differentiate between its military and political wings.
It's ironic that Hezbollah's open involvement alongside regime forces in the Syrian conflict may have helped harden EU opinion against it. One of its main stated reasons for doing so is the need to combat extremist Sunni Salafi rebels such as the Nusra Front, which has also been designated a terrorist group by the US and others.
The US, which has blacklisted Hezbollah for many years, welcomed the EU move.
"A growing number of governments are recognising Hezbollah as the dangerous and destabilising terrorist organisation that it is," said US Secretary of State John Kerry.
Hezbollah has a powerful political organisation and, along with its allies, dominated the last Lebanese cabinet, which resigned in March.
EU officials had reportedly been proposing a compromise to satisfy more sceptical members - a statement that the bloc "should continue dialogue with all political parties in Lebanon".
The Lebanese government had on Friday urged Brussels not to move against Hezbollah, describing the militant group as an "essential component of Lebanese society".
But the group's involvement in the war across the border in Syria, in support of President Bashar al-Assad, has hardened European opinion, our correspondent says.
Countries that support the EU move say there is compelling evidence that Hezbollah was responsible for a bomb attack against Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year in which six people died. The group denies any involvement.
In February, Bulgaria handed the EU's police agency the names of two people it suspected of involvement in the attack. Bulgarian officials said they believed the two men were Hezbollah members.
EU diplomats also point to a court case in Cyprus, where a Hezbollah operative was found guilty of planning attacks against Israeli citizens.
Hossam Taleb Yaccoub, 24, said he had been asked to record information about Israeli flights arriving on the island and registration plates of buses carrying tourists from Israel. He said he did not know what the information was intended for.
Hezbollah has already been blacklisted by the United States, Canada, Australia, the UK and the Netherlands.
Walmart driver Kevin Roper, 35, from Georgia, has been charged with death by auto, and is due in court on Wednesday.
Mr Morgan is improving but still critical after the multi-vehicle crash on a New Jersey highway on Saturday.
He is expected to remain in hospital for several weeks but comedian James McNair, known as Jimmy Mack, died.
They were travelling in a limo bus when it was struck by the Wal-Mart lorry.
Morgan, 45, suffered injuries including broken ribs, a broken nose, and a broken leg.
Authorities said Mr Roper, 35 apparently failed to slow for traffic and swerved at the last minute to avoid a crash. Instead, his truck hit the back of the limo bus.
In all, six vehicles were involved in the accident, but no one from the other cars was injured.
In a statement released on Saturday, Walmart president Bill Simon said the company would "take full responsibility" if authorities determined one of its trucks had caused the crash.
"We're praying for the family and friends of the passenger who lost his life in the terrible accident," the statement said.
The driver of Morgan's vehicle, Tyrone Gale said he had been disorientated after his vehicle flipped over, and could hear the passengers in distress.
"I climbed around and heard Tracy screaming for help," he told ABC News.
"I climbed up on the body of the limo bus … but I couldn't reach them."
Morgan's assistant, Jeffrey Millea and comedian Ardie Fuqua Jr were also critically injured in the crash and remain in hospital.
Morgan was a series regular on Saturday Night Live for seven years and earned an Emmy nomination for best supporting actor for his role in the sitcom 30 Rock.
He is known for his outrageous impressions, including Mike Tyson and Oprah Winfrey, but struggled with alcoholism.
During one notorious live TV appearance in Texas, he removed his shirt and announced "someone's gonna get pregnant".
After being arrested twice for drink driving and ordered to wear an ankle monitoring device, Morgan said it took tough talk from his then-teenage son to sober him up.
He found an ally in fellow Saturday Night Live star Tina Fey, who wrote Morgan into her sitcom 30 Rock, playing an exaggerated version of himself, called Tracy Jordan.
Fey described his character as a "lunatic comedy star", whose antics frequently threaten to derail a comedy TV show, loosely based on Saturday Night Live.
Following Saturday's crash, Morgan's 30 Rock co-star Alec Baldwin said: "Let's hope for a full and speedy recovery for Tracy and the others involved in that crash".
Chat show host Conan O'Brien added: "Thinking about Tracy Morgan and his family today. Hoping for a fast recovery for this sweet and uniquely funny man."
Morgan's spokesperson, Lewis Kay, said Morgan's family was "tremendously overwhelmed and appreciative of the outpouring of love and support from his fans".
Police in the northern town of Bareilly say they used the instant messaging service to send out the boy's photo to several mobile phones in the area.
A man travelling on a train, who had received the alert, recognised the boy sitting near him and called the police.
India has more than 900 million mobile users and WhatsApp is hugely popular.
The app, used by more than 400 million people globally every month, was bought by social networking site Facebook recently for $19bn (£12bn).
By Tushar BanerjeeBBC Hindi, Delhi
WhatsApp is hugely popular in India because it is easy to use and carries no advertisements.
The service is available on Apple, Android and Blackberry platforms and it's dirt cheap - for the first year a subscriber pays nothing and thereafter, only 55 rupees (90 cents; 54 pence) every year.
India's two main political parties - the governing Congress party and the opposition BJP - are using WhatsApp to contact voters before the elections.
Public relations executives routinely communicate with their clients on this app and police in several Indian cities informally use it to reach out to wider groups.
In the case of the missing boy in Bareilly, police took a photo of the pamphlet which had a picture of the boy and his father's contact details.
It was sent by WhatsApp to the nearby police stations and the boy's family and relatives who then forwarded the message to everyone in their address books.
Daanish, the man who spotted the boy on the train, received the Whatsapp from a friend known to the boy's father.
"We used various ways to publicise the boy's story. We printed pamphlets and pasted them around Bareilly. We uploaded a digital copy of the poster on WhatsApp and sent it out as a chain message," senior police officer SP Singh told BBC Hindi's Tushar Banerjee.
"By chance, the message reached the right person," he said.
"The message reached Daanish who had boarded the Doon Express train from Moradabad town [90km or 56 miles from Bareilly]. He recognised the boy from his photo," Mr Singh added.
The boy's father Paramjit Singh said his son had left home at around 0700 local time (0130 GMT) on Sunday for a ride on his bicycle, but did not return for many hours.
"We called all our relatives and friends, but couldn't trace him. So we went to the police for help," he added.
It is not clear how the child ended up on the train and police say they are investigating what happened during the hours that he left home and was finally traced, our correspondent says.
There have been instances of families using social networking tools to trace missing people in other Indian cities too.
Last month, another missing 11-year-old boy in Uttar Pradesh was traced to the Delhi railway station after his family publicised his case on Facebook and WhatsApp.
Maamoun Abdulkarim confirmed there was a large explosion within its perimeter but said the basic structure of the 2,000-year-old site was intact.
But the extent of the damage is unclear with witnesses unable to get close to the temple.
Initial reports said the site had been partially destroyed.
Mr Abdulkarim, head of the Syrian Department of Antiquities and Museums, said "our information is provisional, but it indicates that any damage done was partial, and the basic structure is still standing".
Last week, IS blew up the much smaller Baalshamin temple at the site. However, Mr Abdulkarim says that the explosion at the Temple of Bel was "different" to the "huge quantity of explosives" used to destroy the Baalshamin.
However, he said they would have to wait for pictures to emerge as "witnesses can't get close enough to be sure what damage was done."
It was several days after the initial reports of the destruction of the Temple of Baalshamin that IS itself put out pictures showing its militants blowing up the site.
One Palmyra resident earlier told the Associated Press news agency there had been "total destruction" at the Temple of Bel.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said parts of the ancient temple had been destroyed.
IS militants seized control of Palmyra in May, sparking fears for the World Heritage site.
The world-famous Greco-Roman ruins are in the desert north-east of the Syrian capital, Damascus.
The Temple of Bel is dedicated to the Palmyrene gods and was one of the best preserved parts of the ancient city.
IS has previously targeted historical sites in areas under its control in Iraq and Syria, regarding their ancient temples and sculptures as heretical.
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The German firm said it would create more than 1,000 jobs via a €700m (£500m) investment in new facilities and assembly line.
Porsche's Mission E, revealed as a concept car earlier this year, is due to go on sale by the end of the decade.
The four-door car's range will be 310 miles, and hit 62mph in 3.5 seconds.
This pitches the Mission E - a name unlikely to stay once the launch date nears - against Tesla's powerful Model S.
Porsche is owned by Volkswagen Group, currently embroiled in 'dieselgate', which has said it would invest in a range of all-electric and hybrid vehicles across its brands over the next few years.
Dr Oliver Blume, chairman of Porsche's executive board said putting Mission E into full development was the "beginning of a new chapter in the history of the sports car".
BBC business correspondent Theo Leggett said it seemed clear that the Mission E was a response to the rise of Tesla, the Silicon Valley brainchild of billionaire Elon Musk.
"The fast and luxurious Tesla Model S has already redefined what you can expect from an electric car, although the company is yet to make a profit. Now Porsche is joining the party. Battery power is suddenly looking rather fashionable," our correspondent said.
Porsche unveils its Mission E concept
Porsche said the car would be charged via an 800-volt unit specially developed for the vehicle, which is twice as powerful as today's quick-charge system.
The lithium-ion batteries integrated within the vehicle floor will have enough power for 80% of its mileage range range after 15 minutes charging, Porsche said in a statement. The vehicle can optionally be 'refuelled' wirelessly by induction via a coil set into a garage floor.
The four-seat car features energy storage technology derived from the Le Mans-winning Porsche 919 Hybrid race car.
The €700 Mission E investment was part of a €1bn spending plan on new facilities announced by Porsche on Friday.
The 26-year-old joins the Bluebirds from French Ligue 2 club Bourg-Peronnas and has already linked up with Neil Warnock's squad for pre-season training.
Born in the northern French city of Chantilly, Damour has represented France up to Under-20 level.
Damour has spent his career playing his football in France and Belgium.
His previous clubs include Strasbourg, White Star Bruxelles, Fréjus and Saint-Raphaël.
Damour said he was pleased to have signed for the Welsh club and was looking forward to the challenges of the forthcoming season.
"I'm very happy to be here, it's a beautiful place," Damour told the club's official website.
"I'm happy to come to play in the Championship, it's a very good opportunity for me and my career.
"I'm a midfield player. I am box-to-box. I like defending and attacking. I have so much energy to give."
Damour becomes the Welsh Championship club's sixth signing of the summer, following the arrivals of Neil Etheridge, Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, Callum Paterson, Lee Camp and Danny Ward.
Cardiff also announced on Thursday that veteran striker Rickie Lambert has had his contact terminated by mutual consent.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Nemanja Nikolic's 56th-minute penalty at a rain-soaked Aviva Stadium put the Poles ahead before Aleksandar Prijovic doubled the lead in injury-time.
Prijovic's 94th-minute second after breaking free leaves Dundalk up against it in Tuesday's return leg in Warsaw.
League of Ireland side Dundalk had looked composed before conceding.
Dundalk - the club that came from nowhere
Andy Boyle was penalised for the spot kick as he attempted to block a Steeven Langil shot after Nikolic had rounded Dundalk keeper Gary Rogers.
It looked a harsh decision but worse was to follow for Dundalk with virtually the last kick of the game as substitute Prijovic broke free to lift the ball over Rogers.
The Irish champions have already banked more than £4m for their European exploits although a place in the Champions League group stage would yield around £8m more for a Dundalk side who picked up £92,500 for retaining the League of Ireland title last season.
Dundalk do have the safety net of a Europa League group-stage spot even if they fail to overcome the Polish champions.
In front of more than 30,000 spectators, Dundalk started brightly with the lively former Derry City player Patrick McEleney heading over the best first-half chance in the second minute.
Legia struggled for fluency in the first period with Michal Kuchararczyk's 25th-minute half-volley - which flashed just wide - their only real attempt at goal.
Dundalk continued to look the more enterprising side immediately after the restart as Sean Gannon headed straight at Arkadiusz Malarz and Daryl Horgan fired straight at the Legia keeper.
But against the run of play, Legia were ahead on 56 minutes as Nikolic sent Rogers the wrong way from the penalty spot after Langil's shot had cannoned off Boyle's trailing right arm.
Buoyed by the goal, Legia took control with Kuchararczyk twice going close but Dundalk rallied late on as substitute Ciaran Kilduff blasted over with only two minutes left.
A 1-0 deficit would have seen Dundalk going to Warsaw believing that the tie was not beyond them, but after Prijovic netted in the fourth minute of injury-time as the Irish side did not even have the opportunity to kick-off again.
Dundalk manager Stephen Kenny: "It's a really appalling (penalty) decision to swing the game.
"Andy Boyle has thrown himself at it to try and block it - brave defender that he is.
"His hand is not in an unnatural position - his arm is close to his body, so it's certainly not a penalty.
"We were the better team up to that and there was no way we deserved to lose that game 2-0."
Legia Warsaw coach Besnik Hasi: "I'm really pleased we didn't concede. We scored two and could've scored more."
Match ends, Dundalk 0, Legia Warsaw 2.
Second Half ends, Dundalk 0, Legia Warsaw 2.
Goal! Dundalk 0, Legia Warsaw 2. Aleksandar Prijovic (Legia Warsaw) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Tomasz Jodlowiec with a through ball.
Corner, Legia Warsaw. Conceded by Ronan Finn.
Stephen O'Donnell (Dundalk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mihail Aleksandrov (Legia Warsaw).
Attempt missed. Ciarán Kilduff (Dundalk) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Ronan Finn.
Robbie Benson (Dundalk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tomasz Jodlowiec (Legia Warsaw).
Substitution, Legia Warsaw. Mihail Aleksandrov replaces Steeven Langil.
Foul by Ciarán Kilduff (Dundalk).
Lukasz Broz (Legia Warsaw) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Legia Warsaw. Aleksandar Prijovic replaces Nemanja Nikolic.
Substitution, Dundalk. Ciarán Kilduff replaces David McMillan.
Attempt saved. Thibault Moulin (Legia Warsaw) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Nemanja Nikolic.
Substitution, Dundalk. Robbie Benson replaces Chris Shields.
Substitution, Legia Warsaw. Michal Kopczynski replaces Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe.
Corner, Legia Warsaw. Conceded by Chris Shields.
Attempt blocked. Thibault Moulin (Legia Warsaw) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Igor Lewczuk (Legia Warsaw) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe.
Foul by Igor Lewczuk (Legia Warsaw).
David McMillan (Dundalk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Adam Hlousek (Legia Warsaw) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Adam Hlousek (Legia Warsaw).
Chris Shields (Dundalk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Tomasz Jodlowiec (Legia Warsaw) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Nemanja Nikolic.
Attempt missed. Steeven Langil (Legia Warsaw) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Thibault Moulin following a corner.
Corner, Legia Warsaw. Conceded by Ronan Finn.
Substitution, Dundalk. Ronan Finn replaces John Mountney.
Offside, Legia Warsaw. Tomasz Jodlowiec tries a through ball, but Nemanja Nikolic is caught offside.
Offside, Legia Warsaw. Lukasz Broz tries a through ball, but Thibault Moulin is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Michal Kucharczyk (Legia Warsaw) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Daryl Horgan (Dundalk) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Igor Lewczuk (Legia Warsaw).
John Mountney (Dundalk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Dundalk 0, Legia Warsaw 1. Nemanja Nikolic (Legia Warsaw) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Andrew Boyle (Dundalk) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Penalty conceded by Andrew Boyle (Dundalk) with a hand ball in the penalty area.
Attempt blocked. Steeven Langil (Legia Warsaw) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nemanja Nikolic.
Foul by Michal Pazdan (Legia Warsaw).
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Alexia Walenkaki was playing on a rope swing in Mile End Park, east London, on Friday night when a tree trunk holding the swing fell on top of her.
She went into cardiac arrest and died in hospital about an hour after the accident in the children's playground. Police are investigating the collapse.
Alexia's mother Vida Kwotuah said she watched in horror as the tree trunk knocked her daughter to the ground.
She told the BBC she saw a "log falling down" and from the way it broke, she could tell "the log was rotten".
Alexia was taken to the park about five times a week, because she loved playing there, but Friday was a special visit with friends to celebrate her upcoming sixth birthday.
Her mother said: "She was so happy playing, and all along I was watching her every move."
Before heading home, she had asked her mother if she could have just one more go on her favourite ride - the swing attached to posts made from tree trunks.
"I saw the log falling, so I ran over there. When I got there she was already on the floor," her mother said.
Asked whether she felt the accident could have been avoided, she said: "Surely. If the play equipment was checked properly I'm sure that that log wouldn't have been there, or if it was there it should have been a much stronger one, than the one that killed Alexia."
She said her daughter's death had left a void in her family. "During the day you have friends and family visiting to keep you company so it keeps you strong but at night, Austin and I, when we go to sleep, we just look at her place and it's a void, you go into the bathroom and you see her toothbrush and toothpaste."
She added: "I want people to know Alexia was a very strong girl, she was lovely, she was likeable, anyone who meets Alexia falls in love with her and I want people to remember her for that."
The park remains closed, but friends and family have been leaving floral tributes to Alexia.
One tribute reads: "Dear Alexia, you were my best friend in the whole wide world. When I fell over you would pick me up. You were good at football, you are indeed my best friend, Corrine."
Mile End neighbourhood policing team tweeted: "We would like to express our sincerest condolences to the family of Alexia Walenkaki, who tragically died in Mile End Park on Friday."
The Metropolitan Police and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are jointly investigating the death.
Post-mortem tests are due to take place on Wednesday.
Tower Hamlets Council said it would not comment while the police and HSE investigations were ongoing.
A spokesman added: "The council would like to extend its deepest sympathies to the family involved."
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"Spy Booth", depicting men "snooping" on a telephone box, appeared on a private house in Hewlett Road in April.
On Wednesday, Q Scaffolding erected wooden panels around it, prompting fears from locals it would be removed.
Now John Joyce, of Q, has said the homeowner was paid for the work, which will be auctioned and he expected could fetch up to £1m.
Mr Joyce said part of the work would be removed "on Friday", and part of it "on Sunday or Monday", before being taken to London for the sale on 4 July.
He explained the landlord of the property had sold the piece for an undisclosed amount.
"We are not doing anything illegal. We are preserving Banksy's legacy," he said,
He added that by removing the artwork it would protect it and "stop it being vandalised".
Earlier, Cheltenham Borough Council said it believed the owner of the house had arranged for scaffolding to be erected in order to repair rendering on the wall.
People living nearby guarded the site overnight to ensure the work was not removed.
A spokesman for Gloucestershire Police said there was an increased presence of officers in the area because of "social tension" that has developed among residents who do not want to see it go.
Cheltenham's Liberal Democrat MP Martin Horwood earlier said he would be "disappointed" if the owner of the house decided to sell the work.
At the beginning of June, Banksy admitted painting it - three miles away from the government listening post, GCHQ.
Since then "Spy Booth" has attracted hordes of visitors.
The blaze broke out in the rural detached property in The Common, Damerham, shortly before 16:30 BST on Sunday.
It took more than 80 firefighters from Hampshire and Dorset Fire and Rescue Services more than eight hours to bring it under control.
Fire crews remain at the scene dealing with hot spots. The cause of the fire is not yet known.
Hampshire Fire and Rescue said the no-one was hurt in the blaze.
Germany will hold a general election on 24 September, and about one million ethnic Turks living in Germany can vote. A majority of them backed Mr Erdogan in an April referendum.
"The Christian Democrats [CDU], SPD [Social Democrats], the Green Party are all enemies of Turkey," he said.
German ministers protested angrily.
Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said Mr Erdogan's comments were an "unprecedented" act of interference in Germany's sovereignty.
Mr Erdogan has lashed out at Germany before, yet the two countries are major trade partners and allies in Nato.
He was furious that the German government refused to let some of his allies campaign for him in Germany before the April vote, which paved the way for him to get sweeping new executive powers. That refusal, he said, was "Nazi-style" behaviour.
Tensions increased after the abortive coup attempt against Mr Erdogan in July 2016, during which at least 240 people died.
President Erdogan blamed the network of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen over the coup plot, and accused Germany of protecting Gulenists. The cleric has denied any role in the plot.
Mr Erdogan conveyed his message to German Turks via reporters in Istanbul after Friday prayers.
"Give necessary support to political parties that do not engage in enmity against Turkey.
"It is not important whether they are the first or the second party. In a way this is a struggle of honour for all my citizens living in Germany," he said, implying that voters should back far-right or far-left parties.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU has been governing in coalition with the Mr Gabriel's centre-left SPD. Opinion polls suggest the CDU has a strong lead over the SPD.
The Turkish diaspora in Germany is estimated to number about three million people. "I think they will be giving the necessary lesson to those parties at the ballot box," Mr Erdogan said.
More than 50,000 people have been arrested in Turkey since the coup plot, including hundreds of journalists, opposition politicians, academics and activists.
Mr Erdogan's ruling AK Party has also purged the armed forces, judiciary, police and education sector, sacking more than 140,000 people.
Currently the NHS is free at the point of need, while payment for care homes and home support is means-tested.
But the Barker Commission said the distinction was unfair and must end.
It said the cost of providing free social care could come from a mix of new taxes and cuts to benefits and prescription exemptions.
This could include ending the National Insurance exemption for those working past the state retirement age, the expert panel led by economist Dame Kate Barker suggested.
Increasing National Insurance contributions for those earning more than £42,000 a year by 1% and for those above the age of 40 by the same amount was also suggested.
Winter fuel payments, free TV licences and prescription exemptions given to older people could be curbed, the review also said.
It said the merger of the two systems - created in 1948 as part of a post-war welfare settlement - was needed because the ageing population and rise in long-term illnesses had blurred the lines between the two and was now causing "distress and unfairness".
The commission, which was set up by the King's Fund think tank, compared the care given to cancer patients, who get their treatment free, with the support needed to help people with dementia, which often falls into the means-tested social-care system.
Dame Kate said the country was facing "difficult questions" but added the current system was simply "not fit to provide the kind of care we need and want".
"We propose radical change, greater than any since 1948, that would bring immense benefit to people who fall between the cracks between means-tested social care and a free NHS," she said.
She said the proposals were affordable if phased in over time, suggesting only those with the most critical needs should get social care free initially, which would cost an extra £2.7bn a year..
But as the economy improved the entitlement could be extended to those with substantial needs, she said. This would push the costs up to £5bn a year.
However, the review did not make clear which bodies - NHS or council - should hold the budget or run services.
The call for radical change comes after the government has already under taken a major reorganisation of the NHS this Parliament and is in the process of introducing a cap on social-care costs of £72,000 from 2016.
Dame Kate said there was clearly a reluctance to embark on more changes, but claimed politicians could not ignore the reality any longer.
There has been mixed reactions to the proposals. A Department of Health spokeswoman suggested there were no plans for the radical measures being suggested.
She said steps were already being made to create a more joined-up system by the creation of the £3.8bn Better Care Fund, a joint NHS and local government pot largely funded by NHS money, which will be launched next year, and a fairer social-care system via the cap.
Meanwhile, Labour said it was committed to integrating health and social care, but had yet to decide how it would be organised.
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: "The stark truth is this - if social care is allowed to continue to collapse, it will drag down the rest of the NHS. This is precisely what is happening under this government."
Caroline Abrahams, of Age UK, said she "fully supported" the call for an integrated health and care system.
"For too long policymakers have failed to grasp this nettle and the result is the fragmented, underfunded health and care services we see today."
But she questioned whether it was fair to target older people's benefits and entitlements so much to pay for it, saying it would "constitute quite a big hit on the incomes of many older people".
The Lynx UK Trust is launching a consultation to sample the public's reaction to bring the big cats to Norfolk, Cumbria and Aberdeenshire.
Dr Paul O'Donoghue, from the trust, said he would visit a site next week to begin working with interested parties.
But the National Farmers' Union (NFU) is concerned about the impact the move would have on forest ecosystems.
The scheme would see four to six lynx, wearing radio tracking devices at each site, each of which are rich in deer and tree cover.
One site would be at Grumack Forest in Aberdeenshire.
The other two remain undisclosed but the BBC believes one is close to Thetford Forest, on the border of Suffolk and Norfolk, while the other is in Ennerdale, in the Lake District.
Once the Lynx UK Trust's consultation is completed, it will lodge a formal application with Natural England and Scottish Natural Heritage.
Dr O'Donoghue said the story had generated great interest: "We're delighted by the overwhelmingly positive response.
"It will be done in a very controlled, scientific way and we would be sure that everyone's concerns and voices would be taken into account."
Andrew Clark, director of policy for the NFU, said: "The NFU would be concerned at the reintroduction of Lynx due to the cost involved and high risk of failure.
"With limited funding available, budgets are better focussed on retaining and developing existing biodiversity."
Peter Watson, of the Deer Initiative, a group formed to find humane ways of controlling deer, called for a feasibility study for the experimental reintroduction.
"We want to protect our native biodiversity and also reduce the number of vehicle collisions there are with deer," he said.
"We can see no reason relating to deer management not to accept or support a feasibility study into the reintroduction in suitable habitat and prey locations."
Graham Oliver, 58, now of Heol Fedw, Swansea, had pleaded guilty at St Albans Crown Court to 13 sexual assault charges.
He admitted abusing five victims in Berkhamsted and Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire since 1977, including a five-year-old.
He was given a 12-year jail term with a further six years on licence.
Judge Andrew Bright QC said: "You have taken the innocence and ruined the childhood of your victims."
Oliver was caught after one of the women contacted police in April and revealed what happened to her when she was aged 14 to 16 between 1978 and 1981.
She had been abused at his gym club and at his home where they had gone to watch a gym video and in Gadebridge Park in Hemel Hempstead.
Reading her victim statement to the court, the woman said she had been unable to distinguish between love and abuse and had missed out on the chance to have children.
"I am physically sick when I look back at my gymnastics memorabilia," she said.
The second victim was assaulted twice between 1977 and 1981 when she was aged between 12 and 15, while the third said she had been assaulted on about five occasions in 1977 and 1978 when she was 12.
The fourth victim was 10 in 2000 when she was abused twice and the fifth was aged five in 2014 and 2015.
Defence barrister Henry Day said Oliver had no previous convictions and had indicated a guilty plea at the earliest opportunity.
"He is ashamed of himself and acknowledges what he did was wrong," he said.
But Judge Bright said: "You have been a serial child abuser for 38 years and caused the most appalling damage to the lives of the girls concerned."
Oliver must register as a sex offender for life and is banned from working with children again.
Pirates' three-year reign as champions was ended when they were beaten 94-86 on aggregate in the semi-final.
Poole won last Wednesday's first leg 51-39 in Dorset.
But, after losing the second leg 55-35, Pirates boss Neil Middleditch said they "paid the price for underperforming".
Poole were forced into using their reserve riders after Swede Antonio Lindback was ruled out through illness, and Dane Bjarne Pedersen suffered a twisted knee while riding in Sweden.
"If the boys had all fired together, we could have done it," he told BBC Radio Solent. "We just don't know what kind of difference someone like Antonio could have made.
"I'm bitterly disappointed to be honest. I knew it was going to be tough here. But we just didn't perform. Too many of our riders just didn't come to the show. We just weren't good enough."
Wolves now face Belle Vue in next week's two-leg Grand Final, starting with Monday's first leg at Monmore.
"We have the fire power to rattle Belle Vue," said Swedish Peter Karlsson. "We have the form for the final."
Karlsson, who has ridden on and off for Wolves since 1990, was part of the squad that won the title in 1996, 2002 and 2009, the last two of which were in the Elite League era.
And, at 46, he admitted he had considered winding down his riding career this season.
"I wasn't planning to ride in England this year, as I wanted to ride less. I must have turned down 10 clubs in the winter," he added. "It was only Wolves. I didn't have to think more than two seconds."
"Whatever happens now in the final, it's already a successful season for us after a couple of lean years," said manager Peter Adams. "We're back in the big time and we're intent on staying there."
Although British speedway's Elite League started in 1997, the first two-legged play-off final was held in 2002 - and two-legged semi-finals were introduced in 2009.
In that time, Wolves' win was the largest first-leg deficit successfully overturned in a two-legged Elite League match.
The previous best was Poole themselves in the 2013 semi-final, when they came from 10 points down against Swindon to win the home leg by 17.
Wolves manager Adams, chasing a third Elite League title, told BBC WM: "It was a fantastic turnaround. A record-breaking overturn, but we always had the confidence we could do that."
Adams has won eight titles as a manager, two with Coventry (1978 and 1979) and two with Cradley Heath (1981 and 1983), before his four with Wolves (1991, 1996 and their two Elite League triumphs in 2002 and 2009).
Aintree, 1973 - After leading all the way round in the Grand National, and still by 15 lengths at the final fence, Crisp is overtaken on the line by Red Rum.
Vicarage Road, 1980 - Watford turn round a 4-0 first-leg deficit to win 7-1 on the night and beat Southampton 7-1 in the League Cup second round.
Headingley '81 - An Ian Botham-Bob Willis-inspired England rally from 135-7 in their second innings, still trailing by 92, to beat Australia by 18 runs.
Wimbledon, 1987 - Jimmy Connors comes from 6-1, 6-1, 4-1 down in the fourth round to beat Sweden's Mikael Pernfors in five sets.
Crucible, Sheffield, 1992 - Stephen Hendry trails 14-8 in the World Snooker Championship, but reels off the next 10 frames to win Jimmy White.
Rich Stadium, Buffalo, New York State, 1993 - Buffalo Bills trail Houston Oilers 35-3, but come back to win 41-38 in overtime.
Istanbul, 2005 - Liverpool trail AC Milan 3-0 at half time but score three times in five minutes to win the European Cup for a fifth time.
The Miracle of Medinah, 2014: Europe come back from 10-6 down after the second day to beat the United States in the Ryder Cup.
Betts joined in 2010, coaching a season in the Championship before Widnes returned to Super League in 2012.
"We have a different quality of player. Our driving force over the next few years is to keep getting better," he told BBC Radio Merseyside.
"We want to be in the top half of the table and we don't want to sit in the bottom half."
After narrowly missing out on participating in the inaugural Super 8s last season, Betts says now his squad has improved they can aim higher this season.
"Every year the squad's got a little bit better and I can say with my hand on heart this is the best squad I've had in the five years I've been involved in Super League," he added.
"It's not top eight, it's top six, possibly top four, they are the things we are reaching for."
After winning their opening 2016 Super League fixture against Wakefield 24-16, Betts warned of the difficulty they face in their next fixture against reigning champions Leeds Rhinos.
"We're going to play the first or second best side in the world. We know that we've got to challenge that and we need to be more accurate and show more composure.
"They're not massive on shape and finding points in the field, they just keep stressing you with offloads and the ability they've got in individuals."
The hosts took the lead when Gwion Edwards headed home Luke Rooney's cross at the back post.
Akinfenwa headed in a Barcham cross after the break to level the scores.
Barcham, who earlier forced a fine save from Freddie Woodman, won it with another header after George Francomb's shot was blocked.
AFC Wimbledeon boss Neal Ardley told BBC London 94.9:
"I wanted to see whether we could recreate the Plymouth game in the first half.
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"I needed to find out whether they could recreate that because that's how I imagined it and we didn't, we clearly didn't.
"Straight away I had a brave decision to make. It was a simple one to change it around and unfortunately Tom (Elliott) was the one that made way, it could have been anyone at that point.
"There is no point having a player like Bayo Akinfenwa and not playing to his strengths when the time is right."
Crawley Town boss Mark Yates told BBC Sussex:
"I thought we dominated the first half and were excellent and they dominated us second half and a couple of mistakes and a couple of bad goals we conceded.
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"We are obviously not pleased, we're frustrated and we wanted to make this place a fortress starting today. We have a chance to make it right on Tuesday night.
"I'm just disappointed for the players and the staff and the supporters."
The jury in Massachusetts will now decide what sentence 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will receive.
Three people were killed and more than 260 injured when the bombs exploded at the finish line in April 2013.
His lawyers admitted he played a role in the attacks but said his older brother was the driving force.
The guilty conviction was widely expected. In the next phase of the trial, Tsarnaev's legal team will push for him to be given a life-in-prison sentence instead of death.
His chief lawyer, Judy Clarke, specialises in defending high-profile clients facing the death penalty, including the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.
Although Tsarnaev's defence team had repeatedly appealed for a change of venue, Boston is not known for its support of capital punishment.
Massachusetts abolished the practice in 1984 and has not executed anyone since 1947. But Tsarnaev was convicted of federal, not state crimes.
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A police officer was killed in the days following the attack as Tsarnaev and his brother, who also died, attempted to flee.
As the guilty verdicts were read on Wednesday, Tsarnaev kept his hands folded in front of him and looked down .
Nearby, the mother of one victim, eight-year-old Martin Richard, wiped tears from her face after the verdict was read. Richard's father embraced one of the prosecutors.
The governor of Massachusetts welcomed the verdict, and Boston Mayor Martin Walsh said: "I hope today's verdict provides a small amount of closure".
The family of Officer Sean Collier, who was killed days after the attack, said: "While today's verdict can never bring Sean back, we are thankful that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be held accountable for the evil that he brought to so many families."
Tsarnaev's defence team say he took part in the bombing, but argue that his elder brother, Tamerlan, was the mastermind of the attack who influenced Tsarnaev into participating.
Prosecutors portrayed the brothers as equal partners in a plan to "punish America" for wars in Muslim countries.
Among the most damning evidence was a video that showed Tsarnaev placing a backpack bomb near to Martin Richard, and a statement scrawled inside the boat where he was found hiding days after the attack.
A court official warned against emotional outbursts as the verdict was read.
"There is to be no reactions," he told people in the room. "Maintain complete silence."
People on the government's side, near the FBI agents and the Watertown, Massachusetts, police chief, had cried as they watched videos of the bombings. Today they were quiet as the verdicts were read: "guilty, guilty, guilty".
Earlier Tsarnaev had given his lawyer, Judy Clarke, a half-fist-bump. She didn't return it.
This afternoon he was more subdued. He stood and paid close attention as the verdicts were read, occasionally rocking from side to side. He put his hands in his pockets then took them out quickly.
He has long lashes, and he blinked a lot. When he was led out of the room, he walked quickly, as before, but his step was less springy.
"Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop," he wrote, as he lay wounded and bleeding inside the dry-docked boat in suburban garden.
The jury was also shown a surveillance video of Tsarnaev casually purchasing milk at a nearby supermarket less than 30 minutes after the bombs wreaked carnage at the finish line.
Tsarnaev is an ethnic Chechen. His family moved to the US about a decade before the bombings.
Wavertree councillor Jake Morrison, who was elected in 2011 at the age of 18, said he will "retire" in May.
The now 22-year-old posted a statement on Facebook but does not give a reason for his decision.
However, he told the BBC he is disillusioned with the culture of politics, both locally and nationally.
Mr Morrison's decision comes a year after he was involved in a row with Labour MP Luciana Berger.
He was suspended by Labour after the Merseyside MP complained about his "complete lack of teamwork".
But he said the well-publicised disagreement was not the reason behind his decision to resign, and also abandon his ambition to become an MP.
"I don't want people to think that I don't like Luciana and that's why I'm not going to do this anymore," he said.
"It's difficult to explain without providing evidence, but I've suffered attacks on my character. Rather than focusing on my work, people have tried to discredit me.
"I've done enough to be confident that I've made a difference. But I don't think that the tactics and dirty games that are going on help anyone."
Mr Morrison added that he was "tired" of sitting in meetings in which councillors seemed preoccupied with "point scoring".
"Local and national politics is consumed with people simply trying to get one over on each other," he said.
They will each be subject to a £1.5m spending limit and other rules in the run up to the vote, the Electoral Commission said.
They were designated as "lead campaigners" following an application process.
Voters in Scotland go to the polls in the referendum on 18 September.
They will be asked the Yes/No question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?"
Yes Scotland, the campaign group for independence, and Better Together, which backs the Union, will also have access to specific benefits during the regulated referendum period which runs from 30 May to 18 September.
These include a free delivery of campaign material to voters, referendum broadcasts and the use of public rooms.
Scottish Electoral Commissioner John McCormick, said: "Following careful consideration of their applications, the Electoral Commission has designated Yes Scotland and Better Together as lead campaigners for each side at the Scottish referendum.
"Both campaigners set out clearly how they will ensure their campaigns will reach voters across Scotland and we are grateful for the constructive way that they each engaged with the commission during the designation process."
Anyone intending to spend more than £10,000 during the referendum period is required to register with the Electoral Commission.
The festival website is also advising people to arrive on Thursday or Friday when queues are expected to be shorter.
"As a general rule, we would ask you to only bring as much as you can carry yourself," it said ahead of the festival, where gates open on 21 June.
Car park entertainment and facilities for early arrivals are also shelved.
Normally, the organisers put on entertainment for people who arrive early, from 21:00 BST on Tuesday prior to the festival gates being opened on the Wednesday at 08:00 BST.
Organisers have now warned that those who arrive before the gates open will "be expected to remain in their cars".
The website statement added: "For security reasons, all ticket holders will be subject to extra searches of their vehicles, their bags and their person at this year's Festival.
"This will make entrance slower than in previous years."
Organisers have also asked people to put luggage tags on all their bags, with their names and mobile numbers and to avoid wrapping their belongings in thick plastic wrap as they need to be removed for checks.
Separate lanes are also being introduced for people with large luggage and trolleys.
Some 175,000 will be attending the music event at Worthy Farm in Pilton, which runs until Sunday June 25.
Joyce Mitchell, 52, provided inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat with tools that allowed them to break through the wall of their cell to freedom.
Mitchell sobbed in court on Monday, saying she made a "horrible mistake".
Matt and Sweat escaped on 6 June, sparking a huge three-week manhunt across New York and Vermont.
Hundreds of police officers scoured the remote wooded areas near the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York.
"A large portion of the local population were terrorised," Judge Kevin Ryan said on Monday. "Many were forced to flee their homes."
The inmates stayed together for week,s sleeping outside and hiding in vacation homes, but they eventually separated.
Both men had been serving life sentences at the maximum-security prison when they escaped.
Matt, who had escaped from prison before, was convicted of dismembering his former employer while Sweat had been found guilty of killing a sheriff's deputy.
Matt was shot and killed by police officers on 26 June after he was spotted fleeing a cabin near the Canadian border with New York.
Sweat was wounded and captured two days later.
In addition to smuggling blades and other tools, Mitchell had planned to drive the getaway car, but she backed out the day of the escape.
Mitchell had said Matt and Sweat said they would kill her husband, who also worked at the prison, if she did not co-operate. However, the judge said he did not find that "explanation credible".
Prosecutors had alleged that Mitchell helped the pair because she was having a sexual relationship with Matt.
Mitchell was arrested shortly after the escape and aided investigators in the manhunt. She accepted a plea deal with prosecutors rather than face trial.
"If I could take it all back, I would," she told the judge. "I never intended for any of this to happen."
The 150-year-old Grade I listed building is partly sinking, contains asbestos and has outdated cabling.
An Independent Options Appraisal (IOA) report, compiled by industry experts and due on Thursday, will set out scenarios for its refurbishment.
It is expected to include suggestions for Parliament's temporary relocation.
A report in 2012 warned that "major, irreversible damage" may be done to the building unless significant restoration work is carried out.
Another previous report concluded the cost of maintenance is such that if the Palace of Westminster, as the building is also known, was a commercial structure of no historical significance, it would be cost-effective to demolish it and rebuild using modern construction techniques.
Leader of the Commons Chris Grayling said last week the building was "a vital heart to our democracy".
"There are some interesting and difficult challenges ahead, some difficult decisions to take," he told MPs.
"But I would say to the House that instinctively I think it is important that this building remains consistently at the heart of our democracy and that we don't end up being forced to move somewhere else."
According to the BBC's Robin Brant, there have been suggestions that while a full restoration will cost at least £3bn, taxpayers may have to pay double that if MPs decide they want to stay while the work goes on.
One option would be to set up temporarily over the road, by moving to either the Methodist Central Hall or the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre.
Some have suggested MPs could relocate to Birmingham - or hold a touring parliament, our correspondent added.
The majority of the historic building was built in the 1840s and 1850s as a replacement for a previous amalgamation of buildings which burnt down in 1834.
However, the Westminster Hall section of the parliamentary estate was constructed in the 11th Century.
The Commons chamber was destroyed in the blitz in 1941 and after some debate it was decided that it should be rebuilt in exactly the same style after the war.
The entire building is now a World Heritage Site.
A select committee of both the House of Commons and House of Lords is expected to be formed to consider the findings of the IOA and make recommendations to members of both Houses.
The Comres survey for BBC local radio found 64% of the 500 parents questioned said their child did not attend daily acts of collective worship.
But 60% of the 1,743 adults asked said the legislation should not be enforced.
Some schools were opting to teach pupils about community rather than religion, said educationalists.
The Department for Education states that all maintained schools in England must provide a daily act of collective worship which must reflect the traditions of this country, which it says are, in the main, broadly Christian.
Parents have the right to withdraw their child from the daily act of collective worship and sixth-formers can decide for themselves whether or not to attend.
Comres spoke to 1,743 adults during the survey, including 500 parents, and found 60% believe the daily act of collective worship should not be enforced.
The Bishop of Oxford, the Right Reverend John Pritchard, said doing daily worship in schools was an "important statement".
"What we believe as a country is important in the education of our young people, so I think it is an important statement that the country makes to its schools and says will you please do this," he said.
"If schools refuse to do that, or fail to, then I think they need to be encouraged to do it, I wouldn't use the word enforced though at all."
The National Secular Society said group worship amounted to a breach of human rights.
In a statement the group said: "England is the only country in the western world to enforce participation in daily worship in community schools.
"To do so goes beyond the legitimate function of the state and is an abuse of children's human rights, especially those who are old enough to make decisions for themselves."
A spokesman for the Church of England said the law stated schools provide collective worship and the church supported that.
He said: "It provides an important chance for the school to focus on promoting the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of its pupils.
"Collective worship is when pupils of all faiths and none come together to reflect - it should not be confused with corporate worship when everyone is of the same belief."
Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) chief policy advisor Alison Ryan questioned how much schools and parents wanted daily worship.
"People are concerned about inclusivity, how much is it wanted by parents, pupils or even the staff themselves?
"When a law is being flouted on a pretty major scale that is telling you something about its use, about how maybe it should be reformed or changed, so we believe it needs to be looked at."
Martin Cooper, deputy head teacher of Mile Oak School, near Brighton, said fulfilling the government's worship requirement was difficult.
"Having a pressure within an Ofsted expectation to be seen doing the daily act of worship, in the way they want it to be every day is challenging," he said.
"In a school like ours, there isn't a great Christian ethos, so the message has to be a social one really.
"It has to be the message about how they are going to behave."
Elaine Smith, head teacher at St Matthews Church of England Primary school in Blackburn, where 96% of the pupils are Muslims, said talking about faith regularly was beneficial.
She said: "The majority of the pupils are children of faith and talk very openly about religion.
"The staff who are practising Christians or Muslims talk to the children and a bond is formed, which perhaps wouldn't be there if they didn't have the collective worship."
The National Association of Standing Advisory Councils on Religious Education (NASACRE) advises schools on daily collective worship.
Bruce Gill, from the association, said school assemblies did not have to be church-led, but could teach about community and responsibility.
"It's an important role in these times when we are worried about community values and people's sense of community," he said.
"We try to get people to look beyond the materialistic life and material gratification and I think we will regret it greatly if we continue the trend of losing it."
Of 100,000 tickets, 27,746 were sold to residents for 2014's event.
Fiona Twycross, of London Assembly's Labour group, said the situation was "ridiculous" as local taxpayers "foot the bill" for the event.
But City Hall said the figures were "broadly in line" with estimates for previous years.
Mayor Boris Johnson introduced ticketing last year to try and control large crowds.
Tickets sold out in advance and some appeared on resale websites at almost 20 times their value.
Ms Twycross said Mr Johnson's new system meant "thousands of Londoners" had missed out on the "iconic" celebrations.
"What we need for this year is for at least half the tickets to be reserved for Londoners," she added.
A City Hall spokesperson said ticketing was introduced to make sure the event was "sustainable and safe".
They said the numbers at previous events meant many Londoners were "unable to see anything" and that by issuing tickets, the city's residents were "guaranteed a view".
The hosts' five-wicket win in Centurion sets up a decider on Sunday.
Heather Knight top-scored with 61 and captain Charlotte Edwards made 45, but Sarah Taylor was out for a duck in her 100th ODI as England scored 262-9.
In reply, Laura Wolfvaardt (55) and Trisha Chetty (66) put on 113 and Lizelle Lee (69) and Marizanne Kapp (44) 112 as the hosts sealed victory.
England now need to win the final game to emerge with a victory from Mark Robinson's first series as head coach.
Knight and Edwards rebuilt England's innings with a stand of 78 after South Africa took three early wickets, including Taylor for a second-ball duck.
Edwards was dismissed by leg-spinner Sune Luus, who took a tough caught-and-bowled chance.
Knight smashed the first six of the innings after reaching her half-century but was soon out for 61.
England were still struggling to reach a par score but Danielle Wyatt, who hit a six in a 27-ball 40, and Katherine Brunt and Anya Shrubsole added 94 from the last 10 overs.
Star bowler Brunt, who went into the match on 99 ODI wickets, was able to bowl just five overs because of a back spasm and the Proteas took advantage as 16-year-old Wolfvaardt and wicketkeeper Chetty both made half-centuries.
Knight eventually made the breakthrough, having Wolfvaardt caught by substitute fielder Kate Cross, and when Hazell removed Chetty and Mignon du Preez with successive balls England fancied their chances.
But Kapp and Lee tucked into some average bowling in Brunt's absence, and although both fell late on, Dane van Niekerk got the hosts over the line with seven balls to spare.
Ex-England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent on BBC Test Match Special:
"South African cricket is really on the up. They've had success in Twenty20 but to do it in 50-over cricket as well is different. This is a massive result for them because England have the better resources.
"England were outplayed in all facets. South Africa started and finished the game with a bang and looked the better team.
"England couldn't take wickets. They bowled tidily but there was no potency which is a concern for the side.
"They want to impress because they have a new coach but for the bowling to get taken to the cleaners, I think this will really hurt England."
All three matches count towards the ICC Women's Championship which determines qualification for the 2017 World Cup.
You can listen to live commentary of the final match on Sunday on Radio 5 live sports extra and the BBC Sport website.
Nicholas Churton, 67, was found dead at an address in Crescent Close on Monday.
On Thursday, officers from North Wales Police were given a further 36 hours to question 25-year-old Jordan Davidson in connection with the death.
A post-mortem examination showed Mr Churton died of significant head injuries.
North Wales Police said Mr Churton, former owner of Churtons wine bar in Rossett, lived alone at the property and was a "vulnerable man".
A 27-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, a 19-year-old women and a 51-year-old man arrested on suspicion of robbery and assisting an offender, have been bailed pending further enquiries.
The request was made earlier at the opening of an inquest into the death of Jermaine Baker, 28, who was shot by an officer in Wood Green on 11 December.
The Police Federation has warned Met firearms officers could refuse to carry guns if their colleague is charged.
A coroner at North London Coroner's Court has adjourned the inquest.
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The brief hearing was told Mr Baker died at 09:39 GMT on 11 December of a single gunshot wound.
He was shot during a police operation to foil an alleged attempt to spring two convicts from a custody van on its way to Wood Green Crown Court.
The firearms officer involved has not been named publicly but has asked the court to consider holding a second post-mortem examination on Wednesday.
Mr Baker's girlfriend Tia Demetrio and other members of his family were present at the inquest opening and the coroner expressed his "deepest sympathies" to the family, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw reports.
An investigation into the fatal shooting by the police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission, is ongoing.
Luke Leahy missed a penalty for Falkirk in the second half, rattling the left post after Lee Miller was up-ended.
It took 115 minutes to provide a breakthrough with a scrambled effort from the outstanding Harkins.
Ayr keeper Greg Fleming then produced a wonderful save to allow the hosts to hang on and avoid a penalty shootout.
Reduced prices tempted just 1,247 souls to Somerset Park, and they witnessed a first half short on thrills.
Scott Shepherd's low shot for Falkirk was straight at keeper Fleming, while United came closest with a fiery effort from Harkins.
It was little better after the break, despite a turn and shot from Allan Forrest which produced a fine save from Falkirk goalkeeper Deniz Dogan Mehmet.
After Leahy's penalty miss, a shootout appeared inevitable before Harkins struck five minutes from the end of extra time.
Villa looked on their way to a comfortable win after Jonathan Kodjia's stunning first-half left-foot curler, his first goal for the club.
But Dean Smith's Bees stayed in the game and had the character to hit back.
From Sullay Kaikai's neat chip to the far post, Villa failed to clear their lines and Egan stole in to equalise.
Having been denied victory on Sunday only by the woodwork and the brilliance of Nottingham Forest keeper Vladimir Stojkovic, Villa appeared eager to make amends.
But it still took a flash of brilliance from new signing Kodjia to get them on their way on 19 minutes.
The striker took a pass from Mile Jedinak down the right, worked his way to the edge of the area and hit a left-foot shot which curled beautifully into the far-left corner.
Josh Clarke then fired over the bar from close range for Brentford in a flurry of chances for the Bees.
But, for all the hard running and tackling in midfield, epitomised by former Shrewsbury Town midfielder Ryan Woods, they lacked a cutting edge.
By contrast, Villa did have chances, as Kodjia got on the end of Jordan Ayew's cross, Ayew shot over with a left-foot curler and Kodjia brought a save out of keeper Daniel Bentley.
But the introduction of Crystal Palace loan man Kaikai brought its rewards for boyhood Villa fan Smith.
Kaikai had already caused concern in the home ranks before he cut back onto his right foot to curl over a cross in the 88th minute, from which Egan managed to force the ball home.
Aston Villa manager Roberto di Matteo told BBC Sport:
"We need to be more clinical in front of goal, we could have scored five on Sunday. But most of all we also need to see games out.
"We allowed them to get too much of the ball in the second half and we got a bit nervous in the last 10 minutes. We just need to win. Win ugly, or attractive. It doesn't matter.
"Jack Grealish could not play as he had a problem with his hamstring, Ross McCormack has knock on his knee and Richie de Laet got a knock clearing the ball at the far post. He is in a lot of pain and we will have to see about him."
Brentford boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport:
"It was the least we deserved. We'd have been very disappointed to go away without getting something.
"I was disappointed with their goal. But I suppose that's what £15m gets you and it was a good finish.
"Everyone knows I was a Villa fan growing up in Great Barr as a boy and to come here as a manager was a great experience but, if we'd lost, it would have meant nothing. My mates who are all Villa fans asked me if I'd celebrate and I think I gave them the answer."
Match ends, Aston Villa 1, Brentford 1.
Second Half ends, Aston Villa 1, Brentford 1.
Harlee Dean (Brentford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Kodjia (Aston Villa).
Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Lasse Vibe (Brentford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa).
Foul by John Egan (Brentford).
Jonathan Kodjia (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Harlee Dean (Brentford) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Romaine Sawyers following a corner.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Pierluigi Gollini.
Attempt saved. Ryan Woods (Brentford) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lasse Vibe.
Attempt blocked. Lasse Vibe (Brentford) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sullay Kaikai.
Goal! Aston Villa 1, Brentford 1. John Egan (Brentford) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Sullay Kaikai with a cross.
Leandro Bacuna (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Sullay Kaikai (Brentford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Leandro Bacuna (Aston Villa).
Substitution, Brentford. Josh McEachran replaces Nico Yennaris.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Gary Gardner replaces Rudy Gestede.
Attempt saved. Jonathan Kodjia (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Romaine Sawyers (Brentford).
Ashley Westwood (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Brentford. Lasse Vibe replaces Lewis MacLeod.
Attempt missed. Jordan Ayew (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Foul by Romaine Sawyers (Brentford).
Tommy Elphick (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jonathan Kodjia (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jordan Ayew with a cross.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Maxime Colin.
Ryan Woods (Brentford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ryan Woods (Brentford).
Jordan Amavi (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Romaine Sawyers (Brentford) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Leandro Bacuna (Aston Villa).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Leandro Bacuna replaces Ritchie de Laet because of an injury.
Delay in match Ritchie de Laet (Aston Villa) because of an injury.
Harlee Dean (Brentford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rudy Gestede (Aston Villa).
Foul by Sullay Kaikai (Brentford).
Jordan Ayew (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, he said to MPs "we have all been guilty" of leading campaigns against them in the past.
But he said the focus should be on "ensuring everyone is connected to the information super highway".
His comments prompted speculation a law change could be in next week's Budget.
The issue was raised by Conservative MP Andrew Murrison, who said the UK's superfast broadband connectivity was "relatively poor" and businesses in rural areas, in particular, were losing out from patchy coverage.
The PM said the number of homes able to access superfast broadband - defined as providing download speeds in excess of 24 Mbps - had doubled since 2010. But he said more needed to be done, suggesting objections to new masts motivated by so-called Nimbyism had to stop.
"I think this is something for members right across the House. Ten years ago we were all rather guilty of leading campaigns against masts and the rest of it," he said.
"Our constituents now want coverage for the internet, they want coverage for mobile phones.
"We need to make sure we change the law in all the ways necessary to make sure... the masts are built, we increase coverage and we ensure everyone is connected to the information superhighway."
The government says it is on track to meet its goals of providing superfast broadband coverage to 90% of the UK by early 2016 and 95% by December 2017 although critics have accused ministers of moving the targets to guarantee compliance.
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With England looking for an opener to partner Alastair Cook, Moeen was out for seven and 12 against Pakistan A as the tourists batted through the day in Sharjah regardless of wickets lost.
Alex Hales was out for nine, while Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes both fell for nought as England mustered 198-11.
James Taylor impressed with 61 after initially retiring for 45.
Ian Bell also retired at lunch for 53, with captain Alastair Cook and vice-captain Joe Root not batting after spending time in the middle during the first warm-up.
Pakistan A had posted 192 for the loss of 12 wickets on day one, so while the match is officially classed as a draw, the result was rendered meaningless by an arrangement that saw both sides bat for a day each.
However, meaning can certainly be attached to the failures of Moeen and Hales as England look to install Cook's seventh opening partner since Andrew Strauss retired in 2012.
Moeen, still most likely to open in the first Test in Abu Dhabi starting on Tuesday, followed his 22 in the first warm-up game earlier in the week by edging to second slip, then returning later in the day to be trapped lbw.
Hales, in his first innings of the tour, was unable to capitalise on Moeen's struggle as a flat-footed drive saw him edge to first slip, the first of four wickets for left-arm seamer Mir Hamza.
Taylor, also featuring for the first time on the tour, pressed his claim, but still seems unlikely to displace Bairstow, who made 66 in the opening Tour match, in the middle order.
Wicketkeeper Jos Buttler spent some much-needed time in the middle, albeit in his second innings of the day, with 39, but Stokes has made only six runs across the two warm-up matches.
"Moeen and Hales got off the mark comfortably in the first over, but after that both were unconvincing. Moeen had several wafts outside the off stump and, two balls before he was out, edged through the slips.
"After he was held at second slip off Junaid Khan, all eyes were on Hales, but he edged with a flat-footed drive. Moeen walked off holding his helmet in his hands, while Hales looked in the direction of the press box. Both realised it was an opportunity missed."
"My city has turned to ruins," she says.
Despite being in constant danger, forced out of her home twice by shelling and living without regular supplies of electricity or water, this 22-year-old has refused to give up being a student.
Four years ago, she had just left school and begun at the University of Aleppo when it was hit by rockets, killing dozens of students around her.
"I saw my friends killed and still now I can't forget what happened," Mariam says.
"I saw a lot of students hurt and injured. There was blood, death. Everything was terrible."
There was intense danger at home too.
"I came so near to death many times," Mariam says.
"My family and I rented a house that was only 500m from the front lines, and a lot of rockets fell in my neighbourhood.
"Many of my neighbours were killed, and mortars hit my home twice."
She remembers waking during an attack, unable to see in the dust and darkness and not knowing who was alive or dead.
Mariam talks of life in Aleppo becoming a mix of "horror and danger".
"I was crying so much when I saw my city in front of my eyes, everything destroyed," she says.
But her reaction has been to stubbornly carry on and to use her studies as a way of honouring those who have died.
She became an online student in a warzone, following a degree course run by the US-based University of the People, making a conscious decision to be "optimistic" and to make plans to "rebuild".
But this is far from straightforward, she says over a patchy Skype line.
"The hardest thing about being a student in Aleppo? Actually, it's being alive," Mariam says.
There are still occasional rockets and mortar blasts, despite a ceasefire, but there are also big practical problems that would have put off a less determined student.
"We haven't had electricity for two years," she says.
Instead, people rely on generators that might operate for a few hours at a time.
Mariam goes to a local shop with a small generator, where it can take 12 hours to charge up her mobile phone and an old laptop, and then she ekes out the charge so she can study.
Internet connections are sporadic and weak - and when an exam was approaching, there was an internet blackout.
Worried that she would be failed, Mariam began to make preparations to travel to Damascus to find a way of sitting the exam.
Even by the standards of a civil war, she says, this would have been extremely dangerous, but friends managed to make contact with the university, and she was able to re-arrange the exam.
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Heat and light are daily challenges, particularly in winter, with temperatures in Aleppo below freezing this week.
Water is available only every three or four weeks. "When we have water, we store huge amounts," she says, filling every container.
There have been long battles between government and rebel armies in Aleppo, but there are also forces of the so-called Islamic State not far from the city.
Mariam says they tried to cut a road to the city a few days ago - but she says there is also the battle of ideas and the need to protect the right to education.
Their presence makes her even more determined to keep studying.
While the high technology of war has rained down on Syria, this young woman has to study at night by candlelight.
But she doesn't complain. Instead, she talks with understated longing for one single "normal day" as a student.
And what would she do with it?
"I want to do a lot of things in this day," she says.
"I want to go to my university like any normal student. I want to go with my friends. I want to sit with my family."
She pauses. "And I want to see everyone I lost," she says.
But in the face of such awful destruction, why is she worrying about getting a degree?
Mariam says the experience of war has made education seem even more important - something positive that links people to the chance of rebuilding a better life.
"We have this strong motivation to seek it no matter what," she says.
"You can see that in young children going to their schools, even though they can be hit at any time."
"Education was always important in my life.
"It gives me hope that I can have a better future.
"It will help me to rebuild my country and everything that's been destroyed."
Mariam is studying a business degree with the University of the People, based in California, which supports people around the world who otherwise would not have access to university - including 15 students in Aleppo.
The online university, backed by the likes of the Gates Foundation, Hewlett Packard and Google, offers accredited four-year degree courses, taught by volunteer academics and retired university staff.
The university's president, Shai Reshef, says: "We are an alternative for those who have no other alternative."
Mariam sees her studying as a kind of lifeline and source of hope - and she says any other students around the world should appreciate the chances they have.
She can only dream of having a "normal life like them".
"I hope that whoever sees my story will not be discouraged by difficulties they face," she says.
"I believe that after every hardship comes a great rebirth, and in honour of ever friend, neighbour and Syrian who lost his life due to this war, we must stay optimistic."
And if that faith wavers?
"If I feel down, my mother says to me, 'This will pass.'"
Sangeeta Kashyap was recruited as a biology teacher in the central state of Madhya Pradesh in 1990.
School authorities say they do not know when she was last paid a salary, but she is still listed as an employee.
State education officials told the BBC the teacher would be removed from her post. She is thought to have set an Indian record for staff absenteeism.
Ms Kashyap spent her first year teaching in a school in the town of Dewas, after which she took three years of leave.
In 1994, she was transferred to a school in the city of Indore but then applied for maternity leave and has never turned up for work.
Letters sent by the school to her address have remained unanswered, Sushma Vaishya, principal of the Government Ahilya Ashram School in Indore, said.
An education department official said they had written to education authorities in the state capital, Bhopal, to have Ms Kashyap removed from her post.
"I have no idea why nothing was done. We are writing to them again to remove her," Sanjay Goel told BBC Hindi's Shuraih Niyaazi.
The school is allowed to have three biology teachers, but only two are filled - with the third held by the absentee teacher.
Correspondents say absenteeism is a pervasive problem in government-run schools in India.
A World Bank study in 2004 found that 25% of teachers were absent from school, and only about half were present during unannounced visits to government primary schools.
Ms Kashyap's whereabouts remain unknown and she has not commented on the reports about her in the Indian press.
It is also not clear why she did not return to work or if she has been working elsewhere - correspondents say the fact her post remained empty for so long says little for the competence of education officials.
Mullaney scored a 75-ball 111 as Notts chased an English 50-over record target of 371 against Essex to reach Lord's.
"I feel like the two best white-ball teams in the country are in the final," Mullaney told BBC Nottingham Sport.
"It will be a great spectacle. Surrey are a great side."
Mullaney's maiden List A hundred in the thrilling win over Essex at Chelmsford sees Notts return to the home of cricket with the aim of lifting a trophy for the first time since victory in the YB40 final against Glamorgan four year ago.
"We are absolutely buzzing to get to Lord's," Mullaney added. "It's always a special occasion. We tasted victory in 2013 and it's great to be back.
"We have played two great games down at Somerset and at Chelmsford to get there. We will have to be at our best but if we hit our straps and play well then we can win."
Head coach Peter Moores says Mullaney has played such a huge part in the run to the final.
"Steve's Notts through and through and he loves it. He is a fantastic cricketer who bowls bats and fields," Moores said. "He played one of the innings of his life against Essex.
"He has been a stalwart of the season through injury and since he has got back he has played superbly."
"Surrey are a very good side as we saw against Worcester. But if we play like we can we will be tough opposition.
"We have a put a lot of work in over the winter - the coaches, support staff and players.
"We are coming to the business end of the season with trophies up for grabs and it's great to be in the final."
And it was all down to the astonishing incompetence of two hitmen who attacked the wrong victim for just £1,000 each.
Aamir Siddiqi innocently answered his door expecting to see his local imam for a Koran lesson. Instead he was confronted by two balaclava-clad knifemen who pushed their way in and stabbed him to death.
The attackers, Ben Hope and Jason Richards, wielded daggers over their heads and howled as they set upon helpless Aamir.
He was the wrong target in the wrong house.
His sister Miriam has described 11 April, 2010, as "a normal lazy Sunday morning" at the family home in the city's Roath suburb. She and her husband, who had stayed over the previous night, had not long left to pick up a takeaway for Aamir.
The 17-year-old was revising upstairs at home in Ninian Road when the doorbell rang. The bright, ambitious A-level student wanted to become a lawyer and was hoping to read law at Cardiff University after sitting his exams that coming summer.
Aamir was expecting his Koran teacher that afternoon and called to his parents Iqbal and Parveen Ahmad that he would answer the door.
But instead of the imam come to teach religious texts, there stood Richards and Hope, masked and fuelled up on heroin.
They murdered Aamir before he had the chance to say a word.
After realising in those first awful seconds that it was not a joke or an attempted robbery, his parents leapt to his defence.
Mr Ahmad said during Hope and Richards' trial that he used all his strength to try to push one attacker away from Aamir but he was not strong enough. He was slashed twice and left bleeding.
The other attacker chased Aamir into the dining room. Mrs Ahmad jumped onto his back and grabbed his jacket but she was also cut with the knife.
Throughout the attack, the pair were howling and making a "terrifying noise", likened to martial arts practitioners trying to scare an opponent.
As they fled, Mrs Ahmad tried to call 999 but had a problem with the phone. She ran into the street and begged for help from passers-by. They called the emergency services, who arrived and tried to save Aamir's life, but to no avail.
The teenager, loved and cherished by all who knew him, was pronounced dead in hospital shortly after.
No enemies
His family could make no sense of the dreadful events that had shattered their lives within seconds. They had no enemies; Aamir had no enemies. Who would want to kill him?
The awful truth was no-one did. In an act described by the prosecution as one of "staggering incompetence", the killers, hired by a businessman in an act of revenge over a property deal that turned sour, had gone to the wrong house and stabbed the wrong man.
Richards and Hope's intended target lived in nearby Shirley Road, in a similar-looking house just 70 yards (64m) from where Aamir lived with his family.
The hapless pair had been paid just £1,000 each to murder a stranger in cold blood, money which Hope had spent within 24 hours on a laptop and trainers.
The bungled crime robbed a mother, father, three sisters and a community of friends of a young, gifted man who was "kind, humorous, fun-loving and caring".
As Aamir's mother said in the moments after his death: "Nothing is valuable now."
Just across his home, a bench now stands in Roath Park where Aamir spent many happy hours playing football with friends.
There is no hint at the tragedy that struck so suddenly that fated day.
The inscription simply reads: "In the memory of Aamir Siddiqi, June 1992 - April 2010. May God enter you in paradise."
It comes after pictures of the feast, held in the southern province of Guangxi in 2015, resurfaced online in recent days and caused anger.
But Guangxi officials have reportedly denied the allegations.
The pangolin is on China's list of endangered wild animals.
Those caught eating it can be jailed for up to 10 years.
In recent days a post by Weibo user Ah_cal from July 2015 began circulating online.
In the post, which has since been deleted, Ah_cal included several pictures of what appears to be a lavish Chinese banquet and a close-up photo of a pot of cooked meat.
The Weibo user said he was hosted to a meal by officials where "cooked pangolin was served to us to eat".
"It was my first time eating it, the taste was very good, and I have already deeply fallen in love with this taste of wildlife!" he says in the post.
It attracted widespread condemnation online, and Chinese forestry officials have since said they are probing the incident, reported Chinese media.
News outlets have identified the Weibo user as a Hong Kong businessman who visited the city of Nanning in Guangxi as part of a group of entrepreneurs exploring investment opportunities.
The Guangxi Investment Promotion Bureau has since confirmed that it hosted the business delegation in 2015, but denied it held the banquet.
"We have diligently identified the diners in the photographs, and none of them belong to Guangxi Investment Promotion Bureau's leadership or its staff," a spokesman told newspaper Chengdu Shangbao.
A commentary carried by the Chinese Communist Party's official mouthpiece People's Daily raised the possibility that other provincial government departments could have hosted the banquet.
It also lambasted the Guangxi authorities. "The pangolin's scales are so hard, while the response from officials is so weak - with such a clear contrast, it is hard to dispel the doubts that have broken out," it said.
The pangolin is the world's most trafficked mammal - pangolins are believed to make up around 20% of all illegal trade in species.
In traditional Chinese medicine, it is believed that consuming the roasted scales of the pangolin can help to detoxify one's body and relieve palsy, while the animal's meat is considered a luxurious delicacy.
In September, the animal received extra protections at the Cites meeting where trade in eight species of pangolins was banned.
But while the mill in Shepton Mallet, Somerset faces closure, another cider mill, just 20 miles up the road is busy installing new cider tanks worth more than £3m.
So why is one cider-maker sparkling with success, whilst another is scraping the barrel for survival? Their fortunes reveal not just what's changing in cider, but in tastes and fashions.
The difference is ownership - the first is owned by multinational Dublin-based C&C Group and the second by family firm Thatchers.
Union leaders insist the C&C plant in Shepton Mallet is profitable and criticised the decision to relocate to Ireland. Steve Preddy, from Unite, said the mill made 17m euros (£13m) last year.
He said: "It is quite clear the workers are being sacrificed to generate cash for the company."
Shepton's mill is one of C&C's three plants working, I am told, at just 34% capacity - so like any sensible business, it has shut two.
The survivor just happens to be located in Clonmel, County Tipperary, where C&C was born.
Cider, the firm claims, has got tough. It said in a statement: "The trading environment in the UK and Ireland has been intensely competitive over recent years."
But cider insiders see a deeper story. Alan Stone, who has written several books, runs the cider competitions at the Bath & West Show and is vice-chairman of the Shepton Mallet Chamber of Commerce.
He said: "It is quite clear that C&C ran down the marketing operation behind Blackthorn and Olde English, hoping people would switch to Magners, the firm's Irish brand.
"But in the West Country, people just moved to Thatchers and the new craft ciders instead."
And drive just 20 miles to the small North Somerset village of Sandford and you see what Mr Stone means.
It's called Myrtle Farm - a farmhouse surrounded by orchards. But Martin Thatcher's grandfather would not recognise the enormous steel-framed buildings that house the kegging plant, the dozens of articulated lorries constantly loading in the yard, or the latest addition: shiny new tanks.
Mr Thatcher is the fourth generation in his family to make cider, and he is very proud of his new tanks. Stainless steel, about 50ft (15m) high, each holding 250,000 litres of cider at precise temperatures. There are 18 of them, with space in the new building for another 36. The total investment is over £3.5m.
"We now make as much cider in a day as we did in a year when I first joined the business 25 years ago," Mr Thatcher said.
Last year Thatchers sold over 100 million pints (57 million litres), up 10%. But, he insisted, the process had not fundamentally changed.
"We make cider just the same way as my grandfather did. We use Somerset apples: my favourite is the Somerset Redstreak, which we juice and then ferment. No concentrates, no added sugar, just juice."
Thatchers is very careful with this process. The company have seen what the market likes, and it is a traditional story. Last year the firm planted 50,000 apple trees. It all seems very laudable. But it is also where the money is.
Ten years ago cider began to boom. If you thought cider was a cheap, rustic drink offering lots of alcohol and a bad hangover, you were re-educated by saturation advertising. Orchards, apples, cold golden nectar on hot summer days.
It worked. Sales rose by 24% between 2006 and 2011. But it also changed the market. Today, the supermarkets want more premium, artisan ciders, and only a few mass-produced brands at knock-down prices. Tesco now stocks 60% more varieties than it did in 2001.
Today Somerset has over 60 small cider-makers, producing relatively small quantities of distinctive cider, usually in eye-catching bottles.
Some go back generations, like the Hecks family from Street, who have been at it for 175 years. Others are new arrivals, like Neil Worley who makes cider almost single-handed in half-timbered barns he rents just outside Shepton Mallet.
Mr Worley said: "We're part of a change in how people like their food and drink. Everyone wants to know where stuff comes from, how it's made. I don't really think you can become the size of an enormous cider maker and still make cider the way we make it, it's not physically possible."
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Fourteen-time major winner Woods, 40, has twice had back surgery since his last tournament appearance.
Last month, Woods, now ranked 767, had said he would play in the Safeway Open, from 13 to 16 October, "depending on his progress and recovery".
Woods was a vice-captain in USA's Ryder Cup winning side last week.
The American missed the whole of the 2015-16 season season through injury and was limited to just 11 starts in 2014-15.
Sweden's Jesper Parnevik, Open championship runner-up in 1994 and 1997, told Golf Digest he had been practising with Woods and the former world number one was "hitting it great" and "flushing everything".
Woods, whose last major triumph was at the 2008 US Open, had a back operation in March 2014, another in September 2015 and a follow-up procedure to relieve discomfort.
In September, he suggested he will also compete in the Turkish Airlines Open in November and the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas in December.
The Safeway Open takes place at the Silverado Country Club in Napa.
Damien "Dee" Fennell, 33, was formally charged at Craigavon Magistrates' Court with addressing a meeting "and the purpose of the said address was to encourage support for a proscribed organisation, namely the Irish Republican Army", on 5 April last year.
Mr Fennell, from Torrens Avenue in north Belfast faces two further charges.
Those are that he further encouraged and invited support for a proscribed organisation.
The charge relates to a speech he gave during a 1916 commemoration event at St Colman's graveyard in Lurgan, County Armagh on Easter Sunday.
Mr Fennell was released on continuing bail.
The 30-year-old Venezuelan clocked up 29 retirements, endless on-track incidents and that memorable 2012 Spanish Grand Prix win in five seasons. So why will we miss him?
He was nicknamed 'Crashtor' by his critics and became a cult figure for, well, just crashing.
In a sport that can sometimes lack drama and excitement, Maldonado was on a one-man mission to reverse F1's image.
Out of 96 grands prix, there were 29 retirements, and he incurred 39 penalties in his colourful F1 career, that's one every 2.4 races and 12 were for causing a collision.
"Woah, what was what?" asked Sauber's Mexican driver Esteban Gutierrez after Maldonado smashed into his car sending it into a barrel-roll at the Bahrain Grand Prix in 2014.
Maldonado was given a warning and handed a five-place grid penalty for the next race in China.
Maldonado won the Spanish Grand Prix in 2012 in an unfancied Williams car - beating Ferrari's two-time world champion Fernando Alonso.
Maldonado won a career high 45 points that season, but his maiden win remains the only time he reached the podium.
BBC Sport's chief F1 writer Andrew Benson recalls "that one amazing afternoon in 2012, when the stars aligned and Maldonado won a grand prix.
"How that happened, no-one has ever satisfactorily been able to explain. Some thought it might mark a breakthrough - only for Maldonado to spend the rest of that season routinely bouncing off things as usual."
You're driving a 200mph car, you keep your eyes on the road right? Not if you're Maldonado.
In 2014 during the first practice for the Chinese Grand Prix he veered off the road and nearly crashed after getting distracted making adjustments on his steering wheel.
Mark Webber won't.
Asked in a recent interview who was the worst F1 racer, the Australian former Red Bull driver replied: "Probably Maldonado, he's out of his depth and just shouldn't be there."
The Venezuelan earned his seat with the size of his chequebook, rather than his talent and Andrew Benson says that's a strong reason why his departure "will not be widely mourned".
"He was quite quick. Unpredictable only in so far as you were never quite sure when the next embarrassing cock-up would happen. So wild he became a laughing stock. And, fundamentally, not really good enough."
"They can say whatever they want. I'm here to do my best, and to work," Maldonado told the Telegraph last year.
"When Pastor crashes, it's big news, When the other people crash, there is no news. It's like this.
"To find the limit, you need to cross the limit. I think I have the big balls to cross the limit every time."
So adios Pastor, make sure you come back soon.
Aodhan Irwin, 20, from Acacia Avenue, in the Waterside area of Derry, denies the incident.
It allegedly happened when the Sinn Féin politician was being interviewed on the city's walls.
He also denies throwing eggs at Mr McGuinness' home. He has been released on bail.
The two offences of disorderly behaviour are alleged to have happened on 10 September.
The defendant, an apprentice welder, will appear in court again in January.
There are fears the closures could see people's journey times take more than two hours if going by bus in some rural areas.
Closure-threatened courts are in Powys, Bridgend, Carmarthenshire, Gwynedd, Anglesey, Neath Port Talbot, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Denbighshire and Wrexham.
Justice Secretary Michael Gove said it would tackle "surplus capacity".
The UK government consultation on plans to close 91 courts and tribunals in England and Wales ends on Thursday.
It said if the plans go ahead, 95% people could drive to court within an hour, but a map produced by the Law Society suggests it would take longer for those who rely on public transport.
Oxford knocks California Institute of Technology, the top performer for the past five years, into second place.
But there are warnings the vote to leave the European Union could destabilise UK higher education and hinder work with academics abroad.
The rankings show a mixed picture for European universities, while Asian institutions continue to rise.
The Times Higher tables rank universities worldwide on measures including teaching, research and international outlook - for example, numbers of overseas students and staff.
Editor of the rankings Phil Baty said it was "fantastic news" Oxford had come top, but the UK's vote to leave the European Union was a big threat to the sector.
"The referendum result is already causing uncertainty for the sector," he said.
"As well as some top academics reporting they have been frozen out of collaborative research projects with EU colleagues, many are admitting that they might look to relocate to a university outside the country.
"It is also having an impact on the UK's potential to attract international talent in the future."
Beyond the UK, this year's rankings present a mixed picture for Europe, which is increasingly under threat from the continuing strength of Asian institutions.
Switzerland's ETH Zurich is ranked ninth for the second year running.
Germany has 41 institutions in the rankings, nine of which make the top 100.
And, for the first time, the Netherlands' 13 leading research-intensive universities all made it into the top 200.
But other European countries are losing ground.
A third of France's 27 universities have slipped down the tables, while half of Italy's 39 institutions have dropped down.
France, Spain and Italy have each lost a representative in the top 200.
Central and Eastern Europe have also suffered, with just one university in the Czech Republic making the top 600, down from six last year, while three of Romania's four universities drop to a lower band.
Denmark and Finland are also seeing signs of slipping, with the universities of Copenhagen and Helsinki dropping 38 and 15 places respectively.
Asia, however, continues to rise up the rankings. It has four new entries in the top 200 group, bringing its total to 19.
China's Peking University joins the top 30, in 29th place, up from 42nd last year, while Tsinghua joins the top 40 in 35th place, up from joint 47th.
Five of Hong Kong's six representatives make the top 200 - more than any other Asian region - and the National University of Singapore, Asia's top university, stands at 24th, its highest ever rank.
Education Secretary Justine Greening said: "Britain has long been home to some of the best universities in the world, and it's fantastic to see a UK university top these world rankings for the first time.
"We want to see this success continue and provide real opportunities for students up and down the country.
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The Kirk's general assembly has voted to allow presbyteries to debate whether congregations can opt out of its traditional stance and appoint homosexual ministers.
If the presbyteries choose to go ahead with the move it could become church law next summer.
The ordaining of gay ministers has proved a controversial topic for years.
In 2009 some members attempted to block the appointment of Rev Scott Rennie, who is gay, to Queen's Cross Church in Aberdeen.
At the Kirk's gathering in 2011, commissioners voted to accept gay and lesbian clergy - on the condition they had declared their sexuality and were ordained before 2009.
The Kirk then prepared a report by its theological commission, which set out arguments on both sides.
Last year, the ruling General Assembly voted in favour of a proposal that allows liberal parishes to opt out of the church's policy on homosexuality and this year's commissioners have backed sending the draft church legislation to local presbyteries.
The general assembly vote followed a debate which examined both the legal and theological implications of the Church choosing to ordain gay ministers.
Commissioners voted to go ahead with the motion, with 369 for it and 189 voting against.
The vote now means that all the Kirk's 46 presbyteries will hold further discussion on the wording of a draft of church legislation, known as an Overture.
This Overture will aim to create a compromise for differing views on allowing ministers who are in civil partnerships.
The final decisions of all presbyteries will be reported back to the General Assembly in May 2015.
This could lead to it being passed as church law at next year's General Assembly.
At the end of the debate, the Moderator of the General Assembly, the Right Reverend John Chalmers, told commissioners: "This has been a difficult day and a difficult discussion for all of us.
"From me to you my grateful thanks it has been conducted as a respectful dialogue and a model of how these conversations should be held within the Church."
News of the vote provoked a mixed reaction within factions of the Kirk.
Forward Together, a group for evangelicals in the Church of Scotland, said it was "deeply saddened" by the vote and accused the Assembly of contradicting itself.
A statement from the group said: "The Assembly formally affirmed the Church's historic and current doctrine and practice in relation to human sexuality but then - with no apology for the blatant contradiction - chose to set that aside by agreeing to allow anyone in a civil partnership to apply to train as a minister or deacon."
"The Assembly has once again chosen to put the so-called 'peace and unity' of the Church, which is clearly lacking, before its duty to be a Church that honours the Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, as its supreme rule of faith and life."
Health Minister Maggie De Block said current rules requiring pills to be given within 20km (12 miles) of a reactor should be increased to 100km.
Belgium's neighbours have criticised the state of its nuclear reactors.
However, the minister said the change was as a result of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.
An earthquake led to a tsunami and all three reactor cores largely melted down.
"Every country has updated its plans for a nuclear emergency," Ms De Block told Belgian TV.
Iodine tablets help to reduce the damage radiation does to the body after a nuclear accident.
People living near the Fukushima nuclear plant were handed the pills after a tsunami caused a radiation leak in 2011.
Radioactive iodine gathers in the thyroid gland and there it releases its energy and damages the tissue.
Ultimately this can culminate in cancer.
Taking the tablets fills the thyroid with stable iodine so there's no room for the radioactive material.
Of course they offer no protection against other radioactive elements such as caesium-137.
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Belgium has seven reactors, at Doel and Tihange, and a research reactor at Mol. But the advice also takes into account reactors in neighbouring countries including the Netherlands, which has a reactor at Borssele close to the Belgian border.
Ms De Block said pills would be given to the whole population because if a 100km circle was drawn from all the reactors in the region there was not one square centimetre of Belgium that was not covered.
The Dutch government updated its policy on iodine tablets last month, so that pregnant women and under-eighteens are given the pills within 100km of the Borssele and Doel reactors.
Earlier this month Belgium refused a German request to shut down two of its oldest reactors temporarily because of defects found in their pressure vessels.
Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks called for the Doel 3 and Tihange 2 reactors to be taken offline because of a report by Germany's independent Reactor Safety Commission.
They were temporarily shut in 2012 when defects were found in the walls of the reactors' pressure vessels.
Belgian Green MP Jean-Marc Nollet welcomed the proposals for the whole population to be given the pills, but said it was not enough.
The risk would not disappear if Belgians were given pills, he said. The health, environmental and economic consequences of a nuclear accident would remain.
The change is expected to be finalised in June and pills will be handed out next year.
The call to "map the gaps" comes from GEBCO, the General Bathymetric Chart of the Ocean, a body first set up in 1903 to compile maps from naval surveys around the world.
But more than a century on from the first international charts, vast expanses of the ocean are still represented by just a single point where an ancient mariner threw a lead-weighted rope over the ship side.
Only 5% of the seafloor has been mapped by modern methods. Even around the UK, a nation with a long maritime history, almost a third of the coast is unsurveyed. The entire Moon, in contrast, is known to a resolution of 7m, thanks to satellite mapping.
"It's a matter of commitment," complains Larry Mayer, director of the Center for Marine Science and Coastal Engineering at the University of New Hampshire, a world-leading centre of oceanographic expertise.
"We could map the entire deep oceans for $3bn - no more than a single Mars mission."
As another participant quipped, the community is "stuck between ability and utility." Existing maps are principally produced to support shipping - to find safe routes for maritime traffic from supertankers and trawlers to leisure craft. Detailed measurements of the ocean bottom are possible, but who would pay for it.
David Heydon, who founded the submarine mining company Nautilus Minerals and directs another exploration outfit, DeepGreen Resources, argues: "The land we live on is one-third of the planet - it's rare. The other two-thirds are more than 3,000m under the water. It'd be crazy not to understand it."
The question is how it would be used.
"How can you build offshore windfarms, lay submarine cables, forecast storm surges, if you don't know the shape and depth of your coastal regions," asks Robert Ward, president of the International Hydrographic Organization, who is enthusiastic about a big scale-up of current efforts.
The problem comes down to time and cost. If London were underwater, it would take weeks to map using conventional echo-sounding methods, Ward explains; and several days even using the most modern multibeam methods.
Today's survey vessels cost tens of thousands of dollars a day to run. Others point out that London would simply vanish as too small to notice on many of the maps that currently exist.
Our ignorance of the seafloor came into sharp relief with the loss of the Malaysian airliner MH370.
"It went down in an area where we knew almost nothing," explains Rochelle Wigley, an oceanographer also based at the University of New Hampshire. "There was just one modern survey line across an area the size of New Zealand."
Her colleague Larry Mayer agrees: "Much of the effort that's gone into finding [MH370] has been essentially making a base map." The area has turned out to be filled with ridges and canyons spanning depths down to 7,000m, which has greatly hampered the search.
"If we'd had that base map, it would have saved months and months of time," the researcher asserts.
The question that has dogged the debate at this week's forum is how much detail is needed.
More detail means more time and more cost. For many just a single measurement every hundred metres would be a vast improvement on what's available today, even though it would fall far short of the quality of astronomers' lunar maps. But anything worth investigating further could be followed up later with dedicated missions.
Others argue that the aim should be to beat the Moon maps, if the effort is to be attempted. Swarms of undersea robots scanning the seafloor would be needed. A tie up with the Xprize Shell Ocean Discovery Challenge (http://oceandiscovery.xprize.org/) seems a possibility.
Larry Mayer has a half-way proposition - a vast uncrewed barge laden with equipment that could roam the high seas autonomously for just a third of the cost of conventional missions, and never need to come into port. With the biggest sonar array ever built, and controlled remotely, it could focus in where necessary, and sweep up large areas of abyssal plains at top speed.
"It would also be available if something like an MH370 happened again," he promises, "to sail into a region where you need a high-resolution search."
Such a self-steering vessel really would resemble a Nasa space mission mapping an unexplored world. What GEBCO lacks is a Nasa-style infrastructure and budget to make it happen. Anybody got a spare billion?
Montpellier front-row brothers Bismark and Jannie du Plessis are among seven South Africans in the hosts' match squad.
They were also victims of Japan's historic pool stage-win in Brighton.
"Let's see if we can play the same and get the same result as Japan," said Jones of the Challenge Cup semi-final.
"But you've got to move them around. We've got to match the intensity that they can bring and the physicality."
Dragons have four South Africans in their own starting XV at Altrad Stadium in prop Brok Harris, lock Rynard Landman, scrum-half Sarel Pretorius and full-back Carl Meyer.
Montpellier coach Jake White, who guided South Africa to the 2007 World Cup crown, starts with the Du Plessis brothers in the front row, Paul Willemse at lock and Pierre Spies at number eight.
Behind the scrum, the Top 14 club have centres Robert Ebersohn and Frans Steyn, with Demetri Catrakilis at fly-half.
White has also named South African back-rower Wiaan Liebenberg on the bench.
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By comparison, it is likely only the name of Dragons number eight Taulupe Faletau will make Montpellier's stars take notice.
Montpellier are second behind Clermont Auvergne in the French Top 14 while only Italian clubs Zebre and Treviso are below Dragons in the Pro12.
Dragons have lost their past eight Pro12 games, but shocked defending Challenge Cup champions Gloucester in the quarter-finals and Jones remains optimistic.
"We go there positively," said the former Wales flanker, who is in charge following Lyn Jones' departure.
"This is a really good team we're facing and a big challenge, but Stade Francais won the Top 14 last year and we managed to do the double over them and we take confidence from that as well.
"They're a big, physical team - we expect that. We know how they're going to play."
Wales centre Jamie Roberts starred for Harlequins as they beat Grenoble 30-6 to reach the final, which will be played on Friday, 13 May in Lyon, France.
Police seized £200,000 worth of suspected herbal cannabis after a car was stopped on the M2 motorway around 12:00 GMT on Friday.
Properties were searched at Shore Road, Belfast, and in Newtownards, County Down, as part of the investigation.
A further £200,000 worth of suspected herbal cannabis was seized in Antrim.
Police said both seizures were "being investigated to establish the existence of any links".
An armed civilian shot the two 14-year-old assailants, who have been taken to hospital.
It happened at an Israeli-controlled industrial zone market near Ramallah used by settlers and Palestinians.
Since October, 30 Israelis have been killed in stabbing, shooting or car-ramming attacks by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs.
More than 160 Palestinians - mostly attackers, Israel says - have been killed in the recent unrest.
What is driving the violence?
The victim has been identified as 21-year-old soldier Tuvia Weissman, who was off duty at the moment of the attack, the Israeli army said.
A second Israeli was also stabbed and was reported to be in a moderate condition in hospital. They were both hit on their torsos, medical sources said.
One of the attackers was in a serious condition and, the second was in a moderate to serious condition, being treated for gunshot wounds, a spokesman said.
Palestinian medical sources said one of the attackers was from a village near Tulkarm and the other from the Ramallah region, the Haaretz newspaper reported.
The Shaar Binyamin industrial zone will be closed to all Palestinians on Friday, except for those with work permits, officials said.
The recent rise in violence is blamed by Palestinians on the continued occupation by Israel of the West Bank and the failure of the Middle East peace process.
Israel accuses Palestinian leaders and Islamist groups of inciting the violence.
Several of the most recent incidents have involved Palestinian teenagers.
The assailants who have been killed have either been shot dead by their victims or security forces as they carried out attacks. Some attackers have been arrested.
Other Palestinians have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops amid spiralling violence.
New recruits to key jobs must have at least GCSE C grades in the subjects, with alternative equivalent qualifications no longer accepted.
The Save our Early Years campaign says recruitment has already been hit.
But the government says numeracy and literacy skills are "essential".
Under the current rules, staff are only allowed to look after specific numbers of children.
Although nurseries are still able to hire staff without good GCSEs, these staff will not count towards the ratios.
The rule change applies to people who started training in 2014 or later, who nurseries hope will fill vacancies in the new academic year in September.
Save our Early Years fears many will not have managed to achieve good enough GCSE grades, despite completing their childcare qualifications, leading to a shortage of qualified staff.
Carol Medcalf, the managing director of an award-winning nursery in north London, who supports the campaign, called the rule "a huge barrier".
"I strongly feel, and this is backed up by experience, that the GCSE requirement, especially in maths, is a huge barrier for many wonderful staff entering the profession, and they become unemployable, which is crazy", said Ms Medcalf who runs Carol Jane Montessori Nursery in Enfield.
"I myself do not have maths GCSE - yet I have run a highly respected, multi-award winning, Ofsted outstanding nursery for over 25 years, and I manage to get the business figures right."
The campaigners say the recruitment crisis will be particularly acute with the government having promised 30 hours of free childcare for three- and four-year-olds from next year.
They want the government to reinstate "Functional Skills" qualifications as a suitable alternative to GCSE for childcare staff.
These qualifications are offered to the 40% of teenagers who do not achieve the benchmark English and maths GCSEs in school and are the equivalent C grades.
Julie Hyde, executive director of the childcare qualifications awarding body CACHE, said childcare was the only sector where they were not accepted.
"We simply want a level playing field," she said.
Liz Bayram, chief executive of the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years, said feedback from members suggested trainees were being prevented from fulfilling their potential.
While Neil Leitch, chief executive of the Pre-School Learning Alliance, said he did not believe staff needed GCSEs to demonstrate they were literate and numerate.
"We simply cannot afford to be blocking smart, eager and passionate potential practitioners from joining the sector, just because they don't have the right type of qualification," he said.
A Department for Education spokesman did not directly address warnings of staff shortages, but said strong numeracy and literacy skills were "essential" for staff working with young children.
"That is why we introduced GCSE requirements for those early years staff working for 'level three early years educator' status.
"We are continuing to look at what more can be done to encourage talented staff to forge a career in the early years."
Narraway, 32, who joined the Exiles in 2014 from then French Top 14 side Perpignan, has made 45 appearances and captained the side this season.
Capped seven times by England, his last international appearance came against Ireland in the 2009 Six Nations.
"I'm proud to be committing myself to the future of the club, whatever that might look like," Narraway said.
The Afghan government asked for the move as part of a deal with Mr Hekmatyar and his militant group in September.
The deal grants him immunity in return for support for the Afghan constitution and a promise to abandon violence.
He fought the Soviet occupation but was later accused of shelling civilians.
Mr Hekmatyar is also a former Afghan prime minister and his Hezb-e-Islami militant group is the second biggest in the country.
He was forced to flee Kabul in 1996 when the Taliban came to power and in 2003 was designated as a terrorist by the US.
Mr Hekmatyar's whereabouts remain unknown. He did not attend the signing ceremony in Kabul for the deal with the government.
Under the UN Security Council move, his assets are unfrozen and a travel ban is rescinded.
As a guerrilla leader in the 1980s, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar had air of icy menace about him that hinted at ruthless ambition, a characteristic he demonstrated to the full during the ferocious power-struggle that followed the end of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
He became known as the Butcher of Kabul for his faction's indiscriminate firing of rockets into the capital. The death and destruction this caused led many Afghans to welcome the takeover of the Taliban.
Once one of the main recipients of western aid, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was deeply hostile to the west and was later accused by the US state department of supporting attacks by al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
The deal between Mr Hekmatyar and the Afghan government was seen as being highly symbolic because it is the first to be concluded without UN or international mediation.
BBC Afghan Service editor Waheed Massoud said Mr Hekmatyar appeared to have calculated that he would be more significant as a political leader in Kabul than as the leader of a group of fighters up in the mountains who are also competing with the Taliban for influence.
Hezb-e-Islami has supporters across the country and it is thought the peace agreement could encourage some Taliban leaders to consider joining the process.
Nadya Tolokonnikova, along with fellow activist Katya Nenasheva, dressed as prisoners and attempted to sew a Russian flag before being dragged away.
Both were released after three hours, Ms Nenasheva told the BBC.
Ms Tolokonnikova spent 21 months in jail after a Pussy Riot protest against Vladimir Putin in a Moscow cathedral.
The human rights campaigner staged her new protest on Russia's national day.
While under arrest on Friday she posted messages on Facebook (in Russian) saying she wanted to draw attention to the struggles of female prisoners, both while incarcerated and once released.
Russian media reports said the two women had been detained for holding an "unsanctioned rally" in Moscow's Bolotnaya Square - the site of mass anti-government protests that began in 2011.
"The police themselves did not say what we'd been detained for," Ms Nenasheva told the BBC.
"At first they talked about an administrative violation then they said they had detained us just to check our identity," she said in a written statement.
Since being released last year, Ms Tolokonnikova has focused on campaigning around the world against President Vladimir Putin.
She was jailed along with fellow Pussy Riot members, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich, in August 2012 after being convicted of hooliganism.
They were among five members of the radical group to stage an obscenity-laced "punk prayer" in Moscow's biggest cathedral.
The act was seen as blasphemous by many Russians, and was condemned by the Orthodox Church.
Ms Samutsevich was freed on probation in October 2012, but Ms Tolokonnikova and Ms Alyokhina remained in jail until their release in December 2013.
In February 2014, members of Pussy Riot signed an open letter insisting that Ms Alyokhina and Ms Tolokonnikova should no longer be described as part of the punk rock collective.
They said the pair had forgotten about the "aspirations and ideals of our group" and were wrong to appear at an Amnesty International concert in New York.
Nearly 300,000 households have been boiling water since 6 August after the discovery of cryptosporidium at a water treatment works near Preston.
United Utilities is installing ultra violet (UV) rigs to kill the parasite, which can cause diarrhoea and cramps.
The water company has declined to comment.
The petition calls for the inquiry to find out "how and why United Utilities seemingly allowed cryptosporidium to contaminate drinking water supplies and why there seems to be no contingency plans to deal with such a situation".
The water firm previously said it would have an idea of when restrictions could be lifted once UV light treated the water.
Affected areas include Blackpool, Chorley, Fylde, Preston, South Ribble, Wyre and the Mellor area of Blackburn.
Levels of cryptosporidium are "very low" but United Utilities urged people to continue boiling water.
South Ribble MP Seema Kennedy has criticised the company for delays in informing customers when their supply will be safe to drink.
She said the Drinking Water Inspectorate had informed her that United Utilities had been told "to get on with providing a plan and managing the public's expectations".
The group beat Adele, Little Mix and Ed Sheeran to win the award, despite currently being on a break.
One Direction scored more than 60% of votes to take the prize - the only award at the ceremony to be voted for by the public.
Other winners this year include Olly Murs and Florence Welch - who have won best male and best female respectively.
The awards ceremony took place on Friday afternoon, though all the winners were announced in advance.
One Direction said: "Thank you to all our fans for voting. Our live show is so important and it is amazing for this to be recognised... for the second time."
Lionel Richie was announced as the winner of the top honour - the Silver Clef Award.
Jess Glynne won best newcomer, while Craig David scooped the innovation award.
Patti Smith took home the outstanding achievement prize, while Jeff Lynne was the recipient of the icon award.
Violinist Andre Rieu was the winner of the classical award, while Irish musician Hozier received the international award.
Speaking before the ceremony at London's Grosvenor House Hotel, Murs said he was "very proud" to be recognised at an event in aid of the Nordoff-Robbins charity.
Glynne also said she was "really excited" to be recognised, calling the charity - which funds music therapy sessions for children and adults - "a special thing to be a part of."
ELO's Jeff Lynne said of his accolade: "I'm always shocked when I get anything but this is up there at the top. This is a beautiful thing and I'm very proud of it."
Richie, who received his award from Bee Gees star Barry Gibb, said his Silver Clef award was "the best thing in the world because attached to it is a charity".
"Attached to it is some kids that are probably going to use music therapy as I used it - to pull themselves back together again," added the 67-year-old singer.
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IPSA, the independent body that sets MPs' pay, has said unless there is "new and compelling evidence", it will rise by 10%, from £67,060 to £74,000.
Mr Afriyie told Victoria Derbyshire that MPs who chose not to accept the increase were "grandstanding".
David Cameron has said the proposed 10% increase was not acceptable.
Labour frontbencher Gloria De Piero is one of the MPs who has said she would give the proposed rise to charity, describing it as "immoral".
Speaking during a panel discussion on the planned increase, Mr Afriyie said: "To be honest, I find that quite embarrassing. If somebody says, 'oh I'm going to be such a wonderful person and give all this to charity' it's just grandstanding.
"It's a bit distasteful to boast about that to get yourself off the hook publicly."
A self-made millionaire who grew up in Peckham, south London, Mr Afriyie is the MP for Windsor.
He said good pay for MPs was fundamental to democracy: "MPs are backbenchers. We're the heroes of all the voters. You vote us in, therefore we should be standing up for you in Parliament, doing things correctly.
"If, however, the government can offer and lure people to front bench jobs with big extra salaries then that actually makes democracy, to some degree, undermined."
IPSA was handed control of decisions over MPs' pay and expenses in the wake of the 2009 expenses scandal. It does not need to get the agreement of Parliament to bring in the changes.
Mr Cameron has previously urged IPSA to scrap the above-inflation increase, which was initially proposed to address complaints that pay had fallen behind the rest of the public sector.
But as it launched its final review of the proposals, IPSA restated its intention to press ahead with the increase, and said there appeared to be no "material" reason to change the recommendations.
IPSA has stressed that due to cuts in pensions and expenses - such as a ban on claiming for evening meals - the overall package of changes to MPs' remuneration will not cost taxpayers any more.
But MPs elected before 2015 - including Mr Cameron - will see a major boost to their pensions because they are based on final salary.
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Actor Jaycee Chan, 31, was detained on Thursday by Beijing police, who said more than 100 grams of marijuana were found at his home.
It came amid a crackdown on drugs which has already netted several celebrities.
Jackie Chan was named an official "Narcotics Control Ambassador" by Chinese police in 2009.
"With regards to the incident involving my son Jaycee, I am very angry and shocked," Jackie Chan said on his official account on Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo.
"As a public figure, I am ashamed. As a father, I am very sad and his mother is heartbroken.
"I told Jaycee: if you have done something wrong, you must bear the consequences. As your father, I am willing to face the road ahead with you."
The Hong Kong film star added that he "hoped young people would learn from Jaycee's lesson and avoid drugs", and apologised on Jaycee Chan's behalf.
Jaycee Chan and Taiwanese movie star Kai Ko, 23, were both detained on Thursday, with police saying they tested positive for marijuana.
Mr Chan was put under "criminal detention" for the suspected crime of "providing a shelter for others to abuse drugs", Beijing police said.
If convicted, he faces a maximum prison term of three years.
Mr Chan's management firm M'Stones International apologised on his behalf for the "social impact" caused and said they would "supervise his rehabilitation and help him return to the right path".
Last week, 42 artist management agencies in Beijing signed an agreement with police pledging not to recruit celebrities with reported drug use problems.
In June, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for "forceful measures" to tackle illegal drug use.
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The rare Red Poll cows have been brought from Cheshire to help out on Ainsdale sand dunes in Merseyside to break up the tough shrubs that are threatening to ruin the dunes for other wildlife.
The sandy dunes are supposed to be open so small animals, bird and insects can move around easily - but the rough grasses and bushes can block their paths.
Red Poll cows are well known for eating as many different kinds of plants as they can get their teeth around!
Once they finish here, the cows will be heading to another nature reserve to continue their hard work of eating!
Smith, 24, made 86 league starts for Northampton before leaving at the end of last season.
Ex-Scunthorpe trainee Slocombe, 29, had a spell at Oxford and helped Blackpool to promotion to League One last term.
Rovers offered previous stopper Steve Mildenhall, 38, a goalkeeping coach role earlier this summer, while fellow keeper Will Puddy was released.
Manager Darrell Clarke told the club website: "I am delighted to be signing two excellent goalkeepers who will provide us with competition for the number one spot."
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The deal is a joint venture with the Iranian government and a private firm called Parto Negin Naseh, although Renault will have a 60% stake.
The revamped factory will be at Saveh, 74 miles south-west of Tehran.
"We are happy to sign one of Renault's most historical contracts here," said Thierry Bollore of Renault.
Mansour Moazami, head of Iran's Industrial Development and Renovation Organisation (IDRO), said the first phase of the agreement would lead to 150,000 cars a year being produced within 18 months.
Production, initially of its Duster and Symbol vehicles, will then be ramped up to 300,000 cars per year by 2022.
Renault already makes about 200,000 cars per year in Iran, where it has been producing vehicles since 2004, side-stepping international trade and financial sanctions against the country.
Those were imposed by the European Union in 2012 because of Iran's continued development of facilities to enrich uranium which might be used in nuclear bombs and missiles.
The sanctions were eased last year, paving the way for the new deal.
"This signing confirms our strong intent and commitment for long-term operations as a strategic partner of Iran's automotive industry," said Mr Bollore.
The IDRO will own 20% of the new venture and Parto Negin Naseh will hold the other 20%.
One element of the deal is that 30% of the cars and parts will go for export.
The late-night concert featured orchestral reworkings of his music, performed by the likes of Marc Almond, John Cale and Laura Mvula.
"This is not a wake," singer Amanda Palmer, of the Dresden Dolls, told a sold-out Royal Albert Hall.
"This is an amazing... secular celebration of some of the most incredible music in the world."
Nonetheless, it was a largely downbeat affair, filleting Bowie's back catalogue for maximum pathos.
Cale turned Space Oddity into a solemn incantation, while The Villagers' Conor O'Brien gave a beautifully melancholy reading of The Man Who Sold The World.
Like most multi-artist tributes, though, it was an uneven affair.
Fame and Ashes To Ashes came untethered without a solid backbeat, while a droning version of Always Crashing In The Same Car, by French counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky, simply didn't work.
But things always took a turn for the better when Anna Calvi took to the stage. Her duet with Palmer on Blackstar, one of Bowie's final songs, was darkly devastating, while a visceral Lady Grinning Soul sent chills through the auditorium.
The British singer told the BBC she had grasped the opportunity to reinterpret Bowie's songs with the Stargaze ensemble.
"The songs are so good that you can do anything with them and they still retain a magic quality."
Palmer, wearing a crown of thorns, also gave a gutsy reading of Heroes, while Marc Almond delivered the two biggest crowd-pleasers of the night: Life On Mars and Starman.
Speaking before the latter, he recalled watching Bowie perform the song on Top Of The Pops in 1972, his arm draped around guitarist Mick Ronson.
"[It] was a life-changing moment for so many teenagers - such as me," he said. "David Bowie made us look at the world through different eyes."
Cale, for whom Bowie was a friend and musical collaborator, said the Prom showed "a different side to David Bowie" - but the experimental performances split opinion on Twitter.
"This is the worst thing that's ever happened in the entire history of everything," said musician Luke Haines, of The Auteurs and Black Box Recorder.
"I'm sure John Cale doing Space Oddity must've looked like a great idea on paper," wrote David Baddiel.Broadcaster Stuart Maconie disagreed, writing: "The Bowie Prom was exactly what a Bowie Prom should have been: Quixotic, challenging, playful, maddening and mainly brilliant."
"Beautiful and odd and disjointed and quite majestic all in one," added Ethan Jones. "It was never going to be a TOTP compilation was it now?"
The last word, however, should go to Palmer, whose EP of string quartet Bowie covers helped inspire the Proms programme.
"David Bowie is such a reminder, as a musician, that life is so short," she told BBC 6 Music.
"You only have this span of time to do whatever you want - so why not try the bizarre, and why not venture way outside the predictable, and why not follow your impulses?"
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But the firm said that despite rising profits, it plans to lay off an additional 11,000 to 16,000 workers.
HP had previously announced it would cut 34,000 jobs as part of a restructuring announced in 2012.
Shares in HP fell after the early release of the news.
"I'm pleased to report that HP's turnaround remains on track," said chief executive Meg Whitman in a statement.
"We're gradually shaping HP into a more nimble, lower-cost, more customer- and partner-centric company."
However, analysts were disappointed by the firm's revenue growth, which fell 1% from the same period a year ago to $27.3bn.
HP has been hit hard by declining PC sales as consumers shift towards devices such as tablets and smartphones.
Ms Whitman has tried to shift the firm's focus to computing equipment and networking gear for business clients.
HP began a restructuring plan in 2012 that was designed to simplify the company's business processes, accelerate innovation, lower costs and deliver better results.
Ms Whitman said the turnaround remains on track, and added: "With each passing quarter, HP is improving its systems, structures and core go-to-market capabilities.
"We're gradually shaping HP into a more nimble, lower-cost, more customer- and partner-centric company that can successfully compete across a rapidly changing IT landscape."
HP has not specified when it expects to see the full results of its restructuring strategy. But analysts are suggesting the company should probably take a closer look at its product mix.
"The world has gone mobile for computing, and HP is not exactly the go-to brand at all when it comes to smartphones and tablets," said Jon Ogg at 24/7 Wall St in a blog post.
He added: "Notebooks and PCs are still not hot, and that means that printers, monitors, and other peripherals are hard to sell. That leaves it as an IT brand. As a reminder, HP decided not to spin off its PC unit with the explanation that it was going to be too costly to do so - not very comforting."
HP's personal systems division was the only segment that showed a gain in revenue in the second quarter. Other divisions, namely printing as well as enterprise group and services posted a drop in revenue.
The decline in revenue is one of the main reasons HP is cutting jobs. Andrew Milroy, from consultancy firm Frost & Sullivan, said: "Revenues are declining. So it is cutting staff in anticipation of revenues declining further.
"HP's cost cutting and restructuring seems to be successful, but HP is struggling to make the jump into the growth market in IT in areas like cloud and mobile."
Maj Nidal Hasan, 42, was convicted last week of the November 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood.
The defendant had tried to admit his guilt but military law bans guilty pleas in death penalty cases.
The Virginia-born Muslim said he opened fire to protect Taliban insurgents from troops about to deploy to Afghanistan.
By Alastair LeitheadBBC News, Los Angeles
Maj Nidal Hasan sat in his wheelchair and gave no reaction to the death sentence.
The Army psychiatrist had listened to the prosecutor go through the personal stories of each of the 13 people he killed.
He had seen their photographs as the jury heard about the impact his actions had on the parents, widows and children left behind.
The prosecutor described the way each family member of each soldier killed was visited by "two soldiers in Class A uniforms" knocking on the front door with death notifications.
Hasan shut his eyes occasionally, rubbed his unkempt and greying beard, and held his head in the one hand he is still able to use after being paralysed by the shots which stopped his shooting rampage.
And he again declined his final opportunity to offer an explanation for what he did.
The jury handed down its sentence after two hours of deliberations on Wednesday.
But it could be years, possibly decades, before Maj Hasan is executed because of the long appeals process in the military justice system.
His execution must eventually be authorised by the president.
On Wednesday before the sentence was handed down, prosecutor Col Mike Mulligan urged jurors to opt for a rare military death penalty.
"He will not now and he will never be a martyr," Col Mulligan said of Maj Hasan. "He is a criminal. He is a cold-blooded murderer."
"This is not his gift to God. This is his debt to society. This is the cost of his murderous rampage."
"He will never be a martyr because he has nothing to give," Col Mulligan added. "He will not be giving his life, we will be taking it."
Maj Hasan, who represented himself, declined to speak on his own behalf, saying only: "I have no closing statement."
The 13-member jury had to reach unanimous agreement in order to sentence Maj Hasan to death, otherwise he would have faced life in prison.
The US military has not executed a service member since 1961. There are five inmates on the US military's death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, all at various stages of the appeals process.
Maj Hasan opened fire at a medical facility on the Fort Hood base where soldiers were being evaluated before deploying overseas.
The jury heard he had prepared carefully for the attack, during which he fired 146 bullets.
The shooting spree ended when he was shot by a civilian police officer.
He was paralysed from the waist down and now uses a wheelchair.
Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness said those who killed Mr McGuigan and Gerard 'Jock' Davison were criminals and "must be brought to justice".
The DUP, Sinn Féin and the SDLP said they wanted a meeting with the PSNI chief constable.
Mr McGuigan Sr was shot dead last week.
DUP leader and Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson said on Thursday night that he had engaged in an initial discussion with the PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton.
He said that before the return of the assembly from recess his party would seek a further update from Mr Hamilton "to establish his conclusion regarding those responsible and the role of those in the republican movement who are associated with Sinn Féin".
"As I indicated in my press briefing last week there can be no place for terror and murderous activity on our streets and republicans cannot be in the executive in circumstances where this murder was the work of the Provisional IRA," he added.
Mr Robinson said the DUP would have discussions with other parties "about tabling the necessary exclusion motion in the assembly and asking the Secretary of State to intervene in circumstances where the evidence points to the IRA being involved".
Earlier, DUP MP Gregory Campbell told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra that his party also wanted to meet the Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers. He said that independent assessment was needed on the IRA's status.
Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly insisted later that the IRA no longer exists and asked for a meeting with Mr Hamilton.
He described the PSNI's statement as "contradictory".
"The IRA has gone, it has left the stage, it made a statement in July 2005, saying it was gone," Mr Kelly added.
"The IRA has left the stage - full stop. It is not an organisation today."
UUP leader Mike Nesbitt said he thought it was a "stark statement" from the PSNI that could not be "allowed to linger in the public domain without further investigation and further explanation".
"The proper political reaction depends on the actual facts and if it was an own initiative by members of the IRA on the ground and that the leadership of Sinn Féin had no knowledge of it then that is one thing," he added.
"If it was sanctioned or ordered by leading members of the republican movement and there was political awareness of what was happening then that is a much different situation."
SDLP leader Dr Alasdair McDonnell said he welcomed the assessment by the PSNI and would be seeking an urgent meeting with the chief constable.
"I welcome this assessment by the police which is compatible with what people on the street already know," he added.
"The Provisional IRA in whatever form it exists, despite whatever contortions it may have gone through, still appears to claim the right to exercise life and death decisions over anyone in the community that they develop a grudge against."
Alliance MLA Stephen Farry said it was "very worrying and significant that the police have said they are following a definite line of inquiry relating to people who may be members of the Provisional IRA".
He said it was important that further clarity was provided "as soon as possible".
Traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister said it was "time for unionists who work the Belfast Agreement to face up to reality".
UKIP leader in Northern Ireland, David McNarry, said the PSNI's assessment left "no room for Sinn Féin to manoeuvre politically".
The Northern Ireland Office said as the murder was currently under investigation by the PSNI "it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage".
Market researcher Ipsos Mori found 58% of respondents said their firms had suffered since last June's exit vote.
Nearly a third of respondents thought the referendum had not made any difference, and 11% felt it had been positive.
More than 100 bosses of FTSE 500 firms responded to the survey.
"Unfortunately, it looks like business in this country is already feeling the pain of the economic upheaval of leaving the EU," said Ipsos Mori chief executive, Ben Page.
"According to respondents there is no sign that this is likely to ease this year, with two thirds saying they thought their business situation would get worse in the next 12 months," he added.
Two-thirds of the chairmen, chief executives and other directors who responded thought that their business would be worse off after the UK left the European Union.
Meanwhile 45% of the 114 FTSE 500 bosses surveyed expected to feel a negative impact in five years' time.
However, 32% said their business would start to feel the positive effects of leaving the EU in five years' time.
Most of the business leaders (96%) who responded said they were confident their company could adapt to the consequences of leaving the EU.
More than half of them (54%) said the most important thing for the UK to obtain during exit negotiations was the movement or access of skilled labour.
In order for businesses to be successful post-Brexit, 86% of executives thought the most important factors were cutting the amount and complexity of regulation, and keeping it easy to recruit staff from the European Union.
Ex-solicitor Margaret Hampshire and husband Alan admitted faking the will of Martin Blanche, who died in 2007.
The couple then stole £23,000 from a cousin of Mrs Hampshire over whom she held power of attorney.
A judge at Nottingham Crown Court jailed them for six months and said it was a "shameful and astonishing crime".
While Mrs Hampshire, 69, was still working as a tribunal judge, the couple forged the will of illiterate Mr Blanche to get their hands on his cottage near Newark, in Nottinghamshire.
The doctored will bequeathed Middle Corner House in Rolleston to Mrs Hampshire's cousin Josephine Burroughs who was also a relative of the dead man.
Mrs Hampshire then used power of attorney to transfer ownership of the home to her daughter.
Mr Hampshire, 67, then took money from Ms Burroughs' account and used it to convert the cottage and a neighbouring property into one larger house.
They moved from Essex to the newly renovated home earlier this year.
The couple initially denied the offences but during a trial last month they changed their plea.
Mrs Hampshire admitted fraud and two counts of forgery - including faking a document to avoid inheritance tax - while her builder husband pleaded guilty to forgery and two counts of theft.
In sentencing the pair, Judge Gregory Dickinson said: "This offending did take place at a time when you held judicial office and when the public was paying for you to fulfil that role, which seems to make your offending all the more shameful and astonishing.
"You abused your knowledge and experience gained as a solicitor, forgetting or ignoring the need to act with integrity.
"Your terrible fall from grace and your age cannot save you from an immediate custodial sentence."
In mitigation, the couple's lawyers said there had been no will and the forgery simply speeded up what would have happened anyway.
Timothy Greene, representing Mrs Hampshire, said she had "fallen a long way" from her respected position in the community and was "utterly humiliated".
A hearing next year will decide if the Hampshires should pay compensation.
Under the Mental Health Act, people with mental health disorders can be admitted to hospital against their wishes for treatment.
The statistics are from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC).
A mental health charity said doctors were being forced to detain patients in order to find them a hospital bed.
The HSCIC report shows that there has been a steady rise in detentions over the past three years.
An additional 4,000 people were detained or sectioned in NHS hospitals and 1,270 in private hospitals from April 2014 to March 2015, compared to the previous 12 months.
Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the mental health charity SANE, said the rise in people detained under the Mental Health Act was concerning - but not a surprise.
She said doctors were being forced to use the Act to get patients a hospital bed for treatment, often sending them to unfamiliar hospitals far from friends and family.
She added: "It is a scandal that you have to be sectioned in order to get treatment.
"What we need is more, rather than fewer, beds where those who need sanctuary and healing can receive help without having to be deprived of their liberty."
Another report from the HSCIC found that one in 28 adults was in contact with mental health services last year in England.
That amounts to 1.85 million people accessing mental health and learning disability services in England in the 12-month period until the end of March.
It was focused on under-explored areas of the UK continental shelf (UKCS) - the first so-called Frontier licensing round in more than 20 years.
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) said 29 applications had been received from 24 companies.
OGA chief executive Andy Samuel said: "Despite the difficult climate, industry has responded strongly."
He explained: "This confirms the high remaining potential in the UKCS frontier areas.
"Long-standing investors continue to seek new acreage and we also welcome the arrival of new entrants."
The upcoming round will cover mature areas of the UKCS.
Despite long wanting to get his hands on the nation's purse strings, Philip Hammond was not tempted into grand gestures.
There were modest giveaways for those "just about managing" in order to keep true to Theresa May's promise of a Government for all; a reduction in the rate benefits are withdrawn for those working, a ban on letting fees and a boost to the minimum wage - much briefed in advance to perhaps gain some headlines before gloomy forecasts became the story.
There was a shift away from his predecessor's focus on deficit reduction within a set timeframe - instead Mr Hammond said he would deliver a surplus as soon as possible, announcing investment in housing and roads, money for research and development - the focus on boosting productivity.
But this was still a Chancellor keen to limit spending in order to secure stability.
Brexit has made the future unpredictable.
Philip Hammond may have more insight that most into the Government's planned approach to leaving the EU, but he still wanted to ensure he had enough in his back pocket to withstand any shocks that may come.
And with vast increases in borrowing and reduced growth predicted, Mr Hammond limited the giveaways and changed the economic rules to give himself the flexibility to respond.
This was a careful balancing act, an attempt to follow through on promised support for those in society who need it most while keeping the nation's books in order.
At the same time, this was an attempt to recognise the potential economic turbulence Brexit could bring without invoking the ire of backbench Eurosceptics with an overly negative outlook.
Mr Hammond was careful to speak of opportunities as well as challenges, describing a "great nation", resilient and strong.
By his own admission there was no grand "rabbit in the hat". Mr Hammond wasn't out to steal the show, but rather prove he can be the steady hand on the tiller in choppy economic waters.
But for Labour, this was an opportunity to seize on a chink in the government's economic armour, with the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell saying the much-hailed long term economic plan had been an "abject failure".
The 33-year-old man was hurt in the Denmark Street area of the Aberdeenshire town on Sunday at about 02:50.
He was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where his condition was described as critical but stable.
A 23-year-old man was expected to appear at Peterhead Sheriff Court on Monday.
Det Insp Norman Stevenson said: "I would still urge anyone with additional information to come forward as every witness viewpoint is extremely important in assisting us with the investigation.
"Around the time in question large numbers of people would have been leaving nearby licensed premises and I would ask that anyone who saw anything and has information that could assist to contact us as soon as possible."
Fly-half Madigan, capped 25 times by Ireland, said he believed the "timing was right" to make the move to France.
"This was a very difficult decision for me to make, leaving the club that I have represented my whole professional life," said the 26-year-old.
"I look forward to experiencing a new life and style of rugby in France."
Madigan has played 135 times for Leinster to date, amassing 765 points and scoring 24 tries since making his debut in May 2009.
He has won two Heineken Cups, a Challenge Cup and two Pro12 titles during his time with the province, and has also been part of Ireland's Six Nations-winning squads in 2014 and 2015.
He has however found himself behind Johnny Sexton in the pecking order at Leinster and Ireland for much of his career, a role he has occupied again since Sexton's return from Racing Metro in the summer.
The player was also understood to be a a target for Bristol and Harlequins, but opted to make the move to France despite a warning from Irish Rugby Football Union high performance director David Nucifora that "players that go [abroad], leave themselves at a disadvantage".
Madigan excelled in Ireland's 24-9 victory over France that set up a Rugby World Cup quarter-final against Argentina, stepping in for Sexton at short notice.
The fly-half was unable to repeat that performance against the Pumas however, as Ireland slipped to their sixth World Cup quarter-final defeat.
Bordeaux are currently fifth in the Top 14 and bottom of Pool 2 in the Champions Cup, behind Exeter Chiefs, Clermont and Ospreys.
"It is a challenge I'm looking forward to. Bordeaux are a team that is making strides in the Top 14 and in Europe and I look forward to being part of that journey," said Madigan, who can also play at centre.
"There is a huge few weeks and months ahead with Leinster, and I look forward to playing my part and trying to finish the season out as strongly as possible for them."
Leinster head coach Leo Cullen described Madigan as "a tremendous servant to Leinster and Irish rugby".
"We fully understand his motivations for deciding to join Bordeaux and wish him well for the future," said Cullen.
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The results of the OECD's Pisa tests are particularly poor for Wales, which trails behind the rest of the UK.
Wales has fallen below average in tests taken by 500,000 pupils.
Andreas Schleicher, who runs the tests, says the UK's performance has "flat-lined" while competitors have improved.
In science, the UK has slipped downwards, from 16th to 21st place, in a downward trend for results in the subject.
The UK remains stuck among the average, middle-ranking countries, in 26th place for maths and 23rd for reading, broadly similar to three years ago.
In a breakdown of the UK results, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland are clustered around the average.
Scotland has overtaken England in maths and reading, with England ahead in science tests. Northern Ireland is in third place for the three subjects.
Wales was behind in all three subjects.
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Reading
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Launching the results, Mr Schleicher said the UK spent more in relative terms than most other countries on education. It was also more successful than most at improving the test results of immigrant children.
But he said that the test results showed the UK's school system had so far failed to improve as quickly as other countries, such as Poland in eastern Europe and Vietnam in south-east Asia, which are now ranked higher.
England's Education Secretary Michael Gove said: "These poor results show the last government failed to secure the improvements in school standards our young people desperately need.
"Labour poured billions of pounds into schools and ratcheted up exam grades - yet our education system stagnated and we fell behind other nations.
"This performance underlines the urgent need for our reforms. Only by learning from other nations and confronting failure at home will we give young people a fighting chance of competing for the jobs of the future."
In response, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt said the results showed the importance of high-quality teachers.
"This report exposes the failings of this government's schools policy: a policy that has sent unqualified teachers into the classroom and prevented effective collaboration between schools."
Mr Hunt said the government was "charting a course that will make our international standing worse, not better".
The deputy leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, Malcolm Trobe, said it was "far too early" for these international tests to show the impact of current education policies.
Mary Bousted, leader of the ATL teachers' union, warned politicians against "misusing the Pisa results to score political points" and cautioned that "everyone needs to remember that PISA is not an exact science".
Christine Blower, leader of the National Union of Teachers, said the results showed that successful education systems "pay teachers well, respect the profession and encourage collaboration between teachers and schools".
There were also voices of caution about how these results should be interpreted.
Prof David Spieghalter from the University of Cambridge said "we should be very cautious in the lessons to be learned" - and that measuring quality in education was not straightforward.
He also highlighted that while South Korean teenagers were at the top end of test results, they were also the unhappiest about their time in school.
Prof Alan Smithers from the Centre for Education and Employment Research, University of Buckingham said there were many factors outside school that shaped test results.
"It is disappointing that the UK's 15-year-olds should come so far down the Pisa tables, but is it the fault of the schools? So many other things affect the scores. In the Asian countries that do so well, there are tiger mothers and a lot of out-of school tuition."
He said that the UK could boost its position by training students to take the tests, but that was not the same thing as improving the education system.
"The danger in the exaggerated importance that politicians attach to Pisa, is that implicitly they are pushing the world to a narrow and particular view of education," said Prof Smithers.
Police in Scotland had alerted forces across the UK to look out for the purple Nissan Skyline, which had the registration N40 SKY.
It was taken after a theft at a house in Livingston on Wednesday morning.
The car was said to be worth £47,000 and one of only about 20 of its kind in the UK.
Officers said they believed the car was immediately driven south and had been investigating reports of it being seen on the M6 in north west England in the early afternoon.
Police Scotland confirmed on Thursday evening that the car had been found in London with the assistance of the Metropolitan Police.
A spokesman said: "Enquiries are continuing into the associated housebreaking and officers are working to recover the other high-value items and cash which was stolen, and to bring those involved to justice."
The 28-year-old striker netted after just a minute, bundling in the ball after Toto Nsiala's header came back off the post.
Steven Hewitt's second-half effort forced home keeper James McKeown into an impressive save as Grimsby hung on.
Victory saw the Mariners move to within 10 points of second-placed Forest Green in the National League.
Grimsby Town manager Paul Hurst told BBC Radio Humberside:
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"A great three points on the back of Friday night. We couldn't have got off to a better start and I thought for the first 15 minutes we were excellent but fair play to Southport I thought they came back into it.
"The lads stood strong and it's a really good three points for us.
"We won the game and it's just a case of us trying to keep our shape and discipline which was good. We've just got to try and look after the ball better."
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Lucy Geddes gave them a second-minute lead and Rachel and Laura Johnston put them 3-0 ahead before Lurgan's Kerrie Burns pulled a goal back.
Harlequins join fellow Ulster sides Pegasus and Ards in the top division next season.
Cookstown gained promotion to the men's IHL with a thrilling 4-3 win over UCD.
After going 2-0 down early in the game, goals from Paul Thompson, Keith Black and Ryan Millar put the Ulster side 3-2 ahead only for UCD to equalise.
However, a late Greg Allen strike saw Cookstown home to victory and a return to the top flight after a one-year absence where they will join Ulster clubs Banbridge, Lisnagarvey and Annadale.
It was revenge for Cookstown as 12 months ago their place in the IHL was taken from them by the Dublin side in the play-off match.
In the women's Champions Trophy final, UCD completed a treble of league, cup and play-off success with a shootout win over Hermes-Monkstown while in the men's decider hosts Three Rock Rovers beat Monkstown 2-1.
In Saturday's semi-finals Monkstown had ended the hopes of a treble for Banbridge while Three Rock saw off the challenge of Lisnagarvey, with both games ending in shootouts.
On Thursday, the BBC revealed police are to treat the erection of loyalist flags in the Ballynafeigh area of the Ormeau Road as a breach of the peace.
It followed a meeting between the police and Sinn Féin's Alex Maskey.
The flag expert, Dr Dominic Bryan, said although the move was a "significant shift" it would be hard to enforce.
The police met Mr Maskey after Sinn Féin MLA complained that PSNI officers in his constituency had "brought themselves into disrepute" by watching flags being put up in the Ballynafeigh area.
In a statement to BBC Northern Ireland's politics programme The View, a police spokesperson said tensions were "particularly heightened" by the number of flags being erected in the area.
"As a result, police have directed that any future erection of flags on this part of the Ormeau Road will be treated as a breach of the peace," they added.
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said the move was a mistake and would be "impossible" to police. The Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) has also opposed the move and has asked to meet police to clarify the issue.
However, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) has said flags should not be used to "cause aggravation" and called for the new policy to be extended across Northern Ireland.
Dr Bryan, from Queen's University, Belfast, has conducted a major four-year academic project examining "the popular flying of flags in Northern Ireland" and has advised the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister on the issue.
He told BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme that it would be "very difficult" for the PSNI to enforce the new south Belfast policy in a "widespread way".
"These things have to go to court and I'd say there would be a question mark as to what the case would look like going to court. However, it does show how things have moved on.
"Years gone by, certainly people using [Irish] tricolours have been prosecuted in the past, but the idea, the possibility that the use of a union flag in various public spaces will be treated as a breach of the peace, is a significant shift," Dr Bryan added.
The four-year QUB flag study was commissioned by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, in part to evaluate the government's 2005 flag policy, the Joint Protocol in Relation to Flags Flown in Public Areas.
The academic said: "I would suspect this is the most significant move probably since the protocol was first written in 2005."
"To be honest with you, there has been a bit of a stasis over that period of time around enforcement".
He added: "In principle, this has always been possible, but to actually say that this would be a breach of the peace is a significant move."
A PSNI spokesman said their policy for dealing with flags had not changed.
He said: "The experience within policing shows that the approach most likely to provide for public safety and prevention of disorder is based on the principles of engagement between local communities, working with agencies including local police, and resulting in local decision-making.
"The removal of flags is not the responsibility of the PSNI and police can only act to remove flags where there are substantial risks to public safety.
He added: "This is entirely in line with existing PSNI policy and practice and does not represent any change in that policy.
"We accept that this can lead to the perception of differing approaches in different areas, but this is the essence of local community resolutions in the absence of a wider consensus."
The DUP MP for East Londonderry, Gregory Campbell, said Irish tricolour flags have been erected in other mixed areas across Northern Ireland and claimed the latest move seemed to be "solely focused on getting the union flag down".
Mr Campbell said tricolours were flying in mixed areas of his own constituency, including the Heights, Coleraine and the Glens estate in Limavady. He added he believed tricolours were erected near the former Erne Hospital in Enniskillen.
He said police were going to face problems in many other areas and described it as an "unworkable solution".
"They are going to be inundated now with people saying 'right, here is a mixed area with flags flying here, we want the same policy implemented here'. Those areas will number dozens of places," Mr Campbell said.
PUP leader Billy Hutchinson said: "The message to the police is you need to police this society fairly. I want to know that you're not having a two-tier system - one for loyalists and one for republicans."
But Mr Maskey said the erection of flags in his constituency was "bad for the local economy and very bad for local community relations".
SDLP leader Dr Alasdair McDonnell said: "People should not be allowed to cause aggravation, to cause disturbance and to use the flag, whether the British national flag or otherwise, as a tribal element and an element of provocation."
Ballynafeigh used to be a unionist stronghold in south Belfast but the latest census data has shown that 57% of the people who live there now are Catholics, while 27% are Protestant.
In the same census, 36% of the population in Ballynafeigh described themselves as Irish, 32% said they were British, and 29% described themselves as Northern Irish.
A woman has been arrested for destroying her former partner's violin collection and 70 bows, together worth 105.9m yen ($950,700, £770,000).
The 34-year-old suspect broke into his apartment in Nagoya and wrecked the instruments, police said.
The incident took place in 2014 in the midst of their breakup but the woman has only just been arrested.
Her 62-year-old former husband is said to have been both a maker and collector of violins.
The most valuable instrument among the 54 casualties is an Italian-made violin worth 50m yen, the Kyodo news agency said.
According to Japanese media, the woman is a Chinese national and was arrested on Tuesday upon returning from China to Tokyo.
The Olympic bronze medallist will gain Britain a guaranteed berth in Brazil by reaching the 10m platform final.
Daley leads a nine-strong GB diving team who compete from 24 July-2 August.
"The more places we qualify in Kazan, the less pressure we'll have at the 2016 World Cup, which is the next chance for us to qualify," said Daley.
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"Competing at the World Championships a year out from Rio is a key moment for all of the British divers."
The English Commonwealth champion claimed his only world title back in 2009, with his results at the 2011 and 2013 events affected by the death of his father and a triceps injury respectively.
However, he heads into Kazan 2015 "fitter and stronger" than ever having won six World Series medals this season, including a spectacular gold in London.
"I can't wait to get out there," said Daley. "Winning medals earlier in the season gives me confidence."
Another in-form diver is Jack Laugher who will compete individually and alongside Chris Mears in the 3m springboard events.
The double Commonwealth champion won the overall 3m springboard 2015 World Series crown after claiming three breakthrough titles.
"I knew I had it in me to win gold medals, but it was about getting consistency and confidence in my new dives," said Laugher.
"I know that I have what it takes to really challenge in Kazan."
While divers competing in individual events must achieve a top-12 finish to attain their nation a berth in Brazil, synchronised pairs must claim a medal to be guaranteed Olympic spots.
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World Series winners Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow represent GB's strongest prospect of synchronised success from 10m, while youngsters Matty Lee and James Denny will make their World Championship debuts in Russia.
Commonwealth champions Rebecca Gallantree and Alicia Blagg will also compete in the 3m individual and synchronised events.
"Getting that Olympic quota place is what we are all thinking about," said Couch.
Athletes in synchronised competitions will have a second chance to achieve Rio Olympic qualification places at the Diving World Cup in Rio in early 2016, while nations will also be able to attain places for a second diver in individual events.
Geraldine Winner, who is in her 70s, was attacked on Friday night when burglars broke into her home in Knightsbridge, central London.
Police said she was assaulted by a man and a woman who forced their way in, assaulted her and left with her possessions after about three hours.
She is believed to be in a stable condition in a hospital in west London.
No-one has been arrested.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said officers were called to the flat at about 02:00 BST on Saturday following a report of an aggravated burglary at the former dancer's home four hours earlier.
Her husband made more than 30 films in his lifetime, including the blockbuster Death Wish series, and latterly reinvented himself as a restaurant critic, writing a column for the Sunday Times called Winner's Dinners.
The couple met in the late 1950s but married in 2011, and she nursed him through a long battle with liver disease. Michael died aged 77 at his home in Kensington in January 2013.
Paying tribute to him at the time Geraldine said: "Michael was a wonderful man, brilliant, funny and generous. A light has gone out in my life."
"The machine is not working," hospital staff told her.
"You should come back in four months."
But Betty did not have that long.
"I had no choice but to get a private screening," she said. "I paid €600 (£390) out of my own pocket."
The 35-year-old, who founded an NGO that helps poor and homeless people in Thessaloniki, says her experiences suggest Greece's health system is increasing comparable to those she witnessed while working in the developing world - rather than that of an EU country.
And from speaking to other patients and healthcare workers here, it is clear her story is broadly typical.
As Greece careers towards another election later this month, the country's healthcare system is continuing to crumble.
Funding for state-run hospitals has been cut by more than 50% since the debt crisis started in 2009.
They suffer from severe shortages in everything, from sheets, gauzes and syringes, to doctors and nurses.
By 2011, supplies were critically low, says Athena, a former nurse in a haematology unit.
"We did not even have the most basic of materials [such as] surgical spirit."
Public health spending in Greece is expected to shrink to 4% of gross domestic product (GDP) by the end of 2015, one of the worst levels in the EU. The average spend is 6.9%, according to the Panhellenic Medical Association.
The National Organisation for Healthcare (EOPYY) is running a deficit of €1.5bn. Allocated hospital funding, which has slowed to a crawl since March, will fall this year by more than 22% to €1.18bn.
A new bailout agreed with Greece's creditors by the former coalition government headed by the left-wing Syriza party will do little to address the situation, experts say, as it dictates a prolongation of austerity and spending cuts.
Greeks who have the financial means are increasingly turning to the private sector.
A 77-year old woman, named Nikki, recently suffered a stroke at 03:00 in the morning.
The paramedics who arrived at her house in Kalamaria, an affluent Thessaloniki suburb, told her panicking son that his mother should be seen by a doctor as soon as possible.
But they warned him not to take her to the local public hospital that night.
"The hospital is overcrowded. It may take hours for her to see a doctor. You'd better get her to a private clinic," they said.
The son immediately drove his mother to the nearest clinic.
There were no queues, but rather an abundance of medical staff to help her.
But all this came at a price. She paid €800 for her screening and three-day hospitalisation.
Not everyone is so lucky. Most Greeks, even those who have jobs, cannot afford private healthcare.
The situation is even worse for the estimated 2.5 million uninsured Greeks.
Having lost their jobs and health coverage, getting access to healthcare is a huge challenge.
Syriza acknowledges as much. The party's manifesto unveiled ahead of the 20 September election warns that the health crisis hurts primarily the country's poor and vulnerable.
Few patients blame the medical staff - they know they are overworked and underpaid.
"We are short on doctors and nurses. We work almost non-stop to provide for them as best we can," says Athina Grammatikopoulou, a nurse at Theageneio hospital where Ms Semakoula was turned away.
"For example a single nurse has to care for 20 or 25 patients during night shifts."
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of GDP went on healthcare in 2009
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of GDP is the expected spend for 2015
22% decline in allocated hospital funding in 2015
5,000 more doctors needed
15,000 more nurses needed
According to the government, the system requires 4,500 extra doctors and other medical and paramedical staff.
But Michael Vlastarakos, President of the Panhellenic Medical Association, says the Greek healthcare system is 5,000 doctors and 15,000 nurses short.
The understaffing is getting worse because of a mass exodus of doctors and nurses, who have seen their salaries cut and work hours increase.
"In the past three years, more than 15,000 doctors have left the country, mainly for the UK, Germany, Cyprus and Sweden," says Mr Vlastarakos.
"The dramatic understaffing means, for example, that in Sparta, my hometown, the pathology clinic is no longer operating."
Doctors working at public hospitals in Greece earn on average about €1,200 to €2,000 a month - and payments are often seriously delayed.
Mr Vlastarakos says low pay is one reason why the problem of the infamous "fakelaki", or illegal bribes, is still rife.
"A patient who is told that he can only be operated in three months' time has two options: go to a private clinic or pay his way up the waiting list," he says.
Cancer patients are particularly vulnerable.
Persefoni Mitta, head of the Association of Cancer Patients in Macedonia and Thrace, spends her days trying to help the 6,500 members of her organisation in their fight against the disease.
"Some are sent away from the hospitals because the machine may not be working, or chemotherapy is impossible," she says.
"Others come crying because they were discharged from the hospital right after an operation."
What they all have in common is their outrage towards politicians.
"They spit at politicians. And rightfully so. They should be ashamed of themselves," says Ms Mitta.
"The only thing they know how to do is hold new elections every couple of months, while people out there are suffering".
Another problem is drug shortages. Commercial pharmacies are owed more than €0.5bn by the government, according to the Panhellenic Pharmaceutical Association (PFS), so many request payment from patients up front.
Iosif Vaena, a pharmacist in Thessaloniki, says shortages are real, with some drugs including insulin running low, and others becoming simply unavailable, like the polio vaccine.
And even in the case of medicines that are theoretically available, patients need to pay out of their own pocket to get them.
Greece pharmacist: 'Tell Europe SOS'
Then there are medicines that are essential but so cheap that no company will import them. These are covered by emergency imports, but the government agency responsible has no funds to pay for them and has stopped placing orders.
Cancer drugs are vital, but often inaccessible.
"It is one thing to ask a patient to bring his own blanket to the hospital. And quite another to deny him a drug that means the difference between life and death," Ms Mitta says.
Sometimes doctors tell cancer patients to give up, she adds.
"A doctor will say, 'He is 70 years old, there is no point in spending money and resources on him'. But who are they to decide?"
She says she faced the same attitude when she was diagnosed with multiple forms of cancer 28 years ago.
"They said I only had three months to live... But here I am, still breathing."
The winglet of one aircraft clipped the tail fin of the other as they were taxiing to the runway on Wednesday morning. Dublin Airport has said no one was injured and delays are expected to some departures.
Ryanair has apologised to customers for any inconvenience caused.
The planes were due to fly to Edinburgh and Zadar.
In a statement, the airline said: "Two of our aircraft were taxiing slowly to the runway at Dublin Airport this morning. The winglet of one aircraft appears to have scraped the tail fin of the other.
"Both aircraft were under the instruction of Dublin Airport Air Traffic Control at the time. Customers were bussed and boarded two replacement aircraft, which departed to Edinburgh and Zadar.
"Ryanair apologised sincerely to customers for any inconvenience caused," the statement added.
On Twitter, Dublin Airport said: "A ground incident is causing delays to some departures this morning. Arrivals are operating normally. Please check with your airline. It appears that two aircraft clipped each other on a taxiway.
"No injuries on the two aircraft which clipped each other on a taxiway this am. Passengers in process of being taken off the aircraft.
"The two flights that clipped on a taxiway this morning were the @Ryanair services to Edinburgh FR812 & Zadar FR7312".
Former captain Mitchell hit 67 from 71 balls in a five-wicket win over Derbyshire on Tuesday, taking him past 3,000 runs in List A cricket.
"He has proved his worth as a fantastic one-day player," Rhodes told BBC Hereford and Worcester.
"He is very resilient and always pops up with performances."
Worcestershire finished top of the North Group and will play the winner of the South Group play-off in the last four on 16 or 17 June at New Road.
Mitchell, 33, was relived of his role as Worcestershire captain at the end of last season, after six years in the job and replaced by Joe Leach.
But he responded in fine style in the One-Day Cup, with both bat and ball, hitting half-centuries against Northamptonshire and Yorkshire and taking 3-38 against Durham on Sunday.
"He missed out at the start of the campaign and Moeen [Ali] was playing," Rhodes said.
"But since he's come back in he's had three scores of over 50 and also took wickets the other day. He's done a marvellous job."
Firstly, there are fewer of them.
It is worth remembering, of course, that calls for fewer universities in Wales were being made before 1999, but with the creation of the assembly, Wales could mould its higher education (HE) sector to meet its own needs.
In his book on education since devolution in Wales, journalist Gareth Evans says that since 1999 there have been almost constant calls to reconfigure Wales' universities.
But the reluctance of institutions to co-operate or to surrender power meant that education ministers like Jane Davidson and Jane Hutt decided wholesale reform was not a priority.
That all changed when Leighton Andrews took over the brief in 2009. He decided enough was enough and change was needed; that what Wales needed was fewer, larger universities.
As a result, the number of universities in Wales fell from 13 to 10.
It was not all easy; it took the threat of High Court action before Cardiff Metropolitan University was allowed to remain without merging with Glamorgan and Newport universities to create the huge University of South Wales.
So has it been worth all the effort?
You rarely see immediate benefits with changes to education policy as they can take time to bed in.
The most recent results we have suggest that, in 2014, nearly a third of the research by Welsh universities was of "world-leading" quality. That was both better than the UK average and an improvement on the last set of results in 2008.
Another clear change in HE since devolution is the extra money invested into Welsh-medium provision.
Coleg Cymraeg works across and with all of Wales' universities. It is not about bricks and mortar, rather it employs lecturers who can work through the medium of Welsh as well as offer scholarships for students to follow courses in Welsh.
And while it has succeeded in attracting more students, it's unclear how much value for money it has achieved.
Yes, there are 1,000 more students studying in Welsh now than there were in 2011, there has also been an increase in the number of courses being offered and 115 extra lecturers who can teach in Welsh.
But it has also cost £19m over the past five years.
The biggest change devolution has caused in higher education has to be the Welsh government's Tuition Fee Grant.
When the UK government decided to increase tuition fees in England to £9,000 a year, ministers in Cardiff Bay took a different approach in Wales.
Welsh students only pay £3,685 towards their tuition fees, wherever they study in the UK. The rest - up to £5,315 a year - is paid by the Welsh government.
It means Welsh students leave university with less debt than their counterparts in England. In fact, it is fair to say Welsh students get the most generous deal of any part of the UK.
But the scheme is not without its detractors, as BBC Wales has reported many times. Universities worry they do not know how much money they will get from year to year.
That is because the tuition fee grant is funded partly by students from England who study in Wales.
If you are English (it is the same if you are Scottish or Northern Irish but the numbers of those are very small) you still pay up to £9,000 a year to study at a university in Wales.
But the number of students from Wales who study elsewhere varies from year to year. So does the number of students from England who study in Wales.
For example, last year 7,055 students left Wales to study in England and 10,230 English students came to Wales.
This year 7,750 students left Wales and 10,535 came from England.
Universities in Wales say when a student from Wales "leaves" to go to England, Scotland or Northern Ireland to university, the £5,315 Tuition Fee Grant which follows them "leaves" the HE sector in Wales; that it is money which should be going to universities in Wales.
So while students from Wales may feel they get a good deal, universities insist they get a raw deal.
The policy is being reviewed at the moment, but it really goes to the heart of the whole point of the role of government in higher education.
To put it another way, is it the role of government to make sure students can access higher education without having to worry too much about the cost of tuition fees?
Or should government ensure universities feel they get enough resources to be able to contribute quality research and graduates into the economy?
In Scotland, the government pays all the fees for Scottish students who stay in Scotland to study. Cross the border and you pay the full whack.
In England almost all students pay full fees.
That is a debate currently being considered in a review of HE financing in Wales.
It is also a debate which shows very clearly how devolution can change policy in different parts of the UK.
The exhibition features a series of black and white photos of Leeds city centre in the 1950s.
Wallis, a childhood friend of actor Peter O'Toole, began his career as a press photographer for the Yorkshire Evening Post.
The exhibition, 'Ralph Wallis: Is this seat taken?' runs until 20 April.
Wallis, 83, who now lives in Canada, said: "Similar to [industrial artist] Edna Lumb I found Leeds, with all its soot covered buildings and incredible street children of all shapes and sizes, just screaming out to be photographed.
"As in those dark days, which I loved as a young photographer, Leeds was made for us."
The exhibition has been curated by Wallis' niece Bianca Wallis-Salmon
The building in Manor Road, Wallasey, was targeted between 17:00 BST on Monday and 09:00 BST.
No-one was thought to be at the property at the time. Merseyside Police is investigating.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was "extremely concerning that Angela Eagle has been the victim of a threatening act."
Ms Eagle announced her intention to challenge Mr Corbyn after resigning from the shadow cabinet.
Mr Corbyn said other MPs "are receiving abuse and threats".
He said: "As someone who has also received death threats this week and previously, I am calling on all Labour Party members and supporters to act with calm and treat each other with respect and dignity, even where there is disagreement.
"I utterly condemn any violence or threats, which undermine the democracy within our party and have no place in our politics."
Liscard Councillor Bernie Mooney said staff came into the office on Tuesday morning and "found a brick had been put through the window".
She said the manager found glass "up and down the stairs".
It was the first physical attack on the building, but she said Ms Eagle had been subjected to "hundreds of vile, horrid emails and messages on the phone".
She described her as "a very popular MP in Wallasey" and people in the area are "absolutely mortified" by the incident.
Another member of staff who had spoken to Ms Eagle was told by the MP she was "disgusted" by what had happened and "worried for her staff", she added.
Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner Jane Kennedy has visited the constituency office to speak to staff following the brick attack, describing those who did it as "cowards".
She said: "It is an absolutely disgraceful situation that you cannot take part in a democracy without having this kind of threat.
"The violence of it, the vile nature of the abuse that is being given to Angela Eagle and to the other members of her staff and to those who support her is completely unacceptable."
Mark Fortune, 47, a prisoner in Saughton, was also ordered to pay £2,425 compensation to his victims.
The offences happened between February 2011 and April 2016.
He had pled guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court to two charges of threatening people with violence, one of assault and four of obtaining money by fraud.
He also admitted charges of sending threatening emails and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Fortune was brought back to Scotland from France in April this year on a European arrest warrant on the most recent offences.
He was taken off the register in 2013 after being fined £650 for threatening tenants in Lonsdale Terrace, Edinburgh, when they insisted he pay for minor repairs to the property.
Sheriff Kenneth McGowan was told the victims of the phone threats were a solicitor at HBJ Gateley Wareing, a firm involved in pursuing council tax arrears against Fortune, and the rector of Edinburgh Academy.
Defence solicitor, Tom Bannigan, told Sheriff McGowan that his client had been under tremendous stress at the time.
"He was upset and angry", he said. "There was a property recession and people were asking for their money and this had caused financial difficulties.
"His business was collapsing around him and he behaved in a totally irrational way".
Mr Bannigan added that the social work report recommended a community-based sentence.
Sheriff McGowan told Fortune it was with "considerable hesitation" that he would deal with the matter by a community payback order.
The Crown is expected to take action under the proceeds of crime legislation.
The rider was taken to hospital following the collision on Hyde Road in Gorton, at about 20:40 BST on Thursday
He died a short time later, Greater Manchester Police said.
PC Philip Shaw said: "I'm appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the collision, or seen the yellow motorcycle involved, to contact us as soon as possible."
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Jones, 29, collapsed by the side of the pitch during Sunday's League 1 game at London Skolars and was later pronounced dead of a suspected cardiac arrest.
Donations for Jones's wife, Lizzie, and their five-month-old twins have already passed £70,000.
The Rugby Football League's target is £100,000 but Fawcett says it "needs to be over £1m".
The RFL's benevolent fund has so far received 4,500 donations and will be boosted further by proceeds from Keighley's next match against Coventry at Cougar Park on Sunday, which Jones' family is expected to attend.
"At the time of writing, the fund that has been set up for Lizzie, Bobby and Phoebe stands at £72,000 and I know that there is a huge amount of fundraising to be done over the coming weeks," Fawcett said.
"We all know that there will be a wave of donations from all the rugby league clubs, in particular, over the course of next week which will smash the RFL's current £100,000 target for the fund.
"This is fantastic and amazing and yet it is simply not good enough."
Jones, who began his career at hometown club Halifax, scored more than 1,000 points in 150 appearances for Keighley and won 12 caps for Wales.
Keighley are to retire Jones' squad number six and rename their main stand the Danny Jones Stand.
The order adds Tareck el-Aissami to the US narcotics "kingpin" sanctions list "for playing a significant role in international narcotics trafficking".
Sanctions were also slapped on wealthy businessman Samark Bello, described as Mr Aissami's "primary frontman".
Mr Aissami was appointed last month by President Nicolas Maduro.
There was no immediate response from him or Mr Bello. but Mr Aissami has previously denied criminal ties.
The sanctions freeze the vice-president's assets in the US and bar him from entering the country.
The US Treasury statement says Mr Aissami facilitated huge shipments of narcotics from Venezuela by air and sea. It also says he was in the pay of convicted Venezuelan drug lord Walid Makled for the protection of drug shipments.
John E Smith, acting director of the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, said the sanctions were "the culmination of a multi-year investigation under the Kingpin Act to target significant narcotics traffickers in Venezuela and demonstrates that power and influence do not protect those who engage in these illicit activities.
"This case highlights our continued focus on narcotics traffickers and those who help launder their illicit proceeds through the United States," he said.
Mr Aissami was previously the governor of Aragua state and served as minister of the interior and justice in Venezuela from 2008 to 2012.
US media, citing leaked intelligence documents, say Mr Aissami has also been under investigation in the US for suspected ties to the militant group Hezbollah.
During his time as interior minister, fraudulent Venezuelan passports ended up in the hands of members of the Lebanese group, it is claimed.
Earlier this month, 34 members of the US Congress sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking for sanctions against Venezuelan officials.
They said that Mr Aissami's appointment as vice-president put him in line to become Venezuela's next leader which, they said, was "troubling given his alleged ties to drug trafficking and terrorist organisations".
Unite members from Tower Transit will stage two, 24-hour strikes on Friday and Bank Holiday Monday.
The strike is expected to affect 28 routes in the east and west of the capital, including those around the annual carnival.
Transport for London said it hoped the dispute would be resolved quickly.
The strikes will begin at 00:01 and end at 23:59 on both days, hitting both day and night bus services.
The union said the second strike, scheduled for Bank Holiday Monday, would be "disrupting Notting Hill carnivalgoers planning to travel by bus".
Unite's regional officer Simon McCartney said the action was being brought over late changes to the rosters which had left its members "out of pocket and rearranging their family life" and incorrect rest day payments.
He added: "Tower Transit bus workers have reached breaking point over an increasingly belligerent management who have turned their back on constructive consultation and dialogue."
Transport for London said Tower Transit operated less than 5% of the bus network
Mike Weston, its director of buses, said: "I'm sorry that some of our customers may face disruption to their usual routes.
"We're also encouraging Tower Transit and Unite to resolve the dispute as quickly as possible to avoid disruption to passengers' journeys."
He advised passengers to check its website for updates.
Day bus: 23, 25, 28, 30, 31, 58, 69, 70, 212, 236, 266, 308, 328, 339, 425, 444, 488, RV1, W14, W15
Night bus: N23, N28, N31, N97, N25, N266, N550, N551
The measure now needs to be signed by Governor Martin O'Malley to become law.
Correspondents say it will be a formality as the Democratic governor has campaigned for five years to have the death penalty repealed.
Once signed into law, Maryland will become the 18th US state to abolish executions.
"Evidence shows that the death penalty is not a deterrent, it cannot be administered without racial bias and it costs three times as much as life in prison without parole," Governor O'Malley said in a statement.
"What's more, there is no way to reverse a mistake if an innocent person is put to death."
Opponents of the bill insisted capital punishment was a necessary tool to punish those who commit the most serious crimes.
Maryland has had the death penalty since 1638 when the territory was a British colony.
However, the state has neither sentenced anyone to death nor executed a prisoner since 2005.
The vote took place in the Maryland House of Delegates in the state capital, Annapolis. Eighty Democrats and two Republicans voted for the bill, which needed 71 votes to pass. Eighteen Democrats joined 38 Republicans to vote against it.
Connecticut became the 17th state to repeal the death penalty last year, meaning more than a third of the 50 states have now renounced executions.
New South Wales Police said he swimming alone at Sydney's South Curl Curl Beach at about 19:00 local time on Saturday after fishing with a friend earlier.
Emergency services searched the area overnight and a sea search involving police divers resumed on Sunday.
Police said his last known address was in Manchester and they had contacted his family.
Insp Susan Preston, of New South Wales Police, said the man had only been in the country for a week.
"So we also have the concern that perhaps he's gotten out of the water at some point, not knowing where he's gone and perhaps is wandering around the local area," she said.
The UK Foreign Office confirmed a Briton had been reported missing in Sydney.
"We are in contact with local police and providing consular assistance to family," a spokesman said.
Dee Stitt is CEO of Charter NI, which lobbies and advocates for community groups.
Martin McGuinness said reputational damage was being done to worthwhile social investment projects as a result of the UDA leader's involvement.
He said the controversy around Mr Stitt's role was causing difficulties.
The Sinn Féin politician has previously defended his position.
There has been speculation surrounding Mr Stitt since he told the Guardian newspaper that his band, the North Down Defenders, were like "homeland security".
He also launched a foul-mouthed rant, claiming the government does not care about Northern Ireland.
Charter NI was recently awarded £1.7m from the executive's Social Investment Fund. Mr Stitt was photographed alongside First Minister Arlene Foster at an event marking the award.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that Mr Stitt had returned to his job after being told to take a three-week break.
Charter NI said it had completed an "internal review process", but its outcome was being kept secret.
The organisation's governing board said it had reinforced "the unacceptability of the statement made and the language used" to Mr Stitt, who recognised his "error of judgement" and apologised immediately.
The board said it was "deeply concerned about the damaging impact of media attention over the past weeks, which has brought Charter NI's unblemished record and achievements for our communities into question".
It added: "Our staff continue to work hard to improve the life opportunities for people in east Belfast and North Down, and the board wish to pay tribute to them during this testing period."
Speaking in a personal capacity, the DUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said last month that if he were in charge of Charter NI, he would not have Mr Stitt as chief executive.
This year's event is on Tuesday, 27 December but three of the last six races were run in January after weather postponements.
"The weather forecast this year is very much on our side," said racecourse executive director Phil Bell.
"The weather figures outside are plus-five and plus-10; not much rain at all so we're 99.9% certain to race."
A record 102 original entries have been made for the race with trainers and owners attracted by a £30,000 rise in prize money, which now stands at £150,000 for the race.
Among the prospective runners this year are Native River, winner of the Hennessey Gold Cup at Newbury, Grand National runner-up Last Samurai and former Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Lord Windermere.
The 2015 race was run in January, 2016 and won for the second time by Mountainous.
Bell says past postponements have has caused financial problems with smaller crowds attending on rescheduled dates.
"We get crowds in excess of 10,000 and if we do have to re-run it in January, that crowd drops by about a third.
"We are looking at every single weather website. We have our own forecasting service who we speak to daily."
If the weather takes a turn for the worse, Bell says plans are in place to use covers costing £30,000 to beat the effects of frost or rain.
"We'll do everything we can. We'll put every precaution into place that we can," said Bell.
"Money will be no object. It's incredibly expensive to cover the racecourse, but we will do that to give the race every chance of going ahead."
At least three footballers are reported to be among those held across the country, but the BBC understands that none is linked to professional clubs.
Sources have said the suspects include ex-Premier League player Delroy Facey.
The NCA said the focus of the operation was a suspected international illegal betting syndicate.
By Dan RoanBBC chief sports correspondent
International, invariably Asian, betting syndicates dispatch a fixer to search out semi-professional, non-league players in the lower tiers of English football who may be susceptible to bribes.
The players, once identified, are handed thousands of pounds in return for manipulating a game - from the number of goals scored to the number of yellow cards issued.
For the fix to work, the syndicate tends to need more than one player to be in on the scam.
The fixer, sat watching in the stands, waits for the signal from their co-conspirator on their pitch.
If the scam is to go ahead, the player on the syndicate's payroll deliberately gets a yellow card at the start of the match.
The fixer then calls his investors in Asia and tells them the fix is on. Bets are then placed.
It is thought the suspects are being held by police in the Midlands.
The NCA was launched this year to fight organised and serious crime.
It said it was working closely with the Gambling Commission and the Football Association.
A spokesman said: "This is an active investigation and we are unable to provide further detail at this time."
The FA said it has been made aware of the arrests.
In a statement, it said: "We have worked closely with the authorities in relation to these allegations. The FA will make no further comment at this time due to ongoing investigations."
"The Gambling Commission said it had provided advice, intelligence and expertise in supporting the investigation and continues to liaise with the NCA and FA."
The Crown Prosecution Service said it had liaised with the NCA during its investigation.
The arrests come after an undercover investigation by the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
It carries claims that a betting syndicate fixer from Singapore discussed the possibility of influencing the scores and outcomes of lower-league English games for £50,000 at a meeting in Manchester.
Police in Singapore told the BBC they have not been involved in the arrests.
According to the paper, the fixer claimed potential gamblers would make hundreds of thousands of pounds by using the inside information through bets placed on Asian-based websites.
He reportedly offered to target two football matches, saying he would tell players how many goals he needed to be scored.
He can be heard in a video claiming that he would pay a player £5,000 to take a yellow card at the start of a match as a signal that the result was likely to be fixed.
The Telegraph later reported that the man also said he could pay referees £20,000 to fix matches across Europe - although he did not specify whether that included Britain.
Sources have told the BBC that former Bolton Wanderers striker turned football agent, Delroy Facey, 33, was one of the six arrested.
He made 14 appearances for the then-Premier League Bolton between 2002-2004, before moving down the leagues, ending last season with Hereford United, who were relegated from the football league.
He started his career as a trainee at Huddersfield, before playing for the first team. After transferring to Bolton, his career became more that of a journeyman, with various transfers and loans to clubs including: Bradford City, Burnley, West Bromwich Albion, Hull City, Oldham Athletic, Tranmere Rovers, Rotherham United, Gillingham, Wycombe Wanderers, Notts County and Lincoln City.
The Football League said it had not been contacted by police about the investigation.
Football League chief executive Shaun Harvey said: "The threat of corruption is something that the Football League and the other football authorities treat with the utmost seriousness.
"The integrity of our matches and our competitions is the bedrock of the domestic game."
Journalist Declan Hill, author of the Insiders' Guide to Match Fixing, has been investigating the subject for years and says the way the crime is carried out has changed recently.
"We've now got a globalised sports corruption, where people are fixing the gambling markets in Asia and they're coming to European countries and then making very dubious deals with dodgy players and referees, and they literally have established networks of corruption right around the world," he said.
Soren Kragh Pedersen, from the European Union policy agency Europol, said the news was not unexpected.
"This is not a surprise because when we look around Europe it is practically everywhere and in some of the major leagues but, of course, also the minor divisions. We see it everywhere so it would be a surprise if you did not find it in England also," he said.
In February, Europol announced that it had found evidence of match fixing of some top international football games after conducting the biggest-ever investigation into match fixing in Europe.
Julius Kivimaki was found guilty of 50,700 "instances of aggravated computer break-ins".
Court documents state that his attacks affected Harvard University and MIT among others, and involved hijacking emails, blocking traffic to websites and the theft of credit card details.
Despite the severity of the crimes, the 17-year-old has not been jailed.
Instead, the District Court of Espoo sentenced the youth - who had used the nickname Zeekill - to a two-year suspended prison sentence.
It also confiscated his PC and ordered him to handover €6,588 (£4,725) worth of property obtained through his crimes.
Judge Wilhelm Norrmann noted that Kivimaki had only been 15 and 16 when he carried out the crimes in 2012 and 2013.
"[The verdict] took into account the young age of the defendant at the time, his capacity to understand the harmfulness of the crimes, and the fact that he had been imprisoned for about a month during the pre-trial investigation," said a statement from the court.
One consultant, who advises Europol and others on cybercrime matters, expressed concern about the sentence.
"Whilst I'm sure the courts considered all the circumstances surrounding the conviction and the sentence that was warranted, there is a question as to whether such sentences will act as a deterrent to other hackers," said the consultant, Alan Woodward.
"It is not necessarily the place of the courts to factor in deterrence in their sentences.
"However, if I were another hacking group, was not that bothered about just having something on my record, and saw someone attract a suspended sentence for over 50,000 hacks, some of which caused significant damage, I don't think it would cause me much concern," he added.
Kivimaki was able to compromise more than 50,000 computer servers by exploiting vulnerabilities in a software program they ran called ColdFusion.
By doing so, he was able to install "backdoors" into tens of thousands of the computers, which allowed him to retrieve information stored on them.
Prosecutors had accused the teenager of adding malware to about 1,400 of the servers.
They said this let him create a botnet, which he used to carry out denial of service (DoS) attacks on other systems - an action that bombards affected computers with internet traffic causing them to become overwhelmed.
Chat logs discovered on Kivimaki's PC indicated he had used the botnet to attack the news site ZDNet and the chat tool Canternet.
Kivimaki was also accused of helping steal seven gigabytes worth of data, sent to and from email addresses ending in @mit.edu - the system used by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The court was told that MIT's traffic was redirected to a website hosted on a server run by Harvard University, where it could be examined.
The company that provided MIT's email infrastructure, Educause, said it had incurred more than $213,000 (£139,000) worth of costs as a consequence.
In addition, Kivimaki was accused of obtaining credentials to access accounts belonging to MongoHQ, a Californian website database provider, which allowed him to search billing and payment card information belonging to its clients.
Kivimaki was said to have subsequently used stolen credit information to successfully make online purchases on 21 occasions as well as to have shared the information with others.
Evidence shown to the court included orders for champagne and shop vouchers.
Kivimaki was also accused of being involved in a money laundering scheme involving the virtual currency Bitcoin, which he was said to have used to fund a trip to Mexico.
He was eventually arrested in September 2013.
The security blogger Brian Krebs had previously linked Kivimaki to a notorious hacking group called Lizard Squad, which was involved in a separate, later series of attacks on Sony and Microsoft.
However, Lizard Squad's activities were not mentioned in the court documents.
The woman was standing in Mansfield Road, Nottingham, on 25 October 1992 when she was taken against her will.
Christopher Robert Scott, now 63, of Billesdon Drive, Heathfield, was arrested by police on Saturday.
He appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court charged with two counts of rape, one count of abduction, and robbing the woman of about £7 in cash.
Mr Scott was released on bail to appear at the city's crown court on 8 August.
There was a high-profile appeal for information about the attack when it happened, and it featured on Crimewatch in 2008, but no charges had been brought.
The Wood took the lead in the ninth minute through Ricky Snakes as he turned in Harry White's rebounded shot.
Midfielder Jake Gallagher brought the Shots level two minutes later as he beat keeper James Russell to the ball.
With 13 minutes remaining, Chris Barker saw red for handball in the box and Clifford stepped up to secure the win.
Boreham Wood move above Halifax, who have a game in hand, after the Shaymen fell to defeat by National League champions Cheltenham.
Aldershot Town boss Barry Smith told BBC Surrey:
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"We know the performance wasn't good enough.
"I wouldn't say it was down to lack of effort, we just never got into a tempo, we never raised the game and they caused us problems all day.
"It's about having a winning mentality - no matter what stage of the season, no matter who we are playing.
"I think a few took their eye off the ball, which is disappointing for the fans because they've paid good money to watch these boys."
The four cameras were installed in October on a two-mile stretch and during a trial period hundreds of motorists a day were found to be ignoring the speed limit.
Enforcement action will come into force from Monday.
It will be the first permanent installation to go into operation on a Welsh section of the motorway.
Wales Road Casualty Reduction Partnership GoSafe said the testing period gave motorists a chance to become familiar with the limit and adjust their speeds and driving behaviour.
The man was spotted on traffic cameras between junctions 11 and 14 on the clockwise carriageway.
Surrey Police said he was trying to reach the airport at about 06:00 BST on Thursday.
Highways England said the cyclist was "irresponsible and could have caused a serious incident".
At one point he is seen riding the wrong way along the busy motorway, before crossing the carriageway.
Surrey Police's road policing unit described in a tweet how traffic slowed as distracted motorists turned to look at the cyclist, who is believed to be from Feltham, West London.
Martin Crosswell, a manager at Highways England, said: "It is important all road users follow the Highway Code and listen to advice from traffic officers. The actions of this man were irresponsible and could have caused a serious incident."
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service (HFRS) said officers would wear the devices to give them "a more complete picture of incidents".
The service said video would also help officers evaluate their performance.
But the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) warned that it could "compromise the neutrality" of firefighters and act as a disciplinary tool.
FBU executive council member Tam McFarlane said: "We have a level of trust with communities in deprived areas where we do a lot of public safety work.
"Our fear is that if we are to wear cameras it would automatically raise suspicions.
"With fires you could probably learn a lot from cameras but, if it was day-to-day activity, they could compromise firefighters' neutrality."
Mr McFarlane said video from body-worn cameras could also be used as evidence in disciplinary cases against firefighters.
But the union's secretary in Hampshire, Gary Jackson, said: "We don't have any concerns. They will increase safety and increase the learning experience."
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said it was the first in the country to be handing out body-worn cameras to officers.
The service said footage collected during a pilot scheme provided video evidence of a suspected arsonist and had been used in an investigation into a boat fire.
In May, a trial camera captured images of explosions at a fireworks store in Southampton.
HFRS operational technology manager Alex Rhodes said: "New body-worn cameras are going to help every firefighter be the best they can be and embrace the fact we are, as all fire services are, a learning organisation."
Assistant chief officer Andy Bowers said: "We will use them for reflective learning, training, incident analysis and fire investigation.
"They will make the public and firefighters of Hampshire safer."
Firefighters in Plymouth trialled head cameras in 2007 to monitor anti-social behaviour surrounding bonfire night, but the pilot was not extended.
Dodds, who was jailed earlier for 16 years after pleading guilty to four counts of indecent assault, was allowed to operate as an employee of the council "without sufficient challenge, accountability or consequences", a council-commissioned report found.
Council officials not only knew about his behaviour, but also failed to report his activities to police and gave him early retirement with an enhanced pension.
Kenny Dale, who was abused by Dodds in the early 1990s and has waived his right to anonymity, said: "I was the victim of a horrible man and the council are to blame for that".
Sheffield City Council said it "accepted responsibility" and was "deeply sorry" Dodds was allowed to commit these offences while in its employment.
Dodds, now 81, was employed in 1975 to head the council's Grants and Awards Department.
The unit was responsible for providing financial support to students attending college or university. However, Dodds used his position to abuse men, typically in their late teens.
One victim, who did not want to be named, said he was assaulted during their very first meeting.
He told the BBC: "Dodds was asking me things about my studies, and, very gradually, his left hand started to feel its way into my right jeans pocket. When that started to happen, I just became frozen and unable to move."
According to former colleagues, Dodds was part of a club that operated within the council swapping hardcore pornographic magazines in internal envelopes and screening adult films in a basement room.
He was first investigated by Sheffield City Council in the early 1980s after a series of allegations were made against him.
The complaints gave one employee the courage to tell managers about the abuse he had been subjected to.
Richard Rowe, who has also waived his legal right to anonymity, said he was subjected to "terrifying" assaults over an 18-month period.
However, he said when he told bosses what was happening, he was told to stay quiet.
"They asked for specifics and I gave them as much details as I could bring myself to voice. But they knew, they knew exactly," he said.
"At the end of the interview it was, 'there is nothing more to tell us, so go back to the office and you do not speak about this inside or outside the building'. I clearly remember that warning."
Following the investigation, Dodds was moved to a position working with schools.
An investigation carried out for Sheffield City Council and seen by the BBC, said he was given "substantial unregulated and unsupervised access to schools".
The report continues that "there appears to have been no disciplinary consequences to his behaviour at the time."
Nor was his transfer a chastening experience for Dodds.
Mr Dale began working at the council in the early 1990s and, despite warnings from colleagues, applied for a post working alongside Dodds.
"Everyone told me not to go for it," he said, "[but] I didn't think that kind of behaviour would be allowed".
He said Dodds began touching him inappropriately almost immediately and continued to do so despite his objections and the lack of challenge from managers.
Another investigation by the local authority was launched and in 1993 Roger Dodds left the council.
However, despite Mr Dale's insistence Dodds should not be given a payoff, he was given an early retirement package that included an enhanced pension.
Mr Dale said he blames the council for the abuse he suffered.
"The council are so responsible, more responsible than he was," he said.
Following the second internal investigation officials concluded a criminal investigation should have been launched.
In 2008, one of Dodds' victims went to South Yorkshire Police with his allegations.
However, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided not to prosecute at the time - a CPS spokesman said their files did not contain details on why they took that decision.
Dodds was eventually charged in relation to the complaints in 2016 after another complainant came forward in 2014.
The police investigation did prompt the council to commission consultants to investigate how it had handled Dodds.
The 2008 review concluded: "It was clearly wrong that Dodds should receive early retirement. He was not subject to any official sanction by the council for his alleged behaviour".
The 28-page dossier also revealed repeated failures by the council, describing the authority's action as clearly unacceptable not just by present day standards but by the policies and legislation at the time.
It conceded the council did not know how many other victims there might be.
Its conclusion was damning, stating: "The actions of Roger Dodds have caused enormous distress to his victims, and the City Council has been complicit in allowing Dodds to operate apparently without sufficient challenge, accountability or consequences."
Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb said the Tories had delivered rising employment and income tax cuts.
He claimed they were the "true party of Wales", saying Labour "always put Scotland first".
The campaign was launched in Gower, one of the Conservatives' target seats for the election on 7 May.
Since winning eight Welsh seats in the 2010 election, the Conservatives say they have put together a plan for the Welsh economy that includes commitments to electrify railway lines in south Wales and open a prison in Wrexham.
Mr Crabb called on voters to make 2015 the year "Wales lets go of Labour".
He said Labour leader Ed Miliband would need a "piggy back from Alex Salmond" of the SNP to get into Downing Street and accused him of being more at home in leafy parts of north London than the south Wales valleys.
It had taken the coalition government to make progress on projects that had been discussed for years, such as rail electrification, Mr Crabb said.
Labour had treated Wales like a "hereditary fiefdom", he added.
Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies criticised the record of Labour's Welsh government.
"Week in, week out we see what Welsh Labour are doing to communities in Wales in health, education and local government," he said.
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Crews from Deeside and Flint were called to the westbound section of the motorway, near Pentre Halkyn, at 09:40 BST on Saturday and put out the blaze.
Four people were taken to hospital with minor injuries while part of the road was closed.
North Wales Police confirmed it had reopened at midday.
But this issue has, in fact, been brewing for some time. Improving care at weekends has been under discussion for at least 20 years. During the 1990s, research began to emerge that the quality of care was not evenly spread over the week.
As evidence has grown, so has the clamour for change. In 2012 a study was published highlighting the increased risk of death for patients admitted at weekends compared to a Wednesday.
One of the authors of this was Sir Bruce Keogh, the medical director of the NHS in England.
At the end of 2013 he published a report calling on the NHS to adopt 10 standards to improve the quality of care available at weekends. These included everything from greater consultant availability to increased access to diagnostic tests.
The government has made it a top priority. It was included in the Conservative Party manifesto and Prime Minister David Cameron made it a key part of his first speech after winning a majority in May, saying he wanted to see a truly seven-day service.
This has put ministers on a collision course with the medical profession. In a speech in July on hospitals, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the British Medical Association was a "roadblock" to reform and gave them until mid-September to come to the table for talks about increasing weekend working.
The British Medical Association (BMA) has hit back, saying ministers are misrepresenting what happens at weekends and, if they are serious about extending services, that needs to be properly funded.
Meanwhile, doctors took to Facebook and Twitter over the summer to post photographs of themselves working using the hashtag #ImInWorkJeremy.
Then on Sunday the researchers behind the 2012 study published a fresh report on death rates using updated figures - and again found the risk of death was higher.
There are two strands to the policy. Firstly, they want local GP surgeries to open on a Saturday and Sunday.
They do not expect every surgery to be open and instead have urged GPs to work together with other practices to share the extended opening.
A pilot programme has already been run, which involved one in eight surgeries taking part. There have been reports that demand has been mixed.
In terms of hospitals, the focus is on extending what is already available.
While emergency care from A&E units to life-saving surgery is available at weekends, staffing levels are much lower, and access to key tests is more difficult than it is during the week.
Ministers have identified the opt-out consultants have in their contract - meaning they do not have to do non-emergency work at weekends - as a key barrier to improving weekend care.
They have given them until the middle of September to agree to open talks about removing this, or have said they will impose it on new doctors.
GPs have questioned whether seven-day working is really necessary. There are already out-of-hours arrangements that are predominantly led by local doctors for patients who need urgent care.
They have also queried whether opening surgeries for routine care should be a priority when services are currently so stretched.
The medical profession is much more convinced about the need for improved access to key services, such as MRI and CT scans, as well as the need for improved staffing.
Many of the royal colleges which represent doctors working in different areas of medicine, have agreed change is needed. But the big question is how.
The BMA is concerned whether it will be properly funded, saying the extra money being promised for the NHS this parliament - £8bn by 2020 - was just meant to be for keeping current services afloat.
Ashraf Ghani thanked the US for supporting "the joint struggle against the threat of terrorism".
Donald Trump has committed the US Army to the open-ended conflict, despite previously advocating its withdrawal.
The Taliban responded by saying it would make Afghanistan a "graveyard" for US forces.
Mr Trump offered few details on the plan, but singled out Pakistan for criticism for offering "safe havens" to extremists.
Pakistani officials reject claims the country uses some militants as a tool of state policy.
President Trump warned a hasty US withdrawal from Afghanistan would leave a vacuum for terrorists to fill and said he had decided to keep troops there to "fight to win" to avoid the mistakes made in Iraq.
He said his new approach would be more pragmatic and based on conditions on the ground rather than idealistic and time-based, and would switch from nation building to "killing terrorists".
But he refused to get drawn on how many extra troops, if any, would be deployed and gave no timeline for ending the US presence in the country.
Washington is expected to send up to 4,000 additional troops, but Mr Trump did not comment on this.
In June, he told the Department of Defense to decide on troop levels.
Visiting Baghdad on Tuesday, Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said he would wait for a plan from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff based on the president's South Asia strategy before deciding.
"It may or may not be the number that is bandied about," he told reporters.
Mr Trump also, for the first time, left the door open for an eventual peace deal with the Taliban, saying: "Someday, after an effective military effort, perhaps it will be possible to have a political settlement that includes elements of the Taliban in Afghanistan."
However, Mr Trump said there would be an escalation in the battle against groups like al-Qaeda and so-called Islamic State.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump made it clear he expects his existing allies - including India - to support him in his new strategy, and urged them to raise their countries' contributions "in line with our own".
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By Secunder Kermani, BBC correspondent in Kabul
Even with a few thousand extra US soldiers in Afghanistan - deployment levels would remain far lower than their peak in 2010/11 when there were around 100,000 US personnel in the country. So what is different this time?
Firstly, that there is no deadline by which the US will begin to scale operations back. Critics of President Obama's surge say that because he made it clear it was temporary - the Taliban were encouraged to wait the Americans out.
The second difference is that the US will put more pressure on Pakistan to end "safe havens" for the Taliban, according to President Trump.
One analyst told me that the key to solving the conflict lies in Islamabad not in Afghanistan. But it is not clear how much leverage the US still has over Pakistan - or how Pakistan will respond to the accusations, given its consistent denial that it operates a "good terrorist, bad terrorist" policy.
Pakistan has grown increasingly close to China, and has already had millions of dollars of US aid withheld for allegedly not taking enough action against the Taliban-allied Haqqani network.
Before his presidency, Mr Trump was not shy about criticising his predecessors on their Afghanistan policy. He previously supported pulling US troops out of the conflict, which began under President George W Bush in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks.
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Early on in his presidential campaign, however, he did acknowledge that US troops would have to stay in order to avoid the total collapse of the Afghan government.
And this long-awaited announcement came after a months-long review, with the president himself acknowledging that his original instinct to pull-out had been reversed after discussions with national security advisers.
BBC correspondent Aleem Maqbool in Washington says the people who might object to Mr Trump's strategy are the very ones who voted for him on his "America First" platform.
Welcoming the plan, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Mr Trump's comments showed America was "with us, without any time limit".
"I am grateful to President Trump and the American people for this affirmation of support... for our joint struggle to rid the region from the threat of terrorism," he said in a statement on Tuesday.
The new strategy, he said, would enhance the training of Afghan security forces.
Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg praised the move and said the alliance, which has about 12,000 troops in Afghanistan, would not allow the country to become "a safe haven for terrorists who would attack our own countries".
India's foreign ministry said it shared Mr Trump's concerns over safe havens and "other forms of cross-border support enjoyed by terrorists".
But Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid dismissed Mr Trump's strategy as "nothing new", telling the US to think of an exit strategy "instead of continuing the war".
Pakistan's foreign minister met the US ambassador in Islamabad on Wednesday and highlighted "Pakistan's immense sacrifices in the enduring fight against terrorism", a statement said, as well as a desire to continue working with the international community "to eliminate the menace of terrorism".
US combat operations against the Taliban officially ended in 2014, but more than 8,000 special forces continue to provide support to Afghan troops.
The Afghan government continues to battle insurgency groups and controls just half of the country.
Retired UK General Sir Simon Mayall, who was responsible for Afghan operational policy from 2009 to 2012, told the BBC's World at One that even small numbers of troops would make a "big difference to the confidence and competence of the Afghan security forces".
"The high levels of ISAF troops were very helpful in giving the Afghans time to develop their own security forces, but then announcing we were going to leave in 2014 and running down very quickly... was very bad for competence and confidence.
"I hope that what President Trump has announced will serve to redress a number of those weaknesses."
Wheeler died on 30 December in a care home in Prestbury, Cheshire, after a long illness.
He created the popular ITV game show Winner Takes All, which was hosted by Jimmy Tarbuck between 1975 and 1986.
Wheeler, who provided the voiceover during the Tarbuck era, hosted the show himself from 1987-88.
He also appeared on Call My Bluff and Jackanory.
"He was an absolute gentleman and that's the conclusion that everybody who dealt with him came to," the broadcaster's son, Robin, told the BBC on Tuesday.
Wheeler had originally conceived Winner Takes All as a horse-racing quiz but it became a multiple choice game show when it was first produced by Yorkshire Television in 1975.
Robin Wheeler recalled: "He didn't want there to be a quiz where people have to say 'I don't know the answer', which was very typical of him."
Geoffrey Wheeler, was born in Manchester and much of his childhood was spend moving around the country due to his father's job as a hotel manager.
He entered the world of broadcasting after auditioning for a radio drama and made some 200 radio programmes for the BBC while studying law at Manchester University.
In 1954, he got the the job of BBC radio producer for the north region making variety programmes with the likes of Benny Hill, Morecambe and Wise and Ken Dodd.
He went freelance in 1963 and presented school quiz Top of the Form for 12 years on BBC One from the early 1960s to the mid 1970s.
He also presented Songs of Praise many times over 21 years.
"My memories of him when I was at prep school was that he was constantly recognised in restaurants and on the street, and he would get quite a few letters," Mr Wheeler said.
Geoffrey Wheeler is survived by his son, a daughter and four grandchildren.
It is a fiction. All that has happened is that the front lines have remained static. There are no big offensives going on - for the moment.
In light of the evident failure of the ceasefire, talks are today scheduled to take place between military representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the rebels to discuss a new peace deal in the Donetsk region.
Despite an apparent truce called at Donetsk Airport on Monday night, fighting there is continuing.
In a separate announcement, the rebels of the neighbouring Luhansk region said they had agreed with the Ukrainian military to cease fire on 5 December "in principle".
But all the morbid facts of war - the killing, maiming, terrorising - go on every day and night in the east.
On the fringes of Donetsk airport the rebels and Ukrainian forces exchange artillery fire. Rifles and machine guns rattle away in the freezing mist.
Artillery spotters on both sides watch for movement and call in strikes from the guns and multiple rocket launchers. As we crouched in a trench, shells whistled over and exploded to our rear.
We could not tell where they landed. Loud enough to shake the ground and make us hug the earth but far enough away not to shower us with shrapnel.
Earlier rounds had shredded trees in the small wood where we were now taking cover. Mud had been thrown onto the road by the detonations.
Civilians are frequently killed by artillery strikes. While we were in Donetsk a 12-year-old boy was decapitated and a 55-year-old woman killed in a rocket barrage.
Locals blamed the Ukrainian army for that attack. Both sides have caused civilian casualties. The war is being fought mainly in urban areas like Donetsk or the other rebel capital, Luhansk.
In Donetsk we saw rebel armour parked next to a basement that was sheltering around 20 elderly people.
Among most people we met there was a fervent desire for an end to all fighting.
Lyubov Vasilievna was with her two grandchildren when they were caught in an artillery strike on the first day of the ceasefire last September.
They lived in the village of Lebedinskoye between the government lines at Mariupol on the Sea of Azov and the rebel positions further east.
The children - Nikita, 12, and Karolina, 6, - were killed. Lyubov, who was trying to hurry them to safety, was wounded herself.
I met her in hospital on the day of the tragedy. Back then she was still struggling to believe what had happened. Now she is deeply traumatised.
"It is difficult. It is very difficult. Because every day and night, I see the image in front of my eyes as though it were yesterday," she says.
"And I go to bed at night and I think maybe it could have ended differently because it is really, really difficult. Every day I remember it."
She remembered how in the mornings when the children woke they would call out to her. Nikita, who was severely disabled, was her "little sunshine" and Karolina would ask her for a hug.
"My soul aches because I'll never see them again. They'll never say again that they love me. I miss my grandchildren."
Her daughter, Tatiana, aged 29, was the children's mother. She lives a few yards from where the shell killed Nikita and Karolina.
She stares into the distance as she talks, a young woman lost and shuffling through the days, wrapped in disbelief.
"I don't believe it even now. People in the village have said that there is something wrong with my mind because I still don't believe that they are gone…I keep on thinking they will come home soon, that they are in a hospital or in a nursery."
Nobody has investigated the deaths of Nikita and Karolina. There has been no accounting for what was done to them at a time when a ceasefire was supposed to be in operation.
Of course nobody will formally declare the ceasefire over. For different political reasons the rebels, the Kiev government, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the West have decided to live with the fiction.
The government struggles with a collapsing economy, constant political crisis and an army that is still too weak to take on the might of Russian-backed rebels. That army is also bolstered in the east by far right militias accused of serious human rights abuses.
The rebels are faction-ridden and depend on Russia for their survival. They faced defeat at the government's hands last autumn until Moscow made a decisive intervention.
For now they have the firepower to sustain the stalemate, but their two republics - in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions - are illegal under international law and fertile ground for warlords and criminals.
The European Union - still divided over its policy - and the White House place their hopes in sanctions against Russia.
But it is a theoretical hope.
There is no realistic expectation that President Putin will stop providing the rebels with their military strength.
For now sanctions are a price he is willing to pay to impose his will on Ukraine and confront the West expansion to Russia's borders.
Sanctions may limit the possibility of an escalation in fighting or an overt Russian invasion of the east.
But nobody can be absolutely sure of that. The last nine months have been defined by Vladimir Putin's refusal to play by the West's idea of logic.
Having encouraged Kiev to embrace the idea of EU and Nato membership, the Europeans and Americans were utterly unprepared for President Putin's counter-strikes - first in Crimea and then eastern Ukraine.
There was a complacent assumption that Vladimir Putin would confine himself to rhetorical opposition to western expansion to his borders, and that he would rely on diplomacy to respond to the ousting of Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Moscow president in Kiev.
The fallacy of that belief is exposed in the airport suburbs of Donetsk and in the hospitals where the wounded and dying are taken.
This European war is no longer in the daily headlines but it grinds on, dangerous and unpredictable, a testament to a toxic combination of political failure and ruthlessness.
Powerhouse Fitness, which has nine stores across the UK, was acquired by Germany-based Sport-Tiedje Group for an undisclosed sum.
Sport-Tiedje currently runs 30 home fitness equipment stores in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark.
The company said it would retain the Powerhouse brand name and staff.
Powerhouse Fitness, which is the trading name of Laidir Leisure Ltd, was founded by David Webster in 1980 and opened its first store in Glasgow in 1987.
It now has outlets in London, Glasgow, Nottingham, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Leeds.
In the financial year to June, the company had a turnover of £22m.
Sport-Tiedje chief executive Christian Grau said: "Our company philosophy is to offer our customers the best product for them with the best service and at the best price-performance ratio and we will continue to do this in the UK."
Stokes, 25, was injured while bowling in England's 330-run series-levelling win at Old Trafford in the second Test.
The all-rounder was replaced by Steven Finn for the third Test at Edgbaston, which started on Wednesday.
Stokes is hoping to be fit for the one-day series against Pakistan, which begins on 24 August.
He told BBC Test Match Special: "There was a possibility of being fit for the last Test but rather than risk more damage we decided to take it easy.
"I came back from South Africa and the first Test match back I did my knee. Now I've done my calf. It's been frustrating but I haven't written my summer off yet."
Stokes scored 34 in the first innings of the second Test against Pakistan at Old Trafford and had match figures of 2-60 before leaving the field injured on day four.
This is Stokes' third notable injury in the past nine months. He damaged his shoulder in the third Test against Pakistan last October, and consequently missed the four-match one-day series and three Twenty20.
He then injured his knee in the first Test against Sri Lanka in May, which resulted in a month on the sidelines.
Stokes made his competitive return in the T20 Blast for Durham on 24 June and played five T20s and two first-class games, but was left out of England's squad for the first Test against Pakistan, which the visitors won by 75 runs.
The blast happened on Thursday afternoon in the al-Qa'tour district of the port city of Latakia.
Syrian state news agency Sana said a motorcycle bomb was responsible.
Syrian state TV channel Ikhbariya said it happened as people were leaving prayers. It was not immediately clear how many casualties there were from the bomb, or who carried it out.
Latakia lies in a coastal region that is home to President Bashar al-Assad's extended clan. Until recently, it had been largely spared the violence that has engulfed much of Syria during the civil war.
But dozens of people were killed in nearby cities last month in bombing and other attacks which were carried out by the so-called Islamic State group (IS).
One officer has been charged with rape, and three more with assault.
Hundreds marched in Aulnay-sous-Bois on Monday in support of the man who has been identified only as Theo.
The 22-year-old said he left his house and found himself in the middle of a police identity check, targeting drug dealers, by chance last Thursday.
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Theo said he was sodomised with a truncheon, as well as racially abused, spat at and beaten around his genitals.
He has undergone emergency surgery for severe anal injuries, and has been declared unfit for work for 60 days. He remains in hospital, where he spoke to his lawyer.
He said the police operation quickly turned violent and he was set upon by four officers. He struggled to make sure he was in the view of CCTV cameras, and asked the officers why they were doing this to him.
He said one officer proceeded to pull his trousers down and rape him with a truncheon.
"I fell on to my stomach, I had no strength left," he said.
He was then sprayed with tear gas around the head and in the mouth and hit over the head, he said.
Theo was then taken to a police station where he said a "much friendlier" police officer saw his condition and sent him to hospital.
Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux suspended the officers and said the facts of the case must be established with "no ambiguity".
A lawyer for the officer facing the rape charge said any injury inflicted during the operation was accidental and his client had "never wished at any time to cause any injury to the victim".
A police union chief, Yves Lefebvre, told AP the rape charge was lodged "to calm or to stop a violent outburst".
Unrest was reported in the neighbourhood over the weekend and continued on Monday evening. Reports said a dozen cars were set on fire, rubbish bins burned and arson attempts made on two restaurants. Twenty-four arrests were made.
"The feeling of humiliation is felt by people," Abdallah Benjana, a former deputy mayor who lives in the neighbourhood, told Associated Press news agency.
"What are [the police officers] seeking? To provoke a spark? Isn't there enough gunpowder in those neighbourhoods?
"Unemployment, insecurity, high rents... no perspectives for future. They do that to a young man, it can only explode."
The tensions have revived memories of the 2005 riots around the French capital, when Aulnay-sous-Bois was one of the worst-affected areas.
Gavin McKenna was one of about 1,000 people at a BBC Radio 4 debate at Birmingham Town Hall on Monday night to discuss the causes of the riots.
He said it would be simple to blame gangs but university students and athletes were also among those looting.
Hundreds of officers tackled two nights of disorder in the West Midlands in August during which three men died.
Former gang leader Gavin McKenna said: "I don't agree with everything that happened and I don't say it's right.
"I don't condone it but it's not just gangs you know, it's the easy thing to say it is. It's easy to label everyone as a gang member or as a gang or a thug.
"There was university students there, there was positive athletes stealing and robbing stuff too."
West Midlands Police Chief Constable Chris Sims said riot police had been issued with plastic bullets to deal with looters.
He said it was standard practice to use plastic bullets when officers were at risk of being targeted.
The force has been criticised by some community leaders for dealing too slowly with riots on the evenings of the 8 and 9.
Mr Sims said no shots were fired at looters by police.
Speaking after the debate, he said: "As part of the reflections that we all need to have, as these events sort of settle in our minds, is to understand that policing needs to be left to police and that the consequences of being on the street can be dangerous to the wider community."
During the disorder the force closed off the main routes into Birmingham city centre at night and urged people to keep off the streets and stay at home.
Five people have been charged with murder in connection with the deaths of three men who were hit by a car during rioting in Birmingham in early hours of 10 August.
Haroon Jahan, 21, and brothers Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31, died while protecting property from looters in Dudley Road, Winson Green.
Figures for January show it affected more than 3,000 people.
It comes as the number of people being seen at A&E across Wales within four hours improved slightly last month.
The figure of 82.3% is up from 81% in December, but is still well below the 95% Welsh government target.
In total, 73,199 people attended emergency departments last month.
The statistics refer to time taken until admission, transfer or discharge, not just the time it took for someone to be seen for the first time.
A Welsh government spokesman said emergency units are seeing increasingly more patients.
"Despite these increases in demand, the latest statistics for January show that eight out of 10 patients spent less than four hours in A&E units from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge," he said.
"However, the number of patients waiting over 12 hours is unacceptable. We expect health boards to work with local authorities and other partners to ensure that patients can be treated, admitted and discharged appropriately and receive safe and effective care."
Helen Birtwhistle, director of the Welsh NHS Confederation, said emergency units were under increasing pressure and a "system-wide change" in treatment is needed.
The Dons were ahead with only nine minutes gone, Kieran Agard nodding home a loose ball after Nicky Maynard's stunning strike crashed off the crossbar.
And it was to get better for Dons, a second goal coming after 26 minutes when a defensive mix-up saw the ball fall kindly to Chuks Aneke. He picked out Agard who made no mistake in doubling his tally from close range.
Swindon pulled a goal back nine minutes later after a deep cross into the box found Luke Norris who squeezed the ball in.
But Samir Carruthers' neat through-ball saw Maynard extend the advantage once more, beating the offside trap to slot home his 100th career goal.
Swindon never gave up, setting up a nervy finale as Raphael Rossi Branco headed home with 25 minutes remaining, only to fall short and suffer a third defeat in four league outings.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, MK Dons 3, Swindon Town 2.
Second Half ends, MK Dons 3, Swindon Town 2.
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Luke Norris (Swindon Town).
Foul by Joe Walsh (MK Dons).
Jonathan Obika (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sean Murray (Swindon Town).
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by David Martin.
Attempt saved. John Goddard (Swindon Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, MK Dons. Kabongo Tshimanga replaces Nicky Maynard because of an injury.
Ben Reeves (MK Dons) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lloyd Jones (Swindon Town).
James Brophy (Swindon Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ryan Colclough (MK Dons).
Attempt blocked. Daniel Powell (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Powell (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Luke Norris (Swindon Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Dean Lewington (MK Dons).
Darnell Furlong (Swindon Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, MK Dons. Ryan Colclough replaces Kieran Agard.
George B Williams (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jermaine Hylton (Swindon Town).
Attempt saved. Nicky Maynard (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Joe Walsh.
Attempt blocked. Luke Norris (Swindon Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Nicky Maynard (MK Dons) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Foul by Daniel Powell (MK Dons).
Darnell Furlong (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, MK Dons. Daniel Powell replaces Chuks Aneke.
Goal! MK Dons 3, Swindon Town 2. Raphael Rossi Branco (Swindon Town) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by James Brophy following a corner.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by David Martin.
Attempt saved. Raphael Rossi Branco (Swindon Town) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by George B Williams.
Tom Smith (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chuks Aneke (MK Dons).
Attempt saved. Lloyd Jones (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Chuks Aneke.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by George B Williams.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Paul Downing.
The 51-year-old took charge of Boro for the first time after Aitor Karanka's sacking as they lost 3-1 to Manchester United at the Riverside on Sunday.
Boro owner Steve Gibson said before the Premier League match that Agnew could be "the glue to unify us completely".
Asked if staying in charge was what he wanted, Agnew said: "Of course. It's a club I have a big affection for."
Speaking to BT Sport, he added: "It's a pleasure to be in charge of the team and see them respond.
"I know we'll take that fighting spirit for the rest of the season."
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Karanka was sacked on Thursday after three and a half years at the club, with Boro in the relegation zone and without a win in 10 Premier League matches.
They fell 2-0 behind on Sunday to goals from Marouane Fellaini and Jesse Lingard, before substitute Rudy Gestede pulled one back with Boro's first league goal for 509 minutes.
But Victor Valdes' late slip allowed Antonio Valencia to tap in late on and seal United's victory.
"I think the second goal is what set us back a little bit," said Agnew. "I couldn't be more proud of the players, the fighting spirit they showed, and the crowd was top-class.
"If we show that commitment and that sort of intensity until the end of the season then we have a real chance of staying in this league."
Agnew said it was "a relief" to see the team end their Premier League goal drought.
"When we got that goal, we had Manchester United defending in the box for their lives," he added.
"We didn't quite get the bounce of the ball to get the equaliser, which on the balance of play I thought we deserved."
Speaking before the game, Gibson had hinted Agnew could be Karanka's long-term successor as manager.
He told the club's website: "I hope he's here this time next year or the year after.
"He is a very good coach, a deep thinker, has loads of experience, knows this club, is a man of integrity and the players trust and like him.
"I've known him a long, long time and he's a smashing lad. I think he can be the glue to unify us completely."
Gibson, who believes the Boro squad is good enough to stay up, also paid tribute to Karanka, who guided the club back into the top flight at the end of last season.
"He's a great guy and he's part of our history," said Gibson. "He achieved something very difficult.
"We are better because of him and I hope he is better because of the experience. We wish him all the very best. He deserves a good future in the game."
Batsman Joyce, 34, took over the captaincy at the end of July after Michael Yardy stood down from the role.
Sussex cricket manager Mark Robinson said: "Ed stepped in to Michael's shoes seamlessly last season and formed a strong alliance with Nashy.
"They both bring a wealth of experience and knowledge and I am excited at working with them."
Ireland international Joyce, who led the Hove outfit in four County Championship and five CB40 games last season, said it was "a great honour and privilege" to continue leading the side in 2013.
"I hugely enjoyed doing the job for the last few months of the season and I feel very strongly we can bring some silverware back to Hove next year," he said.
"With Murray Goodwin moving on and Rory Hamilton-Brown re-signing, the team will be slightly in transition next year.
"But it should also be a very exciting time for the club with a younger side and perhaps some more opportunities for the younger members of the squad to show what they can do.
"We will all be working as hard as possible to try and bring as much success as Yards has had in his time as captain."
The 27-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene after her Peugeot 208 crashed on the A689 at Crosby at about 13:00 GMT on Sunday.
A man and two children were flown to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.
The Great North Air Ambulance said the man suffered "multiple injuries" while the children had minor injuries.
Amir, 23, was playing for Pakistan for the first time since his suspension for spot-fixing ended.
Pakistan beat their hosts by 16 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series, with Mohammad Hafeez scoring 61 as they reached 171-8.
Amir opened the bowling, taking 1-31 from four overs, but did not bat.
The left-arm fast bowler was convicted for spot-fixing in a Lord's Test in 2010 and was one of three Pakistan players jailed in November 2011 for his part in a conspiracy to bowl deliberate no-balls against England.
He served three months in prison.
Amir's suspension originally covered all forms of the game but, in January last year, he was cleared to play domestic cricket in Pakistan.
Earlier this month, he was named in Pakistan's squad to tour New Zealand for three Twenty20 and three one-day internationals.
Despite a valiant 70 from Black Caps skipper Kane Williamson, it was Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi who stood out at Eden Park, scoring 23, taking 2-26, and claiming three catches and a run-out.
In a frustrating day for Amir, Williamson was dropped off his bowling in the fourth over.
He had another catch spilled toward the end of the match before taking the wicket of Matt Henry in the penultimate over.
The two teams will play the second of their three T20 internationals in Hamilton on Sunday.
Matthew Hoggard says Amir will take "a bit of flak" from the Barmy Army if selected for Pakistan's tour of England this summer.
"He will be tested by the English fans," the former England bowler told BBC World's Stumped programme.
"He will have to be strong enough to say: 'Yes, I did do it in the past, but that's behind me.'
"He's going to have to take a bit of flak and get the trust from his team-mates and the public again.
"He's now got to prove beyond doubt that he's whiter than white."
England bowler Mark Wood told BBC Radio 5 live's Friday Sports Panel: "The spot fixing thing caused a big disruption in cricket and the sport took a while to recover. It was shocking.
"Even now if someone bowls a wide or a no ball in certain games you question it and that's because of what happened that day.
"If it was an English player you'd feel certainly let down that you were giving your all for your country and knowing that they blatantly cheated or tried to affect the result in any way.
"It really would leave a bitter taste in my mouth and I would find it difficult to have any sort of sympathy for them if they came back in the team."
The King Abdullah Economic City, (KAEC, pronounced "cake") is one of four new cities upon which the late monarch pinned his hopes for the future of his realm once the oil runs out.
Peppered with cranes, the city - or building site to be more accurate - lies one-and-a-half hour's drive north of Jeddah between the Red Sea and scrubby desert.
Its future depends on balancing the complex and evolving transport, health, education, housing and employment requirements of the city's projected two million residents.
According to Fahd Al-Rasheed, the managing director of Emaar Economic City, the publicly traded Saudi company that runs the entire KAEC project, the new generation of Saudis expect a city that matches the modern lifestyle they have grown used to while studying abroad.
"We're building with the 65% of the population who are under 30 in mind," he explains. "And we have almost 200,000 Saudis studying abroad. Inevitably they are going to change things when they come back."
These statistics are compounded by the fact that more women than men graduate from university. These changing demographics are bringing with them new social demands that will likely revolutionise how the country develops.
At 70 sq miles KAEC will eventually be a metropolis slightly larger than Washington DC and at a cost of $100bn (£67bn), mostly from private funding, the King Abdullah Economic City is second to none in the grandeur of its vision.
"We aim to create one of the world's largest ports," says Rayan Bukhari, a young manager at the King Abdullah port.
"We're not competing with Jeddah's Islamic port - but we are going to take business away from Jebel Ali in Dubai. That's because of our quicker, more automated offloading and customs procedure."
According to Mr Bukhari, King Abdullah was determined to involve the private sector in the economic development of the country; casting aside tribal and regional rivalries in the interests of creating a modern business economy.
"Freight arriving at the port will be taken directly to the capital via the new land bridge," he explains, "At the moment lots of products destined for Riyadh are shipped to Dubai, but that will change. They'll be shipped here as it is cheaper - and can be delivered more quickly within the Kingdom."
Speed is integral to KAEC's vision for future. With Mecca and Medina on the high speed train network that links KAEC with the two holy cities, well-heeled Umrah (pilgrimage to Mecca) pilgrims are expected to visit the city as they travel from the place where the Prophet was born to the place where he is buried.
"The Haramain station is due to open by the end of the year," says Fahd Al-Rasheed, "That train service will alter a lot of things for us."
The station is designed by British architect Norman Foster, famed for London's "Gherkin" skyscraper and the Reichstag Dome in Berlin.
It is expected to reduce the journey time from Jeddah to 30 minutes and bring religious tourists to the city on extended pilgrim visas.
And as Jeddah becomes ever more clogged with cars, KAEC claim's it will limit fuel emissions by providing electric cars for use within the city free of charge.
It has, however, not been entirely plain sailing for the country's newest city.
Even though KAEC is developed and managed by the private sector and is listed on the Saudi stock exchange (Tadawul), economic realities in the Gulf have hit home and necessitated a government loan amid the current fall in oil prices and the more widespread economic downturn.
The speed of social change in the kingdom is also making itself felt for what has become a fluid master plan.
"We've altered our plan four times already," confirms Head of Strategic Planning Tareq Salaita, "We may well need to have another rethink."
Creating a massive new city that is able to encourage enterprise in a practical way has up-ended the usual rigmarole of applying for permissions.
The government has set up an Economic Cities Authority overseeing all four megacities and dealing with every licence, construction permit and approval needed from different ministries. This time-saving move should help the hundred companies that are setting up in KAEC avoid costly delays.
So far only 15% of the city has been developed - industrial estates, residential districts and public facilities are currently under construction.
Ninety kilometres of roads are already in use but what about the thorny question of women driving? In 20 years when KAEC is due to be completed, will females be behind the wheel?
According to Dania Beidas, who lives and works in the city during the week, in two decades the question may well be irrelevant.
"I hope that we will be allowed to drive here eventually," she says. "But with driverless cars in the pipeline, it may not matter any more."
Their early work with Tony Hancock pioneered what became known as situation comedy.
They went on to create Steptoe and Son, which became the most watched comedy on TV over its 12-year run.
But, although they continued to write, they failed to replicate the success of their early work.
Alan Simpson was born in Brixton, London on 27 November 1929.
After leaving school, he obtained a job as a shipping clerk before contracting tuberculosis. He became so ill that he was not expected to live and was given the last rites.
However, he survived, and while a patient in a sanatorium in Surrey he found himself alongside another teenage TB sufferer named Ray Galton.
Galton never forgot his first sight of his future partner, 6ft 4in tall with a build to match. "He was the biggest bloke I'd ever seen."
They discovered a shared love of American humorists such as Damon Runyon and had both listened to the BBC radio comedy programmes Take It From Here and The Goon Shows.
Their first work together was for hospital radio. Have You Ever Wondered was based on their experiences in the sanatorium, which was played out in 1949.
When Simpson left hospital he was asked by a local church concert party to write a show and he roped in Ray Galton to help. They also began sending one-liners to the BBC, which secured them a job writing for a struggling radio show called Happy-Go-Lucky.
The pair also linked up with several other promising new comedy writers and performers of the time, notably Eric Sykes, Peter Sellers, Frankie Howerd and Tony Hancock.
They were quickly tiring of the format of radio comedy shows of the time which included music, sketches and one-liners, and hankered after something with more depth.
They came up with the idea of comedy where all the humour came from the situations in which characters find themselves. Tony Hancock liked the idea and Hancock's Half Hour was born.
It is often credited as the first true radio sitcom, although two other shows of the time, A Life of Bliss and Life with the Lyons, were already using the format in 1954 when Hancock first aired.
Over the following five years the writers developed the format, often taking cues from a new generation of playwrights such as John Osborne and Harold Pinter.
The pace of each show became slow and more measured, in direct contrast to the speedy wise-cracking delivery of contemporary radio comedians such as Ted Ray.
Simpson himself appeared in early episodes as the unknown man who had to suffer Hancock's interminable monologues.
In 1956 the series transferred to TV and ran until 1961. The final series was just entitled Hancock and it was that run which featured the best-known shows including The Blood Donor ("It was either that or join the Young Conservatives") and The Radio Ham, in which Hancock proves completely incapable of responding to a distress signal from a sinking yachtsman.
Hancock, who was becoming increasingly self-critical and drinking heavily, sacked his writers in 1961. Unwilling to lose them, the BBC commissioned them to write scripts for Comedy Playhouse, a series of one-off sitcoms.
One play, entitled, The Offer, spawned Steptoe and Son, the tale of two rag-and-bone merchants, a father and son, living in Oil Drum Lane, Shepherd's Bush.
The script relied on the clash between the two characters; Albert, the grasping father with none too hygienic personal habits and Harold, his aspirational son who yearns for a better life but never achieves it. The show was unusual in that the two performers, Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett, were actors rather than comedians.
The original four series ran between 1962 and 1965 and the show was revived between 1970 and 1974, during which time two feature film versions were also released.
It proved to be the high point for the duo. There was further work with Frankie Howerd and, in 1977, Yorkshire TV attempted to replicate the success of Comedy Playhouse with Galton & Simpson's Playhouse, although none of the episodes produced a series.
Simpson quit writing in 1978 to pursue his other business interests although he and Galton remained close friends. In 1996 they reunited to update some of their best-known scripts for the comedian Paul Merton.
Simpson blamed their later lack of popularity on the fact that shows were commissioned by armies of managers rather than producers.
"Fifty years ago," he said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph, "if you had an idea, it could be going out in three weeks; the time it took to build the sets. Now it has to go through committees and the process takes years."
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He told me when Mr Hammond was shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, the MP for Runnymede and Weybridge did "a lot of the heavy lifting" when it came to working out the Conservative plan for tackling the UK's economic challenges.
Cut the deficit and shrink public sector expenditure was the route alighted upon.
At the time a fiscal hawk of the George Osborne variety - and a big fan of the European Union single market to boot - Mr Hammond is going to have to find a new tone.
Theresa May has signalled a looser approach to borrowing to mitigate any effects of a post-Brexit economic downturn.
And membership of the single market versus a clampdown on free movement of people will be the defining battle of Britain's departure from the EU.
Mr Hammond will be a pivotal player.
As he will on whether Heathrow or Gatwick - or anywhere - gets the go-ahead for a new runway.
Or if the planned new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point continues to receive the government's support.
All eyes will be on his first big Parliamentary outing - the Autumn Statement later in the year.
By then he will have seen the first forecasts by the Office for Budget Responsibility on the state of the public finances post the referendum.
What will his approach be to tax and spending given many economists believe the next few months will be challenging?
And how will the former Foreign Secretary signal that he is not Mr Osborne Mark II?
Mrs May clearly wants some fresh thinking.
The device, the only one if its kind in the UK, is the centrepiece of a new centre for designer quantum materials.
It will help create the next generation of electronic devices, one layer of atoms at a time.
There is no doubt that it looks fantastic.
It fills an entire laboratory. Its stainless steel tubes gleam. Its lights flash.
Its valves open and close and its computer monitors flicker.
Despite appearances it is science fact, not science fiction.
But what is it exactly? The answer trips off Dr Peter Wahl's tongue.
"This is a reactive oxide molecular beam epitaxy system," he says.
Happily for the rest of us he can also explain what that means.
"It is an instrument which allows us to build materials a single atomic layer at a time.
"So we can combine different materials, stacking them on top of each other, and basically changing the material with each individual layer."
To make these custom-engineered "supermaterials" the system uses high vacuums and temperatures.
Talk of the quantum world may bring to mind ideas like Schrodinger's Cat, which was supposedly alive and dead at the same time.
Creating quantum materials is a less intimidating concept.
It means manipulating things at their most basic level - in this case, atom by atom.
Dr Wahl, a reader in the school of physics and astronomy, makes it sound even less intimidating by invoking children's plastic bricks.
It is, he says, like playing Lego with atoms: putting two seemingly boring materials together as extremely thin films to make new stuff that's very interesting indeed.
"One relatively large field of potential applications for these materials is in what's called spintronics, where the spin of the electron suddenly becomes important and one can exploit it for new device functionalities."
Other potential applications include super-efficient energy distribution and high performance sensors.
It could lead to electronic devices that are a single atom thick.
Building exotic, designer, quantum materials does not come cheap.
The new centre represents an investment of £2m by the university, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA).
That's on top of previous investments of more than £4m by SUPA, the Scottish Funding Council and the university.
In return, St Andrews has created a facility that is unique in these islands to create materials that have never been seen before.
The stadium and training facilities would be built at Kingsford, close to the Aberdeen bypass, near Westhill.
The Yes to Kingsford Stadium group believes the 20,000-seat venue would be a vital step forward, however there has been opposition.
An exhibition will be held at Pittodrie on Thursday from 15:00 to 21:00, at the AAM Suite in the Richard Donald Stand.
George Yule, executive vice chairman of AFC, said: "The glories of our past and solid footing of our present cannot sustain the club in the future and that is why we embarked on a new journey some four years ago - a journey that will take us to long-term success and sustainability, on and off the pitch.
"We will be providing a stadium that supports our ambition and meets the expectations of our fans alongside outstanding community sports facilities."
Mauricio Pochettino, meanwhile, refuses to blame nerves as his title-chasing Tottenham side lose 1-0 at West Ham.
And Manchester City's Manuel Pellegrini says he is not thinking about the title after watching his side crash to a 3-0 defeat against Liverpool at Anfield.
It all means Leicester remain top of the table, with just 10 games left.
The Foxes have 57 points, extending their lead in the latest round of games thanks to Tuesday's 2-2 draw at West Brom.
Position: Third Played: 28 Points: 51.
Defeat at home by Swansea means Arsenal have lost three games in a row for the first time since 2010.
After Ashley Williams scored a late winner for the Welsh side, Wenger said his side's loss of form "looks a bit" like a confidence issue.
"I am worrying about our results," he said. "We don't dream. We have to be realistic and come back to what we do well... the basics.
"The players are very down but we have to respond. We have to focus on our job and remind ourselves that we have some quality as well."
Alan Shearer's view:
The Match of the Day pundit says Arsenal's problems are nothing new.
"There is a lack of fight, lack of leadership," he said. "The same questions are hanging over them. Arsenal's issues have been repeated over and over."
Position: Second Played: 28 Points: 54
Spurs had the chance to top the table in the month of March for the first time since 1964 but looked a shadow of the side who had won six successive league games.
"Was it nerves? No," said Pochettino. "I think we made some mistakes that we normally don't make.
"We started badly, conceded a goal and West Ham played better than us. We were poor. But the way the players fought in the second half was fantastic.
"We are very disappointed. The Premier League is very competitive, with no easy games. You need to be 100% mentally and physically."
Alan Shearer's view:
The Match of the Day pundit says the Hammers deserved their victory.
"Spurs lacked energy, they had no spark, their passing was poor," he said. "West Ham were dominant all game. They overpowered Spurs."
Position: Fourth Played: 27 Points: 47
Three days after their League Cup final win over Liverpool, City managed just four shots and ran 106km compared to the Reds' 115km.
"I could see the team was not recovered from the last week," says Pellegrini. "We played in the Champions League and League Cup final.
"The Premier League continues exactly the same all season. Not one team makes the difference,
"I said always the team that wins title will be less than 80 points. I am not thinking about the title but to recover our performance."
Danny Murphy's view:
The Match of the Day pundit says he was shocked City were defeated so convincingly.
"City were sloppy, they did look tired," he said. "Fernando was the only player who kept going. The others gave up far too easily."
Position: Fifth Played: 28 Points: 47
Arsenal, Spurs and Man City may have lost, but it was a good night for Manchester United and their manager, Louis van Gaal.
United are now level on points with fourth-placed Manchester City after a 1-0 home win over Watford.
"I have to give big compliments to our players because when it is physical and you can win at an important moment, when all our competitors are losing, it's very important," said Van Gaal.
"That's the Premier League, the difference between clubs is so small. You can lose against every opponent, I think.
"We lost against Sunderland and there was a lot of criticism but now you see we are closer to the fourth position, so now we are fighting for it."
Danny Murphy's view:
The Match of the Day pundit says he is amazed United are level on points with City after all the issues they have had.
"Watford caused them all sorts of problems and they could have been in big trouble," he said. "None of us can predict what's going to happen."
The Cavan woman ended the tournament on two under while fellow Irish competitor Stephanie Meadow was two over.
Meadow, from Jordanstown, fired a 72 and she finished in joint 31st.
South Korea's Inbee Park won the gold medal on 16 under, five clear of world number one Lydia Ko of New Zealand while China's Shanshan Feng won bronze.
Great Britain's Charley Hull shot a 68 to finish tied for seventh on eight under as women's golf returned to the Games for the first time since 1900.
Maguire finished top amateur at the recent British Open when she shared 25th place.
Meadow, 24, came third in the US Women's Open in her first season as a professional in 2014 but has struggled over the last 18 months.
The death of her father from cancer last year was a devastating blow for the Ulsterwoman and she has dropped to 473rd in the world rankings.
Meadow was a late inclusion in the Olympic field after the Dutch pair Anne Van Dam and Christel Boeljon were withdrawn from the 60-strong field for not meeting their country's qualifying criteria of being in the world's top 100.
Pembrokeshire discus thrower James Tomlinson threw 60.11m to also take silver.
Earlier 14-year-old swimmer Medi Harris won silver in the 50m backstroke, while Swansea's Lewis Fraser won bronze in the 50m butterfly.
Team Wales has taken its medal count up to four after three days' competition.
Peter MacKay, 63, from Maidenwells, died in the crash involving a grey Mitsubishi Shogun on the B4319 Pembroke to Maidenwells road on 2 July.
Mr MacKay was an urgent care worker for Wales Ambulance Service.
In a written tribute his family said his death had left a "massive void" in their lives.
The statement read: "Devoted husband, loving father, proud grandfather, loyal friend.
"It is impossible to sum up a fitting tribute to you Pete, dad, there is not enough space in this paper, nor the words in the dictionary to even begin to come close to describing the man that you were.
"The massive void that has been left in our lives will never be filled, but... the fond memories will always be there for us to call upon when the wicket becomes a little sticky.
"His life touched the hearts of so many... this has become apparent from the messages and support that has been given to our family."
Dyson said last week that it had issued proceedings against its competitor, alleging that they had misled consumers in "behaviour akin to the Volkswagen scandal".
BSH Home Appliances, owned by Bosch, denied the allegations and on Wednesday announced it was initiating its own legal steps.
It called Dyson's claims "unfounded and untrue".
BSH chief executive Karsten Ottenberg said: "We have long since been aware that James Dyson has a history of taking a very aggressive approach against his competitors and has a desire to be in the public eye."
The company said all its vacuum cleaners were tested in accordance with the EU Energy Label and Ecodesign Directive for vacuum cleaners and met the standards in full.
Dyson has said independent testing had shown that machines made by Bosch and marketed under the Bosch and Siemens brands, could draw more than 1600 watts of power when used in the home despite having a rating of 750 watts.
Dyson said the machines work at a lower power setting when there is no dust, as is the case in testing situations.
Sir James Dyson's firm claimed the Siemens Q8.0 and Bosch GL80/In'Genius ProPerform models use a sensor which sends signals to the motor to increase its power as the machine sucks up dust.
But what about the hard-up players selling them?
With earnings of up to £35,000 per week you wouldn't think any Premier League star would need to auction off their memorabilia.
But some do. As items owned by ex-England goalkeeper David James are up for sale we look at footballers who've played, earned and lost.
He declared himself bankrupt in May 2014 despite earning an estimated £20m from his footballing career, owning several properties and having a lucrative modelling contract.
Six months on and the man appointed by the courts to oversee his bankruptcy has been instructed to sell off a whole host of David's sports memorabilia and other personal items including exercise machines, DJ equipment and even a Vauxhall Astra van.
He has more than 50 caps for England and also made more than 800 senior appearances at prestigious clubs such as Liverpool, Manchester City, Aston Villa, West Ham, Portsmouth, Watford, Bournemouth and Bristol City, winning the League and FA Cup.
Aged 44 (which is considered old to play football) he's currently player-manager at Kerala Blasters FC in the Indian Super League.
He earned £30,000-plus a week at the height of his career, playing much of it for Aston Villa and earning a cap for England.
But in January 2012 facing spiralling debts and repossessions he was declared bankrupt after twice trying to take his own life.
"If I was to say I wasted my money gambling or that I just didn't care about my money, that wouldn't be true," said Hendrie in an interview with BBC Radio 4's You and Yours.
"My intentions were to look after my family and put my money into investments.
"But along the way I had a divorce which hit me hard in the pocket and then I bought houses which turned out to be bad investments and I couldn't sell them."
He's now the director of Footie Bugs, a football-based activity programme for children aged from three to nine years. He's also an ambassador for Young Minds.
When he started his career Keith Gillespie rubbed shoulders with the likes of Ryan Giggs, David Beckham and Paul Scholes, and was part of Manchester United's "golden generation" which won the Youth Cup in 1992.
He went on to help Newcastle United reach the Champions League and he's also one of Northern Ireland's most celebrated players with more than 80 caps for his country.
At the age of 35 in 2010 he was declared bankrupt.
He calculated he lost £7,215,875 during his professional career. How? "I lost an awful lot of money through gambling over the years, but I also lost money on property and got involved in a film scheme like a lot of footballers did," he told The Guardian.
Unlike David James he hasn't got much memorabilia to sell off though. He says he's probably only got two shirts left because he gave them away to charity.
But he has got his story and he's turned that into a book. How Not to be a Football Millionaire was published in May.
Another player who called the likes of Giggs and Scholes his teammates, Eric Djemba-Djemba was signed by Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford in 2003.
The Cameroon international was declared bankrupt just four years later after his move to Aston Villa.
He doesn't seem to have tried to auction off anything, but a quick look on eBay and there's a Djemba-Djemba Manchester United away shirt for £99.
After a brief stint with St Mirren earlier this year the 32-year-old is now playing in the Indian Super League for Chennaiyin FC.
There's no doubt playing in the Premier League is an extremely lucrative job, but it's short-lived.
While a chosen few stay in the game, in a coaching or management capacity, the vast majority of players will probably have to earn their living elsewhere.
The Professional Footballers' Association runs a series of education and qualification courses.
On its website Pat Lally, head of PFA education, says: "It's a fact that the playing career of a professional footballer is on average eight years, which makes it all the more important for players of all ages to weigh up their options and consider an alternative career path."
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The sale of Yahoo's core internet assets to Verizon, delayed after Yahoo suffered two data security breaches, is expected to go through later this year.
Thomas McInerney will lead what remains of the business after the sale.
This could trigger Ms Mayer's severance payment, which consists of $3m in cash and the rest in stock.
Ms Mayer is entitled to the "golden parachute" payment if she is fired without cause by Yahoo.
When the takeover deal was announced last year, she said: "For me personally, I'm planning to stay.
"It's important for me to see Yahoo into its next chapter."
Mr McInerney will lead the financial holding company that remains, which has the provisional name of Altaba.
The price of the sale of the internet assets was reduced by $350m (£288m) to $4.48bn (£3.7bn) last month as a result of the cyber-attacks suffered by Yahoo.
The company still faces lawsuits relating to the breach.
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By the time he'd worked his way up to regional manager at the firm, he was in his 50s and obese.
Concerned for his health, his employer persuaded him to go on a one-week intensive exercise and healthy eating programme, at its expense.
A year on, Mr Dixon is 95lb lighter, and credits that week with "changing his life forever".
While his employer, Whole Foods, may seem exceptionally generous, the programme, on offer to all employees with health issues, is one of the ways it aims to make the firm a more attractive place to work.
It is also a way for the company to differentiate itself from rival firms, an increasingly important factor now that the global economy is beginning to improve.
Some 62% of UK employers reported a "war for talent" last year, up from 20% in 2009, according to a recent CIPD/Hays survey.
Essentially it's a buyer's market - good candidates may get more than one offer or be headhunted by a rival - and firms have to fight to secure the best staff.
Joseph Chen, founder and chief executive of Chinese social networking site Renren, a big player in the enormously competitive tech sector, says as well as paying a competitive salary it focuses on "soft" factors to attract staff.
It holds quarterly "town hall" meetings for the whole firm where it updates staff on the latest financial results and its strategy plans.
The gatherings are aimed at ensuring everyone knows what's going on and truly feels part of the firm - all staff listen in and are free to ask questions.
And unusually for China where company etiquette can be rather formal, all staff address the boss by his first name "Joe", which also means "uncle" in Chinese.
"By addressing your superiors in [a formal] way, you automatically lose 50% of the firepower in your creativity, so we try to do away with all that," he says.
This kind of informality is common in start-up companies, but once firms get larger it can be hard to retain the same type of intimate culture and creativity.
John Donahoe, chief executive of eBay, recognised this as a problem when he took the helm of the online auction site in 2008.
He felt the kind of people the firm really needed were the ambitious founders of start-up tech companies. Typically young, he admired their clear vision, noting they "see the opportunity and aren't daunted by the obstacles".
His simple solution to tapping into that creative energy: buy their firms and retain the founders.
EBay has bought almost 30 companies since he took charge, and in the majority of cases kept the founder on.
Mobile payments firm Zong was bought by eBay in 2011. Its founder David Marcus is now president of eBay's web payments arm PayPal.
Similarly Gary Marino, founder of Bill Me Later, a credit service bought by eBay in 2008, now runs PayPal in North America.
"I've found that a subset of these founders, when you put them in positions of significant responsibility, flourish and they bring that sort of founder's mindset, that customer focus, that impatience," says Mr Donahoe.
But once firms have secured the staff they want, the next challenge is to try to hold on to them, eliminating the cost of both finding and then training new staff.
Vincent Lo, founder of Hong Kong-based property and construction business Shui On Group, believes the key factor (beyond salary) is offering employees opportunities to progress, and making it clear that promotions are entirely based on merit.
Despite his daughter recently returning from the US and now looking for work, he has no intention of automatically giving her a job, saying she will have to "earn her way into the company".
By making it clear that nepotism is not the way people progress at the company, he believes staff will trust that they have a long-term future with the business.
"There's no favouritism. We believe in the long-term relationship. And that commitment cannot be just loyalty from staff. I have to be loyal to them," he says.
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It follows a ruling that abortion legislation in Northern Ireland is in breach of human rights law.
Currently, termination of pregnancy is only allowed if a woman's life is at risk or there is a permanent or serious risk to her mental or physical health.
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) brought the case.
It wants to extend abortion to cases of serious foetal malformation, rape or incest.
The 1967 Abortion Act does not apply to Northern Ireland.
Mr Hamilton said the guidelines had been drawn up after consultation with health professionals and would be made public after they had been considered by his Executive colleagues.
"I think the guidelines offer an opportunity to clarify satisfactorily the law as it currently stands in Northern Ireland," he said.
On Monday, a judicial review found the grounds for abortion should be extended in Northern Ireland.
The court's finding has been welcomed by a Northern Ireland woman whose story of her personal experience brought the issue to prominence in 2013.
At 20 weeks pregnant, Sarah Ewart travelled to England for an abortion after her baby had been diagnosed with anencephaly, a condition in which the brain has not developed.
She told the Nolan Show on Tuesday that she was "so pleased and relieved that we can get medical attention in our hospitals in our own country".
"At the start we'll just take small steps and see where we go from here," she said.
Northern Ireland's Attorney General John Larkin said in a brief statement that he was "profoundly disappointed" by the decision and was "considering the grounds for appeal".
In his ruling on Monday, Mr Justice Horner said women who were the victims of sexual crime and cases of fatal foetal abnormality were entitled to exemptions in the law.
He said given that the issue was unlikely to be addressed by the Northern Ireland Executive in the foreseeable future, and that Northern Ireland citizens were entitled to "have their [European Convention on Human] rights protected by the courts", the current legislation was in breach of their human rights.
The Lord Chief Justice's Office has indicated that the court cannot force legislation to be changed and that the final decision stops with Parliament.
Neither candidate gained the 50% needed to win outright in the first round. Mr Duda won 34.7% of the vote, just ahead of Mr Komorowski on 33.7%.
Mr Komorowski hopes to win a second term in office.
Opinion polls before the election had put him comfortably in the lead. The turnout was 48.8%.
Mr Komorowski, 62, took office five years ago after his predecessor, Lech Kaczynski, died in a plane crash.
He is an independent allied with the centre-right Civic Platform, which has been in government since 2007.
Mr Komorowski said the election result was "a serious warning for the entire team in power''.
Mr Duda is from the right-wing opposition Law and Justice party, which is led by former President Kaczynski's twin brother, Jaroslaw.
He welcomed the result of the first round and looked forward to "two weeks of hard work" before the second round on 24 May.
"I deeply believe victory is still ahead of us," he said.
Mr Duda attracted most support in the more conservative eastern regions of the country, near the border with Ukraine and Belarus.
Rock musician Pawel Kukiz came third in the election, gaining just over 20% of the vote. There were another eight candidates standing.
The president has limited powers, but is head of the armed forces and can veto new laws.
The presidential vote comes ahead of parliamentary elections this autumn, and may give pointers to Civic Platform's chances of retaining power for a third term.
After scoring 10 goals to help Nigeria win the trophy last month he had been on standby for the tournament which is also a qualifier for the Rio Olympics.
Osimhen was drafted in to replace Isaac Success, who has not been released by his Spanish club side Granada.
The finals take place from 28 November to 12 December.
Matches will be played in Dakar and M'bour, and the top three teams will also earn a spot at next year's Olympics.
Coach Samson Siasia has named three foreign-based players in his 21-man squad, including Taiwo Awoniyi, who is on loan from Liverpool to German side FSV Frankfurt.
Twelve players from the squad that won a bronze medal at this year's All African Games in Congo-Brazzaville, including Erhun Obanor, Kingsley Sokari, Etor Daniel and Mustapha Abdullahi, have been omitted.
Nigeria boast a proud Olympics football record, having won gold medals at the Atlanta Games in 1996.
They also finished runners-up at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where current under-23 coach Siasia also coached the 'Dream Team' in China.
However, the so-called 'Dream Team V' led by Austin Eguavoen failed to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics after crashing out in the group stages of the qualifying tournament in Morocco.
Nigeria full squad:
Goalkeepers: Yusuf Mohammed (Kano Pillars), Emmanuel Iwu (Heartland), Emmanuel Daniel (Enugu Rangers)
Defenders: Zaharadeen Bello (Kano Pillars), Seun Olubayo (Sunshine Stars), Chizoba Amaefule (Dolphins), Ebuka Iroha (Diamond Football Academy), Sincere Seth (Supreme Court FC), Seun Oduduwa (Nath Boys)
Midfielders: Azubuike Okechukwu (Yeni Matalatyaspor, Turkey), Godspower Aniefiok (Kano Pillars), Ndifreke Effiong (Abia Warriors), Usman Mohammed (FC Taraba),Tiongoli Tobara (Bayelsa United), Bature Yaro (Nasarawa United), Oghenekaro Etebo, Stanley Dimgba (both Warri Wolves)
Forward: Taiwo Awoniyi (FSV Frankfurt, Germany), Victor Osimhen (Ultimate Strikers Academy), Junior Ajayi (CS Sfaxien, Tunisia), Kufre Ebong (Warri Wolves)
The house, at Derry Street in the County Armagh town, was attacked shortly after midnight.
A number of shots were fired, damaging the front door and a front window.
Police said a motive for the attack had yet to be established and appealed for anyone with any information to contact them.
The arrests were in connection with an alleged assault at a property in Grantham, Lincolnshire Police said.
Armed officers were deployed to town's station on Wednesday night. No shots were fired, the force added.
The men, from Nottingham, were taken to police custody.
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The Swans lost 3-0 to Middlesbrough on Saturday and are second from bottom.
Swansea have conceded 37 goals, more than any other team in the league this season, and 18 of those have been since the American replaced Francesco Guidolin in October.
"When I came here I knew what I was getting into and I'm not backing down from it now," said Bradley.
"That's the challenge. When the team has put itself in a tough spot, everybody has got to stick together during the toughest times and fight the fight," he added.
"I put pressure on myself to see if we can get stronger and fight for points. I will continue to do that.
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Bradley says fighting back after conceding in the Premier League is getting harder, as his side let in three goals in 90 minutes for the second time in three days after their 3-1 defeat by West Bromwich Albion on Wednesday.
"It's the same story. We start ok, but concede. Before we know it we're 2-0 down," he added.
Swansea face West Ham on Boxing Day before playing Bournemouth on New Year's Eve and Bradley knows his side have a difficult festive period ahead after their Teesside defeat.
"I feel as though we put ourselves in a hole over and over and that takes a lot of out of a team," he continued.
"It's been more a case of on-the-road matches and now we have two very big home games coming up and turn all our attention to them."
It happened at a yard at Humbie Holdings, near Kirknewton at about 17:40 on Wednesday. The 27-year-old truck driver died at the scene.
The emergency services attended the incident and Scottish Power engineers isolated the power supply.
It is understood the tipper bed was up when it collided with the high-voltage overhead cable.
The driver is believed to have been initially unhurt but was killed when trying to leave the vehicle's cab while the tipper was still in contact with the cable.
Police Scotland and the Health and Safety Executive are investigating.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Officers and the Scottish Ambulance Services attended however, despite best efforts of paramedics, the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
"There are no suspicious circumstances and a report will be sent to the Procurator Fiscal."
Kim Jong-un, in power since 2011, spoke of the need to improve the economy and also to reunify the Koreas, warning that confrontation only led to war.
The speech came less than a month after the conservative Park Geun-hye was elected president of South Korea.
In 1994, Mr Kim's grandfather, Kim Il-sung, spoke on radio and TV. His son, Kim Jong-il rarely spoke in public.
In addition to Mr Kim's televised address, new year's messages were issued in the form of a joint editorial by North Korea's three main newspapers.
Kim Jong-un said 2013 would be a year of creations and changes, calling for a "radical turnabout" that would transform the impoverished, isolated state into an "economic giant" and raise living standards.
By Lucy WilliamsonBBC News, Seoul
After a year of rocket launches and international isolation, the new year speech seemed to refocus North Korea's sights on the economy.
There were the usual tributes to military strength, but less open hostility than in some previous speeches. Instead the focus was a call by the North Korean leader for the country to become "an economic giant". It was, he said, the "most important task… in the present stage of building a thriving socialist economy".
Pyongyang has become increasingly isolated internationally over the past few years, and has become heavily reliant on China for its economic survival. With a new president due to take office in South Korea next month, some analysts saw signs of conciliation. President-elect Park Geun-hye has said she wants to rebuild trust, and - eventually - economic and diplomatic contacts with the North.
In the new year speech, her counterpart in Pyongyang called for an end to confrontation between the North and the South, and for both sides to "respect... and implement" previously-agreed declarations.
Many in the South - and in Washington - will want to see concrete evidence of Pyongyang's willingness to do that.
But while he said confrontation between the North and the South should be removed, Mr Kim stressed that military power remained a national priority.
"The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country," he said.
The message coincides with UN Security Council discussions on how to punish Pyongyang for a recent long-range rocket launch.
Under Mr Kim's leadership, North Korea has conducted two long-range rocket launches - actions condemned by the US and Pyongyang's neighbours as banned tests of missile technology.
The launch in April failed, but December's attempt appears to have been a success, placing a satellite into orbit.
The US, Japan and South Korea are seeking a response in the UN Security Council, which banned North Korea from missile tests after nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009.
Kim Jong-un saw in the new year by watching a musical performance with his wife, North Korean state media reported.
The South Korean shot a bogey-free six-under 65 to move level with defending champion Lexi Thompson, who had a 66.
England's Jodi Ewart Shadoff slipped to joint 15th, seven shots adrift of the leaders, after a 71.
Wales' Becky Morgan is tied 21st, with joint first-round leader Dame Laura Davies a shot further back after a 70.
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Martina Lee Price, 15, from Darfield, Barnsley, was last seen on Saturday morning when she said she was going to a shop.
South Yorkshire Police suspected she may have been attempting to travel to Ireland.
A force spokesperson confirmed she had been located safe and well near Edinburgh.
The girl fell 25ft at the Wheatsheaf centre in Rochdale at 15:10 BST on Sunday.
She was taken to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital by air ambulance where she remains critically ill.
Greater Manchester Police is investigating but said there were not thought to be any suspicious circumstances.
The family is being supported, police said.
Strachan was widely quoted by Sunday newspapers saying the 31-year-old defender had taken himself "out of the frame" as an international player.
Hutton has won 50 caps since making his Scotland debut in a 1-0 friendly win away to Austria in 2007.
Scotland play group leaders England in Friday's World Cup qualifier with three points currently separating the sides.
Celtic captain Scott Brown, 31, was included in Strachan's squad for Wembley after the midfielder came out of international retirement.
Though Brown came off injured during Celtic's 3-0 win against Inverness Caledonian Thistle on Saturday, he told BBC Scotland he was fine after suffering a dead leg.
Hutton featured in Villa's 2-1 home win over Blackburn on Saturday.
The defender started his club career at Rangers and has played in England with Tottenham, Sunderland, Nottingham Forest and Bolton. The latter two spells were on loan from Villa, who also briefly sent him to Mallorca on loan.
His last appearance for Scotland was in the March 1-0 friendly defeat of Czech Republic in Prague.
Demand "far outstripped" the availability, said founders of Ocean Studios at the Royal William Yard.
All applications were put to a panel of experts who decided who got the rented studios at the former naval yard.
The aim is to offer artists space to create, sell their work and get help from business advisors.
Leigh Mason, joint founder of the development, which opens in July, said: "We're so pleased with our carefully selected collective of residents and we know they are equally as excited as us to get in there and start doing what they do best.
"It was exactly for these creative talents and diversity of practice that we created this inspiring space in the first place."
For those who were not successful, there are associate programmes, short courses and a communal working space for many more than those in the studios.
Successful applicants Nadja Wüthrich and Nicholas Leverington have relocated from Switzerland to pursue ceramics and photography.
Mr Leverington said: "We looked at many places to relocate to, and we believe that Ocean Studios is perhaps the most exciting development for artists in the UK at this moment.
"We think it will bring a lot of artists to Plymouth."
S Kidman & Co has pastoral leases covering 101,411sq/km - an area bigger than Ireland.
Two Chinese companies, Genius Link Group and Shanghai Pengxin, were reportedly engaged in a A$350m ($249m, £164m) bidding war over the holdings.
Selling the company would be against the national interest, Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison said.
Part of the property is inside the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA), a military weapons testing range in South Australia.
"The WPA weapons testing range makes a unique and sensitive contribution to Australia's national defence and it is not unusual for governments to restrict access to sensitive areas on national security grounds," Mr Morrison said.
"Given the size and significance of the total portfolio... it would be contrary to Australia's national interest for a foreign person to acquire S. Kidman & Co in its current form."
Mr Morrison said that all bidders withdrew their applications to the Foreign Investment Review Board after being told of his decision.
"It is now a matter for the vendor to consider how they wish to proceed with offering the composite interests of S. Kidman and Co. Limited for sale," he said.
Kidman chief executive Greg Campbell expressed surprise at the government's decision.
"We need to go back to discussions with the Commonwealth and find out some more specifics to see whether it is possible for our bidders to find ways around those concerns," Mr Campbell told Reuters.
Kidman's landholding encompasses 1.3% of the Australian continent. It also contains the world's largest cattle station, Anna Creek.
Prospective buyers from around the world have been forced to withdraw their bids.
The 29-year-old postponed his wedding last year and then moved it from June so he could play at Euro 2016.
England manager Roy Hodgson said Vardy "deserves" time off to get married.
Vardy, who scored the winner as England beat Turkey 2-1 on Sunday, said: "The boss has given me Wednesday off but I'll be back training after that."
Listen to the goals from England's win over Turkey.
Hodgson added: "I don't think his place in the team or the squad at the moment is under enormous threat and we do have other players that we need to look at."
Vardy, who scored 24 Premier League goals to help Leicester win the title, started the victory over Turkey at Etihad Stadium on the left of a front three.
He later moved into the centre and scored the winner after Tottenham striker Harry Kane had given England an early lead.
England face Australia at Sunderland's Stadium of Light in the second of two warm-up games for the European Championships in France.
England also face Portugal at Wembley on 2 June but Hodgson must cut his preliminary squad of 26 by three before the 31 May deadline.
Players from Manchester United and Liverpool will join the squad on Monday.
United were in FA Cup final action on Saturday, while Liverpool had played and lost in the Europa League final on Wednesday.
Marcus Rashford, United's 18-year-old striker, impressed in the FA Cup win against Crystal Palace but suffered a knee problem.
"We believe it is not a serious injury but he obviously took a nasty knock and we'll have to wait and see how he turns up," said Hodgson.
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The 22-year-old has been an ever-present for the Scottish Premiership side this season, playing 21 times.
Ripley told Motherwell's website: "I've always said my preference was to stay and see it out.
"I've really enjoyed my time here. We've had some highs and lows, but I think my experience here is making me a better goalkeeper."
Ripley, who has played three times for Boro, had previous loan spells with Oxford United and Bradford City.
Motherwell currently sit eighth in the Premiership table.
World number one Dustin Johnson finished in joint-second, one shot off the lead on nine under par in his return to action after injury.
The tournament had been set to go to a play-off with three players tied at the top before Harman's dramatic finish.
"It's a lot of emotion but this feels really good," the 30-year-old said.
Harman made a bogey on the 15th but birdies on the last two holes saw him claim victory with a four-under-par 68 on the final day.
It was his second win on the PGA Tour to go along with his 2014 John Deere Classic triumph.
Patrick Reed led by one shot overnight but eventually finished five shots off the lead in a tie for 12th place after struggling to a three-over-par 75.
Johnson set the clubhouse pace with his round of 67, the joint-lowest round of the day, which also saw him birdie 18.
He was then joined by Pat Perez, who was three under through four holes and recovered from a double bogey at 14 to birdie two of the final three holes for a 68.
Spain's Jon Rahm finished fourth, two shots off the lead, while England's Paul Casey was another to have a strong final round, his 68 helping him into a tie for 12th.
The 39-year-old took 577 first-class wickets at an average of 31.80, with 145 of those coming for the Foxes.
He has not played for Leicestershire's first team since April's County Championship game against Glamorgan, a match in which he took 1-141.
"I look back with fond memories of my time," said Shreck.
"I would like to thank everyone that has helped along the way, the umpires for putting up with me and the supporters that stay with you through thick, thin and rain."
The 21-year-old has made six league appearances since moving to Germany in the summer from Dutch side Roda JC.
Belgium Under-21 international Ngombo scored four goals in the Eredivisie for Roda.
He becomes the Dons' third signing of the transfer window, following Robbie Muirhead and Harvey Barnes.
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Thousands of Iranians took to the streets of Tehran and other cities when the result was announced, shouting pro-reform slogans.
Here, people in Iran discuss what the future may hold under the new president.
Everyone was out in the streets last night showing their appreciation with the election result. People were very happy. Even those who didn't vote celebrated because Rouhani is the least bad of them all.
I am still suspicious because I know they are capable of anything. They lost our trust four years ago during the previous election.
I think the only reason Ayatollah Khamenei approved Rouhani is because they know that otherwise there would be big protests and this time they might not be able to maintain control.
I didn't vote. I am against the Islamic Republic and I didn't want to help them in this election. They are all puppets of the supreme leader who doesn't want a free Iran.
I am not a supporter of Rouhani or his policies. He is a cleric, he'll do whatever the supreme leader wants him to do.
I would like Iran to become a free country, with freedom of expression and better economy. With open boundaries, free trade and less Islamic engagement in government.
Rouhani won't change things dramatically, he will probably only make things slightly better.
I voted for Mr Rouhani. Not only did he get my vote, but I also convinced my family and friends, who didn't want to vote because of what happened during the last election, to vote for him also.
I am really happy he won.
Last night we went out to celebrate with friends. The city was full of people and it was really good to see happiness on people's faces.
Hope has come back to the people.
I am very optimistic. I didn't think they'd cheat again like during the previous election. They'd completely lose the trust of the people. So I wasn't surprised with the result.
I hope there will be real change. I am not just hoping, I am sure there will be. Of course we want Iran to become a free, more democratic country. That won't happen immediately, but step by step.
Power has been given to the people and I am confident everything will get better.
I have not voted and I will never vote. However, I am glad that Dr Rouhani won because he is not as close to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei as other candidates are.
I was actually quite surprised that Ayatollah Khamenei let this happen.
I hope there will be changes in our relations with other countries.
We need to come out of isolation and start interacting with Western powers in order to remove the embargoes and restore Iranian people's honour in the world.
Yes I did vote although I didn't think it would change anything, but incredibly this is a very open election.
They are saying Hassan Rouhani has more than 50% of the vote which means he will win in the first round.
Nobody believed that would ever happen, we assumed a hardliner would be made the president.
I am surprised and overjoyed there is jubilation here.
We were in a real state before with the sanctions and the inflation. The economy was a mess with rising poverty and there was no economic reform. It was becoming utterly impossible to do business here.
This is evidence Iran is changing and is coming to grips with reality.
We must negotiate on the international side, this will have huge repercussions for our politics, with our role in Syria - we need to address should we be involved in that war at all, with our nuclear programme too.
I have lived in Iran for the past 35 years, for the duration of the current regime and I have a son who is also in business and a daughter who works in shipping dealing with transactions. The sanctions have hit imports in particular and the average Iranian income has gone down by a third because of exports.
Change is long overdue.
We are very angry about the government's actions, which have made every day life very hard for us. The price of everything has become three times as much in the last year. A lot of young people have been put in prison too for criticising the government.
Yesterday some people wrote on a wall near my house, 'Down with Khamenei'. One hour later the government people came and erased it. Living in Iran is to live under constant tension.
I don't accept the government. Voting is accepting the government because all of the candidates are approved by the government. They are not chosen by the people, so there is no real choice.
That is why I did not vote. None of my family voted. Our neighbours didn't vote either.
The first thing I hope he will do is change Iran's nuclear policy. Iranians don't want a nuclear bomb. Not at any cost like Pakistan. They have a nuclear bomb but they can't support themselves, they can't keep the electricity running, they have no jobs. We don't want to be like them.
Rouhani will change international policy and I hope he can lift the sanctions. It's been really tough for ordinary people.
Other governments think they can control our government with sanctions but it doesn't work, it just leaves us in even harder economic situation, but it won't stop the government.
Foreign countries should take a fresh view of Persians. We will ask them to change their policy towards us because we selected a reformist to interact with other countries to solve this problem.
I was accepted for Phd study in America but our poor economy and the increase in the dollar meant that I wouldn't be able to support myself financially over there, so I can't go.
Ahmadinejad ruined the economy. Mr Rouhani says he will support agriculture so farmers can produce more food, I hope he will support industry.
Ahmadinejad was only interested in the nuclear industry. During his rule many newspapers were forced to close in Iran.
You couldn't say anything against the government. They didn't allow people at university to be critical of the government. This has to change.
I have two sisters. One of my sisters didn't vote because she didn't believe it would change, but my other sister voted for Rouhani.
She is very stylish with her hair and make-up and wanted to sew clothes in a factory but she couldn't get a job because of the poor economy but also because she is a woman.
She voted for Rouhani to get more freedom for women. I voted for him to remove the sanctions and improve the economy so that I can study abroad.
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Rory Burns, Jason Roy and Kumar Sangakkara all hit half-centuries as Surrey, after opting to bat, ended the day poised for maximum batting points.
The solid Burns, with 90, put on 147 for the third wicket with the more flamboyant Roy (87), batting at four.
Sangakkara was 82 not out, 12 short of 1,000 first-class runs this season.
Burns played extremely well until he got a brute of a delivery to be caught behind off Tim Bresnan, who claimed his 500th wicket in first-class cricket.
But, on his first Championship appearance of the season, it was Roy's day, only overshadowed by the loss of two late wickets following Yorkshire's decision to take the new, visibly brighter pink ball.
England limited-overs opener Roy was dropped for the Champions Trophy semi-final, replaced by Yorkshire's Jonny Bairstow after a run of failures.
But, after hitting 92 in Surrey's One-day Cup semi-final win over Worcestershire, his 87 here off 91 balls, including 11 fours and two sixes, has kept him ticking over nicely for Saturday's Lord's final against Nottinghamshire.
Yorkshire's Tim Bresnan told BBC Radio Leeds:
"It was a kind of weird day. It nipped around with the new ball and we thought 'if it keeps doing this, we've got half a chance'. Then it stopped. When the ball got really soft, it was difficult and looked easy paced. It was quite slowish.
"They had a decent partnership. Burns and Roy played nicely. We probably didn't bowl too well either. But after tea we came out and pegged them back.
"I don't think the light played as much of a factor as we expected it to. The older ball was more difficult to see in twilight than the new one. It glowed a bit and didn't seem that difficult."
Surrey's Jason Roy told BBC Radio London:
"I loved being out there with Rory Burns again, batting and not being under too much scoreboard pressure. We didn't know how the ball was going to react. We saw it doing a little bit more than expected in the evening. But apart from that, everything was pretty standard.
"It was just a different colour. Everything else was pretty similar. It felt terrible off the bat. You didn't quite know when you'd middled it. It sounded horrible. But it was fine.
"You could see when the lights came on, the ball was like a lightbulb. It was extremely shiny and the boys had to get to grips with that. After three, four, five overs it died down."
New guidelines say that those lacking the necessary skills should perform chest compressions only.
This offers the best chance of saving a life when helping in a crisis, the guidelines say.
But if a bystander is fully trained, then full CPR with the "kiss of life" remains the best option.
Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) involves chest compressions and "rescue" breaths, with the aim of restarting the heart.
Medical charities urge people to learn full CPR and first aid.
But the 2010 Resuscitation Guidelines say untrained members of the public should attempt no more than chest compressions if they find themselves confronted by an emergency.
The first action should be dialling 999, followed by compression-only CPR or full CPR if a person is trained, the guidelines say.
Meng Aw-Yong, medical adviser at St John Ambulance, said: "Every year thousands of people die of cardiac arrest when first aid could have helped them live.
"These changes are effectively saying that people who are untrained should have a go at doing chest compressions because something is better than nothing and they could be buying time for someone who desperately needs it."
Experts found that many people were reluctant to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Some were unwilling to "kiss" a stranger, while others were concerned about getting the technique wrong.
According to the document, every opportunity should be taken to give compression-only CPR because "any CPR is better than no CPR".
Jasmeet Soar, chair of Resuscitation Council (UK), said: "Most cardiac arrests happen outside hospital, so it is vital that as many people as possible can do CPR."
Chest compressions should be carried out at a depth of 5cm to 6cm, at a rate of 100 to 120 compressions per minute.
This differs to previous guidelines, which recommended more shallow compressions and a rate of 100 per minute.
An estimated 30,000 people each year in the UK suffer cardiac arrests in public.
But fewer than one in 10 survive - and only around a third receive CPR from a bystander.
Studies have shown that a bystander performing CPR can double the chances of the victim living.
US research published last week warned against giving mouth to mouth, saying it interrupts time that is better spent on chest compressions.
Daniel Pinillos' late equaliser for Forest ensured they avoided slipping into the drop zone, in what was also Mark Warburton's first game in charge.
The 2-2 draw left Derby 10th, nine points adrift of the top six.
Asked if he was thinking about the play-offs, Rowett said: "We might have been apart from that last-minute goal."
The former Birmingham and Burton boss, 43, continued: "I don't think any of that is really relevant in some ways. For us, it's just about winning as many games as we can win.
"Until we mathematically can't get in them, of course we are still targeting that.
"For me it is about finishing the season with momentum, wherever that takes us, and it is about learning what we need to do so we can make critical decisions moving forward. But I was pretty pleased with what I saw as a whole."
The point at the City Ground meant Derby have picked up just seven points from a possible 30 since 31 January, a run which saw Steve McClaren sacked from his second spell at the club after just five months back at the helm.
Forest had gone ahead inside five minutes, with Zach Clough catching Derby's defence unawares to prod home.
And while Derby struggled to create a meaningful first-half chance, they were ruthless after the break with two goals in six second-half minutes from Matej Vyrdra and David Nugent.
Both sides had a number of opportunities, with Reds goalkeeper Jordan Smith making a string of saves, before Pinillos secured a draw between the East Midlands' two newest managers.
"I'm happy in some ways that we are saying that we are disappointed because we have lost the chance to win the game in the last minute against our local rivals away from home," Rowett told BBC Radio Derby. "I see that as a huge positive."
Warburton also said he was "never happy to drop two points" after his side went ahead and controlled the first half, only to have to battle back to salvage a draw.
"We absolutely deserved a point, the first half alone deserved a point," he told BBC Radio Nottingham.
"It was important to take something out of the game of such significance, it means a lot to the fans and a lot to the players. It is a huge local derby."
Officers said they arrived at the scene following a tip off that a gang were planning a bank raid, and began to shoot after the suspects opened fire.
All 16 of the group were hit in the exchange of bullets and were taken to a nearby hospital.
Thirteen of them died and two were seriously hurt.
Police said no officers were killed, but one was slightly injured.
An investigation has been opened into the incident.
Brazil's police have been criticised in the past for using excessive force in their bid to control violent crime in the country's impoverished neighbourhoods.
Mike Johnson said the elite Fife institution had outreach programmes which connected with local communities.
Recent figures showed that the number of 18-year-olds from Scotland's poorest areas going to university was down.
Mr Johnson said a good university needed "diversity of thought" from its "diversity of students".
The admissions' director was speaking to BBC radio presenter Bill Whiteford who was hosting Thursday's Good Morning Scotland programme from St Andrews, Scotland's oldest university.
Mr Johnson said: "We meet our funded places allocation with Scottish students, we cannot go above that cap but we always meet that number in terms of Scottish students.
"What we want to see is the diversity of the student, wherever that student comes from.
"It shouldn't be seen as some charitable venture at universities - this is about the diversity of a student bringing diversity of thought, we want many world views.
"When students are in tutorials we want them to come from different backgrounds, this is good for universities, there is no doubt about that."
The Scottish government has placed a major focus on cutting the attainment gap between rich and poor, and increasing the number of Scots from the worst-off communities making it to university.
However, some politicians and education experts believe the cap on funded university places needs to be lifted if the system is going to target poorer students without impacting on the wider student population.
Convenor of Universities Scotland, Andrea Nolan, told the programme it was important to give "as many opportunities as we can to people who we believe have the potential and the ability to succeed".
She explained "In Scotland we have a fixed number of places for Scottish and EU domicile students and as we seek to widen access to people from communities that are underrepresented at universities that is going to put pressure in a fixed system."
Ms Nolan said lifting the cap on places was one way of "expanding the system".
She added: "There are other ways where we can work more efficiently with our colleagues in the college sector, but we are keen to have the opportunity available to those attending higher education, if that is the right pathway for them. So that may involve expanding places."
Ms Nolan said universities were keen to talk with the Scottish government about ensuring that "everybody who has the potential and ability to succeed at university gets that opportunity".
Education Secretary John Swinney said work was under way to improve access to education for those from the most deprived backgrounds.
He told the BBC: "We have to work collaboratively with the universities, with other players in the education system to make sure we strengthen the attainment of young people and ensure that young people are able to have a wide choice of what destination they want to pursue."
The cast-iron lamp-posts - which originally housed gas-powered lamps - were set to be switched for modern versions by Reading Borough Council.
But locals said the antique street furniture, produced in local foundries in the 19th Century, gave the town its spirit.
A consultation will be held before any work commences, the council said.
The number of iron street lights in Reading has fallen from 700 to 400 since 2016.
Only lamp-posts which have structural faults or were a risk to public safety would be replaced, the council said.
Residents of the Bell Tower area of the town, where 21 of the lights are clustered in four terraced streets, were among those to complain about the plans.
"There are very few of them left in the country, and they reflect the original Victorian character of the area", said David Neale from the Bell Tower Community Association.
"They have already been satisfactorily retro-fitted for electric lighting, so believe that it should be possible for them to be fitted with modern lighting".
Deputy council leader Tony Page said: "We fully appreciate the heritage value of cast iron columns, and our preference is of course to keep these columns in place wherever possible."
He also said the council will not remove any of the cast-iron columns while it consults with local residents about their future.
Freedom of information requests showed pubs, hotels and golf courses were also on town halls' books, the TPA said.
Chief executive Jonathan Isaby said councils were "hoarding" assets, undermining claims they had no income.
However, a Local Government Association spokesman said the campaign group's report was "misleading".
The spokesman said in "many cases" councils owned the land that facilities are built on rather than the facilities themselves.
Communities and Local Government Secretary Greg Clark said local authorities must ensure taxpayer value for money.
According to the think tank's report - which it says is based on details gathered from FoI requests - councils across the UK owned at least 580 restaurants or cafes, as of April 2014.
Local authorities' assets also included 378 pubs, 174 hotels, 259 theatres, 2,586 farms and 407 golf courses, it said.
Mr Isaby said it looked "deeply hypocritical" for councils to "plead poverty as an excuse for hiking council tax when they've got such a huge asset portfolio".
He said local authorities should be focused on "essential services".
"The time has come for a serious discussion on what councils should, and should not, be doing - a drastic rethink which saw many of these assets returned to the private sector where some of them clearly belong would be a dramatic step towards a balanced budget and protecting taxpayers," Mr Isaby added.
However, a Local Government Association spokesman dismissed the report's findings and said councils "are constantly reviewing their estates" to ensure value for money for local taxpayers.
"This is yet another misleading report from the Taxpayers' Alliance," the spokesman said.
"Councils are banned from spending the money they make from selling their assets to pay for day-to-day services. Assets fund regeneration, housing and jobs for communities, improve the quality of life for residents and help keep down council tax.
"Many assets were built as part of housing developments and are integral to providing the essential shops and amenities communities rely on. In many cases, councils will own the land facilities are built on and not the facilities themselves."
Communities and Local Government Secretary Greg Clark said local taxpayers "have a right to know, and demand", that their money is being spent carefully and effectively.
"Councils must keep council tax down and efficiently manage their assets to ensure local taxpayers' money is delivering value for money and the services local people want to see," he added.
Kayleigh McEnany appeared in the second instalment of the new series, the day after she said she was leaving CNN.
It will no doubt be seen as a major coup by Mr Trump, who has been at war with CNN and other "mainstream media" outlets since taking office.
He accuses them of failing to report on the achievements of his administration.
This new online segment, launched by his daughter-in-law Lara last week, appears to be designed to promote Mr Trump's successes, with updates on key policy areas such as immigration and jobs from Trump Tower in New York.
Mrs Trump - married to the president's second son, Eric - opened the first episode suggesting people "haven't heard of all the accomplishments the president had this week because there's so much fake news out there".
Neither Ms McEnany's nor Mrs Trump's videos mentioned the scandals or personnel changes that have dogged the White House since the reality TV star-turned-politician took office.
Both women also signed off by saying "and that is the real news" - suggesting the phrase was to become the short segment's catchline.
Describing herself online as a Christian conservative, Ms McEnany has regularly defended the president in CNN debates but tweeted on Saturday that she was leaving the channel.
Ms McEnany's CNN credentials are significant because they are the news network Mr Trump has publically criticised the most. In July he tweeted a video of himself wrestling a person with a CNN logo for a head.
Ms McEnany defended the tweet on the news channel as a "tongue-in-cheek satirical video".
Besides CNN, the president has denounced many news channels and publications as peddlers of "fake news". In February he launched a stinging attack on the media.
In June he attacked MSNBC Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough as "low IQ crazy Mika" and "Psycho Joe". He also referred to Ms Brzezinski as "bleeding badly from a facelift".
Amid the widespread criticism of his comments, the TV hosts suggested the White House had attempted to blackmail them with a smear story in a national tabloid unless they personally apologised for their coverage of Mr Trump.
As the 2016 Republican presidential candidate, Mr Trump complained about being treated unfairly by the media.
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Rumours began circling he was planning to launch his own Trump TV network with his friend Roger Ailes, former Fox News chairman, if he lost the presidency (Mr Ailes died in May).
They deepened after his campaign launched an alternative broadcast during the final presidential debate with Trump-styled political commentators and analysis.
Speaking to the Washington Post in September, Mr Trump denied he was considering founding a media company.
But after months of public spats with the media, this new "real news" weekly broadcast could be the start of Mr Trump trying to capitalise on the anti-media sentiment he has drummed up among supporters.
It is significant the videos have been posted to Donald Trump's personal Facebook page, where he has over 22 million followers.
He also has over 35 million followers on his personal Twitter account, tens of millions more than on his official @POTUS presidential accounts.
Mr Trump has not scaled back his use of his social media accounts after being sworn in office and defended his use of Twitter as "modern-day presidential".
The informal online messages are a sharp departure from the usual methods of official communication by US presidents.
From foreign policy statements to the "covfefe" typo, Mr Trump's unorthodox use of the platform has frequently set the international news agenda.
It is believed he hopes the News of the Week will do the same and divert coverage of his presidency, which has so far been dominated by administration infighting and the Russian collusion investigation.
The education watchdog has been examining how well colleges implement the Prevent counter-extremism strategy.
In one case, inspectors said a student had watched a "terrorist propaganda video" in a resource centre.
Ofsted's Paul Joyce said there was "poor practice that I've no doubt would shock parents and learners alike".
The report from Ofsted, based on visits to 37 further education and skills providers and 46 regular inspections or monitoring visits, concluded that too many students were at risk of "radicalisation and extremism".
It found that general further education colleges and sixth-form colleges were "making good progress" with carrying out the Prevent duties on tackling extremism.
But there were particular concerns about small, independent providers, who might be "leaving learners at risk".
Ofsted inspectors warned of a lack of safeguards for internet use and found examples where students had been able to "bypass" online security settings to visit websites "selling firearms" or "promoting terrorist ideology".
"These included one isolated instance of a learner viewing a terrorist propaganda video in the provider's learning resource centre," the report says.
This is understood to be a video from so-called Islamic State showing a beheading.
The Ofsted report says some colleges have adopted a tougher line on internet access, such as "stringent firewalls" and regular checks on attempts to access inappropriate websites.
And there are colleges that block internet access on students' personal devices when they are on college premises.
There were also some concerns over checks on external speakers.
But, overall, inspectors found that outside speakers helped students to learn about different views, which promoted "tolerance, respect and democracy".
Ofsted's deputy director for further education and skills, Paul Joyce, said that most leaders of FE and sixth-form colleges were making "quick progress" in carrying out their duties under the Prevent strategy, introduced for colleges last year.
But he said it was worrying that for some providers "the progress made in implementing the duty has been slow".
David Corke, the Association of Colleges' director of education and skills, said colleges have been "working incredibly hard to implement the duty, and they will continue to do so as the threat of radicalisation and terrorism is ever present".
"The safeguarding of students is of paramount importance for further education and sixth-form colleges," he said.
But Sally Hunt, general secretary of the UCU lecturers' union, said that colleges had to cope with "vague definitions" and "inconsistent advice" in the debate about challenging radicalisation and protecting free speech.
"The Prevent duty risks doing more harm than good by shutting down debate on contentious topics and creating mistrust between teachers and students," she said.
"College teachers have always taken their duty of care to students very seriously, so the focus on implementing the Prevent duty is both unnecessary and potentially counterproductive."
Skills Minister Nick Boles said: "While the majority of providers have worked hard to implement the safeguards effectively, we recognise there is still further work to do in making the government-funded guidance and training as consistent as possible."
Hundreds of people turned out to watch the famous locomotive as it passed through the West Country on Friday.
But its journey from Gloucester to Bristol was delayed by almost an hour, due to about 50 people trespassing on the line near Cam and Dursley.
Operator Steam Dreams said it had been "advised" not to publish details of when the Scotsman was running.
British Transport Police tweeted on Friday that "numerous people on the tracks" had delayed the Flying Scotsman and advised that "that a good pic is not worth endangering your life".
The locomotive is due to make a return trip through the West on Tuesday but the operator said the timings would "not be made available online".
"In order to avoid overcrowding and incidents of trespass we have been advised not to publish recommended viewing points or the timetable of when the train will be passing through specific locations," it said in a statement.
It went on to say that it would also not be giving out "any timetable or route details" through its booking office.
Marcus Robertson, chairman of Steam Dreams, said trespassing on railway lines "to get a better photograph of a train" was "incredibly dangerous".
"Last year we did have a few problems with trespass but [on Friday] there were people with children near the line - and these are 125mph railways," he said.
"We've heard from Network Rail and the BTP, and on our runs next week - in the same areas - there will be far more police activity."
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said that Mr Osborne's pledge to run a budget surplus "in normal times" from 2019-20 was simple but would require a "precarious balancing act".
The result could be "big tax rises or spending cuts with very little notice", the IFS concluded.
The next Budget is on 16 March.
The IFS publishes its annual Green Budget document ahead of the actual Budget every year, highlighting economic conditions and the challenges facing the chancellor.
The independent economic think tank has concluded that Mr Osborne's target of a balancing the UK's books by 2019-20 was inflexible, and could have tax and spending implications were he to receive "unfavourable" economic and fiscal forecasts.
The UK had only run a surplus eight times in the last 60 years, the IFS pointed out.
"The rule has the merit of simplicity and transparency but is very inflexible and this could come at a cost," the IFS said.
"Even if the chancellor gets to the March 2019 Budget with his plans intact, past errors in official forecasts suggest that there would be more than a one-in-four chance that he would need to implement in-year tax rises or spending cuts to deliver a budget surplus in 2019-20."
Mr Osborne knows that he can set as many fiscal mandates as he likes, the public are unlikely to notice.
What they are likely to notice is whether the economic growth they so regularly hear trumpeted by the chancellor is actually making a difference to their lives.
And this is where another part of the Institute for Fiscal Studies' Green Budget comes in.
Yes, the threat of further tax rises and possible public sector cuts might be very real, but the chancellor's political advisors know that one of the key motivators of voting behaviour is whether people feel, and actually are, better off.
And there the figures are pretty gloomy.
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In the meantime, the chancellor still had a programme of promised tax cuts to deliver, faced uncertainty over what the Treasury might receive in tax, and needed to maintain a squeeze on government spending.
For example, the government has promised to allow workers a larger amount of income before they start paying income tax - a promise that will cost £8bn a year and which is currently unfunded.
The IFS said that even if economic figures were good, the forecast of a budget surplus by the end of the decade assumes putting up fuel duties in line with inflation, taking child benefit away from more high-earning families, and allowing more households to be dragged into the 45% top rate of income tax by keeping the threshold frozen at £150,000.
Uncertainty over what will happen to the UK economy meant he might have to respond with some "tough decisions", the IFS concluded.
"How he responds to any further unpleasant fiscal surprises may, more than anything we have seen so far, come to define his period as chancellor," said Paul Johnson, director of the IFS.
Oxford Economics, which co-authored the report with the IFS, is predicting "relatively disappointing" UK growth of 2.2% in 2016, but said strong consumer spending had seen a "sugar rush" owing to low inflation caused by low oil prices. This was likely to continue. The environment for business investment remained "favourable", it added.
The Bank of England, in its latest Inflation Report, cut its forecast for growth this year to 2.2%. In November it had predicted growth of 2.5%.
The 25-year-old British number one beat Caroline Wozniacki 6-4 6-3 to claim £940,000 in prize money and is set to climb to seventh in the world.
Konta was the world number 146 in June 2015, but she believes a Grand Slam title and further progress is possible.
"The belief has been there since I was a little girl," she said.
"I'd like to be the best player in the world but there's a lot of work to be done between now and then.
"Everybody's journey is different. I needed a little more time and a little more experience to accumulate the knowledge that I have and re-use it in my matches.
"I play smart tennis and calmer tennis I think. It just took time. On paper it looks like a quick turnaround but it's been a long time coming."
Former Fed Cup captain Judy Murray - mother of Andy - has previously suggested the turnaround began with a heavy defeat in a match against Belarus in February 2015.
Murray put that down to Konta's "really bad performance anxiety", describing the result as "a bit of a horror".
But her skill at handling the pressure of elite-level sport is now one of her biggest assets.
Konta herself has credited the influence of former mental coach Juan Coto, who died in December.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live following his death, Konta said: "Everything that I do, he will be a part of. He left me with some incredible tools to deal with my profession and also life. He is still very much a part of my journey."
She is working with a new coach this season - having made a surprise decision to replace Spaniard Esteban Carril towards the end of 2016, the most successful year of her career so far.
Under the guidance of Wim Fissette, Konta won January's Sydney International without dropping a set, before now claiming her first success at a higher level - the top 'Premier Mandatory' rung of the WTA Tour - in Miami.
"She has big ground strokes, not many weaknesses, and I also saw her as somebody who is very hard-working and very disciplined," Fissette told BBC Sport during the Australian Open, where Konta made the quarter-finals.
"I started working with her because I really believe she can win a Grand Slam if she keeps getting better like this."
In October, Konta became only the fourth British woman to make the top 10 since the WTA rankings began in 1975 - after Jo Durie, Virginia Wade and Sue Barker.
"I think it was probably a combination of everything, but also a question of maturity," Konta said of her rise on Saturday.
"I was very fortunate that throughout the years I've managed to have some very, very good people around me.
"The more I was able to absorb from them, their knowledge and wisdom, and the more I was able to reinvest that into the matches that I played, that's the reason I'm here now."
BBC Sport tennis correspondent Russell Fuller
Only one other player has gathered more ranking points in 2017 than Johanna Konta, but more importantly the new world number seven has now successfully negotiated the perfect dress rehearsal for a Grand Slam.
Six victories over 10 days against the very best in the world in one of the WTA's Big Four tournaments is the perfect stepping stone to Grand Slam success.
Wimbledon should provide Konta with as good an opportunity as the Australian and US Opens - where she has already had so much joy - but now it is time for the clay: a surface on which Konta is still to prove herself.
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BBC Sport's Piers Newbery: Konta continues to amaze. Last year was the first time she was ranked high enough to even play in Miami. And not at her best this week.
BBC tennis commentator David Law: Hope Konta can crack it at Wimbledon where she would fully enter the general public's consciousness. Can be a powerful positive role-model.
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American Brian Harman made a dramatic 28-foot putt to birdie the final hole and win by one shot at the Wells Fargo Championship in North Carolina.
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ECT involves passing an electric current through patients' brains, triggering a brief seizure in an effort to cure effects of extreme mental disorders.
Doctors, regulators and patients point to established and robust evidence to show that ECT works effectively and is safe.
However, there is a long expressed body of anecdotal evidence from patients unhappy with side-effects they say they've suffered after the treatment.
Severe memory loss, headaches and reportedly distressing personality changes are among the most common complaints. It remains a divisive medical technique.
Medical professionals don't yet fully agree on how exactly ECT works.
However they point to marked positive changes in the most challenging cases of depression, bi-polar disorder and schizophrenia after its use.
The vast majority of ECT treatment courses are chosen by the patients themselves. Sometimes however the shock therapy is administered without the patient's consent.
In order to do this in Northern Ireland, the second opinion of a senior psychiatrist appointed by the regulator is required under the Mental Health (NI) Order 1986.
In total, 96 patients in Northern Ireland were treated with ECT in 2014-15, both with consent and without.
The BBC has learned that within that year there were 53 referrals to carry out electroconvulsive therapy on patients without their consent.
This is up from the year 2011-12, when the figure was 36. In 2013-14 there were 55 such referrals.
Dr Chris Kelly is a consultant psychiatrist highly experienced in ECT treatment.
He has seen the difference the treatment can make to patients who are given it without their consent. He said in most instances it has a beneficial outcome.
"Typically they tend to be individuals who are psychotic, who maybe have beliefs that they have caused harm, that they have got cancer when they don't have, these sorts of delusions," he said.
"I have looked after many individuals where we have had to keep them alive.
"The danger I think would be that you're asking someone whose ability to consent, their capacity to consent, is distorted by their depression.
"It is not a panacea, however. Selecting a treatment for your patient - well, that is the art of medicine. Selected wrongly, difficulties. Selected well, and these individuals can do remarkably well."
Mick Mulcahy is an Irish artist who was treated with ECT against his will in the Republic of Ireland. He says the legacy has been a traumatic one for him.
"You just don't want to be in your own body. [You think] this is not my body. I came in here healthy, without my permission. I don't deserve this. Who does?" he said.
In Ireland however new legislation is in the process of making its way into law which will make it impossible to give ECT in cases where people refuse to consent when detained involuntarily.
John Saunders is chairman of the Mental Health Commission in Republic. It pushed for the change.
"The worldwide international view would be that the person should consent to treatment and should not be in the situation where the law forces them to undergo treatment. If that is the case in Northern Ireland law, then I think there is a case for reviewing that.
"You should not have a situation where the state forces a particular treatment on somebody. There are arguments that some clinicians put forward, but there's always an alternative.
"You don't have to resort to ECT as a last option. There may be other medications. There may be other ways of dealing with situations."
He believes Northern Ireland should follow the Republic's change of law.
The Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority keeps referrals for ECT without consent in Northern Ireland under review.
In its most recent thematic report on the issue, it says ECT "is considered an important and necessary form of treatment for some of the most severe psychiatric conditions, and is, in some instances, a life-saving treatment".
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Derek Mackay said the "limited" funding was hundreds of millions of pounds short of what Scotland would receive as an EU member.
Chancellor Philip Hammond guaranteed to back EU-funded projects signed before this year's Autumn Statement.
Agricultural funding now provided by the EU will also continue until 2020.
Mr Mackay has written to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Gauke acknowledging the UK government's commitments but saying they still leave almost £750m not yet guaranteed.
He said: "We will study the detail but what is already clear is the chancellor's approach falls far short of what fishermen, farmers and communities across Scotland need.
"A limited guarantee for some schemes for a few short years leaves Scotland hundreds of millions of pounds short of what we would receive as members of the EU.
"Major funding streams such as contracts for EU structural funds and European Maritime Fisheries projects beginning after the Autumn Statement have no guarantee of continuation at all. That simply isn't good enough.
"It puts at risk significant investment and jobs, revealing the reality of Brexit.
"Scotland didn't back Brexit and doesn't want Brexit. We certainly should not now see funding and investment in communities hammered as a result of Brexit."
In the EU referendum 62% of Scottish voters wanted to retain membership while the UK as a whole voted by 52% to 48% to leave.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has promised to "explore all options" to secure Scotland's place in the EU, including another independence referendum.
The chancellor's announcement of guaranteed funding is expected to cost the Treasury £4.5bn a year.
Mr Hammond said: "We recognise that many organisations across the UK which are in receipt of EU funding, or expect to start receiving funding, want reassurance about the flow of funding they will receive.
"That's why I am confirming that structural and investment funds projects signed before the Autumn Statement and Horizon research funding granted before we leave the EU will be guaranteed by the Treasury after we leave.
"The government will also match the current level of agricultural funding until 2020, providing certainty to our agricultural community, who play a vital role in our country."
Prof Dame Anne Glover, dean for Europe at Aberdeen University, said: "The statement by Phil Hammond delivers some certainty around H2020 funding until the UK leaves the EU.
"It may provide confidence amongst our EU collaborators that our involvement in proposals will not compromise the success of applications and that is welcome.
"The research community needs to continue pressure to ensure this commitment is fully honoured."
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Harry Whitlam, from Wakefield, was injured at Swithens Farm, Rothwell, at about 09:20 BST on Friday morning, West Yorkshire Police said.
He was airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary where he underwent head surgery, but he died on Friday night.
A 48-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of drinking and driving and causing death by dangerous driving.
The man has been bailed pending further investigations, officers said.
A statement on the Swithens Farm website said the incident had happened on "the working part of the farm" and described it as a "tragic accident".
Jim Reid, father of the farm's co-owner Angela Broadhead, said everybody on the site was "very, very upset" at the boy's death.
"We don't know the full circumstances yet, but everyone's thoughts are with Harry's parents and his family."
Alec Shelbrooke, Conservative MP for Elmet and Rothwell, said the boy's death had hit local residents hard.
"The community in Rothwell is very close and friendly so these tragic events will have sent a shockwave through the local community," he said.
"My thoughts go straight away to the family of the boy who has tragically died."
West Yorkshire Police said investigations into the "tragic incident" were continuing and appealed for anyone with information to get in touch.
Swithens Farm, which includes a shop, open farm, cafe and play barn, remains open to visitors, the site's owners confirmed.
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The police-led 180 Degree scheme covers Norfolk and Suffolk.
The Ministry of Justice study found 81% on the scheme reoffended within a year compared with 69% who were not on it.
A spokesman for the 180 Degree scheme said the findings might reflect the fact its clients were more closely watched than other offenders.
The study also found those on the £1m-a-year scheme committed more offences - on average 4.56 each - than the 3.25 offences per person found in the control group.
At any one time, there are between 280 and 290 offenders on the scheme.
The Ministry of Justice said both those on the scheme and the control group who were not were "similar offenders" and said its findings were "statistically significant".
The ministry's Justice Data Lab said: "The overall results show that those who took part in the scheme were more likely to re-offend and had a higher frequency of re-offences than those who did not."
The Ministry of Justice did not respond to questions about either an explanation for the higher likelihood of offending of those on the scheme or whether its findings were likely to be explored further.
Norfolk Constabulary's Insp Danny Kett, who manages the 180 Degree programme, said although the report has only just been published it was based on "old data".
He also claimed the findings might be due to people on the scheme being more closely monitored than other offenders (hence more likely to be caught).
Up-to-date figures comparing those on the scheme with those who were not, however, were not available when the BBC contacted Insp Kett.
"The scheme has come on quite a long way since then," he said, adding the report did not include details about either reductions in offending or the types of offences committed.
Insp Kett said: "If they step out of line," he said, "we know about it and we will report them."
Just last week in Norwich, he said, a shoplifter was identified wearing an unusual top which resembled one of the "clients" on their scheme. When the client arrived the next morning for a meeting with his probation officer he was wearing the same top and was arrested and charged.
"If he had not have been on the scheme, we would not have known who he was," said Insp Kett.
Vincent Norbury from Wirral was a passenger in a Vauxhall Corsa which collided with a Rover ZT on the A55 at Dobshill near Buckley on 18 July.
The 76-year-old woman who was driving the Cosa remains in hospital with serious injuries
Mr Norbury's family said he was "devoted husband" for 57 years and a "much loved dad" to four children.
He had 12 grandchildren, three great grandchildren and two older brothers who are "deeply saddened," as well as nephews and cousins "who will all miss him greatly".
In a tribute issued through North Wales Police, the family said: "We know we will never walk alone as a part of you will always be with us."
He said the occasion was a joyous celebration for all the people of South Africa, not just for the ANC and its members.
Tens of thousands of South Africans are attending the rally in Bloemfontein to mark the centenary.
Frail health has prevented Nelson Mandela from attending the events.
President Zuma paid tribute to all his predecessors as ANC leader, including the 93 year old, who led the party to power after the end of apartheid. Nelson Mandela has not attended any public engagements since the start of the 2010 World Cup.
The crowd responded with a huge cheer when Mr Mandela's name was read out.
Mr Zuma said the centenary was an emotional and yet very exciting and moving occasion.
The celebration was for "all the people of South Africa who with the support of the continent and the world destroyed colonial oppression and apartheid and are building a free, democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa together," he said.
The president added that it had been a long road since 1652 when settlers first arrived in South Africa.
Looking back at the development of the ANC, Mr Zuma said it now stood for the democratic values of equality. He quoted the preamble to the ANC's freedom charter: "South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of all the people."
The president paid tribute to the many people and organisations who worked together to bring about a non-racial South Africa.
He said the ANC was "a disciplined force of the left with a bias towards the poor," but was also a broad church that was home to all.
One of the biggest strengths of the movement was the fact that its supporters were "nationalists, Marxists, Africanists, workers, capitalists, women, men, youth, rural and urban, rich and poor," he said.
Mr Zuma told the crowd that the ANC had achieved a 1942 resolution that by its centenary the movement should have one million members. The ANC now has 1,027,389 members, he announced, to cheers from the stadium.
In 2012 the ANC would be taking "urgent and practical steps" to revitalise its grass roots and once again place itself at the forefront of a progressive pace of change, he said.
Education and skills development would be at the centre of its transformation, said Mr Zuma. The party would seek to stamp out factionalism and "promote political discipline," he added.
African and world leaders, as well as Archbishop Desmond Tutu and African-American civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, are also in Bloemfontein for the celebrations.
They attended a gala dinner on Saturday night, and an interfaith service on Sunday at the Wesleyan Church in Mangaung, just outside Bloemfontein, where chiefs, church leaders and other prominent people gathered on 8 January 1912 to create the liberation movement.
A torch carrying the centenary flame, lit by Mr Zuma at midnight, was housed in a glass case at the front of the church.
The flame was brought to the stadium for the rally at Bloemfontein's Free State stadium.
Mr Zuma began Saturday's celebrations by leading the ritual slaughter of a black bull to remember, he said, "our ancestors, to remember our own gods in a traditional way".
The weekend of events in Bloemfontein began on Friday with a golf tournament. Andrew Mlangeni, who joined the party in 1951 and spent years in prison on Robben Island with Mr Mandela, took the opening shot.
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The tournament was criticised by commentators as a sign of the ruling party's growing elitism - accusations dismissed by ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu who said the party embraced "all sporting codes".
The opposition has also criticised the amount of money being spent on the year-long ANC centenary celebrations - a total of $12m (£8m).
While the ANC is hailed as Africa's oldest and most famous liberation movement, its reputation is being tarnished by corruption scandals, political infighting and reports of officials leading flashy lifestyles - and many South Africans believe the party has not done enough to improve the lives of the poor.
This is a criticism made by former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema, who was suspended last year. He attended the centenary celebrations but correspondents say he kept a relatively low profile.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has written to Mr Osborne demanding details of the settlement.
He has also asked whether the chancellor or his advisers were involved in the arrangement.
Senior Tory MP David Davis said the amount of back tax Google has agreed to pay was a "very small number".
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has defended the deal, with a senior official insisting that it was collecting the "full tax due in law".
Jim Harra, HMRC's head of business tax, told BBC Radio 4's World at One: "We only accept the full amount of tax, interest and penalties that is due, otherwise if we can't reach an agreement on that amount we will go to tribunal. We certainly don't apply any rate of tax other than the statutory rate that Parliament has published."
Mr McDonnell has asked when Mr Osborne was first aware of the deal and whether he or a ministerial colleague personally signed it off.
The shadow chancellor also queried whether Number 10 was involved in discussions about the deal before it was announced.
Claims that the settlement covering 10 years from 2005 amounted to a 3% tax rate have been rejected by officials and ministers.
However, Mr McDonnell asked: "What is HMRC's understanding of the effective tax rate faced by Google over the past 10 years as a result of this settlement?"
"I know that many are concerned about the tax treatment of large companies and it is important for public trust that HMRC is fair and transparent in its dealings with such companies."
Mr McDonnell said there appeared to be disagreement between No 10 and No 11 about the significance of the deal, but Downing Street rejected the suggestion.
"The prime minister and the chancellor are of the same mind on this," a Downing Street spokesman said. "This was a good deal."
A spokesman said there would be a small indoor event in September, but no large-scale street event.
The annual carnival, which is a celebration of the city's Afro-Caribbean culture, dates to the 1960s and normally takes place in July.
It is one of the biggest of its kind in Europe, with tens of thousands of people attending last year.
Earlier this year it was announced it had been postponed until September, also due to "ongoing challenges".
Festival organiser Cleo Lake said "unforeseen challenges and setbacks" had led to the decision to cancel the street carnival this year.
She denied it was because of a lack of funds, but said the event had "grown significantly" and was "getting more and more expensive every year" to stage.
A carnival spokesperson said: "We thank everyone who has supported us over our nearly 50 years of existence.
"We ask for your continued support as we realign the organisation and build towards a carnival event that has participation, engagement, talent development, opportunities and the best arts and culture at its centre."
This year's lower-key event will take place at the Malcolm X Centre on 5 September, and will include arts workshops, music, dance and a variety show.
The carnival is funded by Arts Council England and Bristol City Council.
Andrew Fastow said the tools that companies used to manipulate their financial reports were even "more potent" today.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of securities fraud in 2004 and was sentenced to six years in jail for his role in Enron's collapse. Its bankruptcy in 2001 was the largest in US history.
Enron went from being the seventh-biggest company in the US to folding in the space of just four months, putting 21,000 people out of work and sparking a landmark crackdown on corporate accounting.
Mr Fastow admits to creating the structured finance transactions that kept debts off of Enron's balance sheets, and made the company appear to be in better financial health than it really was.
"It is easy to find examples of companies causing misrepresentations while following the rules, and they're using those tools to do it," he told the BBC after speaking at a conference organised by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) in Singapore this week.
"Most companies do not do it to the extent that I did it at Enron, so they don't suffer the consequences like we suffered, but companies do it to varying degrees."
Mr Fastow's 10-year prison sentence was reduced after he testified against former Enron chief executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, who were also convicted for their roles in the firm's demise.
He was released in 2011 and now works at a law firm in Houston advising clients on potentially damaging accounting and financial issues.
Mr Fastow said unclear accounting rules allowed companies to abide by the rules but also misrepresent the financial state of their business at the same time.
"Accounting isn't straightforward - 10% is black and white and 90% is in the grey area," he said. "When you're in the business world, being ethical is a lot harder than you think."
By pointing out the loopholes used by other firms, Mr Fastow stressed that he was not trying to excuse his actions at Enron.
"What I did was wrong and it was illegal and for that I'm very sorry, very remorseful - I wish I could undo it," he said. "But I'm trying to explain how someone who didn't necessarily set out to commit fraud or do harm, could come to do that and on such a grand scale."
Calling himself the "chief loophole officer", Mr Fastow said that every deal he did at Enron was approved by its board of directors.
"You can follow all the rules and still commit fraud and that's what I did at Enron," he said. "Follow the rules - but undermine the principle of the rule by finding the loophole."
The transactions Mr Fastow used to conceal costs from Enron's financial statements, known as "operating leases", remains the most common form of structured finance in the US.
"There are over $1tn (£658bn) off-the-balance-sheet operating leases in the US," he claimed.
Despite laws being passed and greater scrutiny of corporate balance sheets since Enron collapsed and the financial crisis struck, Mr Fastow said he did not believe that companies were becoming more honest.
"There's an industry of accountants, attorneys, consultants, and bankers that do nothing except figure out ways to get around the rules, to find loopholes," he said.
"By the time a new rule or regulation is codified, the bankers, accountants, attorneys and consultants have figured out ways to structure around those rules."
Hedge funds and private equity firms still called him for advice on what loopholes different companies were using, along with short-sellers who wanted to capitalise on firms that might have hidden troubles.
Executives now need to consider the ethical implications of deals and the risks they might pose for the company - something Mr Fastow said he never considered at Enron.
"My mistake was that the only filter I used to make my decisions was whether or not I was following the rules," he said. "The filter I should have been using once I learned that I'm following the rules, was whether it is ethical and whether or not the decisions are presenting an acceptable amount of risk to the company."
If he had his time at Enron over, Mr Fastow said he would not do deals he knew were 'wrong'.
"I was doing deals that were intentionally misleading, that didn't have an economic benefit and there's no other way to say it, but that's criminal," he said. "I didn't think of it as criminal at that time, but it is criminal."
Since being released from prison four years ago, Mr Fastow has also been teaching courses at the University of Colorado and giving speeches to students, business and auditor groups.
His motive is to make people ask more questions, he explained. "I don't give answers, but what I hope people take away is that there's questions that we need to be asking that we're not asking - the type of questions I didn't ask myself."
Mr Khan said: "I'm determined to lead the most transparent, engaged and accessible administration... and to represent every single community, and every single part of our city, as mayor for all Londoners."
Former Labour leader Ed Miliband and Baroness Doreen Lawrence were present.
Mr Khan received a standing ovation as he walked in to the hall.
Dean of Southwark Andrew Nunn told the congregation the new mayor's victory brought a "carnival atmosphere" to the sacred building.
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Mr Khan has said he will stand down as Labour MP for Tooting.
Earlier, Labour MP for Tottenham, David Lammy, said the first Muslim mayor of any capital city in the EU could pave the way for a "prime minister of colour".
Having won 1,310,143 votes, Mr Khan received the largest personal mandate of any politician in UK history.
The son of a London bus driver who grew up in the capital, he is the third person to become the mayor of London after fellow Labour politician Ken Livingstone and Conservative Boris Johnson.
At the ceremony, Mr Khan said he was "truly humbled".
Signing in as the mayor of London, he was greeted with cheers as he said: "My name is Sadiq Khan and I'm the mayor of London."
He evoked laughter by saying: "Some of you may not know this, but I grew up on a council estate, just a few miles from here.
"Back then, I never dreamt that I could be standing here as the mayor of London.
"I'm only here today because of the opportunities and helping hand that our city gave to me and my family.
"And my burning ambition for our city, that will guide my mayoralty, is to ensure that all Londoners get the opportunities that our city gave to me.
"I want to start my mayoralty as I intend to go on. I'm determined to lead the most transparent, engaged and accessible administration London has ever seen, and to represent every single community, and every single part of our city, as mayor for all Londoners."
Campaigner Baroness Lawrence, mother of murdered black teenager Stephen, said: "I never imagined in my lifetime I could have a mayor of London from an ethnic minority."
Earlier, describing the human-rights lawyer, Mr Lammy said: "If we ever get a prime minister of colour it will be because of what Sadiq Khan has achieved."
Mr Lammy, who stood against Mr Khan for the Labour mayoral nomination, told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme Mr Khan "is a grafter, he is someone who gets on with people, he is someone who is pragmatic when he needs to be and he certainly has a vision for this city".
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said: "I look forward to working with him, and all London's new and re-elected Assembly members, to continue transforming the Met to keep London one of the safest capitals in the world."
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, who during the mayoral campaign had branded Mr Khan a "Labour lackey who speaks alongside extremists", defended the Tory tactics as the "rough and tumble" of the campaign.
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On Today programme he said: "London is safe with a Conservative Government working with the new Mayor of London."
Following Mr Khan's victory on Friday night, Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted the hashtag #YesWeKhan, telling the new mayor: "Can't wait to work with you to create a London that is fair for all".
Outgoing mayor Boris Johnson said: "Many congratulations to Sadiq on securing a huge mandate to do the best job in British politics. I wish him every possible success."
Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith also wished the new mayor "well".
Praise also came in from New York mayor Bill de Blasio and Business Secretary Sajid Javid, who tweeted: "From one son of a Pakistani bus driver to another, congratulations".
Former US Open champion McDowell, 36, is tied ninth after a four-under 67.
Leonard, 43, is in a four-way tie for the lead on six under with fellow Americans Derek Fathauer and Shawn Stefani and Australia's Aaron Baddeley.
Russell Knox, who won in Shanghai last week, and fellow Scot Martin Laird are both five shots off the lead.
Councillors voted down the proposals on the grounds of visual impact on the Crichton site in Dumfries.
The Dumfries and Galloway College plan had been recommended for approval.
A spokesman for the college said it was "disappointed" by the decision but would now have to look at a smaller scheme or alternative location.
The further education body had earmarked a shared funding package for the project with Sportscotland and Dumfries and Galloway Council.
It will now explore the possibility of a smaller-scale development in the same area or a full-size pitch at another site.
Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan died in September. Awlaki's son Abdulrahman, 16, died in October.
Relatives accuse Defence Secretary Leon Panetta, CIA Director David Petraeus and two military commanders of approving and directing the strikes.
The legality of US use of drones has been in the spotlight in recent weeks.
Awlaki, a radical Islamist cleric born in the state of New Mexico, was a key figure in the Yemen-based group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). His 16-year-old son was born in Colorado.
Samir Khan was a naturalised US citizen who was involved with Inspire, al-Qaeda's English-language magazine.
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by Nasser al-Awlaki, the father of Anwar al-Awlaki, alongside Sarah Khan, mother of Samir Khan.
Military commanders Adm William McRaven - head of US special operations - and Lt Gen Joseph Votel were also named in the lawsuit, which is seeking unspecified damages.
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"The killings violated fundamental rights afforded to all US citizens, including the right not to be deprived of life without due process of law," the legal complaint says.
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union say they are giving legal assistance to the plaintiffs.
"There is something terribly wrong when a 16-year-old American boy can be killed by his own government without any accountability or explanation," said Pardiss Kebriaei, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights.
A justice department spokesman told Reuters news agency the department had seen the complaint and was reviewing it.
Correspondents say the case could face procedural hurdles before it is settled.
In March, US Attorney General Eric Holder defended the drone strike policy, saying the US "may use force abroad against a senior operational leader of a foreign terrorist organisation with which the United States is at war - even if that individual happens to be a US citizen."
The US government has not officially accepted responsibility for carrying out the strikes.
The Department of Justice, which is expected to represent the defendants, could contend that state secrets would be exposed as part of the evidence needed to argue the case.
Before the lethal strike took place, Awlaki's father had tried to get a court injunction to stop US attempts to kill his son. The request was dismissed on the grounds that Mr Awlaki could not sue in place of his son.
The 35-year-old left The Stags on 14 November after two years in charge, saying it was "time for a change".
He takes over a Boston side currently 15th in the table, and his first game in charge will be against FC United of Manchester on 17 December.
"Adam was the outstanding candidate," club chairman David Newton told the Pilgrims website.
But the retired butcher died of cancer at the age of 71 more than a year ago.
So when the station finally opened in the Derbyshire town, his grandson decided to take his ashes on board the train instead.
"He got his wish," said James Clifton. "He would have loved it."
Mr Hardy lived in Ilkeston all his life, running a local butchers' shop for more than 30 years, and thought it "sad" that having once had three railway stations the town had been left with none.
Ilkeston had no train service for half a century, making it one of the largest UK towns without a railway station.
While plans for the new station were approved in 2013, the project was delayed by a variety of problems, including the discovery of protected newts.
"He was really happy when they started to develop plans for the new station," said Mr Clifton's husband, Michael Banton.
"He said: 'I'm going to be one of the first on that train.' But unfortunately, he became very ill."
He died in November 2015 and his ashes are kept in a casket at the couple's Ilkeston home.
The first service to arrive at the station was greeted with large crowds as it pulled in at 09:45 on Sunday.
And a few hours later, Mr Clifton and Mr Banton arrived with their very special travel companion, carried in a sports bag.
"I just said to Michael: 'Go on, we'll take him in'," said Mr Clifton, a 31-year-old jeweller. "I think he would have loved it.
"He'd always talk about catching the train from the old station and was so excited about the new one coming."
"We sat him in his own little chair," said Mr Banton, who works in a bakery.
"We didn't want anyone to know what we were doing though in case they thought we were mad.
"But it was special for us, to give him the ride on the train he wanted."
He posted a message on Facebook about the train ride, adding: "Just wish he could be here in person."
The pair took the casket with them on the train to Nottingham, and then to dinner, before returning home.
They then told Mr Clifton's mother Jane and grandmother Barbara about their trip.
"My nan was touched," said Mr Clifton. "And when I told my mum, she was crying."
It is estimated 160,000 people will use the new station within its first year - but David Hardy's journey will undoubtedly be one of the most unique.
Christopher Kennedy, of no fixed abode, admitted attacking his girlfriend in a house in Ballymagroarty on 2 March.
A judge examined the photographs of the injuries suffered by Kennedy's now ex-girlfriend.
He said Kennedy had launched a violent and disgraceful attack on his victim.
The court heard she sustained a serious cut to her face.
It was told that when Kennedy first appeared in court charged with the offence he was remanded in custody, but two days later he was released on High Court bail.
The following week he was arrested by police for being drunk in Newtownstewart and for carrying a knife.
Dean Bowditch scuffed a shot under Boro keeper Dimi Konstantopoulos from a Kyle McFadzean pass to give Dons the lead.
David Nugent squandered the chance to equalise after the break, poking wide with just David Martin to beat.
But Rhodes secured a point for Boro in added time when he headed Ritchie de Laet's cross over Martin.
Named as a substitute for the second game in a row since moving from Blackburn Rovers for £9m, Rhodes came on to rescue a point for Boro when it seemed struggling MK Dons had secured a shock win.
The result meant Boro moved a point clear of Hull City at the top, while the home side also climbed a place - to 20th, three points above the relegation zone.
With the Dons leading 1-0, referee Andy Davies waved away appeals for a penalty just before the break for a challenge by Tomas Kalas on Josh Murphy.
Boro came close to restoring parity when Martin parried Gaston Ramirez's shot into the path of De Laet, but McFadzean blocked the defender's follow-up shot on the line.
And the visitors were forced to wait until Rhodes' injury-time intervention to draw level.
MK Dons head manager Karl Robinson:
"I'm gutted. I said to my staff that we might have scored too early against one of the best teams in the league.
"I'm so proud of the players but one individual error has cost us again. That's the man in the middle.
"Josh Murphy should have had a blatant penalty in the first half, and the referee is looking right down the line. They've got a massive slice of luck with that.
"I don't know what he's seen. The player has touched it to one side, the ball isn't out of play and he's been clattered. We got no decisions, we were the little team on the pitch and it felt like that.
"We tried to match Middlesbrough at their own game, but you look at their team and their squad list in front of you and it's daunting."
Middlesbrough head coach Aitor Karanka:
"It was an amazing, massive point because this game was tough. The main thing is we are at the top of the table with a game in hand so I am really pleased, the players are really pleased.
"If we had scored at the beginning of the second half we would have won the game for sure.
"When you have the players I have on the pitch when we are in the box we are going to score goals whether it is at the beginning of the game or the end of the game.
"The last three or four games haven't gone the way we would have wanted but sometimes I think we forget which position we are in because we are now in an amazing position.
"If you had said to me or the supporters in the summer that we could be in this position at this time of the season, we would have signed up for that."
But now, five years after the collapse of US bank Lehman Brothers, we may instead be witnessing the twilight of economic "neo-leftism" in Latin America.
The two nations that have embraced it most fervently are Venezuela and Argentina, which have both seen increasing state intervention in their economies.
Despite wide-ranging price controls, they have the highest levels of inflation in the region, amid other serious problems.
And before the end of the year, voters in both countries will have the chance to express their frustrations at the ballot box - although not yet to change their respective governments.
Argentina holds mid-term congressional elections on Sunday, while Venezuela has local elections on 8 December.
After nearly 15 years of the late Hugo Chavez's "Bolivarian revolution" - now in the hands of his successor, Nicolas Maduro - Venezuela faces chronic shortages of basic goods, intermittently alleviated by emergency imports from more productive nations.
This week, for example, it was announced that the country is to import Nicaragua's entire crop of black beans for this year.
Nonetheless, the government has accused its political opponents of causing the shortages, as part of what Mr Maduro calls an "economic war".
Venezuela has long been Latin America's inflation league leader, but its rate has surged strongly this year and is now close to 50%.
According to some definitions, the country is now entering hyperinflation territory, something last seen in the pre-Chavez days of the 1990s.
All those imports are taking their toll on Venezuela's foreign currency reserves, with just $21.4bn (£13.2bn) in the central bank's coffers, the lowest level in nine years.
But the government is making some heroic assumptions about its ability to turn the economy around.
The country's finance minister, Nelson Merentes, drew laughter from opposition politicians this week when he announced his 2014 budget, based on an inflation rate target of between 26% and 28%.
That's roughly equivalent to the "true" level of inflation in Argentina, as measured by independent economists, although the government's own discredited figures put it at just 10.6%.
However, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's administration has done its best to make life difficult for those who dissent from the official view.
Her chief enforcer, Commerce Secretary Guillermo Moreno, has attempted to take legal action against anyone who compiles an alternative inflation index, alleging that the aim is to manipulate the markets by publishing false data.
Mr Moreno is also in charge of forcing Argentina's supermarkets to sell staple goods at artificially frozen prices. Since the beginning of June, 500 products have been subject to price controls.
In July, he went as far as imposing the temporary closure of four supermarkets for not complying fully with the price freeze, although the reason was that they had run out of some of the products, which is what tends to happen when goods are sold at below the market rate.
In fact, as in Venezuela, price controls have tended to provoke shortages of the items affected, including bread, while other basic goods have also been scarce.
In July, Mr Moreno's office issued a statement calling on Argentines not to eat tomatoes for 60 days because of a seasonal shortage.
But the commerce secretary's heavy-handed ways have been catching up with him. Last month, he was formally charged with abuse of power over his efforts to stop the publication of independent inflation figures.
Mr Moreno has always maintained that he was acting within his responsibilities.
But if found guilty, he could be jailed for up to two years and be barred from public office for twice as long.
Argentina and Venezuela are travelling on similar political and economic paths. But Argentina has not suffered as badly.
The country is still expected to register GDP growth of more than 3% this year, while Venezuela appears to be heading for recession again, with negative growth expected for the first time since 2010.
Politically, both countries have leaders struggling to uphold the legacy of an ideological soul mate. While Mr Maduro is the inheritor of the Chavez mantle, Ms Fernandez is following in the footsteps of her late husband, Nestor Kirchner.
But the Argentine president is set to disappear from the political scene at the next election in October 2015, since she is constitutionally barred from running for a third term. With her brand of Peronism expected to do badly in Sunday's polls, she is unlikely to secure the two-thirds majority in Congress that would allow her to quash that ban.
Ms Fernandez has lost popularity since her re-election in October 2011, when she secured 54.1% of the vote. However, recent opinion polls are suggesting she may have regained some sympathy from the electorate after she had surgery to remove a blood clot on her brain earlier this month.
Mr Maduro, for his part, was elected in April and does not have to face the voters again until October 2018. But opinion polls have indicated that if that election were re-run now, his narrow and hotly disputed victory over opposition leader Henrique Capriles would be definitively overturned.
In the meantime, there are signs that both leaders are holding back unpopular measures until after voters go to the polls this year.
Argentina's supermarket price freezes are due to expire at the end of this month, once the mid-term elections are out of the way.
At the same time, the Venezuelan currency, the bolivar, still appears overvalued, despite a devaluation in February, when Hugo Chavez was still alive and in power.
In fact, there have been seven devaluations of the bolivar since Venezuela embraced Chavez's "21st Century socialism", and analysts are forecasting that there will soon be an eighth - but not until the local elections have taken place.
And it's important to remember that behind all the statistics about hundreds of thousands of grades are personal stories of hopes and fears.
But it's also an annual ritual to use A-level results as a way of taking stock of the education system.
This year it will be hard to throw accusations of "grade inflation" or slipping standards because the results are almost exactly the same as last year.
"Stability", this year's watchword from exam board chiefs, is not exactly going to set pulses racing.
But it will be what exam regulators intended, promoting reassurance and continuity rather than volatility and turbulence for the "gold standard" qualification.
Head teachers, including those in independent schools, have often been vociferous in their doubts about the reliability of marking and the exam system.
And they have also complained about how an exam system which now promotes stability in results is reconciled with pressures on schools to keep getting higher grades, or else be accused of "coasting".
But this year could also be something of a calm before the storm.
The results announced this week are for exams taken under the old system of A-levels.
The plans for tougher, non-modular exams and the decoupling of A and AS-levels, announced by former education secretary Michael Gove, have still to be introduced.
In many ways these results have been the closing act of the old exam system.
In a couple of years, when the redesigned A-levels are being taken for the first time, outcomes could be less predictable.
And when results seem so similar it's easy to miss the big underlying patterns.
The number of school leavers heading to university continues to rise relentlessly.
Regardless of government, economic cycles, fees and exam results, year after year, decade after decade, more young people sign up for undergraduate courses.
There will be more people starting university this autumn than were getting five good GCSEs a couple of decades ago. It's a major social change.
In 1980, about 68,000 people were getting undergraduate degrees, by 2000 that had risen to 243,000.
On Thursday morning, even before clearing had begun and second choices had been weighed up, there were 409,000 places confirmed.
The removal of a limit on university numbers introduced this year is budgeted on the assumption that there is not much extra demand left in the system, perhaps another 30,000 or so.
But this has been a remarkably resilient, aspirational, upward curve.
It's also worth noting that despite the irresistible rise in young full-time students, the number of part-time and mature students has never really recovered from the hike in tuition fees, despite repeated warnings about the skills gap and the need for re-training.
The gender divide is another pattern that seems to deepen.
Last year saw the widest gap, with 58,000 more women getting university places than men.
And the first admissions figures from this year show an even wider gap than at the same stage last year.
The headline UK figure for top A* and A grades fell marginally this year to 25.9%.
But in the south east of England the proportion was 38.8% and in London it was 36.2%.
In Wales, the figure is 23.1% and in Northern Ireland 29.3%.
This year's A-level figures show maths, English and biology to be the most popular subjects, with maths having steadily increased in recent years.
But there is an even longer-term trend in the decline of French.
When the gender divide and national differences overlap, it means that in Wales there were only 128 boys taking A-level French this year.
The changes about to be introduced for A-levels in England will also accelerate devolution within the exam system.
England, Wales and Northern Ireland might continue to call their exams A-levels, but they are going to be increasingly different.
How long will the grades be published together as though they were equivalents?
But for the students and their families getting results there will be more immediate concerns with celebrations and commiserations.
Roy Deeming's yacht, Desiree, was found drifting off La Corbiere at approximately 12:00 GMT.
Mr Deeming has been missing from his home in St Brelade's since late Christmas Eve, police said.
Lifeboat volunteers found Desiree with nobody on board and a search was launched which has been abandoned due to deteriorating weather conditions.
Mr Deeming. described by police as about 5ft 6ins tall, with greying hair and a moustache, was due to visit friends on Christmas Day but did not arrive.
Two RNLI lifeboats from St Helier, Jersey coastguards and a French naval rescue helicopter from Cherbourg have all been involved in the search.
Desiree has been returned to Elizabeth Harbour.
16th century AD - Ships from China and the Malay Empire trade with islanders.
24th January 1885: British troops hoist the Union Jack at Port Moresby
1526 - Portuguese sailor Jorge de Meneses is the first European visitor. He names one of the islands "ilhas dos Papuas" or "land of fuzzy-haired people".
1546 - Spanish explorer Inigo Ortiz de Retes names the other main island New Guinea because the islanders resemble the people of Guinea in Africa.
1768 - French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville lands at the islands during his circumnavigation of the world. Gives name to an island just to the east of New Guinea.
1873 - Port Moresby is named after one of several English explorers to lay claim to the island for Great Britain.
1884 - Britain establishes a protectorate over south-east New Guinea, while Germany annexes the northern part of New Guinea.
1906 - Control of British New Guinea transferred to the newly independent Commonwealth of Australia and renamed Territory of Papua.
1914 - Australian forces occupy German New Guinea during World War I.
1921 - After the war the League of Nations grants Australia a mandate to run German New Guinea. This new Mandated Territory of New Guinea is governed totally separately from the Territory of Papua.
Port town grew into a modern city
2002: The best and worst of cities
1933 - Gold-prospectors lead expeditions into the highlands. Here they find more than a million people living in fertile mountain valleys, their way of life apparently unchanged since the Stone Age.
1942 - Japanese forces occupy parts of both territories.
1949 July - Australia establishes a joint administration over both territories called the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.
1951 November - A 28-member Legislative Council established by Australia.
1954 June - Aerial survey reveals several previously undiscovered highland valleys inhabited by up to 100,000 people.
1961 March - First elections involving indigenous population.
1963 May - UN transfers control of West New Guinea to Indonesia. Today this region is called Papua.
1964 June - A 64-member House of Assembly replaces Legislative Council and for the first time indigenous representatives are elected to the majority of seats in the legislature.
1971 July - Renamed Papua New Guinea (PNG).
1973 February - Indonesia and PNG agree position of Irian Jaya border.
1973 December - Granted self-government. Michael Somare, chief minister in an interim coalition government, is sworn in as head of the governing Executive Council.
Thousands died in the secessionist rebellion
2005: President elected in Bougainville
1998: Timeline - How peace broke out
1975 April - New currency, the kina, replaces the Australian dollar.
1975 16 September - Attains full independence from Australia. Sir Michael Somare becomes PM.
1975 - Bougainville provincial government votes to secede from PNG. Somare's government retaliates by suspending the provincial government and withholding payments to the province.
1977 June-July - First parliamentary elections since independence.
1989 April/May - Separatist rebels on Bougainville begin prolonged armed struggle against the government. Secessionist, Francis Ona, proclaims "a republic of Bougainville". The recently-formed Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA), anxious about environmental destruction and unhappy that profits are leaving the island, forces the closure of the Australian-owned Panguna copper mine.
1994 - PM Sir Julius Chan signs agreement with several Bougainville secessionist leaders which provides a transitional administration in Bougainville. Bougainville Revolutionary Army leaders are not signatories; they continue to fight for full independence.
Former Prime Minister helped to broker peace accord
1995 April - The Bougainville Transitional Government is sworn in under leadership of Theodore Miriong. The three seats reserved for the BRA remain vacant.
1996 - Theodore Miriong is assassinated at his home in south-west Bougainville. He is replaced by Gerard Sinato.
1997 February-March - Government hires mercenaries from Sandline International to support government troops in Bougainville, sparking an army mutiny and civil unrest. Prime Minister Chan is forced to resign.
1997 September - The government declares a national state of disaster following a prolonged drought thought to have been caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon. Over 1,000 people are killed and a further 1.2 million are put at risk of starvation.
1997 October - Burnham Truce marks the end of the decade-old armed struggle by Bougainville separatists.
1997 December - Countries in the region establish the Truce Monitoring Group to oversee compliance with the Burnham Truce until 30 April 1998 when a ceasefire is to be signed. The New Zealand-led group also comprises troops from Australia, Fiji and Vanuatu. All of them are unarmed.
1998 April - Permanent ceasefire signed in Bougainville by government representatives and secessionist leaders. Australian-led Peace Monitoring Group takes over from Truce Monitoring Group.
Australia deploys forces to monitor the peace process and help fight rampant crime
1998 July - Three tsunamis - gigantic waves generated by earthquakes - hit the north-west coast obliterating villages and killing 3,000 people.
1998 August - United Nations establishes the UN Political Office in Bougainville at the request of the PNG government.
1999 1 January - Bougainville Reconciliation Government replaces the Bougainville Transitional Government. Former rebel leader Joseph Kabui and Gerard Sinato are nominated as co-leaders.
1999 May - Joseph Kabui elected president of the Bougainville People's Congress.
1999 December - John Momis sworn in as governor of Bougainville.
2000 November - Authorities say all 1,000 inhabitants of the Duke of York atoll will have to be relocated because the island is slowly sinking due to global warming.
2001 August - Bougainville Peace Agreement, guaranteeing a referendum in 10 to 15 years on Bougainville's future political status, is signed in Arawa.
So called 'raskol' gangs instill fear and fight for influence in larger cities
2002 August - Sir Michael Somare elected as prime minister for a third time, after a violent and chaotic election.
2004 August - Australia deploys police to help fight rampant crime.
2005 May - Australia withdraws its police officers after the PNG Supreme Court rules that their deployment is unconstitutional.
Bougainville islanders elect their first autonomous government. Former separatist rebel Joseph Kabui becomes president.
2007 May - Parliament passes a law to allow casinos and online gambling. It is hoped that the activity could boost the economy.
2007 August - Sir Michael Somare re-elected as premier.
2007 November - Cyclone Guba causes flooding which kills 163 and leaves more than 13,000 displaced in Oro and Milne provinces.
2008 June - Bougainville President Joseph Kabui dies.
2008 December - Former rebel James Tanis elected autonomous president of Bougainville.
2009 December - China signs a deal to import liquified natural gas from Papua New Guinea.
2011 April-June - Prime Minister Michael Somare is suspended for two weeks over charges of misconduct dating back 20 years. He extends his absence for medical reasons and undergoes heart surgery in Singapore. In June, his family announces his retirement from the premiership and from politics.
PNG lies on the "Ring of Fire", an area prone to volcanic eruptions
2011 August - Parliament elects Peter O'Neill as acting prime minister, replacing acting prime minister Sam Abal, who takes legal action against the move.
2011 September - Michael Somare returns from Singapore and claims that he is still the prime minister, saying that he did not retire voluntarily.
2011 December - Standoff between Peter O'Neill and Michael Somare continues, with both running parallel administrations. Governor-General Michael Ogio recognises the election of Peter O'Neill, who has has the backing of a majority of parliamentary deputies.
2012 January - Mutinous soldiers demanding the reinstatement of Sir Michael Somare as PM briefly seize the military headquarters in Port Moresby.
2012 June - Rival prime ministers Peter O'Neill and Sir Michael Somare contest parliamentary elections, hoping that the results will decide who is in charge.
2012 July-August - Sir Michael Somare accepts the defeat of his party in the June poll and backs Peter O'Neill's bid to form a government. Parliament endorses Mr O'Neill as PM in August.
2013 January - PM Peter O'Neill bans ministers and other government officials from travelling overseas for work without his personal approval.
2013 May - Following a series of brutal public killings, the controversial 1971 Sorcery Act - which acknowledged the accusation of sorcery as a plausible defence in murder cases - is repealed. However, parliament also extends the range of offences for which the death penalty can be applied, to the dismay of human rights organisations.
2013 July - Papua New Guinea agrees to provide offshore processing for asylum seekers who reach Australia by boat. Under the deal, asylum seekers whose refugee claims are upheld will be settled in PNG. Australia pledges to grant Papua New Guinea generous aid in return, and the processing centre on PNG's Manus Island will be significantly expanded to hold up to 3,000 people.
2013 September - Two guides are killed when a group of Australian and New Zealand hikers and their local porters are attacked by machete-wielding robbers on PNG's Black Cat Track.
2014 February - Violence at Australia's immigration detention centre on PNG's Manus Island leaves one asylum seeker dead and 77 injured.
2014 March - Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court begins a human rights inquiry into Australia's immigration detention centre on Manus Island. The probe will assess whether the centre's conditions meet human rights requirements under PNG's constitution.
2014 April - Paul Tiensten, a former senior minister and current MP, is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for misappropriating millions of dollars of public funds. The sentence is the most severe yet in PNG for a corrupt public official.
2014 June - An arrest warrant is issued for Prime Minister Peter O'Neill after the national anti-corruption watchdog accuses him of authorising fraudulent payments by the government to a Port Moresby law firm. Mr O'Neill challenges the warrant in multiple court cases.
2014 June - Prime Minister O'Neill disbands the country's main anti-corruption body, Taskforce Sweep.
2014 November - Prime Minister O'Neill is referred to a tribunal of judges over allegations of misconduct in office relating to a $1.3 billion loan.
2015 January - Government denies reports that protests at an Australian immigration centre on Manus Island turned violent after 400 detainees reportedly went on hunger strike.
2015 October - Government says it will begin resettling refugees being held in the country in Australian-run detention centres.
2016 April - The government says it will close the Australian detention centre on Manus Island after the Supreme Court ruled that the facility breached the constitution.
The consultant psychiatrist did 40 working hours and provided 128 hours on call while a member of staff was off sick and their colleague was on leave.
The health board has revealed the cost from 2013 in a freedom of information request.
It said agency staff were only used when there were no other options to provide cover.
A spokesman said the need to hire the locum consultant came at a time when a member of staff was on a period of extended sickness absence.
The spokesman added: "A consultant psychiatrist was hired from an agency to cover one week's annual leave for the remaining consultant.
"The locum consultant undertook 40 normal working hours and provided 128 hours on call for which the cost to the board was £19,305.22. This figure is the gross total paid to the agency and includes 20% VAT."
NHS Western Isles said its spending on temporary agency consultants rose from £452,000 in 2012 to £1.2m in 2014.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said staffing issues in the NHS were being tackled and there was a record number of consultants working in Scotland, and health boards were working hard to recruit more.
She said: "Workforce in the Western Isles is up 3% under this government.
"When the use of agency staff is required, we have long-standing framework contracts in place which allow us to engage staff at nationally agreed rates of pay.
"These contracts are reviewed on a regular basis to ensure they continue to meet the needs of NHS Scotland and health boards have been advised to only use agencies that are on the nationally agree contract.
"We have also established a national supplementary staffing group which will look at the use of all temporary staff and seek to make recommendations on how we can reduce it."
Mr Erdogan said the suicide car bomb would serve only to strengthen the resolve of Turkey's security forces.
The explosion, in Guven Park in the Kizilay district, a key transport hub, wounded at least 125 people.
Interior Minister Efkan Ala said an investigation would conclude on Monday and those responsible would be named.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but government sources are casting suspicion on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
The Kurdish rebels have carried out a series of attacks on Turkish soil in recent months. The so-called Islamic State group has also targeted Ankara recently.
Mr Erdogan said in a statement that terror groups were targeting civilians because they were losing the battle against Turkish security forces.
Calling for national unity, he said Turkey would use its right to self-defence to prevent future attacks.
"Our people should not worry, the struggle against terrorism will for certain end in success and terrorism will be brought to its knees," he said.
According to Turkey's state-run news agency, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has postponed a visit to Jordan following the bombing.
The United States condemned the attack. US State Department spokesman John Kirby said: "We reaffirm our strong partnership with our Nato ally Turkey in combating the shared threat of terrorism."
Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg also condemned the attack, saying there was "no justification of such heinous acts of violence".
Turkey's pro-Kurdish political party issued a statement condemning the attack. The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said it shares "the huge pain felt along with our citizens".
The HDP is frequently accused of being the political wing of the PKK, an accusation it denies, and of not speaking out against PKK violence.
The blast happened at about 18:40 (16:40 GMT) on Sunday and the area was evacuated in case of a second attack.
Turkish Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu told a news conference that 30 people were killed at the scene and four died later in hospital. Two of the dead are believed to be the attackers.
Mr Muezzinoglu said 125 people were being treated at several hospitals in Ankara, of whom 19 are in a critical condition.
Last month, a bomb attack on a military convoy in Ankara killed 28 people and wounded dozens more.
That bombing was claimed by a Kurdish militant group, the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK). It said on its website that the attack was in retaliation for the policies of President Erdogan.
Turkey, however, blamed a Syrian national who was a member of another Kurdish group.
Last October, more than 100 people were killed in a double-suicide bombing at a Kurdish peace rally in Ankara.
The BBC's Mark Lowen in Istanbul said three attacks in the Turkish capital in less than six months show the multiple security threats that Turkey now faces.
The country that was the stable corner of the Middle East and the West's crucial ally in a volatile region is now at a dangerous moment, he said.
Speaking for the first time since it lost all but one of its county council seats, he said the rout was expected and UKIP's future was still bright.
People would return to UKIP when the prime minister began to "barter" things away in EU negotiations, he claimed.
Several former UKIP politicians have argued its days are numbered.
UKIP won 3.8 million votes at the last general election in 2015 but many believe that its vote will be badly squeezed on 8 June, with the Conservatives being the main beneficiary.
In other election developments:
According to analysis by polling expert John Curtice, if the results of Thursday's polls in Wales, Scotland and 32 county councils in England were repeated nationally, the Conservatives would be on 38%, Labour 27%, the Lib Dems 18% and UKIP 5%.
All the 145 UKIP councillors defending their seats on Thursday were beaten, although the party did pick up one seat in Burnley.
In Lincolnshire, the party went from being the opposition on the council to being eliminated entirely. It was also left without any representation in Cambridgeshire, Essex and Hampshire.
Mr Nuttall, who is standing in Boston and Skegness at the general election, said there had been "clear movement" of votes from his party to the Conservatives but he believed this shift was only temporary.
"That was always going to happen," he said. "Theresa May has called this election, primarily because she wants to get it out of the way before the negotiations start. So it's very easy to talk the talk and act tough.
"But when she's asked to walk the walk I think there's going to be problems. I think she'll start to barter things away.
"I think fisheries will go. I think they'll be some sort of movement on immigration and freedom of movement. I think she might buckle on that.
"And I think she'll certainly buckle on a divorce bill. So when people are angry, when people feel like they've been let down, when people feel that they're not getting the Brexit they voted for on 23 June, where are they going to? They're going to return to UKIP. So the future of UKIP is very bright indeed."
UKIP is targeting only a handful of seats next month, having said it will not put up candidates in constituencies where leading Tory Brexiteers are potentially under threat.
Arron Banks, one of the party's leading donors, has accused Mr Nuttall of "crashing the car" since he took over, while ex-MEP Steven Woolfe and former MP Douglas Carswell have said the party's influence is effectively over, urging supporters to rally behind Mrs May.
But former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said the party should not be written off.
The Dow Jones climbed 254.55 points, or 1.57%, to 16,450.96.
The S&P 500 rose 30.99, or 1.63%, to 1,926.57, while the Nasdaq gained 98.11, or 2.21%, to 4,534.06.
Oil stock rose after Iran met with other crude-producing nations to discuss possibly limiting output to combat falling prices.
Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Venezuela agreed to maintain output at January levels if other oil-producing countries did the same.
Chevron shares rose 4.1% and ConocoPhillips rose 3.5%.
Copper producer Freeport McMoRan's shares surged 12.4%, while aluminium producer Alcoa climbed 5%.
Priceline was one of the big winners on the Nasdaq. Its shares surged 11.2% after the company announced that fourth-quarter profits rose to $504.3m.
Minutes released by the US Federal Reserve suggested that the bank is unlikely to raise interest rates when it meets in March.
A stream of data released on Wednesday showed a mixed view of the US economy.
Construction of new homes fell to an eight-month low in January. Industrial output rose 0.9% in January, after falling 0.7% in December because of unseasonably warm weather and a strong dollar.
The US producer price index edged up in January after falling in December. Excluding energy and food prices - which are highly volatile - the index rose 0.2% compared to December. The increase supports earlier assertions by the Federal Reserve that inflation will slowly increase.
Two previous missions to scour the floor of the Indian Ocean for wreckage were cut short by technical problems.
The data from the sub's latest mission is being analysed. Previous forays have not shown anything significant.
It is searching in the area acoustic signals thought to be from the missing plane's "black box" flight recorders were heard.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on 8 March as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It was carrying 239 people.
Using satellite data, officials have concluded that it ended its journey in seas west of the Australian city of Perth.
They do not know why the plane flew so far off course and finding the plane's flight recorders is seen as key to understanding what happened.
The Bluefin-21, operated by the US Navy off the Australian vessel Ocean Shield, is an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that can identify objects by creating a sonar map of the sea floor.
It is searching in an area defined by four acoustic signals picked up by an Australian search team, and was deployed after officials concluded that the batteries on the plane's flight recorders would likely have expired, given their one-month shelf life.
The submersible has an operating depth of 4,500m (15,000ft) and on its first mission a built-in safety device returned it to the surface after it exceeded that depth.
Its second mission was also cut short because of unspecified technical difficulties, but the third mission - a full 16 hours, plus two hours each way for diving and surfacing - went according to plan.
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"Overnight Bluefin-21 AUV completed a full mission in the search area and is currently planning for its next mission," the Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre (JACC) said in a statement.
"Bluefin-21 has searched approximately 90 sq km to date and the data from its latest mission is being analysed."
Later on Thursday, the JACC said the Bluefin-21's manufacturer had advised that the machine could operate deeper than 4,500m at "a small but acceptable level of risk".
As a result, the submersible could now operate "within the predicted limits of the current search area", it said, without specifying how deep the Bluefin-21 would be sent.
An sample from an oil slick in the area the acoustic signals were heard in was sent to Perth for testing. However, the JACC confirmed on Thursday that the oil sample was not aircraft engine oil or hydraulic fluid.
Officials have warned that the search for wreckage on the sea floor could take weeks or months.
Speaking to reporters, Malaysia's Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said: "There will come a time when we need to regroup and reconsider, but in any event, the search will always continue. It's just a matter of approach."
His arrest comes less than a week after the paper apologised to eight victims and set up a compensation fund.
Chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck and ex-news editor Ian Edmondson were arrested last week on suspicion of having unlawfully intercepted voicemail messages.
The News of the World said it was not commenting on the latest arrest.
Mr Weatherup has also worked as a news editor with the Sunday tabloid.
Since January, the Metropolitan police have been re-examining the phone hacking scandal after receiving "significant new information" about activities at the News of the World.
In 2007, the first police investigation led to the convictions and imprisonment of the then NoW royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who was employed by the paper.
Mr Thurlbeck and Mr Edmonson were released on bail until September.
Mr Weatherup was arrested early on Thursday and questioned at a London police station. He has been bailed until September.
The BBC has learned that two police officers were at the News of the World's offices on Thursday afternoon and took some items away.
"The Operation Weeting team is conducting the new investigation into phone-hacking. It would be inappropriate to discuss any further details regarding this case at this time," a police spokesman said.
Mr Weatherup's profile on LinkedIn describes his 25 years in the media.
It says: "As well as breaking exclusive stories, managing huge budgets, I also advised stars on PR and media related matters."
It lists "crisis management" as a speciality.
He joined the News of the World in 1987, and left the paper in 1999 but rejoined as news editor in 2004.
The BBC understands that about October 2005 he stood down to become a senior reporter at the paper, with the title associate news editor. That title changed in 2006 to assistant news editor although he remained a reporter.
Following the News of the World's unreserved apology and admission of liability on Friday to eight victims, its owner News International wrote to another nine claimants asking for further evidence that journalists intercepted their voicemail.
The BBC understood that News International was ready to settle claims with eight people, including former Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, her estranged husband, lawyer David Mills, designer Kelly Hoppen, sports broadcaster Andy Gray, and Joan Hammell, a former aide to ex-deputy prime minister Lord Prescott.
Actress Sienna Miller was continuing with her legal action against the paper, despite the apology and admission, her lawyer said last week. Publicist Nicola Phillips also rejected the offer.
There are 24 active claims against the paper being heard by High Court judge Mr Justice Vos, with a meeting scheduled for Friday.
Anglesey councillors will look at two options for the future of Corn Hir, Bodffordd, Esceifiog, Talwrn, Henblas and Y Graig schools in Llangefni.
The Executive Committee will meet on Monday and recommend whether schools should close, be merged or replaced with new buildings.
The next step would be to agree to put them out to public consultation.
Anglesey council has consulted with parents, governors and staff in the six schools in the area and with local councillors and the Welsh Government.
Politics has long been a part of Marcus Brigstocke's comedy routine.
He's used to people not always agreeing with what he says, but this year it's been different.
The subject was Brexit and the reaction in some places was unlike anything he'd experienced before.
We met in Llandudno at the Craft of Comedy Festival. It's been described as the party conference of comedy - an annual get together to discuss the life and business of people making a living from making other people laugh.
I spoke to him at the end of a session on politics and comedy.
He explains that, as a result of his jokes, "a lot of the people I think of as 'my audience' post-Brexit will not be back... they were that angry."
Brigstocke is furious about the decision to leave the EU. The topic touches him more deeply than almost any other but he has doubts about this political passion.
"Anger's not great for comedy, it's been good for me but you still have to have nuance. You have to find the line and I've struggled with that."
"People are more upset about this than anything else I have experienced."
Gareth Gwynn is one of Britain's most prolific topical gag writers. He's worked on Have I Got News For You, the Now Show and the News Quiz on BBC Radio 4.
He has a different concern about Brexit.
"Since June 2016 almost every time you walk in to that writers' room and it's tail it's Trump, heads it's Brexit," he says.
"It's so big we can't avoid it and the problem is trying to come up with new angles. It's both potentially trying for both the writers and the audience."
The passions aroused by Brexit are, it appears, challenging for satire. Britain is deeply divided and that poses problems.
Josh Buckingham is a commissioner for Channel 4. It is legally obliged to be politically impartial and while it can delight in taking pot shots at politicians it can't do it from just one perspective.
He feels some viewers who spend a lot of time watching online content may not be so open to this.
"Audiences expect you to have a view and when they encounter you being even handed they might say, 'pick a side', he explains.
Of course many comics have picked a side. The divide? Marcus Brigstocke could only think of two or three comics who might admit to being pro-Brexit - Lee Hurst and Geoff Norcott are notable examples.
In a room of more than a hundred writers, producers and performers - we asked if any would come forward and admit to being pro-Brexit.
Only one person put their hand up. One or two others approached me quietly afterwards but didn't want to be interviewed.
The one person that agreed to speak was James Cary, a writer of sitcoms. He's also an evangelical Christian and used to being in a minority in the comedy world. He's happy to be contrary.
"I think it's because Brexit is associated with conservatism and patriotism and nationalism and these are things comedians like to play against," he says.
"I think it's led to a really interesting discussion. I think you've got to be very careful about impugning anyone's motives... England and London are very different places"
He adds: "We have to be wary of describing one as a metropolitan elite and likewise seeing people in England backward, nationalistic and patriotic and racist."
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Rowland Phillips' side will also face a team from the Asia/Oceania play-offs in Pool A.
The tournament will run between 9-26 August, 2017 with games held in Dublin and Belfast and the final at Ulster's Kingspan Stadium.
Under former coach Rhys Edwards, Wales finished fourth in the 2016 Six Nations to qualify for the 12-team tournament.
Defending champions England could face Scotland in their pool while Welsh opponents Canada were runners up in 2014.
The 23-year-old Switzerland international made 25 Bundesliga appearances last season.
He could make his debut in Saturday's home game against Southampton.
Boss David Wagner said: "It was important in this window that we found a real competitor for the right-back position and, in Florent, we have exactly the right player."
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After the fury with which St James's Palace condemned the publication, the move was inevitable.
But it is not unprecedented.
On several occasions in the last 30 years, the Palace has taken legal action against newspapers or action to prevent personal information being published. Only once has a case actually come to trial.
On every other occasion the Palace has accepted an out-of-court settlement.
The case that came to court involved Princess Margaret's son, Viscount Linley - coincidentally the owner of the French chateau at which William and Kate were staying when they were photographed this summer.
In 1990, he sued the now-defunct newspaper Today for libel after it accused him of rowdy behaviour in a pub: He won £30,000 damages.
The Queen has twice sued the Sun for breach of copyright.
The first time was in 1988, when relations between the royals and the tabloids were particularly bad.
The paper reached an out-of-court settlement after publishing a stolen photograph showing Sarah, Duchess of York and her daughter, Princess Beatrice, which the royal family had planned to use on their Christmas card that year.
The second time was in 1993 - when royal-tabloid relations were just as bad - when the paper paid £200,000 to charity in an out-of-court settlement after publishing a leaked text of the Queen's Christmas broadcast.
That same year Princess Diana started legal action against the Daily Mirror when it published photographs taken with a hidden camera of her exercising in a gym.
The paper apologised and reportedly paid Diana's legal costs of £1m plus a further £200,000 to charity.
But the gym owner refused to settle, caving in only in February 1995, a week before the case was due to start.
He apologised and gave up the £300,000 he had made from selling the pictures.
On that occasion the Palace claimed a breach of confidence by the owner. The law of confidence - until recently, the closest Britain came to a law of privacy - has been the route most frequently taken when the royals have resorted to the courts.
Information obtained in confidence - for instance, by an employee - should remain confidential; if it does not, there are grounds for legal action.
So in 1995, the Prince of Wales was able to seek and get an injunction barring a former housekeeper from publishing her memoirs in this country (they sold 100,000 copies in the US).
And in 2003, the Queen got an injunction to prevent the Daily Mirror publishing further stories about time spent by its reporter, Ryan Parry, as a below-stairs servant at Buckingham Palace.
What's different on this occasion is that the royals are suing explicitly for invasion of privacy - something you could not do in the British courts until quite recently.
But, while France has a clear privacy law which makes publication of photos taken on private property both a criminal and a civil offence, it also has a clutch of successful celebrity magazines which often simply ignore the law.
Lawyers in France say Closer is evidently in breach.
"It's clearly an invasion of privacy because the royal couple was on vacation and they had a legitimate expectation to take the vacation privately, without the invasion of cameras from outside the chateau where they were staying," according to Christopher Mesnooh, a partner with Field Fisher Waterhouse in Paris.
Thomas Roussineau, a lawyer who specialises in privacy law, said: "The castle is not the street - it is in a private place - and they are intimate pictures."
But both thought the magazine had weighed up the potential cost of damages or a fine against the revenue the pictures would bring from extra magazine sales and syndication of the photographs themselves and concluded it was well worth running the risk of a court case.
That's because fines and damages in privacy cases, once high, have come down in recent years.
According to Roussineau, the magazine can expect a fine of about 30,000 euros.
As for what the Duke and Duchess can expect, according to Mesnooh: "In these situations the damages are low: several thousand euros, perhaps 10 to 15,000 euros in extraordinary cases."
Sophie Emma Rose, 41, originally from Blackpool, died in the crash, said her boyfriend Danny Glass, who escaped serious injury.
He posted on Facebook he was "in total shock as I've lost the most precious person I had ever connected with".
The Foreign Office said it was supporting a British man hurt in a road traffic accident in Thalang, Phuket.
Ms Rose, who lived in Thailand, was an advocate of breastfeeding.
She already had a five-year-old son whom she had vowed to breastfeed until he was eight.
She had a YouTube channel called Sophie's Joy Breastfeeding Mama, on which she uploaded videos about breastfeeding her son and their life in Thailand.
Mr Glass, originally from Margate, said: "She was also pregnant so I lost my child, too.
"I need as much love and support as I can get from everyone."
Ms Rose was reportedly riding on the back of the scooter when it was involved in a collision with an 18-wheel lorry.
In a statement, the Foreign Office said: "We are providing support to a British man who was injured in a road traffic accident in Thalang, Thailand and are in contact with the local police."
Inspectors found the two forces had not integrated into Regional Organised Crime Units (Rocu).
Rocu were created in 2010 to tackle serious crime such as drugs trafficking.
Devon and Cornwall Police said it had concerns about the south west Rocu but it would be joining up in the new year.
The HMIC said after an inspection this year that lack of integration by the forces meant ability to "provide a comprehensive, single intelligence picture for their respective regions is impaired".
It added the forces were "unable to benefit fully from the regional intelligence capability which is available".
Ch Supt John Vellacott of Devon and Cornwall Police's major crime team said: "The purpose of intelligence is to keep people safe and the idea is that we get that intelligence speedily so we are able to respond to it effectively.
"We were concerned that we wouldn't get the intelligence as speedily as we would like.
"We have negotiated with the regional unit and we are now in a position where we can say we will be joining the Rocu intelligence function in the new year."
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Det Supt Andrew Slattery, director of intelligence at Cumbria Constabulary, said the force "actively participates in the funding and management" of the North West Rocu and "confidential intelligence handling processes between Cumbria Constabulary and Rocu are currently being reviewed in light of the HMIC report".
Cheers rang out at the parliament following the apology in Sydney.
The march, borne out of solidarity for New York's Stonewall movement, called for sodomy laws to be abolished and an end to discrimination.
But it was met with unexpected police violence, mass arrests and public shaming.
Fairfax media has apologised for outing the 53 people involved by publishing their names, addresses and occupations.
It is unclear whether the NSW Police Force will issue a separate apology.
The apology received a standing ovation on the Parliament floor and within the public gallery, which included some of the original "78ers".
"I hope it's not too late that you can accept an apology but also we want to recognise that for all of that pain that you went through, you brought about fundamental change in this society and fundamental change for the many gay and lesbian people like myself, who can be open and relaxed about ourselves," member for Sydney suburb Coogee, Bruce Notley-Smith, said.
Independent MP Alex Greenwich thanked the 78ers for helping NSW become "the gayest parliament" in Australia's history.
"We are all here because of your bravery, your courage, your sacrifice," he said.
The march was held on a global day of activism to commemorate the Stonewall riots of 1969, which followed police raids on New York's Stonewall Inn gay bar.
A crowd of around 500 Sydney demonstrators reportedly swelled to around 1500 as equal rights activists marched along Oxford Street chanting "ho-ho-homosexual".
Peter Murphy was 25 when he was detained during the mass arrests, "singled out and bashed, thoroughly".
"There were just two police present and only one of them beat me," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Over the past four decades, Sydney's annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras has grown into a vibrant mainstream event.
Local media says the rally is expected pump almost $40 million into the NSW economy.
A total of 43 prostitution-related arrests were made in Ipswich between 2010 and 2016, but none for on-street sex work, Suffolk Police said.
Steve Wright's killings in 2006 led to moves to shut the red light district.
The Iceni Project, which worked with police, said it was the "best legacy" for Wright's five victims.
The arrest figures, released under a freedom of information request, were in connection with trafficking, keeping a brothel for prostitution and controlling prostitution for gain, police said.
There has been recent speculation that street prostitution had returned, but police and the project said no evidence was found to support this.
The rumours circulated 10 years after Tania Nicol, the first of Wright's victims, went missing.
Officers were sent to the town's Norwich Road on Monday but "no persons of concern were found".
Brian Tobin, from the Iceni Project, said: "We can't rest on our laurels, and any anecdotal evidence that we get or the police get, we immobilise immediately.
"I can't believe we would let street prostitution occur in Ipswich again.
"It will be the best legacy of all for the five women that we don't ever tolerate it again."
There had been about 30 women working on the streets of the town when Wright murdered Miss Nicol, Gemma Adams, Anneli Alderton, Annette Nicholls and Paula Clennell.
A strategy introduced in light of their deaths saw sex workers treated for drug addictions they might have had.
There was also a change in policing, which saw sex workers treated as vulnerable victims instead of criminals.
Analysts also said there was some relief in the market at the defeat of the anti-immigration Freedom party in the Dutch election.
The benchmark FTSE 100 rose 47.31 points to a record closing high of 7,415.57.
Earlier it hit a record intraday high of 7,440.4 points before falling back.
In mid-afternoon trading the index was 38 points higher at 7,406 points.
Neil Wilson at ETX Capital said the message from the US central bank was "the US economy is firing, but inflation is not going to be an issue. It's in no hurry to raise rates - and that is good news for equities."
As well as raising rates on Wednesday, the Fed also indicated it planned two more rate rises this year. However, that was not as aggressive as some had feared, with some having predicted a further three increases in 2017.
Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at First Standard Financial, said: "A less aggressive Fed was clearly the message the markets wanted to hear and indeed acted accordingly."
Yet Wall Street slid in afternoon trading, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 15 points, or 0.07%, at 20,934.85. The broader S&P 500 index also shed 0.12%.
Sterling hit a two-week dollar high of $1.2373, up 0.6%, after the latest interest rate decision from the Bank of England.
Interest rates were kept on hold at 0.25% as expected, but minutes of the meeting showed that one policymaker had voted for a rate rise, the first time since July last year that the vote had not been unanimous.
The minutes also indicated some other committee members might be close to voting for a rate rise
However, Ruth Gregory at Capital Economics said: "Despite the more hawkish tone of today's minutes, rates look set to remain on hold for some time to come.
"A rate rise towards the end of 2018 seems more likely to us - provided that growth remains relatively resilient, as we expect."
Mining companies dominated the FTSE risers, with Anglo American topping the leaders' board with an 8% increase.
Its shares were boosted after Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal said he would buy a stake worth up to £2bn in the diamond and platinum miner.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals was the biggest loser, falling almost 5% to £21.89, after JPMorgan cut its outlook on the company to "neutral".
Merlin Entertainments, the operator of Madame Tussauds and the London Eye, shed 3% after analysts Berenberg said they saw signs that demand could be slowing.
Carmarthen Park, which opened in 1900, will be turned into a training and competition venue for cyclists as part of a £580,000 scheme.
More than 230 concrete panels on the velodrome are being ripped up and replaced with new ones.
The project has received funding from Carmarthenshire council, Carmarthen town council and Sport Wales.
Once complete, it is hoped the velodrome will be available to members of the public as well as cycling clubs and elite users.
Carmarthen town council will manage the facility.
The Lisburn man's time of eight minutes, 37.62 seconds in Belgium on Saturday cut nine seconds off his personal best set a week earlier.
Smith's time was also over five seconds inside the Commonwealth Games mark.
Ciara Mageean, meanwhile, had to settle for seventh place over 800m in 2:03.12 at the same meeting in Ghent.
Mageean's time in her outdoor season's opener left her three seconds behind British winner Shelayna Oskan-Clarke and was some way outside her personal best for the distance set last year.
Also in Ghent, 400m hurdles Christine McMahon and Jason Harvey were outside Commonwealth Games consideration standards despite producing season's bests.
McMahon clocked 58.31 seconds but the Gold Coast standard of 57.30 should be well within her compass over the coming weeks and months.
Harvey crossed the line in 51.22 in the men's event and needs 50.15 to have a chance of being on the plane for Australia.
Letterkenny man Danny Mooney showed that he will challenge to earn another Commonwealth Games vest as he clocked 3:42.74 for 1500m in Belgium.
Athletics Northern Ireland's 1500m Commonwealth Games consideration standard is 3:41.10.
Meanwhile, Stephen Scullion and Emma Mitchell both produced fine performances at Sunday's Great Manchester Run.
Scullion clocked 29 minutes and 25 seconds to take fifth in the men's event, which left him six places and 19 seconds ahead of another Irishman Mick Clohisey.
In-form Mitchell, meanwhile, was sixth in the women's race in 34 minutes and 31 seconds.
Queen's athlete Mitchell achieved the Commonwealth Games 10,000m consideration standard in London last weekend as she set her second Northern Ireland record in a week by breaking Teresa Duffy's mark.
Mitchell also bettered Duffy's 5,000m mark the previous week.
The book also won the Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award, securing an overall prize of £4,000.
Mr Morris was also presented with a specially commissioned trophy by artist Angharad Pearce Jones at the ceremony in Merthyr Tydfil.
Caryl Lewis won the Welsh-language main award for her novel Y Bwthyn.
The Roland Mathias Poetry Award went to Philip Gross for his collection, Love Songs of Carbon and Jasmine Donahaye's Losing Israel won in the creative non-fiction category.
Lleucu Siencyn, Chief Executive of Literature Wales said: "Congratulations to all of this year's winners.
"We had a wonderful evening here in Merthyr and we were delighted to welcome the shortlisted writers and their families to the Redhouse for this celebration of Welsh literature."
We Don't Know What We're Doing is Thomas Morris' debut collection of 10 short stories set in his birthplace, Caerphilly.
Both authors also won public votes for people's choice awards.
It is the second time Caryl Lewis has won the Welsh language award, having received it in 2005 for her novel Martha Jac a Sianco.
Wilhelmina Rooney, known as Anne, 71, was last seen by her husband at their home in East Kilbride.
Police confirmed that her body had been found near Tynecastle Street, Glasgow, on Sunday, and said her death was not being treated as suspicious.
On Friday, members of Mrs Rooney's family made an emotional appeal for her return.
A large-scale search, involving police dogs and helicopters, had taken place.
Sightings of the pensioner were reported in East Kilbride and her bus pass appeared to have been used on Glasgow buses.
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The women's quarter-finals were interrupted twice before Latvian Jelena Ostapenko and Swiss Timea Bacsinszky booked their semi-final places.
As a result of Tuesday's downpours, officials decided to reschedule the first two men's quarter-finals.
That means all four men's last-eight matches will be played on Wednesday.
Fourth seed Nadal meets fellow Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta as he aims to move a step closer to a record 10th title at Roland Garros.
Twelve-time Grand Slam winner Djokovic, who is seeded second, plays Austrian sixth seed Dominic Thiem.
World number one Andy Murray faces Japan's eighth seed Kei Nishikori, while Swiss third seed Stan Wawrinka - the 2015 champion - takes on Croatian seventh seed Marin Cilic.
The remaining women's quarter-finals are also scheduled for Wednesday.
Czech second seed Karolina Pliskova plays France's Caroline Garcia, while 2014 finalist Simona Halep - the Romanian third seed - faces Ukraine's fifth seed Elina Svitolina.
The 34-year-old, who is out of contract in the summer, has been linked with Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal.
"There has been interest and we will see where it leads," he said. "But it would have to be like a marriage, both sides have to want it as much."
Ibrahimovic has won league titles in four European countries.
After helping Ajax win two Dutch titles at the start of the century, he won two Serie A championships with Juventus - both later revoked because of the Calciopoli scandal - and three more with Inter Milan.
He then moved to Spain and claimed the La Liga title with Barcelona before returning to Italy to win the 2010-11 Serie A with AC Milan - his eighth successive league title.
After a season without silverware at Milan in 2011-12, Ibrahimovic moved to PSG, and the French side have won the past four Ligue 1 titles.
After scoring four goals in a 9-0 thrashing of Troyes earlier this month to seal this year's title, Ibrahimovic said: "For the moment, I will not be at PSG next season. I still have a month and a half left here.
"If they replace the Eiffel Tower with a statue of me, then I will stay."
Ibrahimovic has scored 62 international goals in 111 appearances, including a sensational 30-yard overhead bicycle kick in a 4-2 friendly win over England in 2012.
Officers believe the "violent and callous" incident at William Hill in Stirling Street on Wednesday is linked to the previous robbery on 7 April.
The latest robbery happened at about 19:45 when two men entered the premises and repeatedly threatened a member of staff and two customers with weapons.
They left with a sum of money and were last seen entering a passageway leading to Herbertshire Street.
Both suspects wore high visibility jackets and hard hats, with their faces covered by dark scarves during the incident.
Police said no one was injured as a result of the robbery.
Det Insp Jim Thomson said: "This was a violent and callous incident which has left the three victims badly upset.
"This also follows a previous robbery at this bookkeepers last Friday, which we are still investigating and believe to be linked to this most recent incident."
The first suspect was described as white, about 6ft tall, of medium build, with a light tan, and spoke with a local accent.
The second man was described as white, of medium build and about 5ft 9in tall.
Powell, 47, has left his role as head coach of Championship side Featherstone Rovers to take over the Tigers.
"I've been proud to coach all the teams I've been at but this is a special moment," he told BBC Radio Leeds.
Powell will take over from assistant coach Danny Orr, who had been in temporary charge since Millward's departure in April.
Millward parted company with the club, along with assistant Stuart Donlan, with the side bottom of the table after a disastrous start to their Super League campaign.
I used to watch games here and I was a big supporter of the club in my youth. There's a lot of challenges out there and we'll be looking to climb the table bit by bit but there's so much positivity here
The side have since moved up to 12th in the table, most recently recording a 32-24 win over Hull KR on Sunday.
Tigers' chief executive Steve Gill said: "We have taken our time over the appointment of a new head coach because we wanted to ensure that we brought the right man on board and I'm convinced that Daryl Powell is that man.
"He is an excellent coach who has proven his skills at Featherstone Rovers over several seasons. He is at the cutting edge of coaching and his previous role as assistant coach of the England side shows how highly regarded he is."
Former Leeds boss Powell added: "I used to watch games here and I was a big supporter of the club in my youth.
"There's a lot of challenges out there and we'll be looking to climb the table bit by bit but there's so much positivity here.
"I want to build the club and I want to be involved form the top to the bottom."
Powell was appointed Featherstone boss in 2008 and went on to lead the side to three Championship Grand Finals, securing the title in 2011. He also famously led the side to a Challenge Cup fourth round win over Tigers in 2012.
Rovers currently sit in second place in the Championship but Powell feels the move to the Super League strugglers is one that makes sense.
"I don't think it's a gamble," he said.
"You go into coaching jobs with your eyes wide open, obviously it's in a development stage but I don't see it as a gamble I see it as an opportunity.
"It's ripe for growing all across the board with everything the club does and I feel I can have a big part in that."
Featherstone chief executive Craig Poskitt said: "We thank Daryl for his outstanding services to Featherstone Rovers. It was our duty to allow Castleford the opportunity to speak with Daryl and he decided that the move was the right direction for him to take.
"I would like to state that the club will now be on the lookout for a replacement that shares our vision and wants to be a part of the long-term future of the club in Super League."
Former Crewe and Bury player Carrington, 29, joined Wrexham in September 2013 and is the club's vice-captain.
Manager Dean Keates said the club had also come to an agreement with fellow midfielder Paul Rutherford over a new deal for next season.
Keates said talks were ongoing with top-scorer John Rooney.
Rooney, who came off the bench to score twice in Saturday's 3-1 home win over Guiseley, is one start away from triggering a new contract.
Unions affiliated with Cosatu, South Africa's main union federation, have been holding out for an 8.6% rise, more than the latest government offer of 7%.
The strike was reported to have got off to a slow start, though unions say more than a million people could take part.
Many schools, hospitals and public offices are expected to be affected.
Police, teachers, doctors, and nurses are demanding an above-inflation 8.6% pay rise, improved housing subsidies, and other benefits.
But South Africa's government says it can barely afford the 7% offer it has put on the table.
The government needs to find 5bn rand (£440m; $687m) and will have to "re-prioritise" its plans for the year to fund their offer, the minister in charge of the public sector has said.
"It is not the final offer of choice, it is the final offer out of affordability," Minister for Public Service and Administration Richard Baloyi told reporters at the Parliament in Cape Town.
Last week, tens of thousands of public sector workers staged marches to hand over their demands to authorities.
By Pumza FihlaniBBC News, Johannesburg
In a strike that threatens to cripple South Africa's economy, eyes will be glued on President Jacob Zuma.
Many hope he will provide a clear plan of action from the government, and most importantly a sense that he is in control.
This will not be an easy task. Mr Zuma owes his rise to the presidency largely to Cosatu's backing. This perhaps explains why the federation feels entitled to demand an increase which is almost double the inflation rate.
Unions say they are tired of being "paid peanuts" while politicians, including Mr Zuma, live lavishly.
It will be a case of who blinks first in this face-off as both sides have taken a hard line.
The government says "our offer is final" while the unions insist "we will not compromise"- so how will Mr Zuma defuse the situation?
The coalition of unions represents an estimated 1.3 million public sector workers, including government bureaucrats and judicial officials.
A spokesman for Cosatu was quoted as saying that 90% of those workers could take part.
The union grouping said its members planned to hold marches outside branch offices throughout the country, culminating in a national march on 26 August.
"We made it clear to the employer that our members were resolute in their pursuit of the original demands," Cosatu said in a statement.
It is difficult to gauge the national impact of the first day of the strike but the BBC's Nomsa Maseko reports from the Natalspruit Hospital east of Johannesburg that nurses there refused to work, turning away scores of patients.
In a show of defiance some 200 workers marched inside the hospital wards chanting songs, and patients said they went without food, medicine and cleaning the whole day due to the strike.
The hospital is now discussing calling in army medics until the situation returns to normal, while patients in a critical condition would be transferred to nearby hospitals not affected by the protests.
Unions representing teachers and nurses were the first to announce that they would join the strike following negotiations late on Tuesday.
"From tomorrow there will be a total shutdown and the beginning of a protracted strike and we will only stop when government responds," said Thobile Ntola, head of the SADTU teachers' union.
The government has been urging children to come to school, but many pupils were expected to stay away on Wednesday, having been told not to turn up by their teachers.
Minimal health and policing services were expected to keep running, with employees deemed to be essential forbidden from taking part in strikes.
South African schools have already been hit by spontaneous walk-outs this week, and there have been reports of intimidation and violence being used to keep people away from schools.
South Africa has seen a wave of strikes in recent years, though unions have warned that the latest one could be the largest for several years because it is indefinite.
Analysts say President Jacob Zuma, who owes his political support to South Africa's powerful trade unions, is under pressure to appease them while also addressing the country's budget deficit.
Up to 100 residents and 30 business owners affected by the blast in Bebington, Wirral are being offered help from a team of advisers at New Ferry village hall.
Two people were seriously hurt and 31 others injured in the explosion on Saturday evening.
The site remains a crime scene as police investigate the cause.
Christine Pickup was at home with her three grandchildren at the time of the explosion. They escaped with cuts and bruises.
She went to the hub earlier to find out when she can get back into her home.
"I walked out in my pyjamas and a phone in my hand," she said.
"Friends have put clothes on my back. I couldn't get any money because it's all in my purse. I've had to cancel all my cards. I've just got nothing - it's like losing your identity.
"The advice will help but I don't think I'll get part of my life back."
There are dozens of people who have come here for advice and there is a mix of feelings.
Some are upset, confused and lost. They want to know when they can go home to get their belongings and when their homes will be boarded up to help prevent their possessions from being stolen.
Most are dazed because they are missing the comfort of their own homes and been sleeping on floors in temporary accommodation.
People don't know how long they will need to make contingency plans. It's making the whole situation more difficult.
This hub is trying to point people in the right direction and get a better understanding of what they need.
Thirty businesses in New Ferry and Port Sunlight have been unable to trade because of collapsed or damaged buildings, according to New Ferry's Residents' Association.
Insurance adviser Brian Telfer said he had been encouraging people "to be very clear and to explain the seriousness of the situation so they can get you a representative out as soon as possible".
The drop-in facility on Grove Road will be open between 10:00 and 16:00 BST until Friday 31 March.
Industry leaders say the aim "is to improve the quality of the visitor experience".
Each month has a theme, and associated events have applied for a share of £300,000 funding from Tourism NI.
Its chief executive John McGrillen said the aim is to improve the experience of tourists.
"We do not have any specific targets in terms of driving up visitor numbers, but we would like to drive up the level of satisfaction," he said.
Research suggests only one in 10 people come to Northern Ireland for the food experience, fewer still from the Republic of Ireland.
"I do not think it is ever the sole purpose to come to any destination, with the exception perhaps of San Sebastian or somewhere like that in Spain," said Mr McGrillen.
"But it is a very critical element of people's experiences and about one third of what people spend is actually on food and drink."
Food and drink spend by external visitors was in the region of £140m in 2012.
Michelin stars
Two Belfast restaurants obtaining Michelin stars - and global brands like Bushmills Whiskey - have helped sell the concept of a promotional year of food and drink.
Caroline Wilson, who runs a tour business around the Northern Ireland food and drink experience, said visitor interest is growing.
She says: "The majority of people I get on the tours are locals, but I get a lot of tourists now coming in.
"They are intrigued by what Belfast and Northern Ireland generally has to offer.
"It is unique - where else are you going to get the Bramley apple or the Lough Neagh eel?"
Investors allege the restaurant chain failed to reveal that "its quality controls were inadequate to safeguard consumer and employee health."
As a result, the company's stock price has been battered by the outbreaks of illnesses linked to its stores, the lawsuit said.
Chipotle declined to comment.
The firm is already facing lawsuits from individuals that contracted E. coli.
Chipotle is also facing a federal criminal probe connected to an outbreak of norovirus which was filed by the state of California.
The company's share price has fallen 35% since October and same-restaurant sales were down 30% in December.
The lawsuit seeks damages on behalf of investors who acquired Chipotle shares from February 2015 to January 2016.
It was filed in US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
It is another headache for the restaurant chain, whose sales have slumped since an E. coli outbreak sickened more than 50 people in nine states in October and November.
In an effort to address the situation Chipotle announced in December that it was changing its food preparation methods.
A statement on its website said: "We have taken aggressive actions to implement pioneering food safety practices."
Home Retail Group said that it began discussions with Wesfarmers in September, with a firm offer resulting in November.
Wesfarmers owns Australia's biggest home improvement retailer, Bunnings, as well as the Coles supermarket chain.
Although the company has completed due diligence, talks were continuing.
Home Retail said that Wesfarmers was a "substantial and strong group with an ambitious plan" to develop Homebase and that the £340m cash price offered good value for shareholders.
John Walden, chief executive of Home Retail, said the sale would allow the company to focus on Argos with an improved financial position, which represented "an even greater opportunity for building long-term shareholder value".
Earlier this month, Sainsbury's said that Home Retail had rejected its bid to buy the Argos chain.
On Tuesday, the supermarket issued a 22-page presentation outlining why a takeover of the catalogue and online retailer was "strategically compelling".
Sainsbury's could close between 150 and 200 Argos stores and move them to a nearby supermarket, the BBC understands.
Many store leases are due to expire in the next couple of years and Sainsbury's has excess space in many of its stores.
Under the deal being proposed, Wesfarmers would buy the entire Homebase business, including all stores and distribution centres. Product brands such as Habitat would not be included, but licensed for use by Homebase for one year.
Shares in Home Retail, which updates the market on its Christmas trading on Thursday, closed up 4.1% at 147.7p before the Homebase announcement.
The stock has jumped by more than 50% since Home Retail's rejection of the Sainsbury's bid was revealed.
The Crime Severity Score is designed to reflect the relative harm of offending, rather than how many crimes there are.
Under the new system, murder is given the top weighting - 7,979 points per offence - while cannabis possession has the lowest of three points per offence.
West Yorkshire had the highest crime severity score, Dyfed-Powys the lowest.
The Metropolitan Police's score was second highest.
The Office for National Statistics compiled the new system, and said over the past 14 years the police recorded crime rate and the Crime Severity Score (CSS) have shown similar trends - both have generally decreased but in recent years showed slight increases.
However, the ONS says the value of the CSS is in providing additional information to understand crime at a local level - although like other police figures, the CSS may fluctuate according to changes in the way forces record offences.
The weighting for each offence is calculated by analysing sentencing data - the tougher the sentence imposed for a particular crime; the greater the weight for that offence.
Once a weight has been calculated for each offence, it is multiplied by the number of incidents.
That total is then divided by the population for the area in question to give the Crime Severity Score.
In England and Wales, the CSS in 2015-16 was 10.1, compared with 14.3 in 2002-03.
After murder and other homicide offences, the next highest individual crime weightings are for attempted murder, aiding suicide, and rape.
The lowest weighted offences after possession of cannabis were soliciting for prostitution, possession of controlled drugs more generally, criminal damage to buildings, and dishonest use of electricity.
The law and order debate has been hampered for many years by the absence of statistics that reflect the reality of offending.
The police recorded figures are a blunt instrument: they measure only the volume of crimes reported and logged by forces - a murder and a theft each count as one crime, for example.
The other long-standing crime measurement tool is the Crime Survey of England and Wales, the main benefit of which is that it includes offences that aren't reported to police.
But the survey has its limitations as well - some categories of crime are not measured and when it estimates the number of crimes no distinction is made between offences which cause severe harm and those that are less serious.
The Student Representative Council (SRC) has been agitating about the statue of old colonialist Cecil John Rhodes.
It all began when student Chimane Maxwele tossed human excrement at the statue recently, demanding that it be taken down.
The statue of Rhodes is at a prominent position of the campus. It's on the upper campus, overlooking the university's rugby fields on Madiba Circle, previously known as Rugby Road. The statue depicting Rhodes in a seated position was unveiled in 1934.
Rhodes was an Oxford-educated politician and mining businessman, who played a key role in the expansion of British rule in southern Africa.
The university's campus is on a site bequeathed to the nation by Rhodes - who owned vast tracts of land - for a national university.
SRC head Ramahiba Mahapha, 23, told me the statue was "a symbol of institutional racism".
Mr Mahapa, a fourth-year student of philosophy, continued "there are more substantive issues of transformation that we are fighting for".
"The statue is just a symbol. We need to have more black students and more black academics.
"The university is too Eurocentric. In a country where nearly 80% of the population is black, there are 1,500 academics at UCT and only 100 are black. That needs to change," the outspoken student leader said.
The university has said it recognises "divergent views" over the statue and that it is important to debate the matter.
UCT vice-chancellor Max Price told the Cape Times that talks about removing the statue from the university campus were at a "stalemate".
It is reported that while he was an active student in 1980s, Dr Price once called for the statue to be removed.
In an open letter this week Dr Price concluded: "I do not think the statue should be destroyed or hidden away. I just think it should not be there - it should be moved.
"This will not compromise our ability to record and debate the role Rhodes played in the city's and continent's history.
"And it will not change our acknowledgment that UCT acquired its site from the Rhodes estate, and the positive contribution that it has made to our institution and its students."
During demonstrations on campus, students were chanting "Rhodes must fall" and they carried a banner with the same message written on it.
But not everyone holds the same view.
Trudi Makhaya, who studied as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, wrote in South Africa's Business Day newspaper that Rhodes was limited by the sexism and racism of his era but his scholarship endowments revealed a man who recognised some universal virtues.
Ms Makhaya wrote: "These contradictions, Rhodes the pillager and Rhodes the benefactor, are a symbol of our country's evolution towards a yet to be attained just and inclusive order.
I agree with both the vice-chancellor and Mr Mahapa - the statue must not be destroyed but the university can do without a symbol of racism and colonialism in a post-Nelson Mandela era.
There was no love lost between the English- and Afrikaner-speaking peoples in the era leading up to the Anglo-Boer war of 1899-1902.
Rhodes wanted the British to control the Boer republics. But even when the Afrikaners came to dominate the country, they left his statue alone.
There are many symbols of white supremacy and colonialism in modern-day South Africa such as street names, the names of towns and even monuments which still evoke deep emotions among black people.
It would be a shame if this was the start of a historical tit-for-tat.
What if in another hundred years someone calls for Mandela's statue to be removed?
They are investigating tiny changes in the length of the collider's 27km-circumference ring, which occur on a daily and a seasonal basis.
The short cycle is explained by normal tidal forces.
But the winter-summer pattern which affects the huge underground facility is not so obvious.
Except researchers think they can now show that winter rain and snow is gravitationally pulling on the ring.
"My hypothesis is that in winter there's a lot more water in the ground, and even snow sitting on the ground. So, basically, this mass pulls on the ring. And when that extra mass melts away and evaporates away in summer - the ring stretches a bit," said Rolf Hut from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.
If that's true, you could use the LHC to study precipitation and other aspects of hydrology - not just the secrets of the Universe.
"I can make a rain gauge out of anything," said Dr Hut. He was speaking here at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly.
Changes in the size of the LHC's ring are known from the behaviour of the beam of particles whizzing around inside it at near-light-speed.
The length of the particles' orbit is fixed and controlled by the collider's operators such as to position the beam in the centre of the ring's vacuum chamber.
An alteration in the circumference will force the particles to move inwards or outwards relative to this centre point.
This movement can be measured with micrometre accuracy and is corrected. The adjustments made by the operators therefore represent a very precise measure of the change in the circumference of the LHC.
This issue was first noticed in the LEP accelerator, which occupied the mighty tunnel under the Franco-Swiss border before the LHC.
The daily changes were quickly attributed to the flexure of the surrounding rock by the Moon's tides, but the longer seasonal cycle could have a number of explanations.
One of these is the change in temperature between summer and winter months: the rock could simply be flexing as it warms and cools. Except, temperatures ought to be pretty stable at the ring's depth, which can reach 175m below the surface.
Dr Hut finds a more compelling solution in the observations of the US-German Grace space mission.
This is a pair of satellites that measure the small variations in gravity across the Earth.
The duo are especially good at sensing changes in the mass of water stored in the ground.
"And there's a very nice correlation that when Grace says there's not a lot of mass, not a lot of water, then the LHC is expanding a little bit," explained Dr Hut.
Unfortunately, the view from Grace has quite a low resolution and the LHC hasn't been operating so long that there is much data to drive home the association.
The Delft scientist wants to put some low-cost gravimeters in the LHC to investigate the idea further.
If the conjecture holds up, it's another example of "gold in the noise" - of one group of scientists finding value in the data that another group ordinarily discards.
And the same may hold true for other big physics experiments, such as the Advanced Ligo laser facilities in the US that have just made the historic first detection of gravitational waves.
"If it's really the amount of water that we're measuring then suddenly we have a 27km-circumference circle that integrates, and that's unique in geoscience," said Dr Hut.
"You either have point measurements that have a footprint of centimetres, metres or tens of meters; or you have a satellite that has a footprint of kilometres.
"Now all of a sudden we could have something on the ground that has a large footprint, and we could use that to help calibrate Grace or future gravity satellites to make them more accurate."
Dr Hut's co-investigators are Jorg Wenninger from Cern (the LHC's home), and Ivo van Vulpen from the University of Amsterdam.
"By the way, the LHC is also a brilliant earthquake detector," said Dr Wenninger. "We saw the Ecuador earthquake (on Saturday) about 20 minutes after it happened (the seismic travel time to Europe)," he told BBC News.
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British Transport Police said incidents at the Glenfinnan Viaduct played a part in a 16% rise in railway trespassing offences in Scotland last year.
BTP has issued a fresh warning for people to stay away from the area of the West Highland Line.
In 2015, a family was among tourists who put themselves in danger.
The couple and their child were seen running on the railway line.
Tourists and photographers are also drawn to the viaduct because of its Highlands setting and due to a steam train, the Jacobite, that regularly runs on the line. The train also featured in the film franchise.
Five years ago, a steam train driver was forced to brake after spotting two older women standing dangerously close to the line.
The driver also reported narrowly missing a man who had been standing on the railway with a camera tripod in the same incident.
In its new warning, BTP said it understood the fascination with the viaduct because of Harry Potter, but "people do not have any magical powers so there is nothing to protect them from being injured or killed by a passing train".
Inverness Station-based Sgt Kevin Lawrence said: "Tourists from all over the world travel on the Jacobite steam train during the summer months to visit the famous Glenfinnan Viaduct.
"Alarmingly, visitors often get off the train at Glenfinnan and walk back along the line to take photographs. This is extremely dangerous.
"The scenic, rural area also attracts many bikers and other tourists also travelling by road to see the viaduct."
BTP said Network Rail had improved fencing in the area as well as signs directing people to safe vantage points.
Sgt Lawrence added: "Much as we love Harry Potter, I would like to remind everyone that we are mere Muggles, and if you trespass on the railway and are struck by a train, the consequences could be extremely serious and probably fatal."
In the films, and the books by JK Rowling they are adapted from, a Muggle is a non-magical person.
Until Jones guided England to a first Grand Slam in 13 years, they had won just one Six Nations title since lifting the World Cup trophy in Sydney.
"When I was Wallabies coach in 2004, they came out for a holiday," he said. "We put 50 points on them in Brisbane.
"You cannot accept that. England rugby has never recovered."
England travel to Australia to take on the beaten World Cup finalists in a three-Test series next month with games on 11, 18 and 25 June.
When asked if the team had become soft since 2003, Jones said: "Without a doubt."
The Australian, who succeeded Stuart Lancaster as England coach in December, acknowledged that "significant senior players retired at the same time", but added: "Commercial activity took over for England's players after that World Cup success.
"I don't mind players having agents and agents doing good things for them. If you play the game well - and that means training well - you should get financial rewards.
"It's when they start taking short cuts, going to a function instead of having proper recovery, that I have a problem."
Australia have won nine of the 15 meetings between the sides since England beat them in the World Cup final 13 years ago, including four out of five on home soil.
Jones has impressed upon his players they need to "give it everything" as they continue to take "baby steps".
"I've said to the players: 'If you do not want to come on tour and work hard, stay at home.' Go to Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, Egypt, wherever you want and have a great time.
"It is a choice you make. We've got three difficult Tests and we know that Australia have picked a strong squad.
"It's not about players having a nasty edge, but being desperate to play for England. That's what I want.
"Owen Farrell would be top of the tree and he is from Wigan. It's all about how desperate you are and George Ford is the same.
"They are kids who desperately want to play for England and get better. They are the players we want.
"There is no doubt that players have had it too easy and been handed caps."
Health Minister Michelle O'Neill said the new provider would be in place from early March.
She said until then, the Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) would work to ensure patients at the Bannview Medical Practice had access to GP services.
Bannview had been at risk of closure after its last remaining doctor resigned.
In a statement, the HSCB said the board would manage the practice in the interim from 16 January until the new provider took over in early March.
"The board will be liaising closely with the new contractor and practice staff ensuring the full provision of general medical services continues to operate as normal for patients," the statement said.
"The board will be communicating to all patients over the coming days to advise them of the new appointment."
Ms O'Neill said primary care was the "bedrock" of the health and social care system.
"I gave a commitment to significantly invest in primary care. I also recently accepted the recommendations of the working group that was established to review GP- led care services here," she said.
"Real progress is being made to address the challenges facing general practice.
"AskMyGP, the online and phone triage system, is currently being rolled out to a further 30 GP practices.
"The number of GP training places will increase to 111 by 2018/19, a year ahead of the working group's recommendation. Over 100 practice based pharmacists will also soon be in place in general practice."
The Bannview Medical Practice is one of seven surgeries housed in Portadown Medical Centre.
The other six surgeries in the town had told health authorities that they could not absorb the 5,000 patients from the Bannview practice.
A doctor in one of the other surgeries in the medical centre had warned that GP services could "collapse" across Northern Ireland because of the strain and pressures facing general practice.
Dr Stuart MacDonald said doctors were having difficulty trying to provide a "safe, sustainable service" because of a shortage of GPs to cater for demand.
A professional conduct panel found Azam Zia, who worked at Icknield High School, Luton, had failed to tell parents about the off-site sessions.
The 37-year-old had also charged pupils between £15 and £20 to attend.
He admitted unacceptable professional conduct and bringing teaching into disrepute.
The conduct panel, which met last month, heard Mr Zia held the tuition sessions on Saturdays at the Tokko Youth Centre in Luton between August and November 2015.
The sessions, which were only attended by Muslim boys, were used to settle conflicts between pupils.
They had been organised via email and messaging service WhatsApp.
Neither Mr Zia nor a second adult, named only as Individual A, were trained to instruct wrestling, the National College of Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) panel heard.
A video shown in private during the hearing to avoid identification of pupils included Individual A wrestling with a student.
Mr Zia, who also transported pupils home in his car, admitted all the allegations but said he had intended to open up the sessions to the wider school.
He told the hearing he had approached a small group of pupils at first, including female and non-Muslim pupils.
The sessions came to light in November 2015 when a pupil expressed concerns to the school's safeguarding officer.
Mr Zia was suspended on 20 November 2015 and resigned on 31 March 2016 before any disciplinary proceedings took place.
The NCTL panel found he had "failed to maintain appropriate professional boundaries" and that his actions could have impacted on pupil safety.
The teaching ban imposed on Mr Zia will last for a minimum of two years.
Shortly after his untimely death from cancer on 5 March 2013 - and just days before the presidential election that saw Mr Maduro elected by the narrowest of margins - I visited the charismatic socialist leader's stronghold of 23 de Enero in Caracas.
Inside her government-built apartment, local Socialist Party (PSUV) women's cooperative leader Judith Vegas fought back the tears at the mere mention of Hugo Chavez.
His death was as raw to her as the loss of a member of her own family.
But when it came to his chosen successor, her attitude noticeably hardened.
She would vote for Mr Maduro as Mr Chavez had asked, she said, but he wasn't guaranteed her unflinching support simply because he had been by Chavez's side.
Fast-forward two years, and even committed "Chavistas" like Judith are losing the faith.
In a recent poll, President Maduro's popularity rate had dropped to just 22%.
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"I have to be honest, I haven't felt the same since Chavez died and I haven't seen any results from Maduro," Ms Vegas tells me from Caracas.
Furthermore, she thinks he is losing his grip in places like 23 de Enero.
"He's letting it get out of his hands, he's losing control," the cooperative leader says, referring to a combustible combination of a worsening security situation and widespread economic chaos.
The latest high-profile victim of that violence is Kluiver Roa Nunez.
The 14-year-old was killed after being shot in the head with a rubber bullet by a police officer in Tachira state as he took part in a protest over food shortages and long queues at supermarkets.
The policeman in question had been arrested and an investigation launched, the government said.
The levels of inflation in Venezuela remain among the highest in the world, meanwhile the government is trying to rein in the country's labyrinthine multiple exchange-rate system.
The dollar recently hit 220 bolivars on the black market, a vast distance from the 6.3 bolivars or even the 177 bolivars (depending on the rate available) that the government says it is worth.
Perhaps trying to emulate an oft-used Chavez tactic when facing tough times, Mr Maduro has gone on the offensive.
He has accused the US of waging an economic war on the nation and of fostering plans for a coup against him.
He has also arrested the opposition Mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma, for his alleged role in widespread violent protests last year in which 43 people died.
Mr Maduro said Mr Ledezma would have to answer for "all the crimes committed against the country's peace, security and constitution".
Given that another opposition figure, Leopoldo Lopez, has been in jail for over a year now with still no verdict in his case, Mr Ledezma may find that he faces the prospect of many months behind bars.
The situation has even provoked Pope Francis, a Latin American of course, to call for peace and dialogue.
Pressure is growing on regional groups, such as the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), to speak out about Venezuela.
In many ways, though, the seeds of the current crisis were sown long before Mr Maduro took over the reins of power.
The oil price - the motor of the Venezuelan economy - has plummeted since he came to power, and it's increasingly clear that the structures in place to cope with these less plentiful times are inadequate and corrupt.
As it was two years ago, this is an election year in Venezuela, with parliamentary elections due in a few months.
"I have heard many, many Chavistas say 'Chavez si, Maduro no,'" says Ms Vegas.
Does she share that view?
"A little, yes," she admits sheepishly, though she is quick to reiterate that - for her at least - that doesn't equate to voting for the opposition.
But it's the first time I've ever heard her deviate from the PSUV line.
One wonders how many less-committed Chavistas have already abandoned President Maduro altogether.
A photographer has captured a stunning image of a halo that could be seen around the moon on Thursday night.
Called a 22-degree halo, the large rings of light can be seen in certain conditions around the moon, and also the sun.
Calum MacLean took his image in a field near Inverness.
Haloes are caused by "poorly orientated" hexagonal ice crystals.
Dr Edward Graham, a meteorologist at the University of the Highlands and Islands' Lews Castle College in Stornoway, Lewis, said: "Crystals actually often orientate themselves when falling.
"For example, try throwing a flat piece of paper downwards and it always moves into a laminar, flat orientation - just like a crystal.
"But in this case, turbulence might keep the crystals randomly orientated."
He added: "I think last night's display was widespread across the whole of Scotland, it was good here in Stornoway too."
Madrid, whose 40-game unbeaten run was ended by Sevilla on Sunday, fell behind when ex-Liverpool forward Iago Aspas drilled in his 16th goal of the season.
The home side levelled at the Bernabeu when Marcelo buried a thunderous left-foot volley from the edge of the area.
But Jonny regained Celta's lead seconds later after a quick counter attack.
Madrid still had time for France striker Karim Benzema to blaze a bouncing ball over the crossbar from close range with eight minutes left.
It means the visitors, who are eighth in La Liga, take a slender lead back to Galicia for next Wednesday's return leg.
Zinedine Zidane's side only lost twice in their previous 48 matches across all competitions.
The invasion followed a march by about 2,000 fans before the match on 2 May in protest against the club's owners.
About 150 fans gathered on the pitch at Bloomfield Road just after half-time. The game was called off an hour later.
Police are keen to trace "a small minority" of fans they believe were involved in public order offences.
After examining CCTV footage, detectives have spoken to those who witnessed what happened on the pitch and a number of individuals have already been identified.
They will be spoken to in the coming weeks, but police also want to trace two more men.
Det Insp Jason Richardson said: "Whilst the majority of supporters present at the match behaved in a responsible and peaceful manner, a small minority of supporters overstepped the mark and their conduct is deemed to be unacceptable."
He added police would "look to ensure they are brought to account for their actions".
Mr Flynn agreed to come to the aid of the party after the resignation of Chris Bryant as shadow leader of the House left Jeremy Corbyn with several vacancies in his shadow cabinet. It's believed he is the oldest front bench speaker since Gladstone.
He began with this statement: "You may be a tad surprised to see me in this position, Mr Speaker, because for the past 26 years I have been a backbencher by choice - not just my choice, but the choice of the past five leaders of my party. Today, however, I am here for very positive reasons, as part of a diversity project in my party at which we have done splendidly.
"There are now far more women on the front bench and in Parliament than ever before - although not enough -and far more ethnic minorities, but there is currently a total absence of octogenarians. I believe that my appointment to this post will be a trailblazer which will lead to an all-octogenarian shortlist in the party, and will make the wealth of experience and wisdom among my fellow octogenarians available to the House. It is important for us to have people here who can remember life before there was a health service."
Mr Flynn's appearance coincided with the release of next week's parliamentary business - with the committee stage of the Wales Bill scheduled for Tuesday.
That sounds routine enough - except Labour currently has no shadow Welsh secretary to lead the official opposition during those debates.
Australian man Gary Peters was bodyguard to Saadi Gaddafi, the son of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, but now works in a Queensland pub.
The 52-year-old was drinking with friends after a shift on Wednesday when he stepped outside to relieve himself.
Mr Peters had just finished urinating when the mulga snake struck his ankle.
He said that he saw venom dripping down his leg and feared he would die from the bite.
"I only got a small dosage [of venom], enough to make me crook. If I had more I would have been in a body bag, I would have been dead," Mr Peters said.
The venom of the mulga snake is not as toxic as in some other Australian snake species, but is produced in very large quantities.
Workmate Peta Warden said she "thought nothing of it" when Mr Peters returned to the bar asking for a shoelace to use as a tourniquet.
"I was just having a nice quiet drink and Gary decided to go [outside] even though the newly renovated toilets are only about 2m away," Ms Warden told the BBC.
She and a friend held Mr Peters down on the back of a utility truck tray until they reached the closest helipad. An air ambulance then flew him 300km (186 miles) to Mt Isa Hospital.
Mr Peters met Saadi Gaddafi at Sydney's Olympic Games in 2000, where he was assigned to protect visiting dignitaries as a member of the Australian army.
He worked as Gaddafi's bodyguard during the Libyan uprising in 2011. As Tripoli fell to rebel forces, Mr Peters helped Gaddafi escape to Niger, in defiance of a United Nations travel ban on the dictator's son.
In 2013 he was deported from Canada, where he ran a private security company, after being found complicit in war crimes. A judge ruled he was a "member of the [Libyan] government apparatus".
Smith, who could face "suspension or expulsion" by British Gymnastics, did not state where the death threats came from.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, he said he has experienced "a lot of hatred from the Muslim community" after the video surfaced.
"It's a very scary situation," he said.
"I am very ignorant to religion but I am an ethnic minority myself and have been on the receiving end of racist comments. I do not condone racism at all.
"Some people from the Muslim community have been understanding. Some people have been angry, but once I have apologised, they have then said 'we are taught to forgive - we are peaceful'.
"And at the other end of the spectrum I've had death threats. Every day online. I'm cautious and I'm stressed."
Smith, who has won medals at the past three Olympic Games, has already been censured twice this year by British Gymnastics.
In April, he apologised for questioning the judging at the British Championships, where he was beaten to pommel gold by Max Whitlock.
He was also reprimanded in June for posting an image on social media of an American gymnast, who was 16 when the photograph was taken, accompanied by a comment British Gymnastics said was "unbefitting to a participant".
Smith was at his friend's wedding when the incident happened in the bar at around 05:00 BST. He was with retired Irish gymnast Luke Carson.
"We were singing Disney songs from the Lion King and Jungle Book. We were acting out pretending to pick up palm trees like the Bare Necessities," says Smith.
"Then we went on to Aladdin and I was saying, "we need a magic carpet" and then Luke went to grab a tapestry off the wall and then put it on the floor.
"And that's when things went a bit sour and we went into a shameful thing of mocking Islam prayer. It was a very silly thing for both of us to do.
"Given the amount of alcohol we had consumed and the silly mood we were in we found it hilarious at the time.
"What people saw in that video is not a representation of what I stand for and my moral fibre."
Smith, who has been a key figure in the rejuvenation of men's gymnastics in Britain, says he finds being a role model "incredibly hard".
"I've bounced through life making mistakes and a lot of the time people haven't heard about them because it was before I was in the public eye," he said.
"I'm constantly making mistakes and I'm constantly trying to learn from them."
After he was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of seven, Smith was taken to a gymnastics club by mother Elaine to channel his energy into something constructive.
"I've come from a single parent family, grew up on a council estate and have been surrounded by tough places and tough education," Smith said.
"The only thing that has been a saving grace for me has been the support from my mum and my gymnastics."
Speaking about his mother's reaction to the video, Smith said: "I like to think she brought me up to be a better human being than this.
"And that's been the hardest part to deal with - letting people down close to me and those that look up to me. I'm ashamed to have put people in this position."
Asked if the controversy has made him contemplate quitting the sport, Smith said he was "not quite at that point".
"I still think I have a lot to offer," he said. "I proved in Rio that I can still win medals for my country. We'll just have to wait and see what British Gymnastics decide to do."
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The defender scored in Monday's win over champions Dundalk which maintained City's perfect start to the season.
"Ryan played with flu against Dundalk - he vomited at half-time and had chest pains. He's a possibility rather that probability," said boss Kenny Shiels.
Injured pair Rory Patterson and Conor McDermott are ruled out but Lukas Schubert returns for the Candystripes.
Derry have also chalked up wins over Bohemians and Shamrock Rovers to lie second in standings and with a game in hand on leaders Cork City.
Drogheda are three points behind City and Shiels has warned against complacency in the Maginn Park game.
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Shiels is also concerned that the atmosphere in the ground may be affected by a Saturday afternoon kick-off.
He added: "When you win your first three games and then you are playing a team which is not Dundalk, Shamrock Rovers or Limerick - you can take your eye off the ball.
"We've been hammering it into the players how important the Drogheda game is and how difficult it is going to be.
"I've gone to Irish League games on a Saturday afternoon and there is not the same passion coming from the stands.
"I'm concerned about it and we've got to try to lift the whole place."
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Boro boss Aitor Karanka favours a system with one striker up front, which has been Spaniard Negredo in 18 of 20 Premier League games this season.
Gestede arrived from Aston Villa this month to add to Karanka's options, although David Nugent has joined Derby.
"You have to believe in yourself," the 28-year-old told BBC Tees.
"I learn from him [Alvaro] everyday, he's a top striker, the competition is healthy.
"I will try to show him I can put pressure on him and make sure he does even better and scores some goals for us."
Scotland international Jordan Rhodes and Uruguayan forward Cristhian Stuani provide other alternatives for Karanka.
Gestede returns to the top flight after scoring four goals in 19 games for Aston Villa this campaign, following Villa's relegation to the Championship last season.
Joining a club with a consistent system is of little concern for the France-born Benin international, who has spoken to his new manager about the role he will play at the Riverside.
"I know how they play," Gestede added. "The good thing is Aitor Karanka never changes his tactics, he is one step or two steps forward and he's very clever in what he does.
"He wants me to bring my assets, a presence in the box, I can hold the ball up. He just said bring what you've got and enjoy to play. It's a pleasure to play football at the best level."
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The sides drew 2-2 on Boxing Day but Glenavon have been punished for fielding a suspended player, David Elebert, in the match at Shamrock Park.
Under Irish FA rules, the match has now been recorded as a 3-0 win for the Ports with Glenavon also fined £350.
It means Portadown are now nine points behind one-from-bottom Carrick Rangers.
The case will provide a lift for embattled Portadown who were themselves similarly punished for playing a suspended player earlier in the season.
On top of that, they started the season on -12 points after being found guilty of paying a player whom they had registered as an amateur.
Glenavon got into trouble for including defender Elebert in their starting line-up for the traditional 26 December derby fixture.
Elebert had been suspended for one game from 19 December for five bookings, three of which were picked up during reserve team matches.
Glenavon felt Elebert had completed the suspension when he sat out a reserve fixture - but IFA rules dictate that such suspensions apply to the "more senior team".
The Lurgan club said they had checked Elebert's eligibility with the governing body before including him in their team.
They have four days in which to appeal against the Irish FA's decision.
Mr Fico will now need to find coalition partners to return for a third term.
Gains by small parties, including an extreme right one, may produce a divided parliament with no clear path to forming a majority government.
Mr Fico has vowed not to accept "one single Muslim" migrant.
His country takes over the EU's rotating presidency in July. His hardline views on migration echo those of Polish, Czech and Hungarian leaders.
In all, eight parties, including the far-right People's Party - Our Slovakia led by Marian Kotleba, will be represented in parliament. Our Slovakia won more than 8% of the vote.
The BBC's Rob Cameron in Bratislava says Mr Kotleba is an unrepentant admirer of Slovakia's wartime existence as a Nazi puppet state, and until recently dressed in a uniform modelled on that state's pro-Nazi militia.
With about 50% of the vote counted, Mr Fico's Smer-Social Democracy party is on about 29% support, which would give it 48 seats in the 150-member parliament.
As the leader of the strongest party in Saturday's poll, Mr Fico is expected to be asked to form a new government.
Mr Fico, 51, is known for populist policies such as free train travel for students and pensioners.
He has fiercely opposed EU quotas on migrant resettlement from Greece and Italy, which would see his country take about 2,600 people.
Slovakia received only 260 asylum requests last year.
Organisers had cancelled the march following the violence, police said, but many demonstrators remained on the streets.
At least one person appeared to have been seriously hurt and was carried away covered by a foil blanket.
World leaders including US President Donald Trump are in Hamburg for talks on a wide range of issues.
The clashes began when police charged a group of anti-capitalist demonstrators at the march attended by thousands carrying banners with slogans such as "Welcome to hell" and "Smash G20".
They fired water cannon and pepper spray at masked protesters, who hurled bottles, stones and flares at police.
Medics were seen treating several people. Other protesters built makeshift barricades on streets. At least one vehicle had been set alight and businesses had been damaged, police said.
Up to 100,000 protesters are expected in Hamburg during the summit. Earlier, police had warned of possible violence and said they had confiscated a number of homemade weapons.
The G20 leaders face their own disagreements, including over climate change and trade.
Mr Trump has already met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the pair spent an hour talking about North Korea, the Middle East, the conflict in eastern Ukraine and G20 issues, a German government spokesman said.
Last week Mrs Merkel said the G20 would focus on the Paris climate deal - which the US has withdrawn from. But earlier she said that as the G20 host she would work to find compromises.
The summit will also see Mr Trump meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time. The meeting will take place at 14:45 local time (13:45 GMT) and last for an hour, Russian media report.
Earlier in the day Mr Trump used a speech in the Polish capital Warsaw to call on Russia to stop "destabilising" Ukraine and other countries.
Russia should also end support for "hostile regimes" such as those in Syria and Iran and "join the community of responsible nations", he said.
He urged Russia to join the "fight against common enemies and in defence of civilisation itself".
The Kremlin rejected his comments.
Mr Trump referred to Russia's "destabilising" behaviour twice in one day in Poland. But the Kremlin spokesman has shrugged that off, saying simply that Moscow "does not agree". It's all part of the wait-and-see approach here.
Russia once had great hopes that Donald Trump could rescue relations from the pit into which they were plunged after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine. Almost six months into the Trump presidency, there may be increasing pessimism.
But the Kremlin is calling Mr Trump's meeting with Mr Putin on Friday an important chance to get acquainted. Perhaps it is betting that personal dynamics will help overcome policy differences.
After all, officials here insist that it is simply "Russophobia" in the US that has prevented President Trump "getting along" with Russia as he said he wanted.
They have certainly noted how in Poland he shied away from accusing Russia unequivocally of meddling in the US elections. Moscow has argued all along that there is no proof. In public at least, Mr Trump appeared to agree with that.
The US leader also hailed Poland as an example of a country ready to defend Western freedoms.
Poland's conservative government shares Mr Trump's hostile view of immigration and strong sense of sovereignty.
NTV correspondent - "After the icy reception [Trump] was given in Europe in May what he needs now are comfortable and favourable surroundings, a picture along the lines of 'look at how they adore us here'."
Ren TV presenter - Trump was keen to play on differences within Europe and help Poland "cobble together an Eastern European bloc opposed to EU leaders... Trump is only too happy to pour oil onto the fire of European discord."
Tony Woodcock's early try and a penalty from fourth-choice fly-half Stephen Donald were enough to see the All Blacks home in an extraordinary match that defied all pre-match predictions.
France produced their best performance of the tournament and appeared to be close to pulling off one of the great upsets after captain Thierry Dusautoir's try with half an hour remaining set up a nerve-shredding finale.
But Francois Trinh-Duc missed a long-range penalty before desperate defence saw the favourites hang on for a famous win.
As you looked around Eden Park late on Sunday night, camera-flashes twinkling among the black-clad thousands in the stands like stars in the night sky, one emotion dominated all others: an enormous, unmistakable sense of relief
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The final whistle triggered scenes of wild jubilation at Eden Park as a nation celebrated a repeat of the outcome from the very first World Cup final in 1987.
And when skipper Richie McCaw hoisted the Webb Ellis Trophy high into the night, a quarter of a century of hurt was blown away in an explosion of fireworks and cheering.
An already febrile atmosphere within the ground before the start had been stoked still further when France's players formed an arrow formation to face down the haka, and then advanced slowly over halfway as the capacity crowd roared.
The drama seemed to unsettle the players, both sides making early errors, and when Piri Weepu pulled a penalty badly wide the nerves began to spread to the stands.
With one well-worked line-out move they were soon silenced. Weepu put a penalty into the corner, Jerome Kaino took the ball off the top and popped it down into the arms of the advancing Woodcock to put the veteran prop through a gaping hole.
Weepu missed a simple conversion but France were rattled.
For all their good early work they found themselves on the end of some harsh decisions from referee Craig Joubert at the scrum and breakdown. With fly-half Morgan Parra forced off with a head injury the All Blacks began to dominate possession, only for Weepu to miss another straightforward penalty from 25 metres out.
The scrum-half's struggles meant the lead remained at just five points instead of a possible 13, and with half-time approaching the tide began to turn.
Fly-half Aaron Cruden hyper-extended his knee horribly in contact and was carried off the pitch, forcing Graham Henry to bring on Donald - a man who was fishing for whitebait a fortnight ago before injuries to Dan Carter and Colin Slade triggered his emergency call-up.
France's own stand-in stand-off Trinh-Duc missed with a drop-goal when well set but then set off on a curving run through a scattered defensive line which carried him deep into enemy territory until Weepu's desperate tap-tackle finally brought him down.
He had a chance to reduce the deficit to just two points only to slide a penalty from the left touchline across the face of the posts, and was then penalised by Joubert to give Donald the simplest of kicks for 8-0.
If some expected France to fold, Les Bleus had other ideas. Trinh-Duc gathered a poor kick from Weepu and sliced through the All Blacks line again, and although Dimitri Yachvili slipped with the line at his mercy the ball went wide, was recycled and put into the hands of skipper Dusautoir to slide in under the posts.
Eden Park was stunned, Trinh-Duc converting for 8-7 and the previously impregnable home side badly rattled.
France were transformed from the feeble, divided unit that had squeaked past Wales in the semi-final, their half-backs finding the corners with beautifully judged kicks from hand, the forwards making yards with every drive and a reorganised Kiwi line-out beginning to malfunction.
With 16 minutes left on the clock and the tension climbing through the roof, Trinh-Duc tried his luck with a penalty from just inside halfway only to push it wide, but the unthinkable now seemed a real possibility.
Replacement Damien Traille burgled a high ball from Israel Dagg and made good ground, the All Blacks scrum coming under increasing pressure and the crowd falling silent as their World Cup dream threatened to become a nightmare.
With the seconds slipping away and the gap just one point, France went through an 18-phase attack that made little ground but resulted in an attacking scrum on the New Zealand 10m line, only for the hosts to steal the ball back when Aurelien Rougerie was wrapped up.
The All Blacks drove upfield, using up the remaining moments, and when Joubert blew for another French infringement, the biggest party in New Zealand's history was under way.
New Zealand: Israel Dagg, Cory Jane, Conrad Smith, Ma'a Nonu, Richard Kahui, Aaron Cruden, Piri Weepu; Tony Woodcock, Keven Mealamu, Owen Franks, Sam Whitelock, Brad Thorn, Jerome Kaino, Richie McCaw (capt), Kieran Read.
Replacements: Stephen Donald (for Cruden, 34), Ali Williams (for Whitelock, 48), Andrew Hore (for Mealamu, 49), Andy Ellis (for Weepu, 49), Sonny Bill Williams (for Nonu, 76). Not used: Ben Franks, Adam Thomson.
France: Maxime Médard, Vincent Clerc, Aurélien Rougerie Maxime Mermoz, Alexis Palisson, Morgan Parra, Dimitri Yachvili; Jean-Baptiste Poux, William Servat, Nicolas Mas, Pascal Papé, Lionel Nallet, Thierry Dusautoir (capt), Julien Bonnaire, Imanol Harinordoquy.
Replacements: François Trinh-Duc (for Parra, 12-17, then 22), Damien Traille (for Clerc, 45), Dimitri Szarzewski (for Servat, 65), Fabien Barcella (for Poux, 65), Julien Pierre (for Pape, 70), Jean-Marc Doussain (for Yachvili, 76). Not used: Fulgence Ouedraogo
Referee: Craig Joubert (South Africa)
Attendance: 60,000
Summer Grant, seven, from Norwich, was visiting the funfair in Harlow Town Park, Essex, on 26 March 2016 and died later in hospital.
Shelby Thurston, 25 and William Thurston, 28, from Whitecross Road, Wilburton, Cambridgeshire appeared before Chelmsford Crown Court earlier.
They will go on trial on 5 February.
The pair, who were given bail, also denied charges of failing to discharge a general health and safety duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act.
The court was told by the couple's defence that the trial would hear expert evidence from a meteorologist.
At the opening of an inquest into Summer's death last April, Chelmsford Coroner's Court heard high winds had taken the dome-shaped inflatable "some distance".
The inquest was also told Summer was thought to have died from multiple injuries.
Defence lawyer Barry Roux said Pistorius was both "broke and broken" after the seven-month trial.
Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide last month after shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last year, but was cleared of murder.
Judge Thokozile Masipa is expected to deliver the sentence on Tuesday.
There is no legal limit on the length of a jail term, but the prosecution has argued for a minimum of 10 years.
Experts say the typical maximum sentence for the crime is around 15 years.
Pistorius' defence team has argued for him to be given community service and house arrest, a suggestion the prosecution said would be "shockingly disproportionate".
Both defence and prosecution lawyers finished presenting their final arguments before the court was adjourned.
The high-profile trial, which has captured public attention in South Africa and beyond, began in March.
Pistorius sobbed as Mr Roux said the athlete was once an "icon in the eyes of South Africans" and now could not even pay for legal expenses.
"He is not only broke but he is broken," he said.
"He's a first offender. What has happened to this man? He was on the rise," Mr Roux added.
He argued that Pistorius had already suffered greatly since the death of Reeva Steenkamp and had not "earned a penny since".
The lawyer asked Judge Masipa to consider the South African principle of "ubuntu", roughly translated as kindness towards others, in her sentencing.
He also claimed that Pistorius would be unsafe in prison, a claim denied by the prisons chief on Thursday.
At the scene: Andrew Harding, BBC News, Pretoria
Judge Thokozile Masipa must choose between two starkly different interpretations of justice, and of Oscar Pistorius himself, as she spends this weekend pondering what sentence to give the man she's already cleared of murder but found guilty of culpable homicide.
The athlete's lawyer, Barry Roux, used his final arguments to appeal to the judge's sense of humanity in urging her to reject a prison sentence for a man he said was - beyond all doubt - genuinely remorseful and desperate to make amends for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel was scornful of the athlete's appeals for leniency, saying his expressions of remorse were not genuine, and that he was "shamefully" exploiting his disability to try to avoid a prison sentence.
The interests (rather than the opinion) of society, the demands of justice, rehabilitation, punishment, fairness and the personal circumstances of both Pistorius and the Steenkamps will all, presumably, inform Judge Masipa's ruling.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel said that the minimum sentence "society would be happy with" would be 10 years in prison.
"I could have started at 15 and hoped that the court will suspend five, my Lady , but this is a serious matter," he said.
He also repeated criticism of a payment offer by Pistorius to the Steenkamp family.
"I cannot but think this is an attempt to influence," he said.
Reeva Steenkamp's family rejected a large lump sum offered by Pistorius.
However, they did accept smaller monthly support payments. They have since promised to repay the cash and not pursue a civil case.
Mr Nel went on to criticise the use of Pistorius' disability in arguments for a shorter sentence.
"I find it disturbing that a person who fought to compete with able-bodied athletes now shamelessly uses disability in mitigation," he said.
The Paralympic sprinter denied murdering Ms Steenkamp after a row on Valentine's Day last year, saying he shot her by mistake, fearing there was an intruder in the house.
Ms Steenkamp, a model, reality TV star and law graduate, was hit three times by bullets shot through a toilet door by Pistorius at his home in the capital, Pretoria.
Mark O'Shea, from Telford, Shropshire, was bitten by the 14-year-old serpent, called Sleeping Beauty, on Sunday.
He has described how he went on to address an audience at the safari park soon after being bitten.
But after a few minutes Mr O'Shea said he became dizzy and could not speak and had to be flown to hospital.
The venom from a single cobra bite is strong enough to kill an elephant.
Mr O'Shea, who has presented TV programmes for Channel 4, the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet and written books on reptiles, said Sleeping Beauty was presented with a dead rat "on a long pair of forceps".
He added: "She rushed forward to take the rat. She missed it and started to basically try and find it with her mouth and I moved and she grabbed my shoe and she bit my shoe.
"I folded back my sock and could see a large pool of venom from the bite, but there were no puncture wounds on my skin, so I thought 'well, we've been lucky, she hasn't penetrated'.
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"I'm five, six, seven minutes into the [talk] and I started to have a few problems... my neck muscles and my tongue muscles were tightening up."
Mr O'Shea said he came off stage and asked a colleague at the safari park in Bewdley, Worcestershire, to "start the snakebite procedure".
Soon after he was airlifted to hospital for treatment.
Mr O'Shea added that Sleeping Beauty, who had a life-saving operation two months ago, was still his "favourite snake".
The snake handler added: "She's recovering well and that's why we're giving her extra special treats, these lovely rats she likes to eat.
"She did not attack me defensively or out of aggression. She simply responded because she was hungry and went for the rat and made a mistake and grabbed my shoe."
Asked how many times he had been bitten altogether, Mr O'Shea said: "It's between me and God... I don't count them.
"They're not boy scout merit badges."
Pro-government papers dismiss the validity of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report, which some said was influenced by foreign governments as part of a deliberate anti-Russia campaign.
However, amid the outrage, one former leading sports star says he thinks the Wada accusations were largely true.
State-owned Rossiskaya Gazeta wades in with the theory that Wada is not politically neutral and is at the centre of an anti-Russia campaign.
"The Wada commission that was preparing the report under the supervision of its Canadian boss described itself as 'independent'," Nikolai Dolgopolov writes. "This is highly unlikely."
"The work was carried out as if following somebody's orders. The Russians are to blame, full stop."
In the same report, academic Andrei Smolensky says simply: "It is not a report, it is a farce."
Pro-government Izvestia thinks Russian athletes were just pawns in a bigger game.
"Sport is too big a temptation not to draw political profit from it," it argues.
Writing in liberal business daily RBC, Andrei Kolesnikov of the Moscow Carnegie Centre believes that Russia was being deliberately targeted.
"It is important for us to take part in the Olympics, it is a quasi-war, a demonstration of soft and hard power."
Some, however, believe Russia does share at least some of the blame.
An editorial in Moscow business daily Vedomosti says Moscow's "yearning to win at all costs" has caused a "crisis of distrust".
"It will take Moscow years to prove that it is really fighting doping," it adds.
Popular news website Gazeta.ru agrees, adding that Russia's reaction has not helped matters.
"Do not shout 'you don't have proof', but prove our innocence," it urges officials.
Russia's sporting newspapers lament what they think is the inevitable fate of not going to the Olympics.
"Mere hours remain before Russian sport is fully outlawed," Natalya Maryanchik writes in Sport Express.
However, she sees a chink of light: "This document has plenty of weak spots, from mixed up surnames to the absence of names of specific athletes."
In Sport Express, former world number one tennis player Yevgeni Kafelnikov provides a rare voice in support of the report's findings.
"I am disinclined to think that the allegations against Russian sport are the handiwork of our foes," he tells the paper.
"I don't think that Wada representatives would throw around such accusations willy-nilly. Evidently, such things really did take place."
Pro-Kremlin Twitter users have been quick to defend their country's sporting honour, while opposition figures demanded that heads roll.
"Doping [exists] across the globe, in all countries," pro-Kremlin TV presenter and media executive Tina Kandelaki tweeted. "But for some reason Russia has been made a scapegoat. Why?"
Several apparently pro-Kremlin users have circulated a picture of former US Secretary of State Colin Powell holding a model of a vial of anthrax while trying to make the case for invading Iraq at the UN Security Council in 2003.
"Wada has presented 'convincing' and 'sound' evidence that Russian athletes use doping," user "subb_zer0" tweeted.
Opposition blogger Oleg Kozyrev puts the blame in part at the door of the FSB, Russia's security service.
"The FSB leadership, Russian sports leadership, deputy premier [and head of Russia's Olympic committee Alexander] Zhukov must resign, of course," he writes. "The Wada report is clear."
The editor-in-chief of the liberal radio station Ekho Moskvy, Alexei Venediktov, offered an alternative solution to the issue: "Just bar the FSB from the Olympics. That's all."
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This intriguing political strategy is suggested by some new opinion research. The BBC Radio 4 programme Campaign Sidebar asked the polling company YouGov to explore how first names tie in to political attitudes.
YouGov analysed the voting intentions of individuals with the 130 most common first names among the 46,000 people it's polled in the past two months. And some results are fascinating.
The data suggests that people called Nigel are roughly twice as likely to vote for UKIP as the general population. 31% of Nigels back UKIP, compared to 16% in the public overall.
This might please party leader Nigel Farage, but there are probably demographic reasons for this, according to Joe Twyman of YouGov. He says: "What we are picking up is the fact that Nigel tends to be a name for older men. You don't hear people nowadays saying 'come round and see my lovely baby Nigel'.
"And it's those people who tend to vote UKIP."
The views of those with the first names of the other main party leaders do not differ so much from the national average.
However YouGov also examined more generally which common first names are most or least likely to be associated with support for a particular party. And this is what it found.
The most Conservative name is Charlotte, the most Labour one is Michelle, while the most Lib Dem name is Tim, and the most UKIP one is Jill.
And the least Tory name is Clare, the least Labour one is Jonathan, the least Lib Dem one is June, and the least UKIP one is Alex.
There are also some surprising consequences of different spellings. It appears that adding an 'e' to the end of a girl's name can sometimes transform it into a much more Conservative name.
Anns are the 27th most likely name to vote Tory; but Annes are the fourth.
Similarly Carols are the 102nd most likely to back the Conservatives, while Caroles are the 14th.
And different variants can matter too. Tonys are the 20th most Tory name, while Anthonys are only the 71st.
As a caveat it should be noted that the sample sizes are considerably smaller than for a standard voting intention poll and so the margin of error is greater.
But these results raise interesting questions about the role of "nominative determinism" in influencing human behaviour, including political preferences.
Martin Rosenbaum is the editor of Campaign Sidebar
It was discovered early on Wednesday outside a property in Newcastle, in the south-west of the city.
A number of homes were evacuated while an Irish army bomb disposal team examined what was described as an improvised explosive device.
The area was declared safe at 05:45 local time. The Irish Defence Forces said it had dealt with 18 "viable devices" this year.
A group of parents held talks with CCMS and the school's associate principal, Imelda Jordan, on Wednesday evening.
They said they were happy with Ms Jordan's reaction to the problems, but "disgusted" with that of the Catholic education authority.
Chairperson of the Concerned Parent's Committee, Gerry Carroll, expressed frustration at the continued lack of clarity after the meeting with CCMS.
"They're the people who run the show, aren't they? Is there someone else we should go to for information?
"I thought CCMS were the top dogs in all of this. Maybe they're not."
CCMS said it is committed to continuing dialogue with the school.
CEO Jim Clarke said the body was "struck by the genuine concerns expressed by the parents on the impact of the current situation in the school on their children".
He added: "We all agreed that the education needs and welfare must be paramount for everyone involved."
The group of parents is due to meet the Children's Commissioner on Thursday.
On Tuesday, teachers from the largest union at the school voted for strike action.
In a ballot, 71% of the school's Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) members who returned their ballots voted for industrial action "up to and including strike action".
Pickering has been flooded four times over the last 10 years.
The scheme includes a water storage area on a river upstream from the town, as well as tree planting and improved land management to slow the speed of rainwater coming off the surrounding moors.
Locals campaigned for the defences after a major flood in 2007.
Initial plans to build concrete flood walls in the town were rejected by the government in 2011 for being too costly.
The new scheme has been funded by Defra, local councils, the Environment Agency and other organisations who are involved in the Slowing the Flow Partnership.
Slowing the Flow Partnership chairman Jeremy Walker said the revised scheme relies on "re-engaging" Pickering Beck river with the surrounding flood plain.
"The river had disconnected itself from the flood plain by digging down and eroding its channel further and further down, " he said.
"So as whereas hundreds, thousands of years ago when there was too much water in the river it would have spilled out onto the flood plain here, it didn't.
"It just kept on going and spilled out on Pickering instead."
The flood of 2007 left 85 properties and the main A170 under water, causing around £7m of damage.
Mr Walker said the work would not prevent the most severe flooding, but would greatly reduce the frequency of floods in the town.
"Pickering historically has had about a one in four chance of flooding in any one year," he said.
"This structure [water storage area] combined with the other measures, and you have to see the whole thing as a package, changed that to at least a one in 25 chance."
Daniel Foss, 37, of Reynoldston, Gower, died on 24 September 2013.
An inquest on Friday heard he did not look before he stepped out in front of the coach on Kingsway.
Recording a narrative conclusion, coroner Colin Phillips said the road's "unusual" layout and the coach's speed were contributory factors.
Mr Phillips, Swansea's acting deputy coroner, said the coach was a travelling at about 31mph when Mr Foss was hit, but added he was sure the main reason for Mr Foss's death was because he was not looking in the direction the traffic was coming from.
He added: "It was not possible to swerve because of oncoming traffic. Stopping a coach in a split second is impossible."
During the inquest, road safety consultant Mark Steventon also said the road layout played a part in Mr Foss's death.
"In my experience, pedestrians pay very little attention to road signs or road markings," he said.
Mr Steventon also suggested a number of safety improvements for the road, including traffic calming measures and raised and staggered pedestrian crossings forcing pedestrians to look into the direction of oncoming traffic.
Previously, cars and lorries were restricted to one-way traffic, but buses and taxis used a separate two-way section.
Speaking after the inquest, Sgt Gareth Morgan read a statement on behalf of Mr Foss's family.
He said: "We have lost a beloved son, brother and uncle... We are relieved to see that the layout of the Kingsway has been changed and we hope this will now prevent further fatalities on this stretch of road.
"It is devastating that it took Daniel's life and the life of Sgt Louise Lucas before consideration was given to the dangers that this unconventional road posed to pedestrians."
On 31 March 2015 Sgt Louise Lucas, 41, died after being hit by a bus on the same road leading to barriers being installed and a one-way system was introduced on 1 November.
Mr Phillips added: "I am sure the main reason for the death is Mr Foss stepped into the road without looking in the direction the traffic was coming from, in contravention of the red traffic signal."
Swansea council spokesman said: "We'd again like to extend our condolences to Mr Foss's family and friends at this difficult time.
"We will now consider the coroner's findings in more detail to determine whether more action is needed."
The spokesman added changes had been made to the road layout including making it one-way, installing safety barriers and reducing the speed limit to 20mph.
Mr Owens was in charge of England's 55-35 Six Nations victory over France at Twickenham on Saturday.
South Wales Police said on its Twitter account it was investigating the tweet's content.
A spokesman told BBC Wales on Sunday that the matter has been passed on to Dyfed-Powys Police, the relevant investigating force.
Dyfed-Powys police has been asked to comment.
England's win over France was not enough to see them lift the Six Nations title as they needed a bigger points margin.
Seamus Mallon from the SDLP accused Sinn Féin and the DUP of creating a total mess with their failure to reach agreement to restore devolution.
"Damage has been done to the very essence of the agreement in terms of reconciling the communities," he said.
He was speaking at the John Hewitt International Summer School in Armagh.
Northern Ireland has been without devolved government since January, when a power-sharing coalition led by the DUP and Sinn Féin collapsed over a green energy scandal.
A series of negotiations aimed at resolving a number of outstanding disputes between the parties, including disagreement over Irish language legislation, have so far ended in failure.
Mr Mallon said neither party had brought forward any proper proposals to heal division between Northern Ireland's communities.
"You have a very sick society when the definition of culture on one side is the burning of bonfires and, on the other side, using the Irish language for what is a patently political reason," he said.
"When you start to make a cultural element a red line in terms of political negotiation, it is impossible to pursue that without turning that into a political cudgel."
He accused both Sinn Féin and the DUP of trying to put their own stamp on the Good Friday Agreement and wishing to change it fundamentally.
Asked about the SDLP's loss of its three Westminster seats in the last election, he said he had faith in his party and in the middle ground in Northern Ireland.
"We'll keep at it, we'll do what we did in the past.
"We'll keep the political process going while everybody else is beating drums and we'll get back. I have no doubts.," he said.
"The DUP and Sinn Féin are both dancing around each other. Some of the issues are not real issues."
Colum Eastwood said the idea of a deal being struck during the campaign was "not credible" and politicians "should give up the pretence of negotiations".
The parties will review the talks process on Thursday with the UK and Irish governments, Sinn Féin has said.
At Westminster, MPs have passed an emergency bill to extend the talks.
A new 29 June deadline is proposed to give parties more time for negotiations after the election.
The bill would also allow the collection of rates in the absence of an executive, and could become law by the end of the week.
Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire has published indicative figures for a budget he will impose if Stormont's parties do not reach a deal.
It would include a 2.5% cut to spending on education.
Speaking in the House of Commons, he said the government would be prepared to implement it "as a last resort".
"This is not a step any government would take lightly," he said.
"But this house must not forget the duties we uphold for the people of Northern Ireland."
A round-table discussion involving the parties took place on Monday, with more bilateral meetings due in the coming days.
The leaders of the two main unionist parties are meeting on Monday to discuss a possible electoral pact.
But Ulster Unionist leader Robin Swann said Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster has "made the conversation a bit more difficult" after she outlined her party's position in the Belfast Telegraph.
The snap general election comes after devolved government in Northern Ireland collapsed in January over a botched energy scheme.
The late Martin McGuinness, of Sinn Féin, quit as deputy first minister in protest at the DUP's handling of the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme scandal.
It led to a snap Northern Ireland Assembly election on 2 March, which saw a surge in Sinn Féin's vote.
Stormont's two largest parties have been unable to reach agreement to share power since that date, and were warned they face either a second assembly election or direct rule from Westminster.
However, Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to call an election to the House of Commons made a deal even less likely as parties switched to campaign mode.
The government published its Ministerial Appointments and Regional Rates Bill on Friday.
It began its accelerated passage through Westminster late on Monday afternoon, with MPs discussing the measures in a debate lasting just under four hours.
Members of the House of Lords will get their opportunity to scrutinise the bill on Wednesday.
Once passed, the law will give he Northern Ireland civil service the authority to collect the regional rate, increased in line with inflation, and push the deadline for restoring devolution back to 29 June.
That means the Stormont parties will not face the near impossible task of finding a compromise while campaigning in the general election.
However, whether they can reach a deal in the summer, which they could not do in the spring, remains open to doubt.
Ellie Sargent gave the hosts the lead in the first half.
Robyn Pinder added the second and Aimee Todd came off the bench to score twice in the later stages.
Group rivals Spartak Subotica and Breidablik later drew 1-1 with the group games continuing on Thursday and Sunday at the Cyncoed venue.
A 300m (984ft) zone was put in place last Monday after the rig grounded at Dalmore beach near Carloway.
Duncan MacInnes, of Western Isles Fishermen's Association, said four boats normally worked in that area.
The rig's owner and the official overseeing the salvage operation are to meet the local community on Thursday.
Ahead of this meeting with Transocean and Hugh Shaw, about 80 people attended an event on Monday night organised by Carloway Community Association.
Mr MacInnes told BBC Alba there was precedent for the fishermen's compensation claim.
He said fishing communities on Shetland were recompensed for lost earnings following the Braer tanker disaster 23 years ago.
The ship ran aground on 5 January, 1993, spilling almost 85,000 tonnes of crude oil.
It is expected to be several weeks before the drilling rig Transocean Winner can be refloated and towed from Lewis.
Mr MacInnes said: "This week there would be four vessels in the exclusion zone fishing exclusively for lobster and brown crab.
"This is the time of year when lobster are most plentiful in shallower grounds.
"Fishermen in Shetland got compensation when the Braer went down and we would insist on a similar compensation scheme for our members."
Local councillor Cudig MacLeod, who also attended Monday's meeting, said there was another ongoing problem - sightseers returning to the area to view and photograph the rig.
He said people were putting themselves at risk trying to see the Transocean Winner from high cliffs and slippery coastal footpaths.
Mr MacLeod said: "Once you've got a picture of an oil rig they are all the same. It is the same as every other one.
"If they want to see pictures they are on Facebook and other social media."
Thursday's meeting will be held from 20:00 at Carloway Community Centre.
Western Isles emergency planning co-ordinating group said the latest details about the salvage operation would be shared and questions answered.
Transocean has arranged the meeting. Representatives from the company are to attend, along with bosses from salvage firm Smit and Hugh Shaw, the secretary of state's representative for maritime and salvage.
Ministers met farming representatives in London, in the wake of dozens of protests in recent weeks.
Environment Secretary Liz Truss said she wanted better labelling of British produce in supermarkets.
The National Farmers' Union said the government was sending the "right messages" but protests would continue.
It said farmers were still "desperate".
NFU president Meurig Raymond said he was hopeful minsters would be "talking to everyone in the supply chain" to promote British produce in the supermarkets, and to "come up with fairer contracts".
Ms Truss described the meeting as "helpful and productive".
"It was an encouraging meeting and I believe we can help build stronger foundations that give the industry the long-term stability and commercial opportunities it needs to manage global volatility," she said.
Ms Truss said the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs would be putting together a working group "to talk to supermarkets and other providers about how we can get a better branding and better labelling of those [British] products".
Farmers say a reduction in global demand for milk has led to an oversupply in the UK, which has in turn seen prices plummet.
Scottish Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead said this was a "global issue" and there must be "urgent action at a Scottish, UK and EU level".
But he also called on the food industry to "step up to the plate and support farmers in their hour of need".
Monday's talks follow demonstrations which have seen farmers bringing cattle into supermarkets and buying up stocks of milk from store shelves before giving it away for free.
Why is the milk row happening?
Aldi, Lidl and Asda have since said they would pay a minimum price of 28p per litre. Morrisons will pay 26p per litre from later this month, and it has also launched a brand of milk and cheese which it says will directly support producers.
Waitrose, Marks & Spencer, Tesco, the Co-op and Sainsbury's say they already pay more than the cost of production for milk.
The industry estimates the average cost of production is 30-32p per litre.
By BBC environment correspondent Claire Marshall
This is the dairy farmers' version of the ice bucket challenge.
They say that milk is so cheap, they might as well just let it wash away.
The Farming Community Network has organised the milk bucket challenge in order to raise funds and awareness of the crisis in the milk industry, which has suffered months of price drops.
Caroline Trude, chairwoman of the Devon Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs, has helped to organise the challenges.
She told the BBC they poured about 800 litres (176 gallons) of milk over their heads during one challenge. This cost at least £240 to produce. However, at the current rate, farmers were only being paid about £184 on average for that amount from a processor.
Ms Trude said it raised the profile of the issue without disrupting the public.
Matthew Weaver took two cows into a branch of Asda in Staffordshire earlier this month.
He said he felt the support from customers had been "the driver for the success we've had so far".
John Allen, a dairy industry expert from Kite Consulting, said low prices meant farmers would go out of business but the market would then "self-correct".
"Probably next year we'll see a significant turnaround and consumers will have to be paying significantly more for their dairy product," he said.
The issue of milk prices in the UK will again be raised at a European Commission meeting next month.
The experts backed flibanserin, but said it must carry warnings about strong possible side effects including fainting and tiredness.
The final decision now moves to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The FDA has rejected the drug twice since 2010 but it usually follows the advice of its experts.
Women taking the drug reported between 0.5 and one more sexually satisfying event per month, results experts admitted were "modest".
"But on the other hand, even modest results can make a lot of difference when you're at a certain point in the clinical problem," said Dr Julia Heiman of the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University.
One patient who received the drug explained its appeal.
"I want to want my husband, it is that simple,'' said Amanda Parrish. "For us, flibanserin is a relationship-saving and life-changing drug.''
Lobbying by the drug's developer, Sprout Pharmaceuticals, was aided by the women's rights group Even the Score, which has accused the FDA of gender bias by approving a number of drugs treating erectile dysfunction in men without passing an equivalent for women.
But some criticised the campaign as providing cover for a drug with marginal effects.
"To approve this drug will set the worst kind of precedent - that companies that spend enough money can force the FDA to approve useless or dangerous drugs," said, Dr Adriane Fugh-Berman of Georgetown University, the New York Times reported.
If approved, flibanserin will be aimed at pre-menopausal women. The panel suggested several risk management measures, such as requiring physicians to hold a certificate before prescribing the drug.
The Prince of Wales was nearing the end of a trip from Barmouth when it hit the Penmaenpool toll bridge on 22 July 1966.
An inquiry found the skipper negligent, with the vessel undermanned and carrying too many people.
On Friday, a plaque was unveiled at Penmaenpool in memory of the victims, including four children.
There were 42 people on board the ferry for the eight mile (13km) trip from Barmouth to the George III hotel when the disaster happened.
An official inquiry found the boat was carrying six more passengers than the maximum 36 permitted under its certification.
Furthermore, there should have been two crew members - one on the engine and one on the rudder.
But there was only skipper Edward Llewelyn, 73 at the time, who was found to have acted negligently by a Board of Trade inquiry.
The boat was also short of lifebelts and buoyancy apparatus was stowed away.
While it was cruising in at slow speed towards the jetty, the force of the tide sent it crashing into the toll bridge, throwing all passengers into the water.
"I saw the boat coming up the river and the tide was very strong that day," said Ron Davies, now 82, who helped with the rescue.
"The boat didn't turn around and the tide washed the boat sideways against the bridge and wrecked it with people in the water straight away."
Mr Davies, who rescued two boys, added: "I wish I could have done more… but there we are… there's only so much I could do."
Local people including the George III hotel owner and its staff and toll bridge keeper Idris Roberts went to the aid of passengers.
Although a number of the rescuers are still alive, no-one has been officially recognised for bravery in saving 27 lives by pulling them out of the fast-flowing incoming tide.
The 45-year-old former Admiralty vessel had been purchased as a passenger-carrying boat in 1936 by brothers John and Harry Lloyd Jones.
While the two were ordered to pay £15 each towards the inquiry costs and Mr Llewelyn £100, no prosecutions were brought.
However, the inquiry did lead to changes in the law governing insurance and the number of passengers boats could carry.
The plaque in memory of the 15 victims was unveiled at Penmaenpool, near Dolgellau.
The 55-year-old Glasgow-born star will be the 12th actor to play the Doctor, replacing out-going lead Matt Smith.
Capaldi is best known for his role as foul-mouthed spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker in the BBC series The Thick of It.
"It's so wonderful not to keep this secret any longer, but it's been so fantastic," he said after the news was revealed on a live BBC One show.
The actor had been the bookmakers' favourite to take on the role, with betting on him becoming the next Doctor suspended on Friday.
It is not the first time Capaldi has appeared on the show - he played Roman merchant Caecilius in 2008 Doctor Who adventure The Fires of Pompeii.
By Tim MastersEntertainment correspondent, BBC News
After Matt Smith, the youngest actor to play the Doctor, comes Peter Capaldi, one of the oldest.
At 55, the same age as first Doctor William Hartnell in 1963, Capaldi's casting seems a significant nod to the past as the show celebrates its 50th anniversary.
Capaldi is likely to bring gravitas - as well as humour - to a role widely regarded as one of the most prized in British television.
Capaldi has a strong track record on TV, stage and in film - and is the first Doctor Who star with an Oscar on his CV (for best live action short film).
His previous appearances in Doctor Who episode The Fires of Pompeii and spin-off show Torchwood will make Capaldi a popular choice among fans.
But how will his regenerated Doctor play to a generation born in the 21st Century? Only time will tell.
At 55, he is the same age as William Hartnell when he was cast in the role as the first Doctor in 1963.
"Being asked to play the Doctor is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and delight. I can't wait to get started," he said.
Secret audition
Steven Moffat, the show's lead writer and executive producer, said casting Capaldi as the Doctor was an "incendiary combination".
"One of the most talented actors of his generation is about to play the best part on television."
Moffat said Capaldi had been cast after a secret audition at his house.
"We made a home video of [Capaldi] being the doctor and I showed it around and everyone said 'yes, that's the Doctor'.
Moffat added the actor had "briefly flicked through my mind" the last time he was casting the role, but he did not think he was right for the part, however "now that moment has arrived".
Capaldi said he downloaded old Doctor Who scripts from the internet and practised the lines in front of a mirror to prepare for the audition.
The 12 Doctors
1. William Hartnell (1963-1966)
2. Patrick Troughton (1966-1969)
3. Jon Pertwee (1970-1974)
4. Tom Baker (1974-1981)
5. Peter Davison - (1982-1984)
6. Colin Baker (1984-1986)
7. Sylvester McCoy (1987-1996)
8. Paul McGann (1996)
9. Christopher Eccleston (2005)
10. David Tennant (2005-2010)
11. Matt Smith (2010 - 2013)
12. Peter Capaldi (2013 - )
He revealed he was filming a BBC adaptation of The Three Musketeers in Prague when he found out he got the part.
"I had my phone on silent so I missed the call," he said. "It was my agent and I rang her up and she said 'hello Doctor' - I haven't stopped laughing since."
'Incredible incarnation'
Out-going Doctor Matt Smith welcomed Capaldi's casting, and pre-recorded a message for the new Time Lord.
"I wish my successor all the best and say good luck and good on you for getting it, because I know he's both a huge fan of the show and a really nice guy," he said.
"The casting made me ready excited and as a fan I think it's a canny choice. If I had to pick someone, I'd pick him because I think he's great. I'm excited because I know what's coming and he's going to have a blast."
Jenna Coleman, who stars as current Doctor Who companion Clara, said: "I'm so excited Peter Capaldi is the man taking on the challenge of becoming the 12th Doctor.
"With Steven's writing and his talent I know we'll be making an amazing show with an incredible incarnation of number 12. I can't wait to start this new adventure."
Ben Stephenson, controller of BBC Drama Commissioning said Capaldi was "an extraordinarily talented actor who can seemingly turn his hand to anything".
"We can't wait to premiere his unique take on the Doctor on Christmas Day and we are sure he's going to become one of the all-time classic Doctors."
Following the announcement, The Thick of It writer Armando Ianucci tweeted: "There can't be a funnier, wiser, more exciting Time Lord than Peter Capaldi. The universe is in great hands."
Capaldi will film his first scenes on the series this autumn.
Title rivals Alloa Athletic dropped points in their pursuit of the leaders, drawing 2-2 with Queen's Park.
Brechin City beat East Fife 2-1 to leapfrog their opponents into third.
Meanwhile, Albion Rovers moved out of the relegation play-off spot with a 3-0 win over bottom club Stenhousemuir and Peterhead drew 2-2 with Stranraer.
Striker Mullen opened the scoring with eight minutes played at Almondvale before Declan Gallagher stabbed home a rebound to double the lead two minutes later.
Ryan Conroy's curling free-kick halved the deficit before the break, only for Mullen's second goal and a strike from substitute Nicky Cadden to put the result beyond doubt.
Andy Ryan netted a stoppage-time consolation for the visitors from the penalty spot.
Second-placed Alloa faltered at home to Queen's Park as Ewan MacPherson's stoppage-time equaliser denied the Wasps victory.
Goals from midfielder Iain Flannigan and defender Scot Taggart twice put Jim Goodwin's side ahead, either side of David Galt's leveller, before MacPherson's header.
Andy Jackson's late winner earned Brechin a crucial victory over East Fife at Glebe Park as their promotion bid continues.
Luke Watt's first-half goal put City on course for victory, only for Chris Duggan to equalise from the penalty spot early in the second period.
The hosts were not to be denied victory, though, and top scorer Jackson claimed the decisive goal in the first minute of added time.
Ross Stewart's quickfire brace moved Albion Rovers out of the bottom two as they eased aside Stenhousemuir.
The striker broke the deadlock in the 58th minute before ensuring his side's first victory in nine league games five minutes later. Scott McBride added a third late on.
Peterhead dropped to ninth despite rescuing a point with a late equaliser in the 2-2 draw with Stranraer.
Rory McAllister's 14th league goal of the season put the Blue Toon ahead, but Craig Malcolm and Scott Robertson turned the game around only for James Redman to salvage a draw in the second minute of injury time.
Stranraer remain above Peterhead, who drop a point behind Albion Rovers.
From 95-6, Andrew Hodd's battling 59 was followed by Sidebottom and Karl Carver sharing 31 for the last wicket.
Having scraped a batting point on 202, the Tykes reduced Somerset to 41-3.
Sidebottom removed the hosts' top three - Dean Elgar, Tom Abell, in successive balls, then Marcus Trescothick.
After both Elgar, caught at slip and Abell, caught behind, went in the fifth over, Trescothick was then bowled by 39-year-old Sidebottom in the ninth.
His burst had Somerset in some peril on 18-3 but James Hildreth (21) and Steven Davies (6) have so far added 23 for the fourth wicket.
Earlier, on a track being used for the third time this season, Somerset took seven wickets between lunch and tea as Jamie Overton did the main damage, taking three of the visitors' first five wickets,.
He accounted for Adam Lyth (24), Peter Handscomb (25) and Jack Leaning, while spinner Jack Leach's two victims included bowling Tykes captain Gary Ballance round his legs for 19.
But it was left to wicketkeeper Hodd to guide Yorkshire towards 200 before he finally departed, brilliantly caught by Abell at mid off.
Somerset's Jamie Overton told BBC Radio Bristol:
"It was slightly frustrating to finish the day as we did, losing three wickets. However, hopefully we can get some good runs tomorrow and get ourselves back in there.
"We have some good players. It's just a pity they are all out of form. Still, we have full belief in them and they are certainly trying their hardest.
"I was pleased with the way I bowled. The last two or three weeks, it has been coming out nicely. I was just trying to hit the pitch as hard as I could. If you could get it just back of a length, it was doing a bit."
Yorkshire's Andrew Hodd told BBC Radio Leeds:
"Ryan's contribution was big again. He is amazing, on and off the field. He just has that ability to get the big players out and he has done it again.
"Everyone down here has said that the game might not go beyond three days, so we knew every run was crucial. That was why it was important to go on the counter attack.
"It's been quite a good start to the season for me and nice to get a few scores and a few contributions. But, to be fair, I didn't see my first ball. Jamie was bowling well and it was really quite hostile."
But this isn't just any old recording of another Irish traditional song.
What makes this one so remarkable is that the voice belongs to a prisoner-of-war (PoW) being held in a German camp during World War One, hundreds of miles away from his home in Ireland.
And even more than that, it tells the story of a Belfast Catholic soldier in the British army, whose wartime history has been hidden away in a Berlin university archive for almost 100 years.
Now his family have heard his voice for the very first time, moving them to tears as their grandfather's story in sound unfolds before them.
The singing soldier is John McCrory. Born in 1881 and from Conway Street in the predominantly nationalist Falls Road area of west Belfast, he was a private in the Royal Irish Fusiliers.
Within days of joining the war effort, he was captured at Caudry, near Le Cateau in France, on 27 August 1914 and taken to a PoW camp in Giessen, north of Frankfurt.
More than three years later, he was still there.
That was when German linguist Wilhelm Doegen arrived at the camp.
His intention was to gather language, music and song from around the world, and preserve these for study and teaching.
Visiting German PoW camps, Doegen collected around 250 languages and dialects spoken by the prisoners, and - in some cases like that of John's - their traditional music.
On 27 September 1917, starting at precisely 10:25, he recorded John at least four times, the first as the soldier sang The Pride of Liscarroll.
As his voice sparks up amid the fuzz of the first recording, there is something haunting and aged about it, perhaps weathered by his time in the camp.
She is the pride of Liscarroll, is sweet Kitty Farrell,
Cheeks as red as roses, teeth as white as pearl.
And the neighbours all pity the colleen so pretty,
And oh, how we all love the blind Irish girl.
On another recording, he reads a Bible passage, the parable of the prodigal son.
And the father said to him: 'Dear son, you were always with me and all that I have is yours. But this, your brother, was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found.'
John's grandson Dr John Simpson, who lives in Belfast, was aware of his grandfather's time in the camp, but had known precious little else about him - he was, quite simply, a "mystery".
"I'm getting choked up just thinking about it," he says.
"I know he never spoke that much about his experiences as a PoW, as I suppose most men in those days didn't.
"It's a fascinating period of history, and to find out your grandfather was in the middle of it is very emotional… it's a big shock."
For much of the last 98 years, the audio has been stored in the Humbold University's Lautarchiv in the German capital.
Trawling through the files there, not only can you find the recordings, but also a transcript of the lyrics to The Pride of Liscarroll, handwritten by John at the time.
For Dr Simpson, his grandfather's neat, precise, joint-up handwriting is almost every bit as stirring as the sound of his voice.
"That whole old-fashioned thing where everyone had to sing or recite something, that happened in every McCrory household.
"But the handwriting is almost as moving and emotional as the recording. His handwriting is like my mother's and like mine.
"The whole thing is bringing alive a man who we knew so little about."
Shortly before he left for war, John and his wife Mary Ann had their first child, Catherine, and another daughter, Mary Jane, was born while John was imprisoned in Giessen.
On his eventual return to Belfast, he and Mary Ann went on to have nine more children.
Dr Simpson was born shortly after his grandfather died from stomach cancer in 1947, and his only memory of him is through his mother Julia.
He heard how his grandfather had a carefree attitude to life and was intent on enjoying himself. But Mary Ann would not allow him to get carried away, regardless of his three years as a PoW.
"He was a rascal but my mother always described him with a smile on her face," he remembers.
"Granny McCrory was a very tough woman. My grandfather came home from the war and maybe floated about a bit. But my Granny McCrory didn't have time for that - there was work to be done, there were 11 kids to raise."
The significance of the recordings is not lost on Grace Toland, the director designate of the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin. She says she has never heard anything quite like it before.
"It is totally unique because of the people involved and the circumstances in which it was recorded," Ms Toland says.
"It's quite ordinary in terms of the song, but this is the first time we've heard this sung live from that period. The sheet music exists, of course, but to have the immediacy of sound adds such richness to the history."
And Fintan Vallely, a musician, writer and lecturer on traditional music, said John McCrory's choice of song was interesting.
"Liscarroll is in County Cork at the other end of Ireland, so there are lots of other songs he could've been signing, songs from closer to his home in Belfast," Mr Vallely explained.
"Sad songs and songs of comfort would've been of high value among soldiers, given the high casualty rate they were surrounded by at the time."
One of John's great-grandchildren, Moira Porter - born in Belfast but now living in Nova Scotia - also knew of John's time as a PoW. She feels his capture, ironically, may have been life-saving.
"If only his family back home could've heard that it would've given them so much comfort," she says.
"When you think of it, he was in the camp when he could've been on the frontline - his time there could actually have saved his life."
For Dr Simpson, this has been an unforgettable week in his family's history.
"You get to an age where you become aware of your own mortality, so to find something concrete which tells you so much about your family's background is so valuable.
"Fair play to the Germans for the diligence they had in keeping that stuff.
"We've got something to hold on to now, something that can be cherished."
He will tour the old town of Amatrice on Sunday with mayor Sergio Pirozzi who said after the disaster: "The town isn't here any more."
Prince Charles will visit a former school which houses emergency services and reconstruction staff and will lay a wreath at a memorial in the grounds.
The magnitude-6.2 quake struck on 24 August last year, killing 297 people.
Three Britons were among the dead including 14-year-old Marcos Burnett from London, who was on holiday with his parents and sister.
Nearly 4,000 people were also made homeless following the disaster which took place 100km (65 miles) north-east of Rome.
The Duchess of Cornwall will spend the day in Florence where she will privately meet survivors of human trafficking and domestic violence.
She will also meet volunteers and staff at the Progetto Arcobaleno Association, a non-profit body set up in Florence in 1985, who support them.
Camilla will later walk along Florence's famous 16th century Vasari Corridor and visit St Mark's Anglican Church.
There she will lay flowers at a memorial plaque in honour of Alice Keppel, her great-grandmother and King Edward VII's mistress.
Reed was struck and killed by a car on Friday night, two days before what would have been her 33rd birthday.
Blaque released a number of successful singles in the late 1990s that included 808, I Do and Bring It All To Me.
In a statement, her bandmates Brandi Williams and Shamari Fears-DeVoe said they were "devastated" by the news.
"Natina continuously embodied the pioneering spirit of Blaque and her undeniable creativity touched the hearts of fans everywhere," they continued.
"Natina was a mother, sister, accomplished songwriter, artist and friend.
"She will forever be missed and her global influence eternally felt."
Proteges of the late TLC rapper Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Blaque took their acronymic name from the words Believing, Life, Achieving, Quest, Unity and Everything.
The trio appeared together in the cheerleading film Bring It On as members of the East Compton Clovers troupe led by Gabrielle Union's character Isis.
Blaque's biggest UK success came in 2004 when their single I'm Good, featured in the dance film Honey, reached 17 in the official singles chart.
Reed was engaged in 2001 to the rapper Ricardo Brown, better known as Kurupt, and is survived by their 10-year-old son Tren.
Authorities in Georgia have ruled that the driver who struck Reed was not at fault and that no charges are expected to be filed.
She got a best supporting actress gong for her role in film drama Clouds of Sils Maria.
The big winner of the night was Timbuktu, which won seven awards including best film and director.
It depicts life in northern Mali under the control of Islamist militants, and is competing for best foreign film at Sunday's Oscars.
Accepting the prize, Stewart shouted "I love you Juliette" in French to her co-star Juliette Binoche.
She later paid tribute to French filmmakers.
"The reasons why people make films here in France are very different from the reasons why people make movies in Hollywood and I prefer it here a little bit," she told Variety.
There also was recognition for another American actor, Sean Penn, who got a lifetime achievement award.
In his acceptance speech, Timbuktu director Abderrahmane Sissako called France a "magnificent country" for its response to the deadly Islamist attacks last month.
"There is no clash of civilisations. There is a meeting of civilisations," he said.
The 28-year-old beat Japan's Ruika Sato in the -78kg fight, winning thanks to a waza-ari in the final 48 seconds.
It was Gibbons' third bronze medal on the Asian Grand Prix tour.
"I have always dreamt of getting a Tokyo Grand Slam medal and I achieved that," she said. "It's great to have won a medal at all three tournaments."
The company said earlier it had to withdraw one of its contractors in west Belfast after they were threatened.
Sinn Féin's Carál Ní Chuilín said workmen were threatened again on Wednesday, this time in Rosapenna Street in the north of the city.
She said the threats should be lifted immediately.
"The contractor in this case has been working with the local community to minimise disruption during work to improve water pressure and the quality of the water supply," she said.
"This work is part of a much-needed investment in the water infrastructure.
"NI Water has made it crystal clear that this work isn't about installing water meters.
"The workers involved should be allowed to get on with their work to improve the area's water system and do so free of threats and intimidation."
Earlier on Wednesday, Northern Ireland Water said it had to halt work on a £10m watermains scheme in west Belfast after one of its contractors received death threats.
The firm said workmen carrying out an upgrade to watermains in Glen Crescent were told to leave the site on Tuesday or they would be blown up.
A spokesman said they had been forced to withdraw the workers.
He condemned the threats as "unwarranted, unprovoked and unnecessary".
"Any misconception or misreporting that our work is linked to forthcoming water charges puts our workers and their equipment at risk of serious harm," he said.
"We do not want a situation where the local community will suffer because of the mindless destruction and misinformed actions of a few.
"NI Water would ask all political and community representatives to unite with us in ensuring the safety of our staff and their equipment while they carry out this vital work."
The police said they had spoken to the contractors on Tuesday.
SDLP councillor Tim Attwood condemned what he called "thuggish intimidation".
He said Northern Ireland Water staff were left "shaken and distressed after masked men approached them and issued cavalier threats".
"No one should feel harassed or intimidated in this city.
"I understand that there are concerns within communities across the city, and across the north, that water charges are imminent.
"NI Water have confirmed that this is not the case and the work that they are carrying out is in no way related to water meters."
Footage aired on local TV stations showed dozens of men rushing out of a side entrance at Sialang Bungkuk prison in Pekanbaru City, with no sign of anyone following them.
About 200 people escaped after being let out of cells for Friday prayers.
More than a third were subsequently recaptured.
Ferdinand Siagian, from the region's law ministry, said that the jail had only five or six guards on duty for nearly 1,900 inmates, in a prison supposed to hold only 300.
Inmates had accused some guards of being violent and complained about their treatment in the jail, Mr Siagian told Metro TV.
Hundreds of police officers and military personnel have now been deployed to guard the prison.
Police have set up roadblocks around the city and are looking for the other escapees.
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David Cumming, head of equities at Standard Life, said oil needed to be over $60 rather than the current $33.
He said the fund manager would oppose the deal when it goes to a shareholder vote later this month.
But Shell has said it remains confident of winning the vote.
A Shell spokesman said: "We continue to believe we have the broad base of shareholder support we need for the deal to complete."
Shares in Shell fell 0.8% to £13.64 when the FTSE started trading on Monday, while BG dropped 1.3% to £9.27.
The firm announced its intention to buy BG - an oil and gas exploration company - in April 2015 for £47bn.
But Mr Cumming said that the risk of further oil price falls and financial risks connected to BG's Brazilian assets make the deal undesirable.
"The problem we have with the deal is that a lot's changed since the bid was announced in April last year - all of it negative," he told the BBC's Today programme.
"The current oil price is $33 and Shell still needs an oil price well over $60 to make it work financially," he said on Monday.
Shell and BG shareholders will vote at separate meetings on 27 and 28 January respectively.
Mr Cumming said Standard Life would not want to see Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden forced out if the deal failed.
"He's doing a good job in our view. It's just the deal we don't like. We have to put financial logic above management loyalty in this instance, and we would recommend other shareholders do the same," Mr Cumming said.
Standard Life is the 11th largest holder of Shell's B shares, with a 1.7% stake.
Shell B shares make up the share component in the cash-and-share deal that is expected to be completed on 15 February.
Standard Life is also the 16th biggest shareholder in BG, according to data from Bloomberg.
Shell has won the support of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), an influential advisory firm, which recommended on Friday that Shell shareholders support the deal.
Another influential advisory group, Glass Lewis, also issued its guidance late on Friday, joining ISS in advising shareholders to vote in favour.
ISS, which advises about 5% of Shell's medium and small shareholders, said it supported the deal "given the compelling strategic rationale, and the significant positive economics to be realised within a relatively short time frame".
Glass Lewis, which says it advises 12 of Shell's top 50 shareholders, said the deal "could lead to significantly improved financial results and the creation of substantial shareholder value".
Shell will become the world's top liquefied natural gas trader after the deal.
In December Shell said it would cut 2,800 jobs as a result of restructuring the companies into one unit.
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Dogan Akhanli, who has written extensively on human rights in Turkey, was detained at the request of Turkish authorities in the city of Granada.
German Green MP Volker Beck said the move was politically motivated and that he had requested that Mr Akhanli should not be extradited to Turkey.
It is unclear on what grounds the arrest warrant was issued.
The move, Mr Beck said, showed that President Erdogan was prepared to "extend his power beyond his country's borders" to "intimidate and pursue [his critics] around the world".
Since a failed coup in July last year, tens of thousands of people have been arrested in Turkey - including officials, academics and journalists. Opposition media outlets have been closed down.
Mr Akhanli, 60, has written about the killing in 2007 of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and the 1915 killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, which was labelled as genocide by the German parliament last year.
His lawyer, Ilias Uyar, told Der Spiegel magazine that it was "unbelievable that Turkey is now simply chasing critical minds abroad".
In February Deniz Yucel, a German-Turkish journalist who works for Germany's Die Welt newspaper, was detained in Turkey over allegations of producing terrorist propaganda. He remains in police custody.
German-Turkish relations dipped to a new low on Friday when Germany accused Mr Erdogan of interference after he urged Turkish voters in Germany not to vote for the country's main parties.
Relations soured in March after Mr Erdogan accused German officials of acting like Nazis following Germany's cancellation of rallies among ethnic Turks ahead of a referendum on greater powers for the Turkish president.
Despite these tensions, the two countries remain major trade partners and allies in Nato.
Forwards Matej Vydra and James Wilson and winger Ikechi Anya joined during the international break.
All are available when the Rams face Newcastle United in the Championship at home on Saturday.
"We talked about the implications of missing out on opportunities to gain promotion so personalities have a big impact," Pearson told BBC Radio Derby.
"You also get players who want fresh starts so they bring positive aspects into a dressing room that has qualities already.
"The idea of bringing in new players was two-fold - to freshen up the dressing room, which is something I have been mindful of, and also to compliment what we already have."
Pearson reluctantly allowed Jeff Hendrick to join Premier League side Burnley, while Chris Martin left on a loan deal to Fulham.
"Jeff is a player I was not overly keen on losing but the player made it clear he wanted to leave," said Pearson, whose side are 18th in the table and have scored only one goal in their five league games.
"It's never easy allow players who have great potential to go but the driving force was Jeff and the fee that was agreed gives us a very good return."
Although happy with his side's business, former Leicester manager Pearson described the summer transfer window as an "absolute nonsense".
He added: "The final week becomes a bit of a circus. It's farcical that even the biggest clubs in the world get sucked in to what has become a sideshow - or bigger than a sideshow and what has now become a huge part of the industry.
"I don't see that transfer windows are healthy being in place when the season is already started."
Pardew became Palace boss on a three-and-a-half-year deal in January 2015.
He led the club to 10th in the Premier League last season, but the club have struggled in the second half of this campaign, slumping to 17th from fifth.
"Once we're safe hopefully I'll sign a new contract here, because I want to stay," said Pardew, who spent four years playing at the club from 1987.
Palace, who play Watford in the FA Cup semi-finals on 24 April, beat Norwich on Saturday for their first league win since late December. Back then they were just outside the Champions League spots.
Victory moved them 10 points clear of the relegation zone, and on Wednesday they host Everton, who are two points above them in 14th.
"We weren't expecting that run to go on as long as it went on," Pardew added.
"The first half of this season we got it right, but the second we haven't. We need to address that. The confidence levels, hopefully, have gone up, and our nervousness has disappeared."
Halfpenny, 27, could leave French club Toulon in the summer and Wasps are among the clubs interested in him.
"We would obviously love to have [him]," Young told BBC Coventry and Warwickshire. "We're probably one of six or seven options Leigh's got."
Halfpenny signed a two-year deal when he joined Toulon in January 2014.
The British and Irish Lions full-back is currently recovering from the knee injury that kept him out of this year's Rugby World Cup.
Cardiff Blues and Scarlets are keen to bring the player back to Wales, but it is Premiership Wasps who appear to have emerged as favourites for his signature.
"I couldn't say what Leigh's going to do, but I know he's looking to make a decision over the next two weeks and we're one of the clubs that's an option," Young said.
Wales have adopted the so-called Gatland's Law, under which players based in the the country would be favoured for international selection. However, national team coach Warren Gatland can make exceptions.
"I'm sure that's something Leigh will consider," added Young. "International rugby and playing for Wales is a big part of the agenda."
It all began when Trevor Morrison sat down at the piano in Edinburgh's Silverlea Care Home 10 years ago and began to play.
The magic did not go unnoticed.
The tunes were simple, naive even, but memorable and with an extraordinary emotional depth.
As a 10-year-old child on the west coast island of Bute during World War Two, Trevor had been taught piano by a former resident of St Kilda.
His teacher had left the remote archipelago in the outer Hebrides when they were evacuated in 1930.
Somehow, a lifetime later and in failing health, Trevor managed to remember the tunes his teacher had shown him.
Stuart McKenzie, who had been volunteering in the care home, offered to record them.
"He played the most astonishing tunes. They were so different. Complicated, but simple," Mr McKenzie says.
"I went home, got my computer, downloaded a bit of software and went along to a local electrical store and paid £3 for a microphone we could put down the back of the piano for him. And away he went."
Trevor died in 2012, but the recordings eventually got passed on to Decca Records, which also saw the magic and commissioned a number of top composers to develop the tunes along with the Scottish Festival Orchestra.
The end result is a whole album entitled The Lost Songs of St Kilda, featuring some of Trevor Morrison's solo recordings in their pure form, others mixed in with orchestral arrangements and some completely new pieces inspired by the music.
Composer Sir James MacMillan is one of the contributors.
At his home overlooking the Firth of Clyde, James MacMillan can just about see the island of Bute where as a boy Trevor Morrison learned the songs.
"There's something very haunting about it," he says.
"What I decided to do was take Trevor Morrison's recording and play it alongside a sort of wrap-around effect from the string orchestra - making almost a kind of canon out of it."
Also recruited to create a piece was award-winning film composer Craig Armstrong.
He decided to use Trevor Morrison's recording as a basis for inspiring a new composition heavily influenced by Hebridean psalm singing.
Armstrong says: "In a lot of classical music people can tend to think that something that is very complicated is good and something that is very simple is not so interesting, but of course that's not really the case because these pieces I found quite deep and very emotional."
Mr McKenzie says the 10-year journey from making a recording for an old man in a care home, to seeing the album come to fruition has been an amazing process.
He says: "It's a wonderful thing to be able to do and it certainly took a lot of pressure off Trevor trying to remember them. At the end of it he said he was so glad to have got them down so he could start thinking about other things."
The last permanent residents of St Kilda left the archipelago in 1930, but it remains an icon of a long-lost way of life and the islands have just celebrated their 30th anniversary of being a World Heritage Site.
Now - thanks to a care home volunteer armed with a computer and a £3 microphone, plus the remarkable memory of Trevor Morrison - there's one more link back to that long lost way of life.
The blackout began at about noon local time and affected all parts of the country linked to the national grid.
Within a few hours some power plants began operating again but they have since failed. It is not clear when supply might resume.
Bangladesh began importing electricity from India in October last year.
Officials said engineers were working to restore supply. They had hoped to fix the problem by Saturday evening.
The exact cause remains unknown, but the head of the national grid in Bangladesh, Chowdhury Alamgir Hossain, told the Dhaka Tribune newspaper that the power cut began after a technical glitch at a substation distributing power from India.
That had caused all the country's other power plants to close down one by one, he said.
The high-voltage transmission line runs from Baharampur in West Bengal, India to Bheramara in Kushtia district, in south-west Bangladesh.
He played a long, dogged innings, and though he could not lead his team to victory, he has avoided a defeat.
His party has emerged as the largest in the north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, a region that has borne the brunt of attacks by Taliban militants.
He has also won one, and may win another, of the 12 parliamentary seats from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), a strip of land adjacent to KP where Taliban militants fighting the Nato forces in Afghanistan have sanctuaries.
It wasn't until final results were released that it emerged that Mr Khan had only narrowly missed out on securing the legally important position of leader of the opposition in the national parliament.
For many, however, his has been a remarkable achievement, and one which will see his party make further inroads into the Punjab heartland from where it bagged a substantial amount of votes, though fewer seats.
But that will depend on how quickly he can recover from the back injury he sustained when he fell off a fork-lift during an election rally last week.
He suffered three minor fractures in the spine but his nervous system was unharmed. His doctor has told the BBC that Mr Khan will have another two weeks of bed rest before walking again with the help of a brace. He is set to make a full recovery over the coming weeks, his doctors say.
In an end-of-the campaign speech from his hospital bed last week - which was broadcast to a rally in the capital Islamabad via a video link - he seemed to open his heart to his audience when he talked about the long struggle which was about to come to fruition, and the sacrifices he had had to make, including the pain of losing his wife.
"My wife, poor woman, she had to leave me because they wouldn't let her live in peace," he said in an emotional moment.
An international cricketing celebrity, Mr Khan led Pakistan to its cricket World Cup triumph in 1992.
But he made a shaky start of his political innings back in the mid-1990s.
He was harassed by the conservative and Islamist circles who accused him of being a "Zionist agent".
This was because he had married an English heiress, Jemima Goldsmith, whose father, Sir James Goldsmith, came from a Jewish background.
The marriage lasted nine years and produced two children, both boys.
To the electorate, he came across as a political lightweight who had no ideological moorings and only ambiguous views on crucial issues.
His message of Islamic values and the formation of an Islamic welfare state that would not be a slave of the West were interpreted by many as the ramblings of a "playboy-turned-puritan".
He suffered an early scandal when a widely respected welfare activist, Abdus Sattar Edhi, took temporary refuge in London, saying he was being threatened by a group that included Mr Khan and Hamid Gul, a former chief of Pakistani intelligence (ISI).
In a 2010 interview, Mr Edhi explained: "They wanted to topple [Prime Minister] Benazir Bhutto's government, and wanted to fire their guns from my shoulder. When I refused, they threatened to kidnap me. I'm not the political type, so I caught a flight to London."
The charge was denied by Mr Khan's party which said that Mr Khan only wanted Mr Edhi to join him in a pressure group "to push the government into spending more on health, education and welfare".
More recently, there were allegations that another former ISI chief, General Shuja Pasha, helped boost his political support, a charge the party denies.
Despite his celebrity appeal and hero's status, he could only win one seat in the 2002 elections. He boycotted the elections in 2008.
But during the last couple of years he seems to have burst into aggressive batting, and has suddenly caught the fancy of the crowds.
He has done this by promising a "new" Pakistan, and getting rid of the old guard who he says have been "fixing the matches so that they can take turns at power".
As election results show, he holds greater appeal in the north-west - inhabited by ethnic Pashtuns - presumably because he himself comes from the Pashtun Niazi tribe, settled in the Mianwali region of Punjab province.
And his opposition of the US-led war against militancy has also touched a chord with the people of this region.
His argument that militancy in Pakistan is the direct result of the American invasion of Afghanistan, and that it would end once the Western troops leave that country, has gone down well with the youth in the north-west.
His rhetoric to shoot down the American drones also appealed to the Pashtun people in the tribal areas, who have been at the sharp end of the drones for several years.
Whether he will interfere with Nato's 2014 exit through Pakistan if he is able to form a government in KP is a question that only time will answer.
One thing is clear. He is going to have a solid block of votes on the opposition benches in the national parliament and he will use them to maximum effect to pave the way for a victory in the next elections.
He is just 61 years old and generally in good health. If nothing serious has happened to his back, he will soon be back on his feet. The match is over, but the series is on.
Warburton, experiencing his first Old Firm derby, was delighted as Rangers prevailed on penalties at Hampden.
However, he was quick to stress that Sunday's result could not be used as a gauge for next season.
"Again, there's a gap, don't be fooled, but the better team won on the day," said Warburton.
"Celtic are a team packed with international players and we've got to work hard to close the gap. What today showed is that the gap is nowhere near as big as certain people have made out.
"We've made dramatic strides but we've got to keep moving forward. Rangers can't afford to stand still.
"We can't be satisfied going into next season being second, third or fourth. We've got to be highly competitive."
Tom Rogic levelled in the second period of extra time to make it 2-2, only for the Celtic substitute to miss the vital spot-kick in the shootout.
Kenny Miller had given Warburton's side a first-half lead, with Erik Sviatchenko equalising five minutes after the break and Barrie McKay firing in an unstoppable shot early in extra time to re-establish Rangers' lead.
Rangers, who won the Challenge Cup at Hampden last weekend, will face Celtic in the Premiership next season, having wrapped up the Championship title with four matches to spare.
Before Warburton considers upsetting Celtic's recent top-flight dominance he has a final with league rivals Hibernian to look forward to on 21 May.
The Easter Road side also went through on penalties, following a drab 0-0 draw with Dundee United on Saturday.
"That will be a tough test," said the former Brentford boss. "Hibs have got a strong squad and they'll be keen to end the season on a high."
A cup final victory would also bring European football back to Ibrox and Warburton admitted: "That would impact our recruitment.
"If we win the final we'd have to add one or two more players in terms of depth to the squad. That type of competition has to go on."
With top-scorer Martyn Waghorn and winger Harry Forrester injured and Michael O'Halloran cup-tied, Warburton chose to name just five substitutes at Hampden.
"You saw we were down to the bare numbers today so all credit to them," he enthused.
"No one hid from the occasion, all over the park they were superb, so I'm delighted for the squad."
Darlington was part of Wrexham's coaching staff under Kevin Wilkin and was briefly caretaker manager before leaving in May 2015.
He re-joined Welsh Premier League champions New Saints in December 2015 but left his role earlier this month.
"I had different offers on the table to go to different places," Darlington said.
"I've been speaking to Dean Keates since he had the job, and it (the challenge) excited me.
"It's a different challenge to when I first went to Wrexham because we're starting from scratch."
Darlington will combine his role at Wrexham with his role as head of coach education for the Welsh Football Trust.
He said continuing with the Trust was was one of the main reasons why he accepted Wrexham's offer.
"One Football League club was interested, but I wasn't prepared to give up my role with the FAW Trust," Darlington added.
"I love developing Welsh coaches and Welsh players.
"The other opportunities I had were other clubs in the National League.
"But when National League teams come asking then I was only going to go to Wrexham."
Manager Keates released nine players following a disappointing season which saw the Dragons finish 13th in the National League.
Midfielders Mark Carrington and Paul Rutherford and goalkeeper Chris Dunn have signed new deals while youngster Leo Smith has signed his first professional contract.
James Hurst became Wrexham's first signing of the close season as Keates rebuilds the squad.
"We can bring the players that we want in," Darlington added.
"We haven't got to inherit any players that we don't want so we'll bring a brand new squad together.
"We will get that blend right and we will get the balance right.
"But bringing 18 new players into the club, not knowing each other and not knowing the dynamics, the balance and how things work and operate, is going to take a while.
"We want them to get on to that Racecourse and grow with the fans."
The Briton was due to fight Avtandil Khurtsidze on 8 July in London.
But following his arrest in New York, the Georgian's promoter Lou DiBella has confirmed he will be unable to travel.
Thirty-three members and associates of a Russian crime syndicate, including Khurtsidze, have been detained.
In a statement, acting Manhattan US Attorney Joon H Kim said: "The dizzying array of criminal schemes committed by this organised crime syndicate allegedly include a murder-for-hire conspiracy, a plot to rob victims by seducing and drugging them with chloroform, the theft of cargo shipments containing over 10,000 pounds of chocolate, and a fraud on casino slot machines using electronic hacking devices."
Khurtsidze earned the bout with Saunders after winning the interim belt by stopping Britain's Tommy Langford in April.
Saunders' most recent fight was a successful title defence against Artur Akavov in December.
With Sam Warburton struggling to force his way into the starting XV for the first Test, flanker O'Mahony is the favourite to lead the side at Eden Park on Saturday.
"He's a great captain - we all know that," said Stander.
"He's ready to do it."
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O'Mahony is the man in possession having captained the Lions to victory against the Maori All Blacks last weekend.
Number eight Stander added: "He's my captain at Munster and his heart is on his sleeve. I don't think there are a lot of leaders like him. I think he's going to make us proud."
Who should captain the Lions against New Zealand?
Head coach Warren Gatland says there will be some "lively" debate when he and his coaches finalise the match-day squad to take on New Zealand.
Before the Auckland showdown, the midweek team crushed the Chiefs 34-6 with some players "putting their hands up", according to Gatland.
There will be a final selection meeting on Wednesday.
"I have no doubt there will be some healthy debate," the Kiwi said.
"The selection meeting will be with all the coaches - it's always a consensus of the group, it's never one person's call or decision.
"I am sure there will be some lively debate and discussion, but once a decision will be made we will agree on it 100%."
The bulk of the Test side will be the one that comprehensively beat the Maori, although Gatland says wing Elliot Daly has "possibly" played his way into contention.
Both Jack Nowell and Liam Williams were also sharp against the Chiefs as the Lions scored four tries.
"Someone like Jack Nowell - it just hadn't happened for him the last couple of games," Gatland added.
"I was pleased to see him play well, Elliot was sharp as well and Liam [Williams], and as a group they looked pretty dangerous and pretty potent.
"It's pleasing we created [chances], and now we are starting to finish them."
Gatland added: "The selection meeting will be tough and that's the way we want it.
"We spoke about the quality of the squad before we left and some players haven't disappointed us.
"On Saturday we are up against the best team in world in their own back yard where they haven't lost since 1994. It's going to be a big test for us."
Meanwhile, after Gatland was accused of devaluing the Lions shirt by calling up six replacements over the weekend, only prop Allan Dell actually took to the field at the Waikato Stadium.
Kristian Dacey, Tomas Francis, Cory Hill, Gareth Davies, Finn Russell were all unused replacements.
"We wanted that group of players to go 80 minutes," he said.
"The guys that were on the bench we said all along they were coming in for cover."
Sexton comes in at fly-half with Farrell at inside centre, the first time the combination has started in New Zealand.
Captain Sam Warburton replaces Peter O'Mahony on the blind-side flank, with Maro Itoje preferred to George Kruis.
Robbie Henshaw and George North have been ruled out of the rest of the tour.
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Ireland centre Henshaw (pectoral) and Wales wing North (hamstring) were injured in the 31-31 draw against the Hurricanes in Wellington and will return home after Saturday's match.
Wales second row Alun Wyn Jones keeps his place in the starting XV despite a difficult outing in the first Test, and strong midweek performances from Courtney Lawes and Iain Henderson having given Lions head coach Warren Gatland "food for thought".
Lawes, CJ Stander and Jack Nowell are among the replacements after playing in the midweek draw with the Hurricanes on Tuesday.
Ken Owens, Jack McGrath, Kyle Sinckler, Rhys Webb and Ben Te'o also make the bench.
The Lions lost the series opener 30-15 in Auckland, with Lions boss Gatland citing a lack of physicality in the forwards, which he has sought to address with the inclusion of Saracens lock Itoje and Cardiff Blues flanker Warburton.
"You have to make the tough calls," Gatland said.
"We saw Maro's impact in the first Test and he will bring an edge and a physicality, as will Sam Warburton in terms of pressure on the ball."
But while those changes were expected, Gatland has been reluctant to field Sexton and Farrell in the same midfield in the tour matches.
"Both have played well and it gives us that attacking option in the 10-12 channel," Gatland continued.
"We created opportunities in the first Test and there were a few that we didn't finish."
New Zealand have made two changes - Waisake Naholo comes in on the wing and Anton Lienert-Brown at outside centre.
They replace injured pair Ben Smith (concussion) and Ryan Crotty (hamstring).
Experienced Welshman Jones retains his place in the second row and will partner England's Itoje, who was selected ahead of countryman George Kruis.
"It's a big game for him," Gatland said of Jones.
"He was a bit disappointed with last week and how it went.
"He's pretty focused and pretty motivated. Normally in the past when he's had those sort of challenges he has really fronted the next game.
"He's trained well this week and I think he's looking forward to Saturday night."
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Following the first Test defeat, Gatland accused Jerome Kaino of targeting Lions scrum-half Conor Murray, something the New Zealand flanker denies.
"I never go into a game thinking that I am going to target someone and intentionally hurt them," Kaino said.
Gatland was then caricatured as a clown in the New Zealand Herald after his claims while All Blacks boss Steve Hansen described the Lions coach's comments as "desperate".
The Lions lost a 14-point lead as they drew with the Hurricanes in their final midweek match.
British and Irish Lions: L Williams, A Watson, J Davies, O Farrell, E Daly, J Sexton, C Murray; M Vunipola, J George, T Furlong, M Itoje, AW Jones, S Warburton (c), S O'Brien, T Faletau.
Replacements: K Owens, J McGrath, K Sinckler, C Lawes, CJ Stander, R Webb, B Te'o, J Nowell.
After decades of austerity following the Islamic Revolution, middle-class Iranians have developed a taste for high-end designer goods, and for Tehran's young rich, shopping has become the new religion.
"Exposure to foreign trends through travelling, the internet and satellite television has created a desire for branded products," says Bahar, a 30-year-old fashion blogger.
"Showing off is a big part of the story. By spending huge amounts of money on big brands, well-off Iranians want to show they've made it."
One group of super-rich young Tehranis have taken showing off to new levels with their own Instagram site - Rich Kids of Tehran, where without any perceptible sense of irony, they post pictures of their designer clothes and designer lifestyles.
When the site first appeared last year it prompted fury and resentment among poorer Iranians and the conservatives who dominate Iran's political and legal institutions.
But the Rich Kids seem undeterred by the controversy.
Recent postings include pictures of Tehran Fashion Week and a question about where people are going on holiday this year - the responses range from Italy and Istanbul to Japan and Dubai.
Because luxury brands are still the preserve of the rich, they don't yet show up in the Iranian Customs Authority's list of top 100 imports.
But there is an indication of the potential for growth in the most recent figures for cosmetics imports.
In the year to March 2015, cosmetics made up 0.1% of the country's $52bn (£32.8bn) total imports - many of them big name brands snapped up by increasingly image-conscious consumers.
In big cities all across Iran, traditional bazaars now face fierce competition from American-style urban shopping centres where big name Western brands are on conspicuous display.
But although these luxury shopping centres look exactly the same as retail outlets anywhere in the world, the designer goods on display have actually been brought in by third-party importers via Turkey and the Gulf States.
The outlets that sell them have no connection to the big brand manufacturers.
Big Western fashion brands are not banned from doing business in Iran.
But international banking sanctions in place against Iran over its nuclear programme make it very difficult for them to get their profits out.
To date Spanish clothing retailer Mango, Italian fashion boutique Benetton, and luxury women's designer Escada, are among the very few Western companies to open shops in Iran.
The backdoor way in which foreign brands are imported into Iran means they are more expensive than they would be abroad, but so far this doesn't seem to be deterring the shoppers.
Mariam, an office worker who earns the equivalent of just $17,000 a year, has just blown more than a month's salary on a new Burberry bag.
She bought it online from an Iranian website that offers clothes and accessories from big brands and Western High Street retailers.
The site takes payments via local credit cards, and offers a free home-delivery service.
Mariam told BBC Persian she would rather pay more for good-quality brand names than cheaper but inferior, locally made equivalents.
But she concedes that status also plays a big role in how she decides to spend her money.
"There's a lot of pressure on middle-class people to go out wearing designer clothes or an expensive watch," she says. "Personally I feel more confident when I'm wearing brands."
Fashion houses like Burberry currently have no control over this so-called "grey market" of their brand names in Iran.
But that is clearly something which could change.
Despite years of sanctions, the International Monetary Fund puts Iran's per capita GDP (gross domestic product) at $16,500.
That means Iranian consumers on average have more money to spend than their counterparts in emerging markets like Brazil, China, India and South Africa.
With the prospect of banking sanctions being lifted if a nuclear deal is finally reached, the big brands are waking up to the potential of a barely tapped market which could offer big dividends in the future.
The 21-year-old has made two substitute appearances for the Saints, including a Premier League debut in February 2015, but has not featured for them since.
He played four times in a month-long loan spell at Crewe in the 2015-16 campaign, scoring once.
"I'm really happy to be here and I'm excited by the challenge ahead," Seager told the club website.
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Haydn Erasmus played a key role when Treorchy Male Choir reformed in Rhondda after World War II in 1946.
John Cynan Jones, an old friend and former conductor of the choir, said Mr Erasmus had three passions in his life - his family, his choir and the boys' club movement.
The choir said it was deeply saddened by the news.
"He was the last remaining member of the pre-war choir. An absolute pillar of the choir for seven decades," Mr Jones told BBC Radio Wales.
More recently he was known as the "elder statesman" of Treorchy.
"He was a great man, and I don't use that term lightly," said Mr Jones.
"He had three great passions in his life - his family, his choir and the boys' club movement harnessing outstanding talents especially on the soccer field."
Mr Erasmus began his working career in the coal industry, but then moved to work at the EMI factory in Treorchy.
As a result of his work there he received the BEM (British Empire Medal for services to industry).
He sang with the original pre-war choir before it was disbanded, and when it was reformed in 1946 he was one of the reforming members.
"Choirs are the lifeblood of the Rhondda valleys. It was part of our social set-up," said Mr Jones.
"We had this wonderful influx of young men coming back from the forces, looking for something to do, and Haydn was instrumental in getting them together under Mr John Haydn Davies.
As a singer Mr Erasmus was outstanding, he added.
"Haydn had a particularly rich baritone voice which had a special unique quality which helped to blend together the other members in the group."
The choir said in a statement: "During his lengthy membership he witnessed the choir's unparalleled competition success at the National Eisteddfod, appeared in over 1,500 concerts, recordings and broadcasts, royal performances and tours to Switzerland, Strasbourg, China and Australia.
"Haydn rarely missed a concert and was a stalwart member of his section, becoming a dependable, conscientious mentor to many new choristers."
Over the years Mr Erasmus served as a committee member and chairman with the choir, and in recognition of his contribution was appointed vice-president in 2007.
The club said in a statement that the 30-year-old had appeared at Bath Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
"The club takes matters such as this very seriously.
"It does not condone behaviour of this sort, and can confirm that Faosiliva has been suspended pending conclusion of the judicial process.
"Bath Rugby will not be making any further comment until the conclusion of this process."
Faosiliva joined Bath in 2013.
He has won 15 caps for Samoa, including making two appearances at last year's World Cup when he lined up against the United States and Scotland.
He is expected to be sentenced in May.
Four 19-year-olds and a youth changed their pleas during a trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
The attack left Watford fan Nic Cruwys in a coma following a match at Wolverhampton Wanderers on 7 March 2015.
The five, and another teenager who previously admitted grievous bodily harm, will be sentenced on 9 September.
Daniel Lloyd, of Longfellow Road, Dudley; Joseph Lister, of Palmer Close, Wednesfield and a 15-year-old, who cannot be named, admitted grievous bodily harm.
Robert Beech, of Springfield Road, Wednesfield, admitted threatening behaviour, while Ryan Meer, of Watling Street, Gailey, Staffordshire, pleaded guilty to affray.
All five were acquitted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent following a trial which lasted almost two weeks.
Mr Cruwys suffered serious brain injuries and was in a coma for three months following the "unprovoked attack", the trial heard.
He had travelled with friends by train to watch the match, which ended in a 2-2 draw.
The attack happened as they made their way back to the city's train station and planned to visit a pub for a drink.
David Lee, prosecuting, described it as "an unprovoked group attack", adding the defendants were "going in a group to that area to look for trouble, which they found and caused".
The court heard Mr Cruwys continues to receive treatment for his injuries.
In a statement his family said they hope the verdicts "reflect the injuries Nic suffered and our family's pain and suffering".
"Although Nic will never fully recover, we are now hoping to try to move on with our lives and try to put the horrific situation behind us," they said.
And the activists were hoping the same thing would happen to Exxon, a company that has fended off efforts to make it toe the line on climate change for a quarter of a century.
The global giant has taken some hefty blows over the past 12 months.
It is struggling to sell oil and gas in a flooded market, profits are the lowest in 13 years, and the company has lost its vaunted AAA investment rating, for the first time since the great depression.
It is also facing investigations by a number of attorneys general.
Exxon and others, green groups say, will be shown to have misled investors and the public about the true state of climate science and will be fined, condemned and buried in the very ground from which it extracts its evil fuels.
With the fair winds from the Paris climate agreement at their back, climate-conscious shareholders took aim.
But, while the shareholders of BP, Shell, Statoil and others overwhelmingly backed motions to measure their exposure to carbon restrictions, at Exxon this was opposed by over 60% of investors.
And almost all other straightforward attempts to tackle the climate question were blown out of the water.
Yes, they did pass a resolution that would allow small shareholders to nominate climate-friendly people as board members, but they would still have to be accepted by a majority of investors.
Exxon shareholders take 'small step forward' on climate
Exxon Mobil shareholders are cut from a different cloth.
In the Myereson Symphony Centre, in downtown Dallas, they gathered, older, greyer, angrier.
Chairman and chief executive, king and emperor, Rex Tillerson articulated their feelings on all things climate change.
Over the course of the two-hour meeting, he was interrupted by applause on only two occasions.
The first came after a contributor from the floor said the planet had cooled over the past century and we needed more global warming not less.
"If you don't like Exxon, why don't you go ahead and sell it and buy some solar stock?" the speaker from the floor asked, adding: "But whether you'll then have enough money to pay for the jet fuel that you used to come to visit here..."
There was no whooping and hollering, but plenty of applause.
Exxon says it has incorporated a price for carbon in all its internal workings since 2007.
It supports the idea of a revenue neutral carbon tax.
And Mr Tillerson accepts climate change is real and spoke of "catastrophic" consequences if it were left unchecked.
So why did the shareholders baulk at these essentially mild climate-change resolutions that Exxon could easily incorporate into its current business models?
I think years of being the global bad boy on global warming have taken their toll.
It has been painted as the uncaring exploiter, sneaky oil seller that has dodged and denied on climate change to suit its pockets.
And whether these things are true or not, Exxon has not been able to soften its image in a way others have done.
Its slogan could well be: "No-one likes us, but we don't care."
This same sensitivity, insecurity even, was manifest in its interactions with the press.
Journalists could not record images from the TV screens on which the AGM was relayed to a media room. We were accompanied everywhere by minders.
We were free to enter the meeting itself, but could use only pen and paper to record our impressions.
The broadcast of the meeting was also unusual, to say the least.
All we saw for two hours was the face of Mr Tillerson, no shots of the audience at all, not even when he was being asked questions.
The second and last burst of applause in the meeting came on the question of freedom of speech.
This is a very big issue for Exxon Mobil as the shareholders believe current investigations into the alleged undermining of climate science are an assault on their First-Amendment rights.
"The fact that people have different opinions on climate change; they have every right to their opinion, whether we agree with it or not - I will support their right to say so," said Mr Tillerson to a hefty ovation.
It is a little ironic, then, that he did not want to extend that same right to all of the press, as the Guardian newspaper was told it was not welcome at the shareholder meeting.
The more under the cosh Exxon feels, the less likely it is to embrace the ideas of outsiders, however mild.
If its shareholders are really ready to take the steps many want on climate change or indeed anything else, green groups will need to find another means.
They will not be told.
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The 25-year-old moved to the Red Rose from Leicestershire in September 2014 and played 19 games in two seasons.
He was restricted by injury in his first campaign, but took a T20 career-best 4-26 against Birmingham this term.
The former England Lions player has picked up 158 first-class wickets at an average of 38.52.
"I'm excited at the prospect of being able to play for a club like Northamptonshire," he told the club website.
"They are a strong, tight-knit side that have done exceptionally well this season; I can't wait to be a part of it."
Meanwhile, Northants will play South Africa on 21 May next year in a warm-up game for the tourists' three-match One-Day International series against England.
Mrs Wang has been charged with "state subversion", which carries a possible life sentence, and Bao Longjun with "incitement to state subversion".
Both have already been in detention for around six months.
China has been conducting a widespread crackdown on lawyers and their assistants, with scores detained.
Earlier this week, at least seven other human rights lawyers and their associates were formally arrested on similar charges.
Like Mrs Wang and Mr Bao they worked at Beijing law firm Fengrui and had been held in secret since last summer.
Correspondents say that while many of the lawyers detained in the crackdown have since been released, the authorities appear to be taking a strong line against Fengrui, which was known for taking on high-profile cases.
Last month another prominent rights lawyers, Pu Zhiqiang, received a suspended jail sentence after a brief trial for "inciting ethnic hatred" and "picking quarrels" in social media posts.
Rights group Amnesty International called that sentence "a deliberate attempt by the Chinese authorities to shackle a champion of freedom of expression".
Troops began razing homes along the Gaza border in 2013 to create a "buffer zone" and eliminate smuggling tunnels, after a surge in attacks by militants.
But those evicted are given little or no warning, no temporary housing and inadequate compensation, HRW alleges.
The Egyptian government insisted that residents supported the demolitions.
Jihadist groups based in North Sinai, including an affiliate of so-called Islamic State (IS), stepped up their attacks after the military overthrew Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013.
More than 3,600 civilians, security personnel and militants have been killed in the ensuing violence - more than two-thirds of them since the government announced plans for the buffer zone in October 2014 - HRW cited media reports and official statements as saying.
So far, the military has destroyed nearly all buildings and farmland within about 1km (0.6 miles) of the Gaza border using uncontrolled explosives and earth-moving equipment, according to analysis of satellite imagery, videos and interviews with residents by HRW detailed in a report released on Tuesday.
The military aims to eventually clear an area of about 79 sq km (30 sq miles) along the Gaza border, including all of the town of Rafah, which has a population of about 78,000 people, HRW says.
The government says the operation will allow the military to close smuggling tunnels it alleges are used by jihadists to receive weapons, fighters and logistical help from Palestinian militants in Gaza.
But HRW said little or no evidence had been offered to support this justification, citing statements from Egyptian and Israeli officials that suggested weapons were more likely to have been obtained from Libya or captured from the Egyptian military.
HRW also said the authorities had provided residents with little or no warning of the evictions, no temporary housing, mostly inadequate compensation for their destroyed homes - none at all for their farmland - and no effective way to challenge official decisions.
It concluded that such actions violated protections for forcibly evicted residents laid out in UN and African conventions to which Egypt is a party, and might also have violated the laws of war.
HRW said the government had also failed to explain why troops had not used sophisticated tunnel-detecting equipment, for which they have reportedly received training from the US, to find and eliminate tunnels without destroying people's homes.
"Destroying homes, neighbourhoods, and livelihoods is a textbook example of how to lose a counterinsurgency campaign," said Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW's Middle East and North Africa director.
The Egyptian government said it had complied with "recognised international human rights laws and standards to guarantee the protection of the lives and property of citizens and to limit their suffering from adverse living conditions".
"All measures were taken in consultation and co-ordination with the local residents, who are aware and convinced of the importance of their participation in the protection of Egypt's national security and contribution to eliminating transnational terrorism," it added.
In April 2017 the militant group revealed the locations of it weapons caches, and said it had completely disarmed.
But the Spanish government said the group would "get nothing" in exchange. It demanded that Eta "disarm and dissolve itself".
Its announcement followed a decision on 5 September 2010 not to carry out further attacks. In January 2011, it declared a permanent and "internationally verifiable" ceasefire but refused to disarm.
The group - which killed more than 800 people and wounded thousands in more than 40 years of violence - aimed at Basque independence. It had declared at least two ceasefires before, but abandoned them both.
Euskadi Ta Azkatasuna, Eta, whose name stands for Basque Homeland and Freedom, first emerged in the 1960s as a student resistance movement bitterly opposed to General Franco's repressive military dictatorship.
Under Franco the Basque language was banned, their distinctive culture suppressed, and intellectuals imprisoned and tortured for their political and cultural beliefs.
The Basque country saw some of the fiercest resistance to Franco. His death in 1975 changed all that, and the transition to democracy brought the region of two million people home rule.
But despite the fact that Spain's Basque country today enjoys more autonomy than any other - it has its own parliament, police force, controls education and collects its own taxes - Eta and its hardline supporters have remained determined to push for full independence.
Its violent campaign has led to more than 820 deaths over the last 40 years, many of them members of the Guardia Civil, Spain's national police force, and both local and national politicians who are opposed to Eta's separatist demands.
However, in recent years the group has been under pressure. Although it has mounted occasional attacks, experts believe that concerted political and police action has squeezed its capabilities.
Waning support
Certainly the days in the late 1970s, when the group was able to kill 100 people per year on average - just as Spain was awakening from a long dictatorship and moving towards democracy - appear to be long past.
After three people were killed in 2003, Eta refrained from any other deadly attacks until the last days of 2006.
The Eta of today has some logistical networks in France and a pool of a few hundred youths scattered across the borders of the Basque Country, in France and Spain, willing to engage in deadly missions.
French and Spanish police have sought to reduce Eta's capability and the Spanish government and judiciary have banned the political wing of the movement, which seeks an independent state for the Basques.
The logic for banning the political wing, which has operated for the last decade under different names - Herri Batasuna, Euskal Herritarrok, Batasuna - is that both wings are inextricably linked.
Banning the political branch, it was hoped, would reduce the flow of funds and support to Eta units, and prevent it gaining political representation.
Spanish and French police, working together, have dealt a number of recent blows to the group.
The arrest of Eta's suspected military head, Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, in November 2008, followed the detention of its political commander, Javier Lopez Pena, six months earlier. Both arrests took place in France, long used as a base by Eta.
Since then, French and Spanish authorities have announced the arrest of a string of allegedly senior figures in Eta, giving the impression that they have the group on the run.
At the same, popular support for Eta was slipping away, correspondents say.
This was not only because of the gains made by moderate Basque nationalists, but also because there was a growing feeling that Eta was desperately out of touch with public opinion.
In May 2009, radical separatist parties were excluded from Basque elections.
Basque Nationalists failed to win an outright majority and the Basque parliament voted in its first non-nationalist government in 30 years, led by Socialist Patxi Lopez.
Changing times
Eta's July 1997 kidnapping of a 29-year-old local councillor for the ruling Popular Party in the Basque region, Miguel Angel Blanco, was a turning point in public opinion.
The group demanded that, as a prerequisite for his release, its 460 prisoners who were held in jails all over Spain be returned to the Basque region. The demand was not met.
Blanco was found shot twice in the head. He died in hospital 12 hours later.
Horrified by the young councillor's death, more than six million people across Spain took to the streets over four days to demand an end to Eta violence.
The massive public mobilisation was likened to the marches for democracy that took place towards the end of Franco's regime, and in an unprecedented move some of Eta's own supporters publicly condemned the killing.
The following year, Eta decided to call an indefinite ceasefire.
But that was officially ended in December 1999 after the then government refused to discuss Eta's demands for Basque independence.
The Spanish government had always maintained it would never consider entering talks with the armed group unless it renounced violence.
The Popular Party campaigned for re-election in part on its tough line against Eta and its defence of Spain's constitution in the face of demands for greater autonomy from the Basque country and Catalonia.
But the 11 March 2004 bomb attacks in Madrid introduced a new factor in the equation.
The Popular Party initially said the attacks were the work of Eta, although the finger of blame soon moved to point at Islamist groups.
The electorate rejected the government and voted in the Socialist Party, partly because the Popular Party was perceived to have misled them.
Eta attacks declined in the wake of Madrid bombings, as the group was thought to believe it could no longer achieve its aims by violence.
However, its 2006 ceasefire, described as "permanent", was illusory.
The bombing of a car park at Madrid airport in December of that year left two people dead. Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba declared the peace process "broken, liquidated, finished".
At least eight people have been killed by the group since then.
The train was travelling between the two biggest cities, Yaounde and Douala, when it overturned near Eseka.
The Associated Press said there were 1,300 people on the train instead of the usual 600.
The train was busier than usual as landslides caused by heavy rains have blocked roads across Cameroon.
Transport minister Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo'o said some 300 people were also injured in the derailment, and that the death toll was likely to rise.
The Italian, who is 29 on Tuesday, has agreed a three-year contract to link up again with manager Ronald Koeman.
Pelle scored 55 goals in 66 matches for Feyenoord under Dutchman Koeman, who was named Saints boss on 16 June.
We need more players to bring the squad to where we need and expect
The former Parma player said: "This is going to be the best choice for me because the club wants to keep improving every year."
He is Saints' second signing of the summer, following the £10.9m arrival of FC Twente attacking midfielder Dusan Tadic.
Pelle initially joined Feyenoord on loan from Serie A side Parma in 2012, before joining the Dutch club on a permanent basis in January 2013.
He moves to St Mary's after Saints sold England striker Rickie Lambert to Liverpool for about £4m last month.
Koeman said: "We needed a good player in that position.
"He's a tall striker with a lot of movement and he's fast. He's a player who gives confidence to the team because he keeps the ball."
Koeman expects to make more signings as he rebuilds his squad following the departures of Lambert and midfielder Adam Lallana to Liverpool, and defender Luke Shaw to Manchester United.
"We know that we need some more players because we haven't occupied all of the positions," the 51-year-old said. "We need more players to bring the squad to where we need and expect."
Saints centre-back Dejan Lovren remains a target for Liverpool, who had a £20m bid for the player rejected last week.
The Saracens centre, 26, has failed to recover from a hamstring injury sustained in Scotland's 26-13 win over Japan in Toyota City last weekend.
No replacement will be flown out. Scotland have cover in midfield with Peter Horne, Matt Scott and the uncapped Huw Jones.
Winger Sean Lamont has also played Test rugby at centre.
Vern Cotter's team, named on Thursday, is likely to show a host of changes from the first Test.
Rory Sutherland, 23, will start his first match for his country at loose-head prop in place of the injured Alasdair Dickinson, who was replaced in the squad by Gordon Reid.
Reid, 29, had his first full training session with the squad on Tuesday. The Glasgow Warriors forward was on an Ayr beach during Saturday's first Test when he was contacted by Scotland team manager, Gavin Scott, telling him he was required in Tokyo.
"I was with the family, it was a nice day on the Costa del Ayr," he said. "I wasn't watching the game but I had it taped. When I got the phone call, I said to the missus, 'Just to let you know, I'm going away'. She was pretty angry, to be honest, because it was such short notice.
"It was just because I was leaving her. She doesn't like us to be apart. Young love, eh? Well, it's getting a bit older love now."
Scotland trained in persistent rain and Reid added: "Looks like I brought the Scottish weather with me."
Last week, Cotter said he would seek to give everyone game time on tour and back-row forward Josh Strauss, not in the 23-man squad in Toyota City, will likely appear from the start.
Flanker John Barclay is carrying an injury but trained on Tuesday. There are slight injury concerns over prop WP Nel and loose forward Ryan Wilson also.
Andres Pastrana of Colombia and Jorge Quiroga of Bolivia were not allowed to visit opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez and former mayor, Daniel Ceballos.
Both prisoners started a hunger strike around a week ago.
State officials said the ex-presidents were part of an hostile campaign against the country.
President Nicolas Maduro has said Venezuela's judiciary is independent and those in jail are criminals.
However, their supporters and rights groups say the two men's imprisonment is politically motivated and accused Mr Maduro of cracking down on his opponents.
Mr Lopez is being held in the Ramo Verde military prison outside Caracas, while Mr Ceballos is in a civilian prison in the central state of Guarico.
The presidents attempted to visit both sites.
Leopoldo Lopez is on trial for inciting violence during three months of protests against the government of President Maduro during which 43 people died including some police officers.
Daniel Ceballos, who was mayor of the western city of San Cristobal near the border with Colombia, which was a focus of many of the protests, is accused of supporting street blockades and calling for violence at the protests.
Last month a group of former world leaders sent an open letter to the Venezuelan government urging the release of the opposition leaders.
In April a former Spanish prime minister, Felipe Gonzalez, who announced his intention to help in the legal defence of Leopoldo Lopez, was also denied access to him.
The Venezuelan attorney general said under the country's law Mr Gonzalez could not form part of Mr Lopez's legal team.
Mr Maduro has been scathing about international support for Venezuelan opposition leaders.
"In general, these former prime ministers are usually discredited. They don't even want them in their own countries and then they come over here to disturb us."
Justin Robertson, 36, was paid £1,500 by Benjamin Carr, 22, to kill his former stepmother Pennie Davis in September 2014, after a long-running feud between the pair.
Robertson had denied murder but was convicted after a six-week trial.
His appeal was dismissed at a hearing of the Court of Appeal in London.
Mother-of-five Mrs Davis, 47, was found dead by her new husband in a field at Leygreen Farm near Beaulieu in the New Forest, where she had been tending to her horses.
She had been stabbed 14 times in an attack described by trial judge Justice Andrew Popplewell QC as "particularly brutal".
Carr, from Southampton, was convicted of conspiracy to murder and ordered to serve a minimum of 30 years.
Margaret Roberts, soon to become Thatcher, twice lost the general election in the safe Labour seat in 1950 and 1951.
But it was the beginning of a political journey that was to see her become the country's first female prime minister.
She would also be remembered negatively in Kent for the closure of the Royal Navy dockyards in Chatham and the last of the county's coal mines.
But she was fundamental in driving forward plans for the Channel Tunnel between Folkestone and Calais, which brought many jobs to the area.
Dorothy Shakespeare, who campaigned with Lady Thatcher in both elections, remembered her as a "warm person".
However, she doubted whether she would be able to climb the ranks in a male dominated world.
She said: "At the end of her [Lady Thatcher's] speech at an eve of poll meeting, the chairman said, 'ladies and gentlemen I would like you to know that you have just been listening to a future prime minister'.
"And I said to myself, 'not in my time'."
Although Lady Thatcher lost twice in Dartford, it was during her campaign that she met her husband Denis before marrying him in 1951.
Another setback occurred when she put herself forward as the Conservative candidate for the former Kent constituency of Orpington, but was rejected in 1954.
The town's current MP, Jo Johnson, said: "History could've been so different in many ways.
"Orpington, which I have the honouring of representing, unbelievably rejected her as a candidate in 1954 and it almost snuffed out her career.
"Back then it was felt a young mother of twins simply couldn't be a candidate."
She eventually was selected for the safe seat of Finchley in North London where she became an MP in 1959.
It was during Lady Thatcher's tenure as prime minister that the Royal Navy dockyards closed in Chatham in 1984.
She was, however, to make two visits to the dockyards after her retirement.
Paul Clark, who was a union representative and former Labour MP for Gillingham, said the decision to close the dockyard had a devastating effect on the Medway towns.
He said: "Some 400 years... of the Medway towns that had been built on the dockyard and all the people that worked there - suddenly overnight that had disappeared.
"That was as a consequence of the strategic defence review that was undertaken by Margaret Thatcher and her defence minister."
However, jobs were brought to the county with the construction and management of the Channel Tunnel.
John Noulton, who is a former director of public affairs at Eurotunnel and played a key role in negotiations with France over the Channel Tunnel treaty, said the project "wouldn't have happened without her".
He said: "What pleases me most is how popular it is with British people who were root and branch opposed to it when it was first proposed.
"And how little adverse impact it has had on Kent and the benefits it has brought to Kent."
The council cabinet has agreed in principle to develop a company to run Bupa Care Ltd homes across the county, after its contract with Bupa expires in May 2017.
The council said the current model did not have the resources to "deliver the required levels of services".
It said it could help develop care services.
A spokesman for Bupa Care said: "We are proud of the high quality of care that we deliver in the 12 homes we operate in Powys, which we lease from the council.
"We were surprised to learn in the local media that the council may set up a company to run these homes after the current contract expires next May.
"No final decision has been made and the council will take the next few months to review arrangements and decide what to do next."
Want to know if your Snapchat BF has another BF on Snapchat who is also one of your BFs?
Does that even make sense? Can you handle the drama? Well fear not, the app has introduced emojis next to your most popular mates to outline your relationship to them.
A series of photos of Beyonce have been released to explain it all. Yes, this is the official press release…
The six emojis appear next to your contacts to mark them as your #1 best friend, one of your general best friends, or someone you're on a snapping streak with.
It's something of a replacement for the best friends feature which was removed back in January.
It publically showed the three people you exchanged most Snapchats with.
But wait, there's more...
The latest version of the app also features a low light enhancement button, making it better for night shots and gigs, as well as a 'needs love' feature, which alerts you when you've been neglecting someone for a while.
So there you go, your life has changed forever.
• Gold Heart - You're top friends: The person you send snaps to most sends snaps to you the most too.
• Gritted Teeth - You have a mutual best friend: The person you send snaps to most is also who this person sends snaps to the most.
• Smile - One of your best friends: This is one of the people you send snaps to the most.
• Sunglasses - You have a mutual best friend: One of the people you send snaps to most is also one of the people this person sends snaps to most.
• Smirk - You're their best friend, but they aren't yours: You're one of the people they send snaps to the most, but they're not one of the people you send snaps to most.
• Fire - You're on a snapstreak: You and this person have sent snaps back and forth for the number of consecutive days shown.
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Among them is Dr Michael Jacobs, who leads the specialist infectious diseases team at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
He received a knighthood after helping treat three Britons who caught Ebola while working in Sierra Leone.
Staff who responded to the crisis overseas also received awards.
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The Ebola virus has killed more than 11,300 people in the last 20 months - most in the worst-affected countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
The disease is spread through close contact with infected fluids, putting health workers caring for patients with Ebola at heightened risk.
British nurses William Pooley, Pauline Cafferkey and army reservist Cpl Anna Cross who all contracted the disease while working in Sierra Leone, were treated at a specialist isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital.
Dr Jacobs said caring for them in this challenging environment was both a huge privilege and enormous team effort.
He said: "We were up in the unit 24 hours a day looking after the patients, led by the nurses who are working incredibly hard.
"They had to be very, very careful to make sure everyone was safe. And with them were doctors and all the other people looking after them."
He added: "Uppermost in our mind was what the nurses had been through when they were working in West Africa and what they had seen."
The team was also involved in trialling experimental drugs against the disease and by investigating patients in detail, they were able to add to a gradually growing knowledge of Ebola.
Dr Jacobs added: "We also learnt how incredible the NHS can be in an emergency like this and in a crisis. The teamwork between my colleagues was remarkable."
Dr Daniel Martin, an intensive care specialist at the hospital and part of the team, received an OBE.
The same honour went to Grace Jackson, of the Department for International Development, who helped coordinated the response to Ebola in Sierra Leone.
Meanwhile, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced that paramedic Collette Kalle was made an OBE for leading a medical team at an Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone.
Omaru Badara Sisay, who also received an OBE for his efforts in coordinating the flow of information in Sierra Leone, said: "Fighting Ebola took some incredible work and sacrifice from over 40,000 Sierra Leoneans, African, British and many other people and organisations who stood up to it there and then."
People working to combat other diseases and broader health issues were also on the honours list, including 10 awards for nurses at MBE level.
Prof Til Wykes, of King's College London, whose research concentrates on developing better treatments for schizophrenia, received a damehood for her work on clinical psychology.
Others include Harpal Kumar, chief executive of the charity Cancer Research UK, who received a knighthood.
Abortions are illegal in Northern Ireland except for cases where the woman's health is at risk.
That has led to women travelling to Great Britain seeking terminations.
But anti-abortion group Precious Life said allowing NI women to access NHS terminations would "run roughshod over the law and the democratic process".
The issue was raised by Scottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie, who said NI women should have access to the service without facing huge costs.
During First Minister's Questions at Holyrood on Thursday afternoon, Mr Harvie said: "Many women in Northern Ireland find themselves left with no option but to travel elsewhere in the UK to access legal and safe abortion.
"The time and the stress that this costs them is bad enough but there are also significant financial barriers, with some organisations supporting these women estimating that at the low end it costs them at least £400 and in many other cases more than £2,000.
"Does the First Minister agree that the NHS in Scotland should be exploring what can be done to ensure that these women are able to access abortion in Scotland, if that's where they chose to travel to, without facing these kind of unacceptable financial barriers?"
He said abortion should be treated as part of normal healthcare and not "stigmatised".
Ms Sturgeon said she believed that no woman "should ever be stigmatised" for having an abortion.
She added that abortion should not be seen in isolation and was a fundamental part of healthcare.
Ms Sturgeon told the chamber: "I am happy to explore that with the NHS. To explore both what the situation would be right now in terms of accessing safe and legal abortion for women from Northern Ireland within NHS Scotland and whether there's any improvements that are able to be made.
"I believe, like Patrick Harvie, that women should have the right to choose, within the limits that we currently set down in law, and I believe that right should be defended.
"And when a woman, any woman, does opt to have an abortion, and let's stress that is never, ever an easy decision for any woman, then abortion should be available in a safe and legal way."
In a statement, Precious Life's director Bernadette Smyth said abortion was a "criminal offence" in Northern Ireland which "exists to protect both mothers and their unborn children".
"To make provisions for women to access free abortions in Scotland would be to run roughshod over the law and the democratic process in Northern Ireland," Ms Smyth added.
"This will not go unchallenged. There will be a public outcry."
Women from Northern Ireland are not legally entitled to free abortions on the NHS in England following a High Court ruling in 2014, which is being challenged in a legal action at the UK Supreme Court.
The Red Cross said a 55-year-old woman died of a heart attack in Guanacaste, near the epicentre of the quake, and a construction worker was killed when a wall collapsed.
The US Geological Survey said the 7.6-magnitude quake occurred beneath the Nicoya peninsula, 140km (87 miles) west of the capital, San Jose.
A tsunami alert which had been issued for the area has been cancelled.
The quake rattled buildings in some parts of the capital, San Jose, Reuters news agency reported.
Power and communications were briefly knocked out, according to the Costa Rican authorities.
Regional media reported the quake could be felt as far away as Nicaragua and El Salvador.
The US Geological Survey originally said it had a magnitude of 7.9, but revised it down to 7.6.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which had at first issued a tsunami warning for the Pacific coast of most of Central and South America, has cancelled its alert.
President Laura Chinchillla said Costa Rica's emergency services were surveying the damage.
She said that so far there had been no reports of any serious damage to buildings.
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While the optician normally delivers new glasses to the Vatican, Pope Francis insisted on travelling to the shop in central Rome this time.
Large crowds gathered outside the shop as he spent an hour inside, at the end of which he insisted on paying.
Pope Francis has reportedly expressed regret at not being able to walk freely on Rome's streets.
The Pope was accompanied by an assistant, a bodyguard and several police officers on his visit.
A German tourist, Daniel Soehe, said he had failed to see Pope Francis in the Vatican earlier in the day, but then spotted him in the optician's shop.
"I told my father, 'Hey, that was better than going to St Peter's dome: Seeing the Pope in a shop trying on new glasses'," he told the Associated Press news agency.
While archbishop of Buenos Aires, he was often seen travelling on public transport or walking through the city.
In a profile in National Geographic magazine this month, Pope Francis is quoted as saying: "You know how often I've wanted to go walking through the streets of Rome - because in Buenos Aires, I liked to go for a walk in the city.
"I really liked to do that. In this sense, I feel a little penned in."
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Pope Francis drew crowds for an unusual reason on Thursday - after slipping out of the Vatican to visit an optician.
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Arbroath-based RR Spink & Sons said its hot smoked salmon and hot smoked rainbow trout would be stocked at 30 larger Sainsbury's stores in Scotland.
Until now, the company's products have only been available in high-end food halls and luxury delis.
The company was founded in 1715 and now employs 190 people in Arbroath.
It holds a Royal Warrant as Fishmonger to Her Majesty the Queen.
The firm rears its own rainbow trout at Loch Etive on the west coast near Oban. Its salmon is sourced from Scottish companies.
Sales manager Danny Cairney said: "RR Spink & Sons has over 300 years of experience in crafting smoked fish and we believe in using the highest quality of sustainable Scottish salmon and trout in all our products."
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One of Scotland's oldest fishmongers is moving into supermarkets for the first time, after securing an initial £60,000 deal with Sainsbury's.
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Eugenio Vides Casanova, 77, has lived in Florida since 1989 and was once regarded by the US as an ally.
He was taken into custody last month under a law designed to keep those accused of abuses in other countries from seeking refuge in the US.
But he will not face charges in El Salvador due to an amnesty law.
Eugenio Vides Casanova, once El Salvador's defence minister and head of the National Guard, arrived at the country's main airport with more than 100 other deportees, reports say.
He has been linked to the killing of four US churchwomen in 1980.
He argued against his deportation on the grounds his military tactics were backed by Washington at the time.
In a separate development, the US has begun extradition proceedings of another former Salvadoran military officer living in the US.
Inocente Orlando Montano Morales is facing charges in Spain over the killing of five Jesuit priests.
At least 70,000 people died in El Salvador's civil war from 1980-1992, fought between the country's right-wing military government and leftist rebels.
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The US has deported a former general during El Salvador's civil war after a court ruled he was responsible for torture and killings while in command.
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Lawyers for the charity wrote to Aboyne-based Hilltrek Outdoor Clothing demanding they stop selling their popular Glencoe jacket.
They said the NTS owned Glencoe and held the trademark for the name.
But business owner Dave Shand has vowed to continue selling the jacket the firm has manufactured for 30 years.
He said the lawyers' letter was "bullying and threatening" and after he shared it on social media, the NTS conceded that it may have been "too harsh in tone".
A charity spokesman said they would be happy to speak to the business to find a "mutually agreeable solution".
The letter demanded the business stop selling goods with the name Glencoe from their website, and refrain from using the word in future products or packaging.
It threatened legal action if the firm did not comply with their demands within a week.
"I was shocked that they could trademark the name of a place and shocked at their attitude," Mr Shand told BBC Scotland online.
"A polite letter should have been their first step I think, explaining the situation and asking for a dialogue," he added.
"They irking thing is I am a NTS supporter- I was a member until about two years ago," he said.
Mr Shand, a keen outdoor enthusiast, said he took over the clothing business from its previous owners in 2003.
From their workshop in Aboyne, four employees manufacture and supply outdoor clothing to more than 25 countries.
It has long been the firm's policy to name their jackets after some of their favourite places in Scotland.
Now he is worried that the row could affect the future of products like their Cuillin jacket, their Braemar smock, or their Kintail shirt.
He said he plans to consult a lawyer over the issue on Monday and has had crowdfunding offers to help pay their fees.
A spokesman for The National Trust for Scotland said the charity has registered trademarks for some of its properties "as a defensive measure". It wanted to prevent third parties legally registering trademarks for properties owned by the NTS.
He said the charity has made sure that established and new businesses trading locally to their properties can continue trading "without interruption or cost".
But they have contacted a number of companies using trademarked names which are not local, including some businesses based in France and England.
He said: "Our only desire is to protect the properties in our care and stop them being exploited in ways which do not accord with our charitable purposes."
He added: "In retrospect, although the letter sent to Hilltreck was a standard one, it may have been in the circumstances of this particular company too harsh in tone.
"Our letter to Hilltreck was intended to open up negotiation to establish if the company had legal prior trading rights and clearly the wording and tone did not convey this. We would be happy to enter into a dialogue with them with the aim of finding a mutually agreeable solution."
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The National Trust for Scotland has been accused of bullying a small Aberdeenshire clothing business in a trademark dispute.
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Pilot Bertrand Piccard set down the prop-driven vehicle at 23:28 local time (15:28 GMT), following a 1,240km journey from Chongqing in the west of the country.
The project is aiming to circumnavigate the globe, and it must now prepare for the challenge of crossing the Pacific.
The next 10 days will be spent giving Solar Impulse a thorough servicing.
Meteorologists on the Swiss team, which has its mission control in Monaco, will then look for a suitable weather window for the ocean flight.
It will be done in two stages, with the first reaching over to Hawaii - a distance from Nanjing of 8,000km. For the slow-moving aircraft, this will entail being airborne continuously for several days and nights.
In simulations done last year, the weather opening was found quite quickly, but the team recognises also that its stay in Nanjing could be a long one.
"I think 10 days is the time we need to get ready. Then we need to wait for a good weather window," explained mission director Raymond Clerc.
"That could be three days; we could have to wait three weeks - because this leg is really the most important and is very complex. To go towards Hawaii could last five days and five nights."
Bertrand Piccard has been sharing the flying duties in the single-seater with his business partner, Andre Borschberg. And it is Borschberg, the trained engineer, who will take the controls for the leg to Hawaii.
So far, Solar Impulse has covered about 7,000km since leaving Abu Dhabi, UAE, on 9 March.
Solar Impulse has set two world records for manned solar-powered flight on its journey so far.
The first was for the longest distance covered on a single trip - that of 1,468km between Muscat, Oman, and Ahmedabad, India.
The second was for a groundspeed of 117 knots (216km/h; 135mph), which was achieved during the leg into Mandalay, Myanmar, from Varanasi, India.
No solar-powered plane has ever flown around the world.
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Valentine Clays produces raw materials for the ceramics industry, supplying local firms as well as others across the world.
The latest investment includes a workshop, gallery and training space at the new base in Fenton.
Production is also set to move to the site in the next five years with two factories planned.
Local business leaders said the ceramics sector had enjoyed a resurgence in recent years and they are keen to show young people it was no longer the "dirty environment" it used to be, but a "high-tech, modern" industry.
Kinsella left Villa in May, having failed to make a first-team appearance for the Championship club.
The 21-year-old joined Kidderminster Harriers on loan in February, playing in 13 games.
He suffered relegation twice in one day last season, with Harriers going down on 16 April as the end of Villa's Premier League stay was confirmed.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Mr Anderson, the MP for Blaydon in north east England, took over as Labour's frontbench spokesman on Scotland after Ian Murray quit the job.
His appointment was controversial as he does not represent a Scottish seat.
Mr Anderson, who served at Westminster for 12 years, said he had "reluctantly" decided not to stand for reasons of "health, age and my family's needs".
The former miner also fulfilled the role of shadow Northern Ireland Secretary.
Mr Anderson, 63, won his Blaydon seat with a majority of 14,227 in 2015.
He took over the Scottish role in July 2016 after Mr Murray resigned citing a lack of confidence in party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
He said the snap election in June was "nothing more than a cynical attempt by the Tories to put their interests before the country", but said he welcomed the chance to take Labour's case to the public.
He said: "I have reluctantly decided that for reasons of health, age and my family's needs, I cannot commit to another five years in parliament.
"To that end I will stand down, but I will be campaigning hard with our new candidate and the positive policy platform put forward by our leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and the whole Labour movement.
"We'll show the people of Blaydon that there is a different, more positive and hopeful way to run our country than that proposed by the right-wing, anti-public service and pro-austerity Tory party."
The boy allegedly incited another person to carry out an attack at an Anzac Day event with the aim of killing or seriously injuring people.
He is also accused of inciting another person to behead someone in Australia.
The court remanded the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to youth detention.
The case was transferred to the Old Bailey, which will hold a preliminary hearing later.
The boy was charged after officers from the North West Counter Terrorism Unit and Lancashire Police executed a search of an address in Blackburn on 2 April.
Anzac Day is commemorated on 25 April in memory of Australian and New Zealand soldiers who have died in war.
The 26-year-old Brazil international has signed a five-year deal and will join City on their pre-season tour of the United States.
Danilo can play in both full-back roles as well as in midfield, and is City's fourth major signing of the summer.
"There was interest from other clubs, but it has always been my ambition to play for Pep Guardiola," he said.
His arrival takes City's summer spending to almost £150m, following the recruitment of England international Kyle Walker (£45m), Portugal midfielder Bernardo Silva (£43m) and Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson Moraes (£35m).
The club have also agreed a £52m deal for 23-year-old Monaco defender Benjamin Mendy and sold left-back Aleksandar Kolarov to Serie A club Roma for £4.5m.
Danilo's move is subject to him receiving a work permit, meaning he is unlikely to make his debut when City face Real on Wednesday in Los Angeles.
The former Santos player joined Real in 2015 from Porto but started just 17 La Liga games last season.
In two years at the Bernabeu, he won La Liga, two Champions Leagues, the Uefa Super Cup and the Fifa Club World Cup.
"Danilo is a fine player who offers great versatility," said City director of football Txiki Begiristain.
"He can operate in several different roles in both defence and midfield, increasing Pep's options ahead of the new season."
The new study is said to be the best effort yet to quantify just how much of this debris is being dumped, blown or simply washed out to sea.
Eight million tonnes is like covering an area 34 times the size of New York's Manhattan Island to ankle depth.
The details were released at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Dr Jenna Jambeck, the study’s lead author from the University of Georgia, had another way to try to visualise the scale of the problem.
“The quantity entering the ocean is equal to about five plastic grocery bags full of plastic for every foot of coastline in the world,” she told BBC News.
Researchers have for some time now reported on the mass of plastic caught up in ocean currents, just going round and round.
What is slightly shocking about this new study, also published in Science Magazine, is that it helps quantify all the plastic in our oceans - not just the material seen floating on the sea surface or sitting on beaches.
The newly published estimate is 20 to 2,000 times greater than the reported mass of plastic trapped in high concentration in ocean gyres.
It is clear now that large quantities of debris must be hidden on the seafloor or have been weathered into tiny fragments that are just not apparent to casual surveys. The latter are being ingested by marine animals with unknown consequences.
In doing its analysis, the team pulled together international data on population, waste generation and management (and mismanagement). The group then modelled scenarios for the likely sums of plastic getting into the ocean environment.
For 2010, the estimated range runs from 4.8 to 12.7 million tonnes. Eight million tonnes is the mid-scenario. It is a few percent of the total plastic waste generated that year.
That lower bound of 4.8 is roughly equal to the size of the global tuna fishery.
"In effect we're taking out the tuna and we're putting in plastic," commented co-author Kara Lavender Law from the Sea Education Association at Woods Hole.
Eight million tonnes is the mid-scenario, though. It is a few percent of the total plastic waste generated each year.
The scientists have compiled a list of the nations they find to be responsible for most of this wayward plastic.
These top 20 countries account for 83% of all mismanaged material available to enter the ocean.
China is at the top, producing more than a million tonnes of marine debris on its own.
But the team cautions against making simple judgements because this position is a result in the main of the Asian nation’s immense population, a large fraction of which lives along an extensive coastline.
Likewise, the United States, makes an entry at 20th on the list. It too has large coastal communities. It also has much better waste management practices. But what pulls its performance down is the sheer volume of waste produced by each individual citizen – and some of this inevitably finds its way into the ocean.
(The EU is considered as a bloc but would appear 18th in the list if treated as a single nation).
The team says various solutions are required.
Rich nations need to reduce their consumption of single-use, disposable plastic items, like shopping bags; and developing nations must improve their waste management practices.
It is evident from the list that a relatively small number of middle-income, rapidly developing countries are having acute difficulties.
Dr Jambeck commented: “Economic growth is coupled with waste generation. Now, economic growth is a positive, but what you often see in developing countries is that waste management infrastructure is put to one side. And rightly so to some extent; they are looking more closely at getting clean drinking water and improving sanitation.
"But from a waste perspective, I don't want them to forget about this management issue because if they do, the problems are only going to get worse."
The study suggests that, left unchecked, 17.5 million tonnes a year could be entering the oceans by 2025. Cumulatively, that is 155 million tonnes between now and then.
And with global "peak waste" unlikely to be reached before 2100, according to World Bank calculations, the situation becomes ever more pressing.
Co-author Roland Geyer, from the University of California at Santa Barbara, said it was not feasible to clean the oceans of plastic; "turning off the tap" was the only solution," he told BBC News.
"How could you even collect plastics from the ocean floor given that the average depth is 14,000ft? We need to prevent plastics entering the oceans in the first place. Lack of formal waste management systems causes high plastic waste inputs into the ocean. So, helping every country to develop a sound solid waste management infrastructure is a top priority."
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Five years ago, St Jerome's in Llangwm was in urgent need of repair with damp and bits of render falling down.
But a research project creating a 5m-long (16ft) tapestry illustrating the town's 900-year-old links has raised more than £431,000 to renovate it.
Pam Hunt, project leader, said it was a "fascinating story".
The Talking Tapestry of Langum (one of Llangwm's historical names) - which has a downloadable smart phone app to tell the story of the village's ties - forms part of the Heritage Llangwm project.
As part of the project some of the village's men had their DNA tested and found a direct link to the Flemish founders.
Norman Roach, 82 had his DNA tested and was "astounded" to discover he was directly related to the 12th Century settlers.
"To take all that in was mindboggling," he added.
After about 2,000 hours of work, volunteers in the village will celebrate the end of the history project on Saturday by putting the final stitches in the tapestry.
The Talking Tapestry of Langum will be officially unveiled by the Flemish government's representative in the UK, Nic van der Marliere. The Flemish Parliament and the Flemish Government are responsible for the legislative powers of the Flemish Community in Belgium and in Brussels.
Ms Hunt said the research project, which won £340,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, grants from CADW and other bodies, had helped save the church which was in "desperate need of work".
She said: "There's interest down here, but the whole of Wales knows so little about it."
The Twelfth Player tells the story of Northampton Town FC through three generations of a family.
The play's audience will be given a headset and handheld media player as they are guided around the club's Sixfields Stadium.
Playwrights Susanne Thomas and Sophie Jump said their work was inspired by "dark days" of 2015.
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Towards the end of 2015, financial problems at the club meant staff and players were not being paid.
The club owed Northampton Borough Council more than £10m and a winding-up petition was sought by HM Revenue and Customs against the then League Two side.
Despite problems off the pitch, 2015-16 was the season the Cobblers clinched the league title and promotion to League One.
"We are going to take the audience on a journey around the stadium and into the back stage areas where the public rarely gets a chance to go including the changing rooms," said Ms Thomas.
"They will see the world of football through the eyes of three generations of a single family."
The show will include live performances by actors as well as audio and visual media through the devices provided to the audience.
The show runs from 22 June until 12 July.
Some minor formalities of the deal have still to be completed, but the 25-year-old flew to Poland on Thursday.
Pogon Szczecin announced on their website that the former Dundee United forward will wear the number 17 jersey and he has already trained with the side.
"It's good for him to get some games," said Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers.
"It's been difficult for him because of the form of the other strikers here, but you have to give him massive credit because he's been totally professional and a great guy to have around the squad.
"I gave him some game time lately as a reward really for his hard work and endeavour. But he's a striker and they want to play and score goals. This is a chance for him to get some games between now and the end of the season."
Turkey under-19 cap Ciftci had a spell on loan last season in his home country at Eskisehirspor, playing 12 games and scoring four goals, but has made only four appearances for Celtic this season.
He joined Celtic from Dundee United in the summer of 2015 during Ronny Deila's tenure as manager and has scored four goals for the Glasgow side.
Pogon are seventh in Ekstraklasa after 21 of their 30 league games.
The Local Government Association (LGA) has also called on ministers to extend tax breaks on lower-strength 2.8% beers to include ciders and wines.
The call has been welcomed by industry bodies.
The LGA represents 370 councils in England and Wales with responsibility for public health.
The cost to the NHS of dealing with excessive alcohol consumption is estimated to be £3.5bn a year, according to the LGA.
Tony Page, the licensing spokesman for the LGA, said: "Increasing the availability of zero alcohol and weaker strength drinks will help people live healthier lives by helping to control drinking levels and tackle the harm caused by excessive drinking.
"With a new generation of non-drinkers on the rise, there is a growing demand for greater choice in alcohol-free and weaker drinks, with several 'dry bars' opening up across the country.
"Tax breaks for beer have helped fuel a rise in low-strength products. This should now be extended to cider, wine and spirits."
He also said that drinking habits were changing and "brewers needed to capitalise on this by producing a range of different options" for people.
Figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show that excessive consumption of alcohol is also associated with violent crime.
In just over a half of all instances of violent crime in England and Wales in 2013-14, the victim believed that the perpetrator was drunk.
The LGA says widening the availability of low-strength and alcohol-free drinks would "revitalise pubs, which are closing at a rate of nearly 30 a week, and re-establish them as vibrant centres of communities".
There is also a growing number of non-drinkers, with one in five adults (21%) saying they do not drink alcohol at all - up from 19% in 2005.
A spokesman for the Portman Group - which campaigns for the drinks industry on social responsibility - said: "We welcome this support for lower strength drinks.
"Official statistics show a decade-long decline in harmful drinking in the UK, and alcohol companies are committed to continuing this positive trend."
A spokesman for the British Beer and Pub Association said: "Lower taxes for lower strength drinks is a great idea, and we would support this principle for other drinks categories."
Earlier this year, tough new guidelines were issued on alcohol consumption, which said there was no such thing as a safe level of drinking.
The UK's chief medical officers said new research showed any amount of alcohol could increase the risk of cancer.
Their new advice says men and women who drink regularly should consume no more than 14 units a week - equivalent to six pints of beer or seven glasses of wine. And pregnant women should not drink at all.
Ministers decided in an emergency meeting to give local municipalities the authority to treat local waste.
Protests triggered by rotting rubbish in Beirut quickly grew into a wider attack on the perceived corruption and incompetence of politicians.
Demonstrators earlier pelted eggs at politicians' cars outside parliament.
Breaking the deadlock, Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayeb approved on Wednesday a deal that devolves waste management duties to municipalities - a central demand of the protesters - and authorises the opening of two new landfills.
The rubbish crisis began after the country's largest landfill in Naameh, south of Beirut, shut down in July with no ready alternative. The government has been unable to agree on another site until now.
As part of Wednesday's agreement, Naameh landfill will also be temporarily reopened to dispose of any rubbish that remains there.
But political parties meeting at an earlier "national dialogue" session could not come to agreement on how to elect a new president. The post has been vacant since May 2014, contributing to the months-long political paralysis. Another meeting was scheduled for next week.
Protesters gathered outside the parliament building as politicians arrived for the meeting, some of them pelting eggs at their vehicles shouting "thieves, thieves, get out!"
Security was heightened in anticipation of the protests, with metal barricades erected outside parliament and armoured vehicles lining the streets.
Outside the parliament building, activists pinned a large banner onto barbed wire showing the photos of the 128 members of parliament with the words in Arabic: "You have failed in everything...Go home."
Demonstrators also blockaded a major coastal road leading into Beirut.
Thousands of people have joined the "You Stink" campaign in recent weeks, blaming political paralysis and corruption for the government's failure to resolve the rubbish crisis.
Lebanon has been without a president for more than a year, while members of parliament have extended their own terms until 2017 after failing to agree on a law on fresh elections.
The conflict in neighbouring Syria has also exacerbated political and sectarian divisions, and resulted in the arrival of 1.1 million refugees, putting a strain on the economy and public services.
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United, who won six friendlies under Van Gaal in pre-season, began their Premier League campaign with a shock 2-1 home defeat by Swansea.
Van Gaal said: "When you have preparation, win everything, then lose your first match, it cannot be worse.
"We have built up a lot of confidence. It will be smashed because of this."
Swansea's victory was their first in their history in the league at Old Trafford, and saw United lose at home on the opening day of the season for the first time in 42 years, since Ipswich beat them 3-2 in 1972.
It was a defeat and performance reminiscent of United's struggles at home last season, when they lost seven league matches under David Moyes and were beaten by the Swans in the FA Cup.
On top of United's failure to strengthen their squad significantly since Van Gaal's arrival in July, their list of injured or unfit players meant he gave debuts to two academy graduates - Tyler Blackett and Jesse Lingard.
With Luke Shaw injured, United could field only one summer signing, £29m midfielder Ander Herrera.
But Van Gaal swatted away suggestions that the display and defeat against the Welsh side will make him step up efforts to strengthen his side before the transfer window shuts on 2 September.
"Yes, I need new faces but I thought that before this match anyway," he said.
"When we were playing in the United States I thought the same. I know the positions where we need better players."
He also dismissed questions that the defeat has made him realise the scale of his task as he looks to take a team that finished seventh last season back into the top four and challenge for the title.
"I have said before that I know how big a job I face here," Van Gaal explained.
"Our wins in the United States and against Valencia meant that the expectation was so high.
"In the first half I saw a lot of my players looking very nervous and making the wrong choices. The players have to get used to that expectation because this is Manchester United and they have to cope with that pressure.
"Of course I am very disappointed to lose - for the players and fans and for myself and my staff.
"But we have to remember this is only one of many games and nobody is champions now. You are the champions in May."
On Twitter, a fan had asked if he was going to put the game back in the app store.
"Yes. But not soon," Mr Nguyen replied, later adding: "I don't work by plan. I will release it when it is done."
Mr Nguyen removed the popular game in February, saying its popularity had ruined his "simple life".
Launched in May 2013, Flappy Bird was free to download and required players to tap the screen to keep the bird in flight.
Despite its simple graphics, Flappy Bird was a notoriously difficult game since many users could only keep the bird in the air for a few seconds before it hit an obstacle and fell.
The game went viral after being promoted almost entirely by social media users and was reviewed on a YouTube channel by more than 22 million subscribers.
It was downloaded 50 million times, and at the height of its popularity, Mr Nguyen was reportedly earning $50,000 (£30,450) a day from advertising
In an interview earlier this month with Rolling Stone, Mr Nguyen said he was moved to remove the popular mobile game from the App store after users wrote to him detailing how the game had destroyed their lives.
After the game was taken down, users started several passionate petitions to get the game reinstated.
Edward Barr, 45, began terrorising Ann Begg when she became pregnant.
The attacks happened at addresses across Ayrshire, including in Cumnock and Auchinleck, between May 1993 and May 2000.
Lord Clark ordered Barr to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work as part of a 12-month community payback order.
Barr, from Cumnock in Ayrshire, appeared at the High Court in Glasgow, having earlier pleaded guilty to assaulting Ms Begg, 51,
However, before his guilty plea, Ms Begg had to give evidence against him at a trial in Livingston.
She had told the court: "It was fine at first, but I was not able to give him the full attention he was getting before, so he did not like that.
"I noticed things were not the same. There was a lot more arguments leading up to the violence that happened throughout that period."
She recalled being "pummelled" by Barr while pregnant after rowing with him for going on a day out with a friend rather than her.
She said: "I was dragged from the living room out to the hallway of the flat by the hair. All I can remember is fists coming at me."
Barr also went on to pour "a plate of boiling hot custard" over her as she cooked a meal.
Miss Begg eventually ended up staying in women's refuges.
The pair split up in 2000 when Barr started seeing someone else.
Barr has already spent the equivalent of eight months on remand.
He was earlier cleared of 10 further charges of domestic violence after a key witness failed to turn up to give evidence.
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We play finals on Sundays, most semi-finals are on Saturdays and if a tournament starts on a Monday, we're practising the weekend before.
So it's pretty rare to have a weekend when we don't do anything.
We do get days off at other times. When I got back after the Australian Open in January I had four or five days when I wasn't doing anything, and that's your time to do normal stuff. You get to be with your family, watch TV, go out for dinner, see friends and do normal things.
It's pretty rare at this time of year - at least you hope it is - but that doesn't mean I get home every night and lock myself in my room, just concentrating on my match.
Maybe I don't do loads around the house during the two weeks of Wimbledon but I still want to spend time with my family when I can.
For example, on Friday I only saw my daughter for an hour in the morning and I want to make sure I spend the time available with her.
I've got two days without a match this weekend and I'll try to do stuff with my family in the mornings and the evenings around practice. Kim and I watched an episode an evening last week of a show called The Night Of, which we finished on Thursday.
I'm fine switching off from the tennis but I like being busy over the weekends because it means I'm doing well. I'll get plenty of weekends off when I finish playing.
There was a moment the other night when I was stuck in traffic, with the fuel gauge close to empty, and I thought, 'this isn't looking good'.
Home felt a lot further than 11 miles away with Wimbledon in gridlock and about six miles' worth of petrol in the tank.
I always let it run down low, although not normally that low.
My car lets me know when I've got 35 miles left, and when I left home that morning I had 30 miles, so enough to get there and back.
Unfortunately there was an accident along the route and it was taking some people two hours to get in. I use an app that got me to the All England Club in 45 minutes, but I had to go around the houses to get to there.
It normally takes me 25 to 30 minutes, so if I'd stopped to fill up and then taken that route I'd have been late to start my physio, so I thought 'just get to Wimbledon'. The club is surrounded by lots of petrol stations within two or three miles, so no problem.
But when I left that night there was so much traffic around the venue that I was stuck.
I had a back-up plan though - the petrol station I headed for is at the bottom of a hill, so I thought I could just roll down there and up to the pump if I needed to. That would have been quite a sight for anyone watching.
Luckily I made it there with one mile left in the tank, and I might fill it up a bit more than normal next week!
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Playing Monday, Wednesday, Friday means I get the weekend free, which can work both ways.
The other half of the draw get to play every other day throughout the tournament and pick up a good rhythm, on the other hand I have more time to catch up on the practice I missed in the week before Wimbledon.
I play Benoit Paire in the fourth round on Monday and he is another talented, tricky opponent. Like in the last round against Fabio Fognini, it will be our first meeting on grass.
That means plenty of time at the club working on my game, and there's another competition I've got my eye on.
I saw Rafa Nadal and his team trying a bit of golf before he went on to play his match on Friday, they had the putter out for a little bit of friendly competition.
I don't really play much golf and I know Rafa plays all the time, but putting is a very specific skill and I fancy my chances.
Maybe we'll line that one up for next week, why not?
Andy Murray was talking to BBC Sport's Piers Newbery
The 20-year-old moved to Deepdale from Cork City in January 2014 and has made 41 appearances for the club.
The Republic of Ireland youth international has also captained his country's Under-19 side.
"This new contract now just gives me the freedom to go and play again and do what I do and it's great to get it done," he told the club website.
"I think we can make a big impact in the Championship and be up there come the end of the season and I can't wait to be a part of it."
Auckland Blues and New Zealand Rugby have "accommodated" a request from Williams, who said his objection was "central to my religious beliefs".
Williams, a Muslim, will continue to wear the New Zealand kit, which features sponsorship from insurers AIG.
The 31-year-old said it was important to him to "do the right thing".
"As I learn more and develop a deeper understanding of my faith I am no longer comfortable doing things I used to do," he added.
Williams already had a "conscientious objection" in his central contract that meant he was not asked to do sponsorship work with companies related to finance, alcohol, tobacco or gambling.
These are granted by New Zealand Rugby "on the basis of genuine family, ethical or religious grounds".
"Sonny holds clear religious beliefs in relation to this matter and we respect those," said general manager Neil Sorensen.
"Conscientious objections need to be genuine, and we believe this is."
Williams, who has boxed professionally, switched to rugby union from rugby league, and helped the All Blacks win the World Cup in 2015.
After his side beat Australia 34-17 in the final at Twickenham, Williams gave his medal to a young fan who raced on to the pitch to celebrate before being tackled by a security guard.
"He got smoked by the security guard, like full-on tackled," Williams said at the time. "It was pretty sad. He's just a young fella obviously caught up in the moment."
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The BBC looked at 20 of the "best of 2015" lists in music's most influential publications - including the NME, Rolling Stone, Vice, Billboard and Q Magazine - to find the highest-ranked albums of the year.
Read about the Top 10, and what the critics had to say about each of them, below.
10) Miguel - Wildheart
Like Prince on Purple Rain, R&B star Miguel ventured into rock territory, splicing flame-throwing guitar riffs on to his tales of bedroom conquests, salvation and damnation.
9) Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION
Most people had written off Canadian Idol winner Carly Rae Jepsen as a one-hit wonder after Call Me Maybe, but she proved them wrong with this collection of world-class, 80s-referencing pop.
8) Grimes - Art Angels
Canadian artist Grimes, known to her parents as Clare Boucher, spent two-and-a-half years streamlining the sound of her fourth album, a futuristic collection of uncompromising pop. "The whole time I had this feeling like it might all blow up in my face and people might hate it," she told Billboard.
7) Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
Emerging from a 10-year hiatus, US rock band Sleater-Kinney worked in secret on their eighth album, retaining the stabbing energy of their self-titled debut.
6) Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
A long, intimate conversation with death, Carrie and Lowell is named after Sufjan Stevens' mother and stepfather - but is principally concerned with the former, who died of cancer in 2012. Over the record, he dissects their relationship - she abandoned him as a baby - and tries to reconcile his feelings of grief, loss and love.
5) Tame Impala - Currents
Tame Impala vocalist Kevin Parker is probably more familiar as a guest vocalist on Mark Ronson's Uptown Special, but his band's third album is an equally-accomplished expedition into trippy psych-pop with some of their strongest melodies to date.
4) Jamie xx - In Colour
Jamie Smith's first solo album pillages dance music's past to create something approaching a new genre - quiet rave.
3) Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Former Fleet Foxes drummer Josh Tillman penned his second album as a love letter to his wife, Emma. But don't be fooled by the title - the record is caustic, explicit and full of prickly putdowns, which focus as much on his own shortcomings as his passion for his bride.
2) Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
With a title inspired by a poster in her grandmother's toilet, Courtney Barnett set the tone for her debut album - a selection of sloppy punk-pop grounded by her witty, conversational lyrics.
1) Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
A hip-hop album built on visionary jazz and gritty funk, To Pimp A Butterfly is dizzying at first - as Lamar tackles race crime, faith, sex and his own hypocrisies, often in the space of a single track. But with repeated listens, it coalesces into a startling, compelling document of fame and fear in modern America.
The 20 best of lists surveyed appeared in: Amazon, AV Club, Billboard magazine, Consequence of Sound, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, Mashable, Mojo, NME, Paste, Q Magazine, Rolling Stone, Spin, Stereogum, The Sun, Time, Time Out London, Time Out New York, Uncut and Vice.
The Bees took the lead in the 14th minute, with the diminutive Mauro Vilhete sending Nana Kyei's corner looping in at the far post.
Kyei almost put the Bees two up when he raced past his man and into the box, only for goalkeeper Luke McCormick to produce a fine save.
Barnet flew out of the blocks after the break, with John Akinde denied by McCormick before Kyei clipped the crossbar.
Argyle's Paul Garita headed over from close range but Michael Nelson and Ricardo Santos weathered the storm in the middle of the Bees' defence.
Vilhete nearly made the points safe with eight minutes left but McCormick produced another one-on-one save.
And Gary Miller should have brought Plymouth level seconds later, only for the Scot to volley wide from five yards as Barnet held on.
Match ends, Barnet 1, Plymouth Argyle 0.
Second Half ends, Barnet 1, Plymouth Argyle 0.
Gary Miller (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Muggleton (Barnet).
Foul by Connor Smith (Plymouth Argyle).
Ricardo Santos (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Craig Tanner (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
David Goodwillie (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Curtis Weston (Barnet).
Attempt blocked. Dan Sweeney (Barnet) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Jamie Stephens.
Attempt saved. David Goodwillie (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Barnet. Sam Muggleton replaces Harry Taylor.
Attempt missed. Gary Miller (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left.
Gary Miller (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Dan Sweeney (Barnet).
Attempt missed. Mauro Vilhete (Barnet) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Mauro Vilhete (Barnet) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by John Akinde (Barnet).
Gary Miller (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Harry Taylor (Barnet).
Jordan Slew (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Craig Tanner (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Barnet. Conceded by Sonny Bradley.
Attempt blocked. Jack Taylor (Barnet) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Dan Sweeney (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Yann Songo'o (Plymouth Argyle).
Substitution, Barnet. Dan Sweeney replaces Simeon Akinola.
Corner, Barnet. Conceded by Yann Songo'o.
Attempt blocked. John Akinde (Barnet) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Craig Tanner (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simeon Akinola (Barnet).
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. David Goodwillie replaces Paul Garita.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Michael Nelson.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Michael Nelson.
Attempt blocked. Paul Garita (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Michael Nelson (Barnet) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Barnet. Conceded by David Fox.
Substitution, Barnet. Jamal Campbell-Ryce replaces Nana Kyei.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Michael Nelson.
But the move drew criticism from other business executives, who said it would hurt US companies' ability to work abroad and inhibit innovation.
Mr Trump cast his move as part of a bigger 'America first' agenda, aimed at restoring US jobs in struggling industries.
The Dow Jones closed up 0.6% following the widely expected announcement.
Before Mr Trump confirmed he would go ahead with his campaign pledge to withdraw, a slew of major companies issued statements urging him to remain in the deal.
After the announcement, they expressed disappointment.
"Climate change is real," tweeted Jeff Immelt, chief executive of GE. "Industry must now lead and not depend on government."
Tesla boss Elon Musk confirmed he would quit his seat on White House advisory groups.
He wrote on Twitter "Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world."
Several other major companies, including Morgan Stanley, Unilever, Intel and big tech firms, such as Apple, had opposed withdrawal, saying it would have spurred energy innovation in the US, among other benefits.
Energy companies including Exxon Mobil and Chevron, had also pressed the administration to remain in the pact.
Under the deal, the US, which accounts for about 15% of global greenhouse gas emission, had committed to a 26% to 28% reduction from 2005 levels by 2025.
The US also promised $3bn in aid to a United Nations fund to help poorer countries to tackle climate change problems.
In his announcement on Thursday, Mr Trump said the deal, which involved voluntary commitments, put the US at a disadvantage. He said he would be willing to renegotiate under different terms.
"The rest of the world applauded when we signed the Paris Agreement -- they went wild; they were so happy -- for the simple reason that it put our country, the United States of America, which we all love, at a very, very big economic disadvantage," he said.
"They don't put America first," he said. "I do, and I always will."
For the US coal lobby, the decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw from the global Paris agreement on climate change was a win.
Murray Energy, a coal mining company based in Ohio, applauded the move, describing it as an important part of the Trump administration's broader environmental agenda.
"In following through on his promise, President Trump is supporting America's uncompromising values, saving coal jobs, and promoting low-cost, reliable electricity for Americans and the rest of the World," chief executive Robert Murray said in a statement.
Paul Bailey, the president of the coal lobbying organisation American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, said the standards established under the previous Obama administration were too stringent.
"We support President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris agreement," he said. "Meeting President Obama's goal would have led to more regulations, higher energy prices, and dependence on less reliable energy sources."
Oil stocks such as ExxonMobil and Chevron climbed on Thursday, as did the overall market.
The broad S&P 500 share index and the technology index, the Nasdaq, closed at new highs, having already been climbing throughout in the day in anticipation of strong employment figures due out on Friday.
Investors had been expecting President Trump's announcement and analysts said it had already been factored into prices.
Peabody Energy, the US's largest publicly traded coal company, saw its shares slide 0.66% on Thursday.
Peabody welcomed the decision to leave the Paris accord.
"We believe that abiding by the accord, without significant changes, would have substantially impacted the U.S. economy, increased electricity costs and required the power sector to rely on less diverse and more intermittent energy," the company said.
A renegotiation of Britain's membership of the EU is under way - or so they are told - but they don't know what the government at Westminster really wants.
The European mood was summed up by the French Economy Minister, Emmanuel Macron, during his recent visit to London.
"We need," he said, "a precise proposal… you have to say what you need."
You hear similar comments in Paris and Brussels.
They want to see a document. They are impatient for a proper proposal that sets out British aims.
Everywhere are signs of a great debate on hold.
The British Chambers of Commerce said that "business people want more clarity".
In the meantime, half of its members are undecided whether the UK should stay in the EU.
In the vacuum, public opinion seems to be shifting against staying in the EU.
For several months, there have been trips to European capitals by the prime minister and the chancellor.
But they are described as "probes", preparing the ground.
Certainly the focus of talks in Brussels has been on technical and legal issues.
But for ministers such as Mr Macron, the strategy is the wrong way round. The French want to see the proposal first.
"The question," he said, "is not about how, but what."
The strategy of not sharing anything on paper is, of course, deliberate.
There is the legitimate fear of leaks.
The government is wary of allowing pockets of opposition to build before the real negotiations have started.
In particular, they want to avoid the Conservative conference scrapping over the proposals.
The government's plan is to wait until after the Polish elections on 25 October, which will be an important indicator of how the migrant crisis is changing European politics.
After that, the expectation is that a substantive document will be on the table in time for the European Summit in December.
The plan would be to reach an agreement by March next year, with a view to holding the referendum by the autumn of 2016.
Already some ministers believe that timetable is too ambitious.
So what does the government want?
At the outset David Cameron defined his project as a negotiation for "fundamental change." That now appears a high ambition.
The government seems to have settled on five basic demands:
Some of these can be more easily delivered than others.
The commission is already committed to less regulation.
Last June, the European Council described the words "ever closer union" as "allowing for different paths of integration for different countries".
It was wording with British fingerprints very much on it.
There is already a mechanism for national parliaments to put a brake on legislation.
The two remaining demands are much tougher.
Restricting benefits to EU migrants risks undermining the principle of free movement of labour and would be judged discriminatory.
It may just be possible to apply a residence qualification that would apply to British nationals and non-nationals alike.
In the government's favour are a cluster of other countries that do not believe that freedom of movement should be "freedom to claim social benefits".
Finally, protecting the City and the single market from being outvoted by eurozone countries.
There is suspicion on both sides. The French and the Germans have long believed that the UK wants an optout for the City, and they won't agree to that.
The fear in the UK is that the euro countries would use their majority to vote for rules that harmed the City and the single market.
The UK points to a recent decision to use a fund that Britain contributes to in order to give a bridging loan to Greece even though Britain had negotiated an exemption.
As Charles Grant, from the Centre for European Reform, says: "The British government has not convinced many of its partners that its concerns about the relationship between the euro and the single market are justified."
Even if these negotiations were successful, there would be a minefield of problems.
Would they amount to a "fundamental change" in the UK's relationship with the EU?
Would voters see it that way? What would be the big headline that could sway a referendum? Will the government speak with one voice?
Conservative Party election manifesto 2015
Other European leaders are uncertain as to how hard David Cameron will fight to stay in the EU.
There is a significant section of his party who believe that as prime minister he should remain neutral.
The view in Brussels is that it is essential that David Cameron campaigns not just on the detail of the renegotiation but on his conviction that Britain's future lies with the European project.
Here is the prime minister's dilemma: for the "stay" side to win, they need David Cameron to become the great persuader.
But the harder he campaigns, the greater the risk he will split his own party.
Some Conservative MPs are putting down markers.
Liam Fox says: "Any deal that is worth its salt will require treaty change. If our negotiation requires treaty change, then we must have it before the referendum takes place."
Even though treaty change will eventually be necessary to support further integration of the eurozone, it won't happen before 2017.
Anand Menon, director of UK in a Changing Europe, says: "Treaty change is simply not feasible within the timeframe set by the PM, not least because so many member states are opposed to undertaking such a process."
So the government may have to fall back on getting binding commitments, but many MPs will be sceptical that you can bind future governments.
One other factor in the government's calculations is the migrant crisis.
On the one hand, it might just persuade other EU countries to settle with Britain in the face of a much bigger crisis.
On the other hand, voters could be turned off by an EU that has lost control of its borders.
The latest polls indicate that over the summer the mood has moved against staying in the EU.
But sooner rather than later the government will have to publish its plan to fundamentally change the UK's relationship with the EU - and that moment is approaching fast.
The celebrity chef and his wife were expecting their fifth child.
He wrote on Facebook: "We had a devastating weekend as Tana has sadly miscarried our son at five months.
"We're together healing as a family, but we want to thank everyone again for all your amazing support and well wishes."
"I'd especially like to send a big thank you to the amazing team at Portland Hospital for everything they've done," he added.
The chef revealed the family were expecting another child on The Late Late Show with James Corden last month.
The couple have been married since 1996.
They are parents to 18-year-old Megan, twins Holly and Jack, 16, and Matilda, 14.
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The Wales and British and Irish Lions flanker scored a try in each half as Ospreys ran out 39-22 winners to claim their third successive Pro12 win.
Tipuric, who was captain for the day, also had a hand in two more tries in a fine all-round display.
"Justin is a class act. When he plays like that he can be pretty much unplayable," said Tandy.
"He leads from the front and the way in which he plays the game - he doesn't say a lot when he does speak everyone listens."
Tipuric took advantage of a defensive slip by Zebre wing Kayle van Zyl to score his first try, which came two minutes after his pin-point pass had put Eli Walker over for a score.
And in the second half Tipuric dummied and side-stepped his way over from 40 metres before again splitting the defence to set up a try for Jonathan Spratt.
After winning once in their opening six Pro12 games this season, the Swansea-based region have now won three consecutive league matches.
Ospreys top their qualifying pool in the European Champions Cup after a win against Exeter and gaining two bonus points in their defeat at Clermont Auvergne.
And Tandy believes Ospreys are in good shape for their match against Bordeaux-Begles in Swansea on 12 December.
"It's a six day turnaround but we were able to rest some of the players who played in the World Cup so we should be in good shape for that," he added.
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate features alongside books on history, science and travel.
They include Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantanamo Diary and Laurence Scott's The Four-Dimensional Human, about technology's impact on people.
The £20,000 prize was won last year by Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk.
The prize-winning memoir recounted how the death of Macdonald's father prompted her to follow a childhood dream of training a goshawk. Judges described it as a "book like no other".
This year's longlist also includes Steve Silberman's Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently.
The book explores the history of autism and why the number of diagnoses has soared in recent years. Unusually, Silberman is a technology writer - whose interest in the subject was sparked by his interviews with Silicon Valley innovators, many of whom had autistic children.
Bate's biography of Ted Hughes attracted attention last year when the author said the poet's estate wrote to tell him it was withdrawing its co-operation from his book.
Damon Parker, solicitor for the Ted Hughes Estate, said it had withdrawn support for the book because it feared the author was straying from an agreement to focus on Hughes' poetry and not write a standard biography, and he had not shown the estate his work in progress as agreed.
According to Anne Applebaum, chair of judges for the Samuel Johnson Prize, this year's selection contains "something for everybody".
She added: "We didn't plan it this way but this year's longlist includes pretty much every important non-fiction genre," saying the list should have wide appeal, "whatever your tastes".
Here is the list in full:
The judges had to whittle nearly 200 books down to 12, with the the final choices representing "what the judges believe to be the very best of the year's non-fiction writing, from across a huge variety of genres".
Pulitzer prize-winning historian and journalist Applebaum is joined on the judges' panel by Emma Duncan, the editor of Intelligent Life, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, the editor of New Scientist, Professor Rana Mitter, the director of China Centre at Oxford University and Tessa Ross, former controller of film and drama and head of Film 4.
The shortlist will be announced on 11 October.
Update 23 September 2015: This story was amended to add an updated comment from the Ted Hughes Estate.
Nicky Wroe volleyed over for the hosts following Marek Rodak's weak punch, before the Welling keeper did well to save from Richard Peniket.
Kingsley James put the Shaymen in front when he reacted quickest after Rodak could only parry Connor Hughes' shot.
But Kadell Daniel curled an effort past Sam Johnson late on to secure a point for Welling.
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GB, who drew with Australia in their first game on Friday, were two down before the midfielder consolation.
Britain need to realistically win all of their remaining three pool fixtures to reach the 17 June final.
"We dominated and had our chances but didn't even take shots at times and it was terrible really," Jackson said.
"We weren't very good against Australia last night, but we ground out and got a point - today we were just lacking real quality and it's fairly embarrassing," he told BBC Sport.
Mandeep Singh gave India - the lowest ranked team in the competition - the lead in the second quarter after a swift counter attack, before Harmanpreet Singh doubled their advantage with a penalty stroke.
Jackson struck in the third period but despite late pressure GB were unable to find an equaliser.
"One of the things that's frustrating for us is that we did create the chances but didn't actually manage to convert them into corners and goals," forward Simon Mantell told BBC Sport.
"There's definitely frustration in there for us and a lot to go away and think about because we need to build up our performance throughout the competition."
In the day's other fixtures world number one side Australia beat South Korea 4-2, whilst Germany salvaged their second late draw of the event in a dramatic 4-4 encounter with Belgium.
After each of the six teams have played each other in the initial 'pool' stage, the top two ranked nations will compete for gold - with third and fourth facing off for bronze.
Great Britain's men next face South Korea on Monday.
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My target is to win here, as it is at every race, and that's all I'm thinking about as the weekend starts.
I look back at this year and I've won 10 races, got 11 pole positions. I won the championship - and that makes it a perfect year as far as I'm concerned.
Not only that, but this has been without any doubt the best year of my career in terms of my driving and overall performance.
People have been asking whether I have subconsciously backed off a little because the championship has been won. Of course you will never know whether that's the case, but it has certainly not been my intention.
If I'd won every single race and got pole everywhere, that would just be boring. It would suck. Where's the fun in that?
There have been some ups and downs. I've not always had it my own way. That's the way racing is supposed to be.
Even though Nico has been on pole for the last five grands prix, I've won three of them. That says a lot in itself.
And in the two I haven't won, I have been right with him all the way, I've just not been able to get past.
That difficulty in being able to overtake is one of the aspects of Formula 1 that can be frustrating.
Nico and I are allowed to race but unfortunately with the way the sport's rules are, we have to use strategy to affect the races.
Ideally, we shouldn't have to rely on strategy so much; it should be more about race-craft out on track.
The problem is that the tyres drop off, and you can't get close to another car because the aerodynamics of your car are disrupted.
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It has been the same for years and I don't know why more changes haven't been made to improve that situation.
That puts pressure and stress on the pit-stop strategy, so that has become a focus in the battle between Nico and me. Even though the team's approach has worked perfectly for two years now.
As far as that goes, the team doesn't care what kind of race we have, as long as we finish one-two. It's a good philosophy to have in many respects but maybe for the fans it's not the best.
But that is not the core of the problem. It's actually the regulations. I hope that with the big changes to the cars coming for 2017 something can be done about that.
In terms of my overall performance in the last few races, what I can definitely say is there has been a change in the car.
We had a difficult weekend in Singapore, when we were off the pace and did not know why. And we are still trying to get to the bottom of that as a team.
No-one knew what on earth had happened. The engineers looked into it and came up with lots of different explanations and we grabbed at one and changed a few things.
But the car had been fantastic all year, so that doesn't really completely make sense to me. And the car balance has not felt the same since.
It has gone from being underneath me - as racing drivers describe it when they feel confident in what the car will do - to not underneath me.
The car balance has changed and it has not been as comfortable, while Nico seems to be more comfortable with it.
I've still got the pace in the race, but it has definitely taken some of my advantage away overall, so now I have to push to try to get the car back to where it was for me.
I looked into it over the gap between Brazil and here and we'll do some more work on it as the weekend goes on and see where we are.
Beyond that, it's a special weekend. The number 44 - my car number - is everywhere here. The United Arab Emirates is celebrating its 44th National Day - I'm really proud to be celebrating that with them. And I am still going for my 44th career win.
I spent some time at the Nascar season finale last weekend before coming here to Abu Dhabi.
I went there because I wanted to be with Jeff Gordon, a four-time Nascar champion, at his last race.
Jeff and I met in Nashville a couple of years ago. I was there working with a music producer and he took me to a bar where the Nascar people were. I bumped into Jeff and we stayed in touch from there.
I'm a big fan of his. He's a legendary dude and a really nice guy. We have always been very supportive of each other, messaging each other after our races and so on.
He told me that this was his last year and I thought: "I've got to make it to a race, because I've never been to a Nascar race before."
So I dropped everything I had and flew out to Florida just for that day and had an amazing time.
Nascar is absolutely huge in the States. It gets massive audiences and I actually found it way more appealing in real life than it may appear on television.
It's a very different world from F1 - the teams are much smaller, to the extent that it almost reminded me of my Formula Three days.
It's not plush. The fans can get really close in the paddock and even be right next to the pit stops. And, in terms of the technology the teams have, it is kept much simpler compared to F1.
The atmosphere at the track is fantastic. There was one long grandstand that was absolutely packed with fans. The lap is only 30 seconds long, so you see the cars constantly. The cars sound amazing and they are freakin' rapid.
The race was 267 laps - really long - but I thoroughly enjoyed it, trying to understand the strategy and the differences between the cars. It was neat.
It made me want to drive one - I really fancy a race in a Nascar one day. I'm not sure I'd do an oval, but possibly a road circuit course.
I have no big plans for the winter yet. I am working until a little bit later this year but normally by now I would know what I am doing. I have not booked anything yet.
My best friend called me on Wednesday because we are meant to be spending New Year together but I haven't figured out where we're going to go yet.
What I do know is that I will go to my house in Colorado at some stage and spend some time chilling out. That's where I always go to relax, train, recharge my batteries and get set to go again next year.
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Three years earlier, in 2004, after previously working in insurance, he had got his first job selling the handsets.
And things did not initially go well for the man from Norwich, in the east of England.
"Before I started I'd talked my way into doubling my basic salary, but the only problem was that I then had to do the job," says Jacyn, now 33.
"It was boom time for mobiles, but it wasn't working for me, I couldn't get one sale. One day the boss said to me, 'Get out of the office, and don't come back until you have a sale.'
"So I drove to an industrial estate, sat in my car and cried. I phoned my mother to say 'I'm useless, I need to jack this in.'"
Thankfully for Jacyn, he decided to tough things out. Instead of quitting he devised a strategy to succeed.
Today the founder and boss of Epos Now, the UK's 13th fastest-growing technology business, Jacyn is still quick to come up with ways to get around the unforeseen problems that all businesses face.
Back in 2004, his dilemma was very simple - he was trying to sell mobile phones to businesses, would spend all day cold calling firms, and they would always say no.
Then Jacyn says it dawned on him that the reason no-one was interested was because their existing contracts weren't due for renewal.
So instead of trying to sell phones in the first instance, he would instead ask companies when their current contracts were due to run out.
He'd write this down, and soon built up a long list of forthcoming renewal dates.
Phoning back at a time when firms were indeed looking to upgrade their handsets, Jacyn says he started to win order after order.
"I was 500th out of 500 members of staff on the sales list, then all of sudden I was 200th, then 50th, then number one," he says.
Working for a company in East Anglia at the time, he was soon headhunted by a rival mobile phone business in London.
Jacyn says his meticulous planning meant that his sales figures continued to boom, and he raked in commission payments.
So much so that by his 24th birthday he was "completely financially secure", and treated himself to a brand new Ferrari.
But two years later he decided to quit the world of sales. "I was little burned out, I decided I'd go back to Norwich and just chill out," he says.
"I'd reached the pinnacle in sales, I'd done everything I could do, so I thought I'd open a bar with a mate."
Opening his bar in Norwich in 2009, Jacyn says he soon discovered that he had a woeful lack of knowledge regarding the finances of running a small business, despite his parents owning their own pub.
"I didn't really understand profit and loss, VAT and payroll. And was I a limited company, or a sole trader? I didn't know.
"But the biggest problem was that while we were making money, we didn't know where it was all going. When we sat down and went through everything, we realised there were a lot of costs we hadn't factored in - suppliers, telecoms, broadband, cleaners etc."
To better get to grips with the bar's cash flows, Jacyn realised that he needed to get an epos (electronic point of sale) system. This is a computerised till system that typically has a touchscreen and software that enables a retailer to easily check all in and outgoings.
After checking the prices of such systems, Jacyn says he found that they typically retailed for about £6,000, which he thought was far too expensive for him and thousands of other small firms.
He immediately recognised that there was a business opportunity to produce a version for less than a quarter of the price.
So, selling the Ferrari and remortgaging his house, Jacyn decided to enter the epos marketplace.
Importing the hardware from China, and paying to download a software system, Epos Now was born in Norwich in 2011.
Retailing for £1,000, sales soon boomed, with the company advertising on Google, paying "5p a click" whenever someone in the UK typed in the word "epos".
However, a year later Jacyn says the business faced a significant problem when its then software provider pulled out.
Epos Now had to quickly find and employ its own software designer, and it was able to stay in business.
"Everything was stacked against us," says Jacyn. "But I was all in by then, everything was in.
"You never know if you are going to be successful [when you start a business], but you just have to make a real run at it and overcome any problems."
Today Jacyn says Epos Now is turning over £17m a year, and it has entered the US and German markets.
The company had planned to open its American office in Silicon Valley, but Jacyn says it was far too overpriced, so instead the business's US operation is based in Orlando, Florida.
Looking ahead, technology journalist and IT consultant Adrian Mars cautions that epos firms such as Epos Now face ever growing competition from cheaper competitors, driven by big falls in the price of the hardware.
However, Jacyn says he is confident that Epos Now - of which he owns 100% of the shares - will achieve an annual turnover of £100m in five years' time.
"Everyone is offering me money for the business, last year I was offered £50m in cash," he says. "But I don't do this for the money, I do it because it is fun. I enjoy the negotiations, the deal making."
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Farooq Siddique formerly of the Bristol Muslim Society and an ex-government adviser on radicalisation, pleaded not guilty at Bristol Crown Court.
The 46-year-old from Easton also pleaded not guilty to two counts of assault causing actual bodily harm and one charge of making a threat to kill.
Speaking outside court he said the charges were "absolute nonsense".
"These are allegation that are, in my view, worse than murder," he claimed.
"You can't say anything worse to a man than these kind of allegations. I'm utterly flabbergasted that it's got this far.
"I'll prove myself innocent."
He was bailed and a trial date has been set for April.
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Debts of £3.8m were cleared by a financial aid package from the England and Wales Cricket Board.
In return, the county were relegated, deducted points for 2017 and stripped of Test ground status.
"The most important thing is Durham are still here," Harmison said.
He told BBC Look North: "At places like Ashington Cricket Club where people like myself and Mark Wood (came from), Durham gave us a chance to play first-class cricket.
"Because the ECB has bailed Durham out, we still have a club to aim for. The same with players at Shotley Bridge, where Paul Collingwood was from, and Annfield Plain, where Neil Killeen was from.
"Players from this area have had something to aspire to. We have to be thankful for that.
"The issues have been nipped in the bud, we've got a chance to remodel and go forward on the right footing."
There was anger and frustration from the players at Durham, who fought to preserve their Division One status and eventually finished fourth before relegation was imposed.
The ECB has benefitted directly from the infrastructure at the Riverside, with a list of local players playing international cricket including Harmison, captain Collingwood and currently, Ben Stokes and Wood.
Finances will be restricted with a revised salary cap from 2017 to 2020, meaning the reliance on locally produced talent will be even more imperative.
"We will still produce cricketers from the North East potentially to play for England," Harmison added.
"If we do that then Durham will be successful, but the other side needs looking after by experts."
Milford Haven Coastguard launched the search at 19:40 GMT on Thursday after a couple reported seeing the man enter the sea at Aberavon Sands, Port Talbot.
A man later contacted police saying he saw the search operation and thought it might be for him.
Coastguards described it as a false alarm with "good intent".
In a letter to
The Times
, prominent figures including five former bishops say statements by church leaders give a false impression of popular feeling.
"We believe the Church has nothing to fear from... civil marriage for same-sex couples," it says.
"It will be for the churches to then decide how they respond pastorally."
A leading signatory of the letter is Dr Jeffrey John, the openly gay dean of St Albans, whose appointment as Bishop of Reading in 2003 was withdrawn after protests from conservative Anglicans.
It is also signed by the suffragan bishop of Buckingham and the deans of Portsmouth, Norwich and Guildford.
It says marriage is a "robust institution which has adapted much over the centuries" and has "moved beyond the polygamy of the Old Testament and preoccupation with social status and property in pre-Enlightenment times".
Plans to legalise gay civil marriage by 2015 have been put out for consultation by the government, and under the proposal, same-sex couples will be entitled to convert existing civil partnerships into marriages, or get married in a register office or other civil ceremonies.
However, the plans maintain a ban on same-sex religious services, despite interest in them from some churches.
Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church remain staunchly opposed to gay marriage and blessing civil partnerships, but opinion among Anglicans has been more divided.
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Midfielder Snoddy drilled in a loose ball on 49 minutes after Paul Heatley's initial effort had been blocked on the goal-line.
Glenavon equalised through birthday boy James Singleton who converted from Andy Hall's cross on 65 minutes.
Eleven minutes later Michael Carvill's shot went in off Neill for the winner.
The victory puts Stephen Baxter's title holders on seven points from their opening four games and they jump over Glenavon and Coleraine to lie fourth in the table.
The Crues were made to work all the way by a Glenavon side who had been seeking a third successive league victory.
Gary Hamilton's hosts started brightly without creating that much in front of goal.
Kevin Braniff had an opportunity to produce one his trademark free-kicks but shot wide of the mark from about 25 yards.
Heatley saw his first-time volley from a Craig McClean cross saved by Jonathan Tuffey.
The former Partick keeper came to the rescue again when the best chance of the first half fell to Jordan Owens. The Crues striker ran on to a long Billy Joe Burns ball and Tuffey did well to block the well-struck right-foot shot.
Crusaders took the lead early in the second half through 22-year-old midfielder Snoddy who fired in a loose ball after Heatley's effort from Gavin Whyte's cross had been blocked on the line.
Glenavon, seeking three wins in a row, pushed for an equaliser and got their reward in the 65th minute.
Hall played a low ball in from the right to give Singleton the simple chance to mark his 20th birthday with a goal.
But it was to count for nothing as the Crues secured the victory.
Home defender Neill attempted to block former Linfield forward Carvill's shot but instead turned it into his own net.
"We kept our shape at the back which was important against Glenavon who have been lots of goals recently. It gave us a platform," said Crues skipper Colin Coates.
"We are not playing as well as we were at the end of last season. There are things we have to work on and we have some players to come back from injury."
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) said only those under 40 who had not previously been treated for a drink problem would be eligible.
Severe alcohol-associated hepatitis patients would account for 1% of all liver transplants each year.
One in five liver transplants currently performed in the UK is alcohol-related.
Transplanting livers in heavy drinkers has always been a controversial issue.
In the past, debate has focused on the fact that alcohol-related liver disease is self-inflicted, and concerns that patients would not look after their new liver post-transplantation.
This has led the public and the medical profession to be wary of supporting transplantation in patients with alcoholism.
People with severe alcohol-associated hepatitis (SAAH) had not previously been considered for transplants because the severity of their illness meant they were often very ill when first seen by a clinician and were unlikely to survive a period of abstinence before transplantation.
However, a French study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2011 suggested that early transplantation in some patients with SAAH could produce positive outcomes and increase survival rates.
As part of the pilot scheme run by NHSBT, 20 people with severe alcohol-associated hepatitis will be identified and put on waiting list for a liver transplant, provided they meet the strict criteria.
This process could take up to two years, NHSBT said.
An NHSBT spokesperson said: "We are looking at a small group of people in the UK who are eligible for the scheme and we want to see if the results we get are similar to those of the French study."
Around one in five liver transplants currently performed in the UK is alcohol-related.
Approximately 900 liver transplants are carried out every year.
The government's chief medical officer said recently that growing numbers of people in England were dying from liver disease caused by heavy drinking and unhealthy eating.
Andrew Langford, chief executive of the British Liver Trust, said he welcomed the inclusion of SAAH patients in the pilot scheme.
He said: "Some liver diseases are caused by genetics but the vast majority are due to lifestyle choices, such as heavy drinking and obesity. But we must base the assessment on the healthcare needs at the time to see who would most benefit from a liver transplant.
"It is definitely worth doing the pilot to see if it could be of benefit in the UK."
He said that, with the right support, it was possible for people with severe alcohol-associated hepatitis (SAAH) to change their lifestyle and habits.
"It's one thing to get a new liver, but these people also need psychological support.
"With the right amount of support they can turn their lives around, as the French study shows."
James Mackie, 30, Gordon Ellis, 24, Derek Finlay, 31, and Scott Smith, 23, stole £2,500 during the robbery in Kirkcaldy in January 2015.
They pointed a gun at the heads of Dwayne Kinner and his cousin Nicholas Roberts. They were also armed with a crowbar and a machete.
The four men admitted the raid when they appeared in court last month.
Mackie and Finlay were both jailed for six and a half years while Ellis and Smith were each jailed for four years.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard the victims believed they were going to be shot after the gun was pointed at their heads and one of the men threatened to cut their fingers off.
A judge told the robbers: "You have pled guilty to an extremely serious offence.
"In a premeditated and carefully planned enterprise, with a chosen victim, you armed yourself with weapons, some potentially lethal."
Michael O'Grady QC said: "The idea that anyone should suffer such terror in their own home is utterly beyond the pale."
Among the items taken in the raid was a mobile phone on which Mr Kinner had installed a tracking app in case it was lost or stolen.
Hours later he arrived at Kirkcaldy police station with a tablet containing a screenshot showing that in the early hours of 8 January his Sony Experia phone was at a house in Stewart Street, in Dysart.
When officers attended at the address Finlay told them: "There's no a firearm but I've got a phone." They also recovered computers, games, a sound bar and £710.
Mr Kinner, who was 25 at the time, later identified the computer equipment and games as his belongings taken in the robbery.
The gun, which was discovered to be an air pistol, was later found behind a kickboard in a kitchen at a house in Glenrothes which Finlay had previously had access to.
The force will take on 17 new PCs, 30 police community support officers (PCSOs) and four sergeants.
Funding for the recruitment, said to cost £8.1m over the next five years, will come from the force's reserves, Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner Keith Hunter said.
The new officers are expected to be appointed within six months
Two of the new sergeants, ten PCs and 20 PCSOs will be appointed to work across the East and West Marsh wards in Grimsby, the Bridlington South ward in East Yorkshire and the Scunthorpe Town ward.
The remaining officers will join the Hull city centre neighbourhood team.
Humberside Police currently employs 1,525 police officers and 228 PCSOs.
Chief Constable Justine Curran said: "We have done a lot of work to identify exactly where these officers are most needed, according to the demand across the whole force area, and the new officers will go directly to the neighbourhoods where they are most needed and where they will make the most difference."
Mr Hunter, who was appointed in May, said he believed the amount held in police reserves was "too high".
"My job is to help residents get the best police service possible and ensure taxpayers' money is spent wisely to do that," he said.
"This is the first step in that process and I will be carefully monitoring the effect these new officers and PCSOs will have, and look for other opportunities in the future to add further value."
Ryan Brobbel swept a dipping shot over St Mirren keeper Billy O'Brien to give the visitors the lead before half-time.
But in a dramatic five-minute spell, Stephen McGinn rifled in a 25-yarder before TNS' Steven Saunders saw red and Stevie Mallan curled in the free-kick.
John Sutton added a third before Rory Loy grabbed the fourth in injury time.
The all-Championship final, 30 years on from St Mirren beating Dundee United in the 1987 Scottish Cup final, will take place on the weekend of 25/26 March, at a venue yet to be confirmed.
United won 3-2 at Queen of the South in Saturday's first semi-final.
TNS were on a run of just one defeat in 31 matches and had earlier knocked out Forfar and Livingston in the competition.
Chances were few and far between in the early stages, with only Mallan's 15th-minute free-kick from 20 yards giving the home fans anything to cheer about.
Brobbel gave a hint of what was to come after 35 minutes with a driving run and shot which produced a good save from Billy O'Brien, before Wes Fletcher grazed the outside of the post with a header from the resulting corner.
But four minutes from the break, Brobbel produced a goal of sheer class when he ran from midfield, looked up and curled a terrific strike from 22 yards into the top corner past O'Brien.
Saints boss Jack Ross sent on Lewis Morgan for Craig Storrie at half-time and initially TNS continued with the same tactics of allowing the hosts plenty of the ball and hitting on the break.
But the momentum changed dramatically in a five-minute spell around the hour mark.
First McGinn crashed a brilliant 25-yard strike high past Harrison for the equaliser, then former Motherwell defender Saunders dived into a challenge with the Saints captain to leave referee Keith Kennedy with no option but to send him off.
From the resultant free-kick, Mallan again underlined his quality by placing his fifth goal of the season into the bottom-left corner to put the home side in front.
Confidence was now oozing through St Mirren, and despite Sutton seeing a penalty saved by Harrison after 79 minutes, the veteran striker made no mistake a minute later as he tucked home his 11th goal of the season after Kyle Magennis had set him up.
Low then set the seal on Saints' victory, knocking in Mallan's injury-time free-kick.
St Mirren boss Jack Ross: "It is all about the result at this stage of the competition, but we made it hard for ourselves after the performance in the first half. We were dreadful and I said that to the players at half-time.
"But in the second half we were terrific. Their reaction was great, our cup form is well documented, so different from our league form, but we need to win more league games.
"We are starting to build a little bit of momentum and we go into a massive game at Ayr next week in good spirits now having reached a cup final. Maybe the group needs results like this to give them the confidence they need."
New Saints boss Craig Harrison: "We are disappointed. We were the better team in the first half and needed to keep them out for the first 20 minutes of the second half, but didn't do it.
"The sending-off was right and it was the turning point. You just can't tackle like that, but that is the way it goes and they scored from the free-kick to give them a huge boost.
"It's a great feat for us to get to where we got to in this competition and I am proud of the players. I think if we look back, we would like to think we have done our club and the Welsh Premier League proud."
The group, ASAP-NHS, said mothers and babies had been harmed by a failure to implement UK-wide health and safety legislation in Scotland.
A BBC investigation revealed what were described as the "unnecessary" deaths of six babies at Crosshouse Hospital.
The Scottish government said some of the campaigners' claims were wrong.
The final report of a review - ordered by Health Secretary Shona Robison - into the baby deaths at the Kilmarnock hospital is due to be published soon.
Families involved heard the key findings of the review last week , with some saying they were "disappointed" by the report which included recommendations for improvements within NHS Ayrshire and Arran.
They were also told the final version of the report from Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS), expected to be made public later this month, is to include national recommendations for better training in maternity services.
The letter from ASAP-NHS (Action for a Safe and Accountable People's NHS) to Nicola Sturgeon requests a public inquiry and immediate action "to secure the safety of mothers and babies in the care of Scottish maternity units".
It said: "Currently, the approach of the Scottish government to the safety of babies and mothers, fails to meet the UK-wide statutory requirements. Presently, the Scottish government operates a healthcare service, which is unregulated; that in itself, is a breach of statutory law."
The group said it had provided the Scottish government with three reports it has compiled "based on extensive evidence" that supported its calls for action and an inquiry.
Responding to the letter, Ms Robison said: ‎"The safety of mothers and their babies is of paramount importance.
"At the heart of any incident is a family that is suffering from pain or loss, which is why we must do everything we can to mitigate against similar incidents happening again.‎
"We have a number of initiatives already in place to get to the root of these problems and upgrade that service, but clearly there is still room for improvement.
"However, some of the claims being made are clearly wrong and without foundation, so we will be focusing on areas for change which can make a genuine difference."
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has administered the naming system since 1998.
But from 1 October it will operate without the ultimate oversight of the US government.
Four US states filed a joint motion on Thursday in an attempt to block the handover from going ahead, arguing it could disrupt freedom of speech.
"We’re disappointed with the ruling,” said Marc Rylander, a spokesman for the Texas attorney general.
"It’s a dire day in our country when the President is allowed to unilaterally give away America’s pioneering role in ensuring that the internet remains a place where free expression can flourish.
"We will continue to weigh our options as the suit moves forward."
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Backers of the move said it was essential to preserve the independence of the internet amid growing pressure to remove the US’s dominance over the Domain Name System (DNS), a crucial component of how the web operates.
It links easy to remember domain names, such as bbc.com, to the harder to remember IP addresses, strings of numbers that points to the correct server containing the website.
Icann has had the task of administering this system for almost three decades, but the US government has held the power to veto any decision it made - something it very rarely did.
The handover will remove this power, instead making Icann - which is a body consisting of many interested parties, including nation states - entirely independent.
The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), acting on behalf of the global technology industry, filed an amicus brief - essentially a group statement - to the Texas court in support of the handover plans.
"This effort by a small number of attorneys general is misguided and inconsistent with the founding values of the Internet,” said ITI president Dean Garfield.
"It is an ironic endeavor because the transition will actually keep the internet an open and flourishing engine of innovation and open global communication.”
The judge agreed - and the handover is now set to ahead as planned.
The pair, first spotted early in the morning, came close to the harbour walls and swam behind small vessels.
Resident Madeleine Santonna said: "I've lived by the harbour all my life and I've never seen anything like it."
The Sea Watch Foundation said they were common dolphins, a breed which usually gathers in large groups offshore in deep waters.
Peter Evans from the marine charity said: "Although they are called 'common' they don't normally come into harbours.
"We don't know why individual dolphins come into such inshore areas, often surrounded by boats. Sometimes it is because one is sick or injured and its companion wants to remain close by it."
Mrs Santonna said the sighting caused "huge excitement" with hundreds of people lining the harbour to catch a glimpse of the dolphins.
She said: "They were interacting with people, swimming up and down and round and round and seemed to be enjoying themselves."
The Maritime and Coastguard said it had received several calls from members of the public who had spotted the dolphins.
The agency said the Wyke Regis coastguard team was sent to the harbour to observe the pair, which were thought to have since headed back out to sea.
It said The British Divers Marine Life Rescue unit had also been alerted in case the dolphins returned.
The UN watchdog for children's rights denounced the Holy See for adopting policies which allowed priests to sexually abuse thousands of children.
In a report, it also criticised Vatican attitudes towards homosexuality, contraception and abortion.
The Vatican responded by saying it would examine the report - but also accused its authors of interference.
A group representing the victims of abuse by priests in the US welcomed the report.
In its findings, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) said the Holy See should open its files on members of the clergy who had "concealed their crimes" so that they could be held accountable by the authorities.
By David WilleyBBC News, Rome
The Vatican quickly moved into damage control mode after publication of the UN report.
While promising "thorough study" of the criticisms, the Holy See robustly rejects some of the points made by the UN.
The Vatican has always given precedence to Church law, called Canon Law, over local criminal law in dealing with ecclesiastical crime. It does not easily tolerate interference by civil authorities in ecclesiastical matters.
The recent case of a senior Vatican diplomat, a Polish archbishop, who was suddenly recalled to Rome from his post in Santo Domingo after serious police accusations of sexual abuse of minors there is a case in point.
The Vatican has refused an extradition request by justice authorities in Poland and says an internal police investigation is under way inside Vatican City.
It said it was gravely concerned that the Holy See had not acknowledged the extent of the crimes committed, and expressed its "deepest concern about child sexual abuse committed by members of the Catholic churches who operate under the authority of the Holy See, with clerics having been involved in the sexual abuse of tens of thousands of children worldwide".
It also lambasted the "practice of offenders' mobility", referring to the transfer of child abusers from parish to parish within countries, and sometimes abroad.
The committee said this practice placed "children in many countries at high risk of sexual abuse, as dozens of child sexual offenders are reported to be still in contact with children".
The UN report called on a Vatican commission created by Pope Francis in December to investigate all cases of child sexual abuse "as well as the conduct of the Catholic hierarchy in dealing with them".
Ireland's Magdalene laundries scandal was singled out by the report as an example of how the Vatican had failed to provide justice despite "slavery-like" conditions, including degrading treatment, violence and sexual abuse.
The laundries were Catholic-run workhouses where some 10,000 women and girls were required to do unpaid manual labour between 1922 and 1996.
The report's findings come after Vatican officials were questioned in public last month in Geneva about why they would not release data and what they were doing to prevent future abuse.
The Vatican has denied any official cover-up. However, in December it refused a UN request for data on abuse on the grounds that it only released such information if requested to do so by another country as part of legal proceedings.
In January, the Vatican confirmed that almost 400 priests had been defrocked in a two-year period by the former Pope Benedict XVI over claims of child abuse.
The UN committee's recommendations are non-binding and there is no enforcement mechanism.
The BBC's David Willey in Rome says the Vatican has set up new guidelines to protect children from predatory priests.
Q&A: Child abuse scandal
But, he adds, bishops in many parts of the world have tended to concentrate on protecting and defending the reputation of priests rather than listening to the complaints of victims of paedophile priests.
Meanwhile several Catholic dioceses in the US have been forced into bankruptcy after paying out huge sums in compensation to victims of abuse by clergy.
The Vatican said in a statement following the report's publication: "The Holy See takes note of the concluding observations...which will be submitted to a thorough study and examination... according to international law and practice."
But it added that it "regrets to see in some points of the concluding observations an attempt to interfere with Catholic Church teaching on the dignity of human person and in the exercise of religious freedom" and "reiterates its commitment to defending and protecting the rights of the child... according to the moral and religious values offered by Catholic doctrine".
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, head of the Holy See's delegation to the United Nations in Geneva, told Vatican Radio the report had failed to take into account the fact that the Vatican had made "a series of changes for the protection of children", and its efforts at reform were "fact, evidence, which cannot be distorted".
He added that the UN could not ask the Church to change its "non-negotiable" moral teachings.
Victims groups welcomed the report as a wake-up call to secular law enforcement officials to investigate and prosecute Church officials who were still protecting "predator priests".
Barbara Blaine, president of a group representing US victims of abuse by priests - Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (Snap) - told the BBC that the UN report "reaffirms everything we've been saying. It shows that the Vatican has put the reputation of Church officials above protection of children".
"Church officials knew about it and they refused to stop it. Nothing has changed. Despite all the rhetoric from Pope Francis and Vatican officials, they refuse to take action that will make this stop."
NZGB said a member of the public suggested changing the "discriminatory and derogatory" names of the places, all of which feature a racist term.
All three are in North Canterbury, in the Southern Alps on South Island.
The public will have three months to give their views on changing the titles of the remote areas.
"These proposals were made by a member of the public who was concerned that these particular names did not show New Zealand in a good light, being in poor taste and causing offence," NZGB Secretary Wendy Shaw told the BBC.
If accepted, Niggerhead would become Tawhai Hill and Nigger Hill would become Kanuka Hills - both named after native trees. Nigger Stream would become Steelhead Stream - named after a local trout species.
The proposed new names were put forward by the same person that requested the current names be dropped. The person is not thought to be local to the area, although as it is extremely remote, very few people are.
The places are all uninhabited geographical features, not towns
NZGB said that while they had not been able to pin down exactly how or when the places got their names, two have appeared on maps since the 1860s, and the third from the 1910s.
They said the word may have come from a colloquial name for a type of tussock known as makura, or pukio in te reo in the Maori language.
NZGB is seeking opinions on several other name changes too, including altering the spelling of South Otago's Tokomairiro river to Tokomairaro - which it says is the correct Maori spelling - and changing the name of Rainbow Mountain to Maunga Kakaramea.
The consultations will not take the form of a vote. Instead, the NZGB's board will base its decisions primarily on the views it receives from the public.
Although the changes may strike many as long overdue, reports in 2010 quoted government officials saying that they were not aware of complaints about the names, nor of plans to change them.
It is not the only place in New Zealand, to have a seemingly offensive name. There are several places with "Darkies" in their title on the west coast of South Island.
They are seemingly references to a 19th Century African American gold prospector known as 'Darkie' Addison, according to Radio New Zealand.
In an unprecedented move Commissioner Eddie Lynch has decided to use his legal powers to look into care standards at the Dunmurry Manor home.
It follows an investigation by the South Eastern Trust in December, after concerns were raised by family members and former employees.
New admissions to the 76-bed home have since been suspended.
The commissioner will investigate not just the activities at the home, but also the response of the relevant authorities, including the health trusts involved and the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA).
Speaking about the investigation, Mr Lynch said: "Family members have made complaints to me about the care that their relatives received in Dunmurry Manor.
"I have also heard, from former employees, that the care and protection of older people in the home was below acceptable standards and in some cases, caused harm to frail older people."
Since opening in 2014, the home on Rowan Hill, Dunmurry, has received a number of notifications from the RQIA and health trusts about inadequate standards of care.
It received three failure to comply notices in October, but at the end of January, Mr Lynch said, "compliance had still not been achieved".
"I am deeply concerned about allegations of serious failures of care at Dunmurry Manor and this has led me to carry out a full investigation under my legal powers," he said.
"Health authorities have been monitoring this care home and raising concerns since it opened in 2014. More than two years later, older people are living in a home that is failing to comply with minimum standards of care."
Mr Lynch said his investigation will examine the care, treatment and experience of older people living in the home, including "an examination of the actions of all those responsible for the commissioning, provision, monitoring and regulation of the care services provided" at it since it opened.
"I am aware of some excellent care in nursing homes across Northern Ireland and I don't want to cause unnecessary alarm to older people and their families," he added.
"However, when I detect that there are areas of serious concern in terms of care for older people, I must act immediately and ensure that older people are protected from harm."
The investigation is expected to take between three and four months to complete.
To ensure that it is as thorough and independent as possible, expert advisors in nursing care, safeguarding and human rights have been appointed.
The panel will provide scrutiny, advice and guidance throughout the investigation.
The commissioner said he will not comment on the investigation while it is active.
A report into its findings with recommendations is expected to be released in June.
Nasri, on loan from Manchester City, had his second-half spot-kick saved by Sergio Asenjo after Mario Gaspar had fouled Vitolo in the penalty area.
Asenjo also made a fine save late on to keep out Vicente Iborra's header to frustrate third-placed Sevilla.
Villarreal's best chance fell to Adrian Lopez but he shot wide after he rounded Sevilla goalkeeper Sergio Rico.
The result leaves Sevilla two points behind second-placed Barcelona and three adrift of leaders Real Madrid.
However, the European champions have two games in hand on both Bara and Sevilla after their scheduled game on Sunday at Celta Vigo was postponed as bad weather damaged Celta's Balaidos stadium.
Match ends, Sevilla 0, Villarreal 0.
Second Half ends, Sevilla 0, Villarreal 0.
Foul by Vitolo (Sevilla).
Denis Cheryshev (Villarreal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Sevilla. Conceded by José Ángel.
Substitution, Villarreal. Antonio Rukavina replaces Manu Trigueros.
Corner, Sevilla. Conceded by Víctor Ruiz.
Hand ball by Cédric Bakambu (Villarreal).
Gabriel Mercado (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cédric Bakambu (Villarreal).
Foul by Adil Rami (Sevilla).
Daniele Bonera (Villarreal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Samir Nasri (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Denis Cheryshev (Villarreal).
Attempt saved. Vicente Iborra (Sevilla) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Samir Nasri with a cross.
Corner, Sevilla. Conceded by José Ángel.
Attempt blocked. Wissam Ben Yedder (Sevilla) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Vitolo.
Steven N'Zonzi (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Manu Trigueros (Villarreal).
Corner, Sevilla. Conceded by Bruno Soriano.
Substitution, Sevilla. Vicente Iborra replaces Franco Vázquez.
Adil Rami (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cédric Bakambu (Villarreal).
Attempt saved. Pablo Sarabia (Sevilla) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Franco Vázquez.
Offside, Sevilla. Samir Nasri tries a through ball, but Wissam Ben Yedder is caught offside.
Vitolo (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Denis Cheryshev (Villarreal).
Substitution, Villarreal. Cédric Bakambu replaces Adrián López.
Substitution, Sevilla. Luciano Vietto replaces Stevan Jovetic.
Adil Rami (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Denis Cheryshev (Villarreal).
Dangerous play by Clement Lenglet (Sevilla).
Manu Trigueros (Villarreal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Sevilla. Conceded by Adrián López.
Corner, Sevilla. Conceded by Mario.
Hand ball by Franco Vázquez (Sevilla).
Substitution, Villarreal. Denis Cheryshev replaces Samu Castillejo.
Vitolo (Sevilla) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by José Ángel (Villarreal).
Attempt blocked. Vitolo (Sevilla) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Stevan Jovetic.
In the only change to the back line, winger O'Mahony replaces Keith Earls who took a knock to the ribs in training this week.
Tommy O'Donnell is selected ahead of Jack O'Donoghue in the back row while James Cronin comes in at loose-head.
Pool leaders Munster have qualified while Racing are out of contention.
They secured their 16th European quarter-final in 19 seasons by beating Glasgow Warriors 14-12 at Scotstoun last weekend.
With extra seating installed, there will be a 26,200 sell-out crowd in Limerick where former Munster fly-half Ronan O'Gara will be in the opposition dug-out as part of the French club's coaching staff.
The match will be Munster's 60th top-level European game at Thomond Park, the Irish side having lost just four of the previous matches.
Munster: Zebo; A Conway, J Taute, R Scannell, R O'Mahony; T Bleyendaal, C Murray; J Cronin, N Scannell, J Ryan; J Kleyn, D Ryan; P O'Mahony (capt), T O'Donnell, CJ Stander.
Replacements: R Marshall, D Kilcoyne, T du Toit, B Holland, J O'Donoghue, D Williams, I Keatley, F Saili.
Racing 92: B Dulin; T Thomas, H Chavancy, E Dussartre, M Andreu; B Dambielle, M Machenaud; EB Arous, C Chat, B Tameifuna, M Carizza, L Nakarawa, Y Nyanga, M Voisin, S Fa'aso'o.
Replacements: V Lacombe, J Brugnaut, C Gomes Sa, A Williams, C Masoe, J Hart, F Pourteau, A Vulivuli.
In April 2014, it was announced that the 2017 event would be held at the Fermanagh venue.
However, there has been speculation the event might be moved to another venue and the European Tour said on Thursday there was "no definitive decision".
"There are a lot of discussions going on behind the scenes and I can't confirm either way," said European Tour official Antonia Beggs.
The announcement in 2014 of Lough Erne's hosting of the 2017 European Tour event in came on the same day that it was revealed that Royal County Down would host the 2015 tournament.
However, since then new sponsors Dubai Duty Free and Rory McIlroy's Foundation have come on board while the European Tour has a new chief executive with Keith Pelley taking over after long-serving George O'Grady's retirement.
Ms Beggs added:"Keith has some really definite ideas about strategy for the European Tour as a whole.
"I'm not going to speak on his behalf but he has big, big ideas about what he wants to do and the Irish Open is a key part of that strategy."
If the tournament is moved from the Nick Faldo-designed Lough Erne course, another Northern Ireland course Portstewart could be new venue.
BBC Sport Northern Ireland has learned that European Tour officials have already visited Portstewart to check about its suitability to stage the Irish Open at some date in the future.
The Lough Erne Resort hosted the G8 summit of world leaders in June 2013.
Meanwhile, Irish Open organisers are hoping that Tiger Woods and other US stars might play in this year's event at the K Club.
All members of the 2006 European and US Ryder Cup teams that played in the biennial match at the K Club are to receive invitations to this year's Irish Open, which takes place on 19-22 May.
Tournament host McIlroy was able to convince big names Rickie Fowler, Sergio Garcia, Martin Kaymer and Ernie Els to play in last year's event at Royal County Down.
The European Tour may be hoping that McIlroy may be able to use his influence to attract more world stars to this year's event.
Fourteen-time major winner Woods is currently out of action following two back operations last autumn and there has been no indication when he will return to tournament action.
The 23-year-old left-back for fourth-tier Wilrijk-Beerschot was playing in a tournament in Hemiksem when he collapsed on Friday.
He was placed in an induced coma and his club confirmed his death on Monday.
In late April, Lokeren defender Gregory Mertens, 24, died after collapsing during a reserve game.
A club statement said Nicot "fought like a bear" and was the "idol of our supporters".
It described him as "always in a good mood, always making time for an umpteenth selfie with a fan".
Three years ago Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba, then 23, suffered a cardiac arrest in an FA Cup game with Tottenham. He was "in effect dead" for 78 minutes but survived, although he never played again.
Nicot's team-mate Wesley Snoeys said: "So many questions. Always the same question comes up: why why why? You left us far too soon. I will never forget you. Forever in my heart."
Jef Snyders, another Wilrijk-Beerschot player, added: "Football will never be the same anymore. Rest in peace mate."
The worst affected areas on Tuesday night were Omagh, County Tyrone, and Moneymore and Magherafelt, County Londonderry.
The Fire and Rescue Service said it received 33 calls from those areas in the six hours until midnight.
One firefighter told the BBC there had been "mayhem" due to a deluge of rainwater in a short period of time.
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan said he had now activated the emergency payment scheme and individual households would be eligible for a £1,000 payment.
He said it was an "offer of practical assistance to those who have suffered severe inconvenience, to ensure homes are made habitable as quickly as possible. It is not a compensation payment".
Anyone who feels they may be entitled to the payment is being urged to contact their local council, which will arrange an urgent inspection of the property.
"If the council decides that your claim is eligible, you will receive your payment within a matter of days," said Mr Durkan.
"My department will reimburse councils for the £1,000 payments to individual householders, and for the direct and indirect costs of providing practical assistance and advice.
"I and my executive colleagues want to help those most severely affected to get back to normal as quickly as possible and to assist them in ensuring their homes are habitable. "
In Magherafelt, a woman was rescued from her car during several hours of rain and a pensioner was taken to safety from her home.
A spokesman for the Fire and Rescue Service said that about 20 houses were flooded in the town.
"It was mayhem in Magherafelt," he said.
Mid Ulster MLA Patsy McGlone said people were "angry and deeply frustrated at the total lack of any emergency co-ordination following floods in Magherafelt".
He praised firefighters for rescuing the two women but said the high level of service provided by the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) was not matched by other statutory agencies in the town.
"Throughout the night Roads Service, Rivers Agency and NI Water failed to turn up despite NIFRS staff reporting circumstances as a priority situation," Mr McGlone said.
"Each of the absentee statutory service providers effectively abandoned people in the middle of a flood and left them to fend for themselves.
"That is an inexcusable failing," he added.
The SDLP MLA said he had spent the night with families "who were trying to locate sandbags to protect their homes only to be frustrated by the unavailability of agency staff".
A spokesperson for the Department for Regional Development (DRD) said: "Sandybraes [in Magherafelt] was one of 23 individual locations where DRD was asked for assistance following a particularly heavy deluge across the Mid-Ulster area between the hours of 19:30 and 22:30.
"DRD assisted in Sandybraes through the provision of sandbags co-ordinated through NI Fire and Rescue and also to individual residents who requested them directly at the local DRD depot.
"DRD also delivered additional sandbags directly to Sandybraes around midnight."
NI Water said in a statement that it had received "a number of calls and requests for assistance within the Magherafelt area, and attended where necessary".
It added: "As expected, our wastewater assets in the town experienced a surge in activity during the weather event, but these continued to function well under extreme conditions."
NI Water said that any necessary clean-up operations were "being conducted as a matter of priority".
The Rivers Agency said: "Throughout last night and into the early hours of this morning Rivers Agency responded to a number of calls for assistance.
"While the agency did not receive any calls for assistance from the Magherafelt area, staff were in the locality checking our critical infrastructure.
"While the situation has eased considerably, Rivers Agency staff continue to check our infrastructure and monitor weather forecasts and are available to provide assistance to the public."
The grounds of Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal were also flooded during the torrential rain.
It had only resumed full service in March after it was affected by serious flooding last July.
Stroud High School has prohibited devices capable of accessing social media amid concerns about the impact it can have on young people.
The ban includes the wearable activity monitors because they can access it.
The school said research shows social media can lead to a "decline in wellbeing" of teenagers.
In a letter sent to parents last week, the school said "tight controls" of the use of mobile phones "and smart technology including smart watches and Fitbits" would be introduced in September.
Head teacher Mark McShane said some pupils had discussed with staff how they count calories and amend their lunch accordingly, but Fitbits had not been banned specifically because of this.
His letter stated: "If not addressed, we open the door for social media to cause significant problems for young peoples mental health and wellbeing.
"Being a teenager is hard enough, but the pressures faced by young people online are unique to this digital generation."
Mr McShane added: "We have spent a lot of time this year looking at the impact of mobile technology on the welfare of young people.
"We certainly believe technology has an important role to play in our school community but we must be confident that it is making our lives better.
"Too many pieces of research and studies are now demonstrating a link between the decline in well being of teenagers as a result of mobile phone use and social media.
"We want our older students to feel in control of their digital lives, and for this reason we want to limit their use in school."
The ban will apply to years 7-9 during the whole day. Years 10-11 will be allowed to use their phones at lunchtime, and sixth form students will be allowed to use them "as they wish, but not in lessons".
Rakhmat Akilov, 39 and from Uzbekistan, admitted carrying out the attack in court and was remanded in custody.
Wearing green overalls, he was brought into the court in handcuffs.
Four people were killed when a lorry was driven into a department store on Friday. A number of people were also injured, two critically.
"His position is that he admits to a terrorist crime and accepts therefore that he will be detained," said lawyer Johan Eriksson.
A second man is no longer being held as a suspect, according to prosecution authorities, but he will not be released because he already had a deportation order standing against him.
Security was tight and the press gallery was full, according to a BBC correspondent at the court session, which was conducted behind closed doors.
Mr Akilov was told to remove a green blanket from his head before the hearing started.
He will have certain restrictions placed on him while in custody, including not being able to use mobile communications.
Swedish police said Mr Akilov was known to security services.
He had been denied residency in Sweden and had expressed sympathy for so-called Islamic State (IS), they said.
No group has claimed to be behind the attack.
Mr Akilov reportedly ran from the scene of the attack, still covered in blood and glass, and was arrested hours later in a northern suburb of Stockholm.
According to reports, he had left a wife and four children behind in Uzbekistan in order to earn money to send home.
After applying for residency in 2014, he was informed in December 2016 that "he had four weeks to leave the country", police official Jonas Hysing said.
He disappeared and, in February, was officially put on a wanted list.
Responding to the attack, Swedish Justice Minister Morgan Johansson said he wanted to toughen the nation's terrorism laws.
In an interview with AFP published on Monday, Mr Johansson specifically mentioned tackling the financing of terrorism and potential prison sentences for those "dedicated to terrorism even if not connected to a specific crime".
"We want to give the police the opportunity, without concrete suspicion of a crime, to go into workplaces to make sure that people who work there are in Sweden [legally]," he added.
The beer company that owned the lorry said it was hijacked while making a delivery to a restaurant.
Eyewitnesses said it sped down Drottninggatan (Queen Street), a central shopping street, and appeared to be deliberately mowing people down.
The vehicle then crashed into the front of the Ahlens department store.
Police later confirmed they discovered a suspect device inside the lorry.
They have not released the identities of those who died, but said they were:
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The 29-year-old defeated Darleys Perez on Saturday in a rematch following their controversial draw in July.
Last December, Crolla suffered a fractured skull and broken ankle trying to stop burglars, scuppering hopes of a WBA showdown against Richar Abril.
"I've realised the dream," the Manchester boxer told BBC Sport.
"The difference between how I feel now and last Christmas is a million miles apart.
"Then I was sat on the couch with my leg in plaster. I was skin and bones because I lost so much weight through medication.
"It was up in the air whether I'd be able to fight again. This Christmas I'll have the belt under the tree with a lot to look forward to next year."
Crolla was hit with a concrete slab as he tried to apprehend two men, and said at the time of the incident he was "lucky to be alive".
"I made a promise in the hospital bed that I'd come back stronger," he added.
"I came so close to losing it all I wanted to make sure of every chance. I was given a second chance. I didn't want to waste that. In the rematch I didn't want to leave anything to chance."
After four cagey rounds, Crolla secured victory in his home city when he landed a massive left hook to the body that floored champion Perez, who could not make the count.
The new champions is on course to fight fellow Briton Kevin Mitchell. The 31-year-old would become the mandatory WBA challenger if he defeats Ismael Barroso on 12 December.
Crolla is hoping the potential fight will take place at the home of the club he supports, Manchester United.
"I could never imagine fighting at Old Trafford," he said.
"Kevin is a great lad and has got great support. It's something I'd jump at given the opportunity. It's something I wouldn't have dreamt about a year ago."
British Athletics says the "precautionary decision" will allow the squad to recover from "minor" injuries before August's World Championships.
Olympic bronze medallists Daryll Neita and Desiree Henry have had hamstring and knee injuries respectively.
Fellow squad members Ashleigh Nelson and Imani Lansiquot have also had hamstring problems.
British Athletics performance director Neil Black said there was "no need to take any unnecessary risks" for the event, which takes place from 22-23 April.
He added: "All our decisions are made with a long-term view of having our top athletes fit and competing to win medals in front of a home crowd in London."
The top eight finishers in the 4x100m and 4x400m for both men and women in the Bahamas will earn automatic entry for the London 2017 World Championships.
4x400m: Eilidh Doyle, Emily Diamond, Kelly Massey, Laviai Nielsen, Anyika Onuora, Christine Ohuruogu.
Men's 4x100m squad: Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, Ojie Edoburun, Adam Gemili, Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty, Danny Talbot, Chijindu Ujah.
4x400m: Theo Campbell, Jarryd Dunn, Matthew Hudson-Smith, Martyn Rooney, Delano Williams, Rabah Yousif.
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Craig Fulton's side had to come from behind in Johannesburg with goals from Chris Cargo and Shane O'Donoghue.
O'Donoghue got the winner with two minutes left on the clock.
The Irish play Germany in their final Pool B game on Monday and a win in Wednesday's semi-final will secure a place at the 2018 World Cup.
Ahmed El-Naggar's goal late in the second quarter had Ireland trailing at the break but Chris Cargo quickly equalised after half-time before O'Donoghue fired home a high drag-flick from the fifth penalty corner to seal the win.
"It was a tough match in a must-win game with what was at stake," Fulton said.
"I am glad we have started well in the tournament."
Uber said the feature - first introduced in the US in June - would launch in the UK on Tuesday.
The change follows criticism that Uber was making it unnecessarily difficult for its drivers to improve their earnings.
It was described as "a cynical PR move" by a union representing British Uber drivers.
Uber is also launching a series of changes intended to allow drivers to better control their work flow.
These include "paid waiting time" - in which passengers will pay 20p every minute after the first two minutes if they keep their driver waiting.
Paid waiting time will go live in the UK on 22 August.
Uber said that feedback from drivers had prompted it to make the changes.
"Riders who want to reward great service will now have the option to tip their driver through the app after each trip," the company said.
"This means riders don't need to carry cash if they want to tip their driver."
A spokesman confirmed to the BBC that 100% of tips received via the app would go to drivers, without Uber taking a cut.
Rival service Lyft in the US has offered in-app tipping since 2012 and taxi-booking app myTaxi - available in Germany, Austria and elsewhere - can also process tips.
Other new features for Uber drivers include:
"This is a cynical PR move ahead of Uber's appeal next month against last year's employment tribunal ruling in favour of drivers," said James Farrar, Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) United Private Hire Drivers (UPHD) chair.
"Despite its claims, Uber remains completely deaf to the most serious issue facing - excessively long hours earning on average between £5 and £6 per hour."
A spokesman for Uber disputed the calculation on earnings, however.
"Last year UK drivers made an average of £15 an hour in fares after our service fee," he said.
The changes were welcomed by the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed (IPSE).
"These benefits both establish and protect the freedom, control and autonomy that makes self-employment so attractive," said Andrew Chamberlain, deputy director of policy.
Uber drivers have long called for better tipping options.
In April - shortly before Uber offered in-app tipping in the US - the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission announced plans to require all cab companies that take payment via credit card to offer a tipping option.
A petition on the issue was signed by 11,000 Uber drivers.
Executives at the ride-sharing firm like to talk about Uber 2.0 - an attempt to rebrand the company after a disastrous year that has seen the departure of its founder and allegations of a toxic culture.
Today's adjustments to the way the app works for drivers should be seen in light of that attempt to break with the past. Drivers at first seemed happy with the earnings offered by Uber and the flexibility of fixing their own hours.
But they have grown increasingly discontent, accusing the company of taking too high a commission and putting too many cars on the road.
Uber may actually be more focussed on last year's employment tribunal ruling in which judges described as "faintly ridiculous" its claim that drivers were a mosaic of small businesses operating without central control.
With an appeal against that ruling due next month, the firm may hope that moves to give drivers greater control will impress the tribunal.
Separately, the Sunday Times has reported a Metropolitan Police officer has written to Uber, accusing it of failing to report sex attacks and other "serious crimes".
The newspaper said it had obtained a letter from Insp Neil Billany, head of the Met's taxi and private hire unit.
Insp Billany said he had "significant concern" over Uber's decision-making process and accused the company of reporting only less serious cases to avoid damaging its reputation.
The Sunday Times said at least six sexual assaults on passengers, two public order offences and an assault had gone unreported.
Uber's licence to operate in London is currently being reviewed.
Transport for London, which issues licences, said the situation was "totally unacceptable" and would affect its decision on the review.
In a response to the story on its blog, Uber described its view of its relationship with the Metropolitan Police.
"While we were surprised by this letter - as we don't feel it reflects the good working relationship we have with the police and the extensive support we provide - we would welcome further collaboration and to establish how we can do more to strengthen our existing processes," the firm said.
The university said it would instead work with firms in an attempt to reduce their emissions.
The institution had carried out a consultation after its students' association asked it to reconsider its position on fossil fuel investment.
Environmental campaigners described the decision as "disappointing" and a "missed opportunity".
The university had established a Fossil Fuels Review Group to look into the issue.
Announcing the changes to its policy, the university said its choices had not been limited to no change or pulling out of all investments.
It said it would use its research activities and "responsible investment" to work with companies to reduce their emissions.
The university will require companies to report on their emissions and benchmark them according to the best performance in their sector.
It said it would focus on companies involved in the extraction of coal and tar sands, the highest carbon-emitting fossil fuels.
"The university will withdraw from investment in these companies if realistic alternative sources of energy are available and the companies involved are not investing in technologies that help address the effects of carbon emissions and climate change," it said.
Last year, Glasgow University became the first in the UK to announce it would sell off the shares it holds in companies that produce fossil fuels.
Prof Charlie Jeffery, Edinburgh University's senior vice principal, said: "The decision outlines our commitment to use the leverage of our investments to bring about change that reduces carbon emissions in the fossil fuels and other sectors, and to press further with our world-leading research activities that actively contribute to the solution of problems arising from fossil fuel emissions and the identification of alternative technologies.
"As a global civic institution, the University of Edinburgh will continue to take its lead through our research, teaching and knowledge exchange and helping society understand, manage and reduce climate risks."
However, WWF Scotland director Lang Banks said: "It's disappointing that Edinburgh University has chosen not to join the growing number of organisations opting to divest from climate-trashing fossil fuels.
"The science is clear, to protect our climate the vast majority of known fossil fuel reserves must remain unburned and in the ground."
Ric Lander, Friends of the Earth Scotland finance campaigner, said: "The university has missed a clear opportunity to take a moral lead on tackling climate change and stand up for environmental justice.
"The university appears content to have its money invested in the world's most polluting companies, including Shell, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto.
"These companies are oil drilling in the Arctic and mining coal in virgin rainforest. Any investment policy which continues to allow investment in such irresponsible companies is not fit for purpose."
Prof Paul Younger, professor of Energy Engineering at Glasgow University, said: "Having been plunged involuntarily into the midst of the fossil fuel divestment debate when my own institution ploughed ahead with a simplistic commitment to divest from fossil fuels, as if all are equally damaging to the climate and as if simple alternatives exist for all their uses, it is refreshing to see the University of Edinburgh propose a policy that is consistent both with ethical principles and with what is technically feasible.
"Their stance is actually very similar to that adopted by the Church of England.
"I applaud both institutions for taking the time to probe the science and engineering constraints on the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
"No such precaution was taken by my own university, with the result that we are now mired in a needless debate, in which the desire to avoid losing face is poised to overrule the application of reason."
The UK music industry accounted for 17.1% of the global music market - its highest ever share.
Adele was the driving force, selling 17.4 million copies of her third album, 25, in just six weeks.
But despite the industry's impressive market share, total revenues fell by 1% to £688m.
Uneasy marriage of music and YouTube by BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones
The BPI, which represents the British music industry, laid the blame with advertising-funded sites like YouTube and Daily Motion, saying the industry made more money from vinyl sales last year than it did from music video streaming.
In its annual yearbook, a guide to the UK recorded music industry, the BPI said YouTube and other ad-funded websites paid out a "meagre" £24.4m in 2015. This was despite fans streaming almost 27 billion music videos - an 88% increase from 2014.
That was narrowly eclipsed by the £25.1m earned from the sale of 2.1 million vinyl LPs in 2015 (a figure that suggests the industry makes almost £12 from every vinyl album sold).
Audio streams on subscription services like Apple Music, Spotify and Deezer surpassed both. The BPI says it saw an 82% increase in streams, to 27bn, accounting for a 69% rise in income to £146.1m.
Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI and the Brit Awards, said: "It is hugely encouraging that demand for British music is so strong [but] the fact that sales revenues dipped... shows clearly that something is fundamentally broken in the music market.
"In 2015, UK fans streamed almost twice as many music videos as the year before; tens of billions more views. Yet artists and labels did not benefit from the increased demand for what they created. This is wrong. Music is precious - it's not a commodity to be strip-mined for big data.
"The long-term consequences of this will be serious, reducing investment in new music, making it difficult for most artists to earn a living, and undermining the growth of more innovative services like Spotify and Apple Music that pay more fairly for the music they use."
The music industry rhetoric around YouTube has been intensifying as the site's licensing agreements with the three major record labels - Sony, Warner and Universal - come up for renegotiation.
The industry is also pushing for reform to the "safe harbour" laws which allow YouTube and similar sites to claim some exemption from licensing laws when users upload videos featuring copyrighted content.
Artists including Debbie Harry, Katy Perry, Billy Joel and Radiohead have campaigned for the reforms, saying musicians ought to be paid fairly. In a blog for the Guardian, Harry wrote: "YouTube and Google are profiting from the law; the people who make the music are not."
A spokesperson for YouTube said: "For years, the music industry lost millions of dollars as piracy rates soared. Thanks to our rights management system, Content ID, rights holders have complete control of their music on YouTube and can easily decide whether to have content taken down, or profit from it.
"Today, revenue from Content ID represents 50% of what we pay out annually. In fact, ad-supported music streaming enables revenue from an audience that has never before paid for music. As more advertising money comes online, this will grow to match consumption. Comparisons to other audio-only, subscription music services are apples to oranges."
It comes after the charity received nearly 3,000 calls between October 2015 and January 2016, with more than half relating to dogs.
It said while people see this time of year as a celebration, "a huge number" of calls are made to report neglect.
A "Love Animals, Hate Cruelty" campaign has been launched to make people aware of pets' needs.
"It's a sad fact that every day at work throughout the year can be tough for our inspectors and animal welfare and collection officers, but winter really does come with its own challenges and issues," said RSPCA Cymru Supt Martyn Hubbard.
"In fact, we expect to take in somewhere in the region of 19,000 animals this winter alone across England and Wales.
"The fact that last winter in Wales we received nearly 3,000 calls from people reporting neglect to animals is shocking, especially when you add that to all the other calls we receive at the same time about other welfare issues. It really hits home just what we are up against.
"Issues such as animals not being provided with a suitable environment to shelter from the harsh weather and not being given enough food and water to keep them healthy despite the cold and damp are common complaints made to us."
A dollar for a poster of a smiling Oscar Romero or how about a baseball cap with his face on it? A driver winds down his window and stops outside a stall to hand over some cash for a t-shirt and then goes on his way.
People are getting ready for a day of celebration.
At least 250,000 people are expected to descend on the small capital of San Salvador on Saturday as they witness the beatification of one of the region's biggest heroes.
Archbishop Oscar Romero was not just a churchman. He took a stand during El Salvador's darkest moments.
When the US-backed Salvadorean army was using death squads and torture to stop leftist revolutionaries from seizing power, he was not afraid to speak out in his weekly sermons.
"The law of God which says thou shalt not kill must come before any human order to kill. It is high time you recovered your conscience," he said in his last homily in March 1980, calling on the National Guard and police to stop the violence.
"I implore you, I beg you, I order you in the name of God: Stop the repression."
That was a sermon that cost him his life. A day later, while giving mass, he was hit through the heart by a single bullet, killed by a right-wing death squad.
With him died hopes of peace. In the months after Oscar Romero's assassination, the violence intensified and more than a decade of civil war followed. The conflict left around 80,000 people dead.
Flying in to El Salvador, you land at the international airport named after Archbishop Romero. Your passport is stamped with his little portrait too. Small details that show he has a big following here.
But he was not a figure loved by all. For some, he was more guerrilla than a man of God.
"He wasn't political but he lived in a very conflictive political time. Everything was politicised," says Father Jesus Delgado, Oscar Romero's friend and personal assistant.
"There was a line in the middle and the ones who supported the government were good and the ones who were against the government were bad - it was that simple."
But he also faced opposition within the Church.
Several conservative Latin American cardinals in the Vatican blocked his beatification for years because they were concerned his death was prompted more by his politics than by his preaching.
"We cannot overlook that many of his most vocal opponents were in the church," says Professor Michael Lee, a theologian at Fordham University.
"It was not just a matter of faith and politics as two separate things but the political dimension of faith itself."
Some linked Father Romero to Liberation Theology. It was a movement that grew out of the region's poverty and inequality with the belief that the Church could play a role in bringing about social change.
Some radical priests became involved in revolutionary movements but friends of Oscar Romero say he was not one of them.
In the unstable political context of El Salvador though, there was a lot of mistrust.
It took decades for that mentality to change. Not until Pope Francis became the first Latin American pontiff was his beatification unblocked.
The Pope declared him a martyr who had died because of hatred of his faith, ending the decades-long debate.
"Francis becoming Pope represents a whole sea change because the Latin American church is now in charge of the universal church," says Dr Austen Ivereigh, author of a biography of Pope Francis.
"That's why this has huge symbolic significance, the unblocking of the cause of Romero. It really does signal the arrival of the Latin American church in Rome."
For Oscar Romero's supporters in El Salvador, this about turn has been a long time coming.
"Romero was their hero and that he is recognised as a saint of the church gives them huge affirmation and encouragement and inspiration," says Julian Filochowski, who is the chair of the Oscar Romero Trust in the UK.
"He's like Martin Luther King. It puts him in that same orbit as great iconic figures."
In a country where religion is all important, he also divides opinions.
The Catholic Church is undoubtedly powerful but more than a third of people here now identify themselves as evangelical. Several I spoke to said they did not recognise him as a saintly figure.
Flying the flag for the Romero family on Saturday is Gaspar Romero, the Archbishop's youngest brother who says he remembers his sibling as a hard-working and committed man.
"He was always very humble and dedicated to his studies," he says. "He was committed to protecting the poor, if he was alive today he would be doing the same work."
And it is work that many feel is more relevant than ever - El Salvador is fast becoming one of the most violent places in the world.
Many feel the country is in a worse place than it ever was during civil conflict. This time though, there is no Oscar Romero to make a stand.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is suing for trademark infringement and damage to the Academy's reputation.
The legal action claims that press about the bags by Distinctive Assets have implied they are official and have focused on "the less-than-wholesome nature of some of the products contained in the bags".
The Academy does not give out goody bags.
The lawsuit states that the Academy sent a legal letter to the company last year demanding that "all of Distinctive Assets' future communications concerning the gift bags will clearly communicate that the Academy does not award, sponsor, endorse, or provide these gift bags and that any reporting about the gift bags must include that disclaimer".
They claim this was agreed upon but point out that this year Distinctive Assets opted for the tagline "Everyone Wins Nominee Gift Bags in Honor of the Oscars®" in their social media promotions.
There have been a number of articles about the gift bags in a diverse range of publications many focusing on the controversial inclusion of a "vampire breast lift", a sex toy and a $275 (£191) roll of toilet paper.
In total the bags are estimated to be valued at $200,000 (£139,000).
The lawsuit claims the press coverage around the gift bags has also focused on the "unseemliness of giving such high value gifts, including trips costing tens of thousands of dollars, to an elite group of celebrities".
Contacted by the BBC, a spokesperson for Distinctive Assets said: "Distinctive Assets has not yet had the opportunity to fully review the AMPAS complaint with counsel and therefore has no comment at this time."
In recent years, airlines looking for cost savings have reduced the sizes of seats and cut the amount of passenger legroom, among other changes.
Passengers have often complained about the increasingly cramped quarters.
Some flights have been disrupted after disputes broke out among passengers because of seating arrangements.
"It costs you an arm and a leg just to have room for your arms and legs," said Senator Chuck Schumer, who sponsored the amendment, which was attached to a broader aviation bill.
Many airlines now charge passengers if they want more legroom.
Under the legislation, airlines would have been barred from further reducing the "size, width, padding and pitch" of seats. It also addressed legroom and the width of the aisles.
Airline companies opposed the bill saying the measure was attempting to "re-regulate" the industry.
The amendment failed 42-54 with all but one Republican voting against the legislation.
Local media say many of the men were shot at close range, some in the face.
Police say they defended themselves from attack by axes, sticks and stones.
Sandalwood smuggling is rampant in southern India, with a tonne selling for tens of thousands of dollars on the international black market.
Most of the casualties were from neighbouring Tamil Nadu state. Eight suspected smugglers were injured.
"At one of the two sites where bodies were found, seven of the nine dead had been shot in the face or the back of the head," the Indian Express reported. It said many had burn injuries.
BBC Tamil's Muralidharan Kasiviswanathan, who visited the area where the men were killed, says the shootings have sent shock waves through Tamil Nadu.
He says the labourers had been attracted to Andhra Pradesh to cut trees by lucrative pay rates of 3,000-5,000 rupees ($48-$80; £32-£53) a day. The loggers are often poor tribespeople or other migrant workers.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam wrote to his Andhra Pradesh counterpart, demanding an inquiry.
"Many of these persons are reportedly from Tiruvannamalai and Vellore districts of Tamil Nadu. While it is possible that these persons may have been engaged in illegal activities, the occurrence of such high casualties in the operation raises concerns whether the Task Force personnel acted with adequate restraint," he said.
The leader of the MDMK party, Vaiko, said: "Big smuggling sharks escape and it is the poor who have been killed."
After news of the deaths broke, protesters attacked seven Andhra Pradesh Transport Corporation buses in the Tamil Nadu capital Chennai (Madras), the Indian Express reports.
India banned the sale of red sandalwood or red sanders in 2000.
The species of tree is endemic to the Western Ghats mountains of southern India.
It is prized for its rich red wood, mainly for making furniture and musical instruments in East Asia, and is distinct from the highly aromatic sandalwood trees that are native to southern India.
He was leading the first government inquiry into the atrocities, one month after the UN released its own findings.
President Maithripala Sirisena has pledged a truth and reconciliation commission to investigate further but resists calls for a foreign inquiry.
The 26-year war left at least 100,000 people dead.
The UK's Channel 4 and the UN have documented numerous atrocities committed during the war, with one investigation saying up to 40,000 people may have been in killed in the final five months alone.
Others suggest the number of deaths could be even higher.
The government tabled retired judge Maxwell Paranagama's finding in a report to parliament on Tuesday.
The judge said there were "credible allegations which... may show that some members of the armed forces committed acts during the final phase of the war that amounted to war crimes giving rise to individual criminal responsibility".
He went to say there was evidence to suggest that footage obtained by the Channel 4 documentary No Fire Zone - showing prisoners naked, blindfolded, with arms tied and shot dead by soldiers - was genuine.
Sri Lanka's military at the time had dismissed the documentary as a fabrication.
The Paranagama commission also said a case involving the killing of the top Tamil Tiger political leadership in May 2009 - known as the "White Flag" case - should be investigated.
He called on the government to set up an internationally-backed judicial inquiry, which was also recommended in the UN report in September.
The first government-led inquiry into the allegations was commissioned in 2013 by then-President Mahinda Rajapakse, who oversaw the final push against the rebels in 2009.
Mr Rajapaksa has always denied his troops committed war crimes, and resisted international inquiries.
The UN's long-awaited report accused both sides of atrocities, especially during the final stages of the war in 2009.
Its main findings include:
The final months of the war saw hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians trapped in territory held by the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) in the north-east.
While government forces were accused of indiscriminate shelling leading to massive casualties, the Tamil Tiger rebels were alleged to have used civilians as human shields and shot people trying to escape.
Allegations persist to this day that the army killed rebel leaders and others after they surrendered or were captured - and the UN admitted in 2012 that it could and should have done more to protect civilians.
As well as the thousands of Tamils who died in the final battles near Mullaitivu, many others are still missing.
The Greyfriars Green tunnel on Coventry's ring road will close to traffic at 17:00 GMT on 30 May and be turned into a 5,000-capacity club.
The Motofest event will follow the official opening of the tunnel, part of the £59m Friargate development.
After a night of DJs and other entertainment, the tunnel will reopen at 05:00, organisers said.
Jeremy Heaver, Motofest commercial director, said: "When we first took the idea to Coventry City Council, I think it probably took them aback as it is a slightly leftfield thing to do."
Councillor Rachel Lancaster, in charge of public services, described it as a "pretty unique way to celebrate the opening of our new tunnel", part of a major regeneration project in Coventry.
The three-day Motofest 2015 begins on 29 May and will see the city stage time trials on public roads, alongside exhibitions, music and other events.
British Formula 3 cars, among others, will complete laps of the ring road.
It follows a change in the law in July which allowed local authorities to suspend the Road Traffic Act.
Organisers said they wanted Motofest to be seen as the "Edinburgh Festival" of vehicles.
The Samoan forward was sin-binned but a disciplinary hearing has suspended Paulino for three weeks so he will miss games with Connacht and Edinburgh.
The 27-year-old's absence will be a blow for Scarlets, whose Wales lock Jake Ball is out injured.
Paulino will join a French team next season and has been linked with Lyon.
Green is one of four forwards released, along with Ashley Hemmings, Pat Hoban and Yoann Arquin.
Midfielders Jamie McGuire, Kevan Hurst and James Baxendale have also left the Stags, who finished 12th in the fourth tier this season.
Goalkeepers Brian Jensen and Scott Shearer and defenders Corbin Shires and Lee Collins complete the list.
Green, 30, scored 29 goals in 95 games in his second spell for the club after signing from Birmingham City on a free transfer in 2015.
Meanwhile 33-year-old McGuire is considering an offer to join the under-21 coaching staff at Field Mill.
Second through the sliding doors was Willie Rennie of the Scottish Lib Dems. He spoke about running away from the police "as a wee boy" and how he would fight in a war "if they would have me".
Asking the questions were Sarah (18); Jamie-Lee (16); Louis (16); Erin (18) and Megan (18).
They are all members of the BBC's Generation 2016 election panel.
Mr Rennie, who has been both an MSP and an MP, was posed the question: Who would you like to be stuck in a lift with?
He replied: "I think, probably my wife, would be the first one, but if I'm allowed a second one, it would be Tom Hanks - the great actor.
"I love Forrest Gump, and I'm a softy for Turner and Hooch, which is a fantastic film, just a slob out film to watch, so Tom Hanks, my wife, and yourself [Generation 2016 questioner Megan]."
Other questions put to Mr Rennie included - have you ever been in trouble with the police; would you fight in a war; would you let a refugee live with you and is it fair that the minimum wage is lower for young people?
The Scottish Green Party's Patrick Harvie; Scottish Tory Ruth Davidson; Scottish Labour's Kezia Dugdale and the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon have also been part of the BBC's Leaders in a Lift series.
It has now been discovered that war poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves met at Baberton Golf Club in Juniper Green.
A university lecturer searched libraries and archives for clues to solve the mystery.
The answer was found in letters from 1917 at Southern Illinois University.
Neil McLennan, a former head of history at Tynecastle School who now works as a senior lecturer at Aberdeen University, said where the men met had remained unknown for 100 years.
He said: "Confirming this venue has been something that I really got between my teeth.
"We always knew the three men met in Edinburgh but not where.
"Many may wonder why this matters but it is an important piece of the city's literary history.
"One of Edinburgh's golf clubs can say it held potentially the most powerful meeting of English literature in the 20th century.
"The three most significant war poets were there.
"Owen is often referred to as the most powerful war poet, perhaps even the most powerful poet in English literature and this meeting was key to his success."
Alan Goodman Baberton Golf Club Captain said: "We were excited to learn that this historic meeting took place in our clubhouse and led to such an important collaboration between three of Britain's greatest war poets.
"We intend to create a permanent reminder of this meeting for members and visitors to view."
The Manchester City boss said the former England player, 35, is at the same level as Spanish World Cup winners Xabi Alonso and Sergio Busquets.
Carrick, who joined United in 2006 from Tottenham, has made 31 appearances for the club this season.
"He's one of the best holding midfielders I've ever seen in my life, by far," Guardiola said.
Carrick has made more than 400 appearances in total and is United's second-longest serving player after Wayne Rooney.
The City boss, whose team play United in a rearranged Premier League fixture on Thursday, said that English football was "safe" with players such as Carrick and team-mate Marcus Rashford.
Carrick has picked up 34 England caps in an international career that started in 2001, while teenager Rashford has made eight senior appearances.
"I am a big fan of Michael Carrick. Marcus Rashford is a good talent. You have outstanding players, you can do it with the national team."
City claimed a 2-1 victory when the two Manchester sides met at Old Trafford in September but United have not lost a league game since October - a run of 23 matches.
"They are good, good rivals, good quality, in good form. They've had big series without defeat in the Premier League," the Spaniard continued.
"They have a lot of quality, history. We're looking forward to the game."
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Both Manchester sides are vying for a Champions League spot, with Guardiola's fourth-placed side currently one point ahead of Manchester United in fifth.
Hosts City have dropped 15 points at home this season and are unlikely to finish higher than third.
"I've been managing for nine years and this is my first year without a trophy. Sometimes it has to happen and it happened this year," Guardiola added.
"If I extend my career long, I'm sure there will be many years in the future it happens. But there's also a lot of teams in Europe who are not going to win a trophy."
City spent £175m on players last summer - the most of any Premier League team - with Manchester United second on the list after parting with around £150m.
Chelsea manager Antonio Conte said on Tuesday that spending the most money on players does not guarantee success and cited both Manchester clubs.
However, Guardiola said that Conte could not forget the Premier League leaders' own summer spending.
"It is not just United or City and this summer it's going to happen again," he said.
"I agree but I think he cannot forget that all the players Chelsea have, have cost a lot of money."
Andrew Check, 30, was jailed for 10 years on Monday after admitting two counts of assault by penetration.
Swansea Crown Court heard the imprint from his Fred Perry shoes at the house in the Tenby, Pembrokeshire, helped police trace him.
Check, of Tenby, must serve a further seven years on licence upon release.
Prosecutor Nicola Powel said the victim woke in the middle of the night to see Check stood over her.
He then held a knife to her throat as he assaulted her.
Det Adele Benjafield identified the tennis shoe pattern from a database of 38,000 images.
Police carrying out house-to-house inquiries visited Check's home and noticed he matched the physical description given to officers.
A pair of Fred Perry trainers were found at his home - they were not the ones worn in the attack, but were enough to make officers suspicious.
A search revealed the victim's DNA on a glove in Check's house.
In a video shown to court, the victim said: "I suffer with nightmares, anxiety, and panic attacks and I am unable to sleep. I don't know how and when I will recover my life again."
Judge Keith Thomas said: "Such an offence rightly frightens and horrifies people in equal measure.
"He carried out the attack in a callous and determined way. The rape sent shockwaves throughout the community. "
After the case, Dyfed-Powys Police Det Benjafield said: "The evidential value of footwear is becoming more recognised.
"It's value is on a par with fingerprints and DNA samples and scans of footwear are routinely taken of people who come through our custody suites."
The call was made during a debate on the future funding of farming.
Agriculture Minister Michelle McIlveen has established a consultative committee, to inform the executive's negotiating position.
The EU contributes about £250m a year to farmers
The assembly heard claims that funding agriculture was not a priority for the UK government.
Northern Ireland currently gets 10% of the UK's European subsidy payments.
Speakers, including the SDLP's Patsy McGlone, claimed that it would not do as well under a domestic agricultural policy.
If the Barnett funding formula, which is used to calculate Northern Ireland's share of UK budgets, was applied the equivalent share would be 3%, he said.
But the DUP's Edwin Poots claimed farmers had voted "overwhelmingly" for Brexit and it offered them opportunities.
These included displacing agricultural produce currently imported to the UK.
He said farmers did not want "handouts" but a fair return for their work.
Ulster Unionist Harold McKee said it was disappointing that the "most basic preparations weren't put in place" prior to the referendum vote.
Sinn Féin's Caoimhe Archibald claimed the signals from Westminster were "not encouraging" and the minister had "her work cut out for her".
David Ford of the Alliance Party said the chancellor's commitment to underpin direct payments for farmers until 2020 was "not much of a guarantee" given that it would be 2019 at the earliest before the UK would be in a position to leave the European Union.
Well, if you are Welsh sailor Hannah Mills, the answer is simple. You aim to repeat your success, maybe this time in a different boat.
History awaits for the 29-year-old as Mills aims to become Britain's most successful female Olympic sailor and put her name among the world greats in her sport.
After flirting with the idea, Mills confirmed this week she plans to attempt to win the 49erFX gold at Tokyo 2020 after winning the 470 class with Saskia Clark in Rio last year.
Putting off retirement
Mills' Rio recognition will be completed when she collects her MBE at Buckingham Palace next month.
She has revealed why she has decided against following a fellow Rio golden girl into retirement.
"I thought I would finish after Rio," Mills told BBC Wales Sport.
"Saskia was retiring, we'd had such an amazing six-year partnership and achieved everything we had ever dreamed of together. It seemed a natural conclusion.
"After Rio, I did some different things, work experience up in London to experience real life. That was cool and re-energised me.
"You put everything into an Olympic campaign, you are absolutely drained and have nothing left to give.
"I also did some sailing for fun and got the love back.
"I had a good think. I am 29 and might not get this chance again. I'm just so excited about the next three and a half years."
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Why change boats?
Mills is now back in training, currently in southern Spain trialling the new boat with Alain Sign, who competed in Rio.
"I have sailed the 470 for 10 years and won Olympic silver and gold," said Mills.
"I felt whatever I wanted to achieve in Tokyo, I needed to break away from that boat.
"Maybe in a year's time, I will be back there [in the 470 boat], sailing it full of passion.
"But right now, I knew I wanted to keep sailing and was desperate to win another gold medal. This is the right event for me."
The pair will compete in three mixed events before Mills has to find a female partner to compete at the World Championships in September, with a final decision on her Olympics boat expected in a year.
"I have been sailing with Alain who is one of the best in the world," said Mills.
"The little mistakes I am making, he can stop happening and he is constantly telling me things to get better.
"It's a huge benefit. We have three regattas opened up to mixed crews, which is fantastic because I get real racing experience.
"The World Championships are in September so I will need to find a female partner for that.
"I am having ongoing chats and scouting. After the World Championships, there will be a review time to decide whether I continue in the 49erFX with a final decision expected in February or March 2018."
What's the difference?
Mills has explained how the two boats differ.
"The main thing is I am now standing on the side of the boat," said the Dinas Powys sailor.
"I am hooked on to a wire, it's called trapesing, as opposed to sitting down and leaning out the side of the boat.
"It's a new skill and I have been quite wobbly at times.
"With the FX being a bigger boat, I'm going to need to put on some weight which is a challenge in itself as I'm tiny.
"I'll need to put on about 10% of my body weight, so quite a lot."
Concussion concern
Mills has revealed her return to sailing was hampered by a six-week lay-off because of concussion.
"In the first training camp in January we were doing a fitness session and one of the guys knocked me over," said Mills.
"I experienced concussion symptoms. I struggled to concentrate and focus on anything.
"If I concentrated on anything too hard, my brain felt as if it wouldn't work. I would be exhausted and have to have a lie down."
Concussion is currently a hot topic in sport and Mills revealed the effects she has suffered.
"It was distressing," said Mills.
"You can't see an injury in your brain but there is no time frame in when you are going to get better and you don't know how bad the damage is.
"It's hard to say whether I am fully recovered. It feels like I am, especially these last few weeks.
"Up until that point, I was still showing the odd sign and if I did too much in a day, I'd be tired.
"I would say I am 99% now and luckily come out the other side."
Nelson Jobim is the third minister to lose his job since Ms Rousseff took office in January - a turnover that has strained her governing coalition.
He is reported to have called one fellow minister a "weakling" and described others as "idiots".
Mr Jobim will be replaced by the former Foreign Minister, Celso Amorim.
Nelson Jobim is one of several ministers who also served under Ms Rousseff's predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
He is said to have been angry that Ms Rousseff overruled him on a multi-billion dollar contract to buy fighter jets.
In recent weeks he been reported as making a series of critical remarks about fellow ministers.
First he said at an opposition event that he was surrounded by "idiots".
Then he said in a television interview that he had voted for Ms Rousseff's opponent Jose Serra in last year's presidential election.
The final straw appears to have been a magazine interview, parts of which have been leaked, in which he reportedly called another minister a "weakling".
Mr Jobim's resignation is the third to shake Ms Rousseff's government since she took office on 1 January.
Last month, her Transport Minister Alfredo Nascimento resigned over a corruption scandal in his department, though he denied any wrongdoing.
And in June her chief of staff, Antonio Palocci, stepped down in the face of questions about his rapid accumulation of personal wealth.
Webb made his comeback from an ankle injury in the Swansea region's 26-21 win over Newcastle.
The 28-year-old is expected to be released from Wales' Six Nations squad to continue his return to fitness.
"There's a strong possibility and we'd be more than comfortable in giving him as much game time as he needs," said attack coach Gruff Rees.
"He certainly wouldn't train properly until Thursday or Friday, but that's no issue with someone like Rhys.
"He lead the side last week, he knows a lot of our tactical messages and he'll drive probably an even younger group this week."
Webb is one of 11 Ospreys players in Wales' squad which met up on Monday.
He has played only an hour since undergoing ankle surgery following Wales' 32-8 defeat by Australia on 5 November.
The studio is reported to have paid more than $30m (£19m) for the title, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Michael Fassbender is to play Jobs in the film, based on Walter Isaacson's biography of the late entrepreneur.
The real-life drama will be directed by Danny Boyle, from a script by fellow Oscar-winner Aaron Sorkin.
Sony had bought the rights to produce a film based on Isaacson's biography following Jobs' death in 2011.
The studio has not explained why it pulled out, though it had reportedly struggled to fit the film into its schedule.
Director David Fincher was initially set to direct but pulled out of talks in April.
A number of big-name actors have also been attached to the film, among them Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale.
Jobs was a charismatic figure and a master at presenting Apple's latest products. But his career took dramatic turns.
After founding Apple with Steve Wozniak in the late 1970s, he was driven out of the firm in a boardroom coup in the 1980s.
A decade later he was bought back when Apple ran into trouble and presided over an era when it became the most valuable US company and producer of the highly successful iPhone.
He died in October 2011 at the age of 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Lots of you have told us it's one of the biggest worries you have at school.
So, we wanted to find out what you think is the best way to stop bullying.
We asked our panel of 100 children to vote on a big question: "What is most important, to punish or to help a bully?"
Take a look at our big debate to find out the results.
Kortney Hause put the visitors ahead from close range after a flick-on by Dave Edwards, who then headed a second from Connor Ronan's free-kick.
Alex Mowatt was sent off on his debut for Barnsley, with Tykes manager Paul Heckingbottom then sent to the stands.
Edwards smashed in his second, before Marc Roberts scored a late consolation after Adam Hammill's shot was parried.
Barnsley created several chances to level after falling behind, with stand-in goalkeeper Harry Burgoyne making a fine reaction save to deny Mowatt when put clean through by Marley Watkins.
But it soon turned sour for Mowatt, who signed from Leeds United on Friday, when he was shown a straight red card moments before half-time for a sliding challenge on Jack Price.
Paul Lambert made six changes to the starting XI which won at Anfield, but his side could have had a third before half-time had referee Chris Kavanagh not overturned his own penalty decision when Adam Hammill and Bright Enobakhare tussled in the box.
Barnsley's defence, who have conceded more goals than any other team outside the bottom seven, struggled to cope with set-pieces, particularly from Ronan, who also hit the post.
Heckingbottom had to watch most of a ragged second-half from the Oakwell stands after a tussle in the Wolves dug-out.
The defeat, only Barnsley's second in eight league matches, dropped them a place to eighth, while Wolves moved up to 16th.
Barnsley manager Paul Heckingbottom: "It wasn't our night and I am disappointed that we conceded the first two goals like that - and it gave us a mountain to climb. Then came the sending off, so the game was all but over by then.
"The naivety has cost us. That's why we lost. It showed me that we weren't right tonight and we can't keep conceding goals like that."
"I have not seen it again, but on first look it did look like a red card - Alex [Mowatt] has been poor there and let us down. He apologised straight away at half-time. He was up for it, but he's just gone over the edge a little bit."
Wolves manager Paul Lambert: "I thought it was fantastic after coming off the highs of an emotional game on Saturday, possibly the highest emotionally that I can remember.
"The feelings of the players, supporters and staff and everyone was associated with Wolves has been draining after all that had happened at Liverpool, so I decided to change it around, but I thought the three young lads in the team were outstanding.
"This was always going to be a difficult place to come. It was never going to be pretty, it was always going to be direct and the Championship is like that, but I thought we were terrific."
Match ends, Barnsley 1, Wolverhampton Wanderers 3.
Second Half ends, Barnsley 1, Wolverhampton Wanderers 3.
Attempt missed. Adam Hammill (Barnsley) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Lee Evans (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Josh Scowen (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Andreas Weimann (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
(Barnsley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Andreas Weimann (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by George Saville (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Adam Armstrong (Barnsley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Angus MacDonald (Barnsley) because of an injury.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Lee Evans replaces Bright Enobakhare.
Foul by Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Josh Scowen (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. George Saville replaces Conor Coady.
Attempt saved. Adam Hammill (Barnsley) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Tom Bradshaw (Barnsley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Adam Armstrong.
Attempt blocked. Joe Mason (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Conor Coady.
Goal! Barnsley 1, Wolverhampton Wanderers 3. Marc Roberts (Barnsley) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner following a set piece situation.
Attempt saved. Adam Hammill (Barnsley) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Adam Hammill (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Hammill (Barnsley).
Goal! Barnsley 0, Wolverhampton Wanderers 3. David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Bright Enobakhare.
Foul by Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Marc Roberts (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Barnsley. Adam Armstrong replaces Ryan Williams.
Substitution, Barnsley. Tom Bradshaw replaces Marley Watkins.
Attempt blocked. Matt Doherty (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Josh Scowen (Barnsley).
Foul by Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Angus MacDonald (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Andreas Weimann replaces Connor Ronan.
Corner, Barnsley. Conceded by Kortney Hause.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Williams (Barnsley) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marley Watkins.
Attempt missed. Gethin Jones (Barnsley) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Callum Evans following a corner.
With 94% of the votes counted, Mr Kuczynski had 50.2% against 49.7% for Keiko Fujimori.
Officials suggested it could take a few more days to declare a winner.
Ms Fujimori, 41, had a strong lead ahead of the vote on Sunday but corruption scandals in her Popular Force party may have dented her support.
She is the daughter of Peru's former President, Alberto Fujimori, who is in jail for crimes against humanity.
Ms Fujimori has said tackling crime is her priority. She won the first round of voting in April.
The latest tally of votes is available at the Peruvian electoral commission (ONPE) website.
Mr Kuczynski, 77, who is an ex-Wall Street financier, said he would use his international financial experience to promote economic growth.
"We're going to have a government built on consensus. No more low blows or fights," he said, as the results started to come in.
Ms Fujimori won support from some Peruvians who credit her father with defeating the country's Maoist Shining Path rebel group in the 1990s.
Shadow of jailed ex-president cast over Peru polls
But others say they would never support anyone associated with her father, who is serving 25 years in prison for ordering death squads to massacre civilians during his attempts to end the insurgency.
Mr Kuczynski is supported by the main opposition forces, including prominent figures such as left-wing former candidate Veronika Mendoza and the Nobel Prize winning novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.
But he has faced scrutiny over his close relationship to Peru's business elite.
If he wins, he will become the oldest ever president of Peru at the time of taking office.
Some 23 million Peruvians were eligible to vote voted on Sunday's election to replace outgoing leftist President Ollanta Humala.
The mainland benchmark index, the Shanghai Composite, fell sharply by 8.4% to 3,211.75 points, extending last week's losses.
The sell-off continued despite China's latest attempts to reassure investors.
Over the weekend, Beijing said it planned to let its main state pension fund invest in the stock market.
Under the new rules, the fund will be allowed to invest up to 30% of its net assets in domestically-listed shares.
The fund will be allowed to invest not just in shares but in a range of market instruments, including derivatives. By increasing demand for them, the government hopes prices will rise.
The Hong Kong Hang Seng index followed the mainland's sharp decline, dropping 4% to 21,523.57 points in early trade.
Simon Littlewood, president at business advisory firm ACG Global told the BBC there were concerns that the world's second biggest economy was "a one-trick pony as they have been trying repeatedly over the past few months to put more liquidity into their economy", yet so far have failed to calm markets.
Over the past week, China's benchmark Shanghai Composite fell 12%, adding up to a 30% drop since the middle of June.
The sharp fall sparked a global sell-off, with the Dow Jones in the US losing 6%, while the UK's FTSE 100 posted its biggest weekly loss this year of 5%.
Earlier this month, the Chinese central bank devalued the yuan in an attempt to boost exports.
Elsewhere in Asia, the region's biggest stock market, Japan's Nikkei 225 traded 2.8% lower at 18,907.39 points in Monday morning trade.
It marks the Nikkei's lowest level in nearly five months.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 was down by 2.9% to 5,063.50 points.
Iron ore miner Fortescue posted an 88% drop in annual net profit as the sector was hit by a global drop in commodity prices. Fortescue shares were down by more than 10% on the weak results.
In South Korea, the Kospi index followed the region's lead, trading 1.4% lower at 1,850.56 points.
Earlier on Monday, stock markets in the Middle East also fell sharply.
Over the weekend, the International Monetary Fund weighed in on the global sell-off in an attempt to avoid further market panic.
China's economic slowdown and fall in equities was not a crisis but a "necessary" adjustment for the economy, a senior IMF official said on Sunday.
"It's totally premature to speak of a crisis in China", Carlo Cottarelli, IMF executive director representing countries such as Italy and Greece on its board, told a press conference, reiterating the international lender's forecast for a 6.8% expansion of the Chinese economy this year, below the 7.4% growth achieved in 2014.
On Friday, figures showed China's factory activity in August shrank at its fastest pace in more than six years.
This came after official figures showed the country's economic growth continuing to slow. For the three months to the end of July, the economy grew by 7% compared with a year earlier - its slowest pace since 2009.
The Brussels talks on Thursday will look especially at the problems faced by Turkey, hosting more than two million Syrian refugees.
The EU is anxious to stem the record influx of refugees from Turkey, as 350,000 reached Greek islands between January and September this year.
The migrant crisis has severely strained the goodwill between EU states.
The inconsistency in asylum policy across the EU has led to bitter arguments.
Hungary, Slovakia and some other countries are reluctant to take in non-European refugees, arguing that they have much less experience of integration than countries like Sweden and Germany.
But German Chancellor Angela Merkel also faces growing opposition at home to her welcome for refugees, as the number of asylum seekers in Germany this year is forecast to reach at least 800,000.
Opinion polls suggest her popularity has suffered. But across Europe there is also sympathy for refugees fleeing war and persecution, and some anxiety that EU solidarity - fundamental to the bloc's consensus politics - is now crumbling.
The first few refugees have been relocated from Italy and more flights will follow soon from there and Greece, but progress is slow. Even if the target of 160,000 is met, it will take at least two years to transfer them.
So a key short-term priority is to improve the filtering of migrants when they arrive, so that only those in genuine need of international protection get asylum.
So-called "hotspots" are being set up in Italy and Greece, where EU teams are trying to speed up the registration process and ease the pressure at overcrowded reception centres.
A draft of the summit conclusions, seen by the BBC, calls for strengthening of the EU's external borders and a more determined "return" policy - that is, ensuring that economic migrants are sent home.
The EU border force Frontex is to get more staff and a wider mandate, so that it can help national authorities to deport migrants.
Currently fewer than 40% of those refused asylum are sent back.
The leaders will also discuss setting up a European coastguard service.
The European Commission is ploughing in extra funding - the total EU budget for the migration crisis is nearly €10bn (£7.4bn; $11.5bn) for 2015-2016.
But the 28 member states' governments are lagging behind, the Commission complains.
They are far from fulfilling their aid pledges - including aid earmarked for the UN and other humanitarian organisations.
"Even if the influx of refugees slows down during winter, we must be ready for spring and the threat of bigger waves flowing to Europe," said summit chairman Donald Tusk in a letter to fellow EU leaders.
There are expectations that Russia's air strikes in Syria in support of a government offensive, as well as further gains by so-called Islamic State (IS), will displace more Syrians - on top of the 11 million already uprooted.
The EU is offering more aid and resources to Turkey to improve conditions in the refugee camps.
That is a priority before winter, as severe hardship there - and in other countries on Syria's borders - could push more refugees to make the hazardous journey to Europe.
An EU-Turkey joint action plan is being finalised, to ease the refugees' plight, crack down on people-smuggling gangs and help Turkey repatriate migrants to countries deemed to be safe.
The migrant crisis will dominate this summit, so little time will be spent on the UK government's push for EU reform and the rule changes that Prime Minister David Cameron wants.
Mr Tusk says the leaders will "take stock of the next steps with regard to the UK referendum on its membership of the EU, and confirm our commitment towards seeking viable solutions".
A December EU summit is expected to be the forum for more detailed debate of the UK's renegotiation.
More than 400 complete skeletons were discovered during work on St John's College between 2010 to 2012.
The remains, dating from the 13th to 15th Centuries, were burials from the Hospital of St John the Evangelist.
The four-year £1.2m study aims to learn more about the health of the urban poor during the epidemic.
About 1,000 parts from bodies were also discovered in what a St John's College spokesman described as "one of the largest medieval hospital burial grounds ever found in Britain".
The majority of the people buried on the site are poor townsfolk rather than clerics, and include men, women and some children.
The epidemic killed millions of people across Europe.
Researchers from a number of disciplines, including archaeology, history and genetics, will combine forces to "test directly the effects of the Black Death on a medieval town population before, during and after the epidemic".
The Hospital of St John the Evangelist was an Augustinian charitable establishment, providing care to members of the public between about 1200 and 1500.
The research is funded by the Wellcome Trust and St John's.
This sets the scene for a mammoth election campaign that unofficially begins now, 74 days out from the proposed poll date.
It's early days but already a number of policy and leadership themes are emerging. Mr Turnbull's decision to call a double dissolution election has ramifications for Australia's upper house, the Senate, too.
Australia's constitution allows for an early election to be called when the upper house, called the Senate, twice blocks a piece of legislation that has been passed by the lower house, the House of Representatives. Although ostensibly designed to resolve political deadlocks, in practice it has largely been used opportunistically by governments who see an advantage in going to the polls early.
The rejected legislation in this case is the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) bill, which seeks to re-establish a watchdog to monitor union activity in the construction industry. Although the government is insisting the bill is important enough to warrant calling a double dissolution, the opposition and most pundits believe that the decision is more about politics than policy.
Both sides will reveal their platforms over the coming weeks, but the broad campaign brushstrokes are already there to see.
The government will centre its campaign on economic management credentials. It will position itself as the party best placed to transition Australia from the mining boom through to a new phase of economic growth.
Even its attack on the unions with the ABCC bill is being framed as an economic issue and this line of attack will likely fall away as the campaign progresses. The 3 May budget will provide clarity on the government's economic plan.
Labor, conversely, will run on a "people first" platform of health, education and nation building, while also making cost savings in the budget. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is also lobbying hard for a Royal Commission into banks.
Despite operating under the Westminster system, Australia's election campaigns tend to have a presidential flavour. So the popularity of the prime minister and opposition leader will be a key factor in determining the winner.
Mr Turnbull is the clear frontrunner here. Well known to Australians through his prominent public life as a barrister and advocate for the republic movement, he maintains a handy lead over Mr Shorten as preferred prime minister. It was Mr Turnbull's popularity with the electorate that prompted the Liberal party to dump Tony Abbott as its leader.
But Mr Shorten has narrowed the gap on his opponent over recent months and at this stage appears to be running a more disciplined campaign. He'll need to prove himself against Mr Turnbull in one-on-one debates later on, but the seasoned parliamentary performer is used to such public forums.
Mr Turnbull will attempt to paint Mr Shorten as a union lackey who cannot manage the economy; Mr Shorten, conversely, will say Mr Turnbull is an out-of-touch protector of greedy banks leading a divided party that stands for nothing.
Labor needs to win 21 seats to take power, a swing of 4.3%. Recent polls have Labor in a position to achieve a swing of this magnitude on a two-party preferred basis, but the reality is more complex than that.
Mr Turnbull could pull more preferences from the Greens than more conservative leaders and individual battles in key marginal electorates are likely to have a big impact on the result. Labor's primary vote remains very low.
The government passed laws changing how Australians vote for members of the upper house in March. The new rules change the distribution of preferences in such a way that members of so-called "micro-parties", such as the Motoring Enthusiasts Party, will find it much more difficult to secure seats in the Senate. A double dissolution election requires that all Senate seats be declared empty - at a normal election, only half of the seats are up for grabs, and Senators typically get two terms in office.
The chance to get rid of pesky crossbench senators who block government legislation and secure a majority in the upper house is clearly one of Mr Turnbull's motivations for holding the double dissolution. But with opinion polls moving against him, it remains to be seen whether the prime minister's gamble pays off.
A man believed to be in his 30s died after being shot outside the Marriott Hotel in Old Shire Lane, Waltham Abbey, at 09:45 GMT on Tuesday.
Det Ch Insp Marina Ericson said the gunman was "waiting for the victim in the car park" and shot him before chasing him on foot.
A ballistics expert has been brought in to examine the scene, the force said.
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The suspect was seen getting into a dark-coloured car being driven by an accomplice following the shooting, Det Ch Insp Ericson said.
No one has yet been arrested.
Police said a key witness was an "innocent member of the public" whose car was flagged down by the victim following the shooting.
The man was driven to the Volunteer pub, half a mile away from the hotel, where paramedics tried to save him before he died.
A post-mortem examination will be taking place on the victim's body later.
In his annual report, Lord Thomas said much needed to be done to address changes that would follow from far-reaching reforms now being planned.
"Although judges recognise that they are well-paid in comparison to most people, static pay (in real terms, reduced pay) and adverse alterations to pension arrangements (particularly for more recently appointed judges) have had a significant impact," he said.
"In addition, there has, overall, been a widespread feeling of not being valued or appreciated for their work."
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Lord Thomas confirmed the Treasury had allocated £738m for modernising the courts and tribunals of England and Wales, with some of the money being raised from the sale of court buildings.
Past failure to invest meant that many courts lacked modern means of communication, he said.
"Outdated IT [information technology] systems severely impede the delivery of justice," he said.
IT was the central element in changes now being planned or piloted, the head of the judiciary said, though there would also be changes to court structures and procedures.
Courts were still using computer programs designed in the 1980s or 1990s "precariously supported by outdated operating systems", he said.
Lord Thomas had high praise for a report he had recently received from Lord Justice Briggs, the deputy head of civil justice, calling for the creation of an online court to decide cases worth up to £25,000.
Lord Justice Briggs said the central assumption of his review of the civil courts was that it was "now technically possible to free the courts from the constraints of storing, transmitting and communicating information on paper".
The challenge was to design a paperless court while recognising there would have to be a "substantial, difficult and probably painful transitional period before that revolutionary change is fully achieved", he said.
It required both a "willing suspension of disbelief" and an "informed imagination about the contours of a brave new paperless world for which there are few, if any, precedents", he said.
To show what could be done, he had conducted his entire six-month review without receiving or generating a single piece of paper - despite being a "two-finger typist", he said.
The new court would not decide all its cases online, Lord Justice Briggs said.
A judge might conduct some hearings on the telephone, by video conference or even face-to-face.
But it would be the first mainstream court in England and Wales designed to be used, from start to finish, without lawyers.
At least in its early development, it would deal only with money claims, Lord Justice Briggs said.
New software would guide litigants on how to formulate their claims and show them how to scan the relevant supporting documents using their smartphones, he said.
Next, a case officer would deal with conciliation and case management.
Finally, a district judge would decide the case - with a face-to-face trial being regarded as a last resort.
Claimants and defendants could still consult lawyers if they could afford them - but the online court would eventually become compulsory for low-level claims.
Lord Thomas recognised in his annual report that the justice system "has become unaffordable to most".
As a result, he said, "there has been a considerable increase in litigants-in-person for whom our current court system is not really designed".
The change programme - which, for the first time, is being driven by the judges themselves - would allow these and other issues to be tackled, the lord chief justice said.
But he was well aware of the strain this would put on the judiciary and support staff at a time when resources had been reduced.
As well as an increase in litigants without lawyers, the judges were "having to handle an ever-increasing quantity of challenging and emotionally charged cases in family and crime", he said.
Even so, "much remains to be achieved in order to improve morale and to ensure that the inevitable changes which will occur during the reform programme are sympathetically addressed".
Few people outside the courts have yet grasped the scale of the changes that are now to take place in the courts of England and Wales.
These are certainly the biggest changes to the machinery of justice since the 19th Century - if not before - and the judges regard them as essential if the courts are to continue to do more work with fewer resources.
The charity has called on the new Welsh Government to learn from the outcomes of its nine projects across Wales.
Building Livelihoods tackles the nearly one in four households in poverty.
But instead of targeting poorer geographical areas, it looks to provide tailor-made support to individuals and build on their skills and needs.
Official figures show that 23% of households in Wales are living in poverty - counted as having less than 60% median income.
Despite three ministers and one deputy minister tasked with reducing poverty in Wales, the proportion of households living below the threshold remains similar to 1999.
Up until now, Welsh Government policy has focused its attention on the 10% of most deprived communities in Wales.
But Building Livelihoods has targeted the individual rather than a particular area.
Oxfam Cymru claims its nine pilots have saved £4.43 from health and social services budgets for each £1 spent.
Since 2012, the charity has worked with more than 1,000 people in different parts of Wales.
These range from refugees in Swansea, people with disabilities in Wrexham to young families in Duffryn in Newport.
90
jobs created
93% received intensive support
57% reported new skills and confidence
185% More involved in community
53% Measurably improved their livelihood
Rather than going into a neighbourhood classed as deprived, this approach concentrates on what individuals can achieve and builds on that.
Each person is offered one-on-one help, training and courses.
Some also became mentors to others joining the project.
In all, 90 people involved across the pilots found full-time work and more than 600 said they felt they had more skills and confidence afterwards.
The programme, supported by the Big Lottery and Unilever, has been independently evaluated by economic consultants Arad.
It concluded Oxfam Cymru's approach increased individuals' confidence and well being and made them much more likely to be able to get out of poverty.
It recommends that the approach should be taken on by other service providers.
CASE STUDY- BANWEN, NEATH PORT TALBOT
Banwen is a village in the Dulais valley, bordering the old coalfield and the Brecon Beacons.
There are still some jobs at the Onllwyn washery but the pits have gone and now the area is trying to attract tourism with walks and mountain bike trails.
A third of people in the area are classed as economically inactive - with three times the proportion of people long term sick or disabled than the Wales and England average.
More than a quarter do not have qualifications.
The Dove workshop in this Neath Port Talbot village works with long-term unemployed people.
"This area is one of the forgotten parts of Wales, it's very isolated from other areas," said Oxfam Cymru campaign manager Matthew Hemsley.
"Our approach is very individually focused.
"People's experiences of poverty are all very different and unique. We work with people to give them the individual and intensive support they need. As the challenges are all different, the responses have to be different and work for them."
Oxfam said it is not just looking at what people do not have but what they have - from community and family to education and qualifications so they can "tailor an approach".
Although only 12 jobs have been created by the Dove project so far, Mr Hemsley said they faced tackling issues of long term unemployment, sometimes with poor health or basic education issues in the background.
He said the projects were a step towards transforming people.
"It helps restore people's confidence," he said.
"If you're constantly concentrating on their negatives, people can get stuck in those ruts, so we believe this can make a difference and help people with how they see themselves as individuals."
Tim Ashill is studying English, maths and IT at the Dove.
He now helps out two days a week at a woodworking project making products by up cycling wood - from benches to puppets for schools and nursing homes.
"It's to give me confidence; it's helped with depression, especially the woodwork - it's nice to work with wood, it's peaceful doing it, it's therapeutic. The courses are also there for future employment when the time's right.
"I'd like to do something with the community and whatever work I get I'd like to be doing some kind of community work because by doing this project I've met so many people I wouldn't have met otherwise."
UN envoy Martin Kobler described the deal as historic, saying Libya had "turned a page" in efforts to achieve reconciliation and stability.
However, the heads of the rival parliaments failed to sign the deal because of major disagreements.
Armed groups which control much of Libya were not part of the talks.
Libya has been in chaos since the 2011 overthrow of long-serving ruler Muammar Gaddafi by Nato-backed forces.
It has two rival governments, one based in the main city, Tripoli, and the other about 1,000km (620 miles) away in the port city of Tobruk.
The signing draws a line under a 14-month political process that gained more prominence in recent months because of the large influx of refugees and migrants to Europe, and the growing threat of Islamic State militancy in the country.
Diplomats put extra pressure on the Libyan delegates in recent weeks because in order to address those issues they need a single government to work with.
Some observers sounded alarm bells ahead of the signing, cautioning that it could further divide Libya if it did not include all the key players - and not everyone was present at the ceremony in Morocco.
A security plan to protect the new unity government - which at the moment only exists on paper - is crucial, and this does not exist.
This latest step is a huge gamble.
It could yet prove to be a springboard for a wider agreement that eventually unites Libya.
But if it fails, it may lead the country into a darker spiral of violence over legitimacy and control.
Amid the turmoil, the country has become a major departure point for some of the thousands of migrants travelling to Europe from Africa.
There is also international concern that the militant so-called Islamic State (IS) group is taking advantage of the instability to expand inside Libya.
Mr Kobler said the new government would have to tackle the dire humanitarian situation in Libya, and fight IS and other jihadi groups.
"You must not forget that this is the beginning of a difficult journey. There is a critical need for national reconciliation [in Libya]," he told the rival politicians.
Around 80 of the 188 members of the Tobruk-based parliament and 50 of the 136 rival lawmakers in Tripoli signed the deal, the AFP news agency quotes participants as saying.
On Tuesday, the heads of the two parliaments, Agila Salah of Tobruk and Nouri Abusahmen of Tripoli, said they had not authorized anyone to sign the agreement on their behalf.
Mr Salah pleaded for more time, warning that "acting hastily would lead to more problems in the future".
Mr Abusahmen said "we will not accept foreign intervention against the will of the Libyan people" referring to the UN-backed deal.
The two leaders met for the first time in Malta on Tuesday.
Mr Salah's parliament is internationally recognised, and based itself in Tobruk after being driven out of Tripoli.
The 30-year-old has suffered an injury-ravaged career since winning the world title in 2011 when he was already European and Commonwealth champion.
Greene is now focusing on the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.
"London is off the cards, I'm hoping to race towards the end of the year to qualify for the Commonwealth Games," Greene told BBC Sport Wales.
Greene picked up two fourth-place finishes at the London 2012 Olympics in the 400m hurdles and 4x400m relay.
"I finished my season pretty early last year because my groin was giving me problems," he explained.
"I was doing rehab between October and December and had my groin scanned again in January. It had got worse and they had to strip it right back.
"Perhaps in the past I might have tried to push through the pain. Because I am older in my career I want to make sure I have a good few years. So I have to look after myself in the short term over the next six months.
"It is disappointing but it's the hand I have been dealt."
Greene says that "I still want to get back to the level I was," despite his injury problems.
"I have had a bad hand over the last couple of years and this is the last thing that needs to be sorted," he added.
"Once I was told the news I wouldn't be racing this summer, I was so distraught for a few weeks.
"That made me realise how much I still wanted to be part of the sport at the highest level. So I am still training, doing my thing and looking to get back to the form of a few years ago."
Greene was not helped after UK Athletics withdrew his funding last November for the 2017 season.
But the Llanelli hurdler insisted he could overcome the financial issues.
"The main benefit of having the funding was to get the access to the physiotherapists who are at Loughborough where I am based," said Greene.
"It just means I have to find other people out of the system or see the same people but out of the set hours."
The 28-year-old, who has over 100 Premiership appearances to his name, spent the summer playing in Ohio before beginning his trial last month.
Director of rugby Dean Richards said: "We are delighted to have been able to bring him on board full time.
"He is a quality player, he knows this league very well and we look forward to working with him on a permanent basis."
Waldouck came off the replacements bench in Saturday's 58-5 thrashing at Bath.
The Falcons return to action on Sunday when they host Leicester Tigers.
The 30-year-old, who denied the charge and can appeal, has been fined £1,250 and must complete an education course.
The incident occurred in the 71st minute of a League Two game against AFC Wimbledon on 19 March.
"The player was alleged to have used abusive and/or insulting words contrary to Rule E3(1)," an FA statement said.
"It was further alleged that this was an 'aggravated breach' as defined by Rule E3(2) as it included a reference to ethnic origin and/or colour and/or race.
"The charge, which the player denied, was found proven following an Independent Regulatory Commission."
Flinders has also been warned about his future conduct.
Mr Amiridis, 59, went missing three days ago after travelling to Rio from Brasilia for the traditional New Year celebrations on Copacabana beach.
He was last seen on Monday in the city of Nova Iguacu on the outskirts of Rio, where the car was found.
Forensic experts are carrying out tests to establish the body's identity.
The ambassador's car was discovered under a flyover on one of the main access roads to Rio.
He had phoned his wife from a flat in Nova Iguacu on Monday saying he was about to go out. He has not been heard from since.
Police say it is unlikely that he was kidnapped, as no ransom has been sought.
Rio has a high crime rate and violent incidents are not unusual, especially in the busy season between Christmas and New Year, when hundreds of thousands of tourists travel to the city.
The pair, named in court as Gillian Phillips and David Oakes, were discovered in Bentfield Gardens, Stansted Mountfitchet, at 23:00 BST on Wednesday.
Investigations suggested they had been stabbed, Essex Police said.
Brett Rogers, of Bentfield Gardens, appeared at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court earlier.
He was remanded in custody and will appear at Chelmsford Crown Court on 27 July.
Post-mortem examinations are due to take place on the bodies of the man and woman, who were not related.
Detectives are still searching for a murder weapon and said the cordon around the property would remain in place "for the next few days".
Last year, more than 1,000 schools across the UK took part in this diversity award-winning project.
Students reported on a range of issues, from social media addiction to why dancing is not just for girls and how Muslim women can wear the hijab. Some even interviewed leading politicians.
Using lesson plans and materials from this website, teachers help their pupils develop students' journalistic skills so they can report on the stories that matter to them and make their voices heard.
The project culminates on School Report News Day - this year to be held on Thursday 10 March 2016 - where all schools taking part produce stories and publish them on their school websites.
There are four Practice News Days - the last one will be on Tuesday 9 February (also Safer Internet Day) - for schools that wish to have a trial run.
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The FBU and London Fire Brigade met on Sunday in an effort to avert the strike and one set to start on Bonfire Night.
The FBU had previously left talks in the row over contracts, but the brigade maintained compromise was achievable.
Union members are due to strike from 1000 GMT on Monday and from 1000 GMT on 5 November to 0900 GMT on 7 November.
The strikes will involve about 5,500 firefighters and 111 fire stations.
FBU regional official Paul Embery said: "We are clearly extremely disappointed that the London Fire Brigade (LFB) representatives brought absolutely nothing new to the meeting today and all they did was reiterate their position held for several weeks.
"They point-blank refused to lift the threat to sack 5,500 firefighters and consequently the strike action planned for tomorrow and November 5 and 6 remains on."
Mr Embery said the union had called a further meeting for Tuesday, but the fire brigade was yet to commit to that.
LFB assistant commissioner David Brown said the brigade was "extremely disappointed" that the talks had broken down after four hours.
He said the brigade was "available for talks any time" in a bid to prevent the weekend strike.
He said: "We think it's reckless and completely irresponsible. There is no need to strike, we've been talking all day today about a variety of options.
"We invited the FBU for independent arbitration on two separate dates and they refused."
He added: "Obviously November 5 and 6 will be very challenging but we are confident the service provided to Londoners will be satisfactory to meet their needs."
Fire Minister Bob Neill said: "I hope these strikes are peaceful and we don't see a return to the strong-arm intimidation we saw during the last strikes.
"I urge the FBU to return the negotiating table. I am sure that this dispute can be resolved through reasoned and peaceful talks."
Cover will be provided during the strike by private firm AssetCo.
The company signed a £9m five-year deal with LFB last year to provide a contingency level of fire and rescue services if firefighters were not available because of pandemic illness, industrial action, natural disaster or a catastrophic incident.
The Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the sector rose to 49.2 in August, but stayed below the 50 level, which indicates contraction.
The index was up from July's figures of 45.9, its lowest for seven years.
However, the Brexit vote was still the main factor weighing on activity, the report said.
Tim Moore, senior economist at Markit, said: "Construction firms cited a nascent recovery in client confidence since the EU referendum result and a relatively steady flow of invitations to tender in August.
"However, the latest survey indicates only a partial move towards stabilisation, rather than a return to business as usual across the construction sector.
"There were still widespread reports that Brexit uncertainty had dampened demand and slowed progress on planned developments, especially in relation to large projects."
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David Noble, group chief executive at the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply, added that the weak pound had pushed up purchasing costs for the sector "at a rate not seen for half a decade".
"Firms reduced their purchasing volumes as a result, as new orders and activity continued to fall - though at a more moderate rate compared to last month," he added.
Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist with Pantheon Macroeconomics, said that "construction will continue to struggle until business confidence improves".
He said the downturn in construction "looks likely to continue for several quarters to come" due to protracted Brexit negotiations and long lead times for any major public sector projects arising from investments announced in the Autumn Statement.
Official figures last month showed the industry had fallen back into recession for the first time in four years.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said construction output dropped by 0.7% in the second quarter, following a 0.3% fall in the first quarter, meaning the industry recorded two consecutive quarters of negative growth for the first time since 2012.
Markit's construction figures come ahead of its PMI for the UK's dominant service sector due out on Monday.
Vadim Bezkorovainiy, 35, carried out three reconnaissance missions to the embassy from his home in Luton in 2014, prosecutors said.
He was "radicalised" in eastern Europe during a period of escalating tension between Russia and his homeland in 2012 and 2013, the Old Bailey heard.
The father-of two denies engaging in preparations to commit acts of terror.
The alleged terror plot was revealed in March last year when Mr Bezkorovainiy's home in Old Bedford Road was raided by police who suspected him of using false identity documents, the jury heard.
Among the items recovered were handwritten notes the prosecution claims were drafts of a speech he planned to make at a press conference in the aftermath of the planned attack on the Embassy of the Russian Federation.
Jurors were told one of the notes read: "Being under the constant cover and surveillance by Scotland Yard, the Russian embassy in London did not manage to avoid destruction... Security ended up powerless.
"Now one (sic) can imagine what will happen to Moscow, St Petersburg, the regional centres, if we redeploy fighters who are simply going to smash everything around them."
Prosecutor Robin Sellars said in the days leading up to his arrest Mr Bezkorovainiy was overheard talking to his nine-year-old daughter about using guns, setting the neighbour's garden on fire and bomb-making.
A laptop found at his home also revealed searches for explosives and a memory card showed images of embassy buildings that were partially obscured as though the photos had been taken covertly, the court heard.
The defendant had returned to Ukraine between September 2012 and January 2013 to "potentially fight in the tensions" in the region and it was during this time he became radicalised, the jury was told.
Mr Sellars said: "His exposure to the tensions in that region first-hand had the effect of radicalising Mr Bezkorovainiy to the extent that he decided to take matters into his own hands once back in the UK."
The trial continues.
Since Westley, 48, took charge in October the Exiles' form has improved.
Newport are eight points off the play-off places, but Westley has issued his players with an ambitious challenge.
"We can look at sixth place and think two or three weeks down the line it's realistic we can put ourselves in contention," said Westley.
"That will be a nice starting point. If we can get to Christmas time and we are in the mix, that's a nice point to be at.
"I've won promotion out of this league from 18th in January, so we all know what's possible."
The Exiles are unbeaten in their last six games, a sequence that has seen them beat AFC Wimbledon in the Checkatrade Trophy and progress to the second round of the FA Cup after a replay against Alfreton.
In the league there has been a draw with Barnet, victory over Accrington Stanley and an impressive three points taken from Carlisle, who were unbeaten at the time.
But, with his sights set so high and a trip to eighth-placed Notts County coming on Saturday, Westley insists keeping the current run going will not be enough to satisfy him.
"We want to improve what we are doing, that's the key," he added.
"If you get into the frame of mind where you want to keep things going, you've lost the plot and are on the road backwards. The route forward has to be improvement.
"We've got a lot of work to do, we don't underestimate it, right now we are producing decent form, but we have to produce that form on a sustained basis if we are going to mount any sort of campaign."
The word "petrel" has been painted in 3ft high letters on the approach to the pumps at the Sainsbury's Edenthorpe store in Doncaster.
A picture of the blunder was posted on social media with the comment "Seabirds straight ahead #YouHadOneJob".
In a light-hearted response, the superstore said: "We're aware of this and correcting the misteke."
The white letters, which may have left drivers thinking they were being pointed towards a species of small seabird, were painted by bungling signwriters next to the flawlessly spelt word "exit" and some perfectly drawn arrows.
It prompted a flurry of social media users mocking the blooper, with some employing their own deliberate spelling errors.
Aaron Jones tweeted: "Only in Doncaster would you go for 'Petrel' instead of 'Petrol'."
While Martin Milan posted: "@sainsburys Your Edenthorpe, Doncaster store... What if I want Deesul lol?"
Petrels are small seabirds that fly low over oceans and seas.
The Economy Ministry said industrial production was up 1.9% in July, lifted by an increase in manufacturing and construction output.
It is a big improvement from June when industrial production rose just 0.4%.
It is another piece of strong data from Germany. On Thursday data showed that industrial orders rose at the strongest rate in the more than a year in July.
However last month the ministry released figures to show the economy shrank by 0.2% in the second quarter.
In an effort to avoid further stagnation in Europe, on Thursday the European Central Bank announced a surprise cut in interest rates.
It also launched a programme to buy private sector debt to stimulate lending.
Lyudmila Putin had long shunned the limelight, and in the last few years her public appearances had become increasingly rare. Before the joint TV appearance at which the couple announced that their marriage was over, Mrs Putin was last seen at her husband's side on Russian television when she attended his inauguration as president in May 2012.
Invisible "first ladies" were the norm during the Soviet era, when secretive leaders preferred to keep their wives and families out of sight.
The phenomenon of Raisa Gorbachev appeared to represent a break with this tradition. At a time when her husband was breaking the mould of Soviet politics, the impeccably dressed and eloquent Raisa was overturning notions of how a typical Soviet first lady should look and behave.
However, though Raisa quickly became the darling of the Western media, she was disliked by many back home - for exactly the qualities which made her popular abroad. In fancy, bespoke outfits and often in the media spotlight, Raisa's image contrasted with the tough reality of her crumbling communist country.
Naina Yeltsin, the wife of Russia's first post-Soviet president, was less flamboyant than her predecessor, but still had a distinctive image and voice.
But with the dawning of the Putin era in Russian politics, there appears to have been a return to the camera-shy image of presidential wives in the Slavic-majority states.
Lyudmila Putin's low profile was in marked contrast to the global role played by her husband as president of Russia.
She did recently feature on the cover of a glossy magazine. But the three-times first lady was seen in public so rarely that her appearance at an awards ceremony in late March - her first since last year's inauguration ceremony - caused quite a stir in the Russian media.
One Russian independent journalist, Mikhail Fishman, went so far as to say that Mrs Putin's presence "equals zero". He suggested that having a family can help a ruler to be seen as open and down-to-earth, but that President Putin, an "authoritarian monarch", prefers to be viewed as aloof and God-like.
What about other post-Soviet first-ladies?
Ukraine's Lyudmila Yanukovych - wife of the president - is almost as invisible.
Reports say the first lady is living as a recluse in Donetsk, the stronghold of her husband's party, making rare appearances at regional events, and is almost never seen in Kiev.
Even before Viktor Yanukovych was elected president in 2010, she had vanished from the public eye.
Her most memorable public speech was made at a rally during the Orange Revolution in 2004, when her husband, the then prime minister, was vying for the presidential job.
Her beret awry and language clumsy, she accused the rival pro-Western camp of supplying their supporters with US-made felt boots and drug-laced oranges. The remarks were so extreme that they are still remembered, and ridiculed, almost a decade on.
The embarrassment caused by that speech is the likely reason for her disappearance, suggests a prominent Ukrainian journalist, Sergei Leshchenko.
He adds that the "first lady" concept - a feature of US politics - has not taken root in the former Soviet republics, because most of their leaders were born and raised in the USSR and share its mindset.
Belarusian expert Valeriy Karbalevich says the Soviet tradition of "not putting the wives of leaders on display" is deeply rooted in the public consciousness.
In Belarus, ruled in authoritarian Soviet-era style, there is no first lady. President Alexander Lukashenko has in recent years been accompanied even at official ceremonies by his young son Nikolai.
The boy attended his father's inauguration and accompanied him on numerous foreign visits, most recently to Venezuela to pay last respects to the country's populist leader, the late Hugo Chavez.
The fair-haired and neatly attired Nikolai, never uttering a word by his father's side, could almost be seen as a replacement for the first lady.
Mr Lukashenko is now often seen in the company of women much younger than himself, opposition websites claim.
Paradoxically the first ladies in Central Asia, a region considered patriarchal and conservative, enjoy rather more prominence.
Tatyana Karimova of Uzbekistan is eclipsed by her controversial, jet-setting elder daughter Gulnara in the media. But Tatyana engages in what is presented as charity work, and accompanies her husband, President Islam Karimov, on visits.
President Karimov holds Uzbekistan in an iron grip, smothering any dissent, and this publicity for his family serves to underline their clan power.
In neighbouring Kazakhstan first lady Sara Nazarbayeva, according to her official biography, has for many years been overseeing several charitable projects and is the author of six books.
Azerbaijan's Mehriban Aliyeva, a dazzling fashionista, is arguably the most prominent among the eastern first ladies. With her hand in a variety of cultural and "charitable" programmes she has arguably overshadowed her husband, President Ilham Aliyev.
But the ruling family's image is carefully managed and human rights groups accuse the authorities of stifling democracy and jailing dissidents. Azerbaijan also gets a poor rating in the corruption index compiled by Transparency International.
Trained as a doctor and now an MP, Mrs Aliyeva is active in the ruling New Azerbaijan Party. A few years ago, there was much talk that she could succeed her spouse in 2013, but the speculation has now subsided.
Wikileaks cables have revealed the first lady in a less flattering light, as seen by Western journalists. But with the media in her country tightly controlled, Mrs Aliyeva can still enjoy a high profile unperturbed, whatever the allegations swirling around her.
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Cricketers batted and bowled through the night, attempting 2,000 overs in 24 hours.
The record attempt is set to end at 18:00 BST, but Alex Riddell said the club had smashed the target by 11:30 BST with more than 2,500 overs.
Mr Riddell said he bowled the 2,000th at 06:50.
The attempt - part of the club's annual open weekend to raise funds for Rodley's junior cricket teams - is being filmed and logged by official umpires but will need verifying by Guinness World Record officials.
Mr Riddell, who played on and off for 11 hours, said: "We bowled like maniacs overnight and we beat 2,000.
"I bowled the 2,000th over at 06:50 and then went to sleep on the sofa for an hour and a half.
"I'm really, really pleased but really, really tired."
Other players put in straight eight-hour stints.
Last year, the club successfully set the Guinness World Record for most overs bowled in eight hours, with a result of 734.
Mr Riddell said: "We love a challenge. After smashing last year's amazing world record we thought: 'How can we top that this year?' The answer was obvious - go bigger and better!"
Steve Bradbury, chairman of the Bradford and District League club, said: "It's amazing that we could be double Guinness World Record holders.
"Until three years ago we had no clubhouse, 30 players and no junior teams.
"Now we're proud to have a cracking clubhouse, three senior teams and five junior sides with over 80 kids playing cricket regularly."
Prolific winger Charnley is switching codes and will link up with Premiership rugby union side Sale Sharks after helping the Warriors to their fourth Super League title.
"When I said I was leaving, I told them that I wanted some silverware. To finish like this is a dream come true," said the 25-year-old England international after a 12-6 win over the Wolves.
"I just wanted to be part of a winning team. It's going to make it miles harder to leave. I've got a few days with the lads and then I've got to get my thinking boots on and try to learn a new code.
"I'm leaving this family of brothers behind and I'll still go down to watch them when I can."
Charnley's 165th try in cherry and white was set up by a kick from Dan Sarginson - another player who is leaving the Warriors for pastures new.
Versatile Sarginson, who appeared at full-back in the Grand Final, will play for Gold Coast Titans in Australia's National Rugby League in 2017.
"I can't praise 'Sarge' enough," said his Wigan team-mate John Bateman. "We'll miss him so much next year.
"He'll kill it over there and he deserves everything that he's got. We both signed together and it's so good to see how much he's progressed."
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Numerous injuries that have robbed Wigan of several key players during 2016.
Influential hooker Michael McIlorum broke his ankle playing in the World Club Series in February and was ruled out for the season.
A virus swept through the squad in April and an inexperienced side lost 62-0 at Wakefield.
England full-back Sam Tomkins did not feature until May on his return to Wigan after two seasons in the NRL and a foot injury kept him out of the season's climax. His brother, Joel, was missing from July onwards with a knee problem.
There are plenty of other injury tales to tell. Each week, it appeared that head coach Shaun Wane had a new issue to contend with.
He was able to call upon captain Sean O'Loughlin at Old Trafford, although the England skipper's involvement after a two-month absence was not guaranteed until the day before the Grand Final.
"I'd given up on it a few weeks ago," admitted the 33-year-old forward, who has now captained three Wigan sides to Grand Final victories.
"The conditioner and the physio worked so hard on me to get me onto the pitch, but it wasn't about me.
"It was about what the team had been through all season. We haven't fielded our strongest 17 all year."
Man of the match Liam Farrell added: "When you've got a person like Sean O'Loughlin putting his hand up and saying he's fit to play, how can you turn him down?
"The things he's done over the years have been pretty outstanding. He's always going to turn up and he turned up for us again on Saturday."
Warrington have lost three Grand Finals in five seasons and their defeat by Wigan was their second in a major final in 2016.
The Wolves led in the second half of the Challenge Cup final in August but failed to close out the match against Hull FC, and a similar story was played out against the Warriors.
Tony Smith's side could have ended the campaign as treble winners had events transpired differently at Wembley and Old Trafford. Instead, they must be content with just one trophy - the League Leaders' Shield for finishing top of the Super League table after 30 games.
Full-back Stefan Ratchford said: "If you ask me now, I'm going to say we're really disappointed because we've just lost a Grand Final and we're devastated with that.
"But give it a couple of days and we'll look back - there's been one team that's been in both finals and won the League Leaders' Shield. That's something that we can be really proud of.
"We feel we've come really far as a group this year. The squad's developed and when we reflect we can say it's a pretty successful year for us."
Warrington have not been domestic champions since 1955 and their wait for a league title will go into its 62nd year following Saturday's loss.
Looking ahead to 2017, Ratchford added: "We're quite a young squad. A couple of players will leave and there will be a couple coming in, but there won't be wholesale changes.
"Tasting defeat in two finals is only going to spur us on to having a big pre-season and hopefully going one better next year."
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The men died when a 15ft wall of concrete and scrap metal fell on them as they worked on Thursday at Hawkeswood Metal in Nechells.
The editor of the Birmingham Mail, which started the fund, said the response had been "overwhelming".
Police said the site remains closed and post mortem examinations would take place on Monday.
Donations have been flooding in from across the country for the men, who were Spanish citizens originally from Gambia.
All the bodies were recovered from the rubble by Friday.
Mr Reeves said: "No money can ever fill the void left by a loved one, especially in a tragedy of this sort.
"But at least if the families are freed from the concerns of paying for funerals, travel for family members, and all the other immediate financial worries that get in the way of grieving, then it is worthwhile to raise some money to help.
"The response is overwhelming, and as well as the financial support, we hope this sends a message to the families that Birmingham cares about them and feels their pain."
The men have been named locally as Bangaly Dukureh, Ousman Jabbie, Alimamo Jammeh, Mohammed Jangana and Saibo Sillah. All are believed to married with children.
Relatives have said they want the bodies recovered for burial as soon as possible, in accordance with Muslim custom.
A sixth man, who escaped with a broken leg, is also a Spanish citizen of Gambian heritage.
Detectives have said they have a "reasonable idea" about what happened.
Hawkeswood Metal Recycling Ltd, which employs about 50 people, was established more than 40 years ago and says it deals with more than 500,000 tonnes of scrap metal each year at its Nechells site.
In 2012 it was fined £50,000 when a worker got his arm trapped in machinery. It also pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court to a breach of health and safety law.
The plant was also the scene of a major fire in February this year, as 700 tonnes of scrap metal went up in flames.
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The centre-right opposition leader called for any foreign nationals with links to radical Islam to be expelled from France.
More than 80 people died when an attacker ploughed a lorry into people celebrating Bastille Day on Thursday.
Eighty-five people remain in hospital, 18 of them in critical condition.
Many survivors are still waiting for news of their loved ones. Only 35 bodies have so far been officially identified.
Prosecutors say painstaking measures are needed to avoid errors of identification.
Speaking to French television, Mr Sarkozy said "Democracy must not be weak, nor simply commemorate. Democracy must say 'We will win the war'."
He said he supported stronger measures like expulsion of radicalised Muslims, and electronic tagging for those at risk of radicalisation.
France's government has said it is at war with violent jihadists.
But a third major attack in 18 months has led to criticism of the country's leaders.
There is no indication that the Nice attacker, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, was a jidhadist.
Neighbours have described him as a violent loner who liked to drink, lift weights and go salsa dancing.
But France's Prime Minister Manuel Valls has suggested he may have been radicalised too quickly to trigger the authorities' attention.
He was shot dead by police when his vehicle's path along the Promenade des Anglais was eventually halted.
French media reported that he researched the route in the days before the attack.
The reports say Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove through the seafront promenade area of the French city on Tuesday and Wednesday in preparation.
Europe 1 radio said CCTV footage from the days beforehand showed him driving through the area in the lorry, closely observing the scene.
Tunisian security sources have told the BBC he visited Tunisia frequently, most recently eight months ago.
So-called Islamic State said the attacker was acting in response to its calls to target civilians in countries that are part of the anti-IS coalition.
An impressive air of normality in much of tourist-packed Nice is deceptive. As well as grief, bewilderment hangs in the sea air.
There are tears, hugs and silence at the mountain of candles, flowers and cuddly toys on the beach promenade, where joggers stop and parents bring young children to read the messages.
A large white banner says: Why children? And, in a child's handwriting: Why do you want war?
The bloodstains on the tarmac are gradually disappearing. The lampposts the lorry smashed into will be replaced.
But for those who knew or loved the victims, things will never be the same. More armed police and soldiers guarding the streets will serve as a reminder.
Amid the fear and sadness, and the unanswerable questions, defiance acts as a source of comfort.
He will never defeat us, says one message on the promenade. Another reads: Love defeats hate.
Six people are being held in connection with the killings.
The latest arrests, of an Albanian couple who have not been identified, were on Sunday morning, French judicial sources said.
Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's estranged wife, who was detained on Friday, was released on Sunday.
Gatland, 52, says he will step down after the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan.
Newport Gwent Dragons head coach Jones believes Wales backs coach Rob Howley or Wasps director of rugby Dai Young could step up.
"We've got to develop our own coaches," Jones said.
Ex-Wales scrum-half Howley was caretaker coach in 2012-13 after Gatland suffered two broken heels and as well as concentrating on his role with the British and Irish Lions.
Young left Cardiff Blues to join Wasps in June 2011 and has spoken of his ambition to coach at international level, having coached the Barbarians.
"Rob is someone who would have learnt a lot working with Warren and might be someone who could step into that breach," Jones added.
"David Young at Wasps is doing a good job and I'm sure he'll continue to prosper.
"It could be nice to think that one day a Welshman could coach the Welsh team."
Gatland, the third New Zealander after Sir Graham Henry and Steve Hansen to coach Wales, succeeded Gareth Jenkins in December 2007.
The former Ireland and Wasps boss has led his team to two Grand Slams and become the longest-serving coach in their history.
Former Russia head coach Jones says Gatland will go down as Wales' best coach of the professional era.
"He's been hugely successful in his time here and he'll want to finish on a high point," Jones said.
"I think coaches have a shelf life and he's done remarkably well which has allowed him to stay in the job so long."
Police were called to the Castlerock Road shortly after 22:00 BST on Sunday.
The victim was taken to hospital for treatment to a serious head wound.
Police are investigating reports that up to 15 people were involved in the brawl and have appealed for anyone who witnessed the fight to contact them.
Chambers steered the Royals to survival in the top tier despite winning just once all season.
"I don't think our performances from start to finish this season warranted what we got in terms of results," Chambers told BBC Radio Berkshire.
"The step up from WSL 2 to WSL 1 we've noticed has been massive."
Chambers' busy season including giving birth to her daughter in July as well as combining the roles of first team manager and general manager at one stage of the campaign.
"It's all new to me and it's been a learning curve during the season," Chambers said. "There have been sleepless nights at times picking teams.
"But, securing WSL 1 status until 2018 is huge for the club.
"For probably 95% of the squad, who haven't been involved in full-time professional football before, overnight they've had to transition and come out of full-time jobs.
"One of my regrets this season is probably not doing more off-field stuff with the girls to teach them about life in professional football."
Reading have already begun building for next season with the arrival of Netherlands captain Mandy van den Berg from Liverpool to strengthen their defence.
"Mandy will add to our young squad in many different ways," Chambers added. "She will fit right in with our style of play, I'm looking forward to working with her".
Robbers fled empty-handed after the raid on the store in Donington in Lincolnshire in the early hours of Thursday.
CCTV footage showed a digger repeatedly being driven into the front of the store until part of the building collapsed.
Police said the offenders then fled in a flat bed vehicle and dark blue car.
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The Co-op's area manager Simon Taylor said the pop-up shop will operate from a neighbouring pub car park.
He said it would stock a limited range of about 150 items to provide a service while repairs take place. It will open later.
No timescale for the work has been announced, but Mr Taylor said the rear of the building was not as bad as it looks at the front.
The state authorities say more than 600 people from the Lou Nuer community were killed, 200 children abducted, and as many as 25,000 cows were stolen.
The attackers - from the Murle ethnic group - were responding to a June assault by Lou Nuer fighters in which an estimated 400 Murle were killed.
This cycle of revenge attacks stretches back decades, and now represents one of the greatest challenges to stability in newly independent South Sudan - and one the fledgling state so far seems unable to deal with.
"They came from over there," Kuol Bol explains, pointing to the lush green countryside on the edge of the small town of Pieri.
"They attacked when we were sleeping, but I was able to run away. A lot of people were killed, and they took many children.
"Two of my nephews were killed during that attack by the Murle. What I know is that I want to take revenge for that attack. I will do what I will do."
You could have almost the same conversation with Murle survivors of Lou Nuer attacks, or with the Jikany Nuer or Dinka who have also been involved in clashes in Jonglei state in recent times.
The pattern of inter-ethnic fighting fuelled by cattle raids can be found elsewhere in South Sudan too, though the situation is particularly bad in Jonglei.
South Sudan's new government has urged action, and the army is sending reinforcements into the area, as are the UN peacekeepers.
Cattle raiding is not new in this part of the world. In many South Sudanese communities the cow is incredibly important.
It is a source of personal wealth, and young men cannot get married without paying a dowry of cows.
So, in what are very poor communities, cattle raiding has become a way of life for some.
To make matters worse, automatic weapons are everywhere, following decades of civil war.
In the past, cattle raids caused relatively few casualties. Now the guns boom, and scores or even hundreds die in a day - creating a commensurate desire for revenge.
So what can be done to stop the bloodshed?
So far the security forces have shown little ability to keep the peace.
"It will be good when the government provides security in the area, but for now I don't know what they are doing. There is no protection," says Gatluak Kony, a Lou Nuer chief, who narrowly escaped being killed in Pieri.
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There are more armed civilians than police or soldiers in Jonglei, even with the latest reinforcements.
The lack of good roads means it is very difficult to speed the security forces to hotspots.
Not everybody trusts the army either.
It would certainly be denied by the South Sudanese army, but some outside observers believe it does not see much benefit in intervening in a messy inter-ethnic conflict between civilians.
The risk, the argument goes, is this could fracture the army along ethnic lines.
The leader of the opposition in parliament, Onyoti Adigo, told the BBC the military should send reinforcements from ethnic groups not present in Jonglei.
He also believes not enough is being done.
"The problem of Jonglei is not new," he says. "The whole thing is negligence from the government, because the work of the government is to ensure the safety of its citizens and their properties."
Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin represents the area which recently came under attack and accepts progress needs to be made on several fronts.
"It is not just in Jonglei state, we have seen it in Unity state, we have seen it in Warrup, we have seen it in Lakes.
"So to us as a government, we are really serious that this should come to an end."
The government's plan involves the comprehensive disarmament of civilians, reconciliation using traditional and religious leaders, and developing infrastructures including building "security roads" and providing better services.
But all that takes time, and is easier said than done.
For the moment, an estimated 25,000 Lou Nuer have fled the fighting.
Some of them are gathered in the small town of Mutot.
Stripped of their cows and with their homes destroyed, they are now dependent on handouts and local kindness.
"The conditions are not good and my people are not comfortable," local chief Michael Bang complains.
"We have nowhere to sleep and nothing to eat."
It is little surprise that in these conditions of hardship and loss, there are already rumours that the next revenge attack is being prepared.
South Sudan has been independent for less than two months, and the joy of that moment is still fresh.
But in Jonglei state and all over the country people will have to be disarmed, and the security forces professionalised, if this deadly cycle of revenge attacks is to be broken.
The former AFC Wimbledon striker opened his account in just the fourth minute with a well-timed header from a Joe Jacobson free-kick to set the tone.
Wycombe looked the stronger of the two sides throughout the first half, creating a number of chances, but failed to add to their tally and they were to pay for their wastefulness.
The visitors started like an express train after the break, with Sean McConville firing home the equaliser just minutes after the restart.
Both sides fought valiantly in the second half, showing both attacking flair and defensive solidity.
The best chance to win it fell to Sam Wood, who slammed a 30-yard volley against the crossbar with Stanley keeper Aaron Chapman beaten.
The game closed with multiple chances for both teams but the goalkeepers were found to be in excellent form and were instrumental in keeping the scoreline down.
Report supplied by Press Association.
Match ends, Wycombe Wanderers 1, Accrington Stanley 1.
Second Half ends, Wycombe Wanderers 1, Accrington Stanley 1.
Foul by Arron Davies (Accrington Stanley).
Garry Thompson (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley).
Garry Thompson (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matt Bloomfield (Wycombe Wanderers).
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Aaron Chapman.
Attempt saved. Nick Freeman (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Nick Freeman (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Steven Hewitt replaces John O'Sullivan.
Garry Thompson (Wycombe Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Garry Thompson (Wycombe Wanderers).
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Romuald Boco replaces Chris Eagles.
Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sido Jombati (Wycombe Wanderers).
Attempt saved. Seamus Conneely (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Anthony Stewart.
Seamus Conneely (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stephen McGinn (Wycombe Wanderers).
Foul by Garry Thompson (Wycombe Wanderers).
Seamus Conneely (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Matt Bloomfield (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Arron Davies (Accrington Stanley).
Attempt missed. Mark Hughes (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Foul by Anthony Stewart (Wycombe Wanderers).
Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Marcus Bean replaces Sam Wood.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Garry Thompson replaces Adebayo Akinfenwa.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Michael Harriman.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Aaron Pierre.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Sam Wood.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Michael Harriman.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Nick Freeman replaces Joe Jacobson.
Foul by Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley).
Matt Bloomfield (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by John O'Sullivan (Accrington Stanley).
Pienaar's selection comes a day after the announcement that he would be leaving Ulster after this season.
Props Sam Hobbs and Craig Mitchell join backs Nick Macleod and Pat Howard in competitive Dragons debuts.
Ex-Wales hooker Rhys Thomas captains the visitors while Wales centre Tyler Morgan is on the bench.
England Under-18 international Herron will partner Pienaar at half-back with All Blacks star Piutau at full-back.
Prop Ross Kane will join Herron and Piutau in making his competitive debut after also playing in pre-season games.
With summer signing Rodney Ah You joining injured props Wiehahn Herbst, Ricky Lutton and Jonny Simpson as an absentee after being concussed in last weekend's warm-up win over Northampton, academy player Kane is handed his opportunity.
Andrew Trimble, along with other Ireland players Rory Best and Iain Henderson, is unavailable following his summer tour exertions with the national squad so hooker Rob Herring will captain the side.
Trimble and Herring are sharing the Ulster captaincy this season after national skipper Best stepped down from the role.
With Chris Henry also not available because of injury, Sean Reidy, Clive Ross and Roger Wilson are named in the back row.
Ulster's backline includes Ireland internationals Stuart McCloskey, Stuart Olding and Craig Gilroy with Louis Ludik not being risked because of a thumb injury and Darren Cave missing for personal reasons.
Piutau and Gilroy are joined in the back three by Ireland Under-20 player Jacob Stockdale.
Dragons' regional captain Lewis Evans is back-row cover on the bench.
TEAMS
Ulster: C Piutau; C Gilroy, S Olding, S McCloskey, J Stockdale; B Herron, R Pienaar; C Black, R Herring (captain), R Kane; P Browne, F van der Merwe; C Ross, S Reidy, R Wilson. Replacements: J Andrew, K McCall, A Warwick, A O'Connor, R Diack, P Marshall, S Windsor, R Lyttle.
Newport Gwent Dragons: C Meyer; A Warren, S Beard, J Dixon, P Howard; N Macleod, S Pretorius; S Hobbs, T Rhys Thomas (capt), C Mitchell: C Hill, R Landman; O Griffiths, N Cudd, E Jackson. Replacements: R Buckley, T Davies, L Fairbrother, N Crosswell, L Evans, C Davies, A O'Brien, T Morgan.
Referee: Marius Mitrea (Italy)
Assistant Referees: Matteo Liperini (Italy), Helen O'Reilly (IRFU)
Citing commissioner: Wayne Sheridan (IRFU)
TMO: Stefano Penne (Italy)
Lady Thatcher, who died in 2013, was a former chancellor of the private university.
The university says it has been in talks with Margaret Thatcher Centre trustees about housing its collection.
Buckingham's vice-chancellor, Sir Anthony Seldon, said the centre would become a "huge attraction".
Donal Blaney, head of the Margaret Thatcher Centre, said the University of Buckingham would be a "natural location" for keeping its collection.
Lady Thatcher was prime minister when Buckingham became the UK's first private university in 1983.
The centre, with its resources for education and research, will be modelled on the libraries and foundations dedicated to former US presidents.
The university says it expects the centre to be open by 2019, 40 years after Mrs Thatcher, as she then was, became prime minister.
The announcement follows a decision by the Victoria and Albert Museum to turn down the chance to exhibit some of Lady Thatcher's clothes.
The London museum said it had been involved in discussions about acquiring some items from her wardrobe.
More than 300 items, including handbags, will now be sold at auction next month instead.
30 May 2016 Last updated at 08:22 BST
Voice-activated Zenbo will cost $599 (£409) and Asus says it will be able to control smart home devices.
The firm said it would be less expensive than competing household robots because it did not have humanoid features such as arms.
At this point, Zenbo is a work in progress and its release data has not yet been announced.
Cindy Sui was given an early demonstration in Taiwan.
They asked six schools to test the strategy over three years and it appeared to be beneficial.
The findings in Jama support the theory that children need to balance "close up" work, like reading, with activities that use distance vision.
Experts say although myopia is now very common, the cause remains unknown.
Short-sightedness or myopia is thought to affect up to one in three people in the UK and is becoming more common.
In myopia, the eye is unable to focus in the normal way which makes objects in the distance appear blurred.
It runs in families but environmental factors, such as spending lots of time on a computer or reading, have also been linked to the condition.
This has led researchers to question whether changing a person's early environment might cut their risk of myopia.
Dr Mingguang He and colleagues recruited 12 primary schools in China to take part in a three-year-long study to test this.
Six of the schools were asked to timetable a compulsory 40-minute session of outdoor play each day, while the other six stuck to their usual classes.
The children and their parents were also asked to keep a diary of how much outdoor play time they clocked up on weekends - this did not differ between the two study groups.
The researchers then set about testing the schoolchildren for any signs of myopia. At enrolment, fewer than 2% of children in each group had myopia.
Over the course of the study, 259 children out of 853 (30%) in the intervention group and 287 out of 726 (40%) in the control group were judged to have myopia - a refractive error of at least minus 0.5 Diopter on an eye exam.
Although this percentage difference is not huge, it is significant, say the researchers. And it remains even when you take into account other factors, such as family history of myopia.
"This is clinically important because small children who develop myopia early are most likely to progress to high myopia, which increases the risk of pathological myopia. Thus a delay in the onset of myopia in young children, who tend to have a higher rate of progression, could provide disproportionate long-term eye health benefits," the researchers say in Jama.
In an editorial in the same journal, Michael Repka from Johns Hopkins University, says more work is needed to confirm and understand the findings.
It may be that spending time outdoors limits how much time is spent doing "close up" activities, or that getting more daylight helps with eye growth and function, he says.
The line from Llandudno Junction and Blaenau Ffestiniog was shut after water reached the platform level at North Llanrwst station.
After the flooding receded, repairs were needed over 100 separate locations, according to Network Rail.
Train services will run to a reduced timetable on Monday.
Network Rail delivery director Francis McGarry said: "The scene that greeted us just after Christmas was incredible.
"Parts of the line were still underwater and where the water had receded it had taken much of the track bed with it."
The claim: MEPs have not done "proper jobs" that benefit the economy.
Reality Check verdict: It depends on your definition of a "proper job". Of the 14 MEPs who spoke on Tuesday, 13 have spent part of their careers outside politics. Five have worked in business or trade. Of these, four have started their own business, including Nigel Farage MEP.
It was one of many tense exchanges throughout the session, which was marked by booing and shouting. The European Parliament passed a motion urging the UK to start the exit process by triggering Article 50 immediately.
But politics and heckling aside, what do we mean by a proper job? This accusation is usually directed at people who have spent the majority of their working lives in politics, whether as elected politicians, in think tanks, or as civil servants. Mr Farage is talking about people who worked in business and trade.
There are 751 MEPs in the European Parliament - too many to look at it in one article - so we've looked into the previous careers of the 14 who spoke at the session today.
Let's start with Marine Le Pen. She began her political career in 1998 as a regional councillor, but before that she practised as a lawyer for six years. She is trained in criminal law and also worked as the director of the Front National's legal service from 1998 to 2004.
Guy Verhofstadt spent his whole career in politics. He began as a city councillor in 1976 after studying for a law degree. He served as prime minister of Belgium from 1999 to 2008. He has also sat as a Member of the Chamber of Representatives and a Member of the Senate in his home country as well as on a number of company boards.
Martin Schulz, president of the European parliament, is a former bookshop owner. He completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller between 1975 and 1977. In 1982 he opened a bookstore in Wuerselen which he managed for 12 years. In 1987 he was elected as the youngest ever mayor in North Rhine-Westphalia at the age of 31. In 1994 he was elected to the European Parliament (MEP) for the first time.
Alyn Smith graduated from Nottingham Law School in 1996 and taught English in India for a year before qualifying as a commercial lawyer. He worked at a law firm in Edinburgh from 2000, and in 2002 began working for MSP Richard Lochhead at Holyrood as an adviser on European, justice and business policies.
Diane Dodds is an MEP from Northern Ireland. Before that, she was a high school teacher who taught history and English for seven years. In 2003, she was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly and in 2005, she was elected to Belfast City Council. In 2009, she was elected to the European Parliament.
Gabriele Zimmer worked as a clerk and an editor from 1977 to 1986, then as an assistant in the German SED party until 1989. She was elected to the Thuringia state parliament in Germany in 1990. She became an MEP in 2004.
Philippe Lamberts worked at IBM for over two decades from 1987 to 2009. He first became involved in the Belgian Green party (Ecolo) in 1991 and he was elected as an MEP in 2009.
Ryszard Antoni Legutko has worked as a lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, since 1975. He also edited an underground magazine called Arka in the city in the 1980s. He was elected as an MEP in 2009.
Manfred Weber graduated in engineering in 1996. After graduation he founded a consultancy firm called DG Beratung GmbH consultants (1996-2014) and another consultancy, the G+U GbR company, in 1998. He was a Member of the Bavarian Parliament between 2002 and 2004.
Gianni Pittella held various local and national posts during his career in Italian politics, prior to moving to Brussels. He studied medicine and specialised in forensic pathology. His profile on the EU Parliament website states that he was employed doctor in medicine in the private sector, but only in 1979.
Marcel De Graaff worked as an IT consultant from 1989 after studying theology. He had a brief stint teaching religion at a secondary school in Rotterdam in 2010 before becoming a member of parliament in 2011.
Syed Kamall has been a visiting fellow and lecturer at Leeds University Business School. Prior to that, in 2003, he started a diversity recruitment business, and worked as a consultant at a number of firms from 1997 to 2005. In 2005, he became a member of the European Parliament.
Martina Anderson spent 13 years in prison in England and Ireland before her release as part of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. She then worked for the Sinn Féin party until 2007 when she was elected to the Northern Irish parliament. She became an MEP in May 2012.
And what about Nigel Farage himself? He's the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). He became a commodities trader in 1982 and was listed as company secretary for Farage Limited, a commodities broker, until 2011. It is currently in liquidation. The company wasn't big enough to list how many employees it had so we don't have a precise figure for the number of jobs he created.
He joined UKIP in 1993 and became leader in 2006. He was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999, and still holds the post.
Read more: The facts behind claims in the EU debate
Eight fire appliances attended the refinery and police officers were sent to the site shortly after 12:00.
Refinery owners Ineos said there were no casualties as a result of the incident.
Ineos said a leak was detected on a pipe carrying ethylene gas in its Kinneil Gas manufacturing plant which was being isolated.
The company said in a statement: "Staff were evacuated from the immediate area and our well-practiced emergency procedures were implemented with the incident management team being mobilised.
"Measures were put in place to contain the leak in the immediate vicinity of the affected plant and as an ongoing precaution road closures remain in place.
"All of the people working in the area have been accounted for and there were no injuries.
"Other areas within the Grangemouth complex, including the adjacent refinery were unaffected by the incident.
"A full investigation into the cause of the incident is under way.
"The regulators have been kept fully informed throughout."
Pupils at primary and secondary schools in Grangemouth were kept indoors over lunchtime as a precaution at the request of the police, a Falkirk Council spokesman said.
A spokesman for Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: "At 12.12 on Tuesday, 2 May the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was alerted to reports of a gas leak at the Grangemouth petrochemical site."
Police Scotland said it attended the incident at about 12:15 and that it had closed a number of access roads.
Harlee Pendergast, 18, of Green Lane, Eltham, in south-east London, faces four counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
The crash happened on Sir Thomas Longley Road, on the Medway City Estate in Strood, Kent, at about 22:15 BST on 30 September.
He has been bailed to appear before Medway magistrates on 14 March.
McHugh, 23, has not played since a collision with Kilmarnock's Dean Hawkshaw on 6 August that left him with delayed concussion.
"It is really grim," said McGhee. "He is having a really difficult time and we are very concerned about that.
"It has not made much progress. It is just not getting better. We are doing everything we can."
Republic of Ireland Under-21 cap McHugh, who has over 160 senior club appearances, joined Well in the summer from Plymouth Argyle and the win over Killie at Rugby Park was his third appearance for the Steelmen.
"There is no time given to this injury," McGhee added.
"They don't say it 'will take six weeks or eight weeks', they actually say 'it could take six weeks, eight weeks, it could take six months'. That is the nature of it and we just hope it doesn't take six months obviously.
"It is a complicated and nasty condition that he has ended up with.
"He is seeing a guy in Dublin actually this week to put his mind at rest."
Meanwhile, McGhee confirmed defender Joe Chalmers is to have a groin operation next week and will be out for six weeks, but midfielder Chris Cadden has recovered from a hamstring injury and could return against Celtic in Glasgow on Saturday.
Russia has been hit hard by falling oil prices and by Western sanctions imposed in response to its interventions in the crisis in neighbouring Ukraine.
The rouble, once a symbol of stability under Mr Putin, suffered its biggest one-day decline since 1998 on Monday.
The government has warned that Russia will fall into recession next year.
Speaking to both chambers in the Kremlin, Mr Putin also accused Western governments of seeking to raise a new "iron curtain" around Russia.
He expressed no regrets for annexing Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, saying the territory had a "sacred meaning" for Russia.
He insisted the "tragedy" in Ukraine's south-east had proved that Russian policy had been right but said Russia would respect its neighbour as a brotherly country.
Speaking in Basel in Switzerland later, US Secretary of State John Kerry said the West did not seek confrontation with Russia.
"No-one gains from this confrontation... It is not our design or desire that we see a Russia isolated through its own actions," Mr Kerry said.
Russia could rebuild trust, he said, by withdrawing support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Analysis: BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow
The final draft of Vladimir Putin's annual speech is written by the president himself. It is his view of the state of the Russian nation and outlines his priorities for the year ahead.
So it's telling that Mr Putin chose to stress his unwavering hard line on the crisis in Ukraine: what happened in Kiev was an "illegal coup" and Crimea, which Russia annexed, is like "holy land" for Russia and will always be treated that way.
Vladimir Putin again accused the West of meddling in Russia's internal affairs and using sanctions to "contain" the country as it grew stronger and more independent. His response was a rallying-cry to Russians to pull together for the good of their country.
That included a remarkable call for a one-off amnesty on the return of Russian capital stashed offshore. But people here are starting to feel the economic consequences of their president's defiance, through sanctions. For those who are worried, this speech probably offered little reassurance.
Mr Putin's speech came amid continued volatility in the value of the rouble.
The currency slid almost 9% against the dollar on Monday, before rallying after a suspected central bank intervention.
But on Thursday it weakened again as Mr Putin's speech failed to impress investors. At 14:30 GMT it was 1.6% lower on the day against the dollar.
"Not seeing any new big ideas in this speech which are going to help the Russian economy, or ease market pressure on Russian assets," Standard Bank analyst Tim Ash said in a note. "This is old school, Cold War stuff."
Over the past year, the rouble has lost around 40% of its value against the dollar and inflation is expected to reach 10% early next year.
Russians are believed to have taken more than $100bn (£64bn; €81bn) out of the country this year and Mr Putin promised an amnesty for anyone choosing to bring their money back.
He said that they would face no questions over how they had earned it.
Other economic measures Mr Putin outlined included:
Falling oil prices have affected Russia because of the country's reliance on energy exports. Russia's estimate of the cost of sanctions and falling oil prices is $140bn a year.
Mr Putin foresaw budget cuts of at least 5% over the next three years but hoped to see a return to above-average economic growth within "three to four years".
Stressing that Russia remained "open for the world", Mr Putin suggested Western sanctions should be seen as a stimulus.
"We have a huge internal market and resources... capable, intelligent people," he said. "Our people have demonstrated national strength, patriotism - and the difficulties we are facing create new opportunities".
Condemning the "pure cynicism" of the West, he suggested that even if Crimea had not been annexed, the West would have come up with a different pretext to impose sanctions to contain Russia's resurgence.
Russia, he said, would not enter an "expensive arms race" but would provide its own security.
Mr Putin said: "There is no doubt they would have loved to see the Yugoslavia scenario of collapse and dismemberment for us - with all the tragic consequences it would have for the peoples of Russia. This has not happened. We did not allow it."
President Putin remains popular, the BBC's Steve Rosenberg reports. One opinion poll this week suggested that 72% of Russians still approved of the way he was running the country.
After resuming on 224-8, despite the early loss of Tim Ambrose (89), the Bears added a further 30 before being bowled out for 254 - a 47-run lead.
Jeetan Patel then struck three times to leave Middlesex in trouble on 105-5.
But all-rounder Neil Dexter hit 43 to shore things up before hands were shaken with his side on 173-6.
Dexter, who had also been the visitors' top scorer in the first innings with 53, again supplied the resistance required in a 74-ball knock spread over an hour and a half.
While Tim Murtagh was Middlesex's most successful bowler with 4-55, spinner Ollie Rayner's three wickets were more of a collector's item, having all been taken on different days - one on Wednesday, one on Thursday and one on Friday.
But, in the end, the loss of the entire first day to rain, allied to further interruptions on days two and three, took too much time out of the game for either side to force victory.
Middlesex's nine points strengthened their chances of finishing runners-up to likely champions Yorkshire, who they now host at Lord's, beginning next Wednesday.
Warwickshire, in fourth place, 26 points behind Middlesex, have a 10-day break before they play again, at home to Nottinghamshire at Edgbaston, starting on Monday 14 September.
Warwickshire director of cricket Dougie Brown told BBC WM 95.6:
"Despite the loss of so much time to the weather we still had a decent game on our hands. Another wicket just after tea and who knows what could have happened.
"It was always going to be difficult to manufacture a result. But we deserve quite a bit of credit for getting as close as we did. Batting was never easy and Tim Ambrose's batting, in conjunction with Keith Barker and Chris Wright, was exceptional. That gave us a bit of a chance with a slender lead.
"The title is out of our reach now so all we can do is try to dominate the game we are playing in. In the latter parts of this game we showed that we are a very good side. And we had not shown that in the previous two four-days games."
Middlesex head coach Richard Scott told BBC London 94.9:
"We showed some good battling qualities against some high-quality spin on a wearing pitch. Without the loss of a whole day in the match it could have been a very good contest.
"It wasn't an easy pitch to bat on. We were probably 50 shy in the first innings when it was probably at its best and then when Warwickshire were 86-6x on the third day we just missed a trick with our accuracy, although Tim Ambrose played tremendously well and played the innings of the match.
"They put us under pressure but we handled it well. Neil Dexter batted very well again. He looks on top of his game and is back in control of everything he's doing. He has played three key innings for us in the last two games and really held us together."
The Baggies have ended a period of exclusive negotiations with the bidder, reported to be a Chinese consortium.
"It is now clear to me that this potential purchaser is unable to fulfil the terms of that agreement at this time," said chairman Jeremy Peace.
Peace, who owns 88% of the club, has been chairman for 13 years and would sell "if it was right for the club".
He continued in a club statement: "The club's long-term stability and continued development is of paramount importance and I am not satisfied that the interests of West Bromwich Albion would have been best served by my continuing discussions at present.
"It is important that I re-emphasise that the possible sale of the club does not and will not impact upon its day-to-day running and that this applies particularly in an area which I know concerns all supporters - team strengthening."
"As for the club's long-term future, it is true that both before and since the exclusivity announcement was made, other parties have expressed strong interest in a purchase of the club and therefore that process remains ongoing."
Peace said earlier in July the club hoped to have new owners by the end of the month after entering a period of exclusivity with the bidder.
Since Peace became chairman in 2003 the Baggies have spent only four years outside the top flight.
The club reported pre-tax profits of £14.7m on an income of £86.8m for the year ending 30 June 2014.
The 34-year-old pace bowler played three Tests - two against England in the 2005 Ashes - but has plied his trade exclusively in Twenty20 for the past couple of seasons.
He has suffered a number of injuries in his career, including a chronic elbow problem that has prompted his decision to end his career.
"I wanted to play a couple more years," Tait told Cricket Australia.
"The elbow has pretty much gone off a cliff now, it's done and dusted. I'm 34 years old and I suppose when you're not contributing on the field as much as you'd like to, it's time to finish up.
"The game's getting quicker and better and I'm getting slower and a bit older. It's that simple."
Tait was a key player as Australia lifted their third successive World Cup in 2007, finishing as the second joint-highest wicket-taker with 23, while 11 of his 35 one-day appearances came in this tournament.
He also featured in 21 T20 internationals, most recently in a couple of matches against India in January 2016.
He represented Glamorgan in last summer's T20 Blast, having previously played for Durham and Essex, and was most recently with Hobart Hurricanes during the Big Bash League.
Members will be able to add multimedia to tweets - including pictures and videos - without eating into the 140-characters-a-post limit.
The service is also changing the way it handles conversations between users.
Twitter co-founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey told the BBC his aim was to ensure that "when people tweet, it makes sense".
One analyst said the moves marked a "positive change", but added that they only addressed "one symptom" of Twitter's difficulty in increasing its audience.
Despite constant references to tweets in the news, over the past year Twitter has struggled to attract fresh users to its platform - a problem partly blamed on it being confusing.
"One of the biggest priorities for us this year is to really refine our product, to make it simpler," Mr Dorsey said.
"I think there's a story to be told about what Twitter's for, and to continue to strengthen why you would use Twitter."
Some of the details were reported by the Bloomberg news agency a fortnight ago, and were, for the most part, welcomed by users.
The changes, as outlined by Twitter, will be:
In addition, any new tweet - ie one that isn't a reply to someone else's tweet - that starts with a username will now be seen by all of a person's followers.
That last change does away with one of Twitter's more baffling systems, in which posts beginning with a username would only be seen by a person's followers if they too were following the member mentioned at the start of the tweet.
To override the rule, people have been adding a full stop to their tweets, so that they read ".@username".
"It doesn't make sense to anyone," Mr Dorsey told the BBC. "And people have had to work around it. That just looks ugly, and it's confusing."
Brian Blau, an analyst at the consultancy Gartner, said Twitter's problems in gaining new users would not be solved with these changes.
"The core problem is attracting new users and getting them to be loyal users over time," he explained.
"And we haven't seen anything from Twitter yet that leads me to believe that they're addressing that fundamental problem."
The changes will not be made until later this year.
This is to allow developers to integrate the new rules into their third-party apps and websites.
A longer interview with Jack Dorsey will be published on Wednesday.
Talal Alkassab, 39, from west London, hired the Lamborghini Gallardo in July 2015 but, within hours, Diyaa Lababidi had smashed it into some shops.
Alkassab told police a stranger had taken his keys, unbeknown to him, and crashed the car while parking.
He admitted conspiracy to pervert the course of justice over the crash, which caused damage in excess of £100,000.
Lababidi, 33, of Peninsula Apartments, Praed Street, west London - who had no driving insurance - pleaded guilty on 22 December to the same offence.
Southwark Crown Court heard Lababidi crashed into the shop frontages in Woodstock Street, Mayfair, as he was accelerating and then walked away without reporting the crash.
Although the two men had claimed ignorance of the accident of 23 July, police found texts between them that led Alkassab, of Holland Park Road, to confess it was his friend who had been driving the car.
The pair are due to be sentenced on 11 April.
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An eight-hour strike by London's firefighters will go ahead later after 11th-hour talks broke down, the Fire Brigades Union has said.
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The UK construction industry showed signs of recovery in August, contracting less than in July, a survey has suggested.
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A Ukrainian nationalist planned a terror attack against the Russian embassy in London, a court has heard.
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The former NBA star, known as Shaq, owns homes in both Georgia and Florida and could run in either state.
"This is not about politics. This is about bringing people closer together," O'Neal told an Atlanta news outlet.
He is an honorary deputy in Clayton County in Georgia and has served as a reserve police officer in Florida.
"When I was coming up, people loved and respected the police, the deputies, and I want to be the one to bring that back, especially in the community that I serve," the former Lakers star told NBC affiliate WXIA.
The Hall of Famer said his ability to relate to everyone makes him perfect for the role.
"I can put on a suit and have a conversation with Bill Gates. I can go in the hood and talk to the homies, and talk to the children," he said.
His imposing 7ft 1in (2.16m) bulk would surely also come in useful as a deterrent to would-be law-breakers.
"My style is going to be to surround myself with guys that have been doing it way longer than I've been doing it, surround myself with smarter people. And I know it will be successful."
O'Neal is also a deputy marshal in Lafayette, Louisiana, according to Southern Living.
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He was tried and found guilty of unlawful assembly last year, and sentenced to community service.
But in an unusual move the Hong Kong government appealed the sentence, arguing it was too lenient.
The sentence means he cannot stand for local elections in the next five years. Two other student leaders, Nathan Law and Alex Chow, were also jailed.
Law was sentenced to eight months in prison, while Chow received a seven-month sentence.
The BBC's Juliana Liu in Hong Kong says rights groups have criticised the Hong Kong government, saying the appeals were political decisions intended to deter future protests and to keep young people out of elected politics.
But the Hong Kong government has denied this, saying there was "absolutely no basis" to claims of political motives.
Immediately after the sentence was announced, Wong - who is 20 - took to his Twitter account with a series of defiant messages.
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He ended his series of tweets with a brief "see you soon".
The three activists were convicted for unlawful assembly in an incident which helped to trigger the mass protests in Hong Kong.
They were among a group of student protesters who scaled a fence surrounding Hong Kong's legislative headquarters and occupied the building's courtyard on 26 September 2014.
Their removal by police officers angered the public, and brought tens of thousands of people onto the city's streets in the following days.
The activists initially received community service sentences. Their jail sentences effectively prevent them from standing in upcoming elections, which they had previously expressed interest in contesting.
Anyone jailed for more than three months is disqualified from contesting local elections in Hong Kong for the following five years.
Mr Law was elected to Hong Kong's legislature last year, but was disqualified last month when the city's high court ruled that he had improperly taken his oath.
Amnesty International called the Hong Kong authorities' appeal for jail terms for the three activists a "vindictive attack" on freedom of expression.
"The relentless and vindictive pursuit of student leaders using vague charges smacks of political payback by the authorities," said Mabel Au, director of the rights group's Hong Kong branch.
The justice department said in a statement released prior to Thursday's sentencing that "there is absolutely no basis to imply any political motive" on their part, and that freedom of speech is protected in Hong Kong.
It added that the activists had shown "disorderly and intimidating behaviour", and were convicted "not because they exercised their civil liberties but because their relevant conduct in the protest broke the law".
A Mumbai police announcement that it had arrested Indrani Mukerjea, the CEO of a media company and wife of well-known TV executive Peter Mukerjea, in connection with the murder of her sister Sheena Bora, made headlines on Tuesday.
The story took a fresh twist the following day when the commissioner of Mumbai police, Rakesh Maria, told the media that "Indrani has confessed that Sheena was her daughter".
Media reports added that Ms Mukerjea always "introduced Sheena Bora as her sister in the elite circles of Mumbai and Delhi".
The police say they made the arrest after a confession by Ms Mukerjea's driver, who told them he had helped his employer commit the murder.
A fresh arrest on Wednesday - of one of Ms Mukerjea's previous husbands - has now added to the interest.
Ms Mukerjea and her lawyers are yet to make a statement. The case will now be heard by a Mumbai court.
So why did the TV executive hide her daughter's identity for so long?
The police haven't commented on this aspect of the case. But media reports are full of details about her life, career and possible motives for the murder.
The Telegraph newspaper had a particularly detailed report with exhaustive details about Ms Mukerjea's past husbands and partners.
"Sheena and her brother, who works in an airline now, were brought up by their maternal grandparents in Guwahati [in north-eastern India]. The children eventually moved to Mumbai and Sheena did her graduation from St Xavier's College there," it added.
The story is on the front-page of almost every newspaper on Thursday, with The Times of India describing Ms Mukerjea as the "Great Gatsby of Mumbai". Here are a few more:
Peter Mukerjea has also given interviews to media outlets, saying he had no idea about the murder and that he was told that Ms Bora had moved to the US.
He has also claimed he did not know that Ms Bora was his wife's daughter, saying he had always believed her to be his sister-in-law.
"I have never met Indrani's parents in 15 years of our marriage. I was 15 years older to her so I believed that they might have a problem with me. Only one person from her family came for our wedding. Indrani did not want me to know about that part of her life so I never tried to dig into it," he told a television channel.
A report on CNN-IBN website said that "Sheena's brother Mikhail also verified the report saying that both he and Sheena were Indrani's children".
"My sister was killed, I have no doubt about that, I had no clue when Sheena was dead, whenever I checked, Indrani always claimed Sheena is abroad and busy with her studies," he said.
He further added that he knew why his sister was murdered.
"I am sorry, I will not tell it to you now. I will wait till she [Indrani Mukerjea] confesses it in front of police. If she does not, then I will do whatever is necessary," he was quoted as saying.
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Corby Borough Council said in a report on the £12m overspend that firm Hawkins Brown did not stick to its brief.
Hawkins Brown withdrew the legal threat but wrote to every councillor in Corby in August, asking them for a chance to defend itself.
However, councillors have been told not to respond "for legal reasons".
The Cube houses council offices, a library, theatre and register office. It cost £47.5m and opened in November 2010.
In the letter to councillors, Roger Hawkins from Hawkins Brown said: "We are concerned that the Public Report of Scrutiny Review into the Cube, Parklands Gateway is unfairly critical of work carried out by ourselves and the whole design team."
The company said the report contained a number of false statements and inaccuracies.
Norman Stronach, acting chief executive of Corby Borough Council, said: "Whilst Corby Borough Council takes the letter into consideration we have advised that councillors do not respond directly for legal reasons.
"The council is planning on reconvening the Scrutiny Panel which undertook the Cube report to take into account the comments made in the letter and decide if it makes any alteration to the recommendations given."
The report also criticised the board that oversaw the construction of the building, describing it as "ineffective in controlling or giving direction to the project".
Corby Borough Council said it was also awaiting the Audit Commission's independent report.
The match ended 0-0 - just as it did when the sides when in the group stage last week - and, with no extra time played in the competition, penalty kicks were required to determine a winner.
Goalkeeper Akram Elhadi Salim was Sudan's hero, saving the very first effort from Eric Johana and then going on to score the final kick to give his side a 5-3 victory.
Sudan will next face Rwanda, who also need a penalty shootout to advance.
The defending champions were held to a goalless draw by Kenya but emerged victorious 5-3 after spot-kicks.
Uganda and Ethiopia meet in the other semi-final.
The 21-year-old carded a one-under 69 to win his second major of 2015 by one shot on five under after Dustin Johnson three-putted the last from 12 feet.
South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen sank six birdies in his last seven holes in a 67 to tie with Johnson for second.
World number one Rory McIlroy (66) briefly threatened but ended level par.
Spieth, who remains on course to become the first player to win all four majors in a calendar year, is the youngest player to win the US Open since Bobby Jones in 1923.
He is the fourth-youngest player to win two majors and the sixth to win the Masters and US Open in the same year.
"I'm in shock but I feel for Dustin," said Spieth. "It's cool to be able to have two legs of the grand slam now, and to conquer golf's hardest test - the US Open is conquering the hardest layout in all of golf.
"I didn't have my best ball-striking at all and really grinded over those four or five-footers - that was the difference."
Johnson said: "I did everything I was supposed to do. I hit the ball really well. I just really struggled getting it in the hole. I didn't think I was hitting bad putts, they just weren't going in."
Spieth, the world number two, started the final round in a four-way tie for the lead with Johnson, Branden Grace and Jason Day of Australia on four under.
He bogeyed his opening hole to drop back to three under but 12 pars and two birdies followed to keep the Texan in touch before a three-shot swing on the 16th put him three clear with two to play.
Spieth and playing partner Grace were both five under but the South African, who had played solidly for 15 holes with two birdies and a bogey, hit his tee shot 50 yards right and out of bounds.
That led to a double-bogey six and he dropped to three under, while Spieth drained a 28-foot birdie putt to move to six under.
Johnson, playing in the final group with Day, led by two at one stage after a couple of birdies in a bogey-free opening nine holes.
He looked to have cracked on the back nine, though, with three bogeys in four holes dropping him back to three under after 13.
However, Spieth and Johnson were level after the par-three 17th. Spieth found trouble with his tee shot and double-bogeyed while Johnson hit the green and holed his birdie putt.
Both players missed eagle putts on the last but after Spieth kept his nerve to hole his fourth shot, Johnson pushed his attempt wide.
Australian Day, who shared the overnight lead, never looked comfortable on Sunday as he continued to battle the effects of the vertigo that had troubled him since the end of Friday's round.
He countered three bogeys with two birdies on his front nine but a double-bogey six on the par-four 13th effectively ended his challenge and he finished with a four-over 74 and level-par total.
The tone for an extraordinary final day of an extraordinary tournament was set when Northern Ireland's McIlroy holed six birdies in his opening 13 holes, including an incredible 72-foot putt.
That lifted the 2011 US Open champion from four over to two under but his momentum was halted when he missed a 10-foot birdie putt on the 14th and a six-foot par putt on the 15th.
A further bogey followed on the 17th and he finished with a par five at the last.
"It just wasn't meant to be, I didn't play the last few holes well all week," he told BBC Sport.
"It's going to take a few days to get over it but when I look back on it I'll be happy about it - a few missed putts will have made the difference."
With McIlroy ripping up the course, Australian Scott, who started the day on three over, crept almost unnoticed into contention with four birdies in his opening 11 holes.
The 2013 Masters champion, who finished tied ninth at the US Open last year, birdied the 16th and 18th to set the clubhouse lead at three under.
Scott's fellow Australian Cameron Smith, 21, shot up to a tie for fourth with an eagle-three on the 18th after his fairway-wood approach rolled to within a couple of feet of the hole.
The South African, who won the 2010 Open, was nine over par early in Friday's second round but two four-under-par 66s saw him start the final round at one under.
Three consecutive bogeys on the front nine looked to have put him out of contention. However he played the back nine in just 29 shots, with six birdies in his last seven holes to take the clubhouse lead off Scott.
And it took a birdie-four at the last from Spieth to deny him a play-off.
For all the criticism of the greens this week, Cheng-Tsung Pan of Chinese Taipei, had just one three-putt and that came in Sunday's final round at the 13th hole. Cheng-Tsung may have been helped by being a student of the local University of Washington.
England's John Parry started Sunday on six over par. He opened his final round with five straight bogeys as he carded the worst round of the day - a nine-over 79 to drop to 15 over.
America's Chris Kirk took a sextuple 10 on the par-four first. There were no lost balls, hacks out of the rough or penalty shots, just an inability to chip a ball up a slope. He watched as his first five attempts rolled back to his feet and even when he did get the ball on he green, he three-putted. He only dropped two more shots in his eight-over 78 but finished last on 21 over.
Jordan Spiethon the potential for winning the Grand Slam of all four majors in 2015, as he now prepares for next month's Open at St Andrews: "You can't win them all if you don't win the first two. We'll go to the home of golf prepared to try and win the Claret Jug."
Rory McIlroy on his level-par week: "I'm not sure if I've ever hit the ball that well in a major championship."
England's Ian Poulter was among numerous players who waited until the final round to really let rip on the state of the course: "This was the surface we had to putt on. It is disgraceful that the USGA hasn't apologised about the greens. They were simply the worst, most disgraceful surfaces I have ever seen on any tour in all the years I have played."
Chris Kirk, after finishing last on 21 over: "The US Open is a great tournament with incredible history. The USGA should be ashamed of what they did to it this week. My score has nothing to do with why I feel that way, I played poorly. The course wasn't overly difficult, just tricked up."
Lee Westwood on his Chambers Bay experience: "It's the kind of course I'd like to come and play with my mates, with a cart and some beers."
In a 15-minute rant, Billy Horschel, who carded a three-under 67, said: "We're not looking for perfect greens. We're looking for something that's very consistent and this week they're not. Four is God awful. Ten is not much better where it was. That hole is in dirt. It's literally dirt. There's no grass around that hole.
Referring to the limited or no access to some holes for fans, Horschel added: "It blows my mind that they would build a golf course and not think about the fans. The fans got robbed this week."
And Horschel said that a caddie was asked if there was any grass on the fourth green and replied: "Yeah, two blades, and they're not even close to each other."
It is understood they had been in a garden in Blaenavon, Torfaen, for nearly three days.
The tarantulas were reported to the RSPCA and they have now been collected.
The animal protection charity is appealing for information and said the spiders needed a fairly stable warm temperature and water to survive.
Pitch protection covers had been in place and hot-air blowers used, but following an inspection by referee Kevin Johnson at 09:00 GMT the decision was taken to call the game off.
"We're absolutely devastated to lose our first game since 2014," Crawley operations director Kelly Derham said.
"The pitch is well grassed but the frost has got into the ground."
Thomas has been a regular at the six-stage race based around Adelaide and has been supporting Richie Porte over recent seasons.
But with Australian Porte no longer with Team Sky, this could be an early chance for Thomas to lead the team.
Rowe will be riding for a second time in preparation for the Classics season.
Sergio Henao, Pete Kennaugh, Salvatore Puccio, Luke Rowe, Ian Stannard and Ben Swift will complete Team Sky's lineup.
De Villota, 32, lost her right eye after extensive surgery following a crash in testing for Marussia at the Cambridgeshire track.
She was in a critical condition but is now described as serious but stable.
She has undergone successful surgery at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.
A statement issued by the Marussia Technical Centre, in Banbury, said: "Since the operation today (Friday), Maria's condition in relation to the head trauma she received has further improved, to the extent that she is now 'serious but stable'.
"Whilst Maria remains acutely ill, this confirms that she has been responding well to the treatment she has received since her accident."
Ms De Villota was hurt when the MR-01 race car she was driving hit a support truck.
She had been driving at up to 200mph but the car was travelling considerably slower at the time of the crash.
It was the first time the Spaniard had driven the car for the Oxfordshire-based Marussia team.
Speaking on behalf of the family, Isabel De Villota, Maria's sister, said earlier: "We, the family, are supporting each other here at Maria's side and we take great comfort from the remarkable medical care she has been receiving.
"We remain positive and this is due, in no small part, to the overwhelming expression of love for Maria from every corner of the world."
Messages of support for De Villota have come in from the motor racing world, including Ferrari driver and fellow Spaniard Fernando Alonso and top British racers Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton.
Inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) visited the test track on Wednesday.
"The president signed a gazette notification dissolving parliament with effect from midnight today," government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said.
The general election was not scheduled for another 10 months.
Mr Sirisena defeated incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa in presidential elections held in January.
The president's decision to dissolve parliament came shortly after a spokesman for the United National Party (UNP) said it had formally requested him to do so.
The UNP was the main party behind Mr Sirisena's presidential bid and its leader, Ranil Wickremesingha, is the country's prime minister.
Sri Lankan law dictates that elections be held between 52 and 66 days after the dissolution.
Government sources told the BBC that the election will be held on 17 August.
Sri Lankan election Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya is scheduled to hold a news conference on Saturday where he will announce the dates.
The dissolution of parliament ends the term of the coalition government that was appointed for a 100-day period after the presidential election result. However, it exceeded that time limit as it sought to implement key constitutional reforms.
Former President Rajapaksa is expected to use the elections to stage a political comeback. He has previously announced that he intends to be the new prime minister.
Footage posted on social media showed flames spreading up the Torch Tower, and burning debris falling down.
The authorities later said that civil defence workers "successfully evacuated" the building and the blaze was brought under control.
It is not clear what caused the fire in one of the world's tallest buildings.
"No injuries have been reported so far in the Torch Tower fire incident," the government of Dubai's media office tweeted.
It added that "cooling operations were under way".
The Torch Tower was damaged by an earlier blaze in 2015.
Those sentenced include ex-presidents of Bolivia and Peru, and a former foreign minister from Uruguay.
All had cooperated in Operation Condor, run by military governments at the time to fight left-wing dissidents.
Another 19 men were absolved in the trial, that lasted two years.
Several of those sentenced are already serving jail time at home and none appeared in court.
They include former Bolivian President Luis Garcia Meza Tejada who is now 87 and serving a 30-year prison sentence in La Paz, as well as former Peruvian President, Francisco Morales Bermudez, who is now 95.
Mr Garcia Meza's lawyer has said he will appeal.
One of the Italian prosecutors, Tiziana Cugini, told the Reuters news agency the trial had thrown a clear light on Operation Condor, which he called a "criminal conspiracy".
"It's very significant, especially given that heads of state from the time were convicted."
The Vice-President of Uruguay, Raul Sendic said he was disappointed by the sentence but would respect it.
"The Uruguayan government is feeling tranquil because we did everything that had to be done to present proof and witnesses and support the families of the victims."
The trial involved hundreds of witnesses. Martin Almada, a Paraguayan who had given evidence said the outcome was "lamentable and incomprehensible".
According to Italian law, the conviction can be appealed against twice before the ruling becomes definitive and the sentences are served.
Should the sentences become definitive, Italy can ask for extradition but, considering the age of the accused, it is more likely that they would serve sentences at home.
Operation Condor was set up in 1975 in Santiago, the capital of Chile in a meeting chaired by the head of the Chilean chief of intelligence services, Manuel Contreras.
Key member countries of Operation Condor were Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, and Bolivia, with Peru and Ecuador occasionally participating.
Thousands of people were kidnapped, tortured, forcibly disappeared and murdered with people often snatched off the streets or taken from their homes.
Operations crossed international borders with governments helping each other as their security forces chased dissidents, leftists, union and peasant leaders, nuns and priests, intellectuals and students.
Michael Cockerell told reporters about the plan at a press screening of his new series Inside the Commons.
"I'm not fingering anyone by name," Mr Cockerell said, when asked who was involved in the plot.
But he did say they were "right wing Tories... what Downing Street know as the berserkers, the naughty bench".
He declined to name the cameraman who was the subject of the apparent skulduggery.
In the first episode of the four-part series, to be shown on Tuesday, the Conservative MP Bill Wiggin is seen complaining to the Speaker during a session in the Commons about the presence of camera crews in the chamber itself.
Michael Cockerell said Mr Wiggin was not involved in the plot.
"We heard of a plan to knock over the cameraman and cause the House to be suspended, and then they would blame it on us and suggest we shouldn't be there," he said, adding that Parliamentary staff had let them know about the plot and had managed to prevent it from happening.
He said there were "very few" opponents to the documentary, but "in Parliament every day there are cunning plans, it is a place made for plotting and conspiracy".
The documentary was filmed over the course of a year - after six years of attempting to persuade the parliamentary authorities to allow them the access they required.
Atlantic Productions, the producers of the series for the BBC, gathered 600 hours of raw material for the four hours that will be broadcast throughout February.
The first episode is broadcast on Tuesday on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT.
Mr Ward tweeted on Tuesday: "The big question is - if I lived in #Gaza would I fire a rocket? - probably yes."
In a statement subsequently released by the Lib Dems, he said: "My comments were not in support of firing rockets into Israel. If they gave the opposite impression, I apologise."
A Lib Dem spokesman had said the party "utterly condemned" the MP's tweet.
The spokesman later added: "In light of this apology, the party and the whips will decide in due course if further disciplinary action should be taken."
Mr Ward, the MP for Bradford East, was suspended from the Lib Dem parliamentary party in July 2013 and had the whip withdrawn for three months over comments he made about Israel.
He was asked on Wednesday morning by BBC Radio 5live if he stood by his tweet on Tuesday or would apologise for it.
Declining to apologise, he said he condemned violence on both sides of the conflict, but had been seeking to understand the motives of those firing rockets at Israel.
"The question is why would they want to fire missiles when they know that the missiles will result in further Palestinian deaths, to a disproportionate level? Why are they doing it?" he said.
"They are doing it because they are absolutely desperate and politicians in the West are failing them."
He continued: "The people in Gaza cannot escape... I understand the plight of the people firing the rockets."
Referring to his original tweet, the Lib Dem MP later added, in another BBC interview: "What I was saying was, if I was there, if I had been living for year after year after year, hemmed in by air, land and sea by a mighty military force that was brutally killing my people, and the world was not responding, I think I would have to do something."
Asked if he might decide to leave the Lib Dems in protest over the official party line on Gaza, he said: "I am not going to walk away from the Liberal Democrats. They may decide to walk away from me, but I certainly am not going to walk away from them."
His later statement released by the party, containing his apology, also said he supported "the right of Israel to exist and defend itself".
Mr Ward's comments came as the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged Israel and the Palestinians to "stop fighting" and "start talking" to end the conflict in Gaza.
More than 600 Palestinians and 30 Israelis have been killed in the past 14 days of fighting, officials say.
The MP for Bradford East commented on the crisis in a series of tweets on Wednesday. In a follow-up message, he wrote: "Ich bin ein #palestinian - the West must make up its mind - which side is it on?"
A Labour spokesman said: "At a time when all sides should be working for a ceasefire and a peaceful settlement, it defies belief that a Liberal Democrat MP should tweet something so vile and irresponsible."
Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps urged Mr Ward to withdraw the "appalling" comments.
He said: "No MP should tweet what's essentially incitement to violence. Completely irresponsible."
A Lib Dem spokesman said: "Nick Clegg has been at the forefront of calling for peace in Israel and Gaza.
"We utterly condemn David Ward's comments, they are not representative of the Liberal Democrats."
Prime Minister David Cameron has urged Israel to "exercise restraint" in its military operations and to avoid targeting civilians.
But he has also defended its right to self-defence and said the "fastest way" to bring about a ceasefire would be for Hamas militants in Gaza to stop firing rockets into Israel.
Nicky Morgan has announced that legislation will be extended to address failing and "coasting" academies as well as local authority schools.
Mrs Morgan said underperforming academies should be "held to account".
Heads' leader Brian Lightman says underperformance needs to be tackled, regardless of the type of school.
The ATL teachers' union said "the government seems to be finally waking up to the fact that some academies underperform".
Most secondary schools in England are now academies - and in his autumn statement, the chancellor George Osborne spoke of the government's aim to "make local authorities running schools a thing of the past".
While the response to underachieving local authority schools has been to turn them into academies, there have been questions about the action taken when academies are underperforming.
The proposals announced by Mrs Morgan are an amendment to the Education and Adoption Bill, currently before Parliament.
The changes will mean that the new, tougher measures to raise standards in "coasting" schools will apply to all types of school, whether local authority, academy or free school.
The previous form of the proposed legislation did not apply to academies, but Mrs Morgan put forward an amendment to allow "robust action" for all types of school.
"Underperformance is unacceptable wherever it occurs - whether that is in a maintained school or an academy," said the education secretary's written ministerial statement.
She said the Department for Education had already issued 122 warning notices to underperforming academies and free schools and changed the sponsor in 118 cases.
Academies which are underachieving will be "required to demonstrate they can improve significantly, or face the possibility of being moved to another sponsor".
Where Ofsted rates an academy as "inadequate", the school can face "instant intervention", which could mean being rapidly taken over by another sponsor.
Ofsted's annual report last week highlighted that "structural reform can only do so much".
This annual report on education standards, presented by Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw, said that "undoubtedly, academisation injected more vigour and competition into the system".
But it warned that academy status "does not insulate you from decline".
Inspectors found that 99 converter academies had declined from "outstanding" or "good" to a lower rating.
Sir Michael also argued that a simpler system - rather than some schools being academies and some the responsibility of local authorities - would be easier to assess and inspect.
Mary Bousted, general secretary of the ATL teachers' union, said: "Belatedly the government has recognised the nonsense of having a two-tier performance system which treats schools linked to their local authority more harshly than academies."
Brian Lightman, leader of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: "If there is cause for concern over the performance of a school then intervention powers should apply regardless of whether it is a maintained school or an academy.
"So, the government's move to extend these powers to the oversight of academies is a logical and consistent step."
But he warned that intervention needed to recognise the underlying problems, such as "very severe recruitment problems".
Labour's shadow education secretary Lucy Powell said: "Just because they have become an academy or are part of a chain doesn't mean that a school will automatically succeed.
"However, this government's focus on academisation at all costs means that other options to tackle school improvement are being ignored including tackling the teacher shortage crisis threatening school standards."
Mrs Morgan said academies were "offering a standard of education never before seen in many communities".
"But it is only right that the small number of academies that are struggling to stretch their pupils are held to account to ensure all pupils fulfil their potential.
"We are committed to ensuring educational excellence everywhere and challenging all schools to raise their standards is a key part of this."
The family of Dafydd Tudur said he gave them "wonderful years of happiness" and his death would leave "a huge gap".
Mr Tudur, 27, was walking on the A487 Y Felinheli bypass when he was hit by a car at 03:20 GMT.
Police appealed for witnesses to the incident, which saw three people travelling in the vehicle taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd with minor injuries.
Mr Tudur was an Aberystwyth University law graduate who worked as a solicitor at Tudur Owen Roberts Glynne and Co in Bangor.
Originally from Rhandir, Morfa Nefyn, he later moved to Y Felinheli.
In a family statement, his father Gareth Tudor Morris Jones said: "This has been a huge shock to us all. There will be a huge gap in our family after Dafydd Tudur, but we also give thanks for twenty seven wonderful years full of happiness that we had with him."
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The footage was made public as part of an appeal to trace a man wanted in connection with a series of burglaries across East Anglia and Kent.
It is believed the cars were being used by the wanted man. Both incidents happened in June.
"I knew Top Gear was a big show," he told co-host Chris Evans on the Radio 2 Breakfast Show. "But, wow, I was on the front page of the New York Times.
"There was so much I couldn't read it all.
"Thanks to Top Gear and the BBC, my day has been ducking paparazzi all day long."
LeBlanc's presenting role was revealed on Thursday.
The 48-year-old, best known for his role as Joey Tribbiani in Friends and more recently, as himself, in BBC Two sitcom Episodes, will be Top Gear's first non-British host in its 39-year history.
"I'm looking forward to smashing up some cars together," the star - speaking from his home in the US - told Evans.
He said he had already been contacted by friends wanting to appear on the re-booted Top Gear, with Formula One driver Romain Grosjean and "crazy, competitive lunatic" Episodes co-star Stephen Mangan keen to sign up.
It follows a Twitter post on Thursday, in which LeBlanc - who holds the record for the fastest ever celebrity lap in the show's "star in a reasonably priced car" segment - invited Mangan on to the show "to beat my time".
"Sure. How hard can it be?" responded Mangan, adding: "The clutch is the one in the middle, yeah?"
LeBlanc - who begins filming the fifth season of BBC show Episodes in April - is expected to join the production team immediately, telling Evans he already had someone house-hunting in the UK on his behalf.
Meanwhile, Evans appeared to reveal one of the new series' filming locations when, quizzing LeBlanc on his passport status, he said: "I also need to get you a visa for South Africa."
"I have a question for you," parried LeBlanc, "do I get the frequent flyer miles?"
The BBC Two show is set to return to TV screens in May this year, with additional presenters expected to be confirmed shortly.
Evans was named as Top Gear's new host last year after the BBC opted not to renew Jeremy Clarkson's contract in the wake of his much-publicised "fracas" with a Top Gear producer.
Likening their new partnership to "Joey and Chandler", LeBlanc told Evans: "I'm so honoured and thrilled. I can't wait to get going.
"I think we're going to have a great time and I couldn't think of a better guy to do it with. You and I are going to have a lot of fun."
LeBlanc's appointment came as a huge surprise to fans and media alike, with even the bookmakers backfooted.
Broadcaster Piers Morgan called it "a brilliant choice" but former '90s Top Gear presenter Steve Berry said it was "an odd choice".
"When Jeremy Clarkson gives you an opinion you can respect it," he told BBC News. "When an actor says that line, does it have that authority?"
Clarkson, who subsequently signed up with streaming service Amazon Prime to present a new motoring show with former Top Gear co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May, has yet to comment on LeBlanc's presenting role.
On a site, which we're choosing not to name, 18 pictures were posted under the title "Daisy Lowe Leaked Nude".
They appear to show the pair posing in the mirror of a hotel bathroom.
Smith, who quit his role of the timelord last year, dated the former model for several years before they split in 2013.
This would suggest the photos are more than a year old.
It's thought he's the second male celebrity to be targeted in a recent wave of photo hacks.
Nude pictures of reality TV star Nick Hogan, the son of US wrestler Hulk Hogan, were also reportedly leaked this week, while on Monday it was claimed a fourth batch of naked celebrity photos were released.
It's not clear where the latest pictures came from and neither star has reacted yet.
Previous victims are thought to include Rihanna, Kate Upton, Selena Gomez and Kim Kardashian.
This week, Jennifer Lawrence said the people who leaked pictures of her and more than 100 others online were guilty of a "sex crime".
Dozens of private pictures of the Hunger Games actress were released in the first leak in September.
Speaking to Vanity Fair, the 24-year-old said: "It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime. It is a sexual violation. It's disgusting".
Google removed "tens of thousands" of nude pictures last week which had been stolen from celebrities, after Hollywood lawyer Marty Singer threatened to sue the tech company for "violating privacy".
It's thought photos were initially taken from stars' iCloud accounts , before they were shared on websites Reddit and 4chan.
Apple has denied any form of security breach, suggesting weak user names, passwords and security questions were to blame.
"Fappening" has become the term for when a hacker accesses nude photos of celebrities and leaks them in exchange for Bitcoins.
The term is a mixture of two words, "the happening", as in what's going on, and "fapping", a slang for a sexual act.
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With more than 11,000 songs to her name in over 20 Indian languages since the 1940s, she is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most prolific recording artist.
She was also the muse for British band Cornershop, who paid tribute to her with their hit 1997 single Brimful of Asha.
Now 82, the singer, songwriter, actress and great-grandmother is just as passionate about food as singing, and has opened her 10th Indian restaurant. The Manchester establishment features signature dishes inspired by her childhood.
Yes I still get nervous from time to time. All artists do and I think being nervous is a good thing when you're about to perform. It helps with the performance. But once I get into the song, the nerves disappear.
I always enjoyed singing and working with the late Kishore Kumar. He was a legendary playback singer, an actor and a producer/director. It was always both a challenge and a positive experience working with Kishore - I knew that if I was singing with Kishore Kumar then the recording was going to be something special.
Yes, Madhubala was a beautiful person, both in her looks and personality and I was really fond of her. But I enjoyed working with all the leading ladies really.
I'm not keen on films which depict a lot of violence. I prefer films and dramas based on families and relationships - films which focus on love and harmony. They're the films which have the best songs too - a song for the mum, a song for the son etc… I can't pick one single film out. I've seen and worked on so many - how can I choose one single film? It's too difficult!
No - I'm not too keen on acting. With singing you get lost in the music - I go into another world when I'm singing. But with acting the directors are always stopping to adjust the lighting for example. It spoils the flow - so no I don't have any regrets.
I've heard it many times and I like it. I'm flattened and amazed how people who don't even know me have featured me in a song - and people who didn't know of me before, now know of me through this song.
I enjoy listening to many genres of music from light classical to western such as Shirley Bassey, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and The Beatles.
Barbara Streisand - I'd love to sing with her.
Lata has a very different singing style to me - we are very different in other ways too. For example, she likes to have long hair and I like mine short. But we're very close - we have never competed with each other. There's a lot of love between us and I thoroughly enjoy singing with her.
I've had fish and chips a number of times, but I always think it's lacking a bit of spice. The dish could do with a bit of chilli. I'd enjoy it more with a bit of chilli!
Yes, definitely - because if you can sing well then you need to eat well, and if you eat well then you usually enjoy cooking. Cooking comes from the heart - it should be made with love, for others to enjoy, just like singing.
I sing from the heart, with love for others to enjoy. I love cooking as much as I love singing - that's why I have my signature dishes at my restaurant.
Jayne Ludlow's side fell behind to Lee Sima Falkon's goal after 25 minutes in Ramat Gan before Manchester City striker Natasha Harding scored two second-half goals to put Wales ahead.
But they were denied their second win of the campaign by Shelina's late goal.
Third-placed Wales are now five points behind Group eight leaders Austria.
Wales, playing their 150th competitive match, had 12 efforts on goal during the game.
They had earned their first win of the campaign on Thursday, beating Kazakhstan 4-0 to move above Israel in the group.
Ludlow's side, who next face Kazakhstan away on 12 April, remain two points above fourth-placed Israel, who have a game in hand.
Only the eventual group winners are guaranteed automatic qualification to the tournament in the Netherlands.
Israel: Shamir, Ravitz, Bar Oz, Sofer, Shelina, Tvill (Sendel 66), Falkon, Fridman, Sade (c) (David 47), Barqui, Shahaf (Nakav 86).
Subs not used: Kadori, Efraim, Avital, Metkalov.
Wales: Evans, Ingle (c), Roberts (Estcourt 83), James, Fletcher, Harding, Fishlock, Rowe, Walkley (Bleazard 46), Ritchie (Jones 46), Ward.
Subs not used: Price, Green, Lawrence, Hinchcliffe.
Referee: Marta Fria Acedo (ESP)
Coastguards received a Mayday broadcast from a dive vessel about 40 miles south of Plymouth shortly after 14:00 BST, reporting that one of their divers needed urgent assistance.
A search and rescue helicopter based at Newquay winched the diver from the sea and flew him to the Diving Diseases Research Centre for treatment.
His condition is not known.
Hyperbaric medicine is used to treat divers with decompression illness - commonly known as "the bends" - where gas bubbles form in tissues or the blood during a rapid ascent.
Ray Woodhall, 54, said he suffered so many cardiac arrests a nurse apologised for having to beat his chest so much.
He said another nurse told him the most resuscitations she had seen for a patient in arrest was seven.
Mr Woodhall, from Wednesbury, West Midlands, estimates he needs six months to fully recover from his ordeal.
"My last arrest was the most frightening," said the father-of-three who was treated at Worcestershire Royal Hospital which confirmed it activated an out-of-hours team of six specialist staff to address "multiple cardiac arrests".
Mr Woodhall said his partner was holding his hand when "the alarm went off and I saw the crash team running in" and "she watched me die in front of her".
"Dying," he said, was "like falling asleep", which is what he thought kept happening until medical staff told him "you went".
He was first taken ill in the last match when he complained of "soreness" in his chest.
He initially refused an ambulance before agreeing when his discomfort persisted.
Paramedics told him he was having a heart attack and it was at hospital that the "arrests started".
Mr Woodhall said there was an operation to fit him with two stents and by about 21:00 GMT on the day he became ill, his family left his bedside before being called back amid concerns he would not survive the night.
Most of the cardiac arrests, he said, came between 21:00 GMT and 03:00 GMT the following morning.
Mr Woodhall, a distributor for a soft drinks manufacturer, praised an "amazing" nurse who told him "the most resuscitations I've ever done was seven".
His ordeal happened in December 2016. He says he is sharing his story to "give credit" to the hospital to which he has returned to see those who saved his life.
Russian side Rostov won 5-2 on aggregate to reach the group stage for the first time in their history.
It is the second season in a row that Ajax have failed to reach the group stage - they were knocked out by Rapid Vienna a year ago.
Borussia Monchengladbach beat Young Boys Bern 6-1 for a 9-2 aggregate win.
Thorgan Hazard, brother of Chelsea forward Eden, and Raffael both scored hat-tricks for the German side against the Swiss team.
Denmark's FC Copenhagen also progressed as a 1-1 draw at APOEL Nicosia of Cyprus secured a 2-1 win on aggregate, while Croat side Dinamo Zagreb won 2-1 at Austria's Red Bull Salzburg for a 3-2 aggregate win.
The draw for the group stage of the Champions League takes place on Thursday at 17:00 BST.
Match ends, FC Rostov 4, Ajax 1.
Second Half ends, FC Rostov 4, Ajax 1.
Foul by Nemanja Gudelj (Ajax).
Aleksandr Bukharov (FC Rostov) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kasper Dolberg (Ajax).
Saeid Ezatolahi (FC Rostov) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, FC Rostov. Moussa Doumbia replaces Dmitriy Poloz.
Nick Viergever (Ajax) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nick Viergever (Ajax).
Timofei Kalachev (FC Rostov) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! FC Rostov 4, Ajax 1. Davy Klaassen (Ajax) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Fyodor Kudryashov (FC Rostov) is shown the red card.
Penalty Ajax. Kasper Dolberg draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Fyodor Kudryashov (FC Rostov) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt blocked. Bertrand Traore (Ajax) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lasse Schöne.
Foul by Kasper Dolberg (Ajax).
Ivan Novoseltsev (FC Rostov) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, FC Rostov. Saeid Ezatolahi replaces Aleksandr Erokhin.
Substitution, Ajax. Mateo Cassierra replaces Amin Younes.
Attempt missed. Bertrand Traore (Ajax) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Amin Younes.
Attempt missed. Kenny Tete (Ajax) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Lasse Schöne.
Substitution, FC Rostov. Aleksandr Bukharov replaces Sardar Azmoun.
Corner, Ajax. Conceded by Soslan Dzhanaev.
Attempt saved. Lasse Schöne (Ajax) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Davy Klaassen.
Attempt saved. Aleksandru Gatcan (FC Rostov) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Timofei Kalachev with a cross.
Attempt missed. Lasse Schöne (Ajax) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Kasper Dolberg.
Foul by Kasper Dolberg (Ajax).
Aleksandru Gatcan (FC Rostov) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Amin Younes (Ajax) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ivan Novoseltsev (FC Rostov).
Goal! FC Rostov 4, Ajax 0. Dmitriy Poloz (FC Rostov) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Aleksandr Erokhin with a through ball following a fast break.
Kasper Dolberg (Ajax) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by César Navas (FC Rostov).
Joël Veltman (Ajax) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sardar Azmoun (FC Rostov).
Foul by Nick Viergever (Ajax).
Dmitriy Poloz (FC Rostov) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! FC Rostov 3, Ajax 0. Christian Noboa (FC Rostov) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ivan Novoseltsev following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Ivan Novoseltsev (FC Rostov) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Aleksandr Erokhin (FC Rostov) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sardar Azmoun.
At least five people are confirmed dead and hundreds are still missing after the Eastern Star capsized late on 1 June en route to Chongqing, in one of China's worst transport disasters in recent memory. The vessel was carrying 458 people.
The vast majority of passengers are retirees from Jiangsu province - where the ship's starting point Nanjing is located - as well as Shanghai.
Many had booked a package tour with Xiehe Travel. On Tuesday, anxious relatives gathered at the company's office in Shanghai which was shut.
One young man was seen sobbing as he crouched by the door, saying: "Mum and Dad I was wrong, I shouldn't have let you go off on your holiday."
Others have spoken to reporters demanding answers.
"I only found out about this on the news while I was at work... I cried all the way here and here I can't find anyone, the door is locked," said 35-year-old Wang Sheng, who said his parents were on board.
"Why did the captain leave the ship while the passengers were still missing?" another woman named Huang Yan asked reporters.
The captain and the chief engineer were among the first to be rescued.
In Nanjing, local officials set up a contact centre in a hotel for relatives to register their details and wait for news.
With authorities publicly identifying only a few of those rescued, some relatives have resorted to putting out appeals for information on social media describing their loved ones and listing their national identification numbers.
For at least one family there was some good news.
Brothers Cao Feng and Cao Cen in Nanjing burst into tears of relief when they recognised their 65-year-old mother Zhu Hongmei in news pictures of her rescue.
The Cao brothers told reporters that their father, who was also on the ship, is still missing, and that they were rushing to the site of the sinking in Jianli county.
Others, however, are still waiting.
One is the husband of 60-year-old Zhang Lifen, who had gone on the cruise with 22 of their neighbours.
He told Southern Metropolis Daily that she had rung him around 9pm on Monday and told him: "It's quite stormy and rainy here."
The boat reportedly sank around 9.30pm.
Liu Xianlu, the son of the ship's missing first mate, told Changjiang Daily that his father had spent his whole career on the Yangtze river.
"His grandson just turned one, our whole family hopes Papa gets home safely!" he said.
Another relative, identified in the media as Little W, had been exchanging texts with her father who was on the cruise.
One of his last messages read: "Hi pretty, are you awake?... I'm doing very well, eating lots of healthy food, and everything else's good." Calls to his phone on Tuesday morning did not get through.
But at least two people had a lucky escape.
Nanjing geology expert Yin Jiaheng told reporters that he was supposed to go on the cruise with an old classmate, but dropped out at the last minute because he fell sick.
He rang his old classmate the minute he heard the news on Tuesday morning, praying that his friend had not gone ahead without him. He had not.
The incident happened after pupils had left Stromness Academy on Wednesday afternoon.
Orkney Island Council said a technical inspection began immediately, with contractors on site to assess and secure the damaged area.
It is hoped that the school could reopen to pupils on Friday.
Romain, 25, has scored 20 league goals this season for the Sussex club, who have agreed to sell him for an undisclosed fee.
A former Brighton and Millwall trainee, he made his name in non-League football with Three Bridges and Lewes, before joining Eastbourne in July 2015.
Romain will be available for Dagenham's away trip to Barrow on Saturday.
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CAD CAM Automotive (CCA) in Coventry said there would be a £300m investment over five years by itself and Nanjing-based China Red Sun Group, which has taken an undisclosed stake in the firm.
It added it hoped the new site would be in the Coventry area.
The firm supplies car parts to companies including Jaguar Land Rover, Aston Martin and Lotus.
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The company, which employs 200 people at Holbrook Lane, said it was "in the process of identifying a development site".
It said £50m in total would be spent by the two firms on the new base.
China Red Sun Group employs more than 7,000 people and has a turnover of over £2bn, a CAD CAM Automotive said spokesman said.
Morris and the followers of the Arts and Crafts movement, which spanned Britain, the United States and Japan in the late 19th century, argued that mass manufactured products devalued labour and led to cheap and ugly surroundings.
It's not too big a stretch to argue that the 21st century version of that argument is "buy good things from real people" - the motto of online crafts marketplace Etsy.
Founded a decade ago in Brooklyn, New York - the epicentre of the do-it-yourself (DIY) movement - Etsy is billed as the "artisanal" eBay, a place where crafters can sell their wares to like-minded buyers.
The site has capitalised on a generational shift, where younger consumers value knowing where and how their purchases are made - and are willing to spend more for that knowledge.
Now, according to a filing with US regulators, there are nearly 1.4 million Etsians - as Etsy sellers are known - who together sold a combined $1.9bn (£1.3bn) worth of knit caps, tables, and other handmade and antique goods to almost 20 million buyers globally.
But as the company prepares to make its stock market debut later this week, with an estimated value of $1bn, the question is whether its DIY spirit can survive the pressures of shareholders that are often ruthless in their demand for growth and profits.
In 2012, Etsy chief executive Chad Dickerson wrote in a blog post that the company had sought a "B corporation" certification. That is a private label granted to firms that audit their business, grading their efforts on such criteria as workplace diversity to sustainability.
"We believe that business has a higher social purpose beyond simply profit," he wrote.
While the certification was lauded at the time by Etsy's sellers and buyers, the company's commitment to putting ethics about profit is now about to be tested in the marketplace.
News of the company's decision to list on the Nasdaq met with a mixed reaction from Etsy sellers, who posted hundreds of notes in forums on the site.
"[I] went thru this with eBay. It will now be all about the shareholders and how much money they can make for them and no one else," wrote one seller of vintage jewellery.
Many users said they viewed the decision to go public as part of a larger trend away from the company's small DIY ethos - particularly after Etsy decided to amend its rules to allow sellers to let outside manufacturers make their goods.
But Lisa Yen, who runs the Etsy shop Moss+Twig from her one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush, Brooklyn, where she makes terrariums filled with moss and whimsical accoutrements such as coral and figurines that cost between $26 and $75, says she is optimistic.
"I think actually once they start offering shares the company will start growing [and] it will just expand the programmes they can offer their sellers," says Ms Yen, who has benefitted from Etsy programmes that link sellers with large retailers such as Nordstrom.
"There's still a lot of people who don't know what Etsy is, so it's going to get a lot of traction and I can only see good coming out of this."
While there is nothing illegal in prioritising social good over profits, according to Brooklyn Law School professor Dana Brakman Reiser, the problem for Etsy is that there are very few other firms who have signed on to the B corporation platform that have also attempted to appeal to outside investors.
"Etsy is going to have to be persuasive to a much larger and more diverse group of shareholders now," says Prof Brakman Reiser.
"Many people think is going to scare investors off, who think 'why would I invest in a company that's going to trade my profits for social good? I'll just get the profits and buy my own social good by making a donation?'."
The challenge for Etsy will be to maintain a high enough share price and a sufficiently diverse investor base who will see value in the company's more expensive decisions.
If it fails to do so, the company could become a target for a takeover by a larger rival such as eBay.
Created in 2006 by the non-profit B Labs, a B Corporation (or B Corp) is one that has audited itself to evaluate its performance on a series of metrics including the company's commitment to sustainability and diversity.
If the firm gets a score above 80 (out of a possible 200) it can call itself a B Corp and advertise its commitment to social good.
The label is like those given to organic or Fairtrade food - a private certification "intended to demonstrate that this is a company that is using its business to also achieve some kind of social good", according to Prof Brakman Reiser.
B Corps are different, although related, to Benefit Corporations, which are legal entities. Some, but not all, US states allow companies to register as Benefit Corporations, which is a legal category different than that of a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC), for instance.
Etsy, which is registered in the US state of Delaware, is technically supposed to register as a Benefit Corporation as part of its adherence to the B Corp programme, which it has not yet done.
That is why Prof Brakman Reiser and others have said that Etsy is making a canny move in prioritising its sellers - and other smaller investors - in its public share sale.
Unlike the public stock offerings of other technology companies such as Facebook or Twitter, in which smaller investors were largely excluded from buying shares ahead of the listing, Etsy has specifically advertised its offering to the sellers on its site.
The company has set aside 5% of its shares to allow smaller investors to purchase between $100 and $2,500 worth of Etsy stock.
Kenneth Manger, who runs a new Etsy store, printswonderful, is one of the hopeful buyers.
"I was surprised when I clicked on the little IPO thing that they had on the website that they actually would make shares available to small investors," he says.
He says that while he cannot claim to be an Etsy expert, he appreciates the company's commitment to creativity. That is why he is willing to take a risk investing in a company that is yet to turn a profit.
If Etsy is successful - and success, in this instance, will be more than just whether shares in the firm "pop", or rise significantly in their first day of trading, which is expected to be Thursday - it could serve as a model for other like-minded firms.
"If Etsy demonstrates continued growth stable or rising share price and a lot of liquidity for investors, that's proof of concept that this kind of company can get funding on the public markets," says Prof Brakman Reiser.
Margaret James, 64, of Porthoustock, was convicted in 2006 of conspiring to kill Peter Solheim, 56.
He disappeared in June 2004 and his mutilated body was later found floating five miles off the Lizard.
Her appeal against conviction was rejected by three Court of Appeal judges.
No-one has been convicted of murdering parish councillor and Druid community member Mr Solheim.
The father of two had been drugged and mutilated with a machete or axe before he died from drowning.
The court heard that James met Mr Solheim in September 1995 through a dating column and they started a relationship.
But he also continued a 20-year relationship with another woman.
Prosecutors said James feared that Mr Solheim was about to leave her.
Evidence was put forward by a witness at the trial of her having spoken about finding a tasteless poison with which to lace his food and kill him.
In the appeal hearing in London, her legal team argued that the evidence was "hearsay" and should never have gone before the jury.
It was also argued that further information, not seen by lawyers for James, might now be available which could help her in an appeal against the conviction.
Rejecting the arguments, the judges said when put alongside the other evidence in the case the grounds of appeal did not make the conviction unsafe.
Islwyn MP Chris Evans told BBC Wales' Sunday Politics Wales he feared strikes would create more refugees.
MPs backed UK military action by 397 votes to 223 on Wednesday.
All of Wales' 11 Conservative MPs supported the air strikes. Leader Andrew RT Davies said they were necessary for national security.
Stephen Doughty, the Labour MP for Cardiff South and Penarth, backed the action but his constituency assembly colleague Vaughan Gething said he was undecided.
Mr Gething said: "I don't think anyone with hand on heart can say we are absolutely guaranteed we are safer for action or that we can guarantee that we are safer than if we don't take action given that we are already a target."
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US President Barack Obama said the package, discovered on a UPS cargo plane en route to America from Yemen, was addressed to a Chicago synagogue.
Home Secretary Theresa May said tests were ongoing, but it was "not yet clear that it was a viable explosive device".
She added: "There is nothing to suggest that any location in the UK was being targeted."
In a statement in the early hours of Saturday morning, Mrs May said the UK government was "working closely with our international colleagues" on the investigation.
"The package which originated in Yemen was removed for forensic examination by UK experts. That examination continues," she said.
"At this stage I can say that the device did contain explosive material. But it is not yet clear that it was a viable explosive device. The forensic work continues."
The home secretary said the government's emergency planning committee, Cobra, met on Friday to discuss the situation and would meet again on Saturday.
"We are reviewing the security measures for air freight from Yemen and are in discussion with industry contacts," she added.
Mrs May confirmed that direct flights from Yemen to the UK remained suspended after a flight ban was imposed following the failed terror attack over Detroit on Christmas Day.
The package found at East Midlands was a toner cartridge with wires attached to it. Tests are now being carried out to establish what kind of explosive material it contained.
By Gordon CoreraSecurity correspondent, BBC News
Yemen has risen rapidly up towards the top of the list of countries of concern for Western counter-terrorism officials in the last year.
The group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula - which has found a sanctuary in the Yemen's ungoverned spaces - has shown increasing ambition and sophistication in its attempts to target the United States and others.
But while the origin of this plot seems clear, its exact form does not. The presence of explosives in the devices, as revealed by President Obama, suggests this was no dry run, nor was it simply an attempt to cause panic through a hoax.
Forensic experts in the UK have been continuing to study substances found in the parts for a computer printer to try to understand exactly what they were and how they were to be used.
There appears to be a strong conviction these were components of a bomb, but whether they were complete, how they were to be detonated and against which target remains uncertain.
Mr Obama told a press conference in the United States that the package, and another discovered in Dubai, were addressed to two Jewish places of worship in Chicago.
A US official has told the BBC's Washington bureau that the intelligence tip that led to the discovery of the two suspect packages came from the Saudi Arabian authorities.
According to Scotland Yard, the plane travelling from Yemen to the US had first stopped at Cologne, in Germany, before landing at East Midlands Airport where its cargo was examined. Tests were carried out and a number of objects were sent for scientific examination.
Emergency services were called to the Donington site at East Midlands airport at about 0330 BST on Friday and evacuated a distribution centre. The area was reopened just before 1000 BST but a cordon was re-imposed just before 1400 BST so the package could be re-examined.
All cordons were lifted at about 1740 BST. No other UK airports were affected by the alerts.
The investigation led to the closure of a freight distribution building and a number of offices, along with two internal airport roads.
According to the Home Office, the current threat level from international terrorism to the UK is classed as severe, meaning a terrorist attack is highly likely.
Prof Anthony Glees, director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at Buckingham University, told the BBC he was surprised that the threat level had not been raised to critical - meaning an attack is imminent - on Friday.
"From the soundings that I've been taking in Whitehall, it does seem to be the case that there was no specific intelligence coming to London that such an attack might be highly probable," he said.
"But clearly such intelligence was going through to the United States of America."
Prof Glees said Friday's incidents must be seen in the context of comments made this week by Martin Broughton, chairman of British Airways, about airport security.
Mr Broughton said many checks - such as the removal of passengers' shoes - were "completely redundant", and accused UK authorities of "kowtowing" to US security demands.
"Those statements must classify as some of the biggest security howlers in recent years," Prof Glees added.
Saeed Ghani, 30, also stole a couple's details in a bid to defraud them of their £90,000 pension.
Co-defendant Atif Mahmood, 42, stole identity documents from a post box in the Stockport area in June 2012.
The pair used the details to try and sell a couple's home, Preston Crown Court heard.
Ghani, of Prestwich, Greater Manchester, was jailed for seven years and six months. Mahmood was sentenced to 26 months.
Their plot to sell a couple's £500,000 property was only foiled when the victims' daughter noticed the family home was for sale on an internet site.
Ghani also stole the identities of two homeowners in Bolton by using fraudulent passports in a bid to transfer the Land Registry deeds of their £300,000 home.
The court heard he and another man, Toma Ramanauskaite, intercepted another couple's post in Boothstown, Salford, in August 2014.
Driving licences were taken out in their names and used as identification to open new bank accounts.
The pair then successfully transferred nearly £90,000 after contacting the victims' pension company.
Ghani admitted three counts of conspiracy to defraud, while Mahmood, of Gorton, Manchester pleaded guilty to one count of the same offence.
Ramanauskaite, 30 from Bury, will be sentenced next month after pleading guilty to the same charge.
Iraqi government troops and Kurdish fighters launched their push towards the city in the early hours of Monday.
IS seized Mosul, then Iraq's second-largest city, in June 2014.
The UN has expressed concern for civilians caught up in the offensive, which could last for months.
The BBC's Orla Guerin, who is with Kurdish tank units advancing from the east, says they are now within 300m (about 1,000ft) of IS positions.
The Kurds seized several villages in the first few hours of the operation.
As the assault began, one Kurdish general told our correspondent: "If I am killed today I will die happy because I have done something for my people."
An Iraqi military source told the BBC that combat units had inflicted heavy losses on IS forces as they moved in on the Hamdaniya district, east of Mosul.
Pro-government forces have also made gains as they move on Mosul from the south, security sources say.
Meanwhile IS claimed that a number of suicide attacks targeting pro-government forces on the outskirts of the city had suppressed the advance.
The IS-linked news agency, Amaq, reported that eight suicide attacks had targeted Kurdish forces. But the group has not made an official comment on the launch of the offensive.
Iraqi government troops and Kurdish fighters are operating from Qayyarah airbase, which was recaptured in August.
The US-led coalition fighting IS is backing the assault on the city, which has a population of approximately 650,000, with air strikes.
The BBC understands that British aircraft have also been involved in Monday's coalition air strikes on Mosul.
The RAF has been providing support to Iraqi troops in the build-up to the operation and will continue to play a "leading role" in the fight against IS, UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said.
About 30,000 pro-government troops are involved in the operation. The main assault is being led by Iraqi army troops.
About 4,000 Kurdish fighters are trying to clear villages to the east of Mosul, to allow the army to move in.
US Special Operations personnel are advising forces on the ground. Elite Iraqi counterterrorism forces are expected to join in the coming days.
An estimated 4,000-8,000 Islamic State fighters are defending the city.
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Mosul, the oil-rich capital of Nineveh province, is Iraq's second-largest city. IS militants overran it in June 2014.
Its capture became a symbol of the group's rise as a major force and its ability to control territory. It was there that IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed a "caliphate" in parts of Iraq and neighbouring Syria.
The city was one of Iraq's most diverse, comprising ethnic Sunni Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians and Turkmens, as well as a variety of religious minorities.
While members of those minorities largely fled the onslaught by IS, many local Sunni Arabs initially welcomed the militants, angered by the sectarian policies of the previous Shia Arab-led central government.
But after two years of brutal IS rule, opposition has reportedly grown inside Mosul.
One major concern for those still there is the involvement of Shia militiamen in the offensive, after they were accused of sectarian abuses in other cities that have been recaptured.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has sought to reassure them by saying only Iraqi security forces would be allowed to enter Mosul.
Even if IS is driven out of Mosul, the group will still control areas of northern and eastern Iraq.
Up to 100,000 Iraqi civilians may flee to Syria and Turkey to escape the military assault in Mosul, the UN says.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has issued an appeal for an additional $61m (£50m) to provide tents, camps, and winter items such as blankets for displaced people inside Iraq and the two neighbouring countries.
UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien said: "I am extremely concerned for the safety of up to 1.5 million people living in Mosul who may be impacted."
Many are expected to be caught in the fighting. There are fears that residents could be used as human shields by IS.
As many as a million people could be forced to flee their homes.
Most are expected to leave "with only the clothes on their backs," Becky Bakr Abdulla of the Norwegian Refugee Council told AFP news agency.
The BBC understands the government has investigated the previously unreported attack that began in April last year.
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre would not say whether data was stolen.
But a source told the BBC that the most sensitive Foreign Office information is not kept on the systems targeted by the hackers.
Research published on Thursday by cybersecurity firm F-Secure suggested the attack was a "spear-phishing" campaign, in which people were sent targeted emails in attempts to fool them into clicking a rogue link or handing over their username and password.
To do this, the attackers created a number of web addresses designed to resemble legitimate Foreign Office websites, including those used for accessing webmail.
F-Secure does not know whether the attack was successful.
The company says the domains were created by hackers that it calls the Callisto Group, which it says is still active.
However the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) declined to say who was behind the attack on the Foreign Office.
In a statement, it said: "The first duty of government is to safeguard the nation and as the technical authority on cyber security, the NCSC is delivering ground breaking innovations to make the UK the toughest online target in the world.
"The government's Active Cyber Defence programme is developing services to block, prevent and neutralise attacks before they reach inboxes," it added.
F-Secure said the Callisto Group had, since 2015, attacked "military personnel, government officials, think tanks and journalists" mainly in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus, as well as in the Ukraine and the UK.
It added that there was some evidence suggesting the Callisto Group had ties with a nation state.
The company did not say which country, but also observed that the "infrastructure" used by the group had links with "entities" in China, Russia and Ukraine.
The targeted emails that were sent out tried to fool targets into downloading malware which was first developed for law enforcement by the Italian software company Hacking Team.
Hacking Team's surveillance tools were previously exposed in a cyberattack, first reported in 2015.
There is no suggestion that Hacking Team had any involvement in the attacks.
F-Secure said that the use of the software should remind governments that they "don't have monopolies on these [surveillance] technologies", and that once created the software can fall into the hands of hackers.
The BBC has not seen evidence conclusively identifying the origin of the attack.
A cybersecurity expert at another company, who wished to remain anonymous, found a link to information uncovered in the investigation of Russian efforts to influence the US election.
Two of the phishing domains used by the hackers were once linked to an IP address mentioned in a US government report into Grizzly Steppe.
Grizzly Steppe is the name given by the US government to efforts by "Russian civilian and military intelligence services to compromise and exploit networks and endpoints associated with the US election".
However, the cybersecurity expert noted that this connection between the phishing domain and Grizzly Steppe may be a coincidence, as over 300 other domains - many of them not hacking-related - were linked to the same IP address.
F-Secure told the BBC that it did notice some similarity between the Callisto Group's hacking and previous attacks that have been linked to Russia.
However, it said despite some similarities in the tactics, techniques, procedures and targets of the Callisto Group, and the Russia-linked group known as APT28, it believed the two were "operationally" separate.
It noted that the Callisto Group was also less "technically capable" than APT28.
Marc Muniesa and Mame Diouf suffered midweek knocks but may be fit, while Xherdan Shaqiri has trained and is "an option", manager Mark Hughes says.
Liverpool will assess playmaker Philippe Coutinho, who was forced off against Bournemouth due to illness and missed training on Thursday and Friday.
Sadio Mane requires knee surgery and will miss the rest of the season.
Joel Matip should return to the starting line-up after a back problem reduced him to the role of substitute in midweek.
Guy Mowbray: "It's hard to know who to make favourites.
"Stoke? Much stronger at home, and unburdened by immediate relegation pressure.
"BUT…..three defeats in a row and one win from six is troubling form. They're not (mathematically) safe yet and perhaps need to engineer a sense of tension.
"Liverpool? Five games unbeaten and one defeat in seven - plus the other three teams in the top four have all won at Stoke this season.
"BUT….all five league defeats have come against sides currently in the bottom half, and their recent away form borders on rotten.
"Those still going for an away win might pair it with Definitly Red for the Grand National. Me? I'm sticking a pin in for both."
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Stoke manager Mark Hughes: "With the quality of opposition we have been up against in the last couple of weeks, you can argue this run of fixtures has been the most difficult we've had this season.
"Apart from Leicester, where I was disappointed with our performance, we've had decent-enough performances. That continued against Burnley because I felt we were the better team on the night.
"The way we view the season as a whole helps us because the focus is on the next game and the next series of fixtures. We set realistic goals throughout the season and move on to the next one."
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp on the current injury and illness toll: "It compromises our situation and makes like not easy.
"These are the highest-quality players and if you took out all the players which we miss now from other teams I'd be surprised if they could play their best football.
"We don't play them (the top six) any more so we don't have influence on their games but I don't think 65 points will be enough to go to Champions League so we need to collect a few more points.
"But at this moment it is only how we can make a line-up against Stoke - and that is a real challenge."
When you are ahead with a few minutes to go, you make sure you win. Liverpool do not have the ability to do that at the moment. You could argue they are too nice, and they are also missing the injured Adam Lallana and Sadio Mane.
Stoke have now lost three on the spin and have scored only one goal in their past four matches, but I don't see Liverpool going there and winning.
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Mr Sobyanin secured 51.3% - just above the 50% threshold needed to avoid a second-round ballot.
His main rival, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, polled 27.2%.
Mr Navalny called for a run-off and refused to recognise the results, saying they had been "deliberately falsified".
Mr Navalny said he had won enough votes to force a second round and that the count had been marred by "many serious violations".
By Daniel SandfordBBC News, Moscow
Sometimes even when a candidate loses an election, they are still a winner. Only seven-and-a-half weeks ago Alexei Navalny was sitting in prison, a convicted criminal claiming political persecution who was then released pending his appeal.
When he started campaigning the opinion polls were predicting he would get less than 10% of the vote. But he knew that a significant proportion of Moscow was looking for a new kind of politics, and he took to the streets to meet the voters, something Muscovites had not seen in years.
Deprived of access to state-controlled TV, he fought using the internet and word-of-mouth. Although President Vladimir Putin's candidate Sergei Sobyanin has still beaten him, this result was much less comfortable than the Kremlin expected, and will force a further rethink of its strategy in Moscow.
It is only the beginning of Alexei Navalny's career as a conventional politician - if it is not cut short again by him being returned to prison.
But Moscow's electoral commission said there had been no serious violations and a run-off would not take place.
With all the votes counted, the commission said turnout in the Moscow vote was a low 32%. The Communist candidate, Ivan Melnikov, came third with 10.7%.
Mr Sobyanin, once President Putin's chief of staff, told supporters earlier the election had been transparent.
"We have something to be proud of," he said at a late-night rally in Bolotnaya Square. "We have organised the most honest and open elections in the history of Moscow."
Mr Navalny warned late on Sunday that if he was denied a run-off, he would "appeal to the citizens and ask them to take to the streets of Moscow".
City authorities have allowed him to hold a rally on Monday evening with up to 2,500 supporters.
In late 2011, Moscow was the scene of the biggest anti-government protests since Soviet times after a general election marred by allegations of ballot-rigging.
"Right now Sobyanin and his main supporter Vladimir Putin are deciding whether to have a relatively honest election and to have a second round, or not," he said as partial results were still coming in.
The opposition leader is currently on bail after being found guilty of embezzlement in what he insists was a political trial.
In other mayoral votes on Sunday, anti-heroin campaigner Yevgeny Roizman won by a narrow majority in Yekaterinburg, the main city in Russia's Urals industrial zone, election officials say.
Mr Roizman, a former MP often critical of Kremlin policy, defeated ruling party candidate Yakov Silin by a margin of 30% to 26%, according to preliminary results. Unlike Moscow, the city's mayor is elected by a simple majority in a single round.
Mayoral elections were abolished in Moscow in 2004 but re-instated as a concession to pro-democracy campaigners.
Mr Navalny ran a Western-style campaign, holding informal meetings with voters outside metro stations and using glossy posters of himself with his family.
He is credited with bringing grassroots politics to the Russian capital, inspiring thousands of volunteers to support his campaign.
Mr Sobyanin became mayor in 2010 after Yuri Luzhkov, who had governed the city for almost two decades, was forced out of office.
The Kremlin-backed candidate has kept a low profile during the race, shunning debates with the five other candidates.
In all, six candidates stood in the election.
Forney scored his first in the opening period but the Giants trailed 2-1 after Curtis Leinweber and Riley Wetmore found the net for the hosts.
Justin Faryna and Lou Dickenson extended the lead but James Desmarais pulled one back for the visitors.
Derrick Walser and Forney scored in the third period and Forney in overtime.
Forney's decisive strike in the first period of overtime ensured four points from the weekend's two Elite League games for the Giants, who defeated Sheffield Steelers 4-1 in Belfast on Saturday.
The Giants were without Matt Nickerson and Chris Higgins for the clash with Dundee because of injury, but Craig Peacock and Darryl Lloyd were back after suspension.
The Harlequins forward, 26, picked up the injury on 10 January and had been a doubt for the start of the Championship.
But he is now back in full training and set to start in the front row.
"Everything is on track for Joe," forwards coach Steve Borthwick told BBC Radio 5 live.
"To have him back fit is brilliant. He's been incredibly diligent to make sure he is in the best physical shape."
Meanwhile, flanker James Haskell is also available for selection after a long-term foot problem.
Haskell played a key role in England's Grand Slam and unbeaten tour of Australia in 2016, but missed the autumn series because of the injury.
Tom Wood played on the open-side flank in Haskell's absence, and the Northampton forward is expected to retain his place against the French.
However, with Chris Robshaw injured, there is a strong possibility Maro Itoje will move from the second row to the back row.
"The versatility that Maro offers is brilliant," Borthwick added.
"The way he plays, it's not about trying to change anything. It's about going on the field and bringing energy, enthusiasm and physicality."
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The Briton took the first set comfortably, but lost the initiative in the second and then let a lead slip in the deciding set.
Konta, 25, looked increasingly weary in the final event of the WTA Tour season.
Svitolina will now face the Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova, who beat Chinese wildcard Zhang Shuai 6-2 6-2.
The tournament features the leading 12 players who did not qualify for last week's WTA Finals in Singapore.
Konta appeared to be cruising to the final, with the Ukrainian having no answer to the power and accuracy of her serve and ground strokes in the opening set.
The world number 10 broke her 22-year-old opponent in the third and seventh games to take it in just 26 minutes.
Svitolina took a bathroom break at the end of the set and the interruption appeared to affect Konta's rhythm.
After a string of unforced errors, the Briton - under pressure for the first time in the tournament - soon trailed 5-0 in the second.
The momentum of the match had swung round, and though Konta briefly rallied in the third set to open up a 3-1 lead, she couldn't sustain the recovery and her serve was picked apart again with decisive back-to-back breaks.
It is one of 41 pieces of post-war public art in England newly protected by the government.
The list also includes three works by Barbara Hepworth and one by Henry Moore, opposite Parliament in London.
Heritage minister Tracey Crouch said: "Not only are they magnificent sculptures but they are also an important part of our history."
The bright red work of art (and 40 others) now protected
Gormley's Untitled [Listening] in Camden, north London, was one of the artist's first public sculpture commissions and dates back to 1984.
The work, in Maygrove Peace Park, shows a human figure sat on a boulder, cupping an ear. It was commissioned by Camden Council to show its commitment to peace, with the park opened on the anniversary of the atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
Hepworth's Winged Figure, on London's Oxford Street, and Single Form (Memorial) in Battersea Park, London, have been given Grade II* status, with Rosewall (Curved Reclining Form) in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, given Grade II listing.
The Oxford Street work was designed to make people "feel airborne in rain and sunlight", she said, with the Battersea Park sculpture being her response to the death of a friend.
Knife Edge Two Piece, an abstract bronze sculpture by Henry Moore which can be found opposite the Houses of Parliament, has also been listed.
The 41 sculptures reflect life in the years following the war, with themes including industry, family and play. There is also a work commemorating children killed in the Blitz.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport made the listings on advice from Historic England.
Roger Bowdler, the body's director of listing, said: "These sculptures were commissioned and created for everybody and have become a precious national collection of art which we can all share.
"They enrich our lives, bring art to everyone and deserve celebration. We have worked with the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, Tate, and the Twentieth Century Society throughout this project to ensure our most special public art is protected and continues to enhance our public spaces."
Fifteen of the newly-listed works are outside of London, including three in Harlow, Essex, which has become known as the Sculpture Town.
A map has been made showing the locations of all of the sculptures.
Only 16 overs were possible at the Sydney Cricket Ground as India avoided the defeat that would have all but secured England's qualification.
India had reached 69-2 when a third rain delay forced play to be abandoned.
England are three points ahead of India in the table, with four on offer for the winner of Friday's game in Perth.
The final, against Australia, will be played at the Waca in Perth on 1 February and represents both teams' last one-day international before the World Cup starts on 14 February.
Australia qualified for the final with a game to spare after winning their opening three matches.
England beat India by nine wickets to claim a bonus-point win in their previous group encounter.
Rain delayed the start in Sydney by 40 minutes after India lost the toss, interrupted play after 16 balls and returned to force play to be abandoned at 20:05 local time (09:05 GMT).
Ajinkya Rahane was unbeaten on 28, having seen Shikhar Dhawan (8) edge to slip and Ambati Rayudu (23) fall to a splendid David Warner catch over his shoulder running towards to the boundary.
India remain without a win in nine games on their tour of Australia.
Prop Jenkins, 35, has departed Wales' tour of New Zealand with a calf injury and will miss the final Test against the All Blacks in Dunedin on Saturday.
The three-time Six Nations Grand Slam winner has won 126 caps for his country and started Wales' opening two games against the world champions.
"He's been outstanding," said McBryde.
The veteran Cardiff Blues forward has admitted he is unlikely to play at the 2019 World Cup and Wales coach Warren Gatland has said he is planning an "exit strategy" with the prop as he heads towards retirement.
But asked whether Jenkins could push for more Wales caps and a place on the Lions' tour to New Zealand next year, McBryde said: "On current form, you've got to say yes to that."
"I congratulated him before he went because he has taken on not only what he does on the pitch, but off the pitch as well with regards to his mentoring role with someone like [fellow prop] Rob Evans."
Jenkins won the first of his five Lions caps on the 2005 tour of New Zealand, which the visitors lost 3-0, before playing twice in South Africa in 2009 in a 2-1 series defeat.
The former Toulon player, who made his debut for Wales against Romania in 2002, was selected for the Lions' victorious 2013 tour of Australia, but flew home early because of a calf injury.
McBryde says Jenkins takes good care of himself, which could help prolong his career at the highest level with the Lions due to play three Tests matches against the All Blacks next summer.
"One of his strengths is how professional he is off the field with regards to managing himself," said McBryde, who has agreed a new deal to remain part of Wales' backroom team until after the 2019 World Cup.
"He knows himself that he has got to look after his calves with the number of problems he has had there. He's had issues with his toe, his achilles, his calf etc.
"He's managing to keep on top of that and you see him doing his pre-hab exercises in the morning and he's always keen to do a bit extra at the end of training.
"And we're managing that with regards to the load he's doing during the week.
"He doesn't need to do as much as someone like Rob Evans, for instance, because there's a certain amount of mileage on the clock that you need to look after to him."
Jenkins' New Zealand tour ended after suffering a calf injury in the 36-22 defeat by the All Blacks in Wellington last weekend.
Steve Hansen's All Blacks have an unassailable 2-0 series lead going into Saturday's game in Dunedin.
Wales, beaten 39-21 in the first Test at Eden Park, have not beaten the Kiwis since 1953.
He tweeted on Tuesday, "Lauren! I found your student ID in the park. If you still need it my office will get it to you. Hanx."
The ID card shows that she is enrolled at Fordham University in New York City.
There is no word yet on whether Lauren got her ID back from Mr Hanks, though one Twitter user has claimed it belongs to her friend.
Mr Hanks is familiar with having strangers return lost items -he tweeted in March that someone had found his credit card on the street and returned it.
In its first billing cycle, it collected 30.5m euros (£21m), compared with about 67m euros (£47m) that was due.
In April, the company sent bills to 1.7m households. Irish Water said 675,000 households had paid so far and it had received 46% of payments due.
Anti-water bill campaigners are claiming a victory.
But the company defended the rate of payments, calling it "a solid start".
Head of communications Elizabeth Arnett said: "Typically, in well-established UK water utilities, customers take an average of three months to pay a water bill.
"No reminders have been issued to our customers and yet we have a payment rate that is broadly in line with what would be expected for a new utility sending out a new bill for the first time.
"This represents a solid start for Irish Water".
However, those opposed to water charges have said that the figures represent a victory for them.
Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald said it signalled to the Irish government in no uncertain terms that the majority of the people do not support water charges.
Anti-Austerity Alliance TD Paul Murphy said it represented "a massive victory for people power" and that a clear majority of people have sent a message that they will not pay these charges.
Householders who refuse to pay face fines.
The 35-year-old started his career with Newport and had spells with Leicester, Scarlets, Cardiff Blues, Wasps and Newport Gwent Dragons among others.
Powell made his Wales debut in 2008 and won the last of his 23 caps in 2012.
He earned notoriety in 2010 when he was charged with drink driving after allegedly taking and driving a golf buggy on the M4 motorway.
Powell toured South Africa with the British and Irish Lions in 2009 but did not make a Test appearance.
He had a spell with rugby league team Wigan between 2013 and 2014, before returning to union with the Dragons.
Powell joined Merthyr in the Welsh Championship in 2015 and helped them win promotion to the Premiership.
"Andy's found it hard to get over his current knee injury and will not be forgotten. He was a big part of our success last season as captain," said Merthyr chairman Peter Morgan.
"Andy had plenty of time for everyone he will be sadly missed on the field and off, but will always be welcome to our club."
Symons was confirmed as manager at Craven Cottage on Wednesday.
The 43-year-old had been in charge on an interim basis following the sacking of Felix Magath last month.
It was believed that Symons would have to stand down from his role with Wales - who play Belgium on 16 November - but he is keen to remain as part of Chris Coleman's backroom staff.
Symons has been assistant to Coleman since January 2012, but the Wales manager has previously said he could not do both long term.
Wales top European Championship qualifying Group B ahead of Israel and Belgium after their 2-1 home win over Cyprus on 13 October.
The game in Brussels is followed by a four-month gap until Wales face Israel in Haifa on 28 March, 2015.
Fulham owner Shahid Kahn has given Symons his blessing to continue his work with Coleman in the Welsh set-up.
"He's [Symons] the guy to decide the best use of his time," said Kahn, who also owns NFL American football team, Jacksonville Jaguars .
"I know in my case I have a number of interests business and personal."
Football Association of Wales chief executive Jonathan Ford is confident Symons wants to stay on.
"Having spoken to him before his appointment [at Fulham] I know that he really wants to see this through," said Ford.
"We're all delighted for him, we'd anticipated because he's been doing such an amazing job there.
"We just hope he can continue his role, he'll certainly be with us away in Belgium, and we hope he can continue his role and see us all the way through to France in 2016."
68-year-old Warnock is due to have a meeting with Dalman next week to talk about his future with the Bluebirds.
"He's been magnificent right across the board. He's brought togetherness to the club," Dalman told BBC Radio Wales.
"He's brought the joy back to the club as well as the football, so I think he's done an exceptional job."
Dalman continued: "I am a massive fan of Neil, I will expect him to be here next season. If it's up to me that's exactly what will happen and we'll do the best that we can. I'm pretty confident about things in general."
Warnock took over in October as replacement for Paul Trollope, with the club second from bottom in the table after two wins in 11 games.
The former Rotherham United and Leeds United boss has turned their form around since arriving at the club but wants to push for promotion next season.
"We are very fortunate at Cardiff City in the sense that Neil's ambitions are fully aligned with ours. He wants to go for that promotion for his own reasons as well as the club's," Dalman said.
"In terms of what he wants, of course we've discussed it and we analysed it. There is a plan, we know what's needed, we know what he wants and we'll do the very best we can to give that to him."
Warnock has stated that it would not take big money to launch a promotion bid in 2017-18, but Dalman admits the club is still bound by the impact of Financial Fair Play.
"It's problematic for us at the moment. We're in a good position but given the sort of budget we need to put together, that may put us in some difficulty," he added.
"We've got some work to do, it's not that simple. Do I want to sell our best players? The answer is no, but certainly, do we need to change the cost base? Probably."
Essex added 16 runs to their overnight 335-3, with Lawrence 51 not out and Ravi Bopara 66 not out at stumps.
There was enough time for Lawrence to become the fifth Essex player to reach a half-century, following Alastair Cook, Tom Westley and Nick Browne's efforts on the first day.
Play was called off at 17:10 BST.
The civil nuclear infrastructure in most nations is not well prepared to defend against such attacks, it added.
Many of the control systems for the infrastructure were "insecure by design" because of their age, it said.
Published by the influential Chatham House think tank, the report studied cyber defences in power plants around the world over an 18-month period.
Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and terrorists were all increasing their online activity, it said, meaning that the risk of a significant net-based attack was "ever present".
Such an attack on a nuclear plant, even if small-scale or unlikely, needed to be taken seriously because of the harm that would follow if radiation were released.
In addition, it said "even a small-scale cyber security incident at a nuclear facility would be likely to have a disproportionate effect on public opinion and the future of the civil nuclear industry".
Unfortunately, research carried out for the study showed that the UK's nuclear plants and associated infrastructure were not well protected or prepared because the industry had converted to digital systems relatively recently.
This increasing digitisation and growing reliance on commercial software is only increasing the risks the nuclear industry faces.
There was a "pervading myth" that computer systems in power plants were isolated from the internet at large and because of this were immune to the kind of cyber attacks that have dogged other industries.
However, it said, this so-called "air gap" between the public internet and nuclear systems was easy to breach with "nothing more than a flash drive". It noted that the destructive Stuxnet computer virus infected Iran's nuclear facilities via this route.
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The researchers for the report had also found evidence of virtual networks and other links to the public internet on nuclear infrastructure networks. Some of these were forgotten or simply unknown to those in charge of these organisations.
Already search engines that sought out critical infrastructure had indexed these links making it easy for attackers to find ways in to networks and control systems.
Keith Parker, chief executive of the Nuclear Industry Association, said: "Security, including cyber security, is an absolute priority for power station operators."
"All of Britain's power stations are designed with safety in mind and are stress-tested to withstand a vast range of potential incidents," he added. "Power station operators work closely with national agencies such as the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure and other intelligence agencies to always be aware of emerging threats."
In addition, said Mr Parker, the industry's regulator continuously monitors plant safety to help protect it from any outside threats.
In June this year the International Atomic Energy Agency held its first international conference about the cyber threats facing plants and manufacturing facilities. At the conference Yukiya Amano, director of the IAEA, said both random and targeted attacks were being directed at nuclear plants.
"Staff responsible for nuclear security should know how to repel cyber-attacks and to limit the damage if systems are actually penetrated," he said in a keynote address to the conference.
The civil nuclear industry should do a better job of measuring cyber attack risks and improve the way it defends against them, according to Chatham House. Many plants examined by the report's researchers lacked preparedness for large-scale attacks that took place outside office hours.
"The nuclear industry is beginning - but struggling - to come to grips with this new, insidious threat," said Patricia Lewis, research director of Chatham House's international security programme.
The 25-year-old will now go into the IPL auction on 4 February.
The Twenty20 tournament runs from 5 April to 21 May, but Stokes is likely to be involved in England's one-day series against Ireland on 5 May.
"It's a good opportunity to go away and experience different competitions," said Stokes, who has played 18 T20 internationals.
England begin a one-day series against India on Sunday.
Stokes' international team-mates Sam Billings and Jos Buttler are already contracted to IPL teams, while Jason Roy has put himself forward for the auction.
Alex Hales and limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan are also expected to be in the auction, although it is not yet clear how long England will allow them to play for.
After the Ireland series, England host the Champions Trophy in June, but Stokes said he would he happy to return early from the IPL for England duty.
"If they want us to come back and report for England, which is our job, then we'll come back and have no complaints," he said.
"This year's IPL is a chance for not just myself but other England guys to experience what it's like and see a different side to T20 cricket."
Defender Baptiste, 31, made 24 Championship appearances on loan with Preston last season.
He has been reunited with Rangers boss Ian Holloway, who he worked under for Blackpool, helping them win promotion to the Premier League in 2010.
"Alex is one of the biggest characters I've worked with in my time in the game," Holloway told the club website.
"He's versatile - he can play anywhere across the back - and that was a big plus for me."
Baptiste, who has previously played for Mansfield Town, Blackpool and Bolton, could make his QPR debut against Northampton Town in the League Cup on Tuesday.
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Both China and Turkey claim the group, held since March 2014 after entering Thailand illegally, as their citizens.
The court ruled that the group must remain in detention until their nationalities are proven.
The court case could have implications for whether hundreds of other Uighurs held in Thailand could be repatriated.
The group of 17 people - mostly reported to be from the same family - say they are Turkish citizens, and the Turkish government recently issued them with passports.
However, China says they are Uighurs from its north-western region of Xinjiang.
It has criticised Turkey's offer to repatriate them and has insisted that their real home is in China.
China's authorities blame Uighur separatists for instigating violence and the frequent unrest in Xinjiang. They have launched a widespread crackdown in Xinjiang, arresting hundreds and executing dozens in recent years.
In response, some Uighurs are reported to have fled China and secretly travelled through South East Asia on their way to Turkey.
The group have challenged the right of the Thai authorities to keep them in custody, and say the conditions they are being kept in are unacceptable.
However, the court ruled on Friday that Thai immigration had a legal right to detain the group. It made no judgement on the question of their nationalities.
The lawyer for the group said that he would appeal against the ruling.
The BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok says that it is likely that Chinese diplomatic pressure played a hand in the court's decision to keep the group in custody.
Officials in Beijing have been pushing Thailand to repatriate more than 300 Uighurs who were found last year hidden in a rubber plantation in the south of the country.
Facing isolation from its traditional Western allies after last year's military coup, the Thai government has been working to improve relations with China - which means that even though the Turkish government has offered them a home, the Uighurs are unlikely to be released while there are still objections from Beijing, our correspondent says.
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Activists say that Uighurs have experienced economic, cultural and religious repression by the authorities over the decades, in addition to difficulties obtaining passports.
Uighur activists say they are seeking asylum and fleeing persecution, but Chinese authorities say that many Uighurs are leaving the country to link up with Islamist militants.
A woman, also in her 20s, was punched in the face during the incident in the Castle Street/King Street area at about 12:00 BST on Monday afternoon.
Police have said the man suffered two stab wounds to his body.
His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
In January, the Javelin Park site was given the go-ahead by the government after having been previously refused by Gloucestershire County Council.
Stroud District Council launched the legal challenge in order to get the issue reconsidered.
But, the government said the council had "misread" the inspector's report.
Zack Simons QC, acting on behalf of the district council, told Mrs Justice Lang the planning inspector had "made errors" when considering how to apply parts of Gloucestershire's waste core strategy that related to the "landscape and visual impact of any scheme".
Mr Simons told the court the policy was "misinterpreted in part", which then "wrongly influenced" the secretary of state's decision.
However Richard Honey, on behalf of the Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government Greg Clark, said the district council's argument was based on a "misreading" of the minister's decision and the inspector's report.
Mr Honey argued the secretary of state or inspector "didn't misinterpret policy" and that any concerns over the "height and scale" of the building were "correctly considered".
Councillor Geoff Wheeler, from the district council, said: "Our legal challenge is based upon landscape impact. We don't believe that this aspect was assessed correctly, hence our aim is to ensure that this issue is reconsidered."
Developer Urbaser Balfour Beatty, which has the contract to build the facility, near junction 12 of the M5, said it was "confident" the High Court would "uphold the Secretary of State's decision to award planning permission".
Mrs Justice Lang has reserved her judgement.
Brian Conville, a 25-year-old from Dublin and 20-year-old Canadian Joseph Gagnon, were on the final stage of their journey when their boat capsized.
It happened at about 05:00 local time and they spent hours on their upturned boat in heavy seas awaiting rescue.
They were airlifted to hospital by the Irish Coast Guard.
Mr Conville's spokesman, Owen Douglas, told BBC News NI that both rowers had suffered mild hypothermia and exhaustion but were recovering well.
The pair had set off from St Johns in Newfoundland on 13 June, aiming to become the youngest pair to complete the voyage from Canada to Ireland.
For the past five weeks, they have been rowing day and night, rotating responsibility with two hour shifts on the oars.
They were aiming to arrive in Crookhaven Harbour, County Cork, late on Sunday, but stormy seas overwhelmed their vessel before dawn on Friday.
They were rescued by a Waterford-based helicopter off Mizen Head and airlifted to Tralee Hospital in County Kerry.
The men had to climb on the hull of their overturned boat and await rescue after an alarm beacon was triggered, according to Tatiana Rezvaya-Crutchlow from the Ocean Rowing Society.
She praised the actions of the Irish Coast Guard and said it was a shame the rowers were not able to complete their record attempt after "doing so well'" in their Atlantic crossing.
The pair are both experienced rowers and Ms Rezvaya-Crutchlow said they had been "very well prepared" for the crossing.
Mr Douglas said it would have taken a lot of effort to hold on to the boat for hours in rough weather conditions.
He added that the men were relieved to be safe and well, but said he expects they will feel frustrated at having come so close to reaching their goal.
He described how Mr Gagnon's parents had arrived in Dublin Airport on Friday morning and were met by Mr Conville's parents, just as news emerged that their sons' alarm beacon had been triggered.
Mr Douglas said it was a worrying time for both families until they were informed that the rescue had been successful.
The Irish Coast Guard's search and rescue manager Gerard O'Flynn said: "It highlights that if you can raise the alarm and stay afloat then you stand a very good chance of being rescued."
Mr O'Flynn praised the work of the helicopter crew and officials at the incident control offices who provided top cover support for the rescue mission.
Staff were told on Wednesday that a 45-day consultation was being held over the loss-making airport's future.
The government's aviation minister Robert Goodwill has described its threatened closure as "disturbing".
In an email to customers seen by the BBC, Mr Buchanan said the situation had arisen as a result of "ongoing operational losses".
He said "the lack of reliable prospect of profitability in the medium term" was another reason.
A task force is being set up to assess the impact and help support the 144 staff affected, while a petition against the closure has already attracted more than 5,000 signatures.
On Thursday, Thanet MP Sir Roger Gale asked Mr Goodwill in Parliament to look into how the airport could be kept open in the "national interest".
Mr Goodwill told the Commons he would meet him to talk about its future.
The airport was bought by the co-founder of the Stagecoach Group, Ann Gloag, for £1 in October last year.
Sir Roger said he believed the former RAF airfield was a national asset which should be kept open.
He told the House of Commons: "Yesterday the owner of Manston in Kent announced the proposed closure of that very important airfield.
"Given that Manston has the fourth-longest runway in the country, is a major diversion field and a search and rescue base would my right honourable friend, in the national interest, review this to see how Manston may be kept open?"
Mr Goodwill replied: "It's disappointing that Manston has not been able to attract some of the low cost carriers that they were hoping to do so, but I'll be happy to meet with the honourable gentlemen to see if there can be a way forward."
Travel journalist Simon Calder believes there is an "inevitability" about Manston's closure, however.
He said: "If you're a small airport on the edge of south-east England and you have such strong competitors not too far away like Gatwick and Stansted - I'm afraid the future doesn't look very optimistic."
On Wednesday, the leader of Thanet District Council, Clive Hart, described the airport's possible closure as "potentially a devastating blow" to the local economy.
Unite regional officer Ian McCoulough said he was "seeking clarification from the management" about the airport's future.
The paper goes for a headline with all the Ds, proclaiming that it is "D-Day for a Deal with the DUP" as talks between Prime Minister Theresa May and DUP leader Arlene Foster get under way.
But the main front-page story concerns allegations of vote fraud from Londonderry. It follows Sinn Féin's historic victory over the SDLP with a margin of just 169 votes.
The paper carries a photograph of Patsy Doherty from Derry who says that he turned up to vote only to find that somebody had already done it for him.
"I am so annoyed. I want to know who stole my vote," he tells the Belfast Telegraph.
SDLP assembly member Mark H Durkan calls it "deeply troubling". The paper says police are investigating the allegations and says the SDLP is due to meet the head of the electoral office later on Tuesday to present evidence from constituents.
The Mirror opts for a mock-up picture of Theresa May, casting her as Princess Leia from Star Wars complete with trademark plaits and guarded by a pair of storm troopers.
"May the farce be with you," reads the headline as the paper reports that the Queen's Speech and Brexit talks are "up in the air" as Mrs May gets set to negotiate with the DUP.
There are puns a-plenty inside, the headline above a picture of the prime minister's new cabinet proclaims: "Throne into chaos".
The writer states that she "forced a smile at the first meeting" of her cabinet. Another headline reads Marching Orders? amid reports on fears about what kind of demands the DUP may make and whether these could include rulings on controversial Orange parades in Northern Ireland.
The Irish News reaches for a weather metaphor to describe the political turmoil.
"Storm clouds over Stormont growing" reads the front-page headline.
Inside, there's a quaint literary allusion as Arlene Foster is labelled the "darling buddy of May".
Beneath that headline, commentator Fionnuala O'Connor remarks that neither of the two women in the spotlight is a "whizz with words" and picks up "a little wounded yelp" at the end of one of Mrs Foster's "proud declarations that the DUP is eager to plays its part in saving the nation".
That yelp, she says, was "clearly about the sudden, unflattering focus on association between the party and loyalist paramilitaries, on Ian Junior being repulsed by homosexuality, Sammy et al's climate change denial, Mervyn and others' insistence that the Lord created the Giant's Causeway a blink of historical time ago."
The News Letter carries a front-page photograph of the Queen, crown on, perched on the golden throne and set to get on with that speech. But press the pause button. It is not happening just yet.
"DUP deal may delay Queen's speech" reads the front-page heading as the paper's political editor Sam McBride reports that the "extraordinary outcome" of the general election could delay the Queen's speech to parliament.
If the state opening of parliament is delayed, then the Queen may have to miss part of Royal Ascot, one of her favourite annual events, he says.
"The monarch particularly looks forward to heading to the Berkshire racecourse each June," says the paper.
You can almost hear Dexy's Midnight Runners trilling: "Come on Arlene" in the background.
Inside, the News Letter quotes David Trimble, one of the architects of the Good Friday Agreement. He dismisses any notion that the DUP-Conservative deal would undermine the 1998 peace process. The paper quotes from a Radio 4 interview where he says: "There's some people who spend their time dreaming up moonshine."
Meanwhile, the summer holidays are a mere flip flop away.
But Irish News columnist Leona O'Neill is not walking on sunshine.
"I look upon organising a trip away with two teenagers and two small children in much the same way as I would gaze upon the letter from the dentist telling me I'm due a filling or, indeed, root-canal treatment," she writes.
Last time, she says, at the end of a week in the Wicklow Mountains complete with grouchy teenagers surgically removed from their wi-fi and a late night poltergeist, there was talk of divorce on the way home and various children swore they were going to live with granny.
Roll on those hazy, lazy, crazy days of summer.
But, in May 2014, Fleming Fulton school in Belfast received a highly critical inspection from the Education and Training Inspectorate (ETI).
The school has 119 pupils with physical and learning difficulties.
The report concluded that the school had "significant areas for improvement" and it was placed in formal intervention.
Two years on, the school is still in that process, but a follow-up inspection said it had improved in many areas.
Now, staff and governors have spoken frankly to the BBC about the challenges they had to face to turn a corner.
The original ETI inspection singled out leadership and management as "inadequate."
Obvious concern
At the time, the principal, Karen Hancock, had been in post for less than a year.
"The outcome of the report was not what we expected, or wanted," she said.
"What we had to do was look at how the school was being led, and look at people's roles within the school."
"Teaching and learning was satisfactory but, again, we wanted to make sure that it improved."
"Parents were obviously concerned about what was going to happen because when a school goes into formal intervention you get the tag of inadequate."
"We had to reassure them that we were going to take the inspection very seriously and address the issues that had been highlighted."
A school in formal intervention receives specially-tailored support and help from the Education Authority (EA) to improve.
It also has to prove it is taking action to address its shortcomings, and receives follow-up inspections from the ETI.
There are currently only 23 schools in formal intervention in Northern Ireland.
Marian Bradley has been a governor at Fleming Fulton for a ten years.
Her daughter Maebh, who has cerebral palsy, has been a pupil for the same length of time.
Urgent appraisal
She now thinks that formal intervention has been a positive experience, but admits that was not how she felt two years ago.
"We welcomed it in a funny kind of way because it meant we were going to get support to get better, and when we get better our pupils get a better quality of education," she said.
"I'm saying that now a couple of years on, but when that report came out it was devastating for all of us."
The governors were also told to "urgently appraise" their roles in the 2014 inspection, and Ms Bradley said they had taken action.
"For example, I'm a governor but I'm dedicated to curriculum development in the school," she said.
"So I train with the teachers as a governor and I can stand over that teachers are making improvements and I see how the training is impacting on what happens in the classroom."
In November 2015, a follow-up inspection from the ETI found that "key actions and changes" had taken place.
It noted significant improvements in school leadership, governance, and teaching and learning in the school.
Some things, like planning and the evaluation of learning, still have to improve, and the school is still in formal intervention.
But Karen Hancock said that the school had made huge progress.
"I think it's now up to us to prove over a longer period of time that we can sustain the improvements we have already made."
Fleming Fulton held a "meet and greet" day on 28 April for parents and the local community, and Mairead Bradley said that, despite recent problems, the school staff did incredible work.
Her daughter Meabh became a pupil at the school aged three, and is now in year 9.
"We came into Fleming Fulton and we were surrounded by experts, but they were caring, kind, amazing people."
"So when they first saw Meabh they could see her potential, and until then nobody had ever mentioned that Meabh had potential."
"So to me this school is a place where miracles happen."
Philip Hammond said the purpose of the campaign, titled "More than meets the eye", was to "dispel the myth" that the Army is not recruiting.
The new drive comes as the Army is being cut from 100,000 to about 82,000.
But it wants to increase the Army Reserve from 19,000 to 30,000, and has failed to meet its targets so far.
Meanwhile, a poll commissioned by the Army to mark the campaign's launch suggested that 23% of people were not satisfied with their current career.
When asked what was missing, 30% said a decent salary; 27% said excellent training and personal development; 25% said a challenging and exciting role; 35% said UK and overseas travel; and 18% said getting paid while getting qualifications.
The research, carried out by OnePoll, surveyed 2,000 people in December 2013.
BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said this was the Army's third campaign in a year - stressing it had so far failed to meet its targets for recruiting reservists.
As part of the recruitment drive, TV and cinema adverts will show how the Army Reserve - formerly known as the Territorial Army - is integrated with its counterpart.
Mr Hammond told BBC Breakfast there is not a recruitment crisis, but "there's certainly a big challenge in continuing the flow of recruits to the Army and indeed to the other services".
By Jonathan BealeDefence correspondent, BBC News
Launching a £3m recruiting campaign in the midst of ongoing defence cuts may seem perverse. Later this month the Army will be announcing the fourth round of its redundancy programme as the overall size of the regular force shrinks by 20,000.
But the Army says it is an organisation that always need a healthy flow of new recruits. That may prove to be an increasingly hard task as the Army moves from operations to contingencies. By the end of this year all British combat troops will have left Afghanistan.
The other challenge will be dramatically increasing the size of the Army Reserve. The new restructured Army will rely more on part time soldiers. But so far the Army has struggled to meet its recruiting targets and this will be the third high profile recruiting campaign it has launched within the past year.
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"The end of the campaign in Afghanistan is going to change the proposition and we need to get across to people what the Army is about, what the Army will be doing post the Afghanistan campaign," he said.
"The purpose of the campaign that we're launching today is to dispel forever the myth that somehow the Army isn't recruiting.
"Yes, the regular Army will be smaller in the future than it has been in the past and, yes, there will be one further round of redundancies unfortunately, but that does not mean that the army is not recruiting."
The Conservative MP and former soldier John Baron criticised the government's plans.
"The plans to replace 20,000 regulars with 30,000 reservists is fundamentally flawed, both because I think it's going to cost a lot more than government envisages to actually execute... but also there's a capability gap.
"The original plan was to hold the 20,000 regulars in place until we knew that the reservist plan was going to work.
"That plan was changed to save money; we're trying to get defence on the cheap and now we're seeing the result of that because we know that there are real problems with trying to recruit."
Shadow defence secretary Vernon Coaker said the campaign was a welcome step towards acknowledging Labour's concerns that there would be a significant capability gap in the Army.
He said: "Labour previously called for the government to pause its reductions to numbers in the regular Army until it was clear there could be adequate uplift in the numbers of reserves. We hope the recruitment campaign is a success. This really is the last chance for the government to get its Army reform plans back on track."
Chief of the General Staff, Gen Sir Peter Wall, said: "The Army offers people unique opportunities for challenge and adventure, both at home and overseas, during peacetime and on operations.
"It develops personal qualities that are key to success in any walk of life: leadership, judgement, determination, and physical stamina."
Later in January, the Army will announce the fourth round of its redundancy programme as the overall size of the regular force continues to be reduced.
January will also see the MoD launching a simplified online application form, a more streamlined medical clearance process and an army fitness app to make it easier for potential recruits to join.
Mark Cope appeared at Teesside Magistrates' Court accused of child abduction.
He was charged after an incident in which a 14-year-old girl went missing on Thursday and was found on Friday.
No pleas were taken and Mr Cope, of De Montfort House, Shirrall Grove, Birmingham, was remanded in custody to appear at Teesside Crown Court on 21 September.
Messi and his father Jorge were both sentenced to 21 months in jail each by a Spanish court earlier this week.
They will appeal against the decision after being found guilty of defrauding Spain of 4.1m euros from 2007 to 2009.
Neither man is expected to serve any time in jail and Barcelona have launched a social media campaign urging fans to show "unconditional support".
A club statement said: "Using the hashtag #WeAreAllLeoMessi while posting a photo or message with both hands open, the campaign is encouraging all Barça fans to express their sympathy for the greatest footballer in the world by voicing their unconditional support on social networks.
"By making it clear that #WeAreAllMessi, we want Leo to know that he is not alone. All members, supporters clubs, fans, athletes, media and everyone else are invited to participate."
The 29-year-old Argentine, who has helped the club win the Champions League four times and La Liga on eight occasions, was also fined 2m euros (£1.7m), while his father was fined 1.5m euros.
Under the Spanish legal system, prison terms of under two years can be served under probation.
The pair were found guilty of using tax havens in Belize and Uruguay to conceal earnings from image rights.
By Andy West, Spanish football writer:
The hashtag #WeAreAllLeoMessi - and its equivalents in the Spanish and Catalan languages - immediately became a hugely divisive issue in Spain.
It enjoyed support from many Barca fans, who believe their club is being politically persecuted by the central Madrid government for its part in the campaign for Catalan independence from Spain.
They point to the fact that Messi's case was pushed through despite one branch of the government recommending it was dropped, and that other sports stars - including former Real Madrid duo Jose Mourinho and Iker Casillas - received much lighter punishments for similar tax offences.
However, the hashtag clearly leaves itself wide open to ridicule and critics have taken full advantage on social media, with a widespread attitude summed up by one tweet which read: "No, I haven't defrauded millions haha."
And even some Barca fans share that opinion, with one tweeting: "I'm a Cule [Barca fan] but supporting someone who has defrauded the tax office seems pathetic. #WeAreNotAllLeoMessi"
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The Scot, 24, holds the British record for the 1500m and that will be her primary aim with the final on 7 August.
"That's the first event and that's the one my training and racing is going to be more tailored towards," Muir told BBC Scotland.
"But I still think I can do really well in the 5,000m."
Muir won gold in the 1500m and 3,000m at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade in March.
She also holds the British indoor record at 5,000m, and the World Championships schedule allows her the time to go for glory over both distances.
The 5,000m heats begin on Thursday, 10 August, three days after the 1500m final.
"I think I've shown I've got the ability to do both and the timetable works really well in London to do the two events," said Muir.
"All rounds of the 1500m will finish before the 5,000m starts and I have two or three days recovery in between. So it works perfectly for me to be in my best shape for the two.
"We showed indoors over 3,000m that I was really strong over that event and my training indicates I can do a really good 5,000.
"Having that opportunity of a home championships is a once in a lifetime opportunity.
"You don't have it coming round very often so I think all the athletes will go out there and make the most of it."
Muir, who finished seventh in last year's Olympic 1500m final, added that the stress fracture in her foot which caused her to miss two weeks of training last month is not causing any concerns.
"We returned to training a few weeks ago and have been gradually building it up," she said.
"The foot has responded really well - I've not got any pain and I'm running completely normally."
Experian identified the group, which only made up 8% of the population, as suffering the biggest rise in ID theft.
There was a 17% rise in victims among this group compared with 2014.
The analysis comes shortly after fraud prevention service Cifas said Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn had become a "hunting ground" for identity thieves.
Experian said those on social media should be cautious about the information they shared, especially if details such as their pets' names were used as passwords elsewhere on the web.
"It is vital that those embracing technology also embrace protecting themselves online. Using the latest device doesn't necessarily mean full protection and being complacent about the risk of ID theft makes for a tempting target for ID fraudsters," said Nick Mothershaw, a fraud expert from Experian.
The next biggest rise in identity theft was among older and retired households, predominantly living in rural communities.
"These people are being targeted through phone and email scams by fraudsters trying to steal their details," said Mr Mothershaw.
"They tend to be less aware of the types of scams fraudsters undertake, who can be very manipulative and sound trustworthy on the phone. The sole rule is to never give out personal details, passwords or Pins to anyone, whether it is on the phone or by email."
A report published earlier this year estimated the annual cost of fraud in the UK was £193bn - equal to nearly £3,000 per head of population.
Source: Cifas and Get Safe Online
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Former Scotland captain Coetzer, 31, joined Northants in 2011 and helped the side win the FLt20 in 2013.
But Coetzer, who went to the World Cup with Scotland earlier this year, only played four Championship matches this summer, with a batting average of 5.29.
Meanwhile, 28-year-old paceman Chambers moved from Essex in 2013 and played just five Championship games in 2015.
Northants head coach David Ripley told the club website: "Kyle has been a model professional during his time here, he deals with success and failure in equal measure, a very valuable thing in a cricket dressing room. We wish him and his family well in the future.
"After a slow start in 2014, Maurice has put in a big effort this year but has been unable to get past our other seam bowlers and play regularly in the first team."
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They were joined by culture minister Ed Vaizey and shadow international development secretary Mary Creagh.
Nick Robinson says he is not aware of any Labour MPs who are also working as trade union activists - a matter frequently raised by David Cameron - saying this is rather different from MPs who are "sponsored" by unions.
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The family of Clive Colling - who disappeared from Bideford - has said that, subject to formal identification, he was found in the Torridge River on Friday.
A Facebook post said:"After 104 days nature finally gave him up."
Step-daughter Sally Hewins wrote: "Thank you to the locals for their thoughts, efforts and kindness."
She added: "He was found in the Torridge River by canoeists and I thank them for their bravery yesterday, along with the RNLI for the ultimate recovery and the police for their sensitivity."
The family held a candle-lit vigil for Mr Colling in Bideford on Friday evening.
Devon and Cornwall Police said formal identification would "confirm" the body's identity and "next of kin have been informed at this sensitive time".
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The 48-year-old victim was shot in both legs in a laneway off Glenowen Park. The attack happened shortly after 21:00 BST.
It is the second such attack in the city this week - on Monday night a man was shot in the leg in a bookmakers' shop.
Three men arrested over Monday's attack have been released unconditionally.
Police have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
The report, assessing air safety and security rules, follows the apparently deliberate crashing of Germanwings flight 4U 9525 in March.
It endorses the "rule of two", where there should never be fewer than two people in the cockpit.
And it proposes improved medical and psychological checks on crews.
Investigators say that 27-year-old German co-pilot Andreas Lubitz intentionally slammed the Airbus A320 into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
French prosecutors believe he may have suffered from psychosis and had a history of severe depression, but concealed many of his problems from his employer, perhaps fearing losing his job.
"We don't know everything that happened in this tragedy but we know a certain number of causes and we thought we may not want to wait until the final report of the accident investigation to launch actions," Patrick Ky, executive director of the European Aviation Safety Agency (Easa), told Reuters news agency.
Easa has delivered six recommendations for action to the European Commission:
Investigators have concluded that Mr Lubitz was able to deliberately crash the plane because he locked his co-pilot out of the cockpit when he went to the toilet.
In the wake of the crash, many airlines adopted the "rule of two" in the cockpit, and in its report the EASA says this should be maintained and evaluated after a year.
The report questions the use of manual cockpit door locks - introduced to prevent planes being hijacked - but suggests the risks they pose should be mitigated by the "rule of two".
It says all pilots should undergo psychological evaluations, and the psychological part of existing medical assessments and training for examiners should be strengthened.
The results of national medical examinations should be shared in an EU-wide database, the report suggests - with regulations ensuring "that an appropriate balance is found between patient confidentiality and the protection of public safety".
The report also calls for random drug and alcohol tests, and a robust oversight of medical examiners in the field.
Four days into the eight-day event, Britain have won four golds - twice their previous best at the Worlds.
Adam Peaty missed a chance to add to his three gold medals when he went out of the 200m breaststroke in the heats.
Andrew Willis qualified fifth fastest, while Danny Wallace finished fourth in the 200m individual medley.
American Ryan Lochte won the medley to become only the second man, after Australian Grant Hackett, to claim four successive world titles.
"We came here with a target to swim as best as we could and the medals will look after themselves," Furniss, who has been in the post since February 2013, told BBC Sport.
"Everybody else puts medal targets on us. Our message to the team is that we have to put our best performance at the biggest meet of the season and that's what we've done.
"You have to earn and justify any rewards you get. It's much more challenging now but in a relaxed way.
"My mission was a change in attitude, mindset and belief.
"If you look at our athletes, they will take on the world; they won't stand back. They won't ask for any quarter and they won't give any quarter."
Peaty, who finished 26th in the 200m heats, has won 50m and 100m breaststroke titles in Kazan and was part of GB's gold-winning mixed 4x100m medley relay team.
The 20-year-old, who favours the 50m and 100m events over the 200m, is the first Briton to win three golds at a single World Championships, and could add to his tally in the men's 4x100m medley relay on Sunday.
GB's Molly Renshaw failed to qualify for the final of the women's 200m breaststroke, while the British women's 4x200m freestyle relay team came fifth as the United States took gold.
And its capacity to divide non-indigenous Australians has again been thrust into the spotlight, this time because of a primary school play. It has also raised debate about what is appropriate for children to be taught at school.
Students at the government-run Forestville Public School in Sydney's north last week performed a history presentation titled Australia - You're Standing In It (named after a 1980s TV comedy show).
While the play, presented by junior students, covered various Australian history topics, a segment performed for parents by Year 5 and 6 students about one of the nation's darkest chapters - the Stolen Generations - has sparked controversy.
Tens of thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were forcibly taken from their parents by government authorities between 1883 and 1969 and placed into boys' and girls' homes, foster families or Christian missions. On turning 18 they were cast out, often scarred for life, support groups say.
The policy's most widely cited motivations include that it was a protective move based on a belief the indigenous population would die out, that children were being neglected, or that it was a way of introducing religion to Aboriginal people.
Some indigenous groups, however, say the main motivation was to put a swift end to Aboriginal culture.
In 2008, newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a famous, long-awaited apology in parliament to the Stolen Generations, saying he hoped Australia could turn a new page by "righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future".
But nine years on, the issue is still a thorny one.
One parent who saw the play at Forestville was Robbie Slater. A former Australia and English Premier League footballer whose five-year-old son attends the school, Mr Slater came out in the media to say he was "disgusted" by the segment.
"It was bloody disgraceful," Mr Slater, now a TV football commentator, told local newspaper The Manly Daily, adding he had walked out "at certain stages" during the play.
"I don't think using five, six or seven-year-old kids is appropriate to push your own political agenda," he added.
However, the children presenting the Stolen Generations segment were from the nine-12 age bracket. Also, students from kindergarten to Year 4 did not watch that part of the play.
Initial reports also said the play featured children dressed as nuns who were mentally and physically abusing students playing Stolen Generations children.
The issue drew more visceral reaction through Sydney right-wing radio talkback host Ray Hadley, who demanded an inquiry from the New South Wales state government, and called the teachers organising the play "imbeciles".
In his column in Sydney's Daily Telegraph, Mr Hadley railed against the "socialist engineers masquerading as teachers who organised the left-leaning display", saying children "go to school for an education, not to be indoctrinated by rabid left-wingers".
Mr Slater and Mr Hadley also highlighted the fact children in the play held up a placard reading "Sorry" as an example of a political agenda being forced onto them.
The play came in a tense week for race relations in Australia, with a local council in Melbourne drawing flak from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, among many others, for announcing it would abandon its traditional Australia Day celebrations on 26 January.
This was done out of respect for indigenous people, many of whom refer to the anniversary of the landing of the First Fleet in 1788 not as "Australia Day" but "Invasion Day".
After the initial media flurry about the Forestville play, however, many parents from the school came out in support of the performance, saying schools should not shy away from the more troubling aspects of Australian history.
Nina Mapson Bone, who has a son in Year 3 at the school, said "discomfort should not be a reason not to teach our children about the facts of important events in Australia's history".
"The overwhelming majority of parents who saw the play did not think it was inappropriate," she told the BBC. "I haven't come across any other parents who agreed with that one angry parent.
"The play was factual, not political."
Ms Mapson Bone said what her son had learned from the play was the "compassion and understanding" that are essential in helping fix some of the issues relating to Aboriginal reconciliation in Australia.
She also said two of the most pointed allegations about the play were ill-based.
"The kids holding up the 'Sorry' sign were re-enacting scenes from when Kevin Rudd made his apology. It wasn't an agenda of the school," she said.
"And there were no nuns abusing children. They were teaching them. Later, the play did show kids being taken away from their parents, but there was no violence about it. It was mimed, and in a calm and peaceful way."
Ms Mapson Bone said parents had shown their backing for the school by taking morning tea to the teachers on Thursday, and signing a "huge" card of support. A school community Facebook page has also received more than 200 expressions of support.
"So grateful that the teachers… are teaching our children the true facts of our rich history," one student's grandmother wrote.
"Our Aboriginal people are grieving so much. Please acknowledge this fact. The children… will understand thanks to Forestville School's honesty!"
Parent Sinead Kennedy-Guy wrote: "It was just a play done with sensitivity and finesse. And it was based on the truth. For those that are sensitive to the truth, I say suck it up and move on."
In response to calls for an inquiry into the play, a spokesman for New South Wales Education Minister Rob Stokes told the BBC the department was "looking into the matter", and would make no further comment.
Ms Douglas appeared in dozens of films and TV shows, including Planes, Trains and Automobiles, ER and The West Wing.
She was the first wife of actor Kirk Douglas, and mother of actor Michael Douglas, and appeared with both in the 2003 film It Runs in the Family.
She died of cancer in a retirement home on Friday, her husband of 15 years, Donald Webster, said.
Born Diana Love Dill in Bermuda, Ms Douglas studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, where she met Kirk Douglas.
She began her career with Warner Bros, and modelled on the cover of Life Magazine in 1943.
She and Kirk Douglas married in 1943 and had two sons, Michael and Joel.
The couple divorced in 1951 but remained on good terms, and appeared together in It Runs in the Family, a film about a dysfunctional family, along with Michael and their grandson Cameron.
Ms Douglas was married to actor Bill Darrid from 1956 until his death in 1992.
She married Mr Webster in 2002.
"She was a person much beloved by everyone," Mr Webster said in quotes carried by CNN.
"One of her greatest qualities was that she was always thinking of the other person."
Ruby and James Watson, 28, died at the scene when their Fiat Panda crashed in the early hours of Sunday on Kilbourne Road, Belper, Derbyshire.
Pottery Primary School said Ruby would be "greatly missed".
Ruby's 22-year-old mother, who was driving the car, remains in a critical but stable condition in hospital.
Inquests into the deaths are due to open on Friday at Derby and Derbyshire Coroner's office.
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Pottery Primary School head teacher Gill Hutton said: "Ruby was a very popular child who had a smile for everyone.
"She was a thoughtful friend who was kind and caring. Ruby will be greatly missed by staff and pupils alike."
About £2,000 has been raised in an online appeal, with the hope of setting up a memorial for Ruby and to help the family.
Tom Reith, who lives on Kilbourne Road, said he was woken up by the crash and saw the wreckage.
He said: "It was horrendous, terrible. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family."
Derbyshire Police have appealed for information or has dash-cam footage to contact them.
Matthew Eteson denies the manslaughter by gross negligence of Kelly Webster and her daughter Lauren Thornton.
The pair died on a boat on Windermere in April 2013.
Preston Crown Court heard Mr Eteson had fabricated the exhaust system of an onboard petrol-driven generator.
A statement from the 42-year-old, of Hale, Greater Manchester, was read out in court describing how the generator was used to power the boat's mains appliances.
The court was told he had taken the generator off the boat to make moderations by fitting it with a silencer because it was noisy for neighbours.
The system was fitted the day before the deaths of Ms Webster, 36, and her 10-year-old daughter, of Leyland, Lancashire.
During his voluntary interview in April 2013 Mr Eteson said he had been aware of the dangers of fumes.
He added that he had sought advice from friends and said the construction "wasn't something I took lightly".
The family had been at a 50th birthday on the evening of 31 March 2013 before returning to the boat.
The following morning Mr Eteson said he had felt sick and went to buy lunch before returning.
He said his partner had complained of the cold and the fan heater was put on at half power. The jury was told the generator was running as they ate their lunch and he then fell asleep at the table below deck.
The court heard when he woke he could not move and initially believed he was having problems with his heart.
In police statement, he said: "I just knew there was something not right with me. That's when I decided there was no-one about, I didn't know if they had gone shopping."
He said upon finding their bodies he tried looking for his phone before dialling 999.
The court heard carbon monoxide alarms on the boat had never been tested.
The trial continues.
Monte dei Paschi had sought a three-week extension until 20 January to seal a private sector €5bn rescue plan.
If the ECB does deny the request, the Italian government will be under more pressure to bail out the country's third-largest bank.
The ECB declined to comment.
The Reuters news agency reported that a source said the ECB's supervisory board had rejected the request because it believed Rome needed to act and that giving the bank more time would achieve little.
Monte dei Paschi is one of several big Italian banks struggling with a heavy burden of bad loans that are unlikely to ever be repaid.
Shares in the Sienna-based lender - the world's oldest bank - were suspended in Milan for a period on Friday after falling about 11% following the reports.
A Monte dei Paschi spokesman said it had not heard from the ECB. The bank's board was meeting on Friday night and may continue its talks on Saturday.
The Italian government could be forced to inject billions of euros into the bank to avoid it being wound down.
The video, which remains unverified, emerged days after the group threatened to kill the pilot unless Jordan's government released a female Iraqi jihadist being held in a Jordanian prison.
The pilot, Flight Lieutenant Moaz al-Kasasbeh, was seized by IS fighters after his jet crashed while conducting a bombing mission near their Syrian stronghold of Raqqa on 24 December.
His aircraft was the first from the US-led coalition against IS to be lost over the group's territory since air strikes on its positions in Syria were launched in September.
It is still not clear why the jet crashed - US officials denied IS claims that it was hit by a heat-seeking missile - but Lt Kasasbeh was found by militants and paraded on camera within hours.
Lt Kasasbeh was born in the central Jordanian city of Karak in 1988. He is one of eight children from a prominent family. His uncle was a major general in the Jordanian military.
In 2009, he graduated from the King Hussein Air College and joined the Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF), the IS-run propaganda magazine Dabiq quoted Lt Kasasbeh as saying in an interview, the circumstances and veracity of which are not known.
After undergoing further training, he qualified as an operational pilot in 2012 and joined No 1 Squadron at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, which flies F-16s.
Lt Kasasbeh told Dabiq that his jet was hit by a heat-seeking missile as it flew over Raqqa province as part of a mission to destroy anti-aircraft batteries.
"I checked the system display and it indicated that the engine was damaged and burning. The plane began to deviate from its normal flight path, so I ejected."
"I landed in the River Euphrates by parachute and the seat caught on some ground, keeping me fixed, until I was captured by soldiers of Islamic State," he added.
At the end of the interview, Lt Kasasbeh was asked: "Do you know what the Islamic State will do with you?" He replied: "Yes… They will kill me."
Lt Kasasbeh's family urged IS to spare him, stressing that he was a devout Sunni Muslim. The pilot's father, Youssef, told reporters: "I pray that Allah will plant mercy in their hearts and they will release him."
In early January, there were reports that special forces personnel had attempted to rescue Lt Kasasbeh and other hostages being held by IS around Raqqa.
Activists from the group, Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, cited witnesses as saying they had heard gunfire and seen helicopter gunships flying over two areas on the outskirts of the city.
However, a spokeswoman for the coalition's Combined Joint Task Force said she was not aware of any operation, and the Pentagon's spokesman said there had been no raid involving US Special Operations troops.
Shortly afterwards, the Jordanian government is reported to have approached third parties from Turkey and Iraq and asked them to help negotiations for the release of Lt Kasasbeh. IS was said to have expressed interest in exchanging the pilot for imprisoned jihadists.
On 24 January, IS released a video purportedly showing the Japanese hostage Kenji Goto holding a picture of the decapitated body of another Japanese hostage, Haruna Yukawa, who he said was killed after Japan did not pay a $200m ransom.
Mr Goto said IS now sought a prisoner exchange. The group wanted Jordan's government to release Sajida al-Rishawi, an Iraqi woman who was sentenced to death for her role in a suicide bomb attack on a hotel in Amman in 2005 that killed 57 people, he added.
On 27 January, IS released another video with an audio track over a still picture that appeared to show Mr Goto holding a picture of Lt Kasasbeh. A voice believed to be that of Mr Goto said he had "only 24 hours left to live" and the pilot "even less" unless Rishawi was freed.
The following day, the Jordanian government said it was prepared to release Rishawi if Lt Kasasbeh was released unharmed.
No mention was made of Mr Goto, and on 31 January a video was published showing what appeared to be the body of the journalist.
The court said the ruling was legal but many religious groups were outraged.
The Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) said it would appeal against the decision in France's highest administrative court.
Authorities in Cannes and nearby villages voted to ban full-body swimsuits or burkinis from the end of July.
The court said the ban was legal under a law which prohibits people neglecting common rules on "relations between public authorities and private individuals" on the basis of religion.
The judge noted the ban came "in the context of the state of emergency and recent Islamist attacks, notably in Nice a month ago".
But CCIF lawyer Sefen Guez Guez, said he would lodge an appeal with the Council of State, the highest administrative body in France.
"This decision opens the door to a ban on all religious symbols in the public space," he added.
France is on high alert following a series of incidents including July's truck attack in nearby Nice.
Anyone caught breaking the new rule could face a fine of €38 (£33). They will first be asked to change into another swimming costume or leave the beach.
Nobody has been apprehended for wearing a burkini in Cannes since the edict came into force at the end of July.
This is not the first time that women's clothing has been restricted in France. In 2011 it became the first country in Europe to ban the full-face Islamic veil, known as the burka, as well as the partial face covering, the niqab.
Earlier this week a private waterpark near Marseille cancelled a burkini-only day after being subjected to criticism.
Allen started well and made a clearance of 100 to draw level at one frame each.
It was 2-2 at the interval before back-to-back centuries of 124 and 109 put O'Sullivan 5-2 ahead and he clinched victory in the next frame.
The five-time world champion will play Scotland's John Higgins in Sunday's final at the Ricoh Arena.
A first prize of £100,000 is on offer for the tournament winner.
Antrim's Allen will be the home favourite at next week's inaugural Northern Ireland Open at the Titanic Exhibition Centre.
"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same."
But while the words of Rudyard Kipling's poem are familiar, the application of them is altogether more challenging. How does one live without being lifted by success or dumped by failure? How can anyone maintain such detachment from the vicissitudes of life?
After playing in 69 international rugby matches, Ireland's wing three-quarter Andrew Trimble knows the highs and lows of professional sport. Last year, the team achieved its best ever series of results, with victories over southern hemisphere giants Australia and South Africa and then, for the first time in 111 years, Ireland beat the reigning world champions, the New Zealand All Blacks.
"There's no bigger moment than beating the All Blacks," Trimble explains. "After the game, we were walking around just shaking our heads and saying, 'What have we done? We've just beaten the All Blacks!' No Irish team has ever done this before."
So was his life suddenly and completely fulfilled by winning these important matches?
"I love the game," he says. "It's a driving force and a massive part of what I want to do. But it's important to be reminded that there's something else out there, there's something more important than rugby."
We're seated in the wooden pews of Ballyalbany Presbyterian Church in County Monaghan, about two miles from where the international team has just completed an open training session in preparation for Saturday's Six Nations match against France.
Standing on the touchline throughout the session, it's hard to imagine how rugby union professionals can do anything other than submit themselves to the demands of the game. It's relentlessly fast, consistently ferocious. It is all-consuming.
Off the field, Trimble is impeccably courteous to every autograph-hunter and maintains that having "something more important than rugby" actually enables him to cope better with the pressures of professional sport.
Just 16 months ago, after two operations on the same foot injury were followed by a stress fracture, he began to believe that his career might be over. Trimble was dropped from Ireland's squad for World Cup 2015 and, aged 29, was faced with losing something that had dominated his life since the age of seven.
"If it's over, you have to draw on something else so rugby doesn't become the be-all-and-end-all. It doesn't define me, I'm defined by something more important. It's a different mindset and perspective."
So what is that perspective?
"There's an eternal perspective," he explains. "Rugby lasts for 10, 15 years but the perspective of having a faith, and a sincere faith, is something that doesn't end and something that lasts forever."
Trimble believes that spirituality enhances his love for the sport.
"I'm far happier having that perspective and knowing that there is a bigger picture than putting all my trust in rugby, in a career that can be over in 10 years or a lot less than 10 years."
He says that his Christian faith has also enabled him to fight against the temptation to become entirely self-absorbed.
Last year, he visited a camp in Tanzania. It's run by Oxfam and houses hundreds of refugees from Burundi. He was profoundly moved by the experience.
"Some of these people will live their entire lives in refugee camps. They had families, they had careers, they had hopes and dreams and they've been cut short."
Trimble laments his own ignorance of the issue and says if he hadn't been taken to Tanzania by Oxfam, he would never have known about the refugee crisis in Africa. And his motivation to do something is shaped by his theology.
"Pope Francis says they're all created in the image of God. They're just like you and me, they're no less special. It's a real shame that they're forgotten about because they're considered less important."
With that, our time together runs out and Trimble returns to the Ireland training camp - with the French in his sights.
He certainly embodies Kipling's view that triumph and disaster should be treated "just the same". But in some ways, his approach is closer to that of 17th Century poet Richard Lovelace. In his poem, To Lucasta, Going to the Wars, Lovelace argues that his affections are only heightened by being answerable to a higher authority.
"I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not honour more."
According to Andrew Trimble, an eternal perspective does the same for him - win, lose or draw.
Gordon Strachan's side host a Group F qualifier on 10 June.
Absent from the squad are Matt Ritchie and Grant Hanley, who have been promoted with Newcastle United.
Also dropping out from the squad that defeated Slovenia are Leipzig's Oliver Burke, West Brom's Matt Phillips and Middlesbrough's Jordan Rhodes.
Winger Phillips and central defender Hanley pulled out of that squad through injury and have not played since April.
Ritchie scored in the 4-1 win over Preston North End that secured Newcastle promotion to England's top flight but missed the last two games of the season through suspension.
Fellow winger Burke started Saturday's 2-2 draw with Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany's Bundesliga.
But Strachan said that the 20-year-old had been left out his squad because he thought it unfair to put so much pressure on a young player who has lacked first-team starts.
Rhodes, who had been on loan from Middlesbrough, lost his first-team place at Sheffield Wednesday to Scotland colleague Steven Fletcher, who does make Strachan's 27-man squad.
And Rhodes' place goes to Murphy, who has been in previous squads without winning a senior a cap but has earned a recall after helping Brighton finish runners-up in England's Championship.
"We thought about that the last game, people who were feeling good about themselves," said Strachan. "They bring that positivity to the squad."
Scotland beat Slovenia 1-0 and lie fourth in the Group F table, two points behind second-top Slovakia, with England a further four points ahead.
Midfielder McLean, whose one cap came in a March 2016 friendly against Czech Republic, and uncapped defender Reynolds finished runners-up in the Scottish Premiership with the Dons.
"I've seen Kenny recently in a wonderful game, the Aberdeen-Celtic match, the best 45 minutes of football I have seen this season," said Strachan. "And the 90 minutes were terrific and throughout that Kenny had an excellent game.
"And the results at Aberdeen have been fantastic. They have had a good, strong finish to the season."
Swansea left-back Stephen Kingsley does return to Strachan's squad after Rangers' Lee Wallace was ruled out following stomach surgery.
However, there is no space in the squad for Callum McGregor, despite the in-form Celtic midfielder being tipped for a call-up for the match at Hampden Park.
"I think everyone knows that's where we are strong, and that's where you need to be strong these days.
"There is a lot of other midfield players that I have seen recently that you would think, if it wasn't so strong, they would be in the squad as well," added Strachan.
"Kevin McDonald at Fulham has had an excellent season.
"A lot of lads in that area are just unfortunate we are very, very strong in that area, which showed in the last game against Slovenia, we were strong and full of enthusiasm and know-how in there."
Goalkeepers: Craig Gordon (Celtic), Jack Hamilton (Hearts), David Marshall (Hull City)
Defenders: Ikechi Anya (Derby County), Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town), Stephen Kingsley (Swansea City), Russell Martin (Norwich City), Mark Reynolds (Aberdeen), Andrew Robertson (Hull City), Kieran Tierney (Celtic)
Midfielders: Stuart Armstrong (Celtic), Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday), Scott Brown (Celtic), Tom Cairney (Fulham), Darren Fletcher (West Bromwich Albion), James Forrest (Celtic), Ryan Fraser (Bournemouth), James McArthur (Crystal Palace), John McGinn (Hibernian), Kenny McLean (Aberdeen), James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion), Robert Snodgrass (West Ham United)
Forwards: Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday), Leigh Griffiths (Celtic), Chris Martin (Derby County), Jamie Murphy (Brighton & Hove Albion), Steven Naismith (Norwich City)
Authorities say Martin Couture-Rouleau, 25, was one of 90 militants being tracked.
The Muslim convert was killed by officers at St-Jean-sur-Richelieu after hitting the two men.
Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney labelled the attack a "terrible act of violence against our country".
On Tuesday, the dead soldier was identified as Warrant Ofc Patrice Vincent, 53, a 28-year veteran of the Canadian armed services. The other soldier suffered minor injuries, police said.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Commissioner Bob Paulson said authorities had been tracking the group - including Couture-Rouleau - because they may have intended to go abroad to join militant groups.
RCMP Supt Martine Fontaine said authorities seized Couture-Rouleau's passport in July when he tried to travel to Turkey. He was arrested but police lacked evidence to charge him with a crime.
Supt Fontaine said authorities had met him several times, most recently on 9 October, and had met his parents and the imam at his mosque in an effort to get him to change his views.
"Many interventions with him were carried out to try and avoid the tragic events," Supt Fontaine told reporters on Tuesday. "It's very difficult when someone is planning an act alone and there is no obvious preparation involved and used a vehicle as a weapon."
On Monday, Couture-Rouleau ran down Warrant Ofc Vincent and another man in a car park serving a Canadian military office in the Quebec town of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu about 40km (25 miles) south-east of Montreal.
He had been waiting in his car for as long as two hours before the attack, Quebec Police spokesman Guy Lapointe said.
The attack comes as a shock but not a surprise to many Canadians. In recent years this country has, sometimes controversially, shed its image as neutral peacekeeper in foreign conflicts and has also worked ever-closer with US authorities to combat terror threats.
Earlier this month the country's parliament voted in favour of sending fighter jets and military personnel to join in the US-led combat operation against IS in Iraq.
Although terror attacks in Canada have been rare, a number of plots have been thwarted. The most notorious was the so-called Toronto 18 case in 2006, where a group of al-Qaeda-inspired extremists were convicted of planning to attack a number of targets, including the parliament buildings.
Nevertheless, critics have accused both the police and the intelligence agencies of being slow to respond to the more recent challenge posed by ever-sophisticated extremist propaganda.
After striking the officers, Couture-Rouleau fled and was chased by police at high speed for about 4km (2.5 miles), until the car drove off the road and rolled over several times.
He then left the car brandishing a knife, and police opened fire. Couture-Rouleau was taken to hospital where he died some hours later.
A neighbour of Couture-Rouleau told the Associated Press news agency he had known the man since he was a child, and that in the past year he had grown a beard and begun wearing loose-fitting Muslim clothing.
Some 46 choirs of 102 surveyed by BBC Wales said they were concerned, while 50 estimated they had fewer choristers than 10 years ago.
Most said recruiting new and younger members was a challenge.
Historian Prof Gareth Williams said choirs were "resilient", producing a good sound with fewer voices.
A total of 116 members of the Welsh Association of Male Voice Choirs and the North Wales Association were contacted for information as part of the survey, with 102 responding.
Fifty-six groups said they were not concerned about their future, although 50 said they had fewer members than 10 years ago.
Some said it was a challenge to adapt to a new repertoire of songs to attract new audiences while continuing to perform traditional hymns.
Prof Williams - himself a member of Pendyrus Male Voice Choir in Rhondda - said the state of male voice choirs was "in many ways a barometer of Wales' economic health".
"Certainly when you look at the great period of prosperity before the first World War, the depression in the twenties and the thirties when Wales lost so many people - many choirs were affected, some just clung on," he said.
"Even today in a post-industrial era people have found the choirs adapting to a new situation, the repertoire has changed the composition of the choirs has changed, but they're still here."
So how are some of Wales' male voice choirs faring?
Ystrad Mynach
With just 19 choristers, chairman John Knight said membership is less than half of what it was 20 years ago.
The group has been determined to recruit new members - they have posted 2,000 flyers through doors, put posters up everywhere and have even taken choir practice to different venues across the town.
Mr Knight said: "Some who are getting on a bit wouldn't go anywhere else, they'd just sit at home watching television, whereas they get up every Monday and every Thursday - it's somewhere to go, it's something to do."
Caldicot
Chairman Mark Stocker said at the last count there were 90 choristers on the books - with 30 new members in the past five years.
The choir even managed to build its own choir hall next to the town's leisure centre. Success is down to lots of concerts, a wide variety of songs and a strong social element, with an associated cycle club, golf society and tours.
The age of choristers ranges from a 19 year old to 94-year-old Bill Cash, who lives in Bristol and has been travelling to practice twice a week for 47 years.
"It's the company I suppose, you have a laugh with the lads - on and off the stage," he said.
"If you can stick it for a fortnight we'll have you for life!"
Blaenavon
When musical director Gareth Whitcombe met film director Daniel Harris by chance a few years ago a campaign started to highlight the plight of the choir in Blaenavon and other choirs across Wales to survive.
Support from Hollywood star Michael Sheen and hundreds of others across the world saw the film "Save Our Male Voice Choirs" premiere in 2016.
The resulting publicity brought 16 new members to Blaenavon's choir, lowering the average age and securing its future.
Last month there was another first - a collaboration with a band called Blaenavon in front of a sold out crowd at the town's Workmen's Hall.
"Always be prepared to try something different," added Mr Whitcombe.
The woman, a BBC employee in her 40s at the time of the alleged assault in 2004, told Southwark Crown Court Mr Harris looked "vacant" after he thrust his crotch against her at a BBC party.
The 86-year-old former TV star faces alternate charges of indecent assault and sexual assault against the woman.
He denies seven charges of indecent assault and one of sexual assault.
The alleged assaults, against seven victims aged between 12 and 42, are said to date from 1971 to 2004.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the court: "All of a sudden he very quickly - it happened quite quickly - he with both arms out pushed me against the white wall.
"I had to step back, it was a shove, a heavy shove."
Jurors heard he slid his hands down to her breasts, and grabbed and squeezed them as he thrust against her.
"He looked to me and his eyes came to my eyes and then he looked away. He was quite vacant," the woman said.
"It was seconds. It wasn't a super long time - it felt to me like a quick, opportunistic grope and I kind of naturally kind of slid out from him."
Giving evidence by video link, the woman said she was "so embarrassed" by the alleged incident.
She told the court that at least 50 people were in the room but that no-one appeared to notice the interaction.
It happened at an "informal" party marking the end of a TV show Mr Harris had presented, she said.
Stephen Vullo, defending, suggested that Mr Harris's wife had been there too.
He said to the woman: "Your story is totally fabricated from beginning to end, isn't it?"
She replied: "No, it isn't, it isn't."
She denied being an attention seeker or that her allegations were motivated by financial gain, adding that Mr Harris had touched her deliberately and had not tripped.
Mr Harris is appearing by video link from Stafford Prison, where he is serving a sentence for a series of offences of indecent assault carried out against four female victims.
Premises in Linlithgow, Cowdenbeath, Burntisland and Kincardine were targeted on Monday.
It follows a robbery in Glenboig, North Lanarkshire, on Friday and an attempted raid in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, on Saturday.
Police were "keeping an open mind" about the same man being responsible.
In the first of the latest incidents, a man stole a sum of cash from the till of a post office in Linlithgow at about 11:25.
At about 12:15, there was an incident reported in Cowdenbeath High Street where a man tried to get behind the counter of a post office but was refused and left the premises.
About half an hour later, a man entered a post office in High Street, Burntisland, with a knife and made off with a sum of cash.
A female shopkeeper was assaulted by a man who had a weapon in the final incident, in Elphinstone Street, Kincardine, at about 14:14. He fled with cash.
The suspect in all four incidents was described as white, in his 30s with a stocky build, stubbly complexion and wearing dark clothing and a high-visibility jacket.
Det Insp Colin Robson from Dunfermline CID said: "These incidents were all extremely alarming for the staff involved and we are providing each of those affected with all the support they require will they assist us with our ongoing inquiries.
"We believe the same male was responsible for each of these crimes and would ask that anyone who can help us to identify this individual contacts police immediately.
"Anyone with any other information relevant to this investigation is also urged to get in touch."
He added: "We are also working closely with post office counters with a view to raising awareness and prevent further crimes."
On Saturday, two members of staff were threatened with a knife during a failed robbery bid at the post office within the Premier Store in Busby Road in Clarkston.
A 56-year-old woman was threatened by a man wearing a high-vis vest and brandishing a weapon during a robbery at a post office in Glenboig in North Lanarkshire on Friday afternoon.
It is thought the 24-year-old Kenyan, who joined Saints in 2013 for £12.5m from Celtic, is poised to undergo a medical with the White Hart Lane club.
The move would reunite Wanyama with his former Saints boss Mauricio Pochettino.
Wanyama asked to leave last summer after interest from Spurs but stayed at St Mary's and helped Southampton to a sixth-placed finish.
The imposing central midfielder made 85 league appearances for Saints, scoring four times.
If the deal goes through he will become Tottenham's first summer signing as they prepare for their return to the Champions League.
Wanyama signed for Celtic from Belgian club Germinal Beerschot for an undisclosed fee in July 2011 having moved to Europe from Kenya to join Helsingborg of Sweden in 2007.
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It acknowledges the "negative impact which recent publicity has had on public confidence".
The statement recognises differences that remain over the interpretation of the panel's determination on expenses in March 2012.
It follows a week of disagreements over expenses payments.
However, the statement says that both bodies are "committed to working together" to address those differences.
The panel will publish its next determination in March while the Assembly Commission, a cross-party group which manages assembly matters, will publish a new Members' Handbook based on that determination.
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) will examine the new handbook to "quality assure" it before it is approved by the assembly.
Earlier it emerged that assembly members claimed for work carried out by exterior research companies until 2014.
The Independent Financial Review Panel (IRFP) maintains that none of these payments should have been made after April 1 2012.
Such expenses are at the centre of the row between the Stormont watchdog and the Assembly Commission.
The current assembly members' handbook still allows an MLA to claim for third party research.
BBC Radio Ulster's Stephen Nolan programme revealed on Friday that payments to such third parties continued into the 2014/15 financial year.
The IFRP said in a statement on Thursday it did not believe it made a mistake in a ruling banning such payments in 2012.
However, the Assembly Commission said that it had applied the ruling correctly.
Two Juan Pablo Socino scores along with tries from Sonatane Takulua and Hodgson gave the hosts a 34-10 half-time lead.
Zach Kibirige and Callum Chick added further tries after the break as Hodgson kicked seven from seven.
Paul Bonnefond scored Lyon's fourth try in the last play of the game as they earned a try bonus-point.
The Falcons were beaten 42-12 in France last week and now sit third, a point behind Lyon in their group.
Newcastle: Catterick; Marshall, Burdon, Socino, Kibirige; Hodgson, Takulua; Rogers, Sowrey, Welsh, Green, Civetta, Temm, M Wilson (capt), Chick.
Replacements: Nelson, Vickers, Ryan, Young, Orr, Egerton, Willis, Agulla.
Lyon: Porical; Regard, Bonnefond, Barassi, Romanet; Loursac, Figuerola (capt); Mavinga, Mapusua, Attoub, Bekhuis, Paulino, Cretin, Tison, Tuifua.
Replacements: Paulo, Menini, Kaabeche, Tarazona, Fourie, Potgieter, Durand, Couilloud.
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Representatives from Welsh industries including music, breweries, medical technology and jewellery are being taken on the Welsh Government mission, until 24 February.
One business told BBC Wales it could be worth millions of pounds.
The delegation hopes to build on existing links with the region.
Moussa Clarke from Tiny Rebel Brewing Company said: "Export has always been an important part of Tiny Rebel's sales and growth strategy, and I'm very much looking forward to meeting current and potential partners, as well as like-minded beer geeks, and sharing a pint of Cwtch, our Welsh Red Ale, or two."
Michael Garvey, director of BBC National Orchestra of Wales, said: "As the national orchestra of Wales, we're looking at the very best opportunities to showcase the artistic excellence of our musicians and Wales' rich musical heritage on an international platform."
Officers were called to an address in Bryn Heulog, Old Colwyn, at 20:30 GMT on Thursday. David Kingsbury, 35, was found dead nearby.
The men, two aged 30 and one aged 50, were arrested on Monday. Police have a further 36 hours to question them.
A 38-year-old woman arrested last week was released on bail.
Police renewed an appeal for witnesses to come forward.
Det Insp Arwyn Jones said: "We would like to thank those who have already come forward with information which has assisted in the investigation, but we would still like to hear from anyone who may have been in the Aldi car park on Abergele Road or the Wellington Road areas of Old Colwyn, between 8.30pm and 9pm on Thursday 5 January.
"We are also keen to speak to anyone who saw a silver three-door Vauxhall Corsa in the Old Colwyn area and we are appealing to anyone who was travelling on the No 12 bus on Abergele Road between the mentioned times."
The 24-year-old Ballymena man died in a fall in Nice, France, in the early hours of Monday morning.
He had been in the city to see Northern Ireland play Poland in the Euro 2016 tournament.
A makeshift memorial marks the spot on the promenade from which the former Cambridge House Grammar School pupil fell.
Both Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland jerseys and flags, as well as floral tributes, have been left by fans paying their respects.
Irish fans also clapped and sang in tribute to Mr Rodgers in the 24th minute of the Republic's game against Sweden on Monday night. The timing was chosen due to his age.
Fans watching the game in Belfast's designated fanzone joined in the gesture with a minute long round of applause.
Boxer Carl Frampton has joined those welcoming the gesture, tweeting that it was "amazing".
Darren Rodgers played football himself with junior side Braid United, from Broughshane in County Antrim.
In a tribute on their Facebook page a spokesperson has written: "A man who on and off the pitch would have done anything for you, always great craic and giving his all every game.
"We are not just losing a player, today we lose a friend and one of the best people I've ever known."
Northern Ireland players Jonny Evans and Michael McGovern paid tribute to Darren Rodgers at Northern Ireland's press conference on Tuesday.
It followed tributes from Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill and a number of other players on Monday.
Former England striker Robbie Fowler has also paid his respects on Twitter.
Philip Last, 53, of Great Yarmouth, admitted six counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving in the collision in East Mersea, Essex, in September 2015.
In total, 23 people were hurt in the crash.
At Ipswich Crown Court, Last was also banned from driving for 21 months.
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Bus driver Michael Birch had to be cut free from his cabin following the crash.
He said he thought he "would die" and has been unable to drive since.
The court was told parts of the engine was held in place by just one strap, which snapped in the collision.
Last said he was "extremely horrified" by what happened and was "devastated by the unintended consequences".
In a statement, he said he "heard a crunch" and came to a "dead halt" when he and the bus were due to pass each other on a slight bend in the 40mph road.
Judge David Goodin said the accident had "grave consequences".
He added: "You are an experienced driver of heavy vehicles.
"You had the advantage of specific training of how to secure this six tonnes of metal to ensure no movement.
"You wouldn't have wished this for a moment, but you caused it."
The blast occurred at the end of the Yellow Carnaval in the town of Villepinte on Saturday afternoon.
Video posted on social media showed the bonfire blowing up seconds after being ignited, sending debris flying.
A mother and her child are among those seriously injured and the town's mayor was also hurt, Le Parisien newspaper reported.
Agence France-Presse reported that five people were seriously injured, and that a number of people suffered facial wounds.
It added that an initial investigation has been opened by prosecutors, but the cause of the explosion is not yet known.
Several hundred people had gathered for the event, including the town's mayor.
A police source told the BFM news network that the explosion may have been caused by the petrol used to help start the fire, which marks the end of the annual carnival in Villepinte.
The British Deaf Association (BDA) has compiled footage dating back to the 1930s for Power in our Hands, which covers the battle to have British Sign Language officially recognised.
It has been released in the association's 125th anniversary year.
For a deaf woman from Nottingham, the film was particularly poignant as it shows her father who died 50 years ago.
Gloria Pullen was one of a number of deaf people asked by the BDA to help identify people in the footage.
She was "overwhelmed" when she spotted her father Arthur King, who died when she was 19, taking part in a cricket game for deaf players in the 1930s.
"To not see my dad sign since he passed away and then to suddenly see him on screen, it takes me back to being a little girl," she said.
"It is our language - it's like seeing a film in your language, you pick up the emotion, the intonation."
Jemma Buckley, from the BDA, said the film reels were found in a skip in south London 12 years ago. The association received a Heritage Lottery grant to piece them together for the film.
"The deaf community do not see themselves as disabled. They see themselves as a cultural, linguistic minority with a rich and exciting heritage," she said.
"The really special thing about the fact that British Sign Language is captured on screen is you can actually see how people are communicating.
"You wouldn't get that in hearing films of that era because they were silent," she said.
The film is being shown at the Broadway cinema in Nottingham on Sunday and at screens around the country over the next month.
Holten, who has been at the ROH in London's Covent Garden since 2011, said it felt "very painful" to leave.
However, his departure appears to be amicable as Holten also said he had turned down the offer to renew his contract for family reasons.
The search for his successor will begin in the new year, the ROH said.
This past summer, Holten was offered a five-year extension to his time at the leading venue by Alex Beard, the ROH's chief executive.
Holten declined, but instead asked for seven months to give him time to direct a new production of Wagner's Meistersinger early next year.
Holten said in a letter to colleagues: "I love working at the ROH - and with all the amazing colleagues here.
"But when I moved to London, my partner and I didn't have children. Now we do, and after much soul searching we have decided that we want to be closer to our families and inevitably that means we make Copenhagen our home where the children will grow up and go to school."
Mr Beard said: "Kasper Holten is a wonderful colleague and a good friend, and continues to bring extraordinary energy and vision as our director of opera.
"While I had very much hoped to work with him through to 2020 and beyond, I understand and respect his reasons for moving back to Copenhagen."
Antonio Pappano, the ROH's director of music, also praised his colleague: "Kasper Holten has been electric during his time at the Royal Opera House, demonstrating an uncanny energy, perseverance and vision for the future of our great institution.
"My collaboration with him on Krol Roger was one of the most fruitful experiences I have had during my time at this theatre. I am very sad that he has decided he must leave, as I believe it will be a major loss for our company."
Holten's time at the ROH has not been without controversy. In early 2012, audience boos and walkouts greeted a modern-dress staging of a Dvorak work.
The reason for the outrage was Holten's decision to set Rusalka - a version of The Little Mermaid - in a brothel populated by provocatively dressed prostitutes.
"It is OK to have divided opinion when you try to move the boundaries," said Holten at the time.
Similarly, this summer, audiences were unhappy with the ROH's staging of William Tell, with the opening night again marked by boos, this time over a rape scene with nudity.
Holten's reaction was to apologise, saying he was sorry if some of the audience found the scenes "distressing" but he added: "The production intends to make it an uncomfortable scene, just as there are several upsetting and violent scenes in Rossini's score."
He said the scene "puts the spotlight on the brutal reality of women being abused during war time, and sexual violence being a tragic fact of war".
Analysis by Will Gompertz, Arts editor
The director of opera at The Royal Opera has announced he is to leave the Company at the end of March 2017 and return to Denmark.
The first thing you notice when meeting Kasper Holten is his energy and enthusiasm. Hang around a little longer and you discover a serious figure who is open-minded about his art form and experiential in his approach.
They are good attributes for an organisation such as the Royal Opera House, that is genuine in its desire to develop new audiences and push the boundaries of opera.
But it's not easy. It is an inherently conservative organisation with an old-school establishment core audience.
I suspect Holten will feel creatively freer in a more avant-garde environment, which Copenhagen is likely to provide.
He says he's going home to bring up his family. But maybe there's also an element of flying off before his wings have been clipped.
Do expect him to carry on innovating. Don't expect him to take up the vacancy at the English National Opera.
It's a loss - in my opinion - for London and the Opera House.
Police said the 16-month-old baby, who was outside a cafe at Central Railway Station on Thursday morning, suffered a cut to the face.
After the assault, the attacker ran away towards Elizabeth Street with the child's father chasing him, officers said.
A 28-year-old man has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
He will appear at Central Local Court on Friday.
But seeing them through the eyes of a nine-year-old child from Northern Ireland gives a different perspective.
Nicole Graham from Portadown, County Armagh, spent half term in Calais working on the refugee camp with her mum, dad and three other siblings.
At first it was scary, seeing all the people in the tents, she said.
"It wasn't very nice to see all the things on the ground and very muddy.
"I gave out water and tea and coffee and we handed out bubbles to the younger children.
"I felt very sad for them."
Her mother, Paula, said people did ask why they were bringing children with them.
"My husband had been out before Christmas and we knew it was safe and she didn't leave my side," she said.
"We had to do something. We couldn't sit back and do nothing.
"Children can do a lot - there's a job for everyone."
The family went with 12 others from the Vineyard Church in Dungannon.
Dad Nigel packed the family's camper van with supplies before Christmas and thought it would be a one-off trip - but he had to go back.
"The conditions are appalling. You'd do time for keeping animals in those conditions here," he said.
"One lady came in and she just wanted somewhere where she could feed her youngster and wash the bottle and put her youngster down to sleep - she has nowhere dry that is clean. Her child was eight months old."
The Grahams' eldest son, Danny, is 21 years old. He found seeing all the unaccompanied children the most difficult part.
It is estimated that there are 400 children with no parents or adult supervision in the Calais camp.
"It was scary because some of the kids that Nicole was playing with had no fear," he said.
"They had learned the word 'axle' in English because they were trying to find a lorry that they could try to climb on to, in the hope that it would go to the UK."
The Graham family helped build a shelter. But most of it was dismantled when the bulldozers moved into the "jungle" camp on Monday.
Paula said this was devastating because even though the conditions were appalling, it was all that the people have.
"To see it destroyed is soul-destroying. The little communities they've built up and now it's gone," she said.
"We will definitely go back and try to do more."
For Nicole, the trip has had a big impact: "I've been thinking about the way they have to sleep and that I've got a bed," she said.
Demolition teams moved into the French port to dismantle more makeshift shelters this week.
French police have warned that they will use force if the migrants refuse to move to nearby shipping containers.
French authorities believe about 1,000 migrants will be affected by the eviction plan, while aid agencies say the number of people living there is much higher.
James Holmes, 27, was charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder for the shooting at a midnight premiere of a Batman film near Denver.
He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity but prosecutors say he was sane at the time of the incident.
Mr Holmes could face the death penalty if he is convicted.
Defence lawyers accept that he was the man who opened fire, but claim schizophrenia distorted his ability to tell right from wrong.
Two state-appointed psychiatrists deemed Mr Holmes legally sane but mentally ill at the time of the shooting at the suburban movie theatre.
The jury, made up of nine women and three men, heard closing arguments from both sides on Wednesday in a case that has lasted nearly three months.
If they agree that Mr Holmes was mentally ill, he would avoid execution and probably spend the rest of his life in the state's mental hospital in Pueblo, 100 miles (160 km) south of Denver.
The former neuroscience graduate student from California did not testify in his own defence but jurors watched about 23 hours of video of interviews conducted with him by psychiatrists.
Residents living near the disused Trinity United Reform Church on the Esplanade in Whitley Bay were forced to leave their homes after the fire broke out at 20:25 BST on Saturday.
Several are still in a refuge centre and have not been allowed home.
Northumbria Police said the fire was being treated as arson and a man, aged 56, had been arrested.
Det Ins Jane Fairlamb said: "This was a large operation involving a number of partners, all agencies worked together to extinguish the fire and I want to personally thank all of them for their hard work in ensuring that it did not spread to neighbouring properties.
"The fire was successfully extinguished overnight, but a number of people have been housed in temporary accommodation while we carry out some further structural investigations."
Phil Neville is co-commentating on the Europa League final for BBC Radio 5 live on Wednesday, 24 May. Build-up to Ajax v Manchester United starts at 18:30 BST, with kick-off at 19:45.
If United were heading to Stockholm having already qualified by finishing in the Premier League top four on top of having the EFL Cup in the bag, then I think their players would be a lot more relaxed.
Instead, all of United's eggs are now in one basket.
The outcome of Wednesday's game feels like a matter of life and death for them, which is a dangerous situation to be in against a really good young Ajax team.
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Ajax are very impressive technically and they have lots of energy too.
Their front five - with Bertrand Traore and Amin Younes either side of Kasper Dolberg in attack, and Davy Klaassen and Hakim Ziyech in the centre of midfield - give them goals and creativity, and a good mixture of pace and skill.
Traore is very quick down the right but a little bit erratic, while Younes on the left is a good dribbler - he is not rapid but he is pretty sharp.
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What Peter Bosz's team do well is play a high-tempo game - they like to press and win the ball back early.
To counter that, United have to be really brave and mirror the approach they had when they beat Chelsea at Old Trafford in April.
They tore out of the blocks in that game and went toe to toe with Antonio Conte's side. They were positive and they put the champions under pressure, and never allowed them to settle.
United played on the front foot that day and used the speed of Jesse Lingard and Marcus Rashford to pester Chelsea. The energy in midfield of Ander Herrera, Marouane Fellaini and Paul Pogba overpowered them.
If they do the same again on Wednesday, I don't think Ajax will be able to live with them.
Klaassen and Ziyech, in particular, are capable of dictating play if you let them, but if United get in their faces early on then they will not be able to find their rhythm.
And Ajax's defence is definitely their weakness. They press on transition - whenever they lose the ball - but if you get past that initial press then there are some big spaces behind it, and their back line looks vulnerable.
Kenny Tete at right-back is not quick, and centre-back Matthijs de Ligt is only 17 and erratic. The Europa League final is going to be a huge occasion for him.
What United definitely shouldn't do is sit back like they did at Old Trafford in the second legs of their quarter-final and semi-final.
When they did that against Anderlecht and Celta Vigo, they got nervous. United were not playing well and it became a struggle as their opponents grew in confidence.
United cannot allow that to happen again. They should see this as a game where they have to go out and start fast.
If they put Ajax under pressure early on, and do some damage, they can seize control of the game.
Ajax's inexperience is definitely something United should try to exploit - none of their players have featured in a game as big as this before.
But the Dutch team also do not have to deal with the same expectation of winning that United do, and they are already into the third qualifying round of next season's Champions League after finishing second in the Eredivisie - so the final is not make or break for them.
On occasions like this, you wonder whether players will freeze or play without fear, and it is the same for United's younger players too.
If there was ever a game in which United needed the know-how of injured striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, it might be this one - because he would not be scared of what was at stake.
Ibrahimovic has already delivered for United in the Community Shield and EFL Cup final. It is big games like this in which you need your big players, and there are none bigger at United than him.
I think United will miss Zlatan, but what they do have in their favour is a manager who has been there and done it all before.
Jose Mourinho has great experience, not just of the big occasions but of winning them. He is a serial winner and knows how to set up a team to win a final, and that is where I think United have the greatest advantage.
Mourinho will have a massive influence on the day but he has already got all of the energy back into his team before the final.
I don't think he can complain about them being tired because he has given his players the rest they needed in the three Premier League games they have played since they reached the final.
United will be mentally fresh for this game, for the first time in about five or six weeks.
It is a one-off game and finals are so unpredictable - but, under Mourinho, they will be ready.
The difference between United's form going into this final and the 1999 Champions League success that I was part of comes down to momentum.
Back then, we had just won the Premier League and then the FA Cup.
But there are still similarities this time - things that were drummed into you at Old Trafford when I was there, and still are under Mourinho.
It is still the case that you cannot enjoy a final unless you win it. Getting there is not enough, even if by doing so you have already created history, as United have done by reaching a Europa League final for the first time.
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And United still measure themselves on trophies won, not the fact they have finished outside the Champions League positions in the Premier League.
Mourinho's whole philosophy is about winning, so you have got to admire the fact that, if they beat Ajax, they have two major trophies to show for their season.
For me, that means they have been more successful than three of the clubs who finished above them in the table - Tottenham, Manchester City and Liverpool, who finished second, third and fourth.
I would rather finish sixth and win two major trophies than finish second with none - that was the mentality I was brought up with at Old Trafford and I am pleased it is the same there now.
Winning trophies gives you a taste of something you want more of, which is why success in Stockholm is important for this United team in the future, as well as the here and now.
If you finish second, third or fourth and you don't get your hands on a trophy or a medal, you don't get to step on to that winning podium. There are no prizes in fact.
There are several United players who have never won a trophy with the club, and I know what a boost getting some silverware gives you and how you get a thirst for more.
Beating Ajax would make a big difference for next season, not just by getting them into the Champions League but to give them an advantage over the teams who have finished above them but have not got anything to show for it.
Phil Neville was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Caernarfon-based Mulcair told staff on Tuesday about the move.
Recent high-profile projects for the company included building a bridge to replace Pont Briwet across the River Dwyryd and a Welsh Water scheme to alleviate flooding in Deeside.
The company did not add any further comment.
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But Ginny Thrasher became passionate about shooting during a family hunting trip when she was a young teenager, she told the Richmond Times Dispatch newspaper.
When her grandfather pointed to a deer behind her, she grabbed a gun, pulled the trigger and amazed her companions by killing the animal.
Soon after, Thrasher joined the air rifle team at her high school in Springfield, a suburb of Washington.
On a meteoric learning curve, she won five medals at the 2015 US Shooting National Championship.
Success did not end there. As a college freshman, she won two titles as the National Collegiate Athletic Association last year.
Three weeks later she went to US Olympic team trials and prevailed over "a seasoned and talented field", according to the USA Shooting team website.
She earned a comfortable victory despite having never competed internationally.
So even making it to Rio was an astonishing achievement for the teenager.
And she has now shot to stardom by beating favourites to become the gold medal winner in Rio.
Merseyside Police said the 35-year-old man flagged down a passing ambulance in the Anfield area after a disturbance at about 17:00 GMT.
A spokesman said the fan, whose injuries were not life-threatening, is refusing to talk to detectives.
Police have appealed to other fans and passing motorists for information. Liverpool won the third round tie 2-0.
"Thanks for messages! My season is over before it's even started. Operation Friday," said Huddlestone on Twitter.
"My main objective is to make sure I'm 100% for pre-season."
The 25-year-old has made just four appearances for the club this season because of the injury and first had surgery late last year.
Tottenham now say he requires further surgery to complete his recovery from the ligament damage and the club are expecting him to return in time for pre-season training.
"The midfielder has progressed well since his initial surgery," the club said in a statement.
"The specialist has determined that the anticipated reconstruction of a lateral ankle ligament is the next step towards the England international making a return to full fitness."
Huddlestone has established himself as a key figure in the Spurs set-up in recent years following his move to White Hart Lane from Derby in 2005.
He made more starts than any other outfield player in all competitions in the 2009-10 season as Tottenham finished fourth in the Premier League and qualified for the Champions League for the first time.
The Republican has repeatedly praised Mr Putin's macho style and policies towards Syria, on the campaign trail.
The Russian president brushed off concerns about Mr Trump's controversial proposal to ban Muslims from the US.
He said Russia was ready to work with whoever was elected the next president.
"It is not our business to determine his merits, that is up to US voters," Mr Putin told reporters after his annual televised news conference. "But he is the absolute leader in the presidential race."
"He is a very outstanding person, talented, without any doubt."
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On Wednesday, he contrasted himself with President Barack Obama when he said: "I will get along - I think - with Putin, and I will get along with others, and we will have a much more stable - stable world."
Mr Trump has also backed Russian intervention in Syria, because Mr Putin said his target was Islamic State.
Relations between Mr Obama and Mr Putin have chilled in recent years following disputes over Ukraine and Syria.
Donald Trump likes to issue boastful press releases whenever he receives a new endorsement, but it will be interesting to see how he handles kind words from Vladimir Putin.
The Russian president has been a regular target of rhetorical heat from Republican candidates. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said in the presidential debate earlier this week that he would impose a no-fly zone over Syria and shoot down any Russian planes that violated it. Former corporate chief Carly Fiorina has maintained that she would refuse to talk with the Russian leader, relying on US military force to speak for itself.
It is definitely too early to mark Mr Putin's comments as a negative for the New York businessman, however. The Russian leader has long been admired by conservatives who say his resolute demeanour and toughness are qualities lacking in the current White House occupant. Talk to Trump supporters, and they'll tell you those are exactly the kind of attributes they admire in their man.
If Mr Putin views Mr Trump as a political soul-mate, that's likely just fine with them.
The Russian president appeared to welcome Mr Trump's overtures.
"He wants to move to another level of relations, a closer, deeper level of relations with Russia," he said. "How can we not welcome this? Of course we welcome this."
He is a very outstanding person, talented, without any doubt
And he was unfazed by Mr Trump's recently proposed ban on Muslims entering the US, which sparked condemnation from several world leaders.
Mr Putin said "his phrases that he uses to increase his popularity" was not of Russia's concern.
"It is not our business to rate this part of his work," he added.
Mr Trump, who leads the polls six weeks before Republican primary contests begin, has yet to respond to Mr Putin's praise.
Managing director Stewart Robertson said Rangers "want to be a modern football club", adding that a director of football would bring "continuity".
"It works provided everyone involved in the club is willing to get behind it," Smith told BBC Scotland.
"I feel it's the right way ahead."
Former Scottish FA chief executive Smith, 62, served as director of football for 10 months under the Craig Whyte regime, leaving shortly after the club entered administration in February 2012.
"It's a continental strategy," Smith explained. "We've been a bit reluctant in Scotland to apply it but you have some clubs now who are doing it, and Hearts are a good example. It's working well there so I think that's exactly what Rangers need to do to take the club forward in a very positive sense."
Ally McCoist was the manager when Smith, a former Rangers player, took up his position.
"If it's something that comes in from the higher echelon then there's more chance of it working.
"When I went in six years ago, there was no, I would say, good feeling about it in terms of the people that were already there. They didn't think it was required and I found it very difficult to do my job even in terms of the reports I had done, the changes that needed made.
"The person who goes into that job actually has to operate the strategy of the club. I was trying to put a strategy in place at that time that was uniform and that everyone could adhere to but I had difficulties with it."
Smith, who made his Rangers debut in 1977 after a move from Kilmarnock, warns that a new approach will take time to bed in.
"You're looking at a medium to long term strategy," he said.
"What you're looking at is to say 'OK we need to put things in place; the club in general has to run in a certain way'. The first team will still have a coach and there will still be pressure on the first team manager to deliver results.
"But other than that, you need to put something in place for the club as a whole in terms of youth development and the scouting department and everything to do with the media and all that sort of thing so the club runs in a very clear and good operative manner.
"It could take a while there's no doubt about that. It needs finance coming in as well to compete at where Rangers want to be."
Willie Miller, Aberdeen director of football from 2011-12
I think it's a good model but there are question marks in Scotland about whether coaches and managers would buy into it, older managers in particular.
I thought it worked well at Aberdeen. It's working well at Hearts.
Managers or head coaches need that help behind the scenes. There's an awful lot of work, particularly in negotiating contracts, that can be taken out of their hands and they can focus fully on coaching the team.
I know how Gordon Smith feels, it is a very difficult job to implement, particularly when you've got a bit of negativity going about in terms of whether it actually is the right way to go or not.
The world number 16 won 6-4 2-6 6-1 to secure the ninth title of her career.
Pavlyuchenkova, 25, took the opening set with the only break and, after Kerber levelled, raced into a 5-0 lead in the deciding set before winning in one hour and 55 minutes.
Germany's Kerber is yet to win a title in 2017.
Meanwhile, two-time Australian Open winner Victoria Azarenka has announced she will return to the WTA Tour in July, seven months after giving birth to her first child.
The 27-year-old former world number one, who has not played since retiring from the French Open in May last year, announced her pregnancy in July.
The Belarusian has used the hashtag "don't call it a comeback" on social media.
The delays were mainly at London Bridge station, but also in Scotland.
Network Rail's performance on Southern, on Govia Thameslink (GTR) and in Scotland was "below expectations and missed punctuality targets", the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) said.
Network Rail has apologised to passengers for "disruption and frustration".
However, it said it had invested more than £11m to "improve performance for Southern and Thameslink passengers" since the start of 2015.
Phil Hufton, managing director of network operations at Network Rail, said: "At London Bridge we are undertaking the biggest and most complex station and track redevelopment ever attempted on Britain's railways - while simultaneously continuing to keep services running."
Commuters using London Bridge began to face delays in January due to rebuilding work as part of the government-sponsored £6.5bn Thameslink Programme.
In March, there were chaotic scenes at London Bridge, which rail union RMT described as "life-threatening", as passengers jumped barriers to avoid crushes on the concourse.
The regulator said that Network Rail had failed to liaise properly with operators to understand the extent of the disruption, and had also used flawed data to compile timetables.
It said Network Rail had "significantly underestimated the impact of the Thameslink programme on performance, which was further exacerbated by a timetable that was not robust".
ORR chief executive Richard Price said: "The scale of the delays suffered by passengers was central to our decision to fine."
"The penalty sends a clear message to the Network Rail board: Network Rail must urgently rectify these errors and deliver the reliability of services that passengers have paid for," he added.
Errors in timetabling in Scotland were not picked up due to quality assurance issues there, ORR said.
The fine either has to be paid to the Treasury, or instead, the £2m will have to be used to improve customer services beyond what is normally expected, a spokeswoman for the ORR said.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport union said the Network Rail fine was "a ludicrous way to run a railway" as it was "effectively the taxpayer fining themselves". Network Rail is a public-sector body.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "The fines will have to be paid for by axing works or cutting staff, creating a vicious cycle of decline that is self-defeating and will just mean more fines and more cuts in the future, which is a nonsense."
He added that "fragmentation and a proliferation of contractors and agencies on our tracks... are compromising infrastructure projects".
A Network Rail spokesman said that it was too early to speculate as to whether the fine would lead to job losses.
The public sector body has already had to halt some rail improvement works, however.
In June a £500m project to electrify the Midland Mainline was "paused" by the government.
Passengers were forced to take replacement bus services after workmen found the item near Gaer Park Drive, Newport, at about 15:30 BST.
Explosives experts later determined the object was a type of excavation device.
All lines have now reopened but some services have been delayed.
A spokesman for British Transport Police (BTP) said: "At around 15:30 today, our officers were called to the line near Newport railway station after workmen reported finding a potential unexploded device.
"All trains in the area were put on stop while investigations were carried out. A cordon was put in place and explosives experts were called to identify and deal with the device, which was later confirmed to be an item of construction equipment similar in appearance to ammunition.
"The cordon was lifted at 18:15 and the line was subsequently handed back to Network Rail."
Sam the golden Labrador is trained to sniff out dry rot hidden in the timbers and structure of old buildings.
The so called rothound is helping with survey work at the 300-year-old Holy Trinity Church that is being transformed into a community venue.
A Churches Conservation Trust spokesman said his job is "incredibly important".
The well-travelled Labrador is thought to be one of only a few sniffer dogs working commercially in the UK.
Brought from their home in Kendal, Cumbria, to help with the conservation work, handler Peter Monaghan said his lively character is exactly what is needed for the job.
Sam can detect any odour of dry rot that is hidden from the human eye and once found he drops to the floor with his nose in the direction of the scent.
His previous assignments have included 17th Century Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire.
Built in 1791, Holy Trinity Church in Hendon was once at the heart of the community.
Over the years people moved out of the area and in 1988 the Grade I listed church was decommissioned.
It has been cared for by The Churches Conservation Trust which now wants to turn it into The Canny Space.
The main pipeline was damaged when a bridge was hit, according to IS and anti-IS activists.
Citizen journalist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently confirmed, on Friday, that IS has mended the pipe.
Syrian rebels backed by the US-led coalition are trying to capture Raqqa.
Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently said the strikes had targeted local infrastructure.
The US is working with the Kurdish-led rebel group Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to try to defeat IS.
In November, the coalition said it had begun an operation to capture Raqqa, which has been held by the jihadist group since January 2014.
The US announced, in December, that it was sending 200 more military personnel for the operation.
A Kurdish official told Reuters news agency this week that the aim of the campaign was to seal off all roads to the city, including links with Deir al-Zour province, another IS stronghold.
Some 50,000 migrants are now in Greece and more arrivals have been reported.
The agreement between the EU and Turkey is aimed at halting the influx of more than a million "irregular migrants" through Greece since January last year.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said Greece faces an "uphill effort" in implementing the deal.
Boats are continuing to arrive from Turkey. More than 1,600 new migrants have reached the islands in the 36 hours since the measures came into effect on Sunday, officials say.
"If there is no reduction in the flow [of refugees], we will not be able to evacuate the islands successfully so the deal can start to be fully implemented,'' Mr Tsipras warned.
The arrival of the 10 Turkish monitors has aroused some political opposition in Greece. They will stay on the islands for a week.
Meanwhile, 2,300 EU experts, including security and migration officials and translators, have not yet arrived to help enforce the plan. Officials have said the returns to Turkey are unlikely to start before 4 April.
Under the deal, no new migrant arrivals will be allowed to travel to the Greek mainland.
Anyone who does not apply for asylum will be sent back, as will anyone whose claim is rejected. For every Syrian migrant sent back to Turkey, one Syrian already in Turkey will be resettled in the EU.
There are also questions about what will happen to the tens of thousands of migrants still stuck in Greece and on its closed border with Macedonia, as their route north has been blocked.
Boats carrying some 2,000 irregular migrants from the islands docked near Athens on Monday.
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More than 144,000 irregular migrants have arrived this year alone, and about 460 have died, according to the International Organization for Migration.
Critics have said the deal could force migrants to start using other, potentially more dangerous routes, such as the journey between North Africa and Italy.
In the hours before the plan came into force, hundreds of people were rescued by Italian and Libyan officials amid an increase in traffic through the Strait of Sicily.
And in Turkey, at least 200 people were caught in a coastal town and turned back as they tried to reach Greece ahead of the deadline, authorities said.
Human rights groups have strongly criticised the deal, with Amnesty International accusing the EU of turning "its back on a global refugee crisis".
Most of the migrants arriving in Europe are keen to go to Germany and other northern countries, which have seen increasing public discontent with the influx.
Bavarian finance minister Markus Soeder - a member of the sister party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU, the Christian Social Union - has said the deal could lead to a mass migration of Kurds to Germany, as the agreement gives Turks visa-free travel rights.
"It could ultimately lead to more immigration, especially if you take visa freedom into account. Many, many Kurds fleeing the Turkish government could come to Germany," Mr Soeder told German public broadcaster ZDF.
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 24-year-old centre-back has been offered "improved" terms at the League Two Chairboys but is yet to extend his stay at Adams Park.
Pierre has played 149 times for Wycombe since joining from Brentford in 2014 but has spent the last week on trial at Lee Johnson's Championship side.
He is set to feature in their friendly against Guernsey FC on Saturday.
Wycombe manager Gareth Ainsworth previously described Pierre, who has been capped four times by Grenada at international level, as "probably the best centre-half in League Two".
More than 400 people are still missing after torrential rain caused whole hillsides to collapse.
The Brazilian government has said it will set up an early warning system to alert communities of impending danger.
The flooding is considered the worst natural disaster Brazil has ever experienced.
According to figures compiled by the newspaper O Globo, about third of all victims were children and adolescents.
The youngest fatality was a five-day-old baby buried in a mudslide in Nova Friburgo, the worst affected town with 324 dead.
Continuing danger
The number of missing has been declining as forensic experts identify more bodies, but rescue workers fear the full extent of the disaster is not yet known, with some remote communities still only reachable by helicopter.
Emergency workers say their priority is to make sure no new deaths occur.
They are warning of the risks of contaminated water.
Three people are known to have contracted leptospirosis, an infectious bacterial disease, which is caused by exposure to water contaminated with rats' urine.
In Teresopolis, doctors have been administering thousands of tetanus vaccines.
In Sao Jose do Vale, workers were erecting more than a hundred tents sent from the UK to house those whose homes were swept away or flooded.
Volunteers in Rio de Janeiro held an adoption fair in the hope of re-homing some of the 5,000 animals left without owners as a result of the disaster.
The government has allocated $240m (£150m) in emergency reconstruction money for the area.
The financial behemoths prowling the leagues of England and France are on a seemingly inexorable rise, hoovering up the galacticos of the southern hemisphere.
Theirs is a monetary clout Scottish rugby cannot hope to match.
From Edinburgh, Dave Denton has gone to Bath, Greig Tonks to London Irish. Captain Mike Coman will follow, so too Matt Scott to Gloucester at the season's end. There may be others.
Along the M8, speculation continues to heighten on the future of Fijian sensation Leone Nakarawa - reportedly heading for Racing 92 with a year left on his contract - and Taqele Naiyaravoro, the monstrous winger, returning to the Waratahs of Australia.
Amidst this leakage of talent, though, the Warriors have, rather shrewdly, recruited an ex-Crusaders hooker, a four-time Super Rugby champion, 15-Test All Black and Rugby World Cup winner.
Corey Flynn joins Gregor Townsend's squad on a two-year deal this summer following a sojourn at Toulouse, one of the most storied and wealthy of the French heavyweights.
"Some of these club owners have got a lot of money - the rugby clubs are just a plaything for them," says Flynn of his two-season paddle in the volatile waters of the Top 14.
"They're not worried about spending money.
"It's not a good thing for French rugby as a whole. I've been talking with a couple of the French boys; they're a little bit annoyed because they're not just targeting the big stars of New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.
"They're targeting the younger ones so they can get them in at an early age, have them in the academy for three years, then they're regarded as French-qualified, not foreign players any more.
"That's a bad thing because they're not nurturing their own talent - which they have an abundance of. But until you get a centrally controlled system you're never going to get that because the private owners just want to win.
"They want to spend money to win competitions and they don't really care about the national team or the state of French rugby, which is a shame."
Flynn has seen and done a great deal in some 15 years of professional rugby.
He battled shoulder to shoulder, season after season, with the world's best. Richie McCaw, Dan Carter, Kieran Read - they were his pals along the way.
Flynn is 35 now - he made his Crusaders debut five days before Scotland forward Jonny Gray celebrated his eighth birthday - old enough perhaps to prompt some dissenting murmurs down Scotstoun way.
He's a wizened Kiwi hooker with five broken arms on his medical record, while among the Warriors ranks are Fraser Brown, Pat MacArthur, Kevin Bryce, the burgeoning James Malcolm and more.
Flynn though is a beacon of durability in a sport of growing tumult and physical peril.
He played 31 games for Toulouse last season - including two against his new side - starting 30, hot on the heels of a run to the 2014 Super Rugby final.
That's well over 1,600 minutes of rugby - there's plenty life in the old warhorse yet.
"When I spoke to Gregor, he asked me if I still had the desire to play, which is a big yes," he says.
"Having been in France for two years after a fairly intense, structured outfit in the Crusaders, it turned out I wasn't ready just to cruise, show up and play rugby. I'm not ready to finish like that.
"What gives me satisfaction isn't just strapping on my boots and playing, it's being involved in decisions and the way a team runs.
"I still want to use my brain; I still want to engage mentally into an environment.
"Gregor also asked about the mentoring role, and I'm not naïve in thinking I can play forever, so I realise that half of my appeal is the experiences I've been through and the ability to pass on those to the younger guys.
"You're only ever really a caretaker of a jersey - it's about when you leave, you leave the jersey in a better position, you know?"
Flynn sought the counsel of his old mate Sean Maitland before committing to the move north. The testimonial was brief but affirming.
"All he said was there's a great bunch of boys that love to work for each other," he says. "There was nothing more he had to say there.
"I'm of the understanding we're going to get a new pitch for next year. Glasgow like to play a running style of footy, which is exciting.
"The pitch will allow us to play some good rugby all year round."
The end, Flynn acknowledges, is an awful lot closer than the start. These might be his final line-out throws and midfield rumbles, but on and off that new Scotstoun surface so hotly-anticipated, his influence should still prove significant.
Ioannis Kasoulides said capital controls would be lifted gradually, appearing to contradict earlier estimates that curbs would end in days.
He spoke at the end of a first day of operations in almost two weeks for the country's crisis-hit banks.
Earlier, the president praised Cypriots who queued in orderly fashion for cash.
Nicos Anastasiades hailed the country's "maturity and responsibility" on a day that saw many wait to access their cash.
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The government has appointed three former supreme court judges to investigate possible criminal activity in the crisis.
The tight capital controls were put in place after a 10bn-euro bailout deal was agreed with the EU and IMF.
Withdrawals over 300 euros are banned, and there are limits on moving money.
Branches were replenished with cash overnight and police were deployed amid fears of a run on the banks.
Some queues did form but the mood was generally calm.
Branches began to open at noon local time (10:00 GMT) and closed at 18:00 (16:00 GMT).
Some did not open on time, causing tension among customers. The longer queues formed outside branches of Laiki, which is being wound up.
Some armed police were deployed in cities and hundreds of staff from the private security firm G4S are guarding bank branches and helping to transport money.
One customer in a queue in Nicosia told the BBC's Tim Willcox he was withdrawing the allowed daily amount of 300 euros ($383; £253) but would take out all of his money if he could.
Our correspondent says the predictions of a stampede did not materialise and in some places there were more journalists than depositors.
Another customer, jewellery shop owner, Roula Spyrou, told AFP news agency: "There's going to be queues so I'm not going to spend so many hours there to get 300 euros."
Cyprus is the first eurozone member country to bring in capital controls.
Cyprus needs to raise 5.8bn euros ($7.4bn; £4.9bn) to qualify for a 10bn-euro bailout from the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the so-called troika.
As part of the bailout plan, depositors with more than 100,000 euros will see some of their savings exchanged for bank shares.
An earlier plan to tax small depositors was vetoed by the Cypriot parliament last week.
As it became clear that calm was being maintained, President Nicos Anastasiades tweeted his gratitude.
"I would like to thank the Cypriot people for their maturity and collectedness shown in their interactions with the Cypriot Banks," he wrote.
Officials later confirmed that the president would take a 25% pay cut, with cabinet ministers accepting a 20% pay cut.
The stock exchange, shut since 16 March, remained closed on Thursday and will not reopen until after Easter.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the ministry of finance insisted the capital control measures were temporary and were needed to "safeguard the stability of the system".
They would be reviewed each day, the ministry said.
But Mr Kasoulides, the foreign minister, appeared to contradict this in remarks to reporters on Thursday.
"A number of restrictions will be lifted and gradually, probably over a period of about a month according to the estimates of the central bank, the restrictions will be fully lifted," Reuters quoted him as saying.
The severe new rules have been imposed to prevent a torrent of money leaving the island and credit institutions collapsing.
As well as the daily withdrawal limit, Cypriots may not cash cheques.
Payments and/or transfers outside Cyprus via debit and or credit cards are allowed up to 5,000 euros per person per month.
Transactions of 5,000-200,000 euros will be reviewed by a specially established committee, with applications for those over 200,000 euros needing individual approval.
Travellers leaving the country will only be allowed to take 1,000 euros with them.
Many economists predict the controls could be in place for months.
The unprecedented restrictions represent a profound breach of an important principle of the European Union, says the BBC's economics correspondent Andrew Walker.
That principle holds that capital, as well as people and trade, should able be to move freely across internal borders, he says.
However, the European Commission said member states could introduce capital controls "in certain circumstances and under strict conditions on grounds of public policy or public security".
But it added that "the free movement of capital should be reinstated as soon as possible".
One employee of the Bank of Cyprus told the BBC that everybody's jobs were at risk.
"If the Bank of Cyprus collapses, all the small business, the large businesses, everything collapses. They cannot buy anything, import anything, export anything. There is nothing," she said.
Devyani Khobragade has now arrived back in Delhi after she was ordered to leave the US, having been indicted on criminal charges.
She was arrested on charges of visa fraud and underpaying her housekeeper.
India demanded an apology after she was handcuffed and strip-searched, and had refused to waive her immunity.
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.
Ms Khobragade has always denied any wrongdoing.
She arrived back in the Indian capital at about 22:30 (17:00 GMT) on Friday, Indian media said.
Some local reports say Washington has been asked to withdraw a diplomat of a "similar rank" as Ms Khobragade from its Delhi mission.
Others quote an unnamed government official as saying the US official was involved in the case relating to Ms Khobragade, India's deputy consul general in New York - although this is yet to be confirmed.
The US embassy has not commented so far.
The BBC's diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus says that by ordering the US to remove one of its officials from its Delhi embassy, the Indian government is treating the departure of Ms Khobragade as an expulsion.
She was arrested after a complaint from her maid, Sangeeta Richard.
Ms Khobragade 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.
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Ryan Edwards and Ade Azeez threatened early for a positive Partick side.
But a Celtic team showing eight changes edged in front after 16 minutes when Sinclair's clipped finish exposed a static defence after a free-kick.
Thistle were doughty opponents but have now gone seven league games without a win and remain bottom of the table.
An 18th consecutive win in Glasgow derbies against Thistle took Brendan Rodgers' side further clear of city rivals Rangers at the top of the Premiership - and they have another game in hand to come.
Thistle, who had the chance to jump to eighth place, were unable to use their extra game over their rivals at the other end of the table.
The defending champions did not produce their best form against dogged opponents, but they found a way to win the game.
That in itself is a useful attribute and Rodgers will have been cheered by Sinclair's goalscoring effort.
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Other players given a starting spot were not as persuasive, with Mikael Lustig and Jozo Simunovic not looking entirely solid at centre-back, the latter being robbed by Edwards early on only for the Australian to finish weakly.
Despite being out of sorts at times, Celtic still had opportunities to secure a more convincing win in the second half, but they found Tomas Cerny a difficult obstacle to beat in the Thistle goal.
Moussa Dembele saw an early effort after the break deflected wide, then the Thistle goalkeeper saved well from Patrick Roberts, Sinclair and again from Dembele, whose strong run and powerful finish looked destined to find the corner of the net.
Substitute Stuart Armstrong also had an attempt on goal saved as Celtic sought the second goal that would have eased any nerves inside the stadium.
The attention was drawn to 18-year-old Calvin Miller making his competitive debut at left-back, and fellow youth development products Callum McGregor and Liam Henderson also both started the match.
The former can be quick-witted on the ball and industrious, while the latter's rangy running and set-piece delivery are threatening.
It was Henderson's clever free-kick - which caught the Thistle defence unaware - that created the decisive goal for Sinclair, who met the cut-back with a clip over Cerny.
Miller's first involvement was to win a tackle and he mostly looked composed on the ball and eager to surge upfield.
He might have scored, too, when a series of one-twos around the edge of the area ended with him cutting into the box, but his effort was smothered by Cerny.
It wasn't a wholly comfortable night for him though, since his direct opponent, David Amoo, was quick and strong enough to occasionally brush the youngster aside.
When that happened again in the second half, Rodgers immediately turned to the experienced Emilio Izaguirre and Miller was soon replaced after a steep learning curve for the teenager.
The visitors refused to merely sit deep and look to close down Celtic's passing angles. They pressed and harried much closer to the Celtic goal and the home side never found their usual fluency and rhythm.
With Amoo capable of troubling Miller, and Azeez aggressive enough to discomfort the two Celtic centre-backs, there was promise for the visitors to build on. The best of their play, though, came through the creative figure of Edwards.
The Australian was quick and nimble enough to make a mark on the game despite opposing Celtic captain Scott Brown.
One burst past Brown led to Edwards feeding Azeez and the striker's awkward finish was brushed wide by Celtic goalkeeper Craig Gordon.
The visitors' lack of composure in the final third was a feature - Azeez had another low drive pushed wide by Gordon, while Ziggy Gordon's finish lacked conviction after the full-back galloped into the penalty area - but they kept Celtic on their heels at times.
When Chris Erskine mis-hit the ball from a cross, it bounced to Sean Welsh, but he shot tamely straight at Gordon.
Match ends, Celtic 1, Partick Thistle 0.
Second Half ends, Celtic 1, Partick Thistle 0.
Attempt missed. Danny Devine (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Foul by Leigh Griffiths (Celtic).
Danny Devine (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Scott Brown (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ryan Edwards (Partick Thistle).
Foul by Leigh Griffiths (Celtic).
Danny Devine (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Liam Lindsay (Partick Thistle).
Attempt missed. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Hand ball by Abdul Osman (Partick Thistle).
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Chris Erskine.
Patrick Roberts (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Callum Booth (Partick Thistle).
Attempt saved. Patrick Roberts (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Kris Doolan replaces Adebayo Azeez.
Attempt saved. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Attempt blocked. Liam Henderson (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Adam Barton replaces Sean Welsh.
Substitution, Celtic. Leigh Griffiths replaces Moussa Dembele.
Attempt saved. Sean Welsh (Partick Thistle) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Liam Lindsay.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Tomás Cerny.
Attempt saved. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Jozo Simunovic (Celtic).
Adebayo Azeez (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Celtic. Stuart Armstrong replaces Scott Sinclair.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Callum Booth.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Tomás Cerny.
Attempt saved. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Chris Erskine replaces David Amoo.
Emilio Izaguirre (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Emilio Izaguirre (Celtic).
Ziggy Gordon (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Scott Brown (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Sean Welsh (Partick Thistle) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
The 29-year-old Harlequins centre thinks the winners will go on to win the tournament and that Wales have a proven record of coming out on top.
"The stakes are high this week, there's no doubt about that," he said.
"And when I look back over the moments when the stakes have been highest we've delivered as a group."
Roberts, who lines up in an unchanged Wales side, highlighted the 2013 Grand Slam decider in Cardiff when Wales beat England 30-3 and last September's Pool A match in the World Cup when they triumphed 28-25 in Twickenham.
"Certainly, it's an experienced group and we go to Twickenham knowing what it takes to win there and we have to deliver," he added.
"It's 80 minutes. We get it right we win, we get it wrong we lose; so we know what's on the line, the stakes are high.
"And that high pressure environment certainly brings out the best of us."
England go into the game with a 100% record under new coach Eddie Jones, while Wales have beaten Scotland and France after drawing their opening game 16-16 in Ireland.
If England win they face a trip to France on 19 France chasing a first Grand Slam since 2003. A win for Wales would see them needing to beat Italy at home to win the championship.
"We won't leave any stone unturned in our preparation and it's amazing everything boils down to 80 minutes," said Roberts.
"It will take bodies on the line and full concentration because one missed tackle, one break, one unforced error or one penalty could decide the championship.
"Because if you fast forward a week and I'd like to think we won't lose at home to Italy, which we never have done, and I doubt England will lose in France if they're hunting for the Grand Slam.
"So this game will go a long way towards deciding the championship."
At Harlequins Roberts plays alongside Chris Robshaw, who lost the captaincy of England in the fall-out following the World Cup failure which the defeat against Wales instigated.
Coach Stuart Lancaster also lost his job following the tournament along with the bulk of the coaching team.
And Roberts is full of admiration for the way the team has recovered from adversity under Jones.
"It's a credit to Chris as a bloke the way he's been able to bounce back, especially after the flack he took personally at the World Cup and if anything he's playing some of his best rugby now.
"And that's a credit to the bloke more than the player.
"Full respected to England, they've come back very strong.
"Ultimately after going through a tough time like that as a side they're probably at their most dangerous, as we've seen.
"They are unbeaten - they're three from three and we'll be facing a very determined England side on Saturday."
In Agam district, in West Sumatra province, 15 houses were buried beneath mud and rocks, killing seven.
Hundreds of people were forced to flee their homes on the mountainside.
In the neighbouring province of Jambi, heavy rain triggered a landslide in a drilling field owned by a state-run energy company.
In a statement, PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy said that four of its workers had died, one remained missing and five had been injured.
Sixty workers survived the landslide, the firm said.
Flash-floods and landslides are common in Indonesia, triggered by seasonal downpours.
Many in the chain of 17,000 islands live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains.
Heavy rain in the capital Jakarta this month caused 32 deaths and, at its peak, forced nearly 46,000 people to flee their inundated homes.
For the UK, where revealing someone else's tax affairs is a criminal offence, this is a pretty radical step. But for some countries this is nothing new.
In Norway, for instance, everyone has been able to see how much you earn and how much tax you pay since 1814. Until recently the data was only available at the town hall or in expensive printed books, rather like the Yellow Pages, but these days it is all available online.
For newspapers like Dagbladet, one of the top tabloids in Norway, this is a windfall. It can and does report on the lives and loves of the rich and famous just like many newspapers do in other parts of the world.
But in Norway they can spice up each and every report at the click of a mouse - the earnings, tax and wealth of everyone from the prime minister down is available online for anyone to see.
Dagbladet's editor-in-chief John Arne Markussen admits that this did go too far at one point, with stories on the richest and poorest streets in Norway and apps that let you find out who lived in a house you were passing and how much they earned.
Now if you look up someone's tax details they at least know who is doing it, but that doesn't stop journalists like Bjorn Bore. So I asked him to look up the editor's tax returns from last year. It was only mildly embarrassing for John Arne Markussen.
"You did good boss, congratulations," was his reporter's rather surprised sounding comment when he found his boss's salary and bonus from 2014. "He made 2.8m kroner but he paid 1.3m kroner in tax." That's more than £230,000 in wages and £108,000 in tax - it had been a good year for the newspaper apparently.
But this tax transparency is not just a matter of celebrity gossip or embarrassing the boss. It has had radical consequences for Norway.
It started when Norway won its independence and needed to set up a central bank. Taxes were raised and to make sure everyone was paying their fair share, all the details were published.
The above extract is from the booklet, Tax assessment 1871 for cities in Norway, and shows a table for the city of Sandefjord. The columns show:
As an attempt to increase openness and stop corruption, the news was also available to the illiterate - town criers stood on village greens and announced the whole village's taxes.
As a result Norway is one of the least corrupt countries in the world.
It has also reduced gender inequality and it is easy to see why at Opera, an internet company in Oslo. It has attracted top talent from around the world, including Ruth Orflack from Yorkshire.
In England, she told me, it was a bit of a taboo to discuss how much you earned. "Here you don't have to do that, it is available knowledge and that is very important for fresh graduates. You know what to expect, what people should be paying... in England you take what you are given."
It is so ingrained that I was amazed to hear one of Ruth's bosses complain that the system is no longer as open as it was. She sets people's wages but wants them to be able to see the rates she is offering are fair. She also helps friends in their wage negotiations and trade unions publish detailed lists of what everyone should be earning.
Even top bosses like the system. Ones I spoke to said they believe that paying taxes is a civic duty and huge wage differences between the best and worst paid are obscene.
But could it work in the UK? Is it just what David Cameron ordered?
Thomas Eriksen is a professor of anthropology at Oslo University. He doesn't think the system is easily transferable. "There are religious sects, Lutherans, here in Norway that forbade members from even having curtains because nothing should be concealed from the public eye," he says.
That openness and public scrutiny of private lives is part of a particularly Norwegian culture, as is not standing out or getting above yourself. Prof Eriksen says that also limits entrepreneurship and initiative in Norway and is the downside to all that openness.
In many ways Norway is like the UK, a wealthy open Western society with wide international links. But a country where a man's home is his castle and tax affairs are secret is far removed from one where curtains were banned just in case you were committing a sin in your own sauna.
Total tax transparency here in the UK? Dream on.
For more on this story, listen to BBC Radio 4's In Business: Why don't we talk about our pay?
The bombers, both female, detonated their explosives while the camp's residents were queuing for rations.
The victims, at the Dikwa camp in Borno state, were mostly women and children.
Islamist Boko Haram militants have been attacking civilian targets as the Nigerian military seeks to wrest territory from their control.
The group's six-year insurgency has killed some 20,000 people and driven more than two million people from their homes.
The camp at Dikwa is reportedly home to about 50,000 people displaced by the violence.
The attack took place on Tuesday morning, but details of it are only just emerging. At least 67 people had been injured, many of them severely, a local official told the BBC.
Three women equipped with bombs had entered the camp early, the chairman of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, Satomi Ahmed, told the AFP news agency.
He said the third woman had surrendered to the authorities, refusing to detonate her explosives "when she realised her parents and siblings were in the camp".
Last year, a military operation involving troops from several countries - including Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad - began to weaken Boko Haram's control over areas in north-eastern Nigeria where it had declared a caliphate.
The BBC's Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar in Abuja says that while the militants may be unable to carry out major attacks on military targets, they seem to have no difficulty using young women to enter heavily guarded camps for the displaced.
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The 75-year-old, dubbed the "King of Romance", is best known for his 1967 hit Release Me, which kept The Beatles' Strawberry Fields Forever off the number one spot.
The singer said it was "an absolute honour" to be taking part and was "excited and raring to go".
This year's competition will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 26 May.
The song Humperdinck will perform has yet to be announced but the BBC said it would be recorded in London, Los Angeles and Nashville.
It will be written by Grammy award-winning producer Martin Terefe and Ivor Novello winner Sacha Skarbek, who co-wrote James Blunt hit You're Beautiful.
Humperdinck - who was born Arnold Dorsey - has sold more than 150 million records worldwide during his 45 year career.
Born in Chennai to a British army officer, he took his stage name from a German composer best known for his opera Hansel and Gretel.
He scored a UK number one with The Last Waltz and had other hits including There Goes My Everything and A Man Without Love.
His last UK top 20 single was 40 years ago with Too Beautiful To Last which reached number 14.
The singer has received four Grammy nominations, a Golden Globe for Entertainer of the Year and is one of only a handful of artists with a star on both the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Las Vegas Walk of Fame.
"It's an absolute honour to be representing my country for this year's Eurovision Song Contest," the singer said.
"When the BBC approached me, it just felt right for me to be a part of an institution like Eurovision. I'm excited and raring to go and want the nation to get behind me!"
Humperdinck is the oldest ever Eurovision contestant and if he wins, will be the UK's first victor since Katrina and the Waves 15 years ago.
"Engelbert's age isn't the reason why we chose him to represent the nation for Eurovision, but it's nice to break a few records along the way," a BBC spokeswoman said.
Katie Taylor, BBC head of entertainment and events said: "Not since the 70s have we had such an established international musical legend represent the nation.
"We couldn't be more delighted. Engelbert's experience leaves us in no doubt that he will be able to deliver a standout performance in front of 120 million viewers worldwide."
At the Consensus 2016 conference in New York, attendees told the BBC they wanted to see more proof before they would be ready to believe the claims.
Mr Wright spoke to the BBC claiming he created the crypto-currency.
Gavin Andresen, chief scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation, has confirmed the claim.
Mr Andresen said he travelled to London to meet Mr Wright who showed him proof that he and Satoshi Nakamoto - the pseudonym adopted by Bitcoin's creator - were one and the same.
"He signed in my presence using the private key from block one, the very first mined Bitcoin block, on a computer that I am convinced had not been tampered with," he said.
Each key is a unique digital code that is linked to specific bitcoins.
But even he added: "It is impossible to prove something like that 100%."
Scepticism about Mr Wright's claim has been fuelled by following the steps he put on his blog that, he said, show how to go about verifying cryptographic keys.
Some queried the complicated series of steps in this process and the information they called upon. Security expert Dan Kaminsky said the process was "maliciously resistant" to validation.
Mr Andresen said he could not explain why Mr Wright had chosen such a "funky" procedure as a proof.
Others at the Consensus conference were more openly sceptical. Vitalik Buterin, from the blockchain company Ethereum, said the very "noisy" way in which Mr Wright chose to make this announcement threw into question whether it was true.
"In general, signal theory says if you have a good way of proving something and a noisy way of proving something and you choose the noisy way chances are it's because you couldn't do the good way in the first place."
Eric Voorhees, founder of cryptocurrency trading app ShapeShift, also had his doubts.
"I generally trust Gavin [Anderseen]'s opinions so I want to believe this but I'm not convinced yet," he said.
Others were more willing to believe that the elusive Bitcoin creator had finally been revealed.
"I think it would be good news if Satoshi Nakamoto is found," said Daniel Lipshitz, from bitcoin infrastructure company Gap 600.
He said while public proof from Mr Wright would be good, he trusted Mr Andresen and was willing to believe that he had seen compelling evidence.
The digital currency industry is still developing. It has moved from the shady criminal underworld it was first associated with. Bitcoin, and the underlying blockchain technology it is based on, are now being invested in by the finance industry looking for the next place for innovation.
"It's not clear to me that if Craig Wright is Satoshi, or if it's someone else, that this is relevant to Bitcoin these days," said Dr Garrick Hileman, an economic historian at the London School of Economics, who has studied the genesis of the digital currency.
"Some would argue that we are now living in a post-Satoshi world," he said. "But I think Satoshi does matter, we should not dismiss their contribution."
However, he added, sessions at the Consensus conference and events in the wider world showed how the focus on the technology had shifted. Many financial firms were now looking at the blockchain that underlies bitcoin as a way to solve and streamline some long-standing payment processing problems.
"The industry has moved," he said. "The investment and interest is going into more and more non-currency uses."
The plane went down over what is now Zambia during a diplomatic mission to help broker a ceasefire in the Congolese civil war.
Pilot error was initially suspected.
However, new evidence has emerged which sceptics say could add weight to suspicions of foul play.
The UN resolution would seek to compel countries to hand over documents and radio intercepts to a special investigator, which might nail down the truth of what really happened, BBC South Africa correspondent Karen Allen says.
Dag Hammarskjold: Crash or a conspiracy?
Mr Hammarskjold and his aides had been flying to Ndola in what was then Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, to meet Moise Tshombe, who had declared independence for the mineral-rich Congolese province of Katanga.
The DC6 aircraft crashed in darkness in a forest near Ndola shortly before landing, killing the Swedish diplomat and 15 others on board.
The reason for the crash has never been fully explained, despite three official investigations.
The third investigation, by the UN in 1962, reached an open verdict and did not rule out sabotage or attack.
Then in 2015, the UN set up a panel of independent experts to examine new evidence in the case.
Our correspondent says more recent information includes eyewitness accounts of white men in Land Rovers close to the crash site.
That has fuelled speculation that foreign agents could have been involved as part of a complex plot which put Cold War rivalries and European mining interests centre stage, she says.
This thought made the disability rights activist request a popular food app to list wheelchair-friendly restaurants in six India cities.
Zomato responded to Mr Malhotra quickly and started listing disabled-friendly restaurants in August.
Mr Malhotra told the BBC he was amazed when he travelled to the US in July and found that "it was so easy to search disabled-friendly restaurants on food apps".
"It was a struggle to find disabled-friendly restaurants in Delhi and other Indian cities before Zomato agreed to my request. Not many places advertised themselves as disabled friendly and that was disheartening," he said.
Most disabled people in India "do not visit restaurants very often and that severely restricts their social life", he added.
"We can't go to public parks to play sports because they lack proper facilities. So restaurants become very important for our social life, but then not many know how to find restaurants which welcome the disabled," he said.
Mr Malhotra wanted to change this, but did not know what to do.
"It was frustrating, very frustrating. But thankfully my visit to the US gave me this idea that food apps can help in solving this problem."
He said officials at Zomato were helpful and they finally added "wheelchair accessible" filter in August.
Three months later, the activist said he was happy with the progress but felt more efforts were needed.
India is not known for being friendly towards the disabled and most public places still lack basic facilities to help them in everyday life.　
And restaurants are no different.
Staff at most restaurants "do not know how to serve a person with disability", he said.
"In most places, staff either show pity or simply don't know how to respond to my requests."
The activist wants to change this attitude with a new campaign.
He has requested the National Restaurant Association of India to design a course to train staff on disability rights.
"I have noticed that some staff are reluctant to serve drinks to me. Once they do, they find it difficult to understand why I need a straw with my drink," he added.
And "they always give the bill to my able-bodied friends".
Mr Malhotra says the situation is much worse in smaller towns and that now he plans "to push food apps to add a similar filter for restaurants in smaller towns and cities".
He also wants food app services to start posting their menus in computer readable formats.
"Visually impaired struggle to read menus which are usually posted as images on these food apps. If the menus are in computer readable formats then it will make it easy for visually impaired people to order food," he added.
The activist said he didn't want "any special attention for the disabled through his campaigns".
"I just want Indians to understand that we are as normal as anybody else. Some of us walk on the wheelchair instead of walking on our feet. That's it," he said.
Team Sky boss Sir Dave Brailsford told MPs earlier in December the package contained a decongestant but did not have supporting documentary evidence.
"What we hoped we might get is a paper trail - it should be really simple," Collins told the BBC's Today programme.
"But clearly that doesn't exist."
Collins, chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, was speaking the day after five-time Olympic champion Wiggins announced his retirement at the age of 36.
He added: "It seems difficult to get precise records about what was in this package, why it was ordered - the detail you would want to know.
"Good practice in a case like this should be that these sort of records are kept, and therefore it's very easy to identify what's been couriered, what's been requested."
British Cycling's president Bob Howden told the Today programme he was unable to "talk in detail" about the case as it is subject to an ongoing UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) investigation.
He said that information about how the package was physically sent to Team Sky had been provided to the select committee, such as details of flights and other transportation, but stopped short of elaborating on the "exact medical requirements that were in place".
"The medical records are under the control of Ukad at the moment," he said. "The whole medical room at Manchester is under lockdown. We physically can't comment in respect of what that information is."
He added that British Cycling was "working towards" providing evidence for the contents of the package. "Our aim is to achieve that certainly," he added.
Team Sky have been under pressure to reveal the contents of the package following a Daily Mail allegation.
The package in question was delivered via courier to Team Sky on the final day of the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine, and just weeks before the start of that year's Tour de France.
It contained the decongestant Fluimucil, which is legal in sport and was intended for then-Team Sky cyclist Wiggins - who went on to win the seven-day race.
The Daily Mail reports that it has seen evidence showing that it took four days and £600 in travel costs for British Cycling coach Simon Cope to courier the package to the French Alps.
But Collins said that the decongestant was "readily available in France and could easily be obtained".
"If it's as simple as that, why get a British Cycling coach to courier it from Manchester, via London to Geneva, when you could have just gone to a pharmacy in France and bought it over the counter?" he said.
"The answer we were given was that it can sometimes be easier and quicker if you know someone is coming out just to bring it from the British Cycling store in Manchester.
"But in this case, looking at the records we saw yesterday, it would appear that that process would have taken several days. A lot of people looking at this say that it just looks odd."
Speaking to Cycling News in October, Cope said he "didn't have a clue" what was in the package he was tasked with taking to France, adding that there was "no way" British Cycling would attempt to take "something dodgy or illegal" through customs.
"It's just not going to happen," he said. "You have to go through two sets of customs. Why are you going to take the risk?"
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Wiggins and Team Sky were under scrutiny in September 2016 for his use of therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs), after his confidential medical information was leaked by hackers 'Fancy Bears'.
TUEs allow the use of banned substances if athletes have a genuine medical need, and Wiggins, an asthma sufferer, said he sought them to "put himself back on a level playing field".
Wiggins was granted a TUE to take anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone before the 2011 Tour de France, his 2012 Tour win and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.
Wiggins' TUEs were approved by British authorities and cycling's world governing body the UCI, and there is no suggestion either he or Team Sky have broken any rules.
The Scottish champions' 2-0 home defeat by Barcelona, thanks to Lionel Messi's killer double, means they will finish bottom of Group C.
"Getting to this stage is great for us but we want to try and push on as much as we possibly can," he said.
"We're disappointed we're not in Europe after Christmas, but we'll be back."
The midfielder believes Celtic have made progress under Brendan Rodgers since they began their campaign with a 7-0 hammering by the Spanish champions.
"There's been ups and downs but it's just the start of the gaffer's era and we're always improving," said Brown.
"We're now looking forward to next season and we need to try and be back in it again.
"We didn't have the best start, but we've kicked on after that with good performances though not the best results.
"That's what we need to try to do every year now, be in the Champions League season after season."
Brown believes he and his team-mates should take a lot of personal gratification from their five Champions League matches this season despite collecting only two points.
"There's a bit of frustration but there's a lot of pride as well," he told BBC Scotland.
"We played against a top team that has won Champions Leagues and a lot of the team have won a lot with Spain as well.
"It was hard. We dug deep and were a little bit unlucky. The penalty was quite soft, but they're top quality players.
"The first goal's just exceptional - it's a great ball, it's great movement and it's a great finish."
Brown was also keen to defend Moussa Dembele, the club's top scorer who missed a gilt-edged chance to level the match when 1-0 down before Messi's second from the penalty spot killed off the Scottish champions' hopes.
"Moussa's scored some great goals for us and has won us games himself to be honest," he added.
"Strikers miss chances and strikers score great goals.
"He's a great player and he's been fantastic all season. What a signing he is for half a million quid."
Celtic eyes will now turn to attempting to win the first major silverware of the Scottish football season when they take on Aberdeen in Sunday's League Cup final.
And the Parkhead captain believes a victory for his side would put down a serious marker.
"Yeah, I think so," he said. "Especially for the gaffer, it would be huge for him being a Celtic fan, coming to the club and getting us playing as well as we can.
"We now need to give something back to him."
But both Galashiels and Hawick (in strict alphabetical order) have some issues in common.
A recent report by consultants looked at the "challenges" facing the retail sector in the towns.
Its findings have now been presented to Scottish Borders Council and a number of community groups.
The local authority said its recommendations would be "carefully considered" before any action was taken.
Councillor Stuart Bell said: "This piece of work is an important step in tackling the challenges faced in both Galashiels and Hawick in terms of retailing, but we now need to go away and consider the recommendations and come back with an informed plan on where we go from here.
"It is important that community and business groups in both Galashiels and Hawick are engaged with the work that will result from this report, and as such it was vital to make them aware of the findings as early as possible.
"Change will not take place overnight, and we still have to take into account the wider economy across the Scottish Borders and nationally which has, and continues to, impact on retailing in our towns."
He said that he remained "hopeful" that working with partners like Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish government they could help both towns which were "clearly vital" to the local economy.
The report presents a number of key findings about the retail sector in the area.
It found that Borders towns were shifting from a traditional shopping offering (such as shoes and clothing) towards convenience and leisure.
It also concluded that retail premises were becoming more locally owned as major financial institutions moved out and that leases tended to be for shorter periods leading to quicker turnover of High Street tenants.
The study also said that towns in the Scottish Borders were "not particularly well understood by UK level decision-makers in the retail sector".
It suggested that a "prospectus" for Galashiels and Hawick should be drawn up identifying what the towns have to offer.
That would allow them to target operators with a "clear message around local trading conditions" and information about the retailers already present.
Consultants said that growth was coming from local retailers and added that current vacancies could provide an opportunity for them to "improve their trading location".
It said public sector investment could focus regeneration efforts in Galashiels on Stirling Street and the west end of Channel Street.
In Hawick it suggested a footfall generating "anchor" such as a major commercial outlet in the town centre might provide a boost.
All of which provides food for thought for both the council and community groups in the two towns.
It will then be up to them to decide if and how they take forward the recommendations made by the consultants.
The 27-year-old has joined on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee, reported to be £3.5m.
The former PSV Eindhoven man has played in the Champions League and Europa League more than 50 times.
"Mathias is another very good signing for our club as we prepare for our first Premier League season," said Huddersfield head coach David Wagner.
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Four air force helicopters have been airlifting people out of Kaikoura on the South Island after battling strong winds and heavy rain earlier.
The town, northeast of Christchurch, has been cut off by landslides triggered by the quakes.
Hundreds of aftershocks continue to rock the area.
Two people were killed in the magnitude-7.5 earthquake that struck the South Island early on Monday.
The capital Wellington, at the southern end of the North Island, was also affected. It was then hit by poor weather on Tuesday, with heavy rain and flooding.
In one bright spot for the quake recovery, three cows that were filmed stranded on a tiny island after their field collapsed around them have been rescued. The farmer that owns them dug a track and encouraged them to come down.
Farmer Derrick Millton was quoted as saying: "They're quiet but they've had a terrible ordeal... You're a clever cow to skip and dance while the land beneath you is disappearing down the hill."
Air Commodore Darryn Webb, acting commander of New Zealand joint forces, told TVNZ that approximately 200 people were being airlifted out of Kaikoura.
There are an estimated 1,200 tourists at the popular whale-watching spot, along with a population of about 2,000.
Two ships and other aircraft are assisting with the evacuations, said the New Zealand Defence Force.
Prime Minister John Key said the top priority was to provide desperately needed supplies to Kaikoura.
Broken roads and buckled buildings mark the edges of Waiau, one of the towns nearest the centre of the earthquake.
But what you notice there most is the army of workers already on the ground, trying to get the town reconnected. New poles are being raised to hold up the electricity lines, water supplies are slowly being restored.
We watched as builders pulled down a broken chimney stack from the roof of one of the homes. Its owner, Andrew, showed me the damage inside - the walls are cracked, furniture had been thrown around.
But he feels lucky. His parents, who are now staying with him, say their home has been "totalled".
While there is relief that everyone here survived safe and well, there is still a sense of anxiety, as the aftershocks continue to roll in.
Police have warned that water and electricity supplies are running low, while hundreds of people remain in evacuation shelters and community centres.
At least 1,000 people are being housed in the local marae, or Maori meeting place, in Kaikoura. They had crayfish - the town's speciality - for breakfast on Tuesday, after local fisheries' tanks failed with the electricity shortage, reported Reuters.
"It's better to use the food than throw it in the rubbish," said local Maori community leader Mark Solomon.
Local divers and fishermen are also working to relocate tens of thousands of paua - a type of mollusc - after the seabed rose out of the water by around 2m (6.6 ft), leaving them stranded, Newshub reports.
Transport Minister Simon Bridges told reporters on Tuesday that access to Kaikoura would take "several months" to be re-established.
Officials assessing the aftermath say billions of dollars of damage was caused, with major road and rail links severed.
GeoNet, a government-funded project monitoring earthquakes, said that aftershocks would continue over the next few months.
Meanwhile, Wellington on the North Island is facing the double whammy of regular aftershocks and intense weather.
Heavy rain and winds have shut down some highways and rail lines, closed schools and caused electricity outages and flooding.
A nine-storey building in the city's centre is in danger of collapsing, the New Zealand Fire Service says, with streets nearby closed.
The first earthquake hit shortly after midnight on Sunday, prompting thousands to flee their homes and head for higher ground as authorities issued a tsunami warning.
Waves of around 2m hit the coast shortly afterwards, and the tsunami alert was later lifted.
New Zealand lies on the Ring of Fire, the fault line that circles virtually the entire Pacific Rim bringing frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions.
Christchurch is still recovering from a 2011 earthquake that killed 185 people and destroyed the city centre.
The RMT union met Abellio ScotRail management for an hour over its plans to change staffing levels on new trains.
The two parties held talks twice last week, brokered through the Arbitration and Conciliation Advisory Service (ACAS).
On both occasions, they broke up for both sides to consider their positions.
Members of the RMT have already staged a number of walkouts in the dispute, and further stoppages are scheduled. They include three of the four competition days at golf's Open Championship, which is being played at Royal Troon next week.
The RMT also intends to strike on Sunday 10 and Monday 11 July.
The dispute relates to driver-only-operation (DOO) trains, where the driver is asked to close the doors at stations, instead of the conductor.
The RMT union claims the move poses a risk but ScotRail says it would always schedule a second person on trains.
The drama unfolded in The Alex pub in Southend, Essex, on Tuesday night, YourSouthend reported.
Kayleigh Johnson, 28, said she heard a "massive crash" before the ceiling came "tumbling down".
No-one was injured in the incident, and the pub's owners said specialist contractors were assessing the damage.
Mrs Johnson said: "It was so lucky. Where it happened was right near our old table, and the bar.
"If someone had been ordering a drink, they would have been right underneath where it happened."
Mrs Johnson said a light had come down too and only red lamps were left on.
Staff then helped people evacuate the "rammed" pub, which was recently refurbished at a cost of £300,000.
The cause of the collapse has not yet been established.
"We couldn't see anything because it was really quite dark and it was so dusty," Mrs Johnson said.
"The staff upstairs were very good. They got people out promptly."
General manager Andy Pipe said normal business would resume as soon as it was safe to do so.
Manchester-born Ian Lawson travelled around the Western Isles to capture his images of crofters, their sheep and the weaving of wool used for the tweed.
The project was carried out over the course of 10 years in collaboration with the Harris Tweed Authority.
Lake District-based Mr Lawson's photographs will be at Rheged Centre Gallery in Penrith until 15 May.
The exhibition, called From the Land, will also be held at the An Lanntair arts centre in Stornoway from 1 July to 16 August.
Harris Tweed is hand-woven on the Western Isles.
Mr Lawson sought to capture the people and landscapes associated with the manufacture of the cloth.
Earlier this month Harris Tweed's orb trademark was officially recognised as a coat of arms.
For years, the mark has identified tweed made from cloth woven by hand in the Western Isles with wool yarn from island sheep.
The Lord Lyon, King of Arms, has granted that the orb be the industry's coat of arms.
The Harris Tweed Authority said the recognition would provide a further layer of protection from imitations.
The orb will be incorporated into a shield to become the coat of arms.
The threat of losing your home, a year of financial restrictions, three years of paying creditors, and a six-year blight on your credit rating does not generally prompt a musical routine.
Yet the relief of facing up to, and striking out, unmanageable debts can lead to such a response, according to debt charities.
In this case, it was a man called Stephen, who submitted his bankruptcy form, hugged a debt counsellor, and danced around their office.
Now the perceived stigma of bankruptcy has also been diluted, according to the Insolvency Service. A new system in England and Wales means applications are made online, without the need to go to court.
"Going to County Court with 30 pages of paperwork in triplicate was a huge, daunting challenge under the old system," says Mark Cowley, insolvency manager at debt charity Christians Against Poverty.
"There was a psychological effect in going to court. Many people assumed it was criminal although it is a civil procedure."
Figures suggest that the new clickable application, and its lower fee, has increased the numbers choosing bankruptcy. So, is this a simple matter of convenience or is it actually the result of more people facing unmanageable debt as wages are squeezed and prices rise?
Shirley, from Basildon in Essex, had debts of more than £40,000. After attempting suicide, she was referred to Christians Against Poverty debt counsellors by her local housing association.
The charity says it would have taken her more than 20 years to repay the debts, so she applied for bankruptcy with a counsellor's help.
"I suffer with anxiety, and when I get stressed I get blackouts," she says.
"The thought of going to court for bankruptcy was a bit scary, I didn't like that idea. My debt coach told me I wouldn't need to go. Filling in the form online made it a lot easier. It took away the stress. I did have some help from my support worker because I'm dyslexic, but it was very easy. It was all really quick."
Now, after setting up a savings plan with the charity, she is £63 in credit. "I've never been in credit that much before," she says.
There are a variety of ways that someone with out-of-control debts can deal with the situation by going insolvent. Bankruptcy is only one of those options, yet it is the most recognised.
The threat of losing your home, the public admission of money troubles, and that trip to court have all created the stigma that has been attached to bankruptcy - even though, for some, it is clearly their best option.
The shift from court to internet, introduced in April and the biggest change to bankruptcy rules for 30 years, was in part an attempt to eliminate that perceived shame.
"It was a real barrier for some people," says Liz Thomas, The Adjudicator at the Insolvency Service for England and Wales. "We now have a simpler form, we have ensured the questions were understood, and people are able to complete it in their own time.
"It is still lengthy. It takes several hours to fill in, and there is information to ensure people understand the seriousness of what they are doing."
But now, after pressing the submit button, some 95% of "successful" applicants are declared bankrupt within two working days.
Bankruptcy: The traditional way of escaping overwhelming debt. Ends after one year, but there is a possibility you may lose your assets, including your house, to pay something to the creditors. Since April, applications can be made online and considered by an adjudicator. Costs £680
Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA): A deal between you and your creditors, overseen by an insolvency practitioner. Less chance of losing your home, but involves paying some of your debts in one go
Debt Relief Orders: Introduced in April 2009, these allow people with debts of less than £15,000 (£20,000 since October 2015) and minimal assets to write off debts without a full-blown bankruptcy
The new online system - unlike some more high-profile government IT projects - was on time and it worked. It remains exposed to the same frailties as any other online service. On Thursday, it was unavailable for several hours owing to a fault.
Still, the effect of the new system is starting to show, according to the Insolvency Service. The number of individuals declaring themselves bankrupt rose by 7% in the third quarter of 2016 compared with a year earlier. The full set of 2016 figures will be published on Friday.
Having assisted many people to complete bankruptcy applications, debt charities have broadly welcomed the online form.
"The roll-out date was optimistic, but the project has worked. The name 'bankruptcy' still spooks people, but it has taken the stigma out of it to some degree," says Mr Cowley, of Christians Against Poverty.
Ironically, 90% of users say they would recommend the system to family or friends. A recommendation, no doubt, that they would rather not have to take up.
The upfront application fee is also cheaper. Under the old system, it cost more than £700; now, as there is no need for court fees, it costs £680.
That is clearer, charities say, but not necessarily better - or ultimately cheaper - for the poorest applicants. Under the old system, a court could waive its fee of about £150 for the most vulnerable.
That discount, or an equivalent, is no longer available. In its place is a system allowing people to pay the £680 fee in instalments. That fee, says Liz Thomas, will cover the cost of developing the new system within five years, at no cost to the public purse.
In Scotland, insolvency works very differently to England and Wales. The equivalent to the Insolvency Service is the AIB (Accountant in Bankruptcy).
The AIB functions like a court. Those seeking bankruptcy can apply online but not on their own. They have to have received advice from an approved money adviser or insolvency practitioner before applying.
In Northern Ireland, all bankruptcies are made through the courts.
Where to find free debt advice
Insolvency service - bankruptcy explained (England and Wales)
Options for clearing debts - Scotland
Options for clearing debts - Northern Ireland
The online systems may have been applauded, but the true test has yet to come. Insolvencies are at historically low levels putting relatively little pressure on the system, but there are signs that the red alert is starting to return.
Bank of England governor Mark Carney has frequently taken the opportunity to express concern about the level of household debt.
Borrowing on credit cards and unsecured debts such as overdrafts is rising at its fastest rate for a decade - a trend that he says requires the bank's "vigilance".
Rising unsecured debt should not be a problem when interest rates are low - as they are - and wages are rising. Yet it does leave households exposed to a financial shock if jobs are lost or interest charges rise.
So, there is some concern that default rates on this unsecured debt increased in the final three months of 2016, according to the Bank of England's Credit Conditions Survey.
The following graph also reveals that UK households are funding their spending by dipping into their savings. This was happening at its fastest rate for two years in the third quarter of 2016, according to the latest official statistics.
A saving ratio of below zero basically means households are not saving, but are spending more than their disposable income. It was negative from the start of 2004 until the latter end of 2008.
The Office for National Statistics says a fall in the saving ratio may be an indication that households are more confident and spending more, rather than desperately ducking into their savings.
Analysts Capital Economics also notes that there is no need to panic over household debts.
The cost of servicing debts compared to household income is still low and manageable, it says. Interest rates would have to rise significantly to raise this cost to the levels seen in 2008.
No crisis in household debt means no glut of bankruptcies.
Still, there will always be people whose debts spiral out of control - and, for them, applying for bankruptcy has got a little bit easier.
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Reusing plastic bags is the single most common step taken by people who want to improve the world around them.
The statistics are part of a publication by Northern Ireland's Department of the Environment.
It found fewer people are "very or fairly concerned" about the environment, down to 70%, a 12-year low.
Apart from illegal dumping of waste, people were most upset by river pollution, traffic congestion and climate change.
People who had adopted "green" practices had mostly switched to reusable bags or changed to energy efficient light bulbs.
The number of plastic bags issued here every year has fallen from 300 million to 91.5 million since the introduction of the 5p carrier bag levy.
On river quality, the statistics show that only a third of rivers monitored are of good standard or better.
And only five of the 21 lakes were of "good" quality.
Police in Hartlepool disturbed the raid on the Tesco Express in Wiltshire Way but the gang then tried to escape in a Land Rover, sparking a pursuit.
The vehicle was later found dumped and burned out in Trimdon, County Durham.
A 31-year-old was arrested in connection with the raid just before 02:30 GMT. Police believe another getaway car may also have been used.
The incident happened at 02:40 GMT.
Pte Gavin Williams, 22, was made to do intense exercise as punishment for a series of drunken incidents.
Pte Williams, from Hengoed, Caerphilly county, died in hospital from heart failure as a result of heatstroke.
A former Army doctor said there was a "poor passage of information" which led to the initial treatment.
Dr Justin Hammond told the inquest in Salisbury, Wiltshire, that Dr Mark Darbyshire "made reasonable decisions and took reasonable steps to make a diagnosis based on the information he had".
Pte Williams, of 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh, was taken to the medical centre at Lucknow Barracks in Tidworth, Wiltshire, after being put through the physical exercise punishment on 3 July.
He was later taken by ambulance to Salisbury District Hospital and admitted without any medical notes.
Doctors were not told he had been subjected to heavy exercise that day.
His body temperature was 41.7C, way above the norm of 37C, and tests showed he had ecstasy in his body when he died.
Three non-commissioned officers, Sgt Russell Price, of 2 Rifles, Sgt Paul Blake and Cpl John Edwards, both from the 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh - who carried out the punishment - were cleared of manslaughter at Winchester Crown Court in 2008.
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The election is won and lost in marginal seats - those which are winnable, by the BBC's definition - through a swing of 5% in the vote.
The targets below, carrying on from my first seven, are the seats identified by parties as those that must be won to achieve their overall nationwide electoral dreams.
This is the Conservatives' top London target. Labour's Glenda Jackson is exiting the stage - a decision she says is 'entirely age-driven'. She she leaves behind a majority of just 42.
The seat was a three-way marginal in 2010, with the Liberal Democrats polling under a thousand fewer than their two rivals. But will it be shared three ways for much longer?
The Labour candidate Tulip Siddiq says she can't hope to compete with her predecessor's celebrity, but she has high recognition in parts of London as the niece of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
The Conservative candidate Simon Marcus is a local councillor, captain of the Hampstead rugby team and the founder of a boxing academy in north London.
One might have expected to predict with some confidence the Labour reclamation of a seat lost in 2010.
If a swing of about 4% to Labour materialises across London - as suggested by one capital-focused poll in the Evening Standard in January - then this will be a Labour win.
Bob Blackman, Conservative member since 2010, is vulnerable to a swing of 3.6%. And he has just got more vulnerable. The parliamentary expenses watchdog found he had over-claimed for car travel on around 700 occasions - to the tune of about £1,000. He's challenging the decision.
Normal service, from Labour's point of view, was resumed last May when the mainstream national-party-backed group won back control at the town hall. But one of the defeated independent candidates Nana Asante is now standing under the banner of the Socialist Party, which may split off some support from Labour's candidate Uma Kumaran.
This is Labour's number one target in London and they need a swing of just 0.1% to overturn a majority of 106.
Labour has selected Andrew Dismore, MP here between 1997 and 2010, who has been keeping his hand in as a member on the London Assembly.
A major local issue is the future of the large West Hendon estate. Re-development plans have just been the subject of a planning inquiry. Residents have accused Barnet council of "social cleansing" over the plans.
The Conservative leader Richard Cornelius said it would be "a good result for the people of Barnet, particularly the people on the estate".
Labour have chosen Catherine West, former leader of Islington council, to contest this seat.
It should test the theory of Professor Paul Whiteley to the limit - that negativity around the Lib Dems' position may prove exaggerated, and incumbency will prove a strong counter-acting factor.
Worrying for the Lib Dems was the direction of travel suggested by the elections to Haringey council last year. Labour won 14 seats from the Lib Dems, and now hold 48 seats compared to the Lib Dems on nine.
The tendency is to see Labour's electoral hopes in terms of an arc curving westwards round from north to south, Enfield to Croydon.
But here's the seat which shows things aren't so simple. Labour are confident of taking this seat with a 5.8% swing and it certainly seems more likely at the moment than success in Battersea and Finchley & Golders Green which are also Labour targets.
This is typical commuter belt, and although it is within the M25, demographically the constituency resembles the Essex commuter towns which lie to its north-east.
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Removed from his post as health minister in 2012, Liberal Democrat Paul Burstow was able to be unconstrained in his condemnation of plans to close the maternity and A&E units at the local hospital St Helier. It may help him in a tight tussle with the Tories who need a swing of 1.7% to overturn his 1,608 majority.
There will almost certainly be a strong incumbency factor helping Burstow. A sense of acceptance of the Lib Dem way has become reinforced in this part of south west, suburban London where the local council has been run by the party for 28 years.
They won 43 of the 54 seats in last year's borough elections, gaining 11 from the Conservatives and defeating the Tory group leader Paul Scully, who is the party's candidate against Burstow in Sutton & Cheam.
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What we have here is a potentially fascinating three-way marginal.
According to a recent report, it's to Thurrock that many Londoners, looking for somewhere near to settle, are choosing to relocate.
For only the second time since the war, the Conservatives won the seat in 2010 by just 92 votes.
Former BBC journalist and special adviser Polly Billington is seeking to take it back from Jackie Doyle-Price. The complicating factor is UKIP.
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Salford led twice through Junior Sa'u's brace, but Mike McMeeken's two scores and another from Jake Webster gave the Tigers a 18-12 advantage at half-time.
Denny Solomona (twice) and Paul McShane crossed after half-time for the hosts, with Robert Lui replying.
Castleford, the 2014 finalists, are into Sunday's quarter-final draw.
Solomona's first score early in the second half was awarded by on-field official James Child and video referee Richard Silverwood, despite later television replays showing the Tigers winger had failed to ground the ball correctly.
Salford's Challenge Cup exit was compounded by the loss of Sa'u, who took his tally of tries to eight in three matches, to a head injury midway through the second half.
The centre collided with team-mate Gareth O'Brien while attempting to stop McShane's try, a score that took Castleford to a 10-point lead which they did not relinquish.
Salford, who are in the process of appealing against a six-point deduction for breaching salary cap rules, must now concentrate on finishing in Super League's top eight.
With 10 matches left to play before the start of the Super 8s, they are five points behind eighth-placed Castleford.
Castleford's Paul McShane: "Our togetherness is there for all to see week in and week out, and today proved it.
"We've got some key players missing but Daryl Powell has told us to keep things simple and it worked for us.
"These boys are hungry after missing out in the final the other year, so to get there this year would be amazing."
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Castleford: Hampshire; Monaghan, Crooks, Webster, Solomona; Millington, McShane; Patrick, Milner, Jewitt, Moors, McMeeken, Massey.
Replacements: Cook, Springer, Hitchcox, Tickle.
Salford: O'Brien; Carney, Sa'u, Jones, Vidot; Lui, Dobson; Kopczak, Joseph, G. Griffin, Murdoch-Masila, Hauraki, Flanagan.
Replacements: J. Walne, A. Walne, Krasniqi, Evalds.
Referee: James Child
Cycling Moo Kay was one of 60 decorated cows that made up last summer's Surrey Hills Cow Parade.
It was taken in August from its plinth at the top of Box Hill, near Dorking, which formed part of the London 2012 Olympics cycling road race course.
The sculpture was found at a property in Newdigate by police. A man in his 40s was arrested on suspicion of theft.
The artist who painted it, Charlie Rowbotham, said he was delighted it had been found.
A charity auction of the cows in November - excluding Cycling Moo Kay - raised more than £130,000 which was to be split between 52 charities.
Cycling Moo Kay has now been been returned to organisers at Surrey Hills Cow Parade.
The 36-year-old world number four from Sheffield beat James Willstrop 11-7 12-10 11-4.
It was a 19th consecutive win for Matthew over his Yorkshire rival.
"There's been a lot of soul-searching and times when I wasn't sure if I could cut it at the top anymore, so there was a lot of emotion at the end," he said.
Matthew started strongly to take the opening game and then battled hard to take the second game tie-break to take control of the match before wrapping up his 34th PSA World Tour title and his first since the 2015 Canary Wharf Classic.
"One minute I'm planning my retirement party, the next minute I want to play for five more years, so the truth is probably somewhere in between," he added.
"There were times where I thought this might be my last year but I definitely have plans to finish this season and take it from there. I would dearly, dearly love to play in one more Commonwealth Games and of course the Worlds in Manchester next year."
About 4,000 support workers were moved to Entrust, a firm jointly run by Capita and the county council, in 2013.
After inspecting 18 schools, Ofsted said it had "significant concerns" about the company and its relationship with teachers and governors.
The council said there had been issues with Entrust but it was improving.
Entrust delivers much of the training and consultancy work in schools across the county.
The staff transferred to the firm in 2013 included classroom support staff, school cooks, cleaners and caretakers.
Ofsted carried out the inspections at 18 schools to see how effective Entrust was in supporting and raising classroom standards.
It found six schools required improvement and three, which had previously been rated as good, needed to be placed in special measures.
The remainder were rated as good.
Ofsted regional director Lorna Fitzjohn said: "There is considerable uncertainty among head teachers about how the local authority and Entrust work to improve schools.
"Combined with the lack of confidence in the local authority's contracted arrangements this is of significant concern."
However, inspectors praised the county council's data analysis, which looks at pupils' achievements and highlights those who are not making enough progress.
County council cabinet member for learning and skills Ben Adams said the authority was already addressing Ofsted's concerns.
He said it had brought in new training schemes for teachers and governors and a programme of "mini-inspections" that the council would carry out at schools.
Mr Adams said: "I accept that we still have some work to do in explaining how we work with Entrust to support schools."
The Home Affairs Committee said it was not seeing "the level of performance we would expect" from the NCA.
The organisation, which has a £500 million annual budget, started work in October 2013 and recovered assets worth £22.5 million in its first year.
The NCA has said generating revenue is not its key aim.
Committee chairman Keith Vaz said: "The NCA has been a success, and has proved to be more responsive and more active than its predecessor Soca (the Serious Organised Crime Agency), but it is not yet the FBI equivalent that it was hailed to be."
In a report on the "new architecture of policing", the committee reviewed the changes made by Home Secretary Theresa May - which she previously called the "most radical" in 50 years.
In October 2014, Mrs May said the NCA had made a "strong start".
But the committee said that, like Soca, the NCA was "not recovering assets in sufficient volume to justify a budget of half a billion".
"The NCA must improve drastically in this area so that the returns achieved equate to the resources that are made available to it," it added.
In comments on a range of issues, the report said:
In its conclusions, the report said all "major policing bodies have been overhauled and reformed" during the current Parliament.
"It is now time to allow these pieces of the policing puzzle to settle into the new landscape, so that they might achieve the aim of making policing more effective," it said.
The report said counter-terrorism had not found a "settled position" in the new structure, and a review should be carried out "early in the next Parliament" to address this.
It also said the policing code of ethics must be "in the DNA" of officers, so they should be required to acknowledge it by signing a copy and swearing an oath to the Queen.
The NCA's role is to lead the UK's "fight to cut serious and organised crime".
The organisation says it does not exist to raise funds, says BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw, but insists that the value of going after criminal assets comes from its disruptive effect - derailing conspiracies and preventing further crimes being funded.
Parts of central Dublin look like a noisy giant construction site, as workmen with diggers busily install a new tram line for the Luas service.
The completed line will take up road space, so a car-free zone is planned.
The council is suggesting that the area around College Green, opposite Trinity College, should be car and taxi-free.
Only public transport, cyclists and pedestrians will be allowed to use what will be changed into a plaza-type civic space.
With more than 40,000 new cars expected on the city's roads over the next few years, Dublin City Council official Brendan O'Brien said radical measures are needed that may end up affecting taxis.
"About 20,000 taxis use that area per day," he said. "And that's a huge number. So, what's being proposed is that the area should be served by public transport - bus, tram, cycling and pedestrian.
"And taxis shouldn't be allowed to use it over the 24 hours."
A public consultation period on the plan ended in August but taxi drivers insist they want to continue to be allowed to use College Green.
Taxi driver Joe Burke bases himself in the area.
"We're in Foster Place at the moment," he said. "People come to Foster Place to get a taxi around the city. But if we're not here they're either going to start walking or get a bus. So, it definitely will affect our livelihood."
But how might the proposed car restrictions affect the livelihoods of city centre stores and shops?
That is the concern of the retailers' representative body, Dublin Town.
Richard Guiney, its chief executive, welcomed the city council's vision for the future but said more detail is needed.
"For us, the priority is how do we maintain access to the car parks. There are 30,000 jobs reliant on the retail sector and another 20,000 on the hospitality sector in the city centre. So, access to those car parks is vitally important as is access to hotels for taxis," he added.
Everybody acknowledges the new Luas line will inevitably change car usage in the city centre.
The early indications from the consultation process are that about 75% of those who took part generally support the proposal, which it is hoped will come into effect at different stages over the next few years.
The BBC sampled opinion on the streets and the results echoed the indications of the public consultation.
One woman, a non-driver and daily bus user, told me the city centre is "always clogged up because of traffic" so she is in favour of it.
Another said: "It's probably a good idea that will keep the traffic flowing."
However, one man disagreed, saying people have to live and work and that "magic ideas are all fine and well but do they work? That's the main thing".
If - as expected - the proposals to largely remove cars from part of the city centre gets the go-ahead from elected councillors, the measures will be implemented over the next seven years.
After meeting the president-elect - the first UK politician to do so - the UKIP leader said "be in no doubt" that Trump was a supporter of the UK, willing to be "very close partners."
Critics of Mr Trump should "stop whingeing" and "just get on with it."
Mr Trump, who takes office in January, has said the UK is a "special place".
The incoming US president has spoken to Theresa May by phone and there have been other contacts between ministers and representatives of the incoming administration.
Mr Farage, who campaigned alongside Mr Trump during the election, suggested that many British politicians, including some close to Theresa May, had been "quite rude" about him during his ascent to power and now must re-think their attitudes.
"I do think that just too many members of this government said too many nasty things about the President-elect, and I think there has to be a mending of fences," he said.
There were huge opportunities to be had in "Brexit Britain", Mr Farage said, and Donald Trump would be a much more accommodating partner than his predecessor Barack Obama - who he suggested had "damaged" the relationship between both countries.
Mr Farage told the BBC that there were some cabinet ministers who were open to the idea of his acting as a go-between with the president-elect, but said that Downing Street was more concerned with "saying I'm irrelevant".
He called on the government to work closely with Mr Trump, saying: "There's a real opportunity here."
"Not only President-elect Trump, but his whole team is Anglophile.
"They like our country, they recognise what we've done together in the past, and they're coming into this with an incredibly positive view. We need to seize the day."
Mr Farage denied that he would seek to work within Mr Trump's administration, saying: "I'm not an American citizen, I'm not going to be getting a job with his team any time soon."
It's the image that encapsulates politics in 2016. President-elect Trump, in an open necked shirt, smiles, giving the thumbs up gesture.
He's standing, shoulder to shoulder, with Nigel Farage in front of a glitzy, golden backdrop inside Trump Tower in New York. Outsiders, who faced scorn and ridicule, they stand together now as winners. To be anti-establishment now is to be mainstream.
The two men, catalysts for political convulsions on both sides of the Atlantic, discussed "freedom and winning," UKIP sources said.
Their meeting was an embarrassment for Downing Street and stellar political theatre - but perhaps only that. Nigel Farage knows Mr Trump, but wields no power.
The challenge for the UK government now is to build bridges with a new American administration it didn't want, and didn't expect to win.
Mr Trump's call for a ban on Muslims entering the US at the end of 2015 led to a debate in Parliament on whether he should be barred from the UK while Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who was then Mayor of London, said Mr Trump must be "out of his mind".
Mr Trump's spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway said Saturday's meeting between the two men in Trump Tower had been "very productive" and that they had talked about "freedom and winning and what all this means for the world".
Mr Farage, who said Mr Trump "was relaxed, and full of good ideas", had joked on the way to the encounter that he was "just a tourist".
A UKIP spokesman had previously confirmed that Mr Farage asked Mr Trump to return a bust of Sir Winston Churchill to the White House Oval Office. Mr Farage said he had been "especially pleased" by Mr Trump's "very positive reaction" to the idea.
A UKIP source said the meeting, held on 12 November, had "made the prime minister look very foolish".
Mrs May plans to visit Mr Trump in the first three months of next year after his inauguration.
The prime minister has said she hopes the two will be able to work on areas of mutual interest to enhance the special relationship between the two countries although some have said the government has no links with the Trump camp and will have to "start from scratch".
Crispin Blunt, chairman of the foreign affairs select committee, described as "completely implausible" the idea that Mr Farage would have an ambassadorial role in a Trump administration, telling the BBC there was "no need for Nigel".
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he understood the appeal of Mr Trump's rhetoric to people angry at being "left behind" by globalisation but he said the president-elect needed to "grow up" when it came to his views on immigration.
Mr Corbyn, whose wife is Mexican, said the US economy was reliant on migrant labour and plans to build a wall on the border had caused "anger and outrage".
"I think the treatment of Mexico by the US, just as much as the absurd, abusive language to Muslims, is something that should be challenged and has to be challenged," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr show.
Cloth Cat Animation Studio will collaborate with Beijing-based firm Magic Mall, who will produce a series outside of China for the first time.
The UK Government claims animation tax relief announced in the 2014 Autumn Statement helped the investment.
The Secretary of State for Wales says the deal helps 'showcase Welsh talent.'
The animation series will be based on the popular Chinese character Luo Bao Bei and Cloth Cat think "her popularity ensures the new series will have wide appeal, blending Chinese heritage with a dash of British humour and charm."
The Luo Bao Bei cartoon is expected to launch in China in the spring of 2017.
"This collaboration between Cloth Cat and Magic Mall will see the company reach new international markets and support jobs in Wales," said Alun Cairns, Wales' Secretary of State.
"I'm delighted that our fantastic animation and creative industry sector will be exporting to new markets, and showcasing Welsh talents across the world."
Cloth Cat, whose work has been on Netflix, Disney and the Cartoon Network, is a Cardiff-based animation production company that helped create TV programmes such as CBeebies comedy 'Grandpa In My Pocket' and S4C's BAFTA Cymru award-winning show 'Ha Ha Hairies'.
"The partnership between Cloth Cat and Magic Mall is an exciting opportunity to build our trade relationship with China and export our fantastic animation sector worldwide," added Karen Bradley, the UK culture secretary.
"I'm thrilled that thanks to the UK Animation tax credits, Wales will see even more jobs and benefits as a result of this deal."
The 24-year-old missed more than six months of the Cherries' first Premier League campaign because of a serious knee injury.
In May, Bournemouth rejected West Ham's combined bid of £20m for Wilson and midfielder Matt Ritchie.
"After being injured for nearly the whole of last season, I feel like I want to establish myself even more," he told BBC Radio Solent.
"Committing to the club was an easy decision. Hopefully I'll be here for many years to come"
News of Wilson's new deal was announced on the day Ritchie, 26, joined Newcastle.
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The prime minister was asked about the issue during a Facebook Live session hosted by ITV News.
Mrs May said she had never been fox hunting but supported it and would let MPs decide whether "to bring it back".
"This isn't the most important issue facing people at this election," she said, citing Brexit and the question of "who's going to be prime minister'".
Fox hunting was among a range of topics on which Mrs May was quizzed as she became the first serving leader of a UK political party to take part in a Facebook Live broadcast in the run up to the 8 June general election.
Asked about fox hunting, the prime minister said: "This is a subject on which you are either for it or against it. I have always supported fox hunting, but clearly I'm not saying I'm going to bring it back.
"What I'm saying is we will have a free vote in Parliament so MPs will be able to make up their own mind on this issue.
"This isn't the most important issue facing people at this election. I think the most important issue is about who's going to provide the leadership for the future to take us through Brexit and beyond."
Mrs May said it was necessary to keep fox numbers down and there was an issue about how the creatures should be culled.
"Some of the other forms of dealing with foxes can be cruel, so my view is it should be a free vote for Parliament so members of parliament individually should be able to exercise their view on this matter," she added.
Traditional forms of fox hunting were outlawed by Tony Blair's Labour government in 2004.
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Transport Minister Edwina Hart has announced the new services will create 20 new train crew and depot jobs.
The changes, which will be on an initial three-year trial basis, will come into place from May 2015.
Rail users welcomed the move, saying both lines provide "vital services".
On the Cambrian line, four new return services will operate between Aberystwyth and Shrewsbury from Monday to Saturday, with hourly services for peak morning and afternoon times.
There will also be two new return Sunday services and an improvement to evening services on the Cambrian coast between Barmouth and Pwllheli.
On the Heart of Wales line there will be extra journeys between Llandovery, Gowerton and Swansea, and between Llandrindod, Shrewsbury and Crewe from Monday to Friday.
Other return services will become more conveniently timed, and the Heart of Wales Line Forum will get £150,000 to explore the possibility of further improvements to the line.
Announcing the new services, Mrs Hart said: "I am very pleased that we have been able to secure the extra train services on these two popular lines.
"I recently commissioned a survey which clearly demonstrated the benefits to commuters, local businesses and university students of an hourly service on the Cambrian line."
The Cambrian Rail Implementation Group was formed by Mrs Hart to look into new services in mid Wales last November.
It included representatives of Network Rail, Arriva Trains Wales and Aberystwyth University.
It followed a report by The Shrewsbury Aberystwyth Railway Liaison Committee which said hourly services could boost employment and tourism.
Its report included 6,570 responses from residents, students and businesses in mid Wales, and also called for more trains on the coast line in the summer months.
The Welsh government announcement was welcomed by Mansel Williams, chair of the Shrewsbury Aberystwyth Railway Liaison Committee and Heart of Wales Line Forum.
He said: "Both the Cambrian and Heart of Wales lines provide a vital service for residents, commuters, tourists and students in the area.
"We received a very strong response to our survey about services on the Cambrian main and the coast railway lines, which backed up the support there has been locally for an hourly service, particularly in the commuting peaks.
"The Heart of Wales Line survey also highlighted the impracticality of commuting with the current timetable, particularly southwards into Swansea."
Hopes for an hourly service along the Cambrian line received a boost in February when Powys planners gave the go-ahead to close five crossings on the network between Carno and Talerddig.
The Network Rail project will also include replacing the crossings with two road bridges over the Aberystwyth to Shrewsbury line.
Reuters report that the 'A' sample of one of his team-mates in the 4x100m, Nesta Carter, was found to contain the banned substance Methylhexanamine.
The news comes after the retesting of 454 samples from the 2008 Games.
Carter, who along with his agent has not replied to requests for comment, will face sanctions if his 'B' sample also tests positive for the substance.
The 30-year-old ran the first leg for Jamaica's 4x100m relay team in Beijing, which also included Michael Frater, Asafa Powell and Bolt.
The team took gold in what was then a new world record of 37.10 seconds, ahead of Trinidad and Tobago and Japan.
Carter was also a member of Jamaica's gold medal-winning relay teams at the 2011, 2013 and 2015 World Championships as well as the 2012 Olympic Games.
He has not run this season, because of a foot injury, but is expected to return to the track ahead of Jamaica's Olympic trials from 30 June to 3 July.
Methylhexanamine has been on the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) Code prohibited list since 2004, although it was reclassified on the 2011 list as a "specified substance", meaning one that is more susceptible to a "credible, non-doping explanation".
Sold as a nasal decongestant in the United States until 1983, Methylhexanamine has been used more recently as an ingredient in dietary supplements.
The IOC programme of revisiting samples is aimed at using developments in testing techniques to expose traces of drugs that were undetectable in 2008 or 2012.
In previous doping cases where individual members of a medal-winning relay squads have tested positive for a banned substance, the whole team is stripped of their medal.
The United States men's 4x100m team were stripped of their silver medals from the 2012 Olympics after Tyson Gay's doping case.
He withdrew from October's rematch with Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko because of mental health issues.
The 28-year-old fighter is also facing a UK Anti-Doping hearing in November after being charged with the use of a prohibited substance.
In a magazine interview last week, he also revealed he had been taking cocaine to help deal with depression.
WBO chairman Luis Batista-Salas said Fury could lose his belt because of "inactivity, breach of contract and performance enhancing drugs and stimulants".
But he also stressed he is concerned for Fury's "health, well-being, happiness and prospects for a full and complete recovery".
Fury is also the WBA champion.
WBA president Gilberto Mendoza has told the BBC that Fury deserves a chance "to overcome this situation".
However, he said the Englishman could ultimately lose his title.
"Our main concern is what's going on with the title and the whole situation that's around him," Mendoza told the BBC Radio 5 live Sportsweek programme.
"But the substance he took is a prohibitive substance that is against the rules and we have to take that into account."
The British Boxing Board of Control is also set to meet on Wednesday to address Fury's cocaine admission and could strip him of his licence to box.
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Fury has not fought since beating Klitschko last November and postponed the original rematch in June because of an ankle injury.
After the most recent cancellation, Fury tweeted to say he had retired from boxing, before quickly retracting his statement.
The boxer's uncle and trainer, Peter Fury, told BBC Radio 5 live his nephew has been "driven to despair" by his mental health issues.
But he said he was confident his nephew would resume his career.
There is an option for Fury to be declared a "champion in recess". This means fighters can challenge for Fury's belts while he is unable to fight.
As soon as Fury is fit to fight again, he can challenge whoever holds his belts.
"The titles shouldn't be held up," said Peter Fury. "While Tyson is out for medical reasons, the titles should be freed up."
Meanwhile, fellow Briton and IBF champion Anthony Joshua could now fight Klitschko.
Leicester City's Riyad Mahrez admitted on Wednesday failing to give information to Northamptonshire Police on 16 October last year.
It followed an incident involving his Mercedes Benz on the M1 on 11 May 2015.
Mahrez was fined £900 and had six points put on his licence by Northampton magistrates, as first reported in the Northampton Chronicle.
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Magistrates also ordered the 25-year-old, who was not in court for sentencing, to pay £150 in costs and a £90 victim surcharge.
Police said, the player, who lives in Leicester, failed to respond to three requests to inform them of the identity of the driver of his car after it was caught speeding on the M1 at 77mph in a 50mph zone.
Mahrez is one of the Premier League's top scorers this season with a 16-goal tally for the league leaders.
It was announced on Wednesday he had been nominated, alongside his Leicester team-mates Jamie Vardy and N'Golo Kante, for the PFA Players' Player of the Year award.
"I was under the impression he would be punished. But he was given a reward," Farooq Ahmad Dar told BBC Hindi.
The decision, announced on Monday, was met with shock in Kashmir.
The army officer responsible for the action said he did it to "save lives".
Former chief minister Omar Abdullah said the army decision was "wrong".
Writing in the Indian Express newspaper he said the consequences could be "disastrous", adding that "the use of human shields is now officially fair and justified in a Kashmir that stands more alienated than ever before".
The Urdu language newspaper Kashmir Uzma saw the move as an "open warning".
"It seems that by honouring the officer, the authorities in New Delhi are trying to send a clear message to Kashmiris that they have reliable tactics for restoring order, even when it involves violating human rights," it said.
Indian-administered Kashmir has seen a fresh upsurge of violence in the past few months, with stone-throwing civilians pitted against military personnel.
India blames Pakistan for inciting the violence, a charge the latter denies.
The army officer at the centre of the controversy, Major Nitin Gogoi, in a rare departure from official protocol, addressed a media conference and defended his actions.
"This thing I have done only to save the local people. Had I fired, there would have been casualties. With this idea, I have saved many peoples' lives."
Syed Ali Geelani, chairman of the Hurriyat - an umbrella group of separatists in Kashmir - called the army decision "distressing and shameful".
Amnesty International India also condemned the decision, saying it gave out the impression that the Indian army "condones human rights abuses".
But views on social media were sharply divided between those who criticised the army decision and those who said Major Gogoi was a hero.
Mr Dar had just finished casting his vote at a polling booth when the incident took place.
Tied to the jeep, he was driven around villages, as an "example" of what would happen to anyone who threw stones at armed forces.
"I was persecuted even though I [was one of the few who] voted," Mr Dar told BBC Hindi.
"Since the day the officer was awarded, I'm even more afraid. Now he will return to the same camp, and I am in danger.
"I am feeling under tremendous pressure. He will be back and my situation will worsen."
Volunteer emergency workers say people suffered breathing difficulties after an attack on the Sukkari area.
The reports could not be independently verified. A UN-led inquiry concluded last month that the government had used chlorine on at least two occasions.
The Syrian government has always denied using chemical weapons.
It comes as Syrian opposition leaders prepare to meet in London on Wednesday to launch a new plan for a political transition to try to end the five-year civil war.
The umbrella group representing opposition factions, the High Negotiations Committee, will be hosted by UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
Foreign ministers from the Friends of Syria group of countries, which have supported the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad, will also attend.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told the BBC that he still believed in a political solution to the conflict, and that Mr Assad was not in a "position of advantage or victory", despite his forces' recent advances.
"But if Bashar al-Assad continues to be obstinate and continues to drag his feet and continues to refuse to engage seriously, then obviously there will have to be a Plan B which will involve more stepped up military activity," he said.
This new plan is the Syrian opposition's most comprehensive answer to that question: What happens if President Assad goes?
It's meant to reassure the president's foreign backers, like Russia and Iran, that there can be a stable transition which avoids the collapse of state institutions, and violent chaos that's shattered neighbouring states like Iraq. That's a concern shared in many capitals, and most of all Damascus.
But the demand for President Assad and his closest Syrian allies to step down has always been rejected in Damascus, and will be again. It's never clear how much Moscow and Tehran are able and willing to change that. This plan is meant to test that.
But the Syrian army, backed by powerful outside support, is making gains on the ground, through force, or local deals which amount to surrender. If this plan doesn't work it will be back to Plan B - more military support to all sides in a devastating war.
A volunteer emergency response worker from the Syria Civil Defence said he had reached the scene of the Aleppo attack on Tuesday shortly after a helicopter had dropped barrels containing what he said were four chlorine cylinders.
The Syria Civil Defence, an organisation that operates in rebel-held areas and is also known as the "White Helmets", posted video on its Facebook page showing distressed children using oxygen masks to breathe.
Chlorine is a common industrial chemical, but its use in weapons is banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention. If high concentrations of the chemical enter the lungs it can cause death.
Opposition activists and medics accused the government of another chlorine attack in Aleppo in August.
Russia, an ally of the Syrian government, has accused rebels of firing shells containing "toxic gas" at government-held areas in Aleppo.
The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said on Tuesday that a brief period of relief early this year for civilians caught up in the war in Syria had been replaced by an even more brutal resumption in fighting.
Its 12th report said the cessation of hostilities in February had allowed some towns to receive their first aid in years but it only lasted a few weeks.
The report says 600,000 Syrians now live under siege with up to 300,000 trapped in the city of Aleppo.
On Sunday, Syrian government forces were reported to have recaptured parts of Aleppo city which were lost to rebels last month, placing rebel-held districts in the city's east once again under siege.
A monitoring group said government troops had recaptured two military academy sites in the Ramouseh district, in the south of the city, and severed a recently established rebel supply line.
The wives of two jailed opposition leaders headed the marchers who were dressed in white and waved national flags.
On Thursday election officials suspended a petition seeking a referendum on removing President Nicolas Maduro from office.
The move was criticised by the Organization of American States.
In a statement, 12 OAS member countries, including Brazil, Argentina and Colombia said they were "profoundly worried by the decision taken by the Venezuelan National Electoral Council."
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What has gone wrong in Venezuela?
"People ready to explode"
OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro said: "Only dictators deny their citizens their rights, ignore the legislature and have political prisoners."
The election commission said it had halted the recall vote process on the grounds of alleged irregularities during the gathering of signatures for the first petition required by the rules.
On Tuesday the council also ordered a delay of abut six months in regional elections due at the end of the year and which polls suggested the opposition would have won.
Saturday's march was led by two wives of jailed government opponents: Lilian Tintori, the wife of Leopoldo Lopez, and Patricia Gutierrez, the wife of the former mayor of San Cristobal, Daniel Ceballos.
Both have advocated hard-line tactics against the government.
"There's no obstacle that can defeat Venezuelan mothers, fighting for the future of their children," said Lilian Tintori who has called for a campaign for civil disobedience.
The two women were accompanied by several thousand marchers, mainly women, dressed in white and carrying Venezuelan flags.
The march is the first of a series of protests the opposition say they intend to organise to try to put pressure on the Electoral Council to revoke its decision.
On Wednesday they said they would "retake Venezuela from top to toe," in a massive street protest on the day which would have been the start of a second petition.
President Nicolas Maduro, who is abroad, called for calm in a television address.
"I call on everyone to remain peaceful, to engage in dialogue, respect law and order," he said.
But one of his most powerful allies, Diosdado Cabello said top opposition leaders should be jailed for attempting election fraud.
Earlier this week, the government placed travel restrictions on eight opposition leaders.
The Dons were promoted to the second tier for the first time last season.
"We have a wage cap and have always had one. I can well assure you our budget will be in the bottom three next year," Robinson told BBC Three Counties Radio.
"The chairman's trying to build a sustainable club and the way he's doing it has been sensational."
Robinson, whose only signing so far this summer has been Joe Walsh from Crawley, added: "We've been criticised for not spending a great deal but we've managed to achieve our goal of reaching the Championship.
"We know next year is going to be even harder - we believe that we can recruit the players we need but we'll never spend the money other Championship teams are doing."
Robinson's side are being linked with re-signing former loanees Will Grigg from Brentford and Chelsea's Lewis Baker, but the 34-year-old says the decision over the players' future is not theirs.
"We'd like Will Grigg, but what we want and what we can get are two different arguments. We know we're going to be bringing in strikers - we've already earmarked one or two.
"We'd love Lewis Baker. But he's not our player, so wherever he goes next season, we hope it's us, but it's out of our hands.
"I think we need six or seven - I'd like to sign some of my own. I'd like to bring in players who are 21, 22, 23 and bring them on, some experienced players and then add some young loans."
Goalkeeper David Martin, who made 47 appearances for MK Dons last season, is out of contract this summer, but his manager believes he will sign a new contract at Stadium:MK.
"I'm very confident we'll get Dave done. He got married two weeks ago and is away on his honeymoon," Robinson added.
"He had a tremendous season last season, kept an enormous amount of clean sheets and will have to do that again, even more so, in the Championship. Once we sit down and have a conversation, I'll be very surprised if we don't get that done."
Robinson was also quick to play down any heightening of expectations next season, adding staying up would be classed as successful.
"People are liking us to Wolves and Bournemouth - we're not on the same hemisphere as these teams," he said. "We can't do what these teams have done.
"We're going into a Championship with a different way of doing it, but we'll do it our way. Our way is a way our fans know, and hopefully the football club can again turn one or two heads."
The artwork, named "Where shall we go dancing tonight?", was thrown away by a cleaner who mistook it for a mess from the previous night.
It consisted of cigarette butts, empty champagne bottles and confetti.
The museum has now re-installed the artwork after getting the artists' approval.
The installation at the Museion Bozen-Bolzano was created by two artists from Milan to represent the hedonism and political corruption of the 1980s.
The museum apologised to visitors following the incident, joking it had some "bad luck with the new cleaning lady".
The exhibition will reopen later on Tuesday.
A similar accident happened in Bari, southern Italy, in February 2014 when a cleaner threw away an artwork by Sala Murat.
Ronny Deila will be irked they have taken just two points from their opening two group stage matches when realistically it could, and even should, have been six.
That is in contrast to the opening by the Scottish champions' next opponents.
While their more illustrious competitors had no divine right to be at the summit of Group A, little Molde's impressive start has blown the race to the knock-out stage wide open.
The 2014 Norwegian league winners' start will cause equal frustration to Deila that his team has failed to make hay while group favourites Ajax and Fenerbahce toiled.
The exalted position that Molde find themselves in has surprised everyone, not least those in Norway who have watched the club's timid title defence at close quarters.
Currently seventh in the Tippeligaen, their mediocre season is demonstrated by the fact the club sit almost equidistant between leaders Rosenborg and the relegation play-off with just four league games left in the Norwegian football calendar.
And to rub salt in the wound, they were unceremoniously ejected from the Norwegian Cup in the quarter finals by Viking Stavanger. Their 2014 double-winning manager Tor Ole Skullerud paid with his job.
Molde's Europa League campaign, however, has provided them with welcome sanctuary to their domestic deficiencies and inconsistencies, beating Fenerbahce away and drawing with Ajax at home.
Like the rest of Group A, they suffered Champions League pain, exiting in the third qualifying round to Dinamo Zagreb.
They would eliminate Belgium's Standard Liege on away goals in the play-off of this tournament, thanks primarily to an impressive 2-0 home win.
And it is at home they have built the foundations of their solid start to this campaign having gone undefeated in their four ties at the Aker Stadion so far.
This tie represents a difficult proposition for Celtic, despite Molde's domestic problems. On their day they can be as potent as Malmo, a potency Deila's men are well aware of following their Champions League exit to the Swedes.
Their main man is a defender in the shape of centre-half Vegard Forren.
Southampton once invested £4m for the 27-times-capped Norway international who has been an integral component of a national team that has a Euro 2016 play-off against Hungary to look forward to.
Incredibly, a man who made his debut for the club in May 1993 and is the oldest player in this season's Europa League is likely to captain the side if fit.
Midfielder and 40-year-old local man Daniel Berg Hestad's crowning glory came when he helped the club to their first ever title in their centenary season in 2011.
As Fenerbahce found out to their cost, Molde can be an effective counter-attacking team and Celtic will face a different kind of challenge to the ones posed by Ajax and the Turks.
The former bad-boy of Norwegian football is likely to be given the nod up front.
Tommy Hoiland may have calmed down in recent years, but he is still seen in that light by many in his homeland.
Hoiland scored Molde's first in Istanbul from the penalty spot and has been chosen over Deila's former Stromsgodset striker Ola Kamara in their group matches so far.
Kamara and Celtic's Stefan Johansen helped the Parkhead boss win the title in 2013 with their old club, the only Norwegian championship not won by Molde in the last four years.
They will also have another scorer from match-day one in Turkey in Moroccan-born attacker Mohamed Elyounoussi, who is back from suspension.
As inconsistent as Molde have been this season, things improved since former backroom coach Erling Moe took the reins.
Under Moe, who was very much a stop-gap appointment and has now made way for the return of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Molde lost only twice and one of those was the 3-1 loss in Liege that failed to derail their European adventure.
However, when Deila returns to his homeland, he will be confident they can pick up their first victory in the group. He certainly won't have had to spend hours watching DVDs of this week's opposition.
As previously noted, Molde can be as effective as Malmo but, man for man, they are not at the same level as their Swedish counterparts.
Deila will want to improve on his head-to-head record against the team from Norway's west coast.
The 40-year-old won only four of his 14 clashes with Molde as Stromsgodset boss.
Win number five against them as a manager, with a home game against them to come, and the Scottish champions can start to think about the last 32.
I went to Toronto to meet some of these 'New Canadians', as Mr Trudeau calls them, and to speak to the private groups sponsoring these refugees.
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The man posed as a prosecutor and demanded 250,000 rand ($16,400; £11,300) in order to "make the case disappear", local media say.
He has now been charged with corruption, according to South Africa police spokesman Hangwani Mulaudzi.
Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013.
The News24 website says that the conman contacted the former Olympic athlete on Thursday night. He was then arrested following a police sting operation.
In a statement, Mr Mulaudzi said: "A 33-year-old man was arrested on Friday afternoon in Pretoria soon after he received a deposit of 40,000 rand for his services which included... [having] Oscar Pistorius' murder case destroyed."
Pistorius was found guilty of murdering Ms Steenkamp after a South African appeals court overturned his initial manslaughter verdict in December.
He is due to be sentenced in April.
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Few companies have the fan base enjoyed by the yellow excavators, perhaps hitting a height when a single by Nizlopi (The JCB Song) reached number one in December 2005.
A sell-out calendar the same year, featured women in flesh-coloured bodysuits dangling from the machinery's prongs.
The company, established by Joseph Cyril Bamford (hence JCB), seemed to be going from strength to strength.
But in 2008 and 2009 1,684 jobs were cut as the the construction industry was badly affected by the credit crunch and rising raw materials prices.
By 2012, things were looking brighter for JCB as it posted a record profit of £365m, opened a £63m factory in Brazil, and announced a doubling of trade in Africa. UK employees were given a £500 Christmas bonus and a three per cent pay increase.
In 2013, the company announced plans for 2,500 new jobs.
But just a year later the company cut 150 jobs, and last September a further 400 jobs were lost after a "dramatic" slow down in world markets.
Joseph Cyril Bamford began his business in a rented lock-up garage in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire in 1945.
He used a second-hand welding set and some surplus military equipment to make tipping trailers for farmers to hitch to the new generation of petrol-driven tractors.
In 1950 the company moved to a former cheese-making factory in nearby Rocester - where JCB is still based.
In 1952, machines were first made in yellow - a colour now synonymous with the brand.
In 1963, the design classic JCB 3C was born. The company said "it took backhoe performance to new levels".
The 1970s and 80s saw more new concepts, and in 1990 the world's first fully suspended, high-speed draught tractor was produced.
Two JCB diesel engines powered the JCB Dieselmax to the diesel world land speed record in 2006, and the millionth JCB machine was built in 2013. It was coated in special celebratory silver paint.
A limited edition backhoe has been produced to mark the company's 70th anniversary.
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Mr Trump tweeted: "Great move on delay - I always knew he was very smart!"
Moscow denies any involvement in election-related hacking.
But in one of the last moves of the Obama presidency, Washington demanded Russian 35 diplomats leave the country by Sunday afternoon.
Mr Putin ruled out an immediate tit-for-tat response.
The row follows allegations that Russia directed hacks against the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, releasing embarrassing information through Wikileaks and other outlets to help Mr Trump win the election.
Several US agencies including the FBI and the CIA say this is the case, but Mr Trump initially dismissed the claims as "ridiculous". He has since said he will meet US intelligence chiefs to be "updated on the facts of this situation".
The Obama administration announced retaliatory measures on Thursday:
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After the US announced it would expel diplomats, Russia's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, had vowed Russia would respond to the "manifestation of unpredictable and aggressive foreign policy". But he hinted it might delay its action until Mr Trump became president.
Russia's foreign ministry suggested expelling 31 US diplomats from Moscow and four from St Petersburg.
But Mr Putin said his country would not stoop to "irresponsible diplomacy", and invited the children of US diplomats there to spend New Year's Eve at the Kremlin.
In a statement on the Kremlin website (in Russian), the Russian president wished President Barack Obama and his family a happy New Year, as well as Mr Trump and "the whole American people".
The contrast between the words of the president and those of the president-elect could not be more stark.
Siding with a foreign adversary instead of the sitting president is a dramatic departure from normal diplomatic practice during this transition phase.
And Donald Trump may find himself alone in his admiration. President Obama has broad bipartisan support for his actions and a full hearing to discuss the hacking allegations has been scheduled in Congress next week.
There has been no response yet to Mr Putin's move from the Obama administration.
However, Senator John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, described the Russian hacking as an "act of war".
"And so we have to make sure that there is a price to pay, so that we can perhaps persuade the Russians to stop these kind of attacks on our very fundamentals of democracy."
He said a lot more needed to be done in response to the hacking, with many sanctions possible.
She told People magazine: "I have confirmed that the second verse is Warren", but she said the other verses refer to two other men.
The 70-year-old star, who is releasing her autobiography, said she doubts she will ever name the other men.
"I don't think so, at least until they know it's about them."
Asked if Beatty knew about his role in the song, she said "Warren thinks the whole thing is about him!".
The song about a self assured man who has women falling at his feet was a hit around the world when it was released in 1972.
The lyrics in the chorus accuse him of being "so vain I bet you think this song is about you".
But the mystery of who the man the song was based on has been the subject of speculation ever since.
They included Simon's first husband James Taylor, or one of her ex-boyfriends, such as Warren Beatty, Cat Stevens or Kris Kristofferson.
In 2010 there was speculation it was about record company boss David Geffen after she re-recorded the song for her album Never Been Gone and fans thought they heard her whisper David in the song.
However, she denied it was about David Geffen, saying she had whispered Ovid - because the album was a metamorphosis for her most famous songs.
She has also denied the song was about Mick Jagger in the past.
Over the years she has admitted she has told a few people, including DJ Howard Stern.
With results elsewhere going their way, City seemed safe when Craig Gardner equalised after substitute Pavlyuchenko had given Tottenham the lead.
But Wolves' second goal in their 3-2 defeat by Blackburn put Alex McLeish's side back in the bottom three.
And Pavlyuchenko's last-minute strike confirmed the Blues' fate.
It was a crushing end to what has been a rollercoaster season for Birmingham, who won their first trophy for 48 years with a last-gasp 2-1 win over Arsenal in the Carling Cup final at Wembley in February, but have been battling relegation for most of the campaign.
They went into the game knowing a win would likely keep them up, but defeat, coupled with events elsewhere - particularly Wigan's 1-0 win at Stoke and Wolves' second goal against Blackburn - proved their undoing.
For Tottenham, qualification for the Europa League is a consolation prize after their failure to secure a second successive season of Champions League football.
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However, qualifying for the lesser European competition via a fifth-place finish was preferable to Spurs achieving it through Uefa's Fair Play league, which would have meant the team having to play in the early rounds in only five weeks' time.
This was a victory born out of Spurs' commitment to attack, which may not have helped them achieve their ultimate aim, but ensures it has been a good, if not great season.
The reasons behind Birmingham's plight are simple: scoring too few goals and conceding too many.
They are the division's lowest scorers with 37, which by itself is not a recipe for disaster as their impressive ninth place finish last season off the back of 38 goals scored demonstrated.
However, in the absence of regular centre-back Scott Dann for much of the season through injury, the solid defence on which City built their success in 2009-10 has looked shaky and, crucially, they conceded 11 more goals than last term.
Knowing the threat Tottenham pose going forward, even without injured attacking midfield duo Gareth Bale and Rafael van der Vaart, McLeish sent out a team focused on frustrating Spurs and hoping to snatch a goal on the break.
For the first half, they performed the first part of this superbly, with a back four - led by the towering Curtis Davies, who marked the lofty Peter Crouch out of the game before the striker went off with a head injury after 39 minutes - holding firm behind an industrious and committed five-man midfield, that included Jean Beausejour tracking back from his striking position.
They frustrated the home side, who found themselves allowed plenty of possession in 70% of the pitch, but were harried out of it in the remaining 30% closest to the Birmingham goal.
Unfortunately, this nullified City's threat at the other end, where Cameron Jerome found himself isolated up front and too often running without support down blind alleys, where packs of Spurs defenders lurked to rob him of possession.
All the first-half chances were Tottenham's. Sandro twice drew good saves from Ben Foster, first with a shot from a tight angle, which the keeper put behind with his foot, and then with a 20-yard drive that was tipped over.
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Foster was also called on to claw away a cross-come-shot from Younes Kaboul late in the half and save a long-range strike from Luka Modric.
The danger for Birmingham in adopting such a containing approach was whether they would be able to then switch instantly to a more progressive style should it be required.
This was put to the test four minutes into the second half when Pavlyuchenko, on for Crouch, curled a superb shot past Foster from 20 yards to put Spurs ahead.
The visitors initially struggled to impose themselves on the game, but were given a lifeline when the ball fell to Gardner after a corner and the midfielder connected superbly to give Carlo Cudicini no chance from the edge of the box.
Gardner then curled a free-kick just over as a buoyant, and at this stage safe, City pushed for a second goal.
But their failure to do so suddenly became crucial when Wigan took the lead at Stoke to move out of the relegation zone, soon to be followed by Wolves via their second goal against Blackburn - putting Birmingham back below the safety line.
Any lingering hope of escape for the Blues was extinguished when Pavlyuchenko rifled in his second from 16 yards with the last kick of the game.
Homeowners in St Dogmaels claim a small housing development is being built on a higher level than planning permitted.
They said the River Teifi would now flood towards their homes in severe weather and have called for the council to take action.
A Pembrokeshire council spokesman said the developer had accepted remedial works need to be carried out.
Residents set up St Dogmaels Environmental Action Group to work "constructively" with relevant agencies after serious flooding last November but feel more needs to be done.
Chairwoman Lenka Janiurek, 56, said the situation had become "much worse" since work began on the development, with people's homes and gardens flooded with water and sewage.
Member Jake Elster-Jones, 43, said: "We are sitting here waiting for the rain, wondering what's going to happen.
"It's clearly a very serious issue and there is good evidence that when it rains, it will be worse flooding than there's been before."
He added: "We are angry and worried about this and feel something needs to be done about it."
A Pembrokeshire council spokesman confirmed ground levels on the flood plain have been raised above the levels shown in the site's original plans.
The spokesman said a representative for the developer had accepted "remedial works were necessary" and the council was "awaiting written conformation" of a course of action.
Bell Designs, the developer's agent, declined to comment.
Ben Needham, from Sheffield, went missing during a family holiday on the island of Kos in 1991 when he was 21 months old.
Kerry Needham has always maintained her son is alive and was probably abducted.
She described writing the book as "very traumatic" but said she hoped it would help raise the profile of her case.
Ms Needham added: "It was heart-wrenching to live the last 21 years of my life day by day and put it into perspective.
"You're reliving it and that was really difficult to do but I think it will be worth it and it will raise the publicity about Ben."
In October, police began a a major new search for Ben's remains near the family's former farmhouse on Kos but nothing was found.
Ms Needham said flying out to the island for the search was "one of the hardest things I've ever done".
"Just the thought of being on that island while digging up that ground was so traumatic that even now I'm not over it." she said.
"It knocked me back really bad but it had a positive outcome so I'm grateful for that."
Ms Needham said they were now working on a new lead of a photo of a mystery boy who resembles Ben.
She was making an appeal on a Greek TV programme when a viewer contacted the show with the photo.
The picture is said to have been taken in the Corinthia area of Greece sometime in 1995 when Ben would have been five or six.
She said: "We're working all day and night trying to follow up lines of inquiry on that."
Ms Needham added: "We don't want to raise our hopes too much because it's devastating if it turns out not to be Ben and I'm crucified all over again."
The book is due to be released next year.
The acquisition gives the Chinese firm control of the unit's Moto and Droid-branded handsets as well as its 3,500 employees, 2,800 of whom are based in the US.
Lenovo said the deal made it the world's third bestselling smartphone-maker after Apple and Samsung.
That knocks its country-mate Xiaomi back down into fourth spot, based on data from two market research reports.
Lenovo stated that a total of 100 million mobile devices were on course to be shipped from its existing mobile phone business combined with that of Motorola's over the current fiscal year, which ends in March.
Motorola has found recent success with its "budget" Moto G models. The original version, released last year was the bestselling phone in the business's history.
More recently it has also entered the wearables sector with the Moto 360 smartwatch, and announced its first Nexus device - a 6in (15.2cm) "phablet" marketed by Google, which will be one of the first phones to offer the Android 5.0 operating system.
Lenovo is the world's bestselling PC maker, a position it attained after the takeover of IBM's personal computer business in 2005.
Its smartphones are already big sellers in Asia and the Middle East, but they have not been sold in North America and Western Europe.
While Lenovo and Motorola handsets do compete for sales in India, there is little overlap elsewhere between the two divisions at this point.
"We're now planning to introduce Motorola-branded products back into China," Aymar de Lencquesaing, Lenovo's president of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, told the BBC.
"But right now what we intend to do is leverage the stronger brand in each particular market.
"For the most part, think of the developed mature world - that's going to be Motorola-driven. Emerging markets will be Lenovo-driven.
"Some markets will overlap and over time nothing says that in any given market we couldn't have a dual brand strategy. But, let's put it this way, it's probably smarter for us right now to walk before we run."
He ruled out cutting jobs at Motorola and confirmed that the division would remain headquartered in Chicago.
Lenovo had previously stated that one of the reasons it bought the division for $2.9bn (£1.8bn) was to take advantage of Motorola's existing relationships with network operators in North America and Europe.
One analyst said that this could offer a way to launch Lenovo-branded handsets in those regions if the company later decided to make the move.
"Lenovo has proven it can manufacture quality phones and it is already well known as a PC brand in Europe and the US," said Ronan de Renesse from the telecoms consultancy Ovum.
"So, it doesn't have the cheap aspect to its brand that some of the other Chinese manufacturers have to deal with."
Mr de Lencquesaing added that a nearer-term advantage to the tie-up was that Motorola would benefit from his company's supply-line efficiencies.
The takeover does not include Motorola Solutions, which makes communications equipment for utility and emergency workers. The two Motorola businesses formally split in 2011.
Google paid $12.5bn to acquire Motorola Mobility in 2012. It said the key motivation for the deal was the firm's patents, which it is keeping hold of.
Portsmouth City Council announced on Friday the Spinnaker Tower would be sponsored by airline Emirates.
The £3.5m deal would see the tower painted red and white, the colours of nearby Southampton's football club - Portsmouth's major rivals.
Alex Judd, who started the petition, said the branding "flies in the face of the values of the city".
He said Portsmouth has a "deep, footballing heritage".
In less than 24 hours the petition has gained 5,000 signatures.
The tower is to be renamed the Emirates Spinnaker Tower. The branding is expected to be in place in time for the America's Cup World Series sailing event in July and remain in place for five years.
The airline's name will be displayed on the exterior of the tower and large portions will be turned red.
The city council's leader Donna Jones said: "One of the caveats in any deal that we considered is that the name Spinnaker must remain.
"We didn't want the tower to lose its own identity so any branding or painting are things I have the final say on so that we can ensure it will not be detrimental to the iconic tower."
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.
But if you look at the underlying data, the margins between the top five - Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland and Finland - are so small that any of them could have come out on top.
The Nordic countries in particular (Sweden crept in at number 10) consistently top surveys of well-being.
So why aren't we copying them?
To begin with, you need to understand what we're measuring.
The World Happiness Report, which compiles the rankings, is completely subjective. It asks people from every nation how happy they feel - there's no solid science to it.
The authors then try and analyse other data - like life expectancy and the economy - to figure out how much each factor contributes to being happy.
That might sound a little fluffy for a UN agency report but it's a deliberate attempt to get away from hard numbers.
For decades, we've measured prosperity and success through economic measures like gross domestic product. But that doesn't mean the people in those countries feel happy.
In the United States, for example, income has gone up since the 1960s, but happiness has not. In recent years, GDP has grown - but how happy people are is actually falling.
A job is essential for happiness, but wealth has diminishing returns.
A 2010 American study, analysing surveys of 450,000 people between 2008 and 2009, came to the remarkable conclusion that money does make you happier - but only up to a salary of $75,000. After that, extra income makes no difference to your day-to-day happiness (although it can make people feel they're achieving a lot in life).
The authors - who have both separately won the Nobel Prize in economics - suggested: "Perhaps $75,000 is a threshold beyond which further increases in income no longer improve individuals' ability to do what matters most, such as spending time with people they like, avoiding pain and disease, and enjoying leisure."
But if it's nothing to do with economic power, just what are those Nords doing so much better than the UK or US?
Unfortunately, it's not as simple as a policy change. The factors behind Nordic happiness are complex - and some experts doubt it even exists at all.
The economic factors are taken care of - all five Nordic nations are in the top 20 countries in terms of GDP per capita, and have good life expectancy.
What they do with their spending power might have an impact, however.
Danes, for example, pay very high rates of tax - anything up to 51.5% of their income for a high earner.
But that cash is reinvested in society through a range of social programmes - such as free university education, free healthcare, generous maternity leave and unemployment benefits.
"We are not paying taxes. We are investing in our society. We are purchasing quality of life," wrote Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute, in 2016.
The re-investment of oil revenue in Norway - an "emphasis on the future over the present" was singled out in the announcement that it had taken the top spot in the World Happiness Report.
But such a high rate of tax and can't simply be introduced overnight - and it's only one piece of the complicated cultural puzzle.
The constant success of Denmark in happiness surveys, dating back to the 1970s, has helped to popularise their cultural concept of hygge (that's pronounced "hoo-ga").
In a nutshell, it is the concept of self-care through small, comfortable indulgences, which helps to stave off the long winter evenings.
Advocates say that small acts of self-care are a key part of what makes the Danes - and other cultures with similar practices (like Swedish mys or Norwegian kos) - so happy.
But not everyone is convinced.
Researchers at the University of Warwick think that all the mystery surrounding Nordic - specifically Danish - happiness has less to do with socialism and cosy candlelight and more to do with good hard science.
Andrew Oswald and Eugenio Proto think they have found the answer in Denmark's DNA: that "the closer a nation is to the genetic makeup of Denmark, the happier that country is."
The research is far from certain, but the pair found that Denmark has a particularly high prevalence of one gene variant which is associated with good mood, and a resistance to depression.
But then again, there are some who think the question favours the content.
Michael Booth, author of "The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia" thinks that Danes might simply have low expectations.
"Over the years I have asked many Danes about these happiness surveys - whether they really believe that they are the global happiness champions - and I have yet to meet a single one of them who seriously believes it's true," he wrote in The Atlantic.
"Danes do typically expect less than the rest of us, and when their low expectations are fulfilled, so are they."
It's the same conclusion reached by a tongue-in-cheek paper in the British Medical Journal back in 2006, which noticed the existence of European statistical data on low Danish expectations.
So, although no-one is quite sure what the key to Nordic happiness is, citizens of other nations can content themselves with the knowledge that it's possibly cultural, genetic, or just made-up nonsense.
That kind of dismissal is unlikely to bother the people there - they're rather happy with how things are, after all.
The Mean Girls star will appear in the second series, with the first due to air this autumn.
The comedy follows Daniel Glass (Grint) as an insurance rep who is wrongly told he has a terminal illness but decides to keep his misdiagnosis to himself.
Lohan will play Katerina West, the daughter of Glass's boss (Johnson).
The actress tweeted about her "jokes" with the cast.
The second series, starring Frost as Glass's incompetent oncologist, is expected to be broadcast next year.
Sky's head of comedy, Jon Mountague, said: "One lie leads to the next in this unsettlingly brilliant comedy that will hook viewers in and have them on the very edge of their seats.
"Filming for series two is already under way and we're delighted to confirm Lindsay Lohan will be joining Rupert and Nick in this stellar comedy cast."
David Walliams and Miranda Hart's production company King Bert is making Sick Note for Sky.
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The three-storey detached house in Green Road was ablaze when fire crews arrived at the property at about 21:00 GMT on Tuesday.
The family inside fled to safety but a woman needed to have oxygen administered by firefighters.
Station manager Steve Beard said: "The family were incredibly lucky to escape without serious injuries."
The fir tree had been in the living room and was decorated with lit candles.
After a candle fell off and set the tree alight the fire quickly spread throughout the house, destroying the ground and first floors.
Mr Beard, from Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service, said: "We all like to decorate our homes to make them look festive at this time of year but it is essential to remember that, although they look pretty, candles are still naked flames and must be used with caution.
"Once they have been cut down, Christmas trees become very dry and therefore can catch fire extremely easily.
"Candles and Christmas trees do not mix - as this incident shows, fire can spread incredibly quickly and cause devastating damage."
Mr Mugabe, 89, won 61% of the vote, against Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's 34%.
Mr Tsvangirai earlier said the elections for parliament and president were fraudulent and promised to take legal action.
He said his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) would no longer work with Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party.
The two parties have been in a coalition since 2009, after the last election sparked widespread violence.
Results from this week's parliamentary election showed the MDC had been trounced, winning just 49 seats compared with Zanu-PF's 158.
In a news conference before the presidential result was announced, Mr Tsvangirai said Zimbabwe was "in mourning".
"The fraudulent and stolen election has launched Zimbabwe into a constitutional, political and economic crisis," he said.
He said he would produce a dossier of the alleged electoral fraud and he called on the southern African regional bloc, Sadc, to investigate.
His MDC colleagues had earlier called for a campaign of civil disobedience to isolate Zanu-PF.
The European Union, which maintains sanctions on Mr Mugabe and his senior aides, said it was concerned about "alleged irregularities and reports of incomplete participation" in Wednesday's election.
Former colonial power the UK said it had grave concerns about the conduct of the election, and urged a thorough investigation of all allegations of violations.
The US state department also called for an investigation and said the results were not a "credible expression of the will of the Zimbabwean people".
Monitoring groups disagreed over the conduct of the election.
The most critical account came from the largest group of monitors, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), which had 7,000 workers observing the vote.
Q&A: Zimbabwe elections
The organisation said problems with voter registration had left up to one million people unable to cast their ballots, mostly in urban areas regarded as MDC strongholds.
On Saturday, one of the nine members of the election commission resigned over the way the election was conducted.
Commissioner Mkhululi Nyathi said in his resignation letter: "While throughout the whole process I retained some measure of hope that the integrity of the whole process could be salvaged along the way, this was not to be."
However, the African Union, which had 70 observers, said its initial report suggested the election was "free and credible".
The AU's mission chief Olusegun Obasanjo said there had been "incidents that could have been avoided" and asked Zimbabwe's election authorities to investigate claims that voters had been turned away from polling stations.
Sadc, with 600 observers, broadly endorsed the election as "free and peaceful", but said it would reserve judgement on the fairness of the process.
Major Western groups were not invited to send observer missions.
Mr Mugabe has been president since 1987. He became prime minister when Zimbabwe won independence from the UK in 1980.
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Lomu, who scored 37 tries in 63 matches for New Zealand between 1994 and 2002, had been diagnosed with a rare and serious kidney condition in 1995.
It forced him to quit the game and he had a kidney transplant in 2004, but the organ stopped functioning in 2011.
"Jonah was a legend of our game and loved by his many fans both here and around the world," said New Zealand Rugby chief executive Steve Tew.
"We're lost for words and our heartfelt sympathies go out to Jonah's family."
Family spokesman John Mayhew told New Zealand television that Lomu's death was "totally unexpected" and that he had only arrived back from the UK on Tuesday, after spending time there for the Rugby World Cup.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said: "The thoughts of the entire country are with his family."
Speaking to the BBC, New Zealand Sports Minister Jonathan Coleman said Lomu "was the first global rugby superstar".
He was a "huge inspiration to Polynesian men and actually in later years with his battles against kidney disease, very inspirational to people suffering from chronic diseases as well", he said.
Lomu is survived by his wife Nadene and two sons.
The son of Tongan immigrants, Lomu made his Test debut in 1994 against France in Christchurch.
As well as playing for several domestic teams in his homeland, he made 10 appearances for Cardiff Blues in Wales between 2005 and 2006, shortly before his retirement.
Despite never winning the World Cup, he is the joint top try-scorer in its history - alongside South Africa wing Bryan Habana, scoring 15 tries in 11 games.
He was at his best at the 1995 and 1999 World Cups, terrifying defensive lines with his speed and size - 192 cm tall (6 feet 4 inches) and weighing about 119 kilograms (18 stone 10 pounds).
In a memorable match against England in the 1995 semi-final, he bulldozed several players and ran straight over the top of full-back Mike Catt on his way to a try.
His performance in that tournament has been widely credited with helping attract the major commercial deals that enabled the sport to enter the professional era.
But a rare kidney condition, nephrotic syndrome, hampered his career. A later transplant was rejected by his body in 2011.
After news of his death broke, former New Zealand captain Sean Fitzpatrick tweeted: "Our thoughts are with the Jonah Lomu family tonight. A very special person."
All Blacks World Cup winner Dan Carter tweeted: "I still can't believe the sad news. Love and thoughts go out to Jonah's family."
And former Wales fly-half Jonathan Davies said: "Can't believe that Jonah Lomu has passed away. Was with him and his wife and family for an evening last month.
"So sad, life is so cruel. RIP Jonah you were a true legend and a gentleman. You changed the game of rugby and will be sorely missed. My thoughts are with your family."
BBC Radio 5 live's rugby union reporter Chris Jones:
No-one transcended the sport of rugby union quite like Jonah Lomu. Bursting onto the scene of the 1995 World Cup, Lomu was a force of nature, the player of the tournament by some distance. His blend of pace, power and size never before seen.
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Despite his health problems, he had been working in the UK during the recent Rugby World Cup, which makes his death all the more shocking.
Quite simply, Lomu was a giant of world rugby. The man who changed the game forever.
BBC Radio 5 live will have a special programme tonight - Jonah Lomu: The Man Who Changed Rugby, which can be heard from 21:00-22:30 GMT.
Mr Farron is MP for the Cumbrian seat of Westmorland and Lonsdale and a former president of the Lib Dems.
He is one of eight Lib Dem MPs left in the Commons after heavy losses at last week's general election which saw Mr Clegg stand down as party leader.
Mr Farron said he has not yet decided whether to stand for the leadership.
In a joint statement with Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie, Mrs Williams said he is the right person to "inspire" and lead the party into next year's Welsh assembly election campaign.
She said the party needed a "fresh start" and urged Mr Farron to "step up and lead our party to recovery".
He was attacked by another man, while walking in Old Rutherglen Road, near Oregon Street, in the city's Gorbals area, at about 18:40 on Thursday.
The victim is being treated for his injuries at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
The suspect is described as white, mid 20s, about 5ft 6in tall, of stocky build and with shaved hair. He wore a white top with a black Nike logo.
Det Sgt Martin Smith said: "From our CCTV inquiries so far we can see that the surrounding area was busy with members of the public at the time of the incident.
"Somebody must have seen something and I would urge anyone who witnessed what happened to get in touch."
Researchers found that elevated levels of CO2, which make the waters more acidic, saw significantly lower levels of spawning.
However, other mating behaviours of the same species were unaffected by the souring of the oceans.
The scientists say the changes are "subtle but ecologically important".
The study examined the complicated mating behaviours of ocellated wrasse, a common Mediterranean fish.
There are three different types of male who compete to father the offspring of this species.
Dominant males build nests and provide defence, while satellite males aid the dominants in return for a share of the eggs. "Sneaker" males hover around the nests and try and take advantage when the dominants are distracted.
The researchers filmed and studied the complex interactions of these creatures in areas near underwater volcanic vents which seep CO2 into the water.
The higher levels of CO2 make the sea much more acidic in this area off the coast of southern Italy, equivalent to what is expected more widely around the world by the end of this century.
The scientists found that many mating behaviours were unaffected but that dominant male spawning with females was reduced by almost two thirds in areas of high CO2.
The researchers argue that the increased CO2 may be impacting the abilities of the dominant males to make rapid decisions.
"The dominant males have to find a trade off in chasing off sneakers and at the same time inviting females to pair spawn," said Prof Marco Milazzo from the University of Palermo who led the study.
"They are not more stupid but they are slower in taking their decisions."
But while the number of pair spawnings for the dominant males declined, genetic testing showed that that the dominants increased their chance of fathering the offspring from 38% in the areas with lower levels of CO2 up to 58% in the higher areas.
Prof Milazzo believes the changes in acidification may be impacting the sperm quality of the other competing male wrasse.
"What we are trying to assess is the different sperm mobility and sperm quality - the sneaker male is genetically different so it could be that the sperm quality could be affected in a different way."
The new study adds to the body of evidence that changes to the pH levels of the oceans are likely to have significant impacts on sea creatures especially molluscs who's ability to build their shells will be impaired by increased acidity.
Other researchers in the field have praised the new work for carrying out the research in the natural environment, but are wary of drawing too many conclusions from one paper.
"As the authors correctly point out, we currently have almost no measurements and thus almost no idea, how high CO2 conditions in the future ocean will affect fish reproduction," said Dr Hannes Baumann from the University of Connecticut, who was not involved in the study.
"It is important to continue working on these questions, while being careful not to overstate the importance of any single observation."
Scientists involved with the paper agree that the study raises questions that will need further, targeted research. They argue that what they have found may well be a subtle effect, but it is significant.
"It's the first time anyone has looked at mating systems which are very delicate biological systems," said another author, Dr Andrew Foggo from the University of Plymouth.
"It is part of a jigsaw that we are building up piece by piece and as we add more pieces we start to see a probability of really quite considerable change in response to acidification."
The study has been published in the journal Royal Society Proceedings B.
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A statement issued by the Egyptian military said the migrants were with people smugglers who opened fire on the border guards when they attempted to arrest the group.
Earlier this month the bodies of 15 African migrants were found on the border in the same area, near Rafah.
They appeared to have been shot dead.
The circumstances of those deaths have not been fully explained.
In addition to the five Sudanese shot dead in the incident on Monday morning, six were injured and a further five arrested by security forces.
There is constant tension in the area, which borders Israel and Gaza to the east, and where the Egyptian army is trying to crush an insurgency by militants linked to so-called Islamic State (IS).
Jihadists based in the North Sinai region stepped up their attacks after the military overthrew Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013.
A state of emergency has been in force in the area since October 2014, following an attack by the IS-linked group Sinai Province.
It is the first drop after three months of successive increases.
The total now stands at 37,900, according to official government-published figures for April.
They also reveal another drop in economic inactivity to its lowest rate since records began in 1995, although it remains a much worse problem locally than in the rest of the UK.
Economic inactivity refers to people who are neither in work or looking for a job.
In Northern Ireland, 26% of working-age adults are inactive, compared to a UK rate of 22%.
In late 2010, the local rate stood at 28%.
The last Northern Ireland Executive developed a strategy to tackle the problem, but it was not implemented due to budgetary pressures.
While overall the labour market data contains several improvements, Northern Ireland continues to lag behind the rest of the UK in numerous areas, including those in work.
The employment rate here is 69%, which is the lowest of the 12 UK regions.
Wade, 22, was named both the Players' Player of the Year and the Young Player of the Year after a superb season.
He scored 18 tries in 26 appearances and finished level with Wasps team-mate Tom Varndell as the Premiership's joint leading try-scorer with 12.
Jonny Wilkinson is the only other player to have won both RPA awards - but he did so in different years.
Wilkinson won the young player trophy in 1999 and the main award in 2003.
"I am really shocked and humbled," Wade said.
"When it is the players who you play week-in, week-out it makes it that more special. It is the greatest feeling to have the respect of your peers.
"Looking at the quality of the nominees in both awards I didn't expect to win and I am thankful to come out on top."
Wade won the Players' Player of the Year award ahead of the Leicester flanker Julian Salvi, with Saracens and England prop Mako Vunipola in third.
Vunipola also finished runner-up in the Young Player of the Year award with his brother, the Saracens-bound Wasps number eight, Billy in third.
Wasps were strongly represented, with lock Joe Launchbury named the England Player of the Year for 2012-2013.
Players' Player of the Year
1. Christian Wade - London Wasps
2. Julian Salvi - Leicester Tigers
3. Mako Vunipola - Saracens
Young Player of the Year
1. Christian Wade - London Wasps
2. Mako Vunipola - Saracens
3. Billy Vunipola - London Wasps
England Player of the Year 2013
Joe Launchbury - London Wasps
England Sevens Player of the Year 2013
Dan Norton
England Women's Player of the Year
Emily Scarratt
RFU Championship Player of the Year 2013
Tim Streather - Nottingham Rugby
The RPA Hall of Fame Induction
Ieuan Evans (Wales and British & Irish Lions)
Special Merit Award
Geordan Murphy (Leicester Tigers, Ireland and British & Irish Lions)
RPA Blyth Spirit Award
Michael Lynagh (Saracens and Australia)
Try of the Year
Ben Youngs - Bath Rugby v Leicester Tigers, round 21, 20 April 2013
An improved second-half performance was not enough as the champions' bid for back-to-back titles ended in Galway.
"We are disappointed we didn't play our best game when it was required," Townsend told BBC Scotland.
"When it comes to a semi-final or final you have to play very well to win and we didn't do that today."
Fly-half Finn Russell was taken to hospital after suffering a "facial and head injury" in the opening minute, receiving oxygen during lengthy on-field treatment.
The 23-year-old stayed there on Saturday night and will remain in hospital on Sunday night for observation.
"It's a nasty looking injury," Townsend told BBC Scotland. "Our thoughts are with Finn and we hope he makes a quick recovery."
Connacht maintained the 100% record of home teams in Pro12 semi-finals as a converted try from wing Niyi Adeolokun and three penalties from AJ MacGinty sealed their passage to an all-Irish final against Leinster next Saturday at Murrayfield.
"In attack we just didn't have the control or the patience to hold onto the ball, to go through that extra phase in the first half," Townsend noted.
"We rushed things a little and weren't as fluent as we can be but in the second half we showed what we can do and came right back into the game but it's a pity we couldn't sustain that."
Veteran winger Sean Lamont said it was "a season's work gone down the drain."
"Credit to the boys, they dug in to the end, but I just think we were on the wrong side of the penalty count and weren't quite clinical enough," said the 35-year-old.
"For the boys that are leaving us it would have been nice to finish on a high but unfortunately we were just a little bit short.
"To lose a couple of guys [Russell and Fagerson] so early it does shift things but I think the guys that came on did a great job. These things happen, it's rugby unfortunately, it's the nature of the sport."
"Glasgow will be disappointed with how they played this game for the full 80 minutes. We only really saw what they can do for 10 minutes at the start of the second half.
"Leone Nakarawa was probably their best player and that is what they are losing. He has been outstanding, and a joy to watch.
"If Glasgow had defended their title after the season they have had, losing so many players to the World Cup and the Six Nations, it would have been an incredible achievement.
"Ultimately it was the game two weeks ago which cost Glasgow a home semi-final. You saw the influence the crowd had again, and in a tight game, home advantage makes a big difference.
"Glasgow did remarkably well to get into this position but they just couldn't get over the line.
"Connacht have only lost once at The Sportsground all season and have played some great rugby. You saw the character and resilience and team spirit they showed at the end.
"Leinster will be favourites in the final because of their tradition and history but I would love it if Connacht won it. Their attacking play has been fantastic and it would be great for them to win it for the first time."
Its Solar Impulse vehicle's batteries were damaged on the last leg of the journey from Japan to Hawaii and will take several months to repair.
The aircraft will be kept at its Pacific stop-over at Kalaeloa airport while the maintenance is undertaken.
Once the work is done there will be some test flights before the global quest resumes in 2016, the team says.
That is likely to be in April, and would see Solar Impulse fly from Hawaii to the West Coast of the US.
It should then have a sizeable weather window to try to cross America, the Atlantic, and make its way back to Abu Dhabi, UAE, where the circumnavigation began in March this year.
The suspension will be a disappointment but the project has already met a number of its key objectives.
Pilot Andre Borschberg smashed aviation records when he steered Solar Impulse from Nagoya to Kalaeloa at the beginning of the month.
Flying just on the power of the Sun, he completed the 7,200km in 118 hours.
Not only did this set several new marks for manned solar aeroplanes, but it surpassed with ease the absolute aviation record for the longest duration solo flight in an un-refuelled vehicle.
However, in achieving this mammoth feat, Mr Borschberg's plane experienced damaging overheating in its lithium-ion battery system. Although the battery units performed as expected, they had too much insulation around them, making temperature management very difficult.
Engineers on the project have not been able to make the quick repairs that might allow Solar Impulse to have a crack at completing the round-the-world journey this year.
The University of Hawaii and the US Department of Transportation have agreed to continue to host the aeroplane in a large hangar at Kalaeloa airport while the maintenance proceeds.
LEG 1: 9 March. Abu Dhabi (UAE) to Muscat (Oman) - 772km; in 13 hours and 1 minute
LEG 2: 10 March. Muscat (Oman) to Ahmedabad (India) - 1,593km; in 15 hours and 20 minutes
LEG 3: 18 March. Ahmedabad (India) to Varanasi (India) - 1,170km; in 13 hours and 15 minutes
LEG 4: 18 March. Varanasi (India) to Mandalay (Myanmar) - 1,536km; in 13 hours and 29 minutes
LEG 5: 29 March. Mandalay (Myanmar) to Chongqing (China) - 1,450km; in 20 hours and 29 minutes
LEG 6: 21 April. Chongqing (China) to Nanjing (China) - 1,241km; in 17 hours and 22 minutes
LEG 7: 30 May. Nanjing (China) to Nagoya (Japan) - 2,852km; in 44 hours and 9 minutes
Leg 8: 28 June. Nagoya (Japan) to Kalaeloa, Hawaii (USA) - 7,212km; 117 hours and 52 minutes
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The Dow Jones fell 12.74 points to 21,397.29 while the wider S&P 500 index dipped 1.11 points to 2,434.50.
The tech-focused Nasdaq index rose 2.73 points to 6,236.69.
On Wednesday, energy shares were hit as oil prices fell to levels not seen since last autumn. The market has been hit by excess supply, despite attempts by Opec to limit output.
However, on Thursday, prices saw a slight recovery. Brent crude was up 0.9% at $45.21 a barrel, while US crude climbed 0.5% to $42.73.
Among individual stocks, Oracle's shares jumped nearly 8.6% after the business software maker's quarterly profits beat expectations.
Net income rose to $3.23bn for the three months to 31 May, up from $2.81bn a year earlier.
Shares in American Airlines rose 1.1% after it said Qatar Airways was interested in buying a 10% stake in the US carrier.
Tourist business consortium Visit Isle of Wight (VIOW) has agreed to run the two-week Isle of Wight Walking Festival after the island's council scrapped its events team earlier this year.
The rebranded IsleWalk17 will take place from 13 April to 15 May.
Visit Isle of Wight said its evaluation showed the festival brings more than £250,000 into the island's economy.
The festival was first staged in 1999 and the 2016 event featured 250 themed walks at various venues on the island.
It was due to be discontinued after Isle of Wight Council said it could no longer be resourced due to "difficult financial challenges" faced by the local authority.
VIOW chief executive David Thornton said it was an event he "wouldn't want to lose".
He said: "Not only does it bring several thousand people over to the island, it also communicates to the rest of the UK and beyond that the Isle of Wight is a great place to come walking."
He added VIOW would spend £10,000 on the event.
As well as the spring event, a New Year walking-themed weekend called "Fresh Start" is being staged in January.
There have been 21 million pound winners in the G postcode since 2014 - more than any other area in the UK.
Glasgow also had 106 millionaire wins since the first draw in 1994, ranking it second in the UK to Birmingham.
But the Paisley postcode area - PA - was named the luckiest in Scotland with most winners per head of population for prizes of £50,000 and above.
Andy Carter, senior winners' advisor for The National Lottery, said: "Scotland has been enjoying plenty of National Lottery luck recently with residents of the Paisley postcode celebrating the most big wins.
"Glasgow has secured its position as the country's Lottery millionaire capital too producing nearly two a month over the past couple of years.
"There are now a massive 4,250 National Lottery millionaires across the country and with more than six new millionaires made every week there is likely to be another local winner made soon."
In terms of lottery millionaires in Scotland since 1994, Edinburgh is second to Glasgow with a total of 62, followed by Motherwell on 43 and Aberdeen on 41.
In the last two years, 30 top-tier prizes of at least £50,000 have been banked by players in the PA postcode, which includes towns in Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and Argyll and Bute, including the creation of four Lottery millionaires.
In total, 182 major prizes of £50,000 or more have been won in the area since the National Lottery began.
He also argued Britain should be willing to engage in military action in Syria to "restore safety" there.
Ministers have raised the prospect of air strikes on so-called Islamic State extremists in Syria, but say this would only happen with the Commons' approval.
David Cameron has said the UK will fulfil its "moral responsibilities", as pressure mounts to take more refugees.
Writing on a party website, Mr Davies said the images of a drowned boy in the Turkish resort of Bodrum meant it was time to "confront very difficult decisions".
"When parents are willing to risk the lives of their families for the chance to get to safety, it's time to act," he wrote.
"We need to address this issue at source and take steps to stabilise Syria.
"The way to prevent Syrian refugees from making that treacherous crossing at the hands of exploitative criminal gangs isn't to place arbitrary limits on the number of refugees we can take; it's to restore safety to the country from which they flee in such numbers.
"If that ultimately includes military action - or 'boots on the ground' - then we must be willing to step up to the plate."
Mr Davies added: "Ultimately, though, the United Kingdom must be willing to take its share - we have always done so in the past.
"In the 1970s, when Idi Amin ordered the ethnic cleansing of Indians in Uganda, Britain offered sanctuary to more than 27,000 refugees.
"In the 1980s, the UK became home to around 19,000 Vietnamese refugees who fled the country by boat and ship after the Vietnam War."
Meanwhile, Newport City Council has called for other local authorities to take a "greater share" of asylum seekers, saying it was reaching its limit.
The council said it was "extremely sympathetic" to the plight of Syrian refugees, but was "now close to its maximum quota" under government policy.
The piece of stone was discovered more than 10 years ago by a fossil hunter at Bexhill-on-Sea.
But it has taken scientists years to find out what was inside.
A team at Cambridge University used a special scanning microscope to look deep into the fossil.
They say the dinosaur brain is similar to those of crocodiles and birds today.
Scientists say the fossil is so well preserved because the dinosaur probably died near a bog or swamp.
Its head was 'pickled' like an onion in the water, holding its shape and allowing it to become a fossil over time.
Dr Alex Liu, from Cambridge University, said: "The chances of preserving brain tissue are incredibly small, so the discovery of this specimen is astonishing."
The company announced in March the project had been put on hold due to the current business climate.
It would have employed about 300 workers in the construction phase and created around 30 full-time jobs.
A spokesman for BP said the firm now intended to focus on enhancing the gas sweetening capability of its existing plant at Sullom Voe.
He added: "We remain committed to ensuring that Sullom Voe Terminal has the necessary facilities to reliably support long-term oil and gas production from fields to the west and east of Shetland.
"Ensuring reliable and 'fit for purpose' gas sweetening capability is an important element of this.
"Given the current business climate and as a result of revised west of Shetland sour gas production modelling work, the Sullom Voe Gas Sweetening (SVGS) partners have concluded that a more cost-effective solution to meeting future gas sweetening needs for the region is possible.
"Consequently the revised SVGS project will focus on enhancing (and potentially expanding) the gas sweetening capability of the existing plant at SVT and maintaining the existing offshore sour gas "scavenging" capability on Clair and Schiehallion."
Coroner Brian Sherrard had hoped to conclude hearing evidence in the Arlene Arkinson case on 19 September.
The 15-year-old schoolgirl vanished after a night out in County Donegal, in the Republic of Ireland, in August 1994.
Her body has never been found.
The court heard that, despite ongoing correspondence, Irish police had not yet nominated any witnesses.
Mr Sherrard said: "I am disappointed that we are still at this stage having been in correspondence with An Garda Siochana for quite some time."
He said there should be a redoubling of efforts aimed at concluding evidence on 19 September.
Miss Arkinson was last seen with child killer Robert Howard after leaving a disco in Bundoran in the Republic of Ireland.
Howard was acquitted of her murder in 2005, but the jury was not told about his conviction for killing another teenager in England.
The Arkinson family were disturbed by the continuing delay, said a lawyer for the family, but they also praised the work already carried out but the Coroner.
Martin Carroll, 28, stabbed 36-year-old Stephen Gannon in the neck near their tenement block in the city's Springburn area on 14 August 2015.
Carroll later told his grandmother: "I've done something stupid."
At the High Court in Edinburgh, Carroll was told that he would serve a minimum of 14 years in prison.
An earlier hearing at the High Court in Glasgow was told that Mr Gannon lived downstairs from Carroll at the flats in St Monance Street.
Carroll once had a disagreement with another neighbour about her dog misbehaving.
On 14 August, Mr Gannon was chatting inside the tenement to the neighbour who had the dog, when Carroll walked by.
The court heard that Carroll was already wanted by police at the time after failing to turn up for a court hearing in connection with an attack on his mother.
Mr Gannon followed him and shouted: "Don't you be giving abuse to the woman in my close."
Carroll initially ignored the comment - but then turned and confronted his neighbour.
Prosecutor Ross McFarlane said: "In a sudden movement, Carroll produced a large knife and struck out a number of times.
"He stabbed Mr Gannon in the neck area...blood started to spurt from the wound and he tried to run back towards his flat."
The victim died after the fatal wound cut through his carotid artery and jugular vein.
An apparently-upset Carroll then appeared at his grandmother's home and said: "Something's happened. I've done something stupid."
He later admitted to a friend he had stabbed Mr Gannon "a couple of times", but that he did not think it was "that bad".
Carroll went on to state: "I'll take responsibility for what I have done."
It was three days later when he was finally held in connection with the outstanding warrant.
Police later questioned him about the stabbing, but he denied being involved.
Carroll pleaded guilty to murder, however, when the case went to trial.
Following his guilty plea, it emerged that Carroll, who has a 666 tattoo, already had a violent past including convictions for assault and possessing a knife.
He was jailed for 60 days in September last year for the assault on his mother.
After Carroll was jailed for murder, Det Ch Insp Allan Burton said: "This was a particularly vicious attack by a violent individual on a man who was a neighbour and friend to many where he lived.
"To lash out with such ferocity and without any apparent regard for the consequences of his violent actions is absolutely senseless and underlines the devastation that knife crime can have in our communities."
Swansea-based Thomas won bronze and silver medals earlier in the week and was delighted to retain her 100m title.
"I've been working my way up through the week; a bronze, a silver and now the gold so pretty happy," said the 26-year-old.
"We had a really solid cycle of work. It's nice to see it coming together."
Welsh Olympic swimmer Chloe Tutton was fourth in the final of the 100m breaststroke.
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It was reported last month that Allen had been suspended from the post he had held since January 2015 because he was "too close" to Lawrence Tomlinson, who is looking to take over the track.
Allen said: "Some of you may have heard, or seen in the press, some rumours about my departure.
"It is true some allegations were made against me but, for the avoidance of doubt, these have all been withdrawn."
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Several internationals, including Samoan wingers Sinoti Sinoti and Alesana Tuilagi and All Black half Mike Delany are currently sidelined.
Falcons, along with Sale Sharks with just 12, have scored the fewest tries in the division.
"I feel sorry for Dave Walder [attack coach]," Richards told BBC Newcastle.
"You look at the guys who are injured, the backs are firing but not firing as well as we could and we probably lack that little bit of X-factor you get with Sinoti, Delany and Gonzalo Tiesi, players like that."
Richards admits the absentees were missed in Sunday's 20-15 loss to nearest rivals London Irish.
"We created four opportunities we didn't convert in the first half and three towards the end," he said. "Had we done that, it might have put a different complexion on the game."
This battle of the Premiership's bottom two began with Irish bottom, two points behind Newcastle, but ended with Falcons switching places and slipping one point adrift at the foot of the table.
Despite a four-point gap between Worcester in 10th spot and the Exiles, Richards is confident there is enough rugby left to play not to leave Falcons on the fringes.
"People were looking at this game today, but winning last week made a big difference," Richard said. "Losing today was galling because we missed our opportunities.
"But as I've said all along, the 10-game sequence (of Premiership matches to end the season) will be the make or break for all sides at the top or the bottom."
Clinton's speech had historic potential, but it was in many ways another day at the office for the first woman to become a major party's presidential nominee.
While journalists of colour were in the room, substantial questions focusing on the needs of the two communities represented - blacks and Latinos - were few and far between.
It felt in the end like a missed opportunity.
In a speech that varied only slightly from her Democratic nomination acceptance speech, Clinton talked about what she would do if elected president, focusing mostly on domestic policy. She later took questions sent via Twitter from a panel of journalists who acted as proxies for their more than 2,000 colleagues in ballroom of the Washington Waldman Park Hotel.
These journalists represent the interest of a powerful voting block. Clinton leads with black voters 99% to 1% over Trump, and has 48% more support than Trump does among Latinos, but she'll need them to turn out with enthusiasm on election day, especially in order to secure victories down ticket.
Clinton did speak to some issues relevant to her audience: during the Great Recession, black and Latino households were hit the hardest, with blacks losing half of their wealth and Latinos losing over 60%. The Democratic candidate said she would dedicate significant time to restoring those gains in her first 100 days as president.
She also recognised the economic potential of comprehensive immigration reform, something that's been a non-starter for much of the Obama administration. Undocumented workers contribute as much as $100m (£77m) to the American economy, Clinton said. Rather than keep hard-working immigrants out of the American mainstream, Clinton told the crowd, it was time to find a way to keep them in.
"We have to bring people out of the shadows," she said.
The crowd had been promised a question-and-answer period that would address some of the other issues that these two communities face: immigration reform, criminal justice reform, mass incarceration, as well as improving the nation's schools, especially in urban and rural areas.
Those questions never came.
That might have been, in part, a function of of time allotted. Clinton initially promised an hour of her time, but the event started at least 20 minutes late and she cut her commitment back to 30 minutes.
Kristen Welker of NBC News asked a question Clinton's email servers. Clinton's answers - that she "short circuited" when claiming that FBI director James Comey called her answers in the ensuing investigation "truthful" - led the news cycle for the weekend.
But many wondered why a question about Clinton's email servers made the cut while a question about criminal justice reform didn't.
At a time when her campaign, or at least the press coverage of it, seems to be focused on Clinton's attempts to reach out to white, working-class male voters and Republicans disenchanted with Donald Trump, a question from New York Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor made sense:
How do you reach a group of people whose idea of "Making America Great Again" doesn't seem to include many of the people in the room you're currently in?
"I have talked to them, and we have to recognise that some of what makes Trump appeal to them is the problems they've had economically," Clinton said. "Let's not lose sight of their pain."
Clinton appeared sincere in recognising that these are people who have been hurt by the economy and need attention. But many of these voters are the same ones chanting "Lock Her Up!"
Instead of trying to connect with groups that have made it clear that they're not interested in hearing what she has to say, Clinton should seek to address issues of particular interest to the Obama coalition of black and Latino voters - and black and Latino journalists need to make sure they bring those issues to the forefront.
Denise Clay is a writer and columnist based in Philadelphia.
The Lower House passed the bill to create the post of "state counsellor", which now requires only presidential approval to become law.
Unelected military representatives holding a quarter of parliamentary seats boycotted the vote, calling the bill unconstitutional.
Ms Suu Kyi's party won elections but she is not allowed to be president.
Clause 59(f) of the Burmese constitution bars candidates with foreign spouses or children, and Ms Suu Kyi's two sons hold British passports.
The clause was widely considered to have been written specifically to prevent Ms Suu Kyi from taking office.
The bill has gone through both the lower and upper houses and now must be approved by President Htin Kyaw.
Htin Kyaw is Myanmar's first elected civilian leader in more than 50 years, and a close aide to Ms Suu Kyi.
At the heart of power: Analysis by Jonah Fisher, BBC News, Naypyidaw
The Burmese parliament in Naypyidaw has not seen a session like this before.
The army representatives refused to vote, stood in protest and complained repeatedly that this new bill is unconstitutional.
But it was all in vain - they are now hopelessly outnumbered by elected MPs from Aung San Suu Kyi's party.
So this - the first bill proposed by the civilian government - passed unchanged.
Having been denied the presidency by a clause in the constitution, this job will formally place Ms Suu Kyi at the heart of Myanmar's new administration.
In addition to state counsellor, Ms Suu Kyi will also be foreign minister and minister in the president's office.
The NLD won 80% of contested seats in the elections last year, ending decades of military rule.
But the army has kept considerable power. In addition to its seats in parliament, it heads three key ministries - defence, home affairs and border affairs.
The names will be announced in a live show on BBC World TV and BBC World Service radio, starting at 18:00 GMT.
Fans of African football worldwide will be able to vote via the BBC African football website from 18:50.
Voting will close at 18:00 on Monday, 28 November and the winner revealed live on Focus on Africa TV and radio on Monday 12 December at 17:35.
A panel of former African internationals and football experts will be in attendance at the special show on Saturday.
Hosted by Peter Okwoche, the show will include an interview with a former winner of the award, discussion of the 2016 nominees and a review of the year in African football.
And you will also have the chance to watch behind-the-scenes footage on the BBC Africa and BBC Sport Facebook pages and on Instagram.
BBC Sport will also be live-tweeting the launch as it happens on BBC Africa and BBC Sport Twitter accounts.
Users of social media can stay up to date with the competition via #BBCAFOTY.
National Offender Management Service annual reports failed to record that two prisoners, not one, were living in crowded conditions when they were in a cell designed for one person.
Prisons minister Andrew Selous said the situation was "unacceptable".
Campaigners said it was important to know the true scale of overcrowding.
Mr Selous said in a written ministerial statement that prisons had been recording data incorrectly since 2008-9.
He said: "The public should rightly expect this information to be accurate. Publication of clear, reliable figures on how many prisoners we hold in crowded conditions is an important part of making sure we can be held to account.
"It is therefore unacceptable that these incorrect figures have been published over the last six years and that these errors were not identified sooner. Since discovering these errors, we have taken urgent steps to ensure that figures will in future be subjected to rigorous quality control."
The Howard League for Penal Reform said the statement came two years after it published research showing that about 20,000 prisoners were being kept in overcrowded conditions.
Chairman Frances Crook said: "This is a timely written statement, and we welcome the new culture of honesty and accountability at the Ministry of Justice.
"Simple logic dictates that if two or three prisoners are sharing a cell designed for one, then all those people are being held in overcrowded conditions. We are pleased that the government's figures will now reflect this, as the Howard League has made this point repeatedly for many years.
"Holding men in overcrowded cells with nothing to do all day is never going to help them become law-abiding citizens on release, and it is important that the true scale of overcrowding will be made known. Only by knowing what the problem is can we work together to find a solution."
Quinn Business Retention Company (QBRC) has new backers in its deal to take over the packaging and construction industry supplies (CIS) parts of the business, which is now called Aventas.
QBRC was backed by a private equity firm, but will now be financed by three of the institutions that control Aventas.
QBRC said it expects the deal to complete in early October.
It has not revealed the details of the three institutions which are now backing it.
The Aventas businesses were the backbone of Sean Quinn's empire - he lost control of them in 2011 as part of his battle with Anglo Irish Bank.
Aventas remains a major employer in the border counties of Fermanagh and Cavan.
It is currently controlled by a consortium of financial institutions
Liam McCaffrey, chief executive designate of QBRC, thanked the former backer, Endless LLP, for "recognising the potential in this business".
"We look forward to working closely with our financiers, the staff and customers of the business as we seek to grow and develop them in the years ahead," he said.
In a statement Aventas said: "When the agreement was signed for the acquisition of our CIS and Packaging businesses by QBRC it was originally envisaged that the transaction would complete in Q3.
"The work involved is continuing apace and while it is now clear that the proposed sale will not complete within the original timeframe, we remain fully committed to the process and to a successful sale completion as soon as is practicable."
The packaging and CIS businesses employ more than 600 people in in Derrylin, County Fermanagh, and Ballyconnell, County Cavan.
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There is no doubt that the 28-member EU has come a long way since six European countries founded the European Economic Community in 1958.
Their aim was to avoid another devastating war in Europe by making its countries economically interdependent.
But what began as a purely economic union has become an organisation responsible for many different areas of policy, from agriculture to transport.
At the heart of the EU are laws designed to allow most goods, services, money and people to move freely within EU member states.
The European Commission - the EU's administrative arm - is responsible for proposing and drafting EU legislation.
If draft proposals are approved by the European Parliament, representing EU citizens, and the Council of Ministers - representing member states - then the proposals become law.
The two most common types of EU laws are known as regulations and directives.
Regulations have direct and immediate effect within EU member states once they have been brought into effect at EU level.
Directives set out an EU objective, which individual countries must transpose into national legislation.
The difference can be seen in examples provided by the EU's own website.
When the EU wanted to make sure there were common safeguards on goods imported from outside the EU, it adopted a regulation.
When the EU wanted to strengthen rights for consumers across the EU - for example, by eliminating hidden charges and extending the cooling-off period - it adopted a directive.
EU law is interpreted by the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg - or the European Court of Justice, as it used to be called.
This is completely separate from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights.
However, the EU has its own Charter of Fundamental Rights.
EU institutions such as the commission, the parliament and the council are legally bound to uphold rights in the charter - as are EU governments whenever they apply EU law.
The EU court in Luxembourg interprets EU law to make sure it is applied in the same way in all EU countries and settles legal disputes between national governments and EU institutions.
Member states are required to comply with the court's rulings, and may be fined if they do not do so.
But there are limits to the EU's powers, of which the most obvious is language.
Although a common language would undoubtedly help improve trade there are no plans to impose one across Europe.
Nor has the EU tried to change the constitutional structures of its member states.
EU summits are attended by presidents, prime ministers and chancellors who lead countries with very different legal systems.
All the EU can do is to ensure that its members meet common standards of justice and democracy.
The EU's powers to make and enforce laws have a bearing on the UK's sovereignty.
When we speak of the sovereignty of Parliament, we mean the right of the House of Commons and the House of Lords - with the formal approval of the monarch - to make any laws Parliament may choose.
Parliament can be said to have given up some of its sovereignty when it passed the European Communities Act 1972, enabling the UK to join what was then the European Economic Community, at the beginning of 1973, and requiring courts in the UK to apply EU law.
Michael Gove, who also wants to leave the EU, explained at the weekend what he saw as the consequences of EU membership.
He said the UK government "cannot remove or reduce VAT, cannot support a steel plant through troubled times, cannot build the houses we need where they're needed and cannot deport all the individuals who shouldn't be in this country".
But David Cameron took a different view of sovereignty in his interview with Andrew Marr.
"Sovereignty really means: are you able to get things done? Are you able to change things, to fix things?
"You might feel more sovereign, but if you can't get your businesses access to European markets, if you can't keep your people safe… you're less in charge of your destiny."
The prime minister also promised proposals to make clear that Parliament was sovereign.
However, his proposals are not expected to include legislation.
If Parliament is not already sovereign, then saying so will not change anything; and if Parliament is already sovereign, there seems little point in declaring it.
Mr Cameron told Parliament the agreement reached in Brussels last week would give the UK a "special status" within the EU and ensure it never became part of a European super-state.
However, those who want to leave the EU say the only sovereignty that matters is the ability to make all our laws in the UK.
And if that's what sovereignty means, it's difficult to see how it can be achieved while the UK remains part of the EU.
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Explaining why he wants the UK to leave the EU, Boris Johnson complained about "a slow and invisible process of legal colonisation, as the EU infiltrates just about every area of public policy".
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The Scottish government asked all local authorities with high-rise blocks more than 18m (59ft) high to clarify the types of cladding used.
Communities Secretary Angela Constance told Holyrood none had used aluminium composite material.
Questions have been raised over the cladding's role in the London fire.
Seventy-nine people have been confirmed as dead or missing presumed dead after the blaze which started in the early hours of 14 June.
Fourteen people are in hospital - eight receiving critical care and some in induced comas - NHS England has said.
A ministerial group was set up last week to review fire safety and buildings regulations in Scotland.
Ms Constance told MSPs: "Local authorities who had intimated that they have high-rise blocks of over 18 metres, dwelling houses of over 18 metres high, they were asked very specific questions yesterday by the housing minister on cladding and whether they had cladding that was made from aluminium composite material.
"I'm pleased to say that all of those 18 local authorities who had initially replied that they had high-rise dwelling of over 18 metres have come back to say that none of their cladding is made from aluminium composite material."
It is understood further checks are being carried out in relation to high rises outside local authority control.
Ms Constance said the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was working with councils and housing associations to prioritise home fire safety visits in high-rise flats.
She said the scope of the government's review would also be extended to cover other buildings such as schools and hospitals "using a risk-based approach informed by emerging evidence and intelligence from the UK government and our own local authorities".
Ms Constance said she also took on board concerns raised by Dumbarton MSP Jackie Baillie over inconsistency in regulatory frameworks after she raised concerns West Dunbartonshire Council had not carried out a full fire-risk inspection on high rises in the area for seven years.
A Scottish government ministerial working group set up in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster has agreed a series of actions to be taken, following its first meeting.
They included continuing to have firefighters visit high-rise buildings, review standards of detectors and consider whether further action should be taken with regard to sprinkler systems.
The meeting was chaired by Ms Constance with Housing Minister Kevin Stewart and Community Safety Minister Annabelle Ewing also attending along with officials from fire and rescue, building standards, local government and housing.
Ms Constance said: "While we're confident that in Scotland we have stringent building and fire safety regulations which contribute to keeping people safe, following the tragic events at Grenfell Tower it is imperative that we undertake a thorough and critical review of our regulations.
"Public safety is of paramount importance and, while the cause of the Grenfell Tower fire remains unknown at present, there can be no room for complacency.
"Communities across Scotland rightly want to know that we are taking all appropriate action and can provide them with the necessary reassurance required."
She said Scottish government officials would work closely with local authorities and the fire service to review all of Scotland's high-rise domestic buildings, construction work that has taken place, the materials of any cladding and whether further action needed to be taken as a precautionary measure to prevent fire.
Blanc, who signed a new two-year deal in February, led PSG to the Ligue 1 title in each of his three seasons in charge, but lost in the Champions League quarter-finals each year.
Sevilla boss Umai Emery has been linked with the vacant post.
Emery, 44, won the Europa League with the La Liga side in each of his three full seasons in charge.
Club president Nasser Al-Khelaifi had hinted at changes earlier this month.
"I've been here for five years and this is the first time we have had this sense of failure," he had said.
In a statement on the club's website, he thanked Blanc for his service but said he was "opening a new chapter in the development of the club".
PSG, who have won consecutive domestic quadruples, lost to Manchester City in last season's Champions League quarter-finals.
Blanc, 50, had previously had a spell as manager of France but stepped down after losing in the quarter-finals of Euro 2012 to eventual winners Spain.
A cultured centre-half, he made 97 appearances for his country and also played for Barcelona, Inter Milan and Manchester United.
Aarons, 20, has scored three goals in 18 appearances for the club since joining in 2012 after a spell at Bristol City.
The England Under-20 man came on as a second-half substitute in their opening game of the season against Fulham.
"It's something that was always going to happen, but it's nice to get it done," he said.
The court will decide whether seven MPs are ineligible to sit in parliament for potentially being dual citizens when they ran for office.
A preliminary hearing for five of the politicians took place on Thursday.
The final outcome could imperil Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's slender grip on power.
The most high-profile person under scrutiny is Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, a New Zealand dual citizen until last week.
Mr Joyce sits in the lower House of Representatives, where Mr Turnbull's government has only a one-seat majority.
Under Australian law, anyone who holds dual citizenship cannot run for office.
If any government MPs in the lower house were to be ruled ineligible, it would trigger a by-election, and Mr Turnbull could face barriers to retaining power.
The High Court of Australia said it would conduct the hearings over three days from 10 October, about a month later than the government had hoped.
On Thursday, the court heard submissions from lawyers for Mr Joyce and:
Two UK dual nationals, government Senator Fiona Nash and independent Senator Nick Xenophon, will have their cases referred at a later date.
Chief Justice Susan Kiefel acknowledged the issue was unusual and that there was a "high level of urgency" in resolving the debate.
However, she rejected a push by Australia's Solicitor-General Stephen Donaghue, QC, to have the cases heard in September, to allow legal teams more time to prepare.
The inquiry is to look at how the city council and other agencies coped with the floods and how information was provided to residents.
It will be chaired by Angharad Davies, a self-employed barrister.
Hundreds of homes and businesses were flooded in the city after the Rivers Foss and Ouse burst their banks in December.
The other two members of the inquiry panel have been confirmed as:
They were appointed by the leaders of the Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Labour and Green groups on the city council.
"It's important that as a local council we do everything we can to answer residents' questions and ensure lessons can be learned for the future," they said.
"This review will help us to get a much clearer picture of what happened and what steps need to be taken to try to prevent flooding like this in the future."
The council said the chair will be able to consider whether to take oral evidence in public, written evidence, or use public meetings and workshops to achieve its aims.
A budget of £50,000 had been provided to cover all the cost involved with the inquiry.
The final report and any recommendations will be used by the council to form an action plan to be used during any future flooding event in the city.
Holywell has joined Mold and Buckley in having pay and display meters and Connah's Quay, Queensferry and Shotton are set to get them in October.
The council approved introducing the charges in April in a bid to raise funds and prevent congestion.
Flintshire council has faced a budget cut of £18m.
Experts suggest patients in areas with high rates of HIV ought to be offered a test when they register with a GP or are admitted to hospital.
But research carried out for BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme suggests many NHS providers are not doing this.
Health officials said the prevention of HIV infection remained a priority.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is currently reviewing its guidance on HIV testing and is due to release its findings in December. Its existing guidance - last updated in 2011 - says GPs and hospitals in high-risk areas should "consider" testing new patients.
In 2013, the British HIV Association circulated UK-wide guidance that said in high-prevalence areas (where there are two or more people in every 1,000 diagnosed with the virus) all men and women should be offered an HIV test on registration with their GP or when they are admitted to a medical unit in hospital.
This was issued in partnership with organisations including The British Association of Sexual Health and HIV,
Official figures show:
An investigation by BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme found that 82% of hospitals in high-prevalence areas in England were not offering HIV tests in accordance with the guidelines.
And 70% of local authorities in high prevalence areas in England do not fund all GP surgeries to test patients.
Neither of the two NHS boards in Scotland routinely offers the checks.
In England, local authorities are responsible for funding population based HIV testing in this way.
HIV experts say this could be causing avoidable deaths.
People who are not yet diagnosed risk passing HIV to partners if they are unaware of their status.
And they will not be receiving HIV drugs to manage their condition.
Dr Chloe Orkin, from the British HIV Association, said: "Testing for HIV is very cost-effective.
"Deaths due to late diagnosis are completely preventable through excellent treatments."
More than 100,000 people live with HIV in the UK, according to figures from Public Health England.
Of these, an estimated 17% are undiagnosed and unaware of their infection.
Chairman of the Local Government Association's Community Wellbeing Board, councillor Izzi Seccombe, said councils were commissioning HIV testing in a variety of settings, not just in GP surgeries or hospitals.
"In some areas, it may be more appropriate to reach out to people by providing tests in the community or at sexual health clinics," she said.
But she was concerned that cuts to public health funding might affect such services.
The British Association of Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) urged local authorities to work with local providers to meet best practice guidelines around routine HIV testing outside sexual health services.
A Department of Health representative for England said: "Over the next five years, we will invest more than £16bn in local government public health services.
"While councils have had to make savings, they have also shown that good results can be achieved at the same time, and are best placed to understand where money is best spent".
Scotland's Public Health Minister, Aileen Campbell, said:"Prevention of HIV infection remains a priority for the Scottish government, and we continue to provide funding for boards for prevention work.
"The BHIVA guidelines are good practice, and we would expect boards to take them into account while developing their local strategies."
Protesters refused to take an alternative route suggested by police in central Santiago and hurled stones at them, the government said.
Students said they were brutally attacked by riot police.
They are demanding that the government of Michelle Bachelet speed up reforms that will guarantee free university education for all Chileans.
"We are tired of waiting," read banners carried by students in the demonstration.
President Bachelet took office in 2014, promising to implement a number of social measures to reduce inequality. She had served a first term between 2006 and 2010.
One of the most contentious issues during the government of her centre-right predecessor, Sebastian Pinera, was Chile's educational system, which critics say favours the private sector.
She said policies guaranteeing everyone a free education would show that the country was heading in the right direction.
Last year, however, Ms Bachelet's government scaled down the reforms as Chile faced an economic downturn.
Many left-wingers felt betrayed by the change of pace.
On Saturday, during Ms Bachelet's annual state-of-the-nation address violent protests erupted in Valparaiso.
Demonstrators set up barricades and hurled firebombs in Valparaiso, where Chile's Congress meets. Police fired tear gas and water cannon.
A security guard died from fume inhalation when masked protestors burned a pharmacy and supermarket.
"We are going to stay on the streets. From today onwards, we expect that the protests will only intensify," said Marta Matamala, head of the University of Santiago student union.
Matt Machan top scored with 103, adding 96 with captain Preston Mommsen (56) and 98 with Richie Berrington (52), as Scotland made 296-6 in their 50 overs.
Ireland made a steady start before seamer Alasdair Evans (4-17) took four wickets in his first three overs.
Spinner Majid Haq wrapped up the innings with 3-9 as Ireland collapsed to 117 all out in 27 overs.
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While Scotland know they will face sterner tests than their fellow International Cricket Council (ICC) associate member when the World Cup begins this weekend, they will take heart from an assured batting display after Mommsen won the toss at Blacktown International Sportspark in the Sydney suburbs.
Former skipper Kyle Coetzer fell to Max Sorensen (3-55) without scoring but his opening partner Calum MacLeod made a steady 41 before Machan, Mommsen and Berrington helped the Scots post a formidable total.
In reply, Ireland captain William Porterfield (23) and Paul Stirling (37) added 57 for the first wicket before Evans ripped through the top order.
Five wickets fell for 20 runs in less than five overs, and Gary Wilson (15) was the only other Ireland batsman to make double figures as they collapsed to Haq and Josh Davey (2-36).
Ireland, who lost to Sydney club side Randwick Petersham last Friday, play their final warm-up game against Bangladesh at the same venue on Thursday, the same day that Scotland head across the city to face West Indies at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Both Ireland and Scotland then head to New Zealand for their opening group games, with Ireland meeting the Windies in Nelson on 16 February, and Scotland up against co-hosts New Zealand in Dunedin a day later.
In Tuesday's other warm-up game in Adelaide, India opener Rohit Sharma smashed 150 from 122 balls, including seven sixes, as they made 364-5 against Afghanistan.
A shock looked possible when India were 16-2 early on, but Sharma added 158 with Suresh Raina (75) and 95 with Ajinkya Rahane (88 not out).
Usman Ghani (44) and ex-captain Nawroz Mangal (60) led Afghanistan's reply but the loss of four wickets for 16 runs in mid-innings ensured India maintained their supremacy, although the Afghans managed to bat their full 50 overs and finished on 211-8, losing by 153 runs.
Emergency service were called to a block of flats at Severn Grove, Pontcanna, on Saturday.
South Wales Police said the circumstances surrounding the woman's death were still being investigated.
One resident reported seeing four police vans and three ambulances at the scene on Saturday morning.
Lawro's opponents for this weekend's FA Cup semi-finals and Premier League fixtures are former Tottenham midfielder Jermaine Jenas and Radio 1Xtra DJ Trevor Nelson, who is a Chelsea fan.
Jenas and Nelson made their predictions live on Radio 1Xtra's Charlie Sloth show on Thursday.
Jenas, who played for Spurs between 2005 and 2013, will be at Wembley on Saturday as a BBC pundit for his old club's FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea.
"From a neutral point of view, this is the game everyone wants to see right now with the two top teams in the Premier League going at it," Jenas said.
"I don't think there has been a bigger game in the FA Cup for a few years now.
"Everyone was expecting Chelsea to run away and win the league - now we get the opportunity to see them go head to head to get to the final."
Nelson, who has been a Chelsea season ticket holder for more than 20 years, will be at the game as a fan and thinks his side are underdogs.
"Tottenham are the favourites," Nelson explained. "They are playing some fluid football.
"I have to be honest with you, when they come on the TV now I don't like watching.
"But what I do is go out of the room for half an hour and when I come back in they are always 2-0 up, and the game is over. They are destroying everybody."
* Chelsea to win AET and pens
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Bournemouth v Middlesbrough (Premier League)
Bournemouth were thumped at Tottenham last weekend - they lost 4-0 but the scoreline could have been anything.
Middlesbrough went down to a much narrower defeat, losing 2-1 at home to Arsenal on Monday, and have now gone 15 league games without a win.
Boro still aren't much of a threat when they attack, and that is the biggest difference between the two sides - the Cherries struggle defensively sometimes but they are good going forward.
While Boro have the staunch smell of relegation about them, Bournemouth probably only need one more win to be safe, and I think they will get it on Saturday.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Jermaine's prediction: 2-1
Trevor's prediction: 2-1
Hull City v Watford (Premier League)
Watford already look safe, after last week's win over Swansea took them to the 40-point mark.
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Hull still have work to do but they will be confident of winning this game because of their home record under Marco Silva, who has picked up 16 points out of a possible 18.
The Tigers are not only good at the KCOM Stadium, they are very good in the second half there - that is when they have scored 10 of their 14 goals during that unbeaten run.
They always seem capable of stepping things up later in the game if they have to, which is an extremely useful in their situation.
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Jermaine's prediction: 1-0
Trevor's prediction: 2-2
Swansea City v Stoke City (Premier League)
Swansea have taken one point from their last six matches and boss Paul Clement says this is the club's biggest game since the Championship play-off final in 2011.
I agree, but I am not confident they will win it.
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For whatever reason, Swans striker Fernando Llorente was just not at it during their defeat by Watford last time out. Swansea badly need a performance from him this time.
It is hard to know what to expect from Stoke, who ended a four-game losing streak by beating Hull, but I am going to go with a draw.
That is not really enough for Swansea but, unlike Hull who are full of self-belief at home, I think the Welsh side are short of the confidence they need to get themselves out of trouble.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Jermaine's prediction: 1-1
Trevor's prediction: 1-2
West Ham v Everton (Premier League)
West Ham are another team who are clear of the relegation scrap, although the Hammers still have issues.
For some reason Slaven Bilic's future as manager remains in doubt, when the real problem behind their disappointing season is their poor recruitment last summer.
Everton's home form is very impressive but away from Goodison Park they have won only one out of six league matches in 2017.
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When they are on the road, the Toffees just don't seem to create the same number of chances that they do at home, so I am going to go for a draw here as well.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Jermaine's prediction: 1-2
Trevor's prediction: 1-3
Chelsea v Tottenham (FA Cup, 17:15 BST)
I have heard people say that, if Tottenham beat Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final, it will help them win the Premier League too.
Personally, I don't think the outcome of this game will make any difference whatsoever to the title race.
Chelsea struggled last weekend in their defeat against Manchester United, and since then it has emerged that some of their players were suffering from a virus.
I quite like the fact that Blues boss Antonio Conte did not use it as an excuse after the game, and I also don't think they will play as badly again here.
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FA Cup semi-finals are horrible games to play in because all everyone is thinking about is how the final is so close.
They are nearly always tight and this one will be the same. I am going to go with Chelsea to win it - but it will be very extremely close.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1* Chelsea to win after extra-time and penalties
Jermaine's prediction: 1-2
Trevor's prediction: I don't want to do this. I am going to for the same scoreline, the other way, because I have got to back my team. But if you told me to put money or my house on it, you might get a different prediction. 2-1
Burnley v Man Utd (Premier League, 14:15 BST)
We all know about Burnley's home record, and this is a tough one for Manchester United straight after their Europa League tie against Anderlecht.
Burnley did pretty well for an hour against Everton last week but then things went wrong in the last 20 minutes.
United boss Jose Mourinho got everything right against Chelsea and I always feel he finds it easier to get a positive result when he has to work out how to stop another top team.
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He can come up with a plan to stop that sort of opposition from winning a game but he cannot necessarily come up with a plan to win a game when the opposition are trying to stop him.
I am going to go for another draw here - hopefully I will get one of them right.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Jermaine's prediction: 1-1
Trevor's prediction: 1-3
Arsenal v Man City (FA Cup, 15:00 BST)
I think this semi-final will be close as well, even though neither side is great defensively.
If Vincent Kompany is back for Manchester City, he makes a massive difference to everyone around him - a bit like when John Terry was at his peak for Chelsea.
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Arsenal's switch to play with three at the back in their win at Middlesbrough on Monday felt like a last throw of the dice by Gunners boss Arsene Wenger.
Wenger's side have been so ordinary for so long, and I just think City will have too much for them.
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Even if Arsenal get through this tie and win the final, then as much of an achievement that would be it should not change the decision over Wenger's future, because I think it is time for a change.
In fact, winning the FA Cup would be the perfect way for him to bow out. I don't see it happening, though.
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Jermaine's prediction: I think it will be wide open, even if the fact it is a semi-final will calm it down a little bit.
In my head I am thinking 3-3 but Arsenal are just not free-flowing or playing well at the moment and City will have Kompany back too. 1-3
Trevor's prediction: I don't care for either team at all so it will be a great watch, because both teams only have one way of playing - going on the attack.
City are overwhelming favourites because of their frontline, but neither team can defend. If Kompany is fit for this game, City win - it is simple as that as far as I am concerned, because Arsenal don't have a Vincent Kompany. 2-4
Liverpool v Crystal Palace (Premier League, 16:30 BST)
I have to say that Liverpool's last two results - wins at Stoke and West Brom - were as good as any result they have had all season.
The Reds were all over the place for the first 45 minutes against Stoke but still found a way to win that game and, in all honesty, they could have scored two or three against the Baggies.
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Philippe Coutinho is playing extremely well and when that happens, so does Roberto Firmino.
It means that, even without Sadio Mane, Adam Lallana and Jordan Henderson, Liverpool look dangerous.
I know Crystal Palace have been going well, and it will be interesting to see how Christian Benteke gets on back at Anfield,
But if Liverpool can cut off Benteke's supply, I would expect them to win this one.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Jermaine's prediction: 1-2
Trevor's prediction: 2-1
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
*Does not include scores from postponed games.
Lawro's best score: 140 points (week 22 v James McAvoy)
Lawro's worst score: 20 points (week 28, but only five games played so far) or 30 points (week four v Dave Bautista)
From last week's Premier League games, Lawro got seven correct results, with no perfect scores, from 10 matches for a total of 70 points.
He beat Sting and his son Joe Sumner, who got six correct results with no perfect scores, for a tally of 60 points.
Fans' groups planned to lay memorabilia at the statue outside the ground on Saturday but have alleged it was taken down to thwart the action.
Demo organisers also said the club would take legal action to stop fans gaining access to the statue.
Nobody from Blackpool FC or its owners the Oystons was available for comment.
A demonstration against the way the Oyston family run the club is due to take place before the last game of the season on Saturday. This could see the already-relegated team finish with the least number of points recorded in the Championship.
Fans group the Tangerine Knights said it had a witness who saw men in high-visibility jackets removing the statue on Tuesday.
"To remove the statue of someone so beloved by the fans of the club that they themselves helped pay for, is beyond contempt," said a joint statement by the Tangerine Knights and the Blackpool Supporters Trust.
"Stan Mortensen is a hero to tens of thousands, most of whom never saw him play, he is an icon of all that is good about BFC and the community to which it belongs."
The Tangerine Knights said the police told the group the club would take legal action against anyone trying to place memorabilia at the statue.
"We are sure that the club will have some legitimate reason for the removal, however the timing is very coincidental," said the group.
Christine Seddon, of the Blackpool Supporters Trust, said: "I can't say I'm surprised, we don't know why it has gone but I suspect it has something to do with our demonstration."
The statue was placed outside the ground in 2005 as a tribute to the Seasiders' centre forward who scored a hat-trick in the team's famous 1953 FA Cup Final victory. Fans raised part of the funds.
Sterling rose 1% against the dollar to $1.2490 after UK inflation in February rose to 2.3%, driven by rising fuel and food prices.
The stronger pound weighs on companies that earn their income abroad.
At the close, the FTSE 100 was down 0.69% at 7,378.34 points, with mining companies the top five fallers.
Glencore was the biggest casualty, falling 4.24%, followed by Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, each down about 4%.
However, another miner, Fresnillo led the risers with a 1.64% jump. The gold miner benefitted from a rally in the precious metal's price, which is now at a three-week high.
The London market has risen for the past four trading sessions in a row, notching up three record closes along the way.
However, sterling's rise to its highest level since 23 February has raised worries about how it may hurt profits when London-listed multinationals repatriate profits back to the UK.
Connor Campbell, financial analyst at Spreadex, said: "The pound's post-inflation increase boost continued into the afternoon, creating a heavier and heavier weight for the FTSE.
"It will be now interesting to see whether the pound can maintain these gains as attention shifts to next week's triggering of Article 50, or whether its current highs merely give it more room to fall."
The mid-cap FTSE 250 index hit a record high in early trading, before turning negative. The index ended down 0.86% at 18,988 points.
Across Europe, Germany's Dax was down 0.7% and the Cac 40 in France was 0.2% lower.
On the oil markets, the price of Brent crude was down 0.7% at $51.24 a barrel, with traders left unconvinced by the possibility of Opec extending output cuts beyond June.
More than 200,000 declassified documents are being made public on Monday. They date from the 1940-1944 regime of Marshal Philippe Petain.
During the war the Vichy regime helped Nazi Germany to deport 76,000 Jews from France, including many children.
France is also opening files from its post-liberation provisional government.
The Vichy documents come from the wartime ministries of the interior, foreign affairs and justice, as well as the police.
Some of the archives relate to war crimes investigations conducted by the French liberation authorities after the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Speaking to French TF1 television news, historian Gilles Morin said the archives would probably shed new light on the arrest of Jean Moulin, a French Resistance leader who died after his capture and torture by the Nazis in 1943.
Police records and notes seized from French Resistance comrades will now add to the witness statements that researchers have relied on until now, Mr Morin said.
"There is also a demand from the children of deportees, and of those who were executed, who want to know - and that's a legitimate demand," he said.
Previously only researchers and journalists could see some archives, with special permission. But public access is provided after 75 years have elapsed, under French law - and that is now the case, for 1940-dated documents.
The current mayor of Vichy, in central France, told The New York Times that he was concerned about the enduring stigma attached to his city. It was where Petain - a World War One hero - established his collaborationist regime.
"There are many stories about this city, and then there's the truth," he said, "because that period was very complicated and has been incorrectly defining this city for too long."
Former French Resistance fighter Lucien Guyot told the paper that the Petain government "went far beyond the Germans' expectations, in particular with the deportation of 'foreign' Jews, including children, to concentration camps, and they chased us down with a vengeance".
"But it was the government's actions that were unforgivable, not this city's," he added.
In 1995, then French President Jacques Chirac officially recognised the French state's responsibility in the deportation of Jews.
"These dark hours forever sully our history and are an insult to our past and our traditions," he said. "Yes, the criminal folly of the occupiers was seconded by the French, by the French state."
The team say they will know for certain on Thursday, but a decision to take the extra engine parts Hamilton needs would mean a drop of at least 20 grid places.
A series of failures early in the season meant that Hamilton used up more engine components than planned.
He heads into the race 19 championship points ahead of team-mate Nico Rosberg.
Six wins in the past seven races for Hamilton have turned around what had been a 43-point advantage for the German after the first four races of the season.
A spokesman said the team were still working through the requirements and consequences related to any decision to take the penalty in Belgium.
The other option is to wait until the Italian Grand Prix the following weekend.
Drivers are allowed to use a maximum of five of each of the six parts of an engine before a grid penalty is incurred.
Hamilton has already used the maximum permitted five items of two elements of the complicated turbo hybrid engine - the turbocharger and the MGU-H, the electric motor that recovers energy from the turbo.
Teams are given a 10-place grid penalty each time they use a sixth example of any component, so using one new of each of these means a 20-place grid penalty for Hamilton.
There are only 22 cars on the grid and a driver can only go to the back no matter how many theoretical grid penalties he suffers for using additional engine components.
So Mercedes may choose to take two new examples of each of these parts to bring them into line with the number of the other parts of the engine he has used.
Hamilton has so far used three each of the internal combustion engine, MGU-K, energy store and control electronics.
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The Spiders took the lead midway through the second half through Chris Duggan's penalty following Scott McMann's foul on Paul Woods.
Vincent Berry slotted home the hosts' second after the break.
Clyde replied through John Gemmell, who headed home Mark McLaughlin's cross, but the visitors could not draw level and slipped to fourth.
29 October 2015 Last updated at 15:56 GMT
1.3 billion people live in China, more than any other country in the world.
The laws called "The One-Child Policy" were introduced in 1979 because the Chinese government were worried that their population was growing too fast.
BBC reporter Jo Floto is in China and told us what this new ruling might mean for the country.
Mr Koinange apologised Thursday night for the 17 November incident, saying it was the show's last episode on KTN.
He was hosting Miguna Miguna and Esther Passaris, aspirants for the Nairobi governor seat, when the off-air personal attack was made.
Mr Miguna said "Esther is so beautiful everybody wants to rape her".
"You are chasing men all over, nobody wants you," he continued. "You think you're beautiful, you are not. Esther is just colour. Without colour you are nothing."
Ms Passaris, a politician and businesswoman, then accused him of being a racist.
The footage of the incident was shared online with many people criticising Koinange for failing to intervene.
Kenya's Gender Affairs minister Sicily Kariuki accused KTN of allowing guests on its show to engage in personal attacks and for the "trivialisation" of rape.
Mr Koinange said that he was prepared to "man up" over the incident and said he was apologising to those who had been "aggrieved".
"It was regrettable in most parts but again it was one show out of 300 we've done here at KTN for the last three years." he added.
A former aide of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga, Mr Miguna has filed a complaint with the Media Council of Kenya saying that he was filmed "secretly" and portrayed as unfit for the position of governor in next year's elections, reports say.
Ms Passaris tweeted after the show saying "men like Miguna have no place or role to play in our empowerment. He is part of the problem."
Koinange is an award-winning journalist who has worked for top broadcasters in the US including CNN where he was the Africa correspondent until 2007.
He started working for K24, a local TV station in 2009, before moving his popular show to KTN.
He said the show would be making a return on another station in the coming weeks:
"JKL is not going anywhere it is just changing homes", he said.
Lloyd led the Glamorgan charge as he blasted 81 off 55 balls, but found little support as Sri Lankan seamer Nuwan Kulasekara claimed 4 for 28.
Sussex lost regular wickets and never threatened to reach their target of 160, as van der Gugten took 4 for 17.
Glamorgan have six wins from seven completed matches.
The second biggest home contribution came from captain Jacques Rudolph with 24 off 12 balls, before the closing seven overs yielded just 36 runs.
Glamorgan fell away badly against a powerful Sussex attack including England pair Chris Jordan and Tymal Mills.
But the home seamers started equally impressively with just one boundary in the opening six power-play overs.
Van der Gugten was backed up by Michael Hogan, Graham Wagg and Craig Meschede with two wickets apiece.
Glamorgan, who face fourth-placed Middlesex on Friday, 8 July at Richmond, move to within two points of south group leaders Gloucestershire with two games in hand.
Glamorgan opener David Lloyd told BBC Wales Sport:
"It's a funny old game, you can go from 97 to nought and now 81, but hopefully I can keep this run going for a bit longer - it was one of those wickets where you had to get yourself in and then take advantage of the bad ball.
"We thought we were about thirty under par, so to bowl them out as convincingly as we did, we're very pleased and hopefully we can take that into the Middlesex game.
"Sussex are probably one of the strongest teams in the league, so to beat them is a real bonus for us.
"We play (leaders) Gloucestershire at home on Sunday, so if we do get a positive result (against Middlesex) and again on Sunday, we should be more or less qualified hopefully."
It fell again today - a move some are interpreting as a second devaluation.
However, the system China has put in place means the yuan could, in theory, keep on devaluing.
As long as it decides it wants it to.
For the first time the central bank is allowing the market to play a part in setting the exchange rate.
The central bank, the People's Bank of China, said in a statement: "Since China's trade in goods continues to post relatively large surpluses, the yuan's real effective exchange rate is still relatively strong versus various global currencies, and is deviating from market expectations.
"Therefore, it is necessary to further improve the yuan's midpoint pricing to meet the needs of the market."
Before Monday the official rate for the yuan or renminbi was arbitrarily fixed each day by the bank.
Since then bank has said it will still fix the rate, but will base it on the level it reached in the market on the previous day.
So in theory the market will dictate the rate at which the yuan is traded at at the beginning of each day.
The devaluations of the last two days have therefore been in response to the downward pressure of the market on the currency, with Wednesday's opening rate reflecting Tuesday's close.
However, in reality the central bank will intervene in the market to keep some control over the exchange rate.
On Wednesday the yuan fell almost 2% during the day as investors aggressively sold it off.
But it was then yanked back by the central bank buying equally aggressively just before the close. So the new trading level on Thursday will be only 0.8% lower than the start of the previous day's trade.
Jonathan Fenby, managing director of the China team at Trusted Sources believes that the central bank really is moving towards liberalisation.
He said: "What you've done is gone to market fixing for the currency. It's still controlled. There's still a 2% band either side of the fixing. But this is a move towards market liberalisation."
He says that there is a genuine desire among the reformers in the government to liberalise the exchange rate as well as to stimulate the economy through a devaluation.
He said: "The reformers in China, the modernisers, want the economy, everything, including the currency to be much more affected by, and set by, market forces rather than by the authorisation of a one party state."
Jade Dernbach's superb 6-35, finished with a hat-trick, saw Gloucestershire all out for 220 in the 48th over.
Kumar Sangakkara (60) and Rory Burns (56) then shared a stand of 101 to put Surrey in control on 143-2.
But eight wickets went down for 71 runs as they were all out for 214 with three balls remaining in the final over.
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It was Gloucestershire's ninth win in 10 Lord's one-day finals - and the perfect way for Geraint Jones, who had earlier hit a half-century himself, to bow out in his final game before retirement.
For dejected opposite number Gareth Batty - caught by man-of-the-match Jack Taylor in the final over to spark wild scenes of Gloucestershire jubilation - it was the former Worcestershire and England spinner's third Lord's final defeat, all of them by Gloucestershire.
They did not appear to have put enough runs on the board despite a Jones-inspired recovery from 108-5 to 220-7, in which Taylor contributed 35 off 26 balls.
And 15 deliveries were left unused after Dernbach finished off the innings by claiming the wickets of Jones (50), and then Craig Miles and David Payne for successive first-ball ducks.
Surrey lost openers Jason Roy and Steven Davies early during a superb new-ball spell by James Fuller (2-34), but Sangakkara and Burns gradually got on top.
However, just when Surrey looked to have the game in their grasp, both were out in the space of 13 balls and the tail buckled under mounting pressure as they suffered their sixth defeat in 11 Lord's finals.
It briefly looked as if 17-year-old Sam Curran (37) might steer Surrey home against the county for whom his late father Kevin used to play.
But he holed out on the long-on boundary off the first ball of the final over, and skipper Batty followed two balls later, picking out Taylor at deep mid-wicket.
Since the very first limited-overs cup final in 1963, there had been 52 end-of season showdowns at the home of cricket prior to this contest.
Of those, four - from 2010 to 2013 - were 40-over finals starting at lunchtime.
But, of the remaining 48, which started in the invariably advantageous atmospheric conditions of a September morning, the side batting second won 32.
It was therefore hardly a surprise that Surrey, having won the toss, should choose to put Gloucestershire in, but their opponents proved that a greater team spirit is even more important, by simply never giving up and confounding the odds.
Dernbach's figures were the third-best in a Lord's one-day final, bettered only by Glen Chapple's 6-18 for Lancashire against Essex in 1996 and Joel Garner's 6-29 for Somerset against Northants in 1979.
His hat-trick was the third in a domestic showpiece, matching Ken Higgs for Leicestershire against Surrey in 1974, and James Averis for Gloucestershire against Worcestershire in 2004 - when the middle victim was Batty.
But the manner in which Dernbach finished the innings to earn his best-ever limited over bowling figures was highly contentious.
TV replays showed the ball going down leg side, a poor decision by umpire Rob Bailey, but it was also a 'full bunger' to last man David Payne.
Following the injury that ruled out Zafar Ansari, Surrey called 40-year-old former Pakistan all-rounder Azhar Mahmood into their side, two days after his appearance at The Oval in a Cricket for Heroes match, in which he dismissed Brian Lara and Brendon McCullum.
This time his 10 economical overs brought him 2-28, but his departure, stumped for five, was one of a series of rushes of blood which cost Surrey the chance of silverware.
Team-mate Sangakkara's innings may have been his last at Lord's now he has retired from international cricket.
It did not match the stunning 166 he scored in the semi-final win over Nottinghamshire, but he played faultlessly, getting the majority of his runs in ones and twos and hitting just three boundaries, until uncharacteristically gifting his wicket to spinner Jack Taylor.
Skipper Batty was one of only four Surrey players who played in their last Lord's winning team in 2011, but this time ended up on the losing side despite winning the toss and seeing his decision to bowl first apparently pay off.
If they were disappointed, ex-England wicketkeeper Jones was elated by Gloucestershire's victory, having played a sensible last innings to get them back in the game.
After reaching his 50 with a pull for four off Dernbach, he was bowled with the very next ball, but he had done enough to warrant a warm reception on his way back to the pavilion.
In the US, the comedian Stephen Colbert leant into the camera on the Late Show recently and said: "I have a special message for anyone watching tonight's show on their Samsung Galaxy Note 7. 'Run for your lives!'"
Other comics had similar riffs of their own. Twitter is swirling with Galaxy Note 7 jokes.
This was not meant to happen. The Note 7 was intended as Samsung's answer to Apple's iPhone 7. If the smartphone industry is really a branch of the fashion business, Apple is king of the catwalk. Its iPhone has an iconic image as an object of desire.
But Samsung thought it was finally dispersing that almost mystical aura around the iPhone by producing phones of similar elegance. The Galaxy Note 7 was meant to be the elegant, cool rival, launched a full month before the iPhone 7 to gain an advantage over Apple.
When the Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge were unveiled, they got rave reviews for their sleek elegance and the sales followed. The Galaxy Note 7 was meant to consolidate that success and, sure enough, when it was unveiled it too got really good reviews.
In May this year, new figures showed that Samsung had outsold Apple in the United States, Apple's back-yard.
But a nice phone is nothing if it catches fire.
Samsung, in its drive to extend battery life, overextended itself on the technology.
There is a trade-off between the size and power of batteries on the one hand, and their capacity to catch fire on the other - bigger batteries with shorter-battery lives are less prone to fires than smaller ones. Obviously, Samsung didn't get the balance right.
Samsung is part of the fabric of Korean society. Indeed, the country is sometimes called the Republic of Samsung. You can be born in a Samsung hospital, play in a Samsung amusement park, live in Samsung apartments and finish your days in a Samsung funeral parlour.
The company's activities go from shipbuilding to insurance to electronics. It is the country's biggest company and its revenue accounts for a fifth of the South Korean economy.
People are proud of it. Boys - or at least their parents - grow up with the dream of becoming a salaryman at Samsung.
So a monumental mess-up (as two recalls and a cancellation of a product must surely be) might hurt national pride.
And it will hurt Samsung's profits. Some 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7s were sold at the price of about $800 (£655). That total figure alone adds up to more than $2bn (£1.6bn) - not enough to bring the company down, but enough to hurt.
And that's before they take account of the unquantifiable cost to the image of the brand.
The monumental mess might also make people question whether Samsung is all its cracked up to be. It is the biggest chaebol (as these very Korean, family-owned-and-run conglomerates are called). Some politicians argue that they are sclerotic and ill-suited to nimble footwork in fast-changing markets.
It may also make Samsung look again at its ways of production.
It takes great pride in the fact that it makes its components itself. Unlike Apple, it doesn't outsource to factories in China and the rest of South-East Asia. The exploding batteries issue may make it review that policy - though it could be argued that making components in-house increases control over quality.
And the monumental mess may prompt the question of who is in charge.
Samsung's chairman, Lee Kun-hee, is a very sick man and nobody expects him to return to work. His son, Lee Jae-yong (often known as Jay Y Lee) will take over formally at some stage (of that there is no doubt - the son will rise). Critics of the Korean way of business say that the son is inexperienced and may not be the best person for a job he got by virtue of heredity.
And there will no doubt be a resurrection of an ongoing debate about chaebols and whether they are too cosy with government and too contemptuous of the law.
In 2008, Mr Lee senior was found guilty of tax evasion and financial wrongdoing. Police raided his home to investigate allegations that Samsung was bribing influential prosecutors, judges and politicians. He was given a suspended sentence and the country's president pardoned him a few months later.
All these questions may come to the fore. This row is not just about a smartphone.
The passenger and driver were both pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on the A36 at Steeple Langford near Salisbury on Monday afternoon.
Their Ford Fiesta was in collision with a Mercedes Sprinter van driven by a 45-year-old man from Southampton who sustained minor injuries.
Wiltshire Police have asked any witnesses to get in touch.
The crash happened at 15:25 BST as the Ford Fiesta travelled south and the van travelled north on the A36.
The young people who died are both from the Salisbury area.
The van driver was taken to Salisbury District Hospital for treatment but has since been released.
The road was closed for about six hours for investigations to be carried out.
The families of the deceased have been notified but formal identification has not yet taken place.
The National Childbirth Trust and the Royal College of Midwives said the drop in the home birth rate, from 2.9% in 2008, to 2.7% in 2009, was "disappointing".
The figures also show an increase in multiple births.
This was most marked in women over 45, where around one in ten had twins, triplets, quads or more.
Recent government policy has been to give women choice over where to give birth - whether in hospital, at home or in a birthing centre run by midwives.
It followed a dramatic fall in births at home in the UK in the last 30 years.
In the 60s, around one in three women gave birth at home. This fell to a record low of one in a hundred home births by the late eighties.
The proportion of home births has risen slightly every year since then, with a small decrease between 2008 and 2009, according to the figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
In England, 17,834 women (2.7%) had a home birth in 2009, down from 2.8% of home births in 2008.
Wales fared better, with 3.8% of 34,574 births at home, an increase over the previous year.
In Scotland, 873 women (1.5%) had a home birth, out of 59,363 births. And in Northern Ireland, 91 women (0.4%) had home births out of a total of around 25,000 births.
Cathy Warwick, General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, said the drop in the home birth rate was "a real disappointment".
She said: "These figures suggest to me that we are not providing the choice that women want and deserve, and that commissioners are not doing enough to offer them that choice.
"My worry is that increasing pressures and demands being made on midwives and maternity services are driving out choice for women.
"There is a real need to look behind these figures to find out why our home birth rate is so low and why it is falling."
Mary Newburn, of the charity The National Childbirth Trust, said they believed women were finding it more difficult to book a home birth.
She said: "There is no evidence of a reduction in demand, but we know maternity services are additionally stretched due to a rising birth rate and too few midwives.
"The option of booking a home birth should be offered as a mainstream option for all women who want it, alongside options to book for care at a birth centre and at a hospital maternity unit."
The ONS figures show that overall, births fell in 2009, the first annual decrease since 2001.
There were 706,248 births in England and Wales in 2009, down from 708,711 in 2008, a 0.3% decrease.
An army bomb disposal team is examining a suspicious object at Glenrandel in Eglinton.
The road has been closed since early on Thursday morning. The Foyle arena on the Limavady Road is open for residents seeking shelter.
Jenny Bell lives in Glenrandel and her elderly grandparents had to leave their home.
She said it was a "big shock wakening up to this news".
"My granny is recovering from cancer and my granddad has Parkinson's disease," she said.
"There are a number of elderly residents in the area. It is all going on outside our front door.
"We have been advised to stay inside. We have never had anything like this in Eglinton before."
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1. Neptune Collonges (Daryl Jacob) 33-1
2. Sunnyhillboy (Richie McLernon) 16-1
3. Seabass (Ms Katie Walsh) 8-1JF
4. Cappa Bleu (Paul Moloney) 16-1
5. In Compliance (Niall Madden) 100-1
6. Ballabriggs
7. Hello Bud
8. Tharawaat
9. Shakalakaboomboom
10. Swing Bill
11. The Midnight Club
12. Planet of Sound
13. Neptune Equester
14. Calgary Bay
15. Midnight Haze
Fence 1: Viking Blond (fell)
Fence 2: Junior (fell), West End Rocker (fell)
Fence 5: Chicago Grey (brought down), Rare Bob (brought down), State of Play (unseated)
Fence 6 (Becher's Brook): Synchronised (fell)
Fence 7 (Foinavon): Alfa Beat (fell)
Fence 8 (Canal Turn): Black Apalachi (fell), Tatenen (unseated), Organisedconfusion (unseated), Killyglen (unseated), Becauseicouldntsee (unseated)
Fence 10: Treacle (fell), Arbor Supreme (unseated)
Fence 11 (Open Ditch): Giles Cross (pulled up)
Fence 15 (The Chair): Always Right (unseated)
Fence 17: Quiscover Fontaine (fell)
Fence 19 (Open Ditch): Deep Purple (pulled up), Vic Venturi (refused)
Fence 22 (Becher's Brook): According to Pete (fell), On His Own (fell), Mon Mome (pulled up), Postmaster (pulled up)
Fench 27 (Open Ditch): Weird Al (fell)
Matt broke the deadlock on the half hour when hew bundled Orient defender Yvan Erichot off the ball, advanced towards goal down the left, then drilled his shot past goalkeeper Alex Cisak at the near post.
The home side had Cisak to thank for restricting the visitors' advantage to just one goal at the interval, denying Brad Potts at close range before diving at the feet of Colin Daniel as the Blackpool player was about to pull the trigger.
The home side's best effort came in the 32nd minute when Gavin Massey hit the woodwork from 25 yards.
But Blackpool doubled their lead on 58 minutes when defender Tom Aldred was left completely unmarked to head in a corner.
The home side looked dispirited until Paul McCallum's looping header with two minutes left offered them a lifeline, but the visitors were able to contain a late rally.
There were combined protests before and during the game involving 300 Orient and Blackpool supporters protesting at the manner of ownership of their respective clubs.
Report supplied by Press Association
Match ends, Leyton Orient 1, Blackpool 2.
Second Half ends, Leyton Orient 1, Blackpool 2.
Foul by Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient).
Clark Robertson (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Leyton Orient. Conceded by Tom Aldred.
Substitution, Blackpool. Danny Philliskirk replaces Kyle Vassell.
Corner, Leyton Orient. Conceded by Clark Robertson.
Attempt blocked. Robbie Weir (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Goal! Leyton Orient 1, Blackpool 2. Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Alan Dunne with a cross.
Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Danny Pugh (Blackpool).
Substitution, Blackpool. Armand Gnanduillet replaces Jamille Matt.
Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Clark Robertson (Blackpool).
Attempt missed. Sandro Semedo (Leyton Orient) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Blackpool. Jim McAlister replaces Colin Daniel.
Sandro Semedo (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kelvin Mellor (Blackpool).
Andy Taylor (Blackpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt missed. Sandro Semedo (Leyton Orient) left footed shot from long range on the right is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Nicky Hunt.
Attempt blocked. Brad Potts (Blackpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jack Payne (Blackpool).
Foul by Nicky Hunt (Leyton Orient).
Kyle Vassell (Blackpool) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Paul McCallum replaces Ollie Palmer.
Ollie Palmer (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Clark Robertson (Blackpool).
Attempt missed. Kyle Vassell (Blackpool) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Sandro Semedo (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jack Payne (Blackpool).
Foul by Nigel Atangana (Leyton Orient).
Andy Taylor (Blackpool) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Kelvin Mellor (Blackpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt blocked. Kyle Vassell (Blackpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Sandro Semedo replaces Michael Collins.
Robbie Weir (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Robbie Weir (Leyton Orient).
Brad Potts (Blackpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Scottish Natural Heritage said the birds faced "continued pressures" across the area.
The report confirms black grouse numbers in southern Scotland are in long-term decline.
Scientists predict that drop is likely to continue unless "strategic action" is taken to address the situation.
The information is contained within the report Black Grouse Conservation in Southern Scotland - the product of a joint SNH, Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) and South Uplands Partnership (SUP) research project.
The report concluded that black grouse survive where they have large patches of moorland to live in.
It seeks to lay the foundations for a "landscape-scale approach" which would focus on protecting known "core" populations before increasing the population numbers and connections to other patches on the landscape.
Sue Haysom, the project manager within SNH, said: "The report provides a key foundation for strategic action and identifies the next steps to save black grouse in the south of Scotland.
"Black grouse, like many species, face a range of pressures and need our help.
"This report sets us on a firm foundation and identifies how our limited resources could be used to best effect."
She said the next step was for everyone with an interest in the black grouse to work together to develop a "strategic conservation plan".
Pip Tabor, project manager with the SUP, said: "The SUP is really pleased that this study has confirmed the need for a landscape-scale approach to black grouse conservation.
"We sincerely hope that funds will now be found to deliver the necessary actions so that we can keep this charismatic species thriving in the Southern Uplands."
Dr Phil Warren, senior scientist at the GWCT, said the black grouse of southern Scotland had "severely declined" and now only occupied "a fraction of their formerly occupied range".
"Here, urgent conservation action is required to prevent further decline and to stabilise numbers," he said.
"This project provides an important evidence base and we look forward to working and engaging with land managers and other partners to develop and implement a landscape scale plan to conserve black grouse here."
The visitors deservedly went in ahead in the 13th minute with their first goal of the season through 19-year -old striker Daniel Agyei, who has joined on loan from Burnley.
Agyei intercepted Danny Devine's pass before racing into the penalty area and clipping the ball over the advancing Colin Doyle.
Coventry were good value for their half-time lead but Bradford came back into the game after 66 minutes when Coventry defender Jordan Turnbull, making his debut after joining from Southampton, pulled down Billy Clarke as he burst into the area and was sent off.
Bradford skipper Tony McMahon equalised from the spot and three minutes later they went in front with a superb low 25-yard shot into the corner of the net from winger Mark Marshall.
McMahon then put the result beyond doubt with his second penalty after Josh Cullen was brought down by Vladimir Gadzhev in the 75th minute.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Bradford City 3, Coventry City 1.
Second Half ends, Bradford City 3, Coventry City 1.
Mark Marshall (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dion Kelly-Evans (Coventry City).
Substitution, Bradford City. Reece Webb-Foster replaces Billy Clarke.
Attempt missed. Chris McCann (Coventry City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is too high.
Substitution, Bradford City. Filipe Morais replaces Tony McMahon because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Mark Marshall (Bradford City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Chris McCann (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mark Marshall (Bradford City).
Attempt blocked. Mark Marshall (Bradford City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Billy Clarke (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Bradford City. Timothee Dieng replaces Daniel Devine.
Foul by Mark Marshall (Bradford City).
Lewis Page (Coventry City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Billy Clarke (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Mark Marshall (Bradford City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Josh Cullen (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marcus Tudgay (Coventry City).
Goal! Bradford City 3, Coventry City 1. Tony McMahon (Bradford City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Penalty Bradford City. Josh Cullen draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Vladimir Gadzhev (Coventry City) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt blocked. Billy Clarke (Bradford City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Daniel Devine (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Coventry City. George Thomas replaces Sam Ricketts.
Attempt blocked. Billy Clarke (Bradford City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Goal! Bradford City 2, Coventry City 1. Mark Marshall (Bradford City) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Tony McMahon.
Substitution, Coventry City. Cian Harries replaces Kyel Reid.
Goal! Bradford City 1, Coventry City 1. Tony McMahon (Bradford City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Jordan Turnbull (Coventry City) is shown the red card.
Penalty Bradford City. Billy Clarke draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Jordan Turnbull (Coventry City) after a foul in the penalty area.
Foul by Tony McMahon (Bradford City).
Kyel Reid (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Mark Marshall (Bradford City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Coventry City. Marcus Tudgay replaces Daniel Agyei.
Delay in match Kyel Reid (Coventry City) because of an injury.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Dion Kelly-Evans.
Romain Vincelot (Bradford City) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Reice Charles-Cook.
According to the advice, revealed by Russian newspaper Izvestia, tattoos are a useful indication of character.
"Special attention should be paid to tattoos around the face, and on the sex organs and buttocks," it notes.
The defence source said it was a matter of health and appearance, not soldiers' sexual orientation.
Russia maintains a large conscript army with a long history of personnel problems that include bullying, ethnic tensions and malnutrition, as well as death and injury during training exercises.
Many young men try to avoid the call-up through obtaining legal exemptions or by other means.
In a US TV interview in 2010, Vladimir Putin, Russia's current president, said openly gay men were not banned from serving in the Russian military.
The guidelines, which cover all aspects of military life, are quoted as saying that tattoos may indicate a "low cultural and educational level" and "possible sexual deviations".
A young man who allows himself to be tattooed may be inclined to "submit to the will of others", they warn.
Two unnamed sources interviewed by Izvestia - a military psychologist and a deputy battalion commander - argued that gay soldiers were an unwelcome distraction in the army.
However, an unnamed senior defence ministry official told Russia's Ria-Novosti news agency: "The commander and his deputy should monitor the health of the soldier and his appearance, not his sexual experience and sexual orientation."
The state of a soldier's skin was more properly a question for army medical commissions, he added.
News of the guidelines comes as the country's parliament debates a controversial bill to outlaw the promotion of homosexuality among children, which some campaigners see as a veiled attack on gay rights.
The Jay Report said more than 1,400 children were abused in the town from 1997-2013. It said taxi drivers played a "prominent role" in the abuse.
Rotherham Borough Council said the report had had a "significant impact" on confidence in the town's drivers.
Among the proposed changes are more rigorous checks on past criminality.
Dave Richmond, the council's director of housing and neighbourhood services, said that while the council's policy was "compliant with the law and our standards exceed those of some areas", it was felt the authority "should do all that we can to make sure we have some of the highest standards nationally and a top quality service".
There are 1,200 drivers registered in Rotherham, 80 operators and 800 vehicles.
A council spokesman said: "This policy represents probably biggest overhaul of licensing policies conducted by this authority at any point in the last 20 years."
Under the proposed new policy all drivers of black cabs and private hire taxis who are UK citizens must have an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service report. Applicants who have lived overseas must satisfy the council of their previous good character.
The council will also apply tougher standards when considering past criminality, particularly concerning sexual activity, violence, children, vulnerable adults, dishonesty or drug dealing.
Drivers will also be required to complete a course to ensure they understand matters relating to adult and child safeguarding, pass a tougher communication and knowledge test and adhere to a dress code.
The proposed changes will be debated by the council's licensing board on 27 October.
If agreed the policy will be put out to an eight-week public consultation.
The council said proposed changes to national legislation could take considerable time to come in to force and failing to strengthen current standards would not offer the necessary safety, comfort and reassurance to customers.
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The sport involves athletes standing on a board and using a long paddle to move - a cross between kayaking and surfing.
The International Surfing Association (ISA) says it has organised competitions for years in the sport.
But the International Canoe Federation (ICF) says the use of the paddle makes it part of its organisation.
The sport has enjoyed huge growth in recent years and it could join both canoeing and surfing as an Olympic sport in the future.
"Up until last year there was no interest from the ICF," said ISA president Fernando Aguerre. "The interest arose when we were to bring the sport to the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires."
But ICF secretary general Simon Toulson rejected Aguerre's comment about his organisation's recent arrival to the sport.
"The ICF has been involved in the sport for a number of years and did not start last year," he said.
"Many of our federations have the sport recognised by their National Olympic Committees running national and international competitions."
The two federations met with the International Olympic Committee a few months ago to sort out the issue but a solution has yet to be found.
"ICF statutes state clearly that a person using a paddle as a main form of propulsion whilst on a craft in water is canoeing/paddling," added Toulson.
"The issue is really which organisation is responsible at Olympic level."
The research was carried out by the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (Wiserd) and Aberystwyth University.
Researchers visited schools across Wales and interviewed young people at the Urdd Eisteddfod in Pencoed.
They found many young people under voting age also felt frustrated they had not had a voice in the referendum.
The results of the study will be presented in a paper at a conference in London on Thursday.
Dyfan Powel, of Wiserd, and Dr Elin Royles, from the Centre for Welsh Politics and Society at Aberystwyth University, who carried out the research, spoke to 40 school children and conducted further interviews at the Urdd Eisteddfod.
They found young people broadly accepted the result of the referendum.
However, they remained unsure about its potential impact and were worried that, as the referendum was decided by older voters, it may have damaging consequences to their education and career prospects.
This has led to more political engagement of young people, the study suggested.
"We don't want to overplay it but there's a clear sense from young people of frustration amongst those under 18 that did not have a chance to vote and the sense that, had they voted, the result would have been different," Dr Royles said.
But other young people questioned were far more positive about the future, seeing Brexit as an opportunity to expand Britain's links with other parts of the world, with the nation strong enough to stand alone outside the EU.
"There seems to be a unified pragmatism in how to move forward," said Dr Royles.
"And a sense that, whatever the result was, let's make the most of what is to ensue and let's try and maximise the opportunities for young people from what the post-Brexit arrangements will be."
Almost a year since the vote, some young people also said they feel the result has raised questions about identity and Welsh society, with the referendum interpreted as a vote against immigrants.
Mr Powel said: "There was a perception that this was...a vote by older people, really, against immigration and not anything else about the European Union. That was something young people could not indentify with."
The role of the youth vote in the UK has been widely debated since the general election.
After the initial claims more than 70% of 18 to 12-year-olds voted across the UK, a YouGov poll has since suggested it was closer to about 60%.
A hundred years ago during World War One, Germany declared unrestricted submarine warfare and started targeting hundreds of ships without warning.
The submarines shown were surrendered by Germany at the end of the war and sank off the coast of Cornwall.
The images from 1921 have been donated to Historic England.
More on the stranded submarines, and other news
The German submarines - known as U-boats - wrecked on the Cornish coast in Falmouth and some remains can still be seen.
German forces surrendered the submarines in 1918 and having been stripped of their engines, they became difficult to tow and occasionally sank or wrecked on British beaches.
In the year before unrestricted submarine warfare was declared by Germany, 431 ships were sunk by U-boats worldwide.
The following year, that number reached 1,263.
Roger Bowdler, from Historic England, said the declaration was "a decisive moment" in World War One.
He said: "It was seen as uncivilised, ungentlemanly and ultimately brought the might of the United States into the war."
The pictures were taken by naval officer Jack Casement and donated to the Historic England Archive by his family.
One third of the Submarine Service's total personnel died during World War One, the highest proportion of any branch of the armed services.
To commemorate their lives, the National Submarine War Memorial was unveiled in 1922, at Temple Pier on the Thames in London.
The memorial has now been upgraded to Grade II* listed status, which means it has an "above-average level of special interest".
The 24-year-old, who moved to Lord's from Glamorgan at the end of 2012, took 9-34 in the second innings to finish with match figures of 13-103.
"I've had two very lean years which has hurt me," he told BBC London 94.9.
"I came here as a fairly big signing and expected to be doing these sort of things from the off. I am there to perform and I wasn't doing it."
The right-arm seamer added: "I came on a decent contract and wasn't performing so I was getting some criticism, and rightly so."
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Harris took 21 wickets at an average of 38.33 in his first season at Middlesex but his second year in north London was more difficult, following a change in his action.
He took just 12 wickets at 55.50 in his seven appearances and returned to Glamorgan on loan in order to find form.
"We changed last year to be better - you want to be better and you want to improve," he said.
"Many things have been said that if I was half a yard quicker I'd be that much closer to hopefully getting an England call-up. That's what we went searching for.
"You could argue that we probably found it, but it was at the detriment to what I did naturally.
"I lost my height, I wasn't hitting the seam and I wasn't causing problems."
Harris has now re-modified his bowling action over the winter, culminating in his best bowling figures since his second first-class match for Glamorgan in 2007, aged just 17.
"We made a choice to go back. This is the type of bowler I have always been," he said.
"I was never going to be express but I'm hopefully bowling at a decent enough pace and doing a bit with it.
"I said all the way through the summer so far that I had been bowling quite nicely but there was still something to click.
"I got in a nice rhythm and I'm thrilled. It has been a long wait to get another 10-for."
He has been taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd after the incident at the Britannia, Stryd Waterloo, in Bangor. The van driver was not hurt.
The crash happened at around 11:00 BST on Tuesday.
The building society has been temporarily closed and North Wales Police has appealed for witnesses to contact them on 101.
Thistle say that, if not, the two clubs and Hamilton would be due compensation for having fewer guaranteed games with Celtic and Rangers next season.
"That means an expected loss in revenues for the club of £120,000," Thistle suggested in a statement.
The Scottish Professional Football League has yet to comment.
Since the top flight was expanded to 12 clubs in 2013, the league has split into two sections of six teams for the final five fixtures.
"In previous seasons, where both Rangers and Celtic were in the Premiership, pre-split fixtures have been organised to ensure that every club plays three home games against the Old Firm," said Thistle.
"Without any notification from the SPFL to the contrary, we had expected that this practice would continue this season and that is the basis on which we and other clubs have budgeted.
"Having had no communication from the SPFL explaining these changes prior to this morning's announcement, Partick Thistle intends to seek compensation from the SPFL for all clubs concerned, or that they reconsider the fixture list to ensure a level playing field for all."
Thistle point out that Dundee, Hearts and Inverness Caledonian Thistle will have four home games each against the Old Firm before the split.
Expressing "anger and frustration", the Glasgow club say this will hand each of those clubs "an unexpected bonus" of around £120,000 each for the coming season.
Thistle, who had been looking forward to extra city derbies following Rangers' return to the top flight after a gap of four years, argue that this will also hamper them, Accies and Well in their quest for league points.
"Financial implications aside, we believe there is a significant sporting disadvantage created by the fixture list as it stands," they state.
"Pre-split, we will make four trips away to the two biggest clubs in the country while some clubs will only make two."
Thistle's statement was followed by Motherwell's board expressing its "extreme anger", saying it was a situation that had never occurred under the former Scottish Premier League or the present SPFL.
"This has a serious financial impact on our club and we cannot and will not accept it," they said.
"It creates a significant financial advantage for some clubs over others and, in our view, just as important, compromises the integrity of the competition, both in terms of the potential/need for adjusting respective player budgets up or down and the amount of games teams have to play at what has historically been the most challenging venues.
"We expect this unacceptable position to be reversed immediately."
Motherwell also complain that having two midweek matches in the Highlands away to Caley Thistle, three days after Christmas, and Ross County was also unfair on their fans.
Mandiant said Unit 61398 was believed to have "systematically stolen hundreds of terabytes of data" from at least 141 organisations around the world.
The White House said it has taken its concerns about cyber-theft to the highest levels of China's government.
China has denied hacking and questioned Mandiant's report.
"Hacking attacks are transnational and anonymous," said foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei.
"Determining their origins are extremely difficult. We don't know how the evidence in this so-called report can be tenable.
Mr Hong added that Beijing "firmly opposes hacking", has taken steps to prevent it and is also a victim of cyber attacks.
In an indication of the military sensitivity around the Shanghai site pinpointed by the report as home to the hacking group, the BBC's John Sudworth and his camera crew were briefly detained by soldiers when they went to film the facility. They were only released once they had handed over their footage.
In its unusually detailed report, US-based computer security company Mandiant said it had investigated hundreds of data breaches since 2004, most of which it attributed to what it termed "Advanced Persistent Threat" actors.
By Jonathan MarcusBBC Diplomatic Correspondent
The scale of the Chinese hacking alleged by the computer security firm Mandiant is striking. Until now the bulk of this hacking has been a digital version of old-fashioned industrial espionage - stealing designs and company secrets.
But there is a more sinister side to this activity as well. Chinese hackers are alleged to have a growing interest in gaining access to key parts of the US infrastructure - gas lines, power grids and waterworks. President Barack Obama himself warned during his recent State of the Union address that the nature of the cyber threat was changing.
Gaining access to critical systems is the key. Once inside the digital perimeter - especially if the intrusion is not identified, there is the possibility of causing real physical damage to the infrastructure that the computers control.
The details it had uncovered, it said, "convince us that the groups conducting these activities are based primarily in China and that the Chinese government is aware of them".
The most prolific of these actors is APT1, which Mandiant says is "a single organisation of operators that has conducted a cyber espionage campaign against a broad range of victims since at least 2006".
"From our observations, it is one of the most prolific cyber espionage groups in terms of the sheer quantity of information stolen," it said, adding that it was "likely government-sponsored and one of the most persistent of China's cyber threat actors".
"We believe that APT1 is able to wage such a long-running and extensive cyber espionage campaign in large part because it receives direct government support," said Mandiant.
The firm said it had traced the hacking activities of APT1 to the site of 12-storey building in the Pudong area of Shanghai. It said that Unit 61398 of the People's Liberation Army "is also located in precisely the same area" and that the actors had similar "missions, capabilities and resources".
Among the findings about APT1 in the report were that it:
Unit 61398 has for some time been suspected by the US of being central to China's cyber espionage programme, the New York Times reports.
Mandiant admitted there could be one alternative explanation for its findings: that "a secret, resourced organisation full of mainland Chinese speakers with direct access to Shanghai-based telecommunications infrastructure is engaged in a multi-year, enterprise scale computer espionage campaign right outside of Unit 61398's gates, performing tasks similar to Unit 61398's known mission".
Several governments, foreign companies and organisations have said in the past they suspect China of carrying out extensive cyber espionage over periods of several years.
On Tuesday, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that the Obama administration had "repeatedly raised our concerns at the highest levels about cyber theft with senior Chinese officials including in the military and we will continue to do so".
Mr Carney declined to comment specifically on the contents of the report.
Last month, the New York Times said its systems had been infiltrated over a period of four months, after it wrote a report on the alleged wealth of China's outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao.
Mandiant, which the paper hired to investigate, traced the hack to China. However, the paper said its breach had been attributed to a different group. The Wall Street Journal also reported a China-based hack.
At the time, China's foreign ministry dismissed the New York Times accusations as "groundless", saying that to "conclude without hard evidence that China participated in such hacking attacks is totally irresponsible".
Trevor Wright, 67, of Ballingdon Street, Sudbury, Suffolk, was found guilty at Ipswich Crown Court of five charges of rape and seven of sexual assault.
He had already admitted six more sex assaults on the same three victims.
Judge Martyn Levett told Wright he should sign the sex offenders' register indefinitely.
Wright's offending took place between 1977 and 1989, one rape occurred in a car belonging to a customer at his garage in Ballingdon Street.
Other offences took place at a stables where Wright kept a horse.
Giving evidence, Wright said he was "sex obsessed" and admitted rubbing himself against the girls for sexual gratification but denied committing any sexual assaults or rapes.
He told police he had been a heavy drinker and suffered from memory problems.
It follows a newspaper investigation claiming he offered advice on how to "get around" rules on player transfers.
Allardyce, 61, is also alleged to have used his role to negotiate a deal worth £400,000 to represent a Far East firm.
An FA statement said Allardyce's conduct "was inappropriate" and Gareth Southgate will take temporary charge.
"He accepts he made a significant error of judgement and has apologised," the FA said.
"This is not a decision that was taken lightly but the FA's priority is to protect the wider interests of the game and maintain the highest standards of conduct in football.
"The manager of the England men's senior team is a position which must demonstrate strong leadership and show respect for the integrity of the game at all times."
Allardyce succeeded Roy Hodgson in July following England's disastrous performance at Euro 2016 in France and becomes the national side's shortest-serving full-time manager.
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The Daily Telegraph said Allardyce had a meeting with undercover reporters posing as businessmen before he took charge of his first England training session.
During the meeting, which was recorded on camera, it is alleged Allardyce said it was "not a problem" to bypass rules on third-party player ownership and claimed he knew of agents who were "doing it all the time".
It was further alleged that a £400,000 deal was struck for him to represent the company to Far East investors and to be a keynote speaker at events.
In the meeting, Allardyce also referred to Hodgson as "Woy", making fun of his predecessor's manner of speaking, and criticised Gary Neville, one of Hodgson's assistants.
Allardyce met FA chairman Greg Clarke and chief executive Martin Glenn on Tuesday to offer what he called a "sincere and wholehearted apology for my actions".
He explained it had been "a great honour" to be appointed England manager in July and that he was "deeply disappointed at this outcome".
"Although it was made clear during the recorded conversations that any proposed arrangements would need the FA's full approval, I recognise I made some comments which have caused embarrassment," he added.
"As part of the meeting, I was asked to clarify what I said and the context in which the conversations took place. I have co-operated fully in this regard.
"I also regret my comments with regard to other individuals."
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Clarke told the BBC he had not been sacked, but they had agreed his position was "untenable".
In an interview on the FA website, Glenn said Allardyce was "distraught" but that "discussing a range of issues from potential contraventions of FA rules through to personal comments frankly just don't work when you're the manager of England".
However, Glenn did add that it was a "really painful decision" as the FA believed Allardyce was "a great fit for England manager and we think could have been extremely successful".
Former Blackpool, Notts County, Bolton, Newcastle, Blackburn, West Ham and Sunderland boss Allardyce won his only game in charge of the national team last month.
An injury-time goal from Liverpool's Adam Lallana gave England a 1-0 win over Slovakia in the first of their 2018 World Cup qualifiers.
Allardyce was due to announce his squad for the next round of qualifiers on Sunday but now Southgate will be in charge for four matches against Malta at Wembley (8 October), Slovenia away (11 October), Scotland at home (11 November) and Spain in a friendly (15 November) as the FA searches for a successor.
Southgate ruled himself out of the running for the England manager job prior to Allardyce's appointment but the current bookmakers' favourite may become a contender, depending on results in his caretaker spell.
Bournemouth's Eddie Howe, Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew and former Hull City boss Steve Bruce are also among the possible candidates.
Third-party ownership occurs when investment companies take a stake in the economic rights of players.
It was described as a form of "slavery" by Michel Platini, the former president of European football's governing body Uefa.
The practice was banned by the FA in 2008 and by Fifa in May last year.
BBC Sport chief football writer Phil McNulty
Sam Allardyce never made a secret of his desire and suitability to be England manager - so he will be heartbroken that the dream he harboured throughout his career is over in 67 days.
The Football Association will be equally dismayed at being plunged into uncertainty so soon after appointing the man it believed would signpost a bright future towards the World Cup in two years after the debacle of Euro 2016.
Sadly for Allardyce, the lack of judgement and loose-tongued approach that saw him caught in a Daily Telegraph sting meant events at Wembley on Tuesday were always heading towards an inevitable conclusion.
Some may have sympathy for Allardyce, gone after one victory in Slovakia and brought down by non-footballing matters, but the FA's statement spoke of the need for strong leadership and respect for the integrity of the game, and it clearly felt his behaviour was unbecoming of an England manager.
The 51-year-old has signed a contract until the end of June 2018 at the Italian giants, who sacked Frank de Boer on 1 November after 85 days in charge.
Pioli's first game will be the Serie A match against city rivals AC Milan at the San Siro on 20 November.
He is Inter's ninth manager since Jose Mourinho left the club after winning the Champions League in 2010.
Pioli was sacked by Lazio in April and includes Parma and Bologna among the 11 clubs he has previously coached.
He inherits an Inter side ninth in Serie A, 13 points behind leaders Juventus, and bottom of their Europa League group after a 2-1 defeat at Southampton on 3 November.
Durham fast bowler Mark Wood misses out because of a heel injury, with Steven Finn on standby.
Essex batsman Tom Westley will also make his debut at number three.
Uncapped Middlesex batsman Dawid Malan is in the 13-man squad, but England will not name their side until they have seen the pitch.
Rain on Wednesday meant the covers remained on, preventing England from assessing the surface.
South Africa captain Faf du Plessis said pace bowler Kagiso Rabada, who was suspended for the second Test, will return.
The four-Test series is level at 1-1 after South Africa beat England at Trent Bridge following their defeat at Lord's.
Roland-Jones, 29, has taken 22 wickets at an average of 35 in the County Championship Division One this year and averages 23 with the bat.
He made his one-day international debut against South Africa in May.
England captain Joe Root said: "Consistency is a massive reason why he's highly thought of.
"He has taken a lot of wickets and he's been banging the door down.
"It's great for him to get his opportunity. He bowls consistent areas at good pace and gets the ball to move around, which is exactly what we're looking for."
Westley, 28, has scored 478 runs at an average of 53.11, including two centuries, for County Championship leaders Essex this season.
"He's been very calm over the past couple of days and been very specific in his practice," said Root.
"He looks like a strong character that has a very good all-round game."
Wood has played 10 Tests for England, taking 26 wickets at an average of 40, but has only one wicket in two matches in the current series.
Root said: "We want Mark Wood bowling at 90mph at his absolute best.
"He's a strong character and works incredibly hard at his game. He's desperate to bounce back and make a contribution when he gets his chance."
Middlesex pace bowler Finn played the most recent of his 35 Tests against Bangladesh in October 2016.
England were heavily criticised following the 340-run defeat defeat in the second Test, with former captain Michael Vaughan saying the players did not "respect" Test cricket.
Root said: "It's his job to be opinionated and give his view on what he sees. No one agrees on everything all the time.
"They are entitled to their opinions. They are entitled to speak out and say things how they see it.
"It's important that we, as a side, remain true to each other. We know we weren't good enough last week but effort has never been the issue.
"The guys do really care. They are desperate to win and perform well in an England shirt. They don't want to let anyone down.
"It's a great opportunity this week for us to show what it means to play for England."
Rabada was banned for one Test after using "inappropriate language" towards Ben Stokes in the series opener.
Du Plessis said: "The time off makes you hungry and that we did well in the previous game will add to his motivation.
"He'll be raring to get that ball in his hand."
Du Plessis added: "It's a nice place for us to be in. All teams do not want to feel pressure when they don't play their best cricket."
The Royal National Mòd attracted thousands of people for an eight-day celebration of Gaelic language, music and culture.
The event, in its 125th year, was expected to generate up to £2.5m for the local economy.
Prince Charles visited Stornoway on Lewis to watch the celebrations and hand out prizes.
To officially close the celebrations a massed choir made its way from Stornoway Town Hall to the Nicolson Institute for a final choral sing-a-long.
When it arrived representatives from 2017 host town Lochaber received the ceremonial handover from this year's hosts.
The 126th year of the Gaelic festival will take place in Lochaber on 13-21 October next year.
Facing questions for the first time from the cross-party Brexit select committee, Mr Davis emphasised it was his job to return control of immigration policy to British ministers.
The Brexit secretary told MPs that immigration control would then be decided by the home secretary but, he added, policy "would be in the national interest" and would affect "all levels of skill" based on "a judgement as what is necessary for universities, business and fruit picking".
His remarks may reassure some in business who fear access to the UK after Brexit may be limited to high-value, highly-skilled talent from overseas.
The aim of reducing net migration into the UK to the tens of thousands was "still there," he insisted.
"My own view of this... is that it will be exercised in the national interest which does not mean suddenly denying universities' Nobel Laureates coming there, or denying businesses the ability to transfer managers from Tokyo or Berlin or wherever and it doesn't involve shutting down all the fruit picking farms in the country either".
He made clear the government's opening ambitions for the "Article 50" negotiations on leaving the EU had yet to be worked out and the promised outline of the UK's negotiating plan would not be published before February.
Officials were still working through the needs of 57 separate sectors, he explained.
He refused, though, to discuss how much detail would be released. "I want to be as open as we can, but we must be careful we are not undermining our own position".
Mr Davis indicated he might be prepared to give confidential briefings to MPs on the committee, in private session, on the progress of negotiations once underway.
The violence, sparked by the alleged harassment of a young Hindu woman by a Muslim man, lasted two days.
A few days later, seven women, all Muslims, went to the police alleging that they were gang-raped during the violence that broke out in their villages. The police took a year to arrest all the 29 accused, who were later released on bail.
The trials were supposed to be completed in special fast track courts within two months. But nearly four years on, the women are still waiting for justice.
Amnesty International's Mariya Salim has worked on a report tracing the legal journey of the women and says there is a clear lack of will on the part of the administration to ensure they get justice.
"Research tells us that there have been only three convictions in rape cases during Hindu-Muslim communal riots since the country's partition, and that hasn't changed even now. We have seen delays at every stage", Ms Salim says.
The BBC's Divya Arya travelled to the area to listen to the women's stories.
"No video recording and no photos on the internet," was how Rubina greeted me when I visited her new home, 30km from the village where she lived before the riots.
In the aftermath, many Muslims were forced to leave and settle elsewhere.
The Muzaffarnagar-Shamli districts are now dotted with ghettos, where those displaced by the riots have bought land and constructed houses after the Supreme Court directed the state government to pay them compensation.
Rubina is a middle-aged woman. She stood before me with a baby resting on her elbow and shoulders and two young children tugging at her tunic.
"I am tired of having my grandchildren complain to my daughter that they are humiliated at school because some child saw their 'rape victim' grandmother's photo," she told me later.
Rubina said she was gang raped by four men, including her neighbours.
"I fell unconscious, and when I came to, I just ran, with everyone else in the village."
They had no time to pack or take any money with them.
Together they lived in relief camps for months on end. Shared trauma and difficult circumstances bred strength and sisterhood.
But then there were the threats.
"The accused threatened to kill my children, so I once retracted my statement, but after my husband and lawyer reassured me I testified before the judge with the complete truth."
Charges have still not been framed in her case, despite her giving testimony, undergoing medical tests and attending endless rounds of court hearings.
Rubina said she didn't see the point of continuing. Struggling to make ends meet, she feels uprooted and lost.
"All I've got is the tag of fallen woman, I'm exhausted. Why should I pursue the case?"
Just like the other alleged rape survivors, Nafeesa cannot read or write.
"I had only ever heard of the Delhi gang rape incident before my own rape, so I thought the accused would get punished as soon as I identified them in my complaint," she said.
"Little did I know these cases can take so long."
Nafeesa grew quiet as if remembering that night all over again, where she says she was raped by five men, all known to her.
She alleged they threatened to kill her two-year-old son to stop her screaming.
Nafeesa now lives in a colony of the riot-displaced only 2km from her village.
"We would never go back there, there is nothing left for us, and they (Hindus) would dare not come here. We are safe here among people of our own religion," she said.
But it's a tough life. Many of these colonies have no electricity connections, drainage or roads.
Then she said: "Sometimes I wonder why I filed this case. I haven't got any justice, and the threat to my life still remains."
"They [the accused men] live in their villages and roam free, they lost nothing; we lost everything."
Her voice stood out clear, crisp and fresh. If there were any signs of fatigue with the long legal battle, she hid them well.
"I won't leave them unpunished", she said over the phone.
"I haven't lost courage and I haven't forgotten anything, they will have to pay for my countless sleepless nights."
Khalida is exceptionally brave. She has left Uttar Pradesh, where she alleges she was attacked by three men during the riots. They found her in fields where she had fled.
She is now in hiding with her children, but I was able to speak to her after meeting her husband.
He told me that the threats to their family are still grave and the pace of the trial very slow, so Khalida's lawyer has petitioned that her case be heard outside Uttar Pradesh.
But that petition was filed a year ago and is still waiting to be heard.
Just like the other women who have come forward, their livelihoods have also been disrupted by riots and fighting the rape case is as much a legal matter as it is a financial one.
But Khalida's husband told me he'd go to any length to support his wife's quest for justice.
As I began to hang up the phone, Khalida said: "He is very fond of me... I'll continue to fight with his strength."
Names of all the rape survivors have been changed
Sumitra Mahajan said the MPs, all from the Congress party, were suspended for "five consecutive days".
She had earlier warned the MPs who had been protesting with placards in the well of the house.
Continuous opposition protests have meant that almost no work has been carried out in the parliamentary session that began in July.
The Lok Sabha or the lower house of the parliament was adjourned immediately after the order was announced.
"This is the most undemocratic thing which has been done today. In the last two decades, I have not seen such a thing. The voice of opposition is being muzzled," Congress leader Rajeev Shukla told reporters outside the parliament.
Members of two smaller opposition parties have said they will boycott parliament for five days in solidarity with the suspended Congress MPs.
Earlier, Ms Mahajan ran the proceedings amid slogan-shouting and disruptions, news agency Press Trust of India reported. She refused to adjourn the house despite more than 40 opposition MPs holding noisy protests and displaying placards.
Opposition parties are demanding the resignations of Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje for helping former IPL cricket chief Lalit Modi, who lives in London and is wanted by Indian authorities.
They are also demanding the resignation of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan over his alleged involvement in India's massive medical school admissions examination scandal.
The government has rejected the demands.
An all-party meeting held earlier on Monday failed to break the nearly fortnight-long deadlock.
Ildar Dadin is serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence under a law making repeat violation of Russia's strict protest rules a criminal offence.
The court upheld the law itself, but ruled that it could not be applied in cases where protests did not constitute a threat.
Last November, Mr Dadin said he had been tortured in prison.
Now, his lawyer says he expects the case against the activist to be overturned when it is reviewed by the Supreme Court.
Mr Dadin's wife, Anastasia Zotova, was in court and told the BBC the court's decision was "a bit better" than she had expected.
"It's very good that the court decided the case must be reviewed and probably overturned," she said.
"It seems Ildar won't have to stay in prison for [the remaining 172 days of his sentence], that he will be out before then.
"We are all very happy about that and we are waiting for him.
"However, it is bad that the court did not overturn Article 212.1, which means that those people who keep staging pickets can still be prosecuted under that law."
What is Article 212.1?
Protesting in Putin's Russia
Ildar Dadin has become a symbol of Russia's growing intolerance of dissent.
The laws regulating protests were tightened after a wave of mass street rallies in Moscow in 2011 and 2012 that worried the Kremlin. Since then, the new rules have seen even lone, silent picketers detained by police and fined.
In 2014 the authorities went further. Article 212.1 made repeat violations of the strict new laws a criminal offence, punishable by up to five years behind bars.
But the constitutional court now says that repeat offenders should not get a prison sentence if there is no threat to the public or to public property.
That qualification will be added to the law, but the controversial article itself - Article 212.1 - will remain.
This ruling could lead to Mr Dadin's early release.
He was transferred to the far east of Russia late last year, after he complained to his wife that he had been beaten and threatened repeatedly by prison guards.
Mr Dadin will find out about the ruling on Monday, when his lawyer is allowed to visit him.
Barnsley College wants to build the school on the site of the town's Central Library, in Shambles Street.
A £5.3m grant from the government's Skills Funding Agency will help pay for the proposed college, which is due to be discussed by the cabinet this month.
Councillors will also be asked to approve a recommendation to relocate the library and a Citizens' Advice Bureau to Wellington Street.
If approved, it is hoped the college will be completed by summer 2015.
The remainder of the funding would be raised by the college through selling assets and borrowing.
Council leader Sir Steve Houghton said: "The proposal indicates the sixth form college would have the potential to bring £7.7m into the local economy.
"Following on from the recently completed town hall square modernisation, it would create an inspirational and vibrant building, at a key location, that would dramatically improve this gateway into the town centre."
The proposal will be discussed by the cabinet on 23 October.
Hisham Barakat died in hospital after a bomb attack on his car in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis in June 2015.
The plot was "carried out on the orders of the Muslim Brotherhood in close coordination with Hamas", Egypt's interior minister said on Sunday.
Mr Barakat had sent thousands of Islamists for trial since the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
Hamas has accused Egypt of collaborating with Israel to try to further isolate Gaza amid tension over Egypt's closures of the Rafah border crossing and its destruction of tunnels between Gaza and Egypt.
"This plot was carried out on the orders of the Muslim Brotherhood... in close coordination with Hamas, which played a very important role in the assassination of the chief prosecutor from start to finish," Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar told reporters.
He said Hamas had provided explosives and training in Gaza.
On Saturday six people were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the assassination.
Mr Barakat was the most senior state official murdered since the 2013 overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Hundreds of Islamists have been sentenced to death or life imprisonment, as part of a crackdown on supporters of the banned group.
A judge ruled that Mr Scalia died from natural causes despite initial confusion over the cause of death.
The judge said she had been assured "there were no signs of foul play".
US President Barack Obama is expected to nominate a new justice in coming weeks but Republicans want the decision to be left to his successor next year.
The question of who will replace Mr Scalia, a powerful conservative voice in America's highest court, is turning into a big battle between Republicans and Democrats in a crucial presidential election year, and could spark a constitutional crisis.
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump described the circumstances surrounding Mr Scalia's death as "unusual" in a discussion with prominent conservative radio show host Michael Savage on Tuesday.
Mr Savage, whose radio show draws in millions of listeners, called for "an immediate autopsy before the body is disposed of".
The timing of Mr Scalia's death has caused conspiracy theories to abound, with some questioning why no autopsy was performed and the exact cause of death still to be determined.
A former head of criminal investigations for Washington police, William O Ritchie, has spoken out on Facebook, saying he was "stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia".
But, according to the Washington Post, the manager of the funeral home in El Paso that handled Mr Scalia's body said the justice's family insisted on not having an autopsy performed.
It had to be Texas, didn't it? From the state that brought you half a century of John F Kennedy assassination conspiracies, complete with their own autopsy questions, comes a new controversy.
Of course, Kennedy was murdered in broad daylight on a Dallas street. Scalia, on the other hand, was a 79-year-old man with known heart ailments who died in his sleep. But that's obviously not going to stop speculation from running rampant.
It's a testament to the impact a vacancy on the Supreme Court will have on US politics that it took only a few days for tales of intrigue and deception to spring up.
If President Barack Obama is able to appoint Scalia's successor, or if a Democratic president does so next year, it could tilt the ideological balance on the court to the left for years. The stakes are extremely high, and the benefits to the liberal cause are obvious - key ingredients for a good conspiracy theory.
In 1992 John Grisham published his first best-selling novel, The Pelican Brief, which centred around the assassination of Supreme Court justices for political gain. Some things are better left as works of fiction.
Why is this a big deal?
Scalia - in his own words
Some questioned the account of an acquaintance of Mr Scalia, who described the moment he found the judge dead at a ranch in Texas on Saturday.
"We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over his head. His bed clothes were unwrinkled," John Poindexter was quoted as saying.
Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara said she had pronounced his death without seeing the body, which is permissible under Texas law. It had also reportedly taken some time to find a judge to rule on the death.
She was reported to originally put the cause of death as a heart attack, but later changed it to natural causes explaining she had only meant that Mr Scalia's heart had stopped.
The 79-year-old had a history of heart trouble and high blood pressure, Judge Guevara said after speaking with Mr Scalia's doctor and police after his death on Saturday. She said there had been "no foul play".
A White House spokesman told reporters on Monday that President Obama had begun preliminary discussions with his team on who to nominate as his successor.
Mr Scalia's death leaves the Supreme Court evenly divided between liberal and conservative justices ahead of crucial cases on abortion, voting rights and immigration.
Until now, the conservatives had been in the majority but a new judge could tip the balance, and Republicans running for president are strongly opposed to Mr Obama making his choice.
According to the constitution, the president nominates justices to the court and the Senate - currently controlled by the Republicans - uses its "advice and consent" powers to confirm or reject that person.
White House spokesman Eric Schultz criticised a growing number of Republican senators on Tuesday for saying they would not support President Obama's nomination.
He described it as "a lot of bluster, only to have reality ultimately sink in," in reference to past battles over the US debt limit and the nuclear deal with Iran.
There will be no announcement before the Senate returns on 22 February, Mr Schultz said.
Americans are due to vote on a new president in November later this year.
The National Museum of Scotland was contacted over the remains of a Beothuk chief and and his wife a year ago.
Campaigners claim they were taken from their graves and sent to a collector in Edinburgh in the 1820s.
The museum said it was "continuing a constructive dialogue" with the Canadian government.
Despite an indication last year from the Canadian department of heritage minister Melanie Joly of an intention to formally request repatriation, it has noy been made.
The skulls, thought to belong to chief Nonosbasut and his wife Demasduit, are not on display in the Scottish museum.
It said they were stored in environmentally-appropriate conditions at its collection centre.
Native American campaigner Chief Mi'sel Joe, of the Miawpukek First Nation, has visited Edinburgh and been allowed to see the skulls, which he says were taken from a grave site near Cormack.
The chief has led calls for the return of the remains since 2015.
Nonosbasut is believed to have been killed by John Peyton Jr and his men in 1819.
His wife Demasduit was captured and for a time lived with a Church of England priest. She died of tuberculosis in 1820 and her body was recovered by her tribe and buried alongside her husband.
It is thought the tribe died out within a decade of her death.
The National Museum of Scotland said the pieces in its collection came to Scotland through the actions of William Epps Cormack.
He was born in Newfoundland and educated in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
A collection of 11 pieces were sent to Professor Robert Jameson of the University of Edinburgh and entered into its collections on 15 March 1828.
Six items were subsequently transferred into the permanent collections of the National Museums Scotland in the mid-nineteenth century.
In addition to the skulls, the museum also has a model birch bark canoe, two birch bark dishes, and a birch bark drinking cup which it is thought was part of the original collection.
Two years ago, SNP MSP Michael Russell asked a question in parliament about what discussions the Scottish government had with the National Museum of Scotland over the request to repatriate the remains.
Mr Russell said: "The keeping of skulls is surely not a 21st-century response to the common humanity that we share with these two individuals, who were the last recorded individuals of this tribe, which was wiped out probably because of environmental pressures on their hunting grounds, as well as by cultural pressures."
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said the museum had met those wishing the Beothuk remains to be repatriated to Canada and it had explained the "established mechanism for making a formal repatriation request".
The formal procedure requires requests to be made by a national government, supported by a national museum and by a community with "direct genealogical descendant of the community whose remains are under claim".
For tribes like the Beothuk which have ceased to exist a claim can be made by a group that "continues to share the same culture (spiritual beliefs, cultural practices) attributed to the community whose remains are under claim".
Last year, councillors in the Borders returned a Maori war flag to New Zealand after an approach from the New Zealand museum and descendants of "key parties" involved in the battle.
The flag was taken by Crown forces from a Maori tribe during the Battle of Omaruhakeke in 1865.
The exact details of the flag's journey to the south of Scotland remain something of a mystery.
It was donated to Hawick Museum in 1921 by local artist Tom Scott.
In 1999, a relic believed to have been worn by a Sioux warrior killed in the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre was returned to its native land from Scotland.
The ghost dance shirt was officially handed back to descendants of the battle victims at a special ceremony in South Dakota.
The relic was displayed for more than a century in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow after George Crager, a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, gave it to the museum in 1891.
The education secretary said he had discussed the matter with the inquiry chairwoman Lady Smith, amid criticism from abuse survivor groups that the remit of the investigation is "fixed".
Mr Swinney said he was "wrestling" with the issue as an extended remit would "inevitably" prolong the inquiry.
The probe of historical allegations of abuse is expected to last four years.
The inquiry, which is tasked with investigating the nature and extent of abuse of children in care in Scotland, has been dogged by problems from the outset.
Original chairwoman Susan O'Brien QC quit the post in July, complaining of government interference. A second member of the inquiry panel, Prof Michael Lamb, also resigned claiming the inquiry was "doomed".
The panel now consists of Lady Smith and Glenn Houston, although Mr Swinney has consulted Lady Smith on whether a third panel member should be recruited to replace Prof Lamb.
The remit of the inquiry has also been an issue, with Mr Swinney's predecessor Angela Constance defending it in February after claims some institutions such as the Catholic Church would be "let off the hook".
More recently there have been claims from survivors' groups that there had been "no discussions" about the remit of the inquiry, which they said was described by Lady Smith as "fixed".
However, Mr Swinney refuted this when questioned by Labour's Johann Lamont at the education committee.
He said: "I have personally discussed the question of extending the remit of the inquiry with Lady Smith.
"I said to people I would look at the extension of the remit, I'm considering that and taking steps to address that."
He continued: "I take it very seriously. But I have to be mindful that if I extend the remit of the inquiry, I would inevitably be extending the length of the inquiry. And I have to be mindful of the views of survivors who want this exercise to be proceeded with and not something that becomes longer than it needs to be, because they want to get answers on this.
"So the dilemmas on this are not easy, because they ultimately come down to that question that it's unavoidable that the length of time of the inquiry will be extended if I decide to extend the remit. That's a significant issue with which I am wrestling."
Mr Swinney also addressed the idea of government interference in the independent inquiry, saying he had "no desire" for the government to have any inappropriate involvement.
And he said the question of redress for victims was actively being explored.
It comes after reports that police ignored warnings that the campus in the north-eastern town could be raided.
A further investigation would establish possible criminal culpability of those suspended, the interior minister said.
Islamist al-Shabab fighters killed 148 people during the day-long siege earlier this month.
Most of those who died were students at Garissa University College.
The BBC's Ferdinand Omondi in the capital, Nairobi, says there has been public outrage and calls for action over the alleged security failings.
Universities across Kenya had posted memos warning students of possible violence before the attack happened, our reporter says.
The principal of Garissa University College is reported to have requested in vain for additional security at the campus.
Two civil servants were also suspended including Garissa County Commissioner Njenga Miiri.
He was previously in charge of Lamu county when al-Shabab gunmen shot dead anyone who was unable to recite verses from the Koran in an attack last June.
The attack on the university earlier this month was the worst in the country to date by the Somali-based al-Shabab group, who are affiliated to al-Qaeda.
Group B Streptococcus infection kills around 40 babies every year and leaves a further 25 with serious disabilities.
Ruth Caisley, from Haltwhistle, Northumberland, is one mother who still lives with its devastating results.
Her son William is now 17, but the Strep B infection left him with cerebral palsy and other learning disabilities. He is unlikely to ever live independently.
It was only years after William's birth that Ruth Caisley discovered that a simple treatment of antibiotics during her pregnancy could have cleared the infection and prevented her passing it on to her son.
She is now one of a number of parents campaigning for a screening programme for pregnant women.
She said: "When I look at the children who William started school with, they're now building independent lives. William will never get that chance.
"He should be going to college, and having girlfriends, but for the want of a few antibiotics that'll never happen.
"I love him to bits but if I could go back in time and change that tomorrow I would."
Vikki and Peter Craig, from Rowlands Gill, Gateshead, also believe mothers should be screened.
Their daughter Alice Ellen is approaching her 1st birthday, but last March she also became infected by Strep B soon after birth.
They endured days of agony while the premature baby was treated with antibiotics.
Thankfully, Alice has suffered no long term ill effects, but the couple were shocked when they discovered just how serious the infection could have been.
Vikki Craig said: "Because I had a fibroid, I was in hospital being scanned every four weeks. It was just ludicrous to think that I was there that regularly and yet I could have had this blood test that could have picked up this infection."
Peter Craig said: "The cost of the test and antibiotics do seem like a very small price to pay for something that has an opportunity to prevent a horrible situation."
The Department of Health though does not believe a screening programme would be necessary or effective.
It's advised by the UK National Screening Committee, which looks at what conditions could be monitored.
During a review in November 2012, it looked at the evidence on whether screening would be effective and concluded the harm involved would outweigh the benefits.
The panel said it would lead to many mothers having antibiotics unnecessarily. That could cause dangerous allergic reactions and in some cases the drugs could also pose health risks to the babies.
It also says the risks of Strep B are relatively low given that there are 700,000 births every year. But the Department of Health says it is looking at other ways to tackle the infection and protect newborn babies.
But some are not convinced that decision is right.
The Easington Labour MP Grahame Morris sits on the commons health select committee and has tabled a motion calling for a rethink.
He says the evidence for routine Strep B screening is compelling.
He said: "The evidence suggests it's on the increase and those countries like the USA, Canada, France, Germany and Spain that have introduced screening on a routine basis have seen a dramatic reduction in infections in the newborn.
"I believe in early interventions in life, and this could prevent years of expense and agony with a simple, cheap measure."
So far more than 35 other MPs have backed the commons motion. A petition has also been started by the Group B Strep Support group, which includes dozens of the families affected by the infection.
The Department of Health panel says it will look again at the case for screening in two or three years' time.
It doesn't believe the problem of Strep B is more serous in the UK than in countries that do screen.
But families living with the effects of the infection remain convinced that a simple blood test for pregnant women at around 35 weeks would save many more lives and prevent others enduring pain and loss.
The agreement is thought to be Airbus' single largest order by number of aircraft, the firms said on Wednesday.
The deal is expected to be worth $25.7bn (£16.1bn) at list prices, although airlines typically get a discount, news agency Reuters reports.
IndiGo is India's largest domestic airline by market share and operates 540 flights daily across India.
The airline says it has flown over 80 million passengers in all.
In January 2011, IndiGo had singed a deal to buy 180 Airbus aircraft, including the more fuel-efficient 150 A320neo aircraft.
The choice of engine will be announced at a later date, the airline said.
The incident happened in the Llanfairpwll area on Thursday.
Police said the cow was "ok" and the recovered dart would be tested for DNA evidence in the hope of tracing the attacker.
Sgt Rob Taylor, of North Wales Police's rural crime team, described it as a "shocking crime" and urged people with information to identify those responsible.
He tweeted: "At what point does a person think 'I'll shoot a cow in the face with my crossbow today'... this person needs catching and catching soon."
"Once we've recovered DNA from the bolt, it's then time for the offender to wonder who it is, every time their door bell goes".
The Dandaleith Stone was uncovered by a farmer's plough three years ago.
While the carvings, which include a large eagle, are typical Pictish symbols, archaeologists say their positioning and alignment are not.
The stone found near Craigellachie and dating from the 8th or 9th Century has been installed at Elgin Museum.
The museum opens for its new season on Saturday.
Weighing more than a ton and stretching to 1.7m (5ft 6"), the stone was named after the farm where it was found in Moray.
The Archaeology Service for Aberdeenshire, Moray, Angus and Aberdeen City Councils, whose staff excavated the stone, has been intrigued by the lay out of the markings on the pink granite rock.
The Dandaleith Stone is decorated with a large eagle with crescent and V-rod below one face, with a mirror case symbol with notch rectangle and Z-rod below on the adjoining face.
Archaeologists said these were typical Pictish symbols, but the positioning of the symbols on two adjoining faces, aligned on the same orientation, was "unusual and may be unique".
Picts lived in north and east Scotland in the 3rd to 9th centuries AD. Few written records of them survive.
Ornately decorated Pictish stones found in the past include the Ardross Wolf, a symbol stone held in the collection of Inverness Museum and Art Gallery.
The Knocknagael Boar Stone, found on the outskirts of Inverness, is on display at Highland Council's headquarters in the city.
Another stone uncovered by a farmer ploughing a field has a figure of a man carrying an axe carved into it. The character became known as the Rhynie Man after the village in Aberdeenshire near where it was found.
The Nigg cross-slab, a stone found in Easter Ross, dates from the 8th Century and features snakes and a depiction of monks receiving bread from a raven sent by God.
Who were the Picts?
Archaeologists and historians have long debated the origins and activities of the Picts.
Many agree that they were descended from indigenous Iron Age people of northern Scotland, and that the term "Picti" was likely to have been a nickname the Romans used to describe communities north of Hadrian's Wall.
The Picts created intricately decorated standing stones and also constructed impressive hill forts to defend themselves against rival tribes and invaders.
They battled the Romans, Angles and the Vikings.
In AD 900, the kingdoms of the Picts and of Dalriada unified to create the Kingdom of Alba.
Today, the Picts continue to fascinate.
Last year, children were encouraged to explore one of Scotland's most mysterious peoples by recreating their forts and art in Lego and face paints.
The ideas formed part of a learning resource for schools on the Picts created by Forestry Commission Scotland.
Bethany Shipsey, 21, was being treated at Worcestershire Royal Hospital when there were delays recognising her condition, a report has found.
Her father, Doug Shipsey, said he had warned a nurse how serious the diet pill was.
The NHS Trust said it would not comment until after Miss Shipsey's inquest.
A five-day hearing is due to take place from 8 January.
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Miss Shipsey had a history of mental health issues and had taken overdoses previously, her family said. A man has been convicted of raping her.
On 13 February, while a patient in the hospital's Elgar mental health unit, she was found with DNP, which was confiscated.
Two days later while visiting her family at home, she told a friend on social media she had taken the drug, which her parents believe she had in supply after buying it online.
An ambulance was called and Miss Shipsey told paramedics she had taken 30 tablets, though her family said she was prone to exaggeration.
Her father said he warned nurses about the DNP and after a delay, his daughter was put in the resuscitation room.
However, she was later moved because other patients were considered more seriously ill, he added.
Her mother, Carole Shipsey, who is a nurse, said she could not believe the lack of care she had witnessed.
She told staff her daughter was having a respiratory arrest. A tracheotomy was performed to try to get her breathing, but it was too late, she said.
Mr Shipsey believes the overdose was a cry for help and not a genuine attempt to kill herself.
A forensic toxicology report recorded a level of 8 milligrams of DNP per litre. Deaths have been recorded at 28-99 mg/litre.
Worcestershire Acute Trust carried out an internal report into Miss Shipsey's death, which it shared with her family and has been seen by the BBC.
It said "an overwhelmed department led to a delay in recognition of a potentially fatal overdose and delayed implementation of cooling measures" - a treatment used in DNP overdoses.
In its internal report, the trust said it believed Miss Shipsey's death was inevitable.
Another report, a so-called root cause analysis, concluded there had been a "system failure".
Miss Shipsey died just weeks after the Care Quality Commission issued the trust, which has been in special measures since 2015, with a warning notice ordering it to make significant improvements.
Concerns raised related to all three main hospital sites - Worcester Royal, Kidderminster and the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch - and focused on patient safety, compliance and governance.
Joint Warrior is held twice a year - in spring and autumn.
The first of this year's exercises runs to 6 April and involves warships operating from Faslane on the Clyde and aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth, Moray.
Live firing training will also be held at a Ministry of Defence range at Cape Wrath in Sutherland.
Thirty-five naval units and more than 50 aircraft will be used during Joint Warrior.
Countries taking part include Denmark, Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US.
About 430 of the thousands of personnel involved are co-ordinating the exercise from HM Naval Base Clyde's Maritime Operations Centre.
In the land based training, 16 Air Assault Brigade Headquarters and its associated battle group, 2 Para, have been joined by troops from the Netherlands, Sweden and the US.
This year's spring staging of Joint Warrior also involves the Royal Navy's first large scale cyber war games.
Information Warrior 17 will involve Artificial Intelligence (AI) and test the protection of warships and submarines against cyber attacks.
Thirty-five naval units and more than 50 aircraft will be used during Joint Warrior.
National Museum Wales voiced fears for its independence, amid talk of a part merger with monuments body Cadw.
The report recommended a strategic partnership of four bodies, sharing back-office functions and marketing.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates, who had denied any wholesale merger plan, urged a "sharper commercial focus".
The steering group led by National Trust Wales director Justin Albert was set up to look at a Labour manifesto commitment to create Historic Wales by combining the commercial functions of Cadw and the museum.
Some functions of the National Library of Wales and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales were also under consideration.
The group's report called for a strategic partnership of the four organisations - underlined by a formal agreement - to collaborate on commercial activities, back-office functions, staff skills development, and promotion of cultural tourism under a joint brand.
The term "Historic Wales" could be used, subject to market testing.
It also recommended taking Cadw out of the control of the Welsh Government, turning it into a charity or an executive agency.
Mr Skates welcomed the report, although he called for more consideration of changes to Cadw, saying it was "performing exceptionally at the moment".
He also warned that it was time for each organisation to "start realising their full commercial potential" and bring a "much sharper commercial focus to the work they do".
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Last year, it had more than four million visitors coming for its history, beaches, nightlife, or just to relax.
But another big draw is gambling. Goa is one of just three Indian states that allows casinos, but the industry is tightly restricted, with talk of even tougher rules.
BBC's Sameer Hashmi went to Goa to find out more.
The company, which installs windows, doors and conservatories, said revenues rose by 2.3% to £21.9m for the 12 months to the end of February.
Pre-tax-profits climbed by 27.7% to £159,000.
The Dunfermline-based firm, which employs nearly 400 people between its domestic and commercial arms, has now posted growth for six successive years.
The firm said its manufacturing business showed "steady improvements" last year as a result of increased demand from new-build developers.
Sales for the division, which employs 90 staff in Cowdenbeath, rose by £200,000 to £7.5m.
CR Smith executive chairman Gerard Eadie said: "We have progressively invested in both the manufacturing and sales operations to keep pace with customer demand, on both the domestic and commercial side of the business.
"Our commercial business is steadily growing. We have a strong proposition for new-build developers including a high-quality bespoke product, delivered reliably and efficiently because of the investment made and capabilities of our factory.
"As we continue to market ourselves to this sector, we can see the commercial arm of CR Smith expanding and have been planning accordingly."
He was born in New York, but moved to Garvaghey in County Tyrone at the age of four.
In 1998, he was made Ireland's first professor of poetry and in his later years, he moved to France, where he was made a chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.
The Irish Arts Council has described his death as a "true loss to Irish literature".
It is expected his remains will be brought from Nice, where he was living, to be buried in County Tyrone.
The Irish President Michael D Higgins has led tributes to him, describing his work as "immense".
"Familiar with the literature of other languages, he was a careful translator and source of encouragement to others," he said in a statement.
His wry, self-deprecating company, his humour, his openness to opposite opinions, will be missed by all of us who were privileged to be his friends - and so many were."
John Montague stands alongside Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley as one of the most important Northern Irish poets of his generation.
He also led a remarkable life, and could call Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the USA and France home.
Born in New York in 1929, he was sent to live with relatives in Tyrone as a young child. Educated in Armagh and Dublin, he returned to the USA to write and study, teaching at Berkeley university in California in the late 60s.
He later moved to Cork, but eventually settled in France.
He published numerous collections of poetry and prose. His 1972 collection, The Rough Field, whose poems focused on Northern Ireland, is regarded as a classic.
In an interview with BBC Radio Ulster in June, Montague said he first travelled to France in 1948 because of the literature he had been studying.
"I decided I needed to know France. I'd been reading people like Flaubert, Baudelaire and so I wanted to actually get there," he said.
"On my bicycle I went because in those days you had to do all the crossing, so on my bicycle I went through England, aimed towards France, and I reached it."
He described the country as "so beautiful in a different way from Ireland, no storm clouds - a lovely ease."
Essex Fire and Rescue Service estimates it cost £476,000 to put out the smouldering 50ft-high (15m) woodpile in Thoby Lane, Mountnessing, in 2014.
Joshua O'Malley, 26, of Vale Court, Wheathampstead, denied breaching environmental laws.
He will face a trial at Chelmsford Crown Court next June.
Firefighters remained at the site for more than 1,500 hours between 18 August and 16 October last year while the fire was being put out.
Mr O'Malley denied charges of operating a waste storage and treatment facility without being authorised by an environmental permit and one of treating waste "in a manner likely to cause pollution of the environment or harm to human health".
Creative Developments and Construction faces the same charges, and company director Mr O'Malley entered not guilty pleas on its behalf.
He was released on bail and will next appear in court on 20 June 2016.
Mr Warburton, 59, had not been seen since vanishing from his home in Sketty on 31 July.
A post mortem examination was carried out on Tuesday when Mr Warburton was identified and police said his death was being treated as murder.
His body was found in the village of Dolwyddelan, Conwy county.
Mr Warburton's lodger David Ellis, 40, is in Ireland and South Wales Police has had a European arrest warrant granted.
Det Ch Insp Kath Pritchard of South Wales Police said: "We are continuing to support Alec Warburton's family at this difficult time and we are grateful for the continued support and assistance of our law enforcement colleagues."
The blast targeted the bakery when it was full of tourists and students, killing 17 people and wounding 64. Five foreigners were among the dead.
Mirza Himayat Baig, who belonged to a banned militant group, will be sentenced on Thursday.
Six other suspects are still at large, police said.
The prosecution said the blast was planned at a meeting in Colombo where Mr Baig, a resident of Maharashtra state, was given bomb-making training.
The defence had maintained that Mr Baig was not in Pune when the explosion happened on 13 February 2010.
He was arrested the following September after investigators found a cache of explosives at his home in Latur in Maharashtra.
The German Bakery is located near the Osho Ashram, a mystic centre popular with visitors to Pune.
Reports said an unattended package exploded when a waiter in the restaurant attempted to open it.
The bombing was the first major strike of its kind in India since the deadly Mumbai attacks of 2008.
The blast came a day after India and Pakistan agreed to meet for talks in Delhi - their first formal negotiations since the 2008 attacks.
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The number of unemployed in Scotland increased by 3,000, to stand at 107,000. UK unemployment fell by 57,000 over the same period.
However, Scotland's jobless rate of 3.9% was below the UK figure of 4.4%.
The number of people in work in Scotland reached 2.65m, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Meanwhile, wage increases continued to fall further behind inflation.
Excluding bonuses, earnings rose by 2% year-on-year. However, inflation had hit an almost four-year high of 2.9% in May.
When the impact of inflation is factored in, real weekly wages fell by 0.5% compared with a year earlier.
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Inspired by full-back Sam Tomkins, Wigan eased to a 22-0 lead at half-time through tries from Dan Sarginson, Tomkins and two from Josh Charnley.
Luke Gale and Ben Crooks crossed for Tigers in the second half, either side of Dom Manfredi's controversial score.
Wigan remain on course for a record 20th Challenge Cup and will face Super League leaders Hull in the last four.
Saturday's draw also pitted Warrington Wolves against Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, with the ties to be played on 29-30 July.
Castleford had won their previous three Challenge Cup visits to Wigan, last losing in the cup at Wigan in 1948.
Tigers had edged the territory in the first half but Warriors repeatedly broke decisively to take a commanding lead.
The visitors had hope when Gale crossed but any faint hopes of a comeback were dashed when Manfredi's try was awarded.
The on-field official initially ruled that Manfredi had touched down, when racing onto a through kick that was poorly dealt with by Tigers.
The video referee assessed multiple replays but did not find sufficient evidence to overturn the original decision.
The officials needed technology to assess Crooks' late consolation for Castleford too, but correctly judged that he had touched down before going out of play.
Wigan: S Tomkins; Charnley, Sarginson, Gildart, Manfredi; Williams, Smith; Mossop, Powell, Flower, Sutton, Isa, O'Loughlin.
Replacements: J Tomkins, Tautai, Burke, Bretherton.
Castleford: Dorn; Monaghan, Crooks, Minikin, Solomona; Millington, Gale; Jewitt, McShane, Patrick, Moors, McMeeken, Massey.
Replacements: Milner, Tickle, Holmes, Cook.
Referee: Chris Campbell
Four Democrats added their support to the deal on Tuesday, denying the Republicans the 60 votes they need to move forward with a vote against it.
It means President Barack Obama would not have to use his veto.
The deal was reached in July between Iran and six world powers, and is due to be implemented in November.
They want Iran to scale back its sensitive nuclear activities to ensure that it cannot build a nuclear weapon.
Iran, which gets crippling international sanctions lifted, has always insisted that its nuclear work is peaceful.
Some of those sanctions were enacted by the US Congress, so disapproval by Congress could have made the deal unravel.
President Obama seems to have won the numbers game on the Iran nuclear deal.
Forty-two Democratic senators have now declared their support. That's enough to block a vote on a bill disapproving the agreement, sparing Mr Obama the embarrassment of having to veto it.
That could help strengthen the credibility of the deal domestically, and the credibility of the US government internationally.
But it's not clear if all the senators backing the deal would be prepared to shut down a vote on it. And either way the deal will almost certainly be implemented, because Congress doesn't have the numbers to override a veto.
"The agreement will stand," said Senator Harry Reid of Nevada. "America will uphold its commitment and we will seize this opportunity to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon."
Republicans vehemently oppose the pact and think it makes dangerous concessions to Iran. Four Democratic senators are also opposed.
Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu says the deal provides a "sure path to nuclear weapons".
Activists on both sides have spent millions of dollars on advertising campaigns and pro-Israeli lobbying groups have put pressure on lawmakers to not support the deal.
Negotiations between Iran and six world powers - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany - began in 2006.
An estimated 32,850 property moves were made in 2015, up 3% on 2014.
The rise in home-moving transactions in 2013 was 9%, and in 2014 it was 5%.
The Bank of Scotland said the new land and buildings transaction tax (LBTT), which replaced stamp duty, helped movers save money and encouraged more transactions.
Rising house prices were also a factor, it added.
The new tax system meant Scottish home movers saved nearly £900 on an average house price of just over £201,000, according to the bank report.
The 2015 figures are almost 20% up on the 2011 market low of 27,500 property moves but are half the 2006 peak level of 66,000 moves.
Bank of Scotland mortgages director Nicola Noble said: "The savings created by the new LBTT, low mortgage rates and rising real pay, are combining to drive growth in the housing sector and this is something that is reflected in these findings."
"2015 was a good year for those looking to move home.
"The ongoing increase in house prices throughout the year will have been especially welcomed by those who bought when house prices were at their peak, and who have been looking to rebuild their equity in order to make their next move."
The report was based on data from the Bank of Scotland house price database and the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
Reform of stamp duty at Holyrood last year was designed to help those at the lower-priced end of the housing market. That's while it ramped up the tax bill for those who can afford to buy more expensive homes.
For those moving house (not including first-time buyers, that is), the average house price rose above £200,000. The tax on it fell last April by nearly £900.
Despite that, according to these Bank of Scotland estimates, recovery in the housing market slowed. Growth of 3% in the number of house-move transactions was down on the previous two years, which averaged 7%.
The number of first-time buyers also rose, but the slowdown in recovery was even clearer - 1% growth in 2015, after two years averaging 20%.
This is odd, because not only has the Land and Buildings Transactions Tax made buying cheaper below £326,000 or so, but mortgages have been very cheap and pay has begun to rise, at last.
So the best explanation is that caution has been creeping into the Scottish property market, and buyer uncertainty that either mortgage rates, wage growth and/or house valuations will be sustained.
Recent years of recovery, of course, are from a deep slump in the number of property transactions during 2007-10, with prices on the slide then too.
Scots home-movers have been more canny about pushing up prices. They've risen by 18% in the past five years. That's the average newly-bought home rising in value by more than £500 per month. But it's the slowest growth rate of any part of Britain. Prices have fallen 4% in Northern Ireland since 2010, though they picked up last year.
It's Greater London that is the one to watch, as it causes concern about a possible housing bubble. Over those five years, this research points to a rise of 51% in the average London home-mover's price. It's reached half a million pounds for the first time.
The case was brought by four of the world's biggest tobacco firms, Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco and Japan Tobacco International.
But Mr Justice Green dismissed all their grounds of challenge.
The government said it meant a generation would "grow up smoke-free".
Two of the companies have said they will appeal against the ruling.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt had contested the case, saying the regulations for standardised packaging were lawful.
Mr Justice Green, who heard the case in December, gave a 386-page, 1,000-paragraph written ruling.
In it he said: "The essence of the case is about whether it is lawful for states to prevent the tobacco industry from continuing to make profits by using their trade marks and other rights to further what the World Health Organisation describes as a health crisis of epidemic proportions and which imposes an immense clean-up cost on the public purse."
"In my judgment the regulations are valid and lawful in all respects."
What's going on with cigarette packets?
The companies claimed the Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Products Regulations 2015 would destroy their valuable intellectual property rights and render products indistinguishable from each other.
Under the new regulations, all tobacco packaging must be uniformly olive green and with large images intended to act as health warnings.
The firms challenged the rules on a number of grounds, including a claim that the regulations violated a number of UK and EU laws, and that they were "disproportionate" and "must be quashed".
Following the High Court ruling, the UK is now introducing its regulations on Friday, regarding the design and colour of cigarette and tobacco packaging.
Separately, the EU's Tobacco Products Directive will also be introduced on Friday, setting out other rules such as banning packs of 10 cigarettes.
Earlier this month, the European Court of Justice ruled that the directive, which had been held up by legal challenges ever since it was adopted in 2014, was lawful.
Speaking after Thursday's High Court ruling on the new UK laws, Jane Ellison MP, public health minister said: "First and foremost, this is a victory for a generation that will grow up smoke-free.
"Standardised packaging will reduce smoking rates and save lives, which will always be a top priority for this government. We will never allow the tobacco industry to dictate our policies."
Deborah Arnott, chief executive of Action on Smoking and Health, said the "landmark judgment" was a "crushing defeat" for the tobacco industry.
"Millions of pounds have been spent on some of the country's most expensive lawyers in the hope of blocking the policy. This disgraceful effort to privilege tobacco business interests over public health has rightly failed utterly."
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) and British American Tobacco say they intend to appeal against the High Court's ruling.
Daniel Sciamma, UK managing director of JTI, said: "We will continue to challenge the legality of plain packaging. The fact remains that our branding has been eradicated and we maintain that this is unlawful."
Marc Firestone, senior vice president of Philip Morris International, said his company did not intend to appeal.
"We will instead maintain our focus on efforts to develop and commercialise scientifically substantiated reduced-risk products that we firmly believe will ultimately benefit UK smokers and public health much more than plain packaging."
Simon Clark, director of smokers' group Forest, said the judgment was "very disappointing".
He added: "Plain packaging treats adults like children and teenagers like idiots.
"If you don't smoke but enjoy alcohol, sugary drinks and convenience food you should be concerned by this judgment because the health police are coming for you too."
Using an iPhone, Wurth set out to capture as many of them as he could. It was a whirlwind project, shot in just two days as he passed through the interior, recording a side of Burundi rarely seen.
The work has just been published in a book titled Ikinga, after the phrase "Uwunguruza abantu n'ikinga," which means "bike taxi-man".
Burundi is one of the world's poorest nations. It went through a 12-year long ethnic-based civil war that ended in 2005.
Last year it was plunged into a new crisis when Pierre Nkurunziza's successful bid for re-election to a third term sparked protests by opposition supporters who said the move was unconstitutional.
During the civil war, the bicycle was often used by civilians as a fast and quiet means of escape, though at one point the government accused the bicycle taxi riders of transporting rebels.
The book of the project includes a foreword by writer Joseph Akel, who says: "Wurth's photographs document Burundi's bicycle culture without casting judgement on their role in the nation's political and cultural history."
Here is a small selection of pictures from the project.
All images courtesy Ikinga by Stephan Wurth, published by Damiani.
The Bees said on Monday "inflatables will not be allowed into the ground" for Saturday's League Two game.
Two years ago Grimsby fans threw dozens of beach balls and blow up footballs onto the pitch at Barnet when both teams were in the Conference.
Mariners fans raised the money for the band on a crowdfunding website.
Trevor Hewson, one of the fans behind the page, told the Grimsby Telegraph: "For whatever reason, the suggestion about a Mariachi band, among other things, caught the imagination, and a couple of us decided to set up a crowdfunder page.
"It went a little bit crazy, and it has absolutely surpassed our expectations."
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Any money left over after paying for the band will be donated to the Grimsby Town disabled supporters trust.
Mariachi music originates in western Mexico and is considered by many to be the quintessential sound of the country.
The Mariners are 14th in the table while Barnet are one place and seven points behind.
The craze of taking inflatables to football ground took a real hold during the 1988-89 campaign.
Stoke City supporters took 3,000 blow-up Pink Panthers to Manchester City that season, while inflatable bananas have become associated with Man City.
In 1989, thousands of Grimsby supporters descended on Plough Lane when the Mariners, then in the old Fourth Division, played top-flight Wimbledon in the fifth round of the FA Cup.
Grimsby lost the game 3-1 but attracted headlines for a huge shoal of inflatable 'Harry Haddock' fish which filled the terraces.
After the last meeting between Barnet and Grimsby at The Hive two years ago one Mariners fan was found guilty of assaulting a football steward with an inflatable shark.
The attack is said to have happened at a house in Chiseldon, Swindon, on 3 November.
Two of the jockeys, Brendan Powell and Richard Condon, released a statement in which they "denied any allegation of criminal wrongdoing".
All three men have been released on police bail by Wiltshire Police.
Police said two men, aged 21 and 20, were arrested on 4 November and a third, aged 20, was arrested on 5 November.
On Monday, Paul Morris, from BCL Solicitors, said in a statement: "My clients, Brendan Powell and Richard Condon, are subject to a police investigation with which they are co-operating fully.
"Both categorically deny any allegation of criminal wrongdoing and are confident that, in due course, their innocence will become clear to everyone.
"It is not appropriate at this stage to make any further comment."
The British Horseracing Authority said: "Reports concerning the arrest and subsequent release on bail of three BHA-licensed jockeys, following allegations of rape, raise a very serious issue.
"The BHA is considering urgently what action is warranted in the interests of all parties concerned and in the context of the wider sport.
"In the meantime, and at least until we have obtained further details and been able to consider them, the jockeys concerned can continue to ride under our rules."
Paul Struthers, chief executive of the Professional Jockeys Association, said it would liaise with the BHA about what action should be taken over the allegations.
"We are aware of reports that a complaint of a very serious nature has been made to Wiltshire Constabulary regarding three PJA members and await the outcome of that investigation," he said.
"Finally, we would also take this opportunity to remind all our members to avoid speculation, comment or discussion of these allegations on social media and to respect the formal process that has commenced."
The Conservative group of eight councillors is to join forces with six of the independent members.
The proposal will be put to a full council meeting of the council on Wednesday.
Nine SNP councillors were elected in Moray at the recent local elections.
A team of "the best Ukrainian doctors" would examine her on Wednesday, said Iryna Gerashchenko, from President Petro Poroshenko's party, on Facebook.
Ms Savchenko is said to have been refusing food and water since Friday.
US Vice President Joe Biden has added his voice to a global campaign for her release.
Ms Savchenko is on trial in Russia after being captured while fighting pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
She is accused of directing artillery fire that killed two Russian journalists - a claim she denies.
In a statement, Mr Biden described Ms Savchenko as having been "unjustly imprisoned in Russia since 2014 - detained and facing trial on trumped up charges".
"Today, as we mark International Women's Day and honour all the brave women who struggle with injustice in this world, we also stand with Nadia and with the Ukrainian people. And we call on Russia to make the right choice - to drop all charges and release her at once," his statement said.
The EU has expressed concern about her wellbeing, and Nobel prize-winner Svitlana Aleksievich is among more than 4,300 signatories to an open letter urging European leaders to act to secure her freedom.
Ms Savchenko has been refusing food and water since Friday - the day after her trial was abruptly adjourned before she had the chance to make a final statement.
Her detention sparked protests in both Ukrainian and Russian capitals on Sunday.
Amid fears that her health could be irreparably damaged ahead of her next hearing, on Wednesday, Ms Gerashchenko said on her Facebook page that Ukrainian doctors would depart for the southern Russian detention centre in which Ms Savchenko is being held.
"Ukrainian diplomats managed to receive a promise from the Russian authorities that our doctors will get to Nadia on 9 March," said Ms Gerashchenko, who negotiates humanitarian issues with Russia on behalf of Kiev.
"The Ukrainian president gave instructions to immediately form a mobile brigade consisting of the best Ukrainian doctors, taking into account the stance and wishes of Nadia's family, mother and sister, in this important issue."
The Ukrainian consul in the Rostov region where Ms Savchenko is being held, Olexandr Kovtun, told the BBC he had seen Ms Savchenko and that she appeared to be well and focused on Wednesday's court hearing.
Ms Savchenko, 34, has become a heroine in Ukraine and is seen as a symbol of the country's resistance against Russia. She was elected to the Ukrainian parliament from prison.
Relations between Ukraine and Russia have deteriorated following Moscow's annexation of the Crimea peninsula in 2014 and its support for pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.
The union said talks over pay and rota changes with the Offshore Contractors Association (OCA) had broken down.
Unite is now preparing an industrial action ballot for members working within the OCA.
The OCA has previously said that shift rotation changes would cut costs and were not new to the North Sea.
Thomas, who won bronze in the time trial, survived suffering a puncture with just 6km to go to finish in a time of four hours 13 minutes and five seconds.
"It's unbelievable really, I never expected it to be honest," he said.
Thomas revealed he will be Wales' flag bearer at the closing ceremony.
"Darren [Tudor] our coach told me this morning just before the start that Wales wanted me to carry the flag," Thomas added.
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Thomas's win secured Wales' fifth gold of the Games in a total of 36 medals - nine more than the pre-Games target.
Team-mate Luke Rowe was sixth, Scott Davies finished 10th while Owain Doull, Sam Harrison and Jon Mould were forced to pull out of a race in which pouring rain made conditions difficult.
Earlier in the women's road race, Amy Roberts finished 14th and was one of the leaders until the fifth lap, when she became part of the chasing pack
Elinor Barker, a silver and bronze medal winner on the track during the Games, retired from the race.
Hayley Jones, 18, crashed out of the women's race at the end of the third lap and 25-year-old Katie Curtis crashed out in the fourth lap.
Wales began the final day in Glasgow with 35 medals, eight more than the pre-Games target of 27.
At the closing ceremony rhythmic gymnast Frankie Jones was awarded the David Dixon Award.
It is given to the outstanding athlete of each Games based on their performance, fair play and overall contribution to their team.
Jones, 23, won six of Wales' medals at Glasgow, including their first gold of the Games, in her last performance before retiring.
One person was jailed for life, three people to 15 years and 45 others to five years, a military statement said.
The defendants were accused of opening fire at soldiers during riots in the port city of Suez last month.
The riots followed a deadly crackdown by security forces on two pro-Morsi protest camps in the capital, Cairo.
Hundreds of people, mostly members of Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, were killed when the sit-ins outside the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque and at Nahda Square were cleared on 14 August.
The unrest in Suez, 140km (87 miles) to the east of Cairo, on 14 and 16 August left more than 30 dead.
It is not clear if those convicted on Tuesday are Brotherhood members. But if they are, the verdicts would be the first affecting the Islamist group since the military launched a campaign against it after ousting Mr Morsi.
Earlier, military sources said 11 Morsi supporters had got life sentences.
State prosecutors announced on 1 September that after almost two months in detention at a secret location, Mr Morsi would stand trial for inciting murder and violence.
The charges relate to the deaths of at least seven people during clashes between opposition protesters and Brotherhood supporters outside the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo in December 2012.
Fourteen other senior Brotherhood figures, including Mohammed al-Beltagi and Essam al-Erian, will be tried on the same charge.
The group's general guide, Mohammed Badie, has also been arrested.
Also on Tuesday, a court in Cairo ordered the closure of four television stations, including the Brotherhood's Ahrar 25 TV and al-Jazeera's Egyptian affiliate Mubasher Misr, saying they were operating illegally.
The stations were seen by the authorities as being sympathetic to the Brotherhood.
In the evening, thousands of supporters of Mr Morsi took to the streets in towns and cities across Egypt to denounce the military-backed interim government.
The marches in the capital, the Nile Delta, Upper Egypt and along the Suez Canal were held under the slogan "The coup is terrorism", a reference to the government's portrayal of its crackdown on the Brotherhood as a fight against terrorism.
Hundreds of people in Nasr City, an eastern suburb of Cairo, chanted "the revolution will continue" and "down with military rule", according to the Reuters news agency.
Interim President Adly Mansour warned that "internal and external forces" would "spare no effort to block the implementation" of his transition plan, which envisages an amended constitution to be put to a referendum within months and parliamentary elections to be held by early 2014.
"We have seen the violent incidents witnessed by the country. In their own words, they are trying to paralyse Egypt," he told state-run Nile News.
"The state, with all its agencies, will not allow any party to stand before satisfying the aspirations of the people," he added.
Mohammed Humza, 20, changed his plea to guilty partway through his trial for murdering Carl Campbell.
The 33-year-old was shot in the head in High Street, West Bromwich on 27 December.
Jaspal Rai and Vikesh Chauhan deny murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life at Birmingham Crown Court. Humza denies the second charge.
The trial continues.
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The education minister asked for an action plan earlier this year to tackle the weakest of the core subjects taught in schools in Wales.
Huw Lewis said performance has improved but there is "more still to do".
The group has made 14 recommendations, including addressing problems in recruiting maths teachers.
The independent task force was set up in January, as maths teachers from across the country were brought together for a summit. Mr Lewis said Wales needed to "raise its game".
For those who took maths GCSE in June, just 47.5% of pupils managed a grade of A*-C, - another drop compared with 50.6% last year and 52.8% in 2013.
But when the results of students who took the exam early are taken into account, they show an overall improvement of 2.7% on 2014.
Mr Lewis said this figure of 64.4% getting A*-C in maths was the best performance to date and he was "keen to build on our success".
"I can absolutely see the value of a centre of excellence for maths, particularly in supporting school-to-school working and peer support," he added.
The minister said he was happy to accept all the 14 recommendations.
Task force chairman Michael Griffiths said the hubs would be based at schools "which have a record of developing excellence in mathematics teaching".
They will be set up as part of the work at pioneer schools, which are developing the new curriculum in Wales over the next few years.
Mr Griffiths, former head of Cardiff High School and now an education consultant, said: "We have come to the conclusion that the often heard quote 'I'm just no good at maths' is a myth.
"This belief is often a feature of western culture, whereas in countries that perform best in international tests, for example some countries in the Far East, inborn talent is considered less important than hard work, persistence, resilience, good teaching and self confidence."
Batsman Smith, 27, scored three half-centuries in limited-overs cricket this season, while 21-year-old seamer Kitt has yet to make his first-team debut.
Director of cricket Mick Newell said: "Greg has developed his game, particularly in 20-over cricket, where he played some crucial innings.
"We were looking at this year as a really important year for Ben and he has surpassed expectations."
Kitt has been handed a first professional contract, having taken 101 wickets in a combination of Second XI and academy cricket this summer.
Newell continued: "He can also bowl long spells and as he gets older he'll continue to develop his skills.
"In a similar way to Jake Ball, he's been here a while and is now kicking on, which is good to see."
Smith joined Nottinghamshire from Leicestershire ahead of the 2015 season and scored a crucial 50 off 33 balls in their T20 Blast quarter-final victory over Essex this summer.
"There's no reason why he can't expand his game to get more involved in red-ball cricket and become a top four player across all formats," added Newell.
"I'm very impressed with the way he has improved. Can he improve again in 2017? That's the challenge."
The Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, was also affected, with flight delays and cancellations at its two airports.
The National Weather Service has maintained an alert throughout Buenos Aires province.
About 100 people were evacuated from the city of Bragado, 200 km (124 miles) west of the capital, reports said.
The city suffered power cuts and damage to property after roofs collapsed and trees fell.
The authorities in the city of Lujan, near the capital, have called on residents to leave their homes because of rising water levels.
The violent storm affected several other towns and cities and caused chaos in transport systems, including the metro, commuter trains and buses in Buenos Aires.
In 2013, one of the heaviest storms recorded in Argentina killed dozens of people in the province and forced thousands more to evacuate.
Six sites across the country have been shortlisted to host the dump, which would be Australia's first.
The facility would house low-level and intermediate waste, which is currently stored across more than 100 sites.
Resources and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg said no community would be forced to take on the facility.
"We won't unilaterally pick one, this is a voluntary community consultative process," Mr Frydenberg told the ABC.
He said landowners stood to receive four times the value of their property if it was purchased for the development.
Any community prepared to host the site would also receive A$10m towards local projects, he said.
The six shortlisted sites are Sally's Flat in NSW, Hale in the Northern Territory, Cortlinye, Pinkawillinie and Barndioota in South Australia and Oman Ama in Queensland.
They were chosen from a list of 28 locations nominated voluntarily by landholders.
A final decision is expected after Australia's next federal election.
Mr Fydenberg said low-level waste included items such as gloves, goggles, paper or plastic that were used in nuclear medicine.
Intermediate waste could include steel rods used in nuclear reactors, he said.
"More than 100 sites across the country, including hospitals and universities, are licensed to store this waste on an interim basis," he said.
Former Yugoslavia defender Mihajlovic, 46, has signed a two-year deal after leaving Sampdoria earlier this month.
Inzaghi, 41, who played for Milan from 2001 until his retirement in 2012, replaced former team-mate Clarence Seedorf as Milan coach last June.
Milan finished in 10th place in Serie A, 35 points behind champions Juventus, after only 13 wins in 2014-15.
Mihajlovic played for Roma, Sampdoria, Lazio and Inter Milan during a 20-year senior career in which he won 63 international caps.
Having retired while at Inter, he began his coaching career there as assistant to Roberto Mancini.
He had brief spells in charge at Bologna, Catania and Fiorentina before he was appointed coach of Serbia in April 2012, winning seven and losing eight of his 19 matches in charge.
Mihajlovic joined Sampdoria in November 2013 and took them to 12th place that season, improving to seventh place last term.
Inzaghi, meanwhile, became Milan youth-team coach after retiring as a player before succeeding Seedorf, who only lasted five months in the role.
AC Milan have won 18 Serie A titles and seven European Cups.
The April attack led to the closure of Garissa University College, which has had an impact on the local economy, the activists say.
Some students are also complaining that they are missing out on their education since the college was shut.
Al-Shabab has pledged a "long, gruesome war" against Kenya.
The activists have organised a four-day arts and culture festival in the north-eastern town of Garissa to challenge the perception that the place is no longer safe.
"We believe that you cannot fight terrorism with the gun, that will never succeed," the man behind the festival Lolani Kalu told BBC News.
He said that 200 people had attended the opening of the event and sang the national anthem in several Kenyan languages in a sign of unity.
There was a candle lighting ceremony to remember the victims and also the start of a project to plant 148 trees.
In an effort to show that things can get back to normal, 60 of the people at the festival are sleeping in the college dormitories where students were murdered, Mr Kalu said.
The government has not yet said when the college will reopen with the next academic year beginning in just over a month's time.
The 35-year-old surpassed 1,000 Championship runs for the first time in his career last season, helping Somerset finish second to Middlesex.
Trego has played 207 first-class matches since his debut in 2000.
"2016 was such an exciting year for us all and in many ways increased my passion for the coming years," he said.
"Not only did we nearly reach the Holy Grail of the Championship, we witnessed all of our young talent become top-class performers."
Trego has scored more than 16,000 runs and taken over 600 wickets in all formats of the game during his career.
His only major concern was finding a place he could smoke.
The former Soviet army officer has been charged, along with his colleague Andrei Lugovoi, of murdering Alexander Litvinenko nine years ago, using the radioactive substance polonium-210.
Mr Litvinenko, a former Russian spy, had fled to Britain after accusing his agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB), of corruption and carrying out assassinations.
It was during a meeting with Mr Kovtun and Mr Lugovoi at a London hotel in November 2006 that he drank tea containing a fatal dose of polonium.
The official inquiry into the murder, which finally opened in London in January, has heard a stream of evidence linking the two men to the murder.
But it's only now, just as the lawyers were about to make their closing statements, that Mr Kovtun has decided to co-operate with the inquiry and give his version of events via video-link from Moscow.
"I decided to participate now because after observing the hearings in London, I heard many things that can be easily refuted," he said.
"I can tell that a lot remains unclear in this case, and I am the only person to have the answers. I believe light shall be shed on many key issues here, and that could really change things a lot, as the British investigation is still groping in the dark for answers."
But the timing of Mr Kovtun's intervention has caused consternation at the inquiry, with lawyers and the chairman, Sir Robert Owen, all questioning the real motives behind the decision.
One lawyer said he had "grave concerns as to what might be behind these developments", while a source told the BBC "the Kremlin seems to be mobilising".
The fear is the inquiry could now get bogged down.
Already the schedule has been put back.
A further concern is that if Mr Kovtun now becomes a "core participant", to which he is entitled, he would then have access to all the documents, including some classified material.
Mr Kovtun insists the decision to testify now was his and says he's prepared to be cross-examined by any of the lawyers and the police.
But he admitted that getting access to the documents was one of the motives for co-operating.
"Being one of the major participants allows me to question certain people myself and gather some materials, including some classified ones," he said.
"Based on these, I can make my own conclusions."
He also claims to have material which will undermine some of the most important evidence presented at the inquiry implicating him and Mr Lugovoi.
"I am not participating in this process to make people's lives more complicated, to twist something or to prolong it. No tricks," he said.
Instead, he says he wants to try to clear his name.
"I can state that I have absolutely nothing to do with [Litvinenko's murder] and nor does Lugovoi."
So if it wasn't not them, who did kill Mr Litvinenko?
"No idea," he says. "In fact I don't think anyone killed him. I think it was an accident of some sort."
The 27-year-old, who joined the Cherries in May 2014, will remain at the club until at least 2021.
He made 34 Premier League appearances in 2016-17, scoring three times.
Manager Eddie Howe said: "Despite only being 27, Dan also has plenty of Premier League experience and that is crucial for a team that is still relatively new to the division."
Gosling began his career at Plymouth before spells with Everton and Newcastle.
"I've really enjoyed my three years here," Gosling told Bournemouth's website. "In that time we have gained promotion and spent two years in the Premier League, so it couldn't have gone any better."
Gosling's new contract comes after Bournemouth signing Chelsea defender Nathan Ake for a club record fee, understood to be in the region of £20m, England striker Jermain Defoe on a free transfer from Sunderland, and Chelsea goalkeeper Asmir Begovic for an undisclosed fee.
The number of extra jobs was sharply down from an upwardly revised July figure of 275,000.
It was also a smaller rise than the average monthly increase of 204,000 seen during the previous 12 months.
Economists now think the chances of the US central bank raising interest rates this month have been reduced.
The official data for the country's "non-farm payrolls" shows that the number of people out of work was unchanged at 7.8 million in August.
The US economy has been expanding steadily since the end of the last recession in 2009.
Many US economists had expected a larger rise in the number of new jobs being created, more in line with the 190,000 jobs per month added during the previous three months.
But despite the apparent slowdown in August, the continued expansion of employment in the US still points to the possibility that the central bank, the Federal Reserve, could raise interest rates later in the year, most probably in December.
Last week Janet Yellen, the chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, said the country's economic growth and a stronger jobs market meant "the case for an increase in the federal funds rate has strengthened in recent months".
Chris Williamson, chief economist at the financial data service Markit, said: "The data-dependent Fed will most likely see the payroll numbers as taking pressure off any immediate need to hike interest rates, significantly reducing the scope for further policy action in September."
"However, with survey data suggesting some of the recent slowdown in hiring and business activity is due to uncertainty ahead of the presidential election, a rate rise later in the year, most likely December, remains on the table providing the economic data flow picks up again in the fourth quarter."
This view was supported by Luke Bartholomew at Aberdeen Asset Management.
"This should cool speculation about a September hike," he said.
"December is once again shaping up to be the mostly likely date of the next [rate] hike."
Doncaster goalkeeper Thorsten Stuckmann saved an early Sam Foley penalty, but Foley made amends to put Vale ahead with a header on 35 minutes.
Uche Ikpeazu doubled the lead just after half-time.
Byron Moore's backheel two minutes from time secured the points, but Rovers are yet to win in League One and have not scored since the season's opening day.
One teacher recently put their foot through a floor, according to a letter from Taverham Junior in Norfolk.
Head teacher Paul Stanley said it was "particularly galling" when money was being spent building new free schools.
Norfolk County Council said a report into Taverham's classrooms was being compiled, but had yet to be completed.
Mr Stanley said the classrooms had been at Taverham since the 1990s.
He said: "Children's learning is suffering, despite the excellence of the teaching, and they're having to live in completely sub-standard accommodation.
"We're quite happy being a local education authority school, but it is frustrating that there is money for other sorts of schools and local authorities are paying-off debts of schools that are becoming academies [out of local authority control].
"If there are schools with worse mobiles, I'd really like to see them."
A statement from the county council, the local education authority, said it was aware of the school's concerns over classrooms.
"After commissioning a report into their condition, [the council] is in touch with the school on the issue.
"All this in the context of limited funding for a remaining stock of aging mobiles.
"In the case of Taverham that process has started but is not yet complete - it is hoped a recommendation will be made to elected members of the council during the latter half of the autumn term."
The council said decisions on prioritising replacements for mobile classrooms had to consider which schools were in areas of population growth and whether better use could be made of existing permanent buildings on site.
Officers arrived at Arthur Millwood Court, Salford at 17:40 BST on Monday following reports of a man falling from a balcony.
They found the 29-year-old with serious injuries next to the tower block on Rodney Street.
Police said one line of inquiry is examining whether he had taken a legal high known as Spice.
Discussions over his legacy often descend into two separate camps of those who love "Misha" (as he is commonly referred to) and those who harbour a less-than-generous opinion of him.
The shock announcement on Saturday, that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had appointed him as governor of the southern region of Odessa, elicited a similarly varied response.
Mr Poroshenko's choice of such a divisive, head-strong character was interpreted as a sign of weakness, or a demonstration of strength. A stroke of genius - or a blunder of gargantuan proportions.
Those in the "for" camp tout his numerous and Western-style reforms in the years following Georgia's 2003 Rose Revolution that brought him to power, transforming a country on the verge of complete collapse.
In the "against" camp, many point to his impulsiveness - which may have provided the spark to Georgia's disastrous war with Russia in 2008 - and his heavy-handed methods in dealing with political dissent.
Odessa is one of Ukraine's most critical and sensitive regions, one that has been convulsed by extreme political violence in the last year, and which appears to be coming under increasing pressure from pro-Russian separatists.
And the former Georgian leader is also a well-known adversary, to put it lightly, of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Lethal divisions persist in Odessa
Saakashvili gives up citizenship for Ukraine
President Poroshenko's relationship with the Russian leader is fragile and often appears about to disintegrate completely, but it nevertheless still exists, and the two men need to keep their their lines of communication open.
The question is whether Mikheil Saakashvili's strident anti-Putinism, now given a very public forum, could disrupt the delicate balance in Ukrainian-Russian affairs.
Both sides' reactions were immediate. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev tweeted a message amounting to "the circus continues," in reaction to the Georgian's appointment.
Mr Saakashvili shot back, describing the message as "hysterical."
Most importantly, he has been tasked to reform what some say is Ukraine's most corrupt region, and rein in the extensive influence there of the country's richest men - the so-called "oligarchs".
"He (and whatever team he appoints around him) will have several difficult battles ahead - the most obvious being with the notoriously corrupt customs at Yuzhny, Illichivsk and Odessa ports," said Nikolai Holmov, who writes a blog on Odessa.
"By extension, that will also bring him head to head with organised crime and the Odessa mafia, as well as some other nefarious vested interests within the ports," he added.
No-one questions Mr Saakashvili's reputation as a reformer. The question is whether he can clean out the high level of graft, given that he is a complete political outsider with no grassroots structure of support to turn to.
"It shows how empty Petro Poroshenko's bench is, how little he trusts Ukrainians, and how he's running out of options," said one Western analyst, who asked not to be identified, because of the sensitivity of the subject.
On the other hand, his lack of political connections - and therefore obligations - could be a strong point.
Brian Mefford, a political analyst who keeps a blog on Ukrainian politics, wrote recently that President Poroshenko had killed two birds with one stone with the appointment: he had replaced the previous governor, widely seen as close to Ukrainian billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky, without shifting "the balance of power amongst competing business interests in the region", as a locally-chosen candidate would have done.
"In appointing Saakashvili as Odessa governor, it would appear that Poroshenko has assigned a strong leader to govern a key region under pressure by the Russians," he wrote.
The other looming question, of course, is why Mr Saakashvili, a former world leader, would accept a position as a provincial governor, especially as he had already turned down a more senior post as a Ukrainian deputy prime minister.
Making this even more confusing is the fact that in accepting the Odessa position, he gave up his Georgian citizenship, which was the main reason he originally gave for turning down the other post.
Mr Saakashvili said the situations in Georgia and Odessa were closely connected.
"If Odessa ever falls, God forbid, then Georgia might be wiped out from the map," he told the BBC. "That's so obvious, if you look carefully at the geo-politics of the region."
One thing most seem to agree on is that this was an unquestionably audacious move by President Poroshenko.
Mr Saakashvili himself commended the Ukrainian president's boldness.
"I think the president gets it," he said. "My appointment shows that he is prone to very unusual, very radical decisions that took many people by surprise."
"It's not business as usual, you know," he added.
Many of those who died were killed by roadside bombs or in clashes with insurgents while on patrol. Others died as a result of accidents, so-called "friendly fire" strikes, suicide or natural causes.
The six-year British military mission came to an end in April 2009.
The names and details of all the servicemen and women who died are included in the page below.
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Causes of death classed as "Other" include servicemen who died from natural causes, heatstroke, as a result of an accident and a soldier killed while clearing cluster bombs.
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The letter signed by Theresa May that formally begins the UK's departure from the EU has been delivered in Brussels.
Mrs May is telling MPs that this will mark "the moment for the country to come together".
However Nicola Sturgeon said the prime minister still could not answer basic questions about what Brexit would actually mean.
Mrs May's letter to European Council president Donald Tusk was delivered by the British ambassador to the EU, Sir Tim Barrow, at about 12:20.
Addressing the House of Commons as the letter was handed over, the prime minister said Brexit would lead to a "significant increase" in the powers of the UK's devolved administrations, including the Scottish government.
Ms May also promised to "represent every person in the whole United Kingdom" during the negotiations - including EU nationals.
She added: "It is my fierce determination to get the right deal for every single person in this country.
"For, as we face the opportunities ahead of us on this momentous journey, our shared values, interests and ambitions can - and must - bring us together."
The letter to Mr Tusk makes one mention of Scotland in its six pages - saying that the government "will consult fully on which powers should reside in Westminster and which should be devolved to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland" after they return from Brussels.
The letter adds that "it is the expectation of the government that the outcome of this process will be a significant increase in the decision-making power of each devolved administration".
Speaking as she confirmed more than 300 jobs will be created over the next five years by a global professional services firm in Glasgow, Ms Sturgeon told BBC Scotland that she hoped Brexit "goes well".
But she predicted that the formal triggering of Article 50 would bring "a lot of concerns for a lot of people".
Ms Sturgeon added: "There is no doubt that what is happening today does represent something of a leap in the dark.
"Some nine months after the EU referendum, the prime minister still can't answer basic questions about what Brexit will mean for businesses, for the economy generally, and for the type of society we live in."
At the same time as the Article 50 letter was delivered, the Scottish government received a letter from Brexit secretary David Davis responding to the Scotland's Place in Europe paper of options laid out by Ms Sturgeon in December.
It highlighted some common ground between the governments, but said the proposals put forward were not workable.
The first minister, who had talks with Mrs May in Glasgow on Monday, said the letter amounted to "a dismissal of our compromise proposals".
And she said there had not yet been any commitment from the UK government that powers over areas such as fishing and agriculture would be returned to Holyrood rather than Westminster after Brexit.
For Nicola Sturgeon, Article 50 brings both challenge and opportunity. To be clear, she believes that quitting the EU is a calamitous mistake, particularly as it involves leaving the single market.
Ms Sturgeon sought to obtain a distinctive deal for Scotland within Brexit. She argued that, even if the UK was intent upon leaving the single market (which she regretted), Scotland should be enabled to retain membership, perhaps via the European Economic Area.
Failing which, says the first minister, she wants the powers to hold a further referendum on Scottish independence.
The first minister is adamant that she is genuinely seeking compromise within the ambit of the UK. Her rivals say otherwise: that she has engineered conflict and always intended to move to a referendum.
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The first minister also confirmed that a letter asking the UK government for talks over a second independence referendum would be sent later this week.
Ms Sturgeon said the letter would "set out the expectation of the Scottish government that the will, the mandate, of the Scottish Parliament should be respected, and it will seek sensible, grown-up discussions with the UK government."
She said she agreed with Mrs May's assessment that "now is not the time" for a referendum, but added that when the terms of Brexit were clear it would "the time for Scotland to have a choice about its future rather than having that future imposed on us".
Scottish secretary David Mundell said on Tuesday that the UK government would not enter into any discussions about a referendum "during the Brexit process".
He said this could include the negotiations with the EU, any potential transitional measures, and also "significant implementation time" afterwards.
But Ms Sturgeon insisted that the UK government's position was unsustainable, and "will be shown to be unsustainable over the weeks and months to come".
The Scottish Parliament voted by 69 to 59 in favour of seeking permission from the UK government for a referendum - with Ms Sturgeon's minority SNP government being backed by the Scottish Greens.
But the Scottish Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats voted against.
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said the triggering of Article 50 was a "deeply divisive moment in our country's history" and would have a "seismic impact on Scotland's economy, risking thousands of jobs and livelihoods".
Brian Carberry, 49, from Downpatrick, received haemophilia treatment as a child in the 1970s.
In the 1970s and 1980s, some blood products used to treat the disease were imported from the US.
They included donations from prisoners, who were at risk of hepatitis C or HIV.
Mr Carberry was one of about 6,000 people across the UK who became infected with hepatitis C because of the contaminated blood that they received. More than 1,500 others were also infected with HIV, the virus that can lead to Aids.
Some countries, including the Republic of Ireland, have compensated all those who received contaminated blood.
Mr Carberry said he cannot work because of his condition. Haemophilia is a rare inherited bleeding disorder in which the blood does not clot normally.
He said he suffers from irritability, depression, joint problems and is 20% more likely to develop liver cirrhosis.
"It's not necessarily about claiming, the government has acknowledged but they haven't accepted responsibility," he said.
An independent, privately-funded inquiry into what led to the blood products being contaminated was carried out in 2007, but the UK government has never held an official investigation into what happened.
Successive governments have set up five different trusts to make financial support to patients who were treated with the blood products.
The schemes provide different levels of payments - one for individuals who develop chronic hepatitis C, while those who develop cirrhosis or liver cancer are eligible to receive a further second payment.
However, Mr Carberry, who is still deemed stage one, told BBC News NI that the government should provide the same level of compensation for all victims, no matter what stage their illness is at.
"Payment schemes don't work, by the time you get to stage two you're on the last part of your life but you don't get anything until you reach that stage," he said.
"Part of me wants to move onto stage two so I get something, but I know if I move on to stage two I've only a couple of years left (to live)."
In a statement he says: "I am leaving because I want to be a normal 22-year-old who is able to relax and have some private time out of the spotlight."
Harry, Louis, Liam and Niall have said they'll continue touring as a four-piece and will record a new album.
It's not the first time a group has opted to carry on after a member has left the band.
Geri Halliwell left The Spice Girls in the middle of their world tour in 1998.
Baby, Posh, Sport and Scary continued with their North American tour and released another album after Ginger went solo.
They had two number one singles after Geri's departure, before each went their separate ways in 2000.
All five girls reunited in 2007 for a Spice Girls world tour and performed at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic games.
Robbie Williams left Take That in 1995. It's never been made clear whether he was pushed out or left because he wanted to.
The band continued without Robbie for another year before they announced they were disbanding.
Following that announcement the Samaritans set up a special helpline to help fans come to terms with the fact Take That were no more.
In 2005 the four-piece reunited and went from strength to strength.
Robbie rejoined the group in 2010 but left again in 2014, along with Jason Orange.
In 2005 the Pussycat Dolls released their debut album with singles Don't Cha, Stickwitu, Beep, Buttons, I Don't Need A Man, Wait A Minute and Sway.
Carmit (the redhead) left the group after the first album, saying they used to argue about where to go for dinner, but nobody really noticed.
They released their second album Doll Domination as a quintet. It did alright, but then things all went a bit sour.
The others thought Nicole was getting too much attention so Jessica left the group and then Ashley did followed by Kimberly and Melody.
Before Beyonce was Mrs Carter she was in Destiny's Child and their line-up changed quite a bit.
The most-famous line-up was Kelly, Beyonce and Michelle and they once came into the Radio 1 studios and met Scott Mills.
Before all that though LaTavia Roberson, LeToya Luckett, Farrah Franklin (who?) had all at one point asked people to "say their name".
Destiny's Child didn't do bad, despite losing three members over the years. They ended up selling more than 60 million records worldwide.
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The Airlander 10 - a combination of a plane and an airship - took off at 18:15 BST on Tuesday near its base at Cardington Airfield, Bedfordshire.
During the flight, which lasted about three hours, the 302ft (92m) long craft reached 3,500ft (1,067m).
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) said it was "a hugely successful flight".
This is the second successful flight flown since the £25m aircraft nosedived during a test flight on 24 August.
No-one was injured in the accident, but the airship's cockpit was effectively destroyed.
The aircraft, which is the length of a football pitch, was given a pair of "giant inflatable landing feet" as part of a package of improvements following the crash.
The accident was due to the Airlander climbing to an excessive height because its mooring line caught on power cables, an Air Accidents Investigation Branch report found.
HAV developed the vessel, which is quieter and emits less pollution than traditional aircraft, and believes it could be the future for air travel.
The firm is hoping to build 12 Airlanders a year by 2018, some as passenger aircraft that will carry up to 48 people at a time.
Other plans include assisting with coastguard duties and providing military and civil surveillance.
It could also be used for filming and academic research, or delivering heavy equipment to remote corners of the world or for humanitarian missions, the developers have suggested.
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The RMT union said a planned ticket office reorganisation would threaten 130 jobs, pay and safety.
GTR intends to close 34 station ticket offices and staff 49 others only at peak times on Southern, Thameslink and Great Northern.
Instead "station hosts" would assist passengers around stations.
The two sides are already in a long-running dispute over the role of train conductors on Southern.
The RMT said 70% of its members voted in favour of strike action and nearly 80% supported action short of a strike. It has not yet announced any strike dates.
A GTR spokesman said only one in four (26.9%) voted for strike action with more than half of RMT station staff members ignoring the ballot.
He added: "While disappointed, we urge the union to stop this dispute and save our passengers and staff further pain by becoming part of the solution rather than the problem."
Stations listed for reduced ticket office hours include Chichester, Crawley, Dorking, Huntingdon, Hove, Lewes, Reigate, Stevenage, Welwyn Garden City and Worthing.
Ticket window closures include Alexandra Palace, Caterham, Cricklewood, Lancing, Purley and Sutton.
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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.
1 August 2014 Last updated at 17:53 BST
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.
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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?"
The hosts enjoyed the better of a cagey first half but went behind when Willian swept home a curling shot after good work from Diego Costa after the break.
Costa found the top corner with a similar strike to double the lead after Nemanja Matic's powerful run.
Hull never recovered and could have been further behind but for Pedro's poor finishing from six yards.
Chelsea manager Antonio Conte promised "a solution" after his side went down with a whimper against Arsenal last weekend and he found his answer in a strategy he used at former club Juventus.
The Italian opted for a three-man defence during much of this trophy-filled time in Turin and deployed Gary Cahill, David Luiz and Cesar Azpilicueta at the back as he organised his Chelsea rearguard to match.
It did not initially appear to have stabilised a side who had conceded nine goals in their last four games in all competitions.
Luiz lost track of Dieumerci Mbokani as he apparently struggled with the extra space he and his team-mates had to cover and was fortunate that the Hull striker's control betrayed him.
But the defence, along with the team as a whole, improved markedly after half-time and never looked like blemishing only their second clean sheet of the season.
The chief beneficiary of Conte's reorganisation was Victor Moses.
The 25-year-old's last Premier League start for Chelsea was in a 2-1 win over Aston Villa in May 2013 when Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard and Juan Mata were among his team-mates.
Loan spells at Liverpool, Stoke and West Ham followed, but the Nigeria international should not have to wait as long for his next appearance.
Playing as a right-sided wing-back, he was industrious and inventive and might have earned a first-half penalty when his trickery lured Hull forward Adama Diomande into a rash challenge.
Willian and Costa's precise efforts decided the destination of the three points, but Moses will be most pleased with his day's work.
Even the most ardent Hull fan will not have expected their season to continue in the way it started.
But equally they will be alarmed by how the Tigers' form has flat-lined after wins over champions Leicester and Swansea in their first two games. They have taken just one point from their last five games and are three points above the relegation zone.
Had Robert Snodgrass's early deflected effort not been brilliantly tipped over the top by Thibaut Courtois, it might well have been different.
But the hosts' defensive resilience wilted in the second half and the more they chased the game, they more vulnerable they looked.
The uncertainty over manager Mike Phelan's contract is an unwelcome distraction for a side who will need to be fully focused to turn their scant resources into survival.
Hull caretaker manager Mike Phelan: "We were quite pleased we created a few issues for them in the first half, but we expect a team like Chelsea to ramp up the pressure a little bit.
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"It has been difficult to get forward but we're not playing Mickey Mouse teams here. We have to be sensible with our approach and can't just be open against these teams.
"My situation has fluctuated from week to week but we're not far apart. We are talking and having lunches together, the owners and I. It's just a case of where it all stands.
"Now we have to get together and move forward. We have a few more games now where we can hopefully be competitive. I don't think there's any issues with the players who are here, they are trying to win football matches.
Chelsea boss Antonio Conte: "Every game is very tough in England and I am pleased with our performance because we scored two goal and got a clean sheet. I saw the right pressure and the right intensity from the players.
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"After these two defeats it's not easy to work because two defeats for Chelsea are heavy defeats. But this was a good answer.
"I saw many of the players with great commitment, attitude and will to change the situation. I am pleased for them.
"We must follow this with work, work, work!"
Hull take the long trip to Bournemouth on Saturday, 15 October after the international break. Chelsea are at home to champions Leicester on the same day in the 12:30 BST kick-off.
Match ends, Hull City 0, Chelsea 2.
Second Half ends, Hull City 0, Chelsea 2.
Foul by Nathaniel Chalobah (Chelsea).
Andrew Robertson (Hull City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Hull City. Jake Livermore tries a through ball, but Dieumerci Mbokani is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Ryan Mason (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Abel Hernández.
Attempt missed. Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Oscar.
Substitution, Chelsea. Nathaniel Chalobah replaces Willian.
Attempt missed. Pedro (Chelsea) left footed shot from very close range is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Marcos Alonso with a cross.
Attempt missed. Tom Huddlestone (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by David Meyler.
Attempt saved. Oscar (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Marcos Alonso.
Substitution, Chelsea. Pedro replaces Victor Moses.
Hand ball by Gary Cahill (Chelsea).
Substitution, Chelsea. Oscar replaces Eden Hazard.
Substitution, Hull City. Tom Huddlestone replaces Sam Clucas.
Attempt missed. Diego Costa (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Gary Cahill with a headed pass following a set piece situation.
Andrew Robertson (Hull City) is shown the yellow card.
Victor Moses (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Andrew Robertson (Hull City).
David Luiz (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Shaun Maloney (Hull City).
Attempt blocked. Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Diego Costa.
Foul by Diego Costa (Chelsea).
Curtis Davies (Hull City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Hull City. Abel Hernández replaces Markus Henriksen.
Foul by Gary Cahill (Chelsea).
Dieumerci Mbokani (Hull City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Robert Snodgrass (Hull City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Sam Clucas.
Goal! Hull City 0, Chelsea 2. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner.
Attempt blocked. Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcos Alonso.
Attempt saved. Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Willian with a cross.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Sam Clucas.
Attempt saved. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Marcos Alonso.
Substitution, Hull City. Shaun Maloney replaces Adama Diomande.
César Azpilicueta (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adama Diomande (Hull City).
Goal! Hull City 0, Chelsea 1. Willian (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Diego Costa.
Foul by N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea).
Ryan Mason (Hull City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
The building offered Dumfries a significant upgrade on the town's previous ageing facilities.
Anybody who remembered the old swimming pool on the Greensands which it replaced could not have failed to have been impressed.
Gym facilities, catering and a large multi-use entertainment space provided something the area desperately needed.
But there were warning signs of the issues to come even during the construction process.
There were repeated delays to the opening schedule as it slipped months behind its original timetable.
And yet, to the untrained eye, the £17m building looked impressive when it finally opened in 2008.
However, that hid a chronicle of underlying issues which quickly started to emerge as soon as the centre came into use.
Just two weeks after it opened to the public, a leisure pool was forced to close due to tiles coming loose.
Within 18 months a training pool had to shut to allow its moving floor and tiles to be replaced.
It left the centre looking more like a building site at times than a showpiece facility.
By 2011, surveyors were called in to try to establish the cause of persistent faults experienced during its short life.
A year later it emerged that at least one of its main facilities had been shut on more than 200 days since it opened.
That translated to about one day a week when it could not offer the full provision of services.
Finally, in 2013, Dumfries and Galloway Council started court proceedings against Kier Northern who built DG One.
A year later, the centre was shut completely and temporary gym and swimming facilities installed at other sites in the town.
However, repairs work could not get under way until the legal wrangle with constructors had been resolved.
It looked like that had finally reached a solution in 2016 when a settlement to allow remedial work to begin was agreed.
A £10m price tag was attached and it initially appeared that the work was progressing well.
But further issues emerged, which it has now been estimated will cost at least an extra £3m to address.
That has prompted outrage at the council at the scale of the problems with what was meant to be a boon for the town.
Its leader has even contacted police and the Health and Safety Executive to see if a criminal investigation might be required.
In the meantime, the local authority has taken the difficult decision to continue with the repairs programme despite the rising costs.
It decided demolition and replacement, or simply knocking the building down, were not credible options.
Instead, it wants a final figure delivered within two months on what it will actually cost to bring the centre back into use.
In the meantime, £500,000 has been drawn down to allow the repair work to continue.
An "independent, comprehensive and unfettered" inquiry into how the situation reached this stage has also been ordered.
The council has pointed the finger at constructors Kier, but it may have a few questions to answer itself during the process.
Indeed, in its hopes to re-establish public faith in its major building projects it has accepted that it will have to be the case.
In the meantime, the scaffolding stays around the DG One centre as work continues to try to bring it back into use.
And everyone passing by can only shake their head and wonder at how everything could go so badly wrong?
A passing officer spotted the blaze at the Black Rock centre in Portishead in the early hours of Tuesday.
In a post on the Bristol Indymedia website, the group, called "Angry Foxes Cell", says it "used accelerant to burn the major electrical cables".
Police said it is too early to decide "cause or responsibility".
A spokesman said the group's claims were "one of the lines of enquiry" and a forensic team will be investigating the incident.
He said he wanted to stress that as the facility was still under construction it did not contain ammunition or anything that posed any danger to the public.
Avon and Somerset PCC Sue Mountstevens described the fire as "devastating".
She apologised to the local community for any inconvenience caused by the fire and while the site is being made safe.
The group said in the post that its members targeted the construction site on Monday night, leaving it with "flames licking high".
Angry Foxes Cell said it "puts smiles on our faces to realise how easy it was" to target the building.
The statement claimed the group also slashed tyres and poured paint stripper on two vehicles in Bristol - one belonging to the security company G4S and the other to GEOAmey, a firm that transports prisoners.
The post concludes by saying the "night of action coincides with the announced start of the planned cull of wild badgers in the south-west of England".
"Through attempting to facilitate the cull and stop resistance the police shore up the interests of agricultural industry and the land-owning classes.
"We hope this will be one of many rebellions against this slaughter."
The final sentence says: "The struggle will continue until all are wild and free."
Avon and Somerset Police said no-one had been arrested in connection with the badger cull in west Somerset.
A G4S spokesman confirmed one of its vehicles had been damaged, while GEOAmey said none of its fleet in Bristol had been vandalised.
A fire service spokeswoman said the cause of the blaze was not yet known.
"Firefighters are likely to be there for some time checking for any hot spots to make sure the blaze doesn't reignite," she said.
"Once the building is secure an investigation into the circumstances of the fire will take place."
Valley Road remains closed and drivers are being advised to take alternative routes. Firefighters are expected to be on site for several days.
The centre, which is being built at Black Rock Quarry, is to be used by the Avon and Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire forces.
The facility, which will contain two indoor firing ranges and classrooms, is due to open in January.
It is part of a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) deal, worth more than £100m, which will also see police stations and other operational facilities built in Patchway, Keynsham and Bridgwater.
Bristol Indymedia is a volunteer-run open-access news website which is part of the global Indymedia movement which covers "grassroots, non-commercial news".
Police used tear gas and water cannon against demonstrators demanding the resignation of conservative President Park Geun-hye.
Tens of thousands of people of took part in the march, according to police.
It brought together various groups, including trade unions opposed to the president's business-friendly policies.
Others were protesting against plans to impose state-issued history schoolbooks, which they say whitewash South Korea's past dictatorships.
Many marchers chanted "Park Geun-hye, step down''. Security forces fired tear gas when some of them tried to break through police barricades as they moved towards the presidency.
Park Geun-hye, South Korea's first female president, was elected two years ago.
She is pushing through controversial plans to make labour markets more flexible by giving employers more leeway in dismissing workers.
The lawyer for Turia Pitt, who was badly burned on more than 60% of her body, said she was "very relieved".
Ms Pitt, a former model and engineer, became trapped in a blaze during the 100km (62 mile) race in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in 2011.
An official inquiry blamed race organisers for numerous failings.
The event sent runners through the El Questro Wilderness Park, where it was known that fires were burning.
The organisers, Racing the Planet, could have altered the course or cancelled the race, but they did not consult the proper authorities, an official inquiry found.
Another runner, Kate Sanderson, who lost part of her foot, settled with race organisers last year.
Ms Pitt, who had to wear a compression suit over her face, neck and body, lost four fingers and a thumb.
Her lawyer, Greg Walsh, said details of her settlement with race organisers were confidential. Other local reports said the payout was about A$10m ($9.3m, £5.5m).
"She's very relieved to put the case behind her," he said, adding that even after the surgery she had already received, she still needed further treatment for her injuries.
Ms Pitt would have faced several more years in court had she not settled, he added.
"It has been very stressful. She now looks forward to getting on with her life and starting a family with her partner Michael Hoskin," Mr Walsh added.
Tourism has long been a mainstay of the country's economy, which is the second largest in the Arab world after Saudi Arabia.
But in the light of recent attacks on Western tourists, and with large areas of neighbouring Libya controlled by so-called Islamic State (IS), foreign holidaymakers are reluctant to set foot there.
Before the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 as part of the short-lived Arab Spring, tourism employed more than one in 10 of the workforce and generated the equivalent of $12.5bn (£8.5bn) in revenue.
At that time, Egypt could boast nearly 15 million tourists a year, lured by such attractions as the pyramids in Cairo and the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Now the picture is quite different.
Although there is no warning against the resort itself, the UK Foreign Office advises against all but essential travel by air to and from Sharm el-Sheikh, after the downing of a Russian jet that took off from the resort in October last year.
Another Red Sea resort, Hurghada, was the scene of an attack in January by suspected IS militants, who stabbed three Western tourists, although their injuries did not prove to be life-threatening.
"Terrorists continue to plan and conduct attacks in Egypt," says the Foreign Office. "Further attacks are likely."
It is still unclear whether the EgyptAir plane fell victim to terrorism or whether an accident was to blame.
But either way, the Egyptian economy will suffer as a result, according to Dr Yeganeh Morakabati, an expert in international relations, risk and tourism at Bournemouth University.
"If it is terrorism, Egypt will be a victim," Dr Morakabati told BBC Radio 5 live.
"If it is a technical fault, people and the media will lay blame on Egyptian incompetence," she added. "I feel that if it is a technical fault, it is not any better for the Egyptian economy."
Mike Bugsgang, chief executive of the UK-based Association of Group Travel Organisers, also fears the possible consequences for Egyptian tourism.
"It's obviously an awful situation that's arisen," he told the BBC. "It's not yet proven that it was terrorism, but if it is, it's going to be a massive problem for the Egyptian tourism business, which is ongoing, particularly with the events that have taken place in the recent past."
Small wonder, then, that the number of tourists in Egypt is declining. By 2013, it had fallen by one-third to under 10 million a year, and has undoubtedly slumped further since then.
And last year's revenue from tourism was just under half the 2010 figure, at $6.1bn (£4.2bn).
International tour operators can weather that kind of collapse in demand: they simply promote alternative destinations perceived as safer.
As Mr Bugsgang says, package holidaymakers have been switching their allegiance to countries such as Spain, which has seen a "huge upsurge" in summer bookings this year, and Bulgaria.
But it's terrible news for all the ordinary Egyptians who rely on foreign visitors for their livelihood: hotel workers, tourist guides, taxi drivers and stallholders in the local souks and bazaars.
The only ones whose interests are served are the armed Islamist groups determined to inflict economic damage and destabilise the government, not just in Egypt, but also in other once-popular destinations in the region, such as Tunisia.
Not that the Egyptian authorities have been standing idly by and allowing the tourism industry to crumble. New security upgrades are in the pipeline, including a £20m programme to add more CCTV cameras and other measures, such as sniffer dogs.
Routine security checks are carried out on people entering Sharm el-Sheikh and the police regularly check vehicles in the towns of Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada.
"We have put a lot of new equipment in, we will continue to put a lot of equipment in. We're training and retraining the people," says Egypt's new tourism minister, Yehia Rashed, a former Marriott International executive who was appointed just two months ago with a brief to reinvigorate the industry.
But despite his claim that "Egypt is 100% secure", would-be visitors will take some convincing.
For his part, Mr Bugsgang feels that Egypt can recover from its current tourism troubles, but it will take time.
"Tourism destinations are extremely versatile and flexible in bouncing back," he says.
"We've seen examples of this over the years and there's no getting away from the fact that Egypt is very popular with British holidaymakers."
Mr Bugsgang says the Egyptians are investing "huge sums of money" in their security systems.
"I'm sure that the British travel industry will continue to support Egypt moving forward in any way it can, but in line with Foreign Office advice," he adds.
"I'm confident that it will bounce back, although not in the near future."
Jose Angel Flores and Silmer Dionisio George were shot as they left a meeting in Tocoa in the north-east on Tuesday.
They were both members of Muca, which fights for land it says has been fraudulently taken from farmers and given to multinationals.
Muca says dozens of farmers and activists have died in land rights clashes since 2009.
The most high-profile recent killing was of award-winning indigenous rights activist Berta Caceres, who was shot at her home in the western town of La Esperanza in March.
Mr Flores was the president of Muca (The United Farmworkers Movement of Aguan).
He and Mr George, who had both previously been threatened, were killed by hooded men armed with rifles in Tocoa, 240km (149 miles) north of the capital, Tegucigalpa.
Muca opposes large agriculture companies that grow African oil palm, saying land has fraudulently been transferred to them from farmers.
It pursues legal cases on farmers' behalf but also carries out illegal land occupations in the Bajo Aguan valley.
Amnesty International's Americas director, Erika Guevara-Rosas, said Honduras had become a "'no-go zone' for anyone daring to campaign for the protection of the environment".
US Ambassador to Honduras James Nealon condemned the killings, saying: "The United States of America calls for a prompt and thorough investigation and for the full force of the law to be brought to bear against those found responsible."
Government spokesman Luis Osabas said the killings were being investigated.
The actress, who appeared in the 2011 film of Bronte's Jane Eyre, said she was "delighted" to be offered the role.
"It will be an honour to work with the society to promote [the Brontes'] legacy," continued the 81-year-old.
Chair John Thirlwell said the society was "thrilled" and could "think of no better person" to be its president.
Dame Judi, who was born near York, will be officially voted in at the society's annual general meeting in June.
Her appointment follows a tumultuous period for the organisation and last year's resignation of its former president, Bonnie Greer.
The society is currently celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Bronte's birth, on 21 April 1816.
The author, whose other works include Shirley and Villette, was the older sister of Branwell, Emily and Anne Bronte.
Next week's centenary will be marked by events at the Bronte Parsonage Museum, as well as a service at Westminster Abbey in London.
The Bronte Parsonage in Haworth, West Yorkshire, was the home of the Bronte family from 1820 to 1861 and gifted to the Bronte Society in 1928.
At least 16 people have died since the clashes began on Saturday, with women and children among the dead.
Libya's government has been struggling to maintain security since the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi last year.
Meanwhile, officials said an election planned for later this month has been postponed to 7 July.
Earlier, a delegation from the International Criminal Court (ICC) has arrived in Libya to try to secure the release of a four-person team detained after visiting Saif al-Gaddafi, the jailed son of the former leader.
A Libyan official said Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor, who was part of the team, is being investigated on suspicion of spying.
The government said the fighting in Kufra began after members of the Toubou tribe attacked a checkpoint and tried to gain access to a security building nearby and steal their vehicles.
But representatives of the Toubou tribe say they were attacked by security forces - the Deraa brigade - and they have accused the brigade there of trying to "exterminate" them.
Dozens of others were injured in the clashes, while correspondents say the real death toll could be considerably higher.
The BBC's Rana Jawad in Tripoli says much of the fighting is believed to be related to a turf war over smuggling routes used by tribes in the city.
Members of the national army are said to be stationed at the airport in Kufra and are not getting involved, our correspondent adds.
A local security official said shops and schools in Kufra are closed, and electricity has been cut off from the city.
The Deraa brigade is part of the defence ministry, overseeing a shaky truce struck earlier this year after deadly clashes at the time between the Toubou and another tribe.
They were sent to the town after ethnic fighting between the Toubou against the rival Zwei ethnic group in February.
The ICC has meanwhile confirmed that a delegation had arrived in Tripoli to "negotiate with the Libyan authorities and the prosecutor general for the [ICC] team's release".
On Saturday, the ICC said in a statement that the four-person team had been held after a meeting with Saif al-Gaddafi on Thursday, and called for them to be freed.
But Ahmed Jehani, the Libyan envoy to the ICC, told AFP that only two of the four, Ms Taylor, and her Lebanese interpreter, Helen Assaf, were in detention, while the two others - Spaniard Esteban Peralta Losilla and Russian Alexander Khodakov - stayed of their own accord.
"Melinda was arrested because she was caught exchanging papers with the accused Saif al-Islam," he said, adding that Ms Assaf was being held as an "accomplice."
The ICC wants to try Saif al-Islam, 39, for his role in trying to crush the uprising last year which resulted in the toppling and killing of Muammar Gaddafi.
Libya's interim government has so far refused to hand him over for trial in the Netherlands - the seat of the ICC. Libya has insisted he should be tried by a Libyan court.
Also on Sunday, officials announced that the country's election for a constitutional assembly originally set for 29 June had been postponed to 7 July because of "logistical and technical" issues.
At a news conference, the president of the electoral commission, Nuri al-Abbar, said the "very short time" it had been given to prepare for the elections had not been enough, "especially for a country that hasn't seen elections for almost half a century".
Peel Ports Medway's application for a factory at the Port of Sheerness on Sheppey has been approved by Swale Borough Council.
The group said it hoped to attract manufacturers to the area after Vestas' plans fell through.
The Danish wind turbine firm cancelled plans for wind turbine manufacturing on Sheppey in June.
The Vestas plan would have created about 1,600 jobs on the island.
Peel Ports Medway controls the Port of Sheerness and Chatham Docks.
Gary Parkinson, managing director, said: "The Vestas decision was disappointing but had nothing to do with the suitability of the site at the Port of Sheerness."
The company said it had been in confidential discussions with several manufacturers over the use of the site and the Port of Sheerness was ready to invest in the infrastructure of the area.
Mr Parkinson added: "Our discussions with leaders in offshore energy and renewables as well as with the government and local authorities have reinforced our conviction that this is a perfect site for manufacture of wind turbines and related activities."
In September, the Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP, Gordon Henderson, said a renewable energy company had shown interest in the Isle of Sheppey.
Priority has been given to seven housing estates across the borough deemed in urgent need of repair - and potentially - demolition.
Town planners said 20,000 people will be affected - and 8,500 homes. The work will last 15 years.
YourMK, which is behind the plans, said residents will not be "displaced".
A spokesman said the team was "exploring options" to pay for the work and did not rule out private sector investment, describing the financial process as "complex".
Milton Keynes was a pioneering housing development when it was was officially designated a town in January 1967.
But many of its early housing estates are now considered tired, run-down and in need of maintenance and structural repair.
Seven council estates have been given priority - Netherfield, Coffee Hall, Tinkers Bridge, North Bradville, Fullers Slade, the Lakes and Beanhill.
A timetable for the regeneration was announced on Wednesday, with the first letters sent out to people living in Fullers Slade.
In the autumn, focus will shift to the Lakes estate and then in early 2018, North Bradville.
The consultation will continue over the next 18 months.
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YourMK - a partnership between Milton Keynes Council and Mears Group - was formed last year to oversee the massive programme of upgrading.
A statement to residents on its website reads: "You do not need to do anything right now. No building or refurbishment work will start straight away. No decisions will be made about your homes or neighbourhoods without residents being fully involved."
Managing director David Gleeson said locals will be consulted on every aspect of the plans.
"It is not about displacement or about taking homes away," he said, "it's not about dispersing communities, and we are not here to take that away from them."
The Welsh Government's leader of the house and chief whip confirmed that NMW made the offer to the PCS union at the weekend.
Jane Hutt told AMs that the museum and the PCS were meeting on Wednesday afternoon to discuss the offer.
About 300 of the museum's staff receive the payments and 220 are PCS members.
600 staff
300 receive weekend premium payments
£4,000 lump sum offer equivalent to two years of weekend payments
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The union has been holding strikes at NMW sites, while industrial action has been going on for more than two years.
Staff have already been offered a lump sum equivalent to two years' worth of premium payments as part of the deal to end extra payments for working weekends and bank holidays.
Mubasher Misr (Live Egypt) would stop broadcasting until it had obtained "the necessary permits", it said.
Cairo accused Mubasher Misr of serving as the mouthpiece of the Islamist supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi - something the channel denied.
It was a major source of tension between Egypt and Qatar, which backed Mr Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood.
The two countries have sought to repair relations in recent months, and on Saturday Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi held talks with a special envoy sent by the emir of Qatar.
On Monday evening, a presenter on Mubasher Misr announced that it was stopping broadcasts "temporarily until the preparation of suitable circumstances in Cairo, that is, after obtaining the necessary permits in co-ordination with the Egyptian authorities".
Al-Jazeera said it would incorporate Mubasher Misr into a new regional offering.
Mubasher Misr's offices in Cairo were closed shortly after the military - then led by Mr Sisi - overthrew Mr Morsi in July 2013, but the channel continued to broadcast from Doha.
The next month, after launching a crackdown on the Brotherhood that left hundreds of people dead, the Egyptian authorities banned Mubasher Misr, accusing it of spreading lies and rumours that were damaging national security and unity.
Before Monday's announcement, Mubasher Misr was the last significant Egypt-focused news channel to broadcast footage of anti-government protests by supporters of the Brotherhood - which was designated a terrorist group last December - or air their views.
In recent months, Qatar has come under pressure from other Gulf Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, to end its support of the Brotherhood and other Islamist groups in the region, and to stop what they perceive as biased coverage of Egypt by the al-Jazeera network.
Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Badr Abdelatty told the New York Times that it supported Arab reconciliation. But he added, without elaborating: "We need to mix actions with words. Deeds are very important."
Analysts speculated that the suspension of Mubasher Misr might ease the way for Egypt to free three journalists from al-Jazeera's English channel, in line with a recently-approved law that allows foreign citizens to be deported rather than jailed.
Cairo bureau chief Mohamed Fahmy, who is Canadian-Egyptian, Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed, and Australian correspondent Peter Greste were sentenced to between seven and 10 years in prison in June on charges of spreading false news and supporting the Brotherhood.
Carole Ann Denby, 63, claimed the screw was left in her ankle after surgery in 2006, causing lasting pain.
She died in March 2014 after taking an overdose and the screw was found after her cremation in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.
Healthcare scientist Dr David Watson said the titanium screw was different to the ones used in surgery in 2006.
Dr Gareth Leopald, who conducted the post-mortem examination on Mrs Denby, said she died from acute respiratory failure, excessive use of the sleeping drug Zopiclone, as well as obesity and emphysema.
He concluded she was in "generally poor health".
Dr Watson told Llanelli Town Hall the dimensions of the blackened titanium screw were "markedly different" from ones used during surgical procedures, which were checked against medical records.
Coroner's officer Hayley Rogers said Mrs Denby had been generally well until she broke her ankle in a fall in woods in Carmarthenshire on 25 May 2006.
The inquest heard she subsequently suffered mental health problems caused by recurrent infections and was found dead on 21 March 2014.
She had left a note for her husband indicating she wanted to end her life.
Mr Denby, who could not attend the inquest due to ill health, had his statement read by a coroner's officer.
He said his wife had repeatedly been detained under the Mental Health Act despite his insistence she had no mental illness and believed the screw "was a cause, or contributory factor, to the infections and the stroke she suffered in May 2010".
Mr Denby accused medical staff of drugging his wife to cover up for the health board's errors and said Mrs Denby "would not have taken the pills were it not for her poor treatment".
The inquest continues.
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Aurora, a 29-year-old white beluga whale, died on Friday just nine days after her calf Quila died of a similar illness.
A necropsy found the mother probably died of a virus or toxin, but the cause of death is unknown.
The facility's head said it was possible they were deliberately poisoned.
"We're waiting for more test results in hopes they will provide an explanation," said Aquarium chief executive John Nightingale during a news conference. "Absolutely nothing is off the table."
Aurora's 21-year-old calf Quila was the first whale born in captivity in Canada. Aurora began exhibiting symptoms days after her calf died.
The aquarium conducted a necropsy on Saturday to determine the cause of death. The examination revealed Aurora had severe liver damage, but that the cause of death was impossible to determine.
"We have to assume their deaths are related," Mr Nightingale said.
Beluga whales can live up to 40 years in captivity, according to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
The deaths have fuelled calls by animal rights activists to make keeping marine animals in captivity illegal.
The Vancouver Humane Society said the aquarium is on the ''wrong side of history'' by continuing to keep marine animals in captivity.
''There's no way the aquarium can replicate their natural environment,'' humane society spokesperson Peter Fricker told the BBC.
Public opinion regarding whale captivity has turned, Mr Fricker said, since the documentary Blackfish, which was highly critical of the sea park industry.
Vancouver Park Board chair Sarah Kirby-Yung said there should be a city-wide referendum on the issue.
"I have a lot of heart for both sides of the issue," Ms Kirby-Yung told the CBC.
"I think as an institution, they do incredible work. I also have to listen to Vancouverites, that's what I was elected to do, and there's a growing discomfort that people have with having cetaceans there."
The aquarium has five other beluga whales in captivity, but Mr Nightingale said they won't take in any more until they can figure out what killed Aurora and Quila.
Cronin's club Leinster said on Monday that the 30-year-old had sustained a high-grade tear which could rule him out for 10 weeks.
The injury, sustained in Leinster's recent Pro12 win over Zebre, was initially thought to be a minor strain.
The news is a blow to Ireland as Cronin was the main cover for skipper Rory Best at hooker.
Ireland's first Six Nations match is away to Scotland on Saturday, 4 February.
"It's quite a significant hamstring injury," said Leinster coach Stuart Lancaster.
"He went to push-off and accelerate around the corner and saw it go. He is deeply disappointed but he will be back a better player."
The U-turn comes as the competition regulator was threatening an inquiry.
The pressure is being seen as a clear signal to firms that they must not stop the public taking advantage of the power of the internet to find bargains.
BMW had put a ban on its dealers using Carwow, which connects car sellers across the country with buyers hunting for the best price.
The website appealed to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), accusing BMW of putting a road block in the way of legal competition.
Carwow argued that dealers with cars at competitive prices were clamouring to be given permission to use the site and speed up their sales.
After months of wrangling, BMW reversed its original decision, as it became clear that the CMA was on the brink of launching a formal investigation.
Car sales - new and old - are moving increasingly online, with other websites, such as Webuyanycar, Tootle and Wizzle, also making inroads.
James Hind, Carwow's founder, said: "It shows this is a consumer trend which is not going to abate."
He believes 90% of car buyers do their research online, though even Carwow's users then complete their purchase direct with the dealer.
The CMA has made no secret of its enthusiasm for promoting the potential of price comparison sites to strengthen the hand of consumers.
A spokesman for BMW said: "The time is now right to enable our UK retailers to explore the additional sales opportunities that are becoming available through internet-based new car portals.
"Over the coming months we will be working with our retailers and learning from their experience to ensure we continue to provide a consistent premium buying experience for those customers who choose to purchase a BMW or Mini product through these new channels."
The new tally is part of a report carried out by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It is its first global assessment of the world's flora.
The study also found that 2,034 new plant species were discovered in 2015.
However, the report warns that 21% of plants are at risk of extinction, with threats including climate change, habitat loss, disease and invasive species.
Prof Kathy Willis, director of science at RBG Kew, said: "It's really important to know how many plant species there are, where they are and the relationship between the groups, because plants are absolutely fundamental to our well-being.
"They provide us with our food, our fuel, our medicines - even controlling our climate."
The researchers came up with their new plant total by searching through existing databases.
However, they found a lot of overlap within these records, with some plants being given different names by different botanists at different times.
In total, they now estimate that, excluding algae, mosses, liverworts and hornworts, there are 390,900 plants, of which approximately 369,400 are flowering.
"This is just scratching the surface. There are thousands out there that we don't know about," said Prof Willis.
However, scientists are finding new species all the time.
Last year's discoveries include a tree called Gilbertiodendron maximum, which grows up to 45m-high, found in the forests of Gabon in West Africa.
Ninety new species of Begonia were also uncovered, as were five new species of onion and a sprawling, insect-eating plant called Drosera magnifica in Brazil, which was first spotted on Facebook.
Botanists from China, Australia and Brazil were the most likely to find and name new plants.
The Kew team also assessed the problems faced by the world's flora.
The researchers warn that habitat changes, including the loss of mangroves and forests, are having a big impact on many species.
Pests and diseases were also labelled as a major problem, with the majority of research focused on commercial crops rather than the pathogens that attack wild species.
The scientists also looked at the movement of plant species around the world.
"Invasive species are really one the biggest challenges for native biodiversity," said Dr Colin Clubbe, head of conservation science at Kew.
"They are a real driver of species loss."
With the damage they cause to the environment and the difficulty and expense of removing them, the report says the global cost of invasive species is estimated at nearly 5% of the world's economy.
The conservationists have now logged 4,979 invasive species around the world.
"Now that we've got this list and this number, it's certainly a bit like know your enemy," said Dr Clubbe.
"We know what we are dealing with, we can then look at them, and see what's similar, what makes a good invasive, and then see how we can use that information to have better management practices in place or recommendations for how you deal with them."
The report also found that more than 10% of the parts of the Earth that are covered with vegetation are highly sensitive to climate change. However the longer-term effects were not yet clear, said Prof Wallis.
She explained: "There are some areas where the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide is good for some plants, so we have the greening of the Arctic, some areas of savannah are also getting shrubbier and some trees are getting bigger.
"However, we are also seeing big changes in terms of distribution patterns and flowering of plants. And also the indirect impact of climate change - for example, changes in terms of pollinators - which could have a really serious effect on plants."
Kew's global assessment will now be carried out annually, allowing scientists to monitor how plants are changing over time.
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Darcie Butler had been playing at her home in Malvern Road, Oldbury, when she became trapped at about 06:30 BST.
"I was in bed when I heard my partner shouting 'come downstairs, Darcie's got her foot stuck'," said her father Steve, a car salesman.
"It was a nightmare. I tried to pull it apart but in the end we had to call the fire station."
Firefighters had to saw the Minion toy in half to free Darcie, but Mr Butler said it had not fazed her.
"She did like the toy but she's not too bothered," he said. "She's playing with both halves and keeps saying 'it's broken.'"
The drugs were found on luxury yacht Makayabella after it was stopped off the coast of Ireland in September.
James Andrew Hill, 30, of Hampshire Close, Ilkley, appeared at Wakefield Magistrates' Court charged with conspiracy to import Class A drugs.
He was remanded to appear at Leeds Crown Court on 15 July.
Stephen Powell, 48, from Guiseley, has already been jailed for 16 years after pleading guilty to attempting to import the drugs.
Two other men, David Webster, 44, of Rillmead, Otley, and Philip McElhone, 29, of Freemantle Place, Leeds, have admitted conspiracy to import the drugs and will be sentenced in September.
Dawne Powell, 56, of Netherfield Road in Guiseley, has also beech charged with conspiracy to import a Class A drug.
A further three men are awaiting trial in Ireland in connection with the seizure.
The Makayabella was in poor condition when it was intercepted in the Atlantic Ocean, 200 miles off the south-west coast of Ireland.
Investigators also seized a 25ft (8m) motor boat called Sea Breeze, moored in Pwllheli, north Wales.
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Six locations will be affected with motorists in Whitehaven set to pay £1.80 per hour - a figure 50% higher than in Carlisle where the rate will be £1.20.
Business leaders have warned the increases, likely to come in early next year, will be a blow to smaller traders and said the disparities between areas were unfair.
The council said the charges were being introduced reluctantly and it was inviting comments on the issue on its website.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) called for a safety review of such products.
It proposed a rule requiring manufacturers to prove such soaps are safe and more effective against infection than plain soap and water.
Recent studies indicate an ingredient in such products could scramble hormone levels and boost drug-proof bacteria.
The proposal rule does not apply to alcohol-based hand sanitizers and products used in healthcare settings.
Manufacturers have until the end of 2014 to submit the results of clinical trials on their products, the FDA said. The new regulations would be finalised in 2016.
"New data suggest that the risks associated with long-term, daily use of antibacterial soaps may outweigh the benefits," Colleen Rogers, an FDA microbiologist, wrote in a statement on Monday.
Certain ingredients in such products - such as triclosan in liquid soaps and triclocarban in bar soaps - may contribute to bacterial resistance to antibiotics, the agency added.
Such products may also have "unanticipated hormonal effects that are of concern", according to the statement.
Recent studies of such chemicals on animals have shown they may alter hormones, the FDA said, but such results have not yet been proven in humans.
"Because so many consumers use them, FDA believes that there should be clearly demonstrated benefits to balance any potential risks," the statement added.
If the FDA's proposed rule is finalised, companies would be required to provide data to support their product's health claims.
If they cannot, the products would be reformulated or relabelled in order to remain on the market.
In March, a federal appeals court approved a lawsuit by the non-profit Natural Resources Defense Council, aimed at forcing the FDA to review the health impacts of triclosan.
Sarah Harmon, 22, from Presteigne, has spoken to politicians to offer recommendations to improve treatment.
She said a "one size fits all" approach of offering Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) did not suit everyone.
The Welsh government said it had worked with health boards to improve access to psychological therapies.
Ms Harmon said: "I'm fed up with hearing that CBT is the answer to everything. Borderline personality disorder doesn't respond to CBT but I've been offered it four times.
"You swing between extreme emotions and there doesn't seem to be a middle ground.
"It makes you quite sensitive to things and it can be hard to manage. When you feel something it's so intense, you just don't know what do with it."
Ms Harmon applied for one of the 20 spaces in her area for dialectical behaviour therapy, which was specifically developed to treat her disorder, but was unsuccessful.
"I felt like it was my only chance to get better and it was gone," she said.
But she kept applying and began receiving the therapy this year.
"I'm calling on ministers to make change happen. Above all, young people are the experts of our own experience, we know what works, so let us be part of the discussion, the re-design of services and future interventions," Ms Harmon added.
The Welsh government said it spends more on mental health services than any other part of the NHS, including on dialectical behaviour therapy.
Personality disorders are conditions that can cause a range of distressing symptoms and patterns of abnormal behaviour, including:
Source: NHS Choices
That's because it is hard to imagine the future when you are 10 years old and your mother - disabled, on welfare, and struggling to cope with several children - sends you to live in an orphanage.
Mr Wolfe, now 45, says he spent his early years just wondering if he would make it into adulthood.
Today Mr Wolfe is the head of a successful firm that allows customers to buy pre-paid Visa or Mastercard gift cards that can then be personalised with a photograph.
And it's a booming business - between 2010 and 2013 Pittsburgh-based GiftCards.com saw its annual revenues rise by 72%, from $64m (£37m) to more than $110m last year.
Mr Wolfe says that while his upbringing might not have allowed him to dream about his future, it definitely helped prepare him for it.
"Going through difficult times as a young kid makes you resilient - so I felt like I could overcome pretty much anything," he says.
Mr Wolfe says that while he never set out to be an entrepreneur, he was inspired by the man who established his orphanage - the Milton Hershey School in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
The founder, Milton Hershey, was also the creator of Hershey, the famous US chocolate and confectionery company which is now worth an estimated $20.8bn.
"Probably subconsciously it was inside me that I wanted to walk in his footsteps," says Mr Wolfe.
He adds that the inspiration to get into the gift-giving business specifically came from memories of his childhood.
"I can remember lying under a blanket one Christmas Day because there was no heat in the house.
"Somebody knocked on the door and we looked outside and there was a box outside of gifts for us."
In 1994 Mr Wolfe graduated from Bloomsburg University determined to set up a coupons business, initially thinking he would sell them door-to-door to video stores.
However, he was then involved in a serious accident which put him in hospital.
Mr Wolfe says: "It was lemons to lemonade - I was recovering from spinal surgery, getting fusion in my neck, and I was just lying there.
"So I got a book and taught myself how to [computer] code," he says.
With his new found programming knowledge, Mr Wolfe decided to ditch his plans to focus on video stores, and instead be more ambitious and develop his coupons idea as a website. And so his first business was born - MyCoupons.com.
This was a a prescient move in 1995, when the internet was just getting off the ground.
Yet Mr Wolfe struggled to get the company up and running, making just $1,000 (£586) that first year. And then his girlfriend dumped him.
"I don't think she thought I was going to make out too well in life," he says.
As Mr Wolfe had been living with his girlfriend he suddenly found himself homeless, living out of his car for two months while renting office space from a friend.
Finally, he made a sale - to the owner of a company selling Italian espresso machines, who wanted to put a coupon on his website.
When the businessman said how much he was willing to pay MyCoupons.com for the coupon - $1,500 - Mr Wolfe said he knew the internet was his future.
From there, things picked up, and sister company GiftCards.com was founded in 1999 under its original name Directcertificates.com.
But only a year later near disaster struck when Mr Wolfe agreed to sell MyCoupons.com - which was by then getting 20 million page views per month - for $20m just as the dot-com bubble burst.
With the purchaser suddenly finding itself in financial difficultly, the payment was delayed, and Mr Wolfe ultimately only received $2m.
"I had to figure out how we were going to survive," says Mr Wolfe, who eventually trimmed his then workforce of 40 people to 14.
Mr Wolfe then successfully launched and ran a data tracking company, before taking a back seat from his business interests to help raise his son who was born in 2004.
"I grew up thinking that my father was dead - but he really took off when I was just four," says Mr Wolfe, adding that spending time with his own son was incredibly important.
However, when his son started going to school in 2008, Mr Wolfe decided to refocus his time and efforts on running GiftCards.com.
Last year, gift cards accounted for $118bn in sales globally - 90% of which was offline, at grocery stores and the like.
Mr Wolfe says he thinks sales will shift further to the internet in the next five years, and that GiftCards.com is well placed to take advantage.
And so far, he has refused any outside investment in the business.
"I want to control the outcome of it - I feel like we have something special," he says.
The Giants conceded a goal scored by Daniel Ahsberg in the opening seconds but hit back to lead 2-1 through David Rutherford and Colin Shields.
Former Giants Craig Peacock equalised but James Desmarais and Alex Foster made it 4-2.
Alex Leavitt got the Clan's third before Foster netted again for Belfast.
BBC Two's King Charles III, which will be shown on Wednesday, imagines events after the death of the Queen.
It has ruffled feathers for raising the question of Prince Harry's paternity and showing Princess Diana as a ghost.
Oliver Chris, who plays William, told BBC Breakfast people may find the Diana scenes "difficult to watch" but that they are handled "very sensitively".
King Charles III has been adapted from the award-winning play of the same name by Mike Bartlett.
This week, the Mail on Sunday ran a front page story voicing concerns from Diana's friend Rosa Monckton that the Prince Harry paternity suggestion was "deliberately causing pain to a real living person in a salacious fashion".
Speaking to BBC Breakfast on Tuesday, Chris said he had found the controversy "really surprising".
Asked whether showing the ghost of Diana was insensitive, he replied that one of the themes of the programme was to depict the "friction" between the lives of the real people in the royal family and their institutional roles.
"We can only, as the subjects, imagine what that might be like, which is exactly what this does," he said.
"And I think it would be strange if Diana was not a part of the story because she's such a big part of the princes' and Charles' psychology.
"I understand how people might find that difficult to watch. I personally felt that what we see in King Charles III is this really extraordinary, intelligent addition to the debate about our monarchy, and I feel that the presence of Diana is done very sensitively.
"I think it's quite a tasteful addition to this controversial, provocative, thought-provoking story."
He described the drama as "quite a pro-monarchist film because it upholds the pillars of our society".
He said: "I would like to think that certainly if William saw my portrayal he would see that it's done with an awful lot of respect and admiration."
Chris also paid tribute to his co-star Tim Pigott-Smith, who plays King Charles and who died last month.
"He was a great friend and a real mentor. For him to be taken from us before he even got to see the film - it's one of those cruel jokes in life. I still can't accept it. It's so recent and such a shock.
"As a final testament to his abilities I think he gives a most extraordinary detailed, nuanced and beautiful performance of this man that we all know and think we know, and maybe love or don't love."
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The incident took place in the 2-2 League Two draw against Cheltenham Town on 10 September at Rodney Parade.
Bignot, 30, was fined £600 and warned about his future conduct following an FA charge of violent conduct.
Bignot, whose ban was suspended pending an appeal, attended a personal hearing on Wednesday and had denied the charge.
Newport's Joss Labadie was banned for six months for biting last year, when he played for fellow League Two side Dagenham and Redbridge.
Bottom-of-the-table Newport are unbeaten in four matches under new boss Graham Westley.
Some supporters said children were crying outside the ground and many fans gave up and went home, missing the team's EFL cup clash against Preston North End on Tuesday.
The club said queues were caused by a high number of people buying tickets for the first time.
It said the process would be reviewed.
Posting on Facebook ahead of the game at the Vitality Stadium, Dave Crawford said: "We are stuck outside waiting to collect pre-paid tickets. 45 mins queuing so far.
"Will we get in by half time? It's an absolute farce."
AFC Bournemouth fan Sam Davis said: "It was absolute mayhem - I gave up. I can usually pick up my ticket within about two or three minutes.
"It was a disgrace, I saw kids crying walking away with their dads.
"It was a gargantuan match and it was a chance for new fans to start supporting the team."
AFC Bournemouth said the club "very much appreciates supporters' patience on this matter".
The club said it had made "every effort" to advise supporters to pre-purchase and collect their tickets as far in advance of the match as possible and to arrive early to avoid queues.
The Italian explorer's momentous transatlantic voyage in 1492 saw the meeting of two hemispheres for the first time since the Vikings - a feat that would change the course of history forever.
But precisely where he initially set foot has been disputed for centuries, with as many as 10 islands across the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos (TCI) claiming the accolade.
Now a team of sailors and a historian have made it their mission through a series of maritime expeditions to prove that Columbus' arrival in the Americas was on Grand Turk, TCI's capital isle.
While their theory may not be popular among Bahamians who have long claimed San Salvador as the historic site, they say they want to "set the history books straight".
If successful, it could also be an enormous tourism boost to the tiny British territory.
Historian and long-time TCI resident Josiah Marvel has spent three decades scrutinising age-old texts detailing Columbus' voyage in libraries across the globe.
He has even created his own translations of Columbus' diary, accounting for mediaeval grammar and nautical phraseology.
Mr Marvel claims other modern translations have "too many flaws" to justify the long-held assertion that San Salvador, known as Watlings Island until 1926, was the landfall spot.
Among them is the failure to allow for magnetic variation - causing misreadings in Columbus' compasses - and the apparent impossibility of various moorings.
Additionally, Columbus' diary gives latitudes indicating the difference between the landfall island and Hispaniola to be 90 nautical miles.
"Almost the precise distance between Grand Turk and Hispaniola," Mr Marvel said.
To test the theory, he joined forces with two professional sea captains to sail an alternative route from Grand Turk to Ragged Island - Columbus' final stop in the Bahamas - via Mayaguana and the Inagua Islands.
The trio's first trip aboard catamaran Destiny II, which they say has speeds equivalent to Columbus' Santa Maria, set sail in November 2014.
Captaining the voyage was veteran Bahamian sailor Dave Calvert, who helped set a transatlantic crossing record in 2001.
"After becoming acquainted with Josiah's work, I do believe his theory is the most accurate," Mr Calvert told the BBC.
Expedition leader Tim Ainley said "clues" in Columbus' diary create a "fascinating puzzle which has enthralled historians and mariners for centuries".
"The text is vague because in those days they didn't have GPS, they didn't know how to calculate longitude and Columbus' fleet was completely lost - they thought they were heading for Japan," Mr Ainley explained.
Mr Ainley, who has 30 years' experience sailing the region's waters, continued: "Everybody agrees Columbus was a consummate mariner. His ships could not sail towards the wind so they would have been very careful about how they were going to sail back out of somewhere before they sailed in.
"Neither did they have anchor chains, so would have needed a clear sandy bottom to drop a rope-secured anchor in. This very much limits the anchorages.
"Also, magnetic variation meant Columbus thought he was heading west but in fact was heading further south than he realised. This ties in perfectly with Grand Turk which is the southernmost island of all the possible landfall places."
The last leg of the 2014 expedition was plagued by calm weather, prompting a follow-up trip last December.
After completing their route, the team is convinced it aligns precisely with the diary's clues.
This time the members were joined by US archaeologist Shaun Sullivan to search for evidence of a Lucayan settlement on Mayaguana, where the crew believe Columbus was when he reported being surrounded by Lucayans in canoes.
"It's absolutely clear that Columbus landed somewhere in the south-eastern Bahamas or Turks and Caicos - but exactly where remains an open question," Dr Sullivan said, adding that resolving the issue would require "a long, scholarly process" and the accumulation of additional physical evidence.
The men are now gearing up for a third voyage this autumn re-enacting Columbus' commonly accepted route from San Salvador to Ragged Island - with the explorer's logbook in hand - in an effort to prove the distances and directions do not fit the text as accurately as a departure from Grand Turk.
"I want to set the history books straight and prove once and for all that we know he landed in Grand Turk.
"To our knowledge, no other historian has ever sailed the various alternative routes through the southern Bahamas and TCI," Mr Ainley added.
"Personally, I find it fascinating. It gives me goose bumps to think I am literally sailing in the wake of Columbus' fleet from all those years ago."
You can track the group's progress here.
That still enabled the film to claim second spot, just behind The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2.
The film was based on the true events which inspired the book Moby Dick and had an estimated $100m (£65.9m) budget.
"We stand behind Ron and his vision for the story," said Jeff Goldstein, a Warner Bros vice president.
"We believe in him. He's a terrific filmmaker. But some movies work and unfortunately some movies don't."
Howard is no stranger to movie success - his film Beautiful Mind won two Oscars back in 2002.
His other hit films include Frost/Nixon and Apollo 13.
But his 2006 adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, while a commercial success, failed to hit the spot with critics.
Warners, which has had hits with films including The Lego Movie, Godzilla and American Sniper, has also had its share of box office struggles with The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Jupiter Ascending and Pan.
Of course, Hollywood is bracing itself for the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which debuts this week.
Goldstein said he hoped that In the Heart of the Sea would benefit over the Christmas holidays by having opened before Star Wars.
"There's a cultural phenomenon around the corner," he said.
"Our hope was to get in in front of it and get some word of mouth so that when you get down to Christmas week - we leapfrog over this coming week - that you can break through the clutter of those other new movies."
All eyes will be on Star Wars' first week takings, which could threaten Jurassic World's debut of $208.8m to become the biggest launch in history.
The rest of the US box office was fairly evenly spread, with The Good Dinosaur in third place with $10.5m (£6.9m) and then Creed in fourth with $10.1m (£6.6m) and Krampus in fifth with $8m (£5.7m).
Kirsten Duguid was a passenger in a Audi A3 which left an unclassified road, near to the Mains of Arnage, near Ellon, at about 18:20 on Friday.
Another girl, 12, and the 43-year-old male driver sustained minor injuries.
Kirsten's family said "her kindness, generosity and kind hearted spirit touched many".
Police Scotland said officers assisted in removing both girls from the vehicle which was submerged in water. All three occupants of the car were taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
Kirsten was from the Ellon area.
In a statement released through police, the 14-year-old's family said: "Kirsten was a much loved daughter, sister, granddaughter, great-granddaughter, cousin and niece.
"Kirsten will be sorely missed and we would ask for time to grieve as a family.
"Our deepest and heartfelt thanks go to all first responders and the medical staff at ARI."
Local area commander Ch Insp Elaine Logue said: "This is a tragic incident which will touch the hearts of all those who knew Kirsten as well as the wider community. Our thoughts at this time are with Kirsten's family.
"I would also like to acknowledge the efforts of the emergency services who attended at the scene - it is clear brave attempts were made to free the young girls from the vehicle.
"Members of the public also assisted at the scene and I would like to thank them sincerely for everything they did to help while faced with such tragic circumstances. Police Scotland will continue to provide support to those affected at this very sad and difficult time.
"Enquiries are ongoing and at an early stage and as always I would appeal to anyone with any information, or who saw the vehicle prior to the collision, to contact Police on 101."
Meldrum Academy head teacher Andrew Travis said: "We are all so sad to hear the news of the loss of Kirsten at such a young age.
"She was a gentle and well-respected pupil who was loved by both the pupils and staff throughout the school and was a conscientious student who always tried her best at all she did.
"She will be sorely missed by all who knew her and our thoughts are very much with her family at this time."
The road at its junction with the A948 was closed for several hours while crash investigations were carried out.
I salute the countries who made this agreement. They have all laid aside some cherished objectives of their own to meet a common purpose, a long-term solution to climate change.
We think that we had the right strategy, we think that it worked. The big thing is that now all big economies, all parties have to commit in the future in a legal way and that's what we came here for.
This is a great success for European diplomacy. We've managed to bring the major emitters like the US, India and China into a roadmap which will secure an overarching global deal.
It's a middle ground, we meet mid-way. Of course we are not completely happy about the outcome, it lacks balance, but we believe it is starting to go into the right direction.
In the end, it ended up quite well. The [Durban Platform] is the piece that was the matching piece with the Kyoto Protocol. We got the kind of symmetry that we had been focused on since the beginning of the Obama administration. This had all the elements that we were looking for.
Right now the global climate regime amounts to nothing more than a voluntary deal that's put off for a decade. This could take us over the 2C threshold where we pass from danger to potential catastrophe.
Negotiators have sent a clear message to the world's hungry: 'Let them eat carbon.' Governments must bank the pennies won here in Durban and immediately turn their attention to raising the ambition of their emissions cuts targets and filling the Green Climate Fund. Unless countries ratchet up their emissions cuts urgently, we could still be in store for a 10-year timeout on the action we need to stay under 2C.
This Durban outcome is a compromise which saves the climate talks but endangers people living in poverty. It is a disastrous, profoundly distressing outcome - the worst I have ever seen from such a process. At a time when scientists are queuing up to warn about terrifying consequences if emissions keep rising, what we have here in Durban is a betrayal of people across the world.
Ordinary people have once again been let down by our governments. Led by the US, developed nations have reneged on their promises, weakened the rules on climate action and strengthened those that allow their corporations to profit from the climate crisis.
There is some hard bargaining ahead to get a treaty by 2015. It will be particularly tough for the US, which isn't doing its fair share of emissions cuts and scaling up finance. The politics on that aren't very promising given two members of the Republican party are in complete denial.
Judges want to question him over claims that his government has withheld documents requested by prosecutors preparing his crimes against humanity trial.
The trial has already been delayed several times.
Mr Kenyatta denies organising ethnic massacres after elections in 2007.
Some 1,200 people were killed and 600,000 driven from their homes.
Two weeks ago, prosecutors asked for the case against him to be adjourned indefinitely, saying they did not have enough evidence because of obstruction by the Kenyan government.
President Kenyatta has repeatedly argued he needs to remain in Kenya to fight militants from the al-Shabab group and take care of state affairs.
In a statement, the ICC said discussions with Mr Kenyatta would focus on "the status of co-operation between the prosecution and the Kenyan government".
African leaders have lobbied for the case to be dropped, accusing the ICC of only investigating alleged atrocities in Africa.
Mr Kenyatta's lawyers have repeatedly said the whole case should be dropped because of a lack of evidence.
Mr Kenyatta was elected in 2013, despite facing the charges. Analysts said he turned the prosecution to his advantage, portraying it as foreign intervention in Kenya's domestic affairs.
In 2007, Mr Kenyatta was a close ally of President Mwai Kibaki, who was declared the election winner despite claims of fraud from his rival Raila Odinga.
The disputes soon turned violent, with targeted killings along ethnic lines, pitting members of the Kikuyu ethnic group of Mr Kenyatta and Mr Kibaki against other communities.
Mr Kenyatta is accused of organising an ethnic Kikuyu gang, the Mungiki sect, to attack rival groups.
His Vice-President, William Ruto, faces similar charges, although he was on Mr Odinga's side during the violence.
Amari'i Bell, playing at left wing-back as Uwe Rosler fielded a back three, swept the hosts in front in the 27th minute following a smart turn and cross from David Ball.
Town had a number of chances to put the game to bed in the first half with centre-halves Cian Bolger and Ashley Eastham wasting free headers.
But substitute right wing-back Victor Nirennold diverted home Ash Hunter's strike at the back post in the 62nd minute to give Rosler's men a two goal cushion.
It should have been plain sailing for Town but Chesterfield got back into it four minutes later as striker Ball tripped Kristian Dennis in the box with Jay O'Shea firing the subsequent spot-kick past ex-Spireites goalkeeper Alex Cairns on the stopper's first league start.
That 66th minute goal paved the way for an end-to-end finish with Fleetwood substitute Devante Cole and Chesterfield's O'Shea wasting the best chances as Fleetwood held on to move up to 10th in the table and send the visitors to an eighth league loss on the bounce.
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Match ends, Fleetwood Town 2, Chesterfield 1.
Second Half ends, Fleetwood Town 2, Chesterfield 1.
Corner, Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Tom Anderson.
Attempt blocked. George Glendon (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Ian Evatt (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Aaron Holloway (Fleetwood Town).
Liam O'Neil (Chesterfield) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the left side of the box.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Nathan Pond.
Bobby Grant (Fleetwood Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Reece Mitchell (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Bobby Grant (Fleetwood Town).
Nathan Pond (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ian Evatt (Chesterfield).
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Ashley Eastham.
Attempt saved. Devante Cole (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Aaron Holloway replaces Ashley Hunter.
Foul by George Glendon (Fleetwood Town).
Reece Mitchell (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Amari'i Bell.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Laurence Maguire replaces Connor Dimaio.
Foul by Conor McLaughlin (Fleetwood Town).
Liam O'Neil (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Gary Liddle.
Attempt blocked. Ashley Hunter (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Kyle Dempsey (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Amari'i Bell (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Anderson (Chesterfield).
Substitution, Chesterfield. Jake Beesley replaces Kristian Dennis.
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Devante Cole replaces David Ball.
Foul by Amari'i Bell (Fleetwood Town).
Reece Mitchell (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Liam O'Neil.
Goal! Fleetwood Town 2, Chesterfield 1. Jay O'Shea (Chesterfield) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Penalty conceded by David Ball (Fleetwood Town) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Chesterfield. Reece Mitchell draws a foul in the penalty area.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Alex Cairns.
Attempt saved. Kristian Dennis (Chesterfield) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Conor McLaughlin (Fleetwood Town).
Gboly Ariyibi (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Fleetwood Town 2, Chesterfield 0. Victor Nirennold (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ashley Hunter.
The 19-year-old played his first competitive game since fracturing his ankle in August, in the Sky Blues' 1-1 draw with Oldham at the Ricoh Arena.
"I think the physios are sick of me nagging them to get back," Maddison told BBC Coventry and Warwickshire.
"It'll take me a few games but I'm confident I'll get back in that form."
Maddison was injured in Coventry's 2-1 defeat by League One promotion rivals Walsall and it was feared he would be out until January with the problem.
But he has returned ahead of schedule and says he is raring to get his season back on track with Tony Mowbray's side sitting fourth in League One.
"It's been a frustrating three or four months but it's a great feeling to be back on the pitch - I'm feeling good," Maddison added.
"All the best teams have a good run over the Christmas period and we've got games coming up that I think we should be winning if we want to challenge at the top end of the league."
Meanwhile, the Sky Blues should find out the severity of on-loan defender Ben Turner's ankle injury over the next 24 hours.
Turner was hurt against Oldham and is to see a specialist on Wednesday.
Kyle Edmund, Dan Evans, Heather Watson and Naomi Broady will join British number one players Murray and Konta in the singles draws in Melbourne.
Murray, 29, will be the top seed as he tries to win his first Australian Open, having finished runner-up five times.
Konta, 25, reached her first Grand Slam semi-final in Melbourne 12 months ago.
Jamie Murray and Brazil's Bruno Soares will defend the doubles title they won in 2016.
The tournament, which takes place from 16-29 January, will also see former world number ones Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams return.
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Federer has been out since Wimbledon recovering from a knee injury, Nadal ended his season in October with a wrist jury, while Williams missed the end of the 2016 season with a shoulder injury.
Williams, 35, will be trying to win a 23rd Grand Slam singles title, which would see her pass Steffi Graf at the top of the Open era standings, while Novak Djokovic hopes to win the event for a record seventh time..
Bales earlier admitted killing the civilians, saying there was "not a good reason in this world" for the massacre.
He said he wandered away from a US outpost in Kandahar province and attacked two villages nearby in the early hours of 11 March 2012.
A jury must now decide if Bales's life term will include possible parole.
The sentencing hearing has been scheduled for 19 August.
The judge, as well as the commander of Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, where the hearing has taken place, were required to approve any plea deal.
At the start of the hearing on Wednesday, military judge Col Jeffery Nance asked Bales to describe why he thought he was guilty.
The soldier read from a statement describing each killing in the same terms:
"I left the VSP [Village Stability Platform] and went to the nearby village of Alkozai. While inside a compound in Alkozai, I observed a female I now know to be Na'ikmarga. I formed the intent to kill Na'ikmarga, and I did kill Na'ikmarga by shooting her with a firearm. This act was without legal justification, sir."
When asked why he committed the murders, Bales responded: "Sir, as far as why I've asked that question a million times since then. There's not a good reason in this world for why I did the horrible things I did."
Asked about burning the victims, Bales said he remembered a kerosene lantern in the room and recalled a fire and having matches in his pocket when he returned to the base, but not setting the bodies on fire.
When pressed whether he had set the bodies on fire, Bales said: "It's the only thing that makes sense, sir."
Bales's lawyers have said he is contrite about the killings.
Lawyer John Henry Browne described Bales as "crazed" and "broken" on the night of the attack.
At the time, Bales was serving his fourth tour of duty and had been drinking alcohol and snorting Valium.
In addition to the 16 murdered, six Afghans were injured.
Seventeen victims were women or children, and many of them were shot in the head. Some of the bodies were piled up and burnt.
Bales's defence lawyers said they had determined the soldier would not be able to prove any claim of insanity or diminished capacity.
While prosecutors originally said they would seek the death penalty, no US service member has been executed in more than 50 years.
Family members of those killed earlier told the BBC they were outraged that he might not be put to death.
"We will not be satisfied unless he is executed," Haji Abdul Baqi, whose cousins were killed or injured in the attack, told BBC Afghan.
"If they don't execute him, they are showing their power. He martyred 16 of our people, but they are not executing the one person who did all that. Would they forgive us if we killed 16 Americans?"
The frequency of street cleaning and the number of children's play areas will also be cut under the Labour-run authority's plans.
It said its budget has reduced by £144m since 2011 and it must cut a further 15.4m by 2018 and find £11.5m for social care over the same period.
A spokesman said it would have a "major impact on nearly all council services".
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The proposals are to be discussed by cabinet on 14 February and, if approved, will be presented to full council on 28 February.
Among the plans announced, the council said it hopes to save £159,000 by reducing street cleaning and scrapping its dedicated fly-tipping removal team and £54,000 by reducing the number of play areas and ongoing maintenance.
It said it would save £650,000 through the closure of Knottingley Sports Centre and Castleford Swimming Pool.
It also plans to cut 100 full-time posts from its workforce of 4,916.
The council is also proposing to raise council tax by 1.99% and implement a 3% adult social care precept.
Council leader Peter Box said: "We are making tough choices and it will get even tougher, but the needs and welfare of our residents and this district remain at the heart of every decision we make."
Researchers from Queen's University have created a liquid which they say releases more of its fragrance when it comes into contact with moisture.
The perfume is made up of a raw fragrance that scientists 'tagged' on to an odourless ionic liquid, which is salt in the form of liquid.
It has been designed by Queen's Ionic Liquid Laboratories (QUILL).
The perfume gives off an aroma when it comes into contact with water, allowing more of the perfume's scent to be released on to a person's skin.
The scientists say the perfume also has the ability to remove the bad odours that come from sweat. Compounds responsible for the smell are attracted to the liquid, attaching themselves to it and losing their potency.
QUILL researchers are working with a perfume development company to identify a number of products that could eventually be sold in shops.
Project leader Nimal Gunaratne said: "Not only does it have great commercial potential, and could be used in perfumes and cosmetic creams, but it could also be used in other areas of science, such as the slow release of certain substances of interest."
It will be used at a farm-scale level if infected badgers are found on a site.
This is despite scientific evidence that culling at a local level increases TB infection in cattle.
Details of the plan were given by the country's Chief Vet, Prof Christianne Glossop, at a symposium on cattle TB in London.
Prof Glossop told BBC News that she could not be certain that culling badgers at a farm-scale level would not increase TB infection but said she wanted to try out culling in situations where all other measures had failed.
"I agree that there is a risk, but some of these farms have been under TB restrictions for over 10 years. We have removed cattle after cattle, increased biosecurity - but the farmer still has TB infection," she explained.
The Welsh government stressed that the culls would not be like those in England where culling companies shoot both infected and non infected badgers. Instead, only infected badgers would be killed humanely.
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An extensive assessment of badger culling carried out in the 1990s showed that culling badgers on a small area such as a farm increased infection.
The researchers at the time speculated that this was because the culling increased the movement of badgers. It is for this reason that culls in England are conducted over very large areas greater than 150 square kilometres, where researchers believe the proportion of infected badgers moving is small relative to the area culled.
Prof Rosie Woodroffe, who was among those who carried out the so-called Randomised Badger Control Trial (RBCT), criticised the Welsh plan.
"The Welsh government has made great strides in reducing cattle TB through improved cattle testing. It seems a great shame to risk undoing all that progress by farm-scale badger culling, which all the evidence shows is likely to increase cattle TB rather than reducing it.
"The Welsh plan is to kill only badgers that test positive for TB - but that approach was tried in the 1990s. Then, testing was shown to miss a high proportion of the infected badgers, leaving them to spread the disease. And, more recent research suggests that killing even a small number of badgers is enough to disrupt social behaviour, potentially spreading TB over a wider area."
Prof Glossop said that Prof Woodroffe's 1990s trail might be flawed because it was interrupted by the foot-and-mouth epidemic. And she added that the proposed Welsh culls would be carried using a "completely different approach".
Under her scheme, farms where TB infections have been endemic will be assessed to see if there are infected badgers on the site. If there are, badgers on the farm will be culled each year until the infection disappears.
The farm will be monitored and if TB infection in cattle increases, culling will stop.
"We all find ourselves turning to the RBCT for our evidence base because it was the largest and most extensive study that anyone has ever done. But although it was a very well designed and carefully supervised study, you have to face the fact that some elements of the trial on the ground did not quite meet the objectives of the study.
"And although it is said that there was an increase in infection because of an increased movement of badgers, nobody has proved that."
The farms where TB infections are high are in the South West and on the border with England. If infected badgers are found on these farms, culling could begin this year.
The Welsh government has been very successful in reducing TB in cattle though a rigorous cattle-testing programme. Infected animals have been removed and slaughtered since 2009.
It has also had a programme of badger vaccination in parts of Pembrokeshire. In that time incidence of TB in cattle has been reduced by 48%.
There are currently just under 12,000 herd of cattle in Wales. More than 95% of them are TB free.
Of the 500 herds that have TB, it is persistent in 50 or 60 of these herds where traditional approaches have been infective - and it is in these areas that farm-scale badger culling will be tried out.
"These (TB infections) are causing a lot of heartache," said Prof Glossop. "They are costing a lot of money and are a reservoir of infection in itself."
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Merthyr Rugby Club's Owen Morgan, 25, and Greg Roberts, 28, of Glynneath RFC have been banned for four years and two years respectively.
Morgan tested positive for the anabolic steroid drostanolone and the stimulant benzoylcgonine, a metabolite of cocaine.
Roberts tested positive for tamoxifen, which can be used for cancer treatment.
Morgan's positive finding followed an in-competition test on 7 March 2015 after a match between Bridgend Athletic and Merthyr in Swalec Division One West.
Morgan is banned from all sport for four years from 2 April 2015 until midnight on 1 April 2019.
Roberts' positive sample came as a result of an in-competition test on 14 February 2015 after a match between Glynneath and RGC1404 in Swalec Division One West.
Roberts is banned from all sport for two years from 11 March 2015 until midnight on 10 March 2017.
"By making the wrong choices, Owen Morgan and Greg Roberts have cheated themselves, their team-mates and their sport," said Nicole Sapstead, UK Anti-Doping's chief executive.
"Not only have they damaged their sporting careers but they have put their health at risk.
"Our primary focus remains on taking a preventative approach to doping by working to eradicate the source of the problem.
"We do this in partnership with national governing bodies of sport, educating athletes on the risks they take if they decide to take drugs and helping them to make the right choices based on the true spirit of sport."
The full written decision can be found under current sanctions on the UKAD website.
"These bans serve as a strong warning to everyone in the game that non-compliance with anti-doping rules carries grave consequences," said Welsh Rugby Union chief executive Martyn Phillips.
"There is no place for doping within sport, and it certainly doesn't fit in with the values of rugby union. Whether intentional, or inadvertent, players have a responsibility to themselves, to each other, to their clubs and to the sport to act within the rules and spirit of the game.
"We work closely with UK Anti-Doping and fully adhere to the World Anti-Doping Code. There is no room in the code for carelessness or not knowing, and players are encouraged to check the prohibited lists, found via the WRU website which include over-the-shelf medication and supplements.
"We want to rid our game of these practices and we encourage anyone who has any intelligence of doping taking place to call the WRU or UKAD and help protect our game."
Madeleine was so disappointed by the TV version of one of her favourite David Walliams' books, that she wrote to tell him what was wrong with it.
Although she sent the letter to his fan mail address, Madeleine made it clear that it was 'NOT fan mail', and said that 'it is a COMPLAINT'.
Madeleine was upset that so much had been changed from the book, including one character being dropped completely, and the names of others being changed.
She said there was 'no reason whatsoever' for Dave Grubb's name being changed to George Grubb.
Finally, the 11-year-old felt that the main character, Joe, was changed so that he seemed like a 'sad boy' instead of a 'spoiled brat' like in the book.
Madeleine wasn't the only person who was unimpressed - another fan wrote to tell David that the film was 'a bit disappointing' because so much was missing, and he couldn't understand it well.
David Walliams replied to Madeleine with a 'letter of APOLOGY' saying that he was very sorry that she didn't enjoy the TV version of the story.
He said that they had hoped the changes would make the story better, and that 'the good thing is the book will always be the book, and it will never be better than how it appears in your imagination.'
Jose Manuel Merino, of the attorney general's office, said that, under Mexican law, Guzman had the right to appeal against his extradition.
The process was formally launched on Sunday, two days after Guzman had been recaptured.
He had been on the run for six months since a daring jailbreak in July.
The US has filed a request for Guzman to be extradited to face charges of smuggling vast amounts of drugs into the country.
Guzman, who was named Public Enemy Number One by the Chicago Crime Commission in 2013, has been indicted by at least seven US federal district courts.
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But Mr Merino said that Guzman could not be extradited to the US straight away.
Speaking on Mexican radio, he explained that Interpol officers went to Altiplano jail on Sunday and served Guzman with two arrest warrants for his extradition.
He said that Guzman's lawyer could lodge appeals against the order and that the process could be delayed considerably depending on how vehemently they fought his extradition.
Juan Pablo Badillo, one of Guzman's lawyers, said he would take his appeal all the way to Mexico's highest court.
Guzman was arrested on Friday in Los Mochis, a seaside town in his home state of Sinaloa, in north-western Mexico.
Five of Guzman's men were killed in the operation.
He was taken to Altiplano jail, from which he escaped in July through a 1.5km-long (one mile) tunnel.
Mexico's national security commissioner said the jail "fully meets international [security] protocols" and that improvements had been made since Guzman's escape.
He also said that a "rigorous surveillance scheme" had been put in place to monitor the access of prison staff and visitors.
Leaked security footage of Guzman's prison break showed how guards failed to detect his escape until more than 20 minutes after it had happened, despite the sound of loud banging coming from his cell.
The prison director and a number of guards were arrested in connection with his escape.
Mexico is also considering whether to investigate Hollywood actor Sean Penn, who interviewed Guzman soon after his jailbreak.
Unnamed Mexican officials have said Penn's secret meeting helped lead them to the fugitive.
In the Rolling Stone article, the result of a seven-hour meeting, Penn and Guzman discuss various topics, including drug trafficking.
Penn said the meeting was set up by Mexican actress Kate del Castillo.
The actress was approached by Guzman's lawyers after publishing an open letter to Guzman in which she called on him to "traffic in love" instead of in drugs,
Mexican prosecutors said Guzman wanted her to produce a film about his life.
Del Castillo has not made any public comments since the publication of the Rolling Stone article.
February 2014: Recapture after 13 years on the run following "laundry basket" escape from Puente Grande maximum security prison
July 2015: Escape via tunnel from Altiplano prison
2 October 2015: Interviewed by US actor Sean Penn in Durango state jungle hideout and then by phone and video
17 October: Mexican officials announce narrow escape as police try to recapture him in neighbouring Sinaloa state
January 2016: Recaptured in Los Mochis, Sinaloa state
Underlying earnings rose more than 20% to €2.52bn ($2.84bn; £1.85bn), beating analysts' forecasts.
Revenues in the January-to-March period rose 14.7% to €20.9bn.
Growth in North America as well as Europe powered results, with the Munich-based firm citing strong demand for luxury SUVs, such as its X5 model.
BMW also reaffirmed its guidance for solid growth this year.
Sales of luxury vehicles and motorcycles will stay strong, the company said.
During the first quarter, motorcycle sales reached a new high.
However, the carmaker said some markets, including Russia, presented challenging conditions.
Members of the Sikh community discovered the green paint with the Islamaphobic message next to a Nazi swastika sign.
The graffiti was discovered two weeks ago and the Gurdwara decided to publicise the incident following the community meeting.
Police Scotland is appealing for information.
Surjit Singh Chowdhary, Vice-President of Central Gurdwara Singh Sabha, said: "The Sikh community completely abhors the hateful ideology of Islamophobia.
"We are in complete shock that such disgraceful words were put on the walls of this great Gurdwara.
"The Sikh community's gift to Glasgow has been commandeered as a platform for the hateful messages which do not belong in our country."
The £15m Central Gurdwara, in the city's Berkley Street, is due to open later this summer.
It will join the Glasgow Gurdwara in the city's Pollokshields, which opened in April 2013.
Police believe the vandalism took place on either 23 or 24 March and was reported to them on 4 April.
Charandeep Singh, general secretary of Glasgow Gurdwara, added: "These words represent ignorance at its worst. Unfortunately in this climate of rampant Islamophobia, members of the Sikh community have fallen victim too.
"This sad incident should energise our political leaders and fellow citizens to continue the campaign to root out such hateful beliefs.
"We will continue our dialogue with the police, local and national politicians to create an inclusive society and celebrate the contributions made by Scottish Sikhs to our country."
Ch Insp Simon Midgely, the area commander for Glasgow West End, said: "There is no room in our society for racial abuse and it is not acceptable to treat people in such a manner.
"I have no doubt that this incident caused individuals considerable distress, but I would like to reassure them that this matter is under investigation.
"I would like to thank the Gurdwara who contacted police to report the matter, indicating clearly that people in Scotland will not tolerate racism. If anyone has any additional information or knowledge, please do get in touch with us."
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The Dons' Samir Carruthers saw his first-half shot blocked before Daniel Pudil struck the post for Wednesday.
Owls substitute Atdhe Nuhiu failed to convert numerous headed chances, before Ross Wallace was sent off for violent conduct with 10 minutes remaining.
The home side, who remain sixth, poured forward late on but to no avail.
Despite Wednesday's inability to break the deadlock they managed to extend their lead over seventh-placed Cardiff City, who lost 2-1 at Brentford, to six points.
The Owls host Cardiff on 30 April but could already have a top-six place secured by then if results go in their favour on Saturday.
MK Dons are now winless in eight matches but were fortunate not to lose after Fernando Forestieri and Nuhiu spurned chances in a hectic second half.
Nottingham Forest, Fulham, Rotherham and Bristol City all sit nine points above the Dons, with three games remaining.
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Moeen, dropped on nought, shared 146 for the third wicket with Root after the tourists had been reduced to 21-2.
When Root was given out caught behind on review, Moeen added 86 with Jonny Bairstow (49) and ended the day 120 not out as England reached 284-4.
India already have an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series.
The momentum has been with the hosts since the drawn first Test, but they were punished for some sloppy moments - as well as the chance missed off Moeen, Root was given a let-off on nine.
After a difficult morning on a surface offering only slow turn, England positively took the upper hand and must capitalise on day two to bat India out of the match, a task that has been beyond them so far on this tour.
"England will be happy with the way the day has panned out," said former England spinner Vic Marks on Test Match Special. "At 21-2 you thought 'hang on a minute, last match of the tour, mind's not on the job' and England could have made a fool of themselves.
"Root set the pattern, but Moeen managed to get through that first 30-40 minutes when he struggled, and away he went after lunch. He was in great form by the end, and relished the new ball."
England seemed set to waste winning a fourth toss of the series when Keaton Jennings loosely edged a drive off Ishant Sharma and captain Alastair Cook pushed to slip to give the impressive Ravindra Jadeja the first of his three wickets.
On a turgid morning, an uncertain Moeen was tormented by Ravichandran Ashwin and should have been taken by KL Rahul at mid-wicket off Jadeja, while Root was fortunate to edge through a vacant second slip.
After scoring at 2.34 runs per over in the first session, the tourists took a more aggressive approach following lunch, bumping along at 3.54 for the rest of the day.
First it was the intent of Moeen and Root that reversed the momentum, while Bairstow struck three sixes between long-on and mid-wicket.
Moeen's batting in this series has reflected the performance of the England team. He made a century when runscoring was its easiest in the first Test, was part of the collapses in the second and third, then played an awful stroke when well set to begin the tourists' slide in the fourth.
Here, he was initially all at sea against skilful off-spinner Ashwin, who challenged both edges of the bat.
Fluency arrived after lunch as the left-hander scored off his legs with neat footwork and powerful sweeps - almost two-thirds of his runs came through the on side.
He brought up a fourth century of 2016 - more than any other England batsman - with 30 minutes remaining in the day and still had time to play some eye-catching off-drives against the second new ball.
Though Moeen was the man to reach a hundred, it was Root who made batting look easier, bar one three-ball spell from Umesh Yadav where he edged through the slips and survived a very strong lbw appeal.
Accumulating in typically busy style, he particularly targeted the spinners with sweeps through the leg side.
Nearing a century, he looked for another sweep off Jadeja, attempting to fetch the ball from outside the off stump. When it went through to wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel, India's unsuccessful appeal was followed by a review.
Root initially thought he had little to worry about, but third umpire Bruce Oxenford decided that a spike of sound could only have been ball on bat, leaving the England vice-captain visibly angry as he stormed off.
Bairstow cut a similar figure as he departed, frustrated as a drive off Jadeja was held at short cover, but Ben Stokes accompanied Moeen to ensure England suffered no late wobble.
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott on Test Match Special
Joe Root gave the innings some impetus, got the scoreboard moving and wasn't afraid to sweep, as Moeen Ali was batting quite scratchily at the other end at that stage.
They took the game away from the Indians, it was a surprise when Root got out. Jonny Bairstow's been on great form this year, he hit the spinner out of the park.
But he was caught at cover - that's why they make 400s, not 550s, and 400 is not a big total in the subcontinent. They're in danger of not doing themselves justice, but well done Moeen, full marks for him for making 120.
England batsman Joe Root, who made 88: "The way we fought back was excellent. It was a wicket where you never really felt in and it spun from the start.
"Hopefully the pitch is a bit firmer tomorrow, if we can apply the way we played again we'll be looking at a good score."
On the decision to give him out caught behind: "I was adamant I didn't hit it but there was a spike on the replay and there is no point moaning about it."
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A century from Moeen Ali and Joe Root's 88 gave England the better of the first day of the fifth and final Test against India in Chennai.
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The 34-year-old's current deal runs out at the end of the season.
Toure looked like he would be leaving the club after being left out of City's Champions League squad and did not play a Premier League game until November.
But he fought his way back into Pep Guardiola's plans and Saturday's win against Leicester was his 29th appearance of the season.
Meanwhile, Guardiola has called Pablo Zabaleta a "real legend" of the club after the Argentina full-back announced on Saturday that he will leave at the end of the season.
Unlike Zabaleta, who leaves City after nine seasons, Toure is keen to stay on, with Guardiola believing the Ivorian is worth an extra season.
City will honour the departing Zabaleta at Tuesday's final home game of the season against West Brom.
"Pablo is a real legend in what he has done in this club," said Guardiola.
"He helped us with his team-mates, with the club, to make a step forward, to try to qualify for the Champions League, to win the Premier League, to be in Europe three or four times in a row when it was never in Europe for 30 years.
"That's why Pablo Zabaleta is so, so important."
Zabaleta, who signed from Espanyol in August 2008, is City's third longest-serving player after Joe Hart and Vincent Kompany.
He has made more than 322 appearances for the club, winning two league titles, the FA Cup and two League Cups.
"When I first came to Manchester I felt like when I was in Barcelona at Espanyol; we were not the main club in the city," said Zabaleta.
"We can't say the same thing now. I remember at that time Sir Alex Ferguson and the 'noisy neighbours'. For me, we couldn't let people say something like that about us.
"I thought if they call us the noisy neighbours then let's make more noise in the city, let's prove that we are a club that is looking to achieve important things, maybe one day be the main club in the city and take this club forward to the next step to make this club better."
A statement broadcast on state radio said that "contrary to rumours being circulated, peace and calm continue to prevail" in the West African state.
Heavy gunfire had earlier erupted near the presidential palace in the capital.
Mr Jammeh seized power in a coup in 1994 and his critics accuse him of ruling with an iron-hand.
Diplomatic and military sources said soldiers from the presidential guard appeared to have mounted the attack on the presidential palace in Banjul in the early hours of Tuesday.
A British teacher in Bakau, about seven kilometres (four miles) from Banjul, told the BBC that The Gambia had shut its nearby land borders with Senegal.
"Most of the big shops are closed at this point but there's absolutely no military or police presence," he said.
Banjul residents told AFP news agency that security forces were positioned on street corners and carrying out patrols.
State radio had been off-air during the fighting, but resumed transmission later.
In radio statement, the announcer said "peace and calm continue to prevail" in The Gambia.
"[The] government would like to urge the public and all businesses to continue with their normal activities," it added.
The statement did not clarify Mr Jammeh's whereabouts. Some media reports say he is on a visit to France, while others say he is in Dubai.
In 2011, Mr Jammeh told the BBC he would rule The Gambia for "a billion years".
He has won four disputed elections since taking power as a 29-year-old army officer.
Mr Jammeh is known for expressing bizarre views. In 2007, he claimed that he could cure Aids with a herbal concoction - a view condemned by health experts.
Later, he also claimed that he could cure infertility among women.
Mr Jammeh is also known for his virulent opposition to gay rights, having once threatened to behead gay people.
The tiny West African state, with its sandy beaches, is a popular tourist destination.
Correction 15 January 2015: This story has been amended to remove reference to a statement, purportedly from President Yahya Jammeh, that later turned out to be fake.
Olympic gold-medallists Geraint Thomas and Owain Doull are named in the men's road squad along with Luke Rowe.
Rio pursuit gold-medallist Elinor Barker is in the women's track endurance squad and silver medallist Becky James in the sprint line-up.
The podium programme is designed to support elite cyclists aiming to win medals in major competitions.
Doull, 23, switches from the track, where he was part of the British quartet that won the team pursuit in the 2016 Rio Olympics, to concentrate on road races.
The 22-year-old Barker won the Track World Cup points race in Appeldoorn, Netherlands in November.
James claimed silver medals in the sprint and keirin at the Rio Games after a long battle with injury following her 2013 World Championship gold medals in the same events.
Olympic podium programme squad:
BMX: Kyle Evans, Liam Phillips, Tre Whyte
Mountain Bike: Grant Ferguson
Men's Road: Mark Cavendish, Steve Cummings, Jon Dibben, Owain Doull, Alex Dowsett, Andrew Fenn, Chris Froome, Luke Rowe, Ian Stannard, Ben Swift, Simon Yates, Adam Yates, Peter Kennaugh, Geraint Thomas
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The centre, based at Virgin Money's headquarters, in Gosforth, will deal with bookings and customer feedback.
Newcastle City Council leader Nick Forbes said: "Staff who know and use the line will be an asset to both Virgin Trains and Newcastle."
The company, along with Stagecoach, won an eight-year franchise in 2014 to run trains on the East Coast mainline.
The firm has previously announced plans to introduce 65 Virgin Azuma trains in 2018, which are being built at the Hitachi plant in Newton Aycliffe.
A review has been carried out on education in the Aberaeron catchment area, which has 10 primary schools.
Four possible options have been put forward, including building a new area school for pupils of Ciliau Parc, Cilcennin, Dihewyd and Felinfach.
They will all be discussed at a scrutiny committee meeting on 9 May.
Other suggestions include:
The advantages and disadvantages for each option have been laid out in the report.
Ceredigion council is in the process of reviewing each of the county's six catchment areas.
The report by Barry Rees, strategic director for learning and partnerships, states that education is a priority for the council, which is being forced to reconsider how it delivers education in a "cost effective way" while "raising standards" for learners.
Imports surged by 30.2% from a year earlier to $155.6bn (£98bn), government data released over the weekend showed.
Exports rose by 24.5% resulting in a trade surplus of $17.8bn, down from $31.5bn in the previous month.
The data comes at a time when China has been trying to boost domestic demand in a bid to rebalance its economy.
"August's export and import data showed China's economic growth is driven by domestic demand, not external demand and its growth is still very strong," said Li-Gang Liu of ANZ.
China's economic expansion in recent years has seen the rise of a more affluent middle class, with higher disposable incomes.
That has led to a growth in domestic demand, which has translated into higher import numbers.
"Growth of the Chinese middle class is well documented and it is something that will continue to drive growth," Kelvin Tay of UBS told the BBC.
Analysts said the recent appreciation in the Chinese currency had also played its part as the purchasing power of consumers had gone up.
The yuan has gained more than 5% against the US dollar in the last 12 months.
"If you had 100 yuan a year ago, you could buy X amount of things, today it is X-plus," he explained.
China's push to boost domestic demand has been driven not only by efforts to rebalance its economy but also by fears that demand from its key markets may dip in the wake of a global slowdown.
While its exports registered robust growth in August, analysts said that things are likely to get tougher.
"The European debt crisis and slowing US growth will be reflected in China's export data in the next few months," said Shen Jianguang of Mizuho Securities Asia.
"I expect Chinese export growth to be below 10% in the fourth quarter," he added.
However, some analysts argued that a slowdown in the global economy may fuel a jump in Chinese exports.
They said China's biggest strength in manufacturing has been its low prices and in times of a slowdown, consumers are looking for more affordable goods which could prompt a surge in demand.
"Not many countries can make it as cheap as the Chinese," said UBS' Mr Tay.
Along with a rise in imports and exports, bank lending in China also quickened in August.
Chinese banks lent out 548.5bn yuan ($86bn; £54bn) during the month, more than forecast, despite government efforts to curb credit growth in the country.
China's central bank has raised interest rates five times since October last year and also increased the bank's reserve ratio requirement nine times during the same period in a bid to quell prices.
Data out last week showed the rate of inflation in China eased to 6.2% in August from 6.5% in the previous month.
Analysts said the latest numbers showed that not only were the government's efforts to control inflation working, they were not having the negative impact on growth that many people had worried about.
"All the talk of demand being dented due to credit tightening is far-fetched," Mr Tay said.
However, Mr Tay warned the combination of an increase in lending and a rise in domestic demand may see the central bank raise the cost of borrowing again in a bid to keep price growth in check.
"Based on the numbers that we are seeing, it will be premature to rule out a rate hike," Mr Tay told the BBC.
Of that, £700m will cover payment protection insurance (PPI) claims and £283m will be used to repay about 590,000 mortgage holders.
The bank had already put away an extra £350m this year to cover PPI costs.
It came as Lloyds posted half-year pre-tax profits of £2.5bn, 4% higher than last year.
The results are the first since the government sold its stake in the bank.
The repayment to mortgage customers comes after they were charged from 2009 to 2016 for going into arrears.
The Financial Conduct Authority had been investigating the issue, concluding that the charges should not have been applied as the bank did not always do enough to understand customers' circumstances and check that their arrears payment plans were affordable and sustainable.
The FCA says Lloyds will refund all fees charged for arrears management and broken payment arrangements, and it will also pay any litigation fees that were applied unfairly to customers who were involved in related legal action.
On top of that, it will also offer payments for potential distress and inconvenience.
The bank will itself approach customers to prompt them to make a claim.
Lloyds became the UK's biggest force in personal banking as a result of its absorption of HBOS - the former Halifax and Bank of Scotland - at the height of the financial crisis and was bailed out by the government at a cost of about £20bn.
Lloyds is also having to compensate some of its small business customers, who suffered as a result of widespread fraud at its former HBOS branch in Reading.
Victims saw their businesses taken over by so-called specialists recommended by the branch between the years 2003-07.
These "specialists" destroyed a number of the businesses, squandering the money they made on prostitutes and luxury holidays.
Lloyds is in the process of paying compensation to the victims of the fraud, for which it set aside £100m in the first quarter.
It is also currently undertaking a review of what happened.
It is the PPI mis-selling scandal, though, that dwarfs all others.
Lloyds has now increased provisions for claims some 17 times. Its chief financial officer, George Culmer, said it was "disappointing" to be having to do it again.
He also offered no guarantee that there would be no further increases in provisions, although he did say the number "looked appropriate in terms of covering us between now and August 2019".
Lloyds alone has now set aside £18bn. In total, UK lenders have been forced to set aside more than £30bn to cover PPI compensation costs.
PPI became controversial after it was revealed that many customers had been sold it without understanding that the cost was being added to their loan repayments.
PPI claims deadline is announced
Lloyds under fire over fraud payouts
Lloyds £20bn bailout 'has been repaid'
The bank's chief executive, Antonio Horta-Osario, said of the various pots of money set aside for customer redress: "We have a commitment as a management team of putting these legacy charges behind us as soon as possible."
He admitted, though, that there would "always be redress costs" when running a banking business.
Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown, said that despite the size of the provisions for the various types of misconduct, Lloyds' performance was satisfactory.
"It's a sign of Lloyds' strength that it can shrug off £1.6bn of misconduct charges to post a strong rise in profits," he said.
"Overall, this is a strong set of numbers from Lloyds, blighted, but not overshadowed, by misconduct costs. The government has exited the bank and is now no longer selling stock in the market, which removes a significant downward pressure on the share price."
The government had been steadily offloading its Lloyds stake, resulting in about £21bn being returned to the taxpayer.
The government still owns 73% of Royal Bank of Scotland, which was rescued with £45.5bn of taxpayers' cash during the crisis in the world's biggest bank bailout.
Paul Charles Wilkins, of Littleport in Cambridgeshire, travelled to California in January to "engage in illicit sexual conduct" with boys aged 10 and 12, US officials claim.
US Attorney Eileen M. Decker described the 70-year-old as a predator.
Wilkins was jailed in the UK in 2011 for child pornography offences.
He pleaded guilty to 16 charges and was jailed for 56 months at Cambridge Crown Court, the Crown Prosecution Service for East of England said.
In January, Wilkins arrived in the Coachella Valley in southern California with the intention of having sex with pre-teen boys, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials.
The Cambridgeshire man, who holds dual UK and US citizenship, was arrested on 11 February at a rented apartment in Palm Springs after allegedly paying an undercover Homelands Security Investigations (HSI) officer $250 (£170) to have sex with a nine-year-old boy.
He was charged with travelling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with boys and attempted sex trafficking.
Ms Decker, chief federal law enforcement officer in the Central District of California, said: "When this defendant's original plan was thwarted, he made other arrangements to sexually abuse a child.
"He must be held accountable for these crimes."
Wilkins has been detained in custody in the US since his arrest, but two further charges of transporting and possessing child pornography were added to the indictment on 17 June.
The images were found on a laptop computer and storage device seized when he was arrested in Palm Springs, an ICE official said.
Wilkins was detained as part of HSI's Operation Predator, an international initiative to protect children from sexual predators.
He is expected to face trial in the US on 19 July.
The announcement comes exactly a year after two Manchester-based scientists were awarded the Nobel-prize for its discovery.
The money is hoped to give researchers more bench space to explore the material's commercial potential.
Funds will be available in the next few months, said the UK science minister.
Graphene, the "miracle material" of the 21st Century, is so far the strongest material known to science, and better at conducting electricity than copper.
It could have a large number of potential application; scientists say it could find uses from transparent touch screens to solar cells, from aircraft wings to optical communication systems, like broadband.
The Chancellor, George Osborne, in his speech at the Conservative Party conference said: "…We will fund a national research programme that will take this Nobel Prize-winning discovery from the British laboratory to the British factory floor.
"We've got to get Britain making things again.
"Countries like Singapore, Korea, America are luring [researchers] with lucrative offers to move their research overseas," he added.
The funds for graphene R&D are in addition to £145 million "earmarked" for the establishment of more UK-based supercomputers, along with funding to support more computer-scientists and facilities to house them, the University and Science Minister David Willetts told BBC News.
He said: "I'm very happy; even in tough times we are investing in science".
In response to the announcement, Professor Sir Peter Knight, President of the Institute of Physics, said: "We're delighted that the Government recognises the role science can play in creating a vibrant, diverse economy for the future of the UK - investment in science delivers great returns economically and intellectually".
"We applauded the Government's decision to 'invest intelligently'," said the director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering (Case) Imran Khan in a statement.
However, he cautions: "These new investments are coming in the wake of enormous cuts to the nation's science and engineering base.
"Last month [Case] released an analysis showing that £1.7bn will have been cut from research and development funds by 2014-15."
Without a long-term strategy to put science and engineering at the heart of the UK's economic recovery, said Mr Khan, home-growth discoveries like groundbreaking research into graphene could be a thing of the past.
Folktown market will be held behind Primark in Bank Square.
It is described as a farmers', food and artisan market and will run every Thursday from 16 April.
The market will feature up to 40 traders, with a focus on locally grown produce.
The Department of Social Development recently spent £3m renovating Bank Square, an area dating back to the 1600s.
Improvements included the installation of natural stone paving, landscaping, improved lighting, free wi-fi, street furniture and art work.
Social Development Minister Mervyn Storey MLA said the new market would bring increased footfall and activity to the Bank Square area and "act as a catalyst for the regeneration of this historic part of the city centre".
Local community group, Folktown Community Interest Company (CIC), said the market would bring "new life" to an underused city centre space.
"This market will help to connect all areas of the city and to breathe vitality and vibrancy into this space," said Folktown CIC director Joby Fox.
"Bank Square is a part of Belfast that many people haven't been to and some weren't even aware that it existed."
Folktown CIC said they were involved in lengthy negotiations to obtain a licence for the market as under the original charter granted by King James I, the historic rights to operate markets in the city, including those held on private property or indoors, belong to the city council.
One of the traders who will operate at Folktown market is Mark Douglas, founder of Krazi Baker.
"When I started my business I found that it was very hard to get somewhere to trade," he said.
"This is a fantastic opportunity, unlike anything else, for arts, crafts, artisan and shoppers alike to express their talents. Belfast just keeps getting better."
The project has received support from the DSD, Awards for All and The Ireland Funds.
The market will be held in the shadow of two of the oldest churches in Belfast, Berry Street Presbyterian Church and St Mary's.
Organisers said the name Folktown came from discussions with local people reflecting on the area, which is rich in music, pubs, cuisine, arts groups, faith groups and small traders.
Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said civil servants would also be required to work 40 hours a week instead of 35.
The proposals, which would be applied mostly from next year, would save 4.8bn euros (£4bn) over three years, he said.
Austerity measures have proved deeply unpopular and have triggered large protests.
"With these measures, our European partners cannot doubt our commitment" to the bailout, Mr Coelho said in an address to the nation late on Friday.
"To hesitate now would harm the credibility that we have already won back," he added.
Portugal received a 78bn euro bailout from the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund in 2011.
Unemployment stands at nearly 18% - a record high - and the economy is expected to shrink for a third consecutive year in 2013.
Last month, the Portuguese Constitutional Court struck down more than 1bn euros (£847m; $1.3bn) of proposed cuts, which included the suspension of holiday bonuses for public sector workers and pensioners.
That forced the centre-right government to look elsewhere for savings - though it has ruled out raising taxes.
"We will not raise taxes to correct the budgetary problem resulting from the Constitutional Court's decision," Mr Coelho said.
"The way must be through the structural reduction of public spending."
Portugal's main Socialist opposition party has accused Mr Coelho of inflicting excessive austerity on Portugal in pursuit of an ideologically driven programme.
The man was arrested after police surrounded the home in Birkenhead, Merseyside, for more than six hours.
He had locked himself in a room with the eight-month-old baby, who was safely rescued just before 14:30 GMT, police said.
The 25-year-old has been arrested on on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon, affray and drug offences.
Specialist negotiators were sent to the house in Raffles Road to persuade him to come out.
Other weapons were also recovered from the scene, Merseyside Police said.
The force confirmed officers were initially sent to the house at 08:10 GMT as part of an investigation into cannabis cultivation.
The man then allegedly became "abusive" and barricaded himself in the room before the incident was brought to an end.
A Los Angeles district judge said there were enough similarities between the song and an instrumental by the band Spirit to let a jury decide.
The trial has been scheduled for 10 May.
Stairway to Heaven, released in 1971, is widely seen as one of the greatest rock compositions of all time.
The copyright infringement action has been brought by Michael Skidmore, a trustee for the late Spirit guitarist Randy Wolfe, who played on the same bill as Led Zeppelin in the 1960s, and claims he should be given a writing credit on the track.
Led Zeppelin guitarist Page and lead singer Plant are reputed to have written Stairway to Heaven in a remote cottage in Wales.
However, Mr Skidmore has suggested the song came about after the band heard Spirit perform the instrumental Taurus while the bands toured together in 1968 and 1969.
US district judge Gary Klausner said a jury could find "substantial" similarity between the first two minutes of Stairway and Taurus.
"While it is true that a descending chromatic four-chord progression is a common convention that abounds in the music industry, the similarities here transcend this core structure," Judge Klausner ruled.
"What remains is a subjective assessment of the 'concept and feel' of two works... a task no more suitable for a judge than for a jury."
He also said the trustee can get only 50% of any damages awarded, citing a 1967 contract Wolfe signed.
Hosts Well passed up a host of chances in an entertaining match.
But Rangers were lifted when they went ahead immediately after the break as James Tavernier found the far top corner with a superb curling drive.
Martyn Waghorn added the second with a low curler in stoppage time to give Rangers the three Group F points.
Rangers boss Mark Warburton resisted the temptation to throw in his summer signings and started with a very familiar line-up.
Motherwell manager Mark McGhee hinted before kick-off that the game may have come too soon for his side and urged caution from the critics.
But his team looked the more threatening early on, and Andy Halliday had to scoop the ball off the line after Lionel Ainsworth got through on goal on the right-hand side with just a minute on the clock.
Scott McDonald found himself in a similar position on the left, but goalkeeper Wes Foderingham got down well to save and clear the danger.
Rangers looked nervous, with Motherwell looked desperate to capitalise, and Chris Cadden's dragged shot from six yards completed a trio of good chances missed in the first 10 minutes for the home side.
With McGhee's side looking happy to concede possession and hit Rangers on the break, Marvin Johnson passed up another two decent chances before the hour.
But two minutes into the second half, the game took on a completely different feel as the visitors broke the deadlock.
Waghon slipped the ball to Tavernier, who fired the ball into the top left-hand corner.
It was just reward for Rangers' possession but punishment for a Motherwell side who were defending deeper as the game progressed.
With the men in blue now firmly in their stride, a second looked inevitable and Harry Forrester battered the ball off the bar.
The Rangers fans gave a rousing reception to new signing Nico Kranjcar just before the hour and it looked like his first touch was sure to be a goal only for the Croat to get himself into a tangle.
Barrie McKay should have doubled the lead but could only blast over an empty goal from eight yards out.
Rangers sealed it when Waghorn found some space in the box on the angle and swivelled and curled a fabulous shot low into the net.
Meanwhile, former Hearts and Hamilton striker Christian Nade marked his Stranraer debut with the opening goal as the League One outfit won the other Group F game 2-1 at Annan Athletic.
Nade, who left Dumbarton during the summer, opend the scoring after half-time against League Two opposition.
Frank McKeown added their second goal before Przemyslaw Dachnowicz, the midfielder who joined Annan from Rangers this summer, pulled a goal back three minutes from time.
Rangers manager Mark Warburton: "I'll take 12 minutes of rustiness, but I thought we dominated the game after the 15th minute and, in truth, we should have been further ahead.
"Considering it was our first competitive game, we lost out on a few one v ones and gave the ball away cheaply early on, but after that it was a very pleasing afternoon's work.
"I thought our energy levels were really good and you must remember that most of our players have only had 45 minutes' game time against Charleston Battery.
"But we dominated possession, created chances and looked sharp. I'm really pleased."
Motherwell manager Mark McGhee: "As far as we are concerned, we made enough chances to at least get to penalty-kicks.
"Rangers play different to us, they have a lot more possession, but we know that and we were comfortable with that.
"In between them having possession, we made the best chances but didn't take them.
"And I think that reflects the fact that it's only two weeks into pre-season training and people like Marvin Johnston and Scott McDonald will get sharper."
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From 4 April, the three-hour courses will be rolled out across the UK.
They will be delivered by the Freestyle Football Federation's Daniel Wood and British four-time freestyle football world champion Andrew Henderson.
The aim is to improve balance, touch, body awareness, and self-confidence, as well as bring health benefits.
The teachers and coaches will also be shown how to create the right environment for young people to express themselves.
It follows a pilot scheme at Hackney Marshes, which saw 25 participants take part in the training sessions with the support of the London Borough of Hackney.
From June 2016, the scheme will be launched globally in regions including North American, Europe and China.
Former Barcelona, AC Milan and Paris St Germain star Ronaldinho, who is a global ambassador for freestyle football, said: "Freestyle Football is my beach.
"I have always enjoyed to freestyle and I'm honoured to be a part of the Freestyle Football Federation to help grow the sport and improve healthy lifestyles for young people all over the world".
If you want to find out about getting into football, have a look at our guide.
Speaking at CIA headquarters, he said some officers acted beyond their authority but most did their duty.
A scathing Senate report two days earlier said "brutal" methods like waterboarding were ineffective.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, whose committee produced the report, said torture should now be banned by law.
In his comments Mr Brennan asserted the CIA "did a lot of things right" at a time when there were "no easy answers".
"Our reviews indicate that the detention and interrogation programme produced useful intelligence that helped the United States thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives," Brennan told a rare CIA news conference in Virginia.
But we have not concluded that it was the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" (EITs) within that programme that allowed us to obtain useful information from detainees who were subjected to them, he added.
"The cause-and-effect relationship between the use of EITs and useful information subsequently provided by the detainee is, in my view, unknowable."
While he was speaking, Senator Feinstein was rejecting his arguments on Twitter.
One tweet said: "Brennan: 'unknowable' if we could have gotten the intel other ways. Study shows it IS knowable: CIA had info before torture. #ReadTheReport".
Mr Brennan was a senior CIA official in 2002 when the detention and interrogation programme was put in place.
George W Bush, who was US president at that time, has not commented on the report, but his Vice-President Dick Cheney strongly rejected criticism of the CIA's techniques.
"The men and women of the CIA did exactly what we wanted," he told Fox News.
"We said we've got to go use enhanced techniques … and we're going to find out.
"We've got Khaled Sheikh Mohammed who's the mastermind of 9/11 and he is in our possession, we know he's the architect. And what are we supposed to do? Kiss him on both cheeks and say please tell us what you know? Of course not."
At the scene - Tara McKelvey, BBC News, Langley, Virginia
John Brennan spoke in measured tones and with a deep booming voice in a place that clearly made him uncomfortable - standing at a podium in front of journalists and cameras.
In his speech he tried to show the human side of the CIA. He said that after 9/11 the staff, like others in the US, grieved and prayed.
He said this week was a tough time for people at the agency because of the release of the Senate report. But as he described their situation, he kept his head down and read carefully from the text in front of him. He wanted to make sure he got the words right.
Occasionally he looked up but when he did he gazed at the ceiling as if no-one was in the room. As a result the speech came across as anodyne and bloodless despite the emotionally charged words that were on the page.
An outgoing Democratic Senator, Mark Udall, has called on Mr Brennan to quit, citing interference from the CIA in preparing the report.
The report, a summary of a longer 6,000-page classified report, says that the CIA carried out "brutal" and "ineffective" interrogations of al-Qaeda suspects in the years after the 9/11 attacks on the US and misled other officials about what it was doing.
The information the CIA collected using "enhanced interrogation techniques" failed to secure information that foiled any threats, the report said.
Mr Brennan described the actions of some CIA agents as "harsh" and "abhorrent" but would not say if it constituted torture.
He added an overwhelming number of CIA agents followed legal advice from the justice department that authorised some of the brutal methods.
"They did what they were asked to do in the service of their nation."
The UN and human rights groups have called for the prosecution of US officials involved in the 2001-2007 programme.
But the chances of prosecuting members of the Bush administration are unlikely - the US justice department has pursued two investigations into mistreatment of detainees and found insufficient evidence.
On Wednesday, an unnamed justice department official told the Los Angeles Times prosecutors had read the report and "did not find any new information" to reopen the investigation.
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US President Barack Obama, who stopped the programme in 2009, said some methods amounted to torture.
When asked whether there was a situation where the CIA would use similar interrogations again, Mr Brennan said the CIA was "not contemplating" it, but said he left such decisions up to "future policymakers".
But the F1 chief told the High Court he paid £10m to Gerhard Gribkowsky because he had threatened to "shake him down" over his family's tax affairs.
Mr Ecclestone denies making a "corrupt agreement" with Gribkowsky to sell F1 to a firm of his choice.
Media group Constantin Medien says it lost out because of the alleged deal.
But Mr Ecclestone says the German company's claim "lacks any merit" and he denies any "conspiracy".
In response to allegations that he made payments to Gribkowsky totalling £27m, Mr Ecclestone said: "It was £10m as it happens."
He told the court: "I made the payment... because he said he would shake me down concerning tax arrangements with our family trust... which would have been very expensive."
Constantin claims Gribkowsky "assisted" Mr Ecclestone to facilitate the sale of an important stake in Formula 1 Group by his bank - BayernLB - to a "purchaser chosen by Mr Ecclestone" - the private equity group CVC Capital Partners.
It says payments totalling about £27m were made to Gribkowsky, a senior executive at the bank, at Mr Ecclestone's instigation.
Philip Marshall QC, representing Constantin, said at a previous hearing that the deal allowed Mr Ecclestone to retain a position with Formula 1.
There had been a "real risk" of Mr Ecclestone's removal from his position in the Formula 1 Group, he added.
Mr Marshall said Mr Ecclestone had thought CVC would support his "continuing role as chief executive" of operating companies in the Formula 1 Group.
However, Mr Marshall said Constantin had investment rights in the Formula 1 Group and had been entitled to proceeds of any sale.
He said the bank's investment was sold "without the normal and proper process", which meant Constantin lost out.
Gribkowsky was given a jail term of more than eight years after being convicted of corruption at a trial in Munich last year, Mr Marshall added.
Constantin is seeking about £90m in damages.
Lawyers for Mr Ecclestone have previously outlined their case to the judge in written arguments, in which they said Constantin's claim "lacks any merit" and denied any "conspiracy".
Robert Miles QC said: "The claim fails on each of its elements: there was no conspiracy, there was no intent to injure Constantin... Constantin has suffered no loss."
Mr Miles said it had been arranged in 2006 that Gribkowsky would be given a "consultancy package".
He said: "Mr Ecclestone agreed to a pay-off because of the tax threats and insinuations which he had received from Dr Gribkowsky."
"It is true," Mr Ecclestone told the judge in court on Wednesday. "That's what I have always said."
He also refuted that he had said different things to journalists or changed his story.
"Most of these journalists, as you know, really should be closely working with Jeffrey Archer," he added.
The trial is expected to last several weeks.
After a first half devoid of incident, captain Danny Batth rose unchallenged to head in Ivan Cavaleiro's corner.
Donovan Wilson made certain of victory late on, shortly after coming on as a substitute.
The striker ran onto Michal Zyro's smart through-ball before lifting it over Saints goalkeeper Fraser Forster.
Wolves manager Nuno Espirito Santo made a full 11 changes to the side that started the 2-1 loss to Cardiff at Molineux at the weekend.
Despite that, the Championship side were far more fluent throughout against their Premier League opponents, who made six changes from the team that beat West Ham 3-2 on Saturday.
Saints right-back Jeremy Pied twice fired wide, while Wolves goalkeeper Will Norris turned Sam McQueen's cross on to the bar.
Match ends, Southampton 0, Wolverhampton Wanderers 2.
Second Half ends, Southampton 0, Wolverhampton Wanderers 2.
Attempt missed. Nathan Redmond (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Connor Ronan.
Goal! Southampton 0, Wolverhampton Wanderers 2. Donovan Wilson (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by David Edwards.
Shane Long (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jack Price (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Donovan Wilson replaces Ivan Cavaleiro.
Foul by Nathan Redmond (Southampton).
Jordan Graham (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Will Norris.
Foul by Manolo Gabbiadini (Southampton).
Michal Zyro (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Southampton. Manolo Gabbiadini replaces Sofiane Boufal.
Substitution, Southampton. Shane Long replaces Charlie Austin.
Michal Zyro (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Sam McQueen (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michal Zyro (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Michal Zyro replaces Nouha Dicko.
Substitution, Southampton. Nathan Redmond replaces Jan Bednarek.
Goal! Southampton 0, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1. Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ivan Cavaleiro with a cross.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Jack Stephens.
Connor Ronan (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sofiane Boufal (Southampton).
Jordan Graham (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam McQueen (Southampton).
Ivan Cavaleiro (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jack Stephens (Southampton).
Foul by Ivan Cavaleiro (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Jack Stephens (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Maya Yoshida.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Jan Bednarek.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Jan Bednarek.
Attempt saved. Jack Price (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Charlie Austin (Southampton).
Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Nouha Dicko (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Sofiane Boufal (Southampton).
Jack Price (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Second Half begins Southampton 0, Wolverhampton Wanderers 0.
The Deeside factory is now making engines for vehicles made in Brazil and it is about to start supplying them for a new car being made in the UK.
The Welsh plant employs more than 500 people and became the first factory outside Japan to build Toyota's hybrid engine.
Welsh Secretary David Jones will visit the factory later on Friday.
Toyota said it had already started recruiting new staff to help with its increased workload.
Welsh Secretary Mr Jones, who is MP for Clwyd West, said: "Toyota has made a vital contribution to the growing success of the UK car manufacturing sector and to the creation of sustainable jobs in north Wales.
"It is a glowing example of collaboration between a global company and the UK, and a demonstration of why Wales continues to be a prime location to invest and do business."
Richard Kenworthy, director of the Deeside engine manufacturing factory, said the new jobs were great news for the plant and for Wales.
The Deeside plant marked its 20th anniversary last year, with First Minister Carwyn Jones describing it as "a Welsh success story".
Antoinette Sandbach took the safe Cheshire seat of Eddisbury with a majority of nearly 13,000.
She said it had been "a privilege to serve my constituents in north Wales for the last four years".
Janet Haworth will succeed her, having been the next name on the North Wales regional list for the Conservatives at the 2011 assembly election.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said: "Antoinette has been an exceptional Assembly Member and I wholeheartedly congratulate her on today's result.
"I know Antoinette will make an exceptional Member of Parliament and I wish her every success in the new role."
A Welsh Conservative spokesman said Mr Davies was due to meet another AM, Byron Davies, who beat Labour to win Gower, to discuss his future.
It also found unhealthy food such as sweets had no positive effect.
It is the first time a direct link between pupils' breakfast quality and consumption and their educational attainment has been demonstrated.
The Cardiff University study asked 5,000 nine to 11-year-olds to list what they ate in 24 hours.
The study involved more than 100 primary schools in Wales and built on research started 10 years ago.
It found eating unhealthy items such as sweets and crisps for breakfast, reported by one in five children, had no positive impact on how they performed in tests.
Pupils were asked to list all food and drink consumed over a period of just over 24 hours.
Their results in Key Stage 2 teacher assessments were then followed up by researchers between six and 18 months later.
The odds of achieving an above average performance was up to twice as high for pupils who ate breakfast, compared with those who did not.
Alongside the number of healthy breakfast items, other dietary behaviours - including number of sweets and crisps, and fruit and vegetable portions consumed throughout the rest of the day - were all significantly and positively associated with educational performance.
Researchers claim the findings, published in the Public Health Nutrition journal, could have big implications for policymakers.
Lead author Hannah Littlecott, from Cardiff University, said the odds of achieving above average performance were up to twice as high for pupils who ate a healthy breakfast than for those who did not.
She said schools might see dedicating time towards improving health as an "unwelcome diversion" from teaching.
But she added: "Clearly, embedding health improvements into the core business of the school might also deliver educational improvements as well."
Co-author Dr Graham Moore said the data provided "robust evidence of a link between eating breakfast and doing well at school".
In Wales, most primary schools offer a free school breakfast funded by the Welsh government.
Kevin Davies, acting head of Ysgol y Wern Primary School in Ystalyfera, said it was obvious to teachers which pupils had not had a morning meal.
"By around 10am they start flagging. It has an effect on behaviour and concentration - some even fall asleep.
"So we have, in the past, taken them down to the kitchen to make sure they have something to keep them going until lunchtime."
"It's clear to us that those who come to our breakfast club and have the balance of foods they need are more attentive and keen to complete their work and that persists throughout the day."
Public Health Wales welcomed the study's findings, saying they support the case for schools to consider measures to improve children's diets.
Dubbed the Papilionanda David Cameron, Singapore's National Parks Board described the purple orchid as a "strong and upright flowering spray that could bear up to 10 large and attractive blooms".
The special hybrid flower was named after Mr Cameron during the second day of a four-day visit to Asia.
It is a Singapore tradition to cultivate orchids, its national flower.
The tropical Southeast Asian nation cultivates special orchid hybrids and names them after visiting foreign leaders as part of its diplomatic practice.
Many visiting diplomats including the late South African leader Nelson Mandela and Princess Diana, to more recently, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have had orchids named after them.
Celebrities have also had orchids named after them.
British singer Elton John, who visited Singapore in 2012, had a purple and white orchid hybrid named after him.
And stars from the sporting world are also honoured with a floral namesake.
Mr Trump has said he wants to tear up the international free trade rules and become more protectionist with trade barriers.
Laura Tenison, said this attitude had "tainted" America for her and she was reconsidering whether JoJo Maman Bebe would continue investing there.
The firm's US turnover is about $5m.
Ms Tenison's mother and baby clothing business has a distribution centre in the US, about 300 wholesale accounts, plus a mail-order catalogue and website.
She said the company was manufacturing in dollars, while mostly selling in the UK in sterling.
"When sterling devalued [post-Brexit] we had a big problem," she said. "We know our consumers are stretched on price, we don't want to put our prices up, but equally we have to somehow make our company pay for itself.
"So the solution is to sell as much in dollars as you buy in dollars."
Ms Tenison said she first started building up the company's international business after the credit crunch in 2008 when the value of the pound previously dropped.
"We've invested heavily in the States over the last three years," she said.
"Now, with the protectionist attitude that Mr Trump is talking about, we are back to a situation where we just don't know what the future holds. Do we keep investing? Do we put it on hold?
"Obviously we are going to take advice and we are going to have a long hard think about it and hopefully the man is not going to be as powerful as he thinks he is."
The managing director said she did not see a Trump presidency as an opportunity in any way.
"It's taken us five years to build up a halfway decent sized business in America. You have to brand-build, you have to invest, you can't just change your supply chain," she said.
"We work with 200 factories across the world and you can't change your customer base. These things take years. Hopefully he will only be around for five of them."
Businessman Paddy Kearney also said Nama "did in three years without firing a shot what the terrorists could not achieve in 50 years".
Mr Kearney was giving evidence to the Stormont finance committee.
It is investigating the £1.2bn sale of assets owned by Nama to US investment firm Cerberus.
Nama - the National Asset Management Agency - is the Republic of Ireland's state-owned so-called 'bad bank'.
It had been set up to take control of property loans made by the country's banks before the property crash in 2008.
Last year, Nama sold its entire portfolio of Northern Ireland loans to Cerberus.
Mr Kearney was addressing the committee on dealings between his company, PBN, and Cerberus.
He said previous testimony alleging that he was in "some way involved with others in manipulating in a criminal, corrupt manner the sale and purchase of the Northern Ireland Nama loan book" was "totally unfounded and unsubstantiated".
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On Wednesday, Mr Kearney told MLAs: "I did not receive any preferential treatment from Cerberus or Nama in any shape or form in the course of negotiations or indeed in the execution of the transaction."
Mr Kearney also told the committee: "I believe the political leaders of Northern Ireland did the right thing by lobbying investors to buy the Northern Ireland portfolio from Nama."
He said he had sought the help of Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson.
"I first approached Peter Robinson, the first minister, when it became clear that Nama's intentions were to collapse my company, to seek any assistance he could give me in dealing with Nama. I found him to be a helpful, compassionate, understanding person who wrote to Nama on my behalf," he said.
"In my view Peter Robinson has been unfairly criticised for doing what I believe to be was his job."
Mr Kearney, whose company was later refinanced, was particularly critical of Nama.
"I experienced Nama and its tactics first hand in 2013 when they attempted to take control of my company," he told MLAs.
"They did their best to intimidate me and frighten me into destroying my business without any regard for the 100 plus jobs or families that depended on that business for their livelihood."
He added: "In my view, and in terms of the destruction of value and of progress in the property market, Nama did in three years without firing a shot what the terrorists could not achieve in 50 years."
Mr Kearney criticised people who he said had used social media to make accusations against him
"I challenge those faceless people who are using as a puppet the person who is publishing this garbage on social media to twist the truth and to suit their own agenda to assist this committee and more importantly the NCA with evidence of any wrong doing in relation to Project Eagle [the Nama loan sale]," he said.
"It's time to put up or shut up. Actions speak louder than words."
He later told the committee his accusers were "motivated by a personal grudge against him".
The finance committee hearing also heard from Alan Mains who accompanied Mr Kearney and took evidence from civil servants David Sterling and Tony Simpson.
The man got into the Vauxhall Astra after the children's mother parked and left the car in Kempe Road, Enfield on Saturday at 12:45 BST.
The 12-year-old girl managed to get out of the vehicle as he drove off, but the baby was still inside. The child was later found on a doorstep in Cheshunt.
Police said the car was abandoned nearby. They are searching for the man.
The 11-month-old boy, who was not injured, was found by a member of the public in Guinevere Gardens who then contacted police.
The black Vauxhall Astra was discovered in Coopers Walk, Cheshunt, later that afternoon.
Metropolitan Police described the driver of the stolen car as a white man, in his late teens, with light spiky hair. They have appealed for witnesses to contact them.
A 999 call was made by someone saying the monarch was not strapped in while being driven through London.
The phone call was confirmed in a tweet by the West Yorkshire force, which added the hashtags #not999 #notevenwestyorkshire.
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The Queen travelled to Westminster alongside Prince Charles for the formal start of the Parliamentary year.
Her press office said it would not comment on the tweet.
Tom Donohoe, of West Yorkshire Police, said too often 999 calls were made for non emergencies.
"I cannot stress enough that the 999 number is for emergencies only," he said, adding that the force typically received more than 1,000 emergency calls a day.
It has previously published a list of inappropriate 999 calls that have taken up police time, including a fly being in a bedroom and a mouse on the loose.
As for the law regarding seat belts, the government website says: "You must wear a seat belt if one is fitted in the seat you are using."
It adds you can be fined £500 for not doing so, but there are some exceptions such as drivers reversing or a vehicle being used by police, fire or rescue services.
The Royal Family website says "the Queen is careful to ensure that all her activities in her personal capacity are carried out in strict accordance with the law".
Republican leader Mitch McConnell has said the Senate will not hold confirmation hearings.
However, some Republican senators in tough re-election battles have agreed to meet Judge Garland.
One of them, Mark Kirk of Illinois, will meet Mr Garland this week.
President Barack Obama nominated Mr Garland, a veteran federal appeals court judge, to fill the vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
If Mr Garland is confirmed, it would shift the balance of power on the court, which often has the final say on divisive issues in US politics.
Appointed to life time terms, justices frequently face a contentious confirmation process.
Scalia had been part of a conservative majority on the court for several years.
Republican leaders maintain that court vacancies should not be filled in an election year. However, no formal rules prohibit justices from being confirmed prior to elections.
Several national polls have found a majority of voters - particularly independents - favour holding hearings for Mr Garland.
Senators Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire - both facing formidable opponents in November - have also agreed to meet Mr Garland.
However, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rob Portman of Ohio - also locked in tight re-election fights - have stood firm, despite pressure from their opponents and Democratic groups.
The meetings, a traditional courtesy for court nominees, do not mean the senators support hearings for Mr Garland, but some conservative critics see them as a first step towards hearings.
Some Republicans already support hearings.
Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas, moderate Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Senator Kirk have recently broken with party leaders and called for hearings.
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Mr Garland is seen as more moderate than Mr Obama's previous picks for the court and several sitting Republican senators supported him when he was selected for his current post in 1997.
At least seven Republican senators would have to join Democrats to overcome procedural hurdles and confirm Judge Garland.
Privately, some Republicans have said they would support Mr Garland's nomination during the so-called "lame-duck" session after the presidential election in November.
Many Republicans have acknowledged that Mr Garland would be preferable to a less moderate nominee selected by either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.
Others worry that current Republican front-runner Donald Trump is too unpredictable to be trusted with a court nomination.
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The 21-year-old has won 2015's first two majors, with his victory on Sunday coming after his Masters win in April.
Rory McIlroy, 26, holds the other two major titles, the Open and US PGA Championship, with Rickie Fowler, 26, the Players Championship champion.
"It's awesome that the game is in young hands," said Spieth.
"It's kind of cool I think to have two players holding the four majors and Rickie having the fifth [Players Championship]."
Spieth's victories this year are his first in the majors and match the achievement of McIlroy in winning back-to-back titles after the Northern Irishman's victories in the Open at Hoylake in July 2014 and in the US PGA at Valhalla the following month.
Spieth is ranked second in the world, behind McIlroy, but the American downplayed suggestions of a rivalry between the two.
"I don't think there is much of a rivalry. I've said that from the beginning," stated Spieth. "Rory has four majors and dozens of wins and I'm just starting out.
"Again, I'm certainly quite a bit younger than he is. I'm just happy to have this and to be chasing that number one spot that he holds. So I'm certainly focused on that."
Spieth's victory at Chambers Bay on Sunday saw him finish five under and one shot ahead of fellow American Dustin Johnson, who three-putted the last from 12 feet.
It means Spieth is now the sixth player to win the Masters and US Open in the same year, the youngest player to win the latter since Bobby Jones in 1923, and keeps him on course to potentially become the first player to win all four majors in a calendar year.
The next major is The Open at St Andrews on 16-19 July, followed by the US PGA Championship in Wisconsin on 13-16 August.
Tiger Woods came the closest to achieving the feat when he won all four major titles consecutively, but over two calendar years in 2000 and 2001.
"I think it's in the realm of possibility," said Spieth when asked if he could add the Open and US PGA to his haul this year. "I'm just focused on the Claret Jug [the prize for winning the Open] now.
"I think that the Grand Slam is something that I never could really fathom somebody doing, considering I watched Tiger win when he was winning whatever percentage of the majors he played in and he won the 'Tiger Slam', but he never won the four in one year.
"And I figured if anybody was going to do it, it would be him, which he still can.
"I've proven to myself that I can win on a British-style golf course now. Now I take it to the truest British-style golf course of any in the world.
"I'm just excited for the opportunity coming then, and I'm not going to think about what could possibly happen after."
Martyn Matthews, from Wolverhampton, was thought to have been travelling to Germany for a meeting, when the plane came down in France on Tuesday.
The 50-year-old was a season ticket holder at Wolverhampton Wanderers.
In a statement issued through the club, Mr Matthews' brother-in-law said he would have been "honoured".
Mike Lloyd said: "On behalf of the family, I would like to thank all of the Wolves fans and the club for their kind words and thoughts over the last few days.
"We have been overwhelmed with your kindness, warmth and generosity that we have received during this distressing time. It is a great comfort to see that there are so many people who genuinely care about our family."
Investigators have said they believe the plane was deliberately brought down by the co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, killing everyone on board.
Mr Matthews worked as a senior quality manager for German automotive manufacturer Huf in Tipton, in the West Midlands.
Mr Lloyd criticised some members of the media for their intrusion following the news that the father-of-two had died in the crash and reiterated the family's request for privacy.
But he said the support from the fans had helped with their grief.
"Finally, once again we are very touched and thank you for being loyal supporters of the club and our family.
"Martyn was proud of being a lifelong Wolves supporter and I am sure he would be honoured to think that his team care about him and his family so much."
The team used an array of radio telescopes in Chile to close in on a nascent planetary system lying 176 light-years from Earth - distant to us, but nearby in astronomical terms.
The forming planet is thought to be an ice giant, similar to Uranus or Neptune in our Solar System.
The findings are to be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
In the two decades since the first exoplanets were found, astronomers have discovered that planetary systems do not necessarily follow the familiar template set by the eight planets which orbit the Sun.
There is great diversity in the configuration of planetary systems and in the characteristics of exoplanets themselves.
There is much debate over how this diversity emerges, including over the formation of Neptune-like icy giants.
Takashi Tsukagoshi at Ibaraki University, Japan, and colleagues used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (Alma) in northern Chile to take a close look at the planet formation site.
TW Hydrae is estimated to be about 10 million years old and is one of the closest young stars to Earth.
Thanks to its proximity and the fact that its axis of rotation points in Earth's direction, astronomers are able to get a face-on view of the developing planetary system.
The young star is surrounded by a disc made of tiny dust particles. Variations in the signal received by Alma allow researchers to estimate the size of these dust grains.
Smaller, micrometre-sized dust particles dominate the most prominent gap in the disc, which has a radius of 22 astronomical units (AU - equivalent to the mean distance from the centre of the Earth to the centre of the Sun).
Gravitational interactions and friction between gas and dust has probably pushed the larger dust out of the gap, say the researchers.
The team calculated the mass of the unseen planet based on the width and depth of the 22 AU gap and found that the planet is probably slightly more massive than Neptune.
"Combined with the orbit size and the brightness of TW Hydrae, the planet would be an icy giant planet like Neptune," said Dr Tsukagoshi.
Alma consists of 66 high precision antennas located on the Llano de Chajnantor, a plateau in the Atacama Desert with an altitude of 5,000m.
The antennas capture and concentrate radio waves from astronomical sources, allowing astronomers to see through the dust that obscures parts of the sky from visible light telescopes.
The 8in x 24in (20cm x 60cm) photo from 1941 was sold by a man who had bought it from one of Monroe's classmates.
It was taken at the Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School in Los Angeles.
Karen Fairweather, of Omega Auctions in Stockport, said the only other photo from the event had fetched £15,000 because it boasted Monroe's signature.
The photograph, which sold to an online UK bidder, had belonged to one of the actress's classmates called Barbara Chapbaum, who had it signed by several of her friends but not the future Hollywood legend.
A collector from the North East of England bought it off Ms Chapbaum several years ago and has now sold it.
At the time of the photograph, Monroe, then aged 15, was a brunette whose real name was Norma Jeane Baker.
Five years later she began modelling which eventually led to her acting career which saw her star in such movies as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Seven Year Itch, Some Like It Hot and The Misfits.
The star died on 5 August 1962.
Greater Manchester PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes were lured to a house in Mottram, Tameside on 18 September 2012.
Dale Cregan opened fire on the officers before throwing a grenade at them.
Mr Cameron attended the unveiling of a memorial stone at The Hub in Stockport Road in his first engagement since leaving Downing Street.
The memorial stone is less than a mile away from the scene of the attack.
Police Memorial Trust chairman Geraldine Winner, widow of former movie director Michael Winner, attended the service along with Greater Manchester's Chief Constable Ian Hopkins.
Mr Cameron said: "I spoke last night outside Number 10 Downing Street for the last time and I spoke about the extraordinary ethic of service in our country particularly our police, our intelligence, our armed forces.
He added the officers' murder had been "an act of pure evil" adding that it "shook the policing family to its very core".
"Our fallen heroes in the police exemplify the very best of us. To me they are the very epitome of service, bravery and sacrifice.
"This monument will ensure that their stories live on."
He added: "Fiona and Nicola are lights that will never go out. We are grateful of the service that they gave to the community. We will never let them be forgotten. We are so proud of them. May they rest in peace."
PCs Bone, 32, and Hughes, 23, were the 46th and 47th officers killed in the course of duty to be honoured by the trust since its formation 32 years ago.
Mr Hopkins said: "None of us will forget the morning of 18 September 2012 when PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes were brutally murdered doing the job they both loved so passionately.
Cregan, who was also convicted of two other murders, was told in June 2013 that he would spend the rest of his life in prison.
The unemployment figures, due out later, are seen as one of the main factors affecting the timing of any rate rise by the US Federal Reserve.
US companies are expected to have created 175,000 jobs in June after a disappointing 38,000 in May.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell 1.11% to end at 15,106.98, while the Topix index lost 1.3% to 1,209.88.
"The Fed is likely to keep its cautious stance. More jobs data will be necessary to ensure that the recovery of the labour market is entrenched," said Cynthia Jane Kalasopatan from Mizuho Bank.
"Overall, if non-farm payrolls continue to point to solid job gains in coming months, then the Fed may be comfortable to hike policy rate once this year especially if there is more clarity as regards to Brexit risks."
Japan's share market also had to digest weaker-than-expected data, with figures showing Japan's wage growth turned negative in May.
Labour cash earnings, a measure of worker pay including bonuses, fell 0.2% from a year earlier.
That is the first time the measure has contracted in a year. Estimates were for a 0.5% rise.
Japan also reported disappointing trade data. Its current account surplus narrowed to $18bn in May, which was below economist expectations.
However, shares in Nintendo jumped nearly 9% on hopes its Pokemon GO smartphone game will prove a success.
Other Asian markets also fell on Friday. In South Korea, the benchmark Kospi index ended 0.6% weaker at 1,963.10.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index finished 0.7% lower at 20,564.17 while the Shanghai Composite closed down 1% at 2,988.09.
Australia's ASX 200 edged up 0.05% to close at 5,230.50.
At least 16 of the 31 matches will be shown on BBC One or BBC Two, with the remaining fixtures available on Red Button and online.
The BBC is also set to broadcast this year's tournament in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
"This is a very significant moment for the sport," said Jon Dutton, the 2021 World Cup bid lead.
"It will increase visibility and profile for the tournament like never before."
Dave Woods, recently appointed as BBC Sport's first rugby league correspondent, added: "It is a chance to show a diverse audience what a great sport rugby league is.
"I feel privileged to play a small part in maximising the BBC's coverage across all outlets."
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Thistle hope to have Nitriansky, 26, in Saturday's squad to face Hibernian.
He has turned out for five clubs in his homeland, including Slavia Prague, and also played in Italy with Avellino.
Defenders Niall Keown and Jordan Turnbull, midfielder Blair Spittal and goalkeeper Jamie Sneddon have also joined the Jags for this season.
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Ide Warren worked for the Mid Essex Hospital Trust as a staff nurse in 2011 and 2012.
She was suspended from practise in 2012 after admitting eight charges.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has now removed her name from its register after finding she would pose "a significant risk to patients".
The council heard Ms Warren, who now lives in Northern Ireland, wanted to come off the register "voluntarily" and said because of her current state of health "it is highly unlikely she will be able to address the issues with her practice".
Ms Warren worked first as a healthcare assistant and then as a staff nurse at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford between March 2011 and February 2012.
The panel was told how she left a syringe of morphine on a patient's bed before signing to say the drug had been administered and also gave antibiotics to a man which was intended for a female patient.
Other charges she admitted included trying to give insulin to someone who was already being given the hormone and leaving a patient on a bed pan in a wet bed for 20 minutes.
The hospital previously said Ms Warren ceased working at the Chelmsford-based Broomfield Hospital in February 2012 and was "continually supervised" once concerns had been raised.
It is in Cardiff's Capitol, which the firm said had "suffered" following the opening of St David's shopping centre.
Managing director Jackie Lang said: "With numerous retail units leaving the mall, it has resulted in a significant reduction of footfall."
Capitol owner NewRiver REIT said it was exploring redevelopment possibilities.
Ms Lang said the reduction in footfall at the mall had "adversely affected the revenues and profit of the salon and we have been left with no alternative but to exit this location".
She said: "During the last couple of months we have been working hard to negotiate with the landlord to understand the plans and timescales for the redevelopment of the centre, together with their current strategy to improve the customer visits.
"Unfortunately, timescales and plans were not sufficiently locked down to encourage us to sign a new lease for the business.
"In these circumstances, our first priority is always to the team and we have presented every team member with a number of options."
The salon currently employs 18 members of staff.
"We have been in consultation with them over the past few weeks and despite wanting to retain all of the amazing talent, unfortunately, as most of them have their lives in Cardiff, it is not been a suitable option for the majority to relocate to another part of the country with Sassoon; therefore their positions will fall redundant," Ms Lang said.
"However, there are a few team members who have requested transfers to London and Beverly Hills which we are currently exploring.
"We are continuing to support the leadership team of the salon to identify future opportunities available within Cardiff.
"This decision was not taken lightly and we are extremely disappointed Sassoon will no longer have a presence in Cardiff."
Charles Spooner, director of NewRiver, said it purchased Capitol in 2016 "as a long-term investment opportunity, with redevelopment as the central focus".
He said: "The Capitol has an important role to play in the city and we are continuing to explore possibilities for a development to improve and enhance the centre, and complement the wider city centre retail and leisure offer.
"A great deal of work is taking place behind the scenes as part of a commitment to deliver a development which will complement the wider city centre retail and leisure offer.
"The Capitol is a major part of Cardiff's retail hub. We are looking forward to having the people of Cardiff help shape the future of the Capitol Centre, and we hope to share more information on this soon."
The Capitol opened in 1990, with the Sassoon salon one of its first stores.
The centre was redeveloped in 1999, but in recent years a number of stores including H&M, MAC, Jaeger, Austin Reed and Soho Coffee Co, have moved out.
Work to dig four trial trenches began earlier this month ahead of a £6m redevelopment of the New Cathedral Green as part of Project Pilgrim.
Other finds include a section of wall or monument, believed to be part of a 17th or 18th Century graveyard.
Archaeologist Richard Morriss said there was always a "high possibility" of unearthing burials.
"We had always believed [the location] was a 1,000-year-old cemetery," he added.
"But the most exciting finds are connected with how the lives of those buried were commemorated and memorialised.
"The family ledger slab is remarkably well-preserved from the 1690s and in giving us the names of a local family, it shows the connection the cathedral has always had in the lives of Gloucester residents."
The cathedral said outside work had been completed, all discoveries carefully recorded, and the trenches back-filled to ensure they were not disturbed.
Proposals for the landscaping of the New Cathedral Green would "continue as planned", taking the archaeological finds into account, Mr Morriss added.
Excavations outside the cathedral have now been completed and will begin inside the Cathedral Lady Chapel on 27 May.
The 29-year-old takes over from Glen Chapple, who has become part of cricket director Ashley Giles' backroom staff in a player-coach role.
Liverpool-born Smith has spent his whole career at Old Trafford and was the club's player of the year in 2014.
"I was lucky enough to have an meeting with Ashley and he offered the job," he told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"I was over the moon. It's not every day you get to captain your boyhood club that you've grown up with and it's a truly great honour."
Last summer, Smith took over 50 wickets in the County Championship for the first time and hit 773 runs, including seven half centuries, but they were relegated to Division Two.
The Red Rose have also confirmed that fellow all-rounder Steven Croft will be vice-captain for the upcoming season.
Placards reading "save our A&E" and "Our NHS is here to stay" were waved along the route from Huddersfield Royal Infirmary (HRI) to Greenhead Park.
Under the proposals, all emergency acute and high-risk planned care would be brought together at Calderdale Royal Hospital in neighbouring Halifax.
NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG said no decision had been made on the plans.
The proposals, which could save the NHS £31m, would see a new site developed in Acre Mills, Huddersfield, as a hospital for planned care, but with no A&E.
A public consultation recently revealed 60% of 7,500 respondents felt they would be negatively hit.
Karl Deitch, from the Hands off HRI group, said the march was to show the town "won't take it lying down".
"We're not stopping, they need to take a look and think - we have to go to a plan B, we need another alternative," he said.
Speakers at a rally at Greenhead Park included Barry Sheerman, Labour MP for Huddersfield, and Jason McCartney, Conservative MP for Colne Valley.
Several demonstrations against the proposals have now been staged, with a petition signed by more than 63,000 supporters.
A spokesperson for NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG said: "The CCGs' governing bodies will make the decision on the outcome of the consultation and next steps regarding the proposed changes to local hospital and community health services at a meeting in parallel on 20 October."
Seven contenders remain from the original longlist of 15 for the event's sixth edition.
The shortlist for the £30,000 award was announced at 50 Albermarle Street in London, the home of Scott's original publisher John Murray.
The winner will be announced in the Borders this summer.
The final shortlist is:
Announcing the shortlist, the chair of judges Alistair Moffat said: "We had a record number of entries, our most extensive longlist and, as a result, our longest shortlist since the first Walter Scott Prize in 2010.
"This list of seven fantastic novels represents the diversity and breadth of style that the genre of historical fiction now encompasses - from the poetic to the experimental, and from satire to adventure, writing set in the past can challenge, excite and innovate in a hundred different ways.
"Our 2015 shortlist could easily have been longer, but we hope we have represented the vibrancy of historical writing published in this last year, as well as a broad range of global settings from colonial India to 14th Century China, Europe during the two world wars, and 17th Century England."
The winner of the prize receives £25,000, and each of the shortlisted authors receive £1000, making the 2015 total prize worth £31,000.
Lance Hart, 57, killed his wife Claire, 50, and daughter Charlotte, 19, outside a swimming pool in Spalding last July.
His sons, Luke and Ryan, said they had endured a "lifetime of struggle" with his controlling behaviour.
"He had nothing to live for other than killing us," Luke, 27, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme.
The murders happened days after Mrs Hart had left the family home following a breakdown in the couple's marriage.
Hart shot the pair with a single-barrel shotgun in a swimming pool car park before turning the weapon on himself.
Luke said it was his father's final act to ensure the family could not live without him. He had left a 12-page suicide note saying "revenge is a dish served cold".
"It's pure evil, he hated us. He had the mentality of a terrorist, he was willing to kill himself to achieve what he achieved. Someone who's that fundamental, you can't stop. That's what makes our case so difficult to comprehend, we weren't safe whatever we did, if we had stayed he was planning to kill us there," he said.
"When it's your own father...the anger is inexplicable. It's so complicated and horrible and the media treated it like a one-off, but for us it was a culmination of a lifetime of struggle."
The brothers said he controlled the household by restricting money and isolating their mother from support networks.
Luke said it was only in retrospect they can understand his subtle behaviours were about power.
"The thing that makes it really dangerous, he was always very self-escalating in his behaviour, as his final actions proved. He was incredibly self-destructive and for us it was always a matter of shaping around him - we had to give in.
"So we became really blind to it in the end, until we got to the point when he had mum's keys and documents and passport in a safe and we had no financial ability to do anything."
The brothers said their mother had been keeping a diary of everything his father had said and done, but "as there were no bruises" they never felt it was something they could take to the police.
Ryan, 26, said: "That's why we were so blind to our situation as we were looking out for physical violence. We didn't realise the danger of our situation. Physical violence is not the only sign of domestic abuse - quite often there is none."
The boys, who had worked hard to give their mother and sister a better life, had moved her out of the house so "she would be safer" while the couple's divorce went through.
At the time of the killings, some reports quoted neighbours who described Hart as a "very, very nice guy" who had struggled to deal with the breakdown of his marriage.
Ryan said: "Many tried to justify it as an act of love. I've since seen it's not unique to our situation. Love is one word which would not fit. It detracts from the seriousness of domestic abuse and almost sympathises with the abuser.
"When emotional abuse is talked about the onus is on the victims to escape or put up with it. There is no other form of murder where victims are blamed."
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Jeffrey Blue is suing Mr Ashley, saying that during a pub meeting he was promised £15m if he used his expertise to increase the firm's share price.
But Sports Direct chairman Keith Hellawell, said Mr Blue only mentioned the figure of £1m.
The High Court in London heard Mr Blue had been paid £1m for "other deals".
Mr Ashley, who also owns Newcastle United, has previously told the court the conversation with investment banker Mr Blue in a London pub four years ago was "drunken banter".
Mr Hellawell, a former chief constable of West Yorkshire Police before he embarked on a business career, said he had a conversation with Mr Blue three years ago.
"He had told me £1m - I was very clear on what he said in that conversation," he said.
Mr Ashley has told Mr Justice Leggatt that he did not make a share price increase agreement with Mr Blue and had paid him £1m for other business.
Lawyers are due to outline closing legal arguments on Wednesday, and the judge is expected to deliver a ruling later in the year.
Stars went down in overtime to Edinburgh Capitals on Saturday before thrashing the Caps on Sunday as they came out of a five-game winless run.
And LeFebvre couldn't have been happier at how his team bounced back with such a comprehensive victory in the second of the double-header.
"The whole team have worked so hard in these last two weeks and we've been three imports down," he said. "We've put in a good effort and I'm delighted for the guys in the end.
"We ran out of steam on Saturday and Edinburgh are a team that can surprise.
"But It's important for us to keep the momentum going. It's a good feeling to get three points from the weekend and we'll start to get some bodies back."
On Saturday, Brett Switzer and Justin Faryna fired the Stars two up with Jared Staal scoring in reply for the Caps before Vinny Scarsella added Dundee's third.
However, like last week against Fife Flyers, Edinburgh stormed back as Karel Hromas and Taylor MacDougall levelled, taking the game to overtime, where Yevgeni Fyodorov struck for the 4-3 win.
On Sunday in Dundee there was quite a turnaround as five goals from Kevin Bruijsten helped the Stars to a thumping 10-3 win over Michal Dobron's side.
Kevin Hart, Cam McGiffin and Bruijsten had Dundee three up in the first five minutes before Jacob Johnston pulled one back for Edinburgh.
Justin Faryna and another from Bruijsten put the Stars 5-1 by the end of the first period, with the Caps mounting a comeback through Jared Staal and Karel Hromas in the middle session.
But Dundee found their mojo again in the third as one from Lidhammar, Bruijsten, one from Ben Edmonds and a further two from the Dutchman completed the rout.
Fife Flyers ended another weekend without a point, starting on Saturday at Manchester Storm, going down 4-3 after penalty shots.
Taylor Dickin and Paul Phillips were on target for Storm before Brendan Brooks and two from Chase Schaber had Fife in front with three minutes to go.
But Mario Valery-Trabucco tied the game in the final minute and after overtime couldn't produce a winner, Mark Heatley and Darian Dzuirzynski came up trumps in the shootout for Manchester.
Fife welcomed Braehead Clan to Kirkcaldy on Sunday and lost for the fourth consecutive game against their Glasgow rivals, going down 4-1.
Mike Hammond opened the scoring before the Flyers levelled the game through Carlo Finucci during the second period.
Jay Rosehill restored Braehead's lead at the end of the second before Zach Sullivan struck with a rare goal to open a two-goal advantage when he was assisted by Alex Leavitt.
Leavitt then turned scorer from provider to add a fourth that sealed the game and as Ryan Finnerty's men headed into a busy Christmas schedule with an important victory.
Clan started their weekend with a 7-4 loss to Coventry Blaze, whose upturn in form saw them pick up their fourth win in their last five.
TJ Syner and Robin Bergman put the Blaze in front, but Clan hit back through Matt Beca on the powerplay before Josh Godfrey restored Coventry's two-goal lead.
Scott Pitt got Braehead back to one then Liam Stewart struck with a shorthanded goal. Although Kyle Wharton got another on the board for the home team, Blaze kicked on in the third.
Another one shorthanded from Stewart and Syner's second sealed the points. Corey Cowick pulled one back, but Barry Almeida rounded off a good night's work for the visitors.
Wednesday:
Challenge Cup Quarter Final 2nd Leg
Nottingham Panthers 3-1 Braehead Clan (Panthers win 6-4 on aggregate)
Elite League
Sheffield Steelers 4-2 Dundee Stars
Saturday:
Elite League
Braehead Clan 4-7 Coventry Blaze
Edinburgh Capitals 4-3 Dundee Stars (OT)
Manchester Storm 4-3 Fife Flyers (PS)
Sunday:
Elite League
Dundee Stars 10-3 Edinburgh Capitals
Fife Flyers 1-4 Braehead Clan
The 40-year-old lifted the county from sixth to a third-placed finish in Championship Division Two after standing in temporarily following Paul Grayson's departure in September.
Silverwood had been Grayson's assistant since January 2014 and was "unanimously" chosen by a panel.
"I passionately want to see Essex be successful," he said.
Former England captains Keith Fletcher and Graham Gooch, cricket committee chairman Ronnie Irani and recruitment specialist Wasim Haq were part of the selection panel, which interviewed a five-man shortlist.
"There were some big names on the panel, and to know I've got the support of those guys is immense," added Silverwood.
"There was so much knowledge sat around that table, and to have them pick me out is fantastic."
Silverwood appeared for Yorkshire, Middlesex and Essex during his playing career, taking 577 first-class wickets at an average of average of 27.41 in 184 matches.
He made his Test debut against Zimbabwe in 1996 and later made five further appearances, the last in the 2002-03 Ashes series in Australia, and also played seven one-day internationals.
"Chris Silverwood is a tremendous young coach with the vision, passion and dedication that this club deserves," said Essex chief executive Derek Bowden, who was also on the selection panel.
"His work with the England Lions this month, alongside his time spent with other England and Wales Cricket Board development squads over the past few years, demonstrates how highly regarded he is in the game of cricket."
The Chicago-born star told Chris Evans on his BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show "the seed was planted" to take part when she sang on the show last year.
Despite admitting she could not dance, the singer said was "game" to take part, but had done "absolutely nothing" to prepare.
The new series begins in September.
Olly Murs and Rebecca Ferguson are to perform on the launch show, broadcast on 3 September, it has been confirmed.
The 15 celebrity contestants will find out on the show which professional dancer they have been matched with.
When she was asked if she wanted to appear on Strictly as a contestant, Anastacia said she replied: "I'd stink - do you really want me on the show?"
"I'm serious," the 47-year-old told Evans. "I'm not lying about it at all. I just finished 62 dates on tour so I'm really good at rhythm and sidestepping - as far as to my own music. But… uh oh."
When Evans said it was "fantastic" the singer would be on Strictly, she replied: "You say it's fantastic now - you haven't seen me dance yet."
The singer said she had a "slew of health issues" - including Crohn's disease, breast cancer and a heart condition - joking: "I'm ticking them off, honey."
She added of the dancing series: "I did it because I wanted to challenge myself on something that had nothing to do with a hospital."
Speaking on the Strictly website, the singer said: "After my double mastectomy, it stripped away a part of me that I feel I would like to find again.
"This opportunity has come at a perfect time to help me use and get to know my upper body again."
She added she was most looking forward to dancing the Salsa because she thinks she has "a 28-year-old Latina trapped inside" her body.
Anastacia shot to international fame in 2000 with her debut song I'm Outta Love, which she performed on the Strictly Blackpool special last year.
BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty, politician Ed Balls, model Daisy Lowe, former Hollyoaks actor Danny Mac, Kiss FM DJ Melvin Odoom, singers Louise Redknapp and Will Young; and presenters Ore Oduba and Laura Whitmore are the other confirmed celebrity contestants on the show.
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The $1.4bn (£1.1bn) profit, on the replacement cost measure, compared with a $485m loss a year earlier.
Oil prices have been about 35% higher in the first three months of 2017 compared with a year earlier, boosting revenue from BP's core oil and gas production division.
BP chief executive Bob Dudley said: "Our year has started well."
He added: "BP is focused on the disciplined delivery of our plans. First quarter earnings and cash flow were robust."
Underlying replacement cost profit - the company's preferred measure - was $1.5bn compared with $532m a year ago.
And operating cash flow rose to $4.4bn from $3bn a year earlier
Reported oil and gas production was 5% higher than same period in 2016.
BP held the quarterly dividend at 10 cents. Given the size of BP, the payout is watched closely by investors.
The London-based giant is set to begin eight projects this year - including in Oman and Azerbaijan - the largest number in its history in a year.
Meanwhile, it hopes to add 800,000 barrels a day of new production by the end of the decade.
"Rising production from new upstream projects is expected to drive a material improvement in operating cash flow from the second half of 2017," BP said in its results statement.
Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets UK, said: "Earlier this year BP management raised the price it needed oil prices to be to $60 a barrel to break even, after reporting an annual loss of $542m in its oil and gas upstream division at the end of the last fiscal year.
"Though Brent crude prices did get close to that $60 level in February they have struggled ever since, despite the output freeze by Opec that is due to be reviewed later this month."
The figures come after strong earnings from US peers ExxonMobil and Chevron last week as the oil industry benefits from a rebound in crude prices, which hit near 13-year lows in early 2016.
Royal Dutch Shell is also expected to post a leap in profits when it reports later this week.
Last month, BP slashed Mr Dudley's 2016 pay package by 40% and cut his maximum earnings by $3.7m.
Its annual report showed Mr Dudley's pay was reduced to $11.6m as it looked to head off a repeat of last year's shareholder revolt against his remuneration.
The ex-Liverpool and Manchester City forward, 26, posted on social media to say he had been subject to "monkey chants for the whole game" in Friday's 1-1 draw.
Bastia said "a man in his 40s" had come forward himself after the French Football League began an investigation.
Nice midfielder Alassane Plea confirmed he had heard the racist abuse.
Bastia added in a statement: "Regretting his attitude and aware of the repercussions, this person responded to our appeal and came to the stadium on Tuesday.
"Acknowledging he was responsible for the incriminating chants, he has been notified of the deactivation of his season ticket along with a general ban from the Stade de Furiani."
Balotelli has scored 10 goals in 15 games for Nice since joining on a free transfer from Liverpool in August.
The Premiership side have been hit by injuries to key players in both positions in recent months.
Chiefs are also close to signing a second lock who will join the club in the summer and extending the contracts of a number of the existing squad.
"We've been pretty active over the last two or three weeks, we're pretty satisfied to where we're going to be this year," head coach Rob Baxter said.
Mitch Lees and Damien Welch have both been ruled out for much of the remainder of the season, leaving England second-row Geoff Parling as the only experienced lock available to the Chiefs.
While Baxter would not reveal who he was in talks with, he said he hoped to announce the signing in the next few days.
"He's a player invoked in the Pro12 at the moment. We think it's a really good fit for us and people will understand that when they see the player it is," said Baxter.
"Initially with the first injury to Damien we were thinking we could get through things and we had enough cover, but the second injury to Mitch really tipped the balance too far for us to try and battle our way through.
"We've still got another Champions Cup game this weekend and then we've got 10 Premiership games on the bounce."
Exeter currently have England centre Henry Slade out for much of the rest of the season, while Sam Hill, Michele Campagnaro and Jack Nowell have all been called up for Six Nations duty, meaning Baxter is also short on backs.
"We've still got to wrap up quite a few details on visas etc," said Baxter regarding the overseas signing.
"Hopefully by mid-February we'll have someone over here and that will then complete the look of our backs.
"Bringing in some extra cover allows us to increase our flexibility. Having guys who can cover one or two or three positions will be very important for us in this next 10-week block."
As part of his residency he will write a musical adaptation of Huckleberry Finn, which will be performed in the Lyric in spring 2017.
Born Peter Wilson, Duke Special is one of Northern Ireland's best known musicians and a former Irish Meteor music award winner.
The position is worth £15,000 a year.
Previous artists-in-residence at the theatre have included playwrights Owen McCafferty and Abbie Spallen.
Duke Special has released nine albums, and he has previously written music for theatre.
He composed and performed the music for the National Theatre in London's 2009 production of Berthold Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children.
Earlier this year, he also wrote the score for Youth Music Theatre's production of Gulliver's Travels, which was performed in the Lyric.
Duke Special said he was "thrilled" to be appointed.
"I hope to learn as much as I can, absorb all that's going on there and to write lots and lots of songs," he said.
Lyric Theatre executive producer Jimmy Fay said his residency would give the theatre "something completely new and different".
Changes in the admission scoring system for A-level applicants are thought to be the main reason for the rise.
The points awarded for most A-level grades have risen.
This redressed a 2005 system which cut the value of A-levels in comparison to Leaving Certificate grades.
One thousand seven hundred and eighteen students from Northern Ireland had applied to higher education institutions in the Republic by the initial deadline of 1 February 2016.
That is a rise of just over 24% from 1,383 applications by February last year, according to figures from the Republic of Ireland's Central Applications Office (CAO).
The final application process does not end until 1 May, so that figure may rise further.
Since 2005, many popular courses at universities in the Republic of Ireland have been inaccessible to Northern Ireland students unless they took four A-levels.
That was due to a scoring system which compared A-level results with the Leaving Certificate qualification.
A Northern Ireland pupil, for instance, who did three A-levels and got three A* grades, would get a maximum of 450 points.
That compared to a maximum of 600 points for a pupil getting top grades in the Leaving Certificate exams.
The most popular courses at Irish universities - such as law, maths, English or psychology at Trinity College Dublin - require a pupil to get well over 500 points to apply for entry.
A 2014 report for the North-South Inter-Parliamentary Association said the system "effectively devalued" A-levels.
The scoring system for A-levels has now changed for 2016 applicants.
For example, points for an A* have risen from 150 to 180, while points for an A grade have risen from 135 to 150.
Individually, Trinity College in Dublin and NUI Galway have confirmed to the BBC that they have seen applications from Northern Ireland pupils rise by up to 22% in 2016.
According to figures supplied by the Irish Universities Association (IUA), only 0.41% of full-time students in the Republic were from NI in 2014/15.
By contrast, 7.7% of full-time students in Northern Ireland were from the Republic of Ireland in 2012/13 - the most recent year for which there are figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).
This is despite the fact that university undergraduate tuition fees in the Republic are currently lower at 3,000 euros (£2,400) a year compared to £3,805 in Northern Ireland.
Figures supplied by the CAO also show that there has been no significant rise in students from elsewhere in the UK applying to Irish universities in 2016.
Papua New Guinea crumbled to 53 all out as Scotland's 16-year-old leg-spinner Abtaha Maqsood (2-9) and 18-year-old seamer Kirstie Gordon (2-10) starred.
The Wildcats reached their target in 15.4 overs for the loss of two wickets, with Kari Anderson unbeaten on 24.
Bangladesh are Scotland's opposition on Sunday in their next Group A match.
Gordon told the Cricket Scotland website: "I'm really pleased with how I bowled. A really good first wicket and from then the wickets kept falling for the team.
"It is a massive game against Bangladesh. They are a full member, so we know they are going to be tougher opposition."
In Saturday's other Group A game, Bangladesh beat hosts Thailand, while in Group B, Ireland and Zimbabwe saw off the Netherlands and China respectively.
The top two teams in the eight-strong qualifying tournament will progress to next year's Women's World T20 in India.
1. A photo of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West kissing on their wedding day.
2. A picture of on-again, off-again, couple Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez looking all thoughtful and serious.
3. A photo of Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande happily embracing.
Firstly, they are the three most liked pictures on Instagram in 2014.
Secondly, the concept they are all based around reflects this year's top hashtag, love.
From terrorist activity to trolling, the web can often feel like a dark, terrifying place, but it seems this year on Instagram love has conquered all.
From cute cats...
To cute dogs...
To couples with cute dogs...
To food. Lots and lots of food.
Unsurprisingly, exotic places and memorable moments also featured heavily on Instagram.
This year's top 10 geotagged locations in the UK were all in London, perhaps reflecting recent research which suggested the UK's capital was the world's most popular city to visit.
Tower Bridge and the Tower of London topped the list, after thousands of people visited the area to see the Blood Swept Land and Seas of Red poppy installations to commemorate the centenary of World War One.
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Rosberg had to abort his first run in the top-10 shootout because of an electronic error but had the fastest lap of the weekend on his final run.
Hamilton went out to do his final lap afterwards but two errors meant he ended up 0.107secs adrift.
Daniel Ricciardo headed Max Verstappen in an all-Red Bull second row.
The Ferraris of Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel were fifth and sixth.
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Rosberg's pole was his second in a row and his fifth of the season and it is the first time he has beaten Hamilton on merit when the two have been fighting it out in the final seconds of the session.
Of his past four poles, Hamilton was unable to compete in China and Russia because of engine problems, he crashed in the European Grand Prix in Baku after an error-strewn performance and had to back out of his final lap in Hungary last weekend when he came across Fernando Alonso's McLaren, which had spun.
As such, it was a key step for Rosberg, who lost the championship lead to Hamilton for the first time this season following the Briton's fifth win in six races last weekend.
The title rivals are now tied 6-6 on their head-to-head qualifying records this season.
"It is a great feeling," said Rosberg, who said it had been "one of the best laps" of his career, "especially in the circumstances - very, very satisfying".
I also had extra fuel because to make sure I do have another shot, so I had fuel for three laps."
Hamilton said afterwards: "It has been a good weekend. I had no problems. I had the pace but I just didn't finish it off on the last lap.
"Pole was definitely on. I was 0.2secs up on the lap and I just didn't finish it. That's it."
Red Bull continued their recent surge in form, which looks as though it could move them ahead of Ferrari as the second team in the championship, and Ricciardo confirmed his position as a qualifying ace.
The Australian edged Verstappen by 0.108secs and has still been beaten only once in qualifying by a team-mate all year.
Ferrari were again disappointing. On a weekend that started with news they had parted company with their highly rated technical director James Allison, Raikkonen was 0.779secs off pole - and 0.173secs ahead of Vettel, who looked out of sorts.
Vettel also incurred the wrath of Alonso, who accused him of holding him up on his final run. Alonso stormed out of the McLaren garage after being knocked out in the second session, which he ended 14th, two places and 0.132secs behind team-mate Jenson Button.
Briton's Jolyon Palmer put in a strong performance to line up 16th, a place and 0.061secs ahead of his more experienced team-mate Kevin Magnussen as both face questions over their futures at the Renault team in 2017.
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The death sentence was imposed after the three were convicted of robbery with violence.
A further 25-year sentence for stripping the woman was suspended due to the death penalty.
The incident was recorded and shared widely on social media three years ago, sparking nationwide protests.
Hundreds of women, some in tight fitting clothes, marched through Nairobi, rallied by the hash tag #MyDressMyChoice.
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Chief magistrate Francis Andayi said that those convicted had taken part in a "senseless and uncouth attack that they seemed to enjoy because they were cheering as they stripped the woman", the privately owned Daily Nation newspaper reports.
This episode was part of a wave of sexual assaults in Nairobi during 2014.
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Most people have been in support of today's ruling, however, one man told the BBC that the sentence was unfair and that women need to dress according to Kenyan traditions.
Cases of sexual assault of this nature have greatly reduced recently. We have not had any reported cases of harassment for alleged provocative dressing since 2014.
And while death penalties are still passed in Kenyan courts, no executions have actually been carried out since 1987. Last year President Uhuru Kenyatta commuted all death sentences in the country to life imprisonment.
So the three men may be set for a long time of reflection in prison.
Fly-half Russell was man of the match again on Friday as Glasgow beat Racing 92 for a second time in six days.
"What the Lions selectors want to see is how the players play in the bigger games," Townsend told BBC Scotland.
"Finn has played really well now against Racing twice and Leicester. He thrives on these big games."
Russell, 24, made his Warriors debut in February 2013, and broke through in style the following season to earn the number 10 jersey during Glasgow's run to the Pro12 final.
The former Ayr pivot won the first of his 22 Scotland caps against America later that year, and helped the Warriors wins the Pro12 title in 2015.
"We were so pleased with Finn coming out of the academy," Townsend added. "He stepped in three years ago, and then he became one of our best players and jumped two international players [Duncan Weir and Ruaridh Jackson] to play for us in semi-finals and finals. He's done the same with Scotland.
"A night like this, he loves it, he loves making decisions, taking on the defence and also tackling really well. The Lions coaches will know he's a very good defender."
Despite another outstanding first 50 minutes against Racing, Townsend could not hide his disappointment at missing out on a try bonus-point, having scored three tries in the opening 46 minutes.
"It was probably not as satisfying as last week," he admitted. "To win out in Paris, when they had so much ball and actually played really well, was a huge achievement for this team.
"Tonight it was great we went right at them from the kick-off, we looked really dangerous and I felt we were dominant for 50 minutes. The atmosphere was great and it was a special night.
"But we need to be better than what we showed in the last 30 minutes when we come up against Munster in a few weeks' time."
Glasgow have 13 points from four matches, while Munster - with a maximum 10 from their first two matches after thumping home wins over the Warriors and Leicester - travel to face the Tigers at Welford Road on Saturday.
Glasgow face Munster at Scotstoun on Friday, 13 January before completing their pool fixtures away to Leicester the following weekend.
Speaking to the BBC in the capital Nay Pyi Taw, Thein Sein said the military had initiated reforms but he put no timeframe on reducing its dominant role in Burmese political life.
Thein Sein's four years in office have seen significant changes but the army's power remains untouched.
The military still occupies a quarter of the seats in parliament.
It also has a veto over constitutional change and the right to seize power outright at any time.
During our 45 minutes together I'd expected the president to put a little distance between himself and the army. He's an ex-general, of course, but he's now a politician and has a reputation as a reformer.
I thought I'd hear him say that he was trying to slowly coax the Burmese army to take a step back and submit to civilian control. What I got was a forceful justification of why Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, still needs the military involved in politics.
"It's not true that reforms have stalled because of the military," he said.
"The Tatmadaw [Burmese army] does not get involved with political parties and is only concerned with the national interest."
"The military has two tasks. One is to fight for the country in case of war. If there's no war they will serve the interest of the people. Serving the interests of the people means being involved in national politics."
The 69-year-old believes that having initiated the move away from dictatorship, the army remains a necessary part of the transition.
"In fact the military is the one who is assisting in the flourishing of democracy in our country," he says. "As the political parties mature in their political norms and practice, the role of the military gradually changes."
The president refused to put a timeframe on a reduction in the military's political role, saying it would be done gradually and in line with the "will of the people".
Throughout our discussion the president spoke with certainty. Convinced that the army had the full support of the people and that it would always act in the national interest.
The military won't be standing in November's general election but its popularity will be tested.
The USDP, a military-backed party full of former officers, will for the first time go head to head with Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy.
Most expect the NLD to win, but Ms Suu Kyi is barred from assuming the presidency because her children hold British passports.
The president said he wouldn't mind the constitution being changed, but that it was up to parliament and then, if necessary, the will of the people in a referendum.
Ms Suu Kyi's problem of course is that the army says it will veto the needed change in parliament, so it won't get put to a public vote.
Despite indicating a willingness to see the Aung San Suu Kyi clause (59F) removed, it was left deliberately vague as to whether the president actually wanted this to happen.
The impression was certainly that he wouldn't be pushing for change.
I was told that the eligibility restriction dated back to 1947 and was partly drafted by Aung San Suu Kyi's father. It's a fact hotly contested by Ms Suu Kyi's supporters.
"Our country is situated between two populous countries in India and China. So the leaders of our country have always had to safeguard our sovereignty and integrity to avoid being dominated," President Thein Sein said. "These concerns were considered and drafted into our constitution."
He then cited the example of other countries where eligibility for the top job is restricted on nationality grounds, before mentioning Henry Kissinger as someone who would have made a good American president but was blocked by the rules (because he was born in Germany).
In the last six weeks intense fighting with rebels in the small mountain region of Kokang have claimed the lives of more than 200 combatants, and an unknown number of civilians.
Kokang rebels have been crossing the border at will, and last week Burmese jets were accused of bombing China by accident, killing five Chinese sugar cane farmers. The war has put a severe strain on Myanmar's most important international relationship, with China.
Though most accept that at a local level Chinese officials are assisting the rebels. the president was unwilling to blame Myanmar's much larger and richer neighbour.
"This is a domestic affair and we have to solve it domestically," he said.
"China cannot solve it. We have to sort it ourselves. China has a policy of non-interference and have already said they will not accept any group that attacks Myanmar from within their territory."
For now the Burmese solution is a military one with the Kokang rebels' offer of talks rejected.
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Earls was sent-off and suspended for two weeks after upending Brown.
He told Irish media last month he felt the Scotland hooker "could have done more to protect himself" - a remark Brown finds disrespectful.
"As professional players we've got a duty of care for each other," he said.
"If you do something wrong, it's being big enough to put your hand up and say you got something wrong. So for me, it's disappointing he could come out and put the blame somewhere else."
The fixture was racked with emotion, six days after the death of Munster's head coach, Anthony Foley.
The rampant hosts overcame Earls' 19th-minute dismissal to hammer Glasgow 38-17.
The Ireland centre, however, was left incensed by his ordering-off, and while he apologised for kicking water bottles as he left the field, he felt the red card denied him the opportunity to honour Foley with his performance.
Brown says the tip-tackle showed the fine margins between hard but fair rugby and dangerous play.
"It's such a physical sport, rugby," he said. "Every single moment in the game, you can be right on the edge of doing something really well or you can just go past that edge.
"I don't think anyone goes out there to deliberately hurt anybody - he certainly didn't. In my mind, it's a 50-50 tackle; it's almost the perfect tackle and it's just gone over the edge to being a bad tackle.
"I think afterwards claiming that I could probably have done more is a bit disrespectful to myself and to other guys in that situation.
"The incident for me is a non-incident because it happens all the time in rugby, it's just that fine edge you can be on both sides of.
"We spoke after the incident and we actually messaged each other a couple of times and that was put to bed - I'd just say it's a little bit disappointing to hear what he's come out with the last couple of weeks, but I'm not going to go into it in too much detail.
"It was dealt with by the disciplinary panel, they felt it was a dangerous tackle and he got an appropriate sanction."
Warriors have lost three successive Pro12 games for the first time under head coach, Gregor Townsend.
They resume their Champions Cup campaign on Saturday away to Parisian giants Racing 92.
Brown, 27, believes the players' intensity and drive has been below par in patches, but admits he can't pinpoint precisely why standards have slipped.
"It's very much a personal thing," he said. "When I joined Glasgow there was a great culture here and it's something we've maintained and continued.
"We've maybe lost a couple of guys the last couple of years, and it's about continually developing that culture within the group, new guys that have come in, younger guys from five or six years ago are now senior guys in the squad.
"It's how we keep developing that culture and make sure we keep the standards high, the hard-working ethos we have. We are a team that have had relative success the last few years, and with that success you can sometimes get a little bit of complacency, and it's how we maintain our standards and drive so we don't let that complacency creep in."
Fletcher, 42, who is from the town, was made a Doctor of Letters in a ceremony at the university's Great Hall.
The actor, best known as clumsy clown Mr Tumble on the CBeebies channel, said: "I'm thrilled to be honoured and enjoyed the day immensely."
In 2008 Fletcher was appointed MBE for his services to children's television and the charity sector.
Fletcher added: "The London Road campus is a hidden gem and the Great Hall is magnificent.
"To be presented with the honorary degree from Professor Andy Kempe, who was my drama teacher at Theale Green School in Reading, was extra special as he really encouraged and supported me when I was 15."
Fletcher has been a children's television presenter and voice-over artist for the past 15 years.
"I'm a big lover of slapstick comedy and I like to try and make my slapstick minimalist in speech so any child in the world can enjoy it," he said.
"When I'm presenting I always think of the children and imagine them sitting at home and really try to engage them and get them believing in my performance and the show."
Nearly 3,500 students will graduate from the university this week in 18 ceremonies held over three days on the campus.
Warning: This story contains racially offensive language.
The gunmen said the magazine was targeted because of its publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Nevertheless, the first issue of the magazine in the wake of the killings featured a defiant cartoon of a weeping Prophet Muhammad on the cover.
Events in Paris set the tone for social media trends and debate in Pakistan this week, as BBC Urdu's social media editor Tahir Imran explains.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was unexpectedly dragged into the Charlie Hebdo debate as it unfolded in Pakistan this week.
When well-known Pakistani actor and director Hamza Ali Abbasi logged on after he posted a status update about the free speech debate in the wake of the attack, he discovered that Facebook had deactivated his profile.
What had he said? He wrote: "Even my blood boils when someone insults my Prophet (Peace be Upon Him) but that does not give individuals the right to kill."
He added: "Freedom of expression should include criticism, disagreement or even rejection of faiths or ideology." He then wrote: "Would it be 'freedom of expression' if I brand black people as niggers or if I say Hitler was a messiah? Would I not be branded as a racist or anti-Semitic?"
He added that: "The West needs to rethink and fix its definition of 'freedom of expression'".
When he discovered his account had been temporarily blocked and his status deleted, he re-posted his comments and vented his anger. After this post many Pakistani users tweeted about it under the hashtag #ShameonMarkZuckerberg.
It soon became a top trend. But many of the tweets came from supporters of Imran Khan's PTI political party, which Hamza Ali Abbasi endorses. In fact Pakistan can boast a large number of people who constantly tweet about specific topics to keep debates going for longer - it does not necessarily reflect the thinking of the majority online.
And Mr Abbasi has himself been criticised on Pakistani social media for posting comments about schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, appearing to begrudge her the award of her Nobel Peace Prize. In the end, he had to edit his post to offer his congratulations to her.
In this instance Mark Zuckerberg did weigh in. When asked by one user what he had to say about the deletion of the post, Mark Zuckerberg responded: "I don't think this should have been blocked. Our team might have made a mistake. Justin, can you look into this?"
He tagged a senior official on Facebook who later commented on the thread and apologised: "As Mark mentioned, we made a mistake in taking this down. We try to do our best, but sometimes make mistakes. We apologize for this error, and hope that the author will re-post it as we are not able to restore it from our end. Thanks for bringing it to our attention."
After the record sales for Charlie Hebdo's publication featuring a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad, in Pakistan the top trend was #WhoisMuhammad.
Under this hashtag people started writing about the teachings of the Prophet, an attempt to counter negative views about Islam after the Paris attack. It came as Pakistan's parliament passed a resolution condemning the publication of the cartoons.
Many people on Twitter were preoccupied by what they saw as the hypocrisy of the West, arguing there were double standards when applied to Islam.
Here are few tweets from Pakistan:
A lawmaker from the ruling Pakistan Muslim League, Hina Butt, tweeted: "While receiving his daughter, Fatimah (S.A), He used to rise from his seat & make her sit in his own place."
Malcolm Millman, 58, disappeared during a visit to a monastery in Hemel Hempstead on 24 October and was last seen at Manchester Airport on Monday.
He was convicted in 1996 and has committed violent attacks on young girls and women, police said.
Ch Supt Zoe Sheard said: "I advise you to not walk the streets alone."
"We are going into Halloween weekend and I know there will be a lot of people out taking part in the festivities... always make sure people know where you are."
Millman does not have a passport and the force believe he may be in the Manchester area.
Greater Manchester Police have said Millman should not be approached.
The investigation is being led by Thames Valley Police, which said Millman is also known as Richard Simon Barber, Michael Geoffrey Newman, and Raymond Pilkington.
He is under the care at Chadwick Lodge, a medium secure mental health facility in Milton Keynes.
Millman has a large build, is bald with thinning brown hair on the sides and carries a walking stick.
Helen Bailey's body was found by her father in woodland near the M6 on 11 August 1975 after she never returned from playing out the previous afternoon.
Dressed all in blue when she died, Helen became known as Little Girl Blue.
The case has been highlighted by the BBC's Crimewatch Roadshow.
Det Supt Caroline Marsh said: "This is a direct appeal to the offender or anyone who may have spoken to the offender about what happened that day."
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Helen was playing at the park near her home on Booths Farm Road in Perry Barr on 10 August 1975 when she returned home at about 14:30 BST in a "dirty state", Det Supt Marsh told BBC Crimewatch.
She went out to play again after her mother washed and redressed her but did not return at tea-time.
Her parents went out to look for her and alerted the police when they couldn't find her.
Officers conducted an overnight search involving members of the public and Helen's body was found the following morning with her throat cut in woodland near the M6.
Helen's mother, Margaret Bailey, said: "It's with me all the time and I just want closure. I'd like to think I can finish my life knowing justice has been done for Helen."
Helen would have celebrated her 50th birthday in May.
"I just wonder what she would have been. She would have been engaged perhaps, got married and had a family. And we've been robbed of all that," Ms Bailey added.
Det Supt Marsh, who is investigating the case, said police "strongly believe that the person responsible for Helen's murder has confided in someone" and are appealing for them to come forward.
The man was reported missing at about 16:00 BST on Saturday.
It is understood the missing diver, who is Canadian, was one of a number who were diving around wrecks in the area.
The search will focus on an area approximately 22.5km (14 miles) north-west of Malin Head, near Fanad.
It is understood a group of divers left from Downings pier on a charter boat on Saturday morning.
RTÉ said they were diving at a depth of 65m at the site of the Pinto wreck - one of a number of sunken ships from the WW2 era off Malin Head.
NHS Scotland figures showed that 4,222 patients started treatment from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) over the period.
Of these, 101 had waited 53 weeks or more for their specialist help.
Only 16 patients had to wait more than a year in the last quarter of 2015, the statistics showed.
The NHS in Scotland provides specialist mental health care for children and young people suffering from conditions including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anxiety, behaviour problems, depression and early onset psychosis.
Two years ago the Scottish government set a target for 90% of young people who were referred for mental health treatment to be seen within 18 weeks.
The latest figures showed that, in the last three months of 2016, 82.5% of those starting treatment across Scotland waited 18 weeks or less - an improvement from 79% in the previous three months and 76.2% of patients in the period from October to December 2015.
However, there were wide variations across the country - with seven health boards meeting the 18-week standard while five did not - including Grampian and Lothian where only 45% and 48% of cases met the target time respectively.
NHS Orkney did not submit data from September 2016, while NHS Shetland and NHS Western Isles were combined due to small numbers and disclosure reasons.
Children's campaigners voiced concerns that long waits for help could increase the number of families facing a mental health "crisis situation".
A spokesman for the Scottish Children's Services Coalition (SCSC) said: "These statistics, while an improvement on the previous quarter, highlight that five of our health boards are failing to meet maximum waiting times, a clear 'postcode lottery' when it comes to treatment.
"In addition, more than 100 of those with mental health issues are waiting more than a year to be seen and we are deeply concerned about what is happening to the more than a fifth of children and young people not accepted for treatment."
The spokesman welcomed the Scottish government's commitment of an additional £150m in mental health services over the next five years, but said more clearly needed to be done.
He added: "Families usually experience months of waiting even before a referral to CAMHS.
"The consequent delay in diagnosis and appropriate support can lead to a crisis situation for the child or young person concerned, as well as for their family, and the need for costly extra resources to address this."
The Scottish government's mental health minister, Maureen Watt, said the continued reduction in waiting times demonstrated that access to services was improving.
She added: "I'm clear that we must continue to reduce waiting times and I will not be satisfied until our 90% target is met.
"In the coming weeks I will be publishing our new strategy for mental health. This will lay out how we will change services over the next decade, backed with £150m of funding."
Scottish Conservative MSP Miles Briggs said the figures were "utterly unacceptable" and added: "Unless these statistics are dramatically improved, no-one will believe the SNP when it says it wants to give parity of esteem to mental health".
Labour has called for every high school in Scotland to have access to a counsellor, with the party's equalities spokeswoman, Monica Lennon, stating this would "cost a fraction of what the SNP propose to spend on mental health" but could also "make a real difference in terms of support".
Scottish Green MSP Ross Greer called for a commitment from the Scottish government to provide health boards and councils with funding for in-school counselling, counselling services in GP surgeries, greater community support and mental health education and information.
The Liberal Democrats said the Scottish government should be "embarrassed that they have failed patients to this extent", and that NHS staff were not getting the support they needed.
The Irish Navy said 15 people were taken off a wooden vessel at about 06:40 on Monday.
About an hour later, another 150 people were rescued from two rubber crafts.
All the migrants are currently on board the ship and are receiving food, water and medical treatment.
A form of carbon, graphene is many times stronger than steel.
It was discovered in 2004 by Sir Andre Geim and Sir Konstantin Novoselov - who were awarded the 2010 Nobel prize in physics for their work on the material.
Inverness-based angler Scott Mackenzie has worked with Oxfordshire-based Gary Savage on the rod.
Mr Mackenzie is a former world Spey casting champion and a professional ghillie for 20 years, working on the River Ness in the Highlands and the Deveron in Aberdeenshire.
Mr Savage is a professor of engineering who has worked with Nasa and also with carmakers Honda and McLaren on designs for Formula One racing cars.
He said: "We have taken the best of everything we have learned in Formula One to create the best fly rod ever made."
Mr Mackenzie said: "We had an incredibly exciting opportunity to take the art of salmon fishing to a whole new level by harnessing graphene in the right way before anyone else.
"The rod is a game changer for expert and less-experienced anglers.
"It not only flexes deeply at the beginning of a cast but it straightens again powerfully, which gives you distance, and critically it also retains the vital 'feel' that salmon fishers need to adjust their technique and accuracy."
The rods cost almost ??1,000 to buy.
Graphene is a form of carbon that exists as a sheet, one atom thick and arranged into a two-dimensional honeycomb structure.
Geim and Novoselov isolated graphene at the University of Manchester.
A new outlet will open in Sheffield later this year, while stores in Exeter and Greenwich will open in 2018, the firm said.
The jobs will increase Ikea's workforce in the UK and Ireland by 12.5% to about 11,700, the company said.
It joins firms such as Google, Facebook and Amazon in boosting its UK job numbers since last year's Brexit vote.
Ikea's UK and Ireland retail manager, Gillian Drakeford, said: "As we continue to expand, we're delighted to bring investment to new areas across the country and create new opportunities for local communities."
The firm said it would be recruiting managers and restaurant workers, as well as customer relations, sales, interior design, IT, sustainability and marketing personnel.
The new stores will take the number of Ikea outlets in the UK to 22, plus four "order and collection" shops.
The tree is famed for being a “living fossil” - a term used to describe those organisms that have experienced very little change over millions of years.
In the case of the Ginkgo, there are specimens preserved in the rock record from 270 million years ago, in the Permian Period.
The Chinese-led research team says the new information should help to explain the tree’s evolutionary success.
Its resilience is legendary: it was one of the few living things to survive the atomic bomb blast in the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945.
A Ginkgo is known to produce chemicals that are unpalatable to the insects that try to eat it, and will counter the fungi and bacteria that attempt to attack it.
Researchers can now more easily identify the mechanisms that drive these capabilities.
The specific species sequenced in the study was Ginkgo biloba. It reveals the tree’s genome to be huge, comprising some 10.6 billion DNA "letters".
By way of comparison, the human genome contains just three billion letters.
Written in the Ginkgo’s DNA code are roughly 41,840 predicted genes, the “templates” that the tree’s cells use to make the complex protein molecules that build and maintain the organism.
The initial analysis of the genome, published in the journal GigaScience, suggests there has been extensive expansion through time of gene families that provide for a variety of defensive mechanisms.
Its anti-insect arsenal is particularly smart. The Ginkgo will synthesise one set of chemicals to directly fight a pest, but also release another set of compounds that specifically attract the insect’s enemies.
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The civilian aircraft crashed in a field in Gillingham, near Beccles, at about 19:30 GMT, and all four on board were killed at the scene, police said.
The accident site is near Gillingham Hall, a stately home owned by Northern Ireland peer Lord Ballyedmond.
It is not known what caused the crash but witnesses reported fog in the area at the time and said the helicopter crashed very soon after taking off.
Norfolk Police said they would not release further details of the victims until their next-of-kin had been informed.
They also refused to comment on where it had taken off from or what its destination was but said the site would remained cordoned off during the day while examinations of the scene were carried out.
Inspector Louis Provart said: "Emergency services are working together in difficult conditions to secure the scene and carry out an initial investigation into the circumstances.
"The crash site is in a field and there are some wooded areas nearby.
"We had numerous calls throughout the course of the early evening. Those calls, as far as I'm aware, relate to the hearing of rather loud noises, indicating crashes."
Three ambulances, two doctors and one rapid response car were called to the scene, along with a police helicopter and fire services.
A spokesman for the Air Accidents Investigation Branch said it would be sending a team to investigate the crash site.
Gillingham is a small village in the south of Norfolk with a population of about 650.
James Avery, 34, from Great Yarmouth, said he was sitting on a bench drinking tea with a friend when he heard the helicopter take off.
He said: "I was outside McDonald's in Beccles and heard the helicopter take off from across the road.
"It was flying low and no more than 30 seconds later I heard a big bang followed by the sound of the turbine engine quickly stopping.
"It was like a whistling sound.
"Me and a friend ran across the road to the field where we thought it may have crashed but with the heavy fog, we were unable to see much of anything.
"There were some guys on scooters who were already in the field. So we just went back to McDonald's and got the attendant to ring the emergency services."
Taxi driver Mark Murray, 22, from Beccles, said: "There is a large stately home nearby and you often see helicopters coming and going from there.
"When they have a game shoot the guests often all arrive in separate helicopters. We don't know if that is linked, but that's the only helicopter activity we see in this area."
Roland Bronk, owner of The Swan House inn and restaurant in Beccles, said it had been "very foggy" in the area.
The site of the crash is about 45 miles from where four crew members died when a US military helicopter crashed in Norfolk on a training mission in a nature reserve in Cley next the Sea, Norfolk, in January.
The Chesterfield striker was accused of attacking her at a Premier Inn in Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, on 30 May 2011.
Mr Evans, 27, was originally found guilty of rape at Caernarfon Crown Court in 2012, but this conviction was quashed in April.
He was found not guilty of the same charge, after a retrial at Cardiff Crown Court, on Friday.
In a statement read out on Mr Evans's behalf after the verdict, the footballer said: "In the early hours of 30 May 2011, an incident occurred in north Wales that was to change my life and the lives of others forever.
"That incident did not involve the commission of a criminal offence and today I am overwhelmed with relief that the jury agreed.
"I would like to thank my legal team... for their tireless efforts upon my behalf.
"Thanks go, too, to my friends and family; most notably my fiancee, Natasha [Massey], who chose, perhaps incredibly, to support me in my darkest hour.
"Whilst my innocence has now been established, I wish to make it clear that I wholeheartedly apologise to anyone who might have been affected by the events of the night in question."
Soon after the verdict, the woman was named on social media, which is prohibited under law as victims and alleged victims of sexual offences are guaranteed lifelong anonymity.
Supt Jo Williams, from North Wales Police, said: "People need to be aware that they could find themselves being arrested and prosecuted. This was done previously, people were prosecuted and heavily fined."
A jury of seven women and five men took less than three hours to clear Mr Evans following a two-week trial.
There were gasps and cries in the public gallery when the verdict was read out, with members of Mr Evans's group breaking down.
Mr Evans, a former Wales international who was capped 13 times, was discharged from the dock and embraced Miss Massey.
He has always denied having sex with the woman while she was too drunk to consent.
He insisted she had agreed to let him "join in" while she was having consensual sex with fellow footballer Clayton McDonald, 27 - who was cleared of rape at the original trial - after a night out in Rhyl.
His legal team argued the case was "built around the myth" the complainant had been too drunk to agree to sex.
The prosecution alleged the woman did "not have the freedom or capacity to consent".
They said Mr Evans had treated her with a "callous, self-centred indifference essentially indistinguishable from utter contempt".
However, the jury cleared Mr Evans of the single charge after retiring to deliberate at about 11:40 GMT on Friday.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it respected the jury's decision and thanked the complainant for her "courage" in giving evidence.
Ed Beltrami, chief crown prosecutor, said: "The prosecution argued that the complainant did not have the capacity to consent, but the jury found they could not be sure, beyond reasonable doubt, that the complainant did not consent, or that Evans thought she was not consenting."
Evidence, not seen by the jury but discussed in open court, included two Facebook messages Miss Massey had sent to a prosecution witness after the first trial.
She wrote to Gavin Burrough, a night receptionist at the Premier Inn, saying there was a £50,000 reward for any new evidence.
"I'm literally begging. If you know anything please help me," she said.
Mr Burrough said he could not provide any more information as what he told the jury in the first trial was the truth.
The prosecution said the messages were an "attempt to induce Mr Burrough to change his evidence", but the defence successfully argued they were the actions of a "desperate girlfriend" seeking to clear her boyfriend's name.
In rape trials, defence lawyers are banned from cross-examining an alleged victim about their sexual behaviour or history to protect them from humiliating treatment.
But there can be exceptional reasons to ditch that rule in the interests of a fair trial. The Court of Appeal said Mr Evans's case was one of those very rare exceptions.
It said that two other men who had sex with the woman had described their encounters with her in highly specific terms that were virtually indistinguishable from Mr Evans's own account of what had happened.
One of the encounters occurred days before the alleged rape - and the other in the days that followed.
On each occasion the woman had been drinking heavily and the sex occurred in a very specific way - including the words she used to encourage her partner.
Each time she woke up saying she had no memory of what had happened.
Lady Justice Hallett, one of the country's top judges, said that these events were so similar to what Mr Evans had described that a jury had to hear about them before deciding whether the woman had been incapable of giving her consent.
However, critics will say that this ruling on when a victim's sexual past can be scrutinised sets the bar far too low - and it may deter rape victims from coming forward out of fear of being interrogated.
And that, in turn, they argue, will mean fewer rapists facing justice.
Mr Evans was jailed for five years after his original conviction in 2012 before being released in October 2014.
His conviction was referred to the Court of Appeal following a 10-month investigation by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which found new information not raised at the original trial.
Mr Evans - who had been playing for Sheffield United at the time of his conviction - came close to joining League One side Oldham Athletic in January 2015.
However, the club pulled out of the deal following threats to their staff and pressure from sponsors.
He also had an offer to use Sheffield United's training facilities rescinded in November 2014 after more than 170,000 people signed a petition against the move.
Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill asked for her name to be removed from a stand at the club's Bramall Lane ground if he re-signed for the South Yorkshire side and three club patrons resigned.
He signed for Chesterfield in June after his successful conviction appeal.
Chesterfield chief executive Chris Turner said: "We are naturally delighted with the outcome, especially for Ched, his family and friends. We can now all move forward and focus on football."
The Football Association of Wales said it would not comment on the verdict.
"To win so convincingly was unbelievable," 34-year-old England batsman Bell told BBC WM.
"But we've now got a big week ahead of us against Lancashire.
"We want to stay in Div 1. We're eight points ahead of Hampshire and we want to make sure we finish well."
He added: "It has been frustrating, as we've been playing good cricket. But winning at Lord's again is a massive high for the club.
"Hopefully there were some young kids in the crowd who will have gone home desperately wanting to be Warwickshire players in the future, like I was, when I first saw us win here at Lord's back in 1993."
The club's fourth trophy in seven years put some silverware in the trophy cabinet at the end of a frustrating season at Edgbaston.
But Saturday night's feeling of post-match euphoria could quickly turn sour if eighth-placed Hampshire beat already-relegated Nottinghamshire - and Warwickshire do not get enough points from their home game with Lancashire.
Two months ago, the Bears still had half an interest in events at the other end of the table. And, less than a month ago, the Lancashire game this week was being lined up as an experimental fixture which might be played with a pink ball under lights if both teams were safe.
But a winless six-match run for Warwickshire has left them in seventh place, six points behind sixth-placed Lancashire, who are on an even worse Championship run, having not won in 10 matches since May.
First-choice wicketkeeper Tim Ambrose is expected to play despite nursing an injury in Saturday's final, but his stand-in Alex Mellor is expected to keep his place as an opener, having done well in the Bears' last Championship game, a narrow 31-run defeat by Somerset.
The Bears have named three spinners in the squad, including one of Saturday's Lord's heroes, Ateeq Javid.
If Warwickshire lose, a Hampshire victory would keep them up - irrespective of the number of points.
If Lancashire and Warwickshire draw and each take a maximum of 13 points, Hampshire would need to win with at least 21 points to relegate Warwickshire.
If Hampshire draw and take a maximum of 13 points, they would not be able to catch Lancashire and could only stay up if the Bears take five points or fewer.
Ian Walters, 51, is accused of deliberately crashing his car into an embankment and killing his wife, Tracy.
The couple, from Swindon, were coming back from a "make or break" holiday on 21 March 2014, when they crashed near Markfield in Leicestershire.
Mr Walters suffered a broken neck and amnesia. He denies murder.
On the second day of the trial, witness Gary Donald, said Mr Walters' Mitsubishi L200 4x4 had overtaken him in the fast lane and then "veered sharply" onto the hard shoulder.
He said: "It came past me on the outside lane and then veered sharply right and left and then into the embankment and disappeared into a line of trees.
"They imploded. Debris, luggage, bits of car and parts of tree all flew into the air."
He said he saw no indication or braking from the car before it crashed.
The jury heard two dogs were also thrown out of the Walters' car and one died.
Another driver, Sylvia Prince, called 999 and told emergency services: "A car has gone careering across the motorway and gone into the embankment.
"It looks like the roofs caved in."
Her son Steven Prince, who ran to help, told the jury at Leicester Crown Court: "The car was a hell of a mess.
"I thought whoever was in the driver side would have been squashed...I couldn't believe there was anybody alive in there."
Previously the court heard Mr and Mrs Walters married in 2012 and in time Mr Walters became abusive
A week before the crash, Mrs Walters, 48, had called police and her husband, a driving test examiner, was questioned.
Prosecutor Charles Miskin said a motive for causing the crash was because he "was in trouble with [Tracy]...and in trouble with police".
"He probably felt some degree of humiliation and wanted to show her who was in charge."
Following the crash, the couple were cut from the wreckage of the car and airlifted to hospital.
Mrs Walters died from her injuries two days later.
The trial continues.
Gen John Allen, who handed over to Gen Joseph Dunford on Sunday, said troops had gone "a long way" towards winning a counter-insurgency.
Gen Allen is set to be nominated as the alliance's supreme commander in Europe.
Last month, he was cleared of misconduct by the Pentagon in a scandal that led former CIA director David Petraeus to resign.
"Counter-insurgencies take a while and it is difficult to put a dot on a calendar and say, 'Today, we won'," Gen Allen told the BBC.
"I think we have gone a long way to setting the conditions for what, generally, usually, is the defining factor in winning a counter-insurgency - to set the conditions for governance, to set the conditions for economic opportunity.... I think we are on the road to winning."
During his 19-month tour, Gen Allen managed the transfer of security across much of the country to the Afghan army and police.
His successor is expected to be Isaf's last commander, who will oversee the withdrawal of most of the foreign troops in the country.
Gen Dunford, a Marine like Gen Allen, took over the leadership on Sunday in a ceremony at International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) headquarters in Kabul.
"Today is not about change, it's about continuity," he said. "What has not changed is the will of this coalition."
There has not been any official announcement from the White House as to how many US troops will remain in Afghanistan.
But Gen Allen said that the idea of no American military presence in the country was not an option, and that he had not even been asked to look at its feasibility.
"It's no direction that we intend to go. The president was clear talking about the presence of US forces in this case in the post-2014 period being orientated on training, advising and assisting so that was an indication to me, having not been asked, that the zero option is probably not on the table."
Gen Allen's nomination to head Nato in Europe had been put on hold amid reports that he had sent inappropriate emails to a Florida socialite, in a scandal that brought down the head of the CIA.
But allegations of professional misconduct were dismissed and the then Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said he had "complete confidence" in Gen Allen's leadership.
Hundreds more are due to be removed later this week, but the migrants are arriving in Greece faster than they can be sent back.
More than 220 reached the Greek islands on Monday alone, according to the UN.
An increase in asylum claims has also reduced those eligible for deportation.
Under the EU deal with Turkey, migrants arriving illegally in Greece after 20 March are expected to be sent back to Turkey if they do not apply for asylum or if their claim is rejected.
For each Syrian migrant returned to Turkey, the EU is due to take in another Syrian who has made a legitimate request. Two Syrians were deported from Greece on Monday, while 32 were flown from Turkey to Germany and 11 to Finland on Monday. Another 31 Syrians arrived in the Netherlands on Tuesday.
Although it was initially thought that none of the 202 migrants sent from Lesbos and Chios to the Turkish coastal town of Dikili on Monday had claimed asylum, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has revealed that 13 of them had expressed an interest but had not been registered by Greek authorities.
"We have expressed concern that this deal is being implemented before the necessary safeguards are in place in Greece and in Turkey, including that it's being rushed - and is premature," UN spokesman Boris Cheshirkov told the BBC.
He said the UN would now work with Turkey to ensure that the 13, including Afghans, would have their applications processed there.
Pope Francis is said to be considering a trip to Lesbos to highlight the difficulties faced by migrants and refugees there.
Although the visit has not been confirmed, the Greek Orthodox Church said it could take place late next week. The Vatican is understood to have approached the Church of Greece, which has also invited the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.
Among the first deportees from Greece were 130 migrants from Pakistan, and a group of people mainly from Pakistan staged a protest on Tuesday at a detention camp on Lesbos, chanting "Freedom".
A volunteer who had previously worked with the Pakistanis told the BBC that she felt many had legitimate claims for asylum but were worried they would be on the next ferries to Turkey.
Almost all the 3,000 people held in the Moria camp on Lesbos have now made applications, overwhelming the country's asylum service.
Although 400 EU officials and 400 interpreters have been promised to help process the claims, only a handful have arrived on Lesbos so far, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford reports. Another 62 asylum officers are due to arrive on Wednesday.
Processing of applications is likely to start on Thursday and is expected to take 48 hours. As anyone turned down for asylum has five days to launch an appeal, it could be well over a week before Greek authorities are able to resume deportations in large numbers.
EU border agency Frontex has been calling on EU member states to come forward with additional police officers and other staff to bring its mission in Greece up to strength.
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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.
He announced the move after meeting World Rugby president Bill Beaumont.
"I told Bill that we've taken the political decision to stop playing foreign players in the national team," Laporte said.
Foreign-born players who currently play for France will remain eligible but new players will require a French passport.
The decision means the likes of New Zealand-born prop Uini Atonio, South Africa-born full-back Scott Spedding and Fiji-born wings Noa Nakaitaci and Virimi Vakatawa will continue to be available for France.
"Obviously, it's not retroactive. Those playing can continue playing but it's a strong signal for French academies and our youngsters that we'll play a maximum number of Frenchmen," added Laporte, the former France head coach who was elected president of the French Rugby Federation on 3 December.
World Rugby rules allow a player to represent another country if he has lived there for three consecutive years and has not played for anyone else, although the global governing body is looking to extend the period to five years.
France have become renowned for picking foreign players in recent years as the financial strength of the Top 14 has brought a flood of foreigners into their top division at a time when the national team has been struggling.
In the past five years, France have come fifth four times in the Six Nations and last on the other occasion.
However, virtually all Tier One teams field players who have qualified on residency grounds.
The issue of foreign-qualified players has also been highlighted by the plight of the Pacific Islands - Fiji, Samoa and Tonga - who often lose talented players to the bigger and richer nations.
Depp told People magazine it was in "poor taste", did not "come out as intended" and was only meant to amuse.
Depp had asked the crowd: "When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?"
Trump supporters condemned the actor and the White House described his comments as "sad".
Depp's remarks on Thursday came as he introduced a screening of his film The Libertine at the festival in south-west England.
He asked: "Can you bring Trump here?"
After receiving jeers from the crowd, he added: "You misunderstand completely. When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?
"I want to clarify. I'm not an actor. I lie for a living [but] it's been a while. Maybe it's about time.
"I think he needs help and there are a lot of wonderful dark, dark places he could go."
The star acknowledged that his comments - which may have been a reference to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by actor John Wilkes Booth in 1865 - would prove controversial.
Depp said on Friday: "I apologise for the bad joke I attempted last night in poor taste about President Trump.
"It did not come out as intended, and I intended no malice. I was only trying to amuse, not to harm anyone."
After his initial comment, a White House statement on behalf of the president said it was "sad" that Depp had not followed Mr Trump's lead in condemning all violence.
"I hope that some of Mr Depp's colleagues will speak out against this type of rhetoric as strongly as they would if his comments were directed to a Democratic elected official," the statement read.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer echoed that on Friday, saying: "The president has made it clear that we should denounce violence in all of its forms and I think that if we're going to hold to that standard then we should agree that that standard should be universally called out."
Depp reappeared at Glastonbury on Friday, playing guitar on stage with Kris Kristofferson.
Depp is not the first US celebrity to allude to killing the president.
At a rally in Washington DC, Madonna said she thought "an awful lot about blowing up the White House" and the US rapper Snoop Dogg shot a toy gun at a Donald Trump character in a music video.
Comedian Kathy Griffin apologised after posing in photographs with a fake severed head resembling Mr Trump.
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Jack Crossley, 18, took MDMA into Fabric nightclub in Farringdon - and bought more inside after being approached by a stranger.
Poplar Coroner's Court heard he died on 6 August after taking the drug with two friends at the club.
Coroner Mary Hassell said Mr Crossley's death was caused by MDMA toxicity.
The inquest heard Mr Crossley, a trainee electrician, had visited Fabric twice before and taken drugs on both occasions.
One visit, in June, was on the same night another 18-year-old, Ryan Browne, died after taking ecstasy at the club.
Mr Crossley arrived at Fabric with friends Joe Ryan and Josh Green between 23:00 and 23:30 on 5 August, the court was told.
Mr Green said staff had carried out a "brief search" of the trio but they managed to smuggle MDMA, which they had bought ahead of the event, in their boxers.
The group took the drugs inside before buying more from someone in the club, Mr Ryan told the hearing.
Mr Crossley received medical attention as he left the venue - propped up by his friends - at around 05.30 BST.
Paramedic Caroline Smith said he was "pale and sweating profusely", his "teeth were chattering" and he lashed out at staff as he experienced "confusion and paranoia".
His temperature was recorded at 42.2C and his heart rate at 190 beats per minute, she said.
A rate of 60 to 90 beats per minute is normal in a healthy individual, she added.
Mr Crossley suffered a cardiac arrest and died in hospital at 08.58.
Giving her verdict, senior coroner Ms Hassell said: "We have all done these foolish things and on this occasion it ended in tragedy.
"A youngster like Jack, who has taken MDMA twice before, has gone to a club and has done what it seemed like other people are doing and it's no more than that.
"It's no more than doing what so many youngsters will do and they won't have any consequences.
"I'm very conscious that there are issues here with Fabric but this is a problem which is much wider than that. It's much wider than one nightclub."
He told a conference in Swansea that Wales was "well poised" to benefit from a new relationship with other nations.
On triggering the Brexit process, Mr Jones insisted "we cannot rush that decision" because of its importance.
Wales' Finance Minister Mark Drakeford said Welsh ministers should attend when devolved areas come up in Brexit talks.
In his speech to the event at Swansea University, Mr Jones sought to soothe fears that Brexit could make it more difficult to access European research funding and for foreign academics to come to the UK.
He said "leaving the EU does not and must not mean pulling up the drawbridge".
Mr Jones insisted that universities needed the ability to access the best minds "wherever they come from" and that future access to European research funding was very important.
Mr Drakeford told the conference that the Welsh Government had a 10-point list that formed the basis of the Welsh Government's position on Brexit negotiations.
He said that the list included a demand for recognition that Welsh ministers would always be in charge of devolved areas such as agriculture, where the EU currently plays a significant role.
Mr Drakeford stressed that Welsh ministers should be "in the room" when devolved areas were discussed as part of the Brexit talks.
Baroness Morgan, also attending the event, warned beforehand that Brexit was already having an impact on staff recruitment in public services, especially in the health service.
"The fact is that there's an impact of the noise around immigration," the former MEP told BBC Wales.
"It is more difficult to recruit already. It is hitting public services."
She added: "I think people need to start thinking about what price they are prepared to pay for curtailing immigration to this country.
"If you ignore what the public were telling us on immigration I think you are in a very dangerous place politically."
However, UKIP AM Mark Reckless said: "I think it is very hard for politicians who strongly supported the EU, such as Eluned, to come to terms with the referendum result.
"Most people want to control immigration and cut numbers.
"We don't want employers to hold down wages by constantly recruiting from abroad."
The Windsor Link Railway (WLR), costing £100m-£150m, would link the Thames Valley to Waterloo by building a tunnel at Windsor.
A second £200m-£300m phase would then connect Windsor to Heathrow and Maidenhead.
George Bathurst, from WLR, said: "The earliest I would expect the project to start is in the next five years."
The company said it would now look in more detail about how its proposals could be funded through an investment partner.
Mr Bathurst added: "There is much more work to do before we can even be sure it is possible and that the numbers add up."
If it goes ahead, the company said it would be the "first wholly privately promoted and funded railway project for over 100 years".
Plans for the railway began four years ago, with a formal proposal submitted to Network Rail last year.
In a statement, Network Rail said: "We will continue to invest billions of pounds to improve the railway and private sector investment can complement this.
"Wherever possible we will engage with potentially viable schemes such as the Windsor Link Railway to help support the proposals."
A spokesman for the Department for Transport said: "Privately funded railway projects offer the potential to expand the network but must demonstrate that they are economically sustainable and do not have negative impacts on existing services."
The 24-year-old was playing his fourth game since joining the Dons in August after leaving Championship side Leeds.
But after a collision in the game, the former Manchester United youngster will see a surgeon next week.
Dons boss Karl Robinson said the club was "gutted" for Wootton.
"Despite only being with us for a short time, Scott has made a big impression both on and off the pitch," Robinson told the club website.
"He's a leader and well liked by everyone so this is a difficult one to take, but knowing Scott like I do, he'll come back even bigger and better than before."
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Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny and Callum Skinner defeated New Zealand to move GB to eighth in the medal table.
Earlier, Grainger and Victoria Thornley secured double sculls silver.
GB also took silver in the inaugural men's rugby sevens and the men's canoe double C2 as Britain reached 16 medals.
That total is one ahead of the number won at London 2012 after as many days of competition.
The rugby sevens team lost 43-7 to a brilliant Fiji side, who earned their first Olympic medal of any colour.
It was another great day for medal-table leaders the United States, with golds for superstar gymnast Simone Biles and swimming legend Michael Phelps, who demolished the field in the 200m individual medley to claim his 22nd Olympic gold.
American Simone Manuel became the first black female swimmer to win an Olympic title as she shared the women's 100m freestyle gold with Canada's Penny Oleksiak, 16, after a dead heat.
Britain have not won a world title in men's team sprint cycling since 2005, but have now won Olympic gold in 2008, 2012 and 2016.
The British trio clocked 42.440 seconds, an Olympic record, just five months after finishing sixth at the Track World Championships in London.
While a great team result, this victory was especially key for 28-year-old Englishman Kenny, who now has four Olympic gold medals.
With further medal chances to come in the individual sprint and keirin, Kenny has the chance to equal the British record of six Olympic gold medals held by fellow cyclist Sir Chris Hoy.
For Hindes, 23, it was a second Olympic gold after being part of the winning London 2012 team alongside Kenny and Hoy, while Skinner - the replacement for fellow Scot Hoy - tasted Olympic success for the first time.
"It's not been an easy road so to come here and be Olympic champion is incredible," said 23-year-old Skinner. "We've been working so hard and it shows it pays off."
Grainger, 40, has now won five Olympic medals - four silvers and a gold - across five different Games.
Kitty Godfree (nee Kathleen McKane) also won five medals, in tennis at the 1920 and 1924 Games, but has one gold, two silvers and two bronze.
After winning gold in London with Anna Watkins, Grainger had a two-year sabbatical before returning with the aim of defending her Olympic title in Rio.
Grainger and Thornley, 28, were not initially named in the GB squad after they failed to make the podium at this year's European Championships, but earned a reprieve from selectors - a decision Grainger described at the time as like having "the lights come back on".
"It's not been the smoothest or most direct route but it's a relief that we're there," Grainger told BBC Sport in June.
"There have been days when I couldn't necessarily see a way forward and times when I couldn't see the path but I never stopped believing I could get there."
Five-time Olympic champion Sir Steve Redgrave paid tribute to Grainger's achievement, saying: "It was amazing. This is the best medal Kath has won, because of the hard road she had to get there.
"What she has done for the sport, for women's sport, is incredible. I am immensely proud of her."
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GB secured a date with Fiji in the first men's gold medal match in rugby sevens after beating South Africa 7-5 in the semis.
But it swiftly became apparent that there was only going to be one winner in the final as the mighty Fijians - coached by Englishman Ben Ryan - steamrollered GB.
The South Pacific island ran in seven tries in the 20-minute contest as Britain had to settle for a distant second-best, albeit securing Team GB a sixth silver medal in the process.
Fiji's prime minister Frank Bainimarama called the victory "a wonderful moment in the history of our nation", adding that "every Fijian is rejoicing at home and around the world".
"Never before has the Fijian spirit soared so high as it does today. Never have we stood so tall as a nation," he said.
Rugby sevens has been included in the Olympics for the first time, although the 15-player version of the game was contested between 1900 and 1924 - a time when medals were also awarded for tug-of-war, gliding and the intriguingly named 'plunge for distance'.
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David Florence and Richard Hounslow added to their London 2012 canoe double C2 silver medal with another second-place finish in the final in Rio.
The duo watched team-mate Joe Clarke win gold in the kayak K1 on Wednesday but could not emulate that achievement 24 hours later, instead settling for silver behind Slovak cousins Ladislav Skantar and Peter Skantar.
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Over at the Acquatics Stadium, record-breaking Olympian Michael Phelps became the first swimmer to win four consecutive golds in one event by beating American rival Ryan Lochte in the 200m individual medley.
Phelps, 31, won his 22nd gold - more than any other Olympian - as fellow American Lochte struggled to a fifth-place finish.
BBC commentator Adrian Moorhouse summed up the occasion, saying: "What a winner. It's been a privilege to watch every one of his gold medals but I don't think I've seen one as emotional as that one.
"He destroyed the field. It was stunning."
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There are few competitors at these Games carrying as much expectation on their shoulders as star US gymnast Simone Biles, but if she is feeling any pressure she's not showing it.
The 4ft 9in Biles won gold in the women's all-around competition with a total of 62.198, ahead of team-mate Alexandra Raisman.
Biles, 19, starred as the US won team gold earlier this week. She has also has medal chances in the vault final on Sunday, the beam final on Monday and the floor final on Tuesday.
BBC chief sports writer Tom Fordyce:
"This may have been Fiji's first Olympic medal and GB's third team sprint gold in three Games, but both provided magical moments on day six in Rio.
"In the Velodrome Britain's trio put right all the problems of the intervening four years, Skinner's addition earlier this year plus the power of Hindes and experience of Kenny giving their nation's track team a huge boost.
"And Fiji's story - winning gold in the sport they have defined and inspired, coached by Londoner Ben Ryan, transforming the mood of a troubled island nation - is a biopic waiting to happen."
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One of the stand-out displays of day six came at the Velodrome where GB's women's pursuit team pursuit shattered the world record in their qualifying heat.
The quartet of Katie Archibald, Laura Trott, Elinor Barker and Joanna Rowsell-Shand posted a time of four minutes 13.260secs.
The first Olympic golf competition in 112 years got off to a stunning start with Britain's Justin Rose hitting a hole-in-one on the par-three fourth hole.
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Reigning men's tennis singles champion Andy Murray progressed to the quarter-finals with a 6-1 2-6 6-3 victory over Italian Fabio Fognini. American Steve Johnson is next up for the double Wimbledon champion.
However, the news was not so good for GB women's number one Johanna Konta, who lost 6-1 6-2 in the singles to second seed Angelique Kerber.
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Rio 2016 men's tennis champion Murray and double gold-winning athlete Farah receive knighthoods, while heptathlete Ennis-Hill becomes a dame.
A host of Paralympians also receive honours, including 11-times gold medallist dressage rider Lee Pearson who receives a knighthood.
Veteran comic Ken Dodd said he felt "highly tickled" to receive a knighthood at the age of 89.
From the world of music, The Kinks frontman Ray Davies and opera singer Bryn Terfel receive knighthoods.
So too does actor Mark Rylance, the Wolf Hall and Bridge of Spies star recognised for services to the theatre. Patricia Routledge, best known for playing Hyacinth Bucket in TV's Keeping Up Appearances, is made a dame for services to theatre and charity.
Murray said he could not get used to the knighthood, adding: "I feel more still like Andy Murray, [that] feels obviously more normal to me but it's obviously a big honour and happy with that, a nice way to finish or start the New Year."
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Farah said the knighthood was a "dream come true" for a boy who had arrived in the UK from war-torn Somalia at the age of eight unable to speak English.
Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is made a dame for services to fashion and journalism. She said she "was very touched to be honoured by a country I care about so deeply".
A total of 1,197 people are on the list, with almost three quarters of them earning recognition for work in their local community.
Among them is Alan Woodhouse, the Samaritans' longest-serving volunteer, who has worked for nearly 57 years at the charity's Liverpool branch and is appointed MBE.
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This year sees the greatest proportion of black, Asian and minority ethnic recipients - 9.3% - in the history of the Order of the British Empire.
Women make up just over half of those being honoured.
Television presenter and campaigner Lynn Faulds Wood has turned down an MBE, saying the honours system is "not fair". Hillsborough campaigner Prof Phil Scraton refused his OBE as a protest.
Rio 2016 was Britain's most successful Olympics ever, and many of Team GB's stars are recognised with an honour.
Farah, 33, said: "I'm so happy to be awarded this incredible honour from the country that has been my home since I moved here at the age of eight."
Rower Katherine Grainger - the first female Olympian to win five medals at five Games - said becoming a dame would be "something to live up to", while Laura Kenny - the country's most successful female Olympian - and husband Jason are both appointed CBE for services to cycling.
A second married couple who won gold in Rio - hockey captain Kate Richardson-Walsh and her wife and teammate Helen - are appointed OBE and MBE respectively.
Kate Richardson-Walsh told the BBC: "To have been given an MBE previously and then to get another letter through the post is very, very special."
Equestrian gold medallists Nick Skelton and Charlotte Dujardin, swimmer Sascha Kindred and para-equestrian Sophie Christiansen are made CBE, while boxer Nicola Adams, cyclist Katie Archibald and cyclist Jody Cundy are appointed OBE.
The long list of athletes appointed MBE includes the entire gold medal-winning GB women's hockey team, swimmer Adam Peaty, wheelchair tennis champion Gordon Reid, sailor Saskia Clark and para-athlete Kadeena Cox.
Cox, who competed on the athletics track and in the velodrome at the Rio Paralympics, said her parents were "just massively proud" of her.
"They're proud of everything I've done I think - they were proud of the fact I was just sat on a plane going to Rio, let alone all the stuff that's come with it," she said.
Double gold medal-winning gymnast Max Whitlock is also appointed MBE, and said: "It is a great feeling now to see it on the name card - the three letters after my name - and it gives me a lot of motivation."
Elsewhere in the world of sport, Chris Coleman is appointed OBE for services to football in recognition of leading Wales to the Euro 2016 semi-finals. There is an MBE too for Michael O'Neill, manager of Northern Ireland, who took them to the knock-out stage.
Sir Roger Bannister - the first man to break the four-minute mile in 1954 - is made a Companion of Honour for services to sport at the age of 87.
Topping the list in the world of stage and screen, director Sir Richard Eyre is made a Companion of Honour, while percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie gets the same recognition for services to music.
Ray Davies, 72, said his initial reaction to his knighthood had been "a mixture of surprise, humility, joy and a bit embarrassed", but added: "After thinking about it, I accept this for my family and fans as well as everyone who has inspired me to write."
New dame Patricia Routledge said she was "very surprised indeed but very pleased that the honour pertains to theatre".
Among the thespians to be named OBE are Naomie Harris, Helen McCrory and Tim Piggott-Smith, while Oscar-winning costume designer Jenny Beavan receives the same honour.
Elsewhere in the arts world, fashion designer Anya Hindmarch, cartoonist Peter Brookes and author and illustrator Shirley Hughes are appointed CBE. So too is veteran broadcaster Angela Rippon, in recognition of her work in dementia care.
Victoria Beckham is appointed OBE for services to the fashion industry - 13 years after her footballer husband David received the same honour - while Soho House founder Nick Jones and restaurateur Mark Hix are both appointed MBE for services to hospitality.
Also made an MBE is BBC cricket correspondent and Test Match Special commentator Jonathan "Aggers" Agnew.
From Westminster, Baroness Shirley Williams is named a Companion of Honour for services to political and public life. The Lib Dem grandee retired from the House of Lords in February after a distinguished parliamentary career stretching back more than 50 years.
There are also knighthoods for Conservative MP Julian Brazier, Labour MP David Crausby and former minister and ex-Liberal Democrat MP Steve Webb.
A number of party donors are also recognised in the honours list, including Dominic Johnson, associate treasurer of the Conservative Party and now CBE, who gave the Cameron family somewhere to stay when they left Downing Street in July.
Northumbria Police Commissioner Vera Baird, an ex-Labour MP, becomes a dame for services to women and equality.
Campaigners in various fields are also recognised, including the Right Reverend James Jones - formerly the Bishop of Liverpool - who is knighted in recognition of his role in helping the Hillsborough families.
Justine Roberts, founder of parenting website Mumsnet, is appointed CBE, while Marcia Shakespeare is appointed MBE for her work against gun violence since the death of her daughter Leticia in 2003. Of her award, she said: "I don't do it for medals, my reward is when I can see a child has turned their life around."
Television presenter Maggie Philbin, best known for Tomorrow's World in the 80s and 90s, has been appointed OBE in recognition of her work in sparking young people's interest in technology and engineering.
For inspiring young people in a different way, adventurer David Hempleman-Adams is made a Knight Commander of the Victorian Order - a personal gift from the Queen - in recognition of his services to the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme.
Commonly awarded ranks:
Guide to the honours
The British Empire Medal was reintroduced in 2012 to recognise achievement or service in the community.
One of the oldest recipients is 94-year-old Janet Gillespie, who is awarded a BEM for more than 60 years' volunteering for Poppy Scotland.
In contrast, one of the youngest people honoured is 17-year-old Jeremiah Emmanuel, who receives a BEM for services to young people and the community in London after he founded social justice charity One Big Community (1BC).
About 10% of honours are for work in education, including knighthoods for military historian Prof Antony Beevor and Prof Barry Ife, principal of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
In industry, there is a damehood for Inga Beale, chief executive officer at Lloyd's of London, and a knighthood for Ian Powell, chairman of financial services firm PWC.
At the other end of the business scale, Josh Littlejohn receives an MBE for services to social enterprise and entrepreneurship after he set up sandwich chain Social Bite which helps the homeless.
Finally, the first ever honour for services to glassblowing is awarded to Thomas Young, from Bridge of Allan in Stirlingshire. He has been making glass by hand for nearly 60 years and started a business at the age of 77 aiming to train apprentices to follow in his footsteps.
Prime Minister Theresa May has set new priorities for future honours lists, wanting them to focus on those who work with children and young people, who encourage social mobility or fight discrimination, or who work in enterprise and business.
Mr Duggan's death sparked nationwide riots after he was shot by a police marksman.
In January an inquest jury found Mr Duggan, 29, was lawfully killed in August 2011 in Tottenham, north London, despite being unarmed.
Three judges dismissed Pamela Duggan's application for judicial review, but her solicitor said she would appeal.
In a separate development, Ms Duggan has launched a legal action challenging whether officers should be allowed to confer before a court case involving police fatality.
During the inquest, Ms Duggan had accused the coroner Judge Keith Cutler of misdirecting the jury.
Mr Duggan's aunt Carole Duggan said the family was "extremely disappointed" with the High Court ruling.
Referring to the riots which followed Mr Duggan's shooting, she said: "We are being punished because of the uprisings of 2011 and are not getting a fair trial. We are not accepting this.
"The verdict was perverse. It just didn't add up. It didn't make sense. How can somebody who is unarmed be lawfully killed?
"He didn't get a fair hearing."
Sir Brian Leveson, president of the Queen's Bench Division, who heard the case with Mr Justice Burnett and Judge Peter Thornton QC, said the court "recognised the tragedy" of the loss of Mr Duggan's life - but ruled that none of the grounds of challenge had been established.
Pamela Duggan's solicitor Marcia Willis Stewart said Ms Duggan, who was not at London's High Court for the ruling, had asked her to say that she was lodging an appeal.
The solicitor said: "She remains deeply distressed about the death of her son and the circumstances in which it occurred and has instructed the legal team to lodge an appeal".
The Metropolitan Police released a statement following the announcement, saying that tackling those believed to be armed "always carries a risk".
"We are not complacent; our primary aim is keeping Londoners safe, and we recognise the considerable and devastating impact of gun crime on those affected by it," it said.
"We will continue to learn and develop our methods for firearms operations to keep Londoners safe."
Two top QCs had fought on behalf of the Duggan family for the lawful killing verdict to be replaced with an open verdict - or for a fresh inquest to be held.
Michael Mansfield QC, who appeared with Leslie Thomas QC, told a packed court at a two-day hearing in July that the "nutshell" of the case was to be found in the question: "How is it a man who is manifestly unarmed can be lawfully shot?"
An officer can only legally open fire if he honestly believes there is an imminent risk to his own life or to others.
Lawyers for the coroner said a gun, contained in a sock, was found on grass in the vicinity of Mr Duggan's body, and there was "a significant issue" about how it got there.
In the conclusion to the High Court ruling, Sir Brian said that, although the ruling and the initial inquest verdict "exonerate the police on the criminal and civil standard of proof in relation to unlawful killing on the criminal test for such liability", they did not relieve the Met Commissioner and his officers from any civil liability.
The judge said: "As we have sought to make clear, it was not the purpose of the inquest to determine civil liability.
"In civil proceedings the burden of proof and the ingredients are different and may - we do not say must or will - provide a different answer to the very difficult questions posed by this case."
Ms Duggan's separate legal action is focused on the guidance provided to police officers on whether they can confer before a court case involving police fatality.
Her lawyers say the Independent Police Complaints Commission has decided that key officers involved in a death should normally be separated from one another, but that this runs contrary to the policy of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo).
Hugh Southey QC is seeking a declaration on Ms Duggan's behalf that Acpo is acting unlawfully and contrary to Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
During the Game of Thrones panel at Comic-Con, a fan asked Christie - who plays Brienne of Tarth in the fantasy drama and Captain Phasma in the latest Star Wars films - who was more passionate.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, she gave a diplomatic answer.
"It's not really a craziness, but the level of passion is pretty much equal," she said.
"What is noticeable is that Star Wars is something many of us grew up with, which gives many of us a sense of hope. That's how I feel - like I came home.
"With Game of Thrones, we're going into season seven now, and there's a similar feeling. I hope that Game of Thrones lives on so people have that same feeling of home and love for it."
Christie was joined by cast mates Jacob Anderson (Grey Worm), Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark), Liam Cunningham (Ser Davos), Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy), Nathalie Emmanuel (Missandei), John Bradley (Samwell Tarly), Conleth Hill (Lord Varys) and Isaac Hempstead-Wright (Bran Stark) at the panel.
And fans were delighted it was hosted by Kristian Nairn, who starred as Hodor until season six.
However, since season seven began this week, the cast members were tight-lipped - not giving much away and talking mainly around their characters.
Alfie Allen decided to bring his puppy to Comic-Con, which was well behaved during the hour-long panel.
It's Hodor! And he speaks in full sentences!
Sophie Turner received a brief boo from the crowd when she said she wished she could bring back the evil Joffrey to the show, but only because she enjoyed working with Jack Gleeson who played him.
Liam Cunningham joked that a Game of Thrones spin-off show was in the works called Better Call Davos.
When asked what new laws they'd make in Westeros if they were on the throne, Nathalie Emmanuel said she'd give education for everyone and John Bradley (above centre) wanted Maesters to clean up "their own stinking" waste.
Isaac Hempstead-Wright wanted a warm holiday scene for all the characters who usually film in cold places. Which is fair enough - winter has been coming for a while.
A teaser clip of what's to come in episode two this coming week was also shown to the crowd and released by HBO shortly after.
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The Red Flag Anti-Corruption Party has accused Lutfur Rahman's party of electoral fraud, corruption and political smears.
His opponents claim voters were intimidated at polling stations and that some were told how to vote.
The mayor has consistently denied any wrongdoing.
Speaking to BBC London 94.9 on Tuesday, the mayor, who was re-elected on 22 May, said: "I have done, and we have done, nothing wrong."
The petition has been brought by four people who are now applying for a hearing at the High Court.
It claims:
Allegations have also been made against returning officer John Williams.
He is alleged to have allowed people to canvas for votes inside polling stations, to accompany voters into the compartment when they cast their vote and to leave campaign material in and around voting compartments.
Andy Elram, Red Flag party member who stood against Mr Rahman in the election, said: "If the court decides there should be a recount and the numbers don't add up, they're not consistent, then the court has the power to order another election."
Mr Williams has said he will not comment specifically on the petition as he is taking legal advice.
However, he says the measures he put in place for the elections were the toughest available within the current law.
He added that he worked closely with the Metropolitan Police and the Electoral Commission to combat fraud and to investigate fully any allegations that had surfaced.
This petition is the latest in a series of investigations into Tower Hamlets.
The Metropolitan Police is investigating 84 complaints into the election. It said in the majority of cases, no criminal offences had been committed.
Separately, the government is looking into claims made by BBC One's Panorama programme that the mayor had disproportionately funded Bengali groups in order to get their vote in his first term in office.
The Electoral Commission has also launched a review into the count.
The woman in her 20s north was cycling north on Minto Street in Newington on Tuesday at about 11:55 when the collision took place.
She was riding a yellow mountain bike with the initials GT in white writing on it.
The silver Mazda 6 was travelling westwards from Duncan Street onto Blacket Avenue when the crash happened.
PC Denise Humphrey, of Police Scotland, said: "We are keen to speak to anyone who was on Minto Street or Blacket Avenue on Tuesday around 11:55."
Photographs showed candidates sitting cross-legged in a field in Muzaffarpur town wearing only their underpants.
The army said it was done to "save time on checking so many students".
A candidate told The Indian Express newspaper that he felt "it was not dignified".
Officials said 1,159 candidates participated in Sunday's hour-long written examination to join the Indian army.
"As we entered Chakkar Maidan, the venue, we were asked to remove all clothes except underwear. We had no option but to comply with the instructions even though it felt odd. The gap between candidates was about eight feet in all directions," The Indian Express quoted a candidate as saying.
The paper quoted a senior army official as saying candidates being asked to strip was an "administrative lapse".
Bihar and many other parts of northern India are notorious for cheating during examinations - last year, the state government was embarrassed after parents and friends were photographed climbing school walls to pass on answers to school students.
In January, the state announced tough measures such as fines and jail terms to stop cheating in exams.
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The massive cake was put together by forty five volunteers over six hours and is big enough to feed twelve thousand people!
It weighs two tonnes, which is nearly the same weight as an average African elephant.
But to break the record the entire cake must be eaten, with all the money raised going towards a children's charity. Yum!
The 33-year-old, who has won a record 165 caps for her country, was part of the Lionesses' squad that reached the Euro 2017 semi-finals.
"I knew when I finished the league last year with Arsenal that Reading was the only club I wanted to come to," Williams told the club website.
"The club wants to win trophies and I want to be a part of it."
Williams joined Arsenal in 2016, following eight years at Everton and four with Liverpool, with whom she twice won the Women's Super League.
She began her career with Chelsea and has also played for Charlton.
Williams has been to seven major tournaments with England, including helping Mark Sampson's side to third place at the 2015 World Cup, and was part of the Great Britain squad at the 2012 Olympic Games.
Reading manager Kelly Chambers said: "Signing Fara shows where the club is at now and our ambition of where we want to go.
"We want to be competing with the likes of Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester City at the top of the table and bringing in the likes of Fara will help us do that."
The figure was 189% higher than last year's annual loss of A$935m.
Revenue was 20% lower than in 2014, which Santos said reflected sharply lower oil prices during the period.
In 2015, Brent crude prices fell more than 45% and are now trading at about $34 a barrel.
Santos' operations and assets include pipeline gas and oil, together with liquefied natural gas (LNG) production - which is where natural gas is cooled to make a liquid that is easier to store and transport.
Earlier this week, rival Woodside Petroleum - Australia's largest independent oil and gas company - posted a 99% fall in profits for the 12 months to December, citing the global fall in oil prices.
The dramatic fall in net profit for Australia's third-biggest oil and gas producer included writedowns on various assets of A$3.92bn over the year.
Production was up 7% for the period, however, and the company said it was focused on reducing capital expenditure, among other cost saving measures. It said capital expenditure would be cut to A$1.1bn.
Santos, which rejected a A$7.1bn takeover bid last year, also said it had "removed" 825 employee positions, resulting in gross labour cost savings of A$160m per year.
The firm's Sydney-listed shares fell 8.5% on its Friday profit report, but recovered slightly later to close down 4.2%. Over the past 12 months, the firm's shares have fallen more than 57%.
Kevin Gallagher, formerly Santos' chief executive officer of engineering services, took over as the head of the firm earlier this month.
He said on a conference call on Friday that the firm had to do better.
Mr Gallagher said his priority now was to assess the firm's operations "and put in place the right strategy to ensure that Santos is sustainable in a low oil price environment".
Last year the Adelaide-based firm announced plans to raise A$3.5bn through a share sale and by selling some assets.
The 24-year-old midfielder has spent the last two seasons with Bristol Academy having previously played for Chelsea Ladies and Cardiff City Ladies.
She has joined the Reds over other offers from WSL teams.
"Liverpool is a massive club and once I was aware of their interest there was only one team I wanted to sign for," she said.
Liverpool Ladies boss Scott Rogers added: "Sophie is a real leader who I believe will be a crucial player for us next season."
Dean Carl Evans, 22, from Reading, died in July in the city of Manbij after joining a Kurdish military group.
His father revealed his will states he wished to be buried with his "brothers and sisters" in the war-torn country.
The Foreign Office has told him his body may still be in Syria despite reports it was moved to Iraq.
John Carl Evans, from Wallingford, Oxfordshire, said his son was shot and then killed in a rocket attack.
He added that the will sounded as if "Dean knew he would pass away there".
"He was shot, and a Kurdish woman tried to help him. But they were fired on by a rocket-propelled grenade round and both lost their lives," he said.
"I was told his body was moved to the Iraqi border and then to Erbil, but now I am told it is still in Syria," he said.
The former soldier said he had no idea his son was in Syria, only learning of his whereabouts when the Foreign Office contacted him to tell him about Dean's death.
"The last time I spoke to him was just before his 21st birthday, but it was hard to get hold of him after that," he said.
"I thought he was a farmer in Wiltshire, living with his stepfather.
"The news still hasn't sunk in, I haven't had any time for my own grieving. But I am proud of him and his family is proud of him."
Dean travelled to Syria to join the People's Defence Units (YPG) - a Kurdish military force fighting in northern Syria.
The YPG described Mr Evans as a "man with the noblest of intentions who planted a seed of love into the hearts of [his] friends and all the peoples of Rojava [Western Kurdistan]".
The Foreign Office said it had advised for some time against all travel to Syria.
"Anyone who does travel to these areas, for whatever reason, is putting themselves in considerable danger," it said.
The 32-year-old £40m signing from Boca Juniors will be presented to fans at the Hongkou Stadium later.
Tevez will receive a salary in excess of £310,000 a week at the Chinese Super League club, reportedly making him the world's highest paid footballer.
Chants of "Carlos! Carlos!" were heard as he was ushered through the crowds.
The 31-year-old, who can also play in midfield, scored 48 goals in 227 appearances for the Dons, helping them reach the Championship in 2014-15.
He joins winger Daniel Powell in making the move from Stadium:MK to Justin Edinburgh's Cobblers this summer.
"We are really pleased to bring Dean to the club," said Edinburgh.
"He is a versatile attacking player, he can play as a striker, as a midfielder or in the hole and he gives us options.
"We have spoken a lot about putting together a well-balanced attacking unit with options and Dean fits in with that policy."
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Lennox's role in the stage version of Kinky Boots earned her an Olivier nomination for best supporting actress in a musical earlier this year.
Lazarus will run at Kings Cross Theatre from 25 October to 22 January 2017.
Bowie co-wrote the show with Irish playwright Enda Walsh, the award-winning writer of Once.
Inspired by the book The Man Who Fell To Earth, the show premiered last November at New York Theatre Workshop, just a few weeks before Bowie's death.
Most of the main cast have come from New York to London, but Amy Lennox will replace Cristin Milioti as Elly.
Elly is the assistant to Newton, the human-looking alien played by Bowie in the 1976 film The Man Who Fell To Earth and now played on stage by Michael C Hall.
Other new additions to the London cast include Jamie Muscato, Gabrielle Brooks, Sydnie Christmas, Richard Hansell, Maimuna Memon, Tom Parsons and Julie Yammanee.
When it opened in New York, The Guardian described Lazarus as "unapologetically weird... and oddly intriguing".
Rolling Stone praised the show as a "surrealistic tour de force."
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The 34-year-old was released by the Toffees at the end of last season and had been training with the Black Cats, who host Middlesbrough on Sunday.
Pienaar was signed by Moyes for Everton in 2007 and then, after a stint at Tottenham, re-signed by the Scot in 2012 for a second spell at the club.
The South African has made 199 Premier League appearances, scoring 20 goals.
There are still doubts over centre-back Lamine Kone's future with the Black Cats after the 27-year-old told Moyes he wanted to leave.
Kone, who has been offered a new contract by Sunderland, misses the game against Middlesbrough with a back injury, while fellow defender Younes Kaboul has moved to Watford.
Moyes says he is hopeful that he can keep the Ivory Coast international on Wearside despite interest from Everton.
"Obviously, we have got an offer from Everton, and he knows that as well," said Moyes.
"I don't know if he's actually refused [the contract], he just didn't want it.
"He's got a four-year contract, he's six months into it, so there's no real panic."
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From June 2016, the chances of winning a Premium Bond prize will change from 26,000 to one, to 30,000 to one.
The savings rates on Direct Isas, Direct Saver, Income Bonds and the Investment Account will also be cut.
NS&I said the new rates would still be competitive with other savings rates in the market.
Direct Isa rates were previously reduced in November 2015.
"This is another serious blow for savers who like the absolute security offered by NS&I, but now face even lower returns on their cash," said Danny Cox of Hargreaves Lansdown.
However NS&I defended its decision to cut savings rates, which follows a continuing reduction in returns to savers from banks and building societies over the past seven years.
"The majority of the new interest rates on offer are either at, or above, average market rates," said Jane Platt, the chief executive of NS&I.
"We believe they present a fair offer to customers, who will also continue to benefit from our 100% HM Treasury guarantee on all holdings, as well as tax-free prizes for Premium Bonds."
NS&I has been told by the Treasury to raise less money for the government in 2016/17 than it did in the current tax year.
One reason is that it is currently cheaper for the Treasury to raise money by issuing government bonds than through NS&I.
The Mail on Sunday reported Afzal Amin plotted to persuade the EDL to announce a march against a new "mega-mosque" in Dudley North and then to scrap it and take credit for defusing the situation.
The EDL told the BBC Mr Amin wanted them "to set up a fake demonstration".
Mr Amin said the allegations were an "inaccurate picture of the reality."
Mr Amin, who is in Dubai, has issued a statement saying: "Today's allegations are part of a much wider story which has been grossly misrepresented."
But former EDL leader Tommy Robinson told the BBC's Sunday Politics that Mr Amin had sought to "use" the organisation.
The EDL went along with the idea to "expose" Mr Amin, he suggested.
The MoS claims secretly filmed footage, obtained by Mr Robinson, shows former Army captain Mr Amin allegedly promising that he would be an "unshakeable ally" for the EDL in parliament and help bring their views to the mainstream.
The paper said when it put it to him he was trying to stir up racial hatred to win the seat, he said: "That's absolutely untrue, it's utter rubbish."
The BBC understands a full disciplinary hearing is expected to be held on Tuesday.
Tory Defence Minister Anna Soubry told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "I would appeal, if there is any truth in this, to him then go now, hold your head up. Because obviously if this is right this is dreadful."
And Dudley Conservative councillor Les Jones said it would be the "honourable thing" for Mr Amin to stand down.
BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said that winning places like Dudley North was crucial to the Conservatives: "It is a seat held by Labour's Ian Austin with a tiny majority - just 649."
According to Mr Amin's website, he grew up in the Black Country and was a mature student before spending 11 years in the Army, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Criminals used customer details gained from "an unknown source" to try to access accounts between Wednesday and Thursday, the company said.
The telecommunications giant said 1,827 customers had their accounts accessed, with criminals potentially gaining their names and some bank details.
But it insisted its systems had not been breached.
Vodafone said its investigation and "mitigating actions" meant only a "handful" of customers had been subject to any fraudulent attempts to use their data.
It comes just over a week after the phone and broadband provider TalkTalk was subjected to a cyber attack in which personal and banking details may have been accessed by hackers.
Vodafone said its security protocols had been "fundamentally effective", but the criminals had potentially gained customers' names, their mobile phone numbers, bank sort codes and the last four digits of their bank account numbers.
Vodafone says it has notified the 1,827 affected customers and there is no need for other customers to be concerned.
Those who are affected should:
The company said the details could not be used to access customers' bank accounts but the information meant they could be at risk of fraud or phishing attempts - the practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies.
The BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones said the email addresses and passwords criminals used to try to access Vodafone accounts appeared to have been bought on the dark web.
A Vodafone spokesman said the affected Vodafone accounts had been blocked and their banks notified.
The National Crime Agency, the Information Commissioner's Office and Ofcom have been notified of the incident, Vodafone added.
An NCA spokeswoman said: "The NCA can confirm that we have been contacted by Vodafone in relation to a compromise of customer data, and we are in dialogue with the company.
"Anyone who thinks they have been subject to attempted or successful fraud, or other online crime, should report it to action fraud at www.actionfraud.police.uk."
The price of copper hit a one-month low after a report showed that Chinese metal imports slowed sharply in November.
BHP Billiton closed down 1.6%, Rio Tinto fell 1% and Anglo American slipped 0.7%.
However, the FTSE 100 managed a modest gain towards the end of the session, rising 0.3% to 7,064.
"Some of the mining stocks, the amount they've jumped from the lows this year, they've probably out-done the bounce in the metals prices," said Jasper Lawler, senior market analyst at London Capital Group.
He said that next year shares in mining firms will be "exposed", if metal demand does not recover and supply does not fall as much as thought.
The best performer on the FTSE 100 was the business consultant group DCC, which rose more than 3%.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was edging lower on Thursday, but still remains within striking distance of 20,000.
The pound dipped 0.47% against the dollar to $1.2296. It was 0.77% lower against the euro at €1.176.
The 23-year-old only played his first game of the season in November after a hamstring injury, but has scored six tries in his last three appearances.
"He's all action, isn't he - with his hair flowing around everywhere," skills coach Pellow told BBC Radio Devon.
"He plays with his heart on his sleeve and that shows in his carries - those players will get the crowd behind you."
Campagnaro, who has also played on the wing, was challenged by Pellow in November to replicate his international form at Sandy Park.
He has 25 caps for the Azzurri, and is one of only three Exeter players likely to be involved in the Six Nations' opening weekend.
"It is disappointing that we are going to lose him, but at the same time this is what we want from the club - we want international players to be playing here," Pellow added.
"He's been really strong - earlier on in the season he had a few injuries, but he's come back in and he's backed up performances."
Gareth Williams, 48, admitted 31 charges including nine of voyeurism and 20 of making indecent photos last May.
The Ysgol Glantaf teacher was caught in an international police operation.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) will examine whether the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre acted quickly enough.
The evidence led to Project Spade, an investigation into child abuse images that were shared around the world.
This led to the conviction of Williams who was subsequently jailed for five years, later cut to four.
Police found recordings he made at the school where he taught and at other properties.
CEOP, now part of the National Crime Agency (NCA), had information on him some months before he committed many of his offences.
"The public are rightly concerned about the safety of the most vulnerable members of society and issues concerning the protection of children," said IPCC commissioner Carl Gumsley.
"IPCC investigators will be examining closely the actions taken by CEOP and NCA officers and staff over a 16-month period to determine if they acted appropriately and promptly as well as looking at any possible organisational failings."
Among the most habitable alien worlds were Saturn's moon Titan and the exoplanet Gliese 581g - thought to reside some 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra.
The international team devised two rating systems to assess the probability of hosting alien life.
They have published their results in the journal Astrobiology.
In their paper, the authors propose two different indices: an Earth Similarity Index (ESI) and a Planetary Habitability Index (PHI).
"The first question is whether Earth-like conditions can be found on other worlds, since we know empirically that those conditions could harbour life," said co-author Dr Dirk Schulze-Makuch from Washington State University, US.
"The second question is whether conditions exist on exoplanets that suggest the possibility of other forms of life, whether known to us or not."
As the name suggests, the ESI rates planets and moons on how Earth-like they are, taking into account such factors as size, density and distance from the parent star.
The PHI looks at a different set of factors, such as whether the world has a rocky or frozen surface, whether it has an atmosphere or a magnetic field.
It also considers the energy available to any organisms, either through light from a parent star or via a process called tidal flexing, in which gravitational interactions with another object can heat a planet or moon internally.
And finally, the PHI takes into account chemistry - such as whether organic compounds are present - and whether liquid solvents might be available for vital chemical reactions.
The maximum value for the Earth Similarity Index was 1.00 - for Earth, unsurprisingly. The highest scores beyond our solar system were for Gliese 581g (whose existence is doubted by some astronomers), with 0.89, and another exoplanet orbiting the same star - Gliese 581d, with an ESI value of 0.74.
The Gliese 581 system has been well studied by astronomers and comprises four - possibly five - planets orbiting a red dwarf star.
HD 69830 d, a Neptune-sized exoplanet orbiting a different star in the constellation Puppis, also scored highly (0.60). It is thought to lie in the so-called Goldilocks Zone - the region around its parent star where surface temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for life.
The highly rated worlds from our own solar system were Mars, with a value of 0.70, and Mercury, with 0.60.
The Planet Habitability Index produced different results. The top finisher here was Saturn's moon Titan, which scored 0.64, followed by Mars (0.59) and Jupiter's moon Europa (0.47), which is thought to host a subsurface water ocean heated by tidal flexing.
The highest scoring exoplanets were, again Gliese 581g (0.49) and Gliese 581d (0.43).
In recent years, the search for potentially habitable planets outside our solar system has stepped up several gears. Nasa's Kepler space telescope, launched into orbit in 2009, has found more than 1,000 candidate planets so far.
Future telescopes may even be able to detect so-called biomarkers in the light emitted by distant planets, such as the presence of chlorophyll, a key pigment in plants.
The ploughshare tortoises were handed to Chester Zoo in 2012 after being confiscated by Hong Kong customs officials in 2009.
Regarded as the most threatened species of tortoise, say zoo bosses, they are native to Madagascar.
Dr Gerardo Garcia, of the zoo, said they were the "jewel in the crown of the reptile world".
Prized for their distinctive gold and black shells, they fetch "exceptionally high prices on the international black market", a spokesman said.
Efforts to steal the animals are so relentless there may only be 500 left, making it one of the rarest animals in the world, he added.
Dr Garcia said there was a "very real possibility the species could be lost forever due to illegal trafficking for the exotic pet trade".
"Most of these illegally exported tortoises are sold in markets in South East Asia," he explained.
The quartet were part of a shipment of 13 being smuggled from Madagascar and will form part of the European Breeding Programme for the species.
They are going on display at the zoo to raise awareness of the illegal exotic pet trade.
Worth £15bn ($19bn) a year, it is the fourth biggest international crime after drugs, arms and human trafficking, a zoo spokesman said.
The notorious Paragraph 175 of the penal code was eventually relaxed in 1969, but not before 50,000 men were convicted.
Many were sent to jail and some took their own lives because of the stigma.
Justice Minister Heiko Maas said it was a flagrant injustice and those still alive would be given compensation.
The German government's decision comes months after the UK said it was pardoning 65,000 gay and bisexual men who were convicted under the Sexual Offences Act that criminalised private homosexual acts in England and Wales until 1967 and later in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Alan Turing law: Thousands to be pardoned
The cabinet decided on Wednesday to back a bill annulling the sentences and handing compensation to all those affected.
If the law is passed, every man convicted who is still alive will receive a €3,000 (£2,600; $3,240) lump sum plus a further €1,500 for each year spent in jail.
Only 5,000 men are thought to be eligible for compensation as most have since died.
Condemning the convictions as the "crimes of the state", the justice minister said the men's rehabilitation was long overdue.
"It was only because of their love of men and their sexual identity that they were persecuted, punished and outlawed by the German state," said Mr Maas.
The law prohibiting "sexual acts contrary to nature" first appeared in Germany's criminal code in 1871 shortly after the country was unified.
Unsuccessful attempts were made to repeal it under the Weimar Republic, but under the Nazis it was tightened in 1935 to criminalise "lewd and lascivious acts" between men. Tens of thousands of homosexuals were imprisoned and many died in concentration camps.
The article remained part of the criminal code in East and West Germany. In the East it was removed in 1968 and in the West it was relaxed before being finally repealed by the unified German government in 1994.
Between 1949 and 1969 50,000 men were prosecuted and there were a further 14,000 cases until 1994.
Wolfgang Lauinger, now 98, was persecuted first by the Nazis and then held in prison uncharged for several months in 1950 by the West German authorities.
"I still believe they used old Gestapo files," he said of his post-war interrogators in a 2016 interview.
Alan Turing was both a renowned mathematician and World War Two codebreaker when he was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 for having sex with a man. He lost his job, was chemically castrated and two years later took his life aged 42.
He was finally pardoned in 2013.
In January 2017, the UK government granted a posthumous pardon under the "Turing law" to an estimated 50,000 men convicted of having consensual homosexual sex.
Some 15,000 are still alive but have to apply to have their conviction removed under a "disregard process". No compensation is involved.
Universal, Sony, Warner Bros and other labels launched legal action against the German operator of YouTube-mp3.org in a federal court in Los Angeles.
They are seeking damages from the company and its owner that include $150,000 (£115,000) for every alleged instance of piracy.
The defendants have yet to respond to the claims.
According to the legal papers, users can turn YouTube videos into permanent audio files and store them on their computer with a few simple mouse clicks.
The record labels claim that "tens, or even hundreds, of millions of tracks are illegally copied and distributed by stream-ripping services each month" and that YouTube-mp3.org is the "chief offender", with more than 60 million users per month.
As part of their evidence, the labels submitted the names of more than 300 songs that, they allege, have been converted and downloaded by users of the service.
They include Meghan Trainor's All About That Bass, One Direction's Story Of My Life and Sia's Chandelier.
"Stream ripping has become a major threat to the music industry, functioning as an unlawful substitute for the purchase of recorded music and the purchase of subscriptions to authorised streaming services," the labels said.
As well as suing for damages, the music industry is asking for a court order that would forbid web hosts, advertisers and other third parties from facilitating access to youtube-mp3.org.
"This site is raking in millions on the backs of artists, songwriters and labels," said the Recording Industry Association of America's president, Cary Sherman, in a statement.
"It should not be so easy to engage in this activity in the first place, and no stream ripping site should appear at the top of any search result or app chart."
The BPI, which represents UK record labels, has also put YouTube-mp3.org on formal notice of intended legal action in the UK if it does not cease infringing copyright.
"It's time to stop illegal sites like this building huge fortunes by ripping off artists and labels," said the BPI's chief executive, Geoff Taylor.
"Fans have access now to a fantastic range of legal music streaming services, but they can only exist if we take action to tackle the online black market.
"We hope that responsible advertisers, search engines and hosting providers will also reflect on the ethics of supporting sites that enrich themselves by defrauding creators."
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Prosecutors claimed two men made a 140-mile road trip to leave explosives concealed in a fire extinguisher among undergrowth close to the venue.
The alleged plan was to later move the device to the Waterfoot Hotel.
Details emerged as bail was refused to one of two men accused of bringing the bomb parts across the Irish border.
Darren Poleon, 41, of Drumbaragh in Kells, County Meath, is charged with preparing an act of terrorism.
He is also charged with conspiracy to cause an explosion, and possessing an improvised explosive device with intent to endanger life or cause damage to property.
Co-accused Brian Walsh, 34, of Dunshaughlin in County Meath, is charged with the same offences.
A prosecution lawyer said the pair were in a car stopped by police in Omagh three days before the bomb was discovered.
They claimed to be in Northern Ireland to buy an engine, the court heard.
Officers found a rucksack, bolt cutters, walkie-talkies, binoculars, a head torch, toy gun, latex gloves, wigs and a fake beard inside the vehicle.
At that stage the two men were arrested on suspicion of going equipped for theft, but later released on bail.
However, this changed after the explosives were found on 9 October, the prosecution barrister said.
"The police view is the device was at a transit location - it was to be moved closer or within the hotel prior to the PSNI recruitment event to take place the following day," she said.
Examination of the satellite navigation system in the car the two men were in revealed it travelled from County Meath to the "destination" at a roundabout near the Waterfoot Hotel, the court heard.
It also contained an address for Belfast Metropolitan College, where a similar police meeting was to be held, the prosecutor said.
The barrister said a reservation at the hotel for the night before the police event was made using Mr Poleon's name, but no one turned up for the booking.
A defence lawyer said the case against his client was "replete with speculation", with no DNA or fingerprint evidence linking him to the scene of the bomb find.
He also disputed allegations about the sat nav and hotel reservation.
Arguing that that the device could have been left in the undergrowth a month previously, he added: "It's a very weak circumstantial case."
Items found in Mr Poleon's car were only Halloween garments, a plastic cowboy gun and a child's walkie-talkie belonging to his son, he said.
However, the judge refused bail, saying there was prima facie evidence of involvement in a "very sophisticated and clearly terrorist-type operation.
"The circumstances and nature of the alleged offence raises real risks there will be further offending."
Gareth Southgate's first game at Wembley since succeeding Sam Allardyce on a permanent basis provided few alarms as England remain firmly in control at the top of Group F.
Sunderland striker Jermain Defoe justified his call-up at 34 for a first England appearance since late 2013 with a typically clinical finish after 21 minutes and a lively performance that suggested he still has a part to play under Southgate.
And when Southgate needed someone to break Lithuania's stubborn resistance after the break, substitute Jamie Vardy obliged from close-range in the 66th minute, converting a subtle touch from Liverpool's Adam Lallana inside the area.
Eyebrows were raised in some quarters when Southgate recalled Defoe to the squad having last represented his country against Chile at Wembley in November 2013.
Defoe's inclusion, however, represented perfect sense with a record of 14 Premier League goals and two assists in a Sunderland side propping up the table and England's main striker Harry Kane out injured.
And so it proved as he pounced in trademark fashion for his first England goal in four years and four days since scoring in an easy win against San Marino, clipping a clinical finish high beyond Lithuania keeper Ernestas Setkus after 21 minutes from Raheem Sterling's delivery.
Defoe had already brought one crucial block from the keeper earlier as he stole in on Lallana's pass. He looks like a player full of hunger who has lost none of his predatory, goalscoring instincts.
England will face stubborn opposition again before this World Cup qualifying campaign is over and a poacher like Defoe may well come in very handy for Southgate as he plots his route to Russia next summer.
England's friendly against Germany in Dortmund on Wednesday was effectively a testimonial for veteran striker Lukas Podolski on his international farewell - with an atmosphere to match in the normally thunderous Signal Iduna Park.
Wembley was also on the subdued side because World Cup Qualifying Group F is a hard-sell in terms of excitement for England's fans, who understandably expect Southgate's side to dismiss opposition such as Lithuania with the minimum of fuss.
England fulfilled those requirements comfortably in the face of stubborn opponents who sat back and invited them on in the early phases, then seemed intent on damage limitation and no more as any hope of getting a return from this qualifier evaporated.
There may be more of the same in the remaining home qualifiers against Slovakia and Slovenia but England, once again, are getting the job done as they move closer to reaching the World Cup.
The old lingering fear remains that the real measure of how far England are progressing under Southgate will come at a major tournaments, where their limitations have been exposed regularly.
Southgate can be satisfied from what he has got from England's international double header, with a creditable performance in defeat against World Cup holders Germany and victory here against Lithuania.
If he has a complaint, it could be that England need to be more ruthless in front of goal, paying for wasted opportunities in Dortmund and also missing chances to make this a more convincing margin of victory.
England will not find this failing too expensive in a friendly or against mediocre opposition - but it could cost them if the flaws are on show against higher-class in a competitive environment.
It is why Defoe's marksmanship is currently required and why the return of a fit and in-form Harry Kane will be so welcome.
England next qualifier is against Scotland at Hampden Park on Saturday, 10 June.
Match ends, England 2, Lithuania 0.
Second Half ends, England 2, Lithuania 0.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Arturas Zulpa (Lithuania) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Ryan Bertrand (England) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.
Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.
Dele Alli (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simonas Paulius (Lithuania).
Attempt missed. Dele Alli (England) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a cross.
Substitution, Lithuania. Simonas Paulius replaces Vykintas Slivka.
John Stones (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Deivydas Matulevicius (Lithuania).
Attempt saved. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (England) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.
Eric Dier (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mindaugas Grigaravicius (Lithuania).
Attempt missed. Eric Dier (England) header from very close range is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a cross following a corner.
Corner, England. Conceded by Mantas Kuklys.
Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.
Attempt missed. Jamie Vardy (England) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a through ball.
Adam Lallana (England) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mantas Kuklys (Lithuania).
Foul by Adam Lallana (England).
Fedor Cernych (Lithuania) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Kyle Walker (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Deivydas Matulevicius (Lithuania).
Corner, Lithuania. Conceded by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Substitution, Lithuania. Deivydas Matulevicius replaces Nerijus Valskis.
Marcus Rashford (England) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Marcus Rashford (England).
Attempt saved. Dele Alli (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kyle Walker.
Attempt missed. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Adam Lallana.
Foul by Dele Alli (England).
Vaidas Slavickas (Lithuania) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Lithuania. Conceded by Ryan Bertrand.
Goal! England 2, Lithuania 0. Jamie Vardy (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Adam Lallana with a through ball.
Corner, England. Conceded by Vaidas Slavickas.
Attempt saved. Dele Alli (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.
Attempt missed. Arturas Zulpa (Lithuania) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Vaidas Slavickas.
Substitution, England. Marcus Rashford replaces Raheem Sterling.
The collapse in HTC's share price means it is not big enough to be included in Taiwan's TWSE 50 Index.
In June it said second-quarter revenues had halved from the same period last year, resulting in an operating loss of 5.1bn Taiwanese dollars ($155m; £102m).
Last month, it said it would cut 15% of its global workforce.
HTC's share price is now less than the amount of cash it holds on deposit, which means investors consider the rest of the company to be, in theory, worthless.
Dropping out of the TWSE 50 index may push the share price even lower, as foreign investors are reluctant to hold shares not listed on the main Taiwan index.
HTC was founded in the 1990s and started out manufacturing notebook computers and some of the first touch handheld devices. It also made the world's first Android smartphone.
But it has been outgunned at the top end of the smart phone market by Apple, Samsung and LG.
Many blame the outcome on the massive advertising budgets of the market leaders. Samsung alone spent over $60m on marketing the launch of its new Galaxy S6 smart phone, roughly the same as HTC's entire annual marketing budget.
Meanwhile, Chinese makers such as Xiaomi and Lenovo have squeezed it at the cheaper end.
Analysts complain that HTC has not innovated enough, claiming for instance that its new HTC One M9 smart phone is almost identical to its former M8.
However, HTC has not been slow to launch new products. It has a fitness tracker called the Grip and recently launched active earphones.
Hours before the Taiwanese stock exchange announced HTC's ejection from the TWSE 50, the company launched the latest of its Desire smartphone range, the 728, in China.
HTC is also attracting attention with the launch of its virtual reality headset Vive at the end of the year. The company says more than 1,000 developers are working with it on content creation for gaming, entertainment and education apps.
Cher Wang, chairwoman and chief executive of HTC, said: "While the current market climate is challenging, I firmly believe the measures we are putting in place to streamline our operations, improve efficiency and focus, and increase our momentum will start to show results over the coming quarters."
While HTC is out of the TSWE 50, it will be listed in the smaller Mid-Cap 100 Index, which contains 100 companies, but only 20% of the value of the whole market.
Roberto Firmino scuffed the Reds ahead but Dieumerci's Mbokani's backheel levelled and Steven Naismith's debut strike put the home side in front.
Wes Hoolahan added a penalty before Jordan Henderson and Firmino struck.
James Milner put the away side ahead and though Sebastien Bassong netted in added time, Lallana delivered a twist.
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The England midfielder's volley - which was fired into the ground and bounced agonisingly in for the home side - sparked chaotic scenes as Reds boss Jurgen Klopp raced along the touchline to celebrate with his players.
Just moments earlier, Klopp had been visibly incensed by his side's lapse in allowing Bassong to level - but the change in his mood was fitting in a game which ebbed and flowed like this one.
The German had his glasses knocked off by striker Christian Benteke during the celebrations and later said: "I have a second pair of glasses but I can't find them. It's really difficult looking for glasses without glasses."
The contrast in emotion on the touchline was as pronounced as anything the season has delivered so far and Norwich will have to recover before Tuesday's trip to Tottenham.
Their record now stands at 32 Premier League games without a win in matches where they have fallen behind - but having been 3-1 up, few will sting like this.
The first five shots on target in this game found the net and neither side could claim to have deserved a win, with each guilty of lapses which at times led to chaos and resulted in just the fourth 5-4 result in Premier League history.
Russell Martin will feel worse than most after gifting Milner the chance to put Liverpool 4-3 up with a weak, blind backpass.
And though Bassong's crisp strike from 20 yards appeared to have reprieved his fellow defender, substitute Lallana's first league goal of the season capped a frenzied finish.
The Reds are four points worse off than at this stage last season but could this win be a catalyst for a spell of consistency and a move higher than seventh place?
One wonders what reception Liverpool's players would have got from Klopp had it stayed 4-4, such was his demeanour, and his side masked some common inefficiencies in taking three points.
Mbokani's brilliant back-heeled finish arrived after failing to clear a corner, meaning the Reds have conceded eight goals from corners this season - a league high.
Their passing - at 75% accuracy - was not at its best, their defending was sometimes rash but they found key goals, despite having scored fewer times than relegation-threatened Sunderland before kick-off.
Much has been made of the need to sign a striker but after such a result, neglecting their defensive issues seems a big risk for Klopp who will surely be keen to have less stressful afternoons in the dugout.
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"When you concede five goals you deserve to lose the game," concluded Norwich boss Alex Neil after the match.
The Scot admitted defensive errors have been his side's "downfall" this season and the 43 goals they have leaked in 23 games paints a damning picture - and only Sunderland (45) have let in more.
However, the performance of Naismith at the other end does offer something positive to take forward.
Making his debut alongside full-back Ivo Pinto - who had a tough afternoon - Naismith showed quality throughout.
He managed 18 goals in 52 league starts at Everton but may need to adopt the role of talisman rather than impact substitute at Norwich if they are to survive.
That said, they have now conceded 11 goals in three games - a stat which must improve if any Naismith contribution is to prove telling.
Norwich travel to Tottenham in the Premier League on Tuesday and Liverpool will be in action at the same time as they try to protect their 1-0 League Cup semi-final first-leg lead against Stoke City.
Match ends, Norwich City 4, Liverpool 5.
Second Half ends, Norwich City 4, Liverpool 5.
Adam Lallana (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Norwich City 4, Liverpool 5. Adam Lallana (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt blocked. Steven Caulker (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Goal! Norwich City 4, Liverpool 4. Sebastien Bassong (Norwich City) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Cameron Jerome following a set piece situation.
Offside, Liverpool. James Milner tries a through ball, but Christian Benteke is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. James Milner (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Christian Benteke with a headed pass.
Substitution, Liverpool. Steven Caulker replaces Alberto Moreno.
Adam Lallana (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Martin Olsson (Norwich City).
Foul by Lucas Leiva (Liverpool).
Dieumerci Mbokani (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Benteke.
Substitution, Norwich City. Cameron Jerome replaces Steven Naismith.
Foul by Alberto Moreno (Liverpool).
Matthew Jarvis (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Liverpool. Christian Benteke replaces Jordan Henderson.
Goal! Norwich City 3, Liverpool 4. James Milner (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Dieumerci Mbokani.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Ivo Pinto.
Substitution, Norwich City. Matthew Jarvis replaces Nathan Redmond.
Substitution, Norwich City. Martin Olsson replaces Wes Hoolahan.
Attempt saved. Sebastien Bassong (Norwich City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nathan Redmond.
Foul by Alberto Moreno (Liverpool).
Ivo Pinto (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Kolo Touré (Liverpool).
Steven Naismith (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Offside, Liverpool. Lucas Leiva tries a through ball, but Adam Lallana is caught offside.
Kolo Touré (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dieumerci Mbokani (Norwich City).
Offside, Liverpool. Jordan Henderson tries a through ball, but Adam Lallana is caught offside.
Goal! Norwich City 3, Liverpool 3. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Adam Lallana.
Substitution, Liverpool. Adam Lallana replaces Jordon Ibe.
Hand ball by Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool).
Goal! Norwich City 3, Liverpool 2. Jordan Henderson (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.
Goal! Norwich City 3, Liverpool 1. Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Penalty Norwich City. Steven Naismith draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.
Since New Year, social media reports have surfaced of a low pitched hum, while others in the same area cannot hear it.
Bristol City Council tried to measure the noise in April 1980 after scores of complaints, but the hum continues.
"It was definitely humming away last night," Sheila Masey told the BBC.
Mrs Masey has lived in Staple Hill, north of Bristol, for 34 years. For the last 20 she has heard a "low rumbly hum".
"It's not every night, but there are certain nights when you think: 'Crikey, here we go'.
"I wouldn't say it wakes me up but if I can't drop off to sleep and it happens to be there, then I'm always conscious of it."
She had thought it might be linked to factories in Filton.
"It can get on your nerves at times but as it's not all the time, you just accept it."
Jake, from Downend, wrote on BBC Points West's Facebook page: "I hear it about 80% of nights ... It's changed pitch lately, it seems like an electrical buzz... It's the not knowing what it actually is that drives me mental."
Complaints about low frequency noise date back to the 1970s but most people do not hear it and some are sceptical about whether it exists at all.
'Occasionally receive complaints'
It is one of many "hums" worldwide and there have been many theories about its cause. Last year the Bristol Post reported that French researchers believed it was caused by waves vibrating on the ocean floor.
A Bristol City Council spokesman said: "We do occasionally receive complaints of hums from across the city.
"We are currently investigating to see if there is any evidence to suggest the existence of a noise problem and whether any action can be taken. "
Lisa, from Clifton, heard the Hum at night, in 2013 and 2014, when she had her second child.
"I thought it was me because I was very 'sinusy'," she said, adding she was "dumbfounded" to learn it was a local phenomenon.
She described it as like a "really softly beaten giant drum".
"It's easy to become, for periods, a little bit obsessed with the hum. You focus on it and, in the middle of the night, you find it difficult to screen out other noises."
The former Bangladesh high-performance head coach and England one-day batsman scored 15,329 first-class runs and played for Lancashire and Northants.
Director of cricket Kim Barnett said: "We're delighted to secure someone of Mal's calibre for the position.
"Mal will now be responsible for identifying and providing additional coaching support to youngsters in and around Derbyshire."
Loye, who played seven ODIs for England in 2007, will be responsible for the club's newly-created development pathway, working with young cricketers from the age of 13 and the club's academy.
"We want to produce cricketers who will go on to play for Derbyshire and potentially England," added Barnett.
"Creating a new senior development coach role and attracting a candidate as strong as Mal demonstrates how important this is to the club."
The Early Intervention Foundation's analysis found a fifth of children lacked the expected personal, social and emotional development by age five.
A quarter of children were unable to communicate at the level expected for their age, it added.
The government said it recognised the importance of early years investment.
And this was why it had raised spending by £1bn a year.
The report is based, in part, on analysis of pupils' results in the latest Early Years Foundation Stage profiles of children at the end of their Reception year.
These goals covering personal, social and emotional development expect children to be able to manage their feelings and behaviour, show confidence in trying new activities, and to speak in a familiar group, among other things.
Expectations on communication and language include being able to listen attentively, express themselves effectively and follow instructions.
Children who are not school-ready will struggle to make relationships with other children, they will find it difficult to play co-operatively and take turns.
They might not be able to follow the class rules or adjust their behaviour for different situations and may not understand that there are consequences to poor behaviour.
They may not be able express themselves very well and may not have grasped the difference between past, present and future tenses, for example.
They may struggle to tell stories about their own experiences and may find it difficult to respond to questions.
The report also cited figures indicating large average differences in behaviour and emotional health between the poorest and richest children.
These were apparent as early as age three and persisted until age 11, it said.
The foundation's chief executive, Carey Oppenheim, said: "Too many children arrive for their first day at primary school lacking the broad range of skills they need to reach their full potential.
"This can have damaging consequences which can last a lifetime - especially as children with strong social, emotional and communication skills developed in childhood have a better chance of getting a good job and being healthy, than those who are just bright or clever.
"The gap in the development [of] social and emotional skills between children growing up in poor and rich families begins at the age of three.
"Seeking help as a parent must not be seen as a sign of failure."
The call comes as the government is about to introduce new baseline assessments for Reception children.
The foundation called for any baseline assessment to give the same weight to social, emotional and physical development as literacy and numeracy.
A Department for Education spokesperson said: "We are committed to making sure every single child starts school ready to learn - that is why we have increased spending on childcare and the early years by around £1bn per year.
"Families can now access a record amount of free early years education for two-, three- and four-year-olds. The latest research has also shown the quality of these providers is improving, meaning that more children will get the start they deserve. Getting the basics right early on is essential, so that all children can fulfil their potential.
"We agree that parents deserve a more complete picture of their child's development. That is why we are introducing a joined-up health and education review for two-year-olds and have supported the launch of a parent's guide on learning and development up to the age of five."
His party's ard chomhairle (national executive) met in Dublin on Saturday to discuss the political and financial crisis facing Stormont's institutions.
Mr Maskey said they agreed that Sinn Féin "cannot and will not stand over" proposed cuts to the welfare system.
He called for further talks with the UK government, saying a deal was "doable".
Speaking on the BBC's Sunday Politics programme, Mr Maskey said: "The ard chomhairle had a very long conversation yesterday.
"We understand fully the implications of where this might go, we do not want the collapse of the institutions.
"What we do want is to recreate the agreement that the five parties had at Christmas. Let's sit down and hammer that out again if need be, it is doable."
In March, Sinn Féin dramatically withdrew its support for the wide-ranging deal it had struck last December, known as the Stormont House Agreement.
The agreement provided mitigation measures that would have protected benefit recipients in Northern Ireland who stood to lose out as a result of welfare reform.
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) minister who tried unsuccessfully to pass the Welfare Reform Bill in the assembly last week told the Sunday Politics that those protective measures have been "lost" and "put in the bin" because of the parties' failure to agree.
Social Development Minister Mervyn Storey accused Sinn Féin of being led by its "southern command" in the Republic of Ireland over welfare policy.
Mr Storey said Sinn Féin was "looking both ways" and "constantly looking over its shoulder in relation to what happens in another jurisdiction".
However, Mr Maskey said: "Sinn Féin doesn't have a northern command or a southern command, it has a national party leadership."
The West Belfast MLA listed examples of deals, once believed to impossible, that were struck during the peace process, including the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the 2006 St Andrews Agreement that led to the DUP sharing power with Sinn Féin and the devolution of policing and justice in 2010.
Northern Ireland Secretary of State Theresa Villiers has written to party leaders inviting them to a review of the Stormont House Agreement on Tuesday.
US President Barack Obama said his death was a major blow to al-Qaeda.
Awlaki, of Yemeni descent, has been on the run in Yemen since December 2007.
The US said that as a key figure in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), he had played a "significant role" in plots to blow up US airliners and had sought use poison to kill US citizens.
Mr Obama is said to have personally ordered his killing last year.
Yemen's defence ministry statement said only that Awlaki had died in Khashef in Jawf province, about 140km (87 miles) east of the capital, Sanaa, "along with some of his companions".
US and Yemeni officials later named one of those as Samir Khan, also a US citizen but of Pakistani origin, who produced an online magazine promoting al-Qaeda's ideology.
Local tribal leaders told the AFP news agency that Awlaki had been moving around within Yemen in recent weeks to evade capture. Local people told AP he had been travelling between Jawf and Marib provinces when he died.
US officials said Awlaki's convoy was hit by a US drone and jet strike.
Mr Obama said that as the leader of external operations for AQAP, Awlaki, born in 1971, had taken "a lead in planning and directing efforts to murder innocent Americans" and was also "directly responsible for the death of many Yemeni citizens".
By Frank GardnerBBC security correspondent
This is the biggest blow to al-Qaeda since the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Anwar al-Awlaki was possibly the organisation's most inspirational cleric and ideologue in the Middle East.
Using the internet and an online magazine called Inspire, Awlaki encouraged his followers to attack Western targets. He has been blamed for inspiring US army major Nidal Hassan to kill his fellow soldiers in Texas and for inspiring the British woman Roshonara Choudhry to stab her MP Stephen Timms because he had supported the invasion of Iraq.
Awlaki was a charismatic cleric and fluent English speaker, and he may be hard for al-Qaeda to replace.
He said the death marked another "milestone in the broader efforts to defeat al-Qaeda and its affiliates", and paid tribute to US intelligence and the Yemeni security forces for their co-operation.
"This is further proof that al-Qaeda and its affiliates will find no safe haven anywhere in the world, " he said.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Awlaki had "demonstrated his intent and ability to cause mass terror".
One US official told the American network ABC that US intelligence had had "a very intense focus" on Awlaki for some time, waiting for a chance to strike.
The unnamed official said there had been "a good opportunity to hit him" on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks this year, but that "it never materialised".
BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera says the killing is significant because Awlaki's use of modern media meant he was able to reach out and inspire people susceptible to radicalisation.
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He is believed to have played a significant role in the Christmas 2009 Detroit airline bomb attempt and in the plot which sent two bombs in printer cartridges on US-bound cargo planes in 2010. They were intercepted in the UK and Dubai.
He has also been implicated in the 2009 US army base killings in Fort Hood, Texas, and a failed bombing in New York's Times Square in 2010.
Washington said he had sought to use poisons including cyanide and ricin in attacks.
When he was imam of a San Diego mosque in the 1990s, his sermons were attended by two future 9/11 hijackers, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi.
He also lived in the UK from 2002-04, where he spent several months giving lectures to Muslim youth.
In a video posted in November last year he called for the killing of Americans, saying they were from the "party of devils".
Weeks later, he survived an air strike in Shabwa province in which at least 30 militants were killed.
He has been reported dead in the past following US air strikes on southern Yemen in December 2009 and November 2010.
He was the target of a US drone attack that killed two al-Qaeda operatives in southern Yemen on 5 May.
The death comes amid concerns in Washington about the impact of Yemen's political crisis on its ability to tackle al-Qaeda militants.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh is facing a widespread protest movement, along with an armed insurrection by renegade army units and tribal fighters.
Mr Saleh, who was injured three months ago when his residence was shelled, returned last week after treatment in Saudi Arabia.
In an interview published on Thursday, he said he would not stand down, as promised in a deal brokered by Gulf States, if his opponents are allowed to stand in elections to succeed him.
The event, organised by the Bristol Smile Instigation Collective, saw thrill-seekers armed with squirt pistols, water filled balloons and mega blasters descend on Millennium Square.
The event kicked off at 19:30 BST, with a countdown on the square's big screen.
Becca Mills, one of the organisers, said: "We weren't expecting that many people but it's quite a big space."
Launched on the group's Facebook page less than a week ago, the "awesome water fight" attracted nearly 3,500 sign-ups ahead of the event.
With temperatures approaching 20C (68F), hundreds descended on the square for the public water fight - using its water fountains to fill up balloons, bottles and buckets.
"We didn't realise it was going to be this well attended or get this big," admitted Ms Mills.
"Because it exploded so much, it was all a bit last minute."
Set up to boost community "happiness and wellbeing", the Smile Instigation Collective has been running a series of workshops focussed on "interacting with strangers".
Along with organising an art exhibition in a phone box, decorating trees with ribbons and attaching helium balloons to bicycles, the group also gave out cakes and flowers to strangers.
Sgt Nick Lidstone, 54, of Heslerton Way, Barrington pleaded guilty to 13 charges, including sexual assault and taking indecent photographs of a child.
He also admitted three counts of rape when he appeared at Norwich Crown Court last month. He is awaiting sentencing.
Lidstone was dismissed from Cambridgeshire Police by the chief constable on Tuesday.
The charges against him relate to alleged abuse between 1997 and 2014.
The three rape offences were said to have taken place when the victim was an adult.
Lidstone has denied six further offences.
Deputy Chief Constable Alec Wood, from Cambridgeshire Police, said: "This was an appalling crime where the victim was put through a horrendous ordeal over a prolonged period".
Lidstone was sacked on the grounds of gross misconduct.
The decision follows an incident during Tuesday's first show when an owl escaped into the auditorium.
The bird had failed to return to its handler after making a brief flight during a scene.
Previews of the two-part play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, began this week.
At Thursday's performance of part two, a sign at the Palace Theatre informed the audience that there were "no real birds" in the production.
A statement issued on behalf of the producers said: "The production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is currently in its preview stage, with the process designed to allow the creative team time to rehearse changes or explore specific scenes further before the play's official opening.
"As part of this process earlier this week the decision was made not to feature live owls in any aspect of the production moving forward.
"The owls that were associated with the production were expertly cared for by a team of certified trainers and an on-site specialist veterinary surgeon (Steve Smith, MRCVS) who ensured the owls' welfare and enrichment needs were safeguarded at all times.
"This was of utmost importance to the production."
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Animal charity Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) welcomed the news.
"Peta commends the production team for coming to its senses and recognising that treating owls like props goes against every message of respect and kindness that JK Rowling's wonderful books taught us," director Mimi Bekhechi said.
"Harry Potter can now join the ranks of innovative stage productions like War Horse, The Lion King and Running Wild which prove that animals need not be exploited for the theatre - and that the possibilities of prop design are limited only by our own creativity."
Shortly before the second half of Thursday's performance started, JK Rowling was spotted in a box stage right, causing screams of excitement from the audience with hundreds craning their necks trying to catch a glimpse of her.
The show does not have its official opening until 30 July.
Based on an original story by Rowling, writer Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany, the play is set 19 years after the events of the seventh and final book in the series, the Deathly Hallows.
It portrays a grown-up Harry (Jamie Parker) as an employee at the Ministry of Magic, while his youngest son Albus (Sam Clemmett) has to deal with the "heavy burden" of the Potter family legacy.
The show runs in the West End to May 2017.
All of the go-to guys from the World Cup are there. The near-heroes from that epic quarter-final against Australia are on the list with a few welcome additions.
Alex Dunbar, who was one of Europe's best centres before getting cut down and missing the World Cup, is back. There are deserving calls for two new props - Rory Sutherland and Zander Fagerson. The admirable John Barclay has reappeared.
While you scan the list of names and think back to what might have been against the Wallabies in the autumn, the temptation is for grandiose thinking. Cotter knows his players better now than he did 12 months ago.
In a relatively short time in charge he almost got them to a World Cup semi-final. On top of that, other nations like England, France and even Ireland are in varying degrees of flux.
Could this be the year that Scotland are elevated above the mundane?
Then you scratch below the surface and you see the complications. On paper, yes, this looks like an exciting crew. In reality, though, too many of Cotter's marquee players are out of form and some others are injured and are struggling to make the early games.
On top of that there are a few more who are just coming back from injury and might not be match-sharp. Or, at least, not Test match sharp.
Let's take it from full-back. Stuart Hogg is one of the most exhilarating runners in Six Nations rugby, a talent to quicken the pulse. We haven't seen much of him at his best since the World Cup, though.
Hogg has lost his mojo in Glasgow's recent malaise. It's been four straight losses for Gregor Townsend's team and the loss of confidence is obvious.
He's not alone in needing to find something - and quickly. Tommy Seymour is a fine predator, even against the best international teams in the world. He's a proven poacher, but right now he's injured and even before he was injured he was out of sorts.
Sean Maitland will surely start on the opposite wing, but Maitland is playing for a losing side, London Irish, these days. Tim Visser was going really well for his new club, Harlequins, until he tore his hamstring. He's in Cotter's squad but he'll most probably miss the early rounds.
Mark Bennett and Peter Horne are also in Cotter's squad but their inclusion is something of a mirage. They're both on the casualty list at the moment.
Cotter doesn't strike you as a man who gets uptight about things, but the injury profile of Bennett, in particular, will surely be stressing him out. His shoulder problem could heal in time to play some part in the Six Nations - or not.
The midfield has Dunbar and Matt Scott and Duncan Taylor in the cavalry. A strong line-up, but on his day Bennett is capable of world class and Scotland need all the world class it can get if it's to have some joy in this Six Nations.
Finn Russell, like Stuart Hogg, has not been at his best for a while. He's another one to say your prayers for. A confident Russell is a joy and Cotter needs him to return.
WP Nel and John Hardie are not new to this Scotland team, but they will be new to the Six Nations. Nel has eight caps and only one of them was won at Murrayfield. Hardie has five caps - in Turin, Paris, Gloucester, Newcastle and Twickenham.
He knows what Murrayfield is like as an Edinburgh player, but not as a Scotland player. The Calcutta Cup match will be his first nod in the capital.
The pair of them have made a big difference in a short space of time. They bring scrummaging power and open-side devilment and work-rate. And optimism. Scotland's pack will be better than 12 months ago.
Alasdair Dickinson has played precious little rugby since the World Cup, but Edinburgh's pack - a developing juggernaut - has hardly missed a beat without him and that's a big tribute to Sutherland, who has occupied Dickinson's place in the front-row.
Sutherland fully warrants his inclusion, but equally it's a relief to see Dickinson on his way back. He's a senior player and such an important cog. Sutherland's day will come for sure.
Mercifully, the Gray brothers are in rude health. Jonny might be captain of a struggling Glasgow side but his own game is holding up nicely. His big brother - very, very big - has been going well at Castres, who are improving their position in the Top 14.
They're both high quality players, but the cupboard isn't exactly bursting open with outstanding back-up. Rob Harley would have been an option, but he's injured. So, too, the desperately unlucky Grant Gilchrist. Tim Swinson and Ben Toolis have made it instead.
There shouldn't have been any surprise when Ryan Wilson was left out of Cotter's selection. He's not delivered his best stuff of late and now he's got a potential suspension hanging over his head. Understandably, Cotter is moving on without him.
Against Australia, Cotter went with Blair Cowan at six, David Denton at eight and John Hardie at seven. He rather stumbled on the combination - Cowan was not in the original squad - but it worked.
Josh Strauss could shake things up at six - though he's not been at his thunderous best either and he has missed Glasgow's last two games through injury - and Barclay might even do the same if he's given a shot. But he won't be holding his breath - not after missing the cut for the World Cup.
Chris Fusaro and Adam Ashe are the extra back-rows.
The big omissions from the World Cup squad are Wilson and the Glasgow hooker, Fraser Brown, who is another of the walking wounded. Cotter, however, has not given Brown the same latitude as other injured players in his squad.
The coach is likely to spend the coming weeks in silent contemplation - he does that a lot - about what his team might be capable of if everybody turns up with their best stuff. Right now, that's not the case with some marquee players in his backline. And it's a worry.
The plucky Grimethorpe Colliery Band - whose story gave rise to 1996 film Brassed Off - was given the honour as part of BBC Music Day.
It was installed outside the band's rehearsal rooms in South Yorkshire.
The plaque was one of 47 commemorating people or places that have influenced musical culture.
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Brassed Off, which starred the late British acting legend Pete Postlethwaite, featured the fictional town of Grimley and was partly based on the closure of Grimethorpe's pit in 1993.
It used music from the village's band.
Stephen Tompkinson, who starred as Phil in the film, said: I'm incredibly proud the film has lasted and lasted it means so much to people.
"It really strikes a deep note in them, when it would have been far easier just to pack up and stop entirely this band kept playing on.
"They're still there loud and proud today."
Roy Bowater, a tuba player, said: "I think the sound of Grimethorpe is unique, it grabs you by the throat it is just something that gets you from within."
The band was founded in 1917 by workers from the local coal mine.
It survived the closure of the pit in 1993 and relied on sponsorship money from a coal mining company, until 2011. Despite occasional concerns for its future it still continues to make music.
Grimethorpe is about 7 miles (11km) from Barnsley.
The airline expects about 19,000 passengers will use the year-round service, which will operate three times a week from 27 March.
Director of Ports, Ann Reynolds, said it is an "exciting opportunity for residents" and could "bring in potential new tourism" to the island.
Easyjet already operate services to Liverpool, London Gatwick and Bristol.
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) accused Aslef members of refusing to drive a new, longer train.
GTR said it went to the High Court with "great reluctance".
Earlier this month a new train was driven empty, with Aslef members not prepared to work "driver-only" services.
A spokesman for GTR said it was pleased Aslef "must not induce" its drivers to refuse to operate the new 12-car trains.
He said: "Gatwick Express services have operated without conductors operating the doors for 17 years, so we were never able to understand why the Aslef union objected to the operation of these new trains in the same way.
"The new trains will offer significant benefits to passengers, including a much better travelling environment."
The union said it had never reached an agreement for the new trains on the Gatwick Airport to London Victoria service and planned to ballot its members.
Johannes Franken, 50, from Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, admitted six counts of fraud at a hearing at Oxford Crown Court last month.
He made 59 transactions between the motor manufacturer and himself, between 2011 and 2014.
Some of the cash was spent on buying a diving school in Mauritius.
Other proceeds went on high-end cars, a motorbike, a property in France, watches and jewellery.
Franken, a former account manager at the BMW-Mini plant in Oxford, made it look like he was paying a supplier, but he was actually paying the cash into his own account.
The payments ranged from £7,000 to £278,000, totalling £5.9m. The fraud was discovered following a routine audit by BMW-Mini.
Appearing at Oxford Crown Court via videolink, on 12 May, Franken admitted five counts of fraud and one count of acquiring criminal property.
Speaking after the conviction, Det Sgt Duncan Wynn of Thames Valley Police said: "Franken has systematically abused his position of trust with his employer to steal large sums of money.
"So far assets and monies totalling £2.7m have been located and restrained under the Proceeds of Crime Act. We are currently actively pursuing the outstanding amounts."
It has been an eventful day in the Football League, so BBC Sport brings you five stories from Saturday's fixtures.
It was an eventful afternoon for Portsmouth's on-loan striker Jayden Stockley. He was meant to start Saturday's game at Bristol Rovers on the substitutes' bench before Adam McGurk was injured in the warm-up and the 21-year-old was handed a starting spot.
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With 70 minutes gone, and Pompey level at 1-1, Stockley was due to come off after a workmanlike performance. But the switch was delayed and a minute later he scored the winner, sending Portsmouth top of League Two.
Paul Cook's side are still unbeaten in the league as their promotion charge continues to gather pace.
"It's great to be where we are after nine games, but football has a habit of kicking you in the teeth," Cook told BBC Radio Solent. "It's better than being bottom.
"Adam McGurk did his ankle in the warm-up, that is part and parcel of the game. It was a great goal, great finish, great passing and great movement.
"We were taking Jayden off, he had worked tirelessly and I felt at that stage Matt Tubbs' movement might have got us a goal."
They had not won since April but at last the Football League's bottom side have a first victory of the new season.
Tyler Blackwood, 24, came off the bench to fire Newport County to their first three points of 2015-16. Terry Butcher's side remain bottom of League Two but at least he also has his first win as County boss.
The goal marked a double celebration for on-loan QPR striker Blackwood, as he was making his league debut.
It was a disappointing debut for Joey Barton, who came off the bench to play his first game in Burnley colours. His new side were beaten 2-1 by Reading, who climbed up to third in the Championship.
Burnley slipped to sixth after their second league defeat of the season and manager Sean Dyche bemoaned their poor start to the game.
"It's unusual for us to start so sloppy really," he said. "They scored the first from us crossing the ball and a breakaway and a bit of a mix-up really so it's a mistake from us, and the second one was good play from them."
With some notable exceptions, players really enjoy getting one over their former side and Leon Clarke did exactly that with two goals for Bury as they defeated Coventry 2-1.
Clarke made 44 appearances for the Sky Blues over two spells before leaving in acrimonious circumstances - handing in a transfer request before moving to Wolves.
His twin strikes on Saturday saw Bury move up to fifth in League One.
Shakers manager David Flitcroft paid tribute to his side after the victory, telling BBC Radio Manchester: "We're doing something at this football club that's creating a new future and that's what I've seen today.
"Winning football matches is something that takes a hell of a lot of work."
Brighton may have been denied victory by Gary Madine's injury-time header for Bolton, but their early-season form shows no sign of letting up.
Chris Hughton's men are one of two unbeaten sides in the Football League and the match was also notable for Bobby Zamora's name appearing in the starting line-up - 12 years after his last outing for the Seagulls.
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Zamora scored in his last start for Brighton and he teed Dale Stephens up for Brighton's opener on Saturday.
"He did well," Hughton told BBC Sussex. "We knew we wouldn't get 90 minutes from him but he will benefit from that and will get better and better.
"It's a good start for him and we need to make sure we look after him. It's a real good option to have Bobby available."
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The group behind the project is currently adapting the pods for use on the roads.
It has yet to unveil the exact design but confirmed that the adapted vehicles will not run on dedicated tracks.
Greenwich is one of four places in the UK where driverless pods and public reaction to them are being tested.
Trials will also take place in Bristol, Coventry and Milton Keynes. The £8m project is jointly funded by government agency Innovate UK and industry.
The Greenwich Automated Transport Environment project - or Gateway - will see seven driverless pods tested on the pavements around the Greenwich Peninsula, where the O2 Arena is based, from July.
Routes are still being worked out but are likely to include residential areas, the North Greenwich underground station and businesses around the arena.
The so-called UltraPods currently in service at Heathrow carry passengers between the car park and Terminal 5. In the five years they have been in use, they have carried 1.5 million passengers and travelled 1.8 million miles (three million kilometres).
Westfield Sportscars, a British carmaker, will be responsible for manufacturing and testing of the pods. Heathrow Enterprise will design the software while a third British firm, Oxbotica, will provide mapping and other sensors to ensure the vehicles are safe.
The pods will have three months of testing, first with invited users and then with the general public. Each pod can carry six passengers but will require a steward to be present at all times to press the emergency button in the case of a problem.
The trial of the pods will reveal a wealth of data, Prof Nick Reed, academy director at Transport Research Laboratory which is leading the project, told the BBC.
"It will tell us whether people trust and accept these vehicles and how they would work as part of the urban landscape," he said.
"This vehicle has millions of miles under its belt and now we have to take it outside of the track and modify it for use on pavements."
The pods will differ from an earlier demonstration where a shuttle designed by autonomous vehicle firm Phoenix Wings was on display.
"That was perfect for the demonstration and we did consider using it but we had a procurement process and chose the design we have now," Prof Nick Reed said.
Athletes compete in cross-country skiing and periodically shoot targets. They receive time-penalties, dependent on their shooting accuracy.
The 33-year-old from Stockton-on-Tees joined the British Army in 1999, and took up biathlon 18 months later thanks to
He then made his Olympic debut at the Vancouver Games four years ago.
"It's a different feeling because there isn't the same excitement as in 2010. But I'm more experienced, and probably more focused as a result," he said.
Unless a sponsor provides £50k, biathlon is over in Britain
Jackson finished outside 50th position in his three biathlon disciplines at his debut Olympics.
Since then, he has secured a top-20 placing in three world cup relay events, and an individual high of 49th.
As in Vancouver, at Sochi he will compete in the 20-kilometre race and 10-kilometre sprint.
A top-60 finish in the sprint would also secure a spot in the 12.5-kilometre 'pursuit' event.
"I've had a long, four-year cycle to build and now I feel better ready to cope with the pressures of such a big event," he explained.
"My preparation's been good and I feel I'm in the best physical shape I've ever been in."
After once being incorrectly entered as Lee-Steve Jackson, he is now often in results under that name. Some biathletes now call him 'Stevo'.
Sochi could be the last Winter Olympics in which Team GB has any biathletes as after the 2014 season the event's funding runs out.
Currently, the Army helps fund the British Biathlon Union but it has now withdrawn that support.
"Obviously I'm just concentrating on Sochi and this season, whilst being optimistic about the future," added Jackson.
"But the reality is, unless a sponsor steps in with £50k, we won't be able to continue with the sport in Britain."
A Warriors win would all but guarantee them a first Champions Cup last-eight place while Tigers' loss to Racing 92 last week put them out of contention.
"We were all embarrassed and frustrated by the performance in Paris," said Mauger ahead of Saturday's match.
"Everyone has to look in the mirror and ask if they are giving it everything."
Leicester sit fifth in the Premiership but have lost three of their five matches in Europe this term, including a 42-13 reverse at Glasgow's Scotstoun Stadium.
"If we can put Glasgow under a bit of pressure, hopefully it will be good enough to swing a result," Mauger said.
"We'll be excited about getting back down to Welford Road. We've shown in fits and bursts that we can be a quality side."
Mauger highlighted his team's failure to "front up" in Paris and their sluggishness off the line as key failures in a match in which he felt Tigers "were not at the races".
But the New Zealander told BBC Radio Leicester that there was a determination to make up for it against Gregor Townsend's side, with fly-half Owen Williams and lock Dom Barrow likely to be available for the hosts and his "front row stocks coming back to life".
"The guys care," he added. "It's not through a lack of effort. We can make it easier on ourselves. Once we start executing the details, hopefully our game will click. We owe it to ourselves and to our loyal supporters."
The New Zealander also revealed that, with Matt Toomua and Manu Tuilagi injured, he is looking at France international centre Maxime Mermoz to strengthen his team.
The five-time Ashes winner, 33, who has played 118 Tests, has not scored a century in 23 innings.
Batsmen Nick Compton and Gary Ballance are recalled, uncapped pace bowler Mark Footitt and spinner Samit Patel are included and Adil Rashid is left out.
Bell, 33, said he was "absolutely gutted" to miss out, but is "determined" to win his place back.
The tour begins on 15 December, with the first Test on 26 December.
England, who start with a warm-up game against a South African Invitational XI, will play four Tests, five one-day internationals and two Twenty20s.
South Africa are the top-ranked Test side in the world.
Only two England players in history have won more Test caps than Bell, who is eighth on their all-time run-scoring list.
Although he was the third highest run scorer in the recent 2-0 Test series defeat by Pakistan, he averages 25.95 in 13 matches in 2015, compared to a career average of 42.69.
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew said: "Given South Africa's status it's a big call to drop Ian Bell, but he's scored only two hundreds in his last 28 Tests.
"He confirmed to England managing director Andrew Strauss yesterday that he wishes to fight for his place, but at 33 it seems more likely that his career is now over."
Bell said: "I certainly feel I could have contributed out there and have been working tirelessly to get into the best possible condition for the tour.
"I'm going to enjoy a winter break with my family for the first time in 11 years."
National selector James Whitaker said: "It was clearly a difficult decision but he has struggled for runs in recent series and we felt that it was the right time for him to take a break and spend time working on his game out of the spotlight."
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Middlesex's Compton, 32, who scored two centuries in nine Tests before being dropped in 2013, has been named in a 16-man squad alongside Yorkshire left-hander Ballance.
Ballance, 25, averages 47.76 in 15 Tests but was dropped during this summer's Ashes win over Australia.
All-rounder Ben Stokes has been passed fit following a collarbone injury sustained in the final Test against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates this month.
However, pace bowlers Mark Wood and Steven Finn are unavailable with ankle and foot injuries respectively.
New Surrey signing Footitt, 29, who featured in England's Ashes squad this summer, has been called up, while Chris Woakes replaces fellow seamer Liam Plunkett.
"I'm over the moon I've been picked," Footitt told BBC Radio 5 live.
"It's a massive honour to be selected. Hopefully if I do get the nod I can do my country proud."
Uncapped opening batsman Alex Hales, an unused member of the Test squad against Pakistan, keeps his place alongside left-arm spinner Patel.
Patel, 30, is preferred to 27-year-old leg-spinner Rashid, who is instead likely to play in the Big Bash League, Australia's domestic Twenty20 competition.
Whitaker said: "Adil Rashid showed plenty of promise in the UAE but the conditions in South Africa make the likelihood of playing two spinners extremely remote."
England Test squad: Alastair Cook (Essex, capt), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), James Anderson (Lancashire), Jonathan Bairstow (Yorkshire, wk), Gary Ballance (Yorkshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Jos Buttler (Lancashire, wk), Nick Compton (Middlesex), Mark Footitt (Surrey), Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire), Chris Jordan (Sussex), Samit Patel (Nottinghamshire), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Ben Stokes (Durham), James Taylor (Nottinghamshire), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire).
The Ogston Music School at St Edward's School includes a 120-capacity hall that will showcase touring musicians and community performances.
The development has 20 practice rooms, seven ensemble rooms, a recording studio and a music library.
Warden Stephen Jones said it had the potential to strongly impact the area.
He added: "With The North Wall Arts Centre just across the road from the new Ogston Music School, we have in South Parade the makings of North Oxford's own cultural quarter."
More than 450 lessons are expected to take place at the new facility each week.
It takes the place of the Ferguson Music School, which opened in 1962.
Alex Tester, director of music, said: "Music at St Edward's has always been at a high level, but the new Ogston Music School gives us the chance to scale even greater heights.
"We now have a real opportunity to gain a national reputation for music."
Upper sixth pupil and cellist Aaron Gruen said having the "fantastic, large new recital room is such a plus".
"The spacious practice rooms also add to the experience because, as a musician, you need space to think and you need the sound you produce to really resonate," he added.
St Edward's School was founded in 1863 and has about 700 pupils.
The school's musical alumni includes indie band Glass Animals.
All-rounder Alex Hughes agreed terms on Tuesday and batsman Slater, 25, has followed suit in signing until 2018.
Slater is the club's 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup Player of the Year after scoring 328 runs at an average of 82, including a top score of 148 not out.
"Ben is a talented lad who is cementing his place at the top of the order," said director of cricket Kim Barnett.
"He continues to work hard on his game and has reaped the rewards, particularly in the one-day competition, and we hope he can continue to produce consistent performances across both red and white-ball cricket."
Two-month-old Daisy Mae Burrill died three days after 31-year-old John Burrill fractured her skull in Fleetwood, Lancashire, on 11 March.
Her injuries were consistent with being gripped by the legs and swung against a hard surface, his trial heard.
Mr Justice James Goss ordered Burrill to serve a minimum of 18 years in jail.
Sentencing, the judge at Preston Crown Court described Daisy Mae's murder as the "grossest breach of trust".
Burrill had "carried out a vicious assault upon a defenceless baby" after smoking cannabis throughout the early hours of the morning while tending to his daughter who would not settle, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
Burrill was found guilty by jury on Tuesday.
He had initially told medical staff and police the infant became limp but he could not explain why.
The court heard the child's mother, Ashlee Cox, described her then-partner as "moody" when he got up to feed the baby at their home in Gordon Road on the morning of 11 March.
Burrill, who admitted manslaughter but denied murder, told the court the baby had initially gone back to sleep but began to cry again.
He told jurors during his trial: "I think the tiredness just took over and I really lost my rag and I threw her down on to the couch."
The baby was taken to Blackpool Victoria Hospital and later transferred to Manchester Children's Hospital, where her life support was switched off on 14 March.
Following sentencing, Ms Cox said: "She was a beautiful baby girl and much loved new addition to the family... who will be forever in their hearts."
She said her family's suffering had been made worse by Burrill's refusal to admit that he alone was responsible for her death.
Ms Cox added: "Although justice has been served it will never bring her back."
Noel Moss, 68, was hurt when a tractor rolled over him at his farm. There was no nearby ambulance available.
An ambulance had to be sent from 34 miles away in Ballyshannon, County Donegal.
The incident happened on Tuesday 28 July but details have just emerged.
John McPoland of the Ambulance Service said: "We got a call about an incident involving a tractor and we are extremely sorry that it took so long.
"We apologise to Mr Moss and his family.
"A rapid response paramedic was there within 23 minutes providing treatment and pain relief to Mr Moss.
"We were trying to get an available ambulance. The paramedic who was on site did say to the team that an ambulance was urgent.
"It is an unacceptable time for us to get to a scene.
"This is a man who had internal injuries. We feel like we let Mr Moss down."
Mr McPoland explained that all the ambulances were involved in other emergency calls.
"We have serious challenges when it comes to rural communities. I wouldn't want to see this happen again," he said.
"Every part of the health service will tell you today that they could be doing with more resources."
Mr McPoland said the ambulance service would like to meet Mr Moss and his family to explain what happened.
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Greg Clark informed Lancashire County Council of his intent on Thursday.
Energy firm Cuadrilla is appealing against the council's refusal in June to allow fracking on two sites.
Most planning appeals are usually decided by a planning inspector.
Mr Clark is using the "recovery" procedure which allows the Secretary of State to decide the outcome following the appeal rather a government planning inspector.
The inspector will still hear the appeal next year and will forward recommendations to the government.
The secretary of state said he took the decision because the appeals involved "proposals for exploring and developing shale gas which amount to proposals for development of major importance having more than local significance and proposals which raise important or novel issues of development control, and/or legal difficulties".
Mr Clark will also rule on two appeals, at the same time as the main fracking appeals, against a refusal to allow Cuadrilla seismic monitoring in the county.
Analysis
Judy Hobson, Environment Correspondent, BBC North West Tonight
This was the news some residents in Roseacre and Little Plumpton didn't want to hear. But it won't have come as a big surprise.
Cuadrilla's appeal against Lancashire County Council's decision to reject its plans for fracking will be heard in February.
The appeal will be heard by planning inspector Wendy McKay. But we now know she won't be the one making a decision. Instead, she'll write a report, make a recommendation and hand it to the government. The Secretary of State will have the final say.
Residents against fracking knew this might happen, but they hoped it wouldn't. The government says it wants to decide the future of fracking because it's an issue of "major importance". Anti fracking groups say they fear that means local opinion will count for nothing.
The government decided in September to include shale gas drilling in the categories of planning appeal decisions that can be decided directly by the minister.
In June Lancashire County Council rejected Cuadrilla's fracking applications on two sites in Lancashire - Roseacre Wood and Little Plumpton.
Donna Hume, senior energy campaigner from Friends of the Earth said: "People in Lancashire, and anywhere threatened by fracking, will be very worried that the government's determination to pursue fracking could come at the cost of ignoring local democracy, and the concerns of local people. "
Cuadrilla said it "noted" the decision and "looked forward" to presenting its case at the appeals next year.
The 28-year-old from the Netherlands has joined the League One club after a season with Dutch second-tier side Achilles '29.
He has also played for SC Cambuur and SC Veendam, as well as featuring in the Eredivisie with FC Dordrecht.
Plymouth clinched promotion back to the third tier in April, finishing second in League Two in 2016-17.
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Mr Olmert is accused of fraud and taking bribes to promote a building project, known as the Holyland affair.
The scandal dates back to his time as Jerusalem mayor more than a decade ago.
Mr Olmert, who is already on trial in another corruption case, denies any wrongdoing. His spokesman has dismissed the allegations as "baseless".
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Police have said that bribes were given to officials over the development of a giant hotel and apartment building.
City planning laws were changed to allow the developers of the building, known as the Holyland complex, to allow apartments to be built as well as hotels.
The number of apartments in the development was also increased, police say.
Mr Olmert has called the investigation a "witch hunt", and denied taking any kind of bribe.
Mr Olmert was plagued by multiple corruption scandals while serving as prime minister between 2006 and 2009 - and has so far been indicted over three separate cases. Police have closed two others.
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The former soldier, who rides with a prosthetic leg, won the Grand Military Gold Cup on Rathlin Rose (7-4 fav).
The horse, trained by David Pipe, won by 12 lengths.
Last month, 34-year-old Disney became the first amputee jockey to win at a professional racecourse in Britain when he guided the same horse to victory in the Royal Artillery Gold Cup.
"If anyone wants a one-legged jockey next week [Cheltenham Festival] I'll be kicking about"
"He is class, to win with an amateur like me on he has got to be pretty decent and I just try not to get too busy on him," said Disney.
Disney lost his lower right leg when his vehicle was hit by a grenade while serving in Afghanistan in 2009.
"Tonight I will have some pints with a mate and kick on point-to-pointing," he said.
"I love winning, like anyone else doing it. It's the most phenomenal sport. I loved my time in the army and the expeditions, but you don't replicate days like this very easily."
BBC Sport's Cornelius Lysaght
Terrific stuff from Guy Disney once again on Rathlin Rose, defying a bit of extra weight - and the pressure of a load of expectation - to record another emotional win.
Though this was mid-March, when reflections on 2017 are eventually gathered, Disney's two Sandown wins will surely become one of the great feelgood stories of the year.
From desperate injuries in Afghanistan, through rehabilitation and struggling to be granted a race-riding licence to the winners' circle at Sandown: what an inspiration to so many, in racing and well beyond.
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King started his career at Swansea City but failed to make a first team appearance before joining Didcot Town.
The 31-year-old arrived at League One Scunthorpe from Preston in May 2015 and made 42 appearances for the Iron last season scoring two goals.
King is in contention for a place in the Stevenage side for their EFL Trophy fixture at Leyton Orient on Tuesday.
It just seems wrong somehow - MPs getting up to speak in the Commons in open-necked shirts.
This is an institution in which people still refer to each as "right honourable gentleman" and are offered a toot of powdered tobacco from a silver snuff box on their way into work (although few now indulge). They are attended to by men in tights and garters.
And yet now - thanks to a ruling by Speaker John Bercow (a man who takes part in a ceremonial parade every working day, in a black silk robe with gold trimming and a train) - they can loll about on the green benches as if they were at a family barbecue.
Mr Bercow's ruling may offend traditionalists - and many MPs will no doubt continue to cling to the comfort of their tie - but it is in keeping with the long, slow decline of this particular item of men's clothing in the West.
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Wearing a tie to work used to be a sign that you had reached a certain station in life. Now, for many British men, turning up for work in a tie will prompt some wag to ask if you have a job interview or a court appearance.
Only about a third of British office staff regularly wear a tie to work, according to some surveys. Dress-down Friday has become dress-down every day in many workplaces, although people who deal with the public are usually still expected to don a tie every morning.
The tie used to be a powerful signifier of social status - the regimental tie, the club tie and, above all, the old school tie were all used as symbols of authority and belonging, and as a subtle way of excluding those who did not belong.
It is a tradition that stretches back to Roman times, when soldiers would wear different coloured neckwear to donate membership of different groups.
In today's workplace power games, however, the man at the top is very often the one without a tie. The Silicon Valley chief executive look - chinos and casual shirt, no tie - is a way of letting your underlings know that you are a true meritocrat, and not hidebound by stuffy rules.
World leaders at the G8 in Northern Ireland in 2013 were told to wear "smart casual" attire, although they still wore suits.
The tieless trend has even spread to the Royal Family. When Prince Harry met 91-year-old Ivor Anderson at a military event last year, the D-Day veteran cheekily asked him: "Where's your bloody tie?"
There are, of course, many traditional institutions in Britain, such as the gentleman's clubs of Mayfair, where you will still not get through the door without a tie.
But these places tend to take their cues from the top. Parliament's official rule book Erskine May says military insignia or uniforms should not be worn in the Commons and that the custom is "for gentlemen members to wear jackets and ties". Well, not any more.
Croatia claims to be the birthplace of the modern neck tie or cravat. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "Croat" and "cravat" were originally variations on the same word.
It arrived in Western Europe in the 17th Century as a piece of military clothing designed to protect soldiers' shirts and buttons but gradually caught on as a fashion item, with elaborate dandyish flourishes and frilly collars.
It would take several centuries for the tie to slim down to the narrow piece of patterned cloth we are familiar with today, and it did not become de rigeur among middle-class "white collar" workers until the industrial revolution, when it was deemed more practical and comfortable than the fancier alternatives.
The tie has proved remarkably adaptable as a piece of clothing, expanding in width and acquiring elaborate paisley patterns during the "flower power" era of the 1960s and 70s and then shrinking back down for the "skinny tie" punk and new wave look.
Yet now, like spats or the top hat, its time may finally be running out.
Then again, they said that about beards.
Cambridge United supporter Simon Dobbin has been unable to walk or talk since the attack in Southend in March 2015.
Basildon Crown Court heard the group of Southend United fans wanted to attack any Cambridge supporters in "revenge" for an earlier fight.
The men deny charges of conspiracy to commit violent disorder.
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Andrew Jackson, prosecuting, said Mr Dobbin was with a group of Cambridge fans who had stayed for a post-match drink in the Blue Boar pub after a 0-0 draw with Southend.
The court was told the defendants scouted out potential targets and attacked them as they walked past The Railway on their way to Prittlewell station.
"It was a carefully prepared ambush," Mr Jackson told the court.
He described it as a "ferocious attack" which lasted up to 90 seconds, and said bottles and glasses were thrown.
"Simon Dobbin was hit and stamped upon repeatedly and he sustained massive brain injuries as a result of it," he added.
"None of these defendants had any interest that day in enjoying watching a football match.
"Their only interest lay in causing terrible and frightening violence."
Thirteen Essex men deny conspiracy to commit violent disorder.
All except Mr Young are also charged with violent disorder.
All 12 men deny the second charge, except Pullen who has pleaded guilty.
Mr Young also faces a charge of assisting an offender by hiding the group while police were conducting a search.
The case continues.
The move would allow women to postpone pregnancy and so extend the period in which they can have children.
The city of Urayasu has allocated 90 million yen ($850,000; £630,000) to the three-year pilot project.
Recent census data has revealed that Japan's population had fallen by one million people in the past five years.
The project is being conducted by Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital and scientists in charge say they hope preserving eggs will encourage women to give birth when they feel ready to do so.
The programme will be available to women between the ages of 25 and 34. Twelve women have already started the process.
Without subsidies, women have to pay the full cost of about 500,000-600,000 yen for freezing their eggs.
Under the Urayasu pilot programme, they will pay 20% of the cost.
At the news conference announcing the project, Urayasu mayor Hideaki Matsuzaki said low birth rates were a national problem.
"In general, pregnancy and childbirth is an individual issue. But when the situation has become this far, I consider it a social problem," Mr Matsuzaki said.
"I view using public expenditure as the right thing to do."
While preserving frozen eggs does prolong the period in which women can have children, the success rate using this method is not high.
Studies suggest if a woman freezes her eggs at the age of 25, there's a 30% chance of successfully giving birth later.
At the age of 34, the chance drops to 20%.
Local media said about 50 people had been hurt in the fire, which broke out late on Tuesday in Gazipur.
It was feared the number of people killed could rise.
Safety standards in Bangladesh's garment factories are notoriously poor. More than 1,100 people died in April when a factory outside Dhaka collapsed.
Another 2,500 people were injured in the disaster in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of the capital, where most of the clothing industry is based.
Last November, 112 workers were killed in a fire at another clothes factory in the area.
The cause of the latest fire was not immediately clear, but reports said it broke out at a knitting section of Aswad Composite Mills.
A local official at the scene said that fire fighters had been unable to recover any bodies.
One man came to the site to find his uncle told the BBC that he had not been able to find him.
"I found out that the fire started from a [textile] machine," he said. "When the silencer of the machine exploded, the fire spread and the factory caught fire.
"Immediately after the fire many people ran out of the factory but a few could not get out."
Reports quoted officials saying water shortages and a lack of nearby fire stations had allowed the blaze to escalate and continue for several hours.
Factory Director Emdad Hossain told the Daily Star in Bangladesh that 170 workers were on duty on the two floors when the fire broke out.
"Almost all of them managed to come out of the building," he said.
Mr Hossain suffered injuries while rushing out of the building.
Although most members of a reported workforce of 3,000 had left the building for the day, those killed are thought to have been working overtime.
District administrator Dilruba Khanom said that emergency services were waiting until sunrise to complete their search of the factory. They warned that the number of casualties could rise.
"They have managed to control the fire in most parts of the factory, but the warehouse is still burning," he said. "The bodies are charred beyond recognition."
Police officer Ameer Hossain told the Daily Star that nine bodies had been recovered. Other accounts put the toll at 10.
Clothing makes up around three-quarters of Bangladesh's total exports, and the factory collapse prompted protests and calls for improved safety measures.
Dozens of international retailers agreed a plan last July to conduct inspections at factories from which their goods were sourced.
A council in the Republic of Ireland has decided new laws are needed to clean up its parks - and the mouths of park users.
Waterford City and County Council is not just cracking down on litter and anti-social behaviour.
It has banned cursing in a bid to prevent the air around its green spaces from turning blue.
New byelaws have put the stopper in any shouts of Fr Jack's favourite phrases.
The move is reminiscent of Craggy Island's most famous residents' attempts to give up various vices for Lent.
Drinking, smoking and rollerblading are all strictly banned from the park. Even vaping, or using e-cigarettes, is not allowed.
Likewise, barbequing, flower picking and flying model aeroplanes are illegal.
According to the new laws, anyone caught indulging in the above, perhaps while swearing up a storm, is liable to get slapped with a 1270 euro (£900) fine and kicked out of the park, Bishop Brennan style.
So is Waterford set to put a legislative bleep on public expletives or is it just a flippant attempt to get people to park their potty mouths?
Councillor Lola O'Sullivan says it's more about the spirit, rather than the letter, of the law.
"The 'no cursing' rule is creating a lot of headlines," she said. "But that law has come about simply because you might have a group of teenagers who are in the park and are loud and using bad language.
"In fact, it might be the only time they use bad language, because they are out of the house.
"So we want to put up a sign that says 'no cursing, no smoking' among other things.
"I know in other cities, including Belfast, they have signs in their parks with a list of rules and regulations. So it'll be like that.
"Waterford doesn't have any more anti-social behaviour problems than anywhere else - we just want to encourage people to be respectful in the parks."
The Fine Gael council member said the new byelaws came about because the amalgamation of two councils - Waterford City and Waterford County - required a review of the legislation.
It passed through council unanimously, she added, and "nobody mentioned" the no swearing law during a six-week public consultation.
Still, are these laws enforceable? And what about accusations that this is another instance of the 'nanny state' telling people how to behave?
"Well, look, you're not going to have people hiding behind bushes, trying to catch people out when they say the odd swear word," she said. "The police are not going to bring someone up to court over something like that."
She added that the laws are for extreme cases.
"Say you were to pick one flower from the park, and present it to your other half," she supposed. "It's no problem. But say you pick every flower you can carry and presented them to your work colleagues.
"Well, they'd love it, but you'd be in trouble then."
In fact, the councillor suggested a tongue-in-cheek additional measure that could be used to curb any gratuitous grubby language.
"We should consider using swear boxes at the entrances and exits of the parks, get people to donate for any curse words. Maybe that would help us keep the parks respectful."
One labelled the findings a "pile of rubbish" while another said it was a "horrific message" to put out.
The research, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggested the overweight were less likely to die prematurely than people with a "healthy" weight.
Being underweight or severely obese did cut life expectancy.
The researchers at the US National Centre for Health Statistics looked at 97 studies involving nearly 2.9 million people to compare death rates with Body Mass Index (BMI) - a way of measuring obesity using a person's weight and height.
A healthy BMI is considered to be above 18.5 and below 25. However, overweight people (with a BMI between 25 and 30) were 6% less likely to die early than those considered to have a healthy weight, the study reports.
Mildly obese people (BMI between 30 and 35) were no more likely to die prematurely than people with a healthy BMI.
The study said being "overweight was associated with significantly lower all-cause mortality".
Possible explanations included overweight people getting medical treatment, such as to control blood pressure, more quickly or the extra weight helping people survive being severely ill in hospital.
However, the researchers point out they looked only at deaths and not years spent free of ill-health.
On Tuesday, the Royal College of Physicians called for the UK to rethink the way it tackles obesity.
Prof John Wass, vice-president of the college, said: "Have you ever seen a 100-year-old human being who is overweight? The answer is you probably haven't."
He said the largest people will have died years before and pointed to health problems and higher levels of Type 2 diabetes.
"Huge pieces of evidence go against this, countless other studies point in the other direction."
Other experts criticised the research methods.
"Some portion of those thin people are actually sick, and sick people tend to die sooner," according to Donald Berry, from the University of Texas
Dr Walter Willett, from the Harvard School of Public Health said: "This is an even greater pile of rubbish" than a study conducted by the same group in 2005.
Tam Fry, from the National Obesity Forum in the UK, said: "It's a horrific message to put out at this particular time.
"We shouldn't take it for granted that we can cancel the gym, that we can eat ourselves to death with black forest gateaux."
Three properties fell into the sea at Hemsby and four more were "seriously undermined" in the east coast storms.
Ray Mooney, who was inside his home as the storm hit, said: "I heard a crash and the whole back part of the floor caved in. Everything went down."
He said he was assessing the damage but expected the property to be either demolished or washed out to sea.
"This is my only asset," he said. "That's it, I haven't got anything else.
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"I had just done the house up to sell but now I have nothing. I'm homeless."
Great Yarmouth Borough Council said seven homes at The Marrams in Hemsby were affected.
"Three properties were lost down the cliff edge last night, and the other four properties are seriously undermined," a council spokesman said.
"The council's housing officers are currently on site and will talk to affected families about whether they need temporary accommodation."
Steve Connelly, 54, and his wife Jackie, 64, managed to rescue their three-month-old kittens Tom and Jerry before their home nearby was also destroyed.
By Jo BlackBBC News
The beach at Hemsby is unusually busy today. Alongside the sound of crashing waves you can hear the 'click click' of camera phones. The homes which were damaged by last night's tidal surge have either dropped off the cliff onto the beach or are dangling precariously. Around seven houses have been hit in this way, the structures have been photographed by hundreds of people and no doubt posted to audiences worldwide.
Residents here were in the local pub last night raising funds for better sea defences when they realised just how badly they'd been hit by the storm. Steve Connelly and his wife Jackie said their house vanished "in minutes".
Neighbours quickly formed a human chain and passed the Connellys' belongings and their two kittens out of harm's way. The Connellys lived at their home for seven years and were planning to sell it. They're now homeless and not even sure they're covered by their insurance.
Emergency crews continue to bustle around the village checking people and properties are safe. Concerned residents run errands and shifts boxes trying to help their less fortunate neighbours in any way they can. In the local pub, a tray of mince pies does the rounds and a huge pot of soup is constantly topped up to feed the volunteers. "We've all come together" one local man tells me, "It's what we do!"
Mr Connelly, who bought the two-bedroom bungalow for £59,000, said: "We were in the pub when we heard the cliff was going so rushed to get what we could out."
He said residents formed a chain to help them rescue furniture and some belongings.
"People we've never even met were helping out, it was amazing.
"Suddenly we heard a shout 'it's going, it's going' and we watched our kitchen get ripped apart. The whole house collapsed before our eyes.
"We're devastated at what we've lost but at least me, Jackie and the kittens are safe."
The land on which the homes stood, 30ft (9m) above the shore, has been washed into the sea.
The seven families have been given emergency accommodation.
In Cromer, part of the sea wall collapsed and the pier was closed for safety reasons.
Much of this had crashed on to Cromer Pier, breaking slates on walkways into pieces.
The Coastwatch station at East Runton had to be abandoned after the cliff on which it stood collapsed.
Secretary Ian Arnold said: "All of a sudden the cliff gave way and all that was left was the fence hanging over the waves."
Thousands of people spent the night in emergency centres after leaving their homes because of the weather.
Waves pounded the coast, bringing down many sections of cliff from Hunstanton in the north west of Norfolk to Hemsby in the south.
Two more peak tides are expected in the next 36 hours.
The power went off on South Quay in King's Lynn and parts of the town were left underwater.
Firefighters rescued several people from floods in King's Lynn, Bacton and Walcott.
Many homes have lost electricity because of flooding or high winds bringing down supply cables and engineers have been working to reconnect them where possible.
In other developments in Norfolk:
November's attacks across the French capital killed 130 people, with three suicide bombers dying in blasts outside the stadium as France played Germany.
The Euro 2016 hosts play their first home match since the incident when they meet Russia on Tuesday.
"You don't forget, but you have to move forward," said Deschamps.
France captain Hugo Lloris added: "It's important to return to the Stade de France to find our point of reference and confidence."
Security at the national stadium will also be on high alert following last week's Brussels attacks which left 35 dead.
"We have to have confidence in the security officials," said Tottenham goalkeeper Lloris.
"We have to continue to live and to live our passion together, it's important."
Deschamps will watch his team in action for the final time before naming his 23-man Euro 2016 squad.
"We've only had friendlies for the past two years, but I've repeated to all the players, it is up to them to seize their chances and to give their all for themselves and the team," said France's 1998 World Cup-winning captain.
"They have nothing to lose and everything to win."
France have been drawn alongside Romania, Albania and Switzerland in Group A. Russia are in Group B with England, Wales and Slovakia.
All traffic including buses and cars will be banned from the office and shopping district as part of the government's plans to tackle air pollution and congestion in the city.
Park and ride cycle services will be offered to visitors to the area.
Tens of thousands of people visit Connaught Place every day.
The area is part of colonial-era Delhi, often called Lutyens Delhi after the British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, who designed many of the government buildings and graceful bungalows that are now occupied by senior officials.
It is also one of India's most famous commercial and shopping districts, but often remains gridlocked because of rising traffic.
Officials say the three-month-long "pedestrianisation" of the area will test "traffic circulation, the experience of pedestrians and shop owners, management of reclaimed parking lots and traffic load" in the area.
People will be able to reach the area either by metro or by using park and ride bicycles and battery operated vehicles from surrounding areas during the trial.
Dr Bart van Es says the turning point for Shakespeare's writing career was when he became a shareholder in a theatre company.
It meant that he had much more control over his plays than other writers.
"This separated Shakespeare from the world of the jobbing playwright," says Dr van Es.
In 1594, Shakespeare bought a share in the Lord Chamberlain's Men theatre company, which Dr van Es describes as a "daring decision".
It was an unprecedented step for an Elizabethan author to take a stake in the ownership of of a theatre company and it put Shakespeare in a "unique position", compared with his literary contemporaries, claims Dr van Es, from Oxford's faculty of language and literature.
It made Shakespeare much richer, but it also gave him much more freedom over his writing and allowed him to innovate.
Until this point, says Dr van Es, Shakespeare had been on the path of a "conventional playwright", supplementing writing with some acting, depending on the patronage of the wealthy and having to accept that his work could be re-written and adapted by other people.
Dr van Es says Shakespeare would probably have borrowed the money to buy his eighth share in the theatre company, but his financial timing was as successful as his dramatic timing.
The Elizabethan theatre proved to be extremely lucrative and Shakespeare was able to take a share of the profits. In such a moment "fortunes are made," says Dr van Es, a fellow of St Catherine's College.
Instead of acting out a caricature of a starving author, Shakespeare was now able to buy property and lend other people money.
This also changed the trajectory of his writing, says Dr van Es, whose research has been published in a book, Shakespeare in Company.
He had the financial security to develop his own literary voice and themes and no longer had the "breadline existence" of having to compromise to meet the whims of rich sponsors.
This close relationship with one theatre company allowed him to develop characters for particular favourite actors, giving him much more artistic control over how the plays might be performed.
"Shakespeare is known as the first playwright with deep, distinctive characterisation and I believe he developed this because of his relationships with the company's principal actors," says Dr van Es.
He also says that surviving play manuscripts from the Elizabethan era show how much scripts were likely to be changed.
He likens it to the way a Hollywood film might be very different from the original script - and that Shakespeare was unusual in getting control of the production process.
His financial stake in the theatre also meant that as well as impressing a fashionable aristocratic audience he also had to make sure that the plays had a popular appeal to keep the crowds coming back.
"He was writing for a mass audience, but also for the court," says Dr van Es. The outcome he says is the "high-low hybrid" that characterises his plays.
This new way of looking at the playwright's career - from treading the boards to the board room - also shows how different Shakespeare was from his contemporaries, says Dr van Es.
"There is no one else like Shakespeare in his income and control," he says.
Some 53% of those who joined a recent star count failed to see more than 10 stars in the Orion constellation.
That had decreased only very slightly from 54% since 2007, the Campaign to Protect Rural England and the Campaign for Dark Skies said.
The problem remained despite attempts to curb street lighting, they said.
They said that in 2010, local authorities collectively spent more than £500m on street lighting, accounting for 5% to 10% of each council's carbon emissions.
A number of councils have tested schemes to switch off or dim street lights when they are not needed, although the trials have often proved controversial with residents.
The information was gathered as part of the annual Star Count survey, which was held across two weeks in January and February this year.
Almost 1,000 people in different locations around the country took part.
Participants were instructed to pick a clear night to count the number of stars in the constellation of Orion.
Fewer than one in 10 said they could see between 21 and 30 stars, and just 2% of people had truly dark skies, seeing 31 or more stars.
Emma Marrington, a rural policy campaigner for the CPRE, says: "When we saturate the night sky with unnecessary light, it damages the character of the countryside and blurs the distinction between town and country.
"But this isn't just about a spectacular view of the stars; light pollution can also disrupt wildlife and affect people's sleeping patterns."
Bob Mizon of the CfDS believes light pollution is a disaster for anyone trying to study the stars.
"It's like a veil of light is being drawn across the night sky, denying many people the beauty of a truly starry night.
"Many children growing up today will never see the Milky Way; never see the unimaginable glory of billions of visible stars shining above them," he said.
For the first time, national guidance has been issued by the government, to encourage local planning authorities to reduce light pollution through design improvements.
The National Planning Policy Framework, published at the end of March, states that by encouraging good design, planning policies and decisions "should limit the impact of light pollution from artificial light on local amenity, intrinsically dark landscapes and nature conservation".
Ms Marrington from the CPRE welcomed the move, saying poor excuses for bad or excessive lighting were heard too often.
"Of course we need the right, well-designed lighting in the right places - and some areas need to be lit for safety reasons - but there should not be a blanket assumption that glaring lights are needed.
"The evidence gathered during this year's Star Count Week shows that we need to take action now to roll back the spread of light pollution."
The Local Government Association, which represents councils, said local authorities were "well ahead of the game on this issue".
"Over the past two years scores of local authorities up and down the country have been trialling the switching off and dimming of street lights late at night in quieter areas," it said.
However, it added, public safety had to come first and councils would not cut lighting if a large number of people were strongly opposed to the idea and there were genuine safety concerns.
It added: "There is also a role for businesses to play in ensuring glaring lights and neon signs that light up the night sky are not left on unnecessarily."
The 49-year-old, who won six Grand Slams between 1985 and 1996, will take up the new role immediately, the German federation (DTB) announced.
Becker was also Davis Cup coach for Germany from 1997 to 1999.
"In this position he will be in charge of the entire men's game," Ulrich Klaus, the president of the DTB, told a news conference.
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Becker had a successful spell coaching former world number one Novak Djokovic from 2013 to 2016, a period in which the Serb won six of his 12 Grand Slam titles.
However, Becker was declared bankrupt by a court in London in June after failing to pay a long-standing debt to UK-based private bankers since 2015.
He was accused of illegally downloading academic documents using MIT networks.
MIT president L Rafael Reif said in an email that university employees' names would be blacked out for their safety.
Lawyers for Mr Swartz's estate filed a motion in a US federal court last week, requesting the documents' release.
The documents will be released at the same time as the findings of an internal inquiry into the university's role in the case, led by computer science professor Hal Abelson.
Mr Reif wrote: "In the time since Aaron Swartz's suicide, we have seen a pattern of harassment and personal threats," .
"In this volatile atmosphere, I have the responsibility to protect the privacy and safety of those members of our community who have become involved in this matter in the course of doing their jobs for MIT, and to ensure a safe environment for all of us who call MIT home."
According to MIT, more than 70GB of data were downloaded from JStor, a subscription service for academic journals.
If convicted, Mr Swartz, 26, could have faced up to 35 years in prison and a fine of more than $1m (£630,000).
Mr Swartz's family says the actions of both MIT and the Massachusetts US Attorney's office contributed to his death.
"Aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach," they said in an earlier statement.
They said it would take place in the second half of the parliamentary term and it did on 18 September 2014.
Party leaders used to describe this as a "once in a generation" or even a "once in a lifetime" event. They no longer do.
They reserve the right to ask the independence question again much sooner than that.
As the referendum anniversary approaches, Nicola Sturgeon is promising to set out in her 2016 Holyrood manifesto "the circumstances and the timescale" for a re-run.
But don't expect the sort of unequivocal commitment the SNP gave in 2011.
Instead, expect scenarios that could trigger a ballot, such as a UK vote to leave the EU in which Scotland has voted to stay in.
In any event, Ms Sturgeon does not want to hold another referendum unless she is sure of winning.
That means that opinion polls would need to be consistently suggesting majority support for independence.
Ms Sturgeon thinks this is more likely to happen if the new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is unable to establish himself as a prime minister in waiting.
If Labour don't appear to have a credible chance of winning the next general election, the SNP leader said "many more people in Scotland are likely to conclude that independence is the only alternative to continued Tory government".
It is perhaps that kind of thinking that led the former boss of the Yes Scotland campaign for independence, Blair Jenkins, to suggest a second referendum in 2021.
By then we'd know the outcome of the next UK general election and the SNP would be able to seek a mandate for a referendum in their 2021 Holyrood manifesto.
Meanwhile, there will be no shortage of suggestions from independence supporters for scenarios that Ms Sturgeon should say could trigger an earlier vote.
For example, her predecessor as SNP leader and first minister, Alex Salmond, has said that renewing the Trident fleet of nuclear armed submarines could be a reason.
That decision is due to be taken at Westminster next year. But, despite opposition from the SNP, Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour MPs who follow his lead, there is still likely to be a large majority for renewal.
In other words, to make Trident a trigger would be to all but promise a second referendum.
Which is precisely why Ms Sturgeon is unlikely to endorse the Salmond plan.
At the risk of repetition, she wants to keep her options open and to hold another vote only when she is confident of victory.
The Regius Professorships, rare honours granted by the sovereign, celebrate the key role of research in driving growth and productivity.
Only two were granted in the 20th Century, but the Queen created 12 for her Diamond Jubilee in 2012.
Universities are invited to compete for the new awards. No funding is attached.
In the past, Regius Professorships were created when a university chair was founded or endowed by a royal patron.
Before 2012, they were limited to a handful of the ancient universities, namely Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Trinity College, Dublin.
The Diamond Jubilee awards expanded to include academics at another 12 universities in 2012.
The title of Regius Professor was held by the late historian Hugh Trevor-Roper and the 18th-Century poet Thomas Gray.
Universities Minister Jo Johnson said: "The UK's exceptional research and innovation capability is crucial to powering our economy and improving millions of lives.
"These new Regius Professorships will recognise the academic excellence and real-world impact of university research across the country."
The female, ringed as KL, has successfully mated with an unringed male at the nest at Bassenthwaite.
The Lake District Osprey Project said the pair had produced a full clutch of three eggs, but one was not strong enough to make it out of the shell.
A spokesman said it was "delighted" they had returned for the third year.
Ospreys returned to the Lakes District in 2001, after an absence of more than 150 years.
Over the last 15 years of the monitoring project, more than 30 chicks have been raised at the nest.
A team of more than 100 volunteers provides a 24-hour guard at the site and crowds of people visit specially-created viewpoints to catch sight of the birds.
Live images from the nest are also being beamed to a big screen at the nearby Whinlatter visitor centre.
The 59-year-old home secretary's carefully cultivated image of political dependability and unflappability appears to have made her the right person at the right time as the fallout from the UK's vote to leave the EU smashed possible rivals out of contention.
Long known to have nurtured leadership hopes, Mrs May - whose friends recall her early ambition to be the UK's first female PM - could have reasonably expected to have had to wait until at least 2018 to have a shot at Downing Street.
But the EU referendum which David Cameron called and lost - the year after leading the party to its first election win in 23 years - turned political certainties on their head and, as other candidates fell by the wayside after the PM's own resignation, Mrs May emerged as the "unity" candidate to succeed him.
That her party should rally round her at such a time of national uncertainty is testament not only to the respect in which she is held across the party but to the fact that, in a world where political reputations can be shredded in an instant, Mrs May is the ultimate political survivor.
In the early days at Westminster she became known for her exuberant choice of footwear - her kitten heels became famous in political circles in the noughties, while she named a lifetime subscription to Vogue as the luxury item she would take to a desert island.
But it is her toughness which has become her political hallmark. She has coped with being one of only a small number of women in the upper echelons of the Conservative Party for 17 years and has been prepared to tell her party some hard truths - famously informing activists at the 2002 conference that "you know what some people call us - the nasty party".
Who is Theresa May?
Even before entering Downing Street, she made history by becoming the second longest serving home secretary in the past 100 years.
The daughter of a Church of England vicar, Hubert, who died from injuries sustained in a car crash when she was only 25, Theresa May's middle class background has more in keeping with the last female occupant of Downing Street, Margaret Thatcher, than her immediate predecessor.
Born in Sussex but raised largely in Oxfordshire, Mrs May - both of whose grandmothers are reported to have been in domestic service - attended a state primary, an independent convent school and then a grammar school in the village of Wheatley, which became the Wheatley Park Comprehensive School during her time there.
The young Theresa Brasier, as she was then, threw herself into village life, taking part in a pantomime that was produced by her father and working in the bakery on Saturdays to earn pocket money.
Friends recall a tall, fashion-conscious young woman who from an early age spoke of her ambition to be the first woman prime minister.
Like Margaret Thatcher, she went to Oxford University to study and, like so many others of her generation, found that her personal and political lives soon became closely intertwined.
In 1976, in her third year, she met her husband Philip, who was president of the Oxford Union, a well-known breeding ground for future political leaders.
The story has it that they were introduced at a Conservative Association disco by the subsequent Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto. They married in 1980.
Her university friend Pat Frankland, speaking in 2011 on a BBC Radio 4 profile of the then home secretary, said: "I cannot remember a time when she did not have political ambitions.
"I well remember, at the time, that she did want to become the first woman prime minister and she was quite irritated when Margaret Thatcher got there first."
There are no tales of drunken student revelry, but Pat Frankland and other friends say May was not the austere figure she would later come to be seen as, saying she had a sense of fun and a full social life.
After graduating with a degree in Geography, May went to work in the City, initially starting work at the Bank of England and later rising to become head of the European Affairs Unit of the Association for Payment Clearing Services.
But it was already clear that she saw her future in politics. She was elected as a local councillor in Merton, south London, and served her ward for a decade, rising to become deputy leader. However, she was soon setting her sights even higher.
Mrs May, who has become a confidante as well as role model for aspiring female MPs - told prospective candidates before the 2015 election that "there is always a seat out there with your name on it".
In her case - like that of Margaret Thatcher - it took a bit of time for her to find hers. She first dipped her toe in the water in 1992, where she stood in the safe Labour seat of North West Durham, coming a distant second to Hilary Armstrong, who went on to become Labour's chief whip in the Blair government. Her fellow candidates in that contest also included a very youthful Tim Farron, who is now Lib Dem leader.
Two years later, she stood in Barking, east London, in a by-election where - with the Conservative government at the height of its unpopularity - she got fewer than 2,000 votes and saw her vote share dip more than 20%. But her luck was about to change.
The Conservatives' electoral fortunes may have hit a nadir in 1997, when Tony Blair came to power in a Labour landslide, but there was a silver lining for the party and for the aspiring politician when she won the seat of Maidenhead in Berkshire. It's a seat she has held ever since.
An early advocate of Conservative "modernisation" in the wilderness years that followed, Mrs May quickly joined the shadow cabinet in 1999 under William Hague as shadow education secretary and in 2002 she became the party's first female chairman under Iain Duncan Smith.
She then held a range of senior posts under Michael Howard but was conspicuously not part of the "Notting Hill set" which grabbed control of the party after its third successive defeat in 2005 and laid David Cameron and George Osborne's path to power.
This was perhaps reflected in the fact that she was initially given the rather underwhelming job of shadow leader of the House of Commons. But she gradually raised her standing and by 2009 had become shadow work and pensions secretary.
Nevertheless, her promotion to the job of home secretary when the Conservatives joined with the Lib Dems to form the first coalition government in 70 years was still something of a surprise - given that Chris Grayling had been shadowing the brief in opposition.
While the Home Office turned out to be the political graveyard of many a secretary of state in previous decades, Mrs May refused to let this happen - mastering her brief with what was said to be a microscopic attention to detail and no little willingness to enter into battles with fellow ministers when she thought it necessary.
While some in Downing Street worried that the Home Office was becoming her own personal fiefdom, she engendered loyalty among her ministers and was regarded as "unmovable" as her tough-talking style met with public approval even when the department's record did not always seem so strong.
In his memoir of his time in office, former Lib Dem minister David Laws says: "She would frequently clash with George Osborne over immigration. She rarely got on anything but badly with Michael Gove. She and Cameron seemed to view each other with mutual suspicion.
"I first met her in 2010. I was sitting in my Treasury office, overlooking St James's Park, me in one armchair and the home secretary in the other, with no officials present. She looked nervous.
"I felt she was surprised to find herself as home secretary. Frankly, I didn't expect her to last more than a couple of years."
Despite her liberal instincts in some policy areas, she frequently clashed with the then deputy prime minister and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, particularly over her plan to increase internet surveillance to combat terrorism, dubbed the "Snooper's Charter" by the Lib Dems.
After one "difficult" meeting with Mr Clegg, he reportedly told David Laws: "You know, I've grown to rather like Theresa May... 'She's a bit of an Ice Maiden and has no small talk whatsoever - none. I have quite difficult meetings with her. Cameron once said, 'She's exactly like that with me too!'
"She is instinctively secretive and very rigid, but you can be tough with her and she'll go away and think it all through again."
On the plus side crime levels fell, the UK avoided a mass terrorist attack and in 2013, she successfully deported radical cleric Abu Qatada - something she lists as one of her proudest achievements, along with preventing the extradition to America of computer hacker Gary McKinnon.
She was not afraid to take on vested interests, stunning the annual conference of the Police Federation in 2014 by telling them corruption problems were not just limited to "a few bad apples" and threatening to end the federation's automatic right to enrol officers as its members.
However, the Passport Office suffered a near meltdown while she has faced constant criticism over the government's failure to meet its promise to get net migration down to below 100,000 a year.
Labour MP Yvette Cooper, who went up against her in the Commons as shadow home secretary, told The Guardian: "I respect her style - it is steady and serious. She is authoritative in parliament - superficial attacks on her bounce off.
"The flip side is that she is not fleet of foot when crises build, she digs in her heels (remember the Passport Agency crisis in 2014 when the backlog caused hundreds to miss their holidays, and the Border Force crisis in 2011 when border checks were axed).
"And she hides when things go wrong. No interviews, no quotes, nothing to reassure people or to remind people she even exists. It's helped her survive as home secretary - but if you are prime minister, eventually the buck has to stop."
There was a bitter public row with cabinet colleague Michael Gove over the best way to combat Islamist extremism, which ended with Mr Gove having to apologise to the prime minister and Mrs May having to sack a long-serving special adviser - a turf war which is said to have led to a diminution in her admiration for the prime minister.
Key policies:
Where she stands on Brexit: Theresa May has insisted "Brexit means Brexit" and there will be no second referendum on the issue. She says official talks on leaving, which will begin when the UK triggers the so-called Article 50, won't begin until the end of 2016 at earliest. She has insisted the status of EU nationals in the UK won't change until a new "legal agreement" is reached but has yet to give a guarantee on their status. She says the best deal is needed to trade with the EU in goods and services but more control is needed to lower immigration.
Other policies: Theresa May has pledged a shake-up of boardroom ethics as part of which workers will be guaranteed representation on company boards while shareholders votes on executive pay deals will be made binding every year.
What the press say: "In a political party that struggles to shake off its elitist, old Etonian, yah-boo-sucks reputation, May represents a different kind of politician: a calm headmistress in a chamber full of over-excitable public schoolboys. She holds herself at one remove... her obdurate stance has earned her some vociferous critics. There are those who claim that, while she takes care never to sully her own hands with the grubby business of political backstabbing, she will send out her team to issue ferocious briefings against her rivals." The Guardian.
Former Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke also had run-ins with her and was recorded on camera ahead of an interview last week saying that Mrs May was good at her job but a "bloody difficult woman" - before adding as an aside, a bit like Mrs Thatcher. A reference to be Conservative leader can hardly come better than that.
Mrs May has never been one of the most clubbable of politicians and is someone who prefers not having to tour the tea rooms of the House of Commons - where tittle-tattle is freely exchanged.
She has rarely opened up about her private life although she revealed in 2013 that she had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and would require insulin injections twice a day for the rest of her life - something she says she had come to terms with and which would not affect her career.
Generally thought to be in the mainstream of Conservative thinking on most economic and law and order issues, she has also challenged convention by attacking police stop and search powers and calling for a probe into the application of Sharia Law in British communities.
She also expressed a personal desire to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights but later said she would not pursue this as PM due to a lack of parliamentary support - an example of what many believe will be pragmatism in office.
Her social attitudes are slightly harder to pin down. She backed same sex marriage. She expressed a personal view in 2012 that the legal limit on abortion should be lowered from 24 to 20 weeks. Along with most Conservative MPs she voted against an outright ban on foxhunting.
What is undisputable is that at 59, Mrs May will be oldest leader to enter Downing Street since James Callaghan in 1976 and will be the first prime minister since Ted Heath who does not have children.
One of Westminster's shrewdest as well as toughest operators, Mrs May's decision to campaign for the UK to remain in the EU but to do so in an understated way and to frame her argument in relatively narrow security terms reaped dividends after the divisive campaign.
During what turned out to be a short-lived leadership campaign, Mrs May played strongly on her weight of experience, judgement and reliability in a time of crisis.
While her wider political appeal is, as yet, untested, Mrs May will not have to face a general election until May 2020 unless she decides to seek a fresh mandate - something she has seemingly ruled out.
While the early years of Mrs May's time in Downing Street may be dominated by the process of divorcing the UK from the EU and the deal she will be able to strike, she has also insisted she won't be content with the "safe pair of hands" tag that is often attached to her.
Brexit, she has said, won't be allowed purely to define her time in office and she has promised a radical programme of social reform, underpinned by values of One Nation Toryism, to promote social mobility and opportunity for the more disadvantaged in society.
But with a slender parliamentary majority of 17 and a nation still riven by divisions over the EU referendum and anxiety over the future, she will face as tough a task, some say even tougher, than any of her recent predecessors in Downing Street.
The growth figure was slightly lower than expected but the first quarter data was revised up.
The Dow Jones dipped by 6.7 points to 17,751.29 points.
The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged at 2,108.57, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 17 points to 5,128.79 points.
Consumer products company Procter & Gamble lost 4%, and was the biggest loser on the Dow Jones, after reporting an 80% fall in quarterly earnings to $521m on lower sales and an one-off charge in Venezuela.
Food company Mondelez International jumped 5% after earnings surprised on the upside.
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Of the 62 centuries he has compiled so far in first-class and one-day cricket, it would probably mean most to the Warwickshire captain if just one of them had been in a Test at Edgbaston.
But, in 55 matches, he is still to make one in Twenty20 cricket too.
"To get a T20 ton is one of my ambitions, absolutely," said Bell, ahead of Friday's Birmingham Bears T20 Blast home game against Durham.
In eight attempts for England, prior to his retirement from all international limited-over cricket last summer, his best knock was an unbeaten 60 against New Zealand at Old Trafford in 2008.
But, of his six T20 half-centuries for the Bears, the most recent was on Friday in the home defeat by Worcestershire - and the two best have both been against Durham.
Warwickshire lost their most recent meeting with Durham - the north-east side's four-wicket win against the Bears at Edgbaston last week. But Bell enjoys T20 meetings with them.
In his only two T20 meetings with Durham, he made 85 in 47 balls in a Warwickshire home defeat at Edgbaston in 2010, bettering that with a match-winning 90 from 65 balls in last summer's Bears' win at Chester-le-Street.
It was an innings that stood for all of 27 days as the best by a Bears batsman until Brendon McCullum smashed 158 not out off 64 balls against Derbyshire at Edgbaston last July, the highest-ever domestic T20 score.
"I enjoyed that 90 up at the Riverside," said Bell. "It was nice to have the top T20 score for the Bears, at least for a little while before Brendon came in and showed why he is the world's best T20 player.
"That's still the only T20 hundred for us and it would be great for one of the homegrown guys, who have come through the system here at Edgbaston, to get a ton. I'm sure it's only a matter of time."
After being outshone by 92 from fellow opener Sam Hain in the Bears' opening six-wicket T20 Blast win over Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge, Bell hit an attractive 66 against Worcestershire at Edgbaston last Friday.
But, despite hitting five four and two sixes in his 57-ball knock, Bell's Bears were beaten in the final over by their local rivals.
And, with Chris Woakes back from England Test duty, they will now look to make amends against a Durham side who rallied from their opening night Tom Kohler-Cadmore-inspired battering at Worcester to beat T20 champions Lancashire a week later.
"Of course it was disappointing to lose," said 34-year-old Bell, who remains hopeful of a Test recall before the end of the summer.
"But one game doesn't change a lot. There were some good points and the experience the young guys picked up will be invaluable.
"Worcestershire are a good side. They bat very deep and are one of the strongest sides in the group. Fair play to them for the way we played against us but we will come back hard against Durham."
Music producer Raymond Stevenson, physically abused during his time at the Shirley Oaks home in the 70s, met a childhood friend last year who revealed he'd been raped at the institution. Within a few months, the Shirley Oaks Survivors Association (SOSA) was hundreds strong.
"At the very first meeting I can remember there was lots of hugging lots of crying - it was really we are together now, they can't harm us again," Stevenson recalls. "No lies can penetrate our lives because we feel we were going to reveal the truth."
The south London production office, from where Stevenson promoted music stars like Jessie J, now looks more like a police incident room. A map on the wall includes details of allegations from hundreds of former residents, suggesting physical, sexual and emotional abuse was routine at many of the houses on the 72-acre Shirley Oaks site.
"We have been in contact with over 300 people and the stories we are getting are just horrific," Stevenson says. "Every time we interview someone and hear about what happened to them, it brings tears to our eyes. Reliving some of the horrors they went through again hasn't been easy."
There have been two major police investigations into abuse at children's homes in South London and three people including a swimming instructor, William Hook, have been convicted of offences relating to Shirley Oaks.
Another operation is currently on-going, but SOSA have lost faith in the authorities who they claim have covered-up the true scale of abuse at Shirley Oaks. "We don't trust them and that's why we have decided to do this campaign ourselves," Stevenson explains.
The Shirley Oaks campaigners are part of a wider phenomenon - a "survivor" activism that is changing the balance of power in relation to child abuse. Where once victims were ignored or silenced, now they are coming together, often through social media, forming support groups and building a crescendo of noise that the authorities are forced to acknowledge.
A couple of weeks ago, dozens of former Shirley Oaks residents crowded into a Lambeth council meeting - the authority which ran the home until its closure in the mid-1980s. Councillor after councillor spoke of their shame at what had been allowed to happen to children in their care.
"I feel angry, genuinely appalled and truly sad to be the leader of a council, Lambeth Council, that in the past enabled such terrible acts of abuse, against some of our young people", council leader Lib Peck told the meeting as victims in the public gallery clapped.
Among them was the award-winning author Alex Wheatle who has written about the sexual abuse he suffered as a child at Shirley Oaks.
"We have not come here, to go to war with the council, we have come here to gain your support," Wheatle told the meeting.
Afterwards he reflected on how far the campaign had come. "It was so strengthening to see my brothers and sisters who I grew up with, one by one, presenting their case, presenting their stories," he said. "You know, I've got such a love for them right now I just want to hug everyone right now ... how brave are they?"
The Shirley Oaks association is doing more than compiling evidence. It is using music to press its case. A song entitled "Don't Touch It - It's Mine" includes personal testimony from victims.
"I was abused mentally, physically emotionally and violently," the track begins. "Of the original 16 of us, 12 have killed themselves," another haunting voice relates as a video shows child actors playing around what were the Shirley Oaks buildings.
"We not going to be told lies anymore," Stevenson explains. "We are not going to leave it in the hands of lawyers, politicians or council officials to tell us what happened to us. We want to discover it ourselves and we know music and dance and poetry are ways that can tell a greater story."
The Shirley Oaks Survivors Association is considering whether to give its dossier of evidence to the independent Goddard inquiry but they do believe, whatever happens, the tables have turned.
"There was a bond between us and that has come to haunt these people, those who done it," Raymond Stevenson says. "It is the unity of the Shirley Oaks 'massive' as we call ourselves, and the other children's homes coming together, that has built this power base and we are unstoppable."
Crazy, strange and unsteady are a few of the adjectives used as pundits try to work out what a Trump foreign policy might look like, though one Israeli newspaper seems reassured.
Several German commentators admit to being flummoxed by the speech. "It's not very easy to follow him," writes Der Spiegel's Washington correspondent, Veit Medick.
The candidate's comments can "hardly be called a coherent plan", he adds.
Die Welt's Clemens Wergin sees Mr Trump as a security risk, saying his speech confirmed many experts' view that "we are dealing with an unsteady character".
France's business daily Les Echos asks whether the speech is "a return to isolationism", reporting that Mr Trump wants to point the US in "a less interventionist direction".
The speech also makes the front page of the Spanish daily, El Pais.
Washington correspondent Marc Bassets says Mr Trump's foreign policy doctrine could be summed up as a mix of "isolationism, realpolitik and militarism".
Two heavyweight US papers are unimpressed with the speech, with The New York Times headlining its scathing editorial: "Donald Trump's Strange World View."
It argues that he "did not exhibit much grasp of the complexity of the world, understanding of the balance or exercise of power, or even a careful reading of history."
In the Washington Post, Dana Milbank writes about "Trump's crazy attempt not to sound crazy".
"Trump did not offer more detail on how he would 'bring peace to the world,' but he gave strongman promises that everything would be fine", he laments.
"Perhaps the most unnerving promise Trump made was his determination to be erratic", he continues.
"On this vow, Trump has already made good - and that's just the problem."
Nahum Barnea, writing in Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth, says Mr Trump "took his foreign policy inspiration from the Westerns" and calls it "cowboy diplomacy".
Boaz Bismuth has a different view in Yisrael Hayom, calling the speech "firm, focused".
"Trump wants a decent, strong, loyal America, but he is also not a sucker. And he sees in Israel the most loyal ally of the United States," he writes.
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The incident happened on a footpath between Crimon Place at St Mary's Cathedral and Huntly Street on Monday afternoon.
Laura Crookston, 22, of Aberdeen, was charged with assault and robbery at the city's sheriff court.
She made no plea and was released on bail.
Ken Robinson has told his constituency association in East Antrim that he would not be putting his name forward for next years assembly elections.
On 20 September UUP MLA Robert Coulter announced his retirement from the Assembly.
Mr Coulter is currently the second oldest member of the Assembly after Ian Paisley.
Would You Still Love Me If... tells the story of a lesbian couple with a baby on the way, one of whom is considering gender reassignment surgery.
Turner, famous for her roles in Peggy Sue Got Married and Prizzi's Honor, plays the mother to one of the women.
The Oscar-nominee previously starred as Charles Bing, Chandler's cross-dressing father, in the sitcom Friends.
Would You Still Love Me If... was written by John S Anastasi and co-stars Rebecca Brooksher and Sofia Jean. Grammy nominated singer Deborah Cox also appears in the role of a doctor.
Anastasi, a little-known playwright from Pennsylvania, said Turner put herself forward for the role after his casting director put out a call for actors.
The actress, also known as the voice of Jessica Rabbit, had once expressed interest in directing one of his plays and, although that did not pan out, she was keen to work on his latest project.
The writer told the New York Times that Would You Still Love Me If... was inspired by the film Blue Is The Warmest Colour, a coming-of-age romance starring Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos.
"I was moved by the relationship of these two women, and was pondering if there was anything that could change their love. For some reason, it crossed my mind - what if one of them decided they wanted to physically change? That was the germ of the idea."
Previews begin on 26 September at New World Stages in New York, with the opening night set for 10 October.
According to former financial director Donald McIntyre, the size of the club's financial liabilities meant it would have been "remiss" not to do so.
Mr Whyte is accused of a fraudulent acquisition of Rangers.
The 46-year-old denies two charges relating to the purchase - one of fraud and another under the Companies Act.
Speaking from the witness box where he was giving evidence for a second day, Mr McIntyre discussed the financial obligations faced by Rangers in the months leading up to the sale of the club to Mr Whyte in May 2011.
He said Rangers faced a potential bill from HMRC of about £50m, which had been described as the "Big Tax Case".
Defence QC Donald Findlay called the debt a "nuclear missile" that was heading straight for Rangers.
He said it was "like an exocet, nothing could be done to stop it".
Mr McIntyre said Rangers board members had hoped to challenge the amount owed and that counsel at the time had suggested they had a very good chance in the case.
However, Mr Findlay put it to the witness that the tax bill was a "potentially terminal event" for the club.
The advocate asked when Mr McIntyre first knew "the board was discussing the possibility of administration" for Rangers.
Mr McIntyre said he could not be "specific of a date" but that the "subject would have cropped up" in 2010.
The court went on to hear about a meeting of Rangers directors in March 2011.
They discussed the money owed to HMRC and the possible impact for the club.
Mr Findlay put it to Mr McIntyre: "Rangers could not contemplate paying up that size of debt?"
Mr McIntyre agreed.
Later the jury was told that Rangers did go into administration "much later" but that it was "nothing to do" with the "Big Tax Case".
The trial also heard the claim that Rangers former owner Sir David Murray, who purchased the club in 1988, had described Mr Whyte's bid for the club as the "only show in town".
Mr Findlay put to Mr McIntyre: "Did it become abundantly clear that Murray would do virtually anything to secure the deal with Mr Whyte?"
Mr McIntyre responded: "I would not put it like that. I don't think a deal would have been done under any circumstance."
The defence advocate went on: "A deal was done under any circumstance...Rangers was bought for a pound."
Mr McIntyre added: "With commitments and obligations."
Mr Whyte is accused of pretending to former Rangers owner Sir David Murray, and others, that funds were available to make all required payments to acquire a "controlling and majority stake" in the club.
The funds included clearing the £18m bank debt, £2.8m for the "small tax case" liability, a £1.7m health-and-safety liability and £5m for the playing squad.
The Crown alleges Mr Whyte had only £4m available from two sources at the time but took out the £24m loan from Ticketus "which was held subject to an agreement or agreements being entered into between the club and Ticketus after said acquisition".
The second charge under the Companies Act centres on the £18m payment between Mr Whyte's Wavetower company and Rangers to clear a bank debt.
The trial before eight men and seven women continues.
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No first-time winner has successfully defended the World Championship at the venue, but the Essex potter sees no reason why he cannot end the hoodoo.
Bingham gets the showpiece event under way against Ali Carter on Saturday and wants to prove people wrong once again.
"I've still had people saying it was fluke," Bingham, 39, told BBC Sport
"But I would love to see people fluke beating Ronnie O'Sullivan, Judd Trump, Graeme Dott, and then Shaun Murphy in the final. That's obviously what you get; you get some haters.
"People wrote me off last year and said I couldn't win it, so who's to say I can't win it again?"
No sinking feeling
World number two Bingham beat Murphy to win the sport's biggest prize in 2015 and, almost a year on, he is still coming to terms with his life-changing victory.
"To be honest I don't think it has sunk in yet," the Basildon-born potter said.
"Graeme Dott [the 2006 world champion] said to me that it might be one of those that only does sink in when your career ends and you look back at what you have won and think 'wow'."
And even though Bingham has not won a tournament this season, being world champion has been "special" and he feels he has been getting back to his best in recent weeks.
He reached the semi-finals in the Shanghai Masters in the early stages of the season and the last four at the Masters in January, when he lost to Ronnie O'Sullivan.
A run to the final of the World Grand Prix last month saw him lose a final-frame thriller to Murphy and he then backed up that performance by making the last eight at the China Open.
"The last two or three tournaments I have felt like my game is there," Bingham added. "I showed some grit against Shaun and somehow got to 9-9. It shows I am in there and fighting.
"With the year I had the confidence isn't as high as I wanted it be but I am winning matches again."
Whatever happens in Sheffield, Bingham knows he has already joined a select club and that stepping out as reigning world champion at the Crucible will be another "fantastic" moment.
"I am looking forward to going back. I don't know how it will be walking out there and being introduced as world champion," he added.
"It will be a bit weird and there will be a big pressure. I will have emotions flying everywhere so I am just going to enjoy it like I did last year and see what happens.
"To get my name engraved on that trophy forever means more than the money."
Mr Issoufou took 48% of the vote, with jailed opposition leader Hama Amadou on 18%, official preliminary results say.
The run-off vote between the two candidates is scheduled for 20 March.
Mr Amadou is currently behind bars accused of trafficking babies, a charge he strongly denies.
President Issoufou is running for a second term.
The run-up to the vote was marred by accusations of repression and a row over identification documents.
The authorities announced that roughly 1.5 million people without ID papers would be able to cast their ballots by having witnesses vouch for them, in a move that was condemned by opposition leaders.
Niger is rich in natural resources, including uranium and oil, but is one of the poorest countries on Earth, ranking last in the UN Human Development Index.
Niger is seen as an important ally of Western powers in the fight against militant Islamists in the fragile Sahara region.
However, the country is far from stable. Corruption, food shortages and porous borders remain serious problems.
Gytis Griskevicius, 32, of St Ann's Lane, Boston, denies killing Marina Erte, 33, at her flat in Boston on 20 May 2016.
He is alleged to have beaten her before drowning her with a shower attachment and then setting fire to the flat.
Lincoln Crown Court was told the attack was motivated by jealousy at a new relationship Ms Erte had begun.
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Mr Griskevicius did not give evidence during the two-week trial but denied he was responsible in police interviews played in court.
He admitted visiting Ms Erte's flat on the night she died but said she was "fine" when he left.
Ms Erte's naked and badly beaten body was found in the bath at her flat by firemen who had been called out by neighbours.
About 71.9 million units were shipped in the period, which includes the key Christmas shopping season.
IDC said the decline was the worst since it started tracking PC shipments.
PC demand has been hit by competition from smartphones and tablets, along with longer lifecycles for PCs.
Shipments fell in all regions around the world and have declined for five quarters in a row, according to IDC's figures.
Rival research firm Gartner also said shipments were down. Using different methodology, it saw a fall of 8.3% in the fourth quarter from a year ago.
It doesn't take much analysis to work out why PC shipments are falling rapidly. I mean, look around you. If you're at home, what do you have in the corner where your PC used to go?
Then again, you're more likely to not be at home. The majority of visitors to this website, and most other major sites and networks, arrive there using their mobile devices.
And that leaves the workplace, the domain where PC is still king, and will remain so for a while yet.
Sales tanked in the last quarter, sure, but analysts expect the PC market to pick up again in 2016 as companies start to upgrade to Windows 10, which launched in the middle of last year.
Unlike home users, who could update in a few hours or so, big firms need to plan well ahead - and so many would have held off until the new year.
It'll mean a boost for traditional PC sales, but not a halt in their overall long-term decline.
Instead, IDC notes that sales of computers with detachable tablets, like Microsoft's Surface, are growing quickly (albeit from an almost standing start).
Other factors that contributed to the decline in shipments included economic issues such as falling commodity prices, weaker currencies, turmoil in financial markets driven by China, as well social tensions in the Middle East.
Apple was the only top five PC maker to see shipments grow last year, up over 6%, while Acer saw the biggest fall, of more more than 18%.
"Consumer sentiment toward PCs remains a challenge, though clearly there are pockets of growth," said IDC research manager Jay Chou in a statement.
"Even as mainstream desktop and notebooks see their lifetimes stretched ever longer, Apple's emergence as a top five global PC vendor in 2015 shows that there can be strong demand for innovative, even premium-priced systems that put user experience first."
Chinese tech giant Lenovo, however, remained at the top of the market - owning more than 20% of it. HP followed in second place, with Dell third and Apple and ASUS tied for the fourth spot.
Dagmara Przbysz, 16, was pronounced dead at Pool Academy near Redruth at about 14:15 BST on Tuesday.
Principal Zelma Hill said it was "heart-breaking" and described the girl as "passionate about fashion and photography".
A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police said the girl's death was not thought to be suspicious.
'Terrible time'
Ms Hill said: "Dagmara was a beautiful, bright and creative 16-year-old student with a very promising future ahead of her.
"We are supporting students, staff and their families through this terrible time."
Tributes have been paid to Dagmara on the Pool Academy school Facebook page.
Insp John Hannaford, from Devon and Cornwall Police, said: "We understand this is a very distressing time for the family and the school.
"We are working closely with them and will offer support where required."
Surgeons at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital have been giving details about two procedures due to be carried out on the 15-year-old.
Malala was discharged from the hospital earlier this month after being shot in the head by the Taliban in October.
The hospital said the surgery would take place in the next 10 days.
The first procedure will involve drilling into her skull and inserting a custom-made metal plate.
Doctors said Malala had been left completely deaf in her left ear when she was shot at point-blank range.
The shockwave destroyed her eardrum and the bones for hearing.
The second procedure will involve fitting a small electronic device that provides a sense of sound to someone who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing.
Dr Dave Rosser, medical director at the QEHB, said: "Her recovery is remarkable and it's a testament to her strength and desire to get better.
"There is no doubt that the surgery she underwent in Pakistan was life saving.
"Had that surgery not been of such a high standard she would have died."
He added each procedure should take about 90 minutes and her full recovery could take another 15 to 18 months.
Dr Rosser said the missing part of Malala's skull had been put in her abdomen by surgeons in Pakistan, in order to "keep the bone alive".
Doctors in Birmingham have chosen to use a metal plate to repair her skull instead of that bone, which they say may have shrunk.
Dr Rosser added this was common practice worldwide to keep the bone healthy.
He said: "Malala currently has no skull, she only has skin covering the brain."
Malala has asked to keep the bone once it has been removed, said Dr Rosser.
The QEHB is home to the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine where members of the armed service who have been injured overseas are treated.
Dr Rosser said the hospital was "unique" because all the treatment Malala required could be done within the same organisation.
Stefan Edmondson, principal maxillofacial prosthetist, at the QEHB said: "What we're doing here could be done elsewhere but because we're such a large super-regional unit with a large neurological unit we see a lot more advanced cranial defects.
"We're fortunate in that aspect to see a lot more complicated cases and [it means] we have the software here."
Malala came to prominence when, as an 11-year-old, she wrote a diary for BBC Urdu, giving an account of how her school in Mingora town dealt with the Taliban's 2009 edict to close girls' schools.
Her love for education, and her courage in standing up to the Taliban, earned her a national peace award in 2011.
Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition calling for Malala to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Pakistan government has given Malala's father, Ziaududdin Yousafzai, a job in Birmingham as the education attache at the Consulate of Pakistan for at least three years.
Lucy Bronze, who was shortlisted for the player of the tournament award, is among those overlooked.
Four Americans are in the Fifpro team, including midfielder Carli Lloyd, the 2015 World Player of the Year.
The team, which also includes three Frenchwomen, was voted for by players from 33 different countries.
Fifpro, the global players' union, has named a men's team of the year every year since 2005.
World football's governing body Fifa names only a men's XI at its annual Ballon d'Or gala.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the Saudi authorities of "murdering" pilgrims who were caught up in a deadly stampede during last year's Hajj.
The injured were locked in containers and not provided medical treatment, he alleged, without providing evidence.
The stampede killed 2,426 people, according to an unofficial tally.
The Saudi authorities, who say only 769 died, have made few details of the official investigation into the incident public but have previously rejected criticism of their management of the Hajj.
In a statement published on his website marking the anniversary of the stampede, Ayatollah Khamenei accused the Saudis of being "at fault".
"The heartless and murderous Saudis locked up the injured with the dead in containers - instead of providing medical treatment and helping them or at least quenching their thirst. They murdered them," he said.
"Instead of apology and remorse and judicial prosecution of those who were directly at fault in that horrifying event, Saudi rulers- with utmost shamelessness and insolence - refused to allow the formation of an international Islamic fact-finding committee."
The ayatollah called on the Islamic world to "fundamentally reconsider the management of the Two Holy Places" - Mecca's Great Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina - and "the issue of Hajj".
"Those who have reduced Hajj to a religious-tourist trip and have hidden their enmity and malevolence towards the faithful and revolutionary people of Iran under the name of 'politicising hajj', are themselves small and puny satans who tremble for fear of jeopardising the interests of the Great Satan, the US," he added.
In May, Iran's Hajj organisation declared that pilgrims from the country would not be able to attend this year's Hajj, blaming "ongoing sabotage by the Saudi government".
The Saudi foreign minister responded by accusing Iran of asking for special treatment for its citizens and of finding excuses for denying them the chance to fulfil a religious duty.
The decision came four months after Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic ties with Iran in response to attacks on Saudi diplomatic compounds in Iran by people angered by the kingdom's execution of a prominent Shia cleric convicted of terrorism offences.
The idea was mooted in an informal council survey as officials look to update existing legal orders tackling dog fouling and anti-social behaviour.
A council report has backed the idea for dogs to be kept on leads near park visitor centres, but not a wider area.
People in breach of public orders can face fixed penalty fines.
Dog exclusion zones already exist on marked sports pitches and play areas in Wrexham, apart from owners with assistance dogs.
Extending the order to pavements and some parkland could cost an additional £20,000 in signage costs, according to the report.
A scrutiny committee meeting at the Guildhall on Wednesday agreed to allow a formal consultation to take place to push ideas forward.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also urged an intensification of efforts to find a political solution to the war.
Mr Lavrov was speaking after meeting his counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the US.
On Thursday, President Putin suggested the Syrian regime could be ready to work with some rebel groups against the so-called Islamic State.
Mr Putin said President Assad had agreed to the idea on a recent visit to Moscow,
Speaking at the start of talks in Vienna on Friday, Mr Lavrov said: "Our common position is that we need to boost efforts for the political process in the Syrian settlement.
"This foresees the start of full-scale talks between representatives of the Syrian government and the full spectrum of the Syrian opposition, both domestic and external - with the support of outside players."
Mr Lavrov did not define exactly which opposition groups should be included.
US Secretary of State John Kerry, who also attended, said the talks had been "constructive" and that an expanded round of negotiations could take place next week.
The US, Turkey and Saudi Arabia all support rebel groups fighting the Syrian government. Russia backs President Assad and hosted him on Tuesday in a visit criticised by the US.
Russia has been bombing targets in Syria since last month. It says it is primarily hitting IS, but Western powers say most of the air strikes have hit rebel groups, including those backed by the West and Gulf states.
However, Vladimir Putin's spokesman said on the BBC's HARDtalk programme that Russia's intervention in Syria was not an attempt to prop up President Assad but rather an attempt to save the country and the region from falling under the sway of terrorists.
Dmitry Peskov said a political settlement was impossible without dialogue with the "legitimate president" of Syria.
And he echoed Mr Putin's speech at the Valdai discussion forum by saying all the "serious" rebel forces in Syria were "terrorists".
Mr Peskov said the West had so far failed to identify any "balanced opposition" to Mr Assad that did not have links to jihadists.
The US-led air campaign against the so-called Islamic State had led to IS controlling two-thirds of the country's territory, Mr Peskov argued, but there were now signs the Syrian army - backed by Russian air strikes - was mounting a successful offensive against rebels.
Mr Peskov also said Russia wanted to exchange military information with the US, including about targets of air strikes, but this had not been forthcoming.
YouTube video from the fighting in Syria has thrown up images of a rarely seen Russian weapons system - the TOS-1 "Buratino" multiple rocket launcher.
Described by the Russians as a "heavy flame-thrower", it is a highly controversial weapon and its appearance in Syria raises the question as to who is actually operating it.
The TOS-1 fires a 220mm rocket that is designed to carry a thermobaric warhead. Sometimes known as a "fuel-air explosive" the rockets detonates at a set altitude above the ground, releasing a cloud of fuel which is then ignited by a second explosion.
This creates a huge temperature and pressure wave whose impact has been likened to a low-yield nuclear explosive.
It is very much an indiscriminate weapon, typically used to support offensive operations by blanketing given areas with fire. Thermobaric weapons were used to devastating effect by the Russians in Afghanistan.
Why is there a war in Syria?
Anti-government protests developed into a civil war that, four years on, has ground to a stalemate, with the Assad government, Islamic State, an array of Syrian rebels and Kurdish fighters all holding territory.
Who is fighting whom?
Government forces concentrated in Damascus and the centre and west of Syria are fighting the jihadists of Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, as well as less numerous so-called "moderate" rebel groups, who are strongest in the north and east. These groups are also battling each other.
What's the human cost?
More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed and a million injured. Some 11 million others have been forced from their homes, of whom four million have fled abroad - including growing numbers who are making the dangerous journey to Europe.
How has the world reacted?
Iran, Russia and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement are propping up the Alawite-led Assad government, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar back the more moderate Sunni-dominated opposition, along with the US, UK and France. Hezbollah and Iran are believed to have troops and officers on the ground, while a Western-led coalition and Russia are carrying out air strikes.
The Potters had a £13m bid for Wales midfielder Allen, 26, accepted on Thursday by the Anfield club.
And Johnson is excited about the prospect of his former team-mate coming to the Britannia Stadium.
"He's a fantastic player. He'd be brilliant for the squad - he's one of those players who gets the game going," Johnson told BBC Radio Stoke.
Swansea are the main rivals for Allen's signature, but Johnson would not hesitate to recommend Stoke to him.
"Of course I would. I've enjoyed every minute here and I'd pass that on if he called or texted me," he said.
"I'd personally love him to come here. He's an out-and-out footballer - the Stoke of old doesn't really exist any more, that era has gone, we're a footballing side now."
Johnson's first season at Stoke was ended by a knee injury suffered against Bournemouth in February.
The 31-year-old was back in contention for the final game with his old club West Ham, but was not risked.
"As I jumped I got kicked at the same time it was a strange one but when you have contact injuries anything can happen," he said.
"The toughest part is missing the football and trying to remain sane in the physio room.
"I feel good and strong. I could've played the last game, but we agreed there wasn't any point taking a risk but I hoping for a fully-fit campaign this time - I can't wait to get going."
The visitors, who resumed on 115-3, saw Matt Machan dismissed for 80 before losing their last four wickets for 10 runs and were 265 all out.
Chris Rushworth (5-81) took his second five-wicket haul of the season.
Needing 262 to win a second successive Championship game of the season, Durham closed on 115-2 with Matt Stoneman making 41 and Keaton Jennings 38.
Ajmal Shahzad (2-40) took both wickets, trapping Stoneman leg before and having Jennings caught behind by Ben Brown.
Earlier, Machan was fifth wicket to fall when he was out lbw to Usman Arshad (2-43) and Sussex's innings quickly fell away.
Looking well set on 217-4, they were quickly dismissed for 265, with first-innings hero Ollie Robinson ending on four not out.
John Hastings (2-57) took the wickets of Steve Magoffin and Matthew Hobden in successive balls to wrap the innings up.
Durham seam bowler Chris Rushworth:
"We knew we needed quick wickets after lunch and to wrap them up like that was a big plus.
"There's a bit of variable bounce but it's a good pitch and the scores are about par. It's been a remarkable game and one of the coldest I've played in.
"The ball doesn't swing in these conditions, but I got one to nip back off the pitch to get Luke Wright when he was looking dangerous.
"It's always nice to see the middle stump 10 yards back."
The campaign is said to be targeting militants in Borno state.
It came as Nigerian officials dismissed Boko Haram's pledge of allegiance to Islamic State as a reaction to military pressure from Nigeria and its allies.
The pledge was posted online on Saturday in an audio message by Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau.
He called on Muslims everywhere to swear loyalty to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Boko Haram has been fighting an insurgency to create an Islamic state in northern Nigeria since 2009, and in recent months the violence has increasingly spilled over into neighbouring states.
Chad, Cameroon and Niger have already been helping Nigeria in its battle against Boko Haram.
On Friday, the African Union endorsed the creation of a regional force of more than 8,000 troops to combat the group. However, the force's remit will be limited to securing the Nigerian side of Lake Chad, rather than pushing further into Nigeria.
As the latest offensive began early on Sunday, a resident and an aid worker told AFP news agency there had been heavy arms fire close to Niger's border with Nigeria.
A local radio station said that a convoy of more than 200 vehicles was moving towards the area, and that air strikes had been carried out on Saturday and early on Sunday.
The Nigerian military and troops from neighbouring states have recently claimed some success in their campaign against Boko Haram, and Nigerian officials said the pledge of allegiance to IS was a sign of weakness
Army spokesman Col Sami Usman Kukasheka said the Boko Haram leader was like a "drowning man".
"There is no surprise that he is craving for support from fellow terrorists across the world," he told the BBC World Service.
"Basically he's just trying to create panic to create a plea for help that will not even come because very soon we will see to the end of the insurgency in Nigeria."
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A spokesman for the Nigerian government, Mike Omeri, said Boko Haram needed help "as a result of the heavy casualties and bombardment and degrading of their capacity".
However, militants have continued to launch deadly attacks. On Saturday Boko Haram was blamed for a series of attacks in its former stronghold of Maiduguri, including suicide bombings, that left more than 50 people dead.
Nigeria postponed national elections by six weeks until 28 March in order to have more time to try to improve security in the north.
Col Kukasheka called on Nigerians "to be more security conscious because given the onslaught on Boko Haram definitely they are bound to spring surprises".
IS took control of large swathes of territory in eastern Syria and across northern and western Iraq last year.
It has forged links with other militant groups across North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and in January, militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan pledged their allegiance.
After six months out with a foot injury Haskell played almost an hour in Wasps' Champions Cup win at Zebre on Sunday.
He reported minor soreness in his foot after the game, but still expected to attend the training camp as planned.
Back-row forward Jack Clifford will also remain at his club Harlequins.
He picked up an injury in the Challenge Cup defeat by Stade Francais in Paris, having only recently returned from ankle surgery.
It is unclear when Haskell, who has 70 caps, will be able to join up with the England squad. He will stay at Wasps for treatment for the time being.
"Both players sustained injuries in their club games on Sunday and were due to arrive in Vilamoura today but will instead stay in the UK to undergo further medical assessments after which a decision will be made on when they join up with England," the RFU said.
England's first match in the tournament is against France on 4 February.
Penny, 21, has made 18 first-team appearances, and scored one try in six league games during the last campaign.
Connon, 19, is an Ireland Under-20 international, while Marshall, 18, is an academy graduate.
"We have always stated our intention of promoting top local prospects," director of rugby Dean Richards said.
"Tom very much typifies that, he is a quality player who has already stepped onto the senior stage and we look forward to having him in our plans for a number of years to come.
"We have known for a while here what a talent Brett is, but he has really made his mark now with Ireland Under-20s.
"Dan is an attacking threat with pace to burn and great footwork. He is in the best place for his development given the fantastic work of our academy here."
There are at least 14 suspected cases.
Most companies on the RHI scheme are based in mid-Ulster and north Antrim, according to information passed to the BBC.
A regional breakdown of installations published by the Stephen Nolan Show shows the biggest cluster is around Dungannon, County Tyrone.
There are 342 boilers there - about one-in-six of the total.
The Ulster Unionist economy spokesman Steve Aiken told the BBC that the Economy Minister, Simon Hamilton, has questions to answer.
"When you have a minister say there's potential for or likely to be fraud, and it hasn't been contradicted, i would think that's enough evidence for the PSNI to become involved in the situation".
The statistics, passed to the BBC, show the total of 2,128 recipients are split roughly between commercial and farming interests.
Around Ballymena and Ballymoney there are 276 boilers.
Poultry farmers are heavily represented, accounting for 871 of the installations.
The two main clusters are close to Moy Park's processing plants in Northern Ireland, in Ballymena and Dungannon.
Poultry farmers use the boilers to heat chicken houses where the birds are reared.
Many switched from LPG gas to biomass in recent years.
Other areas where there are significant numbers of boilers by postcode include Armagh which has 112 and Omagh which has 82.
Last week, Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir said a Moy Park briefing with his officials had raised "issues" about the operation of the RHI scheme.
Moy Park later issued a statement but made no reference to those issues.
On Monday, the former DETI minister Jonathan Bell claimed under assembly privilege that he had been told DUP special advisers Timothy Johnston and John Robinson had extensive interests in the poultry industry, and that he would not be allowed to reduce the RHI tariff as a result.
The DUP later issued a statement of categorical denial on behalf of both men.
John Robinson said he had "no personal interest" in the poultry industry. He said two of his brothers were poultry farmers but were not in the RHI.
Timothy Johnston said he had "no family connections to the poultry industry". He said he had two brothers in law in the poultry industry but neither had any connection with the RHI.
On Tuesday, Mr Bell said he was prepared to repeat allegations he made about the role played by special advisers in the RHI scheme, to a judge-led inquiry.
He was speaking during an an opposition debate in the Assembly calling for a public inquiry into the controversial scheme.
He also made further allegations about the RHI scheme - suggesting at least one DUP special adviser might have up to eight boilers. The party said it was an "outrageous claim".
MLAs later voted for a public inquiry to be called into the controversy in a debate where Sinn Féin were absent.
The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme was an attempt by the Northern Ireland Executive to help to increase consumption of heat from renewable sources.
But flaws in setting the scheme's subsidy rate left it open to abuse as claimants could earn more cash the more fuel they burned, with the overspend estimated to be about £490m.
It has been centre stage in politics in Northern Ireland over the past month, with the resignation of Martin McGuinness as deputy first minister bringing the issue to a head.
Sinn Féin's refusal to re-nominate a deputy first minister on Monday left Secretary of State James Brokenshire with no option but to call fresh Assembly elections on 2 March.
Former first minister Arlene Foster set up the scheme in 2012 when she was enterprise minister.
Kelly Pearce, 36, died in hospital after being found with a serious neck injury at a property in Canvey Island.
Anthony Ayres, of Fairlop Avenue in Canvey, was arrested the following day and charged with murder.
He appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court where he was remanded in custody and a provisional trial date was set for 3 May 2016.
BBC Wales was told the first minister believes any interference from the UK party with the way Welsh Labour is run would be "absolutely unacceptable".
WalesOnline suggested earlier this week that two Welsh Labour staff may be sacked if Jeremy Corbyn is re-elected.
Mr Jones said the individuals concerned helped "defy expectations" in election results.
The spokesman said: "Carwyn has made it clear he won't be publicly backing any candidate - he's stuck to that in previous leadership elections, and he's set out the reasons why on numerous occasions.
"However, it is right to say that he's extremely angry about the briefing against Welsh Labour staff.
"These are loyal, hard-working, committed individuals who recently helped defy all expectations with another clear Welsh Labour victory in the assembly elections.
"Carwyn is very clear that any interference with the way Welsh Labour is run would be absolutely unacceptable, and he will be writing to both leadership candidates asking for their public support for Labour staff."
The statement came after ex-minister Leighton Andrews told the BBC Good Morning Wales programme: "Carwyn must be furious about the briefing, the Corbyn-inspired briefing against senior Welsh Labour staff this week.
"This Welsh Labour staff have delivered two election victories for Carwyn Jones, and I can only imagine how angry he will be at the briefing that's been taking place suggesting they should be removed."
During the radio interview Mr Andrews, who is backing Mr Smith, said: "I don't think myself that Carwyn is going to come out of this as a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn.
"I imagine, I don't know, he hasn't told me this, but I imagine he would vote for Owen Smith."
But Mr Andrews, who previously served as education minister and public services minister under Mr Jones, said he would be "surprised" if Mr Jones would take a position on the leadership contest.
He said: "I think if Jeremy Corbyn wins again the Labour Party will not win a general election again for 15, maybe 20 years."
Mr Jones has not stated who out of Mr Corbyn or Mr Smith he would back in the current contest. However he has said it would be very difficult for him to carry on as a leader if he faced the same situation as Jeremy Corbyn.
Mr Corbyn lost a no-confidence vote of Labour MPs in June.
Mr Jones told The Wales Report that in the current situation Labour had "no chance" of winning a general election.
A Welsh Conservative spokesman said: "The first minister is taking a craven stance in not nailing his colours to the mast and picking a candidate for the leadership race."
They pointed out that London mayor Sadiq Kahn and Scottish Labour leader Keiza Dugdale had come out in support of Owen Smith. He added: "So the first minister's silence on this critical issue seems strange, and betrays a lack of leadership."
Until this point, Welsh Labour has largely managed to avoid getting sucked into much of the blood-letting currently on display among the different wings of the Labour Party.
There must now be a risk that it might.
Carwyn Jones has refused to give any endorsements to the contenders.
But his former Welsh Government colleague Leighton Andrews has said "why look into the crystal ball when you can read the book".
In other words, he believes it is obvious that Mr Jones is not a supporter of Mr Corbyn if you read between the lines of what he has said in recent months.
The briefing earlier in the week has clearly caused bad feeling. The message from Welsh Labour to the Corbyn camp is to stay well away from the way the party is run in Cardiff.
Jeremy Corbyn supporters say he is not a vindictive man and that while there may be some casualties within in the party in London if he wins the contest, it is unlikely that any purge would stretch to Wales.
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Just as an appeal hearing was about to get under way, the Attorney General intervened and the case is to be put on hold for another three months.
In the meantime, the Attorney General's concerns about the case will be heard at a separate hearing.
Mark Simpson was in court.
Kevin Bain found about 75 small fish in his back garden on Thursday.
He believes their arrival is the result of a waterspout which sucked the animals from the sea and dropped them on his property.
Mr Bain said he thinks the two-inch fish are sand eels but is trying to find out more.
Speaking to BBC Scotland, he said: "To start with, I thought the fish had been dropped by birds but there were far too many.
"It has been stormy for the past few nights, so it's possible that a water spout has lifted the fish from the sea during the bad weather.
"It's a really strange phenomenon."
Mr Bain lives around 500m from the sea in the Aberdeenshire town of Banff.
He shared his discovery on video streaming app Periscope, in the hope someone would shed some light on the appearance of the fish.
Waterspouts, which look similar to tornadoes, begin life as funnel clouds and can occur during heavy rain or thunderstorms.
According to an indictment unsealed on Tuesday, Noor Salman "did knowingly aid and abet" her husband's efforts to support the Islamic State group.
She has also been accused of misleading police investigators and FBI agents on the day of the 12 June 2016 attack.
Her family say she is a victim herself and innocent of the charges.
Ms Salman is charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organisation and obstruction of justice.
"She knew he was going to conduct the attack," federal prosecutor Roger Handberg told the judge.
Al Salman, an uncle of the 30-year-old woman, said that his niece was "simple and innocent" and was physically and mentally abused by her husband, Omar Mateen.
He asserted that she knew nothing about her husband's plan to attack Orlando's Pulse nightclub.
Mateen was killed in a shootout with police after killing 49 people and injuring 53 others in the worst mass shooting in modern American history.
During the attack, Mateen called police to pledge support for the Islamic State group.
A lawyer for Ms Salman said in court that she had no advance knowledge of the tragedy and she should be released from jail pending trial.
She was arrested on Sunday in the San Francisco area after moving there from Florida following the attack.
As she was led back to jail, she looked sadly back at her uncle, according to reporters inside the courtroom.
Another hearing is schedule for Wednesday to discuss possibly transporting her to Florida where she may face the federal charges there.
The south-western city of Stuttgart is home to Daimler - the makers of Mercedes - and Porsche.
Stuttgart's mayor urged residents to use public transport or electric taxis, or to form carpools.
Stuttgart is the first city in Germany to issue an official alarm over levels of polluting particles in the air.
On Monday, levels of harmful PM10 particles in Stuttgart reached 89 micrograms per cubic meter - nearly double the safe maximum of 50 micrograms, according to the regional environment agency for the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.
In a statement (in German), the city website urged residents to use public transport, electric taxis, or form carpools.
Some 500,000 car journeys are made each day in Stuttgart - the home of the famous Daimler and Porsche brands.
In a statement (in German), the city council also asked employers to let staff work flexible hours or even from home. It advised against using wood-burning stoves which could increase pollution levels.
"The aim is to improve the quality of life in Stuttgart," the statement said.
Authorities acted after meteorologists warned there was a danger that cancer-causing particles would be trapped in the air above the city for several days.
They said it was because a layer of warm air higher up would prevent the particle-rich colder air near the ground from rising out of the city.
Vasip Sahin said the man, named earlier as Uzbek national Abdulkadir Masharipov, was believed to have entered Turkey in January 2016.
Mr Sahin said the suspect had confessed to the attack and that his fingerprints matched those found at the scene.
Thirty-nine people died in the attack on the Reina club with dozens wounded.
Citizens of Israel, France, Tunisia, Lebanon, India, Belgium, Jordan and Saudi Arabia were among the victims.
So-called Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the attack, saying it was revenge for Turkish military involvement in Syria.
Police detained the man on Monday evening in a raid on an address in the Istanbul suburb of Esenyurt. Initial reports said a Kyrgyz man was also held but Mr Sahin said on Tuesday that a man of Iraqi origin and three women of Egyptian and African origin were detained.
A picture of Abdulkadir Masharipov taken shortly after his arrest showed him being held by the neck by an officer with his face bruised and bloodied.
Source: Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin
Turkish police can question the suspect for up to 30 days without charging him under state of emergency laws that were introduced after last July's failed coup.
Mr Sahin said that contrary to earlier reports, the suspect's four year-old son was not with him when he was detained.
The governor said it was "clear that [Masharipov] staged the attack on behalf of Daesh," using the Arabic acronym for the IS group.
"He was trained in Afghanistan and can speak four languages. He's a well-trained terrorist," Mr Sahin added.
Police also seized pistols, ammunition, two drones and nearly $200,000 (£164,000) in the raid, he said.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan congratulated security forces after the operation.
"From now on in this country nobody will get away with what they have done. Everyone will be brought to account within the rule of law," he said in Ankara.
The attack on the nightclub began when the gunman arrived by taxi and rushed through the entrance with a long-barrelled gun taken from the boot of the car.
He fired randomly at people celebrating the New Year.
A huge manhunt was launched amid fears that the gunman had escaped Turkey, perhaps to territory held by IS.
The hackers are believed to have stolen research and development information from several US firms.
The arrests came shortly before Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the US for talks - partly about cyber security.
The US and China have regularly swapped accusations about who is behind the cyberattacks they suffer.
Quoting anonymous sources, the newspaper said the stolen trade secrets and plans were passed to Chinese firms that are rivals of the US businesses which were hit. Some of the recipients are believed to be state-run organisations.
The arrests are believed to be some of the first China has carried out at the request of the US.
Security blogger Brian Krebs noted there had has been at least one previous case in 2010.
Susan Rice, US national security advisor, recently said that these attacks put "enormous strain" on diplomatic relations between the two nations.
Prior to visiting the US last month, Mr Xi said that the Chinese government did "not engage in theft of commercial secrets in any form" and denied there were any state-sponsored attacks on US firms or federal agencies.
The subject of cyber spying and hacking featured in the talks between Mr Xi and President Obama. During the talks the two nations are believed to have negotiated an understanding that China would move to stop attacks on US businesses. Trade sanctions had been threatened if China had not agreed to act.
The 30-year-old was taken to hospital "for assessment" after police were called to Salford on Sunday.
Lennon is now "receiving care and treatment for a stress-related illness", his club has said.
The England international, who joined Everton from Tottenham in 2015, has not played for the first team since February.
Greater Manchester Police said: "Police were called at around 4.35pm to reports of a concern for the welfare of a man on Eccles Old Road.
"Officers attended and a 30-year-old man was detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act and was taken to hospital for assessment."
News of Lennon's admission has led to an outpouring of support on social media from those involved in the game, as well as fans of his current and former clubs.
Lennon's representative, Base Soccer Agency, tweeted: "Everyone at Base Soccer sends their support to @AaronLennon12 - get well soon and stay strong."
Ex-Liverpool and Aston Villa striker Stan Collymore, who has been affected by depression
Thoughts and love with Aaron Lennon and his family right now. I know that place, and I know he'll be fine with good support from us all.
Former Manchester City midfielder Trevor Sinclair
Thoughts with Aaron Lennon right now.
Former Aston Villa forward Darren Byfield
Hope Aaron Lennon will be OK and gets the help he needs.
England cricketer Kate Cross
Fingers crossed Aaron Lennon is OK. Another reminder that mental health affects us all. Be kind.
Former Watford and Sheffield United striker Danny Webber
Get well soon Aaron Lennon.
BBC's Juliette Ferrington
Hope Aaron Lennon gets all the help, love and support he needs in every way possible.
The world number one took his record in Beijing to 26-0 in five visits as he beat China's number one 6-2 6-1.
Djokovic, 28, goes on to face Australian John Millman or American John Isner in the last eight.
Croatia's Ivo Karlovic became the all-time leader in aces as he hit 26 to reach 10,247, passing compatriot Goran Ivanisevic's record of 10,237.
"It's a great feeling," said 36-year-old Karlovic. "For the past year I knew it was possible and I was hoping that it would be this year. It's great that it happened here.
"I'm not done yet. There are many years in front of me and hopefully that number will go up and up."
Another strong serving display did not prevent the 6ft 11in Karlovic losing 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (9-7) to Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas, however.
Third seed Rafael Nadal is already though to the quarter-finals, where he will face American Jack Sock on Friday.
In the women's event, Spain's Garbine Muguruza sealed her place in the end-of-season WTA Finals with a 1-6 6-2 6-1 win over Croatian Mirjana Lucic-Baroni.
The 22-year-old joins Simona Halep and Maria Sharapova in the singles field of eight, with five more spots yet to be determined.
Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat US Open and third seed Flavia Pennetta 3-6 6-4 6-3, while US Open finalist and fellow Italian Roberta Vinci went down 6-1 3-6 6-2 to American Bethanie Mattek-Sands.
Councils for Denbighshire, Flintshire and Conwy want to use the site in Waen, Rhuallt, near St Asaph, to recycle 22,000 tonnes of food waste a year to produce electricity.
Planning permision has yet to be secured.
Meetings are being held in Waen Parish Hall on Friday and Saturday.
The council consortium first announced the £7.5m project last year.
Since then, a new preferred bidder, BiogenGreenfinch, has been announced after an initial prospective partner withdrew.
In March the company obtained permission to build and manage an anaerobic digestion plant at Llwyn Isaf, near Caernarfon, for Gwynedd council to process local-authority collected food waste.
Anaerobic digestion is the process of recycling food waste and agricultural waste into renewable fuel to generate electricity, heat and fertiliser for farmland.
Representatives of BiogenGreenfinch and Denbighshire council will explain the project and answer any questions.
The proposed plant will generate electricity for the national grid proviiding enough to power homes in St Asaph for a year.
It will treat food waste from local households and businesses, all of which could be sent to landfill, said the company.
Meetings are being held in Waen Parish Hall on Friday, 16:00-20:00 BST, and Saturday, 10:00-14:00 BST.
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Some of the Cradley Heath felines died after being poisoned with anti-freeze and a local charity has said such abuse "is on the increase".
Residents have reported the issue to police and have now clubbed together to hire a pet detective.
Many owners said they will not allow their pets outside.
Kate Antill said she has lost seven cats - three were poisoned and four are "missing, presumed dead".
"It's very upsetting for my children, who don't understand why people would hurt their cats. It just means we won't be having any more cats in the household.
"The police did help in the beginning, but obviously it isn't a priority for them," Ms Antill said.
Angela Gelencser from the charity Wild Acre Rescue, which re-homes cats, said she believed some people become annoyed about cats going into their gardens so deliberately leave anti-freeze out for them to drink.
Legal aid in England and Wales will be restricted in a range of civil cases from April to cut a current £2bn bill.
President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, told the BBC the changes may even lead to higher court costs.
The Ministry of Justice said legal aid would still be provided "to those who most need it".
The cuts mean people involved in a range of disputes, such as social welfare debt, employment, family problems, clinical negligence, divorce and housing problems will no longer be allowed legal aid.
But funding will continue for some cases including family law involving domestic violence or forced marriage and debt and housing matters where someone's home is at immediate risk.
It means many people will have to pay privately for advice, find charitable help or represent themselves in trying to solve their disputes.
The proposals are intended to cut the legal aid bill by £350m a year by 2015.
But Lord Neuberger said the consequences could in fact cost the government more.
He told the BBC: "My worry is the removal of legal aid for people to get advice about law and get representation in court will start to undermine the rule of law because people will feel like the government isn't giving them access to justice in all sorts of cases.
"And that will either lead to frustration and lack of confidence in the system, or it will lead to people taking the law into their own hands."
Lord Neuberger said another problem would be the increase in the number of people who represent themselves in court because they could not afford or get legal aid for a lawyer,
"This will mean that court hearings will last longer, the burden on court staff and judges will increase," he said.
"And you may find the savings the government thinks it's making in legal aid will be offset in other costs of courts and judges and court staff in supporting litigants in person."
Tory MP Sir Edward Garnier - a former solicitor general - said legal aid should not be immune from widespread cuts.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that many disputes could be resolved without going to court.
"Now I'm not suggesting that, in every case, a landlord and tenant problem can be sorted out through some form of mediation or through some form of extra-legal means.
"But I think we need to be careful not always to run to the lawyer when we think we've got a problem."
Shadow justice minister Lord Bach - the former legal aid minister - said he agreed mediation could be used in more cases but said that it "doesn't come cheap either".
He told Today that, "at a time of recession and also at a time now of big welfare reform, to take away the ability of people to get free legal advice when they need it is absolutely scandalous".
Cuts should not be made "where you're attacking, frankly, the very poorest and the most disadvantaged in society", he added.
"Our whole system of justice is based on equality of law - if people can't get some access to justice then why should people believe in the rule of law anymore."
In a statement the Ministry of Justice said: "Legal aid will continue to be provided to those who most need it, such as where domestic violence is involved, where people's life or liberty is at stake or the loss of their home."
BBC legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman said the changes were seen by many as nothing short of a revolution in the provision of legal aid with the government removing funding from entire areas of civil law.
The concern was that the cuts would affect the most vulnerable in society, he said.
The bill received Royal Assent after a parliamentary passage that saw it defeated 14 times in the House of Lords.
The Lords ultimately backed ministers by the narrowest of margins, with 238 votes on each side - a tie means a victory for the government.
But our correspondent said there was was "absolutely no chance" the government would row back on the changes.
Lord Neuberger also said it was "unfortunate" that Home Secretary Theresa May had attacked judges for "ignoring" rules on deporting foreign criminals.
But he said he would not get into a "slanging" match with Mrs May.
The interview came two weeks after Mrs May accused judges of making the UK more dangerous by ignoring rules aimed at deporting more foreign criminals. She told the Mail on Sunday that they were choosing to "ignore Parliament's wishes".
"I think attacking judges is not a sensible way to proceed," Lord Neuberger said.
"It causes me concern but it does not alarm me. No government has done anything to undermine judges."
He added: "It is unfortunate that the home secretary has acted and spoken as she has done."
The charity's research suggests many lose out as they have no school place or are unknown to the authorities.
The findings, based on Freedom of Information requests to councils, show that across 79 authorities 7,701 children on any day are down as missing class.
The Department for Education says the findings are misleading and unhelpful.
The NCB said that if 7,701 young people are missing school every day in the authorities that provided information, this would suggest more than 14,800 children are not in education at any time across the country.
A further analysis, based on detailed Freedom of Information responses from 45 councils, suggests that, on any given day, of those who are missing education, there are an estimated 3,000 youngsters in England whose whereabouts are unknown.
The study claims almost 5,000 children are losing out because they are waiting for a school place.
Other reasons given by local authorities for children being classed as "missing education" included being excluded from school; having special educational needs; being pregnant or a teenage mother; not enrolled in school or moving between schools; or because they have moved or are believed to have moved overseas.
Children are considered to be missing education if they are not on a school roll and not receiving suitable education other than at school, according to government guidance.
The NCB said it was calling for the government to conduct a national review of children missing education.
The charity's chief executive, Dr Hilary Emery, said: "Children who miss out on education are at significant risk of failing academically, and may end up as Neets [not in education, employment or training] in later life because their school life has been disrupted.
"There is also the real possibility that some of these children will suffer physical and emotional harm, particularly if they are taken off the school roll and their whereabouts become unknown.
"Recent high-profile cases of child sexual exploitation have involved children missing from education, and there is also a correlation between missing education and becoming a victim of forced marriage."
Dr Emery said the NCB was calling on the government to conduct a national review of children missing education and to improve the way data is collected both locally and nationally.
"The review should consider how local authorities, schools, social services and their partners can work with children and their families to ensure they and their families receive the best support possible, so they can get back into education."
But a Department for Education spokesman said: "These findings are misleading and unhelpful.
"Missing education is defined as a child not being registered at school when they should be or not being otherwise educated.
"This report inappropriately includes children who have missed one or two days of school, for anything from moving between schools to being sent home for having behavioural problems."
The report wrongly assumed these children were all automatically vulnerable or had slipped off the radar, the spokesman added.
"Local authorities and schools are best placed to keep accurate records of children in education and our recently revised guidance makes clear there is no excuse for them not to meet their responsibilities in this area."
Parents had a legal responsibility to ensure their children were receiving a proper education, he added.
Thirteen-month-old Jadon and Anias McDonald underwent 16 hours of surgery, and are now undergoing additional procedures to rebuild their skulls.
On Friday morning, the boys' mother Nicole McDonald wrote on Facebook that she is excited but "aches with the uncertainty of the future".
She also posted a photo of Jadon alone in his own hospital bed.
"I actually asked why they rearranged the room because I hadn't really internalised the idea that there would be two beds in here," Mrs McDonald wrote with the photo, also wishing her son a "happy rebirth day".
In an earlier post, Nicole wrote: "It's a bit surreal to sit here and type this... I should feel so happy... TWO SEPARATE BABIES!!!...and yet I ache with the uncertainty of the future."
The boys were born with shared blood vessels and brain tissues, a very rare condition that occurs once in about 10 million births, doctors say.
Dr James Goodrich, who has performed similar operations for other children including two Syrian twins earlier this year, prepared for the operation by creating 3D models of the attached heads.
CNN's Sanjay Gupta, who witnessed the surgery, says that 80% of similar twins die if they have not been separated before the age of two.
The McDonald family moved house with their two-year-old son and twin boys from Chicago to New York to be closer to Montefiore hospital.
The family has raised more than $100,000 for the costs of surgery.
The 28-year-old has made 69 league starts for Leeds since signing from Italian club Sampdoria in July 2014.
A senior Switzerland international, Berardi can play at either right-back or left-back.
He played 38 minutes before being withdrawn with an injury as Leeds began their 2017-18 season with a 3-2 win at newly-promoted Bolton on Sunday.
It's a big part of their campaign.
Party leader Nigel Farage says he wants immigration back to "normal" levels.
What does that mean?
There have been a lot of numbers flying around.
We've broken down some key statistics for you.
Net migration is the difference between the number of people moving into and out of the country.
UKIP want an "Australian-style points-based visa system" which they say will ensure only skilled workers are allowed into the country.
298,000 is the net migration figure to the UK for the year up to September 2014.
That's up 88,000 from the year before - a "significant" increase, according to the Office for National Statistics. Additionally it's up 46,000 from the last election.
But that number is still below the peak of 320,000 which was recorded in the first half of 2005.
Other things you might find interesting about immigration in 2010:
In 2011, the prime minister promised to get net migration down to "tens of thousands" each year.
At first it looked as though that target might be hit.
Immigration began to fall during 2011 because of policies like cracking down on "bogus" colleges and making fewer non-EU visas available.
But the worsening economic situation across Europe meant that people from countries like Spain and Portugal began to head to the UK in search of work.
Chancellor George Osborne says that the target still stands.
Net migration from EU: 251,000 people
Net migration from the rest of the world: 292,000 people
The number of people coming to the UK from outside the EU is higher than those from non-EU countries.
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Currently, copper wires transfer information in a computer; the process is slowed down as the wires heat up.
"Photonic" and "spintronic" computing is the principle of transferring information by light or electron spin.
This new property means that silicon-based light detectors identify spin, so more information can be transferred.
Spin is a property of sub-atomic particles, which influences the ordering of electrons and nuclei in atoms and molecules.
The discovered property is usually observed in materials containing heavy elements, which are difficult to integrate into existing computing systems that are composed mainly of silicon.
Silicon is a highly symmetrical crystal, but by changing the geometry of it, the team was able to impart "chiral" properties to it. Something is chiral if the mirror image of the object cannot be superimposed on the original.
This chirality means that silicon-based detectors are able to detect the spin of electrons and light, and as a result allow more information to be transmitted.
"The whole computer running with light is a distant dream, but some copper interconnectors can be replaced with light and photo-detector devices," Professor Ritesh Agarwal, who led this study at the University of Pennsylvania, told BBC News.
"This is only around five years away from now. The technology already exists, but this can bring added functionality."
The discovery, which is published in the journal Science, was made by accident, while investigating heavier materials.
As well as discovering chirality in silicon, this study has wider implications for materials science.
"It's the same silicon, all we've done is cut it in a particular direction," explained Professor Ritesh Agarwal.
This is a step towards engineering new, useful properties by changing the geometry of a material.
Police said 270 drivers were found to be over the alcohol limit, 12 more than last year.
Its operation ran from 27 November to 2 January.
The figure includes motorists who were unfit to drive, or who were unable or refused to give a sample.
ACC Alan Todd said said: "While the number of detections is slightly higher than last year, it's difficult to accept this situation as a success - we shouldn't be detecting anyone drink-driving."
One motorist was found to be almost five times over the limit, he said.
"It's disappointing that despite our warnings, a minority of people completely disregarded the safety of themselves and others by continuing this shameful and incredibly dangerous practice," he said.
He polled 41,345 votes after the second round of counting, ahead of Labour's Reg Watson, who totalled 30,437.
As Mr McCall had not secured more than 50% of the vote initially, a second count was required with second preference votes added.
He said he was "proud to serve his home county" and would avoid "Punch and Judy politics".
Liberal Democrat Loraine Birchall, Independent Mary Robinson and UKIP's Michael Pye were eliminated after the first count.
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But in an age when so much of our lives are online, little thought has been given to how we handle a person's digital world when they are no longer with us.
By the time the "Facebook generation" become old and grey, their whole lives may be spread out with a million updates on Twitter, thousands of photos on Flickr, hours and hours of video on YouTube and maybe their own website too.
As a person dies, should their online presence end too? What should happen to all that personal information?
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Richard Banks believes he may have the solution. He is an interaction designer for Microsoft and his team, based in Cambridge, have been working on the concept of digital memories - and how, even if a person is no longer with us, their digital self can still be enjoyed.
He told BBC Radio 4's All in the Mind about how the death of his grandfather few years ago inspired him to think about the future of bereavement.
"After he passed away, I became the recipient of a suitcase full of photos of his life.
"Inside there was about 200 shots of different periods of his life, all old analogue photos, printed out, stored away in envelopes.
"It got me thinking about what the difference would be, now, with my photographic practices, and the kind of things I might leave behind for my own children."
He has created several devices that run independently from any computer or other internet device, instead acting like a traditional box of pictures and memories.
Rather than physical photos, however, the pictures in this device are displayed via an interactive touchscreen.
"If I touch one of those photos at any point, then I get taken to a timeline," explained Mr Banks.
"What appears then is a whole range of photos spread over time.
"Suddenly it's a way of thinking can we start to take advantage of the digital qualities of some of this content, so that we can start to make objects that maybe represent a person's life, or maybe give a sense of their evolution over time, or where they spent time at different points in their life."
Mr Banks hopes that his devices would mean digital memories would far outlive the technology they were created on - much like the old photographs in his grandfather's suitcase.
This task is made easier by our increasing reliance on "the cloud" to host our information - rather than physical storage such as hard drives for floppy disks.
"I think we tend to think about the physical limitations of digital things through objects like floppy discs and DVDs and CDs that we've stored our content on.
"I think actually some of those physical limitations are going to go away as we start to store more and more content online. We'll put them in places and they'll pretty much just stay there."
This, however, offers up another issue. Will there be simply too much data? If these systems save every utterance online, the suitcase of 200 precious pictures could suddenly become a vast collection of pointless data.
"I think that sense of quantity, and overwhelming numbers of content, is a tougher thing to handle," says Mr Banks.
"I think there are ways to deal with that computationally - getting a sense of when photos were taken or who might be in the photos and those kinds of things."
Our online personas can offer a candid look back at a persons' life giving glimpses into personalities and friendships. But with it comes a risk of sharing too much.
Abigail Sellen is also part of the team working on the project. She says that we may, while we're still alive, have to consider what could be left behind when we pass away.
"A lot of those materials may in fact be quite sensitive or personal.
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"So if you leave all of that stuff behind to somebody that you care about, is that person going to be comfortable going through all of it?"
Ms Sellen says that finding secrets left behind by a deceased relative is nothing new, but e-mail archives and other information could be misinterpreted.
"In the past we might have worried about physical love letters and coming across those when you're going through your grandfather's things and being shocked by it.
"At least in that case you know that they kept them for a reason and maybe it was important to them."
In future, it may be that as we write our wills and maybe even burn our secret letters, we may have to also spend time cleaning out our online lives, ready to be put on show to those closest to us.
In western Maharashtra state, they have been on strike for a week in some seven districts now, spilling milk on the streets, shutting down markets, protesting on the roads and attacking vegetable trucks. In neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, curfew has been imposed after five farmers were killed in clashes with police on Tuesday. Last month, farmers in southern Telangana and Andhra Pradesh staged protests and burnt their red chilli crop.
The farmers are demanding waivers on farm loans and higher prices for their crops. For decades now, farming in India has been blighted by drought, small plot sizes, a depleting water table, declining productivity and lack of modernisation.
Half of its people work in farms, but farming contributes only 15% to India's GDP. Put simply, farms employ a lot of people but produce too little. Crop failures trigger farm suicides with alarming frequency.
The present unrest is, however, rooted in a problem of plenty.
In Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, the farmers are on the streets because a bumper harvest fuelled by a robust monsoon has led to a crop glut. Prices of onions, grapes, soya-bean, fenugreek and red chilli, for example, have nosedived.
In most places, the governments have been less than swift in paying the farmer more for the crops - the government sets prices for farming in India and procures crops from farmers to incentivise production and ensure income support.
So why has a bumper crop led to a crisis in farming?
Some believe that the price crash is the result of India's controversial withdrawal of high value banknotes - popularly called demonetisation - late last year.
The ban, surprisingly, did not hurt planting as farmers "begged and borrowed" from their kin and social networks to pay for fertilisers, pesticides and labour, Harish Damodaran, rural affairs and agriculture editor at The Indian Express newspaper told me.
So more land was actually cropped, and bountiful rains led to a bumper crop. But traders, Mr Damodaran believes, possibly did not have enough cash to pick up the surplus crop.
"Although the chronic cash shortage has passed, there is still a liquidity problem. I have been talking to traders who say there's not enough cash, which remains the main medium of credit in villages. I suspect the price crash has been caused by a lack of cash."
A prominent trader in Lasangaon, Asia's biggest onion market in Maharashtra, a state which accounts for a third of India's annual production, told me that concerns over shortage of cash leading to crop price crashes were "exaggerated".
"There has been a good crop for sure, but a lot of traders have picked up crop, paying cash, issuing cheques and using net banking. Some of the glut and wastage has been due to the ongoing strike, when trucks of vegetables have been attacked on the highways," Manoj Kumar Jain said.
Still others believe the main reason for the ongoing crises actually rooted in India's chronic failure of coping with surplus harvests because of lack of adequate food storage and processing capacity.
"If the rains are good, you end up with a glut of crops and prices crash. The glut only highlights the inefficiencies of the farming value chain and hits farmers," Ashok Gulati, an agriculture specialist at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, told me.
Take onions, for example. The vegetable is 85% water and loses weight quickly.
In Lasangaon, traders buy the crop from farmers and store the onions on concrete in tarpaulin-covered sheds. If the weather stays right, 3-5% of the stored crop is wasted in storage. But if the mercury soars, more onions dry up, lose weight and 25-30% of the stored crop could be wasted.
In a modern cold storage, however, onions can be stored in wooden boxes at 4C. Crop wastage is less than 5%. Storage costs about a rupee (less than a US cent) for every kilogram of onion a month.
So the government needs to make sure - or even subsidise - to keep the vegetable affordable to consumers once it reaches the retail market.
"We need to make the supply storage chain so efficient that the customer, farmer and the storage owner are happy. Unfortunately India hasn't been able to make that happen," Dr Gulati said.
For one, India just doesn't have enough cold storages.
There are some 7,000 of them, mostly stocking potatoes in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Resultantly, fruits and vegetables perish very quickly. Unless India hoards food effectively, a bumper crop can easily spell doom for farmers.
Secondly, there's not enough processing of food happening to ensure that crops don't perish or go waste.
Take onions, again.
One way to dampen volatility in onion prices is to dehydrate the bulb and make these processed onions more widely available. Currently, less than 5% of India's fruit and vegetables is processed.
Thirdly, farmers in India plant for new harvest looking back at crop prices in the previous year.
If the crop prices were healthy, they sow more of the same, hoping for still better prices.
If the rains are good, a crop glut can happen easily, and lead to extraordinary fall in prices. Farmers hold on to the crops for a while, and then begin distress sales.
"You need to allow future prices through contract farming, not cropping based on last year's prices," says Dr Gulati.
Clearly, farming policies in India need a radical overhaul.
Punjab, India's "granary", is a perfect example.
At a time when India does not suffer food shortages, water-guzzling wheat and rice comprise 80% of its cropped area and deplete groundwater.
Rising production of cereals has meant that government has been giving paltry rises to the farmers while buying paddy and wheat, eroding their profitability.
"They [the policies] are distorting the choices that farmers make - those who should be finding ways to grow vegetables, which grow more expensive every year, are instead growing wheat we no longer need," says Mihir Sharma, author of Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy.
But the best that the governments here do is to quickly raise crop buying prices and alleviate the farmers' suffering.
Faced with a crop glut at home, the newly appointed BJP government in Uttar Pradesh was smart enough to promptly raise the procurement price of potatoes - and announce a controversial farm loan waiver - and quell a simmering farmers' revolt .
The government in Madhya Pradesh, ruled by the same party, failed to act in time. Now it says it will pay more to buy off the surplus onions. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
In a nature documentary-themed statement on the club's website, the 34-year-old left-armer likens himself to a wild dog with "half a leg missing" after years of battle.
Even when revealing he will stay on to coach young players, Tomlinson could not resist sticking to his theme.
"Although I was once both the young dog at the front and the healthy dog in the middle, I feel now is the right time to head back to the den," he said.
"I now have the opportunity to do just that and look after all the young dogs coming through - a job I already love and cherish."
From there, he abandons the analogy and goes on to an Oscar-acceptance speech list of acknowledgments, thanking brothers Hugh, Ralph, former Pakistan star Wasim Akram, the Hampshire slip cordon and the Dukes ball used in county cricket.
Tomlinson, who has spent his whole career at the Ageas Bowl and was the leading wicket-taker in the Championship in 2008 with 67, will call it a day at the end of the season.
This summer, he has only made six Championship appearances, taking 14 wickets at an average of 34.50.
However, it is batsmen around the circuit for whom he reserves his greatest appreciation.
"I would most like to thank the opposition batters who somehow for over a decade missed the straight ones and nicked the half volleys... to you all I will be forever grateful," he ends.
Former England spinner Graeme Swann: "This could be the greatest retirement statement in the history of English cricket"
Hampshire captain Will Smith: "In true Tommo style. A living legend. Been a privilege and an honour to share a dressing room with you T."
England and Hampshire spinner Liam Dawson: "Congrats to james Tomlinson on his career. been a pleasure to have played with you for all those years @hantscricket"
Hampshire batsman Jimmy Adams: "You won't find a better man. It's as simple as that."
Worcestershire bowler Jack Shantry: "Fantastic statement from one of the best blokes on the circuit."
Colin Yates, 31, from Wrexham, also had indecent images of children and other extreme pictures involving sex acts, Mold Crown Court heard.
He had a 15-year-old girl on his friends list he had arranged to meet saying "my father will pick you up".
Yates admitted being a public nuisance and possessing indecent images.
Judge David Hale said it was fortunate Yates did not meet the 15-year-old girl but it showed the defendant was prepared to go further, making it an aggravating factor in the case.
The court heard over the course of a year Yates had been using his fake Facebook accounts of three girls who he said were being "abused left, right and centre" by their father.
He regularly uploaded and cropped photographs and put them on the accounts, pretending to be the abused sisters.
They were put on social media groups which attracted like-minded people, the court was told.
"It is bizarre behaviour by you," the judge said. "It is very worrying conduct indeed.
"It is stupid to say you were just interested and doing research. You were getting some perverted kick out of it."
The judge said it was a case of persistent distribution of outrageous pornography, encouraging other people who were that way inclined to have somewhere they could feed their own feelings.
Peter Moss, defending, said his client could do with "a bit of a steer" to ensure that such offending did not happen again.
BBC Sport has picked out some of the day's main talking points from Saturday's action in the Football League.
Charlton's Guy Luzon became the 10th Football League manager to lose his job this season after a 3-0 loss to Brentford at The Valley.
The Addicks were third in the Championship after four games, but now sit 22nd after losing seven of their last nine fixtures.
Owner Roland Duchatelet is now left looking for his fifth manager since buying the club in January 2014, with only Damian Matthew having lasted longer than a year in the role since his takeover.
It is the second time Luzon has been fired by Duchatelet in 13 months, having been dismissed as Standard Liege manager by the Belgian in September 2014.
His dismissal also means that, on average, a Football League manager has lost his job almost every week since the opening day.
Kit Symons might also have been feeling the pressure this week, after Fulham owner Shahid Khan called for the Cottagers on Friday to challenge for the play-offs this season.
His team got off to a less-than-ideal start at Craven Cottage, falling 2-0 down after 49 minutes to goals from Lucas Piazon and Orlando Sa.
But Sa's strike seemed to spark the hosts into life, as three goals in six minutes from Ross McCormack, Alexander Kacaniklic and Moussa Dembele turned the game on its head.
Dembele's second goal put the result beyond doubt, as Fulham picked up their first win in more than a month.
Shola Ameobi had reportedly failed to win a contract in trials with four different clubs since leaving Crystal Palace in May, but the Nigerian finally found a home with Bolton on Friday.
And he made an instant impact for the Trotters in their 1-1 draw with Leeds United on Saturday.
The man who has made more substitute appearances than any other player in Premier League history did what he does best - come off the bench to volley an unstoppable opener past Leeds keeper Marco Silvestri.
It was the former Newcastle striker's first goal in English football since May 2014, and came only 20 minutes after replacing the injured Gary Madine.
Unfortunately for Ameobi, his goal was not enough to earn the Trotters a first win in seven games, as Mirco Antenucci's second-half penalty kept Neil Lennon's side bottom of the Championship table.
Peterborough ensured Doncaster Rovers boss Darren Ferguson's first trip back to London Road since leaving the Posh for a second time was one to forget.
Ferguson won three promotions and a Johnstone's Paint Trophy in his spells with Posh, but was unable to get the better of Graham Westley at his former stomping ground, as Peterborough ran out 4-0 winners.
The 43-year-old said he believed Rovers could challenge for promotion when he replaced Paul Dickov earlier this month - yet defeat leaves his side back in the relegation zone.
Swindon's miserable start to their League One campaign led one fan to return his season ticket, shirt and more than £1,000 worth of memorabilia earlier this week.
The Robins drew 2-2 with Coventry to avoid a ninth defeat in ten games, however, though they remain 23rd in the table, having been play-off finalists last season.
The Wiltshire club fell two goals down in chairman and interim manager Lee Power's second game in charge, as Romain Vincelot and Marcus Tudgay looked to have earned City a first win in three matches.
But on-loan Ben Gladwin's strike ended Reice Charles-Cook's remarkable run of 535 minutes without conceding, before Nicky Ajose's stoppage-time penalty rescued a much-needed point for the hosts.
The man fell ill at the Flying Duck in Renfield Street on Tuesday night.
An ambulance service spokesman said: "We received an emergency call at 10.40pm last night and two ambulances were sent to the scene."
A police spokeswoman said: "Emergency services attended but the man subsequently died." The man's death is not being treated as suspicious.
Henry Thornton, 28, of Crossmaglen, County Armagh, was shot in the head after his van backfired outside a police station in west Belfast.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has not tracked down three key witnesses, known as B, D and E, a court was told.
A long-awaited inquest into his death is scheduled to begin in October.
Mr Thornton was in a work van with a colleague when he was shot on the Springfield Road in Belfast. His death sparked serious rioting.
Coroner Jim Kitson told the preliminary hearing: "It is surprising that the MoD have three soldiers present in a police station and do not know who they are."
A fourth witness, possibly a police officer referred to as X or Major M in some court papers, was asleep on the second floor of the station when he heard loud bangs, it was claimed.
He has also not been traced and may live abroad, the court was told.
A barrister for the Coroners Service said the testimony from D and X was particularly important for the forthcoming inquest.
He said all avenues should be explored, including trawls through military pension records and reports by the Historical Enquiries Team.
Mr Thornton's widow and son were in court for the proceedings.
A barrister for the Thornton family said he was surprised that no-one knew where the witnesses were.
"This was a fatal incident and statements were taken, and they would have been told 'you are going to have to attend a coroners court'," he said.
The court was told that the soldier who fired the fatal shot, known only as A, may have died in Angola.
Problems with the legibility of some sensitive material disclosed by the MoD were also raised during the hearing.
The Tory MP has written to Chancellor Philip Hammond, to express a "number of concerns".
The tax office has cracked down on a number of schemes that created artificial losses for investors.
Those losses allowed investors to lower their overall tax bills.
Mr Tyrie said in his letter that his office had been contacted by an increasing number of people concerned that HMRC investigations into such schemes were "not always fair nor what anyone could have expected".
That had resulted in "financial calamity" for some individuals, as well as considerable difficulties for HMRC in closing down some schemes.
"Many have said that, when these schemes were being sold, they were not considered to be aggressive avoidance but just a deferral of tax, and they were often marketed as routine tax management," Mr Tyrie told the Chancellor.
"Whether or not these claims are valid, it does appear that many individuals are facing very severe financial distress as a consequence."
An HMRC spokesperson said: "We have worked hard to tackle abuse in the system on behalf of the vast majority of investors who play by the rules, ensuring they are enforced fairly, and with sensitivity."
Commenting on the correspondence, Mr Tyrie said: "If a tax avoidance scheme is found by the courts to be illegal, then investors in the scheme have no option but to repay the tax that they have avoided.
"But HMRC needs to treat people fairly, including investors in what are now considered to be tax avoidance schemes, and to be transparent and timely in their approach."
Some investors in film schemes have been hit with Accelerated Payment Notices, which give taxpayers 90 days to pay the disputed amount of tax.
Their use has been controversial because some tax advisers claim they scare taxpayers into paying up rather than contest claims in the courts.
Some 60,000 notices have been issued since their introduction in 2014 and have raised £3bn.
Although some consider the notices to be draconian, as they can require taxpayers to stump up sums described as "life-changing", HMRC has won various attempts to challenge their legality.
In August last year HMRC claimed victory in a tax avoidance battle over schemes worth more than £820m run by Ingenious Film Partnership and Icebreaker.
The Ingenious scheme tried to use artificial losses arising from backing a range of films including Avatar, Life of Pi and Die Hard 4. The Icebreaker scheme attempted to create artificial losses from limited liability partnerships.
HMRC said both schemes saw users claim more in tax relief than they had invested - a claim that Ingenious disputed.
Ingenious called the Tax Tribunal decision "arbitrary and subjective".
He was arrested following the discovery of a suspected brothel on Cromwell Road in south Belfast on Saturday morning.
"Three women who were at the property are now receiving appropriate assistance and support," said Det Insp Nigel Snoddy.
"They will be spoken with in due course."
Police said the man is being questioned "in relation to inciting prostitution for gain and keeping a brothel used for prostitution".
Should I shield them from the news? Is it best just to turn the television off? Will the images they see traumatise them? Or should I tell my children exactly what's happened?
The advice from professionals is that talking about these issues is better than avoiding them.
Consultant clinical psychologist Emma Citron, who specialises in children and trauma, says families should not shy away from talking about the tragic events in Manchester.
"Give children basic facts, tell them what it is they want to know, ask them what they would like to know and then give them access to that," she says.
"Support them and comfort them and be there for them, hug them, cry with them if they're crying, just respond to how they're responding emotionally.
"Take the lead from them - we need to know what it is they want answers to."
While turning off the television and radio might be a natural protective instinct, Dr Bernadka Dubicka from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, says shielding children from traumatic events in the news isn't practical in today's society.
"Parents can't shield children from these events completely," she says. "The reality is that children and young people are bombarded by 24/7 news."
Dr Dubicka says the most important thing is for parents to be there and to try to help their children manage their emotions.
"Trying to hide the news isn't helpful because they'll hear about it elsewhere and parents won't then be there to take them through it."
While it's important to talk about the news, parents should avoid unnecessary detail, adds Ms Citron.
"Avoid nasty details, there's no need for them, they're unnecessary.
"You don't want to be describing the scene, describing the bloodshed, describing what it looked like, showing them images - I would be avoiding all of that, because that can traumatise the child."
Ms Citron also advises parents to be firm with older children about how much they read on the internet.
"Tell your young person not to go scouring the internet for all the inside stories, it's just not necessary - we need to protect our young people as well."
Ms Citron says parents should take the lead from their children in how the conversation develops, but should try to include as many calm and reassuring phrases as possible.
"General comments like, 'This is a very rare occurrence', 'It's absolutely awful, but thank goodness it's extremely rare', and 'Security is going to be tightened even more', are really reassuring.
"We don't want our children feeling afraid to go out, we don't want them not to grow up to lead normal, happy, healthy, well-adjusted lives."
If faced with the question, "Could this happen again, mummy?", Ms Citron recommends telling the truth, but also giving children lots of reassurance about their normal, everyday activities.
"I would be saying, 'Of course it could' - and don't lie about that - 'But it's very unlikely, these are very, very rare events and we are sure the police are going to up security even more.
"'It'll be absolutely fine to still go to your football or your netball, it'll be absolutely fine to still go on your scout camp', or whatever it is they do.
"'We have to to carry on living our lives in a normal way and not be cowed by these bad people.'"
The scale of the Manchester attack and the possibility that affected schools might postpone exams, means the subject will be an inevitable topic of conversation in schools.
"I'd be surprised if schools weren't giving pupils a chance to talk about the attack," says Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders.
"If students want to talk, teachers will let them ask questions and they will be talking to them about how they can look at appropriate, reliable sources for information."
Mr Barton says schools will also be working hard to emphasise a sense of community cohesion.
"Schools will be wanting to emphasise the sense of community and shared values - they'll be using every opportunity to celebrate what they have in their own community."
But, in his 15-year experience as a head teacher, he says schools will be keeping a "business as usual" approach in the wake of this attack, unless they are directly affected.
"Routines are important and can carry people through - they keep a sense of calm purpose."
The signs of trauma depend very much on the individual, however, symptoms to watch for include:
If you are concerned about your child and think he or she is traumatised by events in the news, you can approach your GP.
If the problems go on, the doctor may suggest accessing some extra help from the local child and adolescent mental health service (Camhs).
But parents should try not to be overly anxious, as Dr Dubicka says: "The vast majority of young people will cope with this and will be OK."
The 33-year-old suffered a pectoral muscle injury, which requires surgery, in their defeat by Clermont Auvergne on 20 December.
"We will know more of the details post-operation," said head coach Rob Baxter.
"Damian is looking like he is out long-term, which is unfortunate. It's more likely to be months rather than weeks."
Welch joins Chiefs team-mates Henry Slade (broken leg), Luke Cowan-Dickie (broken thumb) and Dave Ewers (knee) on the Premiership club's long-term injury list.
Seventeen-year-old Dylan Reynders spent his holidays studying the South African constitution and the country's Schools Act.
And on his return to school this month he decided to make a personal stand: He refused to cut his hair.
This triggered a national debate which has lasted for weeks.
According to the rules of Johannesburg's high-profile Bryanston High School, boys' hair may not touch the ears or collar or curl around their necks. Dylan's hair did.
When I asked him what drove him to defy the school rules, he told me: "I just thought enough is enough. Plus my hair wasn't that long."
I must confess when I saw Dylan's hair, I was surprised how short it was- still at least an inch above his collar.
When two other boys at school decided to support their friend, more followed. When I met Dylan, he told me: "They call me their Jesus."
Dylan was promptly suspended from the school and missed two of the first three weeks of term.
His mother Vanessa Roux supported him. She told me her son was facing up to a big challenge. "I was very proud of him. I raised both my boys to always question anything they didn't understand," she said.
The school governing body is obliged to implement the school's code of conduct and can suspend students who do not comply with the rules.
Chairman Aiden Hillebrand told me that he respected the student's courage in challenging the school but he had to comply with the rules as they are now.
He said: "This has sparked a debate about whether hair and uniform policy is still relevant at this day and age."
The provincial department of education attended some of the disciplinary hearings, after the student's mother lodged a complaint. It concluded that the school had acted correctly.
It has been suggested that it could be argued that it is unfair for girls to be allowed to have long hair, but not boys.
Phumla Sekhonyane from the provincial education department agreed that "there could be an argument for discrimination on the basis of gender... but that's for the courts to decide".
The SA Democratic Teachers' Union's Nkosana Dolopi, told the local Times newspaper that a review of codes of conduct was necessary.
"We are not, however, saying that there should be lawlessness in schools. Children should be neat at all times and dressed accordingly," he added.
But he said it was also important that "policies should be sensitive to the fact that pupils can't be denied access to school".
Dylan is now back at school having been given the assurance that, over the next month, he will be able to contribute to a new policy on pupils' hair through the student council.
And he finally agreed to a haircut.
He told me his Moroccan barber did not appreciate the significance of the trim.
"I just sat down and I asked him to cut my hair as usual," he said "He had no idea what was going on."
If Bryanston High School takes the leap and changes its code of conduct to allow boys to keep longer hair, Dylan will have changed rules that have shaped generations.
But more importantly other schools might follow and, if so, he will have led a hair revolution.
The chairman in question is her parent, Sri Ram, and together they run Supreme Creations, the UK's largest producer of reusable shopping bags made from natural fibres.
For 16 years the business has been making jute, canvas and cotton bags for everyone from UK supermarkets Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury's, to US sportswear giant Nike, and fashion retailer Top Shop.
Set up by Mr Ram, his daughter convinced him to let her join the business six years ago when she was 22.
He made her work her way up from the bottom at the firm's London head office.
When Ms Sriram joined the company it only made plain reusable bags, but her big idea was to introduce fashion designs. And as a result, sales rose sharply, and last year she was made chief executive.
Supreme Creations now manufacturers "several million" bags a year at its own factory in southern India, has 800 staff, and supplies 50,000 clients around the world.
The business is an example of a still rare but growing phenomenon - a company run by a father and daughter.
While father and son firms remain far more common, as an increasing number of women are deciding on a career in business, many are choosing to join their dads at the family firm.
But what is it like to run a company with your father or daughter? What are the benefits, and what can go wrong?
Here three sets of dads and daughters discuss their working lives.
Ms Sriram, now 28, says her dad took some persuading before he would let her join Supreme Creations, because he was apprehensive about mixing family life with business.
At the time she was an Oxford University graduate who had completed internships at Deutsche Bank and advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi, but "wanted to get a short stint with my father as he is a successful entrepreneur".
After joining the company she never looked back.
"My father and I have an extremely loving yet professional relationship, but he remains Dr Sri or chairman [at work]," says Ms Sriram.
"It keeps a very clear divider between our lives, which allows us to respect each other in a professional outfit.
"Business is business, however he has given me unadulterated advice and mentored me daily. This is priceless.".
Mr Ram says that his daughter was able to quickly understand the business and "carve a niche for herself".
He also thinks that their working relationship is more effective because she is his daughter rather than a son.
"There are many things that men do differently [to women]," says Mr Ram. "If I had a son then he might have been a mini version of me. But with a daughter, that yin and yang situation exists."
While everything appears to run smoothly at Supreme Creations, another father and daughter partnership, Peter Ibbetson and Gemma Guise, admit that their working relationship can be a lot more tempestuous.
Together they run two businesses - Primedia Solutions, which delivers media training to chief executives, and a public relations company called Journolink.
Mrs Guise joined the her dad at the businesses in London's Canary Wharf three years ago, and they ultimately had to bring in an independent adjudicator to prevent them from arguing.
Mr Ibbetson, 59, says: "We have put in a chairwoman who is the independent part of the business, and she is the oil between us.
"She's set out that if you're having a row or disagreement, you have to be allowed to take 10 to 15 minutes of time out, to prevent an escalation."
Mrs Guise, 31, says that the pressure of running the two businesses can be "immense", and that this is what can lead to arguments.
She adds: "You sacrifice everything for the business, your time, your income, your holiday, your life in general.
"We [my dad and I] share the best highs and the worst lows. We are best friends and worst enemies.
"But that common ground of sheer success and determination will always cement the cracks in our relationship."
Entrepreneur and business mentor, Clare Raynor, says she turned down the chance to join her father's company when she was younger, because she felt she "would be more an employee than a partner".
For a father and daughter relationship to work, she says it "really does depend" on their underlying relationship, and that their skills complement each other.
"If he has the knowledge and experience, and the daughter brings energy, enthusiasm, and ideas, then it can work," adds Ms Raynor.
To increase the chance of a father and daughter being a success, her advice is that creating a new business together will likely prove easier than the daughter joining a long-established family firm.
"With a start-up there's more room to understand each other's roles and ideals, which can be sorted out beforehand," says Ms Raynor.
"You are both creating things equally, but a hand-me-down business might have issues, and there could be conflict due to differing ideas."
Creating a new business with her father is exactly what 20 year old Charleh Dickenson did 18 months ago.
Ms Dickenson, who had suffered from food allergies from a young age, came up with the idea of producing a range of cakes and snacks, which are all free from gluten, dairy products, and eggs, and only contain naturally occurring sugars.
Joining forces with her dad, Peter Dickenson, they set up Designed2Eat. Based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, it sells both online and at food festivals.
Ms Dickenson says that setting up the company with her dad was an easy decision to make.
"I'm a daddy's girl, and we always got on really," she says. "We are very similar characters, but we have different strengths."
Designed2Eat now sells more than 1,000 products per month, and dad agrees that he and Ms Dickenson "complement each other very well".
One tweet from the 25-year-old Premier League player's account appeared to condone killing gay people.
The tweets from four years ago were posted when Gray was playing for non-league Hinckley United.
Gray, who is charged with bringing the game into disrepute, has until 6pm on 31 August to respond to the charge.
He apologised and asked "for forgiveness" for the posts, saying he was now a "completely different person" and did not "hold the beliefs written in those tweets".
The posts, which also contained offensive terms, were deleted on Saturday soon after being highlighted.
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Mick Philpott, 56, denies any involvement in starting the fire at his Derby home last May.
He said he and his children had received death threats after the family appeared on ITV's Jeremy Kyle Show.
Mr Philpott and two others deny six counts of manslaughter.
His wife Mairead Philpott, 31, and Paul Mosley 46, are accused of starting the fire in a bid to frame Mr Philpott's former mistress Lisa Willis, 29, who was involved in a custody battle over the four children she shared with him.
On the first day of the defence case Mick Philpott told the court that Amanda Cousins, the sister of Ms Willis, had threatened to kill his wife and their children after the Philpotts had turned up at her home.
He said he and his wife had also received silent calls from a withheld number in the weeks leading up to the fire.
Talking about his regret at appearing on TV, he told Nottingham Crown Court he needed a bigger house as the family was growing, but people were disgusted at him having two lovers and 11 children.
Until February 2012, Mr Philpott lived in a four-bedroom house with his wife Mairead and their six children as well as Ms Willis with her five children.
"The children and myself got death threats. We were called rats; the scum of the earth," he told the court.
Jurors heard that a "large number of people" had keys to the house and the door was usually left unlocked.
He told the court that benefits paid to his wife and Ms Willis were paid into his account but he left his bank cards out for both women to use.
"They never had to ask for money," he said.
Mr Philpott said he had no idea that Ms Willis was going to leave him.
Asked about their relationship, he said: "At that particular time I thought that me and Lisa had this bond that was inseparable."
He said he had discussed it with his wife because she was "concerned" about it.
Mr Philpott told the court that he was spending a lot of time with his wife and slept in the evenings with Ms Willis.
He said he had asked his wife for a divorce "three to four times" so he could marry Ms Willis.
He said: "It was a well known fact by everybody that Lisa wanted me to herself. But Mairead wouldn't leave me, she wasn't going anywhere."
Jurors heard that he and his wife regularly discussed with Ms Willis what would happen should there be a split.
"We always said that if we ever split up we would never stop each other from seeing the children," he said.
Asked how Mr and Mrs Philpott's children felt when Ms Willis Left, Mr Philpott said they were "distraught".
"They were so upset, so distraught. It was horrible," he said.
He told the court that he had taken some tablets with brandy after Ms Willis left.
"Was this a suicide attempt?" Mr Orchard asked him.
"No, it was self-pity," Mr Philpott replied.
Mr Philpott also denied prosecution witness claims that he ever mentioned fire, burning or petrol in the weeks before the fatal blaze.
Jade Philpott, 10, John, nine, Jack, eight, Jesse, six, and Jayden, five, perished in the fire at their house in Victory Road, in Allenton.
Their brother Duwayne, 13, died two days later at Birmingham Children's Hospital.
The trial continues.
The remote Micronesian island of Kosrae has been home to Australian couple Doug and Sally Beitz since the 1990s.
They decided to raffle their home and, after selling more than 75,000 tickets, will return to Queensland with nearly A$4m ($3m, £2.3m).
Josh Ptasznyk, 26, from the city of Wollongong in New South Wales state, said he was "overwhelmed" by the win.
"What started as a simple click of a news article during my lunch break that piqued my interest has resulted in a life-changing experience that I could only dream of," he told the Daily Telegraph.
"I would like to thank Doug and Sally and the whole Beitz family for providing this amazing opportunity and am looking forward to cutting the red tape, making a trip to the resort to see what paradise looks like, and to experience all that the resort has to offer."
To inspect his winnings, Mr Ptasznyk will need to fly to Guam and then catch a ferry.
Running the 16-room resort and scuba business will be a big change from filling out tax returns from small business owners.
Mr Beitz said the island's new owner "will do a great job".
"He didn't believe us at first," he said.
"He is still coming to grips with it. I was trying to convince him it was real ... it was a surreal moment. It was relatively controlled — it took a while for him to sink in."
The party could return to the glory days when it held more than 20 seats in the East - or it could lose the precious few it already has. There are questions over how important he will be to Labour's plans.
Even though Mr Corbyn had the backing of two of our MPs - Luton's Kelvin Hopkins and Norwich South's Clive Lewis - many of those who stood for Labour at the last election voted for other candidates.
Most have not voiced criticism of Mr Corbyn, preferring instead to focus on what they hope will be the positive impact of the new leader.
"The enthusiasm which he has unleashed is fantastic," said Cambridge MP, Daniel Zeichner, who had voted for Yvette Cooper.
"He has touched a chord within the British public and I am excited about the future."
Euro MEP Richard Howitt, who also supported Yvette Cooper said: "We must now unite behind the new. Any party that does not stay united will not win elections and Labour knows that to its cost."
There are others within the party who are worried about what Jeremy Corbyn will mean for the party in the region.
Former Norwich MP and Home Secretary Charles Clarke said: "I think it is very serious problem for Labour and very difficult for us to gain the confidence of people at a general election."
Although the former home secretary said he did not think Labour had given up on the East, he added: "There is no doubt that the election we've gone through in the Labour Party makes it more difficult rather than easier.
"Labour can win back the East but it has to have the right policies, the right approach and the right people."
Former Northampton North MP Sally Keeble, speaking before the result, warned a Corbyn leadership would "be very damaging indeed".
"I think it would make it extraordinarily difficult going into the next election because we would be going in with commitments on more spending which people would know to be unaffordable.
"We would also be going in with positions on some foreign affairs which would be really difficult for the public to accept," she said.
When Tony Blair swept to victory in 1997, Labour won 25 seats across he eastern counties - its best result ever. In 2010 it was all but wiped out, holding just two constituencies, both in Luton.
This year Labour added Cambridge and Norwich South but both those wins took seats from Liberal Democrats.
Labour failed to gain any Conservative seats in this region and in nearly every other seat which it contested in the East, the Tory majority went up.
That is why there is a lot of unease among some local members about whether a move to the left will really work.
They accept that Jeremy Corbyn played to packed crowds when he spoke around the country, but they question if that will be enough to win in former Labour target seats like Norwich North, Ipswich, Great Yarmouth, Waveney and Bedford.
They also say that Mr Corbyn's more left-wing message may play better in parts of the country with a traditional working class vote but less well in this more affluent region.
In fact some within the Corbyn camp have told us that the East is not seen as a priority.
"I am not writing off the East of England, I am an MP there," said Clive Lewis, a key member of the Corbyn campaign.
"But you have to realise that for us the elephant in the room is Scotland, we need to win it back and win big again in the North of England.
"Of all four candidates Jeremy Corbyn was the best placed person to do that and that was the game changer," he added.
Others too in the Labour camp have told us that they also expect Scotland and the North of England to be the main focus of Labour's efforts under Corbyn rather than the East of England.
After Labour's dismal defeat under Michael Foot, the then shadow minister Giles Radice was asked to look at where Labour had gone wrong.
In his report "Southern Discomfort," he concluded Labour could never win power again unless it could win seats like Ipswich.
After the 2010 defeat the former MP for Waveney wrote a report saying that winning in the East was essential to Labour's future success.
The policy was embraced by Ed Miliband who beefed up the regional office and regularly visited the region.
Could the East be forgotten again under Jeremy Corbyn, or will the new leader surprise us all?
A rule imposed in April means people need at least 10 years of National Insurance contributions in order to start qualifying for the pension.
MPs on the Work and Pensions Select Committee had complained that many would have been unaware of the change.
Now the government will write to those affected.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has decided to write to those most at risk "as a one-off exercise" before the end of the year.
The letters will go to individuals within nine years of state pension age whose records suggest will have fewer than 10 qualifying years of contributions by the time they retire.
"This will test whether direct mail is more effective for this group, given we can identify them and we believe it is possible to formulate a clear message and call to action," the DWP said.
The 10-year rule was introduced alongside the new state pension which is being paid to those who reached pension age from April. So it is going to men born after 6 April 1951 and women born after 6 April 1953.
It is paid at a flat rate of £155.65 a week to those with a full 35 years of contributions. Those with contributions of between 10 and 35 years will receive a proportion of this total.
The previous basic state pension, which is still being paid to existing pensioners, is worth about £120 a week, plus top-ups such as the state second pension for those who qualify.
Hackers posted a file containing encrypted passwords onto a Russian web forum.
They have invited the hacking community to help with decryption.
LinkedIn, which has more than 150 million users, said the leaked passwords would no longer be valid.
Members would receive an email with instructions on how to reset them, the company said. Users would then receive a second email with further details about why the change was necessary, it added.
The news comes as LinkedIn was forced to update its mobile app after a privacy flaw was uncovered by security researchers.
Security experts have advised users to change their passwords on LinkedIn. Here's how:
If you use the same password on other sites, be sure to change those too.
Skycure Security said the the mobile app was sending unencrypted calendar entries to LinkedIn servers without users' knowledge.
The information included meeting notes, which often contain information such as dialling numbers and passcodes for conference calls.
In response LinkedIn said it would "no longer send data from the meeting notes section of your calendar".
The company stressed that the calendar function was an opt-in feature.
However, the
researchers who uncovered the flaw
said the transmission of the data to LinkedIn's servers was done without a "clear indication from the app to the user".
In a
statement posted on the company's blog
, LinkedIn's mobile product head Joff Redfern said a new "learn more" link would be added to the app so users have a clearer picture about how their information is being used and transmitted.
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Lewes MP Maria Caulfield said survival rates were "dismal" outside hospital as she proposed a bill in Parliament.
A petition for defibrillators in all schools drew 110,000 signatures after Liverpool schoolboy Oliver King suffered a cardiac arrest in 2011.
MPs were told that 30,000 heart attacks occur outside hospital every year, but fewer than one in ten victims survive.
Oliver King, 12, died after his heart stopped during a school swimming lesson at the city's King David High School.
"He died when no defibrillator was available and when paramedics took 24 minutes to get to the scene," said Ms Caulfield.
Campaigners say every year an average of 270 children die at school from Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome - the condition that led to Oliver's death.
In 2013, The Oliver King Foundation helped secure a change in government policy where all schools are recommended - but not obliged - to purchase a defibrillator.
Ms Caulfield warned there was a "postcode lottery" in current provision and demanded every community be given the kit and training in how to use it.
Her Defibrillators (Availability) Bill would require all schools, sports centres and other public facilities to have a defibrillator and train staff to use it.
After the motion was passed in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr King said he was "over the moon".
"It's mixed emotions because nothing that happens will bring my Olly back but we can stop it happening to other families.
"It's taken five years' hard work... but the real work starts today."
Catherine Kelly from the British Heart Foundation, called on all secondary schools to create "a nation of lifesavers by applying for our free CPR training and defibrillator awareness package".
"This will give young people the confidence to step in and try to save a life when they are faced with the ultimate medical emergency of a cardiac arrest."
The bill is due to be debated in the Commons on 27 January next year, but it is unlikely to proceed without government support.
What is a defibrillator?
Source: British Heart Foundation
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Four engines were called out to the incident in the Crossmichael area shortly after 09:00.
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All the occupants of the building had left the property by the time crews arrived on the scene and there have been no injuries reported.
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Briton Davies won F42 shot put gold with a Games record at Rio 2016, but was unable to defend his 2012 discus title as it did not feature in Brazil.
"I don't normally say what I'm going for," said the Welshman, 25.
"But this time I'm definitely going for the two golds in both disciplines and nothing will be better than being in front of a home crowd."
Davies is set to resume training after taking a post-Rio break.
"As much as I love time off I love what I do and focus has already shifted to London," he said.
"Rio was only a stepping stone towards that and London is going to be a huge event, back in the Olympic Stadium."
Davies won F42 discus and shot put golds at the past two IPC World Athletics Championships - in Lyon in 2013 and in Doha two years later.
John Lyall fell backwards into the water at Pembroke's Mill Pond on 16 April.
Two passers-by tried to help but the 56-year-old, of Pembroke Dock, could not be resuscitated.
On Thursday, Coroner Mark Layton said Mr Lyall died by drowning, at a hearing in Milford Haven.
Wayne Anthony Young, 52, of Pembroke, died at the pond on New Year's Day and the body of 18-year-old Robert Mansfield, also of Pembroke, was found there on 27 July.
Inquests into their deaths are yet to take place.
Pembroke Council has rejected calls for safety netting to be erected at the pond, with Pembrokeshire Council backing that decision after saying such structures would be impractical.
At least 352 people have been killed by the infection in the space of three months, and more than 6,400 cases have been reported, mostly in the north.
Doctors are now monitoring outbreaks in 12 of Nigeria's 36 states.
The health ministry blames the spread of the disease on heavy seasonal rains and the scarcity of clean water and proper sanitation.
In a statement, it said "epidemiological evidence indicates that the entire country is at risk".
The outbreak has also killed more than 200 people in neighbouring Cameroon.
Cholera, a water-borne disease, causes diarrhoea and severe dehydration and can lead to death if not detected and properly treated.
The infection is highly contagious yet easily preventable with clean water and sanitation.
The BBC's Caroline Duffield in Lagos says medical care in Nigeria is generally poor.
In many places access to toilets is rare and open-air sewers can easily flood, she says.
He left the home of the convicted tax fraudster after two hours, at 03:45 (01:45 GMT), the Kremlin confirmed.
The two enjoyed good personal relations while Berlusconi was in power.
Mr Putin, 62, had already raised eyebrows by missing a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday, the first day of the summit.
He was in the Serbian capital Belgrade as guest of honour at a military parade to mark the city's liberation from Nazi Germany 70 years ago.
The talks with Mrs Merkel, which focused on the peace process in Ukraine, eventually started four hours late, Russian media report.
Correspondents say Mr Putin has a reputation for arriving late. He kept Pope Francis waiting 50 minutes when he visited the Vatican last year.
The Russian president met Berlusconi "by special permission" of the judicial authorities, Italian journalist Gerardo Pelosi said in a tweet.
"After the completion of official events... Putin came to see his old friend Berlusconi," Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed.
Despite his late night out, Mr Putin was back early on Friday for more talks with Mrs Merkel.
Berlusconi, 78, is serving a sentence of one year of community service at a care home near Milan since being convicted of tax fraud last year and ejected from the Italian Senate.
In July, an appeals court overturned his separate conviction for paying for sex with a minor. The court explained its decision on Thursday by saying there was not enough evidence to show Berlusconi had known Karima El-Mahroug was under 18 at the time.
Jimmy Prout, 45, was found dead on wasteland near his home in North Shields on 27 March 2016.
A jury heard he was tortured by a group he thought of as friends who subjected him to months of abuse.
Ann Corbett, 26, and Zahid Zaman, 43, both from Percy Main, were found guilty of murder at Newcastle Crown Court.
Myra Wood, 45, and Kay Rayworth, 56, of Stephen's Way, North Shields, were cleared of murder but convicted of causing or allowing the death of a vulnerable adult.
After the verdicts, Mr Prout's brother Eddie Prout said: "The things they've done to my brother you wouldn't have even seen in the worst horror films or your worst nightmare.
"There's not a word horrible enough to describe the people who did that to my brother.
"I hope they rot in hell. I don't want them to die, I just want them to suffer the way we are, suffer every single day and have nightmares like I do."
During the seven-week trial, the court heard Mr Prout died on 9 February 2016, and his decaying body had been partly eaten by animals on the wasteland.
All four defendants, who previously pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice, will be sentenced on 27 June.
The court was told the group of five, including Mr Prout, had a strange relationship which had developed an almost "cultish dimension".
They heard that a series of events in late 2015 created tensions that led to a number of serious assaults against Mr Prout, which included him having his teeth knocked out with a hammer and chisel.
Paul Greaney QC, prosecuting, said: "In effect, over a period of time, Jimmy Prout was not just mistreated, he was tortured.
"In the end, this conduct was to cause the death of Jimmy Prout."
After Mr Prout's body had been dumped, the court was told the group then set about covering their tracks by pretending to look for him and asking others to help.
Zaman, who uses a wheelchair and was the leader of the group, was described as vengeful and controlling and was determined to get his own back after he thought Mr Prout had been involved in stealing from him.
The jury was shown CCTV images, often taken from cameras Zaman had on his house, of the worsening condition of Mr Prout as the assaults continued, some of which showed him clearly unsteady on his feet and being pushed along the street.
Images of Mr Prout's injuries also appeared on his own Facebook account at the time, with words such as "My bodie hurt" and "My sholder hurts".
After the verdict Det Ch Insp Andy Fairlamb, of Northumbria Police, said it was "hard to imagine" that such assaults could still take place.
He said: "What they have done is appalling, abhorrent. In all my years of investigating homicides I have never seen levels of abuse of this nature before.
"Prior to his death, Jimmy was subjected to a number of serious assaults of a vile, degrading nature, which resulted in his health, both physical and emotional, deteriorating in the last weeks of his life, and to his death."
All four are due to be sentenced on 27 June.
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The Dons almost took a first-half lead when Graeme Shinnie crashed a shot against a post, with Adam Rooney unable to turn in the rebound.
The breakthrough came after the break though, Johnny Hayes dispatching Niall McGinn's measured cross.
Jamie Walker drew a fine save from Dons keeper Joe Lewis late on as the visitors held on for a deserved win.
The win takes Aberdeen within two points of second-placed Rangers in the Premiership, with both sides having played 20 matches. The Ibrox side face rivals Celtic on Saturday.
Aberdeen prospered by being assertive and more certain in their attacking play. They set out to isolate Hayes and McGinn on the Hearts full-backs, particularly Liam Smith on the right, and this was a constant source of threat for the visitors in the opening 45 minutes.
Hearts' minds seemed scrambled, as much by the effort of the Aberdeen players in pushing up and closing opponents down but also their own lack of composure. There was no spell of Hearts possession, as their midfield three saw the game pass them by.
Most of the Aberdeen chances came from their flank, with McGinn's cross reaching Kenny McLean, whose header was pushed away by Hearts goalkeeper Jack Hamilton. The goalkeeper had already been relieved when Mark Reynolds headed wide from close range, and he later had to clear frantically when the ball spun off his teammate Faycal Rherras inside the six yard box.
Hearts head coach Ian Cathro tried to alter the flow of the game, bringing Arnaud Djoum deeper and wide, but Aberdeen's central midfielders also imposed themselves and Shinnie rattled a shot off the upright from 20 yards.
The play was more even-handed after the break, with Krystian Nowak essentially playing as a third centre-back for Hearts instead of a holding midfielder, and so encouraging Smith and Rherras to push further forward on the flanks, when they could afford to.
It was a measure of the game's dynamic that Hearts' first corner came two minutes into the second half, when Aberdeen had already registered five. Aberdeen still carried the greater threat, and Shay Logan saw an effort from the edge of the area deflected wide.
Hearts' reorganisation stemmed some of Aberdeen's dominance, but not their edge. McGinn and Hayes continued to seek every channel of space to breach the Hearts defence, and when the former surged down the right and whipped the ball across the six yard box, the latter charged in to convert at the back post.
The sense was of one side being sure of its strengths and its game plan, and the other still being a work in progress. That will not offer much relief for Cathro, even if he will hope to build a team that better represents his values during the winter break and January transfer window. It will be no surprise, for instance, if two new full-backs are sought.
His key players were mostly marginal, and Djoum was replaced during the second half. Walker remained the most effective, and a spin and shot inside the area drew a good save from Aberdeen goalkeeper Lewis.
Even so, it was the visitors who were the more assertive, more imposing side. With some more composure and sharper instincts inside the area from Rooney, they would have won the game more comfortably.
The display, and the result, emphasised that, for now, it is Aberdeen who are the more fully-formed and capable team, and the likelier to challenge for second place in the Premiership.
Hearts manager Ian Cathro: "Initially, we lost the fight to make the game the way that we wanted it to be. It was difficult for us to get started and the game became closer to what Aberdeen wanted.
"In the second half, with a couple of adjustments, we became a little bit stronger, a better structure and we were able to play more often. A combination of not generating enough chances and some mistakes defensively resulted in us losing the game.
"We wanted the game to be more open with more possession and more control than direct, wide, foul, free-kick, those sorts of things. I don't have any question about the willingness of the players to fight and they deserve credit for getting through the first-half, which was difficult.
"My Hearts team will always play in a way which I think the players here can play. Will we look to add players of a different type to the squad? Yes, but that will be work through the January transfer window."
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Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes: "We were guilty of missing chances. It was fiercely contested, but there were good moments of play from us. Once we did play in the final third, we created more than one or two opportunities.
"Everybody talks about the Tynecastle atmosphere but when the Hearts team goes off to boos at half time, you say that's part of the job done but we need to crank it up more.
"I'm delighted that Johnny Hayes was on the end of that and scored. There's no doubt in my mind that we were the better team, we were tidy, making good decisions when to play and when to hold things on, and recognising the strengths of the Hearts team.
"Maybe some sort of criticism on me is being over reliant on the same team and that fatigue and demands on them, so hopefully with people pushing and one or two things happening in January, we can look forward to a strong finish to the season."
Match ends, Heart of Midlothian 0, Aberdeen 1.
Second Half ends, Heart of Midlothian 0, Aberdeen 1.
Attempt missed. Don Cowie (Heart of Midlothian) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Ryan Jack.
Liam Smith (Heart of Midlothian) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Liam Smith (Heart of Midlothian).
Substitution, Aberdeen. Anthony O'Connor replaces Niall McGinn.
Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Joe Lewis.
Attempt saved. Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Graeme Shinnie.
Attempt blocked. Perry Kitchen (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Ryan Jack (Aberdeen).
Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Robbie Muirhead replaces Igor Rossi.
Attempt saved. Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Krystian Nowak.
Foul by Mark Reynolds (Aberdeen).
Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Krystian Nowak (Heart of Midlothian).
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Rory Currie replaces Arnaud Djoum.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) because of an injury.
Bjorn Johnsen (Heart of Midlothian) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Heart of Midlothian 0, Aberdeen 1. Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Liam Smith (Heart of Midlothian) header from the centre of the box is too high following a corner.
Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Kenny McLean.
Foul by Andrew Considine (Aberdeen).
Liam Smith (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Niall McGinn (Aberdeen).
Igor Rossi (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Adam Rooney (Aberdeen) with an attempt from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Foul by Andrew Considine (Aberdeen).
Perry Kitchen (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Liam Smith.
Attempt missed. Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Perry Kitchen.
Attempt blocked. Shaleum Logan (Aberdeen) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Catriona Finlayson-Wilkins, 41, of Knapton, Norfolk, gave birth to son Euan on Tuesday at the Norfolk and Norfolk University Hospital.
She is also the first woman to give birth after using the device outside the main research site in Cambridge.
Ms Finlayson-Wilkins said she was "thrilled" by her son's safe arrival.
The new mother-of-two has Type 1 diabetes and wore the piece of kit throughout her pregnancy to produce insulin and prevent symptoms of the disease.
Three other mothers have previously given birth in Cambridge after using the device but by caesarean section.
An artificial pancreas device system (APDS) is a small portable piece of equipment designed to carry out the function of a healthy pancreas.
It helps to control blood glucose levels using digital communication technology to automate insulin delivery.
An APDS is worn on the body during pregnancy and has a continuous glucose monitor (CGM), a digital controller and an insulin pump.
Ms Finlayson-Wilkins, who is a face and body painter and has also decorated models for local charity Break's GoGo gorilla and dragon art trails, said: "I'm thrilled.
"It's a huge weight off your mind after being pregnant and diabetic, which is really risky.
"It's the most amazing piece of kit and I can really see how it's going to benefit all types of people with diabetes in the future."
Her first son was taken into intensive care when he was born because his blood sugar levels dropped dangerously low and she did not see him for a day.
Dr Helen Murphy, principal investigator of the study Ms Finlayson-Wilkins took part in, said Euan's arrival was an exciting step in the treatment of diabetes in pregnancy.
"Women who have diabetes in pregnancy face higher rates of birth defects, over-sized babies, pre-term delivery and stillbirth than other pregnant women," she said.
"Treating diabetes in pregnancy can be particularly challenging because hormone levels are constantly changing and blood sugars can be difficult to predict."
The results of the ongoing National Institute for Health Research's Closed Loop in Pregnancy study are due to be published later this year.
Its findings could mean the technology benefits more pregnant women with diabetes.
Currently young people have to leave their foster carers when they turn 18.
However, charities including Fostering Network Wales, say allowing them to stay longer increases their chance of success in life.
The Welsh government said it was committed "to improving outcomes for looked-after children in Wales".
Wales is trialling a scheme that allows some of about 4,400 children in foster care to stay beyond the age of 18.
It comes as the UK government has announced that children in care in England will be able to stay with their foster families until they reach 21.
The Department for Education has provided £40m over the next three years to fund the plan.
Bryn Miles, 62, and his wife Linda, from Llysworney in the Vale of Glamorgan, have fostered more than 50 times over the last 18 years.
Mr Miles said he "100%" supported the call to increase the leaving age to 21.
He said: "Support and advice and guidance shouldn't end at 18. One day they are with you, and the next day they're gone.
"I can imagine myself at 18. If my parents had said 'you have to leave on your 18th birthday' I just wouldn't have known what to do."
Mr Miles and his wife specialise in looking after teenagers, and say it can be traumatic for them to be forced to leave when they are 18.
He said a separate scheme is in place - called assisted lodging - for people aged over 18.
However, he added: "Although I'm approved to foster, I'm not approved for this assisted lodging. The amount of red tape you come across is unbelievable."
Care charities have called it the most significant reform for children in care in a generation.
However, in Wales, young people being fostered would normally have to leave their carer's home when they turn 18.
The charities say a proposed amendment to the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Bill - to be discussed at the Senedd on 4 February - does not force local authorities to allow young people to stay with their carers beyond 17.
They are calling on the Welsh government to "strengthen its proposals" before the debate.
The charities claim that "the longer a young person can stay with a foster family, the more successful they are later on".
They claim care leavers are "less likely to do well educationally, and are more likely to have a mental illness, be homeless, misuse substances, be unemployed or spend time in prison than those who haven't been in care".
In a letter to deputy minister for social services Gwenda Thomas, they said: "Experience shows that we cannot rely on the voluntary, guidance-led approach to solve this problem.
"Legislation to allow young people to stay in foster care until at least 21 is required to make a real difference."
The letter is signed by the Fostering Network Wales, Action for Children-Gweithredu dros Blant, The British Association for Adoption and Fostering, Barnardo's, Children in Wales, Gofal, NSPCC Cymru/Wales, NYAS, TACT, Tros Gynnal Plant, Voices from Care and the Who Cares? Trust.
A Welsh government spokesperson said: "It is important to emphasise that for those young people now reaching the age at which they are considering leaving care, there is nothing to preclude a local authority from supporting that young person to remain with their foster carers after the age of 18.
"The When I Am Ready guidance provides comprehensive information and advice for 'corporate parents' in Wales to offer opportunities to young people who do not feel that they are ready to leave care and move into independent living.
"The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Bill demonstrates our commitment to improving outcomes for looked after children in Wales."
The term "unicorn" is used to describe start-ups that have grown from nothing to be worth at least a billion dollars.
It's tough enough for start-ups to make any money, but to go from an idea sketched on an envelope to making a billion is uber-unusual.
And Uber is one of these tech-powered unicorns.
But what is their natural habitat? Where are these unicorns likely to have been trained?
In terms of their universities, there doesn't seem to be any romantic fairytale beginning for would-be unicorns.
They are not self-taught entrepreneurs, but are more likely to have gone to expensive and highly-selective institutes.
A league table, drawn up by international accountancy software firm Sage, shows that members of this financial elite are likely to have had an elite education.
The top of the table by some distance is Stanford University in California, an institution that has been integral to the growth of Silicon Valley.
Builders of "knowledge hubs" or "tech hubs" around the world have sought to replicate Silicon Valley's mixture of academic research, business innovation and supportive investors.
And this unicorn league shows Stanford accelerating quickly in this competition for successful start-ups.
Harvard, the world's wealthiest university, is in second place, with US institutions taking nine of the top 15 places, with many of these entries dominated by tech start-ups.
The first non-US university is in fourth place with a combined figure for all the Indian Institutes of Technology.
This network of 23 institutions across India has a notoriously competitive entrance exam - often claimed to be the most oversubscribed applications process in the world.
The UK's entry in this unicorn league is Oxford University in seventh place. Although the London School of Economics also features in the following pack, just outside the top 15.
France, Israel, Germany and Canada all make a single appearance in the rankings. In Canada, there is a sub-species of unicorns, referred to as "narwhals" (whales, sometimes referred to as the unicorns of the sea).
So why are these unicorns concentrated in these universities?
Prof Frank Furedi, author and social commentator, said that on visits to top US universities he had been struck by the self-confidence of such young student entrepreneurs.
"There is a sense of enormous possibilities... everything in that culture reinforces that," he says.
These universities provide networks of like-minded, ambitious, competitive youngsters, who expect to have online start-ups that can accelerate much more quickly than traditional businesses.
He says that often these young entrepreneurs might be at old and prestigious universities, but they are often from immigrant families.
If these new billionaires are clustered in a narrow pool of universities, the gender breakdown is even less inclusive - with men accounting for 94% of the unicorns.
A third of these unicorns were solo entrepreneurs - while the other two-thirds were co-founders.
Perhaps what's more surprising is that for 60% of the unicorns, this was their first business. And for a further 23% it was their second - suggesting that for a considerable majority there was no back-story of failure.
And the most typical time for reaching unicorn status was four years after founding - although there were firms that took up to 30 years to turn into a billion-dollar shaped unicorn.
The number of unicorns rose sharply in the years after 2012 and peaked in 2015, before slipping down again in 2016.
Of course, as well as admiring the unicorns from a distance - there will be people wondering how they can get on board themselves.
Where would you find a unicorn?
Stanford's own business school has published advice saying that if you're looking for the next unicorn, "look for the horse running away from the herd".
They suggest that it's better not to look in the "rear-view mirror" for previous successes, but to look towards the so-far unknown.
But the evidence of this league table suggests that unicorns are not going to be found wandering around anything resembling traditional manufacture.
By far the biggest sector for unicorns is under the heading of "consumer internet", followed by financial services and e-commerce.
This financial alchemy is heavily driven by the online economy. Cloud computing seems to have a silver lining.
Unicorn stamping grounds
Work has now begun on Hinkley Point C in Somerset, including the building of tunnels to carry cabling and pipes.
About 1,600 workers are now onsite to work on the £18bn project, which is due to begin producing power in 2025.
Pouring the concrete was a "significant milestone", project director Philippe Bordarier said.
Other progress announced by EDF Energy, which is behind the scheme, includes beginning work on a 500m (1,600 ft) temporary jetty in the Bristol Channel.
A store is also being built to contain 57,000 tones of aggregate, which can be brought in by sea rather than by road.
Work to build the first of 50 huge tower cranes at the site along with accommodation for workers has also started.
What is Hinkley Point and why is it important?
Mr Bordarier said: "Pouring the concrete for the first permanent structure [at Hinkley Point] is a significant milestone.
"It is the outcome of many years of preparation and hard work from all our teams and supply chain across the UK and France.
"It demonstrates our ability to undertake the serious responsibility of nuclear power plant construction."
EDF said the plant will provide 25,000 job opportunities and 1,000 apprenticeships, with over 5,600 people working on the site during core construction.
It is hoped Hinkley Point C will provide up to 7% of the UK's power.
At least 80 people died in the fire on 14 June, although the final toll will not be known for many months.
Nearly 400 holidays have been offered by the Grenfell Tower Holiday Appeal Facebook Group, set up by Angie Mays and Kay Gilbert from Devon.
The man and his family will have a week in a cottage in Marsden, Yorkshire.
More on the holiday offer for Grenfell victims and other Devon news.
The firefighter's wife, who wishes to remain anonymous to protect her husband, said: "What Kay and Angie have done from the kindness of their hearts will help so many families at such a distressing time in their lives.
"This has been the most horrific job of my husband's career and he has been utterly broken by it - as we all have - trying to support him emotionally, and trying to understand what he has been through, not to mention praying he comes home in one piece.
"Thanks to the utter kindness of these wonderful ladies and all of the generous donations to this cause, we will be able to go away for a week as a family for some much needed R&R.
"This means the world to me that I can take them away from it all, if just for a moment."
Ms Mays, a fundraiser from Ilfracombe, said short-stay offers have come mainly from small businesses, B&Bs and guesthouses all over the UK, but also in Spain and Cyprus, adding that other firefighter families are also in the process of taking up offers.
Other donations include counselling sessions, beauty treatments and meals.
Separate Facebook groups have been also set up to provide holidays in Cornwall and the Highlands.
Bank and Liverpool Street stations were searched shortly after 17:00 by British Transport Police but officers found "no trace of the man".
Sections of the line were suspended for about 30 minutes. Trains are now running with severe delays.
Investigations continue and officers remain at both stations, police said.
The Premier League champions took an early lead through Willian's free-kick.
Steven Davis drove in an equaliser before Sadio Mane ran through after a defensive error to put Saints ahead.
Graziano Pelle's angled finish sealed victory for Southampton, who climb to ninth in the table. Chelsea's fourth defeat of the season leaves them 16th.
The Blues have taken only eight points from a possible 24 this season and are only four above the relegation zone.
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Chelsea's struggles this season have been exacerbated by an uncharacteristically poor defence. They have now conceded 17 league goals - two more than they did in the whole of Mourinho's first season with the club in 2004-05.
Following Chelsea's defeat by Porto in the Champions League on Tuesday, fans called for the return of captain John Terry, and they got their wish on Saturday as the 34-year-old was restored to the centre of defence alongside Gary Cahill.
However, Terry's presence did not solve Chelsea's problems. Branislav Ivanovic and Ramires were fortunate to avoid giving away penalties with clumsy challenges, while Davis was allowed to run unchallenged to score the equaliser from Pelle's chested pass.
After the break, Cahill gave the ball away to Dusan Tadic and Terry failed to cut out his pass, enabling Mane to put Saints in front.
Mane was a constant menace to the Blues defence, which backed off to allow the forward to set up Pelle for Southampton's third.
With Diego Costa serving the last game of a three-match suspension, the visit of Southampton provided Radamel Falcao with a chance to make a case for a regular starting place.
He has scored only one goal since joining on loan from Monaco in July and, based on his showing against Southampton, it is unlikely he will be threatening Costa any time soon.
Although Falcao had a strong claim for a penalty when he fell under a challenge by Saints goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg, he did not trouble the visitors enough and managed a solitary shot in 90 minutes.
Mourinho was incensed that no penalty was given for the incident involving Falcao, claiming that officials are "afraid" to give decisions for Chelsea.
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He said: "It was a big penalty for us. Not small, not doubtful. Big. Huge.
"That was a penalty. We don't get decisions and I think referees are afraid to give decisions to us.
"When we are top I understand everyone wants to push you down, but when you are down give us a break."
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Southampton performed beyond expectations to finish seventh in the Premier League last season, but they had won only two of their first seven games this term before the trip to Chelsea.
However, the manner of this victory - their first at Stamford Bridge since 2002 - will give them confidence of challenging for a top-seven finish again.
They rarely looked troubled by the Blues, with Mane and Pelle combining to devastating effect in attack. One or both of them played a part in all three goals.
Southampton are also a tough side to break down - only Everton have beaten them by more than one goal in the Premier League this season.
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Southampton manager Ronald Koeman: "If we can show this against Chelsea we can show it much more.
"We had a difficult start to the game but we came back and we made it 1-1 with a great goal. The difference was how we came out of the dressing room, pressed Chelsea and had fantastic movement.
"We totally deserve three points today."
Chelsea entertain Aston Villa in the Premier League on 17 October, when Southampton host Leicester.
Match ends, Chelsea 1, Southampton 3.
Second Half ends, Chelsea 1, Southampton 3.
Offside, Chelsea. John Terry tries a through ball, but Oscar is caught offside.
Substitution, Southampton. Maya Yoshida replaces Sadio Mané.
Oscar (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sadio Mané (Southampton).
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Ryan Bertrand.
Attempt blocked. Falcao (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Graziano Pellè (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Graziano Pellè (Southampton).
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Jose Fonte.
Attempt missed. Pedro (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Loïc Remy.
Offside, Southampton. Sadio Mané tries a through ball, but Jay Rodriguez is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Pedro.
Substitution, Southampton. Jay Rodriguez replaces Dusan Tadic.
James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Oscar (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by John Terry.
Attempt blocked. Dusan Tadic (Southampton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.
John Terry (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sadio Mané (Southampton).
Substitution, Chelsea. Loïc Remy replaces Nemanja Matic.
Goal! Chelsea 1, Southampton 3. Graziano Pellè (Southampton) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Sadio Mané following a fast break.
Falcao (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Ward-Prowse (Southampton).
Foul by César Azpilicueta (Chelsea).
Cédric Soares (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is too high following a set piece situation.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Dusan Tadic (Southampton) because of an injury.
Foul by Branislav Ivanovic (Chelsea).
Dusan Tadic (Southampton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Dusan Tadic (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Foul by Falcao (Chelsea).
Sadio Mané (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Chelsea. Pedro replaces Willian.
Foul by Nemanja Matic (Chelsea).
Sadio Mané (Southampton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Victor Wanyama.
Orthodox believers were asked not to take part in Roman Catholic services and a Church delegation due to attend also stayed away.
But Church officials said the decision had been taken by mutual agreement.
It was one of the smallest crowds seen at an outdoor papal Mass during Francis's foreign trips.
People who did attend in the capital Tbilisi said afterwards that the papal visit was good for Georgia.
"This is a very significant event, both for the country and for faithful from the whole Catholic parish," Keti Khitarikhvili told Reuters news agency.
"He is a true pope, he is not just a religious figure, but also a very political figure. Because I think that with this visit, the role of Georgia will be raised measurably on the world stage."
With a Roman Catholic population of under 1%, it was not an obvious destination but the Pope has made a point of reaching out to Orthodox churches to overcome doctrinal differences which split the two communities in the 11th Century.
The late Pope John Paul II visited Georgia in 1999, and he was treated as the Vatican head of state, rather than a religious leader.
Georgia, a small country (population 4.3 million) in the Caucasus Mountains, shares an Orthodox culture with the regional superpower, Russia, but the two fought a brief war in 2008.
Vatican attempts to mend ties with the Russian Church have so far not resulted in a papal visit there. On the other hand, Georgia aspires to join the EU and Nato.
According to the Associated Press, only a few thousand people attended the Mass in the Meshki stadium, which has a capacity of 25,000.
The Orthodox patriarchate said on its website: "As long as there are dogmatic differences between our churches, Orthodox believers will not participate in their prayers".
One Georgian priest told AP it was a protest against Catholic attempts to convert Orthodox Christians.
"Can you imagine how it would be if a Sunni [Muslim] preacher came to Shia [Muslim] Iran and conducted prayers in a stadium or somewhere else?" Father David Klividze asked. "Such a thing could not be."
Nonetheless, the Church leader, Patriarch Ilia, had welcomed Pope Francis on Friday as his "dear brother" and toasted him saying "May the Lord bless the Catholic Church of Rome".
Georgian President Georgy Margvelashvili did attend the Mass. Other politicians may have stayed away because of forthcoming elections, for fear of upsetting devout voters.
On Sunday, the Pope is due to visit neighbouring Azerbaijan, which has fewer than 300 Catholics in its overwhelmingly Muslim population.
However, religious coexistence is a major theme for Pope Francis who visited Muslim-majority Turkey in November 2014.
The Pool 1 fixture, due to be played on 16 October, was postponed because of the sudden death of Munster head coach Anthony Foley in a Parisian hotel.
It will now take place at the Stade Yves-du-Manoir at 15:45 GMT.
The rearranged match means a new date will be agreed for Munster's Pro12 meeting with Edinburgh, which had been scheduled for 7 January.
The fixture would have been the Scottish club's first match at Myreside, where Edinburgh will play their home matches between January and May, rather than Murrayfield.
Four-year-old Mylee Weetman, from Doncaster, died in 2013 after surgery at the children's cardiac unit at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI).
Mylee had been diagnosed with a congenital heart defect and was starved of oxygen during surgery, the inquest in Wakefield had heard.
Coroner David Hinchliff recorded a narrative verdict.
Her mother Siobhan Casey had told the inquest no-one had been able to explain to her how or why she had died.
Mylee was diagnosed with the congenital heart defect Tetralogy of Fallot after her birth in 2009. She required an operation in 2010.
A further operation to repair damage to her heart took place at the LGI on 15 March 2013 during which she suffered an embolism, a "rare but recognised complication of this necessary surgery" according to the coroner's verdict.
Mylee died in the early hours of 21 March.
In a statement after the verdict the girl's family thanked the coroner for a "painstaking" investigation and said it had been "so distressing to relive the events around Mylee's death".
"We still, however, have many questions about Mylee's treatment at Leeds," it said.
The family expressed the hope that lessons would be learned.
Dr Yvette Oade, for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, reiterated her "deepest sympathy" to Mylee's family.
"I hope this hearing, although painful for them, will have provided the answers they needed," she said.
"The coroner concluded that while the surgery was performed correctly, Mylee sadly suffered a micro-embolic air embolism which is a rare but recognised complication of this procedure."
Mylee's death came amid concerns about death rates at the unit in Leeds. Surgery was later suspended for two weeks, but a review found the centre was safe.
Trained in the United States by Bob Baffert, American Pharoah's achievements were honoured at the Longines Awards in London.
American Pharoah was the first winner of the Triple Crown - Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes - since Affirmed in 1978.
France's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, won by Golden Horn, took the award for world's best horse race.
American Pharoah was given a top rating of 134 by a team of international flat racing experts after a season which culminated with victory in the Breeders' Cup Classic.
"He did it all," said Baffert. "I've had a lot of talented horses, but he just kept bringing it."
Jockey Victor Espinoza described his mount as "a once-in-a-lifetime horse to ride", while owner Ahmed Zayat said the horse was "cuddly, lovable and brilliant".
American Pharoah became a household name in the US and finished top of a 'Sportsperson of the Year' poll carried out by Sports Illustrated magazine.
The horse has been retired for a breeding career at Ashford Stud in Kentucky, where he commands a fee of $200,000 (£140,000) a time.
Golden Horn, whose Arc triumph followed a series of victories under jockey Frankie Dettori, including the Derby at Epsom, was second in the awards on a 130 rating.
Shared Belief and Treve were ranked joint third on 126.
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United supporters were mutinous after Saturday's 1-0 loss at Old Trafford.
"They have - or they had - great expectations of me, and I cannot fulfil them, so I am very frustrated because of that," said Dutchman Van Gaal.
United are fifth in the Premier League table, five points behind fourth-placed Tottenham and 10 off leaders Leicester.
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The Red Devils have taken 37 points from their first 23 games, their lowest total in the Premier League era and three points fewer than amassed under David Moyes during the 2013-14 season.
After the defeat against Southampton, Van Gaal had said fans were "right to boo" but added: "For better or for worse we have to stick together.
"We are working very hard, but we have had a lot of injuries. That you cannot change."
Van Gaal was also criticised on the club's official television channel, MUTV.
Former Reds winger Bojan Djordjic suggested that "the only corner we are turning is into some dark alley where we get robbed again".
Next up for United is a trip to Championship side Derby in the FA Cup fourth round on Friday (kick-off 19:55 GMT).
United lost defender Matteo Darmian midway through the second half following a clash with Shane Long.
Van Gaal revealed the Italian, who took an elbow to the ribs, was "spitting blood" after leaving the pitch and had gone to hospital.
However, the 26-year-old later tweeted he was "fine".
With Luke Shaw still out after suffering a double fracture of his right leg last September and Ashley Young undergoing groin surgery, Darmian is Van Gaal's only fit senior full-back.
Mr Abe was shouted at by locals, angry about the size of the US military presence on their island.
Mr Abe and US officials were among thousands who gathered to remember some 250,000 people who died in Japan's only land battle of World War Two.
More than 100,000 were civilians, and residents are resentful that they must continue to host US troops.
About 100,000 Japanese soldiers died over a period of three months in a bloody battle with Allied forces. More than 100,000 Okinawans also died, with many ordered to take their own lives by Japanese military commanders.
More than 12,000 US troops also died on the island, about 340 miles (550 km) south-west from mainland Japan.
The prime minister being jeered is something that almost never happens in Japan, but to this day there is deep bitterness at the sacrifice of so many Okinawan lives, says the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo.
Many Okinawans accuse Tokyo and Washington of continuing to treat the island like an imperial possession, ignoring the wishes of the islanders to have US military bases removed, our correspondent says.
In 1945, the strategic island was seen by the Allies as a launchpad for an invasion of Japan.
The assault never came as Tokyo surrendered following the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
Okinawa remained occupied by the US military until 1972, when Tokyo regained control of the island.
However, Japan's southernmost prefecture is still home to about 26,000 US troops and several bases which occupy a fifth of the island.
A controversial project to move a US air base from an urban area to the coast has recently triggered a stand-off between the central authorities in Tokyo and Okinawa's officials.
The seven-minute show, beginning on Wednesday, will turn the works of five prominent indigenous artists into a permanent part of the city's skyline.
The show, Badu Gili, means "water light" in the language of the site's traditional owners, the Gadigal people.
Organisers say it celebrates time-honoured stories with contemporary art.
"It combines music and images to create a gateway to Australia's First Nations history and culture for the 8.2 million people who visit the opera house each year," said curator Rhoda Roberts.
The animation features works by Jenuarrie (Judith Warrie), Frances Belle Parker, Alick Tipoti, Lin Onus and Minnie Pwerle.
It will debut at 17:45 local time (07:45 GMT) on Wednesday.
Spectacular art installations most recently lit up the opera house for Vivid Sydney, a light festival.
Supporters group Club 1872 invited Macmillan Cancer fundraiser John Burkhill to the home game against Hibernian after Rangers fans abused him in July.
Mr Burkhill was mistaken for a rival Celtic fan and harassed ahead of a friendly with Sheffield Wednesday.
The 78-year-old has completed over 980 races and raised more than £400,000.
Mr Burkhill, from Handsworth, walks miles each day pushing a pram and collecting money for Macmillan after losing his wife June to cancer.
Laura Fawkes, of Club 1872, said fans were "delighted" to have helped.
"Rangers fans raised £4,025 after they heard about an incident involving John and a small number of their fans before the club's pre-season friendly with Sheffield Wednesday," she said.
"John was presented with a cheque on the pitch at Ibrox at half time to support his ambition of raising £1 million for the charity."
Mr Burkhill - who has completed the London Marathon 16 times, the New York Marathon, every Sheffield Half Marathon and countless 10ks and local races - said the fans were "absolutely out of this world" and he was "really touched".
"It was only a small number of people and the vast majority were great with me so I'm just a little overwhelmed and I thank them for helping me get that bit closer to raising a million for Macmillan," he said.
"Thank you, Rangers, thank you very, very much. They're welcome to Sheffield any time they want."
Mr Burkhill was awarded a British Empire Medal in 2013 for his fundraising.
His grandson, Daniel, wore the green wig and pushed the pram for the time Mr Burkhill was in Glasgow.
The rocky planet, known as GJ 1132b, is not dissimilar in size and orbits a star some 39 light-years from us.
This makes it close enough for any atmosphere to be examined in detail by the next generation of telescopes now in development.
To date, only very big worlds have been amenable to this kind of study.
Scientists are keen to do the same with more diminutive targets because it may be their best bet of establishing whether or not life exists beyond our Solar System.
At a separation of 39 light-years (370 trillion km), we are unlikely ever to visit GJ 1132b with a spacecraft.
But if we can identify the molecules that make up its air, this could reveal a lot about what is happening down on the surface.
In truth, GJ 1132b is very low on the habitability index.
It circles so near to its star (a "year" lasts just 1.6 Earth days) that it is being "oven roasted", as one scientist on the discovery team put it.
This means any water will have boiled away, but it could still retain a substantial atmosphere. This makes GJ 1132b more like a Venus than an Earth - although Venus receives a 15th of the heat at GJ 1132b. Venus is certainly hot, just not quite that hot.
Nonetheless, even with poor life prospects, astronomers believe GJ 1132b would still prove a useful testbed for future observations of planets that enjoy more benign circumstances.
Studying the atmospheres of distant worlds is no easy task.
It is done by probing the light from a star as the planet passes in front - as viewed from Earth.
Molecules in the air will imprint their chemical signatures on this light.
Unfortunately, most of the planets we know are so distant that the details are beyond being resolved by current telescopes.
And it is often the case anyway that the parent star is so big and bright that its glare simply swamps the delicate signatures being sought.
As a consequence, only large planets - equivalent in size to our Neptune, or bigger - have betrayed information about their atmospheres.
However, these are not so interesting as small rocky planets, which are far more likely to have a broader range of gases relevant to life.
Observing GJ 1132b is made easier because its host star is what is termed a red dwarf.
Such stars are smaller and cooler than our own Sun. They are also considerably dimmer, as a result, and this would compensate for some of the glare problem.
It is also the case that red dwarfs are 10 times more common in the galaxy than Sun-like stars.
So, just in numerical terms, this makes their planets pressing candidates for further study.
"The exciting thing is that, yes, it is probably true that the closest potentially habitable planets are going to be orbiting red dwarf stars," said Zachory Berta-Thompson, whose team found GJ 1132b.
"And if we want to study the atmosphere of such a planet, it's going to be a lot easier to do that if the planet is orbiting a small, cool star, like the red dwarf hosting GJ 1132b," the Massachusetts Institute of Technology astronomer told BBC News.
The telescopes needed to do the job are not far from entering service.
Super-observatories on Earth that have mirrors up to 40m across will come online in the next decade.
But even before then, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope should be in operation.
Known as the James Webb Space Telescope, this facility will launch in 2018.
Its detectors will be tuned to probe targets just like GJ 1132b.
"The JWST will be a planet-characterising machine," commented Drake Deming from the University of Maryland, who is eager to study the atmospheres of smaller planets.
"It will have access to longer infrared wavelengths than Hubble, and it's in the infrared spectral region that we will get the most information," he told the BBC's Science In Action programme.
Details of the discovery are reported in the journal Nature.
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Freda Ayisi put the visitors in front just after half-time when she sent a low cross inside the far post.
The hosts were level just five minutes later as former Blues striker Eniola Aluko restored parity from close range.
Chelsea finished the game with 10 players after Katie Chapman was sent off for a second booking when she fouled Ayisi with three minutes left.
The result puts Chelsea one point behind leaders Manchester City in second in the WSL 1 table, while Birmingham City lie in fourth place.
Chelsea forward Eniola Aluko:
"We weren't ourselves in the first half going forward, and then we gave away a sloppy goal just after half-time.
"At the end of the day though, we got a point out of a game that we could have lost against a very difficult Birmingham side.
"Whenever we've gone behind this season we've always come back, and in the end we could have won today because we had a couple of good chances late on. "
Birmingham defender Kerys Harrop:
"We'd surprised them with our goal, but the way it came about was something we'd worked on and Freda took it really well.
"Unfortunately we then gave away a soft goal and that's unlike us; it was the first goal we've conceded in seven matches and we've given hardly any away all season.
"That's what we're good at; having the concentration and organisation at the back, so it was disappointing to concede the way we did."
Match ends, Chelsea Ladies 1, Birmingham City Ladies 1.
Second Half ends, Chelsea Ladies 1, Birmingham City Ladies 1.
Attempt missed. Claire Rafferty (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Eniola Aluko.
Foul by Jade Bailey (Chelsea Ladies).
Freda Ayisi (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Birmingham City Ladies. Conceded by Millie Bright.
Attempt blocked. Freda Ayisi (Birmingham City Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrine Hegerberg.
Second yellow card to Katie Chapman (Chelsea Ladies) for a bad foul.
Foul by Katie Chapman (Chelsea Ladies).
Freda Ayisi (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Offside, Birmingham City Ladies. Andrine Hegerberg tries a through ball, but Charlie Wellings is caught offside.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Charlie Wellings (Birmingham City Ladies) because of an injury.
Karen Carney (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alex Windell (Birmingham City Ladies).
Eniola Aluko (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Aoife Mannion (Birmingham City Ladies).
Substitution, Chelsea Ladies. Hannah Blundell replaces Ana Borges.
Attempt missed. Gemma Davison (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Eniola Aluko.
Attempt saved. Freda Ayisi (Birmingham City Ladies) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Melissa Lawley.
Attempt saved. Gilly Flaherty (Chelsea Ladies) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ji So-Yun.
Gemma Davison (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Kerys Harrop (Birmingham City Ladies).
Attempt missed. Gemma Davison (Chelsea Ladies) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Millie Bright.
Attempt missed. Eniola Aluko (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Ji So-Yun.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Kerys Harrop (Birmingham City Ladies) because of an injury.
Ji So-Yun (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alex Windell (Birmingham City Ladies).
Katie Chapman (Chelsea Ladies) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Katie Chapman (Chelsea Ladies).
Charlie Wellings (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Katie Chapman (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Gemma Davison.
Attempt missed. Melissa Lawley (Birmingham City Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Abbey-Leigh Stringer.
Attempt missed. Gemma Davison (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Karen Carney.
Gemma Davison (Chelsea Ladies) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gemma Davison (Chelsea Ladies).
Jessica Carter (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Katie Chapman (Chelsea Ladies) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Gemma Davison.
Ji So-Yun (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Spieth, the Masters and US Open champion in 2015, mixed four birdies with a bogey and a double bogey for a one-under-par 69 on Friday, moving to eight under par overall.
One shot behind him is countryman Troy Merritt, who shot a two-under-par 68.
But Rory McIlroy's struggles continued with five bogeys and two birdies in a three-over-par 73.
Northern Ireland's four-time major winner trails Spieth by eight shots at River Highlands but made the cut by a shot.
Ireland's Padraig Harrington scored two birdies and one bogey for a one-under-par 69 and remains three shots behind Spieth.
While England's Paul Casey finished on two under par with 68 and is one shot further back overall.
Antonio Conte's side can become champions with victory against West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns on Friday night while Middlesbrough must contemplate a future back in the Championship after they were swept aside on Monday.
The Blues had already created a succession of chances before Diego Costa turned in man of the match Cesc Fabregas' pass after 23 minutes.
And the contest was effectively over when Marcos Alonso scored at the far post via the legs of Middlesbrough keeper Brad Guzan 11 minutes before the break.
Fabregas created Chelsea's third which Nemanja Matic converted as the hosts laid siege to Boro's goal, with the final whistle bringing contrasting emotions.
In this mood it is hard to see the league title coming from anywhere other than at West Brom on Friday night.
Baggies manager Tony Pulis was watching from the stand at Stamford Bridge and will have gone away with plenty of food for thought after a Chelsea display that oozed class and intent.
Middlesbrough - downhearted, defeated and on their way back to the Championship - were little more than cannon fodder here.
From the opening moments when Guzan turned Alonso's shot on to the bar, Chelsea were rampant, nerveless and played with the swagger, poise and menace of the best team in the Premier League.
Chelsea's nerves may have shown momentarily in those defeats at home to Crystal Palace and at Manchester United in April, but the response has been magnificent, reeling off wins in the FA Cup semi-final against Tottenham and in the Premier League against Southampton, Everton and now Middlesbrough.
It is a question of when, rather than if the ebullient, effervescent Conte claims the title in his first season in England - and Chelsea will be fully deserved champions.
Chelsea's fans talk about Fabregas wearing a "magic hat", but all the magic was in his boots as he picked the visitors apart here at Stamford Bridge.
The 30-year-old was a key purchase from Barcelona when Jose Mourinho brought the title back to Chelsea to two seasons ago. But this season he will be a different kind of title-winner.
The signing of N'Golo Kante from Leicester City and Chelsea's subsequent success has meant Fabregas, who would have been first choice in almost every other Premier League side, has been marginalised and unable to claim a regular place.
When he has, however, the Spain midfielder has shown the class and quality that has made him one of the game's enduring talents in the recent era.
Fabregas stepped in here for the injured Kante and gave a midfield masterclass, and when he created Chelsea's opener for Costa he became the first player to record 10 Premier League assists in six different seasons.
He also created Chelsea's third for Matic with a glorious instinctive flick that unlocked Middlesbrough again.
Fabregas may wish to seek more regular first team football elsewhere despite being on course to claim another Premier League title winners' medal - and on this evidence there will be no shortage of takers.
Middlesbrough knew they were fighting against all the odds to try and avoid the defeat that would send them back into the Championship - and it was a battle they never looked like winning.
They were on the back foot from the first whistle and were simply overwhelmed by a Chelsea side who would not be denied. The Middlesbrough fans, who were stoic throughout, were applauded by Conte after the final whistle.
The feeling will remain that Middlesbrough have simply come and gone without contributing a great deal to this Premier League season. Could they have been bolder in pursuit of survival?
Boro have proved stubborn in defence on many occasions but have been totally undermined by a failure to score goals - and a failure to cure that obvious problem.
Aitor Karanka, the man who brought Middlesbrough up but who left in March as the decline started to accelerate, was backed by chairman Steve Gibson in January but his attacking purchases were never going to provide the answer.
Rudy Gestede arrived from Aston Villa and Patrick Bamford from Chelsea, but neither are of Premier League quality and the price was paid with relegation.
Middlesbrough look to currently have a good squad for the Championship - but this was a horribly tame end to their Premier League ambitions.
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Chelsea boss Antonio Conte: "We must be pleased. It was a great performance, my players showed commitment and work-rate for three important points.
"At this stage it was important to win and exploit Tottenham's defeat. Now, another step to the title. We have to rest well and prepare for West Brom."
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Middlesbrough boss Steve Agnew: "I am absolutely gutted and bitterly disappointed with the result and we have now lost our Premier League status which we took great pride in.
"I have just left a very silent dressing room.
"We haven't had enough wins and that's the key to the whole thing. Scoring goals wins football matches and we haven't done that enough this season.
"I have to say the fans all season have been outstanding - home and away has been top class and the least they deserve is Premier League football."
Chelsea will win the title if they beat West Brom on Friday. Even if they do not, they have two more opportunities to wrap up the title against Watford and Sunderland at home.
Middlesbrough will finish life in the Premier League by hosting Southampton on Saturday before going to Liverpool on Sunday, 21 May.
Match ends, Chelsea 3, Middlesbrough 0.
Second Half ends, Chelsea 3, Middlesbrough 0.
Hand ball by George Friend (Middlesbrough).
Foul by Willian (Chelsea).
Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas following a corner.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Adam Clayton.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Fabio.
Patrick Bamford (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Patrick Bamford (Middlesbrough).
Foul by Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea).
Patrick Bamford (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Chelsea. John Terry replaces David Luiz.
David Luiz (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by George Friend (Middlesbrough).
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Rudy Gestede replaces Álvaro Negredo.
Diego Costa (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Calum Chambers (Middlesbrough).
Substitution, Chelsea. Nathaniel Chalobah replaces Pedro.
Gary Cahill (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Patrick Bamford (Middlesbrough).
Attempt saved. Victor Moses (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Willian with a cross.
Offside, Middlesbrough. Adam Clayton tries a through ball, but Patrick Bamford is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Pedro (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Diego Costa.
Foul by Pedro (Chelsea).
Patrick Bamford (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Chelsea. Willian replaces Eden Hazard.
Foul by Diego Costa (Chelsea).
Brad Guzan (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Fabio.
Goal! Chelsea 3, Middlesbrough 0. Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas following a corner.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Ben Gibson.
Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Patrick Bamford (Middlesbrough).
Hand ball by Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough).
Fabio (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Fabio (Middlesbrough).
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How does he handle two intensely ambitious racing drivers competing for the world title in his team while also protecting the interests of the global corporation behind it?
There is no easy answer.
For Wolff - as for any F1 team boss - the golden rule is always that team-mates must not crash into each other. Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg have now broken it twice in the last five races.
In Austria on Sunday, a collision on the last lap cost Mercedes what would have been a one-two finish. Hamilton successfully - in the end - passed Rosberg for the lead, and Rosberg slipped back to finish fourth with no front wing.
In Spain back in May, another one-two went begging - this time when they crashed out on the first lap.
The incidents were very different. But what they shared was that Hamilton was trying to pass Rosberg after the German had made a mistake, and Rosberg refused to let it happen. Or at least tried to, in the case of Austria.
The drivers, unsurprisingly, blamed each other.
Wolff said he "had an opinion" but refused to say what it was, while Mercedes non-executive chairman Niki Lauda said initially that the fact they hit each other was "I think, Nico's fault - although I have to see it again".
Outside Mercedes, virtually all pundits and ex-drivers who expressed an opinion on the incident were unanimous - Rosberg was to blame this time. Crucially, so did the stewards.
Why? Because Rosberg had not turned in when he should have.
On-board camera shots were clear. Hamilton was on the outside and marginally ahead when they reached the turn-in point for the corner. But Rosberg kept going straight on.
When he did finally turn - way beyond where he would normally - he does not attempt to make the full corner, but turns the wheel considerably less than that.
The issue is that Rosberg did not look to be trying to make the corner - he seemed intent only on keeping Hamilton on the outside.
Yes, the initial collision comes as Hamilton finally tries to turn in, but most ex-drivers and experienced observers would say that he had no choice at that point. Again, the stewards agreed.
Parallels will inevitably be drawn with two incidents between the two last year - in the Japanese and US Grands Prix.
In both, Hamilton was on the inside and ran Rosberg out of road on the exit of the corner.
But that is an accepted - if hard - tactic in racing. Whereas what Rosberg did was not acceptable, by the standards by which these incidents are judged.
Rosberg contended that he had "always left him track space". But the key was in the phrase the stewards used - Rosberg did not allow Hamilton "racing room", they said.
Hamilton was "in front - i.e. more than fully alongside and could have clearly made the turn, if not for the resultant collision."
The phrase "racing room" does not appear anywhere in the regulations but the decision was based on an understanding of which all drivers are aware.
That is that when a driver is attempting to pass on the outside, if he is fully alongside he has the right to be given room on the exit. In this case, they never even got that far - Rosberg did not even allow him room on the entry.
Although the problem for Mercedes is not so much who was at fault as why it keeps happening and what to do about it, the two things may well be interlinked.
Wolff said he was "fed up with trying to analyse it - I just don't want any contact." He added that "all options" were on the table.
"One option is to freeze the order at a certain point in the race, which is unpopular and makes me (want to) puke myself but if the racing is not possible without contact that is a consequence," said Wolff.
"I have to cool down a little bit and in the next couple of days figure it out."
In doing so, he will have to consider what role is being played by the raised stakes compared to last year and even 2014.
In 2015, Hamilton got a flying start to the season and never looked back. The way things worked out, he and Rosberg were hardly ever racing together.
It was a similar situation in 2014, with two exceptions - in Bahrain, when they raced cleanly and brilliantly and Hamilton came out on top, and Austin, when Hamilton chased his team-mate down and passed him fairly to win.
This year is different. Hamilton finds himself playing catch-up again, but this time he seems to be facing a more formidable and resolute competitor.
Until this year, Hamilton always seemed to come off better when the two were battling closely and he remains the more instinctive natural racer.
Austria showed once again that Rosberg does not have the same instinctive feel for wheel-to-wheel duels - if he was going to give Hamilton the choice of going wide or colliding, it was not a great idea to do it in a way that ensured his car would be the one that was damaged. But Rosberg seems to have coupled it with a harder edge to his approach.
It is impossible to get him to admit it, but the loss of the title so comprehensively last year seems to have had an effect on his mindset.
He seems tougher and more determined than before, less willing to give in to the inner demons that tell him - correctly - that, all things being equal, Hamilton will be faster than him more often than not. And less willing to back down on the track, too.
Rosberg brushes off questions about it, says he is focused only on the now. But it looks from the outside as if he has realised that he may never have a better chance to win the world title than this year when, lest we forget, he was 43 points clear after just four races.
Spain was the next race after Rosberg established that formidable lead, and he started it by taking the lead with an audacious and highly skilled move around the outside of Hamilton at the first corner.
Two corners later, after he had been delayed by being in the wrong engine mode, his defence against Hamilton trying to re-take the lead was aggressive in the extreme.
Technically, it could be argued he broke in Barcelona the rule that demands drivers leave a rival a car's width of space on the approach to a corner if they have a "significant" part of their car alongside.
The move was adjudged just within the letter of the regulations, on the basis of how quickly events had unfolded, and the crash filed as a "racing incident", in which neither driver was specifically to blame
But now there is Austria, and another incident in which Rosberg has gone right out to the very edges of ruthlessness - and beyond, the stewards say, in this case.
Meanwhile, Hamilton is already nursing a sense of injustice about this year - as a result of the engine problems that wrecked his races in China and Russia and have left him likely to suffer grid penalties down the line for using too many engine parts.
In Austria, Hamilton should never have been behind Rosberg in the race, having led the first stint so comprehensively.
When Hamilton emerged behind Rosberg from his first pit stop - thanks to a problem with the left-rear wheel - he was surprised but was reassured that his team-mate had to stop again.
So it was little wonder that Hamilton admitted to finding it "a little bit disturbing initially" to be switched to a two-stop and find Rosberg was still in front once the stops were completed. Three hours after the race, he said: "I didn't understand it and I still don't - I'm sure they will explain it later."
When they do, they will tell him that only a problem with his left-rear wheel at his first stop prevented him rejoining in the lead - and that they organised it so he would pass Rosberg at the second stops with the so-called 'undercut', only for another slow stop and a subsequent error from Hamilton in running wide at Turn Two on his out lap to scupper the plan.
Hamilton did not know that in the race, so what was his mindset out on track at the time?
"I let it go over my head," he said, "and kept pushing, thinking: 'If I am going to win this world title, I am going to have to dig deep.' I gave everything I had today. I feel proud I didn't leave any stone unturned."
As for Rosberg, even after his penalty he was still protesting his innocence.
So Mercedes are faced with a dominant character who believes in his own fundamental superiority and another, hard-headed to the point of stubbornness, who is determined to take the best chance he has ever had.
Wolff clearly does not want to impose team orders on the drivers but somehow he has to create some rules of engagement to ensure they don't keep crashing into each other.
Painless it won't be, but handling the fall-out of Austria and containing it over the remaining 12 races might be that bit easier because there is an obviously guilty party.
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Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff has a problem - and he knows it.
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The 28-year-old made 100 appearances for Ebbw Vale and played in last season's Principality Premiership win over Pontypridd.
Sweet is a product of the Newport Gwent Dragons academy and has represented Wales at Under-20 level.
"It will be an honour to contribute to a successful Dragons side in the future," Sweet said.
"I began my journey as part of the academy system and playing alongside the U16s all of the way through to the U20s and I have never given up on playing professionally for my home region."
Sweet also featured for the Newport Gwent Dragons Premiership Select squad in last season's British and Irish Cup.
Resuming 126 runs behind at 88-4, England began well with consecutive half-century partnerships.
But two wickets fell in successive balls after lunch, including the enterprising Jonny Bairstow for 81 from 127 balls, and they were 253 all out.
Spinner Yasir Shah took 5-71 and, set a paltry 40 to win, Azhar Ali sealed the match with a six soon after tea.
Many would have welcomed a fifth Test to decide an intriguing series but the teams will next meet again in limited overs cricket.
A five-match one-day international series begins on 24 August, followed by a Twenty20 international on 7 September.
The build-up to the final game had focused on England's quest to regain the number one Test ranking, but it was Pakistan who took a decisive step towards the top spot.
They will reach the summit if India do not beat West Indies in next week's final Test in Trinidad and Australia fail to win the final Test in Sri Lanka.
After losing the previous two matches easily it was an impressive recovery, with 38-year-old Younus Khan reaching 200 for the sixth time and Shah claiming his sixth five-wicket haul in only his 16th Test.
Seamer Sohail Khan proved a useful addition, taking 13 wickets in the final two matches.
With their supporters basking in the south London afternoon sunshine, there was double celebration as victory was achieved on the nation's Independence Day.
It was no typical end of Test minefield with the ball turning dramatically out of the rough or reverse swinging, and England set about their task in confident, composed fashion.
Bairstow, looking to score at every opportunity and resolute when defence was required, completed his fourth fifty of the series and was well supported by Gary Ballance until the left-hander fished at one wide of off-stump from Sohail for 17.
The momentum was continued by first-innings centurion Moeen Ali, who lofted Shah high over wide long-on for six and looked in complete command before an uncharacteristically flat-footed prod at the leg-spinner was caught by wicketkeeper Sarfraz for 32 in the penultimate over before lunch.
A stunning piece of fielding from bowler Wahab Riaz gave Pakistan the breakthrough in the eighth over after lunch, hitting the stumps directly while lying down when Chris Woakes (4) was sent back in mid-pitch.
Having moved to 992 runs for the calendar year, Bairstow drilled the next delivery low to cover and the end of the innings came 35 minutes before tea, debutant Iftikhar Ahmed taking the final wicket of James Anderson (17).
Security checks permitting, England's next Test assignment is a two-match series in Bangladesh starting in October, before a three-Test series in India.
Opener Alex Hales scored three half-centuries earlier in the summer against Sri Lanka but averaged only 18 in this series with a best of 54.
Having refunded a spectator £4.10 because of England's slow over-rate in the previous Test, he lost 15% of his match fee here for an angry response following his controversial dismissal to a low catch in the first-innings.
Neither James Vince's introduction to Test cricket or Ballance's return was a success, with Alastair Cook and Joe Root scoring 935 between them at an average of 66.78, compared to Hales, Vince and Ballance's 498 at 22.63.
There was also a fitness concern over one of the bowlers, Steven Finn going off shortly before the end with a hamstring injury that will require a scan, as England suffered their first home defeat when batting first since 2012.
The operation at La Chapelle, near Gare du Nord station, began at dawn.
The migrants - mainly Sudanese and Eritreans - are being moved by bus to migrant shelters in the capital.
Late on Monday a mass brawl broke out between several hundred African migrants living rough in Calais. Tents were set ablaze, iron bars were used, and 24 were injured, officials say.
Fourteen of the injured were admitted to hospital, and police reinforcements later restored order.
The AFP news agency says the clash happened in the so-called "new jungle" - a makeshift camp where 2,000 migrants live, near a reception centre providing hot meals.
The clash reportedly involved Sudanese and Eritreans, who have travelled to Calais hoping to get to the UK.
In Paris, city health officials who visited the camp at La Chapelle earlier reported that it was unhygienic and overcrowded, posing a public health risk.
The camp was set up several months ago but in February began attracting migrants who had crossed the Mediterranean to Italy.
French media said an estimated 200 of those living there were hoping to travel to the UK or Scandinavia while the rest were seeking asylum in France.
Social affairs minister Marisol Touraine told French radio that the decision to dismantle the camp was taken because of the threat of health epidemic primarily for those living there.
"We clearly have to ensure that each one from the camp is rehoused quickly in good conditions," she said.
Turkington stormed away from pole position, holding off Tom Ingram and Jack Goff to take BMW's 100th BTCC win.
The Portadown driver was seventh and sixth in the day's other races and he now lies third in the standings, 19 points behind leaders Ingram.
Chris Smiley collected his first points for BTC Norlin Racing, securing a 15th place in race two.
Turkington had a strong race one, moving up from ninth to seventh after overtaking Rob Austin and Mat Jackson in one move on lap eight.
The race was won by Honda's Matt Neal, who collected his 60th BTCC win, ahead of team mate Gordon Shedden and Eurotech's Goff.
The Northern Irishman continued his battle with Austin in race two, which was red flagged after Dan Lloyd, Aron Taylor-Smith and Senna Proctor had contact heading into Church Corner.
On the re-start, Turkington held sixth place before a crash for Martin Depper caused out another red flag and the result to be declared.
Turkington's Team BMW team mate Rob Collard took victory, ahead of Shedden and Speedworks driver Ingram.
Drawn on pole for the reverse grid race, Turkington led from the front to take his second triumph of the season and his 43rd success in the BTCC.
Smiley clinched a point after a frustrating start to the season which saw the Carrickfergus driver ensure bad luck despite having a top-15 pace.
After struggling in qualifying, Smiley moved up from 27th place to 19th in race one, showing that his Chevrolet Cruze has strong race pace.
He moved up to 17th in race two before the red flag, narrowly missing the Lloyd, Taylor-Smith and Proctor accident directly behind him.
At the re-start, Smiley continued to work his way up the order, claiming 15th before Depper's accident ended the race early.
In race three, Smiley started well and held 16th place, but lost momentum when overtaken by the charging Matt Neal, losing several spots and leaving the former MINI Challenge champion in 18th.
Daniel Harper continued his good form in the Ginetta Junior championship, finishing first on the road in race one but a track limits penalty dropped the Hillsborough teenager to fourth.
Starting 16th in race two, Harper soared up the order, taking third place after a mature drive.
The 3 April announcement will precede the Women's Super League Spring Series.
Ex-England boss Roy Hodgson named his men's squad less than four weeks before Euro 2016 but Sampson feels doing so early will "bring huge benefits".
"We've worked with our player pool for three years now and are clear on the right players we want," he said.
"This gives the squad and staff the chance to be focused solely on the Euros and takes away any of the uncertainty that players might have in the run-up.
"As a coaching staff it also allows us to focus on working with the 23 players as early as possible and develop our game plans.
"At the World Cup we prided ourselves on being one of the most united and together teams and we put a big part of our success down to that, so we'll be able to build on this even further over the next three months."
Some of England's players are currently representing their clubs in the FA Cup, with the one-off Spring Series kicking-off on 22 April and acting as a transitional tournament due to the traditional WSL season being moved to a September start.
Sampson will name his squad ahead of friendly matches against Italy on 7 April and Austria three days later, as England prepare for Euro 2017, which begins in the Netherlands on 16 July.
"Mark's decision to name the squad early will give us the chance to prepare properly and focus on doing as well as possible come July," said Football Association technical director Dan Ashworth.
England begin their Euros campaign against Scotland in Utrecht on 19 July before facing Spain in Breda on 23 July and Portugal in Tilburg on 27 July.
The Lionesses - who finished third at the 2015 World Cup - were unbeaten in eight qualifying games but have won just one of five outings, including defeats to France and Germany at the SheBelieves Cup.
He said the US will build a coalition to "degrade and destroy" the group.
Another US journalist, James Foley, was similarly killed last month.
Separately, the UK held a meeting of its emergency Cobra committee after threats to kill a British hostage who was also shown in the latest video.
Islamic State has seized large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria in recent months, declaring a new caliphate, or Islamic state, under leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The US has launched more than 120 air strikes in the past month to try to help Kurdish forces curb the IS advance.
After the latest video emerged, Mr Obama ordered the deployment of another 350 troops to Baghdad to protect US diplomatic facilities.
His announcement came as campaign group Human Rights Watch said it had uncovered new sites of Islamic State mass killings in the Iraqi city of Tikrit.
The militants are believed to have murdered more than 500 Iraqi soldiers after taking over a large Iraqi army base in June.
US National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden said that US intelligence agents had "analysed the recently released video showing US citizen Steven Sotloff and has reached the judgment that it is authentic".
Speaking in Estonia, Mr Obama said the beheading was a "horrific act of violence and we cannot begin to imagine the agony everyone who loves Steven is feeling right now. Our country grieves with them".
He added: "Whatever these murderers think they will achieve by killing innocent Americans like Steven, they have already failed.
"They have failed because, like people round the world, Americans are repulsed by their barbarism. We will not be intimidated. Their horrific acts only unite us as a country and stiffen our resolve.
"Those who make the mistake of harming Americans will learn that we will not forget, that our reach is long and that justice will be served."
Mr Obama said the US strategy was to "try to ensure Isil is not an ongoing threat to the region". Islamic State is also often referred to as Isil or Isis.
Vice President Joe Biden added his voice to the calls for justice, by saying the US would pursue the killers "to the gates of hell".
UK Prime Minister David Cameron told MPs the two American beheadings were "utterly abhorrent and barbaric", adding: "We will not waver in our aim of defeating terrorism."
Analysis: BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner
This second video from Islamic State is significant, even though it was largely expected and dreaded. It shows that the recent US air strikes which have halted the lightning advance of IS across northern Iraq are causing the organisation real damage, upsetting its plans to extend by force its rule into Kurdistan.
Unable to hit back militarily against America's jets, IS has responded with a form of information warfare that it knows will horrify most people in the West.
Secondly, by threatening to murder a British hostage, IS shows it makes little or no distinction between the US and Britain as its enemy. This is despite Britain so far restricting itself to dropping aid to refugees and flying in supplies to the Kurdish military, leaving air strikes to the Americans.
A spokesman for the Sotloff family had earlier indicated they believed the video was genuine, issuing a statement that said: "The family knows of this horrific tragedy and is grieving privately. There will be no public comment from the family during this difficult time."
US state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said it was believed that "a few" other Americans were still being held by Islamic State.
Mr Sotloff, 31, who also held Israeli citizenship, was abducted in northern Syria in August 2013.
He had appeared in a video last month which showed James Foley being killed.
The latest video, entitled "A second message to America", is about two-and-a-half minutes long and was apparently recorded in a desert.
Next to a masked figure, Mr Sotloff reads out a text addressed to President Obama saying: "You've spent billions of US taxpayers' dollars and we have lost thousands of our troops in our previous fighting against the Islamic State, so where is the people's interest in reigniting this war?"
The militant spoke with a British accent similar to that of the man who appeared to carry out the beheading of James Foley.
Mr Hammond told the BBC it seemed to be the same person.
US media reaction
Writing in the New York Times, Thomas L Friedman warns that the US strategy on Islamic State must avoid the "fire, ready, aim" approach that followed the 9/11 attacks. He says: "There are no words to describe the vileness of the video beheadings of two American journalists by Isis, but I have no doubt that they're meant to get us to overreact, a la 9/11, and rush off again without a strategy. Isis is awful, but it is not a threat to America's homeland."
The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post carry tributes from Mr Sotloff's friends and colleagues. His former Time editor Ishaan Tharoor praises the "breadth and commitment of his work" across many Middle East countries.
Writing in the Boston Globe, Farah Stockman says: "We couldn't save Sotloff. But we can ensure that his death... was not in vain. He risked his life knowingly, so the rest of us could understand a terrible war better - so that the rest of us could read more, think more, and understand more about Syria. We owe it to him to do just that."
The man says: "I'm back, Obama, and I'm back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State... despite our serious warnings."
He also threatens to kill the British hostage shown in the footage. The family of the British hostage have asked the media not to release his name.
One in 40 people in the UK is affected, according to analysis of 15 years of results, in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases journal.
The disease, which particularly affects the overweight, can be countered by lifestyle changes.
But researchers say not enough people are getting access to medication.
Gout is a type of arthritis, caused by a build-up of uric acid in the blood.
Crystals of sodium urate produced by the body can form inside joints and can cause sudden and severe pain, together with swelling and redness.
Being diagnosed with gout is - to judge by the responses of those who don't have it - one of the few bona fide comedy conditions that a human can still develop.
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It usually affects the big toe but can develop in any joint.
And even though it was traditionally linked to "good living" among the wealthy, it can affect anyone.
However, it is more common in people who are overweight or obese and in those who have high blood pressure or diabetes.
Drinking too much beer or spirits can also increase the risk, but the condition can be managed through changes in lifestyle, like losing weight.
There is also medication available which lowers levels of uric acid.
In this study, researchers used the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) to look at the number of existing and new cases of gout in the UK between 1997 and 2012.
Among more than 4.5 million eligible people on the database in 2012, almost 116,000 already had gout. More than 7,000 new diagnoses were identified.
Between 1997 and 2012, the prevalence of gout rose by 64%, increasing by around 4% every year.
Rates were around four times higher in men than women across the entire period, and the highest rates were in Wales and north-east England.
Researchers from City Hospital in Nottingham, who carried out the study, said access to effective medication remained a problem.
In 2012, fewer than one in five patients was prescribed medication within six months of their diagnosis, and only around one in four was on this treatment a year after diagnosis.
The UK Gout Society said: "The increase in gout is a result of a combination of factors - primarily an ageing population and a growing obesity problem in the UK.
"People who suspect they have gout should seek help from their GP as the first port of call who will then refer them to a rheumatologist should they continue to suffer from repeated gout attacks."
Prof Alan Silman, the medical director of Arthritis Research UK, echoed the concern about obesity and identified foods such as red meat, shell fish and dairy, and red wine and beer as potential contributors.
He said: "A severe attack of gout is probably the most painful form of severe arthritis there is - worse than rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis.
"It is not a trivial condition, yet its reputation as a 'joke' disease that only affects florid-faced country squires has meant that over the years it's not always taken as seriously as it should be.
"People can reduce their chances of getting gout by changing their lifestyle."
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Relatively quiet night. One hurried early clearance and a decent save from Robbie Kruse after the break. No chance with Eric Dier's goal.
Very busy down the right flank and had little to do in the way of defensive work. May now be ahead of Kyle Walker in England's pecking order.
England's captain on the night. Some uncertain moments early on but recovered to deliver a steady performance.
Quiet night for the young defender who is rebuilding his confidence after a tough season at Everton.
Not overworked defensively but helped in the build-up to Rashford's opener and always an attacking outlet.
Quiet 45 minutes in a less creative role where Hodgson has used him before. Now a matter of building up his fitness for France but could not make an impact here.
Anonymous. A very low-key night for Leicester City's Premier League title-winner. Not helped by a strange looking England midfield in the first half.
Busy but not at his best. Shooting still remains a serious weakness in his game.
Mixed night but showed an unselfish streak throughout and set up Rooney perfectly for England's second goal.
Low-key performance in a rather disjointed England midfield before his substitution at half-time.
Blistering early impression and despite one or two moments when his inexperience showed, an exciting debut.
Was James Milner. Industrious, reliable, unspectacular.
Excellent performance. Scored a fine goal and proved again how important he remains to this England team.
Got into good positions then looked to be trying too hard.
Headed a cross into his own net. These things can happen but a bad moment.
Newcastle's wide man was jeered here at Sunderland but did not let it affect him in a busy cameo.
Brief debut for Burnley's 30-year-old keeper.
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The visitors took the Severnside derby spoils after Ollie Clarke's stunner equalised Alex Rodman's early effort.
Second-half strikes from Cristian Montano, Matty Taylor and Wales Under-21 regular Ellis Harrison sealed the points, with Rovers in clinical form.
They moved into the automatic promotion spots on goals scored, while Newport remain 17th in League Two.
Newport bCounty manager Warren Feeney told BBC Radio Wales: "We are very disappointed with the manner of the goals we conceded today.
"I didn't think there was much in the game but you can see why Bristol Rovers are where they are in the table.
"There were mistakes, which we've got to cut out, but we probably looked a little bit tired as well."
Winds of up to 135km/h (85 mph) were recorded in some areas, with up to 200mm of rainfall forecast for Tuesday.
A man is believed to be missing in floodwaters in Stroud to the north of Newcastle.
The State Emergency Service (SES) said it had received nearly 3,000 calls for help, with 19 flood rescues.
The agency said that most of the calls had come from Sydney and the regions of Hunter, Central Coast and Illawarra.
SES Deputy Commissioner Steven Pearce told ABC News that the number of calls for help had been "enormous".
"We haven't seen this sort of weather pattern, this east coast low or one as severe as this in years," he said.
"The consistent gale force winds which are actually cyclonic in some areas with gusts up to 135km/h."
The strongest winds overnight were recorded at Norah Head in the Central Coast region.
Meanwhile, 312mm of rainfall had fallen in Dungog in the Hunter region since Monday morning.
Local Fire and Rescue NSW said that crews were searching for a man who went missing after a camping ground was flooded in Stroud.
On Tuesday, a severe weather warning remained in place for damaging and destructive winds, heavy rain and damaging surf.
The areas affected are the Metropolitan, Hunter and Illawarra districts. Beach conditions in these regions are said to be particularly dangerous.
State-owned supplier Ausgrid tweeted that some 180,000 homes and businesses were without power across Sydney, Central Coast and Hunter.
But it added that crews were repairing fallen power lines at several locations.
The heavy winds and rain have also caused travel disruption in Sydney.
The Transport Management Centre for NSW said that staying home may be the best option for many people on Tuesday.
"If you don't need to be out on the road, probably best not to be," said spokesman Brett Moore, as quoted by ABC News.
A number of main roads and railway lines have had to be closed because of the storm.
He told BBC Radio Wales the project has a "very large subsidy" and other options need to be looked at to see if they were more affordable.
The prime minister previously said his enthusiasm was cooling due to costs.
Tidal Lagoon Power, the company behind the plan, said it was confident it could hit a "viable" price.
Speaking on the Jason Mohammad programme, Mr Crabb said he was a fan of the project.
But, he added: "What we want to do is take a considered decision about whether it is in the best long-term interest in terms of energy, in terms of jobs and the economy."
The proposed subsidy for the tidal lagoon scheme is £168 per megawatt hour (pmh) of energy generated, compared to the £89-£92.50 pmh for Hinkley C's proposed nuclear plant.
Tidal Lagoon Power said: "Clearly there is a price at which this prospect becomes viable and through our ongoing negotiation with government we are very confident that we can hit that price."
The number of transactions grew by 12% in the year to the end of June, the highest annual rate since 2008, according to UK Finance.
The value of spending also rose, accelerating to 7.2%.
Lenders face an upcoming deadline to prove to regulators that they are not lending recklessly.
The Bank of England has consistently expressed the need for vigilance over growth in the consumer credit market during "benign" economic conditions, at a time when household income has been relatively stagnant.
The latest round-up of statistics show that 77 million more purchases were made on cards in the second quarter of the year than in the first three months of 2017.
An extra £110m was spent on cards in the second quarter, compared with the first quarter.
Some of that can be explained by the rising cost of living, with the inflation rate having risen over the same period.
On an annual basis, growth in the total value of debit card purchases in the year to the end of June was 7.2%, Low-value contactless payments have reduced the amount spent on each typical transaction, but card use has become much more frequent.
The total value of credit and charge card purchases was up 6.9% annually by the end of June.
There is continuing concern from debt charities about the levels of personal debt and whether this is creating repayment issues ahead.
Peter Tutton, head of policy at StepChange debt charity, said: "With our research estimating 3.2 million people are using credit cards to pay for everyday household expenses, the growing stock of credit card debt should focus attention on households in financial difficulties. The growth in borrowing through credit card cash advances is particularly concerning as this can be an expensive form of borrowing and can be a risk indicator of increasing financial difficulties.
"The Financial Conduct Authority must ensure credit card lenders are acting responsibly, making robust affordability checks and intervening quickly to help people struggling with credit card or multiple credit card debts."
In April, May and June, annual growth in net lending on credit cards - taking spending and repayments into account - was at or above 9%, the UK Finance figures show.
The Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) highlighted various concerns during a review of lending in personal loans, credit cards and car finance. It told lenders to prove by September that they had been acting responsibly.
One issue it raised was the length of 0% credit card balance transfer offers, which have increased sharply in the last five years. The length of these interest-free deals can extend to 43 months, or three-and-a-half years, with the average at nearly 30 months.
Jordan Hill died in hospital after being discovered injured at a flat in Southey Avenue on 23 March
South Yorkshire Police said Bradley Onfroy, 31, and Josie Hollis, 24, both of no fixed abode, have been charged with murder and robbery.
They are due to appear at Sheffield Magistrates Court on Friday.
A 29-year-old Sheffield man arrested on suspicion of murder has been bailed pending further enquiries.
Vicki Williamson, 36, of Dundee, was driving on the A956 Charleston flyover, south of Aberdeen, when the crash happened in August 2014.
Liam Thornton, 26, later died in hospital.
Ms Williamson denies causing death by careless driving.
Giving evidence at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, police sergeant Graham Mutch said the accident happened at the top of a sweeping bend on a slip road off the A90 Aberdeen to Dundee road.
The collision investigator said the road was wet at the time.
Examinations of the Vauxhall Corsa revealed that the tread on the inner edge of the rear near side tyre was under the 1.6mm legal limit.
Collision investigators concluded that the most likely cause of the collision was that the car was driven at an inappropriate speed on the corner for the conditions.
Earlier, Vicki Williamson gave evidence and blamed the road surface for the collision.
She said: "It wasn't the best road conditions. I kind of took my time coming up the road. It had been really stormy the night before in Dundee to the point there was trees on the roads.
"So I was aware that the road would be damp, wet."
She said she was aware of a sharp corner on the slip road coming off the A90 and estimated her speed to be about 30mph when she approached the bend because she was in third gear.
Defence lawyer Alan Finlay asked: "Are you aware of losing control of the vehicle?"
She replied: "Yes. To me it was something to do with the road surface. There was nothing I could do.
"I tried to get the car back under control."
Williamson wept as she recalled the moments after the collision.
She said: "The next thing I remember was just being at the side of the road with the fire brigade and they were pulling up a big curtain and Liam was at the side of it and they were trying to revive him."
The trial continues.
The Democratic Republic of Congo international, 28, arrived on an initial two-year deal last summer and will now stay at St Andrew's until at least 2018.
Ex-Sheffield Wednesday man Maghoma scored six goals in 44 games as Blues finished 10th in the table this season.
The new deal includes an option for a further year in the club's favour.
Allegations against the witness, who is in her 70s, and cannot be identified, have been made by seven former pupils at Termonbacca home for boys and girls.
She is the first nun to give evidence to the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA).
It was set up to investigate allegations dating from 1922 to 1995.
The inquiry heard on Wednesday that the nun and another member of the Sisters of Nazareth order looked after more than 50 boys at the home in the late 1950s.
Local authority homes:
• Lissue Children's Unit, Lisburn
• Kincora Boys' Home, Belfast
• Bawnmore Children's Home, Newtownabbey
Juvenile justice institutions:
• St Patrick's Training School, Belfast
• Lisnevin Training School, County Down
• Rathgael Training School, Bangor
Secular voluntary homes:
• Barnardo's Sharonmore Project, Newtownabbey
• Barnardo's Macedon, Newtownabbey
Catholic Church-run homes:
• St Joseph's Home, Termonbacca, Londonderry
• Nazareth House Children's Home, Derry
• Nazareth House Children's Home, Belfast
• Nazareth Lodge Children's Home, Belfast
• De La Salle Boys' Home, Kircubbin, County Down
The inquiry heard the nun had no formal training in childcare.
Seven former residents have accused her of a variety of physical offences, including hitting them when they wet the bed.
She denies all the allegations.
Two more nuns are due to give evidence to the enquiry on Wednesday afternoon.
The HIA is examining abuse claims in NI's children's homes and juvenile justice institutions.
It is investigating claims of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, as well as childhood neglect.
It began hearing evidence in January.
The public hearings stage of the inquiry is being held in Banbridge, County Down, and is expected to last for 18 months.
During that time, it is due to hear evidence from more than 300 witnesses, including former residents who claim they were abused as children, the people who ran the institutions, health and social care officials and government representatives.
The inquiry's remit is limited to children's residential institutions in Northern Ireland.
So far, it is examining claims against 13 children's homes and borstals.
The Kasumigaseki Country Club risked being stripped of the event if it did not change its membership policy, after being warned by the International Olympic Committee earlier this month.
Women were previously not allowed to become full members or play on Sundays.
The Tokyo 2020 organising committee says the club's regulations have been changed following a unanimous decision by the executive board.
"On behalf of the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, I'd like to extend my gratitude to the members of the club for their understanding and cooperation," said committee president Yoshiro Mori.
"I also would like to express my admiration for the club's endeavour to come to an agreement in such a short period of time."
Rio 2016 was the first time golf event had been part of the Olympic programme since 1904. South Korea's Inbee Park won the women's title, with Great Britain's Justin Rose securing the men's.
Muirfield golf club recently voted to admit women as members for the first time in its history and was reinstated as a venue for the Open Championship.
The 30-year-old, who has also been handed his county cap, has scored 1,196 runs across all formats in his first season with the Chelmsford side.
And he has excelled with the ball, taking 43 County Championship wickets at an average of 17.79.
"Jesse has shown this season he is one of the best players in world cricket," said Essex head coach Paul Grayson.
"I'm sure this will be exciting news for the club's members and supporters, who get to watch him in action for another two seasons.
"He has fitted in really well to the dressing room and we feel that having Jesse in the team will only improve our hopes of challenging for silverware again in 2015."
The last of Ryder's 18 Test caps for New Zealand came in December 2011, and he looked to have re-established himself in the Twenty20 side earlier this year, but was dropped for a breach of discipline.
Ryder is trying to help Essex win promotion to Division One of the County Championship, and took five wickets as Worcestershire were dismissed for 84 on Tuesday.
Wallace told the Hollywood Reporter that he was working on a script for a story about the resurrection.
"I always wanted to tell this story," he said. "The Passion is the beginning and there's a lot more story to tell."
Wallace said he and Gibson discussed the idea while working together on the forthcoming film Hacksaw Ridge.
Gibson has yet to comment on the Passion of the Christ follow-up.
The Passion of the Christ - released 12 years ago - became the most successful independent film of all time, earning $612m worldwide.
But Gibson's account of the final hours of Christ's life - scripted entirely in Latin and Aramaic - drew widespread criticism from Jewish groups who determined it was anti-Semitic.
Two years later, Gibson himself was accused of being anti-Semitic following his arrest for drink-driving in July 2006.
Wallace - who recently directed and co-wrote the faith-based drama Heaven is for Real - said there was great demand for a sequel from the Christian community.
"The evangelical community considers The Passion the biggest movie ever out of Hollywood, and they kept telling us that they think a sequel will be even bigger," said Wallace.
He refused to comment on how the film would be financed: "It's too early to talk money," he said. "This is a huge and sacred subject."
Hacksaw Ridge - co-written by Wallace - marks Gibson's outing as a director since 2006's Apocalypto. It stars Andrew Garfield as World War II doctor Desmond Doss, the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
23 February 2016 Last updated at 12:57 GMT
The Western lowland gorilla was born early, weighing 2lbs 10oz, after her mother showed signs of the potentially dangerous condition pre-eclampsia.
She needed help to breathe on her own, but staff are now "cautiously optimistic" for mother Kera and her baby daughter, who has not yet been named.
There have only been a few gorilla C-sections in the world - most recently at San Diego Safari Park in 2014.
Doug Paulley, from Wetherby, was denied access to a FirstGroup bus when a woman with a pushchair refused to move.
Senior judges overturned an earlier ruling which said the firm's wheelchair policy was discriminatory and breached the Equality Act.
He has been granted permission to take the case to the Supreme Court because it raises issues of public importance.
Mr Paulley attempted to board a bus operated by FirstGroup Plc which had a sign saying: "Please give up this space if needed for a wheelchair user".
But he was left behind at the stop because the woman with a sleeping baby in a pushchair refused to move when asked by the driver, saying the buggy would not fold.
The appeal judges rejected Mr Paulley's claim of unlawful discrimination.
FirstGroup Plc has a policy of "requesting but not requiring" non-disabled travellers, including those with babies and pushchairs, to vacate the space if it is needed by a wheelchair user.
In 2013 Leeds County Court ruled FirstGroup's policy was unlawful and said disabled users should have priority access to wheelchair spaces.
However, last year the Court of Appeal said the "proper remedy" for wheelchair users to get improvements was to ask Parliament.
Mr Paulley's case is being supported and funded by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
A date has not yet been set for the Supreme Court hearing.
Sarah Attar will compete in the 800m and Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani in the judo competition.
The Saudi authorities lifted a ban on women from the Gulf kingdom competing in the Games last month.
The public participation of women in sport is still fiercely opposed by many Saudi religious conservatives.
IOC President Jacques Rogge said it was "very positive news" and "an encouraging evolution".
"I am pleased to see that our continued dialogue has come to fruition," he said in a statement.
The IOC, keen to ensure "gender balance" at the Games, had been speaking to the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee about the issue.
Speaking from her training base in the US, Sarah Attar said: "It's such a huge honour and I hope that it can really make some big strides for women over there to get more involved in sport."
The inclusion of the Saudi women means that, for the first time in the history of the Games, there will be a female entrant from every competing nation.
Female athletes from Qatar and Brunei are also due to attend for the first time.
Brunei's Maziah Mahusin will complete in the athletics, while Qatar has entered athletes into the swimming (Nada Arkaji), athletics (Noor al-Malki), table tennis (Aya Magdy) and shooting (Bahiya al-Hamad).
Bahiya al-Hamad is also set to carry the Qatari flag at the opening ceremony, in what she said was a "truly historic moment".
New York-based Human Rights Watch said the inclusion of Saudi women was a step forward.
"It's an important precedent that will create space for women to get rights, and it will be hard for Saudi hardliners to roll back", the organisation's Minky Worden said.
There is almost no public tradition of women participating in sport in Saudi Arabia, and officials have found it difficult to find athletes who could meet the minimum criteria for competing.
Officials have also said that female competitors will need to dress in such a way as "to preserve their dignity".
This is likely to mean loose-fitting garments and a scarf covering the hair but not the face.
Almost devoid of vegetation, this tiny remnant of a prehistoric volcano looks like a hulk of nothingness.
This is Antigua and Barbuda's third island, the one you will not find in tourist brochures. It could not be further from the lush landscapes fringed by white-sand beaches that helped put its sisters on the map.
Redonda, stretching just one mile (1.6km) long, is entirely uninhabited save for a handful of conservationists, who are currently camping here. And some perplexed-looking goats which, until February, had the island to themselves for decades.
It may seem uninspiring at first glance but environmentalists hope to transform its barren terrain into a fertile eco-haven.
Its desolate appearance belies its status as prized seabird habitat, home to rare and unique wildlife found nowhere else on Earth.
Yet these reptiles, tropical birds, frigates and boobies have been in danger of disappearing thanks to two invasive species introduced by early colonists.
The long-horned goats, brought here 300 years ago, have eaten almost all the plants that once carpeted Redonda. Now with barely anything left for them to feed on, many have starved to death, their carcasses littering the land.
Conservationists hope that by re-homing the 75-strong herd on to the main island of Antigua, around 30 miles (50km) away, Redonda will be able to flourish once again.
Several have already been flown out by helicopter. To keep them calm on the 20-minute flight, shower caps or hoods made from yoga pants are put on their heads. Protective material, which actually comes from swimming floats known as noodles, is wrapped around their horns so they do not injure each other.
Today, half a dozen more are in a corral awaiting embarkation to the mainland. The government's department of agriculture plans to breed them for their useful, drought-adapted genes.
Also in conservationists' targets are thousands of black rats, which they plan to eradicate. The rodents arrived with a 19th-Century guano-mining community and have come to prey on wildlife, eating precious birds' eggs.
For the handful of international non-governmental organisations at work here, in conjunction with the Antiguan government and the country's Environmental Awareness Group, Redonda is something of a giant outdoor laboratory.
"We will be watching to see what grows when all the goats and rats are gone," Elizabeth Bell, of Wildlife Management International Ltd, tells the BBC. "In Columbus's day, Redonda would have been completely covered with ficus trees. In five to 10 years, I think we will see reasonably interesting changes. Within 100, there will be massive change."
She said her ideal scenario would be to see it "fully forested again, with a larger population of boobies and frigate birds, lizards everywhere, and a massive increase in ground birds".
The island is also home to an endemic pygmy gecko, a species that was only discovered in 2012.
The team eventually hopes to reintroduce long-departed iguanas and burrowing owls too.
Under international conservation protocol, it takes two years before the island can be declared a rat-free zone. The painstaking eradication project involves laying rat bait, flavoured with everything from liquorice to chocolate, in every crevice. The spots hardest to reach are accessed by abseiling and snorkelling.
Redonda's dramatic deforestation has also triggered soil erosion and landslides threatening nearby coral reefs, says Shanna Challenger, a coordinator of the $700,000 (£540,000), three-year programme.
Salina Janzan, from Surrey in the UK, is one of several environmentalists camping out among the relics of stone buildings left over from the guano miners.
She said she had accepted the challenge to come as part of a delegation from the Fauna & Flora International (FFI) charity, partly because she had read a children's book called The Dragon of Redonda about the island when she was young.
"What do I miss most?" she says, with a grin. "A cold drink. In fact, anything cold. And proper showers. This is the longest anyone has lived on Redonda in decades."
Eccentric though it may sound, this is not the first time a project of this kind has been undertaken.
FFI says it has already eliminated black rats from 23 Caribbean islands since 1995, including 15 of Antigua & Barbuda's offshore isles. The work is believed to have saved the Antiguan racer, once the world's rarest known snake, from imminent extinction.
"Redonda is a pretty incredible place, both for the human history and the natural history," Ms Bell adds. "To be working to make it even more special is magical."
The searches, on Friday night and Saturday morning, were carried out as part of an investigation into dissident republican activity.
They were in the Creggan and Galliagh areas of the city.
A 48-year-old man arrested following a house search in Creggan on Friday has been released unconditionally.
The bomb, which police described as "a viable improvised explosive device", was found in the Galliagh area.
SDLP councillor Brian Tierney condemned those responsible for the bomb.
"Those behind the viable device discovered at a local social housing site are reckless thugs who could have caused chaos here," he said.
"As this city comes together to celebrate the the arrival of the clipper crews, there's no place for those who seek to divide us with the violence of the past. This is a city on the rise and we will not be dragged back."
Total Fitness in Wrexham will become the first centre in Wales to offer the Swim Stars programme, which Adlington started to help more children swim.
There are currently 21 Swim Stars swim schools in the UK and more than 3,500 children have been enrolled.
Adlington will be attending the launch on Saturday.
"Even though I retired from competitive swimming just over two years ago, I am still passionate about swimming and committed to helping more kids learn to swim," she said.
The 40-year-old was driving a Kia Optima which was involved in a collision with an HGV on the A697 between Longramlington and Longhorsely at 16:50 BST on Friday.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. Another man in the car was injured and had to be airlifted to hospital.
Northumbria Police has appealed for witnesses to the incident just south of the C135 road to Todburn.
Clomiphene, which increases testosterone, was detected in the Pontypool player's sample following a Swalec Championship game against Bridgend in October 2015.
Pontypool have sacked lock Scanlon, who cannot play until 23 October, 2017.
He is the 14th registered Welsh Rugby Union player to be on UK Anti-Doping (Ukad)'s list of banned sportspeople.
"All sportspeople are responsible for what they ingest and any substances found in their system, regardless of how they got there," said Ukad legal director Graham Arthur.
"This can be a challenging concept at all levels of sport and athletes must manage the risk of doping at all times by maximising their nutrition first and thoroughly researching all supplements before use."
Scanlon's ban comes in the wake of Ukad chief executive Nicole Sapstead saying a "societal problem" could be the cause of drug use in Welsh rugby.
During the investigation into Scanlon's failed test, Ukad said he told them via email he was "uncertain as to the source of the clomiphene detected, but believed the source may have been some 'T-booster' (testosterone-booster) tablets ingested sometime in August 2015 when he was recovering from two successive injuries".
In a statement, Pontypool said: "Ukad confirmed that it did not seek to establish that the violation committed by Scanlon was done with intent."
Pontypool chief executive Ben Jeffreys said the club "abides by a zero tolerance policy" on drug use.
Jeffreys added: "This is an exceptionally saddening case that reinforces the importance of all athletes remaining vigilant in ensuring that they are aware of everything they ingest into their system.
"Throughout this process, Adam has conducted himself with impeccable professionalism and has taken full responsibility for this situation.
"Though Adam has been relieved of his sporting duties with Pontypool RFC, he will continue to play a central role in participating in the club's WRU accredited drugs awareness educational programmes, which are conducted on a regular basis."
Another Israeli was wounded in the attack in Halamish. The Israeli army says the attacker was shot and caught.
The attack came near the end of a day of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces over new security measures at a Jerusalem holy site.
Three Palestinians were killed and hundreds were hurt in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he is freezing all contacts with Israel after it installed metal detectors at the site, known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as the Temple Mount.
Israel says the extra security is needed after two Israeli policemen were killed near the site a week ago.
Palestinians die in East Jerusalem clashes
On Friday, four Israeli civilians were stabbed in Halamish (also known as Neve Tsuf) after "an assailant infiltrated a private home", the Israeli army said.
Israeli media said the victims were two men and a woman. Another woman who was injured is being treated at hospital.
The Israeli army said the attacker was a young Palestinian man called Omar al-Abed.
He was taken to hospital, but his condition was unclear.
There has been a wave of stabbings, shootings and car-rammings of Israelis predominantly by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs since late 2015.
At least 47 Israelis and five foreign nationals have been killed in nearly two years of such attacks.
At least 255 Palestinians - most of them attackers, Israel says - have also been killed in that period, news agencies report. Others have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops.
Israel says Palestinian incitement has fuelled the attacks. The Palestinian leadership has blamed frustration rooted in decades of Israeli occupation.
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The original 1966 doll was launched in Leicestershire on Sunday after delays, to celebrate 50 years of Action Man.
It had travelled 19 miles (30km), with its tracker device leading the team to a Northamptonshire field but "Major Tom", as it has been named, had gone.
A reward has been offered by owner Rob Wisdom, of Essex, who wants to recover a camera that filmed the flight.
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The space flight - which used a modified original space capsule for the doll and a parachute to help it back to earth - was the brainchild of Chris Hillcox, from Sutton Coldfield, in the West Midlands.
A keen Action Man fan, he got in touch with fellow collector Mr Wisdom, and said: "I want to put an Action Man into space for his 50th anniversary year, and I know how to do it."
Mr Wisdom and Mr Hillcox - who runs a near-space photography business - used a crowdfunding site to raise more than £3,000 to fund the "Mercury 10" mission, named after the NASA Mercury missions of the 1950s and 60s.
They used a vintage doll and modified its space suit and original capsule to include sponsors' names.
The launch took place from a field next to the old Palitoy Factory in Coalville - where Action Man toys were made under licence from Hasbro.
"He was sent off with a helium balloon from his spiritual home, 50 years after his birth," Mr Wisdom said.
However, when Major Tom fell to earth in Creaton, 75 minutes later, someone snapped up the orange balloon, the doll, capsule and the on-board camera, within 20 minutes.
"The sad thing is we won't get to see what it was like up there as that is all on the camera," Mr Wisdom said.
Also missing were 100 brass dog tags, which had been minted as gifts for the project backers.
"We're hoping a child just found the capsule as it was near a play area, and thought Christmas had come early," Mr Wisdom said.
"Hopefully, their mum will see the #Findmajortom posts on social media and bring him home."
Condor Liberation's crossing had already been cancelled because of Storm Frank on Wednesday.
The belting above the water line, designed to protect the ship's hull, was damaged when the vessel was blown against its berth in Poole Harbour.
Condor Ferries said a thorough contingency plan was in place.
The cancellations are a result of the damage caused to Liberation.
The company said: "All passengers already booked to travel on these services may chose between a full refund or rerouting."
While the storm was in progress, the ship's crew worked with harbour staff to put extra protection between the ship and berth to prevent further damage.
Condor Ferries said wind speeds in Poole Harbour reached 55 knots (63mph) on Wednesday.
Capt Fran Collins said: "Like all our ships, Condor Liberation has a crew 24 hours a day, whether she is undertaking passenger services or not.
"The crew acted quickly and with assistance from Poole Harbours to put additional protection in place between the ship and the berth."
The £50m Condor Liberation has offered the only fast ferry between Guernsey, Jersey and the UK, since March.
Overall, 3,674 drug poisoning deaths involving legal and illegal substances were registered in 2015. Of these, 2,479 involved illegal drugs only.
Fatalities involving heroin and cocaine were both at their highest since comparable records began in 1993.
The increasing purity of substances is believed to be a possible factor.
ONS researcher Vanessa Fearn said that age was another cause for the increase, particularly with older heroin users.
The Department for Health said overall drug use was declining.
The ONS said the mortality rate from drug misuse was the highest ever recorded, at 43.8 deaths per million population.
Blackpool had the highest rate of drug-related deaths, with 19 per 100,000.
Ms Fearn said people receiving treatment for drug abuse were "older than they used to be".
She added: "Deaths involving heroin and morphine have more than doubled since 2012, partly driven by a rise in heroin purity and availability over the last three years.
"Age is also a factor in the record levels of drug deaths, as heroin users are getting older and they often have other conditions, such as lung disease and hepatitis, that make them particularly vulnerable."
The death rate among people aged 30-39 is now at a record high, at 98.4 deaths per million population.
And deaths in the 40-49 bracket are also at a record high, with 95.1 deaths per million.
Ms Fearn also said 2014 was a record year for heroin production globally, which might also be impacting on the current availability of heroin.
The figures showed that there were 320 deaths involving cocaine, up from 247 in the previous year.
Mortality rates relating to that drug have increased for four consecutive years, with most cocaine-linked fatalities occurring in men aged 30 to 49.
The figure for cocaine-related deaths will include some where it was taken in the form of crack cocaine, as it is not possible to separately identify crack from other forms of the drug in post-mortem tests, the ONS report said.
It added: "Since cocaine is often taken alongside heroin, it is likely that changes in the purity and availability of heroin, as well as increases in the purity of cocaine, are contributing to the rise in deaths involving cocaine in recent years."
Deaths linked to new psychoactive substances - formerly known as "legal highs" - have also increased over the last five years, with 114 registered last year.
These substances were banned earlier this year.
Public Health England and the Local Government Association put together a panel of experts to look into how to combat the rise of drug-related deaths.
The group's findings were also published on Friday and recommended that improvements had to be made in access to good quality drug treatment, which is tailored to the needs of the user.
Rosanna O'Connor, who is the director of drugs, alcohol and tobacco at Public Health England, said: "There is considerable variation across the country, with some regions showing large increases in recent years.
"Public Health England will continue to support local authorities in delivering tailored, effective services where people stand the best chance of recovery."
Izzi Seccombe, chairman of the Local Government Association's community wellbeing board, also said councils were committed to helping to ensure drug users got support for treatment, and were spending more on drug and alcohol treatment than in any other area of public health.
She added: "However, with public health grants for local authorities being cut by 9% over the next four years... no service is immune from spending reductions, which could seriously undermine our efforts to prevent all kinds of major health conditions."
A Department of Health spokesman said: "Any death related to misuse of drugs is a tragedy.
"While overall drug use continues to decline, our approach is to get people off drugs for good, with decisions on treatment based on an individual's clinical need.
"We are also developing a new strategy which will include help to educate young people about the risks."
The Campbell Sisters, by Lorenzo Bartolini, was commissioned in Florence around 1820.
It was originally installed at Inveraray Castle. It was later lent to the Scottish National Gallery before being put up for auction by its owner.
But a campaign to retain the Sisters raised enough to secure the sculpture.
The Campbell Sisters shows Emma and Julia, the two youngest daughters of Lady Charlotte Campbell, dancing a waltz.
The piece took its place at Inveraray Castle, which was the seat of Lady Charlotte's brother, the 6th Duke of Argyll.
It had more recently been on display on loan at the gallery in Edinburgh for 20 years before being sold at auction to an overseas museum.
However, it was then ruled that the export should be delayed for six months to allow time for a UK museum to match the auction price.
National Galleries of Scotland and the Victoria & Albert Museum joined forces to try to buy the Sisters.
The were able to match the price with help from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, The Art Fund and a generous private donation.
The Campbell Sisters will be shown for equal periods in Edinburgh and London, rotating with the jointly-owned Three Graces by Antonio Canova.
The Indian company said it had renewed its contract "with an extension option for a further four years".
Steel from its North Lincoln Road plant will continue to be shipped to its mill in France for rail tracks to be produced for the state-owned operator.
In October, the firm announced the loss of 900 jobs from the same factory.
A 45-day consultation period with affected workers ends this week.
The industry blames cheap Chinese imports for a collapse in steel prices.
Tata has been supplying steel and producing up to 108-metre lengths of rail to SNCF since 1999.
It is among the French network's four suppliers with Tata delivering the bulk of SNCF's 750,000-tonne requirement.
Minister for Small Business Anna Soubry previously said during a visit to the plant in October that she was "determined" to make sure steel continued to be manufactured in Scunthorpe.
The company pledged £3m to help create jobs in the town, with another £6m provided by the government.
The 14 volunteers from the Glasgow Ahlulbayt Association set off on Friday.
They had packed a van with blankets, sleeping bags, medicine and warm clothing.
Speaking after their arrival on Saturday morning, group leader Azzam Mohammad told BBC Scotland conditions at the camp were very tough.
"It is absolutely bad," he said.
"The people don't even have shoes. They don't even have blankets. There are three or four of them getting covered by one blanket.
"We are trying to give them as much as we can. We have jackets, we have some shoes, we have gloves, we have sleeping bags. But really the need if far, far more than what we have got here."
The team from Glasgow includes two doctors, who will provide health care to the migrants in northern France.
Before setting off, the volunteers said they have been "overwhelmed" by the generosity of the public in giving to their appeal.
Dr Sonia Allam is a consultant anaesthetist who works in Forth Valley. She is returning for a second time to the camp.
She said: "Last time we had only limited equipment and supplies.
"This time we've had a chance to understand what their needs are and be able to collect more appropriate medication and so on."
Another volunteer who has been to the camp before is Mary Macleod.
"They are camping in fields," she said.
"It's muddy, it's winter. Would you take your family camping right now, even for one night? The refugees are living there."
The 23-year-old, who had only recently joined Whitehaven RLFC, tested positive for nandrolone in an out-of-competition test on 27 November 2015.
Former Elbra amateur prop Todd admitted to the anti-doping rule violation.
His ban is backdated from 18 December 2015 to 17 December 2019.
"This case continues to highlight the worrying and growing trend of steroid use amongst young men," UKAD director of legal Graham Arthur said.
"UKAD works alongside the Rugby Football League (RFL) to provide players with vital anti-doping education and resources to ensure that they are aware of the risks that steroid use poses to both their health and their sporting careers."
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The two women affected are receiving compensation. Other pregnant women who have used the clinic say they are appalled by the medical error.
The government's Council on Human Reproductive Technology decided to take no action against the Victory ART Laboratory.
The council ruled the mistake was down to human error, not systemic failings.
A junior embryologist neglected to read the label on the embryos before they were implanted in the wrong woman through IVF.
The clinic realised the error very quickly and the embryos were taken out and discarded.
The woman whose embryos they were and the woman who had them implanted have both received counselling and have been offered compensation, the clinic told local media.
Victory ART Laboratory has been allowed to stay open after the council's investigation decided it was a human error.
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Canterbury Cathedral will also receive £12.8m to replace its leaking roof and conserve its stonework and stained glass.
Bristol Old Vic has been awarded £2.3m to create a heritage centre and reinstate Georgian features.
The Heritage Lottery Fund's chairman said the investment was "not just about buildings".
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Sir Peter Luff added: "It's also about the people and communities whose lives they changed in the past - and will change in the future.
"It's about the tourism and regeneration that will boost local economies, about the new jobs, the new training programmes and the new volunteering roles that will be created.
"It's also about the visitors from all walks of life who will gain new insights into our shared heritage."
In addition to the repairs in Canterbury, visitors will also benefit from a new welcome centre and a pass allowing free access to the cathedral for those who live, work and study in the city.
Plans for Bristol's theatre include restoring the 18th Century Coopers' Hall, uncovering the original facade and digitising and cataloguing 250 years' worth of artefacts.
The cash will also help make the building's "thunder run" - which recreates the sound of thunder above the auditorium by rolling weighted balls into the rafters - accessible to the public for the first time.
Its chief executive Emma Stenning said: "Bristol Old Vic has long cherished the very special place that it holds in the hearts of Bristolians far and wide.
"It's a feeling that has inspired our heritage project and we hope that in protecting and sharing the architecture and archives of the theatre in new and exciting ways, we are in fact creating a celebration of the people of this city, who have cared for it, without fail, for so many years."
The Beamish Museum in County Durham has been awarded £10.9m to create a new 1950s exhibition.
The site will see Spain's Field Farm in Weardale moved brick by brick to the open air museum, as well as the recreation of a chip shop, police houses, allotments and a bowling green.
The French company, best known for its £8,000 Birkin bags and £300 silk scarves, posted a 13% rise in profits to 1.1bn euros (£952m).
Chief executive Axel Dumas said Hermes did "better than expected" last year and was entering 2017 on a "solid base".
However, he said he remained cautious given the "uncertain environment".
The results hint at a wider recovery in the luxury goods market. Last month, its French rival LVMH reported record sales.
Hermes said sales of its leather goods and saddlery, which account for half of the group's sales, rose by 14%, aided by the success of the Constance, Halzan, Lindy, Birkin and Kelly bags.
Silk and textile sales, which earlier in the year were affected by terror attacks in Europe and slowing sales in China, picked up towards the end of 2016. They ended the year 1% lower.
Perfume sales rose by 9%, helped by the launch of new fragrances. However, watch sales slipped 3%, "penalised by a still challenging market" and a high comparison basis at year-end.
Hermes said it would continue with its long-term development strategy.
"In the medium term, despite growing economic, geopolitical and monetary uncertainties around the world, the group confirms an ambitious target of growth rate for revenue at constant exchange rates," it added.
Shares in Hermes slipped 2.45 euros to 426 euros, but have risen more than a third in the past 12 months.
Six groups have been approved, but delays in confirming underwriters pushed back the timeframe for listings.
The Yangon Stock Exchange is housed in a newly restored colonial-era building.
It underlines Myanmar's drive to revitalise its economy, following the victory by Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy party in elections last month.
The lack of active trading did not stop officials from screening a mock-up of the stock exchange for guests.
The companies to be listed include the Japan-backed Thilawa Special Economic Zone and First Myanmar Investment run by tycoon Serge Pun.
Vice-President Nyan Tun, who rang the opening bell, said he hoped the bourse would become a regional player.
David Grayson, chief executive of New York-based brokerage Auerbach Grayson, said there was strong interest from investors in Myanmar and it was a positive sign that officials had promoted their plans for the market abroad.
Deputy finance minister Muang Muang Thien met financial institutions and other investors in New York in October and visited the New York Stock Exchange's trading floor.
However, Mixo Das, an analyst with Nomura in Singapore, said the bourse would need to build a track record of good governance, trading history and market liquidity.
"I think the stock exchange in Myanmar will be much like the ones in Laos or Cambodia - more as a source of national pride and learning experience for the first several years," he said.
The bourse in Laos has just two companies listed, while Cambodia's stock exchange has attracted just one.
Rajiv Biswas, of IHS Global Insight, said the exchange would help develop the country's financial system, with the listing of larger banks and companies promising to help set up equity and pension funds.
It could also help a new government, run by Ms Suu Kyi and her party, privatise some state-owned enterprises, he added.
Myanmar has been under military rule for about half a century and faces challenges including rampant corruption, a murky legal system, dismal infrastructure and a widespread distrust of the financial system.
The country of 51 million people has abundant natural resources and is well positioned between India, China and southeast Asia.
Amazon, Google's DeepMind, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft will work together on issues such as privacy, safety and the collaboration between people and AI.
Dubbed the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, it will include external experts.
One said he hoped the group would address "legitimate concerns".
"We've seen a very fast development in AI over a very short period of time," said Prof Yoshua Bengio, from the University of Montreal.
"The field brings exciting opportunities for companies and public organisations. And yet, it raises legitimate questions about the way these developments will be conducted."
Bringing the key players together would be the "best way to ensure we all share the same values and overall objectives to serve the common good", he added.
One notable absentee from the consortium is Apple. It has been in discussions with the group and may join the partnership "soon", according to one member.
The group will have an equal share of corporate and non-corporate members and is in discussions with organisations such as the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
It stressed that it had no plans to "lobby government or other policy-making bodies".
"AI has tremendous potential to improve many aspects of life, ranging from healthcare, education and manufacturing to home automation and transport and the founding members... hope to maximise this potential and ensure it benefits as many people as possible," it said.
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Microsoft's managing director of research hailed the partnership as a "historic collaboration on AI and its influences on people and society", while IBM's ethics researcher Francesca Rossi said it would provide "a vital voice in the advancement of the defining technology of this century".
Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google's artificial intelligence division, DeepMind, said he hoped the group would be able to "break down barriers for AI teams to share best practice and research ways to maximise societal benefits and tackle ethical concerns".
And Amazon's director of machine learning, Ralf Herbrich, said the time was ripe for such a collaboration.
"We're in a golden age of machine learning and AI," he said.
"As a scientific community, we are still a long way from being able to do things the way humans do things, but we're solving unbelievably complex problems every day and making incredibly rapid progress."
Artificial intelligence is beginning to find roles in the real world - from the basic AI used in smartphone voice assistants and web chatbots to AI agents that can take on data analysis to significant breakthroughs such as DeepMind's victory over champion Go player Lee Sedol.
The win - in one of the world's most complex board games - was hailed as a defining moment for AI, with experts saying it had come a decade earlier than anyone had predicted.
DeepMind now has 250 scientists at its King's Cross headquarters, working on a variety of projects, including several tie-ins with the NHS to analyse medical records.
In a lecture at the Royal Academy of Engineering, founder Dr Demis Hassabis revealed the team was now working on creating an artificial hippocampus, an area of the brain regarded by neuroscientists as responsible for emotion, creativity, memory and other human attributes.
But as AI has developed, so have concerns about where the technology is heading.
One of the most vocal and high-profile naysayers is Tesla's chief executive, Elon Musk, who has tweeted the technology is "potentially more dangerous than nukes [nuclear weapons]" and expressed concerns humans were "just the biological boot loader for digital super-intelligence".
Last year, Mr Musk set up his own non-profit AI group, OpenAI.
It is not, at this stage, part of the Partnership on AI.
Scrum-half Ben Spencer rotates with Richard Wigglesworth for his seventh Premiership appearance of the season.
Wasps have Elliot Daly back at centre after his release from England duty.
New signing Siale Piutau starts next to him, allowing the Tonga international to play for the first time alongside his brother, All Black Charles.
But Wasps have lost lock forward James Gaskell, who now needs surgery on a foot injury sustained in a narrow home win over Newcastle, which is likely to sideline him for the rest of the season.
After three successive Premiership wins, Wasps are looking to make it four in a row for the first time since the 2012-13 season.
But they are up against the reigning champions, who start the day 17 points better off than Wasps, having lost just once in 11 league games this season.
Saracens have also won their last nine meetings with Wasps since losing 20-15 in the annual Double Header at Twickenham in 2011.
Wasps will be making only their second trip to Allianz Park, where they lost 19-12 on their last visit in October 2013.
Wasps director of rugby Dai Young:
"We just got over the line last weekend against Newcastle and know we will need to up our game.
"Saracens are the form team, not only in England but also in Europe. They are really accurate and efficient in everything they do and excel at pressurising the opposition into making mistakes.
"It's essential to match their accuracy and minimise errors. It doesn't come any harder than playing at the home of the Premiership champions, but we know on our day we can compete with the very best."
Saracens: Bosch; Ellery, Tompkins, Barritt, Wyles; Hodgson, Spencer; Barrington, Brits, Du Plessis, Hamilton, Hargreaves (capt), Rhodes, Burger, Vunisa
Replacements: Saunders, Gill, Lamositele, Smith, Fraser, Wigglesworth, Mordt, Ransom
Wasps: C Piutau; Wade, Daly, S Piutau, Bassett; Jackson, Robson; McIntyre, Johnson, Cooper-Woolley, Cannon, Myall, Young, Smith (capt), Hughes
Replacements: Festuccia, Mullan, Swainston, Rowlands, Rieder, Stevenson, Gopperth, Miller
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The cleaning company director has an eye on his next much-needed holiday, and is one of a growing number of stay-at-home tourists who are shunning foreign travel in favour of destinations across Australia.
Since mid-2014, the Australian dollar has fallen by around 25% against its US cousin, and has been out-muscled by the British pound.
While many of Christian's friends unwind in Thailand and the Indonesian island of Bali, he now prefers his own backyard.
"The dollar is down so we are getting more bang for our buck," he told the BBC. "Noosa (on Queensland's Sunshine Coast) is one of our favourite spots. I'm off to Batemans's Bay (280km south of Sydney) in a couple of weeks.
"Melbourne, Tasmania - you name it. We're laughing. We're blessed in Australia. It's not rocket science. Everyone is trying to get to Australia. It is the best country in the world," he says.
Not everyone will agree, but what is not in dispute is the growing popularity of Australian vacations among both foreign travellers and the locals.
Official figures show that almost 620,000 international tourists came in August, a rise of about 2%, while the number of Aussies heading overseas dipped by 0.7%.
"We are continually seeing very high numbers of short-term overseas arrivals and fewer Australians are deciding to go offshore because the currency has fallen by so much, and domestic trips become cheaper for them," explains Diana Mousina, an economist at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
The Australian dollar is being weighed down by various factors, including falling commodity prices that have hit the nation's terms of trade, which measures the value of exports compared to imports.
The re-energised US dollar and Australia's relatively high interest rates play a part, too.
A long resources boom that helped to ward off the worst effects of the global recession is fading, and Australia's economy is in transition as it seeks new ways to prosperity.
"Tourism is extremely important. I think that people actually forget it is our third largest export," Ms Mousina says.
The domestic travel industry employs around 530,000 Australians, many in areas far beyond the major cities where jobs can be scarce.
The sector packs a mightier financial punch than agriculture, and generates about A$43bn ($31.2bn; £20.6bn) each year.
Australia's Reserve Bank believes a weaker currency will help make the nation's shift towards a non-mining future far smoother. Not everyone wins, of course, but central bankers take the view that cheaper exports are broadly beneficial.
The Aussie dollar sits around at around $72 cents, and economists forecast it could tumble even further against the US currency. This would inject more vigour into the tourism trade.
But Dr Ranald Taylor, from Murdoch University, believes that it is foreigners, not the locals, who will make a significant difference.
"There is little doubt that the domestic tourism industry in Australia will expand, but not driven by locals but by overseas visitors, particularly the people from China, Singapore and Malaysia," he says.
He doesn't think that a depreciating currency will stop Australians travelling overseas because of affordable air travel and the high cost of holidaying at home.
"Australia is expensive," he says. "No matter how you look at it, the hotels, food and accommodation are still much cheaper overseas than Australia.
"If I am an Australian, I would go to Bali for my annual holiday. It is a lot cheaper. For very little money you can stay in a high-end hotel. Over here you would be lucky to get a caravan for that kind of money."
Many foreigners, though, are happy to pay. Last year, Chinese visitors pumped US$4bn into the Australian economy. That figure could more than double by the end of the decade, according to some estimates.
Stephen Arnerich, the owner of Sydney-based Runaway Tours, which offers foreign-language excursions, believes that the tourism industry is rebounding.
"The American market has been fairly slow because the Australian dollar has been quite high, and also the American economy hasn't be so great, either.
"But in the last six months, or so, we are seeing more Americans coming through. We're getting lots of clients coming through from the Chinese market. It is getting much more popular," he says.
Many Australians are also rediscovering the beauty and diversity of their own country.
"Where we can, we do like to stay local because there is lots to see and do at home," says Jennifer, a mother-of-two from Manly, in Sydney.
She has recently returned from a trip to the Queensland city of Cairns, but will head off to Fiji, in the South Pacific, on the next family getaway.
But despite the dollar's weakening buying power overseas, she believes that Australians will always be curious to explore what lies beyond the horizon.
"I think we are just born travellers and no matter what the dollar is doing we are not going to stop travelling."
Mr Kalanick's parents Bonnie and Donald were out on a lake in Fresno when their boat sank on Friday.
Mrs Kalanick, 71, and her husband were found on the shore of Pine Flat Lake by the emergency services.
Fresno County Sheriff's Office said a preliminary investigation suggested their boat had struck a rock, with the Kalanicks both hurt in the collision.
A spokesman for Uber said the family had suffered "an unspeakable tragedy", adding that Mr Kalanick's father was in a "serious condition".
An investigation into the accident is ongoing, the sheriff's department said, with an autopsy due to be carried out on Sunday.
Mr Kalanick hit the headlines earlier this year when he was filmed swearing at one of his company's drivers.
He later said he was "ashamed" of his behaviour in an email to staff.
His eight-day trip will also take in Israel, the Palestinian territories, Brussels, the Vatican and Sicily.
It comes as Mr Trump faces uproar at home following his sacking of FBI director James Comey.
He has strongly criticised the decision to appoint a special counsel to oversee an inquiry into alleged Russian influence on the US election.
The trip takes in the capitals of the three major monotheistic religions - Islam, Judaism and Christianity.
Mr Trump will attend the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh and speak about his "hopes of a peaceful vision of Islam," the White House said.
US National Security Adviser HR McMaster said the president would deliver a speech expressing hope that such a vision would resonate worldwide.
"What President Trump is seeking is to unite peoples of all faiths around a common vision of peace, progress and prosperity," he told reporters.
Mr Trump caused controversy during his campaign by calling for Muslims to be temporarily banned from entering the US over security concerns. Legislation aimed at restricting travel from several Muslim-majority countries remains tied up in the US courts.
The summit agenda is expected to focus on combating Islamist militants and the growing regional influence of Iran.
Mr Trump has been a fierce critic of the Iran deal which eased sanctions in return for a curb on its nuclear activities.
One leader who will not be attending the summit will be Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir. President Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges and the US was reported to be unhappy about his planned attendance.
Unlike his predecessor, Barack Obama, Mr Trump is not expected to highlight human rights during his trip.
Bruce Riedel, of the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, told Reuters news agency that the Saudis "don't want any more talk about human rights, democracy, political reform or gender equality".
"They had enough of that from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. They're pretty confident they're not going to hear it from Donald Trump," he said.
Aside from the formal diplomacy, US country music star Toby Keith will perform a free concert in Riyadh on Saturday alongside Saudi singer Rabeh Sager.
Saudi Arabia, which enforces a strict interpretation of Islam including a total ban on alcohol, is perhaps an unusual venue for Keith - whose hits include I Love This Bar, Whiskey Girl, and Drunk Americans.
Saturday's concert is open only to men aged over 21 who are required to dress in traditional Saudi tunics.
On Monday, Mr Trump will fly to Tel Aviv and travel on to Jerusalem where he will meet President Reuven Rivlin.
He is due to visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre as well as the Western Wall before holding talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Observers will be watching to see if Mr Trump refers to his announcement during the election campaign, that he would break with decades of US policy and move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The status of Jerusalem is one of the most sensitive and complex issues within the Middle East conflict and no country in the world currently has its embassy there.
On Tuesday, Mr Trump will travel to Bethlehem in the West Bank for talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Peace talks with Israel will top the agenda and Mr Trump is expected to express his support for Palestinian "self-determination".
President Trump will arrive early in Rome and have an audience with Pope Francis at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.
The two men have appeared at odds on many subjects including climate change and the plight of refugees, but the Pope has said he will give the president an open-minded hearing.
Later, Mr Trump flies to Brussels where he will be greeted by King Philippe and Prime Minister Charles Michel.
After talks with EU leaders and France's new President Emmanuel Macron, Mr Trump will attend a meeting of Nato leaders.
This will be closely watched after Mr Trump's conflicting pronouncements on the alliance. During his campaign, he called Nato "obsolete" although in April he reversed his stance.
The US leader is expected to repeat his demand that other Nato members increase their contributions.
The last stop on Mr Trump's tour will be the picturesque Sicilian town of Taormina where he will attend a G7 summit.
Correspondents say the other G7 leaders are eager to hear Mr Trump's thoughts on trade and other issues at first hand.
Mr McMaster has said that the president will "press America's economic agenda and call for greater security co-operation".
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Every year pods of orcas make a journey from Iceland to Orkney and John O'Groats in Scotland.
The underwater mammals migrate every year for food and it gives people the chance to spot them up close.
Scientists want people to look out for the orcas, as they want to learn more about their migration patterns.
Kathy James from the Sea Watch Foundation explains: "It's relatively easy to see land animals and the habitats they're using, but it's more difficult to see animals that live under the sea. The only way we can see where they are and what they're doing is if people report that to us."
Ayshah went to meet some young whale watchers at a special event called Orca Watch to see what she could spot.
Mr Ferrand's partner, Sandrine Doucen, allegedly profited from a property deal while he was head of a health insurance fund renting office space from her.
He denies wrongdoing. Separately, one of Mr Macron's junior ministers is also suspected of financial impropriety.
The timing is awkward for Mr Macron, as he launches an ethical standards bill.
He has made clean government a flagship policy, after financial misconduct allegations hit his main rivals in the presidential election - National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen and conservative Republicans candidate François Fillon.
His new centrist party, La République en Marche (Republic on the move), wants to win convincingly in key parliamentary elections this month.
Polls suggest the party can win, but the well-established party machines of the Socialists and Republicans are formidable rivals.
Mr Ferrand, who is Territorial Cohesion Minister, managed a Brittany fund called Mutuelles de Bretagne in 1998-2012.
A prosecutor in the western city of Brest has opened an investigation to see if any of Mr Ferrand's actions might be deemed illegal.
The satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné raised suspicions about Mr Ferrand last week. It also alleged that his son had worked as a parliamentary assistant in 2014, which the minister dismissed as minor work which lasted for only four months.
Meanwhile junior European Affairs Minister Marielle de Sarnez is among 19 French MEPs under investigation over their hiring of assistants. Seventeen of them - including Ms Le Pen - are in the FN.
Ms Sarnez denied wrongdoing and threatened to sue the FN member who made the allegations against her.
Parliamentary assistants on the EU payroll in Strasbourg were allegedly given work in French national constituencies, which violates EU rules.
At a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, President Macron urged his ministers to show "solidarity" and "responsibility".
Mr Macron is against MPs working as consultants or employing family members.
The Greens became the second largest party in Liverpool and Solihull, replacing the Liberal Democrats in each case.
With 151 of 161 councils declared, the party had gained 17 councillors overall across England.
Ms Bennett also pointed to Bristol, where the Green Party gained two seats.
In Liverpool it won two new councillors, and three in Solihull.
Ms Bennett, who was elected leader in 2012, told the BBC: "We are seeing progress right around the country.
"We're becoming much more of a national party."
Ms Bennett has said her party could triple its number of MEPs from two to six in the European elections, which were also held on Thursday.
The results for the European elections are due to start coming in late Sunday, when voting has finished across the EU.
She has accused the main political parties of "pandering" to UKIP and complained that Nigel Farage's party had been able to "capture the agenda".
Thomas Shannon, a counsellor to the US Secretary of State, met the chairman of Venezuela's national assembly, Diosdado Cabello.
Venezuelan officials tweeted that both sides had been working to resolve the crisis in their relations.
Earlier this year, Venezuela accused the US of plotting a coup and the US declared Caracas a security threat.
Venezuela ordered the US to reduce its embassy staff and imposed a visa requirement on US visitors.
In turn, the US ordered sanctions against seven Venezuelan officials it accused of corruption and rights abuses.
There have been other high-profile meetings between the two sides this year.
In April, President Nicolas Maduro met Thomas Shannon in Caracas.
Correspondents say both sides have lowered the tone in recent weeks.
The latest meeting comes after reports in US media that Washington is investigating Diosdado Cabello over alleged involvement in drug trafficking and money laundering.
Mr Cabello has denied the allegations.
He was speaking hours after the US and Arab allies launched their first air strikes against IS in Syria.
Activists say at least 70 IS militants and 50 other al-Qaeda-linked fighters were killed in the strikes.
US state department spokeswoman Jan Psaki said the US had warned Syria in advance "not to engage US aircraft".
But she added that Washington had not requested permission or given advance notice of the timing of the attacks.
President Obama confirmed that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Bahrain and Qatar had taken part in or supported the strikes.
He said the US was "proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with these nations".
The Pentagon said warplanes, drones and Tomahawk cruise missiles were used in the strikes.
IS has seized large areas of Syria and Iraq, and the US has launched nearly 200 air strikes in Iraq since August.
But Monday's strikes expanded the anti-IS campaign across the border into Syria for the first time.
The strikes targeted the group's main headquarters in its stronghold of Raqqa, north-eastern Syria, as well as training compounds, vehicles and storage facilities in several other areas.
They were organised in three separate waves with US fighter jets carrying out the first set, and Arab nations participating in the second and third, Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant General Bill Mayville told reporters.
Later on Tuesday, US Secretary of State John Kerry said the US would not "allow geography or borders" to prevent action against IS militants.
"We will hold them responsible for their grotesque atrocities," he said at the United Nations in New York, flanked by Iraq's president and foreign minister.
President Obama said al-Qaeda-linked militants, known as the Khorasan Group, were also targeted with air strikes in Syria.
US officials say the group had been plotting "imminent attacks" against the West, and had established a safe haven west of Aleppo.
As well as informing Syria's government of the impending strikes, the US reportedly told Iranian officials attacks were imminent, Reuters reports.
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The Pentagon set out three broad groups of targets arranged in an arc across northern Syria.
Those closest to the Mediterranean coast seem to have been hit largely by Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from warships - this is an area where Syrian government air defences may still have coverage.
In a briefing Lt Gen William Mayville noted that Syrian air defences were "passive", as he put it, during the course of the operation.
This suggests a conscious decision by Syrian commanders who perhaps feared that active scanning by their defences might draw down air attacks upon them.
The operation was notable for involving aircraft from Jordan and from Washington's Gulf allies. It also marked the first use in combat of one of the USAF's most modern aircraft, the F-22 Raptor.
This, the Pentagon is stressing, is just the start of "a sustained air campaign", the tempo of which, says a Pentagon spokesman, "will be dictated by facts on the ground".
US pundits question Syria air strikes
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, quoted by state media, said he supports any international efforts to combat "terrorism" in Syria.
Analysts say it is significant that countries with a Sunni majority, like Jordan and Saudi Arabia, are among those supporting US efforts against IS.
IS members are jihadists who adhere to an extreme interpretation of Sunni Islam and consider themselves the only true believers.
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The fires, which started between 02:30 and 04:00, were in George Street, Stirling Road and Station Road.
A number of occupants had to be evacuated from the affected properties but no one was injured.
Firefighters from Dunblane, Bridge of Allan and Stirling were sent to deal with the fires, which were all extinguished.
A police spokesman said: "Police Scotland is investigating, in conjunction with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, three suspicious fires at addresses in Dunblane.
"The incidents happened between 2.30am and 4am on Saturday.
"The occupants of some of the affected properties had to be evacuated, however nobody was injured. A male has currently been detained."
Employees may be liable for a tax charge if their bosses spend more than £150 per head during the year on entertaining staff, tax rules state.
The £150 allowance had not changed since June 2003, said tax partner Andy Sanford, of Blick Rothenberg.
He said that firms should monitor expenditure or face affecting morale.
Entertainment of staff is considered by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) as a benefit in kind which is taxable. So after the £150 allowance, a tax bill could be levied on individual employees.
However, firms could enter a settlement agreement that would ensure employers covered the cost, rather than employees.
"[That] would be a nice Christmas present," Mr Sanford said.
"Matters could be simplified by there being no taxable benefit on individuals, with the company bearing the tax on parties and celebrations."
Meanwhile, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has highlighted the difference between some items seen at Christmas in terms of VAT.
VAT - a sales tax of 20% - is generally levied on "luxuries", but many "essentials" are VAT-free.
This means that children's clothes are not subject to VAT, but adults' clothes are.
The ICAEW also points out that shelled and salted nuts are considered to be luxuries and are subject to VAT, but unshelled nuts are free from VAT.
Callum Taylor top scored with 42 as England were dismissed for 184, four balls shy of completing their 50 overs.
England had lost wickets steadily throughout their innings but Sri Lanka breezed to victory with almost 15 overs of their allotted 50 to spare.
Avishka Fernando top scored with a brisk 95 off 96 balls as Sri Lanka set up a semi-final against India.
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That match will take place on Monday, while Thursday's second semi-final will see the host nation take on the winner of Monday's match between Pakistan and West Indies.
"I genuinely believe we had an off-day," said England captain Brad Taylor, whose team had won all three of their group games.
"You have days when it does not come off. I think Sri Lanka played very well, but on another day, we would back ourselves.
"We expected Sri Lanka to rely on spin, but the batsmen did not stay long enough to build partnerships. We had come here to win the tournament, so obviously we are very disappointed."
Durham's Jack Burnham and Essex's Dan Lawrence had been in superb form with the bat during the tournament but managed only 20 runs between them.
Leg spinner Wanidu Hasanranga claimed three wickets while seamer Asitha Fernando claimed two early in the England innings.
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Mae'r newidiau yn rhan o gynnig gan Tata i gadw'r busnes ar agor, ond gydag amodau pensiwn llai hael.
O dan y cynllun, bydd Tata hefyd yn buddsoddi £1bn yng ngwaith dur Port Talbot, a bydd dim diswyddiadau gorfodol.
Fe benderfynodd bron i dri chwarter aelodau undebau Community, GMB ac Unite dderbyn y cynllun.
Mae Llywodraeth y DU wedi croesawu'r penderfyniad, gan ddweud bod angen "cydweithio i wireddu'r cynlluniau".
"Mae'r faith iddyn nhw weithio mewn ffordd mor adeiladol gyda'r perchnogion i sicrhau dyfodol y gwaith yn arwydd o ymrwymiad y gweithlu," meddai llefarydd.
"Bydd y llywodraeth yn chwarae ei rhan i gefnogi'r diwydiant dur i greu dyfodol cynaliadwy".
Fe ddywedodd Prif Weinidog Cymru, Carwyn Jones, bod y bleidlais wedi bod yn "benderfyniad anodd" i'r gweithwyr, ond bod y canlyniad yn "gam ymlaen".
"Byddwn yn parhau i weithio'n agos gyda Tata i weithredu ein pecyn cefnogaeth ariannol sylweddol, i sicrhau swyddi a gwaith chynhyrchu ar holl safleoedd Tata yng Nghymru," meddai.
Ychwanegodd ei fod yn galw eto ar Lywodraeth y DU i "daclo costau ynni mawr y DU".
Fe ddywedodd llefarydd Plaid Cymru ar ddur, Bethan Jenkins, bod y cytundeb yn "aberth" ar ran gweithlu heddiw ar gyfer gweithwyr y dyfodol.
"Does dim amheuaeth bod y pecyn o newidiadau a gyflwynwyd yn sobr, ac roedd rhaid iddyn nhw ddewis rhwng eu swydd a'u pensiwn," meddai.
"Dyma'r amser i lywodraethau Cymru a'r DU i gamu lan a dangos eu hymrwymiad i weithwyr dur a'r diwydiant. Byddai hynny'n cynnwys gweithredu ar gostau ynni, buddsoddi mewn pwerdy lleol a chanolfan ddatblygu ac ymchwil dur."
Dywedodd AC Aberafan, y Llafurwr David Rees, bod y gweithlu wedi "rhoi ymrywmiad i'r diwydiant dur yma yng Nghymru cyn eu budd personol".
"Nawr mae'n rhaid i Tata ddangos ymrwymiad tebyg drwy gadw i'w haddewidion i fuddsoddi, oedd yn rhan o'r cynllun.
"Dwi wedi gofyn i Lywodraeth Cymru i ddangos ei hymrwymiad i gefnogi cynhyrchu dur a pharhau i weithio gyda Tata ar brosiectau buddsoddi fydd yn gwneud cynhyrchu dur yn fwy cynalidawy a hyfyw."
Fis Mawrth 2016, fe gyhoeddodd rheolwyr Tata eu bod yn bwriadu gwerthu'r busnes ym Mhrydain oherwydd pryderon eu bod yn gwneud colledion.
Ond wedi trafodaethau gyda gwleidyddion ac undebau, fe gyhoeddodd y cwmni eu bod yn gweithio ar gynllun i gadw'r busnes, ond y byddai hynny'n golygu newidiadau.
Mae'r cynlluniau newydd yn golygu na fydd cyfanswm Tata at y pensiwn yn fwy na 10%, ac ni fydd hawl gan y gweithwyr gyfrannu mwy na 6%.
Mae BBC Cymru yn deall hefyd y gallai cyfraniad pensiwn o hyd at £10,000 gael ei gynnig i weithwyr Tata sydd dros 50 oed ac yn bwriadu ymddeol yn gynnar.
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Jockey Leighton Aspell, also successful in 2014 on Pineau De Re, is seeking a historic third consecutive victory in the famous race over 30 fences.
The field was reduced on Saturday when O'Faolains Boy, trained by Rebecca Curtis, was found to be lame.
Coverage of the £1m race is expected to be followed by 600m people worldwide.
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Bookmakers say more than £150m will be wagered on the race.
Two-time winner Ruby Walsh, who was set to ride Sir Des Champs, was ruled out with a fractured wrist after falling twice on Friday.
The Aintree showpiece - run over nearly four and a half miles - has been put back an hour to 17:15 BST, avoiding a clash with the afternoon's football fixtures, in an effort to increase audience figures.
Contenders have to negotiate obstacles such as Becher's Brook and The Chair, and no horse has won back-to-back runnings since triple-winner Red Rum in the 1970s.
But Aspell believes Many Clouds, rated 8-1 favourite on Friday, can defy top weight for trainer Oliver Sherwood.
"I think he's the worthy favourite. I would choose Many Clouds for his experience and class. He's possibly still improving," said Aspell, 39.
However, the jockey did concede that Silviniaco Conti, a seven-time winner of Grade One races at the highest level, had the capability to "make a mockery" of his 16-1 odds.
Punters will keep a keen eye on the weather, with 7mm of rain overnight changing the going at the track to Soft, Good to Soft in places.
Any rain would be considered a plus for last year's Midlands National winner Goonyella, while the Jonjo O'Neill pair of Holywell and Shutthefrontdoor would prefer drier conditions.
Other leading contenders include The Last Samuri for trainer Kim Bailey, who triumphed 26 years ago with Mr Frisk.
Sir Des Champs, the 2013 Cheltenham Gold Cup runner-up trained by Willie Mullins, saw his 40-1 odds halve after Walsh was confirmed as jockey.
However, Nina Carberry will deputise for Walsh following his injury.
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Along with Carberry, Ruby's sister Katie is seeking to become the first female rider to win the National.
Katie, who achieved a best-placed finish of third in 2012 on Seabass, rides outsider Ballycasey for Mullins having been called up for the ride on Wednesday night.
As a child she watched the movie National Velvet, in which Elizabeth Taylor plays a young woman who rides the Grand National winner, but does not overplay her gender.
"I don't see myself as a female jockey. I'm just a jockey," said the 32-year-old Irish amateur.
"Loads of people say that if I win the National, I would be the first female to do so. I don't see it like that. I just think it would be great to win."
The National is famed as a unique test for horse and rider, but draws criticism from opponents, including animal welfare groups.
Officials believe modifications to the fences, and other alterations, introduced three years ago have helped improve safety.
Since the changes, there have been no fatal injuries to horses in the National itself, but there were three fatalities over the National fences on the first two days of this year's Aintree meeting.
In Thursday's Fox Hunters' Chase, Clonbanan Lad and Marasonnien did not fall, but were pulled up by their jockeys and later collapsed.
On Friday, Gullinbursti and Minella Reception were put down after a fall at Becher's Brook in the Grade Three Topham Chase.
It stopped after a sensor detected a "minor technical fault" and the ride performed "exactly as it is designed to do," the theme park said.
A spokesperson said in line with its "well-rehearsed procedures" people were helped from the ride and at no point was "guest safety compromised".
Footage of people apparently leaving a stranded carriage was put on Twitter by Alex Heasman-Bailey.
West Midlands Ambulance Service said it had not been called.
The double shooting at a youth project in Clonsilla was reportedly carried out by a man who was dressed as a woman.
Gardaà (Irish police) were called to the scene on Shelerin Road shortly after 18:00 local time on Friday.
A 32-year-old man was arrested in County Meath on Saturday morning and taken to Blanchardstown Garda station.
Irish broadcaster RTÉ has reported that the 36-year-old who died after the attack "may not have been the intended target".
He was father-of-two Keith Walker from Tir Na Ri Road in Clondalkin in Dublin.
The second victim, who was shot in the arm, is being treated in Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, for non-life threatening injuries.
It is understood the men were members of a pigeon club who were meeting in a yard.
Beer sales continued to slide last year and the trend towards cider sipping stalled.
The global market for all alcoholic drinks contracted 1.3% in 2016, driven by a 1.8% fall in beer sales, the International Wine and Spirits Record (IWSR) found.
Cider sales went in reverse, down 1.5% after several years of growth.
The overall contraction of international alcohol sales is far greater than the average dip of 0.3% in the previous five years.
The IWSR market report for 2016 found global wine sales to be relatively flat, down 0.1% and spirits consumption grew 0.3%.
UK gin makers could be boosted as the so-called gin revival continued, with sales of the iconic British tipple up 3.7% globally.
Although global GDP increased 3.5% in 2016, according to the IMF, and economic growth usually correlates with increased alcohol consumption several major economies, China, Russia and Brazil all faced an economic slowdown or recession.
Beer sales in China fell 4.2%, were down 5.3% in Brazil and dipped 7.8% in Russia.
The company - which hiked fares earlier this year - said it currently had no plans for further rises this year.
In its accounts for 2014-15, Translink said its balance sheet reflected a £13m reduction in funding from the Department of Regional Development.
The company is set to face further financial pain.
One consequence will be that it is unable to purchase new buses.
While profits are down, passenger numbers rose by almost 500,000.
Translink said it would take two years to return to profit.
Part of its plan involves management redundancies and cuts to bus and train services - though these are currently on hold during consultations with unions.
The accounts show a pre-tax loss of £16.6m, before accounting, or non-trading, adjustments were made.
These included pension liabilities, but more significantly a £7m charge in respect of fuel hedging resulting from the fall in the price of oil.
Fuel hedging is when companies buy fuel at prices agreed in advance.
According to the accounts, movements in the price of oil meant Translink lost out during the 12 months in question.
Johnson is one of more than 50 women who have accused the 78-year-old of drugging and, in some cases, sexually assaulting them.
Earlier this month, Cosby took legal action against seven other women, saying several of them lied about him for financial gain.
He has always denied the accusations and has never been criminally charged.
Cosby's latest legal action claims that Johnson defamed him and intentionally inflicted emotional distress.
"Mr Cosby states that he never drugged the defendant and her story is a lie," said his representative Monique Pressley.
The comedian wants a jury trial, according to documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Johnson, 63, wrote an article in Vanity Fair in November 2014 in which she claimed she was invited to Cosby's house.
There, she went on, he allegedly drugged her coffee - claims she repeated on various TV news programmes, including ABC's Good Morning America and Nightline.
Cosby's legal action claims that he never spent any time alone in his home with Johnson and that he asked for an injunction forcing Johnson to retract her public statements and take a chapter about him out of her memoirs.
In a statement, Johnson said: "In cases of rape and abuse, abusers will do whatever they can to intimidate and weaken their victims to force them to stop fighting."
During 2014, dozens of women made public accusations that Cosby sexually assaulted them. Several of his live shows across the US were cancelled because of protests.
Cosby enjoyed huge success during the 1980s with sitcom The Cosby Show, having previously been a actor and comedian for many years.
Paul Hill, 42, was jailed for six months at the High Court in Edinburgh after handing himself in last year.
He had fled to England and lived in Ireland and the Channel Islands after firing two shots in the air outside the Falls of Dochart Inn in Killin in 1996.
Hill's defence QC said the incident was "a one-off, impetuous, reckless act."
The court heard earlier that Hill had been out for an evening with his parents, his sister, and a friend, when an altercation started between Hill's father and another man.
A witness, Crichton Davies, told Hill to go home but Hill, whom he described as "really wound up", began to struggle with him.
During the struggle, Hill produced a small handgun, and fired it into the air.
He fired the gun in the air a second time as Mr Davies tried to free the weapon from his grasp.
The gun was never recovered, but Hill handed himself in to police the next day.
He was originally charged with attempted murder and released on bail but failed to appear for trial in 1997.
Two months after the incident outside the pub, gunman Thomas Hamilton had opened fire in a primary school in Dunblane, killing 16 children and a teacher before killing himself.
Defence counsel Brian McConnachie QC told the court: "Just very shortly before his trial the events in Dunblane had taken place and, perhaps somewhat unwisely, the solicitor then acting for him suggested he would be made an example of because of the circumstances."
Mr McConnachie said the gunshot incident was "a one-off, impetuous, reckless act which had never been repeated".
Hill, of Killin, Perthshire, admitted struggling with Mr Davies, and recklessly discharging the gun.
He also admitted failing to appear for a court hearing in February 1997, and fleeing from home, all to avoid detection and arrest.
Judge Lord Ericht said he recognised that the offence Hill was convicted of was "much less serious" than the original charge.
He said: "Nonetheless, the discharge of a firearm is a serious matter.
"You have also defied the authority of the court by failing to attend for trial and evaded arrest since then."
The decision had been due to take place in Kuala Lumpur in May 2017, but has been delayed amid allegations of corruption surrounding the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 tournaments to Russia and Qatar.
Fifa has also introduced a four-phase approach for the bidding process.
USA, Canada, Mexico, Colombia and England could bid to host in 2026.
Fifa will decide in October which confederations can put bids forward, with the current rules only excluding the Asian Football Confederation because Qatar will have hosted the previous World Cup.
A decision on whether to leave the tournament at 32 teams will also be made in October.
The four phases of the bidding process are:
The consultation phase will look at four main areas: human rights and environmental protection, the ability to exclude bids that do not meet technical requirements, a review of stance on joint bids and whether to increase the World Cup to 40 teams.
The bidding process was the main announcement from the first two-day meeting of the new Fifa council - the successor body to the executive commitee - in Mexico City.
There are already 400 operating across 11 bus routes in the capital and by May there will be a total of 800.
They are the Marmite of buses; some love them, some hate them.
Some have conductors (that don't take fares), and you can hop on and hop off the rear platform in traffic. On some you can't.
Critics think it would have been cheaper to buy hybrids off the peg, others think they are worth the premium.
It is one of the few areas where more staff have been taken on.
Transport-wise, they are a bit of an eccentric anomaly.
There have been problems with the on-board cooling leading to extremely uncomfortable conditions upstairs, and now I've learnt there have been problems with the batteries.
They have not been working correctly and the initial batch of batteries is having to be replaced.
Transport for London (TfL) bosses tell me the original Routemasters suffered various problems initially and compared to them they think this version has performed pretty well. The faulty batteries are being replaced under warranty.
Mike Weston, TfL's director of buses, said: "The New Routemaster is the cleanest and greenest bus of its class and there is absolutely no problem with its hybrid system.
"However, as part of the warranty provided by the manufacturer, a programme is under way to check and, if necessary, upgrade batteries on some of the fleet.
"If the batteries stop working properly the engine runs for longer to generate the electrical power needed.
"The battery packs are being upgraded as soon as possible and within the warranty period, at no cost to TfL or the taxpayer."
Fellaini signed a four-year deal with the option of a further year when he joined from Everton for £27.5m in 2013.
United boss Jose Mourinho has activated the option despite uncertainty over the 29-year-old midfielder's future.
Fellaini was booed by his own fans last month but scored in the EFL Cup semi-final win against Hull on Tuesday.
The Belgium international ran to Mourinho to celebrate his goal in what seemed to be a show of recognition for the faith shown in him after a difficult period, which included giving away a costly penalty at Everton on 4 December.
Speaking after Tuesday's victory, Mourinho said: "He has a very strong mentality and has coped well.
"He knows he is a very important player for me."
The Grade I listed Chepstow Bridge was built by John Urpeth Rastrick in 1816, and remains the only five-arch iron bridge of its age to survive.
It played a crucial role in uniting south Wales with the West Country, until the Severn Bridge opened in 1966.
Sunday will see the original opening re-enacted, as officials meet halfway.
Monmouthshire council chairman Jim Higginson has the honour of greeting his Gloucestershire counterpart, Colin Hay, along with the president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Sir John Armitt.
Mr Higginson said it would be "an historic occasion".
"I'm delighted to participate in the ceremony marking 200 years of this magnificent bridge. I'm sure that it'll be a day to remember," he said.
Chepstow mayor Paul Pavia added: "A huge amount of work has been invested in the event by the town council and local volunteers, especially John Burrows of the bridge's bi-centenary organising group, and I hope all our guests and local residents will enjoy and remember this historic day for years to come."
A foundation stone for the bridge was laid in 1813, and then in 1814 the contract to construct it was won by the Bridgnorth foundry of Hazeldine, Rastrick and Brodie, where engineer Rastrick was a managing partner.
Despite the scale of the task it was in place just two years later - at the cut price of £17,850 - about £1.2m today.
It spans 34 metres (112ft) across the Wye, and is maintained by both Monmouthshire and Gloucestershire councils.
The bridge replaced a wooden 10-arch structure that had stood on the Wye in one form or another for 500 years.
"Once complete, it became the third largest iron arch road bridge in the world, so it was a very bold initiative for its time," added Gloucestershire cabinet member, Vernon Smith.
"Last year we helped to fund structural repairs and a repaint. It now looks fantastic for its 200th birthday and I hope it'll be used for another 200 years and beyond."
Celebrations begin at 13:00 BST at Beaufort Square in Chepstow, with a bi-centenary plaque unveiling, a historic car procession and a riverside fair, all bringing the month-long Chepstow Festival to an end with a firework display.
The Welsh government has given final approval to deregister common land to allow the project to be built at a site in Rassau, Ebbw Vale.
Backers, including Blaenau Gwent council, have offered 320 hectares (800 acres) of replacement land.
The firm behind the project said it would regenerate the area.
A Welsh government spokesman said deputy minister for farming and food, Rebecca Evans, had granted permission to deregister the land at Trefil Las and Twyn Bryn-March Common in Ebbw Vale, subject to conditions.
Leader of the council Hedley McCarthy said: "We welcome the announcement from Welsh government and, as a council, remain fully supportive of the Circuit of Wales development and the benefits it could bring to Blaenau Gwent and the surrounding areas.
"We look forward to continuing to work closely with the developer on this exciting project."
Developer Heads of the Valleys Development Company (HOTVDC) said the approval was a "positive milestone" and was "vital" for the development to proceed.
Chief executive Michael Carrick said it would lead to improved maintenance and access to the replacement common land.
"The Circuit of Wales has the ability to generate thousands of employment opportunities, attract greater long-term investment and deliver regeneration into Blaenau Gwent and South Wales," he added.
The development aims to create 6,000 jobs and is set to host the MotoGP from 2017.
HOTVDC has said it has Asian financial backers for the project, which has a £200m private finance target to get started.
The rest of the money is expected to come from Welsh government support and local authorities.
Scotland international Morrison, 30, was due to be a free agent on 1 July but has agreed a new initial two-year deal at the Premier League club.
"I thought long and hard and spoke to the chairman many times," Morrison told BBC WM.
"It helped make my mind up and it was a big decision but I'm delighted."
Darlington-born Morrison's new contract - which has an option for a further twelve months - will take his time with Baggies to more than a decade, having joined from Middlesbrough in August 2007.
Having missed the last three months of last season though injury, Morrison admits he thought hard about which direction his future was going to take.
"I didn't like how it ended last season, just walking round the pitch and then out the door - I've worked too hard over the last nine years to give it away like that," he said.
"I've got an opportunity make it a bit more positive and I'm motivated to do that.
"The chairman's said he's planning to bring more players in and try to kick on up the league and I bought into his vision and his plans and I want to be part of that."
Directly comparable figures show the biggest gap was in the wait for hip operations, up by a fifth in 2015-16.
The average wait for hip operations in England was 76 days while in Wales it was 226 days.
But waiting times in Wales for heart by-pass surgery fell significantly.
In 2014-15 the average wait in Wales was 111 days. It fell to 43 days in 2015-16.
Overall, there were significantly longer waits in Wales in seven out of the 11 main indicators measured in Wales compared to the same indicators measured in England.
Waiting times in Wales for the treatment of cataracts and hernias were around two months longer than in England in 2015-16.
Waits for stomach operations were 11 days longer, while waits for the diagnosis for pneumonia were nearly a fortnight longer and diagnosis of heart disease was eight days longer.
But there was a 20% increase in the wait in Wales for other heart operations, which do not include by-pass surgery, compared to the previous year.
There were minimal or no differences in the waits for the diagnosis of cancer and head injuries.
There were shorter waits in Wales than in England for heart by-pass and kidney surgery.
Source: Patient Episode Database for Wales/ Hospital Episode Statistics 　
Tim Havard, a director of the Royal College of Surgeons in Wales, said it was "disappointing" that Wales lagged behind England but Wales' population was on average sicker and older than England's.
"There continues to be a need to prevent ill-health, especially through tackling the higher rates of obesity in Wales," he said.
"However it is encouraging to see significant progress in reducing waiting times for heart by-pass operations in Wales.
"Many of the causes of longer waiting times are complex and will not be solved overnight, but this shows that when focus is given to reducing waiting times the NHS can improve access to care."
Welsh Conservative health spokeswoman Angela Burns said the wait for hip operations in Wales was "scandalous", while cataract patients were "literally going blind while they wait for a simple corrective procedure".
She urged ministers to pursue a "decisive, innovative and target-led strategy informed by science and the expertise of professional bodies in order to address the perennial issues that hold our health service back".
Plaid Cymru health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth accused Labour ministers of "complacency and denial, pretending that waiting times are trivial and don't matter to patient outcomes".
He said paying private companies to carry out cardiac surgery had shown that tackling waiting times "can be done if there is the will to do so".
A Welsh Government spokesman said the number of people across Wales waiting over nine months for treatment had reduced by a fifth in 2016.
"We are pleased to see the big improvement in waiting times for heart by-pass, and the improvements seen in other areas, such as cataracts and kidney transplant," he said.
"We recognise there are areas where further improvements are required and have launched the Planned Care Programme to improve patient experience and deliver a strategic and sustainable approach to planned care in Wales."
These figures did not look good when we first published them a year ago, and the latest ones do not look much better now.
I suspect that behind the scenes, Welsh Government ministers will feel more confident this time around dealing with cross-border comparisons in light of the well-documented problems in the English NHS.
There has been a bitter strike by junior doctors as well as accusations that English health trusts have got themselves into financial difficulty by clearing their backlogs.
And of course there is the perennial problem of dealing with winter pressures on either side of Offa's Dyke, which kick-start a chain reaction that shows itself in the waiting times for planned surgery.
Nevertheless, none of this will be of particular concern to the 6,000 patients in Wales who last year waited on average three times longer than those in England for a new hip.
An area behind Wallace Primary School in the village of Elderslie has been cordoned off.
Police said the woman was walking between Byres Road and Glenmalloch Place at about 20:00 on Monday when a man struck her, causing her to fall over. He then sexually assaulted her.
Detectives have urged anyone with information to come forward.
The suspect was described as white, aged between 35 and 50, with dark hair, receding on top, and of medium to stocky build He appeared clean shaven and was wearing dark trousers with a light t-shirt.
Officers have been carrying out door-to-door inquiries and gathering CCTV footage from around the area.
Det Insp Harvie said: "This area is well used by local people as a shortcut to nearby shops on Main Street, it is also a popular spot for dog walkers. I am appealing to anyone who may have been in or near to the area yesterday evening, perhaps you saw someone acting a little suspiciously, maybe you saw someone running off, any piece of information could assist our enquiries and I would urge you to contact us.
"This incident will no doubt be of concern to local residents, however I would like to reassure them that additional officers are patrolling the area and anyone with any concerns should have no hesitation in speaking to them."
Ryan Webster, of Aberdeen, James Mackie, of Inverness, and Scott Hunter, of Bathgate, took up road cycling and signed up to do 150 miles for the Men United prostate cancer event.
Their padlocked bikes were stolen the day after the event, outside King's Cross St Pancras station in London.
They have now launched an appeal to raise £2,500 to buy replacements.
This is to allow them to continue to support various charities.
Mr Webster and Mr Hunter, both 28, and 30-year-old Mr Mackie bought the bikes earlier this year.
The charity cycle at the weekend took them from the Olympic Velodrome to Harwich ferry port, and then to the Netherlands to reach Amsterdam.
Mr Webster told BBC Scotland: "We have all had someone affected by cancer so it was a cause close to us all.
"We were buzzing, we had raised more than our target.
"But when we came back to the station on Sunday and the bikes were gone it was such a drop in feeling. We had thought they were secure.
"And the CCTV at the spot was facing the wrong way.
"The plan was to keep on cycling in future and raise more money for charity."
Charging for prescriptions was scrapped in Northern Ireland in 2010.
In February, Mr Hamilton's predecessor, Jim Wells, proposed its reintroduction to pay for a new specialist drugs fund.
However, Mr Hamilton said that "given the lack of consensus", such a move was unlikely "certainly in my time as minister."
Mr Hamilton told the assembly that the lack of charging for prescriptions would have financial consequences "in terms of paying for some of those very expensive new drugs and treatments that are out there".
Mr Wells had proposed bringing back prescription charges for a fund to pay for medicines that are either too expensive or too specific to be licensed for current use.
The Department of Health hoped to raise between £5m and £10m through some form of prescription charging.
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Mr Rusbridger will give evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee next month, a Guardian spokesman confirmed.
The Guardian has published information about how British and US spy agencies monitor communications.
The decision to publish the leaks was criticised by the leaders of UK security services on Thursday.
Documents leaked to the Guardian newspaper by Mr Snowden - who is currently in Moscow where he has sought asylum - revealed that agencies are able to tap into the internet communications of millions of ordinary citizens through GCHQ's Tempora programme.
MI6 chief Sir John Sawers warned the Intelligence and Security Committee earlier this week that "our adversaries were rubbing their hands with glee, al-Qaeda is lapping it up" in the wake of the Snowden revelations, adding: "The leaks from Snowden have been very damaging, they've put our operations at risk".
The Guardian, though, has defended its decision to publish the information, saying that the paper's coverage of British and US surveillance had prompted "necessary debate".
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On Friday, a spokesman said: "Alan has been invited to give evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee and looks forward to appearing next month."
Mr Sawers, along with the head of MI5 Andrew Parker and GCHQ director Sir Iain Lobban, were questioned by MPs in public after coming under pressure to be more open after the leaks by Mr Snowden revealed widespread spying by GCHQ and the US National Security Agency.
Mr Parker argued that the security services defend, rather than undermine freedom, and pointed to 34 terror plots that had been disrupted by the security services since the terror attacks in London on 7 July 2005.
News of Mr Rusbridger's appearance before the committee comes as Conservative MPs Julian Smith and Stephen Phillips called on him to clarify whether he had "acted on every security concern raised by government" over the news stories.
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Mr Smith and Mr Phillips said Mr Rusbridger's response to a letter from 28 Tory MPs had failed to "acknowledge the devastating assessment of the damage done to the national security of the United Kingdom by the Guardian's reporting of the Snowden leaks", citing the evidence given by the security chiefs.
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Four years ago, GB Taekwondo became embroiled in arguably the biggest pre-London Olympic controversy when it picked rising star Lutalo Muhammad over then world number one Aaron Cook.
After a bitter legal battle, Muhammad was eventually given the nod by the British Olympic Association (BOA) and went on to claim 2012 bronze.
This week, at the European Championships in Switzerland, GB fighters will have the final chance to prove their Rio potential before the 2016 squad is selected.
Olympic champion Jade Jones (-57kg), world gold medallist Bianca Walkden (+67kg) and leading +87kg heavyweight Mahama Cho look certainties for their respective divisions, while Cook - somewhat bizarrely - had his nationality purchased by Moldova last year and will fight for them in Brazil.
However, Muhammad's road to Rio has been far from simple to navigate with new GB rival - Damon Sansum, a former kick-boxing world champion who won taekwondo world silver in 2015 - a serious contender.
Only one fighter can represent Team GB in the -80kg category this summer.
Demonstrating the ability to win an Olympic medal is a key component for GB selection and Sansum had the edge after securing world silver last year.
However, Muhammad responded with victory at the Manchester World Taekwondo Grand Prix and secured Britain a -80kg berth through his end-of-year world ranking.
Despite missing the start of the season through injury, he is fourth in the Olympic -80kg standings, with Sansum eighth, but both are confident of their prospects.
"I've been in hiding and doing secret training and I'm ready to show the world what they've been missing," Muhammad told BBC Sport.
"Rio is in my mind every day, but I'd rather not talk about selection, I want to focus on winning the Olympic gold medal - that's what I'm aiming for."
Sansum believes improvements and regular medal-winning performances since switching sports prove his potential.
"It was difficult to adapt when I first moved over and London 2012 came too soon, but I've become much more consistent since then," he said.
"I transferred over because it was my dream to compete in an Olympics which you can't do in kick-boxing and I think I've shown I'm a serious medal contender."
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World Taekwondo has attempted to reinvent the sport after a series of controversial results - many of which came at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
They included Briton Sarah Stevenson being initially eliminated, despite a late fight-winning head-kick, before a threatened walkout by all athletes saw her reinstated and ultimately win bronze.
Although officials are still involved, points are now largely scored by athletes striking electronic pads mounted around the body and within headgear, which reduces the subjectivity of results.
However, the sport's governing body has become almost obsessed with change, and much to the frustration of athletes the equipment has again been revised just months before Rio 2016.
"Changing it this close is a bit confusing," Sansum told BBC Sport.
"It's hard to score and you find people winning through penalties rather than kicks because the head guards are inconsistent, but whoever adapts the quickest has the best chance of winning."
Muhammad added: "Things keep changing and there's new stuff to be aware of, but I'm confident my style and technique will work."
To say Cook v Muhammad was a bitter battle would be an understatement, with the London Olympian - who received hate mail during the appeals process - adamant his rival took the fight too far.
There has been noticeable tension between the pair when they have fought since, but Muhammad insists his relationship with Sansum is completely different.
"This isn't like other rivalries I've had in the past - there's nothing but respect here," he said.
"It [pre-London 2012] was incredibly tough and no other athlete had to go through those circumstances, but it made me tougher mentally and I do try to take that into the ring."
While Cook was outside of the British set-up, training with his own team before London 2012, Sansum believes Britain has benefited from having two leading -80kg fighters sparring with each another as part of the same programme pre-Rio.
"Our team has so much talent and with the strength in depth we're always pushing one another," he said.
"When you see someone like Lutalo lifting big in the gym, you want to go bigger. When he's kicking hard, that motivates you more."
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Fight-offs could have been used to decide as many as three of the four British Taekwondo London Olympic places, but GB selectors are not great supporters of the idea.
Muhammad leads Sansum 3-1 in the career head-to-head, but results against high-profile opponents will have a greater bearing on selection.
"I would do anything to get into the Olympics, but I'm not that big a fan of fight-offs," said Sansum, though Muhammad admits it "would be a great watch".
With only one athlete per nation allowed to compete in each division at the Europeans, Muhammad and Sansum will be kept apart.
Muhammad has the advantage of competing in the Olympic category on Saturday, with Sansum in -87kg action on Sunday, but results for both fighters will count significantly towards Rio selection.
Men:
-54kg: Hassan Haider; -58kg: Feyi Pearce; -63kg: Bradly Sinden; -68 kg: Benjamin Haines; -74kg: Christian McNeish ; -80kg: Lutalo Muhammad; -87kg: Damon Samsun; +87kg: Mahama Cho, Lyle Walker.
Women:
-49kg: Charlie Maddock; -57kg: Jade Jones; -62kg: Rachelle Booth; -67kg: Lauren Williams; -73kg: Jade Slavin; +73kg: Bianca Walkden.
During the meeting, billed as a "drop-in", they discussed "support for the peaceful resolution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine", the White House said.
Ukraine has been fighting Russian-backed rebels in the east since 2014.
Mr Trump's previous calls for better US ties with Russia have worried Ukrainian authorities, observers say.
Tuesday's meeting came as Washington announced more sanctions relating to Russia's actions in Ukraine.
The measures target 38 organisations and individuals, including Russian government officials and also officials in Crimea - a Ukrainian region annexed by Russian three years ago.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the move "regrettable".
In a brief statement, the White House said the two leaders had also discussed "President Poroshenko's reform agenda and anticorruption efforts".
In televised comments, President Trump described Ukraine "a place that we've all been very much involved in and we've been seeing it and everybody has been reading about it".
He added that "a lot of progress has been made" between Ukraine and the US, without providing any further details.
Meanwhile, Mr Poroshenko said America was "one of the most reliable supporters" of Ukraine.
The "drop-in" meeting was described by a number of Russian analysts as a diplomatic snub for the Ukrainian leader.
But observers in Ukraine stressed on the importance of it coming before expected talks between Mr Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a G20 gathering in Germany in July.
The US administration is facing claims of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and of possible links between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
Mr Trump has repeatedly denied the allegation, calling them a "witch hunt".
In Washington, President Poroshenko also held talks with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defence Secretary Jim Mattis.
"The United States stands with you. We support you in the face of threats to sovereignty, to international law or to the international order," Mr Mattis said.
Campbell was killed instantly on Coniston Water when the craft flipped over while travelling at more than 300 MPH during a 1967 record attempt.
Divers recovered the wreckage in 2001 and it is now being restored.
About a third of the boat is being moved to the Ruskin Museum in Coniston, where it will be shown in a wing dedicated to Campbell.
It includes two massive spars, originally clad in lightweight aluminium fairings to give Bluebird her sleek shape, which have been fully restored.
There are also replicas of the boat's four-metre long outer hulls, or sponsons, from the original drawings.
The originals were ripped away in the accident, and recovered floating but subsequently scrapped.
A team of volunteers at a workshop in North Shields will now fit the centre hull with its engines and systems.
Vicky Slowe, curator of the Ruskin Museum, said: "There's about one and a half tonnes of Bluebird going on show.
"We have a life-sized footprint of the Bluebird on the floor of the Bluebird wing, where the complete boat will go in due course, and the idea is to display these pieces on top of that so people can see how they fit together."
The parts will be fully reassembled at the Ruskin Museum and Bluebird will then be taken for a run on Coniston Water, before going on permanent display at the museum.
The move would "add impetus and renewed vigour" to the fight against terrorism, a military statement said.
A military advance team began work in Maiduguri on Monday, the statement said, as part of plans to move the command and control centre from Abuja.
President Muhammadu Buhari took office last month, vowing to beat Boko Haram.
He announced that the military would move its headquarters to Maiduguri, in the north-eastern state of Borno, in his inaugural speech on 29 May.
The aim is to centralise operations close to the action, cut bureaucracy and speed up decision-making.
The policy and administrative arms of the military have been accused of being detached from the reality of the soldiers on the frontline.
For example, the complaints from troops about their inadequate supplies of equipment and poor welfare were often denied, downplayed or ignored by the authorities. This led to disgruntlement among soldiers, with some refusing to fight and even shooting at their own commanding officer.
However the relocation has not gone down well with some top military men, who have viewed it as merely a symbolic or even populist move, possibly driven by a desire to be distinctively different from the previous administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
There are also concerns it could further complicate existing operations on the ground.
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The military statement said the new centre in Maiduguri would serve as "a forward command base for the chief of army staff and other service chiefs".
The move would boost the campaign against Boko Haram - known as Operation Restore Peace - without creating "another layer of command structure", the statement said.
A similar command structure is being established in nearby Yola, it said. Air force operations are expected to be launched from the town.
Boko Haram was founded in Maiduguri more than 10 years ago, and has carried out several attacks there.
The Islamist group has lost most of its territory in recent months, as the Nigerian military has retaken towns and villages in the north-east, backed by the forces of neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
It was Cooke's second straight success in the sport's World Cup series after winning in Hungary last month.
Germany's Patrick Dogue was second behind the 25-year-old Briton, with Frenchman Valentin Prades third.
"It's been a perfect day," said Cooke, who was third after the swimming, fencing and riding but pulled himself up in the combined run and shoot.
Cooke's victory came just three months before the Rio Olympics get under way.
Compatriot Freyja Prentice finished sixth in the women's event.
The already-relegated club slumped to a 26th League One defeat of the season through goals from Jake Forster-Caskey and Ricky Holmes.
Reece Mitchell replied in stoppage time for bottom-placed Chesterfield before Forster-Caskey had a penalty saved.
Chesterfield needed a fine save by Thorsten Stuckmann in the 16th minute to keep out a Holmes free-kick from just outside the box.
Joe Rowley almost gave Chesterfield the lead in the 35th minute but two minutes later, Charlton scored when Forster-Caskey was given too much time to fire a 20-yard shot into the bottom-left corner.
Chesterfield should have equalised in the 47th minute when Kristian Dennis robbed Ezri Konsa but blazed over from 12 yards and Charlton took advantage when Holmes' free-kick was deflected past Stuckmann in the 57th minute.
Dennis rattled the bar in the 74th minute and Mitchell converted a rebound before Forster-Caskey's last-gasp penalty was saved after he was fouled by Jon Nolan.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Chesterfield 1, Charlton Athletic 2.
Second Half ends, Chesterfield 1, Charlton Athletic 2.
Penalty saved! Jake Forster-Caskey (Charlton Athletic) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.
Jon Nolan (Chesterfield) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty Charlton Athletic. Jake Forster-Caskey draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Jon Nolan (Chesterfield) after a foul in the penalty area.
Kristian Dennis (Chesterfield) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Chesterfield 1, Charlton Athletic 2. Reece Mitchell (Chesterfield) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner.
Laurence Maguire (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jordan Botaka (Charlton Athletic).
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Johnnie Jackson replaces Josh Magennis.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Jack Brownell replaces Dan Gardner.
Attempt blocked. Jon Nolan (Chesterfield) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Jordan Botaka (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high.
Ezri Konsa Ngoyo (Charlton Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Hand ball by Reece Mitchell (Chesterfield).
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Ezri Konsa Ngoyo.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Jason Pearce.
Foul by Reece Mitchell (Chesterfield).
Nathan Byrne (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Kristian Dennis (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic).
Jon Nolan (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jake Forster-Caskey (Charlton Athletic).
Foul by David Faupala (Chesterfield).
Jason Pearce (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Dan Gardner (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Laurence Maguire (Chesterfield) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
David Faupala (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jason Pearce (Charlton Athletic).
Tom Anderson (Chesterfield) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Joe Rowley (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jake Forster-Caskey (Charlton Athletic).
Foul by Ricky Holmes (Charlton Athletic).
Paul McGinn (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Kristian Dennis (Chesterfield) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Lee Novak replaces Joe Aribo.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Jordan Botaka replaces Karlan Ahearne-Grant because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Karlan Ahearne-Grant (Charlton Athletic) because of an injury.
The government has given the council £30,000 to monitor the movements of heavy goods vehicles in the city.
The research will look at the frequency of deliveries to shops and the current methods used.
Labour's Mark Bradshaw, Bedminster councillor and assistant mayor, admitted the "rising issue" of air pollution was a "challenge".
"We're committed to working with the business community. This is not about imposing any solutions," he added.
"We've really got to understand what businesses need to make them thrive, for them to serve their customers and their clients.
"But equally we have a responsibility as a city to look at every measure that we can take to reduce air pollution.
"Recent studies have shown that diesel vehicles are a major contributor."
Last April, the government estimated there were 29,000 deaths annually in the UK from air pollution.
Warriors took a 17-0 lead through a Tom Heathcote penalty and converted tries from Wynand Olivier and Matt Cox.
But Graham Kitchener replied for Tigers with Donncha O'Callaghan in the sin-bin, before the Worcester lock was red carded minutes into the second half.
Home duo Gareth Milasinovich and Matt Cox were also sin-binned as Tigers capitalised through Telusa Veainu, a penalty try and Lachlan McCaffrey.
Worcester, previously unbeaten at home this season, looked dangerous from the off and opened up a 17-0 lead within 22 minutes.
Heathcote kicked an early penalty and then added two conversions as Olivier collected the fly-half's pass following a Worcester scrum to score under the posts before Cox dived between the sticks.
But Leicester put Warriors on the back foot and with O'Callaghan sent to the sin-bin for an offside offence, former Worcester forward Kitchener barged through just minutes before the break.
Worcester, who played the first half with the wind, were down to 14 men soon after the restart when O'Callaghan received a second yellow for bringing down the Leicester maul.
Milasinovich came on to make his Premiership debut but was binned shortly after and Tigers made their men advantage count as Veainu dived over in the corner.
Heathcote and Owen Williams then exchanged penalties before referee Wayne Barnes awarded Leicester a penalty try, with the conversion putting them in front for the first time.
Worcester ended the match with 13 men as Cox was also sin-binned, allowing Leicester to sneak a crucial fourth try though McCaffrey.
And Williams' conversion ensured Worcester also missed out on a losing bonus point as Leicester moved up to second in the Premiership table.
Worcester director of rugby Dean Ryan:
"Donncha O'Callaghan is distraught. He has a red card and I am not sure it needed to be one. I am not sure why Wayne Barnes needed to go to that. He (O'Callaghan) has been great for us since he came here.
"We were under enormous pressure. They were on top in the scrum and in the drive. We played really well and were under massive pressure near the end with 13 men. We played some decent stuff.
"We are frustrated that we didn't win. We are capable of winning that game and we have to start talking that language.
"We just made some silly mistakes near the end which was under huge pressure."
Leicester director of rugby Richard Cockerill:
"The game is 80 minutes and we did some good things and exerted some good pressure. The penalty count was pretty heavy.
"That wind was strong and we made some basic errors in the first half to let them in. We were good for our win although it was tough for Worcester to get nothing because they played pretty well.
"We created some opportunities but we were pretty inaccurate at times as well. If Worcester play like that, they will have no problems staying in this competition, I have no doubt of that.
"As for the yellow cards, Barnes is a world-class ref and refereed it to the letter of the law. They were under a lot of pressure."
Worcester Warriors: Pennell; Heem, Olivier, Mills, Vuna; Heathcote, Arr; Leleimalefaga, Annett, Rees, O'Callaghan, Barry, Cox, Betty, Dowson (capt).
Replacements: Bregvadze, Ruskin, Milasinovich, Cavubati, Mama, Mulchrone, Lamb, Howard.
Sin-bin: O'Callaghan, Milasinovich, Cox
Red card: O'Callaghan
Leicester Tigers: Veainu; Thompstone, Betham, Bai, Goneva; Williams, Harrison; Aguero, Bateman, Cole, Slater (capt), Kitchener, Williams, Croft, Crane.
Replacements: Youngs, McCaffrey, Ayerza, Balmain, Barrow, Kitto, Bell, Smith.
Ref: Wayne Barnes
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A metal detector enthusiast unearthed the 26 silver coins, which were issued between 154BC and AD37.
The precise location of the discovery is not being revealed in a bid to deter illegal treasure hunters.
Norwich Castle Museum expert Adrian Marsden said more coins could still be hidden at the site, where two previous hoards have been found.
He said about 100 other coins dating from the same period had been discovered in the area in two batches unearthed in September 2012 and August 2013.
The most recent find was made in the autumn of 2014.
Mr Marsden said these coins were "probably the property of a soldier, or at least a Roman citizen, soon after the invasion of Britain".
He estimated them to have been worth about six months of salary for a Roman soldier.
The latest find, which the museum hopes to acquire for its collection, will go before the coroner on 5 October.
The al-Furqan Islamic centre in south-west Melbourne said it believed that it was the best course of action given the "pressure" it had received.
Five teenagers were arrested after anti-terror raids last weekend.
Police said the men were planning to carry out an attack during an Anzac memorial event.
The al-Furqan Islamic Centre said that the decision to close had "not been taken lightly".
It said in a statement: "We believe that given the constant harassment, pressure and false accusations levelled against the centre - particularly by media and politicians - this is the best course of action for the protection of the local community, its members, and the broader Muslim community that is often implicated in these insidious campaigns."
The centre and bookstore had come under scrutiny after it was revealed that three of those charged after the raids had attended it.
Harun Causevic and Sevdet Besim, both 18, have both been charged with conspiracy to commit acts done in preparation for, or planning, terrorist acts.
Another teenager was charged with weapons-related offences. The other two men have been released.
Nearly 200 police officers took part in the Melbourne operation early on Saturday morning.
The al-Furqan centre has said that it had no connection with the anti-terror raids.
On Tuesday, Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Stephen Fontana said that al-Furqan had come to its attention among other centres.
"It's more about some of the individuals who are opening up or trying to influence these young people, they are the people of real concern," he said, as quoted by ABC News.
Al-Furqan has been at the centre of controversy before. It was also attended by Abdul Numan Haidar, a teenager shot dead in September after he stabbed two officers.
The French president of the meeting said the "conditions were never better" for a strong and ambitious agreement.
Laurent Fabius said he was confident of presenting the final draft early on Saturday morning.
The document will be assessed by participants before a final plenary meeting of all the parties to approve the deal.
Despite insisting throughout the conference that the deal would be done by Friday evening, Mr Fabius had to concede to the reality that critical issues remained and extra time would be needed.
Observers were concerned about the slippage, saying there were some concerns now that the time for compromises would run short.
"There has to be a take-it-or-leave-it text on Saturday," said Dr Diarmuid Torney from Dublin City University.
"With the length of time needed for processing and revising the document, whatever is released will be France's pitch for the final agreement," he told BBC News.
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Significant progress had been reported on a range of issues in the latest version of the document, with evidence of real compromise between the parties.
Countries supported a temperature goal of 2C but agreed to make their best efforts to keep the warming rise to 1.5C. However, the language on cutting emissions in the long term was criticised for significantly watering down ambition.
Despite the advances, the talks seemed stuck on a number of important questions.
The question of demarcation between countries, called differentiation in the talks, was still the root cause of the difficulties.
"It's not an empty principle. It's an overarching provision or structure of whole agreement," said Gao Feng, China's special representative for climate change negotiations.
"So it's not just a one line or phrase in the preamble, or in one single article - but it will be reflected in different articles."
Another major difficulty was transparency. Richer countries want a single system of measuring, reporting and verifying the commitments countries make as part of this agreement.
It's said to be crucial to the US, which wants to ensure that China is subject to the same sort of oversight as it is. China and India are not keen on this type of oversight. It is proving a difficult nut to crack.
One positive note came with the announcement that Brazil was willing to join the so-called "high-ambition coalition" of countries including the EU, the US and 79 countries.
The alliance said it would push for an ambitious and legally binding deal with a strong review mechanism.
Global leaders also joined in efforts to move things forward.
US President Barack Obama spoke to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping by phone on Friday, with both leaders saying they were committed to an "ambitious" deal.
"Both leaders agreed that the Paris conference presents a crucial opportunity to galvanise global efforts to meet the climate change challenge," a White House statement said.
"They committed that their negotiating teams in Paris would continue to work closely together and with others to realise the vision of an ambitious climate agreement."
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COP 21 - the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties - has seen more than 190 nations gather in Paris to discuss a possible new global agreement on climate change, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the threat of dangerous warming due to human activities.
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Zygi Kamasa, who runs Lionsgate UK, said Britain's EU exit could have a "big impact" on independent filmmakers.
The sector is "under a lot of pressure", he told the BBC.
"We have a lot of European co-production money that comes into our movies; we have a lot of movies that are shot across Europe."
That meant there were a lot of staff moving across Europe and the UK to work on British films. "There's a concern about how that will impact films," he said.
Changing viewing habits were also hitting production companies, as more on-demand television services show a greater number of films, he said.
"The government, the BFI have to look at ways of keeping that sector alive."
Lionsgate made the phenomenally successful movie, La La Land. Its UK arm is currently making several films, including a new version of Robin Hood, shot in both the UK and Hungary.
The most recent Star Wars film, Rogue One, made by Disney, was shot in the UK.
One-quarter of the production costs of UK-made films is essentially borne by taxpayers, as movie production gets a 25% tax credit.
Zygi Kamasa says such public support is vital for smaller, independent producers, but needs reform.
"That's applicable to Star Wars that shoots in the UK, and that's applicable to low budget movies that shoot in the UK. That's a one-size-fits-all tax credit. I'm not actually sure that's the best system."
"Culturally, it's very important British independent reforms are supported perhaps in a greater way," he said.
In 2015, government support for the UK film industry through tax relief was £251m.
"A lot of workers work on big Hollywood movies, but they are not ostensibly British movies. Things that have British stories, British directors, British filmmakers, British writers, are the films that need to be greater supported."
The appeals court in New York state said caged chimpanzee Tommy could not be recognised as a "legal person" as it "cannot bear any legal duties".
The Nonhuman Rights Project had argued that chimps who had such similar characteristics to the humans deserved basic rights, including freedom.
The rights group said it would appeal.
In its ruling, the judges wrote: "So far as legal theory is concerned, a person is any being whom the law regards as capable of rights and duties.
"Needless to say, unlike human beings, chimpanzees cannot bear any legal duties, submit to societal responsibilities or be held legally accountable for their actions.''
The court added that there was no precedent for treating animals as persons and no legal basis.
In October, the Nonhuman Rights Project had argued that chimpanzees should be recognised as "legal persons" and therefore be given the right to liberty.
The group said on Thursday it would appeal against the court verdict in New York's highest court.
Tommy's owner, Patrick Lavery, said he was pleased with the outcome, according to the Associated Press.
Tommy - who is believed to be about 40 years old - is a former entertainment chimp. He was given to Mr Lavery about 10 years ago.
Graham Coombes, 41, from Abbey Road, Bovey Tracy, Devon, was also disqualified from owning dogs for life.
The dog killed the fox after the two animals fought in a tiny cage, Plymouth magistrates heard.
Eleven men have been sentenced after admitting or being found guilty of a total of 27 offences.
Referring to photographs of a dog with its mouth and neck ripped open by a badger, District Judge Diana Baker said to Coombes: "You are the ringleader of organised animal hunting and killing and you had no regard to the welfare of these animals.
"You were videoing it and you were clearly excited by what was happening."
The court heard how dogs were also set on badgers, on deer and in one case, a pig.
It also heard dogs had been mistreated or not cared for when injured.
Magistrates were shown mobile phone footage of the attacks, including the one in which the fox and the dog fought in a cage.
Several members of the gang covered faces with their hands as it was shown.
Clinton Sentance, 36, from Gainsborough, appeared before Lincoln magistrates earlier.
He is accused of a series of thefts in the town including one in which a 75-year-old surrendered his bank details after being threatened with a knife.
The defendant was remanded in custody and ordered to appear at Lincoln Crown Court on 30 May.
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Mr Sentance was due to appear at Lincoln Crown Court on Tuesday accused of aggravated burglary at Portland Terrace in Gainsborough on 19 March 2017.
Minutes before Tuesday's scheduled hearing, he was charged with the four offences detailed above and the crown court hearing was adjourned.
Switzerland's Ueli Steck and Simone Moro from Italy were at 7,470m (24,500ft) when the brawl occurred.
The pair allegedly ignored orders to hold their climb and triggered an icefall which hit the Sherpas laying fixed ropes. The climbers deny this.
Both sides have since reached a peace deal, reports say.
Mr Steck told the BBC that their three-man team - which included Briton Jonathan Griffith - was nearing Camp Three on Saturday, when the "conflict" broke out.
He said they had been keeping a respectful distance so as not to disturb the work of the Sherpas laying ropes.
The climbers continued to Camp Three but later descended to Camp Two to "finish the discussion" and were met by more than 100 angry Sherpas, who began to beat them and throw rocks, Mr Steck said.
He said the Sherpas threatened to kill the climbers if they did not leave the camp.
One of the Sherpas threw a pocket knife at Mr Moro but "luckily [it] just hit the belt of his backpack", Mr Steck said, adding that they escaped with no serious injuries.
Mr Steck said the conflict was the symptom of a long-term problem of "cultures", but did not elaborate.
Ang Tshering Sherpa, the former president of the Nepal Mountaineers Association, told the BBC that climbing leaders of various teams at base camp helped broker a peace deal on Sunday.
Exact details are not very clear, but the two sides clearly had a misunderstanding, Mr Ang said.
In a statement, Mr Moro said that "getting hit by chunks of ice is a very natural occurrence" on an ice face. "As it stands, no Sherpa has come forward to show any injury."
"The climbers believe that the lead Sherpa felt that his pride had been damaged as the climbers were moving unroped and much faster," the statement added.
When they returned to their tents, Mr Moro said a mob of guides had grouped together to attack them.
"[The guides] became instantly aggressive and not only punched and kicked the climbers, but threw many rocks as well," said Mr Moro.
More than 3,000 people have scaled Mount Everest since it was first conquered by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.
Straddling Nepal and China, the world's highest mountain has an altitude of 8,848m (29,029ft).
One of Mr Bundy's fellow activists was killed during the arrest of the protest leader and seven others.
Three more arrests have since been made at a checkpoint outside the refuge.
It is unclear how many people are still at the refuge. The local sheriff, Dave Ward, said the illegal occupation was tearing the community apart.
Speaking through his attorney, Mr Bundy called for the siege to come to an end.
He said: "To those remaining at the refuge, I love you. Let us take this fight from here.
"Please stand down. Go home and hug your families. This fight is ours for now in the courts."
Mr Bundy paid tribute to the deceased, identified by friends and family as Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, an Arizona rancher who became a spokesman for the self-proclaimed militia group at the refuge.
"Right now I am asking the federal government to allow the people at the refuge to go home without being prosecuted," he said.
In the early days of the Oregon occupation, the militia men were a mixed bunch. There were the taciturn ones, the braggarts and the loose cannons.
And then there was LaVoy Finicum, a man who seemed to stand apart from the rest. On one foul night in the cold with sleet falling and rumours of a raid flying, Mr Finicum took his rifle and sat on the ground at the entrance to the bird reserve headquarters with the weapon on his lap.
Ignoring scoffs from the assembled reporters, he told me he would resist if police came for him. He had no intention of being caged and, if necessary, he was ready to die.
In the end he appears to have died as he predicted he might, violently and at the hands of the authorities he despised. Whatever the truth of his final moments, LaVoy Finicum leaves behind a large family, reportedly of 11 children.
"I have a 17-year-old daughter," he said. "Thank goodness she's a firecracker, I hope she can hold everything together. I'm a small producer. She'll be able to do it."
Robert 'LaVoy' Finicum, a militiaman apart
However, the FBI later announced that three further suspects who were in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge had been arrested.
It said Duane Leo Ehmer, 45, Dylan Wade Anderson, 34, and Jason Patrick, 43, had turned themselves in to FBI agents at a checkpoint outside the refuge on Wednesday.
The FBI said they faced a charge of conspiracy to impede officers of the United States from discharging their official duties through the use of force, intimidation, or threats.
The other eight people arrested face the same charge.
The FBI said five other people who left the refuge on Wednesday had been allowed to go.
Greg Bretzing, the head of the FBI's Portland office, said: "We will continue to look for safe, peaceful procedures on how to bring this to a peaceful conclusion."
Sheriff Ward said: "It's time for everybody in this illegal occupation to move on. There doesn't have to be bloodshed in our community."
Mr Bundy's militia had occupied the refuge on 2 January to support two ranchers jailed for setting fire to federal land.
He says the government has taken land illegally from ranchers for decades.
In October, a federal judge ruled the sentences on two Oregon ranchers, Dwight and Steven Hammond, for burning federal land were too short and jailed them for about four years each.
Angered by the ruling, Nevada native Ammon Bundy began a social media campaign backing them and travelled to Burns, Oregon, organising meetings.
His group attracted supporters from across a number of states and Mr Bundy called it Citizens for Constitutional Freedom. On 2 January the armed militiamen took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge - and widened the range of demands.
It is an extension of the Sagebrush Revolution of the 1970s and 1980s that demanded the transfer of federal land in many western states to local control.
Mr Bundy's own father - a Nevada rancher - had been involved in a protest over cattle-grazing rights in 2014. One policy is to try to persuade ranchers to tear up their federal grazing contracts.
Although many local residents are sympathetic with its cause, many also oppose the occupation of the refuge. Even the local ranchers who are serving the longer sentences distanced themselves from the militia.
The term has a complex history and generally refers to those outside the official military who can be called on in times of need. The US Constitution refers to the president having command of "militia of several states" and that Congress "can call forth militia" to tackle insurrection and invasion.
Those who form such militias cite the constitution and various references in federal and state law as granting them legality.
Nick Forbes said proposals to cut 1,300 out of 10,500 jobs, close libraries and pools, slash theatre grants and cut social services would be "damaging".
He claimed if the situation did not change nationally councils would be "going bust" by 2018.
Liberal Democrat opposition leader David Faulkner said the council should think of more "creative" solutions.
"Our predictions show that by 2018 the council won't have the money that it needs to even to provide the statutory responsibility that we have," Mr Forbes said.
"I think, unless something changes fundamentally at a national level, we'll see councils around the country going bust."
Mr Faulkner said the council had, in some cases, made the wrong choices.
"I can understand the need to protect the vulnerable and we will support some of the proposals - moving away from weekly bin collections, I think it's inevitable, many local authorities have done that," Mr Faulkner said.
"Cuts to some front-line services may be necessary but I'd like to see a little more creative thinking about how we can structure and reorganise services rather than just cut them all."
He said, for example, millions of pounds could be saved on the city's energy bill.
Branch secretary for Unison at the council, Paul Gilroy, said his members were reacting to the news with "shock, anger and disappointment".
"The budget situation, which we are sympathetic to, that the council's in, is so much worse than the previous years," he said.
"Do you save admin workers or do you save children's social workers? Do you save a library or do you save a day centre?
"[It] is actually a much wider discussion to be had and that's about the future of local government, it's about fair funding for local government."
The council is to freeze council tax to help "hard-pressed" families and Mr Forbes said the council's commitment to a 'living wage" would continue.
The draft budget proposals for the next three years include:
Mr Gilroy said people did not yet realise how badly they were going to be affected by the cuts and should take notice of the situation.
"A story in the newspaper today is around your chips tomorrow, isn't it? And the worry will be that people will just get bored by it," he said.
"If people want to save their libraries then they have to commit to saving their libraries.
"There's a slightly macabre joke in Newcastle at the moment that the only thing that's not going to get cut is the grass. Virtually every service across Newcastle is being affected in some way."
The budget proposals will be sent out to consultation until February 2013 with a final decision in March.
15 July 2016 Last updated at 18:56 BST
The attack coincided with Bastille Day, a national holiday in France, and thousands of people had gathered on the streets to watch a fireworks display.
Manchester United's Luke Shaw has also been selected for the World Cup qualifier in Slovakia on 4 September.
It is the full-back's first call-up since breaking his leg last season, and he joins Manchester City's out-of-favour keeper Joe Hart in the squad.
Arsenal's Theo Walcott and Leicester's Danny Drinkwater are recalled, having missed out on a place at Euro 2016.
Everton captain Phil Jagielka has been selected, but club-mate Ross Barkley and Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere miss out.
Antonio, who joined West Ham from Nottingham Forest in September 2015, began his career in non-league football with Tooting and Mitcham United.
"I think he's in outstanding form," Allardyce told the FA website. "This is another lad with a great journey - it's a fantastic journey that he's been on, from non-league to now an international call-up.
"He scored nine goals in his first season and he's a terrific athlete, a good crosser and a goalscorer."
Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney, who also led the national side under Roy Hodgson, has been named in the 23-man squad.
Goalkeepers: Fraser Forster (Southampton), Joe Hart (Manchester City), Tom Heaton (Burnley).
Defenders: Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool), Phil Jagielka (Everton), Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur), Luke Shaw (Manchester United), Chris Smalling (Manchester United), John Stones (Manchester City), Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur).
Midfielders: Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur), Michail Antonio (West Ham United), Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur), Danny Drinkwater (Leicester City), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Adam Lallana (Liverpool), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City), Theo Walcott (Arsenal).
Strikers: Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool), Jamie Vardy (Leicester City).
Chief football writer Phil McNulty:
Allardyce has yet to announce his captain but Rooney is expected to keep the armband despite England's dismal showing at Euro 2016.
There is a shock exclusion, with Everton's Ross Barkley missing out despite looking fitter and rejuvenated under new manager Ronald Koeman this season, with two goals already and the reward of the captaincy for last Tuesday's 4-0 EFL Cup win over Yeovil Town. The decision will be a bitter blow to the 22-year-old.
Barkley did not get any game time in France this summer and would have been hoping for a fresh start under Allardyce after Hodgson's departure, although there is a more pleasant surprise for Everton with the return of 34-year-old captain Phil Jagielka after he missed out on Euro 2016.
Manchester United's Luke Shaw makes a welcome return to the England squad now he is back in action after suffering a broken leg last season. Allardyce will be delighted to have such a quality option for the left-back position.
Arsenal's Jack Wilshere, whose selection for France despite a lack of match fitness was a gamble that backfired horribly on Hodgson, is left out but again there is better news for the Gunners with a recall for Theo Walcott, an absentee in France.
Walcott remains an unfulfilled talent at England level and this perhaps represents an unexpected chance, although Allardyce has always been an advocate of speed and width, which he provides.
It is hardly a revolutionary squad from Allardyce but certainly one that will provoke plenty of debate.
The Massachusetts-based company cites a variety of patents in its legal filings, including misuse of its obstacle-detection system, brush designs and navigation controls.
It is seeking financial compensation and the right to block further use of its tech.
The accused have yet to respond.
iRobot began selling robot vacuums under the Roomba brand in 2002 and says it has sold more than 15 million units to date.
"The filing of this litigation signals our commitment to protecting our investments," a spokesman said.
"iRobot will not stand by while others offer products that infringe on our intellectual property."
Hoover launched its first robo-vacuum - the Quest 1000 - last year, while Black & Decker only unveiled its Smartech robot range at the CES trade show in January, and has yet to put them on sale.
Others being sued include:
This is not the first time iRobot has gone to the courts over an intellectual property dispute.
It sued four German companies over related claims in 2013.
Prior to that it sued Robotic FX over allegations the military robotic specialist had stolen trade secrets, which led the Chicago-based company to dissolve in 2007.
Is Labour a sitting duck in its own heartland territory?
A quick road-trip to the West Midlands and the Lake District was enough to conclude that Labour can look forward to a sweaty, and quite possibly a painful night on 23 February.
Both seats would normally be considered "safe" for Labour.
But "normal" now seems a long time ago. Stoke voted 70% to 30% to leave the EU. In Copeland the margin was 60% to 40%. That would be enough to give Remain-supporting Labour sleepless nights.
Copeland by-election candidates
Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election candidates
But add to that the fact that, in 2015, UKIP came second in Stoke - 5,000 odd votes behind Labour.
Throw in Labour's long term deficit in the polls, which suggests former Labour voters have turned away from Jeremy Corbyn.
Then, chat to people in Hanley town centre - in the Stoke-on-Trent Central constituency - before travelling north and doing the same in Whitehaven, the large coastal town in the sprawling, and beautiful, Copeland constituency in the Lake District.
If you don't hear enough cause for Labour to fear losing one or both of these seats, you're not listening.
In Copeland, the biggest employer by far is the Sellafield nuclear power plant.
In Whitehaven, where Sellafield has a large office block, Jeremy Corbyn's past opposition to nuclear power - which has since softened - comes up in almost every conversation.
The local grocer - whose family have run Kinsella's since the turn of the last century - told me customer after customer was switching allegiance away from Labour for that reason.
That, and the doubts about Mr Corbyn's fitness to lead which have handed him a quite dismal personal rating of minus 40.
That's 46 points behind Theresa May who was the only national leader with a positive rating in the survey conducted by Yougov last week.
In Stoke, the UK Independence Party's new leader, Paul Nuttall, is standing as a candidate. UKIP has a great deal invested in this fight.
It's not clear whether the perception of an outsider parachuting into the seat - a charismatic Scouser seizing his chance in an area with a strong identity of its own - will count against Mr Nuttall and his party.
If UKIP fails it will hurt, and suggests the party lost its way when it lost Nigel Farage as leader.
So Labour will throw everything into both campaigns. Jeremy Corbyn's visited both, and will visit again.
Victory in both seats will buy time and space to try to regain ground, to try to recover from the visible splits which opened up so glaringly during debate and voting on the bill to begin Brexit.
But if Labour loses in either or both seats - each of which has been held by the party since 1935 - it means talk of existential crisis for the party.
Farai Kambarani, 26, was convicted of the attempted murder of social worker Ruth Nayamazana, who he wrongly blamed for not letting him see his child.
Luton Crown Court heard his victim, who he also punched in the head 10 to 20 times, still lives in fear.
Kambarani was given a 22-year jail sentence with a three-year extension on licence.
The court heard Kambarani, from Wolverhampton, shunted a car into the back of Ruth Nayamazana's vehicle in Saxon Gate car park in Milton Keynes on 22 August last year.
When she got out, he repeatedly punched her in the head.
In the witness box, the 34-year-old said he pulled out a small knife and used it against the side of her throat.
She said: "I was screaming. I thought he was going to cut my throat. The blood started gushing out."
Kambarani, a former carer for elderly people, was also convicted criminal damage and stalking his former partner.
The court heard Kambarani fled to the UK from Zimbabwe in November 2014 after being arrested and tortured. He began a relationship with another woman in Wolverhampton.
Later his wife and child moved to the UK. In June last year, he became angry when she moved in with her uncle and his wife in Milton Keynes.
Sebastian Gardiner, defending, said: "Fortunately, her life was not endangered. She spent three days in hospital and made a full recovery."
He accepted the attack had caused serious psychological difficulties for the victim.
Judge Philip Bartle said: "You became fixated with Ruth and saw her as an obstacle to you seeing your daughter. There was no justification for that."
Secret Service Director Randolph "Tex" Alles said some 1,100 agents will hit their overtime allowance caps for the year.
Under Mr Trump, 42 people receive protection, an increase from 31 people during the Obama administration.
The Secret Service said it struggled with a "similar situation" last year.
Among those currently protected are 18 members of the Trump family, who have required security on international business trips to promote Trump properties as well as family holidays.
Some of the bills, according to the USA Today report, include:
Other trips requiring security included visits in February by both Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr to Vancouver, British Columbia, to open a new Trump hotel there, and to Dubai for the opening of a Trump International Golf Club.
Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, required Secret Service security during their ski holiday in Aspen, Colorado, in March.
Tiffany Trump and her boyfriend have received protection on recent trips to Germany and Hungary.
In a statement released on Monday, Mr Alles said the agency has been working with the Department of Homeland Security, the Trump administration and Congress to find a legislative solution to the "serious problem".
"This issue is not one that can be attributed to the current Administration's protection requirements alone, but rather has been an ongoing issue for nearly a decade due to an overall increase in operational tempo," he said.
But Mr Alles said the Secret Service had enough funds to "meet all current missions requirements for the remainder of the fiscal year and compensate employees for overtime within statutory pay caps".
He said he expects the strain on the agency to be relieved as it increases its current force of 6,800 agents and uniformed officers to as many as 9,500 by 2025.
Secret Service resources have been exhausted since last year's tumultuous presidential election.
The agency's expenses since Mr Trump's inauguration covered seven trips to Mar-a-Lago, five visits to Bedminster and a trip to Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Earlier this month, the Secret Service moved out of Trump Tower in Manhattan to a nearby trailer after a lease dispute between the government and the Trump Organization, US media reported.
She will join for three years and conduct around a dozen concerts a year, all over Wales and at the Proms.
The Chinese conductor is the first woman to be appointed to lead one of the BBC's orchestras.
Zhang, who has already conducted in two seasons with the orchestra, said: "They are a fantastic group of musicians who genuinely love making music".
She is a regular conductor in the United States and her native China but is currently living in Milan, where she is conductor with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi.
Zhang, who will also become music director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra next year, has been a regular conductor with the London Symphony and Royal Concertgebouw orchestras.
She has also been guest conductor with BBC NOW for two seasons, including a concert at the BBC Proms last July.
"I'm very honoured to take up this appointment," she told BBC Wales.
"I like working with orchestras I'm familiar with and I think for the orchestra it's better too. Sometimes it shortens the process of rehearsing and all of that."
She said it only takes a short time to know that the chemistry is right.
"I've enjoyed it from the very first rehearsal - they're very precise, very musical and very giving," she said.
"This orchestra is able to make wonderful colour in all kinds of repertoire - it's a fantastic group."
Born in Dandong, China in 1973, Zhang made her professional debut conducting at the Central Opera House in Beijing at the age of 20.
On being the first woman on a BBC orchestra contract, she said: "There are much younger ladies in their 20s studying and working as conductors - they will come up.
"I'm very honoured to be one of the first which in a way brings me more pressure because I want to set a good record for the later ones. But I never really gave much thought to it - not until much later I got to be asked about it.
"Being asked is good actually. We should keep talking about this until one day the question naturally disappears when people see more women doing it. That day will make me very happy."
Her first concert will be next September in Cardiff and her first season will include music by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rimsky Korsakov and Berlioz.
BBC NOW will also perform at the BBC Proms and tour Wales.
Michael Garvey, BBC NOW director, said: "Our recent concerts with her in Swansea and the BBC Proms were so energised, balanced and refined we knew that an appointment would be the perfect fit."
The move follows controversy over plans for a new National Maternity Hospital in Dublin.
In a statement on Monday, the Sisters of Charity said it would transfer ownership to a new charity.
It includes three hospitals: St Vincent's University Hospital, St Vincent's Private Hospital and St Michael's Hospital, Dún Laoghaire.
The Sisters of Charity was one of 18 religious congregations investigated over allegations that children were abused in residential institutions.
In April, the Irish Labour Party reacted angrily to reports that the nuns' firm would have "sole ownership" of the new state-funded institution.
They described the plans for the St Vincent's Hospital campus as "an outrage and an insult to all women".
The Irish Labour Party said the religious order currently "owes the state a substantial sum of money," as part of a redress scheme set up to compensate victims.
A spokesperson for the Order said: "For the last two years we have been actively working to find the best way to relinquish our shareholding of the SVHG," they said.
"Although the Sisters of Charity no longer have any direct involvement in the provision of healthcare services, we remain dedicated to preserving the legacy of Mary Aikenhead, whose mission in life was to heal and care for the sick and poor," the spokesperson said.
The UK
may now face fines if it fails to improve air quality quickly
.
Air pollution reduces average life expectancy in the UK by up to eight months,
according to the government's own statistics
.
But ministers have been slow to meet agreed European standards on cutting levels of the pollutant NO2.
This comes mainly from vehicles. It causes problems with breathing - particularly for people with heart or lung problems.
The UK has been denied permission by the commission to delay air quality improvements in 12 areas - Aberdeen and north-east Scotland; Belfast; Birkenhead; Brighton; Bristol; Liverpool; Preston; Sheffield; south-west England; south Wales; Swansea and Tyneside.
A judgement will be made at a later date on government plans to delay meeting NO2 standards in major cities until 2020 - or in the case of London, 2025.
London has the worst air of any European capital
, and the UK is likely to be fined over the failure.
Air pollution is recognised by the government as the second-biggest public health threat, after smoking. It costs the UK an estimated £20bn a year - that's more than twice the amount estimated for obesity, which gets far more publicity.
Daniel Instone, giving evidence on behalf of Defra, said ministers were considering a nationwide network of low-emission zones in which the most polluting vehicles were banned.
Simon Birkett, a campaigner from Clean Air in London, said the commission's ruling suggested that such a network would now be inevitable.
NO2 pollution affects long-term health. Experts giving evidence to the Environment Committee, EFRA, said the health of Olympic athletes visiting over the summer should not be harmed as long as the UK avoids a heat-induced smog episode.
The Moonfruit service lets customers easily build templated websites.
But the company said it had been threatened with a cyber-attack and had decided to make its customers' websites unavailable for "up to 12 hours" to make infrastructure changes.
One business owner told the BBC it was "very bad timing".
On Thursday, 10 December, the company said it had been hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
Attackers bombarded the company's computers to overwhelm them with traffic, so they could not serve its legitimate users.
The company consequently told customers it had decided to take websites offline for "up to 12 hours" starting at 10:00 GMT on Monday.
Film-maker Reece de Ville said: "They have been slow to communicate via their website what is going on.
"I'm going to have hundreds of people finding my site today but not being able to access it.
"I could be losing out on a lot of money from potential clients, and they may not come back if they think the company has gone.
"It's incredibly bad timing, especially for businesses selling Christmas cards and gifts on their website."
In an email to its customers, the company apologised for giving them "short notice" that their websites would be offline.
"We have been working with law enforcement agencies regarding this matter and have spared no time or expense in ensuring we complete the work as quickly as possible," the company's director, Matt Casey, said in a statement.
The BBC has invited Moonfruit to comment.
In March, the BBC revealed that the EA proposed to cut pre-school provision for pupils in special school nurseries from 22.5 hours a week to 12.5 hours.
The cut would have affected disabled children in special schools offered "full-time" places of 4.5 hours a day.
That decision was criticised by former education minister John O'Dowd who ordered the EA to review it.
The EA subsequently postponed the plans and introduced interim arrangements in a number of special schools.
As a result, pupils at six special school nurseries had their hours of attendance cut from September 2016, while eight continue to operate nursery classes on a full-time basis.
As part of the review, EA officials are to meet special school principals, teachers and parents of children with special needs.
A full public consultation on the plans will then take place in January 2017, with a final announcement on the way forward expected in April 2017.
The full implementation of any new arrangements will begin in the 2018-19 school year.
The Education Authority's chair Sharon O'Connor said that they wanted to provide the best possible support for children with special needs.
"This is a positive step towards ensuring that the special education provision for nursery age children is developed with full consideration of the views of the widest possible range of stakeholders," she said.
"We would welcome the views of everyone who has an interest in this work."
The bureau's director James Comey said the group posted material from servers used exclusively by the North Koreans.
November's attack on the company saw the leak of sensitive documents, and film The Interview briefly shelved.
Cyber security experts have been sceptical about the FBI's assertion North Korea was to blame.
After Sony's decision to temporarily cancel the film's release was described by US President Barack Obama as "a mistake", Sony later released the film in independent cinemas and also distributed it online.
The comedy's plot revolves around a plan to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Pyongyang has denied being behind the cyber-attack, but described it as a "righteous deed".
In retaliation, the US has placed sanctions on three North Korean organisations and 10 individuals.
The sanctions are believed to be the first time the US has moved to punish any country for cyber-attacks on a US company.
Mr Comey had been addressing delegates at the International Conference on Cyber Security in New York.
He said there was evidence the hackers had used proxy servers in an attempt to disguise the attack's origins, but sometimes neglected to do so, revealing, the FBI believes, the true location.
But experts remain unconvinced that the US has proved its case.
"To be frank, director Comey has not revealed anything new," said Brian Honan, a security researcher.
"Various IP addresses have been associated with this attack, from a hotel in Taiwan to IP addresses in Japan.
"Any IP address connected to the internet can be compromised and used by attackers."
The Street Angel Christian Nightlife Initiative sees volunteers patrolling the streets to help deal with alcohol-fuelled anti-social behaviour.
Running for seven years, the project has been copied by more than 100 towns and cities across the UK.
The group will pick up its award from the prime minister at a ceremony at 10 Downing Street.
Street Angels founder Paul Blakey MBE, said: "To be awarded the Big Society Award is an amazing accolade for the thousands of volunteers who invest time and skills into over 100 local areas across the UK week in and week out.
"The fact that in many of these towns and cities violent crime and sexual assaults have reduced significantly and that the night-time economy has become a better place that can be enjoyed by all is proof that volunteering works and can have a massive positive impact."
Volunteers wear distinctive jackets and work alongside police at weekends reporting incidents of violence and helping people who have become vulnerable during a night out.
They also remove broken glasses and bottles from the streets and lecture on the dangers of binge drinking in local schools.
Prime Minister David Cameron said: "Street Angels shows what can be achieved when communities come together and work hand in hand with their local services to make their towns, estates and streets safer places."
The 33-year-old winger is expected to make his debut for the Donegal club in Friday's opening league fixture against Cork City.
McCourt left Irish League club Glenavon in December, midway through a one-year deal.
His former clubs include Celtic, Rochdale, Barnsley and Brighton.
"Paddy is an experienced player who we hope will be big asset to us for what is going to be a very tough season," said Harps manager Ollie Horgan.
"At home he has played with top Premier teams like Shamrock Rovers and Derry City before going to Celtic, which is a huge achievement, and won Scottish League and Cup titles.
"He has come in late so it will take him a little time to get to know the lads.
"He has that natural ability to make things happen and we will need him to produce that quality because we are going to be up against well-organised defences in this division."
Last year Finn Harps finished 10th in the 12-team top flight, having won promotion in 2015.
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Farah, who is competing in Saturday's Great Edinburgh International Cross Country, said: "It's Mo [not Sir]. Obviously, it's an honour to be recognised by everyone and my country."
Farah, who was second to American Garrett Heath in 2016, said: "Hopefully I'll go one better [this time].
"It's going to be an exciting race and it's nice to represent my country."
Farah says starting the new season with a cross country event will benefit his main goal this year - the World Championships in London in August, where he could win a fifth successive double of 5,000m and 10,000m titles in major championships.
The 33-year-old confirmed those races are likely to be his last as a track athlete.
"My aim is to do well on the track in London and then hopefully hang my spikes up, but we'll see.
"I'd like to be able to move towards the marathon and learn about the marathon and just understand that event.
"So I'm not completely retiring - just on the track."
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Organisers are expecting around 10,000 spectators to watch the action at Holyrood Park, which will stage a series of junior races from 10:15 to 13:00 GMT, before the 4 x 1km relay at 13:29, followed by the women's 6km race (14:13) and the men's 8km race at 14:50.
"Every athlete starts out running cross country; as a youngster I did and I competed in Edinburgh as a kid," Farah told BBC Scotland.
"The crowd do come out and give you great support and it's pretty amazing. In the track when they watch you they have to buy a ticket, they have to get into the stadium.
"Here they can just come along and support. You get the crowd, you get the home support and what a beautiful place to have a cross country race.
"It's also nice to be able to give something back to the people who support you."
Also competing in Edinburgh on Saturday is Scot Laura Muir, fresh from breaking the British indoor 5,000m record in Glasgow on Wednesday.
Muir captains the British team competing at Holyrood Park and Farah believes 2017 could be a big year for the 23-year-old.
"She's an amazing athlete, she's got great potential and she's learning quick," he said.
"And she's competing against the best in the world. Hopefully we can see her among the medals at the World Championships. It's not gong to be easy but she has experience of last year at the Olympics.
"I know it's not what she wanted [seventh place in Rio] but she would have learned something from that. She's a fighter - she'll go out and give 110%."
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Benteke, 25, has been out of favour since the German became boss, starting just five of the last 16 games.
Klopp said he "had a few words, nothing else" after appearing to react angrily to a Benteke miss in Liverpool's 3-2 defeat at Southampton on Sunday.
"In January I didn't want to leave and it's still my desire to succeed at Liverpool," said Benteke.
"We'll see at the end of the season."
Former Aston Villa front man Benteke has scored just eight goals in 35 appearances since arriving for £32.5m in July 2015, with only one strike coming in 2016.
Fit-again Daniel Sturridge and Divock Origi have been the preferred options up front since the turn of the year.
"Some team-mates said that I was lucky with the arrival of Klopp because I certainly would play," Benteke told Belgium's Sport/Voetbalmagazine.
"When your coach says he wanted to take you to Dortmund and a little later you sit at the same club and he ignores you it is hard to understand."
Benteke was in the squad for Belgium's international friendly against Portugal on Tuesday, which has now been cancelled because of the attacks in Brussels.
Lord Ashdown tweeted that "the Tory Brexit brownshirts are stirring" ahead of next month's party conference.
Brownshirts was the name given to the Sturmabteilung, which acted as the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party during Hitler's rise to power.
Tory MP James Cleverly demanded an apology for the "disgusting" comment.
But Lord Ashdown, who campaigned for Remain in June's EU referendum, defended himself on Twitter over what he called "Brownshirt-gate".
He said: "Even allowing for these over-heated times, do we really have to lose contact with the concept of the metaphor?"
Criticised for another use of the term over the weekend, he suggested it had been a reference to "extremists" in Theresa May's cabinet.
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The WRU has reached "heads of agreement" for a deal which includes the purchase of Rodney Parade.
The deal must be ratified by 75% of Newport RFC shareholders, and Dragons chairman Martyn Hazell says the WRU takeover is the only viable choice.
But Friends of Newport Rugby (FONR) says there are "alternative options".
The group have urged supporters 'not to dive in' and vote yes before further guidance from the group.
A statement from the Newport RFC supporters' group said: "FONR believes that the directors are putting the needs of the regional side ahead of Newport Rugby Football Club and that there may be alternative options which will enable Newport RFC to retain most of the ground."
The Dragons say their position "has not changed" since last Wednesday's statement.
They say an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) is "likely to be held in the second week of May," while they will also host an additional open meeting for Newport RFC supporters and shareholders.
"At the moment we don't want people diving in and voting yes until all other avenues have been explored," said Kevin Jarvis, secretary of Friends of Newport rugby and Newport Shareholders.
"The deal from the Welsh Rugby Union is on the table. The board is saying it's the only option and maybe it is.
"We have to explore whether there are other options available and give people alternatives if there are other options out there."
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A group of Newport RFC fans says the club is being overlooked in the Welsh Rugby Union's (WRU) plan to take over the Newport Gwent Dragons.
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A BBC State of Sport investigation found more than a third (35%) of amateur sports people say they personally know someone who has doped.
Half said performance-enhancing substance use is "widespread" among those who play competitive sport.
Crouch said doping was "absolutely unacceptable in any level of sport".
She added: "I think there is still more that sports governing bodies can do on this front, working alongside UK Anti-Doping, to help promote clean sport."
The investigation into doping in UK amateur sport also found 8% of amateur sports people said they had taken steroids, while 49% thought performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) were "easily available" among people who play sports regularly.
Nicole Sapstead, chief executive of UK Anti-Doping (Ukad), the body responsible for protecting clean sport, had earlier described the figures as "incredibly alarming".
She called for more resources to tackle doping, saying it was "fast becoming a crisis" at all levels of sport.
Crouch added: "These findings from the BBC are a concern.
"It is important that all involved in sport play their part in educating participants about the dangers of doping, both in terms of the damage it does to sport's integrity but also the health risks to individuals as well."
Ukad has an annual budget of about £7m, which is mainly state funding. A single drug test costs about £350.
Ukad directs the vast majority of its testing to elite sport and does not "have the resources" to test at lower levels of sport, says director of operations Pat Myhill.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the research was "robust" and added: "We see lots of young people, young men in particular, who choose to use these substances for image enhancement, but this creeps across into sport as many of them will be involved in amateur sport.
"I don't think it's helpful to criminalise amateur sports people whatsoever - the way forward is to tackle the supply of these substances and take action against those who profit and make criminal money by supplying them."
Michele Verroken, who ran the UK's anti-doping organisation between 1986 and 2004, said she was concerned the BBC Sport research could be "turned into a plea for more money" for anti-doping, arguing testing is "quite limited in its effectiveness".
"Do we want to extend testing down to an amateur level so we could actually be dissuading people from getting involved in sport?" she said on the Victoria Derbyshire programme.
"It would be inappropriate in a society where we have an obesity crisis and a concern with lack of physical activity that we suddenly start testing at an amateur level.
"We don't know at elite level how much is enough. We tested Lance Armstrong and Marion Jones extensively and never tested them positive. We need smarter testing."
American cyclist Armstrong, 45, was stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles and banned from sport for life in August 2012 for what the United States Anti-Doping Agency described as "the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen".
Compatriot Jones, 41, won gold in the 100m and 200m at the 2000 Olympics but was sentenced to six months in prison in January 2008 for lying about steroid use and involvement in a drugs fraud case.
Kieran, 30, took steroids for a two-month period when he was an amateur bodybuilder and boxer about 10 years ago.
He says it caused extra male breast growth and is now recovering after breast-reduction surgery two weeks ago.
"I was naive, uneducated, and these tablets were going around the gym," he told BBC Radio 5 live's Your Call programme.
"In all honesty it was a cheat and something to get ahead of the other guys in the gym. I looked around the gym and the other guys were getting ahead of me and I wondered why. Peer pressure was one of the reasons I took them.
"The side-effects have been everlasting. It destroyed my life.
"Because I was putting so much testosterone in my body, my own oestrogen counteracted with it. I couldn't wear certain clothes because, even though I was still training, no matter what I did exercise-wise I could not get rid of these male breasts.
"I went through living hell - the psychological effects were worse than the physical effects."
An amateur cyclist, who also called the programme, described injecting performance-enhancing drugs.
"I know from within my team it was quite common," he said. "It was talked about quite openly. It was just the way it worked. It's what was done.
"I was in a whole world of trying to be a better cyclist. All the choices I was making in my life were about trying to be faster. I would do anything to be faster."
Professor Ellis Cashmore, sociologist at Aston University, told BBC Breakfast he thinks doping should be made legal as "we will never rid sport of it".
"You can test over and over again and you can punish violators but you cannot actually control doping," he said.
"Anything that confers a competitive advantage, athletes will take.
"That leads me to the logical conclusion that maybe we should accept it, that it is part and parcel of modern sport and somehow monitor it to try to regulate it, but not penalise athletes who do dope."
Have you ever taken a performance enhancing substance? Does your sport have a problem with doping? Get in touch using this link.
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The extent of doping in amateur sport - revealed by a poll for the BBC - is a "concern", says sports minister Tracey Crouch.
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Often seen wearing a turban, he became CAR's first Muslim ruler, plunging the country into a religious conflict between the Muslim minority and Christian majority.
In January 2014, at a meeting in Chad organised by regional leaders to try to end the violence - which was attended by CAR's entire transitional assembly - Mr Djotodia resigned and headed into exile in Benin.
Although Mr Djotodia had officially disbanded the Seleka rebel group that propelled him to power, its fighters have been involved in a vicious cycle of attacks and counter-attacks with Christian militias, known as anti-balaka.
"While Seleka fighters have notional inclinations for political Islam, they share a strong sense of communal identity and a will to avenge previous CAR regimes and their beneficiaries identified as Christians (not much of a discriminating factor, as the CAR population is more than 75% Christian)," says French researcher Roland Marchal in an article published in September.
US anthropologist Louisa Lombard, who was once based in CAR, says Mr Djotodia always pursued his political ambitions "fervently".
"Hearing the stories of his ambition during my research, I almost felt embarrassed on his behalf - he seemed like a Jamaican bobsledder convinced he'd win gold," she wrote when he seized power.
Born in 1949 in what Ms Lombard describes as CAR's "remote, neglected, and largely Muslim north-east", Mr Djotodia led the Union of Democratic Forces for Unity (UFDR) into a coalition with other rebel groups to form Seleka, which spearheaded the offensive to overthrow Mr Bozize.
For Mr Djotodia, this was sweet revenge: Mr Bozize's rebel forces had toppled his political boss, then-President Ange Felix-Patasse, in 2003.
Mr Djotodia had served in Mr Patasse's government as a civil servant in the ministry of planning after studying economics in the former Soviet Union.
According to Ms Lombard, he ended up staying for 10 years in the USSR, where he married and had two daughters.
He became fluent in several languages, "which made him useful when it came to representing the UFDR to foreigners and the media", she says.
"People in Tiringoulou [village in CAR] tell of one day, long before the rebellion, when a plane of Russian hunters unexpectedly arrived. Upon hearing Djotodia's rendition of their language, [they] declared him not Central African but Russian and brought him along for their tour of the country," Ms Lombard adds.
Mr Djotodia also worked in CAR's foreign ministry and was named consul to Nyala in neighbouring Sudan's Darfur region.
He was said to have used his time there to cultivate alliances with Sudanese militias and Chadian rebels in the area.
"It was these fighters from the Chad/Sudan/CAR borderlands who became the military backbone of the Seleka rebel coalition... The UFDR fighters I knew - tough guys, but a bit ragtag, especially compared to their counterparts in places like Chad or Sudan - could have put up a decent fight against the CAR armed forces on their own, but the 'Chadians' were what made them so unstoppable," Ms Lombard says.
Mr Djotodia was jailed in Benin in November 2006 for using the country as a base for his rebellion against Mr Bozize.
According to rights group Amnesty International's 2009 report on CAR, Mr Djotodia and another rebel leader, Abakar Sabone were, detained without trial in Benin for more than a year, before being released at Mr Bozize's request in the hope that it would the end the conflict raging at the time.
It was probably Mr Bozize's biggest political mistake, as it opened the way for Mr Djotodia to shrewdly play the dual role of peace-maker and rebel leader until he finally seized power in Bangui.
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A Soviet-trained civil servant who turned into a rebel commander, Michel Djotodia fulfilled his long-held ambition of becoming leader of Central African Republic (CAR) when he overthrew President Francois Bozize in March 2013.
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It is aimed at young people who may have been involved in arson and hoax calls or those with low self-esteem and poor communication skills.
During the week-long course, the students learn activities like hose-running drills and fighting fires.
About 2,500 have taken part in the Phoenix Project in the last 12 years.
Watch manager and Phoenix co-ordinator Pam Roberts said: "We want to give them the confidence to achieve things that they maybe thought they couldn't achieve before.
"Even though they may not become a firefighter, we can maybe give them the belief they can achieve things."
The Welsh Government-funded course is aimed at youngsters aged 13 to 17.
As well as fire safety, they are taught search and rescue techniques and risk management.
Community safety manager Gwyn Jones said of the current group: "They're working hard as a team, excellent communication skills going on, and they're making decisions under pressure.
"These are skills that can be transposed to their school life, to their home life, and when they're interacting in the community."
He said the fire service tracks the progress of participants for 12 months after they finish the course and has found two-thirds "do show a marked improvement in their academic achievement, attendance in school and all-round ability to be better members of the community".
Course participant Billy said the most important thing he had learned was "team work and loyalty".
He said: "These aren't my friends, I've walked out with some brothers.
"I would honestly say that they taught us how to be disciplined and be kind to each other."
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A character-building project run by firefighters is having a positive impact on teenagers, North Wales Fire and Rescue Service has said.
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The fires, which happen every year, are caused by slash-and-burn clearances on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo.
Paper and palm oil companies have been widely blamed for the practice.
Indonesia, which has repeatedly promised to stop the illegal fires, has sent hundreds of military personnel to try to put them out.
It has declared a state of emergency in Riau province, where the haze has been building for several weeks and pollution levels are hazardous to health.
In Malaysia, schools have been closed in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, and several other areas, while Singaporeans are being advised to avoid strenuous activity outdoors.
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Smoke from huge forest fires in Indonesian has created a cloud of smog over the country, which has spread over neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore.
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The tie was decided in the final doubles contest, with Johanna Konta and Heather Watson beating Ana Konjuh and Darija Jurak 4-6 6-4 6-3.
Earlier, British number two Watson beat Donna Vekic 6-2 6-4 to give GB the lead in Tallinn, Estonia.
But leading Briton Konta lost 6-4 6-3 to Konjuh in the following singles match as the tie went to a decider.
Captain Anne Keothavong said she was "absolutely ecstatic" with her team's victory.
"It's been a real emotional rollercoaster, but the way the girls performed today and throughout the whole week, I'm just so proud of them," she said.
"It was so tight, everyone was on the edge of their seats. But they fought their hearts out and played with so much passion. I'm so proud of them."
Konta and Watson were broken twice in the opening three games of their doubles match as they lost the first set 6-4.
There was cause for concern when Australian Open quarter-finalist Konta needed treatment on her ankle early in the second set. But the world number 10 overcame the problem as the British pair levelled.
The opening four games of the deciding set went against serve before Konta and Watson secured the decisive break en route to victory.
Keothavong's team will now play one of the four losers from the World Group II matches.
BBC Radio 5 live tennis correspondent Russell Fuller
The first big selection decision of Keothavong's captaincy proved successful, as Konta and Watson recovered from a set down, and twice a break of serve down in the decider, to wrap up the tie.
Laura Robson and Jocelyn Rae were Britain's first-choice doubles pair in the group matches in Tallinn, but were asked to make way for the higher-ranked singles players.
Britain crave a first home Fed Cup tie for 24 years, but depending on what happens in other ties this weekend, could end up heading to Australia or Chinese Taipei in April.
The draw takes place on Tuesday.
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Unlike the men's team competition, the Davis Cup, which has a World Group of 16 nations, the Fed Cup divides its top teams into two groups of eight - World Group I and World Group II.
The 91 nations outside the top tiers are divided into three regional zones and Britain have one chance per year to escape - a format that hugely frustrated former captain Judy Murray.
The Europe/Africa Group I event, in Estonia, was made up of 14 teams divided into groups, with Poland, Croatia, Britain and Serbia the seeded nations.
Four group winners progressed to the promotion play-offs, with Britain one of the two nations to qualify for World Group II play-offs in April - which could see them given a home Fed Cup tie for the first time since 1993. Poland and Serbia are competing for the other place.
GB fell at the same stage in 2012 and 2013 - away ties in Sweden and Argentina - under the captaincy of Judy Murray.
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Great Britain qualified for the Fed Cup World Group II play-offs with a 2-1 victory over Croatia.
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Play will start at 14:00 BST on 17-21 August and continue until 21:00, with an additional 30 minutes possible at the end of each day's play.
Teams will wear traditional white clothing but use a pink Dukes ball.
Australia beat New Zealand in Adelaide in the inaugural day-night Test in November 2015, while Pakistan play West Indies in the same format next week.
West Indies' final warm-up game against Derbyshire on 11-13 August will also be played under floodlights with a pink ball.
England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chief executive Tom Harrison said: "We are excited by the prospect of staging our first ever day-night Test match.
"It is a great opportunity to attract more fans to the game and see how staging Test cricket in the afternoon and evening fits with working patterns and modern lifestyles, whilst maintaining the deep tradition of Test match cricket."
Next summer, England and Wales will also host the ICC Champions Trophy and the ICC Women's World Cup.
Pat Murphy, BBC Radio 5 live:
"This is a coup for Edgbaston. Several other counties have lobbied for a floodlit Test but Warwickshire - who staged the first floodlit one-day match against Somerset in 1997 - have been in the vanguard of night cricket for years. Permanent lights were installed at Edgbaston in 2011, 11 years after the ground staged its first floodlit one-day international against Zimbabwe.
"It will be Edgbaston's 50th Test - the scene of just eight defeats and 26 victories for England. It will be an invaluable learning process for the home side, with at least one [day-night] Ashes Test due a few months later in Australia.
"A three-day second XI match against Worcestershire was trialled under lights in September, with both the Duke and Kookaburra ball being used. The experiment was deemed a success, which led to the ECB's blessing for Edgbaston.
"More tickets have been sold for Edgbaston international matches than any other ground outside London in the past decade, and with West Indies hardly a major attraction these days the attendance is unlikely to be lower than if it were a daytime Test. The novelty factor and appeal to workers in the city centre - just a mile away - is likely to impact favourably on the gate."
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The first day-night Test to be played in England will take place against West Indies at Edgbaston in August 2017.
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World Rugby introduced tough sanctions on high tackles earlier this month in a bid to improve player safety.
Leo feels the new regulations may compromise the traditional strengths of players from the Pacific Islands, who are renowned for their physicality.
"My main concern is it will eventually restrict our employment opportunities," Leo told BBC 5 live.
"There are long-term implications that these laws could have, not just on us as individuals, but on our economies long term."
Leo, who won 39 caps for Samoa as well as representing Wasps, Perpignan and London Irish, has set up a programme to help with the welfare of Pacific Island players in England.
It is estimated that around 18% of all professional rugby players worldwide are of Fijian, Samoan, or Tongan heritage, with 72 playing in the English Premiership.
And Leo feels education is key if those from the islands are going to continue to thrive.
"We are going to have to start tackling lower, and being a lot more conscious of those risky tackles," he added. "We are going to have to look at ourselves.
"We can't just be known as the enforcers and the guys renowned for those big hits.
"We are going to have to do that within the laws; the laws are constantly changing, and there is a lot of work to be done in the process of re-educating ourselves."
Leo fears Pacific Island players may suffer more than most under the new guidelines, which will see yellow and red cards awarded for reckless challenges to the head area.
"One of the big things we have on our hands is trying to break down that perception we are dirty players," added Leo.
"The only thing that really differentiates Trevor Leota and Brian Lima, who retired in the mid-2000s, from Chris Hala'ufia and Mat Luamanu - who has had three red cards in the past year - is the times and the laws.
"I don't think players are tackling any harder than they were back then, but the game has moved on. It's definitely an education process that needs to happen outside what is being offered.
"There is a fair bit of concern around. The majority of Pacific Island players in the Premiership have been brought over here to do a job that seems to have been frowned upon now.
"There is going to be a lot of work in re-defining how we play."
And Leo feels Pacific Island players could be lost to rugby union if the new tackle sanctions reduce their effectiveness.
"The game had to change, and it had to get safer, but there are a lot of other sports which Pacific Islanders could play," Leo said.
"We have all of these other sports contending for our players: the rugby league NRL, American Football, boxing.
"The reason rugby is so attractive to Pacific Islanders is the contact element, and if we aren't going to get our [contact] fix through rugby, then we will get it elsewhere."
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New tackle laws may have a huge impact on Pacific Island rugby, according to former Samoa captain Dan Leo.
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The body of Nadia Khan, 24, was found in a house in Holker Street, Bradford on Sunday. She had suffered fatal stab wounds.
Detectives said they could not confirm how many weeks pregnant Mrs Khan was at the time of her death.
Her husband Tariq Khan, 26, of Clarendon Court, has been charged with murder and child destruction.
He was remanded at Bradford Magistrates' Court earlier and will appear at the city's crown court on 19 June.
Chelsey Harwood, 29, was ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work after previously admitting benefit fraud.
But she failed to attend probation appointments and told a judge at Liverpool Crown Court she would rather go to jail.
Judge Andrew Menary has sentenced her to three months in prison.
He said the probation service had "bent over backwards" to accommodate the former This is Liverpool and Celebrity Botched Up Bodies star, who is transgender.
The court heard she had failed to attend two appointments and had sent in sick notes referring to stress or depression.
Harwood, of Cleveland Street, St Helens, told the Liverpool Echo the probation office was 25 miles from her home and she refused to use a bus as she did not want to mix with "scallies."
Her defence lawyer John Rowan said she had attended an office in St Helens, but a man there had threatened her on social media.
Mr Rowan said that Harwood, who admitted breaching a court order, is fearful of putting herself at risk of harm.
Asked by the judge if she had told police about her concerns, Mr Rowan said she had not.
He added that "she is anxious in relation to public transport".
Harwood shouted from the dock: "Am I allowed to answer any of these questions? This is ridiculous, it's not fair.
"He threatened to burn my house down. Yes, I took them seriously. No I didn't go to the police because I would be in more danger."
Judge Menary criticised Harwood's own social media posts.
"There is nothing particularly edifying or positive about the image you have created for yourself," he said.
"Following your sentence you deliberately posted or encouraged the posting of images celebrating the type of sentence you received.
"If that was an attempt to ridicule the sentence or the court it failed, and none of that is of any concern to me today.
"My only concerns were that you completed the requirements properly and on time. You have completely failed."
Harwood's original sentence included a four month suspended jail term.
The judge said he would now activate this, but only in part as she had completed an eight week curfew he had imposed.
The 17-year-old male was arrested on Friday following a search by detectives from the Wales Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit.
He was been charged with one offence of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism, and one of encouragement of terrorism.
He will appear before Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday.
Of the whales killed, 103 were male and 230 female, 90% of them pregnant, said Japan's fisheries agency. It said that showed the population was in a healthy breeding state.
Australia has branded the slaughter "abhorrent", its environment minister saying Japan's scientific justification for the hunt did not exist.
What are the issues behind Japan's whaling programme, and why has compromise been so difficult?
Not quite. The International Whaling Commission (IWC), which regulates the industry, agreed to a moratorium on commercial whaling from the 1985. But it did allow exceptions, enough for Japan to hunt more than 20,000 whales since.
It is those exceptions to the moratorium that allow for whaling activity. They are:
Norway simply rejects the moratorium, while Iceland whales "under reservation" to it. Both still whale commercially - 594 minke were taken by Norway and 169 (mostly fin whales) by Iceland in 2013.
Practiced by indigenous groups in places like Greenland, Denmark and Alaska. The flexible definition allows for "cultural" subsistence so it does not have to be about nutritional necessity. Greenlanders sell whale meat to tourists for example and even non-indigenous groups like the Bequians in St Vincent & the Grenadines, can whale
Famously used by Japan, this is the exemption that has run into problems.
Yes and no. In 2014, the United Nations' top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), noting a relative lack of recent discoveries, said Japan's Antarctic whaling programme, JARPA II, was insufficiently scientific to qualify. But it did not ban research whaling.
The Antarctic Southern Ocean hunt is the largest and most controversial of Japan's hunts.
Following the decision, Tokyo granted no Antarctic whaling licences for the 2014/15 winter season, though it did conduct a smaller version of its less well-known north-western Pacific Ocean whaling programme, which was not covered by the judgment.
It then created a new Antarctic whaling programme, NEWREP-A. Japan insists this meets the criteria set out by the ICJ for scientific whaling. It has cut the catch by around two-thirds, to 333 and covers a wider area. It also specified more scientific goals.
Since then one IWC expert panel said the new plan did not adequately demonstrate the need to kill whales to meet its research objectives. But the final IWC Scientific Committee meeting was split.
Japan says it is trying to establish whether populations are stable enough for commercial whaling to resume.
But research is almost never mentioned by ordinary Japanese whaling supporters, who are more likely to cite tradition, sovereignty and the perceived hypocrisy of anti-whaling nations.
Prof Atsushi Ishii of Tohoku University, an expert in environmental politics, argues it is an excuse to subsidise an unprofitable but politically sensitive industry.
Japan's whaling negotiations, he says, "actually make the lifting of the moratorium more difficult," and deliberately so.
Without the implicit subsidy, he says, whaling companies "would go into bankruptcy very easily - they can't sell the whale meat".
The scientific whaling exemption allows for by-product, in this case dead whales, to be sold commercially. That meat, blubber, and other products, is what ends up being eaten.
Critics say they contain dangerously high levels of mercury. Nevertheless it is not a popular meat in Japan.
The whaling industry has tried to reverse perceived indifference by organising food festivals and even visiting schools.
Alternatives to the hunts have been proposed:
There is one potential game-changer; Prof Ishii points out that Japan's only factory whaling ship, the Nisshin Maru, will need to be replaced before long "at huge cost". This may be a cost the government is reluctant to bear. Without it, some whaling could persist, but big hunts far from Japan's shores would be impossible.
Reporting by Simeon Paterson
John Goddard put the Cards ahead inside the first 10 minutes when he tapped in from close range.
Bromley restored parity midway through the half when ex-Woking striker Moses Emmanuel equalised from the spot.
Cunnington pounced on a loose ball for the second, but both scorers were unable to capitalise on chances to extend the lead after the interval.
Woking boss Garry Hill told BBC Surrey:
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"It was such a shame to lose Sam Smith with a groin injury because I felt at that time we were very comfortable in the game.
"It wasn't causing us too much of a problem. Bromley got some momentum and at the end of the first half, we were very relieved to be 2-1 down.
"We never used the elements as much as Bromley did and to be fair, they had breakaway chances and thanks to man of the match Jake Cole, it could've been worse."
The gap between US exports and imports increased to $43.8bn, up from May's revised deficit of $40.9bn. Analysts had been expecting a deficit of $42.8bn.
Record imports of food and cars meant total imports rose 1.2% to $232.4bn.
Exports fell for the second month in a row, down 0.1% to $188.6bn, as global demand weakened.
The dollar, which has gained 15% against the currencies of the United States' main trading partners over the past year, also makes its imports cheaper and exports less competitive.
The trade deficit with the European Union is at an all time high, with exports to the bloc down 2.3% in June while imports were up 4%.
The deficit with China also increased by 3.3% in June to $31.5bn.
Industrial disputes at West Coast ports earlier in the year pushed the monthly deficit to a three-year high of $50.6bn in March.
Laura Rosner, an economist at BNP Paribas said: "Exports remain far below trend and we have yet to see a decisive rebound following the resolution of the West Coast port strike.''
Figures last week showed that the US economy grew at an annualised pace of 2.3% in the three months to June, and also upgraded the growth estimate for the first quarter.
However, a survey of private sector job creation, released on Wednesday, fell short of forecasts.
Private employers hired 185,000 more workers in July, according to the ADP National Employment Report, below analysts' expectations of about 215,000.
The report also revised June's number down by 8,000 to 229,000.
The more comprehensive government jobs survey - the non-farm payroll report - is due out on Friday.
A Reuters survey of economists estimated that it will show that about 223,000 jobs were added to the US economy in July, the same as in June.
Kodak said 12 intellectual property licensees led by Intellectual Ventures (IV) and RPX Corp bought the patents.
The photography pioneer has sold the patents to pay creditors after filing for bankruptcy in January.
The bids for the roughly 1,100 patents up for sale fell short of a $2.6bn target.
Companies participating in the consortium buying the patents include Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Adobe, Facebook, Amazon, Shutterfly, BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion, Fujifilm, HTC and Huawei Technologies.
IV and RPX are so-called "patent aggregators" which dedicate themselves to buying and then licensing out patent rights.
In the initial stages of the bid process IV and RPX had formed two rival consortiums to purchase Kodak's patents, with Apple backing IV and Google behind RPX, before they decided to collaborate.
The agreements are subject to approval by the US Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.
"This monetisation of patents is another major milestone toward successful emergence," said Kodak's chairman and chief executive officer Antonio Perez.
"This proposed transaction enables Kodak to repay a substantial amount of our initial DIP loan [loans used to turn around a business], satisfy a key condition for our new financing facility, and position our commercial imaging business for further growth and success."
The patent portfolios on sale include ways to let devices capture, process, edit and transmit images.
Kodak filed for Chapter 11 protection in January. Chapter 11 refers to a section of the US Bankruptcy Code. It protects a company from its creditors, giving it time to reorganise its debts or sell parts of the business.
Kodak filed a motion to sell several of its patents in June after pulling out of the digital camera business to focus on making printing equipment. It plans to exit bankruptcy in the first half of 2013.
He made his comments during a meeting of the Fine Gael parliamentary party on Wednesday.
Mr Kenny will travel to the US for the annual St Patrick's Day celebrations.
He will continue the tradition of presenting the US president with a shamrock.
There had been speculation he would face a motion of no confidence at the meeting but that did not happen.
The speculation was that a no confidence vote would result from his handling of a police whistleblower controversy.
The controversy began more than three years ago when two whistleblowers - Sgt Maurice McCabe and the now retired John Wilson - alleged there was widespread corruption with the Republic of Ireland's driving licence penalty points system.
A public inquiry is to be held into whether Sgt McCabe was falsely smeared by senior officers in the An Garda Síochána (police).
There will also be an independent review of police operations.
Questions had been raised about Mr Kenny's future arising from his government's handling of the Gardai whistleblower affair last week.
The Taoiseach had indicated that he would stand down as Fine Gael leader before the next general election but many in his party, were fearful last week that the country could face a general election because of the whistleblower affair with him still leader.
Mr Kenny received a standing ovation at tonight's short meeting, and faced no questions from his TDs, Senators and MEPs after he outlined his decision.
Last week, the Irish coalition government - which is made up of Fine Gael and the Independent Alliance - survived a vote of no confidence in the Irish parliament (Dáil).
The government won the motion by 57 votes to 52 votes and there were 44 abstentions.
The Fine Gael leader was re-elected as taoiseach (prime minister) in May 2016, 70 days after a general election which had produced no outright winner. He was the first Fine Gael taoiseach to be re-elected to office after a general election.
Mr Kenny became leader of Fine Gael in 2002 and was first elected taoiseach in 2011.
The 18-year-old is yet to make a full senior appearance for Albion but played in their pre-season draw at Bath City.
"He's that right winger we've been after," United's player-manager Kevin Nicholson told the club website.
"He's got the pace that is going to cause problems for the opposition. Hopefully we can make him a better player and he can improve us."
Forestieri put the Owls ahead from the penalty spot after he was was brought down by Matt Doherty in the box.
The striker then played provider, finding Lucas Joao with a cross before he set up Kieran Lee from 10 yards.
Substitute Ivan Cavaleiro put Wolves' best chance wide as they suffered a fourth successive home defeat.
The home side's miserable form, which led to former Italian international Walter Zenga being sacked as boss last month, has seen them collect just three points from a possible 27 in a nine-game winless run. They are now one place above the relegation zone.
Meanwhile for Wednesday, it was the first time in nine Championship games they had managed to score more than once.
It was also their their first win at Molineux in seven attempts, having lost on their past five visits. They have moved up to the top six in the Championship.
Wolves manager Paul Lambert: "We are in a fight along with a few others and in a dangerous position, but that is why we are here - to try and get out of it. There are a lot of games to go but we have to defend better.
"If you can get this right it is a cracking place to be but you have to handle the occasion. It is up to us to find lads who can do it. The ones who can will go with you and the ones who can't will struggle.
"Individual errors have cost us and we are going to have to be more streetwise than that.
"Sheffield Wednesday are a really good side and they punished us. We were a lot better in the second half but by then the horse had bolted."
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Sheffield Wednesday boss Carlos Carvalhal: "I told Fernando that he is back again. He performed very well against Fulham in the last game and (against Wolves) he again did very well and it is the Fernando we know and recognise and that the coaches and fans like.
"We are better than last season and the big difference is the efficiency. We have found a way to score goals and the level of the football is very high. I hope we can keep this going for all of the season.
"Wolves ran and fought a lot during the 97 minutes we played. They had new energy because they had changed the coach and it was the first home game and that made them tougher to play against.
"But I think we were ready for this environment and we did well. We got the first goal and deserved it and we had more chances."
Match ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 0, Sheffield Wednesday 2.
Second Half ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 0, Sheffield Wednesday 2.
Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. David Edwards tries a through ball, but Nouha Dicko is caught offside.
Kortney Hause (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday).
Attempt saved. Richard Stearman (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Keiren Westwood.
Attempt saved. Ivan Cavaleiro (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Matt Doherty.
Jack Price (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jack Price (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
William Buckley (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Adam Reach (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Ivan Cavaleiro (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) header from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Richard Stearman (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. William Buckley replaces Barry Bannan.
Foul by Dominic Iorfa (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Andy Lonergan.
João Teixeira (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by João Teixeira (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ivan Cavaleiro (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box misses to the right. Assisted by David Edwards.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Ivan Cavaleiro replaces Jón Dadi Bödvarsson.
Hand ball by Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday).
Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conor Coady tries a through ball, but Nouha Dicko is caught offside.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Steven Fletcher replaces Lucas João.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Glenn Loovens.
Foul by João Teixeira (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. João Teixeira replaces Hélder Costa.
Foul by Jack Price (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Glenn Loovens.
David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday).
Attempt saved. Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sam Hutchinson.
Nouha Dicko (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Emails obtained by BBC South East also showed 999 service commissioners could have been unaware of changes.
A South East Coast Ambulance Service (Secamb) manager removed reference to the changes in a report and warned of "reputational damage", emails revealed.
Secamb said the trust and its regulator were working to establish the facts.
Last week it was revealed Secamb is being investigated over the pilot project in which the trust decided to transfer certain 111 calls to the 999 system, thus gaining up to 10 additional minutes to assess patients' conditions.
A leaked NHS England report, expected to be published on Thursday, showed the project was launched in secret by some senior managers and set up without the knowledge of 111 staff, board non-executives, the medical director or local commissioners of services.
In one case where a 60-year-old Horsham man died following a cardiac arrest, there was a "missed opportunity" to improve his outcome, the report said.
The documents reveal:
The project was exposed by health regulator Monitor which said the trust had not fully considered patient safety.
Peter Kyle, Labour MP for Hove and Portslade, has called for the person responsible for the pilot to resign.
"I have never called for anyone's resignation since I became an MP but there are four and a half million people in this ambulance area, 25,000 people we now know have been affected and almost 25 lives could have been lost," he said.
These documents are very significant.
We now know senior staff were aware of grave concerns both within the trust and in other NHS organisations but, as far as we are aware, didn't stop the pilot.
We also know they realised if these fears got out their reputation would be damaged, which is of course what has now happened over the last seven days.
These documents also show a report was amended to remove any reference to what was being done.
Secamb have said they are keen to work "closely" with health regulator Monitor to "establish the facts" but I sense there is some frustration over the amount of time it will take.
A Secamb spokeswoman said: "We welcome Monitor's review and are keen to work closely with them to establish the facts, as we believe much of what has appeared in the media during recent days has been based on incomplete information."
A spokeswoman for Monitor told BBC South East: "As part of our regulatory action, we have asked the trust to carry out a detailed independent review of the impact the project had on patients.
"We have asked the trust to do this with the help of an external expert, who we will select."
Secamb covers Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Brighton and north-east Hampshire.
The Cricket Australia's Chairman's XI reached 254-8 declared on the second and final day in Alice Springs, with Steven Finn ending wicketless and Boyd Rankin taking just one at the death in temperatures that hit 39C.
Graeme Swann took four wickets and Monty Panesar three to provide some optimism from a game that otherwise did little to aid the tourists before they fly to Adelaide on Sunday to resume the Test series against Australia.
"Three years ago, Andrew Strauss's team would have obliterated the Chairman's XI. But this England team are not sure of a lot of things. They are not sure of their best bowling attack or their best batting order.
"Wicket-taking was Steven Finn's knack but he can't get it together at the moment. He is tall and athletic and yet his bowling - although fast - is just not doing the job."
When England batted again in the final hour, a nominal 42 runs behind after their own 212-7 declared on Friday's first day, Joe Root was caught behind for one before Michael Carberry (37 not out) and Gary Ballance (eight not out) saw them to the close at 47-1.
Swann's figures of 4-56 reflected the opposition's desire to go after him, much as Australia had with success in the first Test at Brisbane, with three of his wickets caught in the deep.
Panesar's three wickets - in his first appearance of the tour's five weeks thus far - came off 19 steady overs as stand-in captain Ian Bell gave both spinners long spells in the fierce heat.
Panesar bowled opener Steve Cazzulino for 48 after Swann had broken the opening partnership of 78 by having Marcus Harris caught by a back-pedalling Finn at mid-on for 49.
The same combination accounted for Michael Hill for 13, but with the ball in hand Finn was too short too often, his 15 overs going for 61 as the Chairman's XI unheralded and inexperienced batsman enjoyed themselves in front of a refreshed crowd in Alice Springs.
For much of this match, the atmosphere was akin to a low-key county game at a festival ground, which made the struggles of Finn and Rankin all the more chastening.
Three years ago Finn was England's leading wicket-taker after three Tests; he was also the second fastest Englishman to 50 Test wickets after Sir Ian Botham.
31 Oct-2 Nov: drew with Western Australia Chairman's XI, Perth
6-9 Nov: drew with Australia A, Hobart
13-16 Nov: beat Australian Invitational XI, Sydney
21-25 Nov: First Test, Brisbane: lost by 381 runs
29-30 Nov: drew with Chairman's XI, Alice Springs
5-9 Dec: 2nd Test, Adelaide
13-17 Dec: 3rd Test. Perth
26-30 Dec: 4th Test, Melbourne
3-7 Jan 2014: 5th Test, Sydney
But his underwhelming tour this time - 11 wickets at a cost of 38.9 runs apiece - and the similarly unimpressive form of Rankin mean that Tim Bresnan is now the clear favourite if England wish to replace Chris Tremlett for the second Test.
Rankin ended with a weary 1-52 on Saturday, his sole wicket that of number nine James Muirhead, to leave him with eight wickets from 88 overs against limited opposition on tour. All-rounder Ben Stokes bowled 13 wicketless overs at a cost of 37 runs.
Josh Lalor was able to compile an unhurried 45 before becoming Panesar's third victim, while Muirhead's 29 came off only 17 deliveries as the second new ball was clouted around the Traeger Park Oval.
England came on this tour with three tall fast bowlers in Tremlett, Finn and Rankin, looking to exploit the hard, bouncy pitches down under as both Tremlett and Finn had been able to on the corresponding tour in 2010-11.
But none of the three men has carried a sustained threat, leaving the door open to Bresnan as he continues his rapid rehabilitation from a stress fracture of the back.
Ballance's 54 in England's first innings here in Australia's Red Centre make him the most likely man to replace Jonathan Trott in the Test side after the experienced number three returned to the UK with a stress-related illness.
Whether he would bat in Trott's position at three or lower down the order is less clear, with Root failing as an opener on Saturday afternoon and Bell unlikely to move up from five.
With Australia coach Darren Lehmann insisting that he will pick his strongest side when the second Test begins at the Adelaide Oval on 5 December, it leaves England with all the selection headaches as they look to fight their way back into the series after the 381-run thrashing at the Gabba.
Supreme Court president Lord Neuberger said reduced access to legal aid could lead to inefficient claims costlier for the court system.
If people had to drop claims, it would be "a rank denial of justice and a blot on the rule of law", he said.
The Ministry of Justice said the annual £2bn bill for legal aid was "costing too much".
An MoJ spokesperson said that the £350m cuts "will create a sustainable legal aid system that will still be one of the most generous in the world".
"At a time when major financial challenges are being felt by businesses and households across the country the legal sector cannot be immune from the government's commitment to getting better value for every penny of taxpayers' money we spend."
Lord Neuberger's comments came as he delivered the annual Tom Sargant Memorial Lecture.
He also used the speech, organised by legal campaign group Justice, to urge ministers to be "very careful" about restricting the right of people to use a judicial review when challenging the decisions of local councils and other public authorities.
He said moves to discourage "weak" applications were "understandable, even laudable", but warned: "One must be very careful about any proposals whose aim is to cut down the right to judicial review.
"The courts have no more important function than that of protecting citizens from the abuses and excesses of the executive - central government, local government, or other public bodies."
Warning of the potential harm from government cuts to the legal aid budget, Lord Neuberger said: "Cutting the cost of legal aid deprives the very people who most need the protection of the courts of the ability to get legal advice and representation."
He said recent changes to the system had reduced the types of claim which qualified for support and increased the "stringency" of the eligibility criteria.
He added: "If a person with a potential claim cannot get legal aid, there are two possible consequences. The first is that the claim is dropped - that is a rank denial of justice and a blot on the rule of law.
"The second is that the claim is pursued, in which case it will be pursued inefficiently, and will take up much more of the court staff's time and of the judge's time in and out of court."
This would mean "greater costs" and delays for the court system, he said.
Emma Pengelly replaced her party colleague Jimmy Spratt as South Belfast MLA on 28 September after he retired.
Mrs Pengelly had previously worked as a special adviser in the Office of the First and deputy First Minister.
She has said she will bring a "great deal of experience" to her new role in that department.
Mrs Pengelly added she was "really enthusiastic about the opportunity".
Earlier this month, a DUP spokesman confirmed Mrs Pengelly would receive a five-figure severance payment from her previous job as First Minister Peter Robinson's special adviser.
Asked about that payment on Tuesday, she said she intended to spend a "considerable amount" on her constituency work.
She said she had neither applied nor asked for the severance payment, and that it would be paid automatically on a statutory basis after she spent almost nine years as a special adviser.
Mrs Pengelly has not yet stood for election but said she was an "incredibly hard worker" and people should judge her on her actions.
Mr Clegg said expenses are there to help MPs with the cost of living and working in two different places.
The Lib Dem leader, who rents a second home in his Sheffield constituency, declined to reveal how much bills are in his London home, on LBC radio.
He also admitted the recession has not affected his family as much as others.
"Both [my wife] Miriam and I work in well-paid jobs so clearly we're not in the same position as many people who feel under greater considerable pressure," he said.
The Liberal Democrat leader defended MPs' rights to claim back utility costs for their second home, as he appeared on his weekly LBC radio phone-in.
The government has come under increasing pressure to help people facing higher gas and electricity bills, with Labour calling for a 20-month price freeze.
MPs have been criticised for claiming expenses to cover the cost of heating their second homes.
LBC radio show host Nick Ferrari said it had been reported Mr Clegg claimed £254.29 for electricity and gas in his constituency home in Sheffield.
Mr Clegg said: "I think most people would understand that if you are living and working in two different places and you are giving allowances to cover the costs in one of those places that also covers your utility bills.
"And I am totally open about what those bills are and I've got no embarrassment in explaining that to you."
Mr Clegg repeatedly refused to reveal the cost of utility bills in his private home, telling Mr Ferrari: "I'm not going to go into my personal bills."
He said MPs are no longer "judge and jury" on their expenses as in the past, with the system independently overseen by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.
To remove that financial support for MPs, the deputy PM argued, would turn the clock back 150 years by turning politics into a hobby for the landed gentry.
Mr Clegg later revealed that he was a "keen buyer" of undergarments from Marks and Spencer, but dismissed the idea that his wife buys them for him as "old-fashioned".
However, he did not answer correctly how much a standard pack of three men's boxers costs. Mr Clegg guessed at £10, but the answer provided was in fact £8.
The bloc suggested it would then be "ready for dialogue".
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) cut ties with their Gulf neighbour on 5 June, saying it supports terrorism.
Qatar strongly denies the allegation and has rejected a list of conditions for the lifting of sanctions.
They include the closure of news broadcaster Al Jazeera and reducing ties with Iran.
The group accuses the Qatari-funded channel of fostering extremism, a charge the network denies.
The foreign ministers of the Saudi-led bloc met in Bahrain's capital Manama on Sunday to discuss the blockade.
"The four countries are ready for dialogue with Qatar with the condition that it announces its sincere willingness to stop funding terrorism and extremism and its commitment to not interfere in other countries' foreign affairs and respond to the 13 demands," Bahrain's Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa told a news conference after the meeting.
Saudi Arabia has closed its land border with Qatar, while all four countries have cut air and sea links with Doha.
Qatar's lawyers have called the tactics "reminiscent of the extreme and punitive conduct of 'bully' states that have historically resulted in war".
Diplomatic efforts led by Kuwait and backed by Western powers have so far failed to end the dispute.
Earlier in July it appeared the 13-point list might be abandoned, when diplomats told reporters at the UN they now wanted Qatar to accept six broad principles.
These included commitments to combat terrorism and extremism, and to end acts of provocation and incitement.
But on Sunday, it was clear the list was still on the table.
The bloc also accused Qatar of complicating the hajj - the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca - for its citizens.
Mecca is in Saudi Arabia, but Qataris cannot fly there directly from Doha under the sanctions.
Last week, the four nations added 18 more groups and individuals they say are linked to Qatar to their "terrorist" lists.
David Cameron made the comment in response to a question from Oxford West and Abingdon MP Nicola Blackwood.
Ms Blackwood called on the government and retailers to "make it more difficult" to get hold of weapons.
Justin Skrebowski, 61, was killed in the chain's Abingdon branch on 7 December.
At Prime Minister's Questions Mr Cameron, who represents Witney in Oxfordshire, said he had been "shocked" by the attack and would examine Miss Blackwood's suggestion.
He said: "I think [Miss Blackwood is] right to ask the question about offensive weapons and how available they are and I'm very happy to look at that.
"I also think with that attack and also the Leytonstone attack - although unrelated - it is right also to look at the resources our police have in terms of the equipment they have."
Trevor Joyce, 36, was charged with murder after the attack and is due to appear at Oxford Crown Court on 7 March next year.
Thames Valley Police said it had voluntarily referred itself to the IPCC following the stabbing.
Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland urged all those with an interest in the death of Sheku Bayoh not to engage in "speculation and a running commentary".
Mr Bayoh, originally from Sierra Leone, died after being arrested and restrained in Kirkcaldy on 3 May.
The Police Investigations Review Commissioner (Pirc) is investigating.
Mr Mulholland called for Pirc and the Crown Office to be allowed to "get on with their job" amid intense media interest in the case.
The intervention followed a public row between Aamer Anwar, the lawyer representing Mr Bayoh's family, and former justice secretary Kenny MacAskill.
Mr Mulholland QC said both Pirc and the Crown were "well aware of all the evidence, the lines of inquiry and the issues surrounding this case".
He said: "The Crown and Pirc are not influenced by comments made in the media and that is how it should be.
"However, speculation and a running commentary on the investigation can be upsetting to the family of Sheku Bayoh as well as the families of the officers involved.
"A decision will be taken at the end of this extremely complex investigation as to whether or not criminal proceedings should be raised.
"An inquiry will also be held at which all the relevant evidence will be heard, open to the public and the media, and it is right that it is this forum where the evidence will be rigorously tested and judicially assessed.
"Pirc, and the Crown, should be allowed to get on with their job."
Earlier this week, Mr MacAskill accused campaigners and commentators of declaring an "open season of hunting Police Scotland" and creating a "poisonous atmosphere" in which individual officers had been targeted.
His comments were welcomed by Prof Peter Watson, the lawyer for the police officers involved in the case.
Mr Anwar responded by accusing Mr MacAskill and Mr Watson of "yet another attempt to divert attention from why Sheku Bayoh died".
One of the lorries shed its load of spuds in the crash near Knutsford and police said it took three hours to clear the road.
"They filled the carriageway," said bee farmer Henry Baxendale, whose farm is close by. "I didn't see any injuries but there were a few bruised potatoes."
A police spokeswoman said: "One man tried to sweep them up but he failed."
Police and others chipped in to clear the crop that had blocked Chester Road near The Smoker Inn pub shortly after 10:00 BST.
Fly-half Jack Carty kicked 20 points for the hosts in Galway, who top Pool One at the halfway stage in the group.
Replacement centre Danie Poolman crossed for a try with six minutes remaining to deny Newcastle a chance to claim a losing bonus point.
Captain Richard Mayhew bagged a second-half try for the visitors, but two points was as close as Newcastle got.
Carty's kicking ensured Connacht led throughout and the 23-year-old missed just one attempt from seven on the night.
The defeat leaves Newcastle second in the pool with third-placed Brive playing Russian side Enisei-STM on Saturday.
Connacht: O'Halloran (capt); Adeolokun, Parata, Robb, Healy; Carty, Blade, Bealham, Harris-Wright, White, Dillane, Muldowney, O'Brien, Connolly, Naoupu.
Replacements: Delahunt, O'Donnell, Ah You, Qualter, Heffernan, Porter, O'Leary, Poolman.
Newcastle Falcons: Hammersley; Marshall, Penny, Harris, Kibirige; Willis, Takulua, Rogers, Lawson, Vea, Witty, Botha, Mayhew (capt), Temm, Hogg.
Replacements: Hawkins, Harris, Foster, Green, Chick, Dawson, Socino, Watson.
Bolt was celebrating his win in the 200m sprint at the World Athletics Championships when the cameraman lost control of his motorised scooter as it rolled over a post and crashed into the runner's legs.
The Jamaican did a backward roll and got back on his feet - he briefly rubbed his ankle before continuing to celebrate with fans.
He later told reporters: "Accidents happen. I have a few cuts but it is nothing that I have never done to myself in training. I will be all right."
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The two men came face to face again on Friday when the cameraman presented Bolt with a gift, said to be a friendship bracelet, to apologise for the accident.
The state-owned bank said it was moving the jobs, which help to handle loans for small businesses, as part of an ongoing cost-cutting drive.
But the company, which owns RBS and NatWest, added that UK staff would still deal with customers and take the decisions on whether to grant loans.
The Unite union said UK workers and taxpayers would lose out from the move.
"By shipping these jobs to India, RBS will be getting that work done more cheaply at the cost of jobs and livelihoods here in the UK," a spokesman said.
The bank's small business customers will also be unsettled by the decision, according to Mike Cherry, chairman of the Federal of Small Businesses.
"Many small business customers with RBS will be extremely concerned at the idea of local expert staff being sent packing and their roles outsourced to call centres halfway round the world," Mr Cherry said.
He added it was the "wrong way to rebuild trust" after branch closures and a mis-selling scandal that saw thousands of small business customers compensated by the bank last year.
The company, which is still 73% owned by the government after a £45bn bailout in 2008, said staff in Mumbai would take over back-office roles such as background checks.
But it added that UK-based staff would continue to do the work that involved customer contact.
Credit decisions will also be taken in the UK, according to the bank.
by Joe Lynam, business correspondent, BBC News
If you've just agreed a new mortgage or remortgaged, you'll probably not have met the person who decided to give it to you (or not).
That's not the case with small companies. They have a far closer relationship with their bank manager. The latter needs to know what kind of business you have and how you run it.
Some may have fretted that shifting more than 400 jobs relating to SME (small and medium-sized enterprises) lending to India might irrevocably alter than relationship.
And that's why RBS is stressing that all credit decisions will continue to be taken here in Britain and no relationship managers with SMEs will be downsized.
RBS doesn't want to damage its current position as the largest business bank in the UK.
A spokesman for the RBS group said: "As we become a simpler, smaller bank, we are making some changes to the way we serve our customers.
"Unfortunately, these changes will result in the net reduction of 443 roles in the UK."
The company said it would support staff affected by the "disappointing news", including by moving them into new roles where possible.
It comes just weeks after RBS said it would cut 250 IT jobs in the UK and move dozens of the roles to India.
A recent laser survey of the ship, which was sailed to Antarctica by Captain Scott, has made virtual tours using the Oculus Rift headset possible.
Dundee Heritage Trust and laser scanning firm Digital Surveys are using video game technology to build up a realistic 3D version of the ship.
A completed prototype allows users to explore the ship's wardroom.
The current programme lets users move around a detailed reproduction of the room, sit at the table and peek into Ernest Shackleton's cabin, while future possibilities include walking the decks and climbing the rigging.
The virtual tour is conducted through the Oculus Rift, an immersive gaming headset which Facebook bought the rights to for £1.2bn earlier this year.
Dundee Heritage Trust is aiming to raise £50,000 to develop a virtual reality tour covering more of the ship, along with a tablet and mobile phone application version for those without headsets.
Operations director Mark Munsie said the original laser survey, which had aimed to produce an accurate record of the ship's structures for conservation planning, had provided the opportunity to develop the virtual tour.
He said: "The prospect of people at home all over the world being able to explore the ship in 3D is very exciting.
"It also opens up the visit experience to people with disabilities who would otherwise be unable to climb up to the bridge or go below decks."
The project to date has been funded by the Scottish government's recognition fund, awarded by Museums Galleries Scotland.
Chief executive Joanne Orr said Museums Galleries Scotland was "delighted" to support the project.
She said: "Bringing Captain Scott's ship directly to people in their own front rooms and offices around the world is a fantastic achievement, and Dundee Heritage Trust is reinforcing the city's status as the technology capital of Scotland with this innovative project."
The 24-year-old was billed "Licensed To Thrill" ahead of his Crucible debut win over compatriot Stephen Maguire.
"My walk-on is The Smiths' 'This Charming Man' and I think I am pretty charming," joked McGill.
"I think my nickname should be 'The Charming Man'. It's as good an effort as 'Licensed To Thrill' I think."
Commentator Rob Walker's introduction at the World Snooker Championship was the latest attempt to thrust a nickname on flame-haired McGill.
He has rejected being dubbed McNugget through comparisons with former world champion Steve Davis - and the Ginger Ninja.
"Some players have names that you can just get nicknames naturally, but there doesn't seem to be one with me," McGill told BBC Scotland.
Morrissey and The Smiths broke up before McGill was born.
"Why The Smiths? Just listen to them, they are just incredible - the best music I've ever heard," he said when asked about his love of the Manchester band.
"When I walk out and I hear that, it makes me feel a little bit more comfortable as well."
McGill has no plans to adopt a Bond theme instead but admitted: "Licensed To Thrill? It rhymes, it's catchy, it's cheesy, it makes people smile, so I don't mind it too much."
The Scot came through the qualifiers before edging out former UK champion Maguire 10-9 in his first appearance at the Crucible.
"It was just amazing," he said. "When you walk down that little corridor and the Crucible opens, it was just the best experience ever.
"I could do that a million times and not get sick of it.
"Considering it was my debut here, I thought I played a pretty good match and it was a terrific win.
"Stephen wasn't at his best. He let me off the hook a little bit, but take it when you can get it."
McGill insisted he did not feel under any pressure on his debut.
"I was extremely calm," he added. "I wasn't nervous at all in the dressing-room.
"When I could hear the crowd, my heart started jumping out my chest at that moment.
"But, when I took my seat and started playing, I was fine again."
The fire at E and S J Walpole, in North Pickenham, broke out during the fire service strike on 1 November last year.
Its intensity caused plumes of smoke that could be seen over 20 miles away.
Jason Snook at the haulage and storage firm said the area was still being cleared and it would "take stock" before deciding if it could be rebuilt.
Three explosions were heard as fork lift trucks powered by propane cylinders caught alight.
The blaze gutted the warehouse and caused structural collapse, but no-one working there at the time was hurt.
It was so fierce it took a number of weeks to establish a cause.
Mr Snook said the fire at the 21-acre site involved cardboard and packaging.
He said it had "affected the business", based in Dereham, but it had managed to "get on with it" and keep its haulage side running.
He said if the warehouse could not be rebuilt on the same site, the firm would consider opening one elsewhere.
At least nine of Sir Antony Gormley's iron men on Crosby beach in Merseyside have been painted with colourful outfits by a mystery artist.
One now has a pink polka dot bikini and another has bright orange shorts.
Sir Antony has asked for the paint to be removed and many locals and visitors have condemned it as vandalism.
A spokesman for Sefton Council said: "We want everyone to enjoy and interact with the impressive Antony Gormley statues on Crosby beach, which are synonymous with Sefton.
"However, following this incident, we have been contacted directly by Mr Gormley with a view of removing these permanent decorations which we will now look into."
The spokesman said he knew of nine sculptures that have been painted - out of the 100 that stand looking out to sea.
Some of those that have been "decorated" are marked with the name Mokie.
One bears the words "I am art" on the back of a new painted blue shirt.
The figures - which were all modelled on Sir Antony himself - are often adorned by visitors with real shirts, hats and sunglasses.
But any added accessories are normally easily removable - the only other "permanent" additions being the barnacles that cling to the cast iron when the tide comes in.
The artwork, titled Another Place, was installed in 2005 and the figures were originally meant to move to New York the following year - but have stayed looking out to the Irish Sea.
They are now among Sir Antony's best-loved creations, along with other sculptures including his Angel of the North.
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Bailey, 16, died following the incident at Cults Academy on 28 October.
A 16-year-old boy - who cannot be named for legal reasons - has been charged with murder.
A newspaper noticed stated: "Following the sad loss of Bailey, a private funeral will be held. Bailey's family would like to thank the community for their kindness and support."
The accused, who was remanded after appearing in private at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, is also charged with having a blade or point on school premises.
Michael Ryan was speaking at an event to highlight the importance of having an industrial strategy in Northern Ireland.
The manufacturing sector has been going through a difficult few years, with high-profile job losses.
Bombardier has been shedding jobs globally.
It is cutting about 20% of its Northern Ireland workforce over the next two years as part of global restructuring plans.
Earlier this month, Stormont's power-sharing institutions collapsed over the fall-out from a botched green energy scheme.
The political row over the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme, which is running £490m over-budget, led to a snap election being called on 2 March.
Mr Ryan said: "We need to keep working on the issues, expecting and knowing there will be a resolution at a political level.
"We need it as soon as we possibly can, and then we can find a way to work constructively together.
"In Northern Ireland, obviously we have had a few, very high-profile disappointments in recent years, with the closures of some companies. The rest of us, including Bombardier, have been challenged as well.
"We all do our risk planning at a macro-global level, at a national level and at a local level in Northern Ireland.
"We can't foresee all the risks, but we can try to mitigate what happens and look to the long term."
Knightswood Park, in the city's north west, has been selected as the preferred location for the £2m track.
The announcement came as Glasgow and Berlin were named co-hosts of the first European Sports Championships in 2018.
The event, which includes the European Cycling Championships, will see more than 650 top cyclists compete in road, track, mountain bike and BMX championship events across Glasgow.
The new BMX track must be ready for summer 2018, although Glasgow City Council hopes to have it open before then.
Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson said: "I'm delighted that we intend to bring an Olympic standard BMX track to Glasgow, a first for the city and for Scotland.
"BMX is a fast and entertaining sport and one which is gaining popularity in terms of participation and spectators and we want to take advantage of this by providing the facilities and opportunities to enjoy the sport and join in.
"This BMX track will be an excellent addition to our already world-class sporting facilities and a great resource for professional and aspiring athletes, schools, community groups alike."
Directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Bradley Cooper as Navy Seal Chris Kyle, the film has taken $337.2m (£223.7m) since its limited release in December.
The latest movie in The Hunger Games franchise has taken $336.8m (£223.4m).
Set during the Iraq war, American Sniper is Eastwood's most successful film to date.
The film had a limited release in US cinemas on 25 December, to make it eligible for this year's Oscars. A wider release followed in January.
According to Variety, it is the first time since 1998's Saving Private Ryan that a "realistic", R-rated drama has secured the largest box office takings of the year in the US.
"The heroic story of Chris Kyle just hit the zeitgeist," said Jeff Goldstein, from film company Warner Bros.
American Sniper was nominated for six Oscars, including best picture and best actor for Cooper, but only won in the sound editing category.
Despite its popularity with US cinemagoers, the film attracted criticism for both its depiction of the Iraq war and of sniper Chris Kyle, upon whose book the film is based.
Globally, Transformers: Age of Extinction is still the biggest film of 2014 having taking $1.1bn (£665.6m) in foreign markets, compared to American Sniper's $140m (£93m).
Robot drama Chappie made its debut at the top of this week's US box office after an unusually quiet weekend, in which takings were 38% down on the same time last year.
Neill Blomkamp's film, starring Hugh Jackman, Dev Patel and Sigourney Weaver, took just $13.3m (£8.8m) but still topped this week's chart.
Blomkamp's previous two films, Elysium and District 9, debuted much higher, with $29.8m (£19.8m) and $37.4m (£24.9m) respectively.
Will Smith's Focus took $10m (£6.6m) in its second week, with The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - also starring Dev Patel - opening in third place with a strong $8.6m (£5.7m).
Unfinished Business, Vince Vaughn's new comedy, opened in 10th place with just $4.8m (£3.2m).
The 24-year-old, who won bronze at London 2012, signed with 10-time world champion Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions last month.
He will make his professional debut in April or May.
"I want to become Britain's greatest ever middleweight boxer," he said at a London press conference. "I want to be knighted, I want to be Sir Anthony."
The move sees Ogogo join the same stable as fellow Briton Amir Khan, a silver medallist in Athens in 2004.
The Lowestoft fighter was initially thought to be lining up a first fight in February, but Golden Boy chief executive Richard Schaefer said they would be patient with his development.
The long-term plan is to have Ogogo fight eight times a year - four in the UK and four in the USA - as part of Golden Boy's plan to stage boxing shows in Britain.
"The UK market has a very special place for us. We've been involved with some of the biggest names of the last 10 years or so," he said.
"We've made a mark on the UK boxing scene but this is ground breaking, taking a young fighter and making him a crossover superstar. It's a challenge for us.
"We want him to fight regularly in the UK and the USA on some of the biggest bills, including Floyd Mayweather fights. We want to show the world if you have the right talent and charisma the sky is the limit."
Ogogo was the first member of Britain's London 2012 boxing team to announce he was turning professional, with Tom Stalker following his lead earlier this month.
He experienced a year of highs and lows in 2012, almost missing out on a place at the Olympics because of a shoulder injury and competing against a backdrop of his mother's continued recovery from a brain haemorrhage.
But Ogogo produced one of London 2012's most memorable boxing moments with an upset victory over Ukraine's world number one Ievgen Khytrov on his way to a bronze medal.
De La Hoya, himself a former Olympian, having won featherweight gold in Barcelona in 1992, claimed 10 world championships across six different weights before his retirement in 2009.
And Ogogo has said the prospect of working with his company was too good to turn down.
"I met Frank Warren and Ricky Hatton," he said. "They showed great hospitality. But when I met Richard a couple of things stuck out. One thing resounded, Richard said when he wants something he usually gets it. I liked that. So I thought I want my career in his hands.
"If I want to pack out Norwich City's ground, Carrow Road, Ipswich Town's ground Portman Road, he's the man who's going to do it."
The former European and Commonwealth silver medallist had considered competing again for gold at Rio 2016, but said he had been unable to find the motivation.
"I sat on the ring apron and thought I cannot do this for another four years. I don't want to go from boxing in the ExCeL to a school hall in front of 50 people.
"Richard told me I could be headlining shows in Vegas, East Anglia, London, Birmingham or Manchester. I am exhilarated to sign for a superpower in world boxing."
The Sunday World printed the article about Gordon Coulter after his hotel - the Kilmorey Arms in Kilkeel - went into administration in December 2014.
The article stated that he had "been branded a Scrooge for putting his staff on the street a week before Christmas".
The Court of Appeal has set aside the libel ruling and ordered a retrial.
Mr Coulter, 85, was originally awarded the payout by the High Court last year.
He took legal action against the Sunday World after it reported on the temporary closure of his hotel, which has since reopened under new ownership.
The hotelier claimed the "Scrooge" article had portrayed him as mean and callous towards staff, implying that he had money but was not prepared to spend it to save their jobs.
The High Court ruled this was serious libel of a respected businessman who had no other option but to put the company into administration.
However, the Court of Appeal has now ruled that the original judge had "misdirected himself" and wrongly interpreted the description of Mr Coulter in the newspaper article as statements of fact.
Senior judges agreed with the newspaper's barrister that the "Scrooge" reference was a figure of speech not to be taken literally.
"Obviously the person is not literally Scrooge because that is a fictional character in a Dickens novella," Lord Justice Gillen told the Court of Appeal.
"In terms it amounts to an applied conclusion or judgment on that person and as such amounts to comment rather than a statement of fact.
"Similar situations might arise where someone is termed a 'Hitler' or a 'Trotsky'," Lord Justice Gillen added.
"We therefore conclude that the order cannot stand and should be set aside. The proper course is to direct a retrial of the action."
The Sunday World is also to receive its legal costs after its successful appeal.
Laura Lacole is due to wed Republic of Ireland midfielder Eunan O'Kane at a venue in Northern Ireland next month.
She is challenging the General Register Office for refusing to officially authorise the ceremony.
It is due to be conducted by a British Humanist Association celebrant.
Her action is also directed at Stormont's Department of Finance's alleged failure to introduce legislation allowing the couple to have a legally recognised and binding wedding occasion.
Ms Lacole's lawyers claim that she is being discriminated against under European laws protecting freedom of belief.
Granting her leave to seek a judicial review at the High Court in Belfast, a judge said: "It seems to me this is an arguable case and an important matter of public interest has been raised."
Proceedings will now advance to a full hearing later this month.
Ms Lacole, 27, and Mr O'Kane, 26, who is originally from Feeny in County Londonderry, both described themselves as humanists - a non-religious combination of attitudes and beliefs centred on human experience and welfare.
Humanist marriages are currently legally recognised in Scotland and the Republic of Ireland.
Under current legislation in Northern Ireland a couple wanting such a ceremony must also have a separate civil registration for their marriage to be recognised in law.
Outside court, Ms Lacole said the couple had decided to go public about their relationship and imminent marriage because of the importance of the issue.
Ms Lacole, who is also vice-chair of Atheist NI, said: "We want to get married in a ceremony which embraces our values, who we are as individuals and how we see life, just in the same way as any religious person would want to be married in a ceremony reflective of their beliefs."
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John Cole has overseen major public building projects in the health sector in Northern Ireland and is an industry expert in construction and procurement.
Seventeen schools in the capital were forced to close in April after concerns over their construction.
About 3,000 pupils remain displaced. They will return to their own schools after the summer holidays.
Andrew Kerr, City of Edinburgh Council's chief executive, said: "I am pleased to have brought on board an expert of John's calibre to head this independent inquiry as he commands respect in both construction and procurement fields.
"His track record speaks for itself and I am sure parents and everyone else who has been affected by the issues over the past five months will take comfort from the extensive knowledge and experience that John brings to the role.
"The clear and thorough terms of reference, drafted in consultation with the political group leaders, set out exactly what we are aiming to achieve through this inquiry. Clearly, we want to find out what went wrong with these schools and are determined to see what lessons can be learned, not just here in Edinburgh but across Scotland and the UK."
It was announced earlier this week that four primary schools, Pirniehall, St David's, Broomhouse and St Joseph's, will now open on Monday 20 June.
Pupils from Rowanfield School will also return earlier than planned on Monday 27 June.
About 900 pupils from Oxgangs and St Peter's Primary Schools and Braidburn School returned to their own buildings last month.
Firrhill High School fully reopened on schedule last week.
Pupils at remaining primary schools - Craigour Park, Forthview, Craigroyston and Castleview - will return after the summer break, as will Craigmount, Gracemount, Drummond and Royal High Schools.
About 7,600 primary and secondary school children in the capital were affected when the schools, which were all built or refurbished as part of the same public private partnership (PPP) scheme, were closed suddenly in April.
The problem became apparent following an investigation when part of a wall at Oxgangs Primary was blown down during stormy weather.
The 31-year-old, who has played 68 Tests, 166 one-dayers and 64 T20 internationals, will be available for all formats from April until late July.
"To sign a player of that quality for as long as we have is a great coup," head coach Mark Davis told BBC Sussex.
"He is a very exciting signing. We were keen to get hold of him the moment we saw he was available."
Taylor has scored 5,197 Test runs at an average of 45.99, with his highest score of 290 coming in the second Test against Australia last month, which ended as a draw.
"He has captained his country and has a great record," Davis added.
"He will add to us as a team on and off the pitch and be a positive influence. He will be a great help to our new captain Luke Wright and our batsmen."
Taylor previously played T20 cricket in England for Durham in 2010.
Sussex have been able to move for Taylor because Australian pace bowler Steve Magoffin is set to qualify as a non-overseas player.
Magoffin, 36, has an English wife and has applied for a UK passport.
The Biscay Tall Ships Regatta will start on Merseyside between 25 and 28 May 2018.
The fleet has sailed on the River Mersey on four previous occasions, in 1984, 1992, 2008 and 2012.
Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson said he hoped it would be "the best Tall Ships Regatta to date".
Local residents under the age of 26 will be encouraged to get involved in the race, which will finish in France.
The fleet visited Belfast last year and will sail into London this September.
A Liverpool City Council spokeswoman said in 2008, when the city was European Capital of Culture, about one million people saw the tall ships, bringing an extra £10m into the local economy.
She said the hope for the upcoming event was to bring in five times as many people and "push Liverpool to the top of the 'must-visit' cities in 2018".
In May, Liverpool Mayor Anderson revealed there were also plans for the return of the giant puppets that attracted about a million spectators to Liverpool in 2008 and 2014.
Mr Street won the contest to become the West Midlands regional leader, defeating former Labour MP Sion Simon.
Labour's Andy Burnham won in Greater Manchester, despite the party suffering heavy losses in council elections.
The Tories have four out of six new mayors, including the Tees Valley and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
Greater Manchester and the Liverpool City Region were won comfortably by Labour without needing to consider voters' second preferences under the supplementary voting system.
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The West Midlands contest, which includes the cities of Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton as well as Solihull and the Black Country, came down to a margin of 1% in the first round.
Conservative Mr Street took 216,280 votes to Mr Simon's 210,259. He won by 3,766 votes after second preferences of those who opted for other candidates were counted.
Mr Street said it was the start of a "new, urban Conservative agenda".
Overall, 26% of eligible voters chose a candidate with most people staying away from the polling stations on Thursday.
The result is a big upset for Labour, which won 21 out of 28 constituencies in the 2015 general election.
Mr Street, whose high-profile election campaign is reported to have cost almost £1m, gave up his business career last year to stand for the newly-created mayoral post.
In his victory speech, Mr Burnham promised to be a mayor for everyone in the area whether they voted for him or not.
The 47-year-old former health secretary, who represented Leigh as an MP, said: "This is the dawn of a new era, not just for this city region but for politics in our country, that has been too London-centric for too long.
"The old political and party structures haven't delivered for all people and all places. They have created this crisis in politics which we are living through now."
Turnout was just under 29%, ranging from 32% in Stockport and Bury to 25% in Salford and Rochdale. Mr Burnham won 63%, with 359,352 votes.
Elsewhere the Conservatives have won at least two of the six new mayoral contests and are in the lead in two more.
In Tees Valley, Conservative Ben Houchen won after a run-off against Labour's Sue Jeffrey.
Turnout was just 21%.
Mr Houchen described the result a "political earthquake" after he won by 481 votes in the first round but extended his lead after the second preferences of those who had voted for the other candidates were re-counted.
Conservative Tim Bowles was declared the winner in the West of England, where turnout was less than 30%.
However, experts said this was better than the historically low turnouts for police and crime commissioners.
Steve Rotheram won the role as mayor of Liverpool City Region with 171,176 votes, on a turnout of 26%.
Mr Rotheram, who was the MP for Liverpool Walton since 2010, was declared the winner after the first round of counting because he received more than 50% of votes cast.
Turnout was low in all areas of the region, averaging just 26.1%. Just 20.5% of people voted in Halton, while 28.6% voted in Liverpool.
Mr Bowles won the £62,000-a-year West of England post with 70,300 votes. Turnout was only 29.7%, with 199,519 voting out of a possible 671,280.
The West of England Combined Authority (WECA) he will lead brings together councils for Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol and South Gloucestershire.
Turnout for the region was lowest in Bristol South, where just 25.55% of people voted, and highest in Bristol West, where 40.7% of people chose a candidate.
In Cambridgeshire and Peterborough it was 33% overall, varying from 26.7% in Fenland to 42.4% in South Cambridgeshire.
James Palmer, the Conservative candidate, won the first round with 76,064 and went on to win in the second round. The Liberal Democrat candidate Rod Cantrill won 47,026 votes in the first round.
Alongside voting for the region's first mayor, 61 councillors are being elected to the county council .
In Peterborough, where there were no council elections, turnout was 24.7% which equates to 33,201 votes.
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However, the turnouts for the mayors are better than those for the first police and crime commissioner elections in 2012, which saw just 14.9% of voters cast a ballot.
Experts said the turnout in the mayoral elections gave the new leaders the same level of mandate as local councillors.
Jonathan Carr-West, chief executive of think tank the Local Government Information Unit (LGiU) said: "So far, in most of the areas where we have figures for turnout it's been around the 30% mark. That's broadly in line with turn out for the county council elections that happened yesterday and with local elections generally. It's certainly far better than the disastrously low turnout we saw in the first police and crime commissioner elections.
"The new metro mayors will be local government leaders working with other leaders, often heading cabinets of council leaders: this level of turnout will mean they can do this with the same level of mandate as the rest of local government.
"Most incoming mayors will be privately pleased with this level of turnout, while hoping to raise their profile in office and improve significantly upon it next time they go to the polls."
Simon Edwards, director of the County Councils Network, said: "The picture across the country where turnout figures are available shows that more people are getting out to vote in county areas compared to the urban metro mayor contests.
"Importantly, this arguably shows people identify more with their county and the strong local governance already in place in rural England, showcasing why there should not be an arbitrary requirement for a directly-elected mayor in place for significant devolution deals to take place in England's counties."
A government spokesman said: "Turnout in the first ever regional "metro" mayoral elections is in line with recent elections of a similar size. Local people had the opportunity in these elections to shape how their area is run."
At present, school league tables are published in January - after the application process has finished.
But from this year, the Department for Education will publish provisional GCSE results in mid-October.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb said it would provide a more "informed choice".
The plans, announced by the Department for Education, will mean that parents looking at local secondary school places for the following autumn will have the most up-to-date exam results, at least in provisional form.
At present, families may be shown individual school results from the most recent summer exams, but the official comparisons are based on results from the previous year.
The full performance tables will still be published in January, but a provisional version will be brought forward to the autumn term.
They will be on a searchable website, so parents can draw up comparative league tables for their local area.
The provisional figures will show headline information such as the percentage of pupils achieving five good GCSEs, including English and maths.
They will be based on the grades from exam boards in the summer - but will show the position before the outcome of any appeals.
It will also include information about the proposed new way of measuring school performance, based on average achievement across eight subjects including English and maths.
"Choosing the right school is one of the most important decisions parents will make for their child and so we want to make sure they have as much up-to-date information as possible to make an informed choice," said Mr Gibb.
"This is why we will now publish provisional GCSE results before the admissions window closes - further empowering parents and continuing our commitment to transparency."
But there will also be another rival set of school league tables this autumn, with head teachers planning to run their own alternative tables, which they say will include a broader picture of school achievement.
It remains uncertain which league tables - head teachers' or the DFE's - will be published first.
Brian Lightman, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said that he was concerned about the education department's publication of incomplete results.
He also warned that focusing on headline exam results would not show how much progress was being achieved.
The head teachers' alternative league tables, supported by ASCL and the National Association of Head Teachers, are promising to show a wider range of information, including subjects such as music and sport.
Mr Lightman says they will also show a fuller picture of achievement, such as the final results of a year group, rather than being based only on first entries, without the outcome of re-takes.
Jason Roy, Joe Root, Jos Buttler and David Willey's selection means runners-up England are the best represented side in the XI.
Andre Russell and Samuel Badree are the only players to feature from the triumphant West Indies team.
England captain Charlotte Edwards and seamer Anya Shrubsole were included in the women's XI.
West Indies skipper Stafanie Taylor was named player of the women's tournament and India batsman Virat Kohli player of the men's tournament.
Only Kohli scored more runs than Roy, Root and wicketkeeper-batsman Buttler from the Super 10 stage onwards, while left-arm seamer Willey was the joint-leading wicket-taker with 10.
South Africa wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton de Kock, Australia all-rounder Shane Watson, who announced his retirement from international cricket during the tournament, India seamer Ashish Nehra and New Zealand spinner Mitchell Santner also made the team.
West Indies beat England by four wickets in Sunday's final in Kolkata, after West Indies women beat Australia in the women's final.
ICC men's team of the tournament: Jason Roy (England), Quinton de Kock (South Africa, wicketkeeper), Virat Kohli (India, captain), Joe Root (England), Jos Buttler (England), Shane Watson (Australia), Andre Russell (West Indies), Mitchell Santner (New Zealand), David Willey (England), Samuel Badree (West Indies), Ashish Nehra (India). 12th man: Mustafizur Rahman (Bangladesh).
ICC women's team of the tournament: Suzie Bates (New Zealand), Charlotte Edwards (England), Meg Lanning (Australia), Stafanie Taylor (West Indies, captain), Sophie Devine (New Zealand), Rachel Priest (New Zealand, wicketkeeper), Deandra Dottin (West Indies), Megan Schutt (Australia), Sune Luus (South Africa), Leigh Kasperek (New Zealand), Anya Shrubsole (England); 12th player: Anam Amin (Pakistan).
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Shillington and Gaby Lewis (26) shared a run-a-ball opening stand of 78 to help the hosts to a total of 115-6.
Kim Garth took 2-12 as Ireland dismissed the Proteas for just 95 with three balls to spare, to avenge Monday's four-wicket defeat.
The sides now meet in five one-day internationals, staring on Friday.
Shillington struck six fours and cleared the ropes once in her 41-ball innings at Claremont Road before being run out by a direct hit - one of three in the innings.
The dismissal saw the boundaries dry up as South Africa squeezed the Irish in the final stages, restricting them to what looked a slightly below-par total at the halfway stage.
However, Ireland responded magnificently with a disciplined bowling display backed up by a determined fielding effort.
Garth kept things tight while South Africa's top scorer Trisha Chetty (28) was one of four run-outs for the buoyant Irish.
Two of the bombs exploded on underground trains just outside Liverpool Street and Edgware Road stations, while another detonated on an underground train travelling between King's Cross and Russell Square.
The final explosion was on a double-decker bus in the city's Tavistock Square, not far from King's Cross.
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The upcoming Star Wars film is the most high profile movie franchise to hold open auditions for lead roles.
The filmmakers hosted open auditions in the US and UK as well as accepting online applications, which Top Gear is also doing.
While most of the the lead roles went to established actors, professional free-runner Pip Andersen and US-born Crystal Clarke, who is studying in Glasgow also won parts.
They were chosen from 37,000 hopefuls who attended casting calls held in 11 cities across the UK and US, while a further 30,000 others applied online.
Film producer Kathleen Kennedy said they decided to have open auditions because of the film's tradition of casting unknown actors in the past such as Mark Hamill, albeit through the traditional casting process.
"The Star Wars universe has always been about discovering and nurturing young talent and in casting Episode VII, we wanted to remain absolutely faithful to this tradition," she said.
We will see how they fare when Star Wars: Episode VII is released at Christmas.
Another movie franchise behemoth that has found cast members through open auditions is Harry Potter.
However, they were for secondary characters in the later Potter films.
The first open auditions for the role of Luna Lovegood saw 14-year-old Evanna Lynch beat 15,000 other girls to win her first film role.
However, with the later open calls for people to play Lavender Brown and Tom Riddle, the parts went to people with acting experience, despite the casting stating no acting experience was necessary.
Announcing the auditions, director David Yates said: "These auditions are open to everybody and we can't wait to see who comes in the door.
"Normally I have all these casting agents sending me kids who have been to stage school and who come in tap-dancing and singing.
"What we are looking for is someone natural and absolutely credible in their own right."
Seven thousand people auditioned but the parts eventually went to Jessie Cave, star of CBBC drama Summerhill and movie Inkheart and Christian Coulson who had appeared in BBC series Love in a Cold Climate.
Other notable open auditions in the film world saw actress Dakota Blue Richards win the lead role of Lyra in The Golden Compass, the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's Northern Lights, through open casting.
Meanwhile, Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks has also held open casting auditions a number of times - finding Roxanne McKee among others in the process.
Britney Spears started on her road to fame with an open audition for The All New Mickey Mouse club.
The TV show was also the first step on the road to A-list stardom for Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera and Ryan Gosling, who won their parts in regional auditions.
More than 100,000 kids in North America auditioned to be in the show and casting director Matt Casella said an open casting was the right way to find talent for the show:
"If I wanted polish, I'd have done the casting in L.A. These were ones that kids could relate to."
Even the cast of Mouse rejects is impressive - among those who failed to get on the show include Kirsten Dunst, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Jessica Simpson.
In 2005, rock group INXS started the process of holding open auditions for singers to replace the late Michael Hutchence.
The Australian band held auditions in six continents as part of a reality TV series, INXS Rock Star.
The eventual winner was Canadian singer JD Fortune.
However, joining such a well known band was not plain sailing for the newcomer.
In 2009, Canada's The Star reported he was homeless and living out of a pickup truck after the other INXS members abruptly sacked him.
He said his heavy use of cocaine was the cause: "It got as bad as it needed to be for me to numb out the fact that this was going to come to a screeching halt,"
However, the band denied he had been sacked and he continued to perform with the band until 2011.
He now has a solo career.
When longstanding member Kym Marsh left Hear'Say in 2002, the band - who were created when they won ITV talent show Popstars - held open auditions to find a replacement.
Johnny Shentall from Doncaster won after queuing up with 3,000 other hopefuls and was chosen after two days of intensive auditions.
When it emerged that he was married to former Steps singer Lisa Scott-Lee and an ex-member of chart group Boom! the band were forced to issue a statement refuting claims their auditions to find a new member were "fixed".
However Johnny Shentall couldn't save the band, they split later the same year blaming abuse from the public
The little world has excited scientists ever since jets of icy material were seen squirting into space from a striped region at its south pole.
Now, exquisite measurements using Nasa's Cassini probe as it flew over the moon have allowed researchers to detect the water's gravitational signal.
Science magazine reports the details.
"The measurements that we have done are consistent with the existence of a large water reservoir about the size (volume) of Lake Superior in North America," Prof Luciano Iess told BBC News.
A European comparison would be 245 times the water mass of Lake Garda in Italy.
The findings of Prof Iess and his team will boost the view that the 500km-wide moon would be one of the best places beyond Earth to go look for the existence of microbial life.
Cassini's data suggests the liquid volume lies about 40km under Enceladus's ice crust.
This would put it directly on top of the moon's layered, rocky interior.
The case for a subglacial ocean has been growing ever since Cassini first sensed a diffuse atmosphere at the moon in 2005.
Subsequent observations pinned the source of this atmosphere to mineral-rich streams of water vapour flowing away from surface fractures dubbed "tiger stripes" for their resemblance to the markings on a big cat.
Cassini even flew through the plumes to "taste" their load of salts and organic (carbon-rich) molecules.
Enceladus's orbit around Saturn is eccentric - it is non circular. The giant planet's gravity should therefore be expected to squeeze and stretch the little moon as it travels this path, heating some of its ices and melting them.
Some of the resulting liquid could then be hurled into space through the deep tiger fractures, although quite how this happens is not yet fully understood.
Nonetheless, the new work reinforces this general picture.
It has involved measuring tiny changes in the speed of Cassini as it passed through Enceladus's own gravitational field.
These changes in velocity were as small as 20 millionths of a metre per second.
They enabled Prof Iess and colleagues to map variations in the distribution of mass on the moon.
The large anomaly they spotted in the data at the southern pole is best explained by the presence of a big volume of water.
"What we see is consistent with a water pocket of about 8-10km in depth, and this pocket can extend up to southern latitudes of 50 degrees around the pole," the Sapienza University of Rome researcher explained.
There is strong evidence to suspect the existence of sub-glacial oceans at a number of Solar System moons.
Saturn's largest satellite, Titan, probably has one. Similarly, the Jupiter moons Europa, Ganymede and Callisto would fall into this class; and perhaps even Triton at Neptune.
Of these, Enceladus and Europa draw the most interest because it is more likely that their water would be in contact with rock.
This could make for some interesting chemistry - the sort of reactions that might facilitate the emergence of life.
Prof Andrew Coates, of the UK's UCL-Mullard Space Science Laboratory, commented: "I think Enceladus has gone to the top of the charts in terms of a place where there could be life.
"It's got several of the things which you need for life - there's certainly the presence of heat, there's liquid water in this ocean, there's organics and that type of chemistry going on.
"The only question is, has there been enough time for life to develop?"
Prof David Stevenson, from the California Institute of Technology, added: "We don't have an answer to that, but there are some theoretical ideas.
"First, let me say that the ocean that we have found could keep things going for tens of millions of years, maybe 100 million years, but, of course, we don't know whether the ocean is being added to at present or is freezing up.
"And, maybe, Enceladus does go through cycles and those cycles would be related to the eccentricity of the orbit. It's possible that the orbit has not always had the same eccentricity."
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He said the zero-tolerance policy might be "even more harmful" than all the other wars being fought worldwide.
Mr Santos's government and the country's biggest rebel group, the Farc, signed a peace deal last month.
Bob Dylan, the first songwriter ever to receive the Nobel literature prize, did not collect his award in person.
He received a standing ovation nevertheless.
The conflict with the Farc rebels in Colombia has killed more than 260,000 people and left millions internally displaced.
Accepting the prize for his efforts in the peace process, Mr Santos paid tribute to the families of victims of the conflict.
He said the "great paradox" of peacemaking was that "the victims are the ones who are most willing to forgive, to reconcile and to face the future with a heart free of hate".
In a deviation from his prepared remarks, he asked the representatives of the victims present to stand and be recognised for their own efforts in the peace process, to much applause.
He previously pledged to donate the prize money - eight million Swedish krona ($925,000) - to help the conflict's victims.
"I have served as a leader in times of war - to defend the freedom and the rights of the Colombian people - and I have served as a leader in times of making peace," he said. "Allow me to tell you, from my own experience, that it is much harder to make peace than to wage war."
Mr Santos said it was "time to change our strategy" on drugs, and that Colombia had "paid the highest cost in deaths and sacrifices" in the so-called war on drugs.
The term, coined by US President Richard Nixon more than four decades ago, refers to US-led efforts to stop drug production at its source. In Latin America this has included on-the-ground policing, and fumigation of coca fields from the air.
"We have moral authority to state that, after decades of fighting against drug trafficking, the world has still been unable to control this scourge that fuels violence and corruption throughout our global community," he said.
"It makes no sense to imprison a peasant who grows marijuana, when nowadays, for example, its cultivation and use are legal in eight states of the United States.
"The manner in which this war against drugs is being waged is equally or perhaps even more harmful than all the wars the world is fighting today, combined."
Nobel prizes in the sciences, economics and literature were awarded at a separate ceremony in Stockholm.
Dylan had said in advance that he was unable to attend the ceremony due to previous commitments.
In a statement read out at the awards dinner by the US ambassador, he said: "I have been doing what I set out to do for a long time now. I've made dozens of records and played thousands of concerts all around the world.
"But it's my songs that are the vital centre of almost everything I do. They seem to have found a place in the lives of many people throughout many different cultures, and I am grateful for that."
The Nobel Committee praised the poetry of his song-writing as "worthy of a place beside the Romantic visionaries".
The singer-songwriter Patti Smith performed Dylan's song A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, but forgot the lyrics part way through and apologised to the audience, saying she was nervous.
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The Colombian government's peace deal with the Farc was struck after many years of negotiations.
It hit a surprise hurdle in October this year when 50.2% of voters rejected it in a referendum.
Just four days after the unexpected referendum result, it was announced that Mr Santos would receive the prize. In his speech, he said the nomination was "equally surprising" and "came as if it were a gift from heaven".
Working alongside the no campaigners, the government wrote a new deal which was approved by Congress last month.
There were many armed groups involved in decades of conflict in Colombia, including left-wing rebel groups and right-wing paramilitaries. In October the government announced it would start peace talks with the second-largest rebel group, the ELN.
A spokesman for the Southern Front said groups fighting in the operation had signed a pact, which did not involve the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front.
The area around the town of Quneitra came under heavy bombardment on Wednesday morning, Reuters reported.
Smoke could be seen rising from the area and small arms fire was heard.
Later, sirens sounded at two Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights.
Quneitra, about 70km (40 miles) south-west of the capital Damascus, has frequently seen clashes between various rebel factions and government forces since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in 2011.
Southern Front spokesman Issam al-Rayes announced the start of the operation to "liberate remaining regime targets in Quneitra" late on Tuesday.
The groups taking part were all part of the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) and had "signed a mutual defence pact", he wrote on Twitter.
The Southern Front had "prohibited" al-Nusra from joining the operation because it did "not share the vision for a free Syria we are fighting for", he added.
Early on Wednesday, a Reuters photographer watching from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights reported that the bombardment appeared to be focused on an area between the town of Quneitra and a nearby reservoir. He saw tanks firing shells and heard the sound of helicopters overhead.
The state news agency, Sana, reported that army units had killed a number of "terrorists" in Um Batina, east of the reservoir, and to the south of Karm Jaba.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights meanwhile reported that at least seven rebels and 10 pro-government fighters had been killed in fierce clashes between the military and rebel groups, including al-Nusra and other Islamist factions, in the north of Quneitra province since Tuesday.
The rebels had surrounded the government-held Druze town of Hadar after taking a strategic hilltop to the north, the UK-based monitoring group said.
The government has suffered a string of defeats in the past three months.
Last week, the Southern Front captured a major army base in Deraa province.
It also took the Nasib border crossing with Jordan at the start of April, days after another rebel alliance seized the capital of the north-western province of Idlib.
Firefighters were called to Granfell Tower in Latimer Road at 00:54 BST on Wednesday and were still trying to put out the fire in the late afternoon.
The fire is believed to have started on the fourth floor. The cause remains unknown.
Tower blocks are designed so fires should stay contained within individual flats. But this clearly did not happen.
In 2009, three women and three children were killed by a fire in the 14-storey Lakanal House, in south London, which started with a TV set on the ninth floor.
Southwark Council admitted it had failed to address fire risks and was fined £270,000, plus £300,000 in costs.
Footage has shown the fire spreading up one side of the building externally, before engulfing the entire block.
Fire safety expert Elvin Edwards described it as a "chimney effect", adding that the wind would have fanned the flames.
The London Fire Brigade's aerial platform vehicles can reach heights of only about 32m (105ft) - limiting how high up the blaze can be fought.
Having to get 20 storeys up to rescue people in that situation "is just unbelievable", firefighter turned safety consultant Bob Parkin said.
Concerns raised about Grenfell Tower 'for years'
Matt Wrack, of the Fire Brigades Union, said something had clearly gone badly wrong with fire prevention procedures at the building.
Before and during a recent refurbishment, the local Grenfell Action Group said the block constituted a fire risk and residents warned that site access for emergency vehicles was "severely restricted".
The block - which was built in 1974 - did not have a sprinkler system.
Under current law, all new residential blocks over 30m high must have sprinkler systems fitted.
There is no legal requirement for local authorities to retrofit sprinklers to tower blocks.
Ronnie King, honorary secretary of the All-Party Fire Safety and Rescue Group, told LBC there were about 4,000 tower blocks that did not have fire sprinklers fitted into them.
He said after the fire in Lakanal House there had been a "recommendation, which was down to each local council and landlords to determine the appropriateness" of the lack of fire sprinklers in some blocks.
In Wales, sprinklers are compulsory for all newly-built houses and blocks of flats, as well as care homes and university halls of residence.
Paul Fuller, chairman of the Fire Sector Federation, said sprinklers could have helped lessen the impact of the fire.
He told BBC Radio 4's World At One programme: "We know that sprinklers are effective.
"Also, sprinklers will make the environment more survivable by containing the fire and containing the smoke. But they are not a total solution."
Some residents have also reported not hearing fire alarms.
Alarms will often go off only on the floor affected, according to fire expert Elfyn Edwards.
Rydon Construction carried out a £8.6m refurbishment of the 24-storey tower, which was completed in May last year.
It said it had delivered a "number of improvements" to community facilities and energy efficiency to the building.
"Externally, rain screen cladding, curtain wall facade and replacement windows were fitted, improving thermal insulation and modernising the exterior of the building," it said.
Fire safety experts have already pointed to cladding on the building as a possible reason the blaze spread so quickly externally.
The cladding requested for the refurbishment had a metal outer coating and an expanded foam interior.
The Fire Protection Association (FPA), the UK's national fire safety organisation, says that when properly fitted - and with its polyethylene insulation expertly encapsulated - cladding should resist fire.
In Dubai, recent high-rise building fires, including at the 79-storey Torch tower in 2015, spread because of cladding, according to fire engineering consultancy Tenable Dubai.
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Ray Bailey, managing director at Harley Facades Limited, which installed the cladding, has said: "At this time, we are not aware of any link between the fire and the exterior cladding to the tower."
Rydon said its work "met all required building control, fire regulation, and health and safety standards".
It later issued a new statement, removing the previous mention of the building meeting fire regulation standards, instead saying the project met "all required building regulations".
A newsletter from Rydon sent to residents after the refurbishment said that smoke detection systems had been "upgraded and extended".
Local authorities are required to ensure appropriate fire safety procedures are in place in council-run blocks.
Inside Housing - a magazine for the UK social housing sector - has reported that information released by Kensington and Chelsea Council under the Freedom of Information Act shows the most recent fire risk assessment on the tower was in December 2015.
The leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council, Nick Paget-Brown, said high-rise buildings were regularly inspected.
Residents of tower blocks such as Grenfell Tower, whose flats are not affected by fire or smoke, are usually advised to stay in place.
Safety standards are meant to contain fires to the individual flat affected and keep stairwells and hallways free of smoke for some time, says Graham Fieldhouse, allowing the fire to be fought and evacuations carefully managed.
"[Firefighters] don't need hundreds of people coming down the stairs when they are trying to fight the fire," the fire safety expert told the BBC.
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Geoff Wilkinson, a fire and building inspector, told the BBC that one of his "major concerns" was that smoke seemed to have spread into escape routes.
A number of witnesses have told the BBC that hours after the fire first broke out, residents were still being told to stay in their flats and await the fire service.
A spokesman for the umbrella organisation for London's boroughs, London Councils, has said all boroughs will be reviewing their fire safety procedures.
Checks would also be carried out on tower blocks going through similar refurbishment to Grenfell Tower, Policing and Fire Minister Nick Hurd said on Wednesday.
Tower block residents across England given safety advice
Stephanie Cryan, deputy leader of Southwark Council, which was fined £270,000 earlier this year following the fatal fire at Lakanal House, said: "Following the tragedy at Lakanal in 2009, we have made huge efforts to increase safety across all our blocks."
The Belgium Under-21 international defensive midfielder joined Boro from Standard Liege in February 2016, for an undisclosed fee of about £2m.
De Sart, 22, has made three appearances for the Riverside club, with his only start coming in the League Cup against Fulham in August 2016.
"He is a talented player with plenty of potential," said boss Steve McClaren.
De Sart is eligible for the FA Cup third-round tie at West Brom on Saturday.
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They are held in the new Postal Museum, which is opening in central London.
As neither event actually happened, the stamps were never made.
Ally MacLeod's Tartan Army failed to win football's most coveted trophy and Scottish devolution was shelved for another 20 years.
The stamp designs will not initially be on public display at the new museum but are part of the archive collection there that can be viewed on special appointment.
Chris Taft, head of collections at the Postal Museum, told BBC Scotland: "What they (Royal Mail) do occasionally is produce designs of stamps in the expectation of them happening, because obviously these things take time.
"If Scotland had been fortunate enough to win the World Cup that year, Royal Mail would obviously want to produce a stamp to mark it, and this was produced and designed but sadly never released.
"They don't do them for every World Cup on the off chance, but that year they obviously decided the chances were high enough to warrant a design."
Two stamps marking the football triumph, one at 9p and the other at 11p, were designed in May, 1978 by Barry Wilkinson - a month before the tournament began.
Sadly, it wasn't to be. As any self-respecting Scottish football fan will know, the Scottish squad - containing the likes of Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness and Joe Jordan - went to the competition in Argentina with very high hopes, no doubt singing Andy Cameron's catchy 'Ally's Tartan Army' World Cup song on the way.
After an ignominious defeat to Peru and a draw with Iran, Archie Gemmill's famous goal against Holland helped the Scots defeat the eventual World Cup finalists 3-2 and restore some pride. It was too little, too late.
If Scotland had won the World Cup, the stamp would have been produced and been available a month after the final. In the end, the designs were locked away in the archive.
Chris added: "My mum is Scottish, so I would have loved for Scotland to win. I always support Scotland and England jointly in these things. I would love for this stamp to have been produced."
The Scottish Assembly stamp designs were commissioned in case Scots voted for devolution from Westminster in 1979. The Thistle was designed by Stuart Rose, and the building image was created by Willie Rodger.
The House of Commons had decided that a vote for devolution would be void unless at least 40% of the eligible electorate voted that way rather than a simple majority.
Scots were in favour of devolution by 51.6% to 48.4%, but only 32.9% of the total electorate had voted for it so it was never carried.
As a result, designs for these stamps were also locked away never to be used. Supporters of devolution had to wait until 1999 for a Scottish Parliament to be convened.
Other items in the museum and its archive include the famous Night Mail documentary and a curious tale about rocketry.
Night Mail, which was about the mail train from London to Scotland, was made in 1936 and featured the writing of W. H. Auden and the music of Benjamin Britten. It was a landmark in the development of documentary. A section of the film will be on display.
Meanwhile, the story of Gerhard Zucker's attempts to deliver mail across in the UK by rocket finds a place in the new museum.
Faced with trying to get mail to all corners of the United Kingdom in 1934, Zucker tried to prove his rockets could take mail from the mainland to the Outer Hebrides.
In an effort to convince the General Post Office that his idea was viable, Zucker made several attempts but his rockets either blew up or crash landed, burning the mail inside. Zucker's dream went up in smoke.
Chris said: "We have got lots of stories about how important communication was and how important it was for people to keep in touch with each other. It is very much a social network story, not a postal history story."
Stewart Milne Group, Heron Property and IDJ Properties have permission to build at Countesswells
The council heard concerns the developers had failed to reach agreement on infrastructure delivery.
Officers had recommended an overarching legal agreement between the three be replaced by individual agreements.
They said the proposal would be lawful but highly unusual.
However deputy leader Marie Boulton said any disagreement between developers was not the council's problem.
She said if they did not sign the original legal agreement to contribute to schools, healthcare and roads, there would be no development.
Shalane Blackwood grew increasingly erratic before his death from a ruptured stomach ulcer and at one point he was found naked, covered in custard.
An inquest concluded neglect by staff at Nottingham Prison "significantly contributed" to his death.
But the prisons ombudsman disagreed and said the illness would have been "very difficult" to diagnose.
The 29-year-old, from Derby, had been jailed for possession of a firearm and was on a licence recall when he died on 5 August in the prison's segregation unit.
He had been transferred from Liverpool in May to be nearer his family, including his newborn baby.
Ombudsman Nigel Newcomen found Mr Blackwood was suffering increasing mental health problems attributed to his use of legal highs.
He said: "His difficult behaviour and his frequent refusal to engage with healthcare staff meant that it was difficult to examine him physically, but healthcare staff had little reason to suspect that Mr Blackwood was suffering from a serious physical condition.
"We do not consider that they could have anticipated his sudden death."
The report revealed Mr Blackwood complained of stomach pains while in Liverpool, but did not report any problems in Nottingham.
It details a catalogue of strange behaviour including going for several days without sleep, spending much of his time unclothed, believing he was God and thinking someone was trying to poison him.
According to investigators, at one point he spent 48 hours "naked and covered in custard".
On several occasions he refused food, drink and prescribed medication and would not let health professionals examine him.
A week before he died, a psychiatrist concluded his behaviour was because of his use of a new psychoactive substance, and he admitted smoking "Mamba".
Staff made a transfer request to a mental health hospital, which would have allowed for compulsory treatment of Mr Blackwood, but this was not completed before he died.
Mr Newcomen made several criticisms and recommendations including questioning the use of the segregation unit, the decision that four officers being needed to enter his cell and the delay in telling his family.
Transitional controls were imposed by some member states on nationals of the two countries - the poorest in the bloc - when they joined the EU in 2007.
Their rights to work and claim benefits were limited for their first seven years of EU membership.
Some in wealthier western EU nations fear mass migration from the two countries.
The controls were lifted as Greece took over the six-month rotating presidency of the EU.
BBC Europe correspondent Duncan Crawford says that it gives Greece the opportunity to influence the EU's political agenda.
Athens has been making reforms to overcome an acute debt crisis - a condition of a 240bn-euro (£200bn; $331bn) bailout that started in 2010.
The Greek crisis put the future of the eurozone and its common currency, the euro, at risk.
By Mark LowenBBC News, Bucharest
It's a special new year for Romanians and Bulgarians, finally gaining equal rights to work freely across the EU seven years after their accession.
Some, particularly Britain, fear large numbers will come, mindful that a decade ago the government expected 15,000 per year from Eastern Europe but a million and a half came.
No extra flights have been planned from Bucharest but one coach company has tripled services to London.
Many here talk of their hopes of a better life with higher salaries - but nobody knows quite how many will finally leave.
Q&A: Bulgarian and Romanian immigration
Latvia became the 18th country to adopt the euro on 1 January 2014.
EU commissioner Olli Rehn said joining the eurozone marked "the completion of Latvia's journey back to the political and economic heart of our continent, and that is something for all of us to celebrate".
But some Latvians have expressed scepticism over the move at a time of financial difficulties in Europe, as well sadness at giving up the lat, a potent symbol of the country's independence from the Soviet Union in the 1990s.
The authorities in Bucharest and Sofia say there will not be an exodus, and that many of those who wanted to leave the country to seek work had already done so.
Romanians and Bulgarians were able to travel to other EU states without a visa after the two countries joined the bloc.
However, nine of the 26 other member states imposed temporary restrictions on the kind of jobs they could take.
France, the Netherlands, and Belgium required that they obtain work permits.
In Britain, prospective employers had to apply for work permits and Bulgarians and Romanians migrants for an "accession worker card". Low-skilled workers were restricted to existing quota schemes in the agricultural and food processing sectors.
The UK government is tightening the benefit rules to ensure that migrants cannot claim out-of-work benefits for three months after arriving and will only qualify for support after six months if they have a genuine chance of employment.
A spokeswoman for the Romanian foreign ministry told the BBC that some of the media coverage in the UK had bordered on racism, and there had been an "outright campaign" against Romanians and Bulgarians.
"There isn't going to be an invasion of Romanians," Brandusa Predescu said.
Paul Dixon, 22, of The Avenue, Seaham, had initially denied five offences under the Computer Misuse Act.
However, on the opening day of his trial at Newcastle Crown Court, Dixon admitted attacking websites including Durham Police, Police Scotland and British Airways in October 2014.
He was released on bail to be sentenced on 4 May.
A fortification, an underground bunker and anti-aircraft guns were destroyed in strikes by Su-25 jets, according to a defence ministry statement.
Activists said the air strikes targeted the area around a reconstructed 13th Century castle perched on a hilltop to the west of Palmyra's Roman-era ruins.
The activists added it was difficult to assess the extent of the damage.
IS militants have destroyed two 2,000-year-old temples, an arch and funerary towers since driving Syrian government troops out of Palmyra in May.
The jihadist group believes that such structures are idolatrous. The UN cultural agency, Unesco, has condemned the destruction as a war crime.
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"Su-25 jets hit a fortified IS position in the Tadmur area of Homs province," a Russian defence ministry statement said, using the Arabic name for Palmyra.
"As a result of a direct strike, a fortification, an underground bunker and anti-aircraft artillery were destroyed."
A local activist told AP news agency by telephone that there had been eight strikes around the area of the castle on Monday, sending smoke and dust rising above the hill.
Activists from the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported suspected Russian air strikes on the nearby town of al-Qaryatain, which was captured by IS in August.
Palmyra's castle, known as Qalaat Shirkuh or Qalaat Ibn Maan, is part of the Unesco World Heritage site and sits on a hilltop about 150m above the main ruins.
It was long attributed to a 17th Century Lebanese Maanite emir, but archaeologists say the original fortress was constructed around 1230 by the Homs emir, al-Mujahid Assad al-Din Shirkuh II.
Last month, the Association for the Protection of Syrian Archaeology reported that parts of the castle had been damaged in Syrian government barrel bomb attacks.
Katrina Percy first stepped down in August, but was given a new advisory role specifically created for her.
The Trust's board said public feedback had led it to decide it was "no longer possible for her to continue".
Ms Percy, who will leave with a £190,000 payout, said she felt "great sadness" but agreed with the decision.
The public response, she said, had caused her to reflect and decide to "leave the trust with immediate effect and seek other opportunities".
On the subject of Ms Percy's settlement, NHS Improvement said: "We know that this won't please some who think she ought to have received no payment at all.
"In situations like this, a perfect deal is not possible.
"But the strong legal advice we have received is that to do anything else would have a much greater cost to the public purse and, as a consequence, would go against good management of public money."
A Southern Health spokesman said it was looking to pass on her duties, which involved giving strategic advice to GPs, "sooner rather than later".
The "important work" could be shared among several of the trust's GPs, he suggested.
Ms Percy had stepped down from her previous role as chief of Southern Health amid "media attention" after the trust failed to investigate hundreds of deaths.
Despite resigning as CEO after months of pressure, Ms Percy was controversially retained as an advisor on her existing pay and benefits package of nearly £250,000 a year.
The interim chairman of the trust admitted to BBC News at the time no other candidates had been considered, but said it was a "finite role for a 12-month period". He resigned his post three weeks later.
Southern Health's board said it had "received correspondence from the public, patients and families expressing their concerns".
"Both the Trust and NHS Improvement believe it is no longer possible for Katrina to continue in her new advisory role," it said.
"Katrina shares this view and we have worked with NHS Improvement to come to a settlement where she will leave Southern Health with immediate effect, to pursue other opportunities."
Ms Percy faced months of criticism for the way her trust failed to investigate patient deaths when she was chief executive.
In June, the trust accepted responsibility for the death of 18-year-old Connor Sparrowhawk, who drowned in a bath at Slade House in Oxford.
Deborah Coles, director of Inquest, which has supported Connor Sparrowhawk's family, said the resignation "should mark the end of Southern Health's denial of responsibility for systemic failings and the start of vital work to protect the lives of the people in its care".
But campaign group Justice for LB - LB was Connor's nickname, and stands for Laughing Boy - called the settlement "utterly disgraceful".
"We listened to feedback, reflected, decided she wasn't employable and rewarded her with quarter of a million," it tweeted.
The 24-year-old was an integral part of the side that won promotion to League One in 2015-16, scoring 13 goals in 41 appearances in all competitions.
The Wales Under-21 international joined Rovers on a short-term deal last August after being released by Northampton.
"I'm delighted to be staying, we had a special group here last season and achieved something really amazing," Bodin told the club website.
"The club is back where it belongs now and on the up. I can't wait to get going in League One."
The club offered new deals to all but one of the first-team squad after clinching promotion of the final day of the season.
Defender Daniel Leadbitter signed a new two-year deal on Wednesday, but the club are still waiting for a decision from top scorer Matty Taylor.
"We've given him an offer that we think is very fair and pretty competitive, and it would be wonderful to see Matty stay with us," chairman Steve Hamer told BBC Radio Bristol.
"It's something that I would like to think he is thinking long and hard on.
"Maybe this period of radio silence that we are experiencing at the moment is an optimistic one. Let's see what happens."
The Island Site project hopes to turn derelict buildings on Caernarfon's slate quay into a new artisan quarter.
The Heritage Lottery Fund has earmarked the funding, with its chairwoman Baroness Kay Andrews visiting on Friday.
One scheme already taking shape has seen a forge lit for the first time in a decade at an old ironworks.
The plan is to turn the former Brunswick works into a community forge, with people learning blacksmith skills and creating an arts business selling metalwork.
The works were sited on the quay for a century before moving to an industrial site on the edge of town.
They most famously produced the ironwork used to decorate the coffin of the Unknown Soldier buried at Westminster Abbey in 1920 but its old buildings have fallen into complete disrepair.
"It's all about getting people involved in regeneration, bring the arts alive by doing something together as a community," said Ceri Phillips, art associate with the initiative Stamp, which is helping co-ordinate the Island Forge project.
"The slate quay used to be where the hustle and bustle was in the town. There used to be the sound of working - of grafting - and it's nice to see that coming back into the area and that people are becoming involved and the community is involved in it."
But the forge is just part of the wider scheme, which is being driven by the town's Harbour Trust.
"Local food and drink producers, micro-brewers, artisan bakers, baristas and artists are now helping shape modern north Wales in the way iron workers and slate miners once did - and we want to play our part in making sure they have a regenerated, modern setting in which to do it," said its chairman, Ioan Thomas.
Baroness Andrews added: "This ambitious project for a national landmark site is a perfect example of how our past can become an economic driver for today, creating new jobs, more visitors and a real sense of pride for the people who call Caernarfon home."
The Fishermen's Mission in Newlyn opened in 1903, but the charity said the building was no longer cost-effective to run.
It sold the centre to a local businessman, and said it hoped to use the proceeds to benefit the area.
The mission provides practical and spiritual support for fishermen and their families.
Julian Waring, from the charity, said that in the 1960s and 1970s there was a demand to house fishermen, feed them fresh meals and provide clothing in emergencies.
He said: "Those demands have changed. We're still here in Newlyn and a memorial room will remain, but there's no need for accommodation or a canteen. If accommodation is needed we'll house them in a B&B.
"To manage a building comes at a huge cost and if it's not used to its full potential it needs to be reassessed."
Mr Waring said 88p of every £1 donated to the charity was spent helping fishermen and the move would allow the charity to "better serve the county as a whole" rather than just Newlyn.
In 2014 the mission provided emergency grants of £500 to fishermen in Cornwall who were unable to work due to prolonged winter storms.
The mission has had a presence in Cornwall since 1896. It was initially based in Penzance and moved to Newlyn in 1903.
Melanie Jeffs said one person "threatened to put a machete" through the back of her head.
Nottinghamshire Police has received 22 reports and made two arrests since recording misogynistic hate crimes.
They included verbal abuse, threats of violence, assault and unwanted physical contact.
Ms Jeffs, centre manager at Nottingham Women's Centre, said she was "stunned" by the volume of tweets and messages posted on Twitter and Facebook.
She said: "They ranged from the ridiculous to some that were quite aggressive.
"One person said I should get cancer, I had somebody threatening to find me and tie me up and lots of comments about my appearance.
"There is one that I'm having discussions with the police about, but most of them I just brushed off."
She said "people think it's completely acceptable to target women in this way".
In a statement, Nottinghamshire Police said: "We have been speaking to a victim of online misogynistic abuse who has received offensive and threatening messages.
"We have offered our support and advice and the victim has stated that they do not want to make any official reports at this time.
"We will be speaking to one of the perpetrators to reiterate the seriousness of their actions."
Ms Jeffs led the research into hate crime in the city which resulted in Nottinghamshire Police becoming the first force in the country to expand its hate crime categories to include misogynistic incidents. It came into force in May.
It means abuse or harassment which might not be a crime can be reported and investigated by police, and support for the victim put in place.
Incidents range from unwanted sexual advances through to physical approaches.
The force defines misogyny hate crime as "incidents against women that are motivated by an attitude of a man towards a woman and includes behaviour targeted towards a woman by men simply because they are a woman.
A crime that the victim or any other person perceives to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards any aspect of a person's identity.
Police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland annually monitor five strands of hate crime:
Forces can include their own definition of a hate crime with several recently adding sub-sections.
Mid and East Antrim Borough Council has launched a consultation process over the move.
The "zones" would mean anyone caught walking their dog in the areas listed could face a fine of up to £80.
Some of the 96 areas proposed include the Knockagh Monument on the outskirts of Carrickfergus, as well as parts of Carnfunnock Country Park in Larne.
Playing fields and community centres in Ballymena, Greenisland and Whitehead are also included.
The consultation, which is open to the public until 19 June, has caused controversy among some dog owners.
Philip Thompson, the director of environmental services at the council, said: "Dog control issues, particularly the whole issue of fouling, are something that our elected members and officers are continually getting complaints about.
"So these dog control orders are there to try and deal with that issue."
He said the council would engage with people worried about the zones.
"This is a four-week consultation and we will genuinely listen and genuinely take on board those concerns," he said.
"If there are areas that shouldn't be on those, then we can remove them, but that will come back to council for a final decision."
Natalia Wilkanowska, 50, disappeared in 2003 after visiting her ex-husband Gerald Doherty in Luton.
Mr Doherty's brothers, Joseph and Daniel, deny helping conceal her remains and lying to police.
The victim's niece told Luton Crown Court that Joseph believed it to be "a crime of passion".
Gerald Doherty committed suicide in July 2003, about four months after Natalia was last seen by her children when she left her Eastbourne home to travel to Luton.
The couple had separated in 2001 after 23 years of marriage.
Natalia's niece, Allison Diamond-Roberts, told the jury she had later asked Joseph Doherty why his brother Gerald had killed himself.
"Uncle Joe said that he had done something and would have gone to prison for a very long time. I wanted to understand more, but he ended the conversation," she told the court.
Ms Diamond-Roberts said in 2013 she had been to Joseph's farm in Port Glasgow, Scotland to "speak about Auntie Natalia".
"He said it was a crime of passion. My aunt had been strangled. He said my uncle (Gerald) had strangled her."
Natalia's body was found under rubble in Daniel Doherty's garden in Ickniel Way, Luton, in 2015.
Daniel Doherty, 67, of Icknield Way, Luton denies two charges of perverting the course of justice and two charges of obstructing the coroner, by aiding and abetting the concealment of a body and lying to police.
Joseph Doherty, 73, of Old Greenock Road, Port Glasgow, denies perverting the course of justice and obstructing the coroner by giving a false account of her death.
Both men also deny preventing lawful burial.
The trial continues.
Northern Ireland's Will Grigg had given the visitors the perfect start when he netted after just five minutes.
Scotland striker Steven Fletcher scored his first goal for the Owls to draw the hosts level.
Forestieri then fired home from a tight angle in the second half to help the home side clinch all three points.
The former Watford striker had been denied the chance to give Sheffield Wednesday the lead within 60 seconds of the kick-off as Latics defender Luke Burke pulled off a last-ditch tackle.
Wigan quickly turned defence into attack as Michael Jacobs intercepted Owls midfielder Tom Lees' pass, and his low cross from the left was turned in by Grigg.
A ball over the top of Wigan's defence from Barry Bannan led to Wednesday's equaliser as Fletcher did well to hold off his marker, before angling the ball across goalkeeper Adam Bogdan and into the opposite corner.
The Owls' dominance told in the second half as Forestieri, whose initial cross was cleared straight back to him, scored his second goal of the season.
Sheffield Wednesday head coach Carlos Carvalhal:
"We lost 3-1 at Burnley last season and we discovered our team, we discovered our heart (in that game).
"We want to be the mirror of the city and of the region of Yorkshire. We put our heart on the pitch (against Wigan).
"The most important thing was to win and it was important to take a step forward. We played with quality and we missed some chances, but we won."
Wigan manager Gary Caldwell:
"Sometimes you have to hold your hands up and say the better team won. We got ourselves in a great position scoring a fantastic goal early on.
"We didn't do a lot to score the goal. We got in a good shape which we have been working on and picked off a pass. If we had built on that we could have quietened the crowd.
"We defended for a lot of time and if you do that against good players you are going to get picked off.
"We have lost games by the odd goal and I believe a win is around the corner."
Match ends, Sheffield Wednesday 2, Wigan Athletic 1.
Second Half ends, Sheffield Wednesday 2, Wigan Athletic 1.
Foul by Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday).
Adam Le Fondre (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by William Buckley.
Attempt missed. Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Hand ball by Shaun MacDonald (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt blocked. Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by William Buckley.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Stephen Warnock.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. William Buckley replaces Barry Bannan because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ross Wallace with a cross following a set piece situation.
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Alex Gilbey (Wigan Athletic).
Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shaun MacDonald (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt saved. Adam Le Fondre (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Yanic Wildschut.
Attempt blocked. Yanic Wildschut (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Kieran Lee.
Attempt blocked. Max Power (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Offside, Wigan Athletic. Alex Gilbey tries a through ball, but William Grigg is caught offside.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Adam Reach replaces Daniel Pudil.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Shaun MacDonald.
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shaun MacDonald (Wigan Athletic).
Foul by Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday).
Stephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Tom Lees.
Attempt blocked. Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adam Le Fondre (Wigan Athletic).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Stephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gary Hooper.
Attempt saved. Gary Hooper (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kieran Lee with a headed pass.
Foul by Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday).
Shaun MacDonald (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 2, Wigan Athletic 1. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Gary Hooper replaces Almen Abdi.
Attempt missed. Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Fernando Forestieri.
At least 25 people are reported to have died, including children.
The bombardment follows a temporary lull called by the Syrian government, partly to allow civilians to leave rebel areas in the east of the city.
It has come under intense aerial attack since a ceasefire brokered by the US and Russia collapsed last month.
The air strikes came as Russian President Vladimir Putin cancelled a planned visit to France.
He had been due to meet French President Francois Hollande later this month but pulled out after Paris said talks would be confined to Syria, French presidential sources said.
On Monday, Mr Hollande suggested Russian officials could face war crimes charges over the bombardment of Aleppo.
On Tuesday UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told the UK parliament Russia was in danger of becoming a pariah nation because of its involvement in Syria.
Moscow has repeatedly denied attacking civilians, and says it targets terrorist groups in Syria.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that at least 25 civilians were killed in Tuesday's air strikes and considerable damage was inflicted on several areas.
The observatory said Russian war planes had dropped so-called "bunker busters" and other bombs, with children thought to be among the dead.
Footage shared by activists showed lifeless bodies of toddlers wrapped in sheets, with their parents distraught beside them.
Some of the most intense attacks have come in the Bustan al-Qasr and Fardos neighbourhoods near the citadel, which sits near the front line with the government-held west.
Aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Tuesday there were now only 11 working ambulances left in the city because five had been hit by bombs and another eight were missing essential spare parts.
Meanwhile, Syrian state media reported rebel attacks on government-held western Aleppo, in which it said four people were killed and 14 injured.
Diplomatic efforts to revive the ceasefire have so far come to nothing.
The UN has warned that eastern Aleppo, where an estimated 275,000 people still live, could face "total destruction" in the space of two months.
Last week, Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution drafted by France calling for an end to the bombing in Aleppo.
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In a new report, the campaigning rights group says people are being terrorised by both the Taliban and the military.
It claims that abuses are allowed to take place with impunity as constitutional safeguards do not apply.
The Pakistani military has emphatically rejected the report, which it has described as "a pack of lies".
An army spokesman told the BBC that the report was "biased and sinister propaganda" against Pakistan's armed forces, based on fabricated stories to serve an agenda.
There has been no response to Amnesty's claims from the Taliban.
The report says that militants have been driven out from some of the tribal areas but these districts are not yet fully secure.
"After a decade of violence, strife and conflict, tribal communities are still being subjected to attack, abduction and intimidation, rather than being protected," said Amnesty's Polly Truscott.
The report, entitled The Hands of Cruelty, describes how what it calls the region's "legal wilderness" is fuelling a human rights crisis.
It details cases where men and boys have been arbitrarily detained by armed forces for long periods with little or no access to due process or proper safeguards, as well as documenting multiple cases of deaths in custody.
Many of those detained have made allegations of torture, claims which have rarely investigated, it says.
Amnesty says that, because constitutional safeguards are not applicable to the tribal areas, armed forces are using broad new security laws to commit violations with impunity.
"By enabling the armed forces to commit abuses unchecked, the Pakistani authorities have given them free rein to carry out torture and enforced disappearance," Ms Truscott said.
Locals describe living in fear of being tortured and killed by the Taliban if they are accused of being a spy, or of being picked up by the army who accuse them of links to militants.
An army spokesperson previously told the BBC that deaths in custody are one-off incidents. Some argue the military needs sweeping powers to deal with terrorism on the border with Afghanistan.
Amnesty is urging the Pakistani government to reform the legal system in the tribal areas which, it says, is perpetuating the cycle of violence.
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May, 26, who starts on the left wing as England host France in their Six Nations opener on Saturday (16:50 GMT), was out for nine months after tearing cruciate ligaments in December 2015.
"I think I'm getting quicker," the Gloucester player told BBC Sport.
"It's something I work on every week, and I'm finding new ways of getting better and physically improving."
May's rehab from what he acknowledges was a potentially career-threatening injury included a spell in Texas at the performance centre run by sprinter and multiple Olympic champion Michael Johnson.
He said: "As soon as I was running again at four months I knew I wanted to go to Texas.
"It's where all the NFL players and all the top track athletes go to get faster and more agile and get better acceleration. It definitely helped me improve.
"At this level it's about the small percentages, and they had some different equipment, some good coaches, a new environment.
"I did everything I could, whether it was standing on one leg brushing my teeth or making sure I hopped up the stairs on one leg. Simple things that I still do now, and it's paid off."
May returned to the England side in the autumn, scoring two tries in three matches to cement his place in one of the most competitive positions in the team.
And he is grateful to coach Eddie Jones, who regularly sent text messages of encouragement during his long injury hiatus, despite the pair never having met.
"He made a point of keeping in touch with me throughout, and that was brilliant for me," May said.
"It gave me motivation to think, 'Blimey, if I can get my knee right, I might have a chance of getting back in there.'
"He didn't need to [send messages]. It really lifted my spirits at a tough time."
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Scrum-half Ben Youngs says England must begin their defence of the Six Nations at flat-out pace against France.
England are unbeaten in 13 matches under coach Jones, but twice last year found themselves 10-0 down to Australia in the first 15 minutes of games.
"Traditionally Six Nations teams feel themselves into it a little bit, and we don't want to do that," Leicester's Youngs said.
"We want to set a precedent in how we play, and show an improvement from the autumn to now. We want to hit the ground running."
Should England win a second successive Grand Slam they will break the world record for the longest series of victories in international rugby.
But they are missing key players, such as former skipper Chris Robshaw, vice-captain Billy Vunipola and brother Mako, lock George Kruis and winger Anthony Watson.
"Over the last 12 months, guys who have come in have taken their chances, and that gives us confidence," Youngs, 27, added.
"The generals in the team are so good that if you do come in, you're up to speed so quickly. We've got great strength whoever drops out."
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The comments came in the Bank's latest quarterly inflation report, which raised the forecast for UK economic growth this year and next.
On Wednesday, the UK unemployment rate was reported at 7.6%, down from 7.8%.
Chancellor George Osborne said the report was proof the government's economic plan was working.
Mr Carney has said the Bank will not consider raising interest rates until the jobless rate falls to 7% or below.
The timing of a rise in interest rates could have a significant political impact, but Mr Carney says that will not affect his decision making.
In an interview with Channel 4 News he said he would raise interest rates just before the 2015 general election "if I had to".
By Robert PestonBusiness editor
The Bank has given a range of forecasts of when it thinks unemployment could fall to 7%. The most optimistic of these is next year, two years ahead of the time frame it gave in August.
The odds for this are low, though.
The Bank said: "The MPC [Monetary Policy Committee] attaches only a two-in-five chance to the... unemployment rate having reached the 7% threshold by the end of 2014.
"The corresponding figures for the end of 2015 and 2016 are around three in five and two in three respectively."
The Bank said on Wednesday that it was not planning to raise interest rates any time soon from their current record low of 0.5%.
Even when - and if - the jobless rate reaches 7% the Bank will not automatically move to change the cost of borrowing.
Growth for this year is forecast to be 1.6%, up from 1.4% previously thought, and for next year, annual growth is expected to be 2.8%, rather than the 2.5% it predicted in August.
The report said: "In the United Kingdom, recovery has finally taken hold. The economy is growing robustly as lifting uncertainty and thawing credit conditions start to unlock pent-up demand."
Mr Osborne said: "Our economic plan is working and as the governor of the Bank of England says, the recovery is taking hold."
Mr Osborne added that many risks remained but he said the greatest risk would be if his plan was abandoned and quick fixes and more borrowing made a return.
The chief policy director of the business lobby group, the CBI, Katja Hall, said: "The Bank's forecast confirms businesses' view that the UK economic recovery is on track.
"But there are still hurdles to overcome before growth gets back to a sustainable level, including boosting business investment and trade. "
Interest rate decisions are traditionally used to control inflation.
There is no obvious pressure for an interest rate rise on that basis, as this week, official figures said inflation had fallen from 2.7% to 2.2% in October.
However, house price inflation is at worryingly high levels in certain parts of the country.
Mr Carney said this was largely affecting more expensive properties: "In terms of housing valuation, there are clearly areas in the country where valuation is very elevated.
"What we are seeing across the UK is the greatest price momentum is for houses that are towards the upper end of the valuation spectrum."
One of the Bank's regulatory bodies, the Financial Policy Committee, is charged with looking out for signs of an overheating property market.
Mr Carney said it was on the look-out for any bubbles, but that there did not seem to be any looming: "The Financial Policy Committee will be vigilant about potential risks there, but we need to put the pick-up in housing activity in perspective.
"Activity levels, while they've picked up, are still running at between two-thirds or three-quarters of historic averages in terms of whether it's transactions or approvals, homebuilding, so there is some room for that to further pick up."
The English National Opera is to bring in diction coaches to ensure its productions are loud and clear.
Speaking at the launch of the ENO's 2017/18 season, artistic director Daniel Kramer said: "We want to make sure that when we do sing in English it is as comprehensible as possible."
Coaches are currently being recruited to work with the cast on each show.
"It's a huge space in there," said the ENO's new music director Martyn Brabbins of the company's 2,359-seat home at the London Coliseum.
"Some singers are more predisposed to do it than others... some singers find it more challenging. It's a difficult thing. But tell me where you hear every word in any opera."
The new ENO season features four new productions and five revivals at the London Coliseum.
It will open with a new production of Verdi's Aida, directed by Phelim McDermott, whose Akhnaten won an Olivier award earlier this month.
Verdi's La Traviata will end the season, with Kramer directing Irish soprano Claudia Boyle in the role of "fallen woman" Violetta.
The ENO has been through turbulent times in recent years.
In February 2015, the Arts Council of England cut its core funding by £5m and placed the company under "special funding arrangements".
Two months later, the ENO announced it was cutting ticket prices in an attempt to secure its financial future.
Artistic director John Berry quit the following July after 10 years in the post.
In February 2016 the ENO chorus was set to strike over a pay dispute which was later resolved. A month later music director Mark Wigglesworth resigned after less than a year in the job.
At Thursday's season announcement, CEO Cressida Pollock said the company was "more financially stable than we have been in over a decade".
She said ticket price cuts in the balcony and upper circle had boosted audiences, and would be extended to the dress circle this year.
Kramer added that a new funding model - in which the London Coliseum is rented out to commercial musical productions such as Carousel and Bat Out of Hell - helped finance his opera programme.
"Bat Out of Hell is buying me a world premiere," he said. "That's how I look at it on paper."
Looking further ahead to the end of 2018, ENO will mark the the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I with Benjamin Britten's War Requiem.
In 2019 it will team up with Opera North for the world premiere of Iain Bell's Jack the Ripper, which Kramer said would "look at the myth from the female perspective".
With Rupert Charlesworth in the title role, the central female roles will sung by Josephine Barstow, Lesley Garrett, Susan Bullock, Janis Kelly and Marie McLaughlin.
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Texts seen by the BBC suggest ex-IAAF consultant Papa Massata Diack, now wanted by Interpol, secured votes for Lord Coe's August election win.
The programme also suggests Coe may have misled the UK parliament.
The double British Olympic 1500m champion, 59, denies any wrongdoing.
The text messages suggest Diack, son of the disgraced former IAAF president Lamine Diack, helped secure African delegate votes for Coe.
The investigation also uncovers evidence Coe may have misled a parliamentary select committee over when he first became aware of the allegations of doping and corruption in athletics.
Coe became IAAF president in the midst of a growing corruption scandal involving blackmail and state-sponsored doping in Russia.
Within weeks of his election, his predecessor, Diack Sr, was arrested and a warrant issued for the arrest of his son, a marketing consultant for the IAAF.
The corruption scandal had originally come to light in a German television documentary in December 2014.
The documentary reported that Russian and IAAF officials, including Diack Jr, had conspired to cover up doping by the Russian marathon runner Lilya Shobukhova, as well as attempt to blackmail her.
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Coe was not personally caught up in any of the doping or corruption allegations, but he had been a member of the IAAF council since 2003 and a vice-president since 2007.
He was asked by MPs at a meeting of the Culture, Media and Sport select committee last year why he had not been more prominent in pressing the doping issue while he was a vice-president.
He told them: "I was certainly not aware of the specific allegations that had been made around the corruption of anti-doping processes in Russia."
When he was asked if he was aware of allegations against Diack Jr, Coe replied: "Well, they were allegations that were aired in the ARD documentary."
But evidence seen by the BBC and the Daily Mail reveals that, four months before the German television documentary was broadcast, an email was sent to Coe containing a number of attachments detailing the corruption, extortion and bribery claims, as well as the suggestion Diack Jr could have been involved.
The attachments included a detailed complaint from the agent of Shobukhova, alleging she had paid Russian and IAAF officials 450,000 euro (£356,000) to cover up her doping and allow her to run in the London 2012 Olympics.
Damian Collins MP, who sits on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, said: "I think his (Lord Coe's) answer to the select committee was deliberately misleading to create the impression that he was totally unaware of any specific allegations of this kind.
"These involved serious criminal matters. The right thing to do would be to put that information into the hands of the criminal authorities straight away."
He added: "If he won't be drawn on the past and what he knew and can't come up with a compelling argument for the way he conducted himself, then I don't see how he could continue as president of the IAAF because he would lack the public support to do so."
In a statement, Coe, who won 1500m gold at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics, said he was forwarded emails about the corruption allegations, which he then sent on to the IAAF ethics committee, leaving it to investigate.
His director of communications, Jackie Brock-Doyle, added: "He did not feel it was necessary to read the attachments.
"You may think this shows a lack of curiosity. He, and we, would argue that it shows a full duty of care, ensuring the right people in the right place were aware of allegations and were investigating them."
Diack Jr claims that he and Coe met during the IAAF presidential campaign, twice in Beijing and once in the Bahamas.
This was almost a year after Coe was sent the email about allegations against Diack Jr and several months after it was revealed the Senegalese had been accused of corruption on a grand scale.
The claims of Diack Jr, who has been banned for life by the IAAF, have to be treated with extreme caution, but there is evidence - in the form of emails and text messages between Diack Jr, Coe and Nick Davies, the IAAF's head of communications - that he did indeed help Coe during his presidential bid.
At the time, Davies was helping Coe's election campaign.
The following are some of text messages, seen by Panorama, which call into question how Coe ran his successful IAAF presidency election campaign.
These messages are from 2015 - several months after the world knew Diack Jr had been accused of dishonesty on a grand scale.
Coe also appeared keen to ensure Diack Jr made an important meeting. Diack Jr told the BBC that the "friend" mentioned in this message was Hamad Kalkaba Malboum, president of the Confederation of African Athletics, whose support was crucial.
In the days before the election, Diack Jr appeared to provide information on the election tactics of Coe's rival, Sergey Bubka, the Ukrainian former Olympic pole vault champion.
Diack Jr also seemed to provide intelligence on how IAAF delegates might vote in the presidential election, asking Davies to get a message to Coe to speak to Phil Knight of Nike for confirmation from the USA delegate Steve Miller.
This next message refers to the 24 out of 30 nations Diack Jr claims he could talk to and get support for Coe. The Briton won the election by a margin of 23 votes, 115-92.
The BBC showed these text messages to Jack Robertson, a former chief investigator for the World Anti-Doping Agency and the man who investigated the Shobukhova doping scandal.
"It appears that Coe is taking advice from someone who is at the centre of this scandal to extort athletes," said Robertson.
"It's wrong on so many fronts. It's not just disappointing, it's disgusting."
In an interview with Panorama, Diack Jr said Lord Coe would not have become IAAF president without his help.
"If he had not the blessing of Lamine Diack or my support, he would have never been elected as the IAAF president," he said. "He knows that."
Coe refused the BBC's request for an interview to discuss his relationship with Diack Jr and said the suggestion he sought the Senegalese's support was wrong.
The Briton's spokeswoman added: "As with any campaign, lots of people offer advice - wanted or not, some helpful, some not. You try to be civil but wary.
"This was the case with Mr Diack. He sent messages of support whilst at the same time supporting other candidates and accusing Seb Coe of leading a British media campaign against both him and his father."
Diack Jr is currently living in Senegal and Interpol has issued a notice for his arrest over allegations of bribery and corruption, which he rejects.
"I have never, never, never been involved in any payment or any extortion of Lilia Shobukhova," he said.
"All we did about this Russian affair was to protect our World Championships. There was no cover-up of any, any, any doping matters."
Last week, the IAAF's ethics board announced that Davies was one of three IAAF members being provisionally suspended over allegations they took money to delay naming Russian drugs cheats.
Given he is now the subject of an IAAF investigation, Davies said it would be inappropriate for him to comment on the Panorama programme.
But Robertson is happy to speak out and said: "I hate to use the word, but he [Coe] got in bed with the devil to win the election.
"I don't mean to call Papa Diack the devil, but he was certainly in the middle of the investigation.
"And if he [Coe] makes a decision such as that, how can we trust him with other decisions? My bottom line is clean athletes deserve better."
The Panorama programme airs on the eve of an IAAF meeting in Vienna to decide whether to allow Russian athletes to compete at the Rio Olympics.
RPSB NI said that voting to leave would lead to uncertainty over the protection of important sites.
The charity also claimed that EU agreements had been key to protecting birds and habitats.
The comments were made as part of a written submission to a parliamentary inquiry.
The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee at Westminster are conducting an inquiry into the impact of the EU referendum in Northern Ireland.
As part of their submission, RSPB NI said if the UK voted to leave, EU protections for species and habitats would "no longer mandatorily apply".
The charity claimed the EU had had a "positive impact" in other areas such as air and water quality and renewable energy targets.
It said international agreements on nature conservation and robust enforcement, were key to protecting birds and habitats.
Although RSPB NI said they have issues with certain aspects of the Common Agricultural Policy, the potential loss of agri-environment schemes within it - which pay farmers to conserve wildlife - would be "a concern".
The charity also questioned whether a Brexit would affect cross border habitat improvement schemes which attract EU funding.
Justin King, who ran the supermarket for a decade, said the "last thing" any current supermarket boss would reveal was their intention to put up prices.
But he added it was "very clear" shoppers would face "higher prices, less choice and poorer quality".
The main supermarkets declined to speak to BBC Panorama.
Mr King, who ran Sainsbury's until 2014, said: "Brexit, almost in whatever version it is, will introduce barriers.
"That makes it less efficient which means all three of those benefits - prices, quality and choice - go backwards."
Food and farming combined are the UK's biggest manufacturing sector and the EU is involved all along the chain - from what grows in British fields to the labels in shops.
The EU also guarantees free trade across the continent and Mr King - who supported Remain - said this frictionless movement kept food prices down.
Mr King, who has said the weaker pound will push up prices, added that EU membership helped retailers find the best suppliers and markets throughout Europe.
He also said the EU had driven up standards and enabled the UK to get out-of-season vegetables all year round.
But manufacturing boss and Vote Leave campaigner John Mills believes the EU keeps prices artificially high for the shopper.
He said: "Food prices inside the EU vary from food product to food product, but the average is something like 20% higher than they are in the rest of the world - so there is very substantial scope for food prices coming down if we switch sources of supply outside the EU."
Mr Mills, chairman of consumer goods firm JML, said cheaper prices may not mean lower standards.
He said: "The reason why food prices are higher inside the EU is because they have got tariffs which keep the prices up.
"It's not anything to do with quality - it's due to the institutional arrangements with means the food prices are kept much higher to increase farmers' incomes."
Some British farmers fear that a bad Brexit deal - which does not protect them - could drive them out of business.
John Davies, a livestock farmer from Powys in Wales, told Panorama: "I'm really scared of imports - produced to completely different standards [with] hormones, you know, feedlot beef, you know - we're based on green and pleasant land, high environmental standards. We really are proud of that."
Feedlots - places where cattle are fattened for slaughter - are common in the US, which is the world's largest beef producer.
It supplies one fifth of the beef eaten around the world.
But in the UK, less than 1% of the fresh and frozen beef bought last year came from the US, according to Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB).
Possibly the most controversial difference in livestock farming either side of the Atlantic is the American use of growth hormones, which is banned in the EU.
The UK is largely self-sufficient when it comes to beef - with home-grown British beef accounting for 76% of purchases last year.
Brexit could change that.
Mr Davies said: "Brexit could have a massive effect on our food-producing ability in this nation, that's a key strategic decision to be made."
The prime minister has already been driving for new deals in America and the UK's special relationship with the US could provide a source of cheap food.
David Trowbridge, president-elect of the Iowa Cattlemen's Association in the US, told BBC Panorama: "We don't want to destroy an industry within another country, but you know... we are very competitive... It's up to your consumers on what they want to pay for the product."
In the UK, we spend roughly 8% of our income on food, according to the World Economic Forum.
Americans spend 6% - less than any other country in the world - and that is partly down to large-scale, cheap and efficient farming.
Other farmers that Panorama spoke to welcomed Brexit.
Jacob Anthony, a 24-year-old fifth generation beef and sheep farmer who runs a 700-acre farm in Bridgend, Wales, voted to leave the EU.
"I'm a young farmer and I'm looking to the future," he said. "I think a lot of us in the industry were not happy with the way the sector was going and I thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for realistic change."
Mr Anthony said leaving the EU would give British farmers a chance to strike new trade deals and push into new emerging markets.
Last year, 13% of UK-produced beef was exported, according to the AHDB, whose spokesman said it was largely the bits British shoppers did not want.
Conservative MP James Cleverly insists that the UK doesn't "have to just roll over" in Brexit negotiations.
He said: "We are a highly desirable market. That actually gives us some strength in the negotiations."
For Mr Mills, it is the establishment who "doesn't really like Brexit".
"And they are throwing up difficulties all over the place, which I don't think are going to materialise to anything like the extent to which they claim," he said.
Ex-Sainsbury's boss Mr King is concerned, however, that "there has been, in my estimation, almost no conversation about the potential impact of Brexit on the food supply chain by definition".
He said with less than two years to go until Brexit, "food needs to get on the agenda pretty soon".
The government has said little about plans for food and farming after Brexit, and the new UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) secretary Michael Gove declined to speak to BBC Panorama.
Defra said: "We will not in any way dilute high quality environmental standards, we will make sure our environment and animal welfare are protected."
Watch BBC Panorama - Britain's Food & Farming: The Brexit Effect on Monday 10th July on BBC1 at 20:30 BST and afterwards on BBC iPlayer.
Eastwood was the only animal left after a charity found new homes for 1,571 cats and dogs in just one day.
Eastwood had been poorly when he was younger and the charity thought this may have put people off.
But thankfully the story has a happy ending.
The Bissell Pet Foundation had a free adoption day at 69 shelters in the American state of Michigan, which meant loads of people came to look for new pets.
A thousand animals got new homes in the build up to the big day too.
Lots of people heard about Eastwood being left on his own and tried to find him a new home.
One family who heard about Eastwood was the Van Gundy family.
Steve, the dad of the family, is coach of the Detroit Pistons, a very famous basketball team in the United States.
They had meant to go to the adoption event but missed out.
When they heard Eastwood was still waiting to find a new home they said the knew he was the dog for them.
The family say they are looking forward to taking Eastwood swimming in the lake by their house.
The sentences are the harshest ever given under Thailand's lese majeste law, which prevents criticism of the king, Bhumibol Adulyadej.
The convictions relate to articles posted on Facebook.
Prosecutions for lese majeste in Thailand have surged since last year's military coup.
According to iLaw, a Thai rights group, there were only two ongoing prosecutions for the crime before the coup. That number is now at least 56, the group says.
Tour operator Pongsak Sriboonpeng, 48, was tried in camera at a court in Bangkok. The judge sentenced him to ten years for each of the six posts he made about the monarch on social media.
But the 60-year term was halved after he pleaded guilty.
In a separate case, a 29-year-old hotel worker and mother of two was sentenced to 56 years by a court in the northern city of Chiang Mai.
Her sentence was also halved after a guilty plea.
Earlier in the week, a man with a history of mental illness was given five years in jail for tearing a portrait of the king.
King Bhumibol, the world's longest-reigning monarch, is widely revered but, at 87, is in poor health and is rarely seen in public.
Ten years ago, open criticism of the monarchy was almost unknown.
But the political polarisation of Thai society since a military coup nine years ago, which was backed by the palace, has prompted some Thais to challenge the official veneration of the king, especially on social media.
The current military government, which came to power in another coup last year, has made defending the monarchy a top priority.
The law prevents any open discussion of the succession, but uncertainty over what happens when the king dies is causing acute anxiety for many Thais.
The seafronts at Southend and Canvey Island have both been badly hit with some roads into the area affected.
The fire and rescue service have been called to 13 flood-related incidents, including clearing a house and nursery that had become flooded in Colchester.
The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning, with further torrential rain expected in some areas into Wednesday morning.
Floodwater on the A12 forced the closure of one lane, London-bound near Junction 14.
Flooding updates on Essex Local Live
Abellio Greater Anglia services in and out of London have been disrupted by overhead wire problems - not known to be caused by the weather - at Stratford.
Barry Campagna, an independent councillor for Canvey Island, said: "There's nobody here, the whole of the seafront is empty, the kids are off school and it should be buzzing.
"The drains can't take the amount of surface water on Canvey."
Suzanne Gray, who runs an arcade on Furtherwick Road, Canvey, which is also flooded, said: "I've been here 20 years. The last three years it seems to be getting worse and worse."
It was a similar story in Southend.
"In two minutes, the whole of the seafront was flooded yet again, in up to 18 inches of water," said Happidrome arcade owner Martin Richardson.
Tesco tweeted a photo of flooding outside its Extra store in Southend, but said it was "dealing with the water" and would open as normal.
Other areas affected include Rochford and Westcliff.
The Met Office's yellow warning - meaning " be aware" - is for the East of England.
It said although most parts of the region would escape the worst, there was a risk of locally torrential, thundery bursts and flash flooding.
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The company's chief Elon Musk said people would eventually be able to summon their cars to pick them up even if they were in a different city at the time.
At the moment the feature can only be used to drive the car in and out of a garage without a driver.
The BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones met with Mr Musk at Tesla's design studio near Los Angeles.
Watch the full interview with Elon Musk.
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The stretch near Colchester close to the A120 junction will be widened. The junction with the M25 will also be rebuilt and new technology introduced to help ease congestion.
Chancellor George Osborne said the spending would be announced officially in the Autumn Statement.
"The quake zone urgently needs tents, quilt, instant food, drinking water and medical goods," the charity posted to Weibo, China's version of Twitter. "Please try your best to donate cash."
In response, hundreds of thousands of people quickly posted emoticons giving the government-run charity a literal thumbs-down.
"People around me are all hesitating whether to donate to the earthquake zone," wrote online user Li Yapingww. "They don't know if their hard-earned money can reach the victims."
Another user, named "Lao Xu", was enraged by a photo of Chinese Red Cross employees in the quake zone. "They're eating instant noodles while wearing expensive watches. These photos are just asking for criticism."
Designer watches are at the tip of the charity organisation's image problem: the organisation has yet to recover from a series of scandals that began after the Sichuan earthquake in 2008.
Back then, the Chinese Red Cross was designated as one of two charities that could legally accept donations. Smaller organisations were told to funnel their donations to their larger counterparts.
According to China's state-run media, over $12.4 bn US dollars (£8.1 bn) in goods and services were donated to quake victims in the year after the 2008 Sichuan quake.
However, the charity's reputation was soon tarnished. Some monitoring the quake's rebuilding efforts accused Red Cross officials of misusing donations by purchasing needlessly expensive tents and vehicles, though those allegations were denied.
In 2009, researchers at Tsinghua University revealed that 80% of charitable donations after 2008's Sichuan earthquake were funnelled into Chinese government coffers as "extra revenue".
At the time, some contended this was appropriate, since the government was best equipped to rebuild the quake zone.
Others complained the Red Cross donations would be impossible to track, leading to fears of corruption.
In April 2011, revelations of an extravagant banquet attended by Red Cross officials costing almost 10,000 yuan ($1,600; £1,050) spurred criticism online. The amount is considered high within China, especially for employees of a charity. Officials apologised and offered to foot part of the bill themselves.
Months later, the organisation was decimated by a much bigger scandal when a glamorous young woman calling herself "Guo Meimei" posted online photos of herself posing with luxury cars and designer handbags.
Ms Guo boasted that she was the "general manager" of the China Red Cross Commerce Department - a commercial organisation with murky links to the charity.
It turned out that Ms Guo had inflated her own title, but the damage had already been done: many donors had scrutinised the photos of Guo's extravagant lifestyle and had concluded that the Red Cross was wasting their money.
That year, the charity registered a 60% drop in private donations.
"At the moment, many Chinese people are hostile to government officials and rich people," explains Jia Xijin, deputy professor of public management at Tsinghua University.
"So now, they've also started to question government-sponsored institutions."
The Chinese Red Cross has been trying to reform its image. Last December, the Chinese Red Cross formed a 16-member committee to improve its transparency.
Most concerned citizens don't have any other choice but to trust the Chinese Red Cross with their earthquake donations, since once again, the charity is one of the only organisations that can receive money for victims of the current crisis.
"I don't believe in the Red Cross, but I choose to believe those who participate in the rescue work on the front line. They need to be respected," rationalises Weibo user Juan er.
"Those who are corrupt are the top officials and those who suffer are the people at the bottom. Blindly cursing at people won't prove how moral you are."
But come Saturday a similar story might be written in rugby union, as Exeter Chiefs take on reigning English and European champions Saracens in the Premiership final.
They are a club that was in the fourth tier of English rugby 20 years ago, and won promotion to the top flight for the first time in their history in 2010.
BBC Sport examines the similarities between English football's top side, and the club aiming to be the best in English rugby union.
Claudio Ranieri has rightly been hailed for his dealings in the transfer market, bringing in unheralded players and turning them into league champions. Had anybody really heard of N'Golo Kante or Christian Fuchs before this season?
But has Exeter's boss done an even more impressive job? Wales prop Tomas Francis joined the club from Championship side London Scottish, Olly Woodburn was surplus to requirements at Bath and former England men Geoff Parling and Thomas Waldrom have enjoyed new leases of life under the Chiefs boss.
"When Rob was a player he didn't take second best from anybody on or off the field, and he's taken that through to the coaching side," said former Exeter player and BBC Radio Devon pundit John Lockyer.
"You see the homework he and fellow coaches Ali Hepher and Rob Hunter do to recruit players. They don't just talk to agents - they look in to it so deeply and they find out so much about these lads, they put hours of research in to getting the right players at the right time."
And Baxter's ability to galvanise a squad - much like Ranieri - has come in for praise as well.
"I know that other coaches have a problem trying to keep other guys focused if they're not in the 23," Exeter chairman Tony Rowe told BBC Radio 5 live.
"You've always got a big chunk of boys that are disappointed each week. Rob is able to keep them all engaged and focused, and that's a tremendous talent in itself.
"If someone is annoyed in the changing room, it doesn't take very long for it to spread and you lose the changing room."
When it comes to goals, few could match Jamie Vardy's impact on the Premier League - 24 in 36 league games helped propel the Foxes to the title.
But Exeter have had their own try-scoring machine, Thomas Waldrom. Twelve tries in 22 games saw him top the charts in the Premiership, and that having only crossed the whitewash for the first time at the start of December, when he scored a hat-trick against Wasps.
"Amazingly, Leicester Tigers didn't offer him a contract two years ago," said Lockyer. "He was being used as a replacement and he wanted to play.
"There were a lot of people who wondered why we were signing a player who was over the top and not getting a lot of rugby, but Ali Hepher and Rob Baxter's eye for talent was spot on."
Unfortunately for Waldrom, he will miss Saturday's final because of a knee ligament injury.
"For years I've gone out and tried to show them with my performances that I'm Premiership standard," Woodburn told BBC Sport after his move from Bath to Exeter.
The winger struggled to get a look in at Bath, with last season's Premiership finalists packed full of internationals.
But at Exeter this season the 24-year-old has thrived, scoring eight tries in all competitions, rather like Leicester's Marc Albrighton.
The midfielder could not buy a game at Aston Villa, but after a move to the King Power in 2014 he has been a revelation and played in every one of Leicester's 38 league games.
One is 6ft 3in, the other 6ft 6in. But, aside from their stature, Robert Huth and Geoff Parling have other things in common too.
Both joined their clubs permanently last summer, both were the wrong side of 30 and both of their international careers appeared to be over.
But both have also shone in new environments and have gone on to great success at club level. Can Parling now match Huth in collecting a third league title winner's medal, having twice been victorious with City's rugby neighbours Leicester Tigers?
"Every game this season he's given the same solid performance," says Lockyer of centre Ian Whitten. "He's a standout player in a team which is seen as greater than the sum of its parts."
And that phrase could equally be true of a certain Riyad Mahrez.
This time last year, if you mentioned either of these players' names to people who did not support the teams they play for, you would have probably got the same answer. 'Who?'
Mahrez famously joined Leicester from Ligue 2 side Le Havre for £400,000 in 2013, and his contribution in terms of goals and assists has been priceless.
But Whitten's contribution at centre for Exeter could be cast in a similar vein - an under-the-radar signing from Ulster in 2012, having won two Ireland caps on a similarly low-key tour to North America in 2009.
Andy King is the only player to have won the Premier League, Championship and League One with the same side. A true one-club man, he does not always get the accolades he deserves.
Exeter also have such a man, in the form of prop Ben Moon.
Like King, he was born in Devon, came through his club's youth ranks to make his debut as a teenager, is not an automatic choice to start and is capped at international under-21 level - although King has gone on to win senior caps for Wales, while Moon has yet to trouble the England selectors.
But like King he always gives his all when called upon and is a favourite of the fans.
"Props don't get many accolades, but he came through the academy system," said Lockyer. "He will do anything you ask, he's a gentleman off the field, a lovely man and a very good player."
The country as we know it today was actually formed quite recently, when south Yemen and north Yemen - which believed the country should be run in different ways - joined together in 1990, after many years of fighting.
However, since then the fighting has not stopped, which has made life for those living in the country very difficult.
Find out more about why there is still a conflict in Yemen with Newsround's guide.
Despite joining together in 1990, the north and south of the country still disagreed with each other.
Fighting between the government and anti-government fighters called the Houthi (also known as 'rebels') continued.
The situation reached a peak in 2011 when protests led to the president at the time, Ali Abdallah Saleh, resigning and his deputy, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, taking over.
However, the fighting still didn't stop, as Mr Hadi struggled to keep everyone in the country happy.
In 2014, the country descended into civil war, as the rebels took over the capital city of Yemen called Sanaa.
This civil war is still going on today.
When the Houthi took over Sanaa, President Hadi fled to the country next door, called Saudi Arabia, which still supports him.
He set up a temporary capital in a different city in Yemen called Aden. He has still not been able to return to Sanaa.
At the moment, the country is locked in a difficult situation.
The Houthi rebels don't accept that Hadi's government makes their rules. They believe in a new ruling group, with a leader called Mohammed Ali al-Houthi.
However, much of the rest of the world - including the UK and the US - do not accept this. They both support the government in Saudi Arabia.
Earlier in 2016, the United Nations - which is an organisation which works to bring peace - helped to make the two sides talk to each other to try to sort out their problems.
But after three months, the talking stopped and the fighting continued.
Another thing making the situation in Yemen more difficult is that it has become a place for extreme groups, like Al-Qaeda and the group that calls itself Islamic State, to base themselves and grow stronger.
It has also always been one of the poorest Arab countries, which has made it difficult to deal with the situation.
The fighting has had a devastating impact on normal people trying to live their lives in Yemen.
Charities are working to try to help them.
A UK organisation called the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), which represents 13 aid charities, launched a big appeal asking for people to donate money to help make sure that people in Yemen have what they need to live.
At the end of 2016, the British Red Cross, a charity represented by the DEC, said: "The ongoing conflict in Yemen has devastated millions of people's lives."
"More than half the population don't have enough food. Almost a quarter face starvation. Families are living with no water or electricity."
Restricted deliveries of food and fuel, and roads and buildings being destroyed, has led to as many as 21 million people not having the basics essentials they need to live.
With airports closed and borders blocked, many people are unable to leave the country, despite the problems.
Thousands of people have also been killed and injured in the fighting.
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Under the Nottinghamshire County Council plan, the other three council-run homes will close as planned within a year in a bid to save £4m a year.
The county council said it was too expensive to modernise the homes, which would cost at least £24m.
Around 9,000 people signed petitions against the closures.
Leivers Court in Gedling, Bishop's Court in Ollerton and James Hince Court in Worksop would remain open for an additional three years under the plans.
The three care homes that are closing are Woods Court in Newark, St.Michael's View in Retford and Kirklands at Kirkby in Ashfield. They are expected to close "within the next year", but no firm timetable has been set.
All six homes will eventually be replaced by extra care centres, where residents will have support but be more independent.
The three-year extension to the homes will "reduce pressure on NHS hospital beds, create more extra places and support families and carers", the council said.
Councillor Muriel Weisz said it is "investing £12.65m on extra care schemes across the county to widen the choice and variety of care and support that is available to local older people."
The revised plans will be considered at a full meeting on 26 February.
Talking to Bloomberg TV, he said that UK monetary policy had made "life difficult for ordinary savers".
The policies were brought in after the banking crisis of 2008 and the subsequent recession.
He said the policies had been "very necessary" to keep the economy strong, but their impact had to be mitigated.
It is not a novel observation that the UK's monetary policy has largely benefitted the wealthy, via higher share prices and higher house prices, and disadvantaged savers who are now earning hardly anything at all on their savings.
But while he was chancellor, until his recent sacking by new Prime Minister Theresa May, Mr Osborne's emphasis was always on the necessity of staving off recession and keeping the economy growing.
Today he said: "We need to offset the very necessary loose monetary policy, and the distributional consequences that is having. Essentially it makes the rich richer and makes life difficult for ordinary savers."
When asked about public attitudes, as revealed by the June Brexit referendum result in the UK and support for the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Mr Osborne said: "All of us who believe in free markets, in our democratic institutions, need to work harder to find an answer to the anger people clearly feel out there."
Separately, former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has described Mr Osborne as "hapless".
Speaking outside a conference of the Institute of Directors, he said that Mrs May and her new Chancellor, Philip Hammond, should abandon the austerity policies pursued by Mr Osborne.
"The obvious thing to do for a successor of such a hapless chancellor is to stop pushing the rock up the hill," Mr Varoufakis said.
The former UK chancellor was in the forefront of the defeated Remain campaign during the Brexit referendum but unlike his former boss, David Cameron, he is staying on as a Conservative MP.
Mr Osborne argued on Bloomberg in favour of a negotiating a "softer Brexit rather than a harder Brexit" when asked about the referendum outcome.
"We need the strongest possible ties in trade to mitigate the effects of Brexit," he said.
He said no-one had perfect answers to what the UK's relationship with the rest of Europe would look like in the future.
And he added that Brexit negotiations should wait until both Germany and France had staged their forthcoming national political elections later this year.
He denied that he had got it wrong with his "Project Fear" predictions during the referendum campaign, pointing out that the pound had subsequently been devalued and that several forecasts for economic growth had been downgraded.
"It is too early to say what economic consequences of Brexit will be," Mr Osborne said, adding that the long-term consequences depended on future decisions taken as part of the Brexit negotiations.
Asked if Mr Hammond should pursue a path of more austerity and an emergency Budget, something Mr Osborne had previously warned might be necessary if the UK voted to leave the EU, the former chancellor simply stated that slower economic growth meant fewer resources and that this would lead in turn to "hard decisions".
He went on to say of Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, that "we've got the best in the world" and that "he's a brilliant governor".
Invited to say who he supported in the US presidential election after last night's TV debate, Mr Osborne pointed out that he did not have vote, but said: "I don't think the answers that Donald Trump put forward, closing America off from the rest of the world [and] erecting trade barriers, are going to create jobs in America, or are good for the world more generally."
Saints have contributed a quarter of the talent in Stuart Lancaster's Six Nations squad, leaving Mallinder short of resources in February and March.
"If you were being really selfish you wouldn't want to lose any," he told BBC Look East.
"But if you were thinking like that you would go and sign a squad full of overseas players."
Uncapped trio Calum Clark, Phil Dowson and Lee Dickson, plus Dylan Hartley, Courtney Lawes, Tom Wood, Chris Ashton and Ben Foden have all been included in England's 32-man Elite Player Squad.
Mallinder's club has also seen Ryan Lamb and Paul Doran-Jones being selected for England Saxons.
"We take it as a massive compliment and not just me," added Mallinder.
"So do the coaching staff, the performance staff, the fitness and conditioning staff, the board and everybody who works within the club. They deserve a lot of credit for these lads getting selected.
"We want players to be the best they possibly can. We are an English club so we want generally English players.
"I think an English-first policy has got to help England. I'm sure they'd like all English teams to be full of English players but that's not the way it is.
"We've not brought anybody here who's an international player, they've all developed themselves and worked hard.
"Our challenge now is to make sure the other players are good enough, skilled enough and have played enough game time for when the others disappear."
Dickson is one of three Saints to receive his first England call-up after an impressive season for the Franklin's Gardens side.
"People say its been a long time coming but I've just had to keep my head down, keep playing well here, and that's paid off," said the 26-year-old scrum-half.
"I'm going there to be myself and hopefully I can show what I'm like at the next step up."
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"I went off social media, so I can't wait to get home and have a look at it," said the 20-year-old swimmer from Seaford in County Down.
Firth won gold in the 100m backstroke, 200m freestyle, 200m individual medley and was runner-up in the 100m breaststroke.
Warren Weinstein, an American, and Giovanni Lo Porto, an Italian, were killed in the raid in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
President Barack Obama described it as a painful loss he profoundly regretted.
Two other Americans thought to be al-Qaeda members were also killed, one of them in the same raid.
The White House said Ahmed Farouq, an al-Qaeda leader, was killed in that operation and Adam Gadahn, once regarded as a spokesman for the militant group, was killed in a separate raid.
Unnamed officials told Associated Press the attack that killed the hostages was a CIA drone strike.
The president, speaking at the White House about the operation that killed the hostages, said the US had launched the raid in the belief the target was an al-Qaeda compound with no civilians present.
As commander-in-chief, he said, he took "full responsibility" for the operation.
The White House said compensation would be paid to the families of the hostages.
Mr Weinstein's wife Elaine said in a statement the family was "devastated".
"Those who took Warren captive over three years ago bear ultimate responsibility," she added.
She thanked several members of the US congress and unnamed officials from the FBI, but said the assistance received from "other elements of the US government was inconsistent and disappointing".
Mrs Weinstein also criticised the Pakistani government and military who, she said, treated her husband's captivity "as more of an annoyance than a priority".
President Obama said the operation was in compliance with the White House's counterterrorism protocols.
It's a "bitter truth in the fog war" that mistakes occur, but what sets America apart is facing up squarely to its mistakes, he said.
Weinstein, 73, was abducted in Lahore in 2011, where he was working as an aid worker. Lo Porto disappeared from Multan, Pakistan in January 2012. Both men were aid workers.
"There could be no starker contrast between these two selfless men and their al-Qaeda captors," the president said.
He also announced a review into the tragedy.
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And so it has been. It's been sustained at the same very low level seen in the previous quarter.
July-to-September saw Gross Domestic Product rise by 0.1%, the same rate as April-to-June.
Given that the population is growing, the per capita growth was flat, as it was in the previous two quarters.
That is: in the first nine months of last year, there were more of us, but on average, we weren't getting any better off.
Over the second and third quarters of 2015, UK growth was 1%. That is five times as fast as Scotland. And the indications from the final quarter of the year are that the gap is not going to be closed (we'll find out on 6 April.)
Six minutes after the GDP figures were published, an email arrived in my inbox from the SNP group at Westminster.
It flagged up a debate on the economy, in which MPs were going to claim that "George Osborne is failing on key economic indicators".
That may be true as well. But we are still unclear what has been going wrong closer to home than the UK Treasury.
The simple answer is: oil and gas. The sharp fall in the oil price has become a further fall, and an expectation of a prolonged low price, perhaps dipping far lower.
The past two days have seen the price flirt with falling through the $30 threshold, and forecasts of $20 per barrel of Brent crude (that was Goldman Sachs), then to $16 (with a very gloomy global outlook from the Royal Bank of Scotland), and even to $10.
It is striking that the talk this time last year, as oil fell in only seven months from $115 to $45, was that there would be a balancing effect from parts of the economy that buy energy rather than produce it.
That would include motorists spending the extra change when filling up the car, and industrial consumers of oil, with enhanced profits.
For Scotland, it doesn't look that way now. Yes, it's been tough for Aberdeen and the north-east. This week, we've seen Scottish new car registrations fall last year, while the UK had record sales - the decline entirely explained by the Grampian effect.
Aberdeen Airport saw passenger numbers last year fall 7%, while Edinburgh and Glasgow saw healthy growth. Hotel occupancy and rates in the north-east have plummeted.
However, we've found also that the offshore sector's supply chain stretches further than some supposed, particularly in engineering, but reaching across many more sectors. And business confidence has barely picked up in the energy-burning sectors.
Part of the explanation for low growth is shared with the rest of the UK, notably in manufacturing.
Exporters have been weighed down by the strength of sterling. And those non-exporters who compete with importers have had the same pressure.
The recent rise in US Fed interest rates has led to sterling weakening against the dollar, which may help those exposed to trade competition.
But there's more going on than that. The statistics from the Scottish government point to problems with the transport and communications sector. In the first nine months of last year, it appeared to contract 2.4%.
Manufacturing contracted 2.3% in the full year. Within that, metals and machinery was down nearly 20% in one year, and 8% in the most recent quarter.
There were better performers over the year, including the category that covers tourism, and moreso in utilities.
Gas and electricity grew in output by 2.3% in the year to July/September, and in water supply and waste services, the number was up 8%.
The star performer has been construction, up 17.3% over the year, though the most recent quarter's figures show the benefit of big public infrastructure projects has begun to weaken.
The Scottish government can take some credit for that construction boom, with roads, rail and a big bridge over the Forth. Construction fared much less well south of the border.
Such growth was never going to be sustainable under current budget constraints, but it was essential to keeping Scotland out of recession in the middle of last year.
The government statisticians have added some new detail on what has been behind that, with total construction output in the year to the third quarter of 2015 at nearly £12bn.
In the year to the third quarter of 2015, there was a £2.5bn infrastructure spend, rising by 53% on the previous year.
New public housing spend was £469m, according to these calculations, up by 26%. New private homes were at more than three times that level - nearly £1.5bn - but growing at only 3%.
Repair and maintenance of infrastructure was up 20% at £800m, while housing repairs were up 15% at £1.53bn.
That is the best informed guess of the statisticians. But there are question marks over the data. The numbers do not isolate the role of oil and gas in the economy.
And public finance expert John McLaren points out that construction employment has not risen with output in the sector.
He suggests that it might be because workers in that sector are not Scottish-based. In that case, the benefit of employing them is being felt closer to their homes and not in the Scottish economy.
To cover that anomaly, with an increasingly mobile workforce, McLaren suggests we also need to see Gross National Product, or GNP.
That is the figure that accounts for the inflow of income from Scots who work and invest outside the country, as well as the outflow of non-Scottish workers and companies based elsewhere, who take their wages and profits home.
Taking the longer view, McLaren points to transport and communications, which has fallen in output by 10% since 2007, while in the UK, it is up 12%.
The value of output from the tourism industry (or at least hotels and restaurants) is lower than it was in 2007, yet the UK figure is up 8.5%.
The data is patchy in what it captures. And covering a small country rather than the UK, it is bound to be more vulnerable to statistical error.
But using the numbers we have, the sluggish recovery takes on an odd shape when you peer down into the sectors.
And they show the oil price is far from being the only explanation for the under-performance of the Scottish economy.
Paul Prestidge, 35, from Plymouth, Devon, was arrested by Cambodian police on Saturday.
The former scout leader was jailed in 2007 for photographing naked boys and possessing indecent pictures of children.
He is now being questioned by Cambodian immigration officials and faces deportation back to the UK.
Devon and Cornwall Police confirmed they were working with the National Crime Agency (NCA) on getting Prestidge returned to the UK.
The NCA said the arrest of Prestidge on immigration offences was a "matter for the Cambodian authorities".
Prestidge is wanted by police for breaking the conditions of a sex offenders order after he failed to return from a trip to visit relatives in Spain in 2010.
During Prestidge's trial, Exeter Crown Court heard he encouraged boys aged nine and 10 to strip off and invented a game called Sahara in which they pretended they were so hot they had to take off all their clothes.
He also photographed boys during camping trips.
Judge Jeremy Griggs told him at the trial that he had "betrayed the scouting movement".
Os na fydd modd dod o hyd i berchennog bydd y papur yn dod i ben ddiwedd Mehefin eleni.
Y bwriad, medd cwmni Tindle, yw trosglwyddo Y Cymro am ffi nominal er mwyn sicrhau dyfodol y papur a'r wefan.
Pwysleisiwyd na fydd swyddi yn cael eu colli wrth i'r trosglwyddo ddigwydd.
Cafodd Y Cymro, a sefydlwyd yn Wrecsam, ei gyhoeddi gyntaf yn 1932 gan olynu papurau newydd eraill o'r un enw - papurau oedd yn bodoli yn y 19eg ganrif a'r 20fed ganrif.
Cafodd Y Cymro ei brynu gan Ray Tindle, perchennog cwmni Tindle Newspapers Cyf, oddi wrth NWN Media Ltd yn 2004.
Mae Tindle wedi bod yn cefnogi Y Cymro yn ariannol ers 13 o flynyddoedd.
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran cwmni Tindle Newspapers ei bod yn cynnig Y Cymro am ffi nominal er mwyn "ceisio sicrhau dyfodol y papur eiconig a'r wefan".
"Y Cymro yw'r unig bapur newydd cenedlaethol yn yr iaith Gymraeg.
"Mae'r papur wedi cael ei gefnogi gan y cwmni am lawer o flynyddoedd ond mae'n gyfnod gynyddol heriol i'r diwydiant cyhoeddi yng Nghymru,
"Anogir Llywodraeth Cymru i ystyried ei lefel o gyllido i'r cyfryngau Cymraeg i sicrhau plwraliaeth a mynediad darllenwyr Cymraeg at newyddion safon-uchel, gwreiddiol, perthnasol i'w bywydau a'r ardaloedd ble maen nhw'n byw."
Ychwanegodd y llefarydd: "Gyda chymorth panel o arbenigwyr, sy'n rhannu profiad helaeth a medrusrwydd yn yr iaith Gymraeg a chyhoeddi, mae Tindle yn chwilio am berchennog newydd i symud Y Cymro yn ei flaen."
Dywedodd Elin Jones, Aelod Cynulliad Ceredigion: "Dyma gyfle i berchennog a golygydd newydd i ddatblygu'r Cymro i'r cyfnod nesaf.
"Gobeithio y bydd rhywun yn cymryd y cyfle ac yn sicrhau parhad y papur pwysig yma a diogelu ei le o fewn newyddiaduraeth Gymraeg."
Gofynnir i bartïon sydd â diddordeb i gysylltu â chwmni Tindle yn Aberystwyth erbyn 7 Ebrill.
The world number eight won six out of seven frames at the start of the second session to level at 8-8.
And although Belgian qualifier Brecel scored a classy 78 in the 17th frame, Fu kept his nerve to win in a thrilling match at the Crucible in Sheffield.
Earlier, former champion Shaun Murphy survived a big scare to progress.
He fended off Chinese teenager Yan Bingtao's comeback to earn a 10-8 first-round victory at the Crucible.
There were also wins for 2015 world champion Stuart Bingham and Northern Ireland's Mark Allen.
World number five Murphy took the first frame against world number 63 Yan to extend his overnight lead to 7-3.
The 17-year-old qualifier then played with a style belying his age to fight back from 9-5 down against his increasingly flustered opponent.
Englishman Murphy, who won the title as a qualifier in 2005, took advantage of an outrageous fluked red in frame 18 to progress.
Yan would have become the youngest player to win a World Championship match at the Crucible if he had overcome Murphy. The record is held by seven-time champion Stephen Hendry, who was 18 when he beat Willie Thorne in the 1987 first round.
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Murphy, who faces Ronnie O'Sullivan in round two, was mightily relieved not to be on the wrong end of a piece of Crucible history.
"I played well but at 9-5 up he opened his shoulders and I was bang up against it at the end," the 34-year-old said.
"This place does funny things to you and I had a bit of Lady Luck. But I can't praise him enough. He has a bit of swagger about him."
In an all-China battle, Ding Junhui - runner-up to Mark Selby last year - was in majestic form on his way to a 7-2 lead over Zhou Yuelong.
World number four Ding scored three centuries, including a 136 - the tournament's highest break so far - to take control going into Tuesday afternoon's concluding session.
Elsewhere, four-time champion John Higgins of Scotland was ruthless as he raced into a 5-0 lead before taking a 7-2 advantage over English qualifier Martin Gould.
Northern Ireland's world number 11 Mark Allen won 10-8 against Englishman Jimmy Robertson.
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Bingham earlier went through with an unconvincing 10-5 victory over another former Crucible winner Ebdon.
The world number three was pegged back to 5-4 overnight as the 2002 champion took the final two frames of the opening session.
But Bingham quickly extended his lead to 8-4 and closed out victory after Ebdon got back to 8-5.
Emergency Relief Co-ordinator Stephen O'Brien said the figure had jumped from 486,700 to 974,080 in six months.
People were being "isolated, starved, bombed and denied medical attention and humanitarian assistance in order to force them to submit or flee," he said.
Mr O'Brien noted that the "deliberate tactic of cruelty" was mostly employed by President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
"Those maintaining the sieges know by now that this Council is apparently unable or unwilling to enforce its will or agree now on steps to stop them," he told the UN Security Council.
Newly besieged locations include the rebel-held Damascus suburbs of Jobar, Hajar al-Aswad and Khan al-Shih, as well as several areas in the eastern Ghouta agricultural belt outside the capital.
Mr O'Brien also told the Security Council that he was "more or less at my wit's end" over the situation in the divided city of Aleppo, where an estimated 275,000 people living under siege in rebel-held eastern districts face "annihilation".
A unilateral pause in aerial bombardment by the government and its ally Russia that began on 18 October had offered a "glimmer of hope", he said.
But the shelling of civilian areas in the government-controlled west by rebel and jihadist groups and the resumption of air strikes last Tuesday, he added, had returned "the city and its inhabitants to death and destruction once again".
"Over the past days, reports indicate that hundreds of civilians have been killed, injured or otherwise affected by the relentless attacks on eastern Aleppo."
Mr O'Brien said that, as of Sunday, there were barely any functional hospitals in rebel-held areas, as all the medical facilities were being "bombed into oblivion".
The more than 350 mortars and rockets launched indiscriminately into western Aleppo so far this month are meanwhile reported to have killed more than 60 people and injured 350 others.
A school was hit on the government side on Sunday, killing eight children.
"Let me be clear: we are not just seeing a resumption of violence in Aleppo, this is not business as usual," Mr O'Brien told the Security Council.
He warned that humanitarian conditions in eastern Aleppo had also "gone from terrible to terrifying" and were "now barely survivable".
The last of the food rations delivered by the UN before access was cut off in July were distributed on 13 November. Only a handful of rations from local NGOs remain, food in markets is scarce, and prices have sky-rocketed.
On Sunday, the Syrian government said it had rejected a proposal by the UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, for eastern Aleppo to be granted autonomy if jihadist fighters linked to al-Qaeda withdrew and the fighting stopped.
The United States has meanwhile warned that Syrian commanders and other officials deemed responsible for military attacks on civilians would be held accountable.
The US ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, spoke of a dozen commanders and officers accused of directing attacks on civilian targets who Washington wants brought to justice.
"The United States will not let those who have commanded units involved in these actions hide anonymously behind the facade of the Assad regime," she told the UN Security Council in New York.
It will be part of a special exhibition for the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings in the town named after the famous battle in 1066.
The tapestry was created by residents and visitors and has previously been displayed next to the Bayeux Tapestry.
Robert Emeleus, Battle Museum chairman, said he was hoping for a flood of visitors for the special anniversary.
Margaret Emeleus, also from the museum, said: "It was a very difficult period, after the battle... life in England radically changed."
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She said the Alderney Tapestry had inspired the Battle community - 6,500-strong compared to Alderney's population of 1,900 - to start its own embroidery project.
Mrs Emeleus said it was looking at the story "from the Battle through to 1115" and it was "bringing together the Battle community".
Mr Emeleus was quick to point out the project was "not in competition [with Alderney]".
The Alderney Tapestry is due to be on displayed in the Battle Museum of Local History from 2 September until mid-October 2016.
Luciana Berger, Liverpool Wavertree MP, received a number of emails on Friday, with one message allegedly saying "she is going to get it like Jo Cox did".
John Nimmo, 28, appeared before South Tyneside Magistrates' Court on Wednesday charged with sending a message causing anxiety or distress.
Mr Nimmo, of Moreland Road, South Shields, was remanded for a hearing on 27 July.
In May Ms Berger officially joined the race to become Liverpool's first metro mayor and has been the target of hate messages in the past - often referencing her Jewish religion.
Last month Labour MP Jo Cox, 41, was shot and stabbed shortly before she was due to hold a constituency surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire.
Antoine Maury, 21, was last seen on Monday at 22:30 after leaving friends at Edinburgh College's Milton Road East Campus.
His mother, Laura Maury, issued an appeal to him to come home, saying he was not in any trouble.
She urged people living in the area to check their outbuildings and garages.
Mrs Maury also appealed for information from anyone who may be sheltering her son.
Police said there was a possible sighting of a man matching Mr Maury's description near the Duddingston Village area of Holyrood Park, heading into the park, on Monday between 22:45 and 23:00.
The man was topless.
Laura and Pascal Maury, who have flown in to Edinburgh, said their son's disappearance was completely out of character.
Mrs Maury said her son was well liked and had been enjoying his studies in Scotland.
He has been a student at Edinburgh College for three months.
They plan to organise a search on Saturday with family and friends.
Divers from the Borders Water Rescue Team are continuing to search Duddingston Loch.
Duddingston Village has been searched using police sniffer dogs.
Ms Maury said: "We are desperate to find Antoine and are appealing to anyone who might have information as to where he is or know if someone is sheltering him.
"We want him to know that we love him, he is not in trouble and for him to come home.
"We ask that anyone living in the area to please check their outbuildings and garages again to confirm that Antoine is not hiding there.
"He is a very happy young man and there is no reason to believe my son would run away."
Mr Maury was described as white, of medium build, 6ft with short brown hair, a beard and has a bleeding hand tattoo on his forearm.
He has a good level of English, but was unfamiliar with Edinburgh.
He has lost his glasses and his eyesight is not very good.
Insp Alan Carson of Police Scotland, said: "We are continuing our search to find Antoine today and are still appealing to the public for their assistance.
"This is a live missing person investigation and we are very concerned for Antoine's welfare. I would urge anyone with information about his whereabouts to contact us immediately.
"Any information passed to police may hold the key to finding Antoine."
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The assault on Jinnah international airport in Karachi began late on Sunday, with security forces gaining control in the early hours of Monday.
The Pakistani Taliban have said they carried out the raid as revenge for the killing of their leader last year.
A government spokesman said a full investigation was under way.
Asif Kirmani, a political secretary to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, also praised the security forces for their response.
The Karachi airport attack comes against the backdrop of a major split in the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) - and threats of retaliation following limited military operations against foreign militants in North Waziristan.
Given the violence, it seems clear that any pretence at a peace process is now over. Few seriously thought that recent talks between the government and militants were getting anywhere anyway.
The attack is also a reminder, if it were needed, that despite their divisions, the Taliban retain the capability to mount spectacular strikes across Pakistan.
Pakistan Taliban still deadly despite split
Pakistani officials said 10 heavily armed gunmen stormed the airport in two teams of five on Sunday at 23:00 local time (18:00 GMT).
The attackers, wearing explosives belts, are believed to have entered the area using fake ID cards, although some reports suggest they cut through a barbed wire fence.
They threw grenades and fired at security guards in the old terminal, used for cargo and VIP operations.
The airport was shut down, passengers were evacuated and flights diverted as security forces fought back.
Seven militants were shot dead in a gun battle with security forces which lasted until dawn. Another three attackers detonated their explosives.
The dead terminal staff were said to be mostly security guards from the Airport Security Force (ASF) but also airline workers. The initial death toll of 28 was raised after the Civil Aviation Authority said two more bodies had been found inside the terminal.
Hours after the airport reopened on Monday evening, there were reports that a group of airport employees were stuck inside a cold storage facility where they had taken refuge.
Their relatives gathered outside the terminal building, demanding urgent action to rescue them. A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority said it was being investigated.
The Chief Minister of Sindh province, Qaim Ali Shah, said the attackers "were well trained" and their plan "very well thought out".
Later on Monday, security forces displayed a large quantity of weapons and ammunition seized from the attackers, as well as food, indicating they had been prepared for a lengthy siege. They also displayed the bodies of the dead militants.
Army officials said there were indications that some of the gunmen may have been foreign nationals.
The Taliban later said they had carried out the attack, and that its aim had been to hijack aircraft, though they failed to do so.
It was "a message to the Pakistan government that we are still alive to react over the killings of innocent people in bomb attacks on their villages", said spokesman Shahidullah Shahid.
Pakistan has been fighting an Islamist insurgency for more than a decade, with the Pakistani Taliban the main militant group.
Prime Minister Sharif recently told the BBC he was still hopeful a peace initiative with the Taliban could succeed, but the violence has continued, with Karachi a frequent target.
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The move came after Prince William and Prime Minister David Cameron wrote to Fifa asking that England be allowed to wear shirts embroidered with poppies.
Fifa bans political, religious or commercial messages on shirts.
England and Wales have agreed to the compromise. Scotland will consult their opponents before making a decision.
England will wear the armbands in Saturday's friendly against Spain.
"The FA welcomes Fifa's decision and thanks them for agreeing to this," the Football Association said in a statement.
The Football Association of Wales confirmed its players will wear the armbands for their match with Norway on Saturday.
Scottish Football Association chief executive Stewart Regan said they hoped to adopt the same approach for the friendly against Cyprus in Larnaca on Friday night.
Regan said: "The decision is a pragmatic solution to the fact that Fifa's rules forbid the wearing of the poppy on the match shirt.
"Subject to the approval of the Cypriot FA as the host nation we will also adopt this approach in our friendly match on Friday night.
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"We believe this is a fitting way to show our respect for those members of the armed forces who have lost their lives fighting for their country."
The Fifa announcement of the compromise came shortly after it was revealed that the Duke of Cambridge had written a letter to world football's governing body in his position as president of the FA.
Clarence House said the Prince was "dismayed" by Fifa's initial stance ahead of Saturday's England match against Spain.
Earlier on Wednesday, Mr Cameron said he would also write to Fifa asking it to lift the ban ahead of England's game with the world champions.
"It seems outrageous," said Mr Cameron. "I hope Fifa will reconsider."
A spokesman for St James's Palace said the Prince was pleased with the compromise.
No poppies were worn when England played Brazil on 14 November 2009
A Downing Street spokesman said Mr Cameron welcomed Fifa's decision, saying: "It's a sensible way forward."
As an alternative to having embroidered poppies on their shirts, the FA had previously said England players would wear black armbands during the game and lay a wreath on the pitch during the national anthems.
England and Wales' rugby league players will be wearing poppies on their shirts this weekend, along with the other two teams - Australia and New Zealand - involved in the Four Nations.
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Now with oil at a 12 year low, below $30 a barrel, how can airlines possibly be hitting passengers with a surcharge for jet fuel?
The point is they aren't.
But before you crack open the champagne and book a quick flight off to the Maldives - those surcharges haven't gone away.
They're just not for fuel any more. They're for - well it's not quite clear what they are for, apart from maintaining profit margins at the airlines.
To recap: the surcharges were introduced as a way for the airlines to distance themselves from the rising cost of oil, in the same way that they itemised government taxes on their bills.
Travel writer Simon Calder explains: "It was a way for the airline to say "this is nothing to do with us - don't blame us for the price rises".
Even when oil prices began to fall, for a while fuel surcharges were still acceptable because the airlines had hedged, buying much of that oil when the price was high.
"And let's not forget the oil price is paid in dollars and the dollar has been very strong over the last year," he adds.
That has meant that savings have been slow to come through. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) reckons the final hedges which locked airlines into higher than market oil prices will unwind by mid-2016.
Even so, as the oil price raced downwards, the surcharge became virtually impossible to defend.
And, more important, the regulators were not going to let the airlines hoodwink their passengers.
In 2012 the US Department of Transportation had ruled: "When a cost component is described as a fuel surcharge … that amount must actually reflect a reasonable estimate of the per-passenger fuel costs incurred by the carrier".
So bit by bit the fuel surcharge has disappeared.
Has that meant fares have come down?
IATA's chief economist Brian Pearce says: "In 2015 air ticket prices on average still fell by around 5% (adjusted for exchange rate changes) and we expect similar reductions in 2016.
"That's a substantial reduction because at the same time airlines are seeing the costs like labour and airport charges going up."
But the interesting point is how the airlines have removed the surcharge.
Some airlines like Qantas and Virgin Australia did get rid of it altogether and absorbed it into their basic fare early last year.
Many of the budget airlines, such as Ryanair, boasted that they never had a fuel surcharge in the first place.
A few held on to it, most notably in Japan where it is strictly regulated, and accurately reflects the falling cost.
So the fuel surcharge for a JAL flight from Japan to Korea at the beginning of 2015 stood at 1,000 yen (£5.80; $8.40). A year later and it has sunk to 300 yen.
But many of the other airlines simply removed the fuel surcharge and replaced it with something different, often described as a "carrier imposed surcharge".
What that means is not exactly clear.
For instance BA's explanation of the charge is as follows: "Carrier imposed charges were introduced in October last year in response to a variety of factors.
"These include changing industry practices and to be consistent with changes that have been in place for flights originating in the USA for a number of years."
Lufthansa is slightly more illuminating. It introduced an "international surcharge" in 2014. Spokesman Boris Ogursky says: "The surcharge covers costs beyond our control such as air traffic control fees, emissions trading scheme payments and so on.
"It is important for the customer to compare the overall cost of the flight with other airlines. The total fare is steered by market competition - it's not just us making up surcharges and putting them up and down as we like.
"It is a highly competitive marketplace."
In some respects the name of the surcharge is irrelevant. As Simon Calder says: "You could call it a uniform charge if you want, and you can say it's to cover the cost of uniforms, it matters not a jot.
"It is just another way of charging the passenger."
However, it does matter to frequent flyers. In general, frequent flyer points can only be redeemed in exchange for basic fares. Surcharges and government taxes, with some exceptions, have to be paid for with cash.
So, by framing a large chunk of the fare as a surcharge, airlines can protect that income from discounts and loyalty scheme claims.
The bottom line could come as a bit of a shock to a frequent flyer eagerly queuing up to redeem points to buy a British Airways round trip to New York, say.
If they leave early this Saturday and come back on Wednesday, they will be faced with a total fare of £523.55.
Of that £155 is government taxes. No chance the frequent flyer points (known as Avios to BA customers) will pay for that.
£163 of the fare is the carrier imposed surcharge. The points won't pay for that either - unless there is a special offer available.
In the end the points will pay for just £205 of the £523.55 fare. The frequent flyer (not the points) ends up paying the rest.
Both sides began the match in the top two, and Boro came close in the first half when Albert Adomah hit the bar.
League leaders Boro took the lead when Jordan Rhodes finished from six yards.
The Clarets looked like they would drop out of the Championship automatic promotion spots with Brighton winning, until defender Keane forced home a corner to maintain their top-two place.
Keane's dramatic intervention stretched Sean Dyche's side's unbeaten league run to 20 games, a streak that goes all the way back to Boxing Day, and ended Boro's six-match winning run.
Aitor Karanka's side would have gone four points clear at the top of the table had they held on for victory, after Rhodes had turned home Daniel Ayala's knockdown of Stewart Downing's free-kick midway through the second half.
Boro, whose gap at the top remains at two points, had come the closest to opening to scoring in the first half when Albert Adomah smashed against the crossbar.
The Clarets regularly threatened following Rhodes' goal, with Boro defender Ritchie De Laet having to be on hand to clear George Boyd's strike off the line.
Matt Taylor's free-kick then deflected just wide for the hosts before, two minutes into injury time, his corner caused chaos in the Boro area and was tucked away by Keane.
The Clarets would have dropped a point behind Brighton had they been defeated, with the Seagulls thrashing QPR 4-0, but they remain in the top two on goal difference.
Burnley manager Sean Dyche:
"I'm really pleased with the whole group tonight, for the mentality. That's an important game, you go 1-0 down, that can defuel you. Not for us. We just kept on and on; eventually they cracked.
"[Middlesbrough] are a very good team; they've spent wisely. They've spent it really well, I think that was actually a compliment.
"I've got total respect for every manager. I mean it sincerely. We're all trying to do the job, to be successful."
Middlesbrough head coach Aitor Karanka:
"We had our chances to score the second and the third and with George Friend and Gaston Ramirez's injuries I had to make substitutions. The game was under control for us.
"If you look at the games where we scored against Reading and Bolton, we try to always play football. It's my decision, my style and I am really proud of all of them. When we lose, we lose with our style; when we win, we win with our style.
"I don't know if we are going to get promotion but I'm really proud of all of them. As a coach, you can't be prouder than I am now."
Match ends, Burnley 1, Middlesbrough 1.
Second Half ends, Burnley 1, Middlesbrough 1.
Hand ball by Sam Vokes (Burnley).
Foul by Ashley Barnes (Burnley).
Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Tomas Kalas replaces Stewart Downing.
Goal! Burnley 1, Middlesbrough 1. Michael Keane (Burnley) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Stephen Ward following a corner.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Ben Gibson.
Attempt blocked. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sam Vokes.
Attempt missed. Matthew Taylor (Burnley) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick.
Ashley Barnes (Burnley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough).
Attempt missed. Dean Marney (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Ben Mee with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Grant Leadbitter.
Attempt blocked. Matthew Taylor (Burnley) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Sam Vokes (Burnley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough).
Substitution, Burnley. Matthew Taylor replaces George Boyd.
Joey Barton (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Forshaw (Middlesbrough).
Hand ball by Dean Marney (Burnley).
Substitution, Burnley. Ashley Barnes replaces Andre Gray.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Dimitrios Konstantopoulos.
Attempt missed. George Boyd (Burnley) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Matthew Lowton (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Adam Forshaw (Middlesbrough).
Attempt missed. Sam Vokes (Burnley) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Matthew Lowton.
Attempt blocked. Andre Gray (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Adam Forshaw replaces Gastón Ramírez because of an injury.
Substitution, Burnley. Lloyd Dyer replaces Scott Arfield.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough) because of an injury.
Foul by Ben Mee (Burnley).
Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Burnley 0, Middlesbrough 1. Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Daniel Ayala with a headed pass following a set piece situation.
Foul by Ben Mee (Burnley).
Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stephen Ward (Burnley).
Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Joey Barton (Burnley) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matthew Lowton with a cross following a corner.
Abdurraouf Eshati admitted collecting information for terrorist purposes.
The 29-year-old was sentenced at London's Old Bailey over the bid to get arms to the war-torn country.
The charge related to two documents on the purchase of ammunition and cargo plane hire.
Judge John Bevan QC said on Tuesday: "It's obvious that his involvement means that it was felt he could be trusted as a confidant in relation to large-scale arms supply."
Eshati was due to stand trial on Monday but changed his plea.
The court was told electronic documents found outlined a plan to send 1,100 tonnes of ammunition to Libya, via a contact in Italy, in support of the Zintan people of the eastern region.
During their investigation, police searched Eshati's room at Wrexham Islamic Cultural Centre where they found a number of letter-headed documents which were blank, apart from a stamp and a signature which the prosecution said was a forger's kit.
It is understood Eshati lived at the mosque and would occasionally lead prayers when no one else was available but he did not take any of the main prayer meetings.
Eshati was caught trying to get to France in the back of a lorry with 19 other people at the port of Dover in Kent on 30 November, last year.
On his mobile phone, police found an invoice from an arms supplier for the sale and delivery of ammunition to Tobruk in Libya and a document about chartering a cargo jet for £163,000 for use in Libya.
Eshati also had images on his phone of militia group activists, a beheading and armaments in action which, the prosecution said, showed his allegiance to the Zintan people.
On his arrest, he told police he had been in Britain since 2009 on a visa and later as an asylum seeker.
Eshati said his father had been a senior figure in the Gaddafi regime and was now in prison in Tripoli while his two brothers had been murdered. This, however, was a false claim.
On Monday, he admitted seeking leave to remain in the UK by deception on or before 14 December 2012, by falsely claiming he was at risk of persecution if returned to Libya.
Dr Ikram Shah from the Wrexham Islamic and Cultural Centre said in a statement the members want to disassociate themselves from Eshati's actions and added they feel betrayed by what he has done.
Speaking after the hearing, Det Ch Supt Terri Nicholson, head of operations at the Metropolitan Police's counter terrorism command, said: "There is no doubt trading arms in this way would endanger the lives of many Libyans, with the potential for use in other conflicts."
The Crown Prosecution Service said Eshati's arrest and the finding of these documents led to Italian authorities discovering large scale illegal arms supplies being imported from eastern Europe to conflict zones in Libya and other places.
It includes guidance on how to manage the big day itself and how to ensure your school gets as much BBC coverage as possible.
As you turn your classrooms into newsrooms, these printable posters, press passes, cut-out-and-make microphone cubes and certificates will help transform your building into a professional news-making environment.
Create your own dedicated web page
Prepare a simple holding page, with a "come back at 1600 GMT on 16 March 2017" message, and send the address of the dedicated web page (URL) to the School Report team. This guide - Prepare your school web page - provides some handy hints and tips for setting up the page.
Tell us what you're working on
The School Report team wants to know what news topics you are looking at. We may be able to offer some help and advice.
Find out more on teacher Jo Debens' blog.
We may even be able to visit your school to help your students turn their idea into a report.
In addition, schools contacting the team before the day may be featured on the School Report channels - streamed on the BBC website on 16 March - or be featured elsewhere on the BBC (e.g. local radio or websites).
Prepare some news features
During previous years, School Reporters have found it useful to prepare a few reports in advance, basing them on news themes which will still be relevant on the News Day in March.
Your reports can be uploaded to your dedicated web page now, or held back until the big News Day.
Inform your local news outlets
Local newspapers, radio and television outlets are always looking to cover interesting events such as School Report News Day.
However, journalists at local papers are often busy and don't have the time to visit your school. Why don't you take the initiative and write the story for them? That way your school stands a good chance of appearing in the paper.
Before News Day in March, you could send in a story about your plans for the day, or you could write up a report afterwards.
Newspapers often refer to stories sent in by the public as press releases - they are details about an event released to the press. You might find some good tips in this guide: How to write a press release.
Plan your News Day schedule
Teachers who have participated in previous years' News Days have found that the day naturally follows the news-making process: find, gather, write and broadcast, and have scheduled activities accordingly.
This timetable, devised by Oldham City Learning Centre, may be a useful template. It describes activities for students creating a TV and a radio bulletin, but may be adapted for students creating text-based reports.
Alternatively, you could use this guide, based on a practice day by Waldegrave Girls School in Twickenham, Middlesex.
Announce School Report in an assembly
Why not tell the rest of the school about School Report during an assembly?
Not only will this encourage students to look at School Reporters' work on the school website on News Day, but it is also a great way to run through your plans ahead of the day. Share your plans for News Day. Who are you interviewing? Which stories are already lined up?
For more ideas take a look at how the 2015 News Day unfolded.
Remind students of the School Report essentials
On the News Day, remind students of the School Report rules:
There's more information about these golden rules in the School Report guide to keeping your news safe and legal.
Dress your newsroom
Print copies of the School Report poster in the "cut out and keep" box at the top of the page and use them to dress your newsroom. You can also make your own School Report microphone cubes using the template provided.
Reward students with certificates
Download a School Report certificate from the "cut out and keep" box at the top of the page and distribute copies to your students at the end of the News Day.
And not forgetting, most importantly - have fun!
The money is to be used for health, education, cross-border trade and hydroelectricity projects, it said.
The announcement comes as World Bank head Jim Yong Kim and UN chief Ban Ki-moon start a tour of the region.
One person was killed when a mortar landed in Goma, a UN spokesman said.
Government and M23 rebel forces have been involved in heavy fighting near Goma since Monday, killing 19 people.
The clashes are the first since the M23 pulled out of the city last year under diplomatic pressure.
The UN says it will speed up efforts to deploy a 3,000-strong intervention force to eastern DR Congo to end the latest conflict.
Some 800,000 people have fled their homes since the M23 launched its rebellion last May.
The World Bank aid package is to support a peace deal signed in February between DR Congo and its neighbours, some of whom are accused of backing the rebels.
"This funding will help revitalize economic development, create jobs, and improve the lives of people who have suffered for far too long," Mr Kim in a statement.
The largest tranche of the aid - $340m - will go towards an 80-megawatt hydroelectric project in Rusumo Falls, providing electricity to Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania.
Despite its vast mineral wealth, decades of conflict and mismanagement mean most Congolese remain stuck in poverty.
The mortar fell in the Goma neighbourhood of Ndosho, killing one person and injuring four, said UN peacekeeping mission spokesman Madnodje Mounoubai, Associated Press news agency reports.
He said he did not know who fired the mortar.
Campaign group Human Rights Watch researcher Ida Sawyer told Reuters news agency that a two-year-old girl died and three members of her family, including a boy and girl, were wounded.
The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse in Goma says government and rebel forces have clashed in Mutaho, 10km (6 miles) east of the city for a third day.
Shells and rockets have been fired, he says.
Four government soldiers and 15 rebels were killed in the clashes on Monday, government spokesperson Lambert Mende told the BBC.
Mr Ban is due to visit Goma on Thursday.
The renewed fighting showed the need to speed up the deployment of the intervention brigade so that it would be "fully responsible as soon as possible", Mr Ban said.
The UN approved the creation of the force - made up of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi - in March to "neutralise" rebels in DR Congo.
The troops will have the most robust mandate ever given to UN peacekeepers to end conflict, officials say.
Mr Ban and Mr Kim are also due to visit Rwanda and Uganda.
Last year, a UN report accused the two countries of backing the M23, an allegation they denied.
On Monday, Rwandan President Paul Kagame told the BBC that UN troops had "in some cases" made the situation in DR Congo worse.
He said any military effort to bring peace to DR Congo needed to be "properly co-ordinated" with political efforts.
Col Muammar Gaddafi famously farted his way through at least one television interview.
But now there's a new master of the undiplomatic discourtesy on the world stage.
The Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte - addressing a gathering of Chinese officials and businessmen here in Beijing - wasn't holding back.
"Americans are loud, sometimes rowdy," he is reported to have said. "Their larynx is not adjusted to civility." And this was just the beginning of the speech.
Unsurprisingly the remarks, including the announcement of the "separation" of his country from the United States, its longstanding ally, went down very well indeed.
For Chinese officials, right up to President Xi Jinping who warmly greeted Mr Duterte in Tiananmen Square just a few hours earlier, it is like all their Christmases have come at once.
For the Americans, it has left them simply baffled.
"It's not clear to us exactly what that means in all its ramifications, so we're going to be seeking a clarification on that," a State Department spokesperson told reporters back in Washington.
There are three possibilities. The first, the one the US is banking on right now, is that it is, in fact, all bluster.
That Mr Duterte, in a bid to ingratiate himself with his Chinese hosts, has been simply playing to the gallery and that, unless and until any formal steps are taken, everyone knows the trade and defence treaties with the US remain firmly in place.
A far more troubling possibility is that Mr Duterte does indeed mean business. Stung by the recent criticism of his human rights records by the US and mindful of the growing military and economic might of China, might his utterances signal something real and substantive in terms of a foreign policy shift?
Chinese ships currently occupy the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea and however many international tribunals the Philippines win over the issue they are unlikely to alter the balance of power.
And the Philippines could certainly do with better access to the massive market of 1.3 billion consumers on its doorstep.
But there is a third more complex possibility, that Mr Duterte is trying to have his cake and eat it, to engage in a great power game by playing the US off against China.
It would not be the first time in recent years that a Philippine president has had to calibrate carefully his country's relationship with both superpowers.
There have been plenty of attempts at engaging with China in the past in the hope of putting the principles of the territorial dispute on the backburner in order to seek the mutual benefit of a resource sharing arrangement in the contested waters.
"Your fish is my fish," Mr Duterte told Chinese state TV ahead of this week's visit.
And yet such an approach would require deft diplomatic footwork and, you would think, a need for a careful weighing of words.
And what is even more baffling is that Mr Duterte, despite earlier assurances, appears to have made no attempt on this trip to raise the issue of the fishing rights of the Philippine fishermen currently excluded from their traditional grounds around Scarborough Shoal.
At home, his government also appears to be struggling to make sense of exactly what the strategy is. His trade minister insisted that there will be no formal break in ties with the US.
Another official asked reporters not to try to "interpret" the president's remarks but to wait instead until he returns to Manila.
Are the geopolitics of Asia really about to be turned upside down? Or should we be wary of reading too much into the barrage of insults and rudeness.
Despite Churchill's taunting of de Gaulle referred to earlier, Britain and France remained uneasy allies. Perhaps the US and the Philippines will too.
The alleged offences took place in Leigh Park in Havant between Monday and the early hours of Tuesday.
Hampshire Constabulary is carrying out searches at a property on the housing estate in Park Parade.
The men, aged 20, 36, and 43, from Havant, who are suspected of several sexual offences, were later released from custody pending further inquiries.
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The three girls aged 15 and 16 are being supported by specially-trained officers.
The 20-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of three counts of causing or inciting a girl aged 13-17 to engage in a sexual act.
The 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of three counts of causing or inciting the sexual exploitation of a child aged 13-17.
The 43-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of three counts of causing a female aged 13 or over to engage in sexual activity.
The force has appealed for anyone who may have been in the Park Parade area on Monday evening to come forward.
Albion named seven subs for their 2-1 victory on 28 February, when competition rules only allow five players on the bench.
The match will be replayed on Sunday at at Bognor Regis Town's Nyewood Lane.
The winners will face Sporting Club Albion in the last 16.
Shona Robison said that when she took up her post as health secretary, there was a suggestion only two were needed.
But she said there was now a consensus for trauma centres to be in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The Conservatives have accused the government of a "complete failure of forward planning".
Look back on the ministerial statement on Holyrood Live.
Scottish Labour called for the health secretary to apologise, but Ms Robison refused to accept the criticism.
She said the £30m network could save around 40 lives a year.
In her ministerial statement, she said the project could also help many more people enjoy an improved quality of life.
The network was originally announced in 2014 and was supposed to open in 2016. But last week it emerged they would not be fully implemented until at least 2020.
However, Ms Robison said the centres in Aberdeen and Dundee could be operational within 12-18 months.
She added: "It was right to take the time to build that consensus rather than push ahead with a model that didn't have that clinical buy-in."
She said that the 6,000 people a year who experience trauma in Scotland already get "first rate" care in accident and emergency departments.
The new network would provide "optimal care" for around 1,100 of the most seriously injured, she added.
General Zahir Zahir gave no reason for his resignation, his spokesman said.
Three South Africans were killed in a Taliban attack on a compound used by a US-based charity on Saturday, the third such attack in the past 10 days.
President Ashraf Ghani, who took power in September, has vowed to bring peace after decades of conflict.
There's been a clear pattern to the Taliban attacks of the past two weeks in the capital. Most have targeted foreigners, military or civilian, whenever and wherever possible.
At first it was the big, heavily fortified compounds on the Jalalabad road where many foreigners live and work, which came under attack. But the militants failed to get inside.
More recently the suicide bombers and gunmen have gone after softer targets, such as the aid agency building which was stormed on Saturday evening leaving three South Africans dead. It had very little protection.
With many Afghans also killed and injured in this spate of attacks, there is an uneasy atmosphere in the capital with people wondering who or what will be targeted next.
It is a set-back for President Ghani who has promised to restore peace to the country. It is also embarrassing for the police, military and intelligence agencies which seem incapable of disrupting the plans of the Taliban suicide bombers.
For now, it's the capital's police chief who seems to have paid the price for this security failure, but there must be other senior officials who bear responsibility.
Gen Zahir was himself the target of an attack in early November, when a suicide bomber infiltrated his offices - supposed to be one of the most secure buildings in Kabul - and killed his deputy. Gen Zahir was not there at the time of the attack.
In a spate of attacks in Kabul this week, two American soldiers were killed on Monday and two British embassy workers were killed on Thursday. Dozens of Afghans have also been killed and injured.
Saturday's attack was on a building used by the Partnership in Academics and Development (PAD), a small US education group.
PAD said on its website that three staff members were killed and several others injured in an attack by several gunmen, one of whom detonated a device.
A family spokeswoman, quoted by AFP news agency, named the three dead as Werner Groenewald, 46, who ran the charity, his daughter Rode, 15, and son Jean-Pierre, 17.
The BBC's Richard Galpin in Kabul says it was the deadliest in a series of suicide strikes in the capital over the past fortnight.
A senior Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said on Twitter that the target of the attack was a Christian missionary group.
Kabul is regularly subjected to Taliban bombings, with the military, police and government officials all targeted.
This week, Taliban militants also attacked the camp formerly known as Camp Bastion in Helmand province, one month after it was vacated by British forces.
The militants launched an attack late on Thursday night and fighting continued into Friday and on Saturday.
Officials say the militants breached the perimeter fence and accessed a barracks building, killing five Afghan soldiers on Friday. They say that 26 militants were also killed.
On Saturday, in a separate attack on a military base in Sangin in Helmand, 12 Afghan soldiers were killed and one is missing, a spokesman for the Helmand government said.
The Taliban have stepped up attacks in Afghanistan as most foreign combat troops prepare to leave the country next month.
As part of the agreement on the withdrawal of foreign combat troops, some 12,000 Nato soldiers will remain to train and advise Afghan security forces from 1 January.
A separate US-led force will assist Afghan troops in some operations against the Taliban.
Malian officials said they had taken back the strategic central town of Konna, which rebels had secured just a day earlier as they pushed south.
The news came hours after France announced it had begun military operations in support of Mali's army.
Armed groups, some linked to al-Qaeda, took control of northern Mali in April.
The Islamists have sought to enforce an extreme interpretation of Islamic law in the area.
Regional and western governments have expressed growing concern about the security threat from extremists and organised crime.
Announcing France's military intervention, French President Francois Hollande said Islamists had been trying to turn Mali into a "terrorist" state.
He said the intervention complied with international law, and had been agreed with Malian interim President Dioncounda Traore. It would last "as long as necessary", he added.
By Hugh SchofieldBBC News, Paris
The rhetoric out of Paris suggests that from the French point of view, the situation in Mali has taken a dramatic turn for the worse in the last few days. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said it was vital to stop this new advance by the Islamists.
So it would seem that a country that has been a growing but still peripheral preoccupation for France - and for the West in general - is now at the very centre of their strategic plans.
There is a real fear that if the "terrorists" - as the French government calls them - succeed in taking over Mali, then it will become a rogue state much like the old Afghanistan.
Given the ties of family and trade with France, it would be France to pay the cost if that rogue state began to export its ideology. So a line has been drawn in the Sahel sand. For good or bad, this may well turn out to have been a momentous decision.
French officials gave few operational details. When asked whether there had been French air strikes, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius confirmed that there had been "an aerial operation".
Residents in Mopti, just south of Konna, told the BBC they had seen French troops helping Malian forces prepare for a counter-offensive against the Islamists.
Mr Traore declared a state of emergency across Mali, which he said would remain in place for an initial period of 10 days.
He used a televised address to call on Malians to unite and "free every inch" of the country.
"Our choice is peace... but they have forced war on us," he said. "We will carry out a crushing and massive retaliation against our enemies."
Late on Friday Malian officials said they gained control of Konna.
"Konna is under our control this evening but we are still conducting mopping-up operations," said Lt Col Diarra Kone, though he warned that some rebels might still be in the town.
The British government expressed its support for the French operation. US officials said Washington was considering providing intelligence and logistical support to French forces.
The west African bloc Ecowas said it was authorising the immediate deployment of troops to Mali "to help the Malian army defend its territorial integrity", AFP reported.
The UN had previously approved plans to send some 3,000 African troops to Mali to recapture the north if no political solution could be found, but that intervention was not expected to happen until September.
Mr Fabius said the aim of the operation was to stop Islamist militants advancing any further.
It was not clear how far the French would go in helping Mali's government retake territory in the north.
At least seven French hostages are currently being held in the region, and Mr Fabius said France would "do everything" to save them.
A spokesman for al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said he considered the French operation a "Crusader intervention", and told France it would be "would be digging the tombs of [its] sons" if the operation continued, according to the Mauritania-based Sahara Media website.
France ruled Mali as a colony until 1960.
Steve Mackey, chairman of the Rhondda Tunnel Society, said they could not get any major funding until ownership is transferred to Wales.
But a Welsh Government spokeswoman said it was their understanding ownership was not required to take next steps.
She said the economy secretary would seek clarification.
Meanwhile the society has been invited to give a presentation to the European Commission to bid for funding.
The Rhondda Tunnel Society wants the Blaencwm tunnel, in Rhondda Cynon Taff, to Blaengwynfi, in Neath Port Talbot, to be re-opened for use by cyclists and walkers.
The tunnel is currently owned by Highways England, and the Welsh Government was criticised in February for not requesting its transfer.
Mr Mackey said the project had been "going round in circles" because £300,000 was needed for a structural survey to show it is a viable project before the Welsh Government would ask for ownership.
Mr Mackey said: "I don't blame the Welsh Government for looking into this deeply - they're not going to spend money opening it only to find out it's not workable - but I'm sure they could do it quicker.
"I believe Brexit could affect this project. Even if the Welsh Government just gave us a letter of intent [of ownership], we could move forward."
He said a meeting with Economy Secretary Ken Skates had been arranged for 10 January regarding the issue.
But a Welsh Government spokeswoman said: "We have been supportive of the Rhondda Tunnel Society's efforts to re-open the tunnel and in May we arranged a meeting between the society, Highways England and Welsh Government to discuss this project.
"During that meeting, Highways England advised the society on next steps and were very positive about how they could support the society's work to gain a better understanding of the tunnel's condition.
"We are surprised by these comments as our understanding following that meeting was that the transfer of ownership of the tunnel to Welsh Government was not required to undertake next steps.
"The economy secretary has asked officials to speak to Highways England to clarify the position and will be writing to and meeting with the society following that."
Wales MEP Jill Evans, who is setting up the Brussels visit for the society, said she wanted them to meet Michael Cramer, a keen cyclist who is chairman of the transport committee, and those in the European Commission who deal with transport funding, to examine possible applications.
"The ownership of the tunnel is another aspect we would have to discuss, but obviously time is an issue," she said.
"The Rhondda Tunnel Society have done so much work already and I hope that the EU can help to move things forward. It's certainly worth exploring all possibilities.
"As a member of the transport and tourism committee in the European Parliament I know of the increasing interest in cycling holidays and I believe we have something unique to offer."
Surging waters that have already caused extensive damage across central Europe are moving north and east along rivers including the Elbe and Danube.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has visited areas already hit by the deluge and promised 100m euros (£78m; $130m) in emergency aid.
Meanwhile river levels in the Czech capital Prague have begun to fall.
Large areas of suburban Prague were flooded but metal barriers protecting the historic city centre held as the floods peaked and the high waters moved north towards Germany.
Around 4,000 German troops have been deployed in four states, the military said, reinforcing dykes with sandbags and providing help to thousands of people forced to leave their homes.
By Stephen EvansBBC News, Passau
Chancellor Merkel came bearing gifts. She promised that the federal government would earmark 50 million euros in direct aid to flood affected areas, with the government of Bavaria matching the sum in the region.
That money may have to be spread over a wider area. All the signs were that the waters of the Danube were subsiding, but other rivers further north started to look more threatening.
In Saxony, the Elbe was rising to dangerous levels, as waters poured in from the Czech Republic.
The unanswered question is whether floods are getting worse and more frequent in this region. The two big floods in recent memory were 2002 and today's - both previously predicted to be very rare events.
But the big one before that was in 1954, before concerns about global warming.
The Danube is a busy commercial waterway which is much subject to man-made alteration, both to improve navigation and for waterside development.
This human engineering of the landscape is constantly monitored and debated in this region. The current floods will add to that debate.
The latest cities to be hit include Meissen on the Elbe. Nearby Dresden is preparing for water levels 5m higher than normal.
Officials in Saxony - home to both Meissen and Dresden - have warned that rivers could rise even higher than in the record floods of 2002, when both cities were devastated.
Chancellor Merkel toured some of the worst-hit areas on Tuesday, flying over Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia by helicopter.
In the stricken Bavarian city of Passau - where waters reached a level not seen in 500 years - she called the floods "an event of historic proportions" and promised 100m euros in emergency aid, half of it from the federal government
"I spoke to residents who are already busy with clean-up work and I am aware that it will take weeks. The damage and loss of income are a long-term problem and therefore our support will not dwindle," she said.
Across Europe at least 12 people have died as a result of the floods. As well as Germany and the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary have been affected.
Main roads in many areas have been closed and rail services cut. Thousands of homes are without power.
Hungary has declared a state of emergency as the surging waters move down the River Danube, with the peak expected on Thursday.
The Hungarian capital Budapest and the Slovakian capital Bratislava - both on the Danube - are on alert and flood defences are being reinforced.
In the Czech Republic, a nationwide state of emergency is still in force. Water levels were expected to peak in the north later on Tuesday.
As a precaution, Prague's metro system and central sewage treatment plant were closed, metal flood defences were erected and sandbags built up along the banks of the Vltava.
In Austria, the meteorological service said two months of rain had fallen in just two days.
Shipping was halted on parts of the Danube and Rhine in Germany, and the entire length of the Danube in Austria. The rivers are used heavily to transport commodities such as grain and coal.
The national head coach faces a qualifier against Slovenia at Hampden, four months after a 3-0 defeat at Wembley left the national team in the doldrums.
Of the Scottish-based players selected in the last squad, Craig Gordon, Jack Hamilton, Lee Wallace, James Forrest and John McGinn are all playing regularly. Callum Paterson and Leigh Griffiths are currently injured.
A question mark remains over Scott Brown's continuing involvement after the Celtic midfielder reversed his decision to retire to return to the team for the trip to face England, but he has yet to commit himself further.
Outside Scotland, Strachan currently has the usual mixture of players in form and others out of sorts.
Centre-back has always been an area of concern for Strachan, because of limited options. He has tended to select Russell Martin and Grant Hanley, more often than not, so it will be of some reassurance to the national manager that both played for the full 90 minutes in winning teams at the weekend. Hanley made only his second start for Newcastle United as they defeated Derby County 1-0, while Martin captained Norwich City to their 1-0 win at Cardiff City.
It has been a challenging season at times for Darren Fletcher, but he has always retained the faith of West Brom manager Tony Pulis and the result has been an upturn in form. Fletcher, the club captain, played for the full 90 minutes as Stoke City were beaten 1-0, following on from the midfielder's assist against Middlesbrough in the previous game and a goal against Sunderland before that.
The winning strike against Stoke came from James Morrison, the midfielder's fifth of the season and his third in five games.
Matt Ritchie, too, remains on goalscoring form for Newcastle, delivering the decisive effort against Derby, the winger's eighth goal in the Championship this season and his fourth in three games. Ritchie is also among the leading players for assists in the division, with six so far.
It is still a period of adjustment for Robert Snodgrass following his £10m move from Hull City to West Ham United. The attacking midfielder played for the full 90 minutes, though, in his side's 3-1 win away to Southampton.
Returning to Strachan's options at centre-back, Christophe Berra and Gordon Greer are both playing for the clubs, Ipswich Town and Blackburn Rovers respectively. A 2-2 draw at home to Reading told of Ipswich's mixed form, while Greer lasted 70 minutes in Blackburn's 1-0 win over QPR.
Barry Bannan turned out in central midfield for Sheffield Wednesday, as usual, and was part of a 1-0 victory over Wigan Athletic that kept his side in the Championship play-off places.
There are more troubling concerns for midfielder James McArthur, who lasted 62 minutes in midfield as Crystal Palace were beaten 4-0 at home by Sunderland, a result that prompted a dressing-room visit from the chairman, Steve Parish, afterwards and a demand from the manager, Sam Allardyce, for the players to be at training on Sunday morning at 7am.
Chris Martin can be comfortable about his immediate future since Steve McClaren wants the striker to extend his Derby County contract, but for now he remains on loan at Fulham, who lost 1-0 at home to Birmingham City.
A new manager and new circumstances for David Marshall at Hull City. The goalkeeper has been relegated to the bench in favour of Eldin Jakupovic and hasn't started a game since 2 January.
Stephen Kingsley remains on the periphery at Swansea City and was an unused substitute in the team's 2-1 defeat by Manchester City, having not made the match squad for the previous two league games.
A prominent role also still eludes Oliver Burke, who came on for 17 minutes as Leipzig lost 1-0 away to Borussia Dortmund.
Ikechi Anya also came off the bench for Derby, his second successive appearance as a substitute, and he has started only one of their five Championship games since the turn of the year.
For a striker, Steven Fletcher's timing could be better. He was sent off against Brighton last month and still has one match of this three-game suspension to serve after the weekend. His place in the side has been taken by new signing and Scotland colleague Jordan Rhodes, who provided the assist for Ross Wallace in the 1-0 win over Wigan.
Strachan has already spoken of his admiration for Tom Cairney, having watched a number of Fulham games in recent weeks, and the midfielder is widely expected to be called up for the next squad. Now Fulham captain, and playing in a central role, he has consistently impressed.
Missing out on the original squad for the England game last November seemed to spur Matt Phillips, since he went on a run of starts that delivered three goals and six assists in the Premier League for West Brom. The winger clocked in another 87 minutes against Stoke.
Andrew Robertson missed out against England through injury, but his form was impressive enough for Burnley to lodge a £10m bid during the January transfer window. That was rejected and the left-back played for 90 minutes as Hull defeated Liverpool 2-0.
It would be unsurprising if there was also a recall for Charlie Mulgrew, since the former Celtic defender has become a regular starter for Blackburn, mostly at left-back but also in central midfield. He could also offer an option at centre-back.
Ryan Fraser has taken time to settle to life in the Premier League, but in Bournemouth's last six games he has delivered two goals and three assists, including one in the 6-3 defeat away to Everton.
Having found himself out of the picture at Hull, goalkeeper Allan McGregor secured a loan move to Cardiff in the transfer window and has started the last five games, conceding four goals.
Mr Cook made his announcement to try to help people struggling with their identity, he wrote in a Bloomberg Businessweek article.
He has been open about his sexuality, but has also tried to maintain a basic level of privacy until now, he said.
This week Mr Cook challenged his home state of Alabama to ensure the rights of gay and transgender people.
"While I have never denied my sexuality, I haven't publicly acknowledged it either, until now," he wrote.
"So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me," he added.
He said he didn't consider himself an activist, but that he realised he had "benefited from the sacrifice of others."
"So if hearing that the CEO [chief executive] of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it's worth the trade-off with my own privacy," he added.
Mr Cook said that he had been open about his sexuality with many people, including colleagues at Apple, but that it still "wasn't an easy choice" to publicly announce his sexual orientation.
He quoted civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King, saying: "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' "
Analysis
Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC News technology correspondent
Tim Cook's announcement may come as no surprise in Silicon Valley or across corporate America.
But that does not mean that we should underestimate the significance of the leader of the world's most valuable company talking openly about his sexuality.
Back in May, a piece in the New York Times asked "where are the gay chief executives?" and struggled to name any openly gay CEOs at America's 1,000 biggest companies.
Apple under Steve Jobs was not a company that took a stand on any issues which were not seen as relevant to its business.
Tim Cook has been more forthcoming on all sorts of issues, including equal rights for gay workers, and while he says he does not see himself as an activist, that is how many will now see him.
That could embroil him in controversy in the United States, let alone in other parts of the world with less liberal views of sexuality.
Mr Cook admitted that going public as a gay man was not an easy choice - but it certainly looks a courageous one.
This week Mr Cook referred to Martin Luther King in a speech in Alabama in which he called for equal rights for people based on sexual orientation and identity.
He said that Alabama had been too slow to ensure the rights of ethnic minorities in the civil rights era, and was now being too slow to guarantee gay rights.
"Under the law, citizens of Alabama can still be fired based on their sexual orientation," Mr Cook said.
"We can't change the past, but we can learn from it and we can create a different future."
Mr Cook has championed equality at Apple, but in August said he was "not satisfied" with workforce diversity at the company.
Outstanding, a not-for-profit professional network for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) executives, said on Thursday that many LGBT people in the UK felt it was "safer to stay in the closet" when at work.
In May a US study by LGBT organisation Human Rights Campaign suggested that 53% of US LGBT employees had not come out at work.
Former BP chief executive Lord Browne, who now chairs fracking company Cuadrilla, said Mr Cook had become a role model.
"By deciding to speak publicly about his sexuality, Tim Cook has become a role model, and will speed up changes in the corporate world," Lord Browne said.
The peer kept his sexual orientation a secret for decades, but was forced to come out after a boyfriend made his sexuality public in 2007.
Lord Browne later resigned after losing a court battle with a newspaper.
Its website now has a checklist to help patients recognise and avoid rogue companies offering dodgy deals.
Questions to ask include whether the surgeon who will be carrying out the operation is certified and insured and what to expect in terms of recovery.
Patients should also consider if their own expectations are realistic.
Dawn Knight, 48, from County Durham, underwent botched eye surgery at a private clinic in 2012.
She had wanted a blepharoplasty or eye lift to remove some excess skin from her lids.
But the surgeon took too much skin away, which meant she was unable to close her eyes and had problems with her vision.
She has since had corrective treatment on the NHS.
She says: "My experience has been one long nightmare, and I feel a sense of loss for all the time I've spent trying to correct the problems I've suffered.
"I had no idea my surgeon was not insured to work in the UK or that he was self-employed.
"People need to know the risks of procedures.
"The fact that medical knowledge is needed for these procedures gives people a false sense of security, and it's easy to be misled."
The new online resource is funded by the Department of Health, in the wake of the breast implant scandal of 2012, when it emerged tens of thousands of British women had been fitted with unsafe silicone implants that were prone to rupture.
The website advises: "Never feel rushed or pressured into giving your consent. Be wary of surgeons or staff who try to convince you to go ahead."
There were more than 51,000 cosmetic procedures performed in the private sector in Britain last year alone.
Mr Stephen Cannon, vice-president of the RCS, said people should do their research and think twice before opting for a cosmetic procedure.
"The vast majority of cosmetic surgery is carried out in the private sector and many people do not realise that the law currently allows any qualified doctor - surgeon or otherwise - to perform cosmetic surgery, without undertaking additional training or qualifications," he said.
"Our advice is that if you are thinking of having some kind of work done, make sure you consult a surgeon who is trained and experienced in the procedure you are considering.
"Look them up on the General Medical Council's register."
But what about East Belfast Ladies FC? Never heard of them?
The team only formed 18 months ago and entered their first league last year, but despite their inexperience, they did the double in their first season, winning the Northern Ireland Women's section 2 league and cup.
Moreover, they didn't form because of any particular passion for the sport, but because their then head coach, John Spence, wanted to do something about the lack of recreational groups for women in the area.
The group has mixed abilities. Leanne Watter joined because her husband encouraged her, and despite never having played football, was named 'Player of the Year' by her fellow teammates.
"I always enjoyed playing football in the back garden with my son," she said.
"I started at 31 years of age. I couldn't take a proper throw-in when I started, but with pure determination and learning, I could take one by the end of the year."
Many of the players do not have access to childcare in the evenings, so they bring their children along to the training sessions.
Trish Neil travels as far as Larne every week, just to attend training and be part of the team.
"I wanted to play somewhere that is sociable and fun," she said.
"I don't think I've missed very many training sessions all year, I really enjoy it and I bring the kids up with me. I've played for a few different clubs - in Ballymena and in America - but everyone works so hard, we all want it so much."
Leanne's husband Stephen Watter is the clubs assistant manager, but this year he is stepping into the role of manager, taking over from John Spence.
"In the first couple of months the turnout was great, but the football wasn't," he said.
"There were lots of different abilities and levels, so we took a few hammerings at the start.
"It was hard to keep the morale up, but once we got used to it, they were training a few times a week.
"They were dedicated and the enthusiasm was there, so the experience just followed naturally."
In a short time, the club has risen to prominence in the community.
Emma Shaw doesn't play football, but attended a community event about education in working class areas and she ended up helping the club behind the scenes.
"Within the last 23 months, we've taken a lot of courses, including autism awareness, first aid, community development and facilities management training," she said.
"It's not just about football, it's about what football can do for the community. We want to be more than a club and that is the aim for the team."
Stephen Watters said there are "so many talented girls out there in Northern Ireland, who don't even realise they are good footballers".
"I'd encourage all girls out there, even if you have a wee bit of an inkling that you would like to play football, try it out, find the time, and go out and enjoy it," he added.
Beamish Museum is replicating an end of terrace shop from Bow Street in the town for its new 1950s attraction.
A public vote is being held to decide whether it should be a hairdresser's, a toy shop and dolls' hospital or an electrical goods store.
The £10.75m 1950s-style development will also include shops, a cinema, cafe, community centre and houses.
People will be able to cast their vote during a series of events, starting on Tuesday at Captain Cook Square Shopping Centre.
The decision will be announced at the museum during the October half-term holiday.
Lisa Peacock, from Beamish, said: "This shop will be a replica of the one in Bow Street, Middlesbrough, so we wanted people from the town to choose what type of shop it will be.
"We'd also love to hear people's memories of shopping in Middlesbrough during the 1950s and see any photographs they may have."
It is being fought between soldiers who support the president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, and a group of fighters known as rebels, who don't want him to be in power anymore.
Because it is being fought between two sides within the same country, it is known as a civil war.
But why did it start and what do both sides want?
The trouble began in 2011 in the Syrian city of Deraa.
It began because local people decided to protest after 15 schoolchildren were arrested - and reportedly tortured - for writing anti-government graffiti on a wall.
The protests were peaceful to begin with, calling for the release of the children, democracy and greater freedom for people in the country.
The government responded angrily and, on 18 March 2011, the army opened fire on protesters, killing four people.
The following day, they shot at mourners at the victims' funerals, killing another person.
People were shocked and angry at what had happened and soon the unrest spread to other parts of the country.
In July 2012, the International Red Cross said the violence in Syria had become so widespread that it was in a state of civil war.
When the war first began, the protesters just wanted democracy and greater freedom.
But once government forces opened fire on peaceful demonstrations, people demanded that President Bashar al-Assad resign. However, he refused to do this which made the protestors extremely angry.
As the violence got worse, he offered to change some things about the way the country was run, but the protesters didn't believe him.
As President Assad still has a lot of people in Syria that support him and his government, the fighting continues as the protestors have not yet got what they want.
A little confusingly, there isn't one single group of rebels fighting against President Assad and the government's army.
The opposition - that is, those who all want the president to step down - is made up of several kinds of people. These include groups of rebel fighters, political parties who disagree with Assad, and those living in exile who cannot return to the country.
It is thought there could have been as many as 1,000 different groups opposing the government since the conflict began, with an estimated 100,000 fighters.
Complicating the situation further, the crisis in Syria has become more than just a war between people who are for or against President Assad.
In early 2014, in neighbouring Iraq, an extremist group that calls itself Islamic State - or IS - began to take over large areas of the country.
IS is a radical militant group which has used violence against anyone who doesn't agree with their extreme views.
They have also persecuted other groups, including Christians and Yazidis.
They later moved into eastern Syria and, in the chaos of the war, they were able to gain land and power there too.
Now, both Assad's forces and the rebels are having to fight a separate conflict against the terrorist group IS at the same time.
To try and stop IS, in September 2014 the US, UK and other countries joined forces, using planes to attack their fighters on the ground in Iraq. These attacks are known as airstrikes.
On Wednesday 2 December 2015, MPs voted in favour of military action in Syria against IS.
The first airstrikes were carried out by RAF Tornado jets within hours of the vote in the House of Commons.
The war has meant that millions of ordinary people living in Syria have had to escape from their homes in order to find somewhere safer to live.
Some have stayed in Syria, while others have left the country entirely.
Many of those that remain in Syria have run away from the cities to seek safety in the countryside. Lots of children can no longer go to school because their schools have been destroyed or there are no teachers where they have moved to.
Of those that have left Syria, many have fled to the neighbouring nations of Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq.
When people are forced to leave the country where they live like this, they become known as refugees. The conflict in Syria has caused one of the largest refugee movements in recent history.
Many refugees have made the decision to try to reach Europe, which can be a long and dangerous journey. This is because some countries in Europe have said they will accept refugees who want to start a new life here.
In September 2015, a report showed Germany welcoming hundreds of migrants, while Prime Minister David Cameron said the UK would accept up to 20,000 people from Syrian refugee camps by 2020. France said it would take in 24,000 people.
Millions of people both inside and outside Syria are in desperate need of help, but aid agencies say that getting aid to people inside the country is very difficult and dangerous.
In September 2016, a convoy of aid lorries was hit by an attack, meaning the UN announced it would be stopping all aid in Syria. People trying to carry on their lives in this country are in desperate need for the situation to change.
Everyone in Syria will know people who have died in this conflict, but the exact number of those who are gone may never be known.
One other topic that has been widely discussed about the war in Syria is about the weapons that have been used.
There is an international law which bans countries from using chemical weapons in warfare, as they are deemed too cruel to use on other human beings.
However, it was reported that chemical weapons were used during the war in Syria (this was later confirmed), which caused a great deal of anger around the world. Other countries then had to decide how they were going to respond. The Syrian government denied that it was responsible.
MPs in Westminster voted against responding to this with military action in Syria. The US and French governments discussed limited missile strikes against military targets. However, Russia has strong ties with President Assad's Syrian government and has helped Syria in the past by supplying weapons.
In September 2013, Russia suggested that the Syrian government should give up its chemical weapons and agree to destroy them so they can never again be used.
The process of destroying the weapons began in October 2013 and the people working on this project were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize later that month.
It doesn't look like the fighting is likely to end any time soon.
There is a stalemate between the two sides. This means that the government forces and the rebel groups are unable to defeat each other or agree on the future.
Caught in the middle of these wars, the Syrian people have lost their homes and members of their family.
Lots of countries are trying to continue to supply aid, such as food and emergency supplies, but the US and Britain said they had to stop all other support as they feared the equipment may be stolen by rebel groups, which they did not support.
For now, discussions continue between powerful nations like the US, Russia, Britain and France, to try to work out if there is another way to help Syria achieve peace. But for the time being, the conflict continues.
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We have actually won it five times, but since the 90s we've failed to make an impact.
The voting system for picking the UK's entry is changing this year.
Radio 1Xtra presenter, Nick Bright, shares his thoughts with Newsround.
22 May 2016 Last updated at 08:36 BST
It still is not clear what happened, but there are clues from automatic computer messages sent by the plane before it disappeared.
BBC transport correspondent Richard Westcott explains.
The Metro currently links Birmingham with Wolverhampton.
A 1.2km (0.7 mile) scheme, due to be completed in 2015, will see the line extended from Snow Hill railway station to New Street station.
The route, along Bull Street, Corporation Street and Stephenson Street, will see trams in the city centre for the first time since 1953.
The extension is being part-funded by £75.4m from the Department for Transport, which gave its backing in February 2012.
Work began in July although the first rails have just been laid.
Centro, the West Midlands transport authority, said the Metro extension would "revolutionise the way people travel to and around the city" and carry up to 3.5 million passengers a year.
But Baljit Kandola, co-owner of Bull Street-based newsagents Central News Midland, said his trade had fallen by 60% since the start of work and said he has had to sack three employees because of that.
"When the buses stopped that was bad enough but ever since the tram extension began, it has become a lot worse," he said.
"Hopefully we will benefit when the Metro is up and running but that's two years down the line. I'm not sure we'll still be here."
Meanwhile, Aggie Pelekanou, owner of Monty's Deli Sandwich Bar, also in Bull Street, said his breakfast trade had halved since the start of the tram scheme.
"It started when they moved the buses in August last year," he said.
"People used to get off the bus, grab a coffee. Now there is no passing trade at all. The workers have been good. They have arranged their shifts so they're not using the loud machinery when we're doing our lunch service but I can't lie. It has been hard."
The tram extension is expected to create more than 1,300 new jobs and boost the West Midlands economy by more than £50m a year. Four tram stops will be included as part of the scheme: at Snow Hill, Bull Street, Corporation Street and Stephenson Street.
Roger Horton, Centro's lead member for rail, who laid the first rail track at Colmore Gate in Bull Street, said traders had been compensated for their losses.
"Once there are trams coming past their shops, the traders will benefit," Mr Horton, who is also a Sandwell councillor, said.
Birmingham councillor Kath Hartley, the vice-chairman of the West Midlands Integrated Transport Authority said she also thought it would be "absolutely worth it".
"It may not be that far a distance in this first phase but this is only the first step," she said.
"Eventually this will go out to all the main centres. Quinton, towards the Black Country and the airport via Bordesley. It is what the people want."
But some people passing Corporation Street said they were unaware of what work was going on there.
"It's roadworks I think," said telecom salesman Bradley Davis, a 19-year-old sales assistant, from Metchley Lane in Harborne.
"It's been like this for about a year. I think they are making the road bigger."
Exeter Crown Court was told Ashley Dixon, of Down Road, Plymouth, Devon, used a helmet camera to record himself racing through Devon lanes.
Another video showed the 24-year-old driving through a village at 90mph.
Dixon, who pleaded guilty to two counts of dangerous driving, was jailed for nine months and disqualified from driving for two years.
The court was told Devon and Cornwall Police saw two videos on YouTube and were able to tie up the dates of the recordings with test drives Dixon took on a Honda Fireblade and a BMW S100RR in May and June.
The videos have since been taken down as police feared they could encourage others to ride bikes in the same reckless way.
Judge Francis Gilbert, QC, told Dixon he could not recall any other case of such extremely dangerous driving.
"It was a miracle nobody was killed or seriously injured, including yourself," he said.
The judge said he believed Dixon filmed himself so he could "show off" on the internet.
"You rode for at least five miles, and probably more, on each occasion on 1,000 cc bikes which you purported to take for test drives even though you were never going to purchase them because you could not afford them," he said.
"You did it so your wildly dangerous driving could be seen by others."
Mr James Taghdissian, prosecuting, said the footage showed Dixon "riding like a lunatic".
Eight-year-old Nikita Vasava was on her way to a farm on Wednesday in Vadigam village when the leopard attacked her.
The leopard was trapped in a cage, but angry villagers set the cat on fire.
Leopards and other big cats have been known to stray into populated areas, and conservationists have warned that such confrontations may increase as humans encroach on animal habitats.
Forest official RS Gadhvi told the BBC's Ankur Jain that forest workers had trapped the leopard hours after the girl was killed.
"We laid seven cages around the village and trapped the big cat. But angry locals came with cans of fuel and torched the cage with the big cat inside. Forest officials guarding the cage where shooed away," he said.
There have been several instances of man-animal conflict in India in recent years.
In July, a group of men killed a leopard with sticks and stones in Gujarat's Rojmal village.
With 1,395 leopards, Gujarat has the second highest population of the cats in the country. More than a third of these cats live close to human habitation.
Last year, more than a dozen people, mostly farm workers, were killed and over 100 were injured in leopard attacks.
In many villages of Gujarat, people light small fires while working on fields to keep the cats away.
In February, a male leopard entered a school in the city of Bangalore and injured six people trying to capture it.
And in October last year, a male leopard spent five hours with its head stuck in a metal pot in a village in the northern state of Rajasthan.
The four parents, calling themselves Letzgo Hunting, said they had challenged seven men in person after chatting with them on the internet.
Four men have been arrested based on evidence gathered by the group.
But police said their tactics could have a "negative effect" on child abuse victims and their success in court.
Leicestershire Police said that last month they arrested a 54-year-old man in Warwickshire, a 24-year-old man in Loughborough, and a 33-year-old man in Hinckley.
A 45-year-old man was arrested in the West Midlands last week. All are currently on police bail pending further enquiries.
One member of Letzgo Hunting, who calls himself Scumm Buster online, defended the group's activities.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live's Victoria Derbyshire, he explained: "We are vigilantes, definitely. We're not working within the law. But we're not a vigilante lynch mob.
"We're not there to hurt anybody. We are there to get an explanation."
He said the group - three men and one woman - posed online as girls aged between 12 and 15. They chatted to men online, some of whom wanted to have intimate conversations of a sexual nature.
"We try to get them to say, in as much detail as possible, exactly what they want to do," Scumm Buster said.
Some online exchanges are held "over a month or two, because the more they say, the more can go into their prosecution", he added.
The men then suggest a meeting, local to where the "girl" lives. They are asked to bring condoms and alcohol.
The meeting sometimes involves the female member of the group waiting in an open, public area to encourage the man to get out of his car.
"Once out of the car, we make it very clear that we're not there to be offensive to them, we're not there to hurt him, and we're only there to have a talk to them about what they're doing," Scumm Buster said.
He also stressed the purpose of the encounters was "to show their intent", and to demonstrate that the men were breaking the law under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 by inciting a child to participate in a sexual act.
"While they are on the internet - in a fantasy world - saying they are going to do this and that, there are no particular laws broken.
"Once they show up and make it very clear that their intent is to meet the person for sex, that's the bit where the law is actually broken."
Of the nine people the group say they have met since January, seven were spoken to while being filmed, and the other two drove away from the meeting place.
The group said they had given car registration numbers to the police.
Asked how he felt at the meetings, Scumm Buster said: "Anger, of course. It would be unnatural if I wasn't feeling angry.
"We're angry, we're upset. The things we see them say, I wouldn't normally say to my partner. It's too offensive - it isn't right the things they are saying."
However, Leicestershire Police said it did not endorse such tactics and urged people with suspicions of child abuse to contact police, Crimestoppers or the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP).
"Unfortunately, these kinds of public 'naming and shaming' activities can actually have a negative effect on victims of child abuse.
"While we understand the strong feelings that motivate this kind of activity, it can seriously affect the chances of success in court, preventing victims from getting justice and increasing the chances of offenders walking free.
"It also fails to take into account that many victims of child abuse are children or family of the offenders, thus bringing extra distress to innocent people and affecting our ability to safeguard victims."
CEOP also warned of the consequences of unlawful activity by vigilante groups.
"While we understand the public's desire to protect their children from online abuse, we do not encourage vigilante investigations of this nature as they can compromise ongoing investigations into paedophile networks, and could spark an abuser to harm a child if they feel threatened.
"Identifying alleged paedophiles is best left to the police and suspected incidences of online grooming can be reported to CEOP."
Forward Nathan Webb and midfielders Luke Wall, Steven Hewitt and Arron Davies have also left the club.
Fellow midfielder Paddy Lacey was released after he was given a 14-month drugs ban by the Football Association.
Stanley have taken up one-year options on defenders Janoi Donacien, Omar Beckles and Mark Hughes and midfielders Jordan Clark, Brayden Shaw and Benin international Rommy Boco.
Speaking after Cardiff's dramatic 4-3 defeat against Barnsley, Warnock stated that he is 'ready to make changes.'
Warnock says he will sell to raise funds to improve his squad, but admits Zohore could change his January plans.
"If Ken can keep carrying on playing like this I will be delighted to have him on-board and we can spend the money elsewhere," he told BBC Wales Sport.
"He is what I have been looking for all along and he's just come out the woodwork.
"He's been a massive plus for us because I'm looking to spend decent money on a striker in January, and I can't buy anybody better than him at the minute.
"We are looking for someone like him, someone who can go beyond, can be strong, can flick it on here and there, has got an eye for goal.
"I wish some of our chances against Barnsley had fallen to him. He has come out the blue really."
Warnock had not selected Zohore before last week when he came on at half time in the win over Wolverhampton Wanderers, with his previous appearance for the Bluebirds coming on 1 October when Paul Trollope was still in charge.
Warnock explained: "If we hadn't have been so bad in the first half the other night [against Wolves] we probably wouldn't know about Kenneth. So I'm lucky aren't I?
"I can see light at the end of the tunnel in two or three positions now."
Warnock says Zohore has not been in his plans until impressing against Wolves, because he has been lazy in training.
"He'll get better when he gets fitter. He knows now that he can do that every week, and that's what you need from a striker," he said.
"I am so pleased with him. He's been a little bit lazy at times since I have been at the club.
"But he's showing what he can do and he will get fitter now. He's a big plus for us. But there are a few minuses I have to deal with as well in the next nine days."
Mohammed Syadul Hussain, 25, was found guilty of assisting Mohammed Kadir, who is suspected of murdering Koran teacher Jalal Uddin in Rochdale before fleeing to Syria.
Mr Uddin, 71, was bludgeoned in the face in an attack in a children's play area in February 2016.
Hussain, of Oswald Street, Rochdale, was jailed for five years at Manchester Crown Court, Crown Square on Thursday.
Last year, Mohammed Hussain Syeedy, 21, also from the town, was convicted of murder and jailed for life with a minimum term of 24 years.
He drove Mr Kadir, suspected of striking the fatal blows that killed the the imam, to the park before the attack.
The pair were said to have been consumed by hatred of Mr Uddin because he practised a form of Islamic healing in Rochdale's Bangladeshi community which the so-called Islamic State (IS) considers "black magic".
Mr Kadir, of Chamber Road, Oldham, has left the UK and is thought to be in Syria.
In the hours following Mr Uddin's murder, Hussain "openly expressed his approval" of the imam's death on WhatsApp, Greater Manchester Police said.
He later spoke on the phone with the alleged murderer Mr Kadir, who was his friend, before meeting with him and Syeedy early the following day.
This "placed him in the company of the two men responsible mere hours after the murder", police said.
Hussain then withdrew £700 from his bank and gave it to Mr Kadir two days after the murder.
Det Ch Insp John Harris said: "Not only did he not come forward and assist the police, but he actively sought to impede the investigation by helping the man believed to be responsible to flee the country."
The 33-year-old says his career could be over after his latest injury, which he suffered in a win over India in the first Test of their series.
Australian team doctor Peter Brukner said Clarke had "substantial damage to a key part of the hamstring tendon".
Steve Smith will captain Australia for the rest of the Test series against India, Cricket Australia has announced.
The length of Clarke's absence is unclear ahead of February's World Cup, which will be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.
"His recovery and the timing of his return to play will be dependent on the surgeon's advice and how well he recovers in the coming weeks," added Brukner.
Smith will become Australia's 45th and third-youngest Test captain when the second Test starts in Brisbane on Wednesday.
"It's something that I've always dreamt of doing," said the 25-year-old all-rounder. "It's an amazing thrill."
Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin, who was expected to get the captaincy, has been named as vice-captain.
Chairman of selectors Rod Marsh said Smith was highly regarded not just for his batting but also his "maturity and clear leadership potential".
Smith, who has played just 23 Tests and has previously captained New South Wales, scored 162 not out and 52 not out in the recent first-Test victory over India in Adelaide.
Xixi Bi, 24, died in hospital after the attack by Jordan Matthews, 24, at their flat in Llandaff, Cardiff, in August.
He was sentenced to life at Cardiff Crown Court on Tuesday and must serve at least 18 years after being found guilty by a jury last week.
Judge Nicola Davies said Matthews had relentlessly attacked Miss Bi.
The assault was the "tragic culmination" of a course of physical and verbal abuse over a number of months, Judge Davies said.
Her brother, Zexun Bi, said "the heart has been ripped out of our family".
Barman Matthews admitted manslaughter but denied the murder of Miss Bi, a post-graduate student at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
She suffered 41 injuries as a result of the attack, including a broken jaw and ribs.
In a victim impact statement, her brother said his sister had been due to run their family's multimillion-pound company and had the "whole world in front of her".
"No sentence imposed will ever reflect the heartache and pain he has inflicted upon my family," it read.
"Xixi will always be in our hearts, no matter how broken they are."
During the trial, the court heard Matthews, who said he had a black belt in karate, regularly beat Miss Bi and called her "worthless".
Matthews said he hit Miss Bi, believing she had cheated on him, and cried when he was later told she was dead.
He accepted he was smoking "quite a lot" of cannabis at the time and the court heard he felt "insecure" when his girlfriend visited her family in China.
He said he became "paranoid" about Miss Bi being unfaithful to him and believed she had received a message from someone called Ben on the Tinder dating app.
Miss Bi did not have the Tinder app or any contacts called Ben.
Christopher Henley QC, defending, said Matthews "misses her, he loved her, but he accepts that the way he treated her was atrocious".
Judge Davies said: "Xixi provided you with a home, clothing, she bought a car for you. You took what she gave.
"You lied and lied again in order to attempt to exculpate yourself from the overwhelming evidence which was that during the early hours of August 19 2016 you relentlessly and remorselessly inflicted physical injury upon a defenceless young woman."
He promises a transformation of the athletics calendar, to attract more young people via "street athletics" and to set up an ethics department for the sport.
I spent some time with the former London 2012 mastermind to discuss why he wants the top job in his sport, and what he wants to achieve for athletics.
Lord Coe, first of all if you can, just outline for us why you want this job?
I'm very privileged that track and field has been my life. I joined an athletics club in South Yorkshire in 1968.
It's a journey that took me to two Olympic Stadiums, heading up a team that delivered the largest Olympic sport (athletics) in London, 33 consecutive full houses.
I've woken up most mornings knowing that athletics would shape my life, why wouldn't I want to do this?
It is something that I feel strongly and passionate about. We have a very great sport but we also have some very big challenges.
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Your priorities, what do you think they are?
For me, it's very clear, it's engaging with young people. Every bit of work that we've done, internally and externally, within and outside our sport shows that although we've had many well intentioned initiatives, we have struggled - and we should be open with that - to engage with young people as both competitors, as spectators and ideally at some stage in their lives as coaches.
So it's engaging and exciting and redefining and reviewing the sport.
Why do you think you've struggled?
It's for a variety of reasons really, I think there is no question at all the landscape for young people is much more cluttered and conflicted than it's ever been. I joined an athletics club in 1968, sport was absolutely the central focus in my life and, probably carbon dating myself, there were no other great distractions.
We have to recognise that the landscape that young people are living in and working in and sharing their experiences and their lives in, is very different and we have to adapt to that.
You speak about integrity as one of your pillars in your manifesto and doping is tied very closely to integrity. Do you think that the war on drug cheats is winnable or not?
It has to be. That isn't a "nice-to-have", it a "has to be". Our sport would not have survive three weeks let alone 33 centuries if it had been based on anything else other than hard work, focus, and talented coaching and athletes that were prepared to dedicate half of their young lives on the pursuit of excellences.
It has to be based on that, so this is a war that has to be won.
If it means allocating more resources to it, if it means being tougher in terms of closing the gap between a positive and a sanction, if it means bringing in an independent tribunal to ease the pressure off individual federations, then we have to do this.
It is absolutely about trust. The trust that when an athlete steps foot on track, that the athletes that are lining up against them are there for the right reasons.
The spectators going into the venues know that the event they are watching is real and that parents are encouraging their parents into a sport that has a non-negotiable stance towards drug abuse.
The new World Anti-Doping agency code that is going to introduce a tougher, four year ban for athletes found guilty of cheating, does that go far enough?
That four year ban, let's remember was pushed by track and field. We were very clear that two years is not a sufficient ban, it's a bump in the road.
Would you like more?
I'm uncompromising on this.
Would you criminalise it?
No. I have always preferred a life ban, I recognise that for legal practicalities that train has left the station. It was very important that we won the argument about being able to retain a four year ban.
The Germans are talking about a draft law to criminalise drug cheats, are they on to something here?
It's not only the Germans. If you look at civil law in many other countries, that is actually a criminal offence.
What we have to do is not just clamp down on the athletes, but the entourage that are as often quite insidiously involved in this as the athlete.
You withdrew from the race to be the Chair of the BBC Trust. You said you didn't have the 'capacity' to do it. (Coe is executive chairman of CSM Sport and Entertainment, chair of the British Olympic Association, and a consultant to Chelsea FC and PruHealth, as well as having several unpaid jobs). Do you have the capacity to do this job?
Some of those responsibilities are foundations and charities which I'm very proud of. I think this is a little previous.
This is an election, there is no preordained result, anybody that knows me well enough, particularly over the bidding and the delivery of London knows that I'm absolutely focused.
I would not be committing to this if I were not prepared to be able to do everything that I need to do with all the right corporate governances to deliver that job in the way it needs to be delivered and that's exactly what I did with London.
How tempted were you by the London Mayor position and why did you decide not to go for that and go for this instead?
I have been aware for some time that there was likely to be a vacancy for this role in August of 2015. I've been involved in this sport for 40 years. Those experiences over those 40 years tell me that this is a wonderful sport. But it now faces some really daunting challenges.
If the sport decides that I am part of their future, I would love to help shape the future of track and field. It's really important that people fall in love with my sport again.
In 2005 in Singapore you said that the London games would "inspire a generation", you were also the government's legacy ambassador following the London Games.
And yet the statistics show that while the number of young people playing sport has risen, the actual proportion of youngsters who are active has declined, and obesity is still on the increase. Have we failed on that part of the legacy, in terms of participation and health of the nation?
No I don't accept that, I don't remotely accept that. Since we bid in 2005 and won the rights to stage the Games, a million and a half more people, and a big chunk of them young people, are now playing sport on a regular basis.
That's actually because the population has increased isn't it?
No that's not actually the case. Never in any era has participation been a gentle uphill graph.
There are challenges, one of the biggest challenges is not about the amount of people playing sport but about the physical inactivity of the population. Sport can play a really important part in that.
If you look at the number of people running, if you look at the number of people involved in my sport, that has increased comfortably in the last few years.
Nobody is sitting there saying that this is going to be anything than a 10 year journey, but the Games were a fantastic opportunity.
Full houses for every track and field competition, the Commonwealth games in Glasgow during the summer, again a fantastic showcase for our country, and then we have the World Athletic Championships in the Olympic Stadium in 2017. I think that's a pretty strong legacy for my sport.
You briefly chaired Fifa's ethics committee for a short time (between 2006-08). Could you have done more to instil a culture of transparency and honesty there that is seemingly lacking when it comes to world football's governing body?
Yes, I was chair of the Fifa ethics committee for about a year and a half and then of course England bid for the 2018 World Cup, and the rest is history. It is very important that sports have ethics committees.
I've been at the centre of structuring an ethics committee within track and field for the very first time. It's very important that we have those corporate governances.
I do make the point more broadly, and this I guess is one of the planks of my election campaign, that all the corporate governances in the world are not going to protect you if the culture of an organisation is not being set pitch-perfectly at the very highest level.
The concept of fair play is not simply rooted in the field of play, and amongst competitors, the tone and style of an organisation is set at the very top, and no matter how wide ranging those corporate governances are, they will never save you unless the culture at the organisation is the right culture.
Can Fifa move forward with president Sepp Blatter in charge?
Fifa has to move forward. Remember organisations from time to time go through those moments, those horrible moments. The IOC went through it in 2000 with Salt Lake City, we've had it with Ben Johnson and cycling had it.
Sports do, they are very, very resilient and it is very important to remember that for all the mutations that you may have from time-to-time, sport still captures the imagination and for young people it is still a metaphor for life.
So should he go, Sepp Blatter?
That's not for me to say. I'm not involved in football, my sport is track and field, my focus is entirely on track and field. I do not benchmark track and field against what is going on in other sports wherever it takes place.
Just relating to England 2018 and the submission the Sunday Times made to the Commons' Culture, Media and Sport select committee, that said it was on your advice that the England 2018 bid started to spy on rival bids through embassies and private companies. Is that true and did you do the same for the London 2012 bidding process as is claimed by the Sunday Times?
No, I haven't read the report.
The Sunday Times said that "senior England 2018 officials said they were advised to set up a 'network of information' by Lord Coe and fellow executives from the successful London 2012 Olympic bid, who said such an intelligence gathering operation on lobbying activity and voter intentions had been a key part of their own campaign.
The third England 2018 source said Lord Coe had advised the bid that "it would be a good idea to have a source of some information." Did you suggest that?
I think the advice is perfectly sensible advice that you want to know what is going on, it's a campaign. What is being said about your strengths and weakness - intelligence is a very important part of any campaign.
So you did?
I'm saying that absolutely, all organisations that are seeking to campaign for big sporting events need to understand what that landscape looks like.
The World Athletics Championships are going to be held Doha in 2019. You headed up the Evaluation Committee for the IAAF, (that examined Doha's bid). Do you think they get a raw deal when it comes to hosting sporting events?
Many people say it's a controversial decision for them to host the World Cup in 2022 for instance, do you see it that way?
Well again, I'm not benchmarking our sport against any other sport. I chaired the evaluation committee, I spent five exhaustive weeks out on the road with my colleagues, we went through all those bids. They were three extraordinarily high standard bids. (Eugene in the US, and Barcelona were the other two).
We went through the documentation, the bidding process, we did our site visits. Our task was to deliver to my council colleagues a report that allowed them to make a decision about where the World Athletics Championships in 2019 go.
By a small margin, my council colleagues decided to go to Doha, and Doha will deliver a very good World Championships and it's the responsibility of the IAAF to make sure they are hugely successful.
Do you think it's the precursor to an Olympic bid, and if that happened would you welcome it?
I have no idea. That is of course up to the Qatar national Olympic committee but this is clearly a country that understands sport and wants to play a leading role in sport. The world athletics going to Doha in 2019 is a very clear indication of that.
Shortly before the vote, the Doha bid committed an extra $37m (£23.6m) "incentive" to the 27-strong IAAF Council (to build 10 new tracks around the world).
There is an impression to some that Qatar is effectively "buying" votes, including now with the World Athletics Championships. How do sports bodies balance the need for their money, investing in legacy products, anti-doping, etc, with the challenges - the extreme temperature, the controversy that goes with it?
This was a vote taken on my council, and a council that I'd like to say had a report that was more exhaustive in detail than any other report they've ever had in front of them and it is very important that if we are globalising sport that sport doesn't just simply go to a handful of countries and handful of cities in the mature part of the world.
We want to grow track and field, it is hugely important and that actually sometimes poses you challenge.
But we either sit as a mid-league sport in a handful of countries or we do our very best to take that sport to places where it hasn't been in the past to impact and imprint on young people and yes of course, those are the challenges that go with the presidency and ultimately the management of any senior sport.
Saving suggestions include cuts to maternity services in the county and reducing beds in community hospitals.
The Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) said "things could not stay the same" and would have to be done "differently".
Trade union Unison South West said there was a "real urgency to deal with the problems facing our NHS".
Dr Matthew Dolman, of the Somerset CCG, said: "It's driven by the fact that people are having more complicated illnesses and those complicated illnesses come with an increased cost.
"So that is driving this really large figure if we do nothing - which is why things can't stay the same. We have to do things differently.
"Part of the problem is that health and care is fragmented. What we're doing is coming together to say, 'right we've got a real problem here, let's work together, let's do things differently'.
Helen Eccles, from Unison, said: "We want to work together with employers to deliver preventative, joined-up services to deal with the predicted 30% rise in the elderly population, public health problems and the challenges of a rural area."
The tech entrepreneur's initial $200m investment will see him set up new manufacturing facilities and take control of the Launch Complex 36 pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
He made the announcement in a press conference at the station on Tuesday.
Mr Bezos tends to make little fanfare about his space actives, but he has been very busy behind the scenes.
In April, in Texas, he tested a sub-orbital vehicle called New Shepard.
This hurled a capsule vertically high into the sky. And although the propulsion unit did not return to the ground under control, as intended, the capsule did parachute safely to a soft landing.
A year ago, Mr Bezos's space start-up, known as Blue Origin, was commissioned to develop a powerful, liquid methane-fuelled engine for United Launch Alliance.
ULA, which lofts most of the military and national security missions in the US, intends to use the new engine on its next-generation Vulcan launcher.
The Amazon.com CEO says he will test the engine, codenamed Blue Engine-4, in Florida. And it will also power the orbital rocket that Blue Origin itself has on the design table - what Mr Bezos calls "New Shepard's sibling, her Very Big Brother".
Blue Origin is based in Kent, Washington, but like many "new space" concerns has been drawn to Florida by the incentives on offer following the retirement of the American space shuttles and the jobs that were lost as a consequence.
The development agency Space Florida is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in trying to lure new business.
But it is clear from a blog posting authored by Jeff Bezos on Tuesday that he is drawn also by the history of Cape Canaveral.
"As a kid, I was inspired by the giant Saturn V missions that roared to life from these shores," he wrote.
"Now we are thrilled to be coming to the Sunshine State for a new era of exploration."
Mr Bezos's $200m is expected to create roughly 300 jobs.
His arrival on the Space Coast will put him in direct competition with Elon Musk, who also made a fortune from internet ventures before getting into space activity.
Mr Musk's company, California-based SpaceX, already launches orbital rockets from the Air Force Station.
He is also refurbishing the old shuttle pad 39A at the nearby Kennedy Space Center.
The two entrepreneurs had an argument over who should get access to that facility, and of late they have been in a patent dispute over who owns the intellectual property on reusable rocket technology.
Thirty-six staff who maintain sorting equipment at four An Post centres have been on strike in a row over pay cuts since Friday.
The staff are employed by contractor IO Systems, but are retained by An Post to work at its sorting centres.
The Communications Workers' Union (CWU) said talks would resume on Tuesday.
The action by IO Systems staff had caused disruption to services in the Republic of Ireland and had led An Post to issue an appeal to people not to mail letters or parcels.
CWU said the IO Systems workers were in dispute "in response to the unilateral imposition of rostering arrangements that cut their wages by 22%".
IO Systems managing director Fergal Lynam said the dispute had been ongoing for more than two years.
He told Irish broadcaster RTÉ that contract changes were needed as weekend working was no longer required in the mailing centres and because of decreasing volumes at An Post.
In a statement on Monday, CWU said it had agreed to suspend industrial action at the request of mediator Phil Flynn and after confirmation from IO Systems that its workers would be reinstated in their jobs at their agreed wage levels and rostering arrangements.
"The union understands that talks are being arranged through Phil Flynn involving IO Systems for tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon," the statement said.
"The union said it expects An Post management to immediately restore full service across the National Postal System."
CWU general secretary, Steve Fitzpatrick said said the union was prepared to engage but only on the basis that workers at IO Systems had their jobs restored to their agreed wage levels and rosters.
"We are also prepared to back Phil Flynn's intervention in good faith," he said.
"However, we hope that IO Systems, or indeed An Post management, don't squander the opportunity that is being presented."
Property owners maintain that cracks appearing in walls and ceilings are a direct result of work being carried out at the former Swindon College site in the town centre.
A £50m retail and leisure complex is being built for development company Ashfield Land by contractors ISG.
The problem is so severe a chapel has been deemed unsafe and forced to close.
Richard Cooke, deacon of the 130-year-old Rehoboth Baptist Chapel on Prospect Hill, said the building has been closed since 24 January after cracks appeared in the walls and ceiling.
He said: "It got so bad that a bird came into the chapel through a large crack in the ceiling. I'm pretty upset about it.
"It's an inconvenience to the people who go to the church and we all wonder what's going to happen."
It is believed the damage may have been caused by heavy excavation work on the hillside to make way for a 450-space multi-story car park.
Mr Cooke said ISG has promised to repair the cracks but nothing has been done so far.
Nicola Cannon, who lives in nearby Cross Street, said cracks have also appeared in the walls of her garage over the past two weeks.
She said: "I'm slightly concerned because the cracks weren't there before they started excavating, and they are quite big."
Ms Cannon said "things would shake" when work was being carried out.
Terry Way, service manager at Cross Street Garage, said the cellar wall started cracking two months ago.
He said: "ISG said they would send somebody over to look at it, but they still haven't done so.
"It's very annoying, and we feel that we've been very heavily let down."
An ISG spokesman said: "We understand the importance of promptly addressing any concerns residents and local businesses may have and we are arranging to carry out detailed investigations of these properties as quickly as possible."
The Regent Circus development will include a six-screen cinema, a supermarket and eight restaurants and is expected to be complete by the autumn.
Independence day for Scotland would be in March 2016, with the first elections to an independent parliament in May.
First Minister Alex Salmond said the timescale was in line with previous international experience.
UK ministers said the SNP was failing to make the case for independence and focussing too much on "process".
The Scottish government wants to ask voters the yes/no question, "Should Scotland be an independent country", in autumn 2014, although it has yet to name the actual date.
A 16-page document published by SNP ministers has set out a possible transition from a "Yes" vote in the referendum to independence day in March 2016.
It came before the UK government next week publishes an analysis on the impact of independence.
The Scottish government paper envisages ministers joining other parties and civic groups to negotiate the terms of independence with the UK government, which would see the division of assets and liabilities, new global connections - including the EU - and Scotland's retention of the monarchy.
There would then be a written Scottish constitution, "which reflects the values of the people of Scotland", according to the document.
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Alex Salmond's timetable for independence, in the event of a "Yes" vote in the referendum, seems to have shortened.
In January 2012, the Scottish government said: "May 2016 will see the election of the next Scottish Parliament which would become the Parliament of an independent Scotland."
In other words, independence day would fall at some point during the 2016-2020 parliament.
By March 2012, Scottish Education Secretary, Mike Russell, told the BBC that independence could be negotiated in a "single year" following a "Yes" vote in the autumn 2014 referendum.
He predicted the "moment" of independence could arrive in time for the May 2016 elections.
Now the Scottish government intends that Scotland would become independent "in March 2016, just before the start of the 2016 election campaign".
On this timetable, the devolved SNP administration would become the first government of an independent Scotland.
Transferring powers before the election would also prevent the possibility that Scotland votes for independence and then elects pro-union parties to negotiate the terms.
Or call a fresh referendum.
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Mr Salmond urged UK ministers to agree to joint talks on the process surrounding the referendum result, as recommended by the Electoral Commission watchdog.
The first minister told BBC Scotland: "30 countries have gone through the process of having a referendum and then becoming independent.
"The average timescale for these 30 countries since the Second World War is 15 months - we've actually allowed a bit longer than that in the process."
Turning to those campaigning to keep the Union, Mr Salmond said: "The question they've got to answer is, if 30 other countries managed to do it, then why couldn't Scotland?"
The first minister said his government was setting out a range of proposals ahead of a substantive White Paper on independence, due towards the end of the year.
He said: "The 'No' side seem to think we're not doing anything until November - I think they've been taken a bit by surprise by the amount of work that we've been doing.
"We're putting forward what we think is the best future for Scotland, the best way to do it. We're putting forward how the processes will unveil.
"The 'No' campaign seem to think their role is to stamp their feet and say, 'you cannae do it'. Well, yes we can."
For the UK government, Scottish Secretary Michael Moore said it was already setting out views on the post-referendum process.
Mr Moore said: "The Scottish government should be concentrating on the substantive issues of the independence debate, rather than endless distractions over process.
"Once again, they are devoting their energy to the picture-frame when they don't have a painting to put in it.
"We haven't even got a date for the referendum, let alone any detail on what independence would mean for people in areas like the economy, welfare, energy and financial services."
The Scottish secretary added: "People in Scotland appreciate the benefits of remaining part of the United Kingdom family and that is why they remain strongly opposed to independence."
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, speaking in the Commons, said the UK government's "dispassionate analysis" of the impact of Scottish independence would be a "powerful addition" to the debate, and the first in a series of papers on the issue.
The exterior cladding, added in 2015, had a polyethylene - or plastic - core instead of an even more fireproof alternative, BBC Newsnight understands.
High-rise buildings in France, the UAE and Australia that had similar cladding have all been hit by fires that spread.
Rydon, which completed the renovations, said the work met all fire regulations.
They also insisted that, building control and safety standards had been fully met.
And Harley Facades, the company that fitted the panels to the building, said in a statement: "At this time, we are not aware of any link between the fire and the exterior cladding to the tower."
The west London tower block was refurbished at a cost of almost £9m.
The exterior of the 1970s-built tower was modernised with replacement windows, while additional homes were added using vacant space in the building.
The work also included the installation of new cladding - consisting of two aluminium sheets with a polyethylene core.
However, experts have told Newsnight that cladding with a mineral core is considered to be less flammable.
Newsnight policy editor Chris Cook said the cladding used on Grenfell Tower was sold under the brand Reynobond.
He said manufacturers offer two different versions of the cladding - one with a plastic core and one with a mineral core.
He said he understood cladding with a plastic core was used in the west London tower.
Christopher Miers, managing director of specialist architects Probyn Miers, told the programme it was "critical" what the core of the cladding was made of.
"I think attention on the cladding is because we've seen in the reports and the photographs, burning exterior of the building," he said.
"And we've seen enormous areas where the exterior is destroyed."
Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said people living in the north Kensington block "have the right" to ask whether the cladding compromised the safety of the building.
He told the programme there must be an "absolutely thorough investigation".
Tower blocks in the UK are designed to prevent fires spreading and to restrict them to one flat or floor, he added.
Residents in Grenfell Tower say they were told as recently as last weekend that they should remain in their flats in the event of a fire.
Mr Wrack added: "If during the course of renovations, fire resistant walls, doors, ceilings have been compromised, then clearly the whole basis on which that advice has been based falls apart.
"This should not be happening, that's the horrible aspect of this incident."
Both before and during the refurbishment, the local Grenfell Action Group claimed that the block constituted a fire risk.
Residents also warned that site access for emergency vehicles was "severely restricted".
The 24-storey Grenfell Tower is managed by the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation on behalf of the council.
In a statement it said: "It is too early to speculate what caused the fire and contributed to its spread.
"We will co-operate fully with all the relevant authorities in order to ascertain the cause of this tragedy."
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His exhibition is called Dismaland and features the work of lots of other famous artists.
The art works are all meant to look like the sorts of things you would normally expect from a theme park, but with a twist.
Banksy keeps his identity a secret and police and some local councils, think his work is graffiti and remove it.
But the owners of some of the buildings he has worked on make lots of money from selling it at auction.
This latest attraction by Banksy and his friends is his biggest event yet and is already attracting lots of people.
Watch Ricky's report to find out more.
However, Tom Brewster's rink had already had their slim hopes of reaching the play-offs dashed with an extra-end 7-6 defeat by Denmark.
Brewster, Hammy McMillan, Ross Paterson and Glen Muirhead won five matches and lost six, finishing seventh.
Hosts Canada, Denmark, Japan and the USA progress to the play-offs.
Brewster said after the win over Sweden: "It's always great to beat a world champion.
"However, we went in there not even thinking about them being world champions but thinking about them being the great team that they are, and knowing that it's always a tough game against them."
Session 1: Sweden 8-5 Japan; Korea 3-9 Scotland; Norway 11-3 Russia; Germany 2-8 Switzerland
Session 2: Russia 9-8 Korea; USA 1-7 Denmark; Canada 7-3 Finland; Norway 3-6 Scotland
Session 3: Switzerland 5-9 Sweden, Germany 3-8 Japan
Session 4: Denmark 8-11 Canada, Scotland 6-9 Russia, Korea 6-9 Norway, USA 7-5 Finland
Session 5: Japan 9-6 Switzerland, Canada 10-9 USA, Finland 2-9 Denmark, Sweden 8-4 Germany
Session 6: Germany 2-8 Norway, Switzerland 12-4 Korea, Sweden 4-3 Russia, Japan 6-5 Scotland
Session 7: Korea 4-6 Finland, Norway 8-6 Denmark, Scotland 3-5 Canada, Russia 6-9 USA
Session 8: USA 8-3 Sweden, Canada 9-2 Japan, Denmark 9-1 Germany, Finland 12-6 Switzerland
Session 9: Denmark 7-5 Japan, Finland 8-6 Sweden, USA 9-7 Switzerland, Canada 6-3 Germany
Session 10: Switzerland 5-4 Scotland, Germany 7-2 Russia, Japan 6-3 Korea, Sweden 4-6 Norway
Session 11: Russia 2-7 Canada, Scotland 7-9 USA, Norway 7-5 Finland, Korea 8-5 Denmark
Session 12: Norway 3-8 USA, Korea 2-9 Canada, Russia 1-9 Denmark, Scotland 7-3 Finland
Session 13: Finland 9-1 Germany, Denmark 7-6 Switzerland, Canada 3-4 Sweden, USA 7-8 Japan
Session 14: Sweden 7-4 Korea, Japan 6-4 Norway, Germany 6-7 Scotland, Switzerland 6-3 Russia
Session 15: Scotland 6-7 Denmark, Russia 3-9 Finland, Korea 6-8 USA, Norway 4-6 Canada
Session 16: Japan 7-2 Russia, Sweden 4-6 Scotland, Switzerland 4-7 Norway, Germany 6-9 Korea
Session 17: Canada 8-2 Switzerland, USA 6-5 Germany, Finland 5-7 Japan, Denmark 8-7 Sweden
Canada 10-1 (Q)
Denmark 8-3 (Q)
Japan 8-3 (Q)
USA 8-3 (Q)
Norway 7-4
Sweden 6-5
Scotland 5-6
Finland 5-6
Switzerland 4-7
Russia 2-9
Korea 2-9
Germany 1-10
A week ago, Russell Brand announced he had filed for divorce from US singer Katy Perry after 14 months of marriage.
Following an often intensive festive period with extended family and in-laws, it is the time of year when couples with marriage difficulties - celebrities or not - decide to make a fresh start. It may also be preferable for those with children to hold off until after Christmas and the new school term begins.
The number of divorces in England and Wales increased by 4.9% in 2010, official statistics show. This was the first annual increase for eight years, following falls in the divorce rate that were matched in Scotland.
Despite the fact that divorce is an unpleasant process, there are ways to make it easier for everyone involved.
It is crucial, especially for couples with children, that they do not become embroiled in acrimonious divorce proceedings. This is also a way of ensuring that legal costs are kept to a minimum.
The preliminary consideration for anyone who is thinking about getting divorced is to seek specialist advice from a family solicitor at an early stage.
They will advise you on your options so that you can decide the best solution for you. This is particularly the case if you and your spouse are different nationalities or either of you has ties with another country.
Before discussing the court procedure, your solicitor should advise you on alternatives for resolving financial and children issues.
One of the more popular methods is mediation, which involves you and your spouse seeing a qualified mediator to give you guidance. This will only be appropriate if both of you are completely committed to the process and open about your financial circumstances.
If mediation is not for you, other options may be productive, for example, negotiations through solicitors or meetings between you, your spouse and both solicitors.
Regrettably, the language and procedure in this area are outdated and off-putting.
Unless you have been separated for more than two years in England and Wales, you must rely on one of two fault-based facts - your spouse's adultery or unreasonable behaviour. This often starts the process off on the wrong foot.
However, you can minimise the potential for conflict by not naming the third party on an adultery petition or by using mild examples of your spouse's unreasonable behaviour and, if appropriate, sending your spouse a draft divorce petition before it is issued.
In Scotland, a divorce on the basis of irretrievable breakdown of marriage following separation of just one year can happen with consent of the other party, but it is two years separation without consent.
An undefended divorce itself can be dealt with straightforwardly and at low expense. It is essentially a paperwork exercise which your solicitor can do on your behalf very easily.
The more difficult aspects are arrangements regarding children, such as who they are to live with and how often the other parent will see them, and the division of your finances.
The court's first concern will be the welfare of your children. Although emotions may be running high, by far and above the ideal would be to reach an agreement with your spouse directly about childcare arrangements.
If you can, there will be no need for the court to make an order. If not, you may be able to seek help from a family member who is relatively independent.
Alternatively, you may be directed to a mediation service, involving the court as a last resort. It is important to strive to avoid using your children as a weapon in the divorce and to keep to any agreement made. For example, changing arrangements at the last minute or being unreliable with timings will only have a damaging effect on your relationship with the other parent and on your children.
Many people assume that if, for example, their spouse has had an affair or has behaved badly, this will have an effect on how the family finances are split. This is not the case. Only in extremely rare cases will conduct be taken into account.
There is a duty on both spouses to give details of their entire financial situation. If either party is dishonest or tries to hide assets, the court has powers to address this and to make costs orders.
A frequent cause of dispute is agreeing the value of your assets, such as the family home and pensions.
One way of speeding the process up and minimising costs would be to prepare an agreed schedule setting out the values of all of your assets, held jointly and individually, which you can then give to your respective solicitors.
If you have an accountant or an independent financial adviser, they may be well placed to assist you with values of business interests or pensions. You could also instruct estate agents to provide you with some informal market appraisals, which are free of charge, to give you an idea of the value of your home. This may short circuit the costly and time-consuming disclosure process.
Whilst the financial process is under way, it is important to avoid changing arrangements between you and your spouse without notice or before taking advice, for example, cleaning out a bank account or stopping standing orders relating to household bills.
Despite the fact that the law can have the effect of heightening tensions between you, there are ways of minimising conflict to ensure that your divorce is dealt with quickly and cost effectively while preserving relations to ensure effective communication and co-operation.
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Eric Bellquist, 41, was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm, following the incident on London's Putney Bridge.
He was later released without charge while inquiries continue, police said.
Mr Bellquist, a private equity firm partner, says he has "irrefutable proof" he was in the US at the time.
A statement released by lawyers acting on behalf of Mr Bellquist, who was detained at a residential address in Chelsea, said: "Our client has been wrongly implicated in this matter.
"He categorically denies being the individual concerned and has irrefutable proof that he was in the United States at the time of the incident.
"Consequently, we expect a swift resolution to this wholly untrue allegation."
Mr Bellquist works for Hutton Collins Partners and sits on the boards of the Wagamama and Byron restaurant chains, which are both owned by the firm.
On Monday, CCTV footage was released showing the woman, 33, narrowly avoiding serious injury when she was pushed into the path of an oncoming bus by a jogger on Putney Bridge.
The footage, captured on the morning of 5 May, shows a bus swerving to avoid the woman's head.
Afterwards the driver stopped the bus, at which point several passengers got off and went to help the victim.
About 15 minutes later the jogger came back the other way across the bridge.
The woman, who received minor injuries, tried to speak to him but he did not acknowledge her and carried on jogging.
The Met Police said it had received a "huge response" to its appeal for information.
Scotland Yard said the man officers arrested was still the subject of investigation but had not been released on official police bail.
The camera was hidden by Durham County Council officers at a well-known site used for illegal waste dumping.
When the camera was triggered, neighbourhood protection manager Ian Hoult found it was not a criminal but a curious pheasant.
He said the team were thankful that no-one had fallen "fowl" of the law.
Launched in November 2014, the Operation Stop It campaign has resulted in a 29% decrease in flytipping in the county.
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Michael Jennings put Australia in front after pouncing on an error but Jason Nightingale hit back for New Zealand.
Manu Vatuvei squeezed over after great work from Johnson for a half-time lead and though Sione Mata'utia crossed, Johnson's magnificent solo effort and Vatuvei's second took the Kiwis clear.
Ben Hunt cut the gap to four points and Mata'utia fumbled a chance to win it.
With time almost up, the 18-year-old might have snatched victory for the defending champions but knocked on close to the try-line in Wellington.
It was half-back Johnson, who scored a last-gasp try against England in last year's World Cup semi-final, who was the catalyst for the hosts with his skill and pace, aided by the brutal running of the forward pack.
"We'd waited quite a while for this and I'm just so proud of the boys," he said. "It's a dream come true.
"We worked so hard this tour. It's been such an awesome tournament for the boys and to finish it off like that has just been unreal."
The triumph enabled Stephen Kearney's side to record back-to-back wins against the Kangaroos for the first time since 1953, following their 30-12 victory in the first game of a high-class competition, which they also won in 2010.
Kearney said: "We've got a great young team and the future's bright. Australia are going to keep coming back at us and the challenge is for us to keep improving."
World champions Australia, decimated by injury before the tournament and disrupted by illness in the build-up to the match, led early on as Jennings was quickest to react to touch down but they were then overrun by a rampant New Zealand team.
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They showed their power in the forwards to get back into the match, particularly through Martin Taupau and Tohu Harris, who battered the Australian defensive line.
The ferocious hits were proving too much to handle and Nightingale kept up his record of scoring in every game in the competition.
Johnson showed superb footwork and composure to set up winger Vatuvei for a 14-6 advantage at the interval.
Mata'utia, Australia's youngest international, went over in the corner but Johnson showed his speed by outpacing the opposition backline before running around full-back Greg Inglis for an exceptional score.
Vatuvei powered over for his second and Hunt's try with five minutes remaining set up a tense finish but New Zealand held on.
New Zealand: Peta Hiku, Jason Nightingale, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Dean Whare, Manu Vatuvei, Kieran Foran, Shaun Johnson, Jesse Bromwich, Issac Luke, Adam Blair, Simon Mannering (captain), Kevin Proctor, Jason Taumalolo.
Replacements: Lewis Brown, Greg Eastwood, Martin Taupau, Tohu Harris
Australia: Greg Inglis, Josh Mansour, Michael Jennings, Dylan Walker, Sione Mata'utia, Daly Cherry-Evans, Cooper Cronk, Aaron Woods, Cameron Smith (captain), Josh Papalii, Sam Thaiday, Greg Bird, Corey Parker.
Replacements: Boyd Cordner, Ben Hunt, Josh Jackson, David Klemmer
Referee: Phil Bentham (Eng).
The group, including three from the main opposition party, are accused of animal cruelty and unlawful assembly.
The federal government announced the ban last week, saying it would "stop unregulated animal trade".
But critics say the move is aimed at protecting cows, considered holy by India's majority Hindu population.
The men, who killed the calf on Saturday, said they wanted to represent people's anger against the federal government's decision.
The Congress party, the main opposition to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), opposes the ban, but it suspended the three members of its youth wing, saying the act was "thoughtless and barbaric".
The ban has sparked protests from a number of state governments. There are several states where beef is part of local cuisine and critics say the order will hurt farmers and major industries like food processing and leather.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the central government was "encroaching upon state matters" with its ban. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the order violated "the basic right of a person to freedom of choice regarding his food".
Many states, however, have actively started enforcing bans on cow slaughter since the Hindu nationalist BJP came to power in 2014.
The western state of Gujarat passed a law in March making the slaughter of cows punishable by life imprisonment. Vigilante groups who portray themselves as protectors of cows have also been active in several states.
These groups have even killed Muslim men they suspect of killing cows, including high-profile cases in April and May.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year criticised the vigilantes, saying such people made him "angry". However, this has not stopped attacks against cattle traders.
Both teams go into Saturday's semi-final draw, with McCoist admitting he would prefer "anyone but Celtic".
But, with his side in the second tier, he challenged Deila's claim that the "best teams are in the top division".
"We are the outsiders along with Aberdeen and [Dundee] United, but we fancy our chances," said McCoist.
Rangers have already knocked top-flight outfits Inverness Caledonian Thistle and St Johnstone out of the League Cup.
And McCoist believes that having his side, Hibernian and Hearts in the Championship this term means Deila's assessment is wide of the mark.
"Ronny is entitled to his opinion and maybe it makes sense because we are the only team from outside the top division. I can understand Ronny's logic, yeah," the Rangers boss said.
"I don't think it's unfair, but then I don't necessarily agree with it. I can understand where he is coming from.
"In most cases, you would think a team from a lower division that is left in a competition with three teams from the league above is the weaker side.
"Ronny would be 100% right in his beliefs if it was a normal playing field. But I don't think anyone can argue that, in recent years, Scottish football has been anything but a normal playing field.
"We have got three of the top five clubs in the country playing in the division below the top flight."
And McCoist, whose side meet Dumbarton in the Scottish Cup on Saturday, takes huge confidence from Rangers' two League Cup wins over Premiership opposition this season.
"Aberdeen and United are two of the better sides in the country on their day, but we have proved this year that, against teams from the top flight, we can handle the occasion and we now look forward to the draw," he added.
Striker Kenny Miller is also confident Rangers would be able to compete with Deila's outfit.
"They are the reigning champions of the SPL, playing at the higher level, but we would go in confident, as we do with every game," said Miller, who also played for Celtic.
"We are in the Championship, we are the lowest-ranked team, so what Deila said makes sense a little bit. But only time will tell who the strongest is and who the weakest is."
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Jenny Allo, of Birkenhead, Merseyside, captured the moment on video and it has now been viewed more than seven million times on Facebook.
Her soldier husband Danny was not due to come home for another four months, but a late change of plan made for a special festive surprise for their children.
The 2015 victor, trained by Oliver Sherwood, is rated an 8-1 chance to be the first horse to win back-to-back Nationals since Red Rum in the 1970s.
"I would choose Many Clouds for his experience and class," said Aspell, 39. "He's possibly still improving."
Aspell also won on Pineau De Re in 2014 and is bidding to become the first jockey to triumph three years running.
"So far, so good," he added. "His form this year is even better. He's a nine-year-old at his absolute peak."
The rider lists dual Irish Hennessy Gold Cup winner Carlingford Lough and last season's Cheltenham Gold Cup fourth-placed finisher Holywell among the chief dangers for the big race at Aintree on 9 April.
He was speaking as 96 horses remained at the latest entry stage for the £1m race, which sees runners negotiate 30 fences over a distance of more than four miles.
With a maximum 40 allowed to run, handicapper Phil Smith said it was 50-50 whether Pineau De Re - currently number 50 - would make the cut.
Mr Cushnahan declared his interests at Nama meetings, as required.
Nama has said those meetings never involved the disclosure of debtor-specific information.
But the Comptroller and Auditor General said potential conflict of interests arose that "would not be managed sufficiently" just by withholding debtor-specific information.
Mr Cushnahan declared his interests at Nama advisory committee meetings and in annual declarations.
The Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) said Nama should have formally considered whether Mr Cushnahan's involvement in discussion of its Northern Ireland strategy was consistent with his involvement as a financial adviser to debtors.
Mr Cushnahan was appointed to the advisory committee in 2010, on the recommendation of the DUP, and served until November 2013.
The committee's role was to advise on strategy for the Northern Ireland portfolio which had a value of more than £1bn.
The report said that Mr Cushnahan declared an involvement with Nama debtors whose loans represented at least half the value of the Northern Ireland portfolio.
He made eight declarations relating to five debtors over the course of meetings held between April 2011 and December 2012.
In addition his annual statements for 2011 to 2013 disclosed his interests in a further two Nama debtors.
He stated that his interests related to the provision of consultancy services and that this was on a non-remuneration basis in all but one case.
Speaking on Thursday, the Nama chairman Frank Daly said: "He had conflicts of interest...but it was managed.
"I don't want to conflate it with stuff that has emerged subsequently about him."
Nama has reported Mr Cushnahan to Republic of Ireland ethics watchdog the Standards in Public Office Commission (Sipo) over what it believes were undeclared conflicts of interest.
Nama has said it was not told about a May 2013 meeting Mr Cushnahan had with Pimco, an investor interested in buying the Northern Ireland portfolio.
Mr Cushnahan went on to work for Pimco and was in line to receive a £5m fee if the fund's bid for the portfolio had been successful.
Nama has also reported him to the police alleging possible corruption.
That followed a BBC NI Spotlight programme which broadcast a recording made in 2012 in which Mr Cushnahan accepted a £40,000 cash payment from a Nama debtor.
Mr Cushnahan has denied any wrongdoing.
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Scottish Labour lost 40 seats to the SNP last week, leaving just one MP representing the party in Westminster.
Unite's Len McCluskey said the "anti-Scottish card" played by the Tories also led to Labour losses in England.
The BBC understands Mr Murphy faces a vote of no confidence at the Scottish Labour Party Executive on Saturday.
His supporters have been asked to sign a letter giving him their backing.
In an interview for Newsnight, Mr McCluskey, general secretary of one of Labour's largest financial backers, said Mr Murphy should "leave the scene".
He said: "There's no doubt in my mind that the late swing in the opinion polls was as a result of the anti-Scottish card that was played by Lynton Crosby and the Conservatives.
"They must have thought that all their Christmases had come early. And we have to examine that.
"In my opinion that has been a major factor in why Miliband is now not the prime minster and I lay the blame for that very squarely at the feet of Scottish Labour.
"Not only have they lost Scotland but I think they've been responsible for making certain that the Conservatives were back in power in Westminster."
Mr McCluskey added: "In Scotland my view is very, very strongly that we have to say to the Scottish people that we're sorry for letting you down, for making you feel abandoned, and Scottish Labour is under new management.
"I think Jim and his colleagues should just leave the scene."
The union leader said that it would be up to Scottish Labour members to choose a new leader.
Mr Murphy has said he is confident of retaining the leadership, despite mounting calls for him to stand aside.
Last week's poll saw the SNP win 56 Scottish seats, leaving Labour with just one - down 40 on the 2010 result.
Former Aberdeen South MP Dame Anne Begg is thought to be among those who have given Mr Murphy their support, saying Mr Murphy was not to blame for 10 years of Labour decline.
A Labour spokesman said: "There is overwhelming support for Jim Murphy across the Scottish Labour Party. We need to work together to rebuild our movement and regain the trust of the people of Scotland."
Pressure has been growing on the Scottish Labour leader to step down.
On Tuesday, the Labour MSP for Cowdenbeath, Alex Rowley, said the party was heading for "disappearance" in Scotland unless Mr Murphy resigned.
The train drivers' union, Aslef, has also backed calls for him to go and Unison Scotland urged a "radical change in approach" by the Labour Party in Scotland and said it "would not oppose" a move to change the leader.
However, Mr Murphy has received backing from Usdaw, which represents shop workers, and Community union.
Community general secretary Roy Rickhuss said: "Now is not the time for self-indulgent political point scoring and internal wrangling. Against a backdrop of rising unemployment in Scotland, we need a united movement and party.
"It is clear that Scottish Labour needs the time and space for Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale to lead the rebuilding of our party in Scotland."
Mr Murphy had been an MP for the East Renfrewshire area since 1997 and elected as Scottish Labour in December last year. He lost his seat to the SNP's Kirsten Oswald.
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Governor Jose Melo said Amazonas police were "at their physical and psychological limit" and federal troops should be sent as reinforcements.
State police struggled to contain the violence as rival gangs clashed.
Many jails in Brazil are overcrowded and underfunded.
Last week, Gov Melo asked the federal government for electronic tags, body scanners and devices to block mobile phone signals within the state's prisons.
But following Sunday's deadly clash in a prison in the city of Manaus, Governor Melo said he needed federal forces.
He said that police in Amazonas had worked flat out not just to secure the prisons where the riots had taken place, but also to try to capture scores of inmates who had escaped during the riots.
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The rioting also spread to neighbouring Roraima state, where 33 prisoners were killed in the Monte Cristo rural penitentiary on 6 January.
Officials say the spike in violence is due to the breakdown of a truce between two of Brazil's most powerful criminal gangs, First Capital Command (PCC) and Red Command (CV).
The PCC has its power base in the city of Sao Paulo, while Red Command is based in Rio de Janeiro - although the two gangs' influence extends much further.
For years, members of these gangs have been transferred to prisons in northern states in an attempt to break up their gang ties.
But these remote prisons are often poorly equipped and badly staffed making it hard for officers to contain a riot once it has started.
Raimundo Vidal Pessoa jail, where the latest riot happened, had been closed in October but was re-opened to house prisoners moved from the Anisio Jobim prison after a deadly riot there had left 56 dead.
Gov Melo said the problem was at a national level and urged the federal government to help devise a restructuring of the prison system.
Called Minecraft: Story Mode, it will be an episodic game set in the familiar Minecraft world but will introduce some new characters into the setting.
The game is being made by Telltale Games which has produced several other episodic titles.
The first episode is due to be released in 2015 on consoles, PCs, Macs and Android devices.
So far, little information about what it will be like have been released. Mojang has produced a short browser-based game called Info Quest II to explain what it might be like.
In a blogpost, Mojang said the game would be developed with the help of the Minecraft community.
It sought to reassure players that Story Mode would not be like the violent and bloody games Telltale has produced before now. Recent Telltale games include The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands and titles based on Game of Thrones and zombie thriller The Walking Dead.
"Telltale's game will feel similar in tone to Minecraft itself," said Mojang, "though it's a totally original take inspired by our game."
The news about Story Mode comes soon after Mojang released a finished version of its Scrolls card-based magic battling game.
Sun Wenlin and Hu Mingliang filed a lawsuit against Changsha city authorities after their application to register a union was rejected.
In January a district court agreed to hear the case, a first in China.
China does not legally recognise same-sex marriage but there is growing awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.
On Wednesday, there were cheers for Mr Sun, 27, and Mr Hu, 37, when they entered the court, from hundreds of supporters who had gathered outside. Authorities allowed about 100 of them inside.
The court dismissed the case a few hours after the hearing started.
The entire case was argued and decided within a few short hours, and the judge was quick to reject China's first legal argument in favour of gay marriage. But many gay rights activists see reason for hope.
The fact the case was heard at all was reason for optimism - the plaintiffs and their lawyer were surprised when the Hunan court agreed to hold a hearing in January. The hearing itself was held in an unusually large courtroom, with uncharacteristically light security outside.
Few believe the Chinese courts are poised to issue dramatic decisions permitting same-sex marriage. But bit by bit, some cases are being won. In December 2014, a Beijing court awarded damages to a man who had suffered electric shock therapy meant to "cure" his homosexuality. Advertisements for the service were ordered to be removed from the internet.
The demand for gay rights is certainly part of the national conversation now in China. Just last week a mass social media campaign in which gay people pledged not to yield to pressure to marry straight people attracted more than 1.5 million views on Weibo.
China's legal courts are moving slowly, but the court of public opinion is still in session.
The couple's lawyer, Shi Funong, said he had expected the judgement to go against them but not so quickly.
"It goes against the spirit of the laws of the People's Republic of China," he said.
Mr Sun said he would appeal against Wednesday's court decision.
The two men had tried to register their union in June last year and filed the lawsuit in December.
Mr Sun said police had visited him after he filed the case to try to persuade him to drop it, but he refused.
"The original text of the Marriage Law does not say one man and one woman, but a husband and a wife," he said in an interview with state media in January. "I personally believe that this term refers not only to heterosexual couples but also to same-sex couples."
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The 66-year-old Australian, who replaced Steve McNamara earlier this month, has a contract to lead England through to the 2017 World Cup.
Bennett, who is yet to announce his backroom team, told BBC Sport: "I am not going to stay as English coach for 20 years - that is not going to happen.
"I want to leave it with people who have a similar philosophy to me."
Bennett, who will combine the role with leading Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League, is not planning wholesale changes to the England set-up.
"I'm very conscious of the English game and England. I am not coming here to teach anyone how to suck eggs," he added.
"I want as much English involvement as I can. I am bringing two staff with me - one of them is an Englishman - and the other is involved in the tactical side. Everyone else will be English."
Former St Helens full-back Paul Wellens, who has taken up a player performance coaching role with Saints, was one of McNamara's backroom staff.
Bennett has remained a stony-faced touchline presence in Australia's NRL during a top-level career that has spanned 27 years, three different clubs and a record seven Grand Final victories.
He says his persona reflects one of the demands he will make of England's players.
"I might be smiling on the inside, I might be pretty twisted on the inside, but I am not there to please anyone else but myself," he said.
"I taught myself a long time ago to be extremely disciplined with my behaviour in the public spotlight and I expect my players to be the same."
Bennett said he would not shirk from the difficult decisions and disagreements that are inevitable when running a top team.
"I don't want them to dislike me, but you are dealing with people and there will always be issues because people take positions on things," he said.
"The bottom line is that if I have to make a hard decision for the benefit of the team and it upsets people, I'm fine with that."
Bennett's appointment means - with Eddie Jones in rugby union and Trevor Bayliss in cricket - Australians are in charge of three of England's major national teams.
Bennett believes work ethic and a willingness to share ideas across sport are one of the strengths of Australian coaching culture.
"There is one common denominator: we are a pretty committed bunch and to coach you have to be committed," he said.
"We share a lot of ideas between sports back home, it is not something we hold back on."
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Wayne Bennett's seven Grand Final wins make him the most decorated Australian coach ever. And his determination to succeed is not confined to the rugby field.
"My daughter has barred me from playing with my grandchildren," he said. "They want to win and so do I, so we get into fights. I can't help it. It is just who I am."
Bennett has no intention of reigning himself in.
"I don't want to stop myself," he said. "I want to do my best and I want to win, whether it is cards or whatever it is. I have been like that all my life.
"In fact I make people stay until I win at cards."
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The Welsh are rightly proud of the stadium which has the cream of European club football battling to reach the Champions' League final there in June this year.
But Ireland's rugby players have little reason to fear Friday night's Six Nations match with Wales at the Principality Stadium - as a rugby nation they have the happy habit of winning there.
Irish teams have won three European Cup Finals and one Six Nations Grand Slam at the venue - all in the space of five years.
They've won the big prizes in green of Ireland, red of Munster and blue of Leinster and the Irish fans will will be back in Cardiff at the end of the week by the thousand and ready to party.
Wales haven't exactly been standing back in admiration of the Irish handiwork - on the contrary.
They beat Ireland to claim the first of the three Welsh Grand Slams of the 21st century, on St Patrick's Day weekend twelve years ago.
And thereby hangs a tale or two.
Wales won 32-20 and what made the occasion all the more memorable was the first Welsh try.
A collector's item if ever there was one because it featured a prop charging down a clearance from a fly-half - not any old fly-half, but one of the all-time greats.
Ronan O'Gara was the number ten and Gethin Jenkins the man who brought him to grief. Rarely can a prop have demonstrated such a nifty bit of footballing skills as Jenkins did that afternoon.
As O'Gara will tell you: a charge-down is an occupational hazard for fly-halves the world over but you never expect it to happen against a loose-head prop.
But Munsterman O'Gara would learn to love the arena - in those days known as the Millennium Stadium - as a home from home.
The following year he was back with Munster, helping them win the European Cup for the first time against Biarritz.
Two years later he and the red army, some 40,000 strong, won a second European title again at the expense of French opposition, this time Toulouse.
And when the Ireland national team came back in 2009 it was to win the ultimate prize in European international rugby, and one that had eluded them since 1948 - the Grand Slam.
Wales, in with a faint sniff of retaining their Six Nations title, led until O'Gara intervened with two minutes to go.
And even then Wales still had one last chance, a sniper's shot at ambushing the Irish slam.
Stephen Jones took aim from just inside his own half and when the ball came down in front of the crossbar those of us who wondered why Wales hadn't given the kick to Gavin Henson, the long-distance specialist, wondered all the more.
Instead all Ireland had to do was catch the ball and belt it into the crowd, Geordan Murphy duly obliged and, at long last, the slam was theirs.
Not everything though has gone swimmingly for the boys in green since then. They lost here six years ago to a try from Mike Phillips which ought not to have been allowed.
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The laws state that a quick throw can only be taken when using the same ball that has been kicked out.
Wales used a different ball and the subsequent confusion between the Scottish touch judge and the South African referee left Ireland's two five-star generals, Brian O'Driscoll and Paul O'Connell, apoplectic with rage.
They had good reason because the seven points it cost them made all the difference.
As for this time, expect to see the fur flying all over the place as per usual.
They may be Celts but there's been no love lost between these two and no reason to believe that peace is about to break out any time soon.
Matthew Gordon was asked by Bristol Crown Court prosecutors if he was at fault for the dangerous condition of the brakes, for not having a transport manager - a legal requirement - and ultimately the crash.
He conceded partial blame, but said he had done the best he could.
Mr Gordon, 30, of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, denies 14 charges against him.
The owner of Grittenham Haulage, he is defending himself following the crash on Lansdown Lane on 9 February last year.
The court heard he did not call the emergency services after the crash and failed to tell a policeman at the scene that he owned the truck.
He said it had been a "mistake" and denied it was because he was worried about the condition of the lorry's brakes.
The jury also heard that in the days before the crash Mr Gordon had sent a text message to his partner describing the driver of the lorry, Phillip Potter, as "slow".
Mr Potter, 20, also of Dauntsey, denies causing the deaths by dangerous and careless driving. He is also charged with causing serious injuries to Karla Brennan and Margaret Rogers - the grandmother of four-year-old victim Mitzi Steady - by dangerous driving.
He denies a total of 10 charges against him.
Peter Wood, 55, from Brinkworth, Wiltshire, a mechanic who carried out safety checks on the truck, denies four charges against him.
In addition to Mitzi, from Bath, who was one of was one of several pedestrians hit by the lorry, Robert Parker, 59, Philip Allen, 52, and Stephen Vaughan, 34, all died in the crash in 2015.
Mr Allen and Mr Vaughan, both from Swansea, and Mr Parker, from Cwmbran, south Wales, were in a car hit by the vehicle.
The trial continues.
Experts from Queensland in Australia had been trying to identify this specific gecko for the last five years.
The gecko, which they named Diplodactylus ameyi, has a distinctive fat tail and a rounded snout.
It is brown with pale spots, which means it is well camouflaged for the dry, hot environment where it lives.
During the day it hides in abandoned spider burrows to keep cool.
Real won their last 12 league games, but Barca ended with five victories in a row after a blip in April saw their lead over Real closed from 10 points.
"We're all disappointed, but with 38 matchdays played, we can't change anything now," said Zidane, who has won 21 of his 26 games in charge.
"Barcelona deserved to win La Liga."
Luis Enrique, who has won the title in both his seasons in charge of Barcelona, agreed with his rival.
"It was a deserved title which shows that the team knows how to bounce back from a bad spell.
"We played very well over the full season, we were on top of the table for many weeks and the most consistent team wins the title."
Captain Andres Iniesta has now won eight La Liga titles, a third of Barcelona's total league championships. Barca have won six of the last eight titles - including two in a row.
"La Liga is glorious," the Spain midfielder said. "It is the competition of stability, the one we are able to win year after year. Whenever you win the league, it is a great season."
Defender Gerard Pique said: "This is a historic time for the club. This is a unique generation of footballers with loads of talent and who are achieving things that have never been done before.
"We had a negative run that meant we had to fight right to the last, but we got our prize in the end."
Both sides have a cup final yet to play. Barca face Sevilla in next Sunday's Copa del Rey final, while Real face city rivals Atletico in the Champions League final on Saturday, 28 May.
Net income was $3.98bn, up from $2.74bn for the same quarter last year.
Google's revenue was $18.7 (£12.1bn) compared with $16.5bn.
Growth came mainly from mobile searches and YouTube users.
In August, the company created Alphabet as the new parent company of Google and its other diverse businesses.
In January, Alphabet will report Google's financial numbers separately from the other businesses, which include experiments with self-driving cars, investing in startups, making Internet-connected thermostats and searching for cures to health problems.
The break out of Google's figures are expected to reveal how much money Google would have made if it had not diverted money into chief executive Larry Page's so-called ``moon shots".
Alphabet shares were up 11% to $722.53 in after hours trading - a record, boosted by news of a large share buyback, which will means fewer investors in future who will therefore take a higher portion of any dividend payout.
YouTube announced on Thursday a plan to offer a monthly commercial free subscription service that will compete with Netflix and Amazon prime.
The company's board approved a plan to buy back a precise $5,099,019,513.59 in shares starting in the fourth quarter.
There has been speculation the number represented the square root of 26 - the number of letters in the alphabet.
Chief financial officer Ruth Porat acknowledged that was indeed the reference during a post-results conference.
The Long March 5 lifted off from the Wenchang space centre in Hainan Province at 20:43 local time (12:43 GMT).
It was carrying an experimental satellite, known as Shijian-17.
The Long March 5 gives China the capability to orbit the heaviest of payloads - such as big telecoms spacecraft and sections of its future astronaut space station.
The specifications suggest it can put about 25 tonnes in a low-Earth orbit (LEO), an altitude of a few hundred km; and up to 14 tonnes in a geostationary orbit some 36,000km above the planet.
This puts the Long March 5 in the same class as America’s current, most powerful rocket - the Delta-IV Heavy.
US companies SpaceX and Blue Origin are developing vehicles that should be able to put 50-plus tonnes in LEO.
The American space agency (Nasa) is also nearing the first flight of its Space Launch System, a monster rocket that will eventually be capable of placing 130 tonnes in low-Earth orbit.
Nasa say it will use this launcher to send astronauts to Mars. Its maiden flight is set for 2018.
A spokesman for the interim President, Michel Temer, said she would have been placed in the stand below him and not at his side.
Her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has also refused the invitation despite being instrumental in Rio's winning bid to host the games.
Both have said they are being politically persecuted by Mr Temer's party and allies.
Ms Rousseff faces possible removal from office if she loses an impeachment trial shortly after the games and Lula is facing corruption allegations, which he denies.
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Another former President, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, has also said he will not attend the ceremony.
Ms Rousseff has said that she believes she should be at the ceremony alongside Lula.
She told Radio France International on Monday that her government and Lula's had done most of the work to win the Olympics for Rio de Janeiro and find the financing to build the infrastructure for the global sports event.
Diplomats have said the presence of both Michel Temer and Dilma Rousseff at the ceremony would have been awkward for foreign dignitaries.
GHD - "Good Hair Day" - was founded by three entrepreneurs in Bradford in 2001 for £15,000.
Since then its ceramic straightening irons and hairdryers have become popular with stylists and celebrities.
US firm Coty is acquiring the business, where it will sit alongside global hair care brands such as Wella and Clairol.
The deal comes weeks after Coty became the world's third-largest beauty firm following a $12.5bn (£10.3bn) takeover of Procter & Gamble's perfume, hair care and make up businesses.
Lyndon Lea, a partner at Lion Capital, which bought GHD for about £300m in 2013, said: "We are pleased to be selling GHD to Coty, a global leader in the beauty category, where it can take its rightful place among Coty's unique family of beauty brands."
GHD is headquartered in London and has commercial operations in the UK, Australia, US and Europe.
It reported sales of £178m last year and is understood to have made pre-tax profits of £33m.
Shares in Coty rose 0.5% to $23.43 in New York on Monday, but have fallen almost 18% over the past 12 months.
Danielle Cassin, 27, told relatives Levi-Blu Cassin had been unresponsive and not breathing on the morning of his death in February 2013.
Birmingham Crown Court previously heard Levi had died from internal bleeding caused as a result of violence.
His parents Ms Cassin and Mark Piper, 31, deny murder.
Danielle Cassin's half-sister, Kirsty Cassin, told the court they met at hospital after Levi was pronounced dead.
Danielle Cassin told her she had gone to check on Levi and found he was "not breathing and cold to the touch".
Kirsty Cassin also told the jury her half-sister was known to use heroin.
Her behaviour became "erratic" after the defendant rekindled her relationship with co-accused Mr Piper in October 2012, she said.
The court heard police were called in January 2013 after a neighbour witnessed Mr Piper hit Danielle Cassin.
Daniel Cleal, who lived nearby in Chelmsley Wood, West Midlands, said he saw them arguing in their kitchen, a bedroom and the living room.
He said he saw Mr Piper put his hands around Danielle Cassin's neck.
"I saw [him] punch Danielle and she fell to the floor," he said.
Mr Cleal, who said he only knew both defendants by sight, told the court he did not know if Levi had been present during the argument.
Danielle Cassin and Mr Piper, of Nightingale Avenue, Chelmsley Wood, also deny causing or allowing the death of a child, assault, neglect, abandoning a child and causing unnecessary suffering to a child.
The trial continues.
Astley's 50 gave the singer his first UK number one for almost 30 years.
It will compete for the BBC Radio 2 album of the year award with Adele's 25, Coldplay's A Head Full of Dreams, ELO's Alone in the Universe and Michael Kiwanuka's Love & Hate.
But there is no place on the shortlist for David Bowie's Blackstar, which came out days before his death in January.
The nominees were chosen by the Radio 2 playlist committee.
The winner will be announced at the BBC Music Awards on 12 December. The shortlists for other categories, including BBC Music British artist of the year and song of the year, will be announced shortly.
Bowie was nominated for British artist of the year at the inaugural BBC Music Awards in 2014, but lost out to Ed Sheeran.
Rick Astley has enjoyed a successful comeback this year, but if he wins the BBC Music Award it will be far from his first taste of awards glory.
In his first flush of fame in 1988, he won best single at the Brit Awards - as well as worst dressed person in the Smash Hits Readers' Poll.
And, more improbably, at the height of the Rickrolling phenomenon he was voted the best act ever at the MTV Europe Music Awards in 2008.
To be eligible for the BBC Music Award, albums must have been released between 17 October 2015 and 16 October 2016.
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Nokia took over health tech firm Withings in 2016 and recently replaced the Withings Health Mate app with a Nokia-branded version.
Health Mate has been downloaded more than one million times from app stores.
But many users have left one-star reviews, saying the new app removed popular features from the Withings version and had technical issues
The company told the BBC an update would "integrate missing features".
Before being taken over by Nokia, Withings made internet-connected health products such as weighing scales and air quality monitors, which provided data for the Health Mate app.
"Nokia took over and totally trashed the Withings app in one swoop," one user, Tony, told the BBC.
"The first release of the app was so full of bugs it was incredible. Their new app is appalling and everyone wants the old one back, which we loved.
"They've decimated our investment in quite expensive Withings products."
A set of smart scales currently retails in the UK for £90 ($116 in the US), direct from Nokia.
Negative reviews on app stores claim a number of issues, including:
"[The] previous app from Withings had long-term charts and much more," wrote one reviewer called Pander.
"This version is a huge degradation in functionality. This is not why I bought this smart scale."
Nokia told the BBC the Withings Health Mate app had been replaced as part of a transition of Withings products "to the Nokia brand".
"Regrettably, a few users faced bugs and syncing issues, others were frustrated to find some features from the previous version were not included," it said.
"We released an update which corrects many of the issues. Very soon we will have another update to integrate the few missing features.
"We will not be satisfied until the final issues have been addressed to deliver the quality user experience consumers have come to expect from Nokia products."
The social media giant's chief operating officer called for a higher minimum wage, paid family leave and affordable childcare.
Some 40% of US households with children rely on a woman as the key breadwinner, she said in a Facebook post.
"It's time for our public policies to catch up with what our families deserve and what our values demand," she said.
Ms Sandberg, an influential voice in corporate America, is one of the wealthiest American women with a net worth estimated at $1.38bn.
She wrote on Sunday that the US government and employers must do more to help parents, especially single mothers, who are struggling to provide for their children while assuring their safety and well-being.
The widowed mother of two said: "We all have a responsibility to help mothers as well as fathers balance their responsibilities at work and home."
One of the most important actions the government could take is to help millions of families living near the poverty line by raising the federal minimum wage, she said.
"Childcare for two children exceeds the median annual rent in all 50 states. How are parents supposed to work if they don't have a safe and affordable place to leave their kids?"
She continued: "We need paid leave. The United States is one of the only developed countries in the world that doesn't guarantee paid family leave - and we're the only developed country in the world without paid maternity leave.
"That means many moms are forced to return to work right after giving birth to keep their jobs."
She concluded: "I hope we can also use this day to commit to do more for all the mothers who have given so much and deserve even more."
Ms Sandberg's message was accompanied by a picture of her with her mother and mother-in-law on the day of her wedding to former SurveyMonkey chief executive Dave Goldberg, who died in 2015.
In her book Lean In, she encouraged women to be more ambitious in the workplace. Following Mr Goldberg's death, she co-wrote the book Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy that was published this year.
President Donald Trump's daughter and advisor Ivanka Trump has publicly stated her support for paid maternity leave. However, Republicans have resisted proposals to raise such benefits, including increasing the national minimum wage.
Many of the main outlets are state-owned, including two major TV stations, radio networks operated by the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC), and newspapers in Sinhala, Tamil and English.
There are more than a dozen private radios, and a handful of privately-run TV stations. Sri Lanka's privately-owned press and broadcasters often engage in political debate, and criticise government policies.
At the height of the civil war Sri Lanka was described as one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists.
The state of emergency imposed at the beginning of the conflict was lifted in 2011, but Reporters Without Borders says that murders, threats and censorship continue, with top officials "directly implicated" in serious press freedom violations.
The government is particularly sensitive to accusations of human rights abuses in the closing phases of the civil war and subsequently. In 2012, a minister said "mudslinging" would not be tolerated.
In April 2013, Amnesty International said that Sri Lanka was still violently suppressing dissent and that journalists were among the targets of "government-sanctioned abuse".
BBC World Service is carried by the SLBC under an agreement between the broadcasters.
There were some 5.7 million internet users by December 2014 (Internetworldstats.com). The web is a popular and growing medium for news.
The government has stepped up online censorship, blocking access to some independent news websites, reports US-based Freedom House.
Aberystwyth University's Prof Neil Glasser spent nearly two months in 2011 working in the area around James Ross Island where the glacier was found.
The UK's Antarctic Place-Names Committee said its decision reflected Prof Glasser's contribution to polar science.
The ice sheet on the island will now be called the Glasser Glacier.
The new name will be added to the British Antarctic Territory Gazetteer and is available for use on all maps and charts and in all publications.
The glacier stretches for 1.5km and is 500m across (0.9 miles and 1,600ft across).
Professor Glasser said: "I am really honoured to have this glacier named after me. We spent seven weeks on fieldwork in this area of Antarctica in 2011.
"On all our maps and publications it is called 'un-named glacier' but it is great to know that from now on it will be known as Glasser Glacier."
Mr Kerry is the most senior American official to attend the talks since President Obama went to Copenhagen in 2009 - an event that didn't end particularly well.
The Secretary of State has long been the most engaged American politician on the issue of climate and environment and his attendance at these UN negotiations is being seen as further evidence that the US is determined to make up for the failures of Copenhagen in 2009 and deliver a strong agreement in Paris next year.
For once, the US is not being seen as the Great Satan of CO2.
Thanks to their joint initiative with China, the two countries are taking a bow as leaders of the fight against rising temperatures.
The change in atmosphere could be seen on the poker face of US special climate envoy Todd Stern, who in recent days has been a veritable ray of sunshine.
The way he sees it, the deal that is being negotiated here - and will likely be signed in Paris - is a truly historic event.
"We are trying to do an agreement that is intended to last for decades. This is supposed to be not an agreement that we come back and renegotiate every five years, but an agreement that establishes a stable and durable structure."
Here in Lima, the parties are trying to get the "elements" of a deal together, which essentially means a chunky negotiating text with plenty of options still on the table.
One of the ideas that's getting a lot of attention from environmental activists is the aim to have zero emissions by 2050.
This item is still alive in the draft text and has support from a large number of developing countries. Green groups believe that the politicians are heeding the message from the streets.
"The public call for 100% clean energy has gone mainstream, and finally leaders are starting to respond with ambitious targets," said Iain Keith from Avaaz.
But the idea is not popular with the boys from the black stuff, the countries who make their living from oil and coal.
"The zero-emissions concept - or let's knock fossils fuels out of the picture without clear technology diffusion and solid international cooperation programmes - does not help the process," said Saudi Arabia's chief negotiator in Lima, Khalid Abuleif.
"I do not think this is realistic when two billion people do not have access to energy," he added, a tad sniffily.
While arguments about the long term goal are unlikely to be settled by Mr Kerry, his presence might increase the pressure on the countries that are dragging their heels on their commitments.
India has been noticeably silent on the idea that it might peak its emissions at a specified date in the future.
The Indians are said to be feeling a bit bruised after their great ally, China, seems to have sided with the US.
Perhaps they are waiting for the kind of in-depth love and attention the US lavished on China to get them to move forward?
Don't hold your breath says Mr Stern.
"We don't have that kind of process going on with India," he told reporters.
Another challenge for Mr Kerry will be the need to try and usher some recalcitrant countries to join the party - especially Australia.
The Lucky Country has been vilified here for its stance on climate change.
"Since the Abbott government came in, it has replaced Australia's comprehensive climate legislation with a regime where emissions are now set to increase substantially, against decreasing trends in the US," said Bill Hare, from the Climate Analytics think-tank.
"Many in the government are denying the yeti-scale footprint of climate change impacts being felt by people from one end of the country to the other."
The Australians have surprised many attendees by making a $160m contribution to the Green Climate Fund.
According to foreign minister Julie Bishop, it was part of Australia's "commitment to play our part in the global response to climate change".
But money doesn't seem to buy friends here in Lima. Green groups have given the country their mocking "fossil of the day" award several times during this conference of the parties.
Mr Kerry will have his work cut out.
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The swan has reportedly attacked river users on a number of occasions.
The Conservators of the River Cam, who manage the waterway, confirmed they had met the criteria set by Natural England to legally move the bird and his mate.
If approved, the pair will be taken to a site more than 50 miles away and outside the county before the spring nesting season begins.
Dr Philippa Noon, of the conservators, said: "We have on-going concerns for the safety of river users, especially those in small vessels such as kayaks and canoes.
"A suitable receptor site has now been found and we have located a 'competent person' capable of overseeing the move."
Suitable sites need to be more than 50 miles away from the birds' original territory to prevent them finding their way back.
Steve Austin, whose house backs onto the River Cam close to the swan's territory, said he and other residents would be sad to see Mr Asbo go.
"He's never been any trouble to us and I look after him in my garden when busy rowing races take place," he said.
"If I'm perfectly honest, though, it would be for the best. He has five or six cygnets each year and some of them will be killed by the rowers' oars.
"It's not really anyone's fault but they are just babies and they can be pretty stupid."
The application to move Mr Asbo and his mate must be approved before the pair begin to nest, after which it is illegal to move swans.
The poll of more than 900,000 patients found that, in the last two years, the proportion saying it was not easy to get through on the phone rose from 18% to 24%.
When they did get through 11% were unable to get an appointment, the Ipsos MORI poll for NHS England showed.
But overall 75% rated the experience of making an appointment as good.
When they did get to see a doctor, or for some a practice nurse, 86% said their overall experience was good.
It comes after the British Medical Association (BMA) warned last week that patients would face longer waits to see a GP because of a shortage of doctors and squeeze on funding.
Speaking at the BMA's annual conference, BMA GP leader, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, said waits of one or two weeks would "become the norm".
This survey does not measure that, but it does show that access is becoming a problem for a growing minority.
As well as 11% not being able to make an appointment, 8% of those getting an appointment felt it was at an inconvenient time.
When asked about out-of-hours care, which most GPs opt out of providing themselves, two-thirds rated it as good with 17% saying it was poor - up from 13% two years ago.
By Hugh Pym, BBC Health editor
There are almost daily reminders of the pressures on general practice.
A Health Select Committee report, covering England, says more than half of a GP's consulting time is taken up with patients with long-term conditions such as diabetes and arthritis.
Some doctors complain of a struggle to keep up with the workload generated by a growing population and rising demand for services.
Now more than 900,000 patients have had their say through the NHS England GP Patient survey.
The overall degree of satisfaction remains high at around 85%. But all the main indicators show a decline in approval ratings, sometimes 5% over two years.
Access by phone to surgeries and experiences of out-of-hours services are areas where there is a significant minority of unhappy patients.
Ministers point out they have made more money available for general practice through the Prime Minister's Challenge Fund.
But there are increasing question marks over the ability of the primary care system to cope with the demands placed on it.
GPs argue the problem is caused by rising demands not being matched with by a corresponding rise in resources.
The number of annual consultations carried out by general practice has risen by 40 million since 2008, hitting 340 million at the last count.
Meanwhile, figures from the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) show the amount spent on practices has fallen by £400m in real terms over the last three years.
In 2012-13, £8.5bn was invested in general practice, when everything from spending on pay, IT, tests and drugs was taken into account, the RCGP research found.
That compared with £8.3bn in 2009-10, which is the equivalent of £8.9bn in 2012-13 prices.
The Department of Health has already recognised access to GPs is an issue.
It has launched a £50m Challenge Fund to extend opening hours and make greater use of technologies such as Skype and email.
More than 1,100 practices - one in eight of those in England - have signed up.
Dr David Geddes, from NHS England, said: "Overall, these results show that the majority of patients are positive about their GP services, which is testament to the hard work of GPs and their staff.
"But we need to recognise the continuing trend in what patients are telling us about access to services."
However, Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham warned: "It is getting harder and harder to get a GP appointment under David Cameron.
"The next Labour Government will invest £100m to help patients to get appointments within 48 hours or on the same day for those who need it."
Dr Richard Vautrey, of the British Medical Association, said the overall satisfaction results were "remarkable" considering the workload pressures GPs were under.
He added: "It is a concern that the results show signs of slipping backwards. The government must heed these early warning signs, together with the recent falling GP recruitment figures, and urgently invest in general practice."
Connor Tremble, 17, who was autistic, was stabbed 15 times in Oxford by a love rival on 13 February 2014.
The ceremony was held at Shanklin United Reformed Church on the Isle of Wight, where Connor's mother Lisa Tremble now lives.
Reverend Brian Harley said the family "wanted to come together, remember and give thanks for the good things".
He said: "I think it's always difficult when we're dealing with a tragic death.
"Obviously in Connor's case when there is a murder as well it just adds to the sense of grief and anger."
He added: "It's nice that the family a year on want to pause and remember and give thanks as well as try to make sense of the tragic loss they are suffering."
Mrs Tremble and Connor's two sisters took part in the service, during which poems were read out, music performed and a video tribute played by one of Connor's friends.
Will Blencowe, 21, was jailed for life in August after a jury found him guilty of murdering Connor.
Blencowe, of Oxford Road, Banbury, was the ex-boyfriend of Mr Tremble's girlfriend, Aimee Harrison.
On 13 February, he took a taxi to Mr Tremble's home in Faircares Road, Oxford, before repeatedly stabbing him after learning he was seeing Ms Harrison.
Mr Tremble died two days later in hospital.
Playing in only his 13th first-class match, Curran's mid-afternoon burst of three for two in 18 balls left the home side rocking.
Replying to Surrey's 252, the Bears made 247 after a 95-run stand from Keith Barker (62) and Ian Bell (43).
Having led by five runs after the first innings, Surrey then closed on 33-1.
Warwickshire had begun the afternoon decently placed at 91-3, but Curran had Laurie Evans and Tim Ambrose superbly caught by Rory Burns in the gully before trapping Surrey old boy Rikki Clarke lbw with a swinging yorker.
Former Bears skipper Ian Westwood, on his recall as opener after being dropped following early season struggles, went just four runs short of a first Championship half-century.
After adding 40 in 15 overs with Jonathan Trott, both fell in the space of nine balls from Stuart Meaker.
Warwickshire all-rounder Keith Barker told BBC WM:
"The game is in the balance. We have managed to get ourselves back in the game. It would have been better if we had been able to go past them but it is going to be a big day for us tomorrow.
"There are runs to be scored there. You have just got to stay out there long enough for the bad balls to come. It may take a while but you have got to latch on to them if you get the chance.
"There is still a bit of movement in the pitch and we have just got to squeeze them tomorrow and put them under pressure. The pitch might deteriorate a little bit so that will give Jeets something to work with.
"It is effectively a one-innings game so if we can get some wickets tomorrow it will change the game massively."
Surrey bowling coach Stuart Barnes told BBC London 94.9:
"We took 10 wickets in 78 overs, which was the goal at the start of the day. We were not 100 per cent happy with the first session, but we put it right.
"Sam Curran fully deserved his five wickets on the back of a really good first spell, which he followed up with a great second spell after lunch.
"We talked about using the wicket and surface, which has been offering a bit of nip and we were able to swing the ball all day, which helped."
Brig Gen Chris Olukolade told the BBC the aim was to assert Nigeria's "territorial integrity as a nation".
Earlier, a 24-hour curfew was imposed in parts of the city of Maiduguri, where the military said it had arrested 65 "terrorists".
Maiduguri has been an important base for Boko Haram Islamist militants.
Earlier this week, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in three north-eastern states - Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe - after a series of deadly attacks by militant groups.
Boko Haram: From preachers to slave raiders
Nigerian military spokesman Brig Gen Olukolade said the army would continue its operation "as long as it takes to achieve our objective of getting rid of insurgents from every part of Nigeria".
He told the BBC World Service Newshour programme that the offensive "knows the targets it is after, and it took a long time to plan and prepare for this".
"It is their (insurgent) bases, their weaponry, their logistics that we are going to deal with in this operation," he added.
Earlier, an army statement named 12 areas of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, which would now be under permanent curfew.
Correspondents say the neighbourhoods listed are considered strongholds of Boko Haram. The whole of Maiduguri was already subject to an overnight curfew.
Witnesses said troops were stopping lorries from entering the city.
The army also said the 65 insurgents had been arrested trying to infiltrate Maiduguri. Those held had been "fleeing from various camps now under attack".
However, there has been no independent confirmation of the arrests.
The army said 10 suspected insurgents were killed in clashes with troops in Maiduguri on Friday and weapons were seized including rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
Nigerian war planes and helicopter gunships also attacked several militant training camps in the north-east on Friday, officials said.
One plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire but officials said it had returned to base safely while the "terrorist base" was "completely destroyed".
US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged the Nigerian army to show restraint and not violate human rights as it pursues the militants.
Mr Kerry said there were "credible allegations" of "gross human rights violations" by the Nigerian military.
Last November, Amnesty International accused Nigeria's security forces of carrying out widespread abuses in their campaign against Boko Haram, including extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances and torture.
The BBC has also received reports of civilians fleeing remote areas in Borno State and arriving in towns on the border with Cameroon.
Cameroon shares hundreds of miles of border with Nigeria and the area adjacent to Borno is considered porous.
Although Cameroon's security forces have stepped up security in the region, a source told French radio that the government in Yaounde had been given no advance warning of the Nigerian campaign.
More than 2,000 people have died in violence in Nigeria since 2010, most of which is blamed on Boko Haram.
The group, whose name means "Western education is forbidden", says its quest is to overthrow the Nigerian government and create an Islamic state.
There has been growing concern that Boko Haram is receiving backing from al-Qaeda-linked militants in other countries.
About 12 people were warned to leave the Weir Caravan Park in Stamford Bridge by the site's owners who began knocking on caravans at 09:00 BST.
The Environment Agency (EA) issued a flood warning for the river at the park, in the early hours.
Two pumps are in use at the scene and the EA said river levels were dropping.
The riverside caravan site has about 100 static pitches and space for touring caravans.
The nearby Swordsman Inn was also flooded with a "couple of inches" of water, according to the manager, but this has been pumped out and the public house is being cleared up.
The Environment Agency (EA) said there had been a significant amount of rain in 24 hours, with up to 40mm falling in places and heavy rain showers are expected to continue on Sunday and next week.
Shakrul Islam, 31, had already used the car as a weapon to scare petrol station staff, a jury was told.
Kyle Clarke, 27, died when he was dragged for half a mile under the car in Bristol in January.
Islam, of South Gloucestershire, who had denied the charge, was convicted of manslaughter, at the city's crown court and sentenced to seven years.
Sentencing the unlicensed driver of Chipping Sodbury, Judge Peter Blair QC said Mr Clarke's death had had "an earth-shattering effect" on his family.
"They were planning on emigrating to Australia and had that day made a final payment for visas," he said.
Islam had previously admitted causing death by dangerous driving.
Mr Clarke's death followed an altercation with garage employee Abu Sayem, who thought they were going to try and drive off without paying for petrol, the court heard.
Mr Clarke was pulled from the car by Mr Sayem, but Islam drove the car at them, knocking Mr Clarke over and trapping him under the car as he drove off.
The vehicle finally came to a halt at traffic lights when members of the public lifted the car up and tried to save Mr Clarke's life.
A post-mortem examination found Mr Clarke had suffered 48 rib fractures, fractures to his breast bone and collarbone and collapsed lungs.
Speaking after the sentencing, Det Supt Sarah Davenport said Islam drove away from the garage "travelling a considerable distance with Kyle trapped under the car".
"When he finally stopped, Kyle had already suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene," she said.
"Our thoughts remain with Kyle's family and friends."
His mother Helen Stockford, said he had been the "soul of the family" and his death was "devastating" for his brothers and sisters.
"He was a good kid - heart of gold. Even in his hardest moments he still managed to find a smile and have a laugh and a joke," she said.
Referring to the move to Australia, Mrs Stockford said her son was "so looking forward to going".
"It just seems so sad because on the verge of us emigrating, it has now come to this," she said.
"We are extremely upset that Kyle isn't with us today. My heart also stands with Mr Islam who has been convicted, because I think he didn't deliberately set out to kill my son."
Mrs Stockford said she and her family did not agree with the conviction and would help Islam with an appeal against if he planned to.
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However, after a chance meeting with the snowboarding Olympic Bronze medal holder, Jenny Jones persuaded me that I should give skiing a try at least once. I never thought I would be taking my first lesson a year later.
Before I got on the snow I had to have an assessment to see what adaptive skis I would be using, testing my strength and balance. After that I just had put on the gear. That turned out to be an ordeal as it took about 10 minutes to get one shoe on!
For some reason, I thought I was going to be going down a big slope on my own in my first lesson and of course that was not the case.
The next question that came into my head was how am I going to get onto the snow on one ski when I can't use my wheelchair? I got my answer soon enough - I had to do it myself.
In the first instance, Steve the instructor said he would have to push me up the kids slope until I was strong enough to do it myself. He then explained that it could take a year of practice to get that strong!
I faceplanted the snow several times but once I eventually managed to balance and move down the slope, it was the best feeling ever. I realised I could really do this and I started to understand why people love this sport!
Then we went on the big slope (apparently one of the biggest indoor slopes in the country!) Steve was on the back and I had to steer. I was terrified and I didn't stop screaming all the way down! I mustn't have been that scared though because it didn't stop me going up for a second try.
For the first time, I saw snow differently and not just an inconvenience that gives you a snowday off work. What I loved about it was how much speed you build up going down the slope and the sense of freedom!
This is definitely in the top five sports I want to continue with after the challenges are over. Look out for me in Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Paralympic games!
I was pretty chuffed when we pulled out Skiing for our second sport in this series of challenges. I once worked in Austria at a ski resort and despite making beds, cleaning toilets and serving dinner at a local chalet I spent a lot of my spare time on the slopes.
Since returning to England though, going to university and finding a job, I just haven't had the time (or money) to get back into it, so I was really looking forward to hitting the slopes once more.
I felt pretty nervous on the day of our ski outing. The thing with skiing is that it's a really 'cool,' fashionable sport and the last thing I wanted was to look like a loser out on the slopes. Anyway, I pulled myself together and slipped on the ski boots in a familiar, awkward fashion.
Steve, the instructor, eased me into it on the nursery slope and it seemed like I'd forgotten everything. I felt like bambi on ice and I certainly couldn't remember how to turn. However, I soon found myself at the foot of the adult slope and strangely excited to take it on!
I don't know what happened up there, but in a split second, everything seemed to click into place; I felt like the king of the slope. Everything I had learnt a few years ago in Austria all came flooding back and I found my inner confidence.
It was really great actually, you get such a buzz from flying down a mountain on a pair of skis and the beauty of it is, that you're in control (sort of). If you want to take a leisurely pace, you can do and equally if you want to be a daredevil, there's room for that too.
I really would love to get back into it. There's nothing more fulfilling than skiing your way down a mountain in some of the most picturesque surroundings in the world. Having said that, it is quite a costly sport and it's not something I'd be able to afford to do on a regular basis.
It's also good to know that it really is like riding a bike and the next time the opportunity comes up, I can slip back into those skis like it was yesterday.
If you are interested in getting into skiing, take a look at the Get Inspired skiing activity guide for details.
Neighbours told her trial they found Stephen Rayner, 25, collapsed in a pool of blood outside the flat the couple shared in Acton, west London, in September last year.
They described hearing "hysterical screams" moments earlier.
Jewellery designer Elizabeth "Lizzie" Hart-Browne, 27, denies murder.
David Winkworth told the Old Bailey he went outside to investigate after hearing the screams.
He told the jury he saw Mr Rayner's legs sticking out on the ground, then noticed Ms Hart-Browne sitting alone on her doorstep repeating "what have I done, what have I done".
Another neighbour, Katie Harrington, described trying to save Mr Rayner's life before paramedics arrived.
She said: "I heard some noise coming from the car park area. I couldn't hear exactly what was said, what was happening.
"A couple of moments later, I heard a female voice that was very distressed saying 'he's been stabbed, he's dead'.
"I put my shoes on and went outside. There was a man on the floor with a large pool of blood and there was a young lady who was leaning over looking and holding his neck.
"I ran inside and got some towels then I went back out there and tried to feel for a pulse."
Ms Harrington said she asked the "hysterical" woman to move away so she could roll him on his side as the ambulance operator gave instructions over the phone.
The court has heard that Ms Hart-Browne says she killed her boyfriend in self-defence during a violent attack by him.
The trial continues.
John Longworth, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), warns that "tawdry political tactics" could deflect from important issues facing the UK economy.
Such a focus, he wrote in a letter to Westminster leaders, had "been sorely lacking in political discourse".
The BCC represents thousands of firms.
"For many businesses, both small and large, one of the greatest sources of challenge and uncertainty in 2015 isn't the state of global markets, but home-grown politics," Mr Longworth cautioned.
He further decried politicians who "race between television studios and events to undercut their rivals' policy pronouncements, to proclaim themselves most 'in touch' with the needs of the people".
"You must focus on the causes, not the symptoms, of the challenges that face our United Kingdom," he said.
The UK's public spending, and wider economic matters affecting the country, will be among the most hotly contested issues in the run-up to the next general-election, scheduled for May 2015.
In his letter - addressed to PM David Cameron, deputy PM and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, and Labour leader Ed Miliband, as well as other party leaders - Mr Longworth outlined some of the policies on the BCC's wish list.
He said the organisation wanted those in power to support UK companies that are "brave enough to sell products and services across the world," as well as help with training opportunities and new jobs for both the young and old.
The BCC also called for greater devolution across the UK, with more decisions made locally, and an end to what it termed "crushing input taxes".
"Maintaining corporation tax at 20% would be a sound beginning," Mr Longworth added.
But the campaign is still patchy. While the Pakistan Taliban have been forced on to the back foot, other Pakistan-based militant outfits have been left undisturbed.
Publicly, Pakistani officials insist that they no longer make a distinction between the "good" Taliban (proxy forces of the Pakistan state) and the "bad" Taliban (which mount sectarian or anti-state attacks).
But privately they argue the army has to prioritise which groups to confront first. The immediate, urgent task, they say, is to fight the militants who have caused tens of thousands of deaths within Pakistan itself.
It means militant groups such as the Haqqani network, which focuses most of its efforts on Afghanistan, can fight on unimpeded. The group, which is based in Pakistan's tribal areas, is believed to have mounted a series of attacks on Kabul this summer.
It has been a devastating campaign. In the first six months of 2015, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan documented the highest level of civilian casualties in the country since it began keeping authoritative records in 2008.
Similarly, the Afghan Taliban have stepped up their military activity - most recently in the city of Kunduz in the north of Afghanistan.
Kabul for years has complained that many Afghan Taliban leaders live in and around the Pakistani city of Quetta.
When asked about the issue, Pakistani military officials say that, with as many as three million Afghans in Pakistan, it is difficult to be sure who is living where.
The lack of an outright denial is deliberate. The perception that Pakistan controls the Afghan Taliban gives Pakistani officials diplomatic leverage. If the West wants peace in Afghanistan, they are implicitly suggesting, it will have to secure Pakistani co-operation to deliver it.
In fact, history suggests that the Afghan Taliban, while happy to accept Pakistani support, are quite capable of ignoring Islamabad's instructions and formulating their own policies.
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When the new Afghan President, Ashraf Ghani, won power in 2014, he said improving the relationship with Pakistan was a top priority: if Islamabad would cut its links with the Afghan Taliban, then Kabul would try to prevent anti-Pakistan forces finding sanctuary in Afghanistan.
The two countries, he suggested, could only find stability by working together.
But for all the hope that President Ghani engendered, Islamabad and Kabul have reverted to hurling accusations at each other. And the distrust seems set to continue.
Senior Pakistani military officers say one of the reasons they have a continued interest in Afghanistan is because India is extending its influence there.
Islamabad fears that, among other things, Delhi is using its presence in Afghanistan to build a closer relationship with Baloch separatists, who for a decade have been fighting to split away from Pakistan.
The issue is especially sensitive because of Pakistan's plans to construct the China Pakistan economic corridor. The planned trade route will run through Balochistan, close to the Afghan border, down to the new deep-sea port of Gwadar.
Pakistan is hoping the corridor could generate billions of dollars of revenue.
It is a highly complex geostrategic situation.
Put at its most succinct, Pakistani strategists are supporting Islamist militants to counter Indian intelligence officers working with Baloch nationalists to thwart Chinese traders.
It all shows the extent to which the Great Game, in which outside powers struggle for control of Afghanistan, is alive and well.
As has so often been the case in the past, the stability of Afghanistan depends on it being left alone. But the regional powers all see the country as a place that can cause them problems.
The result is that many of Afghanistan's neighbours sponsor local, tribal and religious militias so as to prevent anyone else's proxy getting control.
It is a process Afghan civilians recognise all too well because, more often than not, they are the ones caught in the crossfire.
It also found that adults are still eating too much saturated fat and not enough fruit, vegetables and fibre.
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health called the results "extremely worrying".
Public Health England said it would be challenging the food industry to cut sugar by 20% in its products.
It maintained this would help to reduce child obesity levels.
The National Diet and Nutrition Survey, funded by Public Health England and the UK Food Standards Agency, has been run for the past six years collecting data on diet across the UK.
These latest results were from a survey of 1,288 adults and 1,258 children who completed a three or four-day food diary between 2012 and 2014.
Although sugar intake in children is still too high, there was a slight drop in the volume of sugary drinks consumed among four to 10-year-olds - from 130ml per day in 2008-10 to 100ml in 2012-14.
But sugar still makes up 13% of children's daily calorie intake and 15% of teenagers' daily diet - much more than the 5% recommended limit.
Adults consume a high level of sugar too, making up 12% of their diets on average.
These figures have remained more or less the same since 2008.
When it comes to fruit and vegetables, only 8% of 11 to 18-year-olds meet the five-a-day portions recommendation.
On average, teenagers manage just 2.8 portions per day while adults eat about four portions.
The survey found that people in the UK continue to consume too much saturated fat.
Children aged four to 10 have diets in which 13% of their daily calorie intake comes from saturated fat, compared with a target of under 11%.
The figure is 12.6% for those aged 11 to 18, while adults get 12.7% of their energy from saturated fat.
Average intake of red and processed meat should not exceed 70g per day, but men still eat too much while women are reducing the amount they consume.
Dr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said the survey showed that everyone needed to eat more fruit, vegetables, fibre and oily fish while cutting back on sugar, salt and saturated fat.
She said: "While it is encouraging that young children are having fewer sugary drinks, they still have far too much sugar in their diet overall, along with teenagers and adults.
"To help tackle this, PHE is launching a programme to challenge the food industry to remove at least 20% of the sugar in its products by 2020. It's an ambitious programme, a world first, and will be a significant step on the road to reducing child obesity levels."
One in three children currently leaving primary school is overweight or obese and there are concerns that in the future more adults will increase their risk of developing heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers.
Prof Neena Modi, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said: "The results of this survey are extremely worrying.
"This is why we are surprised the long-awaited UK government childhood obesity strategy did not include a number of recommendations aimed at protecting children, such as a ban on advertising junk food and limiting their sale around schools."
She called for the measures to be reconsidered.
The head of the group, John Cridland, said firms must be given confidence that ministers really mean to tackle climate change.
The government cut subsidies in the summer because the £7.6bn budget had been exceeded.
Ministers say they are committed to protecting the climate.
They said they would announce replacement renewables policies soon.
Critics say new policies can’t come quickly enough. Mr Cridland said: "The green economy is an emerging market in its own right, brimming with opportunity.
"Yet, with the roll-back of renewables policies and the mixed messages on energy efficiency, the government risks sending a worrying signal to businesses.
"We need all countries to pull in the same direction at the Paris Climate Summit (in November) to give firms the certainty and confidence they need to invest in the green economy for the long run".
The former Treasury chief economist Lord Stern warned: “The test is coming. In the coming few months, will policies be put in place that take account of the great cost of emissions and air pollution?
"If there are not policies, that would be deeply worrying... we are subsidising hydrocarbons big time.”
Critics are also complaining that recent tax changes will actually deter people from taking decisions that help the climate.
The chancellor, for instance, shifted Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) so a Porsche pays as much as a Prius – a decision the AA said would lead to drivers using more polluting cars.
He also placed a £3.9bn carbon tax – the Climate Change Levy – on wind and solar power and biogas, which emit no net carbon.
Lord Stern told BBC News it was “potty” to put a carbon tax on renewables.
His Stern Review in 2006 found that cutting CO2 emissions immediately was far cheaper than paying later to solve problems in a heating world.
The author has since concluded that he underestimated the costs of burning hydrocarbons because he did not include the health costs caused by air pollution from vehicles and industry.
He said the case for low-carbon development taking climate and air pollution into account was “inarguable”.
A Treasury spokeswoman said: "Our support has already driven down the cost of renewable energy significantly. As costs continue to fall it becomes easier for parts of the renewables industry to survive without subsidies."
She said any loss UK renewable generators faced would be small compared with other financial support they received from government.
Defending the decision to impose a carbon tax on green energy, she added that it was right to incentivise the efficient use of renewable power as it would supply 30% of UK electricity in 2020.
Prof Richard Tol, from Sussex University, told BBC News that Lord Stern’s idea of calculating the costs of air pollution alongside the costs of climate damages was appealing – but the sum was simply too complicated, with too many imponderable judgements and values involved.
He said: “A switch from petrol to diesel, for instance, is good for carbon dioxide emissions but bad for particulate emissions. Filters and scrubbers on power plants are good for acid rain but bad for climate change.
“A switch from traditional biomass to fossil fuels is good for indoor air pollution but bad for greenhouse gas emissions. Dearer energy is good for the environment but bad for development.
“Unfortunately, taking a holistic view of energy is not how we organise policy and certainly not how we organise research. We can confidently say that the current energy system is sub-optimal, but we cannot begin to answer the question what the optimal energy system would look like.”
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"I think there is a huge societal pressure on women when it comes to motherhood, this sort of mummy cult that goes on," the actress said.
"I think it sort of makes women feel that they have to be a bit defensive about the choices that they make."
The 33-year-old will soon be seen in The Girl on the Train, in which she plays an alcoholic divorcee.
Her character, Rachel, has unsuccessfully tried to have children.
Blunt, who has two children with actor husband John Krasinski, said modern women faced pressure over "whether they want to be a mother" and "whether they want to breastfeed".
"In the domestic world... women can be a bit cruel about each other, more so than any other environment," she said at the London premiere of her new film on Tuesday.
The actress's comments followed the airing of Motherland on BBC Two, a sitcom pilot about a group of mothers with differing approaches to child-rearing.
The programme drew praise from the Telegraph for its "sharply drawn" depiction of "the cloak and dagger politicking of the stay-at-home parenting circuit".
In The Girl on the Train, Rachel believes she has information relevant to the disappearance of a former neighbour.
The film version of Paula Hawkins' best-selling novel is out in the UK on 5 October.
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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."
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Researchers are beginning a huge study that aims to offer a diabetes test to every child in Scotland with a family member who has type 1 diabetes.
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A committee led by Peter Field, the Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex, has been set up to organise a series of events in Battle, near Hastings.
It is hoped a senior member of the royal family will help mark the anniversary of the battle which led to the conquest of England by the Normans.
A memorial service for the Saxon and Normans who were killed will be held.
The day's event will end with a military band and marching display through the town centre of Battle and a flag lowering ceremony at dusk.
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Plans are under way to mark the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 2016.
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At least 50 designer watches were taken during the raid on a jewellery boutique inside the hotel last week.
Officers said staff at the store were threatened with a firearm during the robbery but no shots were fired.
Det Ch Insp Andy Patrick appealed for help in tracing the men responsible for the "particularly alarming crime".
The details of the robbery at the Mappin and Webb store emerged in a police press conference.
He said the trio, who wore dark clothing and had their faces partially covered, entered the hotel at 11:00.
They fled the grounds in a dark blue Audi which was later abandoned near Auchterarder.
Police said they "strongly believed" they left the Perthshire town in a Range Rover Evoque.
Det Ch Insp Patrick, who is leading the investigation, said officers believe the three men involved in the robbery may have had assistance from others.
He added: "Our extensive enquiries so far have established that the Audi car which was abandoned in the Auchterarder area was stolen from the Kent area in June.
"The two door grey-coloured Range Rover Evoque was stolen from the London area in May.
"Both vehicles were bearing cloned number plates. I would appeal to anyone who may have information regarding the theft of these vehicles to come forward.
"A Range Rover Evoque was later found burnt out in St Peter's Cemetery in the London Road area of Glasgow the day after the robbery on Wednesday 28 June.
"There is a strong likelihood this could be the vehicle used in the crime."
Photographs of the stolen watches were also issued by police, alongside an image of the hammer used to smash the glass cabinets.
Det Ch Insp Patrick said: "The hammer was an Am-Tech 4lb sledge hammer with a fibre glass shaft.
"I would appeal to anyone who knows where this item was purchased to contact us.
"I would also appeal to anyone who is offered the watches for sale to contact us, particularly jewellery stores, pawn brokers or shopkeepers."
No-one was hurt in the raid.
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